Ralston Avenue Belrose NSW 2085 Phone: 9451 6203 www.belrose-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: belrose-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER DATE: 6 February 2020 TERM 1, WEEK 2

Belrose Public School

Principal’s Message

Belrose OSHC Centre Phone: 0430 247 493

Dates

WELCOME TO OUR YOUNGEST STUDENTS I would like to extend a warm welcome to all the Kindergarten students and their families. All students were very settled from their first day of school. Their Year 6 buddies have been introduced to them and they have been spending their lunchtime together. Thank you to Claire and Daniel Chisholm for hosting the Cheers and Tears welcome event at their house and to Mrs Green for her preparation of engaging activities, as well as her care and support of the students. Due to the Best Start assessments being completed electronically, the results of the testing will be sent home shortly.

SWIMMING CARNIVAL Of the students who attended the carnival there was a high level of participation and a display of trying their personal best. For those stu-dents who have trained for months or years, it was great to see your perfect swimming strokes Our student leaders showed a high level of initiative by preparing placards and costumes and were able to ramp up enthusiastic chants throughout the day. Thank you to the many par-ents and all of the teachers for their hard work in making the carnival run so smoothly in our three hour bracket. Mrs Meikle will be informing those students who will be representing the school at the Zone swim-ming carnival. Congratulations.

Term 1 2020

Friday 7 February PSSA Trial 2 Welcome Back BBQ 6pm to 7.30pm

Monday 10 February Assembly 2.25pm

Tuesday 11 February P&C Meeting 7.15pm

Friday 14 February PSSA Begins School Sport Begins

Monday 17 and 18 February

Parent Teacher Information nights

Monday 24 February Assembly - Swimming Ribbon Presentation 2.15pm

Thursday 5 March Sea Life Aquarium Excursion Yrs 4, 5 & 6

Monday 9 March Zone Swimming Carnival

Tuesday 10 March CARES Year 5 P&C Meeting 7.15pm

Monday 16 March Assembly 2.25pm

Friday 27 March Sydney North Swimming Carnival

WEARING OF SPORTS UNIFORM

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YR 3 AND CLASS 4M IN NON ASSEMBLY WEEKS (REFER TO CALENDAR)

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WELCOME BACK BBQ Don’t forget the barbeque tomorrow night. All families are very welcome to attend. P&C MEETING The first P&C meeting for the year is next Tuesday evening in the staffroom at 7.15pm. PARENT INFORMATION SESSION Parent Information evenings will be shortly held. All information sessions are in your child’s classroom: These sessions are an opportunity for parents to meet their child’s teacher. Teachers will inform parents of the syllabus out-comes, teaching strategies and expectations. We encourage most parents to attend as these sessions help establish an effec-tive working relationship between the home and the school. All handouts will also be sent home the following day. Parents are encouraged if they have any concerns/queries regarding any aspect of their child’s education to contact the class teacher or the office so that a mutually convenient time can be arranged. Staff have at least four formal meetings before or after school each week so it is difficult for teachers to speak to parents when they have their class and are walking them into their rooms in the morning. We use a booking website, schoolsinterviews for our formal interviews which will be held in the last and second last week of Term 1. UNWELCOMED GUESTS Contrary to previous times, the school grounds at the moment are being used on some nights as a place for illegal recreational activities. To combat this swiftly, Dee Why Police will increase their patrols of the area along with the Department’s Security guards. The playgrounds are checked each morning by staff and cleaners and I ask any family members who are at school after hours to call the security hotline on 1300 880 021 or the local police department, if required. SPELLING PROGRAM Spelling is only one component of an effective piece of writing. A well-written piece of writing needs to consider the: Audience - the writer uses a particular style of language, tone, and content according to what he/she knows about his/her audi-ence Structure - An imaginative text, a persuasive text and an informative one will have a different structure Ideas - the elaboration of development of ideas Vocabulary - the range of precise and effective words Cohesion - how sentences are linked together Paragraphing, Sentence structure and Punctuation. In 2020, we continue to use a range of teaching and learning strategies for the teaching of spelling. I know we live in a techno-logical world with spell checkers and predictable texts but the ability to spell words correctly, particularly in adult life, is important as the harsh reality is that people judge you on your spelling. So how can we at Belrose PS assist the students to apply a wide range of strategies to correctly spell? Students learn to spell using a range of strategies. They begin by understanding that regular one-syllable words are made of letters and common letter clusters that correspond to the sounds heard. They then move to understanding how to use digraphs (two letters to one sound such as with ‘oa’, long vowels, blends and silent letters to spell words, and use morphemic (base word plus ed, ing, tion, ment) and syllabification (peo-ple) to break up simple words. They move on to recognising most misspelt words in their own writing and use a variety of resources for correction. Students need to rely on their visual memory to write words which do not have sound-letter correspondence eg ’was’ . At Belrose PS, alongside our language rich experiences and engaging literature, we will use ’Sound Waves’ for Years 1 to 6 which uses a phonemic approach based on synthetic phonics. The phonemic approach is a sound to letter approach whereby the students are taught the 43 sounds of the English language, that each sounds can be represented by different letter or letter groups. We start with the sound themselves. The program involves the use of both systematic and direct instruction with much discussion in and out of home about words, patterns and strategies we can use to spell, read and write. What changes you may note from when you went to school? The copying of spelling lists for homework may not be done. Activities will move away from the visual learning of words, the con-stant ‘just copying’ of list words down, the weekly spelling test to rich discussion and activities which focus on our language ie study correct pronunciation of words, the number of sounds, what letters form the sounds, the meaning of words in their smallest form (morphemes) and how they change when making compound words or using suffixes and prefixes as well as applying their etymological knowledge.

All students from Years 1 to 6 are currently undertaking a Diagnostic Spelling test to guide the teaching/learning program. All

students will be able to refer to Sound Charts on their desks when writing.

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Monday 17 February

Tuesday 18 February

6:00pm 3K 3W 4M 4S 5:45pm KIG

6:30pm 5S 5D 6M 6:30pm 1S 1K 2J

IMPROVEMENT TO GROUNDS 4/5S, 5D, 6M and the technology room is now in full use following the completion of the re-roofing and guttering project. We have employed a contractor to complete some fencing work on Saturday 7 March so that there are two areas with removable posts and a larger gate entrance in Nursery Parade.

Belinda Zorian

Principal

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From the Office EMERGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION Next week we will be sending home the Emergency Contact Information recorded on our database. Please correct the infor-mation by crossing out any incorrect phone numbers, addresses etc, and update with correct information. All forms need to be signed and returned to the office as soon as possible with or without changes. STUDENT HEALTH CARE PLANS AND STUDENT ASTHMA PLANS Could all Health Care Plans and Student Asthma Plans that were sent home at the end of last year please be returned so we can update out records for 2020. Please let us know if your child has asthma or any other health condition so the relevant paper work can be sent home. This will need to be fill out and return to the school office with all necessary attachments and medications as soon as possible. 2020 STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT—TERM 1 The Statement of Account for Term 1 will be emailed to all families next week. If you do not received your account or have any queries regarding your account please contact the office. Prompt payment is greatly appreciated as this assists the school to meet its financial obligations in a timely manner. Please ask to speak to Mrs Zorian if you have any questions or require assis-tance with your account. All conversations are confidential.

SUMMER SPORT PSSA trial for summer sport will be held Friday 7 February. Our first round of competition will be held on Friday 14 February. Students in Year 4, 5 and 6 will be able to trial for: T-Ball – Girls –Mrs Stephens (coach)

Softball – Girls – Mrs Meikle (coach) Cricket – Boys – Miss Jarvis (coach) In order to reach the selection criteria for these sports, students must attend at least one trial. If your child is going to be absent please notify the coach in writing as soon as possible. Please note that previous involvement in PSSA and participation in these sports outside of school will have no bearing on selection. Coaches will be selecting teams based on the following criteria: Sportsmanship Cooperation, attitude and listening skills Skill level and ability Commitment to training sessions and the team If your child is selected to represent our school at PSSA please be aware that there is a cost involved for transport and a strict uniform code. Protective gear needs to be provided by the students selected to play T-Ball or Softball. Students who do not wish to participate in PSSA, or who are not selected to participate in PSSA, may choose to play tennis or be part of our home school program. Good luck to all students during the trial sessions.

Mrs Meikle Sport Coordinator

Sport News

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P & C News CANTEEN NEWS Friday 7 February Monday 10 February Wednesday 12 February Holly Davis Lee Purser Lee Purser Lee Purser Kathleen Devries

P&C Welcome and welcome back BBQ for all families is tomorrow Friday 7 February. We would love to see as many families there as possible, we will put the slide under Cola due to the rain, this year we have the “SCREAMER” slide, it has 2 slides in 1. This way we will have a K-2 side and a 3-6 side.

Please see volunteer link below, any help would be greatly appreciated. https://volunteersignup.org/QMQHH

We will be serving a sausage sizzle and the canteen will be open for counter sales. The P&C have some very exciting things in the pipeline for 2020. Save the dates will be coming out very soon. First P&C meeting for 2020 will be Tuesday 11 February at 7.15pm in the Staff room. ALL WELCOME Watch this space next week for our upcoming Fundraising events for 2020.

Jo Stracey P&C President

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