Tuesday 6 August, 2019 FROM THE PRINCIPAL Carnival Our carnival was very successful on Friday, great to see so many students parcipang in events to support their houses. Thank you to Ms Evans and Ms Jones for their organisaon and to Ms Estella and Ms Street for all their support and help on the day. The second instalment of our carnival will be this Friday 9 August. Thanks also to the Seda college students for their support in running the day. Deadly Awards I was very pleased to see our Diarra receive a ‘Deadly’ award last Friday. Ms Russo was able to aend on behalf of Erko Staff. Well done Diarra! Open Day A reminder that open day begins with a short assembly at 12:30pm on Thursday 8 August. Feel free to visit rooms, ask quesons and have a look at our learning spaces. Office Artwork Our office has now been completed but our walls are bare. The office staff and myself are looking for one piece of work from a student per year to frame and put on to the walls. If students decide they would like to contribute, entries by the end of term please. TERM 4 Saturday 2 November DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - 2019 TERM 3 Thursday 8 August Educaon Week - Open Day and band performance Friday 9 August Day 2 - Athlecs Carnival Years 3-6 Tuesday 13 August P&C meeng in the school library, 7pm Tuesday 20 August Parent teacher interviews Wednesday 21 August Book character parade, 9:15 - 10:00am Sunday 25 August P&C working bee from 10am Tuesday 27 August Parent teacher interviews Wednesday 4 September District Athlecs Carnival, Hensley Athlec Field Friday 6 September K-2 Tabloid Sports Day at the oval Tuesday 10 September ICAS - Wring Test P&C meeng in the school library, 7pm Thursday 12 September ICAS - Spelling Test Lendlease volunteers - working bee Sunday 15 September P&C working bee from 10am Tuesday 17 September ICAS - English Test Thursday 19 September ICAS - Maths Test Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 September Stage 2 Yarrumundi camp Tuesday 24 September External Validaon
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - 2019
TERM 2
Sunday 2 June
P&C Working Bee from 10am
Monday 10 June
Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday
Tuesday 11 June
P&C Meeting, 7pm in Bottle Brush classroom
Friday 14 June
Regional Cross Country Carnival
Saturday 15 June
ErkoWiz - get tickets here
Monday 17 June
First Nations Bedtime Stories Challenge
https://firstnationsbedtimestories.com/erko2019
Thursday 20 June
Koomurri performance and workshops
Tuesday 25 June
Last day to drop Earn & Learn stickers to school office or at Woolies store
TERM 3
Wednesday 31 July
Pre-loved uniform co-op, 7:45-9:15am
Tuesday 6 August, 2019
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Carnival
Our carnival was very successful on Friday, great to
see so many students participating in events to
support their houses. Thank you to Ms Evans and Ms
Jones for their organisation and to Ms Estella and Ms
Street for all their support and help on the day. The
second instalment of our carnival will be this Friday 9
August. Thanks also to the Seda college students for
their support in running the day.
Deadly Awards
I was very pleased to see our Diarra receive a ‘Deadly’
award last Friday. Ms Russo was able to attend on
behalf of Erko Staff. Well done Diarra!
Open Day
A reminder that open day begins with a short
assembly at 12:30pm on Thursday 8 August. Feel free
to visit rooms, ask questions and have a look at our
learning spaces.
Office Artwork
Our office has now been completed but our walls are
bare. The office staff and myself are looking for one
piece of work from a student per year to frame and
put on to the walls.
If students decide they would like to contribute,
entries by the end of term please.
TERM 4
Saturday 2 November
Last Day
of
School
Term 2
2019
Friday 5 July
Last day of Term 2
for students
First
Day of
School
Term 3
2019
Monday 22 July
Staff return to school
Tuesday 23 July
K-6 return to school
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - 2019
TERM 3
Thursday 8 August
Education Week - Open Day and band performance
Friday 9 August
Day 2 - Athletics Carnival Years 3-6
Tuesday 13 August
P&C meeting in the school library, 7pm
Tuesday 20 August
Parent teacher interviews
Wednesday 21 August
Book character parade, 9:15 - 10:00am
Sunday 25 August
P&C working bee from 10am
Tuesday 27 August
Parent teacher interviews
Wednesday 4 September
District Athletics Carnival, Hensley Athletic Field
In Week 7 of term 2, Stage 1 held their Project-Based Learning Showcase to conclude 7 weeks of very hard work!
We kicked off our unit with a walking excursion around Erskineville in week 2. We visited 5 local landmarks and used our observations to write and publish books entitled “Why I Love Erskineville” based on the work of Bronwyn Bancroft over the following 5 weeks. We also collected data on how different groups of people interact with the local area, and created maps of Erskineville so that our STEMShare Ozobots could travel around the local community.
THE DEADLY KIDS AWARD
Congratulations to Diarra a proud recipient of the
2019 Deadly Kids Award.
The Deadly Kids Awards is a successful initiative
that has been implemented by the Department
of Education since 2009. This award recognises
the academic achievement, student leadership,
citizenship, cultural development, sporting
prowess and model behaviour in class of
Indigenous students in the Sydney Region.
Well done Diarra!
Y3-6 ATHLETICS CARNIVAL - DAY ONE
FRIDAY 2 AUGUST
ERKO BAND NEWSLETTER
This term the bands have received new music to work on. Senior band is learning ‘Oye Como Va’ and ‘Mana Mana’ (which you may remember as the banana boat jingle!) as well as continuing to work on ‘La Rejoissance.’
Intermediate band have started ‘Roman juggernaut’ and will be receiving another new piece in the next few weeks. It’s a great idea to practice the scale that fits the key signature of each piece before you practice it.
Training band are working on learning different rhythms – using clapping and singing/speaking to help them. We are zooming through the book and I’m very happy with how they are sounding.
Practice tip from Edward: Always try to make your best sound when you practice – even if you are playing long notes or scales.
NSW INTERSCHOOL’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
This year we doubled our snow sports team, with Mimi P and Polly M competing for Erko.
Both girls competed in two events, Alpine and Ski Cross, at Perisher. The girls were amazing, particularly in the Alpine event which was run at night under lights in a blizzard (and foggy goggles only added to the degree of difficulty). The girls were amazing and did the school proud. They had fun, made friends and skied so very well. There were many schools competing from around NSW, some with squads of 160 participants. The girls, although nervous did their very best and placed well.
Sadly after 14 years at Erko this is our final year, we are keen for the school to continue competing so if anyone is interested I am happy to hand over team manager duties.
The City of Sydney is considering a proposal to introduce a marked pedestrian crossing in Ashmore Street, Erskineville, at Bridge Street.
Any further information about the proposal, please contact [email protected] or Tel: 9265 9333
ERSKINEVILLE PS PARENTS & CITIZENS (P&C) ASSOCIATION NEWS
UPCOMING P&C MEETINGS
Meetings are held in the School Library, entry via the Bridge St gate.
Tuesday 13 August (Week 4)
Tuesday 10 September (Week 8)
Please drop in to a meeting when you can – all welcome! To vote at a meeting you need to have become a member of the P&C prior to the close of the previous meeting. You can join anytime online, via the P&C section of the school website.
Please arrive at 6:45pm for a prompt 7pm start.
What’s on the agenda for the next meeting?
As well as our usual discussion topics and updates including the Principal’s Report, the August meeting will cover:
- More details about Erko Berzerko, share your ideas or get involved
- The process for deciding how the P&C should spend our hard-earned fundraising dollars. We will be calling for ideas at our September meeting, so the August meeting is a chance to find out more about our project proposal and voting process.
PRE-LOVED UNIFORM CO-OP Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who volunteered at the uniform co-op last week.
The next co-op will be held on Wednesday of Week 2 next term.
Remember that donations of clean, undamaged uniforms can be left at the office any time, or save them up to exchange for a voucher at the next co-op.
If you have school shirts with stains or holes, we want those too! Please drop them in the box on the stage in the Brown Hall to be upcycled into jam jar covers for Erko Berzerko.
New, ultra-effective Big-A fans have been installed in the Brown Hall, OSHC (Gowrie) Hall and the Library, replacing the old fans and ready to help these spaces cool come summer.
In addition, insulation has been added to the Heritage Building at the front of the school, the Library Building, and the K-2 Building, helping keep classroom spaces cool in summer (and warm in winter) for all kids in all classrooms.
These improvements complement the airconditioning, heating and solar panels funded by the P&C, helping to improve classroom amenity in the most energy-efficient way possible.
Huge thanks to the small but dedicated group of parents who worked to secure a Community Building Partnership Grant to fund these upgrades, and to arrange all aspects of the installation. Thanks Tanya Holloway, Juannola Troy and David Hetherington for all your efforts.
Saturday 2 November 2019 www.erkoberzerko.com
With less than 3 months until the big day, there’s lots of preparation underway
‘DROP DAYS’ FOR YOUR QUALITY
BOOKS, TOYS & BRIC-A-BRAC
Our first Drop Day will be held as part of the next working bee on Sunday 25 August, so get ready to bring in your good quality clean toys, books, bric-a-brac, homewares, jewellery etc.
Unlike previous years, there will be nowhere to leave these donations at school outside of the Drop Days, so if you can’t make it this time, keep an eye out for extra Drop Day dates in future.
To keep our donations manageable and sellable, there are a few things we can’t accept:
• anything broken, dirty, or missing pieces
• clothes, shoes, bedding or towels
• carseats
• bikes
• electrical items
• oversized items (no one wants to carry something huge around the fair all day)
• books with torn/missing pages or scribble
• toys that use button batteries
• baby teething toys
Please think about what you’d buy yourself or give to a friend: if you wouldn’t give it to a mate then don’t donate!
YOUR DONATIONS CAN HELP
Our Erko Made craft stall, Plant Stall and Sweet Little Erko jam stall need your donations of:
• 100% cotton fabric, A4 size or bigger
• Jam jars with metal lids, 300ml or smaller
• School shirts that are stained or ripped • Ceramic ramekins, cups and mugs that could
make new homes for cute succulents
These specific items can be popped in the marked boxes on the Brown Hall stage at any time.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
We’re thrilled to announce our first Bronze Sponsors for this year’s Erko Berzerko. Check out these fantastic local businesses who have shown their support.
OUR BRONZE SPONSORS SO FAR:
Gymkidz Gymnastics: gymkidz.com.au Inner West Gymnastics: innerwestgymnastics.com.au Red Roar Drama: redroar.com.au See Saw Clothing: seesawclothing.com.au Pivot Studio: pivotstudio.com.au
We need your help to contact local businesses and ask them to contribute! If you could help source donations, please chat to our Donations Coordinator, Jannine Shaw on 0402 694 116.
Jannine can give you a copy of our donation-request letter, and can coordinate who is contacting each business, so we don’t double up.
With less than 3 months until the big day, there’s lots of preparation underway
WHAT’S PLANNED SO FAR?
Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to run a stall. We have lots of fabulous stalls lined up and it’s shaping up to be a great day!
Here’s what’s planned:
THINGS TO BUY Erko Made: beautiful things handmade in Erko Love Erko: with a brand-new design for 2019 Sweet Little Erko: jams, preserves, chutneys etc White Elephant: preloved goods of all kinds Preloved Toys Preloved Books Plants Flowers Lollies Cakes
THINGS TO EAT & DRINK Fast & Fresh: Salads, Sushi and Vietnamese Brazilian Churrasco Classic BBQ Hamburgers & Smoked Meat Devonshire Tea Waffles Icecream Popcorn Snocones Coffee Old-Fashioned Sodas Homemade Lemonade
THINGS TO DO Bands, performers and DJs Rides and Waterslide Big Splash Face Painting Silent Disco Kids’ Craft and Badgemaking Silent Auction and Raffle
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Our wonderful stall leaders will need help on the day of the fair, and in the lead-up and pack-up.
If you can help, complete our easy online form and let us know how you’re interested in getting involved.
We are also looking for volunteers with specific skills to be part of the awesome Erko Berzerko entertainment crew. If you can help with any of these, please get in touch with Jo (0407 771 724) or Kate (0412 421 824):
• Audio operator and assistants to run the
sound desk for our main stage entertainment,
preferably with experience in managing sound
for live music performances.
• DJs to provide tunes for the rides and activity
areas.
• Roving entertainers such as magicians, stilt-
walkers, jugglers and other performers to
mingle with fairgoers.
The Erko Made craft stall leaders are keen to see the stall bursting with handmade products from talented EPS parents, but stock is looking a little short this year so Amy (0414 430 159) and Sally (0422 294 989) would love hear from anyone keen to donate handmade items or help with sewing and other crafty skills – if you’re new to Erko Berzerko and not sure what types of crafts to create, have a chat with Amy and Sal and they can suggest items that have been hot sellers in the past.
If you have any other ideas, questions or you’d like to help but you’re not sure how, get in touch with our general Berzerko coordinator, Kristy on 0403 697 117 or email [email protected].
