Principal’s Message

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Eden Public School

Term 1 Week 6 3rd March 2020

Respect Responsibility Resilience

Important!!!!Changes to School Dates! This year, 2020, Eden Public School will participate in the Visible Learning Professional Learning delivered by CORWIN Australia to complement the current school plan. As a result of this, the following variations are required for staff and students; Variations:

• 1 less teaching day Term 1 • 1 additional teaching day in Term 2.

Term 1

Thursday 9th April, 2020.

Eden Public School will be non-operational Students do not attend.

Additional Staff Development Day for teachers.

All teaching staff will participate in a whole day Professional Learning delivered by CORWIN Australia. Foundation Day. Due to the fact that this is a normal teaching day and the school is not in a position to be able to employ enough casuals to cover the entire teaching staff, this day will become a non-teaching day to be repaid in Term 2. Term Two: Monday 27th April, 2020. Additional Teaching Day. No Staff Development Day for teachers. Students return one day earlier.

Bushfire Recovery Support. This is a very useful overview of what’s available. Following on from the information about the bushfire recovery, please see below a link to a pdf that highlights face-to-face counselling services located in fire affected areas, including those that are bulk billing: https://www.coordinare.org.au/assets/Medicare-bushfire-recovery-counselling.pdf Making appointments to see class teachers. Teachers are very busy during school hours and have little time to discuss individual student needs and progress. If you are wishing to speak to your child’s teacher, please contact the office to make an appointment on 64961169. That way the class teacher can return your call and negotiate the best time to discuss any matters regarding students. New Hall and Canteen Roof. The school hall will shortly be getting the old roof replaced with a new one. This work will take approximately 3 weeks from Monday the 16th March, 2020 and during that time will not be available for use. Safety fencing will be provided to ensure students are kept well away from the job site whilst moving in the vicinity of the hall and the canteen. The canteen will also receive a new roof during this time but asset management unit are doing their best to minimize disruption to the canteen operations. Students will still be able to access the canteen during the re-roofing of the hall and the canteen will be re-roofed over the weekend of the 4/5th of April. To enable this, the canteen will need to close for one day only to allow for preparation. The canteen will be closed on Friday the 3rd April. Thank you in advance for your cooperation with this matter. Have a wonderful week! Tanja Vogt Principal Eden Public School

EARLY ACTION FOR SUCCESS Mrs Risstrom

Mathletics news! Week 6 Another successful return to Mathletics at Eden Public! It was very pleasing to see 3 GOLD Certificate, 18 Silver Certificates and 79 Bronze Certificates achieved over the last few weeks. Well done everyone! Remember to get a Silver certificate you must get four Bronze certificates. Bronze certificates are earned by getting 1000 points in a week (Monday morning to Sunday night), about 5-10 activities in total. Just remember students have full 24hr access to Mathletics on the Internet.

Congratulations to all our students who will be receiving their Silver and GOLD Mathletics Certificates at this week’s assembly.

GOLD Certificate Awardees C Heron, R Rosser and I Wilson Silver Certificate Awardees D Addinsall, J Bawden, Kayden Cartwright, T Chippindale, C Heron, B Holman, H Michelin, M Nichols, T Nichols, R Rosser, B Sawers, R Schelfhout, J Summerfield, I Wilson, D Clark (x2), J Clark, and C Goodyer. Simon Taylor

CANTEEN NEWS! The canteen will be closed on Friday 3rd April due to the roof being repaired. It will be back operating on Monday 6th April.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Photo day is on Friday 20th March. Envelopes will go home on Monday 16th of that week.

Eden Netball Club The Eden Netball Club would like to invite, girls and boys who are five years and older, to come on down to the Eden netball courts on Wednesday 11 March from 4:00pm, to go through drills and skills before learning the rules of the game. We welcome all interested players from beginners to more experienced players. For those players wanting to continue, the club will be accepting the NSW Sports Vouchers for registration. If you have any questions, please contact Elissa McCabe on 0426 896 428, Lauren Woods on 0472 654 016 or Genevieve McGuinness 0428 961 170.

District Swimming News!! Well done to all our students who represented Eden PS at the District swimming carnival last week. They all swam their hardest and cheered on their teammates. Congratulations to the following students: Ben - 2nd open 100m, 3rd 12yr 50m breaststroke, 3rd 12yr 50m backstroke Kai - 2nd 10yr 50m freestyle Koby - 1st 8yr 50m freestyle Lacey - 2nd 9yr 50m freestyle, 1st 50m junior girl butterfly Sienna - 3rd 12yr 50m breaststroke Junior girl relay 3rd (Lacey, Victoria, Vivienne & Maddi). Good luck to Koby, Lacey, Kai and Ben who go on to Regionals in Dapto next week. The Cronulla PSSA wanted to support our Sapphire Coast District PSSA schools after the bushfires, raising funds through their own swimming carnival to support us by covering the cost of our students' entry fees at this week's district carnival. This kind gesture means so much to our kids and families and it is very special to know that the kids, families and schools of the Cronulla area are thinking of us. A huge thank you to schools and families of the Cronulla PSSA!

Well done EPS swimmers!