Harmonious And Caring School Community EPPING PUBLIC SCHOOL Opportunity, Excellence, Success Norfolk Road, Epping NSW 2121 Phone: 9876 1452 Fax: 9876 6873 Email: [email protected]Website: www.epping-p.schools.nsw.edu.au P & C Meeting: Second Tuesday of Each Month at 6.30 pm NEWSLETTER Monday 28 October, 2019 Welcome to Week 3, Term 4 LEISURE SPORTS PROGRAM Leisure Sports provides our Years 3-6 students with the chance to learn sports that they may never have tried before. Adam and Queenie from Year 3Z have said they loved learning new skills in Basketball and Squash. For Ryne in Year 5/6H, he has enjoyed learning about the traditional games of Indigenous children. Aniket from 6/5H has liked the variety of travelling to different venues each week for each new activity. Finally, Jonathan in 4M loved his 'Spin' class last week as he worked hard and felt he was helping his body get stronger. Leisure Sports will continue to provide these wonderful new sporting opportunities for our students until the end of Week 5. COMING EVENTS Tuesday 29 October Kindy 2020 Orientation Day 9:30am – 11:00am Reiji Uniform Shop 07:45am-9:30am Due to Kindy 2020 Orientation, there will be NO Scripture classes for: Kindergarten, Year 4 & Year 6 Friday 1 November P&C Spooky Disco Wednesday 6 November Kindy 2020 Orientation Day 9:30am – 11:00am Reiji Uniforms 07:45am-9:30am Wednesday 13 November Music Festival Concert Thursday 14 November Kindy 2019 Orientation Day 9:30am – 11:00am Reiji Uniforms 07:45am-9:30am ASSEMBLY This Wednesday in the school hall, Darug Assembly begins at 12:20pm Guringai Assembly begins at 1:15pm. KG will be presenting assembly item. Parents are welcome to attend. Congratulations to the following students who will receive an award at this week’s assembly: BRONZE Adit KA, Aviv KA, Claire KA, Hana KA, Phoebe KG, Vanessa KR, George KS, Lyndon KY, Summer KY, Mitr 1M, Sivansh 3A, Nina 4M, Magd 6/5A, Garv 6/5K SILVER Krish 2W, Rhea 4S
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Harmonious And Caring School Community
EPPING PUBLIC SCHOOL Opportunity, Excellence, Success
P & C Meeting: Second Tuesday of Each Month at 6.30 pm
NEWSLETTER Monday 28 October, 2019 Welcome to Week 3, Term 4
LEISURE SPORTS PROGRAM
Leisure Sports provides our Years 3-6 students with the chance to learn sports that they may never have tried before.
Adam and Queenie from Year 3Z have said they loved learning new skills in Basketball and Squash.
For Ryne in Year 5/6H, he has enjoyed learning about the traditional games of Indigenous children. Aniket from 6/5H has liked the variety of travelling to different venues each week for each new activity. Finally, Jonathan in 4M loved his 'Spin' class last week as he worked
hard and felt he was helping his body get stronger. Leisure Sports will continue to provide these wonderful new sporting opportunities for our students until the end of Week 5.
COMING EVENTS Tuesday 29 October Kindy 2020 Orientation Day 9:30am – 11:00am Reiji Uniform Shop 07:45am-9:30am Due to Kindy 2020 Orientation, there will be NO Scripture classes for: Kindergarten, Year 4 & Year 6 Friday 1 November P&C Spooky Disco Wednesday 6 November Kindy 2020 Orientation Day 9:30am – 11:00am Reiji Uniforms 07:45am-9:30am Wednesday 13 November Music Festival Concert Thursday 14 November Kindy 2019 Orientation Day 9:30am – 11:00am Reiji Uniforms 07:45am-9:30am
ASSEMBLY This Wednesday in the school hall, Darug Assembly begins at 12:20pm Guringai Assembly begins at 1:15pm. KG will be presenting assembly item. Parents are welcome to attend. Congratulations to the following students who will receive an award at this week’s assembly: BRONZE Adit KA, Aviv KA, Claire KA, Hana KA, Phoebe KG, Vanessa KR, George KS, Lyndon KY, Summer KY, Mitr 1M, Sivansh 3A, Nina 4M, Magd 6/5A, Garv 6/5K SILVER Krish 2W, Rhea 4S
Last week there was an incident at school that reminded us to remain vigilant and follow school policy. One of our
very young students suffered an anaphylactic episode. Let me begin by saying that the child is alright due in a big
part to our staff who administered the medication and contacted the ambulance, who arrived very quickly and
transported the child to hospital to ensure recovery was complete. The parents were contacted and met their child
at the hospital. A teacher accompanied the child to the hospital. The result could have been much more serious if
everyone was not as vigilant in their reactions. We have a number of anaphylactic students at our school and it is
timely to remind parents of our policy.
1. We have a nut minimization approach and encourage parents not to send nuts or nut based products to
school with their children.
2. Children are not to share food with other students, under any circumstances. Please remind your children
of this and explain why we have this rule.
3. Always check with the class teacher before bringing in food for a special occasion.
We really would appreciate your cooperation with this.
DEBATE SUCCESS
I indicated in our last newsletter that our Year 5 Debating Team was in the final of the Debating Competition. It is
with great pleasure that I can report that they were victorious on the evening. They were awarded with the Roy
Sadlier Trophy which recognises the outstanding Year 5 Debating Team in the local area. I would like to
congratulate all of the team members, the parents who came along to support them at the final and of course Miss
Shon, who has coached the team throughout the year. Well done everyone.
SCHOOL BEHAVIOUR FOCUS
Let me say our students have been very good in moving safely around the school and focusing on not running on
the asphalt when it is dangerous and not running inside the buildings. We will expand our focus on moving safely
around the school and request students to be careful when moving in and out of doorways or at congestion points
and keeping to the left when using stairs or moving in confined spaces.
John Ford PRINCIPAL
Opportunities for All
KINDERGARTEN 2020 ORIENTATION
Thank you in advance to the 2019 Kindergarten parents for hosting and catering the parent information sessions on the following days:
Tuesday 29th October – KA & KR parents Wednesday 6th November – KS & KG parents Thursday 14th November – KY parents
MUSIC FESTIVAL
The 2019 Music Festival will be held on the evening of Wednesday 13 November. A note will be sent home to the parents of students involved, indicating the procedure for purchasing tickets. Tickets will be on sale on Wednesday 30 October 2019 through the Ticketek link:
We have had an overwhelming amount of responses to the Talent Quest with over 90 acts applying to audition. Auditions will be run during recess and lunch times in Week 4. The table attached has the audition information including, time, classroom and audition teacher. A paper copy will also be posted up on the canteen and outside the library entrance.
If you are unable to attend your audition or you no longer want to participate, please let your audition teacher know prior to your audition date to arrange another time. If you miss your audition and no reason is given, it will not be made up. Remember, teachers are giving up additional lunchtimes to watch you, so please be prompt to your audition time with everything that you need to audition including music, props etc. Costumes are not necessary for auditions.
If you are in a school run club e.g. Stage 2 Dance Group, you will not need to attend the auditions for these items.
With our ever-growing school we can only take a limited number of items. You will be notified if you are successful in Week 5.
NAME OF PERFORMANCE PERFORMERS AND THEIR CLASS GENRE
Miss Ramsdale KR Classroom 1st half lunch Friday
Hakuna Matata Aarav KS Singing
Dance Performance Sharanya KG , Aliana KG Dance
Miss Manganaro 1M Classroom 2nd half lunch Thursday
Up town road Tiana 1E, Ashley 1E, Weihan 1M, Sophia 1R Dance
P&C Calendar - Term 4 2019 Tuesday 12 November (Week 5) - P&C Annual General Meeting from 6.30-8:00pm (Staff Room) Tuesday 10 December (Week 9) – P&C Meeting from 6:30pm (Staff Room) P&C Contacts President - Jong Chung - [email protected] V/President - Marissa Kelly - [email protected] Secretary - Sarah O'Neill - [email protected] Treasurer - Amandeep Sidhu - [email protected] P&C Annual General Meeting The next P&C meeting will be held on Tuesday 12 November and will include the AGM where all Office Bearers and Committee Coordinators are elected. The P&C are seeking expressions of interest from parents/guardians who would like to join the P&C and get more involved in the school. Joining the P&C is a great way to get involved in the school life of your child. The P&C via the various committee members and volunteers, works with the school to run the Canteen, Uniform Shop, Band, Fundraising activities and Language Classes. Each year the P&C loses parents as their children move onto high school and we need new parents to take their place. Please consider taking up one of these positions as the P&C cannot operate unless the positions are filled. All roles are available for nomination at the AGM. Non-executive roles can be shared so consider joining forces with a friend. These are not full-time jobs. Some of the roles are only 1 hour per week or have peak activities once a term. Some roles are flexible in the hours so these can be done by working parents. We would love to have these roles filled this year so that there is plenty of time to handover before 2020. If you would like to get more involved in the P&C, or have any questions, please feel free to contact the P&C Secretary, Sarah O'Neill at [email protected] or any of the current P&C committee members. 2020 P&C Roles Executive Positions:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Other P&C Positions:
Canteen Coordinators
Uniform Shop Coordinator
Fundraising Coordinators
Social Coordinators
Grants Coordinators
Band Coordinator
Languages: Hindi, French, Mandarin
P&C Newsletter Editor
Opportunities for All
SPOOKY DISCO - NEXT FRIDAY!! Halloween is just around the corner. Come dressed in your spookiest best! We will once again need to hold the event off site. To ensure another fun and successful event for the children, we will need many volunteers on the day of the event. All volunteers must have completed their Working With Children Check (WWCC) Please visit the Flexischools website (www.flexischools.com.au) to purchase your child’s ticket and to select your timeslot for volunteering if you are keen to help. Order on-line by 30th October. We looking forward to seeing many of you there! Warm Regards, Sonia & Shiwangi email: [email protected]
CANTEEN NEWS In addition to the new items that were added to the canteen menu last week, we also have Hakka Brand Fried Rice which meets the Healthy Canteen requirements. It contains BBQ pork, egg, vegetables and is gluten-free, and according to school taste-testers is delicious! We are working on sourcing a vegetarian version as well. Remaining stock of deleted items will be available at lunchtime until sold out. This includes Jumpy's Chips, Piranha Chips, Calippo’s, Icy Twists, Cool-Pak Popcorn and banana and strawberry-flavoured Moosies. Quench Fizzy Drinks are SOLD OUT! Koala Popcorn comes in five flavours – Lightly Salted, Sweet n Salty, Chicken, BBQ & Sweet Chilli. Please see the full canteen menu in FlexiSchools. Thank you! EPS Canteen Committee [email protected]
CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 4/2019
DAY DATE
Week 3
Food Shopper Lillian
WED 30-Oct Jennifer K, Coco H, Sandy, Sunethra, Katrina
Minutes of Epping Public School P&C Meeting Tuesday 17th September 2019 Staff Room
Meeting commenced at 6:35pm, chaired by M Kelly. Attendees: J Ford, A Assad, A Sidhu, K Collins, D Walker and S O’Neill (Minutes) Apologies: J Chung, L Winter, D O’Keeffe, S Paul Mukhopadhyay, V Daithankar Minutes of Previous Meeting The minutes of the previous meeting dated 13th August 2019 were accepted as a true and correct record. Moved: M Kelly 2nd S O’Neill. Carried. Matters Arising from Minutes Action carried forward: P&C to investigate registering for NSW Creative Kids Voucher Motion carried forward: P&C to spend up to $7,000 from term deposit to buy new instruments for Band. Correspondence Bank statements, fundraising emails. Reports Treasurer – Amandeep Sidhu General $68,439, Uniform $7,813, Fete $997, Band $15,591, Building Fund $2048, Grants $829 Canteen $47,624 (Total: $143,346) P&C received $9,460 from voluntary parent contributions in Term 3 Fundraising - Marissa Kelly Father’s Day Stall was successful. Thanks to Mira Tang for coordinating. Year 4 parent Sonia has volunteered to organise the Spooky Disco on 1 November. Additional volunteers required to help. Canteen – Deb Walker Canteen moving to 3 Star rating on food and snacks. Will be integrating new items in Term 4. Menu will be reviewed by NSW Health to get health rating approval. Canteen will be open during the Guringai School Performance Evening in Week 9. Uniform NIL report Band – Katrina Collins EPS Bands participated in UNSW and Ryde Eisteddfod. Training Band preparations underway for 2020. New Band Committee members are needed. Current tutorials – 18 sessions held over 4 days – Question: will tutorials be held in the new building in 2020? Demountable classrooms have been handy because they are not alarmed. Social – Katrina Collins P&C Morning Tea was held on Thursday 22 August. 7 parents attended. Good discussions were held. P&C will need to look for new Social volunteers in 2020. Date to be finalised for Term 4 Thank You Lunch. 2020 Welcome BBQ should coincide with opening of new building in Term 2. 800 families have registered for the Skool Bag App Grants – Deb Walker NIL report Chinese, Hindi and French Language Class NIL Report
Opportunities for All
Principal – Mr Ford School news, recent and upcoming events
Welcome to Ms A Assad A/P
Kindy 2020 Information Evening
Kellyville North Public School visit to EPS
Interelate evening held for Stage 2&3 students
Zone Athletics Carnival
K-2 Gala Day Boronia Park
Stage 3 Camp Broken Bay
Kindy visit to the Calmsley Hill Farm
Stage 1 visit to the Aquarium
Stage 2 Camp Collaroy Centre
Stage 2/3 Battle of the Dance, Marsden High – Stage 3 placed first
Cricket Gala Day – girls in grand final
Guringai School Performance Week 9
Advertisement for Deputy Principal Position to start in 2020
Year 5 debating team in semi final
Jump Rope for Heart
Year 4 visit to Clifton Gardens
Parents to update contact information
2020 Year 5/6 camps will be separated
EBASCA meeting with Mayor of Parramatta
NSW Govt looking at reducing ratios which will allow more students to attend OOSH care
New Business
Urgent need to recruit new P&C members due to families leaving the school
P&C storage – need to consider options available to the P&C for the future.
Being no further business, the meeting closed at 7.40 pm The next P&C Meeting will be held on Tuesday 12th November at 6.30pm following the P&C Annual General Meeting and election of Office Bearers
Opportunities for All
Parents and Citizen’s Association (P&C) The P&C is a group of parents who volunteer their time to support the school in different ways, and coordinate a number of school activities, social and fundraising events. P&C meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month (term time only) at 6:30pm in the school staffroom. This is a great way to find out about what is happening in the school, and hear an update from our Principal Mr Ford. The P&C executive includes the President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. In addition, a parent or group of parents coordinates the following areas:
Uniform Shop The P&C has appointed a uniform supplier to run the school uniform shop. Reji Uniforms can be contacted for orders and enquiries. Details of the days, dates and times Reji Uniforms are onsite at the school can be found in the weekly newsletter/ Email: [email protected] Phone: 02 9771 5454 Website: www.rejiuniforms.com.au
Canteen
The school canteen is currently open on Wednesdays and Fridays and is staffed entirely by volunteers. We always need new volunteers for the canteen roster. Mums, dads and grandparents are all welcome to help and your availability can be accommodated e.g. Once a week/month/term/year. It is a great opportunity to meet other parents and your child will love seeing you helping at school. Canteen volunteer hours are from 8:50am – 12:30pm. The canteen coordinator can be contacted at [email protected]. Lunch orders can only be made online and this requires setting up an account at www.flexischools.com.au . The canteen menu can be viewed on this website.
Social The P&C runs a number of social events throughout the year to encourage the development of a friendly and welcoming school community. In 2020 we need some new coordinators for the social team who will be supported by others who have undertaken the role previously. Some annual social events include: Tea and Tissues Morning Tea – this will be held for Kindy parents after they drop off their child on the first day of Kindy P&C Welcome Barbecue – all school families are invited to attend a Friday evening barbecue early in 2020. The details of this event will be advertised in the school newsletter. Staff Thank You Lunch – at the end of the year the P&C asks parents to help provide a lunch to thank the hard working school staff. Parent Morning Teas are held regularly throughout the year, usually once or twice a term immediately after school begins at 9:20am. These are all advertised in the school newsletter and the P&C always needs assistance in helping to coordinate these events. The social team also coordinates: Class Parents – each class in the school has a parent who volunteers to be the point of contact between the teacher, P&C and class. It mainly involves emailing information to parents. The P&C also encourages parents to coordinate social events for the class such as a picnic at a local park or parent dinner outside school hours. Enquiries: [email protected]
Band Band runs for students in the school from Years 3-6. The band is mainly brass, wind and percussion instruments. Weekly tutorials are run after school with a qualified tutor, and instruments are available for hire. In addition, band rehearsals are held before school and during lunchtime. Training band – this band is for Year 3 students who are learning an instrument. Concert band – this band is for Year 4 students Symphonic band – this band is for Years 5&6 students Jazz Band - this is an optional additional band usually for students in Years 4-6 String Ensemble has a weekly rehearsal at school with a conductor, but is run differently from the other bands. Students organise their own tutor and instrument. This band usually comprises students in Years 3-6. Enquiries: [email protected]
Language Classes
Language classes are coordinated by the P&C and are taught by a qualified teacher on the school property outside of school hours. Mandarin – Mandarin classes are for students from Kindy - Year 6. Contact Jennifer 0432 484 364 Hindi – Hindi classes are for students from Kindy – Year 6. Contact Mala Mehta 0412 283 677 or [email protected] French – French classes usually start for students in Year 2 and continue to Year 6. Contact Purvi 0430 348 084 or [email protected]
Fundraising
Events such as school disco, movie night, Mothers’ Day gift stall, Fathers’ Day breakfast / gift stall are run to provide fun events that also raise money to buy resources for the school. Events are always advertised in the school newsletter along with requests for help. In 2020 we need some new coordinators for the fundraising team who will be supported by others who have undertaken the role previously.
Grants Government and community grants are often available for schools and we have a team of parents who apply for grants to help support P&C projects around the school.
Order on-line by 30th October at www.flexischools.com.au
Mums and Dads – Parents who wish to VOLUNTEER, option is available through FLEXI SCHOOL at the time of event booking. 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Set-up / Decoration 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Checking in Kindergarten to Year.2 Arrivals 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Door – security (Kindergarten to Year.2) 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Snacks Distribution (Kindergarten to Year.2) 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Clean up before next session 6:15 pm – 6:45 pm Checking in Year.3 to Year.6 Arrivals 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm Door – security (Year.3 to Year.6) 8:00 pm – 8:30 pm Snacks Distribution (Year.3 to Year.6) 8: 30 pm – 9:00 pm Clean up
SAFETY FIRST There is a limited space at the venue, so please note :
Every child must be dropped off/picked up from the Lower Hall of St.Alban’s Church.
No child will be permitted to walk home without an adult or to a waiting car on the road.
Pick up times are strictly 6:00 pm (K-Y2 ) and 8:00 pm ( Y3-Y6).
Only parent volunteers may remain on the premises or inside the hall.
Volunteering on First Come First Served basis .Working with Children Check is compulsory.
There is no parking at the venue.
Children will receive their snack, as they leave and can enjoy it on their way home.
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