EPPING PUBLIC SCHOOL Opportunity, Excellence, Success

Norfolk Road, Epping NSW 2121 Phone: 9876 1452 Fax: 9876 6873

Email: epping-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.epping-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

P & C Meeting: Second Tuesday of Each Month at 6.30 pm

NEWSLETTER Wednesday, 30 March, 2016 Welcome to Week 10, Term 1

HEY! HO! WHAT A PARADE! We had a beautiful day on Thursday for our annual Hat Parade. The weather was certainly kind to us. Congratulations to everyone who participated or who helped make a hat to wear. So many feathers, chicks, rabbits and eggs. What a sight! Once again we welcomed our friends from Essex St Kindy. They proudly paraded around the circle showing off their hats. Many thanks to their teachers and parents who facilitated their visit.

After the parade, many families enjoyed their morning tea with the children. Thank you to all the parents who assisted in the canteen, packing snack bags for the children and families. Of course it was Kindergarten’s first Hat Parade. Here are a few comments that show how much they enjoyed themselves. Adam KB. Great! Yvette KB. I liked the food. Mrs Bailey. I had fun walking around with my feathery hat.

COMING EVENTS Friday 1 April Cross Country Carnival Monday 4 April Stage 2 Rocks Excursion Tuesday 5 April Harmony Day celebrations Wednesday 6 April ANZAC Assembly 10 am Uniform Shop open 2:45 pm Friday 8 April Last Day of Term 1 Monday 25 April ANZAC Day Public Holiday Tuesday 26 April Staff Development Day Wednesday 27 April Students begin Term 2 ASSEMBLY Assembly begins at 1:15 pm each Wednesday in the school hall, parents are welcome to attend. Congratulations to the following student who will receive an award at this weeks’ Gold Assembly. Gold Maria 4B This week’s assembly item will be presented by Annika from 2G.

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL

BUSY END OF TERM I trust everyone had a pleasant little break, sharing it with friends and relatives. There are a number of things I need to mention that are occurring before the end of term.

PARENT INTERVIEW EVENING This will occur this evening. To ensure a pleasant experience for everyone please remember the following: 1. Each interview has been allocated 10 minutes. Please keep to your time. If more than 10 minutes is needed please arrange to continue the interview at another time. 2. If you are running late or cannot make the interview please contact the school on 98761452 as soon as possible. I look forward to your support in these matters.

SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY This of course will be held this Friday on School Grounds. All students in K-6 will participate. The races commence at 9:45am. Details regarding the race were sent home earlier this term. More information about the order of events can be found in this newsletter. All parents are welcome to attend.

HARMONY DAY CELEBRATIONS These will be held next Tuesday. Details about our Harmony Day can be found elsewhere in our newsletter.

ANZAC ASSEMBLY Our ANZAC Day Assembly will be held next Wednesday 6 April at school at 10 am. Once again we will welcome guests from the Epping RSL who have served. We encourage students to bring along flowers to lay at our Memorial Wall. Parents and friends are most welcome to attend. Mr John Ford Principal

CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL Our annual Cross Country Carnival will be going ahead this coming Friday 1 April. All students will be taking part and are asked to wear their sports uniform with a house coloured shirt on the day. The carnival will begin 9:45am and conclude at approximately 1pm. The carnival will be run at school and all spectators are very welcome. Thank you to all parents who have volunteered to help out on the day, your help is invaluable to the running of a successful carnival. The order of events for the day is as follows:

1. 8/9 year old girls 2. 8/9 year old boys 3. 10 year old girls 4. 10 year old boys 5. Kindergarten girls 6. Kindergarten boys 7. Year 1 girls 8. Year 1 boys

RECESS 9. Year 2 (under 8) girls 10. Year 2 (under 8) boys 11. 11 year old girls 12. 11 year old boys 13. 12/13 year old girls 14. 12/13 year old boys

Mr Sherley and Mrs Yoo

HARMONY DAY ‘EVERYONE BELONGS’

We will celebrate Harmony Day next week on Tuesday 5 April. This day which is celebrated world-wide provides an opportunity for all Australians to: • Say “no” to racism • Celebrate our many successes as a diverse,

harmonious multicultural society • Re-commit to our common values of

respect and goodwill towards fellow Australians from all cultural backgrounds.

This year in Australia there is a special theme for Harmony Day. It is “Diversity is our Strength.”

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On Tuesday 5 April all students are invited to wear a national costume, a community, sport or organisation uniform – (scouts, guides, rangers,) their favourite sport’s team colours or something orange – (the designated harmony day colour) to show support for the values of Harmony Day. Two special “Harmony Day” certificates will be given in each class to two students who demonstrate respect and goodwill at all times. These will be presented at a small informal assembly on Tuesday 5 April, just before recess. Throughout the week special orange “Eppies” designed by the SRC will also be given out. On Tuesday, we will also be acknowledging “The National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence”. This annual day provides a focus for all schools to say “Bullying No Way!” and to strengthen their existing message that bullying and violence are never justified. Please remember to continue to bring in canned food for the Exodus Foundation. This is our school’s way of supporting those people less fortunate in our community. Please join in, celebrate and have fun on Tuesday, 5 April.

TOGETHER, WE ‘CAN' MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON HARMONY DAY.

Mrs Parker, Mrs Rowsell & Mrs Galilee The “EALD” team

ANZAC DAY ASSEMBLY Next Wednesday 6 April we will be holding our ANZAC Assembly at the ANZAC memorial wall and garden (weather permitting, otherwise it will be in the Hall). It will commence at 10am and all members of our school community are invited. If you would like to bring flowers to place at our memorial wall during the service, that would be

appreciated. Flowers can be taken to your classroom. Thank you in advance, Mrs Christine Croker

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE 2016 Children from Years 3 to 6 can add The Peasant Prince by Li Cunxin, ID Number 7159, to their Student Reading Record for the 2016 Premier’s Reading Challenge, as I read it to them last week in preparation of our excursion in late April. There will be no library lessons next week due to staff planning days. Because of this children will borrow four books this week to tide them over the holidays. Mrs Lyn Campbell Teacher-Librarian

GREEN TEAM

EARTH HOUR AT EPS 2016 Some comments from our students: We can plant a garden and share the food. Jaden, Oliver and Mayla KC Everyone should be encouraged to turn off their class lights to save electricity. It burns fossil fuel. Nicholas and Hargun 4L

Could we incorporate some more learning about the environment into all our lessons? Jasir 6/5 G

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Thank you to Charissa (6/5G) Esha (6M) and Zainab (1TD) for their fantastic posters promoting care for the environment. They are on display in the office area.

READING AT HOME Reading is a very useful skill to have in our modern world. Reading with your child at home will help them in all learning areas at school. It is important to listen to your child read as often as you can, every day if possible, even if only for a short time. Here are some hints for listening to your child read at home: • Before reading, talk about the cover, the

title, the pictures, and discuss what the book may be about.

• During reading, discuss what has been read up to that point, and imagine what will happen next time.

• After reading is finished, talk and ask questions about the story and the pictures.

• When reading a harder book together, take turns. Beginning readers can read the

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repetitive parts and more experienced readers can read a paragraph or a page.

• On finding an unknown word use the Three P’s technique:

Pause to give your child time to work out the word Prompt – go back to the beginning of the sentence, or read past the difficult word to the end of the sentence. – look for a clue in the picture or the words – look at the first letter and think about what the words could be – ask “Does this make sense?” – try to sound out the word – if necessary tell your child the word Praise your child for trying even if mistakes are made. Strategic Direction 3

NEWS FROM THE P&C

P&C CALENDAR – TERM 1/ 2016 • Wednesday 6th April – End of term play date

at 3.30pm • Tuesday 10th May – P&C Meeting at 6.30pm • Saturday 10th September – FETE 2016

BAND Concert Band The Concert Band will be performing at the Sydney Eisteddfod on Monday, June 6th. The band workshop will be held Sunday, May 22nd. This is a required workshop for Concert Band students only. A note will be sent home at the beginning of Term 2. Training Band The Training Band will begin their weekly rehearsals Week 1 of Term 2. These rehearsals take place in the CAPA room every Friday morning from 7:50am-8:50am. First rehearsal will be Friday, April 29th. Please insure your student brings their method book and instrument.

FETE 2016!

A huge thank you to all class parents and everyone else who volunteered to help with a variety of stalls for the school fete. A lot of the vacant spots advertised in past newsletters have been filled. Below is an outline of the stalls and classes allocated to each one.

Please think about how you might be able to support your class parents– enough volunteers really do make a big impact on the day.

Class Teacher

Stall

KB – Mrs Bailey

Sideshow Alley – Tambola

KC – Mrs Citer

Side Show Alley – Knock ‘em Down

KR- Miss Kerr

Side Show Alley – Hoopla

IC- Mrs Croker

Monster Raffle

ITD- Mrs Townend/ Miss Doyle

Carnival Rides

IY- Mrs Yoo

Colour me Fun! Includes Face Painting/Tattoo/Hair Spray/Henna/Balloon Animals

2G- Mrs Gibb

White Elephant - homewares

2P – Miss Payne

White Elephant - books

3A- Mr Alice

Feed the bucket

3E- Mr Hines

Gift Basket

4B – Mrs Buttrey

White Elephant - Toys

4L – Mr Le Side Show Alley Chocolate Wheel 5/4A- Miss Assad

Side Show Alley – Tyre and Ball

5S- Mr Sherley

Teacher’s stall – Sponge Bob

6/5G- Mrs Graham

Lollyland

6M- Ms McGill

Lollyland

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As the organisation of the fete progresses, we will organise more information about each stall. Many thanks again for everyone’s support. Questions or comments: contact Meher – 04315 61666 or Constanza – 04089 97576 or by email epsfete2016@gmail.com

CANTEEN New Canteen Coordinators The Canteen Committee would like to announce that several wonderful parents have stepped forward into coordinator roles! Starting from Term 2, Mina Jung and Julia Park will be our new Friday coordinators, and Coco Huang will join Lillian Wang as our Wednesday coordinators. Thank you to these lovely parents for offering to train up into these volunteer roles and to help continue the smooth operation of our school canteen. We would also like to acknowledge with much gratitude the contributions of Janice Ma, Stephanie Chung and Wendy Lam, who have worked tirelessly in canteen coordination and support roles for more than two years. We thank our outgoing coordinators for their generous commitment of time and effort, and for creating such a friendly and supportive environment for our team of volunteers. And finally, but not least, to the many volunteer mums that have helped this term working in the canteen, collecting sushi, delivering fresh groceries and assisting at the Easter morning tea - THANK YOU! We could not exist without you all. A canteen roster for Term 2 will be sent out shortly. For anyone wanting information about volunteering in the school canteen, please feel free to contact Deb Walker, the new Canteen Roster & Communications Coordinator at eppingcanteen@gmail.com.

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 1/2016 DAY DATE

Week 10 Food Shopper Wendy Sushi Collector Wendy

WED 30-Mar Lilian, Aditi, Roshini, Shilpa, Smita

FRI 1-Apr Stephanie/Janice, Gayatri, Patti & Saumya

Week 11 Food Shopper Lilian Sushi Collector Glorya

WED 6-Apr Lilian, Leonie, Constanza, Janice

FRI 8-Apr Stephanie/Janice, Gayatri, Patti & Saumya

SCIENCE SHOW Well the Amazing Science Show proved to be just that AMAZING! The kids arrived full of expectations and excitement. They were entertained by Fizzics Education’s scientist Nina. The kids were wowed with Rubens Tube flame dancing to the tunes of music, the shooting of smoke rings and fire balls. And yes, toilet paper can fly. An event like this cannot happen without help from parents. Firstly a special thank you to Marissa Kelly for handling the BBQ and cooking 240 sausages and onions with her dad Michael, along with Sarah O’Neil and Xiemena Oyarce. Thank you to Stephanie Chung who took charge in the canteen and sorted out the flow of organising the serving of the sausage rolls to the hungry 240 children. Thank you also to the following people helped on the night; Glorya Williams, Leonie Eldridge, Patti Tse, Fiona Kim, Wendy Lam, Sarah Lee, Angeline Soo, Jacqui Pitcher, Ran He, Smita Sant, Shilpa Manmothe, Aditi Sethi, Purvi Avlani, Anne Mount, Lisa Denniss, Sue Bailey, Constanza Hanich. If your name was missed we apologise. Your help was greatly appreciated. Thank you to Coles Epping for contributing $100 towards sausages and to Epping Bakery for discounting the bread rolls. Thank you to EBASCA who enabled us to use the hall for the duration of our event and also

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organised the children participating from EBASCA so beautifully. Lastly, thank to the children who attended. The children behaved so well throughout the show and showed patience waiting for their sausage. Our Amazing Science Show raised $1708.00 for our school. Janine Eastham Science Show Coordinator

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