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Epping Heights Public School

TERM 3 | WEEK 1 | 23 JULY 2020

128 Kent Street, Epping 2121 p: 9876 2791

e: eppinghts-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au w: eppingheights-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER IN THIS EDITION

Principal Report | General News, School Development Day, Student

Leaders, Assembly via Zoom, Child Protection, Semester One Reports,

Education Week, Technology at our School

Teacher News |2020 Multicultural Perspectives Public

Speaking Competition

Student Awards and Achievements

Contact EHPS | Classifieds

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Welcome back to Term 3. It is lovely to see smiling faces and the school is abuzz with energy (students and staff). We look forward to a productive term of learning. Information letters outlining programs and events for each Stage will be sent home next week. Please ensure you have signed up to enews to receive these.

SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAY

On Monday teachers participated in professional learning via zoom and in small teams. We watched a live stream from the NSW Minister for Education and Secretary of the Department of Education. It outlined the new school strategic planning process we will be undertaking later this year. (More information on this will be shared across this term). The Executive team shared the current 2018-2020 School Plan and we celebrated our achievements and reviewed our next steps. Teachers also participated in a session led by Mrs Buwalda and Mrs Skennerton outlining the purpose and procedures in relation to protecting and supporting children and young people at our school. (For more information see later in this newsletter). Our final session involved staff collaborating to develop new physical education programs to support the implementation of the new PDHPE syllabus.

Thank you to the staff who, as always, showed the highest level of professional dedication and worked diligently to ensure excellence for our students.

STUDENT LEADERS

On Tuesday morning I was excited to support our School Captains and Vice Captains to lead a “PA assembly”. They reminded students about how to follow our 3 school rules- Be safe, Be respectful and Be responsible. Reminders included health and safety messages such as washing and sanitising as students enter and exit any room. Thank you to Max, Amy, Finn & Teon who led this so well.

IMPORTANT DATES

Week 2

Band Program Resumes

Monday 3 August 2020

Education Week

Tuesday 4 August 2020

5B CARES Excursion

Tuesday 11 August 2020

5D CARES Excursion

P&C Meeting

Tuesday 18 August 2020

5M + 5Q CARES Excursion

Newsletter articles due by COB Tuesday

VALUES FOR TERM 3

Fairness and Caring

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School Captains and Vice Captains lead our “PA assembly”

ASSEMBLY VIA ZOOM

Last term students enjoyed our Wednesday afternoon K-6 assemblies via zoom. These were hosted by

Student Leaders from my office and they were fun. As we are still unable to hold regular assemblies due

to health restrictions, it is important that we still remain connect as a school community. This term I

decided to ‘take the show on the road’ and ensure all of our student leaders have opportunities. As such

each class will be hosting a zoom assembly this term. Yesterday we had a great time hosting from 4S &

6S. Thank you to the students from both classes and to their elected Student Representative Council

members- Joseph & Lilian (4S), Derek and Cindy (6S) who led the assembly.

CHILD PROTECTION

Our Protecting and Supporting Children and Young People Policy sets out roles and responsibilities of

staff in relation to child protection including training, reporting on safety, and supporting children and

young people, as well as monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements. For more information about

this please visit our school website

https://eppinghts-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/schools/e/eppinghts-

p/EHPS_Protecting_and_supporting_children_and_young_people-_July_2020_update.pdf

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This term, as part of the Personal Development Health and Physical Education syllabus, classroom

teachers will explicitly teach Child protection. Please see the attached PDF of the ‘even year’ lessons to

be taught this term. Please speak to your child about what he/she is learning and ways to keep

themselves safe. If you have any questions about this program, please email the school and a member

of the school executive will contact you.

SEMESTER ONE REPORTS

As outlined last term at the P & C meeting and in the week 7 newsletter the Executive team met and revised our current format in light of the guidelines from the NSW Department of Education.

“Under the department’s Curriculum planning and programming, assessing and reporting to parents K-12 policy, schools are required provide parents/carers, throughout the school year, with formal and informal opportunities to receive information about and discuss their child's learning. Schools should review the temporary changes to this policy that have been put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes apply to Semester 1 2020 only. Student reports for Semester 2 will need to be delivered using the A to E grading.” (Source: NSW DOE Reporting to parents/carers school guide flyer May 2020). To enable assessment of learning at school, in line with advice, reports will be sent home in Term 3 week 5. As per guidelines, the report will not have A-E (outstanding, high, sound, basic and limited) grading. Teachers will rate student effort and report on areas of strength and guidance to move learning forward (next steps). The report will also include a brief comment on student learning behaviours.

EDUCATION WEEK

3rd – 7th August is Education Week. The theme is Learning Together. As we are unable to host parents onsite at school due to health and safety regulations, alternative activities are being planned for that week. More details to come.

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TECHNOLOGY AT OUR SCHOOL

We are excited to present an information session via zoom as part of the next P & C meeting. The topic will be Technology at EHPS. The session will outline what technology access your child has and how we embed technology into teaching and learning for each grade. We will also be sharing our new Digital Technologies policy and procedures and asking for parent feedback on this.

The meeting will be held online on Tuesday 11 August at 7p.m.

Please ensure you sign up for the zoom link via P & C. More details next week.

Ms Megan Bridekirk

PRINCIPAL

2020 MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION

Typically each year, students in Years 3 to 6 are given the opportunity to enter the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition, exploring ideas of multiculturalism in Australia. Due to the pandemic the competition was delayed and will follow a different format to previous years. As such, due to short notice and other commitments Epping Heights will not participate this year. As always, we will continue to study and celebrate multiculturalism in class and as a school community.

Thank you for your understanding.

Ms Sarah Burke COORDINATOR

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PRINCIPAL’S AWARDS

Sudiksha 1G

MERIT AWARDS

Tian KT Subhan KT Erin KM

Aiden KM Ian KK Kalia KK

Pavitej K/1H Eric K/1H Yogan 1G

Darun 1T Karyn 1T Sethuni 1G

Umer 1/2S Sena 1/2S

Luna 2C Maxwell 2C Liam 2K

Avaleigh 2K Jasmin 2/3A Riley 2/3A

Jana 2G Siwat 2G

Emma 3M Isaac 3M Catherine 3E

Ryhan 3E Edith 3/4B Dilan 3/4B

Kingsley 4S Leesha 4S

Fletcher 4P Jemimah 4P Nathan 4/5M

Nicholas 4/5M Luke 5B Aakash 5B

Amber 5D Nia 5D Cadyn 5/6Q

William 5/6Q Anu 6E Sean 6E

Sooah 6S Finn 6S

READ WITH ME AWARDS

Hay Li 4S Charlotte 4S Abigail 4S

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