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Kalori Term 2 - Week 4 19 May 2020

Respect, Honesty, Responsibility – RHR – That’s Who We Are

Meryula St Narromine NSW 2821

P: 02 68894566 F: 02 68894451

E: [email protected]

Denise Toohey – Principal

Vale Jody Beahan - Farewell Mrs B

Narromine Public School staff, students and wider school

community mourn the loss of a dearly loved and cherished staff

member, Mrs Jody Beahan. Sadly on the 12 May 2020 Mrs Beahan

passed away following her long and brave battle with cancer.

Our deepest condolences to Mrs Beahan’s family; her husband

Mark, children Emily and Josh and Emily’s husband Matt and Josh’s wife Suzie.

Life is incredibly precious. The role we play and the people we touch are all uniquely

connected. Jody had a connection to each and every member of our staff. She built

beautiful relationships with our students. Mrs B was a friendly, warm welcoming face

in the playground and in the classrooms.

Jody’s laugh in chorus with Makaila’s giggles could be heard across the playground as the two worked away with

Makaila’s learning program. Her support and encouragement in the Stage 2 classrooms has been a lifeline to so many

little people as they have work their way through difficulties with her guiding hand for reassurance. Mrs Beahan will

be greatly missed and forever remembered by our school family. We will hold a memorial tree planting in her honour

at school.

Welcoming our students back onsite - Monday 25 May

Premier Gladys Berejiklian and the Minister for Education Sarah Mitchell have announced the return to full-time

attendance at school commencing Monday 25 May 2020 (Week 5).

She also noted that schools will stick with the government health advice including: increased cleaning, access to

hygiene supplies and compliance with hygiene practices and that schools will maintain the measures and precautions

they have put in place for the foreseeable future, including no assemblies and excursions.


Denise Toohey – Principal continued

Narromine Public School is greatly looking forward to welcoming our students back onsite five days a week from

Monday 25 May. At the moment this is what parents can expect to see at Narromine Public School:

Students will be in their home classes (as best we can depending on staff numbers).

Upon arrival students will continue to sit in their designated locations as per COVID -19 arrangements.

First lunch and second lunch will be staggered to minimise mixing between Stages.

No excursions or extra-curricular activities.

No large group playground games.

Class groups will participate in PE and sport.

Parents will continue to drop and collect students at the gates, at this point parents and non-essential adults

will not be invited onto site.

Social distancing will be maintained, please avoid gathering at the gates of NPS.

Tastebuds canteen will be fully operational.

Student attendance is as per pre COVID-19, if your child is absent please contact the school.

We are gaining new information as it is released. Please monitor our Facebook page and our website for updated

information in relation to students returning to Narromine Public School.

Have you downloaded our school app?

Did you know our school app allows you to easily access all newsletters, notices, events, online

calendar, online payments, emergency alerts and submit absences. Search the App store or Google Play

for the Narromine Public School App or go to http://cms.yourphoneapp.com.au/promo/narromin

Are you following our Facebook page?

We use social media to recognise success and celebrate good practise in our school. For all the latest

news and event information about what is happening in our school search Narromine Public School in

Facebook and click follow.

http://cms.yourphoneapp.com.au/promo/narromin


Changes to school routine

There are a number of changes currently in place at school to ensure the safety and wellbeing of students and staff.

Thank you to those students and parents who have adapted quickly to the new system.

Morning Entry to School

We are asking all families to use the Kiss and Drop gate (Meryula Street) as our main entry point in the morning.

Parents are able to drop students at the gate while maintaining social distancing guidelines. No parents are currently

allowed onto school grounds.

Once they have arrived at school, students are to go to one of the following areas to wait for teachers.

Kindy – Jarrah Cola outside Kindy rooms

Year 1 and 2 – Hall

Year 3 and 4 – Banksia Cola

Year 5 and 6 – Waratah Cola (silver seats)

Lunch Breaks

Lunch times have been staggered to allow for safe play. Years 3-6 will continue with normal times for lunch while K-2

have had their lunches brought forward.

The new break times for K-2 are:

Lunch One – 10:30 – 10:55

Lunch Two – 12:45 – 1:20

The activities currently being encouraged in the playground are handball, sandpit play, fixed equipment play and

organised relay games. Being introduced in Week 4 there will be some ball activities including using basketballs, soccer

balls and tennis rackets as well as skill-based activities.

It was great to see some Year 3 and 4 students develop a game of shadow tag during Week 3. Well done.

Afternoon Exit

Students are now being escorted to designated exit points in the afternoon. We would like most children to continue

to be picked up from the Kiss and Drop Zone. The canteen gates are also open and students who catch the bus will

continue to exit from the normal bus gate. We are encouraging parents to avoid the office gates as a pick-up point.

You can find more information about this on our school’s Facebook page where information is updated regularly. Once

again, thank you to all the families who have quickly adapted to these necessary changes.

Kevin Geyer - Assistant Principal Welfare Team

Content Creation

Firstly, thank you for your enthusiasm with our changed method of learning in the past few weeks. We appreciate

your dedication in using our Home Learning Packs and accessing online learning.

Our staff have been busy scripting and filming videos to support our parents with learning at home. These videos have

been created to provide information and insightful tips for your child’s learning. To access these videos, please head

to our Facebook page, click on ‘videos’ and enjoy a range of videos catered for you and our students.

In the coming weeks, teachers will be undertaking a range of assessments. Assessments are a key component to the

learning process as it helps our staff and students to identify appropriate learning goals. It is important for teachers to

gauge student understanding of the content which has been taught. This process will drive future teaching and provide

an opportunity to reflect on the learning that has taken place.

There will be a change in our reports, however, it will continue to include English, Mathematics and General comments.

Amanda Turnbull – Assistant Principal and Content Creation Team

Stewart House Donations Stewart House donation drive has been postponed until Term 4.


Student work samples

Archie Craft Stage 1

STORM - By Bridget McDonnell (Bogan) Stage 3

BOOM! CRASH! BANG!

I watch the clouds rolling up in the distance,

The clouds as dark as charcoal.

I see the clouds somersaulting in,

Quicker, quicker, guicker.

Storm clouds rolling in over the crystal blue ocean,

Waves crashing against the rocks.

Weather this weather brightens your day,

Or ruin your mood.

It is sure to grab everyone's attention.

Storm - By Klaneesha Knight (Bogan) Stage 3

BOOM,BANG,CRASH I hear the storm somersaulting in

faster than the waves washing up to shore.

I catch lightning glitching across the dark blue

mountains along the dark blue sky.

The wind twirls around and around like a ballerina on a

big white sheep.

The thunder rumbles harder and harder that it sounds

like someone’s playing the drums.

The weather at my house - by Alicia Holden

(Castlereagh) Stage 3

The weather at my house, including inside and out. This

text is about the weather at my house. The weather at

my house will be explained during these paragraphs.

At the start of the day:

The weather at my house at the start of the day is a bit

cold.Cold by wind,ground and air but inside it's warm

like a burnt marshmallow, that marshmallow is as hot

as a heated blanket.

Lunch time:

At lunch my house is warm on the outside and still a bit

hot on the inside, in the kitchen it's a bit cold. Once you

step inside the lounge room it's like you're stepping on

the warmest blankets ever.

Night:

At night it's hot inside and cold outside, we have the

heater on inside and dad would be working outside. Ty

would be sitting in front of the freezing window while

I’d be in my roasting room.

In conclusion my house is cold, hot and warm at different times of day and in different places of the house, this is my

summary of the weather at my house.



Justin Fletcher Year 1

Destiny Armstrong Year 2

Ava White Year 1



Ted – Kindy Jack - Kindy

Family Literacy Challenge

Organise your family team

to complete the challenge

and return to the front

office to submit your

entries or email them to

Narromine-

[email protected].

To collect the prize you need to make sure you have one name of a family member per entry.

Week 4 Challenge – Rhyming words Write all the words that rhyme with jet. Extra points if you can place these

rhyming words into a sentence that makes sense!

Numeracy Challenges We would like you and your family to have a try at these family mathematics challenges. Complete the one for your

grade and remember to put your name on your solution. You can send in a photo of the solution or bring it to school

when you come in. Entries due by Thursday 28 May.

K-2 Challenge

Some toy ladybirds are kept in this box which has 9 little square compartments. Can

you place six ladybirds into the box so that there are just two ladybirds in every

column and every row?

Stage 2 Challenge (Year 3 & 4)

Rob and Jennie were making necklaces to sell at the school fair. They decided to make them very mathematical. Each

necklace was to have eight beads, four of one colour and four of another. And

each had to be symmetrical, like this.

How many different necklaces could they make?

Can you find them all?

How do you know there aren't any others?

Stage 3 Challenge (Year 5 & 6)

Can you sort out the four clues that help and the four clues that do

not help in finding the number I am thinking of?

Four of the clues below are true but do nothing to help in finding the

number. Four of the clues are necessary for finding it. Here are eight

clues to use:

The number is greater than 9.

The number is not a multiple of 10.

The number is a multiple of 7.

The number is odd.

The number is not a multiple of 11.

The number is less than 200.

Its ones digit is larger than its tens digit.

Its tens digit is odd.

What is the number?


At home learning


Welcome back to onsite learners


Staff remote working and connecting


Easter Hats It was a different kind of Easter hat parade this year with our students participating in a virtual parade. We are very proud of all the beatuiful creations our students and staff made!



P&C

As we move into Week 4 of the school term, the P&C would like to say a big welcome back to all students and staff

at NPS. It has been a very unusual time for all, both in and outside the school environment and we are very much

looking forward to everything getting back to normal soon.

Last term ended very suddenly and unfortunately the P&C were unable to run their Big Easter Raffle and the canteen

at the school disco. This term saw the Mothers Day Stall cancelled and the P&C meeting postponed. On a positive

note, our canteen is open and serving up delicious treats and specials as always (of course adhering to strict social

distancing measures). Jess and Wendy are doing an amazing job and we know both the students and teachers are

enjoying what is on offer each week.

As we move through the year we hope that we will be able to run our Fathers Day Stall, athletics carnival canteen,

the extremely popular School Fete and a couple new fundraising ideas leading up to Christmas.

2020 will definitely be a year we won’t forget and our committee looks forward to what’s left to come.

A new date for our P&C Meeting will be made soon, so keep you eye out on Facebook and in the newsletter.

Crystal Paine – P&C President

Have you changed your contact details?

Please remember to update your contact details with

the school office as they change. Call 6889 4566 or call

into the office to update.

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Kalori - narromine-p.schools.nsw.gov.au · STORM - By Bridget McDonnell (Bogan) Stage 3 BOOM! CRASH! BANG! I watch the clouds rolling up in the distance, The clouds as dark as charcoal