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■ 2020 ■ Term 3 ■ Weeks 1 and 2 ■ Principal: Tracy Delaney
■ Phone: (02) 6924 1902 Play the Game
■ Fax: (02) 6924 2540 Junee Public School
■ Email: [email protected] 116 Lorne Street
■ Website: https://junee-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/ Junee NSW 2663
Phase 2-
Junee Public School
Redevelopment
Junee Public School ■ Principal: Tracy Delaney Play the Game
■ Phone: (02) 6924 1902
■ Fax: (02) 6924 2540 Junee Public School
■ Email: [email protected] 116 Lorne Street (PO Box 95)
■ Website: https://junee-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/ Junee NSW 2663
■ 2020 ■ Term 3 ■ Weeks 1 and 2 ■ Newsletter
Calendar Term 3, Week 2
Wednesday 29 July PJ Day!
Term 3, Week 3
Mon 3-Fri 7 Aug Education Week
Monday 3 Aug JHS Sport at JPS
Thursday 6 Aug Scripture Begins
Friday 7 Aug Jeans for Genes Mufti
Term 3, Week 4
Monday 10 Aug JHS Sport at JPS
In this issue ... Principal’s Note ............................................................................. 3
Welcome Back! ......................................................................... 3
School Upgrade – Phase 2 ................................................... 3
COVID-19 Update ................................................................... 3
Latest COVID-19 case locations in NSW ........................ 4
School Attendance .................................................................. 4
Kindergarten Enrolments...................................................... 4
News from the Classroom ........................................................ 4
News from the Office ................................................................. 6
Junee Public School
Page 3
Principal’s Note
Welcome Back!
What a wonderful start we have had to Term 3! It has
been pleasing to see our students settled and engaged
in their learning from day one this term. While we
thought last term was busy and productive, this term is
already proving to be ‘jam packed’ with exciting
opportunities for learning and new experiences.
School Upgrade – Phase 2
Our first phase of the school upgrade included new
synthetic courts and new play area, new computer and
STEM lab, redevelopment of our administration
building, and painting and recarpeting throughout the
school.
I am excited to announce that Phase 2 is about to
commence. On our front page of the newsletter you
would have seen the new design for our School LED
Sign. In the coming weeks you will see the
commencement of works for the sign installation as
well as new totems which display our core values.
During this time the front entrance drop off point will
change to the right hand side of the front veranda. This
is only a short term change due to safety precautions
that need to be put in place while the installation is
taking place. Once this is complete, paving at the front
of the school will commence. This will also include the
erection of three new flagpoles, grey paving at the
entrance of the school and around the poles as well as
the installation of the personalised engraved pavers
around the rose beds. We will also have the mud
kitchens in the play area installed, just in time for use
when the weather warms up.
COVID-19 Update
With Term 3 underway, the new world of COVID-19 is
constantly changing and the Department of Education
provides us with regular updates on health advice and
changes to state and national restrictions. Schools
continue to be safe and operations are in line with the
Australian Health Protection Principal Committee
(AHPPC) and NSW Health advice. Under this advice,
schools are not required to conduct widespread
temperature screening nor does anyone need to wear
masks. The Department will continue to provide
essential hygiene products to ensure all schools have
enough supplies.
The majority of school-based activities can
recommence, as long as the following measures are
observed:
• all visitors and external to school providers
must adhere to relevant hygiene, distancing
and safety protocols
• principals may continue to restrict, limit or
prohibit activities if they are seen as contrary
to the current health advice
• external providers and visitors are required to
demonstrate compliance with health and
safety requirements including adhering to
strict guidelines and completing relevant forms
• non-essential adults are still not permitted
on school grounds or at school events – this
includes parents/carers unless specifically
approved by the principal.
All visitors must report to the front office, no
exceptions.
The following school activities have recommenced for
Term 3;
• All school sport and activities including
competitions aligned with current health
advice (including those activities run by
external organisations).
• Inter-school student events and competitions
(choirs, sport , debating, public speaking etc)
• SRE/SEE lessons. Provided the volunteers are
not in a high risk category and are prepared to
work in a school environment.
• Allied health providers, wellbeing and case
management professionals (including NDIS
suppliers and health programs such as student
vaccination programs and dental health
programs)
• Incursions/external adult providers to support
delivery of curriculum (e.g. music tutors, sport
skills development programs, science
demonstrations, drama tutors, Healthy Harold)
and day field trips to outdoor locations that
require minimal physical distancing
considerations (e.g. DoE Environmental
Education Centres)
• Parent/teacher meetings – where these need
to take place, strong preference is for on-line
where possible.
Junee Public School
Page 4
The following activities are on hold until further
notice;
• Kindergarten operation
• Parent and carer attendance at assemblies and
other school events
• Parent and carer volunteers – e.g. parent
reading helpers (note: canteen and uniform
shop volunteers are permitted. There is a
scheduled canteen meeting next Monday to
discuss the re-opening the service)
Please note parent drop off points will remain in
place. Please make sure you adhere to the
signs and drop your children off at the
front and back gate. Thank you!
We continue to be vigilant when implementing
infection control, physical distancing and personal
hygiene protocols to protect the health and safety of
students and staff. We continue to enforce good
hygiene practices like:
• regularly washing hands
• avoiding sharing drinks or food
• coughing or sneezing into your elbow, or a
tissue which should be discarded immediately
• filling water bottles from bubblers rather than
using the bubbler directly.
Latest COVID-19 case locations in NSW
NSW Health has the following website:
https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/latest-news-and-
updates#latest-covid-19-case-locations-in-nsw to
inform you of the actions you should take if you have
been in a location where there has been confirmed
cases of COVID-19
NSW Health has requested anyone who is unwell or
has flu-like symptoms arrange to be tested through
their local medical practitioner or one of the
COVID-19 clinics.
School Attendance
We would like to remind parents and carers not to
send students to school if they are unwell, even if
they have mild symptoms. Schools will make
appropriate arrangements to return students home if
they become unwell at school.
Students should be at school unless:
• they have a medical certificate which states
that they are unable to return to school due to
an ongoing medical condition and the
expected timeframe
• they are currently unwell.
Kindergarten Enrolments
We are currently taking Kindergarten Enrolments for
2021. If you are aware of any families wishing to send
their children to Junee Public School next year please
ask them to contact the front office so they can be
included in the mailing list and an enrolment pack will
be sent out. This way they won’t miss out on
information relating to our Kindergarten Transition
Program and won’t miss any upcoming events. With a
hold on our regular Kindergarten Orientation Program,
alternative avenues for this will be communicated
shortly.
Enjoy the remainder of your week!
Tracy Delaney
News from the Classroom
Welcome to the first newsletter for Term 3. It was
wonderful to see all of the students return to school
safe after their break, ready for the term ahead.
Although there is still some uncertainty around the
temporary changes to the way we go about our day to
day tasks, it is encouraging to see a little bit of
normality creeping back in. This being said, it is
certainly pleasing to be starting the term back at
school with a full term of learning and fun ahead.
Junee Public School
Page 5
In our Gurawung classroom, it is business as usual with
our core focus on literacy and numeracy, but with a
small change to the structure of our reading lessons.
Although we still have our reading groups, we are no
longer breaking into separate reading groups with only
one group with the teacher at a time. Instead, we will
be focussing our attention of learning new
comprehension skills using good quality and engaging
text. We will be looking at using our prior knowledge
to help us understand what we are reading, how to
make connections with the real world, the text and
other books we may have read, how to predict what
we might see or think may happen, how to visualise
and infer meaning and understanding. We will also be
looking at improving our ability to engage and use text
by skimming and scanning the text, looking for key
words and information and summarising and
organising the knowledge we have gained from our
reading. We have already been learning some of the
strategies in the classroom to excellent effect.
Our writing will follow on from last Term, continuing to
focus on an information text, but instead of persuasive
texts, our focus will be on writing reports. We are
remaining with non-fiction text types, in the aim of
providing students with a good opportunity to build
upon their understanding of paragraphs and the
development of good sentence structures which was
also a focus last term.
During science we will be looking at how energy and
heat can be generated and is transferred, how we use
it, control it and how it effects the way we live and
respond to different temperatures.
Our numeracy sessions will follow the same format as
last semester which allows greater scope for the
acquisition of times tables and numeracy strategies,
provides time for us to introduce and learn new
concepts and have the opportunity for consistent
revision of knowledge. There will be a much bigger
focus on consolidating decimals for Year 4 this
semester and Year 3 will be focussing on subtraction
that requires trading.
There has been a change to our Library time this term
with our new Library time taking place each
Wednesday afternoon and scripture will begin again in
Week 3.
I would like to encourage all of my students to read for
enjoyment every night and to practise their times
tables at least once a day. Year 3 are still focussing on
their 3 and 4 multiplication facts while Year 4 need to
be practising them all.
I am looking forward to a productive and wonderful
term!
Junee Public School
Page 6
News from the Office
School Banking is back.
School Banking is back. School Banking Day will be Wednesday School Banking is a fun, interactive and engaging way to help young Australians learn about money and practice good savings habits. For each weekly deposit made at school, students will receive a Dollarmites token. Once they collect 10 tokens, they can redeem them for a School Banking reward. If your child has previously participated in School Banking, or has an existing Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account, they can start banking straight away by bringing their Dollarmites deposit wallet to school on School Banking day. If your child has lost their deposit wallet, please contact your School Banking Co-ordinator or visit any Commonwealth Bank branch for a replacement. Our School Banking program is made possible because of volunteers. Thank you to those volunteers for donating their time to run School Banking for our students. If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2020 School Banking program parent guide from the school office or visit www.commbank.com.au/schoolbanking
Junee Public School
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JUNEE PUBLIC SCHOOL TERM 3 CALENDAR
Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
2
27 July 28 July 29 July
PJ Day!
30 July
31 July
3
Education
Week
3 Aug
JHS Sport
4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug
Scripture Begins
7 Aug
Jeans for Genes
Mufti
4
10 Aug
JHS Sport
11 Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 14 Aug
5
17 Aug 18 Aug 19 Aug 20 Aug 21 Aug
6
24 Aug
JHS Sport
25 Aug 26 Aug 27 Aug 28 Aug
7
31 Aug 1 Sept 2 Sept 3 Sept 4 Sept
8
7 Sept
JHS Sport
8 Sept 9 Sept
School Photos
10 Sept 11 Sept
9
14 Sept
Footsteps
Intensive
Swimming
15 Sept
Footsteps
Intensive
Swimming
16 Sept
Footsteps
Intensive
Swimming
17 Sept
Footsteps
Year 7 Transition
at JHS
18 Sept
Footsteps
10
21 Sept
Intensive
Swimming
22 Sept
Intensive
Swimming
23 Sept
Intensive
Swimming
24 Sept 25 Sept
Last Day of Term!