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UNLOCKING THE BRILLIANCE IN EACH OF US

TERM 1, FEBRUARY 2019 :: ISSUE 1

DATES TO REMEMBER

FEBRUARY8 Assembly - Leadership - 1.30-2.15pm11 Photos - Years 7 and Kindergarten13 Cyber Safety Talk - Years 5 and 614 Swimming Carnival - Years 2 - 619 Scripture commences

20Departing workshop (for debating team)

P&C Meeting22 Assembly - 3/4M - 1.30-2.15pmMARCH 5 Primary Parent/Teacher Interviews6 Zone Swimming Carnival8 Assembly - 5/6B 1.30-2.15pm14 Selective High School test18 Smart Start Workshops K-619 Smart Start Workshops K-620 P&C Meeting - AGM21 Harmony Day22 Assembly - 1G - 1.30 - 2.15pm

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CREATING A QUALIT Y LEARNING COMMUNIT Y THROUGH OPPORTUNIT Y, INNOVATION AND PARTICIPATION

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Welcome back

It is good to see so many new families joining our school community. We hope that you find Wadalba Community School to be a happy and welcoming place and one that provides a broad range of activities to cater for all.

We are also excited welcome Miss Chloe Mason and Mr Thomas Scriven to our staff who bring a new range of ideas and experience to share with us. We will formally introduce these teachers at our first assembly on 8th Feb. We would also like to welcome back Mrs Lauren Ryder who worked with us a few years ago and is returning this year.

We would like to congratulate Miss Kendal Hindmarch on her marriage during the holidays! She will now be known as Mrs Kendal Williams.

We will be saying goodbye for now to a few of our staff who have either already started maternity leave or will be shortly: Miss Chloe Clarke, Mrs Jessica Malu and Mrs Chloe Fisher. Miss Danielle Green is continuing her maternity leave but will be returning later in the year. Also, Mrs Natalie MacDonald is continuing her leave as she is relieving in higher duties at another school.

There are currently 285 students enrolled in Wadalba Primary. Our community continues to grow, as do our enrolments. At such a time that our classes reach capacity and we are provided another teacher and class, we may need to restructure as has been successfully done previously. Rest assured, the needs of our students as well as clear communication with families will guide all of our decision-making if this takes place.

The class and staffing structure for starting Term 1 will be as follows:

KB Mrs Rebecca Britt

K/1M Miss Chloe Mason

1G Ms Julie Goldie

1S Mr Thomas Scriven

2T Mr Adam Tanner

2/3M Miss Rebecca Moret

3/4M Mr Mitchell McNeill/ Miss Georgia Kennedy

3/4P Mrs Alicia Page

5/6W Mrs Kendal Williams

5/6S Mrs Kylie Snell/ Miss Georgia Kennedy

5/6B Mr Graham Booth

Support Classes

Mrs Taryan Walsh

Mrs Rebecca Hayward

Miss Katie Kelly

Principal - Mr Jason McGrath

Deputy Principal - Ms Roxanne Sanday (Mon-Thurs), Mr Mitchell McNeill (rel. Fri)

K-2 Assistant Principal - Mrs Melinda Farrelly

(rel. for Mrs Malu)

3-4 Assistant Principal - Mr Mitchell McNeill,

Mrs Alicia Page (rel. Fri)

5-6 Assistant Principal - Mrs Kylie Snell

(rel. for Mrs Natalie MacDonald)

Support Unit Head Teacher - Mr Stan Baric

Library - Mrs Lauren Ryder

RFF- Mr Aiden McCann, Miss Georgia Kennedy,

Mrs Kerry Crowther

Learning Support – Mrs Melinda Farrelly

SLSOs - Mrs Rachael Fitzpatrick, Miss Carole Beckley, Mrs Lucie Vojtiskova, Mrs Natalie Greco,

Miss Ashley Baker

Support SLSO - Mrs Angela Pattison,

Mrs Allison Shephard, Mrs Vicky McRae



Welcome back continued

As you can see, several of our classes are multi-age classes. This occurs because schools are staffed on overall numbers not on the numbers in each grade. Students in all classes have work programmed to their individual capabilities and needs. Being in a multi-age class is not detrimental to a student’s learning and is often very beneficial. If you have any concerns or queries, please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss them.

Awards Each newsletter the Bronze and Silver Award recipients will be listed to recognise their significant achievement. Remember to give your 5 commendations to Ms Sanday in order to receive your award.

5 Commendations = 1 Bronze

3 Bronze = 1 Silver

3 Silver + a community service = A gold award presented at the end of year presentation assembly.

Updating your email address We have found that digital communication directly with parents and carers has been the most effective way of ensuring that information makes it home. There is no need to complete the slip if you have not changed your email and have been receiving our emails already in 2018. For children with two or more families please fill in the email addresses for each parent to help with communication.

Student Leaders Congratulations to the following students voted into our leadership team for 2019.

SCHOOL CAPTAINSMatilda Denmeade

Imogen Wells

House captains THORPE

Levi Barrientos

William Bryant

BRADMAN

Aaden Herder

Jasmine Harmer

HALL

Semi Lewiniqila

Luke Porter

FREEMAN

Gabrielle Sonter

Ella Swift

Year Representatives Year 5:

Ruby Sutter

Sienna Oliver

Year 6:

Ella Harris

Thomas O’Brien




Assemblies Assemblies will continue to be held every second Friday commencing in Week 2 at 1:30pm. The student leaders run the assembly each week and one class performs an item. Parents are welcome to attend.

Week 2 - 8th February - Leadership

Week 4 - 22nd February - 3/4M

Week 6 - 8th March - 5/6B

Week 8- 22nd March - 1G

Week 10 - 5th April - 3/4P

Swimming Carnival This will be held on Thursday, 14th February for all students in Years 3 – 6 and for any student in Year 2 who is turning eight this year and can competently swim 50 metres. A separate note will be sent home with more information. All 3-6 students are expected to attend as there will be no supervision for 3-6 students at school on that day.

Eating Breaks The school’s health program encourages students to aim for a healthy, balanced diet. Each day your child should come with something wholesome and nourishing for recess and lunch as well as fruit/vegetable portions for ‘Fruit Break’. Students are also encouraged to drink water rather than sweetened drinks. For health and safety reasons we ask that students do not bring glass bottles, cans, chocolate bars, lollies or chewing gum to school.

Home Reading Home reading will recommence as soon as possible. Please check your child’s bookshelves at home as there are still some books outstanding from 2018. It is important that all students read every day and record it on their home reading card from K-6 whether it’s with school readers or their own books.

Canteen If you are available to assist between 10:30am and 10:45 am or between 1.00pm and 1.45pm on any day please ring Vicki, the canteen supervisor, and give her your name. Under OH&S regulations children are not permitted in the canteen.

Don’t forget lunches can be ordered online through www.flexischools.com.au as well as through the flexischools app or through the classroom lunch basket.

Information Book Information books for primary students are handed out to new students when enrolling at our school. If you are a continuing family that would like to read the 2019 Handbook please go to our website:

http://www.wadalba-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/primary-classes/general-information-procedures

Parent/ Teacher Interviews Parent/ Teacher interviews will be held on the afternoon and evening of Tuesday 5th March. We use an online booking system where you can see the available appointment times for each teacher and select a time that suits you. You will be get more detailed information on how this will work closer to the date.

I’d also like to remind families that teachers are not able to talk to parents once the bell has gone at 8.30am. If you need to speak to your child’s teacher for any reason please see them before bell time or make an appointment for

http://www.wadalba-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/primary-classes/general-information-procedures




Facebook Page Don’t forget to like our Facebook page so you can get instant updates of what is happening at our school!

https://www.facebook.com/WadalbaCommunitySchool/

School Houses & the ‘Wadalba Cup’ Students are put into the following houses based on the first letter of their family name:

A – D Thorpe (blue) E – K Bradman (green)

L – R Hall (red) S – Z Freeman (yellow)

Students may wear a plain polo or t-shirt in the house colour, with their normal sport’s shorts, at the swimming, cross country and athletics carnivals.

The ‘Wadalba Cup’ is a school wide system that promotes school spirit, engagement and comradery K-12. House teams of both students and teachers earn points in all areas of school with the house with the most points at the end of the year winning the ‘Wadalba Cup’ and going on a bonus excursion. Last year our winning house was Hall who went to Inflatable World AND the Movies!

Education Packs In 2019 students will require an Education Pack to support their learning both in the classroom and at home. It is very important that all students have access to these resources. These resources will start being used in classrooms in Week 4 and payments are due by Friday February 15th.

The pack will consist of the following:

You can make a bulk payment if you have more than one child, but please fill in a separate note for each child in your family. Please return notes and any cash payments to your child’s teacher by Friday, February 15th.

For online payments, visit our website at: http://www.wadalba-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/

and click on “$ Make a Payment”. If you pay online, please ensure you still send in the completed note.

Kindergarten Digital Subscription (s) $15Handwriting Textbook

Years 1-2 Digital Subscription (s) $30Handwriting TextbookGrammar Textbook

Years 3-6 School Magazine $30Grammar TextbookDigital Subscription (s)


























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YEARS2-6

KINDER+

YEAR 1

Glue Sticks x 3Whiteboard markersBottle of pump hand soapBox of tissues2 reams of A4 paperHeadphonesPlain shirtLibrary BagPlastic document walletHome reading folder - waterproof (large A4 Pencil case/plastic wallet

Glue Sticks x 3Whiteboard markers x 4Bottle of pump hand soapBox of tissues2 reams of A4 paperHeadphonesLibrary BagPlastic document walletHome reading folder - waterproof (large A4 Pencil case/plastic walletEraser

Pencil caseClipboardLead pencilsRed and blue pens (Years 3+ for when they have their pen license)RulerA4 Homework bookColoured pencilsSharpenerHighlighterTexters

Class Requisites - Home Purchase 2019The following school requisites can be purchased personally to assist your child during the school year.

Message from NSW Department of Education If you have a question, issue, complaint, feedback or compliment, we’d like to know.

https://youtu.be/Ne9EmzLbXVs

Special Religious Education A feature of the public education system in NSW is the opportunity to provide time in class for education in ethics, faith and morality from a religious or non-religious perspective at the choice of parents. A parent/carer may at any time notify the school in writing that they wish to change their decision. Students will continue the same arrangement as the previous year, unless a parent/carer has requested a change in writing.

At Wadalba Community School for Years K-6 the SRE we currently offer is Christian (delivered by providers from The Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, Condell Park Bible Church, The Lakes Evangelical Church). Students not attending SRE are given supervised alternative meaningful activities.

For more information about Special Religious Education (SRE) including the list of approved providers, please visit: https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/learning-across-the-curriculum/religion-and-ethics If your preferred SRE is not available please contact the approved provider at the link above.

No Students before 8:15am Please remember that there are no students to be at school before 8:15 when supervision begins. There have been times this week when students had arrived as early as 7:00am and were left unsupervised in the playground for over an hour. Being with an older sibling in the playground does not constitute supervision. If you require childcare before school there are many services that offer out of hours care in our local area.

Afternoon Pickup It is lovely to see many parents that come to school to pick up their children. Each afternoon the gates to the Primary section will be opened from 2:20pm and we ask that you remain outside of the hall area where plenty of seating is provided and do not enter or playground area. This is very distracting to teachers and students as they are wrapping up their day of learning. As soon as the bell goes, families can walk to their child’s classroom for collection. Thank you for your co-operation.

https://youtu.be/Ne9EmzLbXVs




We need volunteers! We are currently seeking some community volunteers to help out at school in the following areas:

- Changing readers/listening to students read

- School banking

- Canteen

- Assisting in reading/ maths groups

- Scholastic Book club

Please note, this doesn’t have to be parents but could be grandparents, aunts, uncles, you name it! Anyone with a small bit of spare time that would like the rewarding experience of working with children and helping them learn. If you or someone in your family are interested, please let your child’s teacher know. The office can give any interested community members information around getting the needed working with children check completed.



Welcome to Kindergarten KB

Welcome to Kindergarten 2019 at Wadalba Community School. We have been so busy learning new school routines and expectations. Your children may have talked to you about the 5 Ls of listening (eyes looking, ears listening, lips closed, hands in laps and crossed legs). Kindergarten have been learning how to work at their tables and how to work cooperatively in small groups. We are beginning to use these skills to work sensibly in our literacy and maths groups. Well done to all Kindergarten students for all their hard work during their first week of school. It is sure to be a wonderful and memorable year for your little ones.



Welcome to Kindergarten KB our pictures



Meet Miss Kennedy

I started working at Wadalba in: Term 4, 2018

My job is: Co-teacher for 3/4M and 5/6S.

What I like best about my job: I love being able to experience different classes and getting to know each student. I love how teaching is a collaborative experience that allows learning to blossom between teachers, students, parents and the wider community.

My favourite colour is: Blue

My favourite subject when I was at school was: Ancient history. I found it really fascinating and loved learning about past societies; their lives, culture and beliefs. I really enjoyed when I learned about Ancient Egyptians the most!

My favourite subject to teach is: English because it is a subject that allows me to share my passion for books and writing with students.

My favourite food is: Buttery, salty popcorn!

My favourite book is: My favourite book would have to be City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I first read it in high school and I still reread it now.

My favourite movie is: The Lion King. It’s just a movie that I can watch over and over again and still love it, even if I’m getting older!

In my free time I love: Reading, writing, playing soccer and playing with my Saint Bernard, Luna.

I’m looking forward to: Working collaboratively with my colleagues, getting involved in the school community, building relationships with students and their parents/guardians and teaching!



Meet Mr McCann

I started working at Wadalba in: Term 4, 2018

My job is: RFF Teacher

What I like best about my job: Teaching is my passion. Everyday is new and exciting, with challenges and achievements occurring left, right and centre. I love how different each day is, and those moments when the topic/content just clicks for a student and you can see it in their eyes.

My favourite colour is: Blue

My favourite subject when I was at school was: Woodwork, Ancient History and English

My favourite subject to teach is: All of them, I like the differences of each subject. Each is unique, which provides a range of different experiences.

My favourite food is: Mangoes, chocolate and Raclette

My favourite book is: The Harry Potter Series, The Wheel of Time Series, and so many more.

My favourite movie is: The Harry Potter series, Jurassic Park/s

In my free time I love: Read, write, swim at the beach, spend time with friends and family, try new things, practise and learn French.

I’m looking forward to: My first year of teaching this year which holds so many exciting milestones and opportunities to learn and grow as a teacher. I am excited to begin my profession and be a part of Wadalba Community School this year.



Government Rebates

$100 Voucher for Children’s Sport and Fitness FeesParents in NSW can claim $100 towards extra-curricular sport and other physical activity fees thanks to the NSW Government’s Active Kids program. This program will provide a $100 voucher for parents to put towards sporting fees and registration costs for each school-aged child in NSW.

Families can use the voucher for registration and membership costs, as well as fees for activities such as swimming and dance. The annual voucher will not be means tested because the NSW Government wants every child from every family to get active and involved in community sport and fitness.

The health of our children is a priority for the NSW Government, and it is hoped that this makes a difference in enabling you to enrol your child in the sport or physical activity of your choice.

More details about the program and how to download your voucher is available at sport.nsw.gov.au/activekids or by phoning Service NSW on 13 77 88.

$100 Voucher for Creative and Cultural ActivitiesNSW Government is helping cover the cost of school-aged kids (4.5 to 18 years old) to get involved in creative and cultural activities.

Parents, guardians and carers can claim a $100 voucher per year to put towards the cost of lessons and fees with registered providers.

It’s a great opportunity to let kids find their passion and learn new skills.

Vouchers can be used to contribute to registration, participation and tuition costs for performing arts, visual arts, coding, languages, literature, music and other creative and cultural activities with our approved list of activity providers. Visit https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/campaign/creative-kids for more information.

http://sport.nsw.gov.au/activekids

https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/campaign/creative-kids



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Mobile Blood Service visiting: Club Wyong RSL Car Park 15 Margaret Street, Wyong Monday 25 Feb 12.30pm – 6.00pm Tuesday 26 Feb 10.30am – 4.00pm

Drink up! Have 3 or 4 glasses of water or juice in the hours before you donate Eat! Have a good sized breakfast or lunch Please bring photo I.D. with you

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THE - Wadalba Community School...We would also like to welcome back Mrs Lauren Ryder who worked with us a few years ago and is returning this year. We would like to congratulate Miss