Parents, Has Your Protective Instinct Kicked in?

This is a helpful article, (Parents, Has Your Protective Instinct Kicked in?) from our UR Strong program with some tips on what to do when your child comes home sad after experiencing conflict at school with another student. There are many great resources available to you as parents to help reinforce the teaching of friendship and social skills that your children are receiving at school.

Students arriving before 8:15am

If you need to drop your child off to school before 8:15am, you will need to make use of our out of school hours provider, Camp Australia. Playground supervision does not begin until 8:15am.

eSafety Commissioner Website

If you aren’t already aware the eSafety Commissioner website has a wealth of information, tips and strategies to help parents navigate parenting in the digital age. More and more we are seeing the negative effects of children being exposed to things online which are not age appropriate. This includes an increase in mental health disorders and cyber-bullying. Please take the time to explore the website and find out more about how you can your child be cyber-safe.

Congratulations to Mr McGregor

Mr McGregor completed a 50km marathon through the Blue Mountains last Saturday. He’s been training for a long time for it. Well done Mr McGregor.

Lost Property Box

The Primary lost property box is full. There are many hats, jackets and lunchboxes in there. This will be emptied at the end of the term so please come and collect any items that you are missing. Remember to please label everything.

Students of the Week

Congratulations to the following students:

Michelle S; KDL, Ava B; KK,Eden K; KS, Olivia G; 1C,Lucas B; 1G, Max R; 1PS,Rita D; 2J, Libby B; 2G,Violette P; 3B, Joel Y; 3D,Charlie S; 3M, Piper J; 4H,Kyle M; 4M, Ryan Y; 5B,Poppy A; 5L, Alice M; 5P,Toby M; 6B, Oliver S; 6SH,Khloe O; 6S.

Year 3

In Science this past week 3B have been looking at the properties of materials and their suitability for specific purposes. The students explored substances’ responses to 30 drops of water and catagorised them as able to absorb, repel or leak.

Our Year 3 students have been performing monologues. They have worked hard to memorise their scripts and use elements of drama to evoke an emotional response from their audience. It was wonderful to see such a diverse range of emotions and characters being represented.

Year 1 Bee Incursion

Year 1 students had a visit from Barbara the bee lady to learn all about bees.

Da Vinci Decathlon

On Thursday 16 May, 16 students from Years 5 and 6 represented our school at the NSW State Final of the da Vinci Decathlon at Knox Grammar School.

The students joined approximately 1300 students from Sydney and beyond to test their skills and time management on 10 tasks: Maths, English, Art and Poetry, Cartography, Codebreaking, Science, Engineering, Ideation, Creative Producers and Legacy.

The Year 5 team strategy was to collaborate on all tasks, whereas the Year 6 team chose to divide and delegate, breaking into pairs and triplets to focus on specific tasks.

We patiently await the release of the top 16 placings, when all scores are finalised.

Our students are to be congratulated on their effort and enthusiasm in recent training sessions, and for the way they proudly represented our school on the competition day. Well done students.

Student Health

As we approach the change in season, its often a time when we notice more illness like coughs and colds and there are cases of Whooping Cough, Covid and Gastroenteritis on the Central Coast which is not unusual however we would like to take this opportunity to remind parents to keep sick children resting at home until they no longer have symptoms.

You can find out helpful information on the NSW Health website or use these links:

Identify, Protect, Prevent - Whooping cough (nsw.gov.au)

Viral gastroenteritis fact sheet - Fact sheets (nsw.gov.au)