28 Aug 2019
ZONE ATHLETICS
Congratulations to the following students who will represent Parramatta / Merrylands Zone at the Sydney West Regional carnival at Blacktown International Athletics Centre on 17 October.
Eric - 10 years high jump, 100m sprint
Finn - Senior high jump, long jump,100m sprint, 200m, 1500m, Snr relay
Amanda - Senior shot put, Snr relay
Alyssa – 10 years high jump
Daniel – 12 years100m sprint, 800m, Snr relay
Lewis – Snr relay
Anibal – Snr relay
Sofia – Snr relay
Kaitlin – Snr relay
Aiesha – Snr relay
DEBATING TEAM – ZONE RUNNERS UP
This year Carlingford PS enrolled 2 teams into the NSW Premier's Debating Challenge. The Lions Sabrina, Zayan, Yannis, Ahmed and the Tigers Rhidima, Sanjana, Arabi, Melissa debated against other schools in a zone competition. Both teams committed to regular lunch time practice sessions and participated in 4 rounds of debating. It has been wonderful to see how much the students have learnt and how much their debating skills have improved over the season. We were very proud that after 4 straight wins, the Carlingford Lions made it to the Zone final against the Northmead Nailers. Our team spoke very well on the day, but after a very close debate the victory went to Northmead. We have been extremely impressed that the Carlingford Lions achieved Runners Up for our Zone, as it is their first year of debating. This is an amazing achievement for a group of students who at newcomers to this competition. The future of debating looks very strong for Carlingford!
OPERATION ART
Every year schools across New South Wales are invited to participate in Operation Art, an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the New South Wales Department of Education. The Operation Art program provides a forum for schools and students to demonstrate their visual arts achievements through exhibitions at the Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Congratulations to the following students who entered artwork in this years ‘Operation Art’ competition. Tara, Ksenia, Tara and Winnie have all had their artwork selected to be exhibited at the Armory Gallery at Sydney Olympic Park. The Exhibition will be officially opened on Saturday 14 September at the Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park at 10:45 am. Their masterpieces will be displayed from 9 September to 29 October. The exhibition is open to the public and is well worth a look. Over 800 artworks will be on display from students from over 300 schools.
SASS RECOGNITION WEEK
This week at Carlingford Public School we are celebrating ‘SASS Staff Appreciation Week’. School Administrative and Support Staff include our amazing office ladies, Tania Cochrane, Suzanne Williams, Jackie Gordon, Anna Michales, Jo Taylor and Jill Belme, Student Learning and Support Officers Kim Catt, Jo Elliott, Ratika Rana and Chathurani Abeywardana and our General Assistants Kevin Reilly and John Clowes. These wonderful people play a huge role in the day to day operation of our school and without them I’m sure our school would not survive. On behalf of the students, staff and community of Carlingford Public School I would like to say a huge THANK – YOU!
PSSA UNIFORMS
Thank you to the P&C for funding & supplying new uniforms for all our PSSA teams. One of our hardworking parents, Emily Wong, did an amazing job of helping source and design them. Thanks Emily – the staff, students and community really appreciate your efforts.
"SHHHHHHHHH – DON’T TELL DAD (only to be read by Mums and Kids)
Fathers’ Day is this upcoming Sunday, 1 September. The P&C will be holding a stall this Friday, 30 August. Gifts range in price from $1 - $10. Students are asked to bring a plastic bag to school to carry their ‘goodies’ home for Dad. Parent volunteers are needed! If you are interested in helping on the day, please do not hesitate to contact Svantje on 0419 742 259 for more information."
2019 ICAS COMPETITION
Thank you to everyone who has registered and paid for ICAS this year. All papers are online assessments (ICAS Writing is paper-based only for Years 3 and 4). There will be some school iPads/laptops available for students who don’t have one. To ensure an engaging and beneficial experience for all students, please arrange for your child’s iPad to be fully charged on the sitting date.
The sitting dates are as follows:
Science – Thursday 5 September
Writing – Monday 9 September
English – Monday 16 September
Mathematics – Thursday 19 September
All participating students are to assemble under the COLA by 8am. This should leave sufficient time to complete the assessments before the school day starts.
COSFEST – SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Our ‘Community of School’s’ will be holding its annual red carpet COSFEST short film festival on Wednesday, 20 November at Cumberland High School. Individual, small groups or entire classes are eligible to enter in the K – 2 or 3 – 6 section.
All films should be submitted in a digital format on a USB. Films need to be between 1 – 2 minutes in length. The compulsory element for the films this year is ‘voice’ which must be evident in some form. Films need to be submitted by Friday 27 September to Mr Bhandarkar or Mrs Foo. Interested students should see their teacher, Mr Bhandarkar or Mrs Foo for further details.
PEER SUPPORT PROGRAM
In this week’s session, We are introducing a 3 step model to encourage resilient responses; Pause, Plan, Proceed. The Children take part in an activity to identify their feelings and the immediate effects on them. The normalcy of feelings is acknowledged and the importance of being proactive is stressed. The children learn that pausing when they are emotional is helpful. They can do this by being still, taking a deep breath or counting to ten. Pausing gives children space to see a situation more accurately before planning a response.
Overviews of each Peer Support lesson will be shared in the newsletter each week. I encourage you to discuss these concepts with your child/ren to help them take an active role in Peer Support.
TELL THEM FROM ME - STUDENT SURVEY
Like many other public schools in the state, Carlingford PS will participate in a Department of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey measures factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices.
You may remember that our students also participated in a Tell Them From Me student survey in Term 1 this year. Asking students to complete the survey twice in one year allows us to identify trends in student responses as well as track engagement and motivation across the school year.
The survey is a great opportunity for our students to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. More than 6,300 schools in Australia and around the world have used Tell Them From Me to survey 5.4 million students. Capturing the voices of our students will help improve how we do things at our school.
More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au
The survey is confidential. The survey is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be administered during school hours between 26 August and 25 October. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary.
Copies of the form and FAQs are available from: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents.
Additional information can be found at:
https://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/images/FAQs/TTFM_Student_Survey_FAQs_Parent_and_Carers_T12019e.pdf
TELL THEM FROM ME – PARENT SURVEY
This Term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.
Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements. The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, Ipads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will be conducted between 26 August and 25 October, though participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.
Information about the survey is available at : http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/
The link to the survey is https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/carlo19
2020 KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS
Currently we have only 50 Kindergarten students enrolled for 2020. For the last three years we have commenced the year with 120 Kindergarten students spread across six classes.
If you have a child (or know of any families) who will be commencing Kindergarten at CPS in 2020, could you please call into the office and complete the enrolment process. It’s critical that we know accurate student numbers as soon as possible as this impacts on how many teachers and classrooms will be needed. With current Kindergarten enrolment numbers, we would only form two classes in 2020 as opposed to the six classes we have had since 2017.
Kindergarten transition is planned to take place earlier in Term 4, which is earlier than our normal transition schedule.
Neil Hinton, Principal.