Horsley Herald Term 3 Week 4/5

Celebrating National Science Week

National Science Week provides an opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of Australian scientists to the world of knowledge. It also aims to encourage an interest in science pursuits among the general public, and to encourage younger people to be fascinated by the world we live in.

As part of National Science Week this year, our students and staff particpated in Science Day last Thursday 14th August enjoying a full day of learning about science and technology. The day commenced with a highly engaging whole school Watermelon Challenge. Our students and staff had lots of fun having the opportunity to add elastic bands around a watermelon. Finally after 470 elastic bands.. the watermelon emploded. Throughout the day students engaged in a variety of exciting activities, experiments using scientific equipment and technology to learn.  A big thank you to our wonderful Science and Technology Team for the day's organisation, we all had a wonderful day celebrating Science Week 2020.

Semester 1 Reports & Parent Teacher Interviews

Semester 1 reports have gone home and parents and carers have also recieved letters of invition to parent teacher inteviews. Please make sure you complete the RSVP and return back to your child's teacher. 

COVID Update

The NSW Department of Education have updated COVID guildelines. Please the updated advice for families by following the link below.

https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families

ENROL NOW FOR KINDERGARTEN 2021  

Enrolment Procedures

If you would like to enrol your child at Horsley Park Public School please complete the Application To Enrol form which is available on the school website or from the school office.

https://horsleypk-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/enrolment.html

Have a wonderul week.

Thought of the week..The best way to find yourself  is to lose yourslef in the service of others. Mahatma Gadhi

Anica Tanevski

Tell Them From Me parent survey:

Information for parents and carers

Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation

Dear Parents and Carers

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 over Term 3 and early Term 4. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.

More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au. To access the survey for our school go to: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/xj867

The survey is available in 23 languages.

This week we would like to acknowledge student successes and present a class award to the following students. 

School Uniforms

Tracksuit Pants - On Sale!!!!!

Fleecy Track Pants $10. Sizes Available - 4, 10, 12,14 & 16 (no other sizes)

Microfibre Track Pants $15. Sizes Available - 4,10, 12, 14 & 16 (no other sizes)

Both styles are plain blue without the school crest.  Contact the office to purchase.

Kindergarten Enrolments 2021

Enrolments for 2021 are open.  If your child will be enrolling in Kindergarten or you know of a family that will be seeking Kindergarten enrolment in 2021, please contact the office on 9620 1301.

Anne Martin

School Administrative Manager

Susan McLean is Australia’s foremost expert in the area of cyber safety and was a member of Victoria Police for 27 years. Widely known as the ‘cyber cop’ she was the first Victoria Police Officer appointed to a position involving cyber safety and young people. Over the term we will be bringing you many of her insightful videos reagrding all areas of online safety in young people. We also encourage you to visit http://www.cybersafetysolutions.com.au/

The Bebras Australia Computational Thinking Challenge will be held at Horsley Park Public School on the 17th September 2020. The Bebras challenge is a free online challenge available to all our year 3- 6 students. Bebras develops and assesses student’s problem solving and computational thinking, skills highly sought after in the digital careers of the future. While the challenge is not compulsory, I highly encourage all our 3-6 students to have a go. In order to particpate all students must return the below form, signed by their parent or guardian, to school by the 1st September, 2020. Paper copies of the consent form will be made available in the office for those who would like one. 

Bebras_Parental_Consent_Form_Sep_2020.pdf

Mrs Leearna Borg

Hello families,

Students at Horsley Park Public School have been taking part in the Premier’s Reading Challenge.

Kindergarten to Year 2 students read books from the PRC book list. These books are read and discussed during class and our Library Lessons throughout the year and are logged at school.

Students in Years 3 to 6 have the opportunity to select books and read them independently. They also have books from the PRC book list read collaboratively as a class and during Library Lessons. Premiers Reading Challenge closes 28^th August 2020!

Just a reminder that the Scholastic Book Fair has arrived at our school. The Scholastic Book Fair is a great way for students to engage in quality texts. 

I would like to encourage you to make any purchases through Scholastic online. Every purchase you make earns our school Learning and Literacy resources.

Link to parent payment information at Scholastic Book fair online https://parentpayments.scholastic.com.au/BookFairs