Horsley Herald Term 4 Week 2
Dear Parents/Carers,
What a fun-filled week we have had. Celebrating Book Week this week and an author visit. Please take a moment to visit Facebook to view our celebrations. A big thank you to Mrs Rositano and student library leaders for organising all the amazing events we all enjoyed so much.
https://www.facebook.com/HorsleyParkPublicSchool/
Upcoming Term 4 Events
I would like to sincerley thank our students, parents, caregivers and school community for their patience, understanding, flexibility and support during what has been a challenging year. We understand the disappointment that our students and families have faced in 2020, as events have been cancelled to comply with policy and guidelines. Our students and families have shown not only resilience and maturity, but the ability to pull together during challenging times and support one another. For this we are truly grateful and proud.
We have worked hard to put plans in place for some special end of year events, celebrations. Below are some upcoming events:
- Fundraiser Awareness, Day for Daniel, Friday 30th October
- Community of Schools AECG, NAIDOC Excursion at Bringelly PS Thursday 5th November
- Year 6 ' Fun Day' Tuesday 3rd November
- Whole School NAIDOC Excursion to Sydney Zoo Thursday, 12th November
- School Disco, gold coin donation Friday 13th November
- Crazy Hair day, gold coin donation Tuesday 1st December
- Year 6 Graduation Evening at School Tuesday 8th December
- Presentation Day Wednesday 9th December
- School Fun Day Thursday 10th December
- Last school day for students, Wednesday 16th December
Like all school terms this will be a pretty busy one. Teachers will continue to use the SeeSaw app to keep you informed with things that are happening in the school and in your child' classroom. The Horsley Park Public School Facebook page is frequently updated with information about events in the school.
Kindergarten Enrolments
Thank you to all the families who have enrolled their children for Kindergarten next year. Now is the time to enrol any students who will be attending Horsley Park Public school in 2021. If you have a child.
If your child lives within the local intake area of our school and is an Australian or New Zealand citizen, you can make an application for enrolment through our school website under the ‘Enrolment’ tab.
https://horsleypk-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/enrolment.html
Enrolment forms must still be completed even if you have another child enrolled at the school.
Online enrolment for NEW students is now available on the school website
2021 Class Structures
During the last weeks of Term 4, we will begin our planning for the 2021 school year. To do this accurately, we need to know of any student who may not have enrolled in Kindergarten yet and anyone who is leaving our school at the end of this year. Please contact the school office by phone (96201301) or email horsleypk-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
Breakfast Club
Commencing from this week, students will be able to access breakfast club from 8:45 - 9:05 every Monday & Wednesday. Thank you to Miss D'Annunzio for organising this for our school community. Miss D'Annunzio, Mrs Stevens, along with Captains/SLT students will be operating it. The Breakfast Club will be in the canteen and students will enjoy their breakfast whilst sitting outside on the verandah area to eat.
Captain's Club & Captain's Speeches
All Year our 5 students will be participating in leadership workshops commencing from Wednesday 4th November. Captain Speeches will be held on Wednesday 2nd December at a special assembly. The student leadership workshops will be faciliated by Mr Salvatore and Mrs Rositano.
World Teacher’s Day
Friday 30 October 2020 all Australian schools will be celebrating World Teacher’s Day. Our teaching staff are amazing and I would like to acknowledge their dedication and commitment to their role in your children’s life. Our teachers are your child’s school family. They spend so much time with them every day. Your children are KNOWN, VALUED and CARED for by our school staff. All our teachers go above and beyond. I hope you will join with me in thanking them for their wonderful daily contributions, not only next Friday but every day. I am extremely lucky to have great teachers at Horsley Park PS.
Change to Staff Development Days 2021
In 2021 there has been a change to the calendar. Staff Development Days are pupil free days at school for staff to plan and undertake professional learning. The number of allocated days will remain the same but it has been decided to move one of them from the end of the year to the beginning.
Commencing at the start of 2021, the changes include:
an increase from one to two SDDs at the commencement of Term 1
a decrease from two to one SDDs at the end of Term 4.
The School Development Days are scheduled for the following dates:
27 and 28 January, students return 29 January 2021.
Students in years 1-6 will commence the new school year on Friday 29th January 2021. New Kindergarten start dates will be in the following week and will be confirmed soon.
Wishing all our wonderful parents/carers and most especially all our gorgeous grandparents. 'Happy Grandparents Day' for this weekend. You are all amazing.
Have a wonderful week
Anica Tanevski
Principal
On Friday, 30th October 2020, Horsley Park Public School will be holding
Day for Daniel.
We encourage students to wear red clothing to school in exchange for a gold coin donation. All donations received will go directly to the Daniel Morcombe Foundation. The Daniel Morcombe Foundation endeavours to provide free child safety initiatives to children and young people and supports young victims of crime.
On this day, teachers will be educating students about child protection, child safety and harm prevention. To find out more about child protection and safety, please see the website below.
When participating in mindfulness it is important to set an intention for your meditation practice. What is it you’d like to improve on or achieve? Think about areas in your life that you would like to grow in, such as kindness, openness or patience. Giving yourself the opportunity to reflect on these areas can help you grow which can benefit your wellbeing and your relationships with others.
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
Make a difference.
Save your bread tags and send them to school.
Horsley Park Public School is supporting the Bread Tags for Wheelchairs initiative. Your bread tags will fund wheelchairs for disadvantaged people in South Africa.
For more information, please look at the website below.
Welcome back to K/1 Orchid!
Term 4 has just begun and students in K/1 Orchid have jumped right back into their learning.
This Term, K/1 Orchid has started to learn about the Earth and the importance of its resources. Students are learning to recognise why and how we should care for the environment and our natural resources and finding ways use its resources responsibly.
K/1 Orchid has also started to delve deep into the world of coding. Students have been putting on their coding hats to program animations using Scratch, which is helping them develop their problem-solving skills.
Thank you for visiting our class and we look forward to seeing you again next time!
Have an amazing week,
Mr Obeid
