Response protocols for COVID-19 cases

The department has established systems and protocols with NSW Health to manage and respond where there is a case of COVID-19 in the school community.

The following outlines the response protocols for schools when there is a confirmed case of COVID-19 in an educational setting.

The department has updated the confirmed case protocols in line with the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC).

Research continues to show that COVID-19 is a mild illness in the vast majority of children and young people.

Under the Public Health Order, a person is required to let the school or their workplace know that they (staff) or their child (parents and carers) have tested positive for COVID-19. They must record the result via the Service NSW app or Service NSW website if this was done via a rapid antigen test (RAT).

Parents and carers are asked to select the name of the school or early childhood centre when registering a positive RAT via ServiceNSW.

Registering the positive RAT with Service NSW is a requirement of the Public Health Order and helps the department and NSW Health track COVID-19 in schools and provide access to additional health supports for the person as required. In line with community settings, schools are not required to conduct contact tracing to identify all contacts of the confirmed case in their school. In most cases, regular communication can be sent to the school community reminding them that there are confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the school community, ask them to monitor for symptoms and get tested if they develop even the mildest of symptoms.

 To minimise disruption to face-to-face learning and reduce in-school transmission of COVID-19, schools may be directed by the department’s Health, Safety and Staff Wellbeing case management team to temporarily adopt some or all additional COVID-smart measures for a short period of time as a “circuit breaker”. These additional measures may include:

• ceasing or rescheduling large indoor gatherings (such as assemblies)
• ceasing off-site and inter-school activities
• mask wearing for adults and high school students
• limiting visitors to schools
• separating cohorts of students
• symptomatic use of RATs
• learning from home.

Generally, we expect temporary measures would be introduced for a one week period (five school days), with the situation re-assessed at that point. Where additional measures are required, these will be included in updated communications provided for your school community.

Share Our Space

We are open on the 3-6 site on weekends and public holidays only as our school has a vacation care.

The outdoor facilities at our school will be available to use from 8 am to 5 pm on weekends and public holidays only as part of Share Our Space.

Please visit edu.nsw.link/ShareOurSpace to find out which one of our gates will be open before you visit.

We’re also keen to know what you think about using our school during the holidays through our online feedback form.

Public Holiday – Thursday 22nd September

This Thursday has been declared a Public Holiday to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. As such all NSW Department of Education schools will be non-operational. This means that there will not be any staff on site to provide supervision. Normal operations will resume on Friday 23 September and all students are expected to be in attendance.

School Vacation

We wish you a safe and relaxing school vacation period from Saturday. Students and staff return to school on Monday 10 October 2022. Please note that the Monday is NOT a Staff Development Day. Students will be able to wear the summer uniform from the beginning of Term 4. Have a great break and we look forward to Term 4. We are very excited as the Dance Spectacular is finally taking place next term after an imposed hiatus, as well as many other exciting activities for the students.

If you see any unauthorised activity taking place on the school grounds over the holiday period please feel free to call School Security on 1300 88 00 21, or if the matter is urgent please call the Police on 000. The NSW Police Local Area Command for our school can be reached on 9879 9699. We thank you for keeping an eye over the school.

Kind Regards

Matt Pinchbeck

Principal

BIG SCIENCE, BIG FUN FAMILY SCIENCE NIGHT

What an amazing evening! 2 sold out shows! Thank you to everyone for coming along to the BIG SCIENCE, BIG FUN show presented by Fizzics. Our presenter, Ben was truly engaging and I know that a lot of the presentations evoked quality conversations within families. We had smoke machines, liquid nitrogen, electricity, wind power and flames to name a few things! The feedback we have had so far is that it was a great event so we hope to hold something similar next year during Science Week.

 

Performance Assembly

We welcomed back our performance assemblies this term, with our first being for families only. We had choirs perform, the strings group, the bands and dance groups. The students did a wonderful job in their performance, well done! Thank you to the teachers and conductors who were involved in the organisation of the day and to those teachers who carried on while members of their classes were missing. We look forward to holding another Performance Assembly next term.

Kind Regards

Kate Wasson

Deputy Principal

Congratulations to Talia and Charlotte who represented our school at the State Festival of Instrumental music. This is the first time the festival has used primary school students to be the comperes. Both girls represented our school doing an amazing job. Well done girls, it was a very special teaching moment for me. 

Congratulations also go out to our 7 string players who joined a massed Sting Ensemble of 200 students, playing at the Sydney Town Hall. Well done. Also, congratulations Quinn and Kaiden who played as part of the NSW State Junior Wind Band. What a great experience to all our talented students. Well done. 

Kind Regards

Melissa Griffith

Relieving Deputy Principal

3B - Theo B, Ashley H, Sarina L, Jade T, Rina B, Luc P

3D - Aiden S, Matilda S, Chloe C, Diyaa M, Sunnee G, Parmida S

3H - Jayden W, Marcus T, Maddie P, Amelie M, Emily L, Fred K

4B - Amelia K, Gabriela M, Arin S, Audrey M, Stephen D, Hannah R

4D - Akshaj J, Yuvraj L, Ginger M, Blake O, Dj R, Yumo Z

4F - Josh F, Zanna P, Aryan D, Shion R, Sotirios J, Zayd M

5B - Thenuk T, Emily M, Edward C

5G - Onadi P, Dhruv T, Nafi D, Roshini K, Dana C, Finn K, Atticus P

5M - Jamie K, Lucinda B, Sophia J

6M - Charlie T, Amelia M, Stella M, Joshua C, Nikita W, Marni H, Kai L, Kiera S,

         Lachlan O, Preston G

6R - River B, Charlotte P

6S - Lucas M, Katie Z, Nathan C

Last week, Stage 2 played Thornleigh West

Teeball

Girls: won 10-6

Boys: won 7-9

League Tag

Girls: won 6-3

Boys: lost 8-1

Miss Billington and Miss Dy

Stage 2 PSSA Coordinators

Softball

Girls: lost 6-2

Boys: lost 8-3

Leaguetag

Girls: won 6-2

Boys: won 8-5

Mr Bryant and Miss Steel

Stage 3 PSSA coordinators

President’s Message

Hi All

A huge thank you to the whole school community for getting behind the Walkathon, the total funds received was $16442! Incredible!!

Thanks also to the Walkathon team who coordinated the event and sourced prizes, thanks to our volunteers this was possible and we have a great contribution towards the school’s solar panels.

Congratulations to our winners for 3-6 campus

Josh F 4F raised $650.00!! Amazing!!

Victoria N 5G raised $500.00 WOW!!

Ryan P from 5B was the lucky draw winner.

Congratulations to our winners for K-2  campus

Asher M  2M  raised a whopping $902.00!!

Sophie L 1M raised a massive $600.00!!

Jeremy from 2A was the lucky draw winner.

And a huge thanks to all PHPS students who worked hard to get sponsored and also had to do the hard work of walking (or running) around the course. You have done an incredible job of raising the Walkathon funds!

Thanks to 99 Bikes in Pennant Hills, who contributed to the first prizes, Pennant Hills Market Place and IGA Supamart for second prizes along with Berkelouw Books

Unfortunately, the K-2 sports carnival was delayed due to poor weather, thank you to all the volunteers who had signed up to help. Once the revised date is confirmed we’ll seek volunteers again.

Have a great week and holiday!

Luke Whenman

President, PHPS P&C

pandcpresident@gmail.com

2022 raffle update #1 – week 10

Raffle books coming home this week

The countdown is on to our raffle to be drawn at the Dance Spectacular on Friday 28 October. This week, the eldest child in each family will bring home three books of raffle tickets so you can start selling over the school holidays. 

Tickets are $2.50 each and with such incredible prizes your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues won’t want to miss out!

Once you have sold your tickets, please pay via Flexischools and return your stubs to the office. Write your name and class on the front of each book you sell. We’ll be drawing early bird prizes in weeks 1 and 2 for ticket sellers who get their booklets back quickly and there will also be prizes for students who sell the most ticket books. 

Volunteers still needed

We still need parent volunteers to help coordinate collecting ticket books, and recording ticket sales, reconciling payments and arranging the shopping centre sales and prize draws. 

If you can spare some time to help make the raffle a success, please contact phppandc@gmail.com or Chris K on 0424 744 315. 

Can you help at the Bunnings BBQ?

We’ll be selling tickets and sausage sandwiches at Thornleigh Bunnings on Sunday 16 October. If you can spare an hour to lend a hand, follow this link to sign up online.  

Thanks to our amazing sponsors 

Thanks to Saliba Estate Agents, Pennant Hills Toyota, Pennant Hills Market Place, IGA and Jazzy Photography for supporting this year’s raffle. We’re aiming to raise $15,000 towards putting solar panels on our school, so let’s get selling to make this raffle a success! 

If you would like to subscribe to our P&C meeting emails (minutes and agendas), please subscribe at the following link: http://eepurl.com/dlK3PD

Luke Whenman

P&C President

pandcpresident@gmail.com

The holidays are almost here!! I hope you all have a chance to relax a little and recharge for term 4.

 In case you are not aware, I am able to cancel lunch orders for you if things change after you have placed an order. Please call me on 0425 274 681 before 9.30am, otherwise we may have already started preparing the food.

 The K-2 Canteen will be open again this Friday, September 23.

 Thank you so much to Peta, Rebecca, Annette and Lynn for making this possible.

 

 Items we will be selling are:

Sea Salt Chips, Grain Waves, Popcorn  $1.50

Noodle Snacks  $1.10

Breadsticks  20c

Brownies  $1.30

Juicy Tubes - apple/blackcurrant, tropical, apple  60c

Moosies - chocolate, blue moon  $1.50

Juicies - wildberry, lemonade  $1.50

Lemon Ice Mony  $1

Vanilla Ice Cream Tub  $1.50

Paddle Pop - chocolate, rainbow  $2.20

Frozen Pineapple Ring  50c

Please Note that we may have run out of some items by Friday as it is the last day of term.

 

All of these items can be ordered through Flexischools as well.

 

Thank you.

Heather Tyler: 0425 274 681, “canteenphps@gmail.com”.

 

If you have any questions, or would like to be involved in the canteen, please contact me.

Heather Tyler

0425 274 681

canteenphps@gmail.com

Appointments

The Uniform Shop will continue to be open by appointment only for the foreseeable future.  This will assist us in maintaining physical distancing and minimise waiting times for you to be served.   

• We are transitioning our appointments from Eventbrite to Square Appointments to help streamline the appointment process.  All current appointments made through Eventbrite are still valid. 
• Please click or scan the QR Code below to make an appointment, you will be redirected to our square booking site. 
• Standard appointment times are in individual 5-minute increments.  You may still need to wait while the appointment before you is finished being served. 
• If you require a longer appointment for purchases or need to try on items, please book a Double Appointment instead as these appointments will allow additional time. 
• Appointments specifically for incoming 2023 Kindergarten students and New Students will be available soon. 

• If the available times are not suitable, please contact us via email at phpsuniformshop@gmail.com to organise alternative arrangements. 

Janine Sherlock

Uniform Shop Manager

phpsuniformshop@gmail.com

We will be having an instrument demo for all year 2 students at school on Monday the 10th of October, and an "Intro to Music" night on Thursday the 13th October, where all parents and students are invited to come along and hear about the different music programs we run at PHPS as well as try some of the instruments afterwards.

Band Recruitment for 2023 - Calling all students in Year 2 to 5.

What if a large number of scientific studies found there was one activity that could improve our cognitive function, help our memory systems work effectively, help us learn language, help us moderate our emotional states, help us solve complex problems and help our brains be healthier into later life? What if that activity was also enjoyable for everyone involved?

There is one such activity: Music Education.

Entry to the PHPS Band Program is open to all children from who will be in Year 3 to Year 6 next year. It is not expected that your child has any musical knowledge when starting in the band program. We’re here to provide that introduction to what we hope will be an exciting musical journey for your child. 

If your child is interested in joining the band program for next year please fill in our Expression of Interest form.

Music by Moonlight & Jazz Improv

Excellent performance by the Senior Concert Band at Normanhurst West Public Schools Music-by-Moonlight event on Saturday evening. You sounded awesome! Also big congratulations go out to all the students who participated in our inaugural Jazz Improv Workshop on Sunday afternoon. I'm sure we'll be getting some excellent unique solos in some of the Jazz band pieces in the months to come.

Award Worksheets

This is now the last week of Term 3, so Training and Intermediate bands really should be turning in their Term 3 worksheets by now. If they've not completed their Term 1 & Term 2 worksheets please get these signed off by your tutor ASAP. If you're working on AMEB examinations instead please let us know so we can make note of it.

Those students in the Senior band in Year 6 should be working on completing their final Gold Worksheet.

Once complete these are to be submitted through the Worksheet Submission Web Form.

If anyone needs a particular worksheet you can print them from the Band web pages here.

Future Band Events

Our performance calendar has a number of events for the year. So please keep your eye on this section of the newsletter for important dates to keep free.

• Year 2 instrument demo, Mon 10th Oct- select SCB students
• Intro to Music Night, Thur 13th Oct - SCB 
• Hornsby North Band Festival, Sun 30th Oct - All Bands
• Hornsby Heights Bushland Fair, Sat 12th Nov - ICB (NEW)
• Celebration of Learning, PHHS Mon 12th Dec - SCB, JB (NEW)
• Christmas Carols, Thursday 15th Dec - All Bands

Keep your eye on the newsletter, WhatsApp and emails for more details.

What To Practice

Senior Concert Band

Please ensure you're practising the following pieces  **priority:

• Tales of the Sea (https://youtu.be/f_JNFoSTkDw)
• **Aztlan (https://youtu.be/LdJcZi5jsV8)
• Arabian Dancers (https://youtu.be/MUkWjYMcRBQ)
• Final Countdown (https://youtu.be/C9OLUL_aP0M)

Jazz Band

Please ensure you're practising the following:

• **Blues Machine (https://youtu.be/x6LehBpCZJc)
• **Havana (https://youtu.be/A9DnpdPEiRI)
• Hit the Road Jack (https://youtu.be/ia027MOA0qk)

Intermediate Band

Please ensure you're practising the following pieces as well as working on your term 3 worksheet exercises:

• **How To Train Your Dragon (https://youtu.be/YOXlKEMuCVc)
• **Race to the Moon (https://brolgamusic.com/catalog/race-moon)
• El Toro (https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&productID=2232924&type=audio)
• The Spook (https://brolgamusic.com/catalog/spook)

Training Band

Please ensure you're practising the following pieces as well as working on your term 3 worksheet exercises  :

• Rock-a-saurus Rex ([<a href=]https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&productID=2379535&type=audio">https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&productID=2379535&type=audio) (This is being handed out on Friday)
• Zap! (https://youtu.be/bm9t2DTbCvI)
• Attack of the Slide Trombones (https://www.halleonard.com/viewcloserlook.action?itemId=44000422&name=attack-of-the-slide-trombones)

Regarding Wet Weather

If it's raining the flutes, clarinets, & trumpet players can put their cases under their chairs inside and pack away in there. 

Unfortunately the larger instruments are a little harder, ideally if it's only a little wet they will need to pack away outside on the ramped area. If it's bucketing down, then having them pack away inside may be necessary.

Term 4 Parent Helper Rosters Open

Please get them filled in ASAP

• Training Band Parent Roster - Term 4
• Intermediate Band Parent Helper Roster - Term 4
• Senior Concert Band Parent Roster - Term 4

A full list of parent helper duties is available here.

• Crowding the door - please don't let the students crowd the door with bags and instrument cases. School bags on the silver shelves, instrument cases on the ramp.
• Behavior: If children are talking out of turn please help the conductors. If they have a question, classroom rules apply, they raise their hand and wait to be asked. Please use the red "Student Behavior'' book if behavior warrants it.

Parent Helpers:

Big thank-you to this week's helpers

• Wade H & Agnes B (TB)
• Carol H (ICB)
• Zikun R  (SCB Mon)

And for those playing along at home the band in the picture in last weeks newsletter was "The Band" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band)

Many thanks,

PHPS Band Committee

phpsband@gmail.com

www.phpspandc.org.au/band/

LAST MAIN ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL FOR TERM 3: IS THIS AFTERNOON 3:30pm-4:20pm in KC classroom (NB: room change due to the school disco) 

Main Ensemble Parent Helper today is Claire Smith (Thankyou Claire)

Dear Parents.. we wish to thank you for your continued parent support throughout Term 3. We could not do this without your cooperation. Thank you

THE TERM 4 ROSTER IS OPEN String Ensemble Roster 2022

If you require any further information, clarification regarding the ROSTER / PARENT HELPER Please feel free to contact us. 

INTRO TO STRINGS 

 INTRO TO STRING PROGRAM FOR TERM 3 & 4: KC Classroom | WEDNESDAY morning 7:45am-8:45am.

 Intro To String Parent Helper’s tomorrow is Freya Lin (Thankyou Freya) & Colleen Roberts (Thankyou Colleen)

We are grateful for the endless parent support over the last several weeks. Thank you

THE TERM 4 ROSTER IS OPEN Intro to Strings Roster 2022

Intro to String Parents.. if you require additional information or further clarification please reach out to the String Ensemble Team.  

STRING EVENTS FOR TERM 3, 2022

 WEEK 10 - LAST MAIN REHEARSAL FOR TERM 3 - Tuesday 20 September at 3:30pm

 WEEK 10 - LAST INTRO TO STRINGS FOR TERM 3 - Wednesday 21 September at 7:45am

On behalf of the PHPS String Ensemble Committee wishing everyone a safe and happy school holidays.

We will see you back for String Ensemble TERM 4: WEEK 1:Tuesday 11th October 2022

PHPS String Ensemble 

If you need any further information, you can reach out via email: phpsstrings@gmail.com

PHPS String Ensemble

Website: www.phpspandc.org.au/string-ensemble

Feedback: www.phpspandc.org.au/string-ensemble/contact-us

       

      

Erin Jeacle

Centre Director

9980 8950

www.pennanthillsbasc.com

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