Pennant Hills Public School eNewsletter

Year 6 -7 Transition

To enrol your child in Year 7 for 2024, you will need to complete an Expression of Interest for Year 6 to Year 7 transition. The Expression of Interest (EOI) lets you indicate which school(s) you would like your child to attend in Year 7.

The EOI process is now available online. After you submit an EOI and it has been assessed, your child will be offered a place at a high school.

If your child will not be attending a NSW Government high school next year, please let us know by completing a Placement Not Required form.

If you are unsure whether they will be attending a NSW Government school (you’ve applied for a private school, or you are moving interstate), we ask that you still complete an EOI and follow up with your school once a decision has been made.

The online process will guide you through your options and collect the information required to make the process as smooth as possible.

For parents/carers who are not able to complete an application online, a paper EOI form can be collected from the school office.

For more information about moving to high school, visit Going to a public school.

To access the link for Year 6 students at Pennant Hills Public School please click here.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN begins next week for our Year 3 and 5 students. Students in these grades have been familiarising themselves with the test format in preparation for next week. These assessments are a snapshot of student’s potential achievement. They are indicative of how a student achieves on a particular day. The best person to speak with about your child’s academic achievement is their classroom teacher. If you have any concerns please arrange a time to meet with them.

To best support your child during NAPLAN we recommend the following;

A good night’s sleep
Healthy diet
Encouragement to do their best

The data captured from these assessments, when released to the school and parents, can provide some great insights into student, grade and whole school strengths and weaknesses.

P&C AGM and Meeting

Tonight, the P&C will be holding its Annual General Meeting and following this they will hold their March meeting. This meeting will begin at 7:30pm and will be held in the school hall on the K-2 site.

Parent/Teacher Meetings

Each year the school arranges a time for parents and carers to meet with teachers to discuss the academic progress and needs of their child. These meetings are held at the end of Term 1 to allow the student and teacher relationship to have developed to a point where they both feel they know each other to ensure the meetings are beneficial to support student growth.

These meetings for most classes will take place in Weeks 10 (week starting 27 March) and 11 (week starting 3 April) of this term. In next week’s newsletter there will be a link to allow you to book a convenient time for your family to meet with the teacher.

Please note that the 3/4 Sugar gliders Parent/ Teacher Meetings will take place in Week 9 (week starting 20 March). The Parent/Teacher Meetings for 1/2 Cockatoos will take place in Weeks 9 (week starting 20 March) and 10 (week starting 27 March).

Kind Regards

Matt Pinchbeck

Principal

NAPLAN – Year 3 and Year 5 Students

NAPLAN (National Assessment Program, Literacy and Numeracy) is occurring earlier this year, in a couple of weeks to be exact, for our Year 3 and Year 5 students. To prepare your child for the assessments, teachers will be conducting familiarisation activities and engage students in the demonstration site to ensure that they are comfortable with the platform.

We ask that all students bring in a pair of over-the-head headphones, labelled with their name and class for next week. The headphones require a standard headphone jack to plug into the laptops, similar to the picture below.

Students may also bring in a computer mouse if they wish.

NAPLAN begins on Wednesday 15 March and is planned as follows;

Wednesday 15 March - Writing
Thursday 16 March - Reading
Monday 20 March - Conventions of Language
Tuesday 21 March - Numeracy

If your child is absent on one of these days, we are required to conduct the assessments in order and they will complete the assessments upon their return, if within the timeframe provided by ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority). Assessments must be completed by Monday 27 March.

NAPLAN is not something to worry about and it is definitely not something we want our students to worry about. It is a one-off assessment of literacy and numeracy skills that assist in data trends across several years and for different cohorts.

As a school, we use this information to create areas of focus that help inform our goals for our School Improvement Plan. We also use this information to adapt our programs, both within the classroom and through additional programs like those implemented by the Learning and Wellbeing Team to ensure we are supporting, extending and engaging our students in their areas of need. Our teachers analyse the data from NAPLAN and make reference to it, along with their own observational data, anecdotal records, work samples and internal assessments to differentiate their programs for your child.

As parents/carers you may be interested in your child's NAPLAN results as an indicator for how they performed comparatively to students across the country. Keeping in mind, that it is a one-off assessment, we all have good and bad days. Although NAPLAN results will not be provided until much later in the year, discussions about your child and their engagement with the curriculum can occur during parent/teacher meetings which are scheduled for the end of this term. Your child's teacher will be able to provide you with the most accurate information.

If you have any questions about NAPLAN, please email the school, attn: Mrs Wasson.

Around the School

A snapshot of some of the activities our students participated in today. 6S were deep in discussion around bushfires and their impact on the envieonment, 4/5B were reading during literacy groups, 1Q were handwriting and KE were engaged in a mathematics activity.

Kindy Parent Reading Information Evening

Kind Regards

Kate Wasson

Deputy Principal

Supporting Your Child’s Learning at Home

The NSW school curriculum has undergone the first comprehensive reform in 30 years after an extensive curriculum review and consultation.

Further information about the curriculum reform can be found following this link https://nswcurriculumreform.nesa.nsw.edu.au/home/siteAreaContent/adbaffbc-6ac9-46fc-9b2d-65fcc8bc9064

Combining and Separating Quantities

Kindergarten

Year 1 and 2

Combining and separating quantities focuses on:

addition and subtraction
number pairs which make 10.

Combining and separating quantities focuses on:

using addition and subtraction to solve problems.

You can help your Kindergarten child at home by:

playing adding and subtracting board games such as Snakes and Ladders
using a deck of playing cards to add two number cards together from the same suit. For example, 4 hearts added to 3 hearts is 7 hearts. Count all the hearts by ones, from one, to begin. Alternatively, start the count from the largest number, as in 4 – 5, 6, 7
using Lego pieces to model addition and subtraction. For example, start with 5 blue Lego pieces connected. Now connect 4 more red Lego pieces. How many are there altogether? Now take 2 red Lego pieces away. How many are left?
playing Ten Pin Bowling with toilet rolls and a tennis ball for a subtraction game. Count how many pins have fallen down and how many are left standing
getting to know number bonds, or ‘friends of 10’, which are number pairs which add together to make 10. These number pairs are 1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, 4 and 6, 5 and 5.

You can help your Year 1 and Year 2 child at home by:

practising quick recall of double numbers to 10. Use double domino tiles to extend thinking to doubling numbers to 20
finding and discussing numbers in everyday life that are not meant to be used with place value, such as phone numbers, pin numbers, bus numbers and postcodes
using number bonds, or ‘friends of 10’, to assist with simple addition and subtraction problems. For example, 4 + 6 = 10, 6 + 4 = 10, 10 - 4 = 6, 10 - 6 = 4
using number bonds to solve addition problems by making groups of 10. For example, the problem of 26 + 8 can be solved by taking 4 from the 8 and adding it to the 26. The new problem of 30 + 4 is much easier to solve
solving problems using their knowledge of doubles. For example, the problem 8 + 9 can been seen as double 8 (8 + 8) which is 16. Add one more to make 17
building number bond knowledge to understand ‘friends of 20’. These number pairs are 11 and 9, 12 and 8, 13 and 7, 14 and 6, 15 and 5.

Mrs Hobbs

Assistant Principal Curriculum and Instruction

KE - Lachlan W, Isabel T, Amelia L, Isabella B, Angus G

KK - Cormac B, Samaaya G, Florence Y

KL - Madeleine H, Isla B, Emilio K

KW - Isabella F, Skye F, Martin C, Darcy P, Ali Z

1K - Jackson F, Talia C, Felix C, Josh R, Audrey L

1P - Agri A, Jasmine C, Elise L, James N

1Q - Maya H, Emily H, Maxwell A, Charlie B, Davina H

1/2C - Elliott K, Kianah J, Kristen H, Grace D, Josie R

2B - Angelisa J, Ariana W, Jayden W, Ruby B, Ella S, Adam F

2G - Oliver F, Dylan S, Eliana J, Patrice S, Joel D

2T - Hamish G, Emma L, Joanna Y, Navya D, Finn R

STAGE 2

Parents are welcome to attend our games each week.

All Stage 2 Tee Ball games will be at Headen Park
All Stage 2 League Tag games are at Ruddock Park.

This week Pennant Hills played West Pennant Hills PS.

League Tag

Girls: WPH defeated PH 9-8

Boys: WPH defeated PH 7-2

Teeball

Boys: WPH defeated PH 4-6

Girls: PH defeated WPH 13-11

This week we play Thornleigh West PS.

Mr Bryant & Mrs Buchberger

Stage 2 Interschool Sport Coordinators

STAGE 3

Congratulations to Nathan Y, Daniel C and Lewis W (Year 6) for their selection at Beecroft Zone PSSA Tennis, Basketball and Rugby League respectively. Well done!

This week Pennant Hills played Epping West PS.

Softball

Girls: PH defeated EW 11-3

Boys: EW defeated PH 4-4

League Tag

Boys: PH defeated EW 8-1

Girls: PH defeated EW 10-0

This week we play Normanhurst West PS at Campbell Park.

Miss Griggs and Miss Ings

Stage 3 Interschool Sport Coordinators

Beecroft Zone PSSA Swimming Carnival

Last Thursday, 24 keen swimmers joined Miss Griggs and I at the Zone Swimming Carnival at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre at Homebush. The effort was fantastic, there were PB's and big smiles. Apparently, the hot chips were good too!

Many thanks to our parent supporters throughout the day.

Mr Bryant

Sports Coordinator

For more information on zone sport click here or scan the QR code below

Clean Up Australia Day is back in full swing! Pennant Hills Public School students will be involved in a clean-up project on Friday 10 March and aim to educate students not just about keeping our school environment clean, but the wider community too. We will be sure to wash hands thoroughly after the clean-up activity.

You can follow the movement on social media using #CleanUpAustralia #StepUpToCleanUp.

Check out the link below for an introduction to how others are stepping up, cleaning up and helping our environment.

https://youtu.be/FDPFt2uEjQk

Things your child will need to bring along on the day include:

Gardening gloves
Plastic bag

Thank you for your support

The Green Team

Mrs Krivohlavy and Mrs Callegaro

EALD Teachers

Our new school Values are:

Respect
Responsibility
Aspire

The first of our new school values that we will be exploring is respect. Respect is something that is very important to the community of PHPS. Here are what some of the students at PHPS think respect is:

“Respect is caring about others” - Abby, Kindergarten

“Respect is paying attention to others and making them feel heard” - Alex, Year 4

“Respect means to look after school property” - Audrey, Year 4

In our classrooms this term, we will be exploring our new school values, including respect and what it means to be respectful.

Thank you for reading,

The Wellbeing Team

Celebrating Harmony Week 20-26 March

Harmony Week is all about celebrating the amazing cultures that make up our country. Australia is one of the most multicultural countries in the world – from the oldest continuous culture of our first Australians to the 49% of Australians who were born overseas or have a parent who was.

Our cultural diversity is a great strength and brings with it a whole host of traditions, religions, languages, and of course, food! It helps us to do things in different ways, reduces discrimination and lets us accept difference.

Harmony Week always includes the 21 March, which is the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

The message of Harmony Week is “everyone belongs”. Orange is the colour chosen to represent this week as traditionally it signifies social communication and meaningful conversations. It also relates to the freedom of ideas and encouragement of mutual respect.

On Wednesday 22 March, we are asking the students to wear a touch of orange e.g. orange t-shirt, orange socks, orange ribbons etc. or if they wish to do so, wear their national dress to show their support for cultural diversity and an inclusive Australia.

We are looking forward to celebrating our multicultural society.

Ms Davis, Mrs Krivohlavy and Mrs Callegaro

Harmony Week Committee

Good afternoon,

In response to the wet weather events across Sydney in 2022, Transport for NSW has been investigating damage to the state road network using artificial intelligence software during inspections. Investigations have identified anumber of state roads, including Boundary Road that need repair from wet weather damage.

This work will involve replacing asphalt and repainting road markings on two sections of Boundary Road in both directions. The first location is between Bellamy Street and Pennant Hills Road, Pennant Hills and the second isbetween New Line Road and Cedarwood Drive, Cherrybrook.

Our Work ScheduleWe will be on site for 20 night shifts across both sites for asphalting between Monday 20 March and Friday 5 May 2023, weather permitting.

Of these 20 shifts, eight will be carried out between Bellamy Street and Pennant Hills Road, Pennant Hills, and 12 will be carried out between New Line Road and Cedarwood Drive, Cherrybrook. There will be an additional two night shifts of line marking at each location, however we do not expect you to hear this work.

Our night work hours are 8pm to 5am Sunday to Friday, working up to five nights a week. There will be no work on Saturdays or public holidays.

How Will The Work Affect You?Our work needs to be carried out at night to minimise disruption to traffic and reduce safety risks to our workers, pedestrians, bus users and motorists. It may be noisy at times, but we will do everything we can to minimise noise impacts, including using quieter equipment where we can, turning off equipment and vehicles when they are not in use and completing the noisier tasks by midnight.

Driveway Access DelaysWhen we are working past driveways, residents may have to wait up to 30 minutes before entering or exiting their driveway while the asphalt cools. Traffic control will be on site to assist residents. We encourage residents to park in nearby side streets if they need to leave their property while we are working near or outside their property.

Bus Stop ChangesWhen we are resurfacing past bus stops we will need to temporarily relocate the bus stop drop off and pick up locations while our resurfacing machinery moves past and the asphalt cools. Bus stops will be relocated as close as possible to the original stop. Traffic controllers will be on site to assist bus users.

Traffic Changes There will be temporary traffic changes to make sure the work zone is safe. As part of these traffic changes, we will implement a contraflow traffic arrangement. This traffic arrangement will see motorists temporarily redirected onto the opposite carriageway to the work for a short distance whilst passing the work zone. Motorists unable to access businesses, homes or side streets within the contraflow are advised to use the next available side street after they exit the contraflow to redirect to their destination.

Pedestrians using pedestrian crossings will not be impacted as traffic controllers will be onsite to assist pedestrians to cross safely. Please keep to speed limits and follow the direction of traffic controllers and signs.

For the latest traffic updates, you can call 132 701, visit livetraffic.com or download the Live Traffic NSW App.

Transport for NSW thanks the community for their patience while we complete this important work.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, please contact us via Info.River@fultonhogan.com.au or call 1800 568 981.

Kind regards,

The Fulton Hogan Community Team

President’s Message

Hi All

The P&C Annual General Meeting is scheduled for tonight, in person at the PHPS Hall on the K-2 site (Trebor Rd). The AGM confirms the P&C committee and executive positions for year ahead. P&C financial members can vote, however, the meeting is open for anyone to attend. Thank you to all of the committee conveners for coordinating the AGM submission. It’s also great to see so many returning committee members, as well as lots of new people volunteering.

A summary of the committees can be found here and I’ll provide an update following the AGM in next week’s newsletter.

Have a great week.

Luke Whenman

P&C President

pandcpresident@gmail.com

Sushi is back!!

We are very happy to be able to offer sushi again.

It will be available on Wednesdays only, as Sushi Hills is unable to supply to us on Fridays.

Flexischools Cutoff

Please note that we have a new cut-off time for placing orders on Flexischools of 8:45am. This allows us to place our sushi order by 9am, as well as getting an earlier start on preparing the growing number of “Build Your Own” items.

Harmony Day

The whole school is celebrating Harmony Day on Wednesday 22 March. The canteen is offering a special menu for the day, with some different dishes from around the world, and some orange items.

The Harmony Day menu is now “live” on Flexischools, so you can start placing your orders! Just keep loading more dates until the 22 March appears. Orders for Harmony Day must be placed by 5pm on Friday the 17 of March or you will miss out!

No other lunch orders will be available on this day.

Harmony Day Menu

Hot Dog - no sauce - $3.50
Hot Dog - Tomato Sauce - $3.50
Vegie Delight Hot Dog - no sauce, Vegan - $3.80
Vegie Delight Hot Dog - Tomato Sauce, Vegan - $3.80
Chicken Taco Wrap - Chicken, Salad & Cheese - $4.50
Beef Korma with Basmati Rice, GF - $5.50
Gluten Free Beef Lasagne, GF - $5.00
Rice Paper Roll - Vegetable, GF, Vegan - $5.00
Rice Paper Roll - Teriyaki Chicken - $5.00
Jam Lamington - $1.30
Orange Jelly Cup 125g, GF - $1.30
Orange Poppyseed Muffin, homemade - $1.50
Orange Passio Chill J - $2.50
Paradise Punch Just Juice - $1.50

Heather Tyler

0425 274 681

canteenphps@gmail.com

Opening Times 2023

We will be continuing to be available by appointment only in 2023 and all available times will be available on our appointment booking site up to 3 weeks in advance.

Appointments will be available on Thursdays and Fridays during the school term.

Back To School Vouchers

The Uniform Shop is accepting back to school vouchers. The vouchers can be used to purchase NEW uniform items and accessories and can not be used for the purchase of preloved/second hand items.

To use the vouchers on Flexischools the voucher numbers need to be added in the same order as your items and the details can be added by selecting the Back to School Vouchers item.

Please remember, if your order is less then the voucher amount, the remaining amount of your voucher is forfeited and can not be used. The uniform shop is not able to hold the remaining value of the vouchers as credit for future orders.

Appointments

Please click or scan the QR Code below to make an appointment, you will be redirected to our square booking site.
Pease select the appropriate appointment type for your visit:
- Standard appointment times are in individual 5-minute increments.
- Double appointment times are in individual 10-minute increments.
Appointments are at the uniform shop located on the 3-6 campus.

UNIFORM SHOP APPOINTMENTS

Second Hand

Second Hand / Preloved items will continue to be available online via Flexischools. Only items in very good condition will be added for sales online, and these items will only be available via online sales and will not be available for sale during a shop appointment.

Winter Uniforms

Just a reminder that winter uniforms will be available for sale towards the end of the term (from approximately week 8) as we have not yet received all our stock as yet.

Janine Sherlock

Uniform Shop Manager

phpsuniformshop@gmail.com

All Band Families

If you read no other section of the school newsletter please read the band section. This is where you will get weekly updates as to what is happening and dates you need to be aware of. If you have any questions please feel free to email the committee or ask in your bands WhatsApp group.

Senior Concert Band: We still need a helper for next week, Monday the 13th of March. Please fill in the doodle poll.

What To Be Practising

TB - Working on your exercises in the Red Book for the Term 1 worksheet.

ICB - Clarion Call, George of the Jungle, Louie Louie, and exercises in the Blue Book for Term 1 worksheet.

SCB - Cantina Band, Best Of Queen, Shadows Unleashed, Tumba Rumba (only look at this if the others are good)

Are You New To The School?

For those families who are new to the school this year the P&C run the school's instrumental band program. It's open to any students in years 3-6. So if your child already plays a woodwind instrument, brass instrument, percussion or bass guitar, we'd love to hear from you, it's not too late to join! Email convener@phpsband.org

Events

Term 1
ICB	Wed 29th March 1:45pm	*Performance Assembly

Term 2
TB, ICB, SCB	3 - 4 June (TBC)	Northern Beaches Instrumental Festival
JB (TBD)	5 - 8 June	Sydney Eistedfodd
SCB	14 June (TBC)	PHHS Music Night
All Bands	18 - 20 June	Music Camp
All Bands	23 or 30 June (TBC)	*Post Music Camp Concert
SCB	24 June (TBC)	PHHS Winter Carnival
SCB, JB	Wed 28 June, 1:45pm	*Performance Assembly

Future Events

We'll be working with the school to figure out what events we can play at in the coming weeks.

Parent Helpers

A full list of parent helper duties is available here.

When walking the students, especially Training Band, back to the 3-6 site try to have them line up in pairs on the path to the side, count them twice, check with Rose head count. Tell the students to walk nicely and stick together on the walk & you should stop at the driveway, Weemala corner, school crossing at the 1st driveway at the big site to be recounted. If possible, have a parent front and end and discourage wandering. Once all accounted for you are free and thank you for helping.

Doodle polls are now open to fill in for Parent Helper slots for next term. Please remember the band doesn't function without parent helpers. And if we don't have a parent helper for a rehearsal it will not go ahead.

Big Thank You To This Week's Helpers

Christine F & Katrina C (TB)
Wade H (ICB)
Zikun R (SCB Mon)
Sam (SCB Thurs)

PHPS Band Committee

phpsband@gmail.com

www.phpspandc.org.au/band/

MAIN ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL: IS THIS AFTERNOON

3:30pm - 4:30pm in school hall K-2 site.

FOIM REHEARSAL: IS THIS AFTERNOON 4:40pm - 5:20pm in school hall K-2 site.

Pick up time for FOIM students is 5:20pm.

Students not doing FOIM should be picked up at the usual time of 4:30pm.

Main Parent Helper today is Lu Liu – Thankyou

FOIM Parent Helper today is Jessica Baik - Thankyou

! THE TERM 1 ROSTER IS OPEN - The String groups can't run without help from the parents.

Week 8 through to Week 11 still require volunteers - OPEN LINK: Main& FOIM Roster 2023 Term 1

FOIM 2023 - small note to say a BIG thankyou to the FOIM student parents for the prompt reply to the ‘String Ensemble- FOIM 2023 email’. Numbers and T-shirts have been confirmed.

Music Camp 2023 Music Camp has been scheduled for 18 - 20 June.

Please put this in your diary. More information will be coming from the Music Camp teams in the coming months.

STRING EVENTS FOR TERM 1, 2023

WEEK 7

MAIN ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL - Tuesday 14 March, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
FOIM - Tuesday 14 March, 4:40pm - 5:20pm

WEEK 8

MAIN ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL - Tuesday 21 March, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
FOIM - Tuesday 21 March, 4:40pm - 5:20pm

FUTURE EVENTS

We'll be working with Sarah Qiu – Strings Conductor and the school to figure out what events we can play/participate in. More information will be coming – stay tuned.

Families interested in enrolling children in a String Ensemble 2023 should contact the PHPS String Committee for further details: phpsstrings@gmail.com

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