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The Anxiety Project

This year Pennant Hills Public School are starting on a 2-year journey to support students and their families in managing anxiety. Data shows that 81% of staff report that anxiety is a significant issue within their school. The Anxiety Project is an evidence based whole school community approach to managing anxiety and building resilience in primary school students. This project will be led by Mrs Mortimer and Ms Schmidt. It involves extensive staff training and provides opportunities for parent learning via workshops on managing anxiety in children. The end goal is that both school and home environment have a common approach and language to assist children with their concerns and worries. More information will be sent home throughout the year on this project.

Disco

Students had a wonderful time at last week’s disco. Thank you to Year 6 and their teachers for organising this fun event for students.

P&C AGM and newly elected 2024 Executive Committee

I would like to sincerely thank the P&C for their dedication to our school and students. Last week the AGM saw the 2023 Executive Committee step down from their roles and a new committee elected for 2024. Thank you to the exiting committee members, it is wonderful that many are staying on and continuing to serve our community in a different role.

The 2024 P&C Executive are:

President - Gareth Watkins

Vice Presidents - Luke Whenman and Mike Stalenburg

Treasurer - Eva Guo

Assistant Treasurer - Annette Berriman

Secretary - Matt Connor

Executive Committee Members - Elizabeth Fowler, Kate Ashton, Claire Smith, Andrew Passe de Silva

During the meeting the P&C committed $55 000 towards employing additional Learning and Support staff at school and money to fund the resourcing of the newly established STEAM Room. Both generous contributions will greatly benefit all students at PHPS. Thank you to the P&C and to our fabulous parent community who worked to raise these funds in 2023.

Warm Regards

Alison Filipic

Principal

Zone Swimming Carnival

I was lucky enough to attend the Zone Swimming Carnival with our amazing swimmers last Thursday. PHPS are very proud of you all, you gave it your best and swam your hearts out!

We came away with 2 ribbons, Emily H came 2^nd in the 8yo girls 50m Freestyle and Josh F came 1^st in the 13yo boys 50m Freestyle – an amazing effort!

Well done to all of our swimmers! Thank you to Miss Griggs for coordinating and marshalling on the day. Thank you to all of the families who stayed to cheer on the other Penno swimmers – the atmosphere was really positive.

Disco

Wednesday evening saw our school leaders organise the disco to raise funds for the Year 6 Farewell. All students were very well behaved and had a wonderful time! Thank you to Mrs McLaren, Mrs Partidge, Miss Ings and Miss Griggs for the organisation. Thank you also to the parents/carers for ensuring payments and permission were made and that the students arrived and departed on time. It was a great event!

NAPLAN

This term, students in Years 3 and 5 will undertake the NAPLAN assessment.

NAPLAN provides schools with valuable information about your child’s learning progress in literacy and numeracy. NAPLAN is only one way we assess student learning in years 3, 5, 7 and 9.

NAPLAN will take place from Wednesday 13 March to Monday 25 March in 2024.

We ask that all students bring in a pair of over-the-head headphones, labelled with their name and class by Friday 8th March. The headphones require a standard headphone jack to plug into the laptops, similar to the picture shown.

Kind Regards

Kate Wasson

Deputy Principal

We hope you have a lovely week!

Wellbeing Team

Year 3 have been getting arty!

Teddy and Ms Schmidt

Learning and Support Teacher

Dance spectacular

Gardens and Grounds Update

Help needed please!!! 

Working Bee March 16th and 17th 10am-3pm

Next week we have the wonderful team of volunteers from Mirvac coming in to spend their annual community day helping us with our gardens. They will be coming on Thursday March 21st.

To prepare for their visit we need some school volunteers this weekend to help weed out the Greycliff garden beds. 

We have set aside this Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th to ensure we can get the weeding done before they arrive to mulch the garden for us. We really need some folks to show up even if only for an hour between 10am-3pm. If we get it all done on Saturday we will let you know via the Whatsapp group below that the Sunday is canceled- so please join up.

Please bring (if you can):

• Garden forks (tall)
• Hand forks
• Trowels
• Buckets or plastic bins (even if they have a hole or two)
• Wheelbarrows

We have hired a skip bin so hopefully we can fill it on the weekend. 

Don't forget your gloves, hats, sunscreen and water bottles either… perhaps raincoats too?!

Really hoping to see a bunch of your lovely faces there. 

Cheers from the Gardens and Grounds Team 

#manyhandsmakelightwork

#doinitforthekids

Join the Garden Gang Whatsapp group for quickest comms and updates 

https://chat.whatsapp.com/IsRzRCTVf8976QPJekoC62

OR drop us a line at: phpsgardensgrounds@gmail.com for info and details

Uniform Updates

Year 6 Sports Polos are expected to arrive this week and will be delivered to your child’s classroom. Thank you for everyone’s patience and understanding.

Winter Uniforms will be available for purchase towards the end of March.  You can already purchase pre-loved winter items on Flexischools, or in-store from the $5 second-hand buckets. 

Second-hand Uniforms

The Uniform Shop continues to accept donations of second-hand items throughout the year as all profits go towards supporting the school and provides great uniform options for other families. We kindly request items are pre-washed and in good resale condition.  Donations can be given to the 3-6 office or directly to the Uniform Shop if open. These items get sorted into two categories.

• Preloved – are items which have been sorted and in very good condition. Only available via online Flexischools.
• Second-hand – if you cannot find what you are looking for in Flexischools, you can book an appointment to inspect unsorted/unlisted items from the $5 buckets at the Uniform Shop.

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. (Choose this for returns, exchange is sizes and simple purchases).
  • Double appointment times are in individual 10-minute increments. (Choose this for larger orders, second-hand purchases, new enrolments).
• Appointments are at the uniform shop located on the 3-6 campus.

UNIFORM SHOP APPOINTMENTS

                   

Flexischools Ordering

Order on Flexischools via the “SHOP”.  If the “SHOP” icon doesn’t appear on your page, you may need to refresh your browser or pull down the screen for mobile devices.

• Currently, all uniform orders will need to be placed by 5pm on Sundays prior to the delivery date.
• Your order will be delivered on Tuesdays to your child’s classroom. Please allow 3-5 days from delivery date for your child to receive their order from their teacher.

If you have any queries regarding Uniforms, the school website or Uniform Brochure will be the best place to look, and if you can’t find the information you need, please do not hesitate to e-mail the Uniform Shop at phpsuniformshop@gmail.com  

Nicola Lee
Uniform Shop Manager
phpsuniformshop@gmail.com

In an effort to be more succinct in what we've got in the band section of the newsletter I'm going to try to keep it to new things and not repeat things from previous weeks. So please, if you have a child in band, at least have a read through of the Band section of the newsletter.  

What to be Practising  

PHPS Band Committee

phpsband@gmail.com

www.phpspandc.org.au/band/

MAIN ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL K-2 Hall IS THIS AFTERNOON 3:30pm-4:30pm

FOLLOWED BY FOIM K-2 HALL 4:40pm-5:20pm  

Main Ensemble Parent Helper’s are Monica and Jessie – Thank you!  

! PARENT HELPER RESPONISIBILITIES It is a school requirement that there is a parent helper for all rehearsals. In the event we have no parent helper, we will have no choice but to cancel the rehearsal. We realise everyone is busy and have commitments (work or otherwise), however with planning in advance – if everyone pitches in then each family will only be required to help out less than once per term. If you have availability to help on a particular afternoon – and there is already a parent helper in the roster, please contact that parent and request to swap. Link for further details:  STRING ENSEMBLE PARENT HELPER DUTY

ENSEMBLE PARENT ROSTER LINK - TERM 1 - TERM 4 2024

PHPS Music CAMP 2024!!

The Music Camp committee are busy planning... further communications will be coming.

Calling any new string players to the Main ensemble…

If you are a new student to the PHPS and play a string instrument – we would love to hear from you.  We have a string ensemble of approximately 12 players and welcome new members that have been learning from a private tutor for at least 3 months and have some competency in reading music.  Main ensemble is open to children in years 1-6.   Please contact us by registering through the registration form link below or by emailing phpsstrings@gmail.com

REGO 2024 LINK: https://forms.gle/hQhDwQ9JdpVmhfar5

If your child is interested in learning a string instrument and would like to come along to see what is all about, please contact our friendly Committee to arrange to bring your child to a rehearsal.

PHPS String Ensemble 

Website: http://www.phpspandc.org.au/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

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