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Cross Country

Despite ongoing rain, last week we were finally able to hold our school Cross Country Carnival. Although the format for the day was changed slightly and we moved the event to the 3-6 site the day was a great success and students appeared to have very much enjoyed participating and cheering on their friends. Thank you to Mrs Cummings for her wonderful organisation. This Thursday 40 students from our school are competing at the Zone Cross Country Carnival at Fagan Park. Mrs Cummings has organised this event for the Beecroft zone. A very big organisational feat! Thank you to Mrs Cummings and PHPS staff attending the carnival this Thursday.

K-2 Carpark

It would be greatly appreciated if parents did not use the K-2 carpark after 7:30am Monday to Friday. Many staff arrive at school around this time and find parking difficult due to parents using the carpark when dropping their child off at BASC. Please use street parking if dropping your child at BASC after 7:30am. Thank you for your cooperation.

P&C Solar Project Update

Over recent times the P&C have been fundraising with the aim of successfully applying for a Department of Education grant to assist with the installation of solar panels at our school. The school and P&C jointly applied for a grant in this area and unfortunately, we were not successful. Please be aware that the P&C have kept funds raised aside and are exploring other options for solar or sustainability ideas so that the money raised can be used for a purpose as close as possible to the original goal. We will keep you updated on progress in relation to this initiative. To all our amazing families who assisted with this fundraising, thank you for your understanding and patience.  

Attendance Matters

Warm Regards

Alison Filipic

Principal

Rugby K-6

Our K-6 rugby program started on Friday and it was awesome! The students were so excited to try this new sport and it was wonderful to see so many smiling faces as they played games with rugby balls and learnt how to throw and catch. Feedback from our teachers and the students was all very positive, thank you to NSW Rugby for supporting our students during this 6 week program.

Mother's Day Breakfast

We had a fabulous turn out at our Mother’s Day Breakfast. Thank you to all of the families who brought their special people along to share breakfast with. A big thank you to Mrs McLoghry and Mrs Gardener for all of their organisation of the event and to all of the staff who assisted with the set up the afternoon before and the morning of the breakfast. We hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day!

Mother's Day Stall

Our students had the opportunity to purchase a Mother’s Day gift from the Mother’s
Day stall. Thank you to Mrs Pride for going above and beyond for our students to make sure they were able to pick some quality gifts for their mum's and special people.

Stage 2 Science Unit

Exploring Number Combinations with 1V

Boccia

Our Boccia team attended the NSW School Sport competition last week as defending champions. Unfortunately we were unsuccessful in our attempts to secure our championship for the second year, however our skill development since last year was clearly observed and it was a great day out at Thornleigh brickpit. Thank you Mrs Schmidt and Mrs Wright for attending and supervising the students.

FOIM

Yesterday, 7 of our budding strings musicians attended the Festival of Instrumental Music rehearsal at Meadowbank. They played beautifully and were a great representation of students at Pennant Hills Public School. Thank you to our parent volunteer, Mrs Lee, for attending with us.

Hatching Chicks – Kindergarten

Welcome to our fluffy friends in Kindergarten! The students have thoroughly enjoyed watching the chicks hatch and grow – a great addition to their Science program of Living Things.

Return and Earn App

We have been successful in our application to feature on the Return and Earn app! If you are an eager Return and Earn-er or if you would like to start collecting, we would love if you considered donating your Return and Earn digital funds to Pennant Hills Public School! We will use these valuable funds on resources to directly support the students.

Kind Regards

Kate Wasson

Deputy Principal

Burumin Award Winners

1.  Quintin L (6O) - Responsibility

2.  Eliana J (3C) - Respect

3.  Viraj G (3M) - Respect  

Congratulations to Abi and Kira who are playing AFL in Albury this week in the Metro West team!

We are very proud of you both.

Today we farewelled Gabi Monti from our library team. 

Thank you for all your hard work, organisational skills and happy persona that you have bought to our school library. 

Good Luck at your new school. 

Family Borrowing

Family borrowing continues each Wednesday afternoon 3:15-3:45pm. Please pop in to  read a book or borrow. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow. 

6O Library Session 

This week Year 6 have emersed themselves in picture books. 6O had a great time remembering the fun of reading a great picture books.

  

Mrs Griffith

Teacher Librarian

Stage 2 ZooSnooz Information Session for Parents

Wednesday 29 May 2:45pm – Library – 3-6

This session is available to parents to be informed about the zoo excursion.

Please come along if you have any questions.

Mrs M Griffith

Stage 2 Assistant Principal

BOCCIA 2024

Last Friday, 10^th May, PHPS sent a small representative team of students to the annual Boccia Competition at Thornleigh Brickpit, for a round robin tournament against 10 other primary schools from Northwest Sydney.

What is Boccia?

• Boccia (pronounced 'Bot-cha') is a Paralympic sport introduced in 1984
• It has no Olympic counterpart
• Athletes throw, kick or use a ramp to propel a ball onto the court with the aim of getting closest to a 'jack' ball
• It is played indoors on a court similar in size to a badminton court

• The aim of this tournament is to provide opportunities for students with disability to participate in sport, as the game is adapted to ensure the competition is inclusive of all

It was a pleasure to take our Boccia team to the tournament. All the students tried really hard and put in some major effort to help each other in every game. They did brilliantly whilst having a whole lot of fun!

This is our awesome 2024 Boccia team! We are so proud of them

Felix C of 2R, Leonardo D of 5M, Mrs Wright, Aliya A of 4D, Jeremy D of 4D,  

Ms Schmidt, Nicole M of 6I, Hayden T of 5M, Nathan Chen of 2C, Adam F of 3C

  

An enormous thank you to Mrs Wright and the parents for their support and assistance on the day.

Ms Melissa Schmidt

Inclusive Sport Coordinator/Learning and Support Teacher

The K-6 Cross Country was held on Monday 13th May 2023 on the 3-6 site. Over the weekend, the amount of water significantly affected sections of the track that had previously held up well. After careful consideration, a late decision was made to change  to our back up plan, which required moving the event to the 3-6 site and scaling the event back to competitive events only. Even the alterations, and intermittent rain, couldn’t dampen the excitement and enthusiasm of our racers. Every child tried their best, and it was such a pleasure to see many happy and satisfied faces at the completion of each event (even though some were exhausted!) A big THANKS to all parents, family members and people from the community who came along to support the event. It was nice seeing the encouragement shown to all students as they completed each lap of the course.

Congratulations must also go to the following students who won their events.

The students that came 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th were presented their ribbons in the next assembly. 

The Zone Cross Country Championships is being held on Thursday 23rd May at Fagan Park, where Pennant Hills Public School are proud to be hosting the event. Please return notes and payment as soon as possible. 

All the students participating in the cross country received an ice block handed out by the amazing parents who volunteered their time on the day. Thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time- you were amazing! We also had fantastic parent volunteers helping both on K-2 and 3-6 hand out their sausage sizzle lunch order. Thank you to the amazing P and C and our canteen coordinator Heather. 

It was a fantastic day for all the students and teachers and on behalf of the cross country committee would like to thank all the students for their amazing behaviour on the day, the P and C for their outstanding effort and the staff who ensured that all the students were safe and encouraged. 

Ms Cumming

Cross Country Coordinator

Thank you to all who joined us for our Mother's Day celebrations.  Please enjoy some photos of our special event.

Please enjoy seeing what the creative students of 6I completed for Mother's Day!

Everyone in a NSW government school – students, teachers and community members – is expected to treat others fairly and behave in a non-racist way so that every student is able to feel a sense of belonging and have a positive learning experience at school.

In spite of this, school is the place where children are most likely to experience racism. 

• Almost two thirds, and (60%) of students say they have witnessed racism in school
• Around a third (33%) of state-school students have experienced racism from their peers

The most common forms of interpersonal racism in school include students being told they don’t belong, called names, left out, spat on, pushed or hit. Interpersonal racism can also happen online. 

 If you are able to, please:

• Have conversations about racism with your children often, not just when it's in the news
• Discuss social media, books or watch shows together that deal with racism or stereotypes
• Keep the conversation going and let children know it OK to ask questions
• Encourage children to understand the lived experience of ethnically minoritised groups better     

• Call out racism and discrimination whenever you see it
• Any form of racism is distressing and can have a significant impact on their mental health

To help combat racism at school, we have a teacher who is a nominated as the Anti Racism Contact Officer- an ARCO. At our school, this teacher is Ms Melissa Schmidt, the Learning and Support Teacher.

The ARCO plays an important role in assisting and working collaboratively with the principal to implement the Department’s Anti Racism Policy.

With your support, we do the very best we can to ensure culturally inclusive, cohesive, safe and engaging learning experiences for all our students.

If at any time you find that you have a concern about racism in our school, you are encouraged to come to the school and talk with a member of staff so that your concern can be resolved. In the case of complaints relating to racism in schools, you can also contact the school Anti-Racism Contact Officer (ARCO) on telephone 9484 1134 or via email pennanthil-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Ms Schmidt

ARCO and Learning and Support Teacher

Looking for sponsors and prize donations

Gareth Watkins
P&C President
pandcpresident@gmail.com

Uniform Updates

Almost all items are in stock at the Uniform Shop, except for a few sizes listed as ON BACKORDER.  We hope to receive this stock as soon as possible which will be delivered straight to your child’s class. 

Music camp is next weekend!  If you still need to purchase a music polo the cut-off date to place Flexischools orders is this Sunday 26 May 5pm.

PSSA Winter sports will also be starting next week.  If you still need to purchase PSSA Navy Socks, the cut-off date to place Flexischools orders is this Sunday 26 May 5pm.

Congratulations to the Zone Cross Country representatives, the Uniform Shop and P&C has gifted a school drink bottle to those students and we hope you can use them proudly this Thursday, we wish you the very best of luck!

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

Our canteen is staffed, however we rely on volunteers for over the counter sales, particularly at the K-2 site. 

For over the counter sales at Lunchtime we are open:

K-2: Monday, Wednesday and Friday.                   (2 helpers needed).

3-6: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Recess on Fridays.

We are really struggling to get helpers for K-2, and it is always the same people stepping in. We need a bigger pool of volunteers to be able to keep it running.

If you are available from 1-1.40pm on any of these days please consider coming to help. It’s a fun and easy way to get involved in your child’s school life and they just love you being there. Please contact Claire Phillips on 0403 810 391.

Parents and Grandparents of students do not need a “Working With Children Check” to help at the canteen.

I would like to send a huge THANK YOU to the following people for their wonderful help with the Cross Country Sausage Sizzle:

Paul, Ji, Kieran and our awesome GA Mark, on the BBQ,

Claire S, Ange, Melina, Peta, Bec D, Nicola and Claire P in the canteen.

Thank you also to the people who very kindly offered to help but weren’t needed due to the changes in the running of the day, and to everyone who brought in some yummy food for the children to purchase. 

You all helped to make it a great day!  I’m very sorry if I have left anyone out. 

Heather Tyler

0425 274 681

canteenphps@gmail.com

  

What's been happening

Last week saw us hand out our invitations to those successful students to join Jazz Band. Congratulations to all, especially those who are still in Intermediate Band, that's a huge effort to be able to extend yourself to play in the Jazz Band.

  

On Saturday evening a number of families also attended The Independent Theatre in North Sydney to listen to our TB & ICB conductor, Ms Rose Foster, put on a recital in preparation for completing her Licentiate in Music, Australia diploma. It was a wonderful evening. And we're all keeping our fingers crossed she does well in her examination performance this coming weekend.

  

 

  

Upcoming Events:

Music Camp: All Bands. 2-4th June

Pennant Hills High School Music Night: SCB. Wednesday 5th June.

Greater Western Sydney Music Festival: All Bands. Sunday 16th June

Kindy Open Day: SCB/JB. Tuesday 18th June.

A schedule of events has been published on the web and can be found here.

  

Worksheets

We're now getting to the middle of Term 2. 

  

Training Band and ICB students should have completed their Term 1 worksheet. Please ensure you're working with their tutors to get the exercises signed off as they go.

The worksheets can be found on the Band web pages here.
Please submit as soon as they're complete through the Worksheet Submission Web Form.

  

What to be Practising

SCB - received some new pieces last week.

• Clowning Round - Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sGzwvfyhL8
• Aztec Fire - Listen: https://youtu.be/nvlK7aiLzG0?si=I1oqn6XVnZUCullj
• March To The Headmasters Office (possible for GWS performance)

 

ICB - Exercises in your Blue workbook for Term 2. Plus the following.

• Star Wars
  Fire Dance - Listen: https://smp-cdn-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/items/4779614/sound_clips/sample_1.mp3
• Meet the Flintstones - Listen: https://youtu.be/wqSxQyQnAN0?si=E2KkDXpPJfv8BLUO
• Blue Note Rock

 

TB - work on the exercises in your Red workbook for Term 2.

Parent Helper Roster

http://www.phpspandc.org.au/band/band-roster/

  

SCB - There is still a spot needed for THIS THURSDAY, plus weeks 6, 8 & 10.

Everyone please start filling in Terms 3-4 slots.

A full list of parent helper duties is available here.

  

Big thank-you to this week & next week's helpers

SCB Monday 20th -  Dannie Q

ICB Wednesday 22nd - Melina D

SCB Thursday 23rd - Carol H & TBA

TB Friday 24th - Tracy & Leo

SCB Monday 27th -  Eva G

ICB Wednesday 29th - Christine F

SCB Thursday 30th - Mel S & Christine K

TB Friday 31st - Jongrye S & Luke or Sally W

        

PHPS Band Committee

phpsband@gmail.com

www.phpspandc.org.au/band/

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

FOIM cancelled this afternoon

Main Ensemble Parent is Sonya De Bono – Thankyou.!

! PARENT ROSTER LINK IS BELOW. We still need parent help for TERM 2, WEEK 5 to WEEK 10 - please filled in ASAP.   

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

FESTIVAL OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC (FOIM) 2024

7 x PHPS string students attended the PRELIMINARY COMBINED REHEARSAL at Meadowbank PS yesterday. Congratulations on a wonderful rehearsal. Looking forward to the concert day - Sydney Opera House, Monday 24 June 2024.

PHPS Music CAMP 2024!!

Music Camp is very soon. 12 days and counting... Please read the parent information note and overnight campers ‘what to bring’. Any official music camp questions should go to phpsmusiccamp@gmail.com - Band, String and the Music Camp emails have been cc'ed in here as well for easy convenience.

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 friendly 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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