DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - 2019

TERM 2

Sunday 2 June

P&C Working Bee from 10am

Monday 10 June

Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

Tuesday 11 June

P&C Meeting, 7pm in Bottle Brush classroom

Friday 14 June

Regional Cross Country Carnival

Saturday 15 June

ErkoWiz - get tickets here

Monday 17 June

First Nations Bedtime Stories Challenge

https://firstnationsbedtimestories.com/erko2019

Thursday 20 June

Koomurri performance and workshops

Tuesday 25 June

Last day to drop Earn & Learn stickers to school office or at Woolies store

Monday 31 August 2020

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Tell Them From Me Survey

Thank you to all families who allowed their child/ren to

participate in this years TTFM survey. This confidential

information will help the staff make informed decisions over

programs and initiatives going forward. Next term we will

survey staff and parents regarding school practices and

processes.

Staff Development Day

This year our Staff Development Days will look a little

different. Many of our plans have had to be changed or

modified based on changing advice regarding COVID-19. We

are still hopeful of having our Twilight sessions but the

sticking point has been changing guidelines around training

for CPR/First Aid. Both of these areas are mandatory training

for staff.

Planning

EPS has been heavily involved with strategic support from the

department, especially in strengthening our protocols,

practices and programs around reading. This will be one

aspect of our new planning cycle along with a new situational

analysis. To this end, myself, Ms Sallway and Ms Celic are

involved in writing our analysis and collecting data. Again,

this is to review and improve our practices where necessary.

Parent Meetings

A reminder that Parent/Teacher interviews will be held in the

last two weeks of this term. As we only have two phone

lines, we will have to use Zoom to be able to reach everyone.

A reminder that current guidelines do not allow for earlier

Parent/Teacher meetings unless there is a behaviour or

welfare concern as identified by the teacher. The log in

details for booking has been emailed to each family. Booking

will open on Friday.

SASS Week

Last week was SASS Week (School Administrative Support

Staff). I want to acknowledge the hard work, dedication and

especially the care all our office staff (and staff in general too)

display each and every day. A great team to work with .

Thank you one and all.

Staffing

Finally, congratulations to Ms.Hopkinson who is now a

substantive Assistant Principal (pending appeal) after a very

competitive process. Well done BHop!

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - 2020

TERM 3

Friday 4 September

Booking Open (Parent /Teacher Zoom Meeting)

Tuesday 8 September

P&C Zoom Meeting

Monday 14—Thursday 24 September

Parent & Teacher ZOOM meeting

Friday 25 September

Last day of term 3

TERM 4

Monday 12 October

Staff and students return to school

Friday 23 October

Book Week Dress-Up (Curious Creature Wild Minds)

Wednesday 18 November

Opportunity Class Placement Test

Wednesday 16 December

Students last day at school

Thursday 17 and Friday 18 December

EARLY STAGE 1 — CHICK US OUT!

On Monday 17 August there was great excite-ment in Kindergarten as our eggs arrived! Each of the Kindergarten classes received 10 eggs and an incubator to help them to hatch.

The different classes set up special areas for their chicks and developed different ways to make sure they were responsible for looking after them.

Over the next few days, Correa had 7 chicks hatch, Bottle Brush had 5 chicks hatch and Hibiscus had 8 chicks hatch. The chicks then spent two weeks helping our Kindergarten students learn about the life cycle of a chicken, about living things, what they need to survive and about how to care for animals. All the Kindergarten students and Mrs Hopkinson, Mrs Evans, Ms Chan and Ms Mitchell are very sad to see the chicks leave. We will miss their little chirps in our classrooms!

Bottle Brush kept a diary of their chicks’ experience:

Hibiscus wrote a story about their chicks and drew some pictures of their new chick friends:

Hibiscus has 8 fluffy and cute yellow chicks! Whenever we feed them, they jump into their food bowl because they are hungry. It is very funny when they eat like this!

And Correa had some lovely time hanging out with their chicks:

EARLY STAGE 1— CHICK US OUT AGAIN!

Ms Stein has been very busy with Kindergarten

making clay chicks.

On the 25/08/2020 Erko secured another debating win, this time

over Crown Street Public School. Crown Street fought nobly (pun

definitely intended) but in the end Erko was the winner. The

topic was ‘Kids should save their money until they are eighteen.'

The Tough Talkers were negative.

Congratulations to Lulu, Eedi, Max, Angus and Niamh for their

high quality debate. The Erko Tough Talkers have now won two

debates in a row, their next challenge is to get another win,

meaning they will have three wins in a row.

By Angus Edwards and Max Lindsay

Book Week 2020

Due to Covid-19 restrictions things are going to be a little different this

year. Unfortunately no parade but students are invited to dress up on

Friday 23rd October in this years’ theme: Curious Creatures Wild Minds

(or their favourite book character). There will not be a book drive

however, we ask that students bring a gold coin donation on the dress-

up day to contribute to the purchase of library books from Better Dead

Than Dead Newtown.

Dress UP DAY

Friday 23rd October

Congratulation Luka M from Wollemi in his

Achievement in CODE4FUN Coding Challenge

2020. His project got selected among 200 entries

to visit the Quantum computer lab at UNSW on

September 3, 2020. However, due to COVID

restrictions this visit has been postponed.

STAGE 2 INCURSION— STARR PLANETARIUM

SASS RECOGNITION WEEK

A Big ’THANK YOU’ to Mr Haynes, Erko Staff and students for acknowledging the SASS team last week.

There were yummy treats, gorgeous flowers, thoughtful messages from students and even staff in the

office answering calls and administering first aid to students.

Messages from the students:

‘Thank you for sending a call home for my lunch.’

‘Thank you for calling parents when we’re sick or haven’t handed in permission slips.’

‘Thank you for always cheering me up when I’m in the office.’

‘Thank you for always helping me when I’m hurt and when I’m late and need a late note. You’re an amazing help!’

Wear It Purple Day On Friday the 28th of August we wore purple to school to show that we support rainbow youth. We spent the day learning about acceptance and tolerance of our diverse community. We talked about how we as a school can support difference and make rainbow youth feel safe, heard and accepted. We wanted to create this safe space in our school so that our peers can feel safe and included at school.. Skyler & Seb (Lemon Myrtle)

A cute little visitor spotted

on the school ground last

Monday.

Gardening is magic!

Around the Playground!

Thank you parents/carers for all payments

made and received by the school this term.

Class of the Week: Melaleuca

Emma D

Bottle Brush Correa

Elvie Eva

Adele Rylan

Hibiscus Banksia

Enkh-Erdene Ashton

Alex G Eva

Grevillea Viola

Leo Ethan

Hugo

Waratah Wattle

Arlo, Henry Knox, Will

Noah, James Emily N

Blue Gum Boronia

No Assembly No Assembly

Hakea Lilly Pilly

No Assembly Lachlan B

Lachlan C

Wollemi Eucalypt

No Assembly Olivia D

Phillip

Lemon Myrtle Casuarina

Freya Matthew

Ettiene Luca

Melaleuca

Angus Jackson

MERIT AWARDS

Bottle Brush Correa

Sam Dash

Toby Koby

Hibiscus Banksia

James Bailey, Dayton

Timmy Evan, Jethro

Grevillea Viola

Clara Eve

Briella Kiki

Waratah Wattle

Keira Reeva

Olivier Jordan

Blue Gum Boronia

Leyla Matthew

Felix, Hugo Hamish

Hakea Lilly Pilly

Will K Elise

Maria Asta

Wollemi Eucalypt

Margad, Luka M Diarra

Gavin Emily

Lemon Myrtle Casuarina

Skyler, Seb Finn

Max Daniel

Melaleuca

Leo Lucy

Class of the Week:

Skyler

Recognition: Alex, Sam H, Samuel AW, Brock, Tristan

ERSKINEVILLE PS PARENTS & CITIZENS (P&C) ASSOCIATION NEWS

NEXT P&C MEETING Tuesday 8 September (Week 8) from 6:45pm

Currently, we are not able to hold any in-person P&C Meetings due to COVID-19 restrictions, so once again, we will be holding our P&C meeting virtually.

Everyone is welcome to attend, so if you'd like to join the meeting, please email erkopandc@gmail.com and we will send you the access code for the Zoom meeting. You can join a Zoom meeting from your computer, phone or tablet.

HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL CARE

The Department of Education has commenced a tender process for the provision of Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) at Erskineville Public School.

As part of this tender process, David Hetherington (P&C President) and Kristy Barker (P&C Vice President) will be participating in the selection panel as community representatives.

We want to know what you think.

So that we can accurately represent the community’s views, please let us know what you’d like to see from an Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) provider.

We will be discussing this topic at our P&C meeting next week – details above on how to attend.

If you’re not able to attend the meeting, please send your thoughts to erkopandc@gmail.com by Friday 25 September (end of Term 3) so we can include your feedback in our assessment.

Keep an eye on eNews and kids’ schoolbags for (we hope!) some exciting news about fun way for kids to celebrate the end of Term 3. Details are being confirmed, so stay tuned!

COMMEMORATIVE TEATOWELS Don’t miss out on your limited-edition EPS teatowel, featuring artwork by all EPS students and staff.

These are pre-order only – you must order at www.erkoteatowels.bigcartel.com before the end of Term 3.

Make sure you add your child’s name and class in the ‘Notes’ section at checkout when you order.

Image is an example based on last year’s design. The 2020 design will vary slightly.