Jamberoo Public School TERM 1 WEEK 3 2019 NEWSLETTER PH: 4236 0173 FAX: 4236 0633

Strive and Succeed Email: jamberoo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.jamberoo-p.school.nsw.edu.au

A SMALL SCHOOL MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE

School Calendar

Friday 15th February - Swimming Carnival

Wednesday 20th February - P&C Meeting

Friday 22nd February - Tongarra District Swimming Carnival - Whole School Assembly 12:45pm

Friday 1st March - Friday Sport starts - SRC Induction Assembly

Monday 11th March - Young Leaders Day

Wednesday 13th March - Regional Swimming Carnival

Friday 15th March - National Day Against Bullying

Thursday 21st March - Rugby League Gala Day

Friday 22nd Mardh - Grandparents Day

Monday 8th April - School Photos

Friday 12th April - School Cross Country

Assembly There will be no assembly this week due to the school’s swimming carnival being conducted tomorrow. The first whole school assembly for the year will be next Friday 22nd February (Week 4) kicking off at 12:45pm.

Strive and Succeed Email: jamberoo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Greater Bank Illawarra The school's P&C applied to the Greater Bank last year for $2,000 to support the purchase of much needed new SMART boards in all classrooms. To win the money the school needs your votes!!! Use the link below to access the Greater Bank website. Vote as many times as you possibly can to ensure the money benefits our wonderful Jamberoo students. https://www.greater.com.au/community/community-partnerships/greater-illawarra#section-3

School Activities Throughout the course of each year the school offers a variety of curricular and extra-curricular initiatives to enhance the learning outcomes of students across a very broad and diverse curriculum. Recently, the staff mapped out yearly activities for students across all stages to ensure extra-curricular opportunities were being provided for our students and that learning time in class was also being optimised. We will still be providing Jamberoo students a wealth of opportunities each year, the decision was made however to have some bi-annual activities in certain areas of the curriculum. An outline of school activities is listed below:

Creative and Practical Arts (2019) Creative and Practical Arts (2020) - School Production - Southern Stars (Dance) - Music Night - Southern Illawarra Music Festival - Christmas Concert - Dance Festival - African Drumming - Christmas Concert - Young Archies - Music Night - Carols - Carols

English (2019) English (2020) - Jamberoo Jabber - Jamberoo Jabber - Debating - Debating - Premier’s Reading Challenge - Premier’s Reading Challenge - Premier’s Spelling Bee - Writers’ Festival - Book Week - Book Week - Multicultural Public Speaking - Multicultural Public Speaking

PDHPE & Sport (2019) PDHPE & Sport (2020) - PSSA Individual Trials - PSSA Individual Trials - Peer support/buddies - Peer support/buddies - Bike Days - Bike Days - Premier’s Sporting Challenge - Premier’s Sporting Challenge - Swim Scheme - Swim Scheme - Dance2Bfit - School Gymnastics - Rugby league and league tag - Rugby league and league tag - PSSA Cricket - Milo cricket gala day - PSSA Soccer - PSSA Soccer - Life Education - Life Education - Touch Gala Day - AFL Gala Day

Science, Technology, HSIE & Maths (2019) Science, Technology & Maths (2020) - Tournament of Minds - MCYA – Maths enrichment challenge - ICAS - ICAS - Education Week (science focus) - Education Week (science focus) - Grandparents Day (maths focus) - Grandparents Day (maths focus) - ANZAC Day - ANZAC Day - Sorry Day - Sorry Day - Indigenous Immersion Days - Indigenous Immersion Days - NAIDOC Week - NAIDOC Week

Strive and Succeed Email: jamberoo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Grandparents Day The date for this year’s Grandparents Day has been set. It will be conducted on Friday 22nd March. We are all looking forward to celebrating Grandparents Day with the Jamberoo community! There are lots of fun and exciting activities organised including an assembly, BBQ, morning tea and open classrooms. Please remember that the expectation is that all students remain at school until 3pm. The only students who are to leave early are those that are sick or have an appointment organised. We look forward to seeing lots of grandparents and community members in the school on Friday 22nd March.

Dragons Visit Last Thursday 7th February, students in Years 3-6 participated in a variety of activities conducted by members of the St George Illawarra Dragons organisation. Key topics covered in the first presentation included:  · - Sharing your information online · - Cyber Bullying· - Developing Resilience  Covering formats such as gaming, YouTube, and social interaction thepresentation will leave students with a betterknowledge and range oftactics to ensure their safety. The presentation is designed in line with the Australian curriculum to promote health, safety and wellbeing aspart of the Health and Physical Education learning area. In addition to the presentation, the Dragons conducted an outside clinic for the students to meet the players, promote local junior rugby league clubs and hand out promotional giveaways. A fantastic time was had by all students involved!

Dance2Bfit The Dance2Bfit program successfully commenced last Thursday. We encourage all students to participate as the dance program is part of our school curriculum in creative and performing arts.

Wollongong Performing Arts High School – Year 6 students entering Year 7 in 2020 The audition application for entry into Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts is now available online only, on the WHSPA website. Auditions will be held from Monday 25th March to Friday 12th April, the last 3 weeks of Term 1.

Learning Labs Learning Labs is an academic and creative arts enrichment holiday program. The University of Wollongong is targeting students from Year 1 to 6 during 2019, who are passionate, self-motivated and curious learners For further information about workshops and the application process please refer to the article attached in today’s newsletter, visit the website, or contact the Learning Labs team via email at learning-labs@uow.edu.au or phone on (02) 4221 5557. Applications close on Monday 25th February.

Chris Speirs Principal Jamberoo PS

Bike Days – Mark your calendar! Our first bike day of the year will be happening in Week 6, on Monday, 4th March. Our second day will be Monday of Week 8, 18th March. For families who are new to the school, bike day is an opportunity for staff to encourage active lifestyles for our students and a chance to teach the safety rules associated with riding bikes. It is also a lot of fun! Students will ride on the painted bike track on our playground area during the second half of lunchtime. This year, the staff have decided that Bike Day will be for students in K-2 only, as older students have many other sport and extra-curricular opportunities. If your child would like to participate in bike day, they may bring to school their bike and a properly fitting helmet. Alternatively, they may bring a scooter and a helmet. These will be parked up in the bike racks near the sandpit. Please note that this is not an instructional time, so your child needs to be able to ride the bike or scooter that they bring. Students will not be able to participate if they do not have a helmet. Thank you to the older students who always assist with holding safety signs and directing traffic.

Strive and Succeed Email: jamberoo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Gardening Club and Chook News A BIG thank you goes out to a number of parent/community helpers who assist with our very productive veggie garden. First, to the inimitable Grandma Nell, (Janelle Newberry) who, along with Grandpa Paul, and her helpers, Zia, Eliza and Gem, has been an incredible resource for us and our school veggie garden. Students love to come and work with these lovely ladies. Grandpa Paul sources fantastic mushroom compost which greatly enriches our garden beds, and he and Grandma Nell sourced a huge load of mulch to put down around the beds to suppress weeds last year. They worked tirelessly to collect cardboard and to lay the cardboard down and spread the mulch over the top. Thank you so much! Secondly, thank you to Greg Gray, (Gracie and Ethan’s dad) who continues to look after our citrus trees and passionfruit vines. He makes sure they are watered and fertilised. Let’s hope we have another bumper crop of citrus this winter, like we did last year! Thirdly, a big thank you to Mrs Rachelle Mounsey, (Eden’s mum) who, late last year, worked with groups of students to refurbish our bird-scarecrow in the veggie garden with denim and ribbon. He is looking magnificent after his renovation. If you haven’t seen him yet, come and check him out! I’d also like to thank the Kirk family again for their donation of the two large umbrellas for the garden last year. We are really loving having those umbrellas up while we are working in the heat in the garden! Gardening Club is held on Thursdays during second half of lunch, (11:25-11:50) except if it’s raining. Parent helpers are always welcome! Please sign in at the office. In chook roster news, I’d like to thank all the families who took care of our school chickens during the heat of summer. They were in good hands because of all of you! Students involved in the summer holiday chook roster will receive a merit certificate at our first whole school assembly. Those who help with chook roster on the weekends during school term time and during the holidays after each term will receive merits at the end of Semester One and Semester Two. If you are interested in helping with the chooks, please call the office to sign up for a weekend, which will appear in the school newsletter. Mrs Dowling or I can walk you through what needs to be done each day. I’d also like to thank the Stage 2 and 3 students who take daily care of the chooks. These students are extremely dedicated and really develop their sense of responsibility by undertaking this task. Thank you also to Mrs Dowling, who supervises these students and ensures that our chooks are well cared for every day.

Crunch and Sip The aim of Crunch & Sip is to increase the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables that children eat every day. Crunch and Sip happens some time during the first block of the day (9-11 am). In the younger classes, students tend to take a short break to eat, while in older classes students often eat their fruit and veggies and sip their water as they work.

Your child is invited to bring his/her water bottle in to class to sip on it, as well as fresh fruit and veggies (no dips, please). Some ideas for fresh fruit and veggies include: whole apple raspberries whole orange cherries apple slices rockmelon pieces pear slices watermelon pieces apple slinkies capsicum slices orange pieces celery slices blueberries carrot pieces These can be whole, or cut up in a container. Students will eat these during the morning session only, and take what is left over out to their bag. Students are also allowed to have dried fruits such as sultanas, but these should be used occasionally (usually when parents have run out of everything else)!

Let’s get crunching and sipping!

Mrs McCormack

Strive and Succeed Email: jamberoo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.jamberoo-p.school.nsw.edu.au

Library News A massive thanks to all the parents who have already popped into the library to help with organising our shelves. Please feel free to visit at any time Monday - Wednesday if you are able to offer some time. We really appreciate your help. Students have enjoyed learning our new procedures for browsing and borrowing this week including locating and checking out books independently. We have talked about how to choose a 'good fit book' and how to care for the books. At this point many children have overdue books at home from last year. It would be great if they could come back in as they turn up at home. The library is now the home of our school laptops and a place where students will learn technology skills in line with digital inquiry tasks for history. We have been learning procedures for using, caring for and storing our devices and I am looking forward to lots of exciting and engaging digital learning coming up this term.

Mrs Larsen

POP Payments

Using POP is a great way to make payments to the school. When making a payment it must be made before 4.00pm the day before the activity cut-off date so the office receives the payment the following day. If the payment is made after 4.00pm the office will not receive the payment until the day after the final payment date then your child will not attend their activities. Notes are sent out and we have closing dates on them for a reason, so please pay by these dates so staff aren’t continually chasing students for payments

Jamberoo  Public  School  AGM  P  &  C  Mee5ng  

Wednesday  20  February  2019  –  7pm  Agenda  

• Opening  • Minutes  –Confirm  previous  AGM       minutes  from  2018  • Reports  o Financial  statement  for  2018  • General  Business  o Elect  President,  Vice  Presidents,       Treasurer  and  Secretary  for  2019  o Pass  a  moIon  to  accept  by  laws  of  the     FederaIon  of  Parents  &  CiIzens       AssociaIon  of  NSW.  • Closing  

Jamberoo  Public  School  P  &  C  Mee5ng  Wednesday  20  February  2019  –  7.30pm  

Agenda • Opening  • Minutes  –Confirm  previous  minutes  • Business  arising  from  previous  minutes  

o AV  Equipment  for  Library  update  –  Jackie  Hall  

o Outdoor  Learning  Area  update  –  Jackie  Hall  

o 2019  Wish  List  –  Hana  Papesch  • Correspondence  

o Nil  • Reports  

o Treasurer  report    o Principals  report  

• General  Business  o Fundraisers  for  2019  o P  &  C  Wish  List  for  2019  to  2021  o P  &  C  online  shop  website  –  Janine  

Wilkins  o Grants  –  Naomi  Poole  o Red  Cross  running  a  stall  on  voIng  

day  at  school  23  March  2019  -­‐Jackie  Hall  

• Closing  

Email: jamberoo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

The Power of Mindset

At Jamberoo School this term, all students have been learning about the importance of ‘mindset,’ or a set of beliefs every person carries about with them. This research has been done by Carol Dweck of Stanford University.

“One of the most basic beliefs we carry about ourselves, Carol Dweck found in her research, has to do with how we view and inhabit what we consider to be our personality. A ‘fixed mindset’ assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens which we can’t change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence, an assessment of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled.

A ‘growth mindset,’ on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of unintelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities. Out of these two mindsets, which we manifest from a very early age, springs a great deal of our behaviour, our relationship with success and failure in both professional and personal contexts, and ultimately our capacity for happiness.”From www.brainpickings.org

Ask your child today what they know about mindset. How are they trying to make sure they have a growth mindset when approaching learning?

Strive and Succeed Email: jamberoo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.jamberoo-p.school.nsw.edu.au

ILLAWARRA SPORTS HIGHSUPPORTING TALENTED ATHLETES THROUGH EDUCATION

The Open Night will provideparents and students with information regarding local

enrolments and the Talented Sports and Development Program.

Information for students in years 5 to 10.

Register your interest online www.illawaspor-h.schools.nsw.gov.au

2019 Information & Open NightMonday 25th February 20196.00pm til 7.45pmIllawarra Sports High School HallGuru Street, Berkeley

Chook Roster

Saturday 16th February - Egan Family Sunday 17th February - Egan Family

Saturday 23rd February - Tweed Family Sunday 24th February - Tweed Family

Saturday 2nd March - Mounsey Family Sunday 3rd March - Mounsey Family

Saturday 9th March - Reys Family Sunday 10th March - Reys Family

Saturday 16th March - Adams Family Sunday 17th March - Adams Family

Saturday 23rd March - Egan Family Sunday 24th March - Egan Family

Saturday 30th March - Sunday 31st March -

Saturday 6th April - Sunday 7th April -

Saturday 13th April - Sunday 14th April -

Strive and Succeed Email: jamberoo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.jamberoo-p.school.nsw.edu.au

ACTIVE KIDS and CREATIVE KIDS VOUCHERS

Whether your child is into sport and organised physical activity or more into creative and cultural learning activities, there is a voucher available to assist you with paying for the necessary training and classes. Parents can now access both Active Kids and Creative Kids vouchers which provide parents with up to $200 for every school-aged child to help cover the cost of enrolment for either sporting activities or creative and cultural learning activities. Parents can use one voucher for every school-age child per year to help meet the cost of registration and / or enrolment. With the commencement of the school year I encourage parents to get in early by accessing the Service NSW website to register for both the Active Kids and Creative Kids vouchers. Cost of living is a major issue for families and because of our State’s strong budget position, we are proud to be providing this assistance for children and families to participate in these valuable sporting and creative programs. If you have any questions, give me a buzz!

Gareth Ward MP Member for Kiama

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