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CALENDAR TERM 1 PRINCIPAL’S NEWS Welcome to Week 6! Thank you to the parents who were able to attend the small focus group meeting regarding the Pagewood PS 2021-2024 Strategic Improvement Plan last week. As a result of staff workshops and student feedback, parent and carer surveys and the focus group we have been able to finalise our School Context and School Vision Statement. The school staff look forward to working with you in the future directions of the school. I will be speaking about these at the P&C meeting tonight.

The P&C meeting is onsite tonight, we are looking forward to welcoming you to the library for the meeting at 7:00pm. You will need to sign in using the QR code at the gate, observe 1.5m distance, bring your own pen and if you are not feeling well please do not attend. The gates near the office and Page St will be open at the beginning and end of the meeting. It will be wonderful to meet here at school again. Please note we are limited to 30 people so please register by email to pagewoodpublicschool@pandcaffiliate.org.au It will be great to see some of our families here at school this Sunday 7 March for Clean Up Australia Day with the P&C, remember to RSVP as we are limited to 50 people and bring your own gloves! Enter via Page St. I will be reading to all of the classes this week. Our students really enjoy a good story! Ms Nicole Mayhew Principal

PAGEWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

TERM 1 WEEK 6

Monday 1 March 2021

MARCH

WEEK 6

Mon 1 Statement of Account due

P&C Meeting 7pm – face to face at school in the library

Tues 2 Uniform Shop Open – please sign in

Wed 3 K-2 Assembly

3,4,5 South Sydney High School Information Sessions for Year 7 2022 (see page 7 for times)

Sun 7 Clean Up Australia Day Parent/carers must register (p11)

WEEK 7

Tues 9 Replacement of Electrical Poles on Page Street, please be careful using Page St Entrance today

Wed 10 Y3-6 Assembly

Thur 11 Selective High School test 9.00am – 1.30pm

WEEK 8

Mon 15 Drumming incursion for all students (P&C funded)

Tues 16 SEPSSA Swimming Carnival

Fri 19 Year 6 to return ‘Expressions of Interest (EOI)’ Form for Year 7 transition – completed by parent/carer

WEEK 9

Mon 22 SRC RSPCA FUNDRAISER & DRESSUP MULTI DAY - gold coin donation

RAINBOW AWARDS

Hunter 1M Jack 2C

SILVER AWARD

Hugo 1M Theo 2C

GOLD AWARD

Elsie 2C Christina 2C Harper 1M

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MERIT AWARDS

K-2

K Yellow Aiden Atarah Aya Maddie

K Red Tia Harley Kai Talia

1M Elle Sean Emelia Joshua

1I Emily Alex Bella Spencer

1/2B Isla Fionn Jamie Pippa

2C Sunny Kayla Alborz Ayaan

2H Joey Zach Natalie Zoey

CURRENT SCHOOLS’ GUIDELINES FOR VISITORS AND THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Parents and visitors are required to sign in and sign out of a Visitors Log Book at the office as well as scanning the QR

Code. Your co-operation is greatly appreciated.

ZONE SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Congratulations to all of our students who represented Pagewood Public at the Zone swimming carnival. Please see

the results on page 4. Students who placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd will receive ribbons at next week's Year 3-6 assembly.

ROAD RESURFACING IN HOLLOWAY STREET

Bayside Council has advised that there will be road surfacing carried out in Holloway Street, adjacent to Baker Street,

from this Wednesday 3 March ongoing, weather permitting, from 7.00pm – 5.00am. Therefore parents and carers

will need to be mindful of council’s parking advice, please see page 6 for all the details.

REPLACEMENT OF ELECTRICAL POLES

Ausgrid is planning to replace two end of life poles on Page Street on Tuesday 9 March from 7am to 5pm, pending

network access and weather conditions. Please be mindful when using the Page Street school entrance on this date

and if your children walk to school please talk with them about this. Full details are on page 8.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT

Your child’s Statement of Account is due today. To pay your child’s ‘Statement of Account’, it is helpful to the school

if Parents and Carers use the Parent Online Payment (POP) system. This is our preferred method of payment and

reduces the amount of cash being handled at school by students and staff. To pay by POP, please go to the Pagewood

Public School website at http://www.pagewood-p.schools.nsw.edu.au and select ‘Make a payment’ at the top of the

page. Parents and Carers are welcome to pay for two or more children in one payment. Please note that this facility

is to pay for expenses on your Statement of Account only, it cannot be used to pay for the Canteen or P&C costs such

as Uniforms or fundraising. Payment instructions are on page 5. When paying by POP you must enter:

• Student’s first name

• Student’s surname

• class

• Please tick what you are paying for (eg. voluntary contribution, sport, excursion, other, etc)

• $ Amount

• You DO NOT need the Student Registration Number

This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured in a

secure manner. These details are not passed back to the school. If you wish to pay by cash, please send cash payments

to your child’s teacher on Monday only.

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UNIFORM SHOP – TUESDAYS FORTNIGHTLY

It would help our lovely parent volunteers if parents can arrive for face to face sales with their Order Form prepared

to save time. However you can still place an order online direct to ppsuniform@hotmail.com . Order forms must be

used for all purchases and emailed directly to ppsuniform@hotmail.com .

SRC RSPCA FUNDRAISER AND DRESSUP

The SRC will be holding a mufti day with an animal theme to raise money for the RSPCA on Monday 22 March. Students can come to school dressed up as an animal of their choice by using their creativity and designing their own animal costume, wearing an animal accessory or an animal onesie. Closed toe shoes must be worn. Please remember to send in a gold coin donation if your child/children are dressing up for the day. Please don’t go to any expense with costumes, students are to just wear something from home, a mask, headband, onesie or anything creative. For more information on the terrific work the RSPCA do for animals, please visit https://www.rspca.org.au/what-we-do Mrs Berman

SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOL PLACEMENT TEST The Selective High School Placement Test will be held on Thursday 11 March 2021 from 9.00am to 1.30pm. Unless parents have made special arrangements with the High Performing Students Team to attend an individually allocated test centre, candidates from this school have been sent to: South Sydney High School Paine St MAROUBRA NSW 2035 Go to https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-7 to find:

• Test centre allocations by public school. • A map of test centre addresses under the heading 'The test'. • The bulletin, Test information for parents and students. The bulletin contains very important information

about the test and should be read carefully.

A print copy has also been sent home with each student who is sitting the test.

NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS AUDITIONS

For Year 7 2022 - Dance, Drama and Music Audition Procedures

Newtown High School of the Performing Arts provides specialist education at the highest level to students with outstanding potential and/or achievement in Dance, Drama or Music.

Students currently in Year 6 or Year 10 2021 enrolled in public or non-government schools who are seeking entrance into Year 7 at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, must register for an audition in Dance, Drama or Music.

To be eligible to apply, applicants must be Australian Citizens or holders of a visa granting permanent resident status in Australia on the day of their audition.

For more information and to register for an audition, please complete the online application form located on our website:

http://web1.newtown-h.schools.nsw.edu.au/public_www/

Closing date for registration is 30 April 2021.

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ESPSSA ZONE SWIMMING RESULTS

Name Event Place

Alexander Boys 11yr 50m Freestyle Senior Boys Relay

3rd

4th

Quinn Senior Boys Relay 4th

Maddie Girls 11yr Breaststroke 1st

Kayla Girls 8yr 50m Freestyle 1st

Mason Boys junior IM Boys Junior Breaststroke Boys Junior Backstroke Junior Boys Relay

1st 2nd 2nd 4th

Leonardo Junior Boys Relay 4th

Erin Junior Girls Relay 2nd

Pearly Girls 9yr 50m Freestyle Junior Girls Relay

3rd 2nd

Eden Girls 9yr 50m Freestyle Girls Junior Breaststroke Girls Junior Backstroke Junior Girls Relay

1st

3rd

3rd

2nd

Estelle Girls 11yr 50m Freestyle Girls 11yr Breaststroke

3rd 3rd

Juliette Girls 9yr 50m Freestyle Junior Girls Relay

4th

2nd

Harry Senior Boys Relay 4th

Samuel Boys 8yr 50m Freestyle 2nd

Emily Girls 11yr Butterfly 2nd

Iggy Junior Boys Relay 4th

Cleaver Boys 8yr 50m Freestyle Junior Boys Relay

1st

4th

Vaughn Senior Boys Relay 4th

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday/ Sunday

Week 6 1 MAR 7:00pm P&C meeting

2 MAR Uniform Shop open

3 MAR K-2 assembly

4 MAR 5 MAR PSSA

6/7 MAR 7 March P&C organised Clean Up Australia Day at school

Week 7 8 MAR 9 MAR Replacement of Electrical Poles on Page Street

10 MAR Y3-6 assembly

11 MAR Selective High School test

12 MAR PSSA

13/14 MAR

Week 8

15 MAR Drumming Incursion (whole school)

16 MAR SEPSSA Swimming Uniform Shop open

17 MAR K-2 assembly

18 MAR 19 MAR Y6 High school EOI due PSSA

20/21 MAR Harmony Day

Week 9

22 MAR SRC RSPCA FUNDRAISER & MUFTI DAY Gold coin donation

23 MAR 24 MAR ESPSSA meeting Y3-6 assembly

25 MAR

26 MAR PSSA

27/28 MAR

Week 10 29 MAR School Cross country - TBC

30 MAR Fun Day Uniform Shop open

31 MAR Easter Hat Parade – TBC (no assembly)

1 APR Last day of Term 1

2 APR

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PPS P&C (Parents and Citizens) News

Dear school community,

The P&C Annual General Meeting (AGM) and March meeting will be held in the school library 7pm

TONIGHT March 1st 2021.

Due to a limit of 30 people allowed to assemble at school, if you haven’t already done so, please register

by email to pagewoodpublicschool@pandcaffiliate.org.au. If you attend without registering, you are

welcome to stay, as long as the 30 person limit has not been reached by those who registered.

Importantly:

• Bring your own pen

• Do not attend if unwell or have any respiratory symptoms

• Both Page St & Office gates will be open to enter and exit

We hope to see you there! Your P&C

2021 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Agenda

Apologies

President’s Annual Report

Treasurer’s Report including Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report

Appointment of Auditor

Election of volunteers to committee positions:

• President

• Vice President (2 positions)

• Secretary

• Treasurer

MARCH MEETING Agenda

Apologies

Approve Minutes – February 2021

Principal’s Report

President’s Report

Treasurer’s Report

Secretary’s Report

Business Arising/Carried forward

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Welcome event

Mother’s Day stall

New Business

Delay first P&C Meeting of 2022

Fundraising: please bring ideas

Easter eggs

Business without notice

Next meeting: Monday 3rd May 2021 7pm in school library

Clean up Australia Day Initiative – Sunday 7 March

Good afternoon all

I hope you all are well. As you all know, being able to get together as a school community over the past year has been extremely challenging with COVID and the associated restrictions making it near impossible. For some new to the school, even being on school grounds with their children has been extremely restricted and as we progress through this year and the ever-changing landscape, we will be looking for opportunities that we can get people together. One event that we have decided to go ahead with as a Pagewood Public School P&C is a Clean Up Australia Day Community Event to be held at the school on Sunday 7th of March 2021. This will not be a fundraising day, simply a community event where we can get together and contribute to the school and its environment with a collective clean up event of the school grounds. Due to COVID guidelines, we are limited to 50 people within the school grounds at a time, so will be commencing with an initial volunteer time slot of 1 hour from 9:00am to 10:00am, and if we receive more than 50 volunteers, we will then look to schedule an additional 1-hour time slot. We welcome the assistance from all within the school community, parents, carers, students, and siblings of students. Sorry, no animals permitted on site. We ask you to bring your own gloves on the day. All volunteers need to be registered so RSVP’s are to be sent to michaeldemetrios@yahoo.com as soon as possible, with the last day to RSVP being on Monday 1st of March, 2021. Thank you in advance to all of you who can volunteer. A great opportunity to contribute and make an impact on the appearance of our school, and an even better opportunity to meet some new people within our school community. Kind regards, Michael Demetrios