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Newsletter Date Tuesday, March 24

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Adams Street Narrandera NSW 2700 Tel: (02) 6959 2144 Fax: (02) 6959 3274 Email: narrandera-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.narrandera-p.schools.nsw.gov.au “We learn and meet on Wiradjuri Country”

Narrandera Public School Informer

Principal – Mr Derek Noffke

Term 1, Week 9 Tuesday, 24th March, 2020

Week 9 Tuesday 24th - Friday 27th March Parent Teacher Phone Interviews

Week 10 Monday 30th March - Friday 3rd April Parent Teacher Phone Interviews Week 11 Thursday, 9th April Last day Term 1

TERM 2

Week 1

Tuesday, 28th April

Students first day Term 2

Home Learning packs are available at the Front Office for all children remaining at home.

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From the Principal . . . . . . . . . . . There have been a number of directives handed down to schools over the last few days. The main

areas that impact our school are shown below. Please remember to call the school if you have any

questions or concerns.

NAPLAN

All Education Ministers met last week and decided that NAPLAN will not proceed in 2020. The

NAPLAN test window was scheduled to be held from 12 to 22 May.

The decision to not proceed with NAPLAN in 2020 has been taken to assist school leaders,

teachers and support staff to focus on the wellbeing of students and continuity of education,

including online and remote learning that will take place during this time.

Schools Operation

The health advice on schools remains unchanged. Our Chief Medical Officers indicate that our

schools should remain open for education provision at this time.

The Government and Department are encouraging you to keep your child at home from Tuesday 24 March to contribute to supporting the community response to COVID-19. The school’s doors

will remain open for those students whose parents are in the essential services or who are

vulnerable. As updated expert information comes to the Department, who are in constant liaison

with NSW Health we will keep you informed of any impact on school operations.

Supporting continuity of learning for all students

Our staff have been working hard to develop a suite of learning resources and options for students

to undertake from home. The Department has developed and will continue to develop resources

and offer professional learning to help teachers with this task.

Whether your child is at school or at home, the aim is for all students to access the consistent

learning content provided by our school. This may mean sending work home, either with physical

materials or by email, or by making use of one of our online platforms at our school.

You will be contacted by your classroom teacher as work becomes available over the coming

weeks. Students will also be given usernames and passwords for Literacy and Numeracy online

programs. The cost of these will be covered by the school.

Teachers will also be basing their programs on Google Docs, however this work will also be

available from the school for those who do not have internet access. Feedback and marking of

work will be part of our structures and supports to student learning.

I encourage you to access the Learning from Home resource which provides practical advice to

parents and carers on how to best create and support a productive learning environment in the

home.

Breakfast Club

Also as part of a Department directive, our Breakfast Club will cease operation at the end of this

week. Once things settle back down again, we will recommence this service for our students.

Finally, I would like to wish all our parents, students and our community the best of health as we

enter these uncertain times. Please support each other and remember the school will continue to

support families who require it.

Have a great week.

Derek Noffke

Principal

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3/4S has had a great start to 2020. In

English, when looking at an author’s

purpose, we have been focussing on

persuasive texts. In particular, we have

looked at the book “Hey, Little Ant” and

written some wonderful arguments about

whether to save or squish the ant.

Artworks have been produced to support

our stance. Each week all students give a

Topic Talk in in front of the class. This is to

help us grow in confidence in Public

Speaking as well as support understanding

of persuasive arguments. We follow the

OREO method to arrange our thoughts

into amazing speeches.

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In Maths we have been learning different ways to

solve number problems as well as how to find the

important information in word problems. We have

also been learning some times tables, angles,

patterns and fractions. When learning angles and

lines we produced artworks based on Piet

Mondrian. We learnt that he was a Dutch painter

famous for his abstract art using simple geometric

elements.

To celebrate the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s 88th

Birthday this week we engineered bridges using

only one piece of paper. We discovered that

triangles are a strong shape and some of our

bridges could hold more than 6 Matchbox Cars!

Puff is an important member of our class. Puff is a blue

dragon who is a great listener and a fantastic friend to

3/4S students when they need support. He is always

available and loves a cuddle. Each weekend he gets to go

home with one student, where they share some time

together.

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WINTER JACKETS The NPS P&C Uniform Shop are taking orders for jackets

again until the last day of this term. $45 all sizes, money

and sizes are needed at the time of ordering, orders will

be delivered early next term. Please place your order at

the Front Office. Some sizes are available to try on.

Canteen News OPEN Until FRIDAY

Limited Menu

Principal: Derek Noffke Assistant Principal: Julie Neville Assistant Principal: Karla Jamieson Assistant Principal: Helen Files Assistant Principal: Julie-Anne Rowe/Kerryn Cassidy Phone: 02 6959 2144 Fax: 02 6959 3274 Email Address: narrandera-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au School Website: www.narrandera-p.schools.nsw.gov.au Dental Clinic: 1800 450 046 Narrandera Schools as Community Centre: 6959 3894

COMMUNITY EVENTS:

LEETON SCHOOL DENTAL CLINIC The School Dental Clinic is available for all children aged from 0 – 18 years of age. We encourage all parents to make an appointment for your child to have a

full dental check. Treatment at our clinic is FREE to all children who have a Medicare card. To make an appointment please telephone our call centre on

1800 450 046 We hope to see you soon!!!

Our School has students who are highly allergic to

NUTS and NUT PRODUCTS

We seek your co-operation in trying to keep our

school NUT FREE

This newsletter is

produced with the

support of the

following local

businesses:

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125 East Street, Narrandera

02 6959 2091 For all your family health care needs

$50 deposit is due to secure your child’s place. Please pay at the Front Office or on online with payment reference Ballarat

Notice from CommBank School Banking

The health, safety and wellbeing of our communities and our people is our first priority. Due to the rapidly developing situation with coronavirus, School Banking has been temporarily paused from 20 March 2020 until the start of Term 2. Please don’t bring your deposit book with your weekly banking into school and we will notify you when banking will recommence.

KIDS CAMP OUT 2020 UPDATE The decision has been made to cancel Kids Camp Out for now. Anyone who brought in notes and money for

camp will be refunded. Please contact Christine on 0437 129 457 Camp may be rescheduled for later in the year, otherwise

we will aim for next year in 2021. We pray that you and your family stay well and safe over

the Easter break. Kind regards, Christine Sharp