Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

TERM 1 WEEK 1 Friday, 31 January 2020

Monday 3 February Tears and Tissues – Kinderarten parents from 9am

House Captains elected

Tuesday 4 February Chess commences (see information at end of newsletter)

Friday 7 February Uniform Shop open

Tuesday 11 February Band Commences

Friday 14 February Uniform Shop open

Monday 17 February Meet the Teacher commences

Wednesday 19 February P&C Meeting – 7:30pm in the Staff Room

Friday 21 February Uniform Shop open

Wednesday 26 February Ethics and Scripture Classes commence

Friday 28 February Uniform Shop open

Welcome back to Burnside, the staff and I are extremely excited to begin another fantastic year

of learning with your children. A special welcome to our new families, in particular our new

kindergarten students who begin their Burnside journey on Monday. I look forward to seeing the

kindergarten parents for an early morning tea at ‘Tears and Tissues’ in the school hall once they

have waved goodbye to their children.

Newsletters

The weekly newsletter is our most important form of

communication in the school and it will be emailed

home to all families. It will be sent home via email through

the SchoolEnews app. If you haven’t already done so

please download the Burnside SchoolEnews app on your

phone, then visit our website

www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au and complete Email

Subscribe. Tick on Newsletters and News plus any

others that are appropriate to your family, then enter your

name and email address.

For families that have already subscribed please visit the

school website to subscribe/update the appropriate lists for

your family.

The newsletter will also be available on our school website.

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

Meet the Teacher

Parent/Teacher information mornings will be held during W e ek 4 & 5 of this Term. Meetings will

commence at 8.30am and conclude by 9.00am in your child’s classroom. The purpose is to outline

what teachers have planned for their class this year and detail particular requirements they may be

expecting, work to be covered in various learning areas, homework etc. The students will be supervised

in the playground from 8.30am. Your attendance at these sessions is encouraged.

Week 4 Monday 17 February 5/6 & Year 6

Tuesday 18 February 4/5

Wednesday 19 February Year 3 & Year 4

Thursday 20 February Year 1 & 1/2

Friday 21 February Year 2

Week 5 Monday 24 February KB & KW

Communication with Teachers

We all live in a busy changing world. At times we are busy but need to be in contact with school staff. If

you are wanting to contact a staff member we recommend the following communication methods.

Low level issues or concerns e.g. not coming in for reading groups, student away, message re

homework etc Call the office or email the message to burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au – attention to

the staff member.

Moderate Issues – requiring attention within the next few days. Call the office for an appointment or

email the concern attention to the staff member burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au . Please be aware

that during school hours staff are not always on emails as they are engaged with teaching and learning

activities. Staff will attend to emails after hours and will respond within a 24-48hour period. Parents are

welcome to come into the office if they require a teacher of a morning. If available the teacher will come

to speak to the parent. For longer matters an appointment time will be set.

High Level of Concern – requiring urgent attention. Please call or come into the office before school.

Office staff will find the staff member or an executive to assist you.

All staff are involved in meetings on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday afternoons. Staff also engaged

in professional development courses after school throughout the year.

Please remember to update your contact numbers with the office if these change so we can readily

access parents and emergency contacts.

Crunch and Sip Program

During class time students can refuel on fruit and vegetables and rehydrate on water. This assists

students with physical and mental performance, and concentration in the classroom.

Crunch & Sip encourages fruit and vegetable snacking and drinking water. Healthy eating behaviours

are modelled in the classroom and reinforce the nutrition messages in the PD/H/PE curriculum. By

making fruit and vegetable eating and water drinking normal in the classroom, healthy habits can be

formed and continued into adolescence and adulthood.

The Crunch & Sip gives students the opportunity to eat the piece of fruit that might otherwise be left in

their lunchbox. Students are also more likely to eat their fruit or vegetables and drink their water if their

friends and peers are all doing it too!

Children are asked to bring a piece of fruit or vegetables and small bottle of water. Younger children will

need to have the fruit cut into small pieces. Any food bought for this purpose needs to be easily

consumed within a few minutes. Crunch & Sip occurs at the teacher’s discretion to fit around lessons.

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

Attendance and absences

Parents of children from Kindergarten to Year 12 must ensure their children attend school every day. On

occasion, your child may need to be absent from school. Justified reasons for student absences may

include:

being sick or having an infectious disease

having an unavoidable medical appointment

being required to attend a recognised religious holiday

exceptional or urgent family circumstances e.g. attending a funeral

Parents must provide an explanation for absences to the school within 7 days from the first day of any

period of absence. Where an explanation has not been received within the 7-day timeframe, the school

will record the absence as unjustified on the student’s record. Please place all absent notes in the note

box at the office or contact the office by phone or email.

If you are late dropping your child to school or need to collect them early, you must report to the office to

require a late note or early leavers pass.

For more information please refer to the ‘Compulsory School Attendance – information for parents’ sheet

attached or can be found at the front office.

School Band

All during school instrumental tutorials, and after-school senior band rehearsals are scheduled to

commence in Week 3 on Tuesday, 11 February. Before school junior band rehearsals are scheduled to

commence on Tuesday, 18 February, allowing students to have 1 lesson prior to their first band

rehearsal. Junior Band should receive their instruments in time for their first tutorial.

Library

Students will begin library lessons Week 2. These lessons may not take place in the library due to the

flooding however, all students will still have the opportunity to borrow. Students should ensure that they

have a library bag ready so that they can borrow books each week. If over the holidays you have found

any library books or home readers, please return these books as soon as possible as students with

overdue books may not be allowed to borrow until these books are returned or payment is made for lost

books.

Lunch Orders

Students may order lunch on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays ONLY through Spar Supermarket at

North Parramatta by on-line ordering and lunches will be delivered to school by approximately 1pm.

Orders need to be in by 9:30am the day of deliver.

To set up your login details and order:

1. Google sparlunches and click on the website sparlunches.com.au

2. Go to ‘My Account’

3. Register your child’s name and class. If you have more than one child simply ‘Add child’ again.

4. Click on categories to order your lunch, located on the left hand side.

5. Once your order is complete continue to Checkout, located at the bottom of the shopping cart.

6. Click on continue, read and agree to privacy policy and click on continue once more.

7. Confirm order then proceed to PayPal. Option 1 pay by your PayPal account or Option 2 pay

by credit card.

8. You will receive an email to confirm order. (Please ensure you have your confirmation email)

Spar Supermarket, 51-53 Albert Street, North Parramatta, Phone: 02 9330 8595

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

Ethics and Special Religious Education (Scripture) Classes

Special Religious Education and Ethics Classes will commence 26th February. Please contact the office

if you require any information regarding these classes. Forms are required to be completed if you wish

to change classes.

Birthdays

Student safety is important to us during all formal and informal activities at school. When it

is your child’s birthday we allow the student’s to come to school dressed in mufti if they

wish to – remembering they must have a pair of enclosed shoes on their feet e.g sneakers.

Parent’s may bring a small item to share with the class at lunch time – we recommend ice- blocks as

these cause less allergies to students currently at our school and they are easy to hand out. Please bring

them to school and place in the freezer in the hall clearly marked with the students name and class.

Food can only be shared with their sibling/s and own class. No items that contain NUTS can be shared

at school.

SRC – Student Nominations

Next week students will be asked to nominate themselves for class SRC. Students will be asked to tell

the class why they want to be a SRC representative. Classes vote for 1 boy and 1 girl representative.

Mobile Phones/ Devices/ Smart Watches

Students

Students are not permitted to have mobile phones/ devices or watches that receive messages, take

photos or access the internet on their person nor to use mobile phones/ devices/ Smart Watches during

school hours.

Several issues arise in regard to this matter.

Inappropriate use of mobile device e.g. nuisance calls or texting, bullying filming or photographing then uploading to the internet.

Inappropriate use of device during class time both for calls and use of games or cameras.

Sending or receiving a message

Security of device. As with other electronic games, etc, their security from theft or breakage can be an issue.

At Burnside Public School students may only bring mobile phones/devices/ SMART Watches to school if

there is a need for them to be able to contact their parents either before arriving at school or in the afternoon

after leaving school. Upon arrival at school the phone/ device/ SMART Watch is to be checked in at the

school office where it will be kept securely for the day. It is the child’s responsibility to collect the phone/

device/ SMART Watch at the end of the day.

Parents with an urgent need to be in contact with their child during the day should contact the

school office and appropriate steps will be taken to pass on the message or arrangements will be

made for the child to return the call on the school phone.

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

Student Safety

Please note the following request:

Always use the pedestrian crossing in Masons Drive and Pennant Hills Road

Follow the footsteps painted on the ground when entering or leaving through the main gates (The

driveway should not be used by pedestrians)

Please don’t drive into or park in the staff car park (unless authorised by the Principal)

Park safely on the road and students should enter and exit a car kerbside.

Pedestrian Bridge –students crossing Pennant Hills Rd need to use the overpass.

Students should not be at school prior to 8.30am unless for an authorized excursion/sporting event etc or

at Before School Care. Students are not permitted to play games including handball after school. No

students or visitors are permitted on the play equipment before or after school. The school day finishes

at 3.00pm. Please ensure you are at school to pick up your child. All students on school grounds after

3.10pm will be asked to wait in the school office. Parents will need to sign students out after this time.

Uniform Shop

The Uniform Shop will be open every Friday morning (8:45am – 9:15am). Orders may also be placed

at the office (with payment) and will be completed as soon as possible and sent home with the student.

P&C NEWS

The Annual General Meeting of the P&C will be held on Wednesday, 19 February at 7.30pm in the staff

room. All positions will be declared vacant and nominations called for. Please consider attending and

volunteering for one of these important positions. Our P&C work tirelessly to assist the school in

providing the very best resources for all students throughout the school.

School Council

Our School Council enables formal school community participation in planning and governance of

Burnside Public School and fosters closer links between the school and its community for the benefit of

all its students. Tenure on the School Council is for 2 years – 4 meetings a year.

I would like to thank David Murray who was our School Council President in 2019 and Caroline Idstein

for their valuable input over the past two years.

Parent nominations are invited for election to the vacant positions for a period of two years. If we receive

more than two nominations a formal vote will occur. Please find the attached nomination form. The first

School Council meeting will be held on 18 March at 6.30pm at the school office.

Completed nomination forms are to be returned to Mrs Bennett (Executive Member) by 3:00pm on

Friday, 14 February 2020. (Voting, if required, will be on Friday, 21 February.)

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

Assembly Awards

Fun Times in the Classroom

Gill Bennett

Relieving Principal

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

Director Educational Leadership Message

As you are aware, Mrs Bromwich was asked at the end of 2019 to relieve as Principal at Beresford Road

Public School. At the end of 2019, a merit selection process, involving written applications, interviews

and referee statements, took place to identify her replacement for Term One 2020.

Mrs Gill Bennett was successful in this process and will lead Burnside PS in Mrs Bromwich’s absence.

Mrs Bennett has strong curriculum and management skills and a good understanding of the context at

Burnside PS. I’m sure you will join me in welcoming Mrs Bennett to the position and offer her our support

as she leads Burnside Pubic School.

David Leydon

Director Educational Leadership - Carlingford Network

P & C INFORMATION

Happy New Year Burnside. I hope everyone has had a restful break over the school holidays.

In just over two weeks the Burnside P&C Association will be having its Annual General Meeting. Every

year in February all positions on the P&C are made vacant and a new team is elected. We all work hard

every year to help make Burnside Public the best school we can and this year a number of our long term

P&C members will be unable to continue in their roles on the P&C. We need your help to fill these roles

and continue to support our school as best we can.

If you have ever volunteered before you will know how satisfying the work can be and I find it especially

rewarding when I know that our children will directly benefit from our hard work. In the last five years the

school community has given the school over $100,000 via the P&C. This is a fantastic achievement and

is something that I am very proud to have been a part of.

If you would like any information about any of the roles on the P&C and how you can be involved please

don’t hesitate to get in touch via our email address at burnsidepublicpandc@gmail.com or contact me

directly on the number below.

The roles to be filled at the AGM are: President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Uniform Shop

Coordinator and Uniform Shop helpers, Fundraising Coordinator and Fundraising helpers, Social Media

Coordinator, and Band Coordinator. The out-going members are David Vassallo (Vice President),

Katherine Stewart (Secretary), Ivana Prevetera (Band Coordinator) and Melanie Kunjasich (Fundraising

Coordinator). I offer my heart-felt thanks to all of our members from last year for their efforts on the P&C

and especially to our out-going members who cannot return this year. Thank you all so much for your

generosity over the years. You have made a huge difference to our beloved little school.

I look forward to seeing you all at our AGM on 19th February at 7.30pm in the school staff room.

P&C Meetings

The P&C meeting is held on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm in the staffroom. All welcome

to attend.

The next meeting will be in 2020 - Wednesday, 19 February 2020.

Uniform Shop

Open every Friday morning from 8:45am – 9:15am or you may place an order at the school office.

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’

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Parramatta Light Rail

If you’re heading into the Parramatta CBD this weekend, please be aware of upcoming changes happening as part

of the Parramatta Light Rail project.

Church Street will close to traffic

On Saturday 1 February, Parramatta’s Church Street will permanently close to traffic between Market and

Macquarie Streets, including the ‘Eat Street’ dining strip, to allow for works to begin on the Parramatta Light

Rail. Pedestrian access will be maintained on Church Street.

Traffic diversions will be place with motorists encouraged to use Marsden and Smith Streets. The intersecting

Phillip, George, and Macquarie Streets will remain open to traffic.

In preparation for the road closure, parking will be permanently removed along Church Street from Market to

Macquarie Streets from Friday 31 January.

Signage and traffic control will be in place to assist motorists, cyclists and pedestrians through the area.

Modified 900 shuttle bus route

The 900 shuttle bus service will begin operating along a modified route via George and Marsden Streets in the

Parramatta CBD from Saturday 1 February.

For the latest traffic conditions visit livetraffic.com, and to plan your trip on public transport visit transportnsw.info.

The Parramatta Light Rail will connect Westmead to Carlingford via the Parramatta CBD and Camellia, and is set

to open in 2023.

For more information, visit parramattalightrail.nsw.gov.au.

Burnside Public School 1 Masons Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Phone: 9630 1422 Fax: 9890 1876 Email: burnside-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.burnside-p.schools.nsw.edu.au ‘Omnia Pro Bono – For the Good of All’