Toronto Public School

Newsletter Quality and excellence… Learning together

18/06/2019

Dates to remember

21/6/2019 Reptile Park Excursion TO BE CONFIRMED

25/6/2019 Infants reading workshop

28/6/2019 Murrook Cultural Centre Whole School Excursion Note now due

1-5/7/2019 NAIDOC Week

School Holidays commence Mon 8th July 2019

School returns TUESDAY 23rd July 2019

Contact Us: Toronto Public School Renwick St Toronto NSW 2283 Phone: 02 4959 1571 Fax: 02 4950 4717 Email: toronto-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: toronto-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

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PLEASE NOTE: From Term 2 Week 4 the newsletter will now be sent electronically to all families. Please ensure the office has your correct email address. The newsletter is also published on the school webpage. Thank you for your assistance.

Dear parents and carers,

During the last couple of weeks we have noticed the change of seasons - it’s beginning to feel a bit more like winter! In response to this, I am requesting that you support us by ensuring that your child continues to wear full school uniform to school. At TPS we comply with the Department of Education’s Uniform Policy as we believe wearing the school uniform promotes a sense of belonging and creates a positive identity for our school community. If your child has had a growth spurt or requires additional clothing, drop into our uniform shop for both new or quality, preloved items. Classroom teachers will encourage children to wear their uniform with pride each day.

The weather prediction for this Friday is 14 degrees and rain. This is not ideal for our excursion to the Reptile Park. A decision regarding postponement will be made tomorrow. We are also looking forward to our whole school Murook Excursion next Friday. I extend my thanks to our Aboriginal Education team for their work co-ordinating this event.

Earlier this term, we nominated Michael Murphy for a DOE Performance Excellence Award. I am very excited to announce that our Director, James Brigden has endorsed this nomination. This award recognises Michael’s commitment to Public Education and the fantastic work he is doing to support the students, staff and community of TPS. We are very blessed to have Michael as part of our TPS team. We will make sure we include a photo of the awards ceremony in our newsletter.

Please read the section of the newsletter relating to changes to daily pickups and drop offs, as we have witnessed very unsafe behaviour that exposes our children to serious risk of harm. I’m sure you will all agree SAFE is much better than SORRY.

Kind regards

Kim Witt

ROAD SAFETY AND OUR CHILDREN We are doing our best to ensure that our children arrive and leave school safely. We acknowledge that parking is limited and this proposes challenges for drop offs and pickups. We need to work together to eliminate risks and prevent accidents and injuries. I have requested all staff park either in staff car parks or away from the 40km zones. This has reduced the congestion out the front. I am also supervising children leaving. All children need to be with an adult.

• If you are parking on the opposite side of the road, you will need to walk over and collect your child/children as we do not have a children’s’ crossing.

• If you are entering the school through the entrance opposite McDonalds, You will need to use the pedestrian gate.

Please don’t enter through the drive way as this is now being used by our taxis and is also a busy area.

P&C News The P&C would like to thank you all for supporting the Thompsons pie drive last week. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. On the 7th of June we held our 2019 AGM, all positions were declared vacant. Our new P&C executive members are as follows- President- Andrea Lundy Vice President- Ben Nicholson Secretary- Tamara Parsons Treasurer- Shannon Burns From Term 3 our P&C meetings will now be held on Wednesday mornings at 9.15am of week 2 and 8. Parents and Carers are most welcome to attend. This week’s Wacky Wednesday special will be Ham, Cheese and Spinach scrolls. Please remember to order specials of a morning.

Our new sports shirts have arrived!

Our new sports shirts are now in stock, with plenty of size 4 and 6 available. Sports shirts are $28 and available for purchase from the uniform shop. Sports uniform is to be worn a Thursday. For all uniform needs please call into the cottage and Trish on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8.30am onwards.

Kindergarten enrolments for 2020 now open

KF loves sport KF have been enjoying all the activities planned by the teachers for

sport. This unit is focusing on the fundamental movement skills, sprint, dodge and kick. The 4 classes are split up into their groups

and rotate between the activities.

Kaja - “I like the relay races”

Zara - “Learning

how to grubber kick with is awesome”

Channing -

“Dodgeball is my favourite”

Art Room

K/1T love library day! Mrs DeSain has been teaching K/1T how to search for books in the library and she reads them lots of fantastic books!!

I like that we get to draw pictures about the book that Mrs Desain reads to us!

Riley F

I like choosing my own book to read in the library. It’s very fun!

Chelsea

I love library so much because we read HEAPS of books!

Patrick

Rhiley- It was so much

fun!!

Oliver- We were learning

how to sprint really fast.

Amara- We

worked in little

teams in relay

races.

K6C had a great time at the Multi Sports

day at the Uni

2I This term we have been doing lots of Science experiments! Our experiments are about how things change. We have had lots of fun investigating!

K6C students have this

beautiful picture for their writing stimulus this week. They have already begun to write some amazing stories. They will be working hard to expand them throughout the week. Here is a sneak peak:

“One day in the sand there was a stingray.” Jesse “Once in the see there was a cave that had treasure.” Joel

‘Once there was a fish. The fish is purple.” Bohdi

3E has been having fun at maths lately. Number talks are a class favourite

and the students love doing hands on tasks, like last weeks’ time dominoes cards. Here is what the students have to say.

It’s fun and challenging to do.

Maddie

I really like doing the number talks.

Kobi

It’s fun, I like addition and subtraction and the number game is my favourite.

Ethan

4/5 love Science!

Our class did an experiment where we put food dye into a cup of water. We put paper towel into it and another cup of normal water. It changed the water to a different colour.

Jake

Hi, my name is Isaac Haines and I’m in my second year at Newcastle University studying Primary Teaching. I am currently observing and teaching until the end of term with 5/6N as I gain a valuable insight into how a primary class operates. I will be visiting some other classes to observe how different year groups are taught and behave. If you see me around the school feel free to pull me up, I’d love to talk to you to understand the school from a parent’s perspective. I look forward to working with the staff and students of Toronto Public School.

5/6 N have started our NAIDOC art competition masterpieces! We can’t wait to

see the end results!

Look at their concentration!!!!

Congratulations to our Merit Award

recipients this week.

Week 6

PONDEE NEWS The PONDEE team has been busy planning our NAIDOC Week which

this year is Voice, Treaty, Truth. We are very excited for all the activities planned for week 10.

We are also looking forward to our whole school excursion to Murrook Culture Centre on Friday the 28th.

The students have begun their Aboriginal artworks with Miss Leah which will be entered in the art competition during NAIDOC Week.

Have a look at our amazing mural that is nearing completion down

under the cola.

Mr West has been busy working with both infant and primary dance groups, which will be performing at our Show Case Assembly.

All students who attended Djuki Mala had a fantastic time and enjoyed the performance

“We went to Djuki Mala. We went on the bus. There were 5 Aboriginal people and they danced. They did Aboriginal dances. My favourite dance was all of them.

Bella KF “I liked the backflip best. I liked the bus ride. I fell asleep on the bus.”

Channing KF “We laughed and screamed out loud. I liked the Aboriginal dances.” Makybe KF

“I loved it. They were dancing and they dressed up. I loved the dance when they had umbrellas. I loved that we got to have a photo with them.” Saphira K/1T “I like the Aboriginal dances and the costumes. Sahvannah K/1T “It was nice dancing. I liked the umbrella dance and the confetti at the end.” Eva B K/1T “It was weird. There were only boys in the group. Their dancing was great. I liked the backflip and the confetti at the end.” Jayden K/1T

“It was about Aboriginal people dancing on stage and they had confetti at the end. They did Aboriginal dance and danced to modern songs.” Syke 1/2W

“We went to Djuki Mala and watched the Aboriginal people dance. I liked the Greek dance.”

Oliver 1/2W

“My favourite was when Djuki Mala did backflips. I liked it when they told the story on the screen behind in between the dances.

Bailee B 1/2W

“It was really cool because the hip hop dance was good. I really liked when they acted like dingo’s. They had pretty cool costumes. I liked it when they wore suits.

Owen 1/2W

“We went to Djuki Mala. I liked it when the people did the backflip. The music was good. My favourite was when they did the Aboriginal dances.” Ashleigh F 2I “My favourite part was all of it. I liked the Michael Jackson dance best. Toby 2I “On Friday we went to see Djuki Mala. It was about Aboriginal dances. They danced to all types of music. I liked it when the lights turned into rainbow colours.” Nevaeh G-A 2I

“We loved it ALL!” 3E

“It was loud. I liked the Michael Jackson dance but I thought Michael Jackson was dead.”

Ty 4/5M

“It was very exciting, they did backflips and did cool tricks. It was amazing what they did. I liked the Bollywood dance and how they made the shadows. It was really cool.” Kyarrah 4/5M “I enjoyed the entire show all together. I liked the backflip and the cool tricks and how the family talked on the screen.” Lillian C 4/5M

“It made me jump when they shot the confetti at the end. It was the story of their life. They did cool dances. I liked how they did traditional dances and then changed into other dance styles.”

Charli 4/5M

“I liked how they showed us their culture. I liked how they welcomed us. I liked the Bollywood dance the best. Bailee H 4/5M

“It was fun and exciting. I liked the funny dances.” Abby 5/6N “Michael Jackson never died! It was interesting how they did the Aboriginal dances and then the modern dances. It was really loud.” Aysha M 5/6N “It was really cool that they have been all around the world.” Rylan 5/6N “It was Aboriginal dancers talking and dancing about the past and the present.” Holly 5/6N “”It was about the Aboriginal culture and having joy in your life.” Mia 5/6N

WELCOME TO CanTEEn’s WHaCKY WEDnEsDaY! T.P.S canteen will now be open for recess EVERY Wednesday! Students will have the opportunity to purchase snacks from the canteen every Wednesday during recess. In addition to our regular recess menu we will also have Whacky Wednesday specials. These items will alternate weekly and will need to be ordered of a morning. Please find our recess menu below. The Whacky Wednesday specials will also be posted weekly to our P&C page. Available Every Week: Items can be ordered or purchased Pop Corn $1.20 JJ’s Salt & Vinegar or Chicken 1.20 Cheese and Rice Crackers $1.00 Fruit Cups (seasonal fruits, to be ordered) $1.00 Corn on the Cob (to be ordered) $1.00 Drinks are also available Please Note: Frozen Snacks will be unavailable at recess.

WHACKY WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: These specials will need to be ordered of a morning

Week 8 Assorted Scrolls $0.80 Week 9 Banana Bread $1.00 Week 10 Assorted Muffins $0.80