Relieving Principal : Kate Brace Phone— 6559 9261

Fax—6559 6475 Email—northhaven-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

NORTH HAVEN

PUBLIC SCHOOL

“THE FUTURE IS OURS”

Newsletter

19th March 2020 Term 1 Week 8 (Issue No.3)

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

VISION: North Haven Public School, in partnership with our community, promotes and provides a dynamic, future-focused learning environment fostering equity and excellence. Our school will deliver opportunities for every

student to become a successful learner and a caring, confident, creative individual.

Harmony Day Today, North Haven Public School celebrated Harmony Day. Classes were involved in separate Harmony Day activities (there was no whole school event). Harmony Day is a celebration of our cohesive, culturally diverse society. Held on 21 March each year, it coincides with the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The ongoing theme for Harmony Day is Everyone Belongs.

Have a great week!

Relieving Principal

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Thursday 26th March Kinder Purple Day Thursday 2nd April Kinder Rainbow Day

Tell Them From Me Survey I am delighted that this semester, our school, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in a Department of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey measures factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices. More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au The survey is a great opportunity for our students in Years 4-6 to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. More than 6,300 schools in Australia and around the world have used Tell Them From Me to survey 5.4 million students. Capturing the voices of our students will help improve how we do things at our school. I want to assure you that the survey is confidential. The survey is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be administered during school hours between 30 March and 8 May. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary.A consent form and FAQs for parents/carers about the survey is being sent home with students in Years 4-6 today. If you do not want your child or children to participate, please return the form to school by 3 April 2020. Additional copies of the form and FAQs are available from: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents.

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CLASS AWARDS

VALUE OF THE WEEK

Responsibility

KANGA KIDS

Willow Lawrence

Willow Hannington

Elkie Hayworth

Band Musician

of the Week SENIOR JUNIOR

Ruby Luke Archie Geronomi

Bella Lahey Akayla Bevan

K - 2 CLASS AWARDS Student of the

Week

Values Awards Class Merit Awards

KD Poppy Ross Jaidan Williams Tully Hogan Elkie Hayworth

K/1M Jace Eldridge Lakoda Sharpe Kaylee Hancock Kai Smith

1/2B Emily Summers Cooper McLelland Lillie Mayer Layla Dent

1/2E Bridie Carney Blayze Goodall Nixon Ray Amelia Morris

PRIMARY CLASS

Good Sport Awards

3/4S Justin, Jaxon Chelsea

3/4T Stevie, Lex Sienna

4/5H Lachie, Cailan Austin

5/6B Liam B

6G Tahn, Marnie

UNIFORM SHOP HOURS Monday morning 8.45—9.15 am Wednesday afternoon 2.45—3.15 pm Page 3

Kinder Purple Day Thursday, 26th March is purple day for Kindergarten. Kindergarten students may come to school out of uniform, wearing purple coloured clothing. If students do not have anything purple to wear, they may still come out of uniform and bring an purple item to school.

2nd April 2020– Rainbow Day

School Banking

Commonwealth Bank student banking will

be temporarily ceased until the beginning of

Term 2. This decision has been made by the

Commonwealth Bank. We will inform you

when it resumes.

SPORTS NEWS North Coast Cricket

NHPS’s very talented Isaac Luke has been selected to represent the North Coast in cricket at the state carnival in October. Isaac was selected after his lower North Coast team took out the North Coast Championships played in Toormina on Sunday 8th and Monday 9th March. Isaac executed 2 brilliant run-outs, scored plenty of runs and took some vital wickets to help his team dominated the carnival! Congratulations Isaac!!

P&C Easter Raffle

The Easter raffle is one of our P&C’s main fundraisers

for the year. Even though the Easter Hat Parade has

been cancelled, the Easter raffle will still run.

There will be a raffle book at the canteen to buy

extra tickets for $1 between 9am and 2pm. The

school office also has booklets of 10 available for

$10. Extra booklets will go home next week and we

would really appreciate your support in selling these.

Thank you

North Haven Public School Student Absence Note

My child _______________________________________ of class _______

was absent from school on the following date/s _______________________________________________________

for the following reason _____________________________________________________________________________ Parent/Carer Signature : ____________________________ Date: ____________________________