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■ 2021 ■ Term 1 ■ Weeks 5 and 6 ■ Principal: Anthony Leary
Clean Up Australia Day
■ Phone: (02) 6924 1902 Play the Game
■ Fax: (02) 6924 2540 Junee Public School
■ Email: junee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au 116 Lorne Street
■ Website: https://junee-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/ Junee NSW 2663
Junee Public School
■ Principal: Anthony Leary Play the Game
■ Phone: (02) 6924 1902
■ Fax: (02) 6924 2540 Junee Public School
■ Email: junee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au 116 Lorne Street (PO Box 95)
■ Website: https://junee-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/ Junee NSW 2663
■ 2021 ■ Term 1 ■ Weeks 5 and 6 ■ Newsletter
Calendar
Term 1, Week 7
Monday 8 March School Photos
Wednesday 10 March Scripture
Thursday 11 March K/1 Swimming 2:00-3:00pm
Friday 12 March Assembly
Term 1, Week 8
Thursday 18 March K/1 Swimming 2:00-3:00pm
Friday 19 March Harmony Day
Term 1, Week 9
Wednesday 24 Mar Scripture
Friday 29 March Assembly
In this issue ...
Principal’s Note ............................................................................. 3
Clean Up Australia Day .......................................................... 3
School Canteen ........................................................................ 3
School Communication ......................................................... 4
Stewart House Donation Drive........................................... 4
Principal’s Awards.................................................................... 5
School Uniform......................................................................... 5
School Photos ........................................................................... 5
Covid-19 Reminder ................................................................. 5
School Updates ........................................................................ 5
Year 6 to Year 7 ........................................................................ 6
News from the Classroom ........................................................ 6
PBL ..................................................................................................... 8
The Sports Report (by Mr Cox) ............................................... 9
Didjeribone ................................................................................ 9
Glen’s 50th Birthday ................................................................... 10
Tell Them From Me ................................................................... 10
Junee Public School
Principal’s Note students at 95%+ received a ticket in a draw to win a
$60 voucher from Collins Booksellers. The lucky winner
Welcome to Week 6! Last week’s student recognition for Week 5, Term 1 was Jack (Year 6) from Muliyan.
assembly recognised the ongoing learning
Congratulations Jack! We will have another attendance
achievements of our wonderful students at Junee Public
assembly and raffle draw during Week 10.
School (JPS). In addition to our class and other awards, I
was thrilled to be able to present additional Principal’s
Awards to 2 students for outstanding citizenship and
demonstrating empathy towards their peers. Serenity
received her award for assisting a young student in the
playground and Haami received his award for caring for
a classmate that had fallen over whilst playing a game
in the playground. Well done Serenity and Haami!
Clean Up Australia Day
Today was Clean Up schools day at JPS. Students
cleaned up our school and it was looking pristine
afterwards. Our PBL focus, “Rubbish in the Bin” will
ensure our school remains clean and tidy at all times.
Attendance Congratulations Jack: Attendance Recognition
raffle winner Week 5, Term 1
School Canteen
Thank you Tina and staff
from Junee Bakery for
supporting our families by
Last week we held our first attendance recognition
providing a healthy lunch
assembly. Whilst our attendance target is set at 90%, we
alternative for students
had many students, 75 in fact, that have attendance
each Friday. This proved
rates between 95-100%. Students at or above our target
extremely popular today
received an attendance certificate and pencil. All
with many families
ordering lunch. Initially, we will trial this service one day
a week, every Friday. We will review demand as well as
the menu at the end of Term. All lunch orders must be
at school on Thursday with the correct amount of
cash. A reminder is sent to your phone or device each
Wednesday if you have the SKOOLBAG app
downloaded. Don’t have it downloaded? Please see the
details provided.
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To ensure the wellbeing of students, staff and the
community, steps will be taken to address unacceptable
behaviour and communication. Offensive language,
either over the phone or around the school grounds, will
not be tolerated. This may include restricting contact
with the school or, in more serious cases, referral to
NSW Police.
Please be reminded, that if you wish to speak to a
member of staff, an appointment must be made by
contacting the office.
Unacceptable behaviour may include but is not
limited to:
• Aggressive or intimidating actions, such as
violence, threatening gestures or physical
proximity.
School Communication • Aggressive or intimidating language,
At JPS we make a concerted effort to ensure effective including the use of obscenities, making
communication methods are maintained so that all sexist, racist or derogatory comments or
members of the school community remain informed using a rude tone.
and connected. Our main form of communication, • Treating members of the school community
particularly when permission slips need to be returned, differently due to aspects such as their
are notes to parents/carers. We require your support to religion or disability.
ensure that notes are unpacked from school bags and • Inappropriate and time-wasting
any permission slips and/or payment is received by the communication.
due date. Whilst we do send reminder alerts via
Skoolbag, it is impossible to do this for every activity.
Significant upcoming events are advertised on our
Lorne Street school sign. Mr Cox also regularly updates
Facebook with notes, events and reminders. We have Stewart House Donation Drive
almost every avenue covered, however, we ask that Stewart House provides care
parents/carers please keep up to date with support for children in need
communication as we are not able to make reminder from NSW and ACT public
phone calls for every activity/event. Unfortunately, school. Please follow these three
communication breakdowns occur, however, at JPS we easy steps to support Stewart
make every attempt to ensure that this does not occur. House:
Your ongoing cooperation is appreciated.
- Fill in your name, address, telephone number
Our School Community Charter, sent home at the and school on the envelope attached
beginning of the year, outlines the responsibilities of - Insert a donation of at least $2 into the
parents, carers, teachers and school staff at JPS to envelope and seal it
ensure our learning environments are collaborative, - Return the envelope to your school.
supportive and cohesive.
Please find attached to this newsletter a Stewart House
At Junee Public School, everyone has the right to feel envelope.
respected. Unacceptable and offensive behaviour and
communication has no place in our school.
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Collaborative∞Respectful∞Communication School Uniform
Wearing school uniform everyday promotes a sense of
belonging for students and creates a positive identity
for our school community. School uniforms also
contributes to the personal safety of students by
allowing easier recognition of students inside the school
and in the wider community. It has been great to see
almost all students wearing their summer uniform each
day.
However, with a few cooler mornings recently some
students have been wearing a variety of different
jumpers. Please be reminded that school jumpers are
available to purchase from the office for a very
reasonable $18. There may also be some suitable used
items available from the clothing pool. Hats are to be
worn at all times for the remainder of this term.
School Photos
On Monday, Cliff and Kay from Creative School
Portraits will be at JPS for our 2021 school photo
Principal’s Awards day. Having worked with this company for many years,
I am looking forward to
Principal’s Praise Awards are handed out each week to the amazing photos they
students from a chosen class for outstanding or will create for our school
improved learning. Last week I was visited by students community. All students
from Gugaburra. Last week the following students should be dressed in
received awards: Emma for her super spelling, Isaac for summer uniform.
fantastic handwriting, Evangeline and Jaida for creative Photos will commence at 9.30am beginning with
writing and Mahalia for outstanding maths. Well done Wombad. Please ensure students are at school on time
everyone! This week Jye and Ashton from Gurawung to avoid missing out. If you have any last-minute queries
received award for their amazing scientific explanations. about the photos, please contact Nichole in the office.
Yesterday, some very excited learners from Wombad
shared their beautiful handwriting and sentences with Covid-19 Reminder
me. Thank you Harry, Matilda A, Summer, Olivia and
Charlotte for your amazing learning. Today Isla, Matilda Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions, we cannot
C, Leayah and Elliott shared their super sentences about accept homemade foods to be distributed to other
adventures to the park, pool and zoo. It is wonderful to students at school.
see our students engaged in the classroom and being
If you wish for your child to celebrate a birthday at
successful in their learning.
school with their classmates, we ask that you please
supply the school with individually wrapped, bought
food items.
School Updates
Our community room has undergone a transformation
with new café style tables and chairs added to
personalise the room for school meetings and our
breakfast club each morning. New blinds have been
installed in the library and hall to freshen up these
spaces.
Principal’s Praise Awards: Learners from WOMBAD
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We are thrilled with recent news that under the Regional
Renewal Program grants, JPS will receive new
News from the Classroom
playground equipment to replace our aging existing Students in Bagal have had a fantastic term so far! On
equipment. All existing equipment will be removed and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each week, some of
state of the art modules installed under the equipment us learn with Mrs. Roberts while the rest of learn with
COLA. This will give our students more safe and creative Mrs Macaulay. We have been busy doing lots of
play options during recess and lunch. different learning activities.
A design of what the equipment components will look Here is a snippet of what has been happening in Bagal:
like is featured below.
To complete the area, new concrete edging, soft fall and
gardens will be added.
Year 6 to Year 7
Moving into year 7 in a NSW Government school in 2022
booklets will be sent home to our year 6 students, which In Literacy, we do a WOW
provide information about government secondary word each week on Monday
schools. Included is an Expression of Interest form that and try and use it in our
we ask all year 6 parents/carers to please complete to writing. We do various
indicate their preference for the school in which they writing and spelling
would like to enrol their child for Year 7. activities with new spelling
Please return the completed Expression of Interest form words each week. We are
to the school no later than Friday 19 March 2021. also focusing on some high
frequency words each week.
Have a great fortnight! We read with our teachers
each week and do some fun
Anthony Leary activities after reading. We have been focusing on what
fairy tales are and are what the structure of a story looks
like.
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In Geography, we have been learning about the
continents of the world. Did you know that you could
sail around the world? We created our own route for our
trip around the world on a marvellous cruise ship! We
are also learning about what the location of Australia is
in the world and why knowing location is important.
In Numeracy, we have been learning different addition
strategies in class like the split strategy and the jump
strategy on a blank number line. We have also been
learning how to read time, specifically what the position
of the minute hand means. Our focus so far has been on
o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to. We have
learnt about the seasons, months of the year with how
many days in each month and what ascending and
descending order are. Last week we understood the
difference between vertical, horizontal and parallel lines
and we got to draw a picture using all three types of
lines.
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We have been doing some fun art activities each week.
We also do sport once a week where we are focussing
PBL
on coordinated movements of our body. We have all As we near to the middle of the first term, it is wonderful
been using laptops to log in with our username and to see that our PBL rewards bucket is already full to the
password and are learning how to type on an online brim with DOJO tickets. This is a magnificent indicator
typing program. that our students are doing a sensational job in
displaying our core values in the playground and in our
classrooms. As a whole school reward, our students will
be allowed to participate in additional, structured play
this Friday.
As this Friday is our Clean up Australia Day at Junee
Public School, we thought that our PBL focus should
complement this important day, so this fortnights PBL
focus will be ‘rubbish in bins’.
It is important to display pride in our school and at the
same time care for our delicate and precious
environment.
I would like to thank all student as we do our part to
protect our environment and continue to make Junee a
clean and lovely place to live.
Tim Harris
Our classroom is a fun space where lots of learning
happens, and we are all very proud of everything we do
in class!
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The Sports Report (by Mr Cox) Awards
Congratulations to Kobie, Jack and Harrison who Merit Awards
represented our school at the recent Cootamundra Wombad: Harry T & Kaiwen Z
District Swimming Carnival. Here is some feedback from Gugaburra: Jaida H & Isaac C
Mrs Dabin who convened the carnival "Thank you for
sending your students to the carnival today. They all tried Bagal: Pheonix T & Isabella W
exceptionally hard and even though they didn't qualify Gurawung: Tyler H & Edward O
for the PSSA team, they represented JPS wonderfully!"
Well done boys, it is great to hear positive news about Muliyan: Eliyah G & Claire F
our students from other schools in the community. PBL Award
Wombad: Leayah A
Good luck to Darcy, Tayarnah and Matilda who are
trialling for the Cootamundra, Young and Highlands Guguburra: Emma B
zone PSSA soccer teams in Cootamundra & Gundagai Bagal: Jasey C
respectively. We know you will try your best and
represent our school with pride. Gurawung: Karli W
Muliyan: Charlette W
A reminder that our 2021 Athletics Carnival will take
How 2 Learn Awards
place on the 31 March 2021 at Loftus Oval. Keep your
eyes peeled for more info coming out on this soon. Wombad: Isla F
Guguburra: Polly A
Bagal: Kaiden S
Gurawung: Dre T
Muliyan: Tommy B
Principal’s Awards
Didjeribone Wombad: Matilda A
On Tuesday we were visited by Tjupurru who presented Guguburra: Aaliyah A
his Didjeribone performance in our school hall. Tjurupuu
Bagal: Levi S
was highly engaging as he regaled us with stories of
culture and performed using his didjeribone, didjeridoo Gurawung: Dane-Lee F
and utilised his pedal board and face bass to create
Muliyan: Emma H
haunting songs on the spot. Some highlights were his
student instrument remix and happy birthday
performance to out own Glen Fanning. We were highly
entertained and look forward to future school
performances and cultural experiences.
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Glen’s 50th Birthday Tell Them From Me
Junee Public School celebrated our amazing volunteer In the coming weeks, students in Years 4-6 will complete
Glen Fanning’s birthday this week. Happy birthday Glen! the Tell Them From Me (TTFM) survey. This survey
captures the views of students on a number of critical
aspects of school performance.
The TTFM survey provides valid and reliable evidence
that can be used for school self-assessment, planning
and reporting. This data helps us to identify strengths
and areas for improvement, assess the impact of current
initiatives and inform future programs and policies.
The focus of the TTFM survey is on student engagement
and wellbeing. The survey provides information on a
range of areas, such as teaching practices, student
aspirations and leadership, from the perspective of our
senior students. This data is relevant in assessing our
school’s performance across the three School Excellence
Framework domains of Learning, Teaching and Leading.
The TTFM survey can help our school understand
students’ perspectives on critical aspects of their school
experience, such as social, institutional and intellectual
engagement, wellbeing and exposure to quality
teaching practices.
All surveys are anonymous and used for the purpose of
continuous school improvement only.
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JUNEE PUBLIC SCHOOL TERM 1 CALENDAR
Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8 March 9 March 10 March 11 March 12 March
7 School Photos Scripture K/1 Swimming Assembly
2-3pm
15 March 16 March 17 March 18 March 19 March
8 K/1 Swimming
2-3pm
9 22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March 26 March
Scripture Assembly
10 29 March 30 March 31 March 1 April 2 April
Athletics Carnival Easter Parade Good Friday
TERM 2
1 19 April 20 April 21 April 22 April 23 April
Staff Development All students return
Day to school
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