Scotts Head Public School Newsletter

Welcome all families to an exciting Week 6

This week finds us over half way through the term and counting down to the ASYIK Indonesian Arts Festival being held on Sunday 30 May in Scotts Head Reserve from 10am-3pm.

There is hive of activity and an air of excitement as singing and dancing rehearsals are taking place. There is a real life Becak (Indo bike/passenger transport) in the sports shed that students are able to experience and access supervised at lunchtimes throughout the week. We also have a giant ceremonial gong in the library. On Monday morning Indonesian Consulate dignitaries will visit our school, where we will showcase our Bilingual school students in their learning environment.

It is also fabulous to witness genuine, student leadership in action again with all Year 6 students delivering and facilitating activities in their Peer Groups for one hour per week in the “Learned Leaders” Program. Year 6 students design the varied activities and teachers then support and critique leaders on their leadership skills and provide explicit feedback on how their skills are progressing and where to next. The rotation of activities include creating a short film, science challenge, sports games challenge, Bush Tucker track forest zone identification and management and group dance choreography.

Students across the school are also rising to the challenge of entering the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking competition and all students K-6 are working on writing and delivering a prepared speech on their chosen topic.  The winners from each grade will then progress onto the next round.

This Friday 28 May is our “Whole School in One Golf Day”. Three expert coaches are coming to the school to deliver a 50-minute lesson to each class during sport time to increase development of hand eye coordination skills through playing golf. The coaches are bringing equipment that will suit all our students with their ages and sizes and the school has purchased a golf kit that students will continue to access to develop skills further.

Writing across all classes this week will be in focus with each class producing a creative writing piece of work, students will then be able to critique their writing against a success criteria and self-assess how their writing is progressing and how and what they could do make continuous progress. This explicit process ensures students have a clear understanding on how to self assess, reflect and how to improve. At Scotts Head Public School we want to ensure students have the belief, skills and learners habits to be lifelong learners, and that students will be able to apply these learner qualities when faced with learning challenges.

Mrs B - Relieving Principal

Our Year 6 student, Tilly, recently attended the Far North Coast/ Mid North Coast Surfing Titles in Lennox Head and competed in the Under 14 Girls Division.

Tilly performed really well in her heats and progressed to the final where she finished 4th. This place gives her entry and seeding to compete in the NSW State Titles in Maroubra later in the year.

Congratulations Tilly, we are really proud of you. Keep riding those awesome waves.

With the cold and flu season upon us, we would like to remind parents and carers that in accordance with advice from NSW Health, students should not attend school if they are unwell, even if they have the mildest flu-like symptoms.

Please advise the school of your child’s absence on the first day they are away from school and include any symptoms they may be experiencing. You can do this by phone, email or via the Skoolbag app.

Students who are unwell with flu-like symptoms are strongly encouraged to get tested and self-isolate until they receive a negative result.

Please provide a copy of a negative COVID-19 test result and be symptom-free before being permitted to return to school. You can simply email a screenshot of the text message you receive to the school: scottshead-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au.

We would also like to take this opportunity to remind all visitors to the school, that they must sign the school sign-in sheet where they acknowledge that they will comply with the COVID-19 requirements for visitors, contractors and service providers each time they visit. Visitors must also check in using the Service NSW QR code.

Our students really enjoy participating in the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program and to keep this program running we need your help.

The program requires a volunteer School Banking Co-ordinator to facilitate the banking and distribution of School Banking rewards. The School Banking is processed at the same time each week and will only take a small amount of your time. Commonwealth Bank will provide support in how to run the program. Your help with the program will greatly benefit students as they practice saving skills and also help our school with fundraising.

As part of volunteering you are eligible to receive a Certificate of Attainment that details the activities that you are involved in. For example: cash handling, program facilitation, account reconciliation and more.

Currently, School Banking day is Tuesday. If you are interested in volunteering for this great program, please contact the P&C on scottsheadpandc@hotmail.com.