THE NULSEN NEWS - Nulsen Primary School

THE NULSEN NEWS
  Newsletter 11                                                    DATE: 1st August 2019
               ALL ABOUT NULSEN PRIMARY SCHOOL, THE SCHOOL IN WHICH WE LEARN

                                           Goodbye Sue

Last week the staff and community farewelled Sue Meyer. Sue, for personal reasons, has decided to resign from
her role at Nulsen Primary School as the Chaplain. Sue in her time with us, quickly became an integral and
respected member of the staff. Sue provided a tremendous amount of support to staff across many broad and
complicated issues. Sue also became very valued and respected by the parents and community. With her strong
links and connections to the wider community agencies, Sue was able to assist parents during some difficult and
challenging times. Sue was sought by many students who needed someone to talk to, she always found the time.
We are not sure if this was a ploy to get out of work, but regardless the students always walked away keen to re-
engage in class. During her time with us, Sue coordinated and organised with Amy Vickers the inaugural Nulsen
in November and some five years later this event has become hugely popular. Sue, with Geoff Tonkin, also
worked on bringing the Growers Market to Nulsen Primary School, this has seen Nulsen Primary School’s profile
raised dramatically. Sue, with Sara Lee, has coordinated the Friendship Club, she started the Friday Parents
Coffee Club and worked with EACS to help on Pancake Friday. Sue has also facilitated, with Meredith Waters,
the Regenerate Program to support parents and she also engaged the M&M group with Nulsen students. So, it
would be fair to say Sue has been busy, and these are only a list of what we know. I bet the list would be more
extensive if we knew everything she has done for the Nulsen School Community. We wish Sue the best for the
future and eagerly await a visit.

                                                      Welcome to Mel, our new Chaplain

                                    My name is Melinda Harp, but just call me Mel, as only my Mum calls
                                    me Melinda and that’s only when I’m in trouble!
                                    Some of the things that I love are; coffee, my family and playing
                                    hockey.
                                    A strange and interesting fact about me is......I am incredibly allergic
                                    to chocolate, I know, sad right?
                                    I am really excited to get to know everyone and I can’t wait to see
                                    what this term is going to bring!

Enrolments for Kindergarten in 2020 (children born between 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016)

We are asking parents and carers of children who are eligible for Kindergarten in 2020 to register
their interest by completing an application form at the office. Please bring along your child’s birth
certificate and immunisation records. Early enrolments will allow us to better plan for 2020.

                                                     Area Antics
Kindilinks: We’ve had a great start to Term 3 learning about The Very Hungry
Caterpillar.
Area 2 are very excited about participating in the Scitech/GWN7 Schools' Weather
Wall. You can see our recorded weather information every Friday afternoon on the
5.30pm news. Watch out for our video to be screened soon!
Area 4 have been learning about the sea. We are looking forward to our excursion to Kepa Kurl Kids Day!
Area 8: Our theme for the term is Australian animals and we are enjoying all the wonderful books that come
with this topic.
Area 9: We are enjoying our music time with Mr McMahon practising our Assembly item and music skills. Save
the date for week 7, September 6th for our assembly.
Area 13: It’s great to be back at school. We are getting to know each other with our new teacher Mrs Grobler.
Area 14: We are using our 7 steps to explore persuasive writing.
Area 16: We have been busy practising our speaking and our singing for our upcoming assembly on Friday
August 9th. We hope you enjoy our performance!
Area 17: We have been drawing self portraits using symmetry and self relfection.
STEM: Creating ‚Great Humans!’ What can we do to help our environment? Waste-wise, water-wise and so
much more.

                 Re: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)
Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with
Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports
provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992
and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).
Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:
 year of schooling
 category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
 level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary,
    substantial or extensive.
This information assists schools to:
 formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
 consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
 develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes
    for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of
students with disability. The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing
process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to
be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that
regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer
to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).
Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au). If you have any
questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.

All Nulsen Primary School community members are invited to our whole
                   school NAIDOC celebration
                    on   Thursday 15 August 2019.
8.00AM       Brekky - bacon and egg burgers for everyone!!!
8.45AM       Whole School Assembly
9.15AM       Check out our Aboriginal Studies classroom Moorditj Moort and
             NAIDOC displays, and the AIEO room
10.00AM      Whole school bus down to the Whaletail Area, cut the NAIDOC cake
             and have recess
10.40AM      Rotations of the new Aboriginal Artworks in town (provided by
             Esperance Community Arts)
12PM         BBQ lunch at the Whaletail
12.45PM      Continue Art rotations
2.00PM       Bus back to Nulsen

          We hope you can come along and help us
                      CELEBRATE!!!

Peer Support                                              REMINDER
 We are commencing our Peer Support lessons this            School start time is 8.30am. Children are able to be
 week. The whole school participates in Peer Support for    dropped off from 8.15 am and wait in the Library with a
 30 minutes each week. A Peer leader facilitates a small    staff member until classes are open. Children not under
 group of 10 younger students, who work together            the supervision of a staff member must be with a parent
 through a number of structured activities. Each            or carer, or they will be directed to the Library. We
 classroom teacher supervises 2 groups in their             request also, that no children be on play equipment
 classroom.                                                 before school as this is unsupervised at this time of the
 We are working on a module called Keeping Friends          day.
 helping us explore the concept of friendship, build        Children riding bikes, scooters, skateboards etc. must
 relationships and develop skills in empathy and critical   push or carry these as there is a safety issue with them
 thinking. The module runs for 8 sessions. Our first        being ridden or used on walkways and driveways when
 session enables the children to get to know everyone in    there are lots of people around.
 their group, agreeing on how they will work together       School finishes at 3pm. Parking is available on Victoria
 and interact cooperatively with others. They will also     Street, or in the rear car park off Tchan street. A
 begin to think about the meaning of friendship. We         reminder that it is a legal requirement to travel at no
 encourage you to talk to your children about Peer          more than 40km in school zones during these times, but
 Support every week as it will help to reinforce the        it is safer to drive much slower knowing that children
 concepts learned in each session.                          are often less aware of vehicles than we would like them
 A flyer outlining more details has been sent home with     to be. We are all looking forward to a safe and happy
 today’s newsletter                                         term.

                                                  Coming Events:
Friday 2nd August:   Year 6 Winter Sports
Wednesday 7th August: Gifted and Talented Primary Extension and Challenge (PEAC) Year 4 State-wide Testing program.
Friday 9th August:   Area 16 assembly, all welcome!

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