School Rostrum Final

Congratulations to all of our school finalists who participated in the Rostrum last week. Well done to Ella, Lucas, Millie, Emily, Seha, Archer, Indiana, Olivia, Ben Aria, Bernadette, Evie and Harper who represented our senior school brilliantly.

Our school finalist who will be representing our school at the next level of competition is Emily. Archer was awarded runner up. Best of luck Emily at the next stage of competition.

End of Semester Meetings

https://ngunnawalps.schoolzineplus.com/view-session/15

Meetings will occur virtually unless you request in person. Once a booking is made the teacher will email you an online meeting link. If you want to meet in person, please respond to the email from the teacher to say you would like to meet in your child’s classroom.

For in person meetings social distancing and hygiene practises will apply. Please do not attend the school site if unwell.

The purpose of mid-year meetings is to:

• Get an overview of how your child is doing.
• Discuss what you and the teacher see as your child’s areas for development. How is the teacher going to support these, and how can you support the teacher at home? Ask to see examples of needed.
• Discuss what your child’s strengths are. How is the teacher going to stretch your child, and how can you support the teacher at home?

Please note this link will close on Friday 24 June. You will need to contact the teacher directly to make an appointment after this day. This allows teachers to map out their meetings for the week. We look forward to seeing you all in week 10.

Balbo Place

Balbo Place is a very busy road at present. Some residents are concerned for students walking through high levels of traffic. If you use Balbo Place as a drop off zone, consider dropping your children off in the drop off zone at the front of the school, or part way to school near a pathway. It is also important we are not blocking access to driveways for our nearby residents when dropping off and collecting children from school. If there are continued issues for residents,we may have parking supervisors in the area to ensure the no parking zones are being observed during peak hours. Please observe the no parking signs in Balbo Place.

E-Safety Workshop for NPS Families

E_Safety_Workshop_Flyer_with_google_meet_link.pdf

New Building Handover

We are expecting to take possession of our new building on Friday 1 July. 5BD, 5NG, 5TB and 4RM will be moving to the new spaces. Our Year 3 and 4 classes already in the area will have access to new student toilets. We also have a new covered walkway between the existing and new building so everyone can stay dry when walking to this area. We have some great zones around the building where we can plan for some outdoor learning areas.

We wish everyone a restful term break from Saturday 2 July to Sunday 17 July.

Rebecca Turner

Principal

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This year school photos will be conducted in Term 3 Week 3, Monday 1^st, Tuesday 2^nd and Friday 5^th August 2022.

Envelops were sent home to families yesterday and today. If you require an additional envelop please contact the classroom teacher or visit the front office.

We have taken into account that Aqua Safe will be running in the same week. All students participating in this program will still be photographed.

Sibling photos will be done on the Monday and Tuesday with a catch up on Friday. A separate note will come home on Thursday with information about sibling photos. This process is a fundraiser for the school so all money made through the purchase of sibling photos will go back to the school.

If you have any questions please contact the front office.

LSUEB

We have been enjoying the opportunity to get out of the classroom and engage with the school community. We have been enjoying gross motor sessions with year 1 and some of us went on an excursion to Questacon while others got to visit LSUSG. 

We have been learning about the world around us and using this as a prompt for some of our writing. 

LSUSG

We have been working very hard in English and establishing reader's workshop and writer's workshop routines. Recently we have worked on understanding how similar texts share characteristics by identifying text structures and language features used to describe characters and events. To do this we have had a mini author focus and looked at some of the books written by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. The students have loved exploring the features of The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child. 

This semester we have focused on identifying our emotions. The students have been working hard to identify and verbalise how they are feeling by identifying what zone they are in using the ‘zones of regulation’ visuals on the wall in the classroom. The students have identified that their emotions/feelings change throughout the day. We encourage students to regularly check in to how they are feeling and why they might be feeling this way. 

This term we have introduced a new spelling routine. Each morning students have the opportunity to read and write out their spelling words. They are then encouraged to use their words in a sentence.

We have also been working on creating art monsters for our room. The students used outlines of their hands and feet to add to their monster. This art project required the use of paper folding, cutting, colouring and glueing, all great practice of fine motor skills.

LSUMA

Now that restrictions have eased at school LSUMA students have been enjoying PE, Chess and Japanese lessons with Dianna, Belinda and Fiona. Building positive relationships and skills practise is important these first few weeks.

In mathematics, we have been practising multiplication and division. Children are reading word problems and showing their working out using concrete materials.

In reading, students are engaging in daily reader’s workshop and independent reading. We have been practising reading strategies such as predicting and connecting with our class book Sadako. Book Club occurs once a week where children get the opportunity to share and recommend their favourite books to their peers. 

In writing, children have been busy planning, typing, editing and illustrating their narrative stories. Children plan using a narrative mountain then practising their typing skills while typing up their stories. 

Respectful 

Phoebe D	Achuil C	Deng N	Garang A

Responsible Learners 

Charley CS	Makuei A	Ayen C	Eleanor C
Lucy D	Sofia D	Aria R	Emilia O
Evelyn L	James R	Norah N	Akela O
Clarissa W	Achuil C	Stefan S	Aekeri O
Felix S	Izzy S	Yvette G	Machar M
Oliver G	Anureet S

Safe

Tayte K

Respectful 

Ekam D	Ellaha M	Calvin L	Evie N
Riley C	Margot B	Lily W	Isla T
Minha A	Kayden S	Arizona J	Maddie T
Shreya K	Scarlett L	Ella H	William R
Jessica T	Madi I	Layla W	Amber G
Henley W	Ella M	Charlotte B	Jorja M
Olivia M	Kyyros Z	Jennifer A	Klara B
Isla W	Michael H	Avneet K	Luke M
Elise P	Rishaan D	Maverick L	Ana F
Ronan N	Jessica W	Anureet S

Safe

Responsible Learner

Due to road works on Jabanungga Avenue Ngunnawal, diversions will be in place for route 28 from Monday 27 June 2022 until further notice.

Bus stop 4904 (Jabanungga Avenue after 1st Bindugan Crescent) will be closed. Please proceed to alternate temporary bus stop on Arrabri Street or bus stop 4865 (Burramarra Avenue before Kavangal Circuit). Please refer to map.

Bus stop 4905 (Jabanungga Avenue after Yerradhang Street) will be closed. Please proceed to alternate temporary bus stops on Arrabri Street or bus stop 4864 (Burramarra Avenue after Jabanungga Avenue). Please refer to map.

It’s not too late to enrol for 2023

If you forgot to enrol your child or young person in an ACT public school for next year, don’t panic. Enrolments remain open throughout the year. You can find out more information and apply online. Support is also available from this school or by calling the Enrolments Telephone Service weekdays on 6205 5429.

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Contact Glen Howard on 02 620 55485 or Glen.Howard@act.gov.au.

Attached is a flyer for the Holiday camp

We also now have our Term 3 programs open for registration which include our grass roots basketball program Aussie Hoops for ages 5-7 and 8-10, which is a great way of learning the fundamental and basic skills of basketball with locations across Canberra. Including – Melrose, Tuggeranong, Belconnen, Gold Creek, Merici, University of Canberra and our new site in Denman Prospect.

 We also have our Level up program open for ages 8-15 to learn more of the game aspect of basketball, which includes learning the rules building team orientated basketball skills to get ready for competition level basketball.

 And lastly our Pink Stars program, which is our Girls Only Program, aimed at ages 5-10 years to learn fundamental skills in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Attached is our flyer for these programs as well

 Links

Holiday camps - https://www.basketballact.com.au/juniors/school-holiday-camps/bact-camps/

Aussie Hoops - https://www.basketballact.com.au/juniors/development/aussie-hoops/

Pink Stars - https://www.basketballact.com.au/juniors/development/pink-stars/

Level up - https://www.basketballact.com.au/juniors/development/level-up/