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2020 Swimming Carnival Program

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:12:41 AEDT

PSSA Trials

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:15:29 AEDT

As trial times were not included in the pack sent to parents, any cancellation will be placed on the PSSA facebook page.

https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Recreation---Sports-Website/Castle-Hill-Zone-PSSA-776729786018305/

Please see attached timetable for 2020 Zone Trial Day.

Timetable

Coronavirus - Department of Education statement

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:14:31 AEDT

The department is working with the Ministry of Health to monitor and respond to the unfolding international novel coronavirus situation.

Get up-to-date information about the department's response to novel coronavirus.

Staying healthy into the new school year

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:17:43 AEDT

Immunisation is a simple, safe and effective way to protect your family from harmful diseases this holiday season and into 2020. Visit your doctor for general health and vaccination advice.

Immunisation not only protects you and your family but also others in your community, by reducing the spread of preventable diseases.

Children starting school in 2020 must have up-to-date immunisations to enrol.

These vaccinations help protect children from highly infectious and severe diseases including whooping cough and measles.

Travel health

If you’re travelling overseas during the school holidays, you may need vaccinations or medication – both for general health protection and for region-specific diseases.

If you’re travelling to the Northern Hemisphere, you may even need a flu shot.

Find out more about staying healthy while travelling.

2019 Yr 6 Farewell

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:51:41 AEDT

Uniform Shop

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:48:10 AEDT

Final trading hours for 2019 :

Saturday 14 December 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Re open 2020:

Saturday 2 February 2020 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year.

January trading days:

Thursday 16 January 2020 from 12.30-2.00pm.

Tuesday 28 January 2020 from 2.00-4.00pm.

Ordering

All online ordering needs to be via QKR APP.

Orders placed on the QKR APP will be delivered to the school office on Tuesday afternoon and they will be distributed to the children.

Please email Elle for any further enquiries, elle@ozfashions.com.au

About our school/What we offer/Uniforms

NSW schools respond to bushfires

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:30:46 AEDT

Many schools are responding to the catastrophic fire rating that is affecting communities across the state this week.

We are continuously updating the School safety page with a list of government and non-government schools, as well as TAFE NSW campuses that are currently non-operational.

While some schools are temporarily non-operational due to localised fires, many others in high-risk areas are non-operational as a precautionary measure.

Schools in some areas are being used as emergency evacuation centres at the direction of the Rural Fire Service.

For schools that are currently operational, school pickups and dropoffs will continue as usual. If your school is currently non-operational, it will likely remain so tomorrow.

Large scale distressing events affect our school communities in many ways. Headspace’s mental health support resource (PDF 100.52KB) is available to help students, teachers and school staff respond to the bushfires.

Visit the School safety page for updates. The department’s Facebook and Twitter accounts will also provide updates during this period.

'This Time Next Year'

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:32:56 AEDT

Thursday, 26 September Yrs 3-6 attended a special assembly to welcome Karl Stefanovic.

Karl was interviewed on stage by our leaders before hosting a special 'This Time Next Year' with 6 of our students.

2019 School Calendar

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:37:21 AEDT

Please see attached calendar for 2019

Grab a ticket to Schools Spectacular 2019

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:08:18 AEDT

Will you be joining us at Schools Spectacular 2019? Tickets are on sale now. Experience our live show featuring a cast of thousands of public school students from across metropolitan, rural and remote regions of NSW.

Students from different ages, cultures and backgrounds will share the spotlight as they dance, play and sing for you. Choose from one of our four massive performances at Qudos Bank Arena on Friday 22 November and Saturday 23 November.

This year's events will feature:

more than 380 schools
5,500 performers
a 3000-strong choir
2,300 dancers
an 80-piece symphony orchestra
a world-class stage band.

Group bookings

Need to make a group booking for over 10 people? Complete the Schools Preview Order Form 2019 (PDF 110KB) to attend the discounted 11am Friday matinee. The Friday matinee is discounted for school students and accompanying teachers.

If you’d like to grab a spot at one of the other three remaining shows complete the Group Booking Form 2019 (PDF 110KB).

Tickets for you and your family and friends

Save you and your family a spot online or by phone on 132 849.

Video – Schools Spectacular 2019

Duration: 0:26

Have your say on before and after school care

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:41:18 AEST

We want to better understand your needs for before and after school care in NSW.

Have your say today on before and after school care.

Fill out the survey by Service NSW to share your specific care needs and to register interest to stay informed of new developments.

Your input will provide insights into where there are gaps in service availability and help us to deliver extra places where they are needed.

You can also contact the team responsible for rolling out the before and after school care commitment at BASCreform@det.nsw.edu.au.

Book yourself in for Reading Hour

Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:27:32 AEST

This Australian Reading Hour, encourage your child to discover or rekindle their love of a good book. Take the time to learn, escape and relax on Thursday 19 September and read for one hour.

Get involved at home

Join in at home and read your child a bedtime story. Studies show that reading a bedtime story six days a week can give kids almost a year’s head start when they begin school. Reading has also been shown to develop empathy, promote critical thinking and help children find a sense of self.

Join in from the classroom

Bestselling children’s author and illustrator Matt Stanton will broadcast live to primary school children across the country from the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday 17 September. We invite schools to register for the livestream of this free event.

Stanton’s author talk is among more than 140 events happening across the country involving more than 50 authors.

Take the Book Swap Challenge

We all have favourite books that we come back to again and again.

To help celebrate Reading Hour take our Book Swap Challenge. We want students, teachers, staff and parents to try reading something new on the day. To get involved, simply pair up with someone and swap your favourite books.

Take a photo and tag it with #ReadingHour so we can see how you got involved.

Video – #ReadingHour authors talk about their favourite place to read

Duration: 0:38

Looking for a good spot to open a book? We asked authors Benjamin Law, Morris Gleitzman, Jacqueline Harvey and Mick Elliott about their favourite place to read.

How to be smart and safe on social media

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:49:34 AEST

Use our new Digital Citizenship toolkit to empower your child to understand how their online behaviour affects themselves and others.

You and your child can find information on:

how to ‘be positive’ by understanding online behaviour and its effect
'be smart’ by thinking critically and being digitally aware
'be safe’ by protecting your security, privacy and wellbeing.

A toolkit to empower you and your child

You can find articles and videos to equip and empower your child to minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities in our digital future.

We’ve partnered with leading researchers to produce a curated toolkit – aligned to the curriculum – which teachers and you can share with the young people in your lives.

Guide your child through important concepts such as:

managing privacy settings in social media
collaborating online
avoiding scams and hoaxes
understanding the law when it comes to online speech
Internet banking, shopping online and much more.

Keep your child safe and happy online

Visit and bookmark the Digital Citizenship website. We’ll continue to add articles and resources to ensure the best possible tools are available to help you guide your child to be positive, smart and safe online.

Education Week – Every student, every voice

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:15:40 AEST

We are celebrating our students and their powerful voices this Education Week Monday 5 August to Friday 9 August. Every year Education Week celebrates the achievements of public schools, our students and the value of public education.

This year, the theme is Every student, every voice.

Join us for #EdWeek19 as we celebrate our students and their power to shape the world.

Video – #EdWeek19 – Every student, every voice

Duration: 0:34

2019 Band Camp Video

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:54:50 AEST

The Jasper Road PS band members attended the Annual Band Camp at Crusaders Galston Gorge Conference & Recreation Centre the first weekend of June.

During the weekend they participated in many activities including tutoring and whole band rehearsals. The finale of the camp was a concert which was enjoyed by parents/carers, family members and fellow band members as shown in the video.

Creative and Active Kids vouchers now available

Fri, 14 Jun 2019 11:44:14 AEST

Creative kids can now put a $100 voucher towards extra-curricular creative activities outside of school.

Together with Active Kids, this program aims to encourage more NSW children to participate in a range of extra-curricular activities such as coding, languages, circus, performing arts and visual arts.

Parents can apply for one $100 voucher for each child enrolled in school on the Creative Kids website and use it towards the cost of registration, participation or tuition. You just redeem the voucher with a registered provider in your area when making your payment.

This is a great opportunity for your child to become involved in a range of activities that will build on their education, growth and development.

Service NSW is working with industry bodies to deliver the program.

For more information, contact Service NSW on 137 788 or creativekids@service.nsw.gov.au.

The 2018 Year 6 Farewell

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 12:18:30 AEST

Watch and enjoy this incredible video of our 2018 Year 6 students taken during the evening while celebrating their final year. They remember the special times and experiences as a student at Jasper Road PS.

The video is now available for download:

https://vimeopro.com/bamstudios/jasper-road-yr6-2018-graduation

Jasper Road PS Band Soiree 2018

Tue, 21 May 2019 11:57:54 AEST

At Jasper Road PS we have 3 bands, Beginner Band, Performing Band and Concert Band. At the end of each year a Soiree is held which enables the students to showcase their music to parents and caregivers. Watch the video and enjoy listening to the bands from the 2018 Soiree.

Super Saturday video

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 13:20:30 AEDT

Thank you to our many sponsors and supporters, Brad Fittler, Danny Buderus, Father Chris Riley, Evergreen Turf, Dad and Dave's Turf, Elite Sand and Soil, Chris Waller Racing, Hogs 4 Homeless, Rod 2 Mod, the generous donations for our raffle and our wonderful school community who all came together to make this a very successful day.

JRPS Field of broken records

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:37:18 AEDT

Thank you to everyone who helped make this such a success.

Phonics workshop

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:35:21 AEDT

Thanks to the large number of parents that attended the Phonics workshop yesterday afternoon. It was a highly engaging session lead by Mr Justin Caban and after parent feedback we are already planning a Part 2 for later in the year. As discussed at the workshop, please find a list of a 44 phonemes for your reference. Remember 'p' not 'per' and who ever knew how many phonemes was is 'psychologist'.

For those unable to attend here is a quick rundown:

Phonics starts with phonemic awareness and the matching of phonemes to single letters. At the same time it shows how these phonemes (sounds) can be 'blended' to produce words and the words can be ‘segmented’ to write.
Firstly, children learn simple letter to sound correspondence. This is when a phoneme is represented by a single letter as in the word /c/ /a/ /t/.
When that’s mastered children learn that sometimes one phoneme is represented by two letters; like in the word /ch/ /o/ /p/ (/ch/ is only one phoneme (sound))
Then after that, children should learn that sometimes a single phoneme can be represented many different ways. Like the sound /ay/ in play. Children will eventually learn that this phoneme can be written;
/ay/ as in the word play
/a-e/ as in the word spade
/ea/ as in the word break
/ey/ as in the word hey
/eigh/ as in the word eight
/a/ as in the word later
/ei/ as in the word vein

Get reading Right 44 phonemes chart 1

Craig Warner

Principal

Preparation for Super Saturday

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:41:45 AEDT

Tomorrow is the big day! The ground is ready, sprinklers are working and we are set to break the record. The festivities begin at 11am with access only through the car park. The event will proceed rain, hail or shine and many hands make light work. We hope to raise as much money as possible for Youth off the Streets and show our sponsors and media parties just how great the Jasper Rd community is. See you tomorrow!

Debating at Jasper Road PS

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 09:12:51 AEST

Students who have been involved in the Debating Program at Jasper Road PS have enjoyed outstanding success over many years. Stage 3 students who are interested in trying out for the Debating Teams attend the Western Sydney Debating Camp at Katoomba in March each year. Trials for two debating teams take place in Term 1 and 10 students are selected from a total of 25-30 who try out each year.

Two teams of 5 students each then participate in the Year 5 and 6 division of the Premier’s Debating Challenge, a comprehensive state-wide competition involving hundreds of teams and thousands of students in both primary and high schools. Western Sydney Region alone is comprised each year of between 85-100 teams. In each debate, the students select their topic and their affirmative / negative status in relation to the topic and receive only one hour of unassisted preparation time with no adult input regarding their ideas and arguments.

The Jasper Road Articulators team has progressed through four round debates, a Quarter Final and a Semi-Final debate to win the Western Sydney Final on five separate occasions, in 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014 and 2016. Each time that the team has won the Western Sydney Regional Final they have attended the Premier’s Debating State Championships at Stanwell Tops Conference Centre in November, competing against the winning schools from the state’s other nine regions.

Jasper Road Public School has won their regional debating final (Western Sydney Region) a greater number of times than any other individual school in NSW has won their regional final and then moved on to the Premiers Debating State Championships to represent their region.

The 2018 Jasper Road PS Articulators Debating Team will participate in a semi-final debate early in Term 4 and will hopefully move on to win a 6^th Western Sydney Final!

Paul Marshall

Jasper Road PS Debating Coach

Western Sydney Regional Debating Co-ordinator

Premier’s Spelling Bee

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:03:41 AEST

On Monday, 10 September, Jasper Road had the privilege of hosting a Regional final of the Premier’s Spelling Bee. Representatives from 20 schools attended to compete in both the Junior and Senior competitions and it was an invaluable experience for all involved. Jasper Road was lucky enough to be represented by Aisha K. and Elijah W. in the Junior Division and Dhaani B. and Jennifer W. in the Senior Division. Congratulations to each of them for their incredible efforts in a competition of such a high standard and a special thanks to Elijah for filling in at short notice due to an absence.

The ultimate winners on the day were Jonathan G. (Crestwood Public School) in the Junior Division and Deveash D. (Westmead Public School) in the Senior Division. Jasper Road congratulates them on their remarkable achievement.