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Shortland Public School

Locality: Shortland

Phone: +61 2 4955 8476

Address: Sandgate Road 2307 Shortland, NSW, Australia

Website: https://shortland-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

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25.01.2022 UNIFORM SHOP INFORMATION Our uniform shop will be open on the following dates: Thursday 28, January 10am-12pm (pupil free day) Friday 29, January 8:30-9:30am Monday 1, February 8:30-9:30am... Tuesday 2, February 2:30-3pm Friday 3, February 8:30- 9:30am. We offer & encourage a contactless service, orders can be placed at https://quickcliq.com.au or email & bank transfer- see order form attached for details. Completed orders will be given to the students or left at the school office for our new starters. Please, do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries! See more

25.01.2022 Congratulations to the award winners from K-6M, K-6P and K-6H this week.

24.01.2022 6V had an exciting opportunity to pick their electives for High School 2021. The students are becoming more and more excited about moving on to Year 7!

23.01.2022 Mr Gibbs has been teaching our students about the importance of NAIDOC week. The students have loved learning more about our indigenous culture and getting painted up.

23.01.2022 It’s was a modified Book Week but we had so much fun!

23.01.2022 3/4M enjoyed learning in the sun this week when they worked together to make 1 square meter hopscotch games.

23.01.2022 Week 6 award winners

22.01.2022 Congratulations to the Week 9 awards winners.

22.01.2022 Download the Sentral Parent Portal App today for Shortland PS. Moving into 2021 this will be a great way to for us to communicate with parents and parents to communicate with Shortland PS. So sign up today. For IOS www.applestore.com or Android www.playgoogle.com

22.01.2022 Check out the great things happening in 2/3B, 3/4M, 4P, 5C and 6V!

22.01.2022 Due to no power we will not be able to have any lunch orders today sorry.

21.01.2022 During library lessons, Stage 2 created jellyfish from the packaging from our new laptops.

20.01.2022 Today our Stage 3 students have participated in a touch football Gala day. The students again represented our school with pride and did an awesome job. Well done Miss Varley and Mr Lucas for taking our students.

20.01.2022 Today we had our first Tadpoles session for the year, via Zoom. Thank you all the students who joined us on Zoom and we cannot wait to see you again next week. Remember, if you know a child starting Kindergarten in 2021 please ask their parent to contact our office for enrolment information.

19.01.2022 All our Leadership candidates for 2021 did a brilliant job presenting their election speeches. Voting has taken place and students will be notified of our leadership team by Friday, 20th Nov. Best of luck, everyone!

19.01.2022 Our Shortland PS students and staff are enjoying our recent lovely Spring weather.

18.01.2022 Week 5 Special Assembly

18.01.2022 TELL THEM FROM ME SURVEY Last chance to complete the parent surveys. It is really important that we receive parent input for future planning. We appreciate you taking the time to complete the surveys. https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/survey/splash/sps1

17.01.2022 Our final 2021 Kindergarten orientation session is on Wednesday afternoon with our Tadpoles Afternoon in the Shade. We can’t wait to see you.

17.01.2022 During Week 7 we celebrated Book Week at Shortland PS. It was a little different without our wonderful parents to have a parade with us but everyone had an awesome day all the same.

16.01.2022 Today we had our Under 12’s NRL team play in a gala day at Raymond Terrace. Our students all played very well & it was awesome to see the sportsmanship on display. Special shoutout to Anne C who scored 3 & Toby M who scored 2 tries respectively.

16.01.2022 Tell Them From Me Student Survey This term, our school, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in a Department of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey measures factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices. More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.ce...se.nsw.gov.au The survey is a great opportunity for our students to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. More than 6,300 schools in Australia and around the world have used Tell Them From Me to survey 5.4 million students. Capturing the voices of our students will help improve how we do things at our school. I want to assure you that the survey is confidential. The survey is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be done during school hours at the end of term. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary. A consent form for parents/carers about the survey is being sent home with students. If you do not want your child or children to participate, please return the form to school by 11th September 2020. Copies of the form and FAQs are available from: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents. The consent form and FAQs are available in 23 languages

16.01.2022 Hi All Looking forward to seeing our wonderful students tomorrow. The COVID-19 restriction that are still in place for Shortland PS are... Parents and carers can enter the school to: purchase or pick up uniforms from the uniform shop meet with school staff with an appointment drop off students for Kindergarten . attend parent orientation meetings for Kindergarten If entering Shortland PS you will need to use the NSW Service QR code and show the completed screen to the office. Further updates will follow as information is presented to Shortland PS from NSW Health. School staff will be at the gate to assist the student transition back to school. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow. Yours Sincerely Brendan Rodd Principal

15.01.2022 KB are working hard in Library creating strong shelters!

15.01.2022 Facebook rules of engagement In joining our community on Facebook, Shortland Public School follows the Department of Education Code of Conduct and Facebook’s Community Standards. Students ... Facebook Terms and Conditions state no one under the age of 13 years should have a Facebook profile. Therefore, any comments or page fans from primary students on the Shortland Public School page will be removed and, if warranted, users will be reported. Tagging or naming student photos Photos of students can only be published if the correct Department of Education permission to publish forms have been completed by the student’s parent or guardian. The photo must be removed after one year of publishing unless further permission from the parent is sought. For privacy and protection, please do not tag photos of children, and please do not name them in your comments, unless the previously mentioned permissions is sought. On rare occasions and with parental permission, students may be named by the school Facebook administration team. Tagging of parents or friends within the comment box is permitted with the understanding that all other rules of engagement are followed. Comments Shortland Public School encourages interaction from participants with the understanding that the school does not endorse comments or wall postings made by visitors to the page. We ask that visitors making comments on the page show respect for other users by ensuring discussions remain civil. Personal attacks, trolling or spam will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to remove comments that do not adhere to the rules of engagement of the page and Facebook’s community standards including comments that: are deemed racist, sexist, abusive, profane, violent, obscene, spam advocate illegal activity are wildly off-topic libel, incite, threaten or make personal character attacks on Shortland Public School students, employees, guests or other individuals. We reserve the right to remove any participant that does not adhere to the rules of engagement or Facebook’s Community Standards. Remember, your name and photo will be seen next to your comment, visible to all visitors to the page. We will not permit messages selling products or promoting commercial, political or other ventures. Moderation Hours This page is moderated from 9am to 3pm on weekdays.

15.01.2022 Sensory experiences provide great opportunities to practise writing our spelling words as well as the reason for a lot of smiles in K-6H. There was a lot of laughter in the room and students with bright, shining eyes!

14.01.2022 Notice: Significant damage to playground due to storm. School currently has no power. We will keep you updated. *** school is still operational, we have been told we won’t have power until later tonight. ********

14.01.2022 Hi Everyone, Students return Friday 29th January, 2021. We are all looking forward to seeing everyone's smiling faces and look forward to hearing how their holidays were.... Tomorrow I will also be placing a post to advise everyone of our current COVID-19 restrictions we have to have in place. Kind Regards Brendan Rodd Principal.

14.01.2022 If you have a child starting Kindergarten in 2021 please enrol now. Our kindergarten transition program will began very soon so please.contact our office for more information.

14.01.2022 Notes are going home today to outline our Diversity Day activities this week. Thursday 19th is all about fun activities and food tasting in the classroom and Friday 20th all students are encouraged to dress up. Please refer to the note for further details.

12.01.2022 2M have been enjoying some fun activities in the classroom and the playground.

12.01.2022 KB have been busy working with chalk pastels to create foxes and hens in Art. They're learning to blend and smudge colours together. What clever little artists!

12.01.2022 Kindergarten 2021 Today the siblings of Kindergarten 2021 children brought home a special package . It contained items to practice getting ready for school. ... There are also instructions to join us for two zoom meetings on Wednesday 16th September and Thursday 24th September both at 9.30am. Please keep the plastic sleeve with the craft activity labelled zoom package for these sessions to do with the teacher. We hope to meet some of you in our zoom session next week. Children who don't have siblings at the school will have theirs delivered over the next couple of days.

10.01.2022 Year 1 students learning to write interesting sentences.

10.01.2022 Pie Drive Our Pie Drive is up and running. Please see attached infromation on how to order. This is a great fundraiser, help support our wonderful P&C.

09.01.2022 6V have been using their savvy technology skills in coding lessons with Miss Varley.

09.01.2022 Social Media Alert - Disturbing Content You maybe aware of distressing reports about disturbing videos circulating social media platforms. eSafety has contacted social media companies about the reports and will continue working with them to monitor the situation. We would advise parents/ guardians to keep their children off social media for the next couple of days.... The eSafety commissioner is encouraging people who encounter this content to report it to the social media platform they’ve seen it on, or to eSafety at www.esafety.gov.au/report/illegal-harmful-content.

08.01.2022 Education Week Video from our wonderful Support Unit students

08.01.2022 Congratulations to our 10’s Rugby League side who participated in an NRL gala day at Raymond Terrace. All of our students did an awesome job and displayed great sportsmanship. A highlight of the day was great win against Wirrapaang PS.

08.01.2022 Last Friday, 6V submitted their completed projects for the STEM assignment on how to make schools a waste free environment. We have received confirmation today that 6V were successful in moving onto the next round which will commence at the beginning of term 4. Well done 6V!

07.01.2022 This will be the last week for borrow from the library. All books are due back to school by Friday 27 November. I will be sending out overdue notices. Please have a look for the books and return to our library. Thank you to everyone who has borrowed this year.... Cheers Mrs Dyett Teacher Librarian. See more

07.01.2022 SWIMMING CARNIVAL Notes and money are due Friday 12/2/21. There are events planned for every student including non-swimmers. Wear your house colours and come prepared to cheer your house on to victory!

05.01.2022 We have a new website! Click the link to check it out - https://shortland-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/ *Site is regularly updated by the department and the school.

04.01.2022 P&C Meeting Thursday, 4 Feb 2021, 6:30pm in the Library. If anyone would like to join us via zoom - please send an email to... [email protected] and we will have the zoom link available to you. Looking forward to working with our school community in 2021. SPS P & C Association

04.01.2022 Update: The power is back on & the clean up of debris is underway. We will be running with reduced playground areas for the coming days whilst the cleanup continues. A special thank you to our wonderful staff and students who did a fabulous job under some tricky circumstances today.

04.01.2022 ENROL NOW FOR KINDERGARTEN 2021. Contact the office for information.

03.01.2022 P&C Meeting Shortland Public School P&C Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Shortland Public School P&C Association's Personal Meeting Room... Join Zoom Meeting https://au01web.zoom.us/j/9149226668 Meeting ID: 914 922 6668 Passcode: 652204

02.01.2022 Week 8 class award winners. Congratulations for continuing to uphold our school values.

02.01.2022 This week we are surveying our parents about our school through the Tell Them From Me Survey. In previous years this survey has helped the school to make informed decisions about our school. Please use the link below to complete the survey. https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/survey/splash/sps1

02.01.2022 KB & K-1A drew Fred howling at the moon from the book, My Friend Fred.

01.01.2022 Congratulations to the Week 6 award winners

01.01.2022 The Power of Parent workshop supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People in 2020. This FREE 60 minute online session is presented by Dr Stephen Spencer to give key understandings and practical strategies to help support your child when they need you most. Stephen has extensive experience as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in the acute mental health inpatient unit. Date: Tuesday 22nd September, 2020... Cost: Free Location: Online https://www.eventbrite.com/e/power-of-parenting-tickets-120

01.01.2022 Check out these amazing cicadas that our Stage 2 students drew with Mrs Dyett in Library. They were inspired after reading Searching for Cicadas.

01.01.2022 Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 have been 'learning together' and collaborating in class with our peers and teachers. Check out what has been happening in our classes.