York Public School in Penrith, New South Wales | Primary School

York Public School

Locality: Penrith, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4731 6577

Address: 224 Evan Street 2750 Penrith, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.york-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

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24.01.2022 This term Mr Lehuray and Mrs Linford have been running a lunchtime dodgeball competition for Stage 3. Congratulations to the Swans for finishing top of the leader board and winning the all important Golden Cup. Next term Stage 3 will have the opportunity to play in a Touch/Oztag lunchtime competition...... details to come.

24.01.2022 Today 6L and from the Penrith Panthers Brent Naden, Daine Laurie and Brayden McGrady did their weekly lesson focusing on resilience. Smiles all round and 6L looking forward to more lessons next term #mindchallenge #mentoringprogram

21.01.2022 K-6 Support Your Team- Yr 6 Fundraiser. Notes will be in your childs bag today. This Friday, 25th September all Sporting Codes.

20.01.2022 In the absence of PSSA during 2020, our wonderful House Captains have stepped up. Over the past two terms, they have set-up, scored and assisted in running lunchtime sporting competitions for Stage 3. After ten weeks and over 30 games, today was the Final of the dodgeball competition which saw the Swans defeat the Patriots 10 goals to 5. Students across Stage 3 have worked brilliantly together in mixed teams and have enjoyed themselves thoroughly. Well done everyone!

20.01.2022 There was a traffic incident involving a member of the public this afternoon at the corner of Maxwell and Evan St. Police and Ambulance have been in attendance and the member of the public has been taken to hospital. No students were involved. **Buses may be a little delayed due to traffic.

19.01.2022 3B sporting their finest colours!

19.01.2022 5/6N students have been absorbed in their creative process this week whilst working on Indigenously inspired art.

18.01.2022 Stage 3 working with the Panthers on fitness, resilience, and a healthy lifestyle!

18.01.2022 Congratulations we raised $850 today. Check out our favourite teams!

17.01.2022 Congratulations to our Stage 2 Yorkie ticket winners!

17.01.2022 REMINDER - Tomorrow Friday 25/9/2020 Support Your Team Mufti Day - Whole School 'Wear Your Team Colours' $2.00 Donation (Year 6 Fundraiser)

17.01.2022 5F makes every space a learning space. Enjoy some of 5F's Term 3 highlights.

16.01.2022 KW have spent this term learning about living things. We read a story called Where is the green sheep? To celebrate the end of term we created our own version of this book called Where is the teacher sheep?

16.01.2022 Attention: Parents of Year 6 students attending Year 7 in 2021 As part of our transition, Jamison High School usually holds a Year 6 into 7 BYOD information night to provide information to parents about the hardware and software specifications required for BYO computers at Jamison High School. Due to COVID-19 we are unable to hold this event this year. Please watch this video.

16.01.2022 Congratulations to the Stage Three class public speaking competition winners!

15.01.2022 Fun for Support your Team day!!

15.01.2022 Today the Stage 1 students celebrated the end of term with a Spring Fun Day. The students rotated through a number of activities like singing, play, flower craft, butterfly life cycles, gratitude flowers, yoga and poetry writing. The students and teachers had a great day.

14.01.2022 KB enjoyed a fun Friday of slushies and making fairy bread!

14.01.2022 Community Announcement- St Nicholas of Myra Sacramental Program - Confirmation There will be a meeting for parents who wish to enrol their children for the Sacrament of Confirmation. The meeting will be held in the Church on Tuesday 13th October at 7.00pm. Please note that you must attend this meeting in order to enrol your child in the program. Further information will be provided at the meeting. To be eligible to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, children must be baptised and made their First Holy Communion. They must also be in Year 5 or above.

13.01.2022 Today Kindergarten explored maths concepts. They enjoyed many different activities to build their learning about volume and capacity. They even made fairy bread to explore fractions 1/2 and 1/4 in everyday contexts.

13.01.2022 This week, 5L finished collating their fitness data from their Panthers on the Prowl group sessions. They then learnt how to use Google Sheets to create column and line graphs to represent their data. Finally, they imported their graphs to Google Slides to make a presentation that described their observations.

13.01.2022 Congratulations to our week 10, Stage 2 merit certificate recipients!

13.01.2022 Congratulations to our wonderful Stage 2, class public speaking competition winners!

12.01.2022 Well Done to our Year 5 students who made their speeches for voting of the 2021 Leadership Team yesterday - they were FANTASTIC. Parents of successful applicants will be contacted on Monday 7th December and the leaders will be announced at the Year 5 Presentation Day on Thursday 10th December.

10.01.2022 What a fantastic day we had enjoying our slushies. Thank you to the York Community for your support and Yr 6 of 2020 will use the funds raised to buy a lasting gift for the school. Also a huge thanks to Craig from CR Slush for assisting us with this fun day. #crslush

09.01.2022 CHRISTMAS CARDS - Due to COVID-19 students will be unable to hand out Christmas Cards this year. Teachers will be informing students in class. Thank you parents again for your understanding.

09.01.2022 Our 2021 Kindergarten students have enjoyed visiting York Public School on Thursday 19th and 26th November. They have met their 'buddies', taken part in SISA, literacy and numeracy activities. We look forward to you joining us next year!

08.01.2022 Stage 3 Sport Winners for week 10!

08.01.2022 TELL THEM FROM ME SURVEY Dear Parents and Caregivers, York Public School will be participating in the Tell Them From Me survey to gain insight on our school: from staff, parents and students. This survey is aimed at providing the school with key information about student engagement and wellbeing, as well as the impact of teaching practices. As York Public School values the opinions of the community we would be grateful for your participation in the survey to assist us in deve...loping future directions for our School Improvement Plan. Please use the link below to access the survey. All information shared is anonymous. http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/4482yps

07.01.2022 Volcanic eruptions in K-4C today!

07.01.2022 Dont forget TODAY Friday 25th: K-6 dress up in your favourite Sporting Team colours, $2 donation

07.01.2022 For more information ... www.lookgoodfeelgoodfitness.com.au/penrith

06.01.2022 1B were looking at some of the native plants Aboriginal people use in bush medicine and cooking.

05.01.2022 2K had lots of fun on their last day of school making their very own volcanoes!

05.01.2022 Explosion time

04.01.2022 Stage 3 have been working with Panthers on the Prowl focusing on team work/ resilience/ healthy lifestyles #PanthersOnTheProwl #6L

03.01.2022 4S have been working hard on refining their research skills to develop information reports. Over the past few weeks we have researched facts on a chosen animal and written a report based on that animal. After peer and teacher writing conferences, students then published their report into mini information books. Also, we decided to refine our research skill further by spending time researching Canada to farewell one of our classmates. 4S have worked amazingly hard during Term 3!

02.01.2022 Congratulations Stage Three week 10 merit award recipients!

01.01.2022 The students of our support units having lots of fun in their classrooms and the playground.