Dear Families,

Parent Survey 

Each year, our school collects feedback from parents and carers. Please click HERE to complete the Parent Survey by 9am, 24 November. By completing the survey your child/children will go into a draw to win a Valley Cafe lunch on Wednesday's lunch order day (Wednesday 26/11). 

P&C Meeting

Our next P&C meeting is on Dec 4th, at 7pm. It will be our last P&C meeting of the year. We hope to see you there. 

Santa Photos

Friendly reminder to book your family Santa photos so you don't miss out! You can book here: https://www.jamberoopandc.com.au/ 

Our P&C is gearing up for this year’s School Fun Run, which will take place on Thursday 12 December at 2.00 pm after our Presentation Day Assembly. This event also serves as an important fundraiser for our school, and families are encouraged to get involved by creating an online profile at funrun.com.au and supporting their child’s fundraising efforts. 

Students will pack clothes for the Colour Run in their bags and each class will have an opportunity to change after the assembly, into their colour run clothes (most children wear white, but anything comfy for exercise is great). 

Week 7 - Student Leadership

Captain and Vice-Captain 2026 speeches will be held on Friday of week 7 after school sport. Students can make A4 posters - please do not exceed 8 posters. All written applications for technology team members and library monitors are to be submitted either to Mrs Green or Miss Louttit by Friday, week 7. House Captains will be voted for on Thursday, week 7. Students may present an optional 30 second speech. We encourage our senior students to apply for all the leadership roles they feel are a good fit for their strengths and interests.

Last week, our Year 6 students visited Kiama High School for their first transition afternoon. They experienced two high school classes and gained a taste of what next year will bring. Students will participate in one more afternoon visit before attending a full transition day. A big thank you to Mr Reed, who stepped in on short notice to support our Year 6s.

Jamberoo Community Preschool Visits

Today, we welcomed our Jamberoo Community Preschool friends and they will continue their visits on Wednesday and Thursday. The children are enjoying a range of activities this week, including sport and games, library sessions and science. We look forward to sharing some photos with you in our next newsletter.

On Monday, Mrs Behl-Shanks, Mrs Galea and I attended a School Excellence Plan reflection day at Kiama Public School. Once we gather valuable feedback from our families and students to support our progress measures, we will be well ahead of finalising our plan. Our Annual Report, which reflects what we have achieved this year, will be published at the end of Term 1, 2026.

On 11 November, we held our Remembrance Day service, led by our school leaders Sienna, Zane, Indi and Luca. Samara sensitively delivered the 'In Flanders Fields' poem, while Ava and Maleah supported with technology. We were fortunate to have Mr Michael Souter from the RSL Club join us. Students placed flowers on the stage as a symbol of remembrance, and Mr Souter was deeply moved by the respect shown by our students.

Last week, our school was bursting with colour and craziness. Students arrived with an incredible range of hairstyles – from bright mohawks and glitter braids to cupcake space buns, mermaid hair and even a few gravity-defying masterpieces! It was wonderful to see so many children embracing the fun. Thank you to everyone who brought in a gold coin. Our jelly cups were a huge hit, with excited lines of students ready to enjoy the treat. Please see photos below. 

Inclusive School Sport - Multi Sports

Last week a small group of students, Mrs Kunkler, Miss Griffith and Mrs McGee attended inclusive school sport. Multi-Sports Day is fun and inclusive of all students, with sports modified and adapted to suit the needs of students. The children had a great day yesterday trying new and different sports. Photos will be added to our next newsletter. 

Class Placement 2026 Process

We take great care to ensure each student is placed in the most appropriate classroom setting. When forming our stage 2 and 3 composite classes, we consider a range of factors, including balancing class sizes and compositions, peer relationships, social and emotional needs, learning support requirements, behavioural considerations, dynamics of students working together, teacher placement and funding. Our goal is always to create well-balanced and supportive learning environments where every child can thrive. JPS is fortunate to have a team of dedicated and highly skilled teaching professionals. Please note that requests for specific teachers will not be considered. 

Kind regards,

Katie Louttit

Rel. Principal

We had a great time in gardening this week, giving all the plants a big drink of water, weeding and tying up the new dahlia plants. We were also super-excited to get our new wheelchair-accessible garden bed up and running. This has been a labour of love for about a year now, and it's so great to see it come to fruition. I'd like to say a big thank you to Jamberoo CWA who have funded this project, Lisa Bowker (OT) who has helped with the measurements and Kiama Men's Shed, for building and delivering the bed! This garden bed is outside the veggie garden area, next to the concrete. We have filled it with potting mix, watered it in and mulched it with lucerne hay. It will be ready for planting when we return in 2026! Hurray! Students went home with lots of yummy vegetables on Tuesday. Mrs McCormack

This week in Kindergarten, we have been busy exploring our creativity through drama, art, and English. During our drama lessons, the children used voice, language, mime, and movement to express their feelings and bring different characters to life. They have been learning how to use their bodies and facial expressions to show emotion and to work together with others to create short performances. It has been wonderful to see their confidence grow as they take on new roles, share ideas, and show awareness of themselves and others within the performance space.

In art, we have continued to develop our fine motor skills and creativity by making colourful underwater turtle scenes. The children began by drawing their own turtles, then painted beautiful ocean backgrounds using watercolours. They learned how to twist crepe paper to make seaweed (a trickier technique than it looks) and carefully arranged it to complete their underwater designs. Each piece of artwork is unique and shows the students’ growing attention to detail and pride in their work.

In English, we have been learning about the long vowel sounds and how a magic e (sometimes called a bossy e) changes the sound of a word—for example, turning ‘cap’ into ‘cape’ or ‘hop’ into ‘hope’. Students enjoyed listening for these sounds in stories and writing sentences together. They are becoming more confident in recognising vowel patterns and applying this knowledge when reading and writing.

It has been a wonderful week of learning through imagination, creativity, and play!

Mrs Galea

Over the past few weeks, Birrahlee students have worked tirelessly writing, timing, practising, editing, and perfecting their Jamberoo Jabber speeches. I am so impressed with both the content of their speeches as well as the manner that they have delivered them. Just as impressive has been the respect shown to each speaker by their captive audience. Congratulations Birrahlee! You are all winners in my eyes!

Mrs Kunkler

In maths, we’ve been learning about fractions, including halves, quarters, eighths and thirds. Students have shown excellent focus and determination as they work to understand and represent fractions in different ways.

This term, we’ve also been very lucky to have Mrs Green teaching our handwriting lessons. The students have been producing beautiful, neat work and look forward to each session — especially when Mrs Green brings out her special scratch-and-sniff stickers as a reward for their effort and presentation!

Mrs Peterson

Last month, I went to the Berry Writers Festival to see Craig Silvey, the author of Honeybee, Runt, Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping and many more, get interviewed. Our tickets came with complimentary food and books (Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping). I even got to get my copies signed by Craig Silvey and got a photo with him. I donated 2 of my signed copies to the library for students to read.-Kiara

To help keep our library books in great condition, we ask that all students bring a library bag when borrowing books. A bag keeps books dry, clean, and protected, helping them last longer for all our readers to enjoy.

Please check that your child has a library bag each week so they can safely borrow and return books. Thank you for helping us look after our library collection!

Mrs Green

Each year, Elders Real Estate generously sponsors 2 Jamberoo Students to follow their Creative and Performing Arts dreams!

This AMAZING scholarship will pay for the lucky winners to pursue extra classes, training programs, ensembles and workshops that will help springboard them to the next level in their chosen field.

To apply, students are required to submit a short video explaining WHY they want to pursue their chosen program and HOW it will benefit them.

Students must be in years 4, 5 or 6 to apply.

Applications close Friday 13 February 2026.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.jamberoopandc.com.au/capa-scholarship

OR email Sarah at srussoniello@gmail.com

GOOD LUCK!

We can’t wait to see all the AMAZING talent in our fabulous school!

A friendly reminder that our Santa Photos event is just around the corner — one of the most loved days on the school calendar and our biggest fundraiser of the year!

We need some more volunteers, so if you are available, please follow the link to choose your time and provide your details: https://forms.gle/wLxmKn1UamnJ8yFE7

We can’t wait to see everyone at Santa Photos, click here to purchase tickets.

Regards,

Jamberoo Public School P&C

As you know, the Colour Fun Run is happening on 12 December 2025. It's going to be a fantastic afternoon. You won't want to miss out on the fun and end of year celebrations.

Last Friday, all students will be going home with a wrist band. Each wristband will have a unique code. The student with the winning code will win $500.00 worth of prize credits. WOW!

Make sure your child is registered by creating their online profile at funrun.com.au so that they have a chance of winning their target prize. There are so many amazing prizes to win (and the $500.00 worth of prize credits will go a long way!)

Many thanks,

Jamberoo Public School P&C