Northern Round Up

North has some exciting programs that will operate in 2025. 

The first program is our North S.T.A.R. Program. This program will operate for students in Year 4 to Year 6. The program is designed to enhance the learning of student that are performing highly in English and Mathematics and push them further. All students selected for this program will be placed in this class for the first semester in 2025. Students will need to maintain their performance throughout the semester to maintain their position in the class. We are so pleased to be able to provide a program that is designed to extend our students and see them reaching for the stars. 

Our second program that will return to North in 2025 is our own Northern Lights Program. This program operated in 2023 with great success. The program was discontinued in 2024 and the resources were used elsewhere. However the need for this program remains. We are pleased to announce that out Northern Lights Program will return in 2025 and will sit beside our Northern Lights classes and operate with a similar model. Students like the North STAR program will be placed for a semester and then evaluated at the end of Semester 1 to determine the needs of the students for Semester 2.

These two great programs will allow the school to cater more for the needs of our students. We will discuss these programs in more details soon.  

As the term draws to a close, the school begins to move towards our 2025 new student intake. Our new 2025 Kindergarten will commence their orientation program on Wednesday 30 October, the third week of term 4. After three great sessions, next week will be our final Orientation Program for 2024. We thank Miss Laing for supporting our students during this program.

Additional dates for orientation will be held on:

• Thursday 21 November (Term 4 Week 6)

We anticipate a much larger Kindergarten in 2025 than this year. We look forward to working with our new students and seeing the progress they make throughout 2025.

Please pass on details to any families that you know who are looking at starting school in 2025. Orientation is an exciting opportunity to begin to learn about 'Big School', so we do not want anyone to miss out on the fun. 

Goulburn North PS would like to thank our amazing P&C for the purchase of amazing Reading and Mathematics Resources.

These resources are valued at roughly $6000 and was made possible through the efforts of the 2024 Fireworks. These resources are being used to support teachers with meeting the needs of the new syllabus.

Also a huge thank you to Mrs Cameron and Ms Caffery for unboxing and setting up the resources in a nice easy way for staff to locate and use then resources in the classroom.

Our Student Leadership Program is currently being revised for 2025. The initial outline was shared in the previous edition of the Northern Round Up. The new program will include the following:

• The formation of a School Parliament, which will increase student voice in school programs and initiatives.
• Our Ministers will be paired with a staff mentor. The two will be involved with developing the portfolio which will increase opportunities for our students to show leadership qualities and be guided by staff in the various portfolios. The portfolios will be related to staff programs and interested eg. Minister for Sport and Recreation working with Miss Franchi.
• Students in middle classes will elect Members of Parliament. These members will attend parliament and represent the views of their class. As they did in the former SRC program.
• Ministers will be provided the opportunity to attend the GRIP Leadership conference in the ACT as a special excursion to broaden their knowledge in student leadership.
• Ministers will also attend a personal excursion to Parliament House in Canberra to experience what parliaments are like. This has not been done in the past.
• School Ministers will be inducted at Presentation Day towards the end of Term 4.

The new system will reduce the student leaders from 10 in previous years to 8 from 2025 onwards. This will also assist with the current school enrolment trend. 2025 will be our first year of the new system, we will continue to refine and review the model throughout the year to ensure it is meeting the expectations of the program. This may shape how it will be implemented in 2026. We are excited that our students will get more of a voice in the decision making process at school. We look forward to the official opening of the school parliament in 2025 and hope that you will consider attending this event.

Leadership Roles:

2 x Prime Ministers (school captains)

6 x Ministers of Parliament (prefects)

-        Minister for Junior Affairs

-        Minister for Technology, Communication and Functions

-        Minister for Wellbeing

-        Minister for Environment, Lands and Health

-        Minister for Education

-        Minister for Sport and Recreation

In early 2025, house captains will be elected, and they will be known as Representatives for …

-        Representative for Mulwaree

-        Representative for Abercrombie

-        Representative for Goodradigbee

-        Representative for Wollondilly

SRC representatives will be known as:

-        Members of Parliament

In line with the new leadership roles and the parliament style of leadership, we will be running ‘Parliament’ twice a Term allowing students to share their ideas, successes and gain insight into what is happening within the school.

The principal, Mr Marshall will be known as the Governor General and all teachers as the Senate. This will ensure that Parliament is run successfully and there is support from all members of staff.

Our 2025 draft Ministers are as follows:

As we move into Term 4, we are changing our current stance on stationery needs of our students. All students will be asked to supply their own basic stationery needs at school. The need for students to take some ownership and responsibility in this area has increased over the years. We are hoping that this sense of ownership over the supply will lead to our students taking great care with their supplies. Part of this plan will be that equipment will be sent home each Friday. This will allow our community to review your children's current equipment levels and resupply as needed.

The school has created this list based on basic Kmart resources. This ensures it is accessible and fairly low in cost. You do have the flexibility of adjusting the brands and exact purchases based on what is available and meets the needs of the list. 

The cost of a K-3 stationery supply is roughly $13, whilst a 4-6 stationery supply is slightly higher at around $17.

The school will continue to have a small supply to help with meeting the needs of those student who forget their pencil case or who are unable to purchase the required equipment.

If you have any questions regarding this, please contact your child's classroom teacher or team leader.

We are very proud to announce that we have 3 students who will be representing Goulburn North Public School at the Goulburn/Crookwell PSSA Age Champion Ceremony on November 28th at Wollondilly Public School.  This is an amazing achievement for these students! Congratulations! 

Eli L
10 Year Old Boys Cross Country Age Champion
Junior Boys Athletics Age Champion

Hannah B
Junior Girls Athletics Age Champion

Alicia B 
12/13 Year Old Girls Age Champion

Get your Colour on, Goulburn North PS is hosting a Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun!

Our Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun will be held on December 4th, 2024.

Not only are we hosting an awesome Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun, students can also order up to a total of 5 prizes based on their donations received. They can even mix and match! Don’t want the prizes, donate your donations to one of the five causes – Carbon Neutral (tree planting), Great Barrier Reef Foundation (coral planting or turtle protection), The Smith Family (reading support) or OzHarvest (providing meals).

Students have received a sponsorship book with instructions on setting up their cybersafe, online fundraising profile at www.australianfundraising.com.au. This is an entirely online fundraiser; all cash donations must be converted to online donations to redeem your prizes. The cut off date for fundraising has been moved to the end of Week 3, Term 4.

«  Online Golden Coins – complete fun online tasks to redeem an extra $75 towards your prize credit.

«  Monty the Monstar’s Bonus Prizes – achieve milestones to unlock Monty’s bonus prizes.

«  $10,000 Budget Booster Bonanza Spending Spree for one organisation’s highest fundraising student

«  Our school will win an extra $5,000 if we have the highest average fundraised amount per student in 2024.

«  A Play Station 5 Gaming Bundle – see your child’s sponsorship booklet for more!

For more information, please contact Miss Martin or Ms Caffery on 4821 3838.

Term 4 assemblies for 2024.

We would love to share our Whole School Assemblies with our community. Save the date below and come along and share in these treasured occasions.

• Presentation Day - Wednesday 11 December, GPAC commencing at 4.30pm 

The canteen is open weekly this year on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, and if anyone is interested in helping out in the canteen to please contact Sharon, our canteen manager on 0428 259 791. 

Kind Regards

Sharon