ZIG ZAG Public School

Welcome to Week 6 of Term 1

This year the school’s Behaviour Support Management Plan has been developed and is now published on the School website for your information.

https://zigzag-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/rules-and-policies.html#Behaviour2

Zig Zag Public School is committed to explicitly teaching and modelling positive behaviour and to supporting all students to be engaged with their learning.

We value and strive to develop a Safe, Learning Place in a caring learning community.

Principles of positive behaviour support, trauma informed practice, inclusive practice, and social emotional learning underpin our daily practice.

As a staff we have reviewed the practices in place and after consultation with the students we have made minor changes to our “Go for Gold” Reward system and to our Playground Game Management for 2025.

Behaviour Award system  - “Go for Gold”

Week 1 and 2 –  0 to 1 behaviour entry = Coal award

Week 3 and 4 - 0 to 1 behaviour entry = Bronze award

Week 5, 6 and 7 - 0 to 1 behaviour entry = Silver award

Week 8, 9 and 10 – 0 to 1 behaviour entry = Gold Award

•   Note: No more than 4 behaviour entries per term =  GOLD award is earned back, each term (excluding suspension cautions and suspensions)
•   Diamond Pin awarded to students with 0- 1 behaviour entries ALL     year (excludes GOLD award earn backs and is subject to Principal     decision based on incidents.)

Playground Game Management

We are trialling a new direction for the management of playing games in the playground this year. Students who interrupt the fair and agreeable playing of games in the playground, will be given a red card, which means they will be excluded from playing organised “GAMES” for a week (rather than banning the game to all students). The students were consulted on this process and the majority feel this is a much fairer way of dealing with rule breaking, bossy and unfair play that exists in our playground.

I am very proud of how sensible, responsible and fair our students are, when I discuss behaviour issues with them as a collective group. 

We are all working together to ensure our school is a SAFE LEARNING PLACE for ALL.

Kind Regards

Vicki Gillmore

We would like to congratulate Harrison Elijah and Jack on being selected to represent Lithgow and Zig Zag Public School at the Western Sports Swimming Trials held in Dubbo.

Congratulations also to Harrison for attending the Western Sports Basketball Trials 

We are very proud of your achievements.

Clean Up Australia Day – Whole School in Action!

Our students rolled up their sleeves and took action for Schools Clean Up Australia Day!

Armed with gloves, bags, and a whole lot of enthusiasm, they worked together to pick up rubbish within our school and surrounding areas, making a real difference to our environment.

Learning about taking responsibility, learning the impact of waste, and showing that small actions can lead to big change.

Well done boys and girls!

Our Year Six students had a fantastic time exploring the solar system with Lithgow High School Science!

They observed the sun through a solar telescope, modelled the day-night cycle, and investigated how seasons change.

Hands-on experiments and outdoor learning brought our Earth & Solar System unit to life.

A big thank you to Lithgow High School Science for inspiring our future scientists!

These students put their colour theory knowledge to the test!

After learning about primary and secondary colours in digital art, they got hands-on with paint mixing experiments—discovering just how fun red, yellow, and blue can be.

Their palettes came to life with endless possibilities.

Our energetic Year 3/4 class got their hands dirty, weeding and tidying up the garden.

The best part?

Our chooks are back from their holiday and were very excited to receive a feast of fresh weeds!

Our 3-6 young AECG students had a fantastic day of learning led by mentors from the Heartbeat program.

They participated in sand art, painting, a science activity to make mini lava lamps and learnt about some Dreaming stories.

Our 4/5 students were exploring how to tint and shade secondary colours digitally. 

Then they explored this skill with paint!

We had a great discussion about the differences and preferences of working with digital and acrylic colours.

Thank you for all your donations of school supplies. Due to the amazing support we have received the school is running out of storage space.  We ask anyone wanting to donate items, please wait until term 3 when there will be more space and we will see if anything else is needed. 

We have some exciting things planned for this term. Kicking off with the Easter raffle, morning tea of hot cross buns and milk after the Easter hat parade. 

Keep an eye out in backpacks for notes about these as the dates get closer. 

Canteen is opening up  this week and we look forward to serving the kids their lunches and to seeing them at second lunch every second week. 

P&C meetings are the first Thursday of the month at 3pm in the canteen, everyone is more than welcome to attend.

Thank you for all your amazing support.

Zig Zag Public School P & C

To view more photos from our activities at Zig Zag please visit our facebook page on the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/zzpublicschool/