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2425 Cecil Plains Road Biddeston
Via OAKEY Q 4401
Phone (07) 4691 6145 Fax (07) 4691 6133
Email: the.principal@biddestoss.eq.edu.au Web Site: www.biddestoss.eq.edu.au
Thursday 18th May 2017 17/15
The Biddeston Bulletin The Newsletter of the Biddeston School
Newsletter articles: staffbss@biddestoss.eq.edu.au
Mobile Phone: 0409 896 233
BPOINT BPOINT is available with Mastercard, Visa Debit or Credit Cards
but NOT Keycards. One invoice, one amount. Parents will need to enter the CRN
(Customer Reference Number) for each invoice. Parents or other customers can make payments on school
invoices from home and office or from smartphones. Why BPOINT? It is the SAFEST method for payment of accounts. It is our school’s aim to eliminate cash payments except for amounts less than $10.
WHAT’S COMING!! 22 Centenary Meeting 6pm 23 ICAS Digital Technologies Challenge 26 TRAX Sports Education Day 30 ICAS Science Challenge June 9 School Performance Tour ‘Journey to centre of Earth’ 14 ICAS Spelling 15 Interhouse Athletics
CHECKLIST RECYCLE ALUMINIUM CANS and support the Biddeston
School Playgroup. Collection bags at the school AND the Biddeston Store.
Recycle your newspapers at Biddeston – any day! PLEASE ensure that ONLY newspaper, magazines & junk mail are deposited in the bins – definitely NO plastic of any nature, cardboard or shredded paper or ANY FOREIGN MATTER.
NO soiled baby nappies to be placed in ANY bins at the school.
25 Lacee Peters
02 Ace Smith 12 Letiesha Shaw
13 Mrs Wilson 23 Mrs Mason
23 Jessica Ziebell
To
Fletcher Voll
For massive improvement in his spelling knowledge
We’re proud of you, Fletch.
PRINCIPAL’S PEN Dear Parents, Families and Community Members,
With much excitement afoot today for Under 8s Day, it has been a wonderful time celebrating this year’s theme: Children are playing Country to Coast – Inspiring learning in the early years through play. There was play and fun to be had by all. Thank you Mrs Mason, Mrs Shaw and Ms Ribot for the organisation and running of this important event for our school and cluster of schools. Thank you to our wonderful ladies in the tuckshop ensuring all students and adults were amply catered for. A true team effort for our precious children!
Congratulations to our soccer teams who travelled to Pittsworth last Friday and demonstrated their soccer prowess and more importantly, their sportsmanship, with one of our Biddeston teams winning the grand final. Thank you to Mr Young and Mr Morris for their time and effort on this event. We have some talented students who have been selected for the Rossvale soccer team to play in Toowoomba at a future soccer carnival. Well done Ace, Cianna, Ruby, Nick H, Fletcher, Dustin, Danielle, Nicholas D, Charlotte, Eva and Zarcody. What a fine effort.
We currently have our musical students in Years 3 to 6 attending the annual Choir Camp in Pittsworth, being run by Mrs Wheeldon. The final concert to showcase the students’ learning over the three days will be held at the Pittsworth Town Hall from 7pm for a gold coin donation. Thank you to Mrs Wheeldon for sharing her expertise in offering this opportunity and thank you to Mrs Huffam for being our school representative in generously giving her time to be there each day, assisting students.
This term in English the Year 2/3 students have been working towards writing a persuasive letter. They have learned about modality and evaluative language, giving their opinion and including supporting detail to justify their stance. They are learning to make comparisons and connect events from a story to their personal experience. The Year 4/5/6 students have practised both narrative and persuasive writing techniques. Students will also listen to, read and view novels and films with a range of characters involving flashbacks or shifts in time. They will create a written comparison of a novel and the film version of the novel. Everyday learning tip: The social and emotional learning that students experience through the Respectful Relationships education program can be reinforced informally at home. A suggestion for engaging your child and consolidating their social and emotional learning: Encourage and model positive interaction with others.
Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible The students have been reminded of the importance of being punctual after play and being back in class on time, ready to learn.
There will be no athletics next week, with athletics resuming on Tuesday 30th June. The remaining sessions will be run on the following dates: Tuesday 6th, Wednesday 7th, Tuesday 13th, Wednesday 14th, Tuesday 20th and Tuesday 21st.
TRAX Sports Education Tours that South West Indigenous Network (SWIN) will be running in the Dalby/Jondaryan area will visit our school on Friday 26th May 11:50am to 1:15pm. SWIN will bring accredited Development Officers from State or National Sporting Organisations to run sessions at the school. This is intended to give students the opportunity to try different sports and to promote a healthy lifestyle through sport. These sessions are always a lot of fun for the students. For this TRAX Tour, the following sports will be represented: Queensland Touch Football, National Rugby League, Golf Queensland, Hockey Queensland, Baseball Queensland, Indigenous Traditional Games (SWIN). The TRAX sessions are completely FREE, and open to all students to participate. All Officers and Staff that run the activities have blue cards and relevant accreditation to conduct the activities. We are very excited to have this opportunity at our school.
Shooting for the Stars will be run on Tuesday 23rd May for selected students. Have a great day!
The very popular P&C Thermomix winning ticket was drawn last Friday, with Sarah Kelly being the very lucky winner. Thank you to Mel for organising this and to all who sold and bought tickets. The next P&C meeting is Monday 5th June at 4pm in the library. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Assistant Regional Director Mr Graeme Lacey (ARD) will be visiting the school on Friday 26th May from 11:30am to discuss student achievement and school progress.
Centenary Preparations Did you know the Principal’s residence was built in 1964? Before that the Principal and head teachers boarded with local families. No excuses for homework not done in that family! The next Centenary meeting is on Monday 22nd May at 6pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome and if you know of community members who may be interested, please invite them along. The Centenary will be held on Saturday 19th October 2019.
Congratulations to past student, Olivia Holgate who represented her high school, St Ursula’s at the recent Maths Team Challenge and being a member of the winning team. Well done, Olivia! We are very proud of our students, present and past.
Have a lovely weekend.
Kind Regards, Sharon
CHOIR CAMP NEWS Day one of Choir Camp was a great success with all of our Biddeston students having a great day of singing and dancing. Today soloist singers and dancers etc will be chosen Mrs Wheeldon and her great team of volunteers have done a great job getting ready for this event. The next two days will be really busy for all of the children involved . The Concert on Friday night promises to be great and well worth the gold coin donation See you there Regards .. Kate Huffam
Found: Ladies ring. If you have lost a ring, please call into the office to claim it.
P & C Association
The next meeting will be held on Monday 5th June 2017 at 4:00pm
AGENDA:
P&C Contacts: President: Danielle Lorenz 0408 074 801 Vice President: Ian Speed 0402 227 206 Secretary: Kate Cooke 0438 307 044 Treasurer: Mel Patch 0448 494 639
General:
Fundraising: Uniforms For any uniform orders, please text Belinda Strasser to arrange suitable time for fitting and pick up. Belinda will be at school Friday mornings.
Belinda Strasser 0421 774 599
Tuckshop Take-away Meals are back for Week 6. Orders in
by 9am on Monday. Week 6 Spaghetti Meatballs
On the weeks of State of Origin, take-away meals of PIZZA will be available on the Wednesday afternoon.
TUCKSHOP BAKING Week 6 K. Norton B. Strasser C. Ribot
Week 7 M. Patch A. Garthe M. Keutmann
Week 8 G. Hart K. Buckley A. Fiechtner
Week 9 ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
Week 10 A. Bess K. Werth G. Hart
Heidi Kruger & Jeanette Ziebell
At Biddeston State School
every THURSDAY from 9-11am
We wish to acknowledge the sponsorship of the following
business. Please consider their business.
Centenary Recipe Book Keep those recipes coming! Don’t think – oh, we’ve got plenty of time. We need to get started now. Please refer to attachment from Week 7 for details.
Host a Japanese Student
Oakey State High School will be hosting a
visit from Ena City in a program conducted by AIIU from 31st
July to the 7th August. There will be 23 Students coming – 13
Girls & 10 Boys, each student has an individual Homestay experience!!
Share your lifestyle & home while experiencing another culture.
Daily program (Mon‐Fri) organized by a Coordinator
Japanese language not necessary
Normal Australian meals
A stipend of $25 per night will be given to Host Families to assist with hosting costs.
Your family will benefit from the experience
For further information, please phone Allyson
on 4693 1208 or 0409 059 438 or uzz25@bigpond.com
A big ‘shout out’ to all our wonderful Mums………………
COMMUNITY NOTICES
KATE HUFFAM Qualified Justice of Peace
By appointment ONLY
Phone 0402 303 164
CAN YOU HELP??? There’s a Mum with two little boys looking for
a rental property in the area (not Oakey). We’re asking if you can help, to get in touch
with Kate Cooke on 0438 307 044.
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