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PRINCIPAL REPORT NEWSLETTER WEEK 4 TERM 3 2018 TLLC ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS Our annual Tuggerah Lakes Learning Community Academic Awards of Excellence was held on Wednesday at Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College, The Entrance Campus where 10 Stage 3 students from BBPS were recognised for excellence in academic areas. It is a pleasure to join with our learning community to acknowledge high quality achievement. Congratulations to Angus, Liliana, Ella, Ashleigh, Cohen, Finnegan, Kassia, Kynan, Jack K and Cooper. RAIN DANCE FOR FARMERS Our Student Representative Council have elected to support famers as their fundraising cause for this year. The students have decided to hold their discos on Tuesday 28 August, increasing their usual admittance fee to $4.00 with all monies raised going to ‘Buy a Bale’ for drought effected areas. A number of students have asked if they are allowed to donate more of their money to this cause if they wish, so we will accept any monies donated on the evening of the disco.

As per usual, the Years K-2 Disco will run from 4.30-5.30 pm and the Years 3-6 Disco from 6.00-7.00 pm. The dress theme for the night is ‘a farmer’s life’.

We will also run a coin donation during our Fathers’ Day Breakfast on Friday 31 August for any families wishing to participate. Several teachers will be coming around with buckets and visiting adults are invited to donate a gold coin to the bucket collection. We will be providing ‘donation’ baskets for families during the week of 27-31 August, where families are welcome to donate non-perishable goods e.g. cans of food, shampoo, toothpaste etc., which we will organise to have distributed to farming families in need.

BBPS is also supporting Terrigal High Schools “Doing it for our Farmers Donation Drive”. (See attached flyer for details). They are an official collection point for non- perishable food items and household items. These items can be dropped off to Terrigal High School’s main office up to 5.00pm from Monday to Friday.

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK As an ongoing measure to review and strengthen our procedures, we regularly ask for input from our community.

We will be utilising the 360 Reflection Tool, which is an online survey, to seek the views and thoughts of families regarding a range of areas across our school. This week, families who receive their newsletter by email should receive this survey. We hope you will take a few minutes to complete this, so we can have a rich and detailed picture of our community’s thoughts, in order to examine our

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current practices with a view to continuous improvement. The survey is anonymous, with all responses being sent directly to the 360 Reflection Team within the Department of Education. They correlate the data and send detailed reports back to the school for our analysis. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me. KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS 2019 A reminder that if you have a child starting Kindergarten in 2019 to collect an application form from the office. If you know of any families in our area with children beginning school next year, please ask them to visit the school office also. We will have commenced our planning for 2019 and student enrolment numbers have a large impact on this planning.

PREMIER’S SPELLING BEE Congratulations to Zachary and Jayden in Stage 2 and Jack and Jacob in Stage 3 for their successful participation in the school Spelling Bee Challenge, winning their stage diversions. They will now compete at the Regional Finals at Peats Ridge Public School against other school winners. We wish them all the very best.

NEW FLAGS Emma McBride out local Federal Representative will be joining the students at our morning assembly on Friday 24 August to present new Australian flags for us to replace our current flags which have faded with age. We thank Ms McBride and the P&C for organising this.

Michelle Dwyer Principal

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL REPORT

PBL Each stage will hold their movie day on a different day to the PBL rewards day. The movie days will be communicated to parents closer to the day. The Term 3 rewards day is on Tuesday September 25. PLAYGROUND REWARDS FOR TERM 3 WEEKS 3 & 4: Congratulations to our Term 3 Week 3 & 4 Marley Playground Community reward winners: Archie D – KL, Lachlan G - KS Indi H – 1E, Maya - 1E Ella W – 2B Frankie H – 3P, Kimarni W - 3P Keely Y – 4T Seth B – 5-6T, Joseph C 5W, James B 6S

PROPERTY CENTRAL CITIZENSHIP AWARD: The Term 3 Week 3 winner of the Property Central Citizenship Award is Deakin B of 1A. His award read “for his caring nature and willingness to help others”. Congratulations Deakin. The Term 3 Week 4 winner of the Property Central Citizenship Award is Kiara H of class 1C. Her award read “for always being the most kind and considerate classmate who always gives 100% effort and makes everyone feel special”. Congratulations Kiara. One student per week will receive a Citizenship certificate from Property Central and a $20.00 book voucher. There will be a different class chosen each week. 2018 BIKE LICENCES: Congratulations to Callum R – 4T, Darcy C - 4W, Oska Scarr - 4W, Kenzie F - 5MC, Cooper W -5MC, Finnean C - 6S, Joshua T – 6S and Dane T – 6F on obtaining their 2018 bike licences. FATHER’S DAY BREAKFAST: We are hosting a Father’s Day Breakfast on Friday 31 August (Term 3 Week 6) under the COLA from 7.30 to 8.30am. Father’s and significant males are invited to have a breakfast of a bacon and egg roll and tea or coffee with their children. For catering purposes, families are asked to return the RSVP notes by Friday August 24 to their class teacher. Dads can also have a kick around on the top oval with their children afterwards. We look forward to seeing you all.

Have a great week. Mark Waite Deputy Principal

PBL Weekly Focus: Safe, respectful behaviour Week 3: Transitions Week 4: Toilets

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TERM 3 LIBRARY NEWS

We are celebrating Book Week from 18 August – 24 August. This year’s theme is Find your Treasure. There will be a Book Week parade on Wednesday, 22 August at 8.50 am under the COLA. Students can come to school dressed as their favourite book character or in keeping with the theme. We expect to see lots of pirates! The Premier’s Reading Challenge finishes on Friday 31 August at midnight. All student reading records are to be finished by then. Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 have completed the challenge during their library lessons.

Happy Reading, Mrs Buscombe & Mrs Lowbridge. CHESS REPORT We have just completed the Primary Schools Chess competition for 2018. This year we entered an A and a B side in the intermediate and championship grades. Each team played five other teams from across the Central Coast, including Gosford Public School, Central Coast Adventist School, Wamberal Public School and Terrigal Public School. All of our players were wonderful ambassadors for our school in all games and received compliments on their behaviour from teachers in the schools they visited. They played a total of five home and five away games. My sincere thanks to Mr Michael Garaty, Mr Shannon McKiernan and Mrs Misti McKiernan who very kindly transported our players to and from away games and supervised their visits to other schools. Ross McGowen Chess Co-ordinator.

Upcoming Events… Wed 22 Aug Book Week Parade 8.50am

Fri 24 Aug TLPSSA Zone Athletics Carnival – Mingara

Tue 28 Aug SRC Fundraising Disco – Hall K-2: 4.30-5.30 Year 3-6: 6.00-7.00pm TLLC Leadership Conference

Wed 29 Aug Year 3 Zoo Excursion

Thur 30 Aug Father’s Day Stall

Fri 31 Aug Father’s Day BBQ 7.30am – 8.30am

Tue 4 Sep Year 1 Newcastle Museum Excursion

Wed 5 Sep Year 2 Newcastle Museum Excursion Kindergarten Reptile Park

Fri 7 Sep K-2 Sports Carnival

Tue 11 Sep P&C Meeting 7pm

Thur 13 Sep Teddy Bears Picnic

Mon 17 Sep Sydney North Athletics – Homebush

Wed 19 – Fri 21 Sep Year 4 Great Aussie Bush Camp

Tue 25 Sep Term 3 PBL Rewards Day

Fri 28 Sep Last Day Term 3

PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE DATES ARE SUBJECT TO LATE CHANGE

PAYMENT REMINDERS

Yr 4 Great Aussie Bush Camp $325.00 Yr 3 Zoo Excursion $43.00 Yr 1 & 2 Newcastle Museum $30.00 Kindy Reptile Park $22.00 Kindy Gymnastics $40.00 Book Pack $70.00 Stage 3 Sport $120.00 Stage 3 Barefoot Yoga $30.00

Payments can be made payable by Cash, Cheque or POP.

Please note: Our preferred method of payment is by Parent Online Payment (POP).

This link is on our website.

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2018 PREMIERS SPELLING BEE On Thursday 2 August, selected students from Stage 2 and 3 took part in the 2018 Premier’s Spelling Bee competition with Mrs Cartwright and Mrs Trigg. In stage groups students battled it out to spell some extremely difficult words. It took several rounds to determine our winner and runner-up for each stage. Congratulations to all students who took part. Stage 2 Winner – Zachary G 4M Stage 2 Runner-up – Jayden T 4M Stage 3 Winner – Jack S 6F Stage 3 Runner up – Jacob C 6F

The winner and runner up from each stage have been invited to participate in the Regional Finals at Peats Ridge Public School on Friday 14th September. Good luck boys! Mrs Rachael Trigg and Mrs Sherri Cartwright

RUGBY LEAGUE On Wednesday 8 August, the Under 11s Rugby League team travelled down to Werrington, Sydney to compete in the NSW All Schools Rugby League Carnival where the best team from each NSW division meet to play for the NSW title. The team represented Bateau Bay wonderfully on the day, displaying sportsmanship and courage against some excellent teams from Dubbo, Beresfield and Canterbury.

Although the boys were unlucky not to make it to the finals, they should be extremely proud of their efforts on making it to this stage of the competition. Congratulations Nathan Lyons NETBALL Last Friday our netball team travelled to Newcastle to play in the Netball NSW Schools Cup. The girls showed off their amazing netball skills and worked so well as a team that they were undefeated on the day, convincingly winning 6 out of 6 games in their pool. Mrs Fraser was so proud of all the girls and the sportsmanship they displayed as representatives for Bateau Bay. The girls will now travel to Maitland next Tuesday to play in the NSW Schools Cup Regional Finals where they will be up against the winning teams of all the other pools. It will be a challenging day for our girls and we wish them the best of luck.

Amanda Watkins and Kris Fraser Netball Coaches

INFANTS ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 9.00am

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DEBATING On Tuesday 7 August, students from Bateau Bay participated in their last scheduled debate of the Premiers Debating Challenge against Brooke Avenue Public School. The topic chosen was - 'That primary schools should teach compulsory swimming classes.' Bateau Bay was negative. We were represented by the speakers Emma M, Finnegan O and Kynan P with Georgia B as team adviser. The debate was well contested with valid points from both teams. Unfortunately, for us, the winning team was Brooke Avenue Public School. Emma is to be highly commended for her work as the first speaker, ably assisted by Georgia. Kynan and Finnegan presented well thought out rebuttals and arguments. Thank you to Joseph C. and Annalise S for their participation and commitment to the team during the competition. Also, thank you to Olivia H, Cooper D and Joseph C for assisting with the chairperson/ timekeeping during the competition. Mrs McGavin and I have enjoyed supporting these students in their debating journey and we would also like to gratefully acknowledge the support given by the associated parents with transport and the provision of afternoon teas.

SMILES PROGRAM Simplifying Mental Illness plus Life Enhancement Skills

A School Holiday program for 8-12 year olds, who have a family member experiencing a mental health problem (Specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression or anxiety) When: 3 day Programme - Tuesday 9th, Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th

October 2018 9am - 3pm daily

Where: Erina Trust Hall, Karalta Road Erina. The SMILES Program is designed to achieve:

♥ Increased ability to cope effectively ♥ A new freedom for self expression ♥ Development of creativity

♥ Reduction in feelings of isolation ♥ Increase in self-esteem ♥ …… and much more!

This is achieved through: ♥ Education about mental illness ♥ Artwork & music ♥ Peer support ♥ Interactive exercises ♥ Relaxation exercises ♥ Problem solving

This all takes place in a fun-filled, supportive

and caring atmosphere.

Internationally recognised as best practice by the American Journal of

Orthopsychiatry (Accepted Apr 2003, published Jul 2004).

Co-facilitated by: Parramatta Mission Family & Carer Mental Health Program with

Mary Cesca, COPMI Health Education Officer

Contact for further information & to register: Mary Cesca or Ruth Phelan COPMI, NSW Health

Ph: (02) 43047878

Bateau Bay Public School

PBL Reward Menu Kindergarten Term 3 2018

Classroom

Outdoors / In School

Special Reward

Drawing competition Free play – bring a toy or boardgame Crazy hair Pillow iPads 10 Marleys

Novelties Disco Picnic and play 20 Marleys

Movie and pop corn ( Don’t forget to bring a pillow and blanket) 60 Marleys

Bateau Bay Public School

PBL Reward Menu – Term 3 Stage 1

In Class Activities… Pick as many as you want!

Outside of Class… Pick one of these!

Term 3 Major Reward…

MUFTI – FREE

Wear Slippers in class Art Pass Bring a Pillow to school School iPad Free play

(Why not bring a toy or game) Colouring Competition

(Be one of the 4 winners from each grade!)

Disco in Hall Soccer Scavenger Hunt (puzzles, riddles and clues) Picnic (bring your own food)

STEM (design and create) Cooking – Let’s decorate!

Movie and Popcorn Come and watch CoCo in the AV

Room on Thursday 27th September at 9.00am.

Don’t forget to bring a pillow and blanket!

10 Marleys 20 Marleys 60 Marleys

Bateau Bay Public School

PBL Reward Menu – Term 3 S2

In Class – Unlimited buy-in

Maximum 1 buy-in for each session

Term 3 Major Reward Session 1 Session 2

Bring a pillow 10 Marleys

BYO device 15 marleys

drawing competition 15 Marleys

Bring a Toy 10 Marleys

Crazy hair 10 Marleys

Go to a friends class on Stage 2 30 Marleys Origami/Paper planes 15 Marleys

Free time on teachers whiteboard 15 Marleys

Crazy Soccer 20 Marleys

Various outdoor games 20 Marleys

Obstacle Course 40 Marleys

Dodge ball with Miss P 30 Marleys

Scavenger hunt 40 Marleys

Dodge ball/Bin Ball 20 Marleys

Oz tag 20 Marleys

Gaming room 40 Marleys

Just Dance/Go noodle/flossing 30 Marleys

Escape room 40 Marleys

Movie and Popcorn (bring a pillow and blanket at no extra cost) 60 Marleys

Making/decorating cookies 60 Marleys

Bateau Bay Public School

PBL Reward Menu – Term 3 S3

In Class activities

Maximum 1 buy-in for each session

Term 3 Major Reward Session 1 Session 2

MUFTI – FREE You Can Buy ALL of These: *Session in a Friend’s Class (*Only 1 session per student in a Stage 3 class.) Bring a Pillow Crazy Hair 5 Marleys Each AND You Can Buy ONE of These: Colouring-in competition or Free Time in Class or BYOD 10 Marleys

Outdoor Scavenger Hunt Challenge

Balloon Tower Defence Challenge

Mr Webb’s Guitar Hero Show Origami & Quiet Games

Just Dance OzTag

20 Marleys

Footy Kicking & Gumboot Throwing Comp

Escape Room Challenge Indoor Dodge Ball

Dodge Rush Art Activity

20 Marleys

Movie and

Popcorn ‘The Greatest

Showman’

(Bring a pillow and blanket at no extra cost)

60 Marleys