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BILPIN PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Excellence in Learning and Technology 2517 Bells Line of Road, BILPIN 2758 Telephone: 4567 1154 Fax: 4567 1388 Email: [email protected]
www.bilpin-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Term 1 Week 4 Monday 16th February, 2015
17th February - P & C Meeting - 7.30 pm
18th February - Award Assembly 2.45 pm
27th February - District Swimming Carnival
3rd March - P & C Meeting - AGM 7.30 pm
19th March - School Photos
20th March - School Cross Country
23rd March - Young Leaders Conference
Dates to Remember
We have had a very busy start to the term! I have had the opportunity over the last few weeks to see the amazing work our students are doing in and out of the classroom. We have some very talented students! I was very impressed with the excellent behaviour our students displayed at Richmond Pool during our school’s swimming carnival and very proud of everyone for their school spirit and for having a go! Thank you to all parents who assisted on the day whether it be as a helper or providing transport for students to attend the day.
Kindergarten 2015 Our new Kindergarten students have settled in really well and are getting used to their routine. It can take some time for our little ones to get used to such long days of concentrating! Keep up the great work Kindies! I would like to thank the Year 5 and 6 buddies who are being responsible, caring and thoughtful helpers. The children will look back very fondly on the memories you help them create.
Classroom Assistance Thank you to the families who have returned their classroom helper notes! We greatly appreciate any time that can be given in any capacity to support our students.
P & C
I am looking forward to meeting our P & C members and any other interested parents at the first meeting for the year at 7.30pm Tuesday 17th February in the staffroom.
P & C Meeting
17th February 2015
The Staff Room 7.30pm
Staffing for 2015 At the time of publishing for our first newsletter, not all of our staffing for 2015 had been finalised. Due to this you may have noticed some omissions. Now that our full staffing has been finalised, I would like to welcome Miss Talia Carroll who will be working on Thursday mornings taking RFF and working with 2/3 until lunch time. Miss Carroll will also be working with me to choreograph the routine for our dance group. We will be talking to interested students later this week. Mrs Cathy Wilson has indicated that she is no longer available to work at Bilpin this year. We would like to thank her for all of her efforts in the office over the past 6 years. We greatly appreciate her commitment to the school and wish her all the best with her future endeavours.
Years 2/3 and 4/5/6 Reading Groups
Years 2/3 and 4/5/6 will be starting reading groups from Monday 16th February. For those parents who have offered their assistance, we will be undertaking reading groups on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday every week from 10:50 - 11:25am. We look forward to seeing you then!
Traffic Safety As we all know our children are very precious and as teachers and parents we do everything we can to protect them. As we are getting back into school routines after a long break, we would like to make people aware of the need to supervise children carefully around our parking areas and ensure children are kept close by. The staff take great care to make sure all students are escorted onto buses safely or are met by their parents in the designated pick up zones in the quadrangle area. Once leaving our grounds it is still very important to supervise children when crossing roads and using pathways. Our tight parking zones along School House Lane means there is decreased vision for drivers and pedestrians alike. We ask that you take the greatest of care in these zones at all times. Thank you for your diligence in this matter.
Dance Group This year is a Hawkesbury Dance Festival year. Miss Carroll and I are very excited about preparing a routine for the students to perform in Term 4! We will be meeting with interested students on Thursday. Once our routine is finalised, we may be asking for handy mums and dads to assist with sewing costumes - watch this space!
Bilpin Public School P & C Committee are as follows President Darryl Carle 4567 1018 Please feel free to contact any of Vice President Angie Pirie 4567 7469 these representatives if you have Treasurer Nicole McEvoy 4567 1351 any concerns you wish to discuss Secretary Nikki Wheen 4567 1154
Term 1 Week 4 Monday 16th February, 2015
Hawkesbury Student Leadership Camp
On Thursday and Friday of last week Jack and Hayden in Year 6 attended the Hawkesbury Student Leadership Camp at Yarramundi. The camp is designed to provide student leaders across the Hawkesbury with opportunity to develop their leadership and public speaking skills, experience team building activities and the opportunity to meet other student leaders in the district.
The boys had a wonderful time and were excellent ambassadors for the school with their perfect manners and exemplary behaviour. Well done boys!
School Swimming Congratulations to all the competitors at our swimming carnival. We had a wonderful time with students supporting and encouraging each other in every race. Thank you to the parents who supported our competitors and offered assistance during our events. This year’s champions are: Junior Girl Champion - Mali Junior Boy Champion - Lachlan. Jack (tie) 11 Years Girl Champion - Laura 11 Years Boy Champion - Kaid Senior Girl Champion - no competitors Senior Boy Champion - Jack We will be presenting their trophies at our first award assembly on Wednesday this week at 2.45pm.
Small Schools’ Swimming Well done to all our competitors at the Small Schools’ Swimming Carnival. Thank you to the parents who supported our competitors and looked after the students on the day. Laura was named 11 Year Girls Champion. Congratulations! The following students were placed in events and will be attending the district carnival on Friday 27th February. Laura - 1st 50m freestyle 3rd 100m Open freestyle 1st 50m breaststroke 1st 50m backstroke 1st 50m butterfly 2nd 4x50m medley Kaid - 2nd 50m backstroke Mali, Leah, Lachlan and Jack - 3rd Junior Mixed Relay
Choir - Mrs N Oram
We have a lot of excellent opportunities for students who would like to be in the choir this year. For students in Years 4-6, we have been offered a very special opportunity to sing in the ‘Pulse’ concert at the Sydney Opera House later this year! For all students from K-6 in the choir, we will come together weekly for a rehearsal and they will have the opportunity to sing for different events both inside and out of the school. I look forward to another exciting year for the choir!
Canteen News - Angie Pirie I would like to thank all the new friendly faces who have volunteered their time in helping out this term. The response has been overwhelming. We only have one date left that is vacant for a helper in the canteen. If you are available on Thursday 26th February, please contact Angie on 4567 7469. Rostered parents for the next month are as follows: 16th February - Rachael McKinlay 19th February - Cheryl Baird 23rd February - April Vigurs 26th February - VACANT 2nd March - Cristina Robshaw and Louise Saarinen 5th March - Tessa McLaughlin and Michelle Leer 9th March - Rebecca Tadrosse and Margaret Tadrosse 12th March - Eleanor Brand and Cheryl Baird
Happy Birthday We would like to wish the students who celebrated their birthdays over the holidays a very happy birthday. They were Tara (6), Billie (5), Oskar (7), Patrick (10), Lachlan (7) and Isaac (5). Our February birthday students are - Gemma (5), Kyle (11), Clara (11), Nikola (8), Kylie (11) and Joel (7).
CLASS NEWS Kindergarten/Year 1 News - Thank you to all of the parents who have offered to help with reading groups this year. We are looking forward to having you work with the children.
At the moment we have -
Monday – Judy Baird & Debbie Carle
Tuesday – Rachael McKinlay & Isabel Lester (Term 2)
Wednesday – Cheryl Baird & Rebecca Tadrosse
Thursday – Tessa McLaughlin & Eleanor Brand
Friday – Rebecca Tadrosse & Sue Tydeman
We are aware that you are all extremely busy and would like to help, but cannot commit to every week. With this in mind, at our information afternoon we decided to place a ’sports helpers’ sheet on the outside of the classroom, so that you can write your name down if you can help out that week.
This term, our unit for Literacy is called ‘Make Believe’. We are studying the following books; Green Eggs & Ham, The Gingerbread Man and Who Sank The Boat? We will be looking at rhyming words, punctuation and drawing connections between real life and make believe.
Mrs N Oram
Term 1 Week 4 Monday 16th February, 2015
2/3 Class News
Years 2/3 have been working very hard in class. We have been reading ‘The Paper Bag Princess’ and discussing our favourite part of the book and the different personalities of the characters. The students have greatly enjoyed this story. We are learning Indonesian instructions. The students are picking up the language very quickly. We will soon be learning to count in Indonesian and will be learning some traditional songs.
Homework will begin this week. We have spent time in class in week 3 getting students used to the homework routine. If you have any questions regarding homework at any time, please contact me to clarify any questions you may have.
Reading groups will begin this week. They will take place from 10:50 - 11:25am Monday - Wednesday. It may take the students a few weeks to settle into new routines and using new resources. Students across years 2 - 6 will have the opportunity to read with Mr Hynds and myself throughout the course of the year. Thank you to those parents who have offered to read with our students during this time.
News days: Students have been placed in news groups. Initially news will be informal and free choice. Later in the term students will be given topics to prepare short speeches to present to the class.
Monday: Ariarn, Alana, Joel and Samuel Tuesday: Sasha, Nikola, Zak and Brayden Wednesday: Abby, Beau, Harry and Lachlan Thursday: Aliza, Jahvis and Mitchell Friday: Dion, Layla and Damon
Munch and Crunch: During each morning session students are given a munch and crunch break to eat a healthy piece of fruit or small portion of vegetables to help sustain them until first break. The break will usually be taken during a session when I am reading to them, allowing them to relax and reboot! If you are able to pack a little extra healthy food in your child’s lunch box so that they can participate in this program, it would be greatly appreciated.
Please feel free to contact the office if you need to see me about any concerns you may have about your child. Mrs M Mackie
4/5/6 Class News
Our classroom routines are well underway and the children have settled into them well. Thank you to parents who have been assisting in getting their children organised with the required classroom equipment and also purchasing textbooks.
The children will be completing their first full weeks homework this week including mentals. This also means our spelling routine will also be in full swing.
Our reading groups will commence this week. We are always happy to have parent helpers, so please let us know if you are available any week, even if it’s not every week. We would love to see you.
Maths topics using our textbooks have commenced. Topics for the next fortnight are place value, fractions, addition, subtraction and length.
In Science we have commenced our unit on micro-organisms and have started to learn about those that help us and those that do not.
Well done to the children in my class who competed at the Small Schools Swimming Carnival last week, we are very proud of your effort.
Mr A Hynds
Kid’s Story Time
A delightful live reading of popular children’s books for kids.
Featuring live action, audience participation and sound effects, this is
excellent holiday entertainment fun for all the family. Presented by
Entertainment Blue Mountains.
Date: Friday 10th April 2015
Time: 10am - 11.30am OR 1pm - 2.30pm
Cost: $25.00
Where: Waratah Education Centre, Blue Mountains Botanic Garden
Bookings essential: 9231 8182 or by email
Each session includes a 30-40 minute interactive story ‘performance’
by Entertainment Blue Mountains followed by the self-guided Garden
adventure quest.
Bring a picnic and make a day of it!
Contact: Louise Clifton
Term 1 Week 4 Monday 16th February, 2015
