Friday 30th May 2014

BLACKTOWN WEST PUBLIC SCHOOL

Diary Dates

June 2014

Monday 2nd

-Kindy Farm Incursion

Monday 16th

- 3 Way Interviews - 4/5R Sydney Excursion

Tuesday 17th

- 3 Way Interviews

Wednesday 18th

- 3 Way Interviews

Thursday 19th

- 3 Way Interviews

Monday 23rd

-Walk-A-Thon

Tuesday 24th

-Mini Fete & Sausage Sizzle

August 2014

Monday 25th

- Athletics' Carnival Yrs 3-6

September 2014

Tuesday 2nd

-- Kindergarten Beach Day

Wednesday 3rd -Friday 5th

-- Stage 3 Camp

LANCASTER STREET

BLACKTOWN NSW 2148

Telephone 9622 2285

Facsimile: 9621 7918

Email: blacktownw-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents,

Zone Cross Country Congratulations to all thirty four students who qualified for the zone cross country. Five of our students qualified for the regional cross country. Congratulations to Tali Ma’a and Aya Abdelrahman and to the three students who qualified for the AWD cross country. Tamika Vreeswyk, Aayush Chand and Lachlan O’Brien.

P & C MEETING

Tuesday 24th June.

All Welcome

Debating

What a spectacular effort! Blacktown

West debated against Walters Rd on

Tuesday 27th May. All team members

performed well. Both teams had made a

huge effort with their rebuttals making it

very difficult for the adjudicator. In the

end, we narrowly lost 4-6 on rebuttals.

Our next debate will be in week 8 and the

topic: “Mobile phone are more

troublesome than they’re worth”. If you

have any ideas for this debate, please

talk to one of our team members:

Harsha, Daniel, Tara and Natalie.

Well done to all the students and their

coaches; Ms Abarquez and Mr Knight.

Parking

Please make sure that you do not park

in the “No parking zone” on Blue Hills

Crescent. Parents are blocking the

street and making it impossible for the

school bus to turn the corner. It is illegal

to park here and parents will be fined

when the police patrol the area.

School Photo Orders - Last Call

Closing date for order of photographs of School Leaders, SRC, Library Monitors and House Captains is Wednesday 4

th

June. Please see the front office for purchase/order at a cost of $8:00 each.

Kindergarten “Incursion”

All Kindergarten students have been invited to the Kindi Farm excursion on Monday 2

nd June.

Please make sure that the permission note and $11:00 has been handed to the class teacher.

Multi Lit If any parents are able to assist with

reading, please leave a message at the

front counter for Mrs Singh. The reading

support that Mrs Singh organises and

implements is a fantastic support for the

students involved. Thank you to all the

parents who already give up their time to

implement the program. If you have half

an hour, three times a week you can

really assist one student. Mrs Singh

trains the parents and organises the

work. We have recently lost one parent

and we are looking for more parents to

assist.

Stage 3 “Whitireia” - Bowman Hall

On Monday 26th May, Stage 3 walked

down to Bowman to enjoy a free perfor-

mance of the “Whitireia” Performing

Group” the sister school to Blacktown.

We thank Blacktown council for inviting

Blacktown West.

3 Way - Parent/ Teacher/ Student

Interviews

The notes to circle your preferred times for the 3 way interview will be sent home on Monday 2

nd June.

Please return these as soon as possible to organise the times for all your children. The interviews will be in the week of June 16

th at times the teachers can

organise.

Please ensure that you label your children’s clothes so that they may be returned to the student or found by you in the lost property basket, located near kindergarten rooms Yours sincerely

Meg Peel Principal

Stewart House/Smith Family Collection

Date Correction - Please be advised the correct date

for final collection for the clothing appeal is Monday 2nd

June 2014.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Remember to collect your 10 awards – they can be

stamped for a special award. Don’t forget to keep all

awards with the school tree in a safe place.

Term 2 Week 4 2014

SPECIAL AWARDS

BRONZE CERTIFICATE Sefad Khan Tamika Cavrak Erin Marquez

BRONZE BADGE Jake Ditton SILVER BAR Shaquille Chandra

Well done to all the students who have received an award.

KK Chloe Sinnett, Liam Sharman, Arushi Shelar, Jayden Twaddle

KL Luke Perich, Capree Dhedadig-Savage, Bhavnoor Kamboj, Liliana Pumati

KO Elijah Liolevave, Muqeet Muqeet, Riddhi Ranade, Benjamin Schultz

1F John Robert Benson, Sefad Khan, Derrick Acellam, Ilyza Karauwan

1G Yuvraj Shah, Bebak Khadka, Shihab Abdalla, Hawaiki Te Kiri-Douglas

1S Vuk Milivojcevic, Hailey Wheatley, Ishan Dayal, Samuel Yendle

2H Aisha Bainbridge, Tara Twaddle, Jordan Gardiner, Reagan Flaxman

2B Henrietta Laban, Chris Antoniou, Abisha Kamalanathan, Isaak Lawlis

2/3W Nityam Shah, Mostafa Haidari, Jaidyn Sharp Rofe

3A Demia Pritchard, Jake Ditton, Guntas Sodhi, Izac Karauwan

3/4G Sophie Gall, Yun Chen, Daniel Castillo, Allexis Chiong

3/4/5S Hardev Dhaliwal, Shae Dale, Scully Bruce, Zahra Qayumi

4K Peteru Pritchard, Breii Peachey, Ashraf Zakout, Adil Malik

4/5R Samantha Allan, Alla Mahmoud, Aya Abdelrahman, Shivneil Narayan

5/6L Aayush Chand, Gianluca Matutini 5/6W Tabitha Dinesh, Shejam Sivayogam, Jamie

Lopez, Rose Epati 6M Aaliyah Anastasiou, Daniel Taylor, Pavan

Kundur, Wallace Toe 6O Bassil Magableh, Tegan Dale, Eric Chau, Sital

Gosai

Too Sick For School?

As the cold weather hits, so do the winter bugs. It’s often hard to know whether to send your child to school or let them stay home to recover, especially when that means an adult cancelling work. For safety's sake, if your child seems unwell you should always keep them home from school and seek medical advice. School A to Z and the NSW Health have created an at-a-glance chart to help answer your questions about common childhood illness and how long sick kids need to miss school. Find it by typing this link into your web browser www.bit.ly/1hytn2E

Remember to send a letter to school on students’ return to school explaining their absence.

Update of Phone Numbers /Emergency Contacts

Please advise the front office of any changes to either your telephone numbers, address or emergency contacts.

All Your Sporting Information For all Zone Cross Country information and all PSSA

results, please have a look at the Blacktown Zone website:

http://www.blacktownpssa.com

Camp Payments 2014– Instalment Now Due!

Regular camp payments of $50:00 are required every 5 weeks minimum. If you are not up to date with your payments and have not previously made arrangements, please pay now, so your child’s position is not jeopardised.

A payment of at least $150 needed to have been made by the end of week ending 30

th May, to hold your place

for the Stage 3 camp.

Winter PSSA

Please ensure you sign permission slips for the children

to participate and pay for the bus each week by

Thursday, to Mrs Maruta in the Library.

Overdue Book Pack

Thank you to those families that have promptly paid for

their book packs. However there are still families with

outstanding accounts that require urgent attention.

Students will be unable to go on future excursions/

camp or attend Gala Day if this account it not paid.

National Simultaneous Storytime

On Wednesday 21st May, 200 Blacktown West students from Kindergarten through to Year 6 met in the

BER hall at 11:00 (recess time) to celebrate National Simultaneous Storytime. Fifteen students also

brought along their toy elephants to join in the fun.

This year across Australia over 3,100 schools, libraries, childcare centres, preschools and communities

participated, with over 460,000 adults and children (plus one elephant) taking part.

BWPS students (and teachers) joined in singing “One grey elephant”, watched a reading of the story

“Too Many Elephants in this House” on the big screen and enjoyed some poems about elephants. All

students who participated received a book mark or colouring sheet to mark the occasion.

Congratulations to all the students who came along and a big thank you to the teachers who joined in

and helped out.

Terri Musial