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O’Neile Street, Blackville NSW 2343 Principal: Kylie Burns

Blackville Public School News

Principal’s Message

Term 1, Weeks 7 and 8

Welcome to our Term 1, Week 7 and 8 newsletter. What an unusual situation we have seen ourselves over the

last fortnight! As a school, we continue to prioritise the health and wellbeing of our students and staff. We are

working closely to implement all recommended guidelines from the Department of Education who continue to work

closely with NSW Health. This includes a regular hand washing schedule, supervised hand sanitation, the

encouragement of hygiene rules that discourage face touching, encourage sneezing into a tissue and disposing of

immediately or an elbow. Staff continue to check soap dispensers throughout the school on a regular basis. We

have implemented social distancing and ask students and staff to remain at least 1.5m away from each other during

work and play times. At this stage, the school continues to operate as normal and will continue doing so until we are

instructed to do otherwise. Currently all students are expected to be at school and on time unless they have any flu

like or respiratory symptoms (cough, sore throat, runny nose etc.) If your child does present with any of these,

please keep them at home until symptoms are gone.

We will continue to send out weekly updates on school events and excursions that may be changed, postponed

or cancelled due to COVID 19. Please take the time to read these notes so that you can stay up to date with

events. We have since received notification from the Commonwealth Bank advising us that all school banking will

cease until at least the end of Term 1 due to health and safety concerns.

Please stay safe and healthy and I look forward to sharing with you our successes in the next newsletter.

Kylie Burns

Teaching Principal




Messages...

Music

Music continues to inspire us on Tuesdays with most students practising their wind instruments during break

times. At this stage, trumpets are expected to go home next week where we ask students to practise these and

their recorders for 10 minutes each day. At this stage, the Festival of Music is unsure of whether or not it will go

ahead, but have asked us to continue learning and practising as if it is still going ahead.

Bob Troppo’s Magic and Resilience Show

Friday the 13th saw students travel to Werris Creek Public School to watch a very

engaging Resilience and Magic Show. Students were in awe of the many magic tricks

and learnt the key concepts of never giving up, bouncing back and learning from our

mistakes. Students watched as Bob made items disappear, reappear and change. An

invisible rabbit transformed into a real life guinea pig! Thank you WCPS!

Waste Management Session

On Wednesday 11th March, staff from the Liverpool Plains Shire Council Waste Management Program visited our

school and spoke to our children about recycling and how we can reduce the amount of waste in our world.

Students considered how and what we waste, where it ends up and the problems associated with our throw away

society.

Ride to School Day

On Friday 13th, students rode their bikes and scooters to school as

part of our involvement in the National Ride2School day. Students

were taken through some learning on how to check their bikes and

common road rules before taking part in an around the school bike

track demonstrating the key concepts they had just learnt. Thank you

to Mrs Williams for her organisation in the day and to the students

who generously donated gold coins which have been donated to the

foundation.

Lock down

Today our school participated in a lock down drill, ensuring all staff and students were aware of what they

should do. Not even an hour later, students put this practise into reality when our school was put into a real

lockdown due to a snake sighting. I would like to say that all children did just as they have been told over the last

few years and followed all directions in a safe and calm manner. Congratulations to everyone involved, but

especially Mrs Bell who ensured the safety of our children was paramount. Please take the time to speak to your

children about this and reiterate snake sighting measures.




Messages...

Canteen

Don’t forget canteen runs every Thursday. Please ensure all lunch orders are handed to Mrs Williams or

Miss Burns before class starts. Correct change is appreciated.

Canberra Excursion

At this stage, there is some uncertainty regarding our Canberra excursion and if or when it will take place.

However it is crucial that payments are still made until a final decision can be made so that families are not

caught having to make a significant payment towards the end. Even if the excursion does not occur within the

dates mentioned, there is the possibility it will be organised for later in the year. Next due date for payments is

Monday 23rd March. Please ensure this payment and any overdue payments are made.

Crazy Camel

Crazy Camel orders are now OVERDUE. Please pay as soon as possible either by the POP system or cash to

the office.

P and C General Meeting

Thank you to all those who attended our second P and C meeting for the term. It is so sad to hear of so

many events being cancelled in the upcoming weeks/months, but our P and C continue to plan how they can best

support our school through future endeavours.

On Saturday 14th March, the P and C held a BBQ fundraising event at IGA Quirindi. Thank you to all those

mums and dads who gave up their time to help out on the day and who cooked a variety of delicious cakes and

slices for us to sell. Special thanks to Kathy and Jeff who very generously donated a trailer load of wood to

raffle. Congratulations to Sid Spinks who was the winner of our raffle.

BAMD Meeting

There was a good turn out for the recent BAMD meeting this week where due to the uncertainty of the

COVID 19 pandemic, it was decided to sadly cease the Blackville Art and Market Day for 2020. It is hoped that

2021 will see the resumption of this amazing event which is so invaluable to both our school and community. We

thank those committee members and helpers who have created the wonderful event it is today. Our students,

school and community will be forever grateful.




Awards

Week 7: No awards given due to excursion

Week 8: Mrs Williams Award: Chelsea for always working hard to do her best

Miss Burns Award: Lani being a caring member of our school

Leadership Award - Issie for showing respect to others

Week 9: Have nice table manners

Week 10: Care for the school environment

March

25th - Easter Hat making

April

1st - Harmony day at WTPS - CANCELLED

9th - Cross Country at SRPS - CANCELLED

Easter Hat Parade

Last Day of Term

28th Students resume for Term 2

Value of the week

Coming up ...

Weekly Events…

Tuesdays

- Music 2-3pm

Friday

- Sport

- Scripture (even weeks)

- Library

- Cooking/Genius Hour

- Assembly

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O’Neile Street Blackville NSW 2343 Principal: Kylie Burns


Term 1 Calendar...

Term 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 9

March

23 24

Music

25

Easter hat making 2-3pm

26

27

Week 10

April

30 31

Music

1

2 3

Week 11

April

6 7

Music

8

9

Easter Hat

Parade

10

Good Friday

Term 2

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 1

April/May

27

SDD

28

Students

resume

Music

29

30

1

Week 2

May

4 5

Music

6

7 8

Week 3

May

11 12

Music

13

14

15


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Blackville Public School News · O’Neile Street, Blackville NSW 2343 Principal: Kylie Burns Blackville Public School News Principal’s Message Term 1, Weeks 7 and 8 Welcome to