4 weeks to go - surely that can't be right?! This week, staff participated in intensive technology professional development to support the quality education we are delivering to your children. I'm always proud of how our staff embrace professional development and can see the benefits for our school, your children and themselves. Our swimming program concluded today and it was pleasing to see so many students participating. Thanks to Mr Shipman for his organisation. In the coming weeks, we will be starting to form class lists for 2017. We are still in the process of confirming some staffing positions and they will be finalised in the coming weeks. Our Year 5 students are participating in a student leadership program prior to making their speeches for school captain. Speeches and voting is taking place on Wednesday, 30th November. Thanks to Mrs Gale for conducting the leadership program. Our last Kinder Orientation was conducted yesterday and wasn't it a busy day! I took great pleasure in speaking to our parents at the coffee van yesterday and it's always enjoyable talking to you about your school. Your feedback is always greatly appreciated. Thank you to the Kinder teachers, Stage 3 teachers and Stage 3 students for making the day a wonderful success. Have a great weekend. Principal - Brad Lyne Year 6 Graduation This year the Year 6 Graduation is being held at Sawtell RSL. The cost per student is $20.00 and will need to be paid by Friday, 2nd December 2016. Every student can bring two parents to the first part of the evening where the ceremony and photographs will take place. At the conclusion of the ceremony, parents will leave so the students can have a sit down dinner and disco.

Captain Elections 2016 If your child has nominated themselves to try out for the position of Boambee Public School Captain for 2017, speeches and elections will be held on Wednesday, 30th November from 9.30am in the school hall. Parents and family members are more than welcome to attend. Speeches are to last for approximately 2 minutes and are to be prepared at home. Once the election votes have been counted there will be a male and female Captain and male and female Vice-Captain chosen. Picnic Day Tuesday, 13th December 2016 The cost for Picnic Day this year is $15.00 per student. Notes have been sent home today, one for each child. Permission notes and payments will need to be returned by Tuesday, 6th December. Kinder to Year 2 will be travelling to the Coffs Harbour BCC Cinema to watch “Trolls”. Then they will travel by bus to the Botanical Gardens for a picnic lunch. Year 3 to 6 will be going to the Big Banana water slide and will be having a BBQ lunch at the school. There will be two sessions. Years 3 and 4 will go to the first session and Years 5 and 6 will go to the second session. Christmas Hamper Many of you may know the Spillman family as Jordyn and Sam were students here. They are now both at Toormina High School. Jordyn unfortunately has had a relapse with her Leukemia and is now in Sydney waiting for a bone marrow transplant. We are creating a gift hamper for the family to make this time a little happier. If you would like to donate a small gift for the family there is a basket at the front office.

Thank you for your kind donations!

18th November, 2016 Term 4, Week 6

BOAMBEE BULLETIN Phone 6653 1107 ‘Achievement through Effort’ Fax 6658 2543

E-mail boambee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au BPS online www.boambee-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

“Education is a gift that no one can take away”

A Big Boambee Welcome! Welcome Paige and Seth. Paige has joined 5/6G and Seth has joined 1G. It is wonderful to have you and your families join our Boambee School Community. Chess

Congratulations to all of our chess teams that competed at the 2016 Chess Tournament held at St Augustine's on Thursday the 11th of November. We had five teams representing Boambee in all divisions of the competition. Our players consisted of Harry Fardy, Lara Trebilcock, Jay Mapuor, Ben Caesar, Will Axton, Tane Skinner, Luke Smith, Hayden Brown, Cooper Brooks, Kalen Marquadt, Luke Trebilcock, Oscar Croak and Rhys Mulholland. Each of our teams played exceptionally well and we managed to take third place in division A and B of the competition. A special mention to Kalen Marquadt who managed to win 8 of his 11 games and drawing one game with a stale mate in Division A, a stellar effort which made him one of the highest performing players of the competition. Well done to all of our Boambee students who represented our school and demonstrated exceptionally mature behaviour throughout the entire day.

ASSEMBLY Week 5 CLASS AWARDS Congratulations to the following students for their fantastic week at school.

KL Patrick Smith & Alexis Feltrin KD Layla Grant & Koby Banks KF Lawson Webber & Phoebe Reed KW Elijah Crowfoot & Evie Dawson 1G Ivy Sothman & Jake Clunas 1A Chloe Smith & Troy Backhouse 1W Koah Boyes & Indy Evans 2H Darcy Hall & Bailey Roach-Maddock 2D Tyler McCormack & Brooke Mulholland 2S George Keena & Hayley Cameron 3/4D Codie Nicol & Brianna Schweikert 3/4T Lauren Krainik & Oscar Hickey 3/4J Tomoyo Ikehara & Bailey Patten 3/4F Isabelle Besse & Lachlan Neal 5/6T Kai Floyd & Clair Crampton 5/6M Mitchell Hickey & Jessica Joice 5/6G Angus Nicol & Isabella Wakeham

2H won the Gus Award last week.

Bus Travelling Information for 2017 If your child is starting Kinder next year, going from Year 2 to 3 or from Year 6 to 7 a new bus application form needs to be completed. A reminder if you have any concerns about your child’s bus safety, please contact the relevant bus company. All bus applications are completed online by going to transportnsw.info/school-students, please make sure you do this by Wednesday, 30th November 2016. Recently their has been a change, all bus applications

will be sent directly to us for online verification. You are not required to print the bus application.

Uniform Shop The uniform shop is open from 9.00am until 10.30am every Monday morning. To help our new Kindergarten families, the uniform shop will be open on the 5th December for extended hours from 9.00am until 2.00pm.

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Kinder Go Day This week was our last orientation with

next year’s Kindergarten. It was great to see so many smiles and so much

enthusiasm.

Pictured to the left is Imogen having fun matching dots

to number.

Pictured below is our new kinders enjoying some

science activities.

Pictured to the right is

Chisel enjoying using the ipads to

draw numbers.

Pictured to the left is

Sophie using the white board for a game.

We look forward to

seeing them next year.

Community Cookbook Order Form You can now order your copy of ‘Boambee’s Best Bites!’ We are using the publishing company ‘Schoolyard Stories’ to publish our cookbook, which will be printed in full colour and be of exceptional quality. Our Boambee Community Cookbook is A5 size, 92 pages long and filled with loads of delicious and nutritious family favourite recipes. It is a highly personalised cookbook, including lots of student photos and drawings. An order form went home last week to all families. Reserve your copy now so you don’t miss out! It will make a perfect Christmas gift! The cost is $15.00 each or for 2 or more copies $13.00 each.

Bingo Eyes down at the Coffs Ex Services Club every Tuesday from 7.00pm. Please come along and have some Bingo fun.

Bingo Roster

Tania Myers and Kieran Richards will be organising the Bingo on the 22nd November 2016.

Canteen Special The special for next week will be a Chirpy Burger (crumbed chicken patty, lettuce, pineapple, cheese and mayo on a roll), plus any drink for $5.00.

No Pizzas at the canteen for the rest of this term. Canteen Roster Wed 23 Nov Simone Thompson & Deb Crowfoot Thu 24 Nov Lynda Mclaughlin & Sandra Jeffery Fri 25 Nov Susan Dean-Hickey, Lisa Page & Marie Kane

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Important Dates 21.11.16 P&C AGM Meeting and Dinner 25.11.16 Assembly 1.00pm 30.11.16 Yarn Up 11.00am in KF Classroom 30.11.16 Captains’ Speeches 02.12.16 Kinder Graduation Assembly 06.12.16 Toormina High Orientation Day Coffs High Orientation Day Orara High Orientation Day 06.12.16 Helpers Morning Tea 08.12.16 Year 1 & 2 Parent Visit 09.12.16 Presentation Day 12.12.16 Year 6 Graduation Sawtell RSL 13.12.16 Picnic Day 16.12.16 Last Day for Students

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“Swimming Program”