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3 Way Interviews 3 way interviews between parents, teachers and students will be held from Monday 12th August through to Friday 16th August. All students should have their unique key number which was sent home with students on Tuesday. This will allow parents and carers to access the parent portal to book interviews on line. The link to the parent portal is https://web1.begavalley-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/portal/register Please ensure that your student key is kept in a safe place so that it may be used at a later date. If you experience any difficulties in logging on please contact our office staff for assistance. State Cross Country Well done to Flynn C who competed at the NSW State Cross Country Championships last Friday. Flynn proudly represented BVPS and ran a
cracking 7.53mins for 2km and placed 26th in the State. Well done Flynn!
What’s coming up:
Thursday 1st August Assembly 12.30pm 4/5 & 1/2F share
class work & performance
Education Week 5th –9th August
Tuesday Innovate & Create Day
Wednesday-Friday SCLC Art Show Civic
Centre
Wednesday Book viewing for Book Fair 9.10am
Thursday Book Parade & Fair
9.20am-10.00am
Friday BBQ & student
games
12th—16th August 3 Way Interview
Week
Thursday 15th August
Assembly 12.30pm 3/4C & 1/2A class work & Performance
Friday 16th August Zone Athletics
Carnival
August 21 & 22 ES1 & Stage 1 play
Play
Mrs Carolyn Nugent - Principal 21 Auckland Street BEGA NSW 2550
PO Box 667 BEGA NSW 2550 School Office Hours: 8.30am to 3.30pm Phone 02 6492 1280 ▪ Fax 02 6492 3965
Bega Valley Public School
Great Expectations ~ Great Attitude ~ Great Opportunities
NEWSLETTER - Term 3 Week 2
Phone: (02) 64 921 280
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
Dear Parents/Carers
Welcome back into Term 3. Thank you to the many parents and carers who are supporting our students in arriving at school on time and ready for the school day.
Our Breakfast Club run by the Red Cross is well attended each morning, many thanks also to this organisation for their ongoing support for our students.
Over the holiday period some students/families incurred issues with online games. This type of entertainment can be a lot of fun but it can also result in Cyberbullying. Our classes will be discussing what this means, however, it is a parenting responsibility. Check out this site for more help: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/screen-smart-to...
Education Week is next week, check out what is happening and come along, especially for the Book Parade and Fair. All parents/Carers and community members are invited to the Civic Centre next Wed-Friday to view the SCLC Art Show entries.
Carolyn Nugent
Principal
Class News 6B
STEM Transition Year 6 have been excited to take part in the STEM
transition program to the high school.
This has involved designing and creating our own
planes out of balsa wood, fixing a motor and wheels
to them, then using a machine to launch them. On
Friday we were lucky enough to have the
opportunity for our planes to take flight. Some of the
planes were very successful with the fastest plane
flying successfully at a speed of 27km/h.
We would like to thank Mr Banks at Bega High School
for helping us with this fantastic project.
Keep an eye on our facebook page for the video
footage.
Recorder Group
Eight of our students Chelsea B, Lilly L, Alyce C,
Chloe L, Sophie J, Heather M, Bella B and Ayesha S
travelled to Sydney last Sunday to perform with
900 other public school students from throughout
NSW in the Festival of Instrumental Music at the
Sydney Opera House.
The students played treble and descant recorder.
It was a wonderful event and such a thrill to be
playing in a 900 piece ensemble at Australia's
most famous and beautiful venue. The group
stayed at the YHA at The Rocks in Sydney.
They were accompanied by Mrs McVeity. Thank
you to the parents who also accompanied the
students. Many thanks also to Mrs Bennett who
rehearsed with the students for many months to
prepare for the performance .
Kindergarten 2020 We have now started taking enrolments for Kinder-garten 2020. If you, or anyone that you know, has a child ready to start school next year please come and pick up an enrolment pack from our front office.
Congratulations Melica! As part of our Extension Writing Group, we look for real life opportunities to take our writing further, into the world beyond our school. As Authors, we love others enjoying and learning from our writing. Some of our group entered the Young Writers Competition run by the Eden Access Centre. This competition is for both secondary and primary students in conjunction with Youth Week.
Melica M won the $100 first prize for the Primary Aged division. There was a 500 word limit on the story or poem entered. Melica's beautiful story may be published in the Eden Connection Newsletter. Congratulations Melica!
See our digital version of the newsletter for Melica’s story.
Class News 1/2B At the end of term 2, we really enjoyed our visit to Life Education and seeing Healthy Harold again. We learnt about safety and keeping ourselves healthy and happy.
In 1/2B we have been focusing on doing some number problem solving activities. Our goal is to be more flexible with numbers.
Term 3 is very busy already and we are excited for the Innovate and Create Day next week as well as the K-2 Play in week 5.
Library News—Book Week and Book Fair
The BOOK WEEK parade and BOOK FAIR will be Week 3 Term 3. The theme for this year is: “Reading is my secret power”. Students can come dressed up as a book character that has had a POWERFUL effect on them or is memorable in some way. It could be a character from a recent book or a book they read many years ago, but has left a lasting impression. Wednesday 8th August—Wish List Students will come to the library with their class to view books that have been supplied by Candelo Books. They will make their “wish list” then take it home and show parents the title and cost. They will bring the money on Thursday in a sealed bag with the title and cost of the book/books they wish to purchase. Thursday 9th—Book Parade and Book Fair Students will come to school in their costume as the parade will begin at 9.15 and they can bring their uniform to change later. All parents and family members are very welcome to watch the parade. After 10am the students who are purchasing books will come to the library to pay and collect the books. Parents and family members are also welcome to buy books directly from the book Fair on Thursday. The school will earn 10% of the Book Fair takings which usually is used to buy new books for the library.
P&C Newsletter Term 3 Week 2
P&C Meeting 5th August 5.30pm in the staff room—All welcome!
The Snack Shack Term 3 Great news we have secured the Snack Shack for Fridays during term 3. The snack shack will be open for the 11am lunch break on Fridays only in term 3.
Colour Explosion—20 September Our Colour Explosion Fun Run is looking like being bigger and better than ever this year. Sally Gowing is again coordinating the sponsorship
– if your business is interested in sponsoring this great event please contact Sally on 0408 163 482. Keep an eye on Facebook
and School stream next week for information on how to login and register for online fundraising. Booklets will be distributed this week.
School Stream App & Facebook page – tell a friend The P&C is very supportive of the school’s move to start using the School Stream Ap. You can download this App for free at the ITunes store or the equivalent App store for non-Apple phones.
The School will use this App to get information like newsletters, bus breakdowns, absent notes, excursion details etc out to parents.
Once you have downloaded the App you will be able to sign up to Bega Public School and get all the alerts in real time as they are posted.
Facebook Please join the schools Facebook page, it is a great source of information about what is happening in the school. Information from the school will go out on School Stream and the info from the P&C will go out on Facebook, so make sure you join both.
Uniform Shop Please note that the uniform shop located at Bega High School will only be operating winter hours from 9am –3pm until further notice.
We need at least three new volunteers to be able to provide Ethics classes at Bega Valley PS for everyone who this program for their child. This year we only have one volunteer who is teaching Stage 1 Ethics. It would be wonderful to hear from anyone else who would like to volunteer. Ethics classes are run on Tuesday afternoons at Bega Valley PS. Ethics classes include scenarios, poems and stories, group work and activities to encourage the children to think about what they should do in different situations, about how circumstances might make a difference and about the consequences of their actions. Ethics classes can be taught by parents, carers, grandparents, other relatives or members of the community. Lessons are fully scripted and training is provided. If you would like to consider volunteering for Primary Ethics, or know someone who might be interested, please apply online at www.primaryethics.com.au/volunteer or contact Carey Francis [email protected]
SCLC Art Show 7th & 9th August 9AM-5PM Civic Centre, Bega
The SCLC are hosting an annual art show to showcase the creative talents of public school students. They are asking members of the community to volunteer some time to help out with the event. If you would like to volunteer your assistance please contact Michelle Hulme or Talia Clough at Merimbula Public School on (02) 64951266 or via email at: [email protected]
Hope—By Melica M.
Primary Division Ever since my dad died I wasn’t really an interesting person… I was always lazy, boring and not as bright and happy as I used to be. Mum tried to cheer me up by buying me presents and taking me to playtime (an ar-cade play centre nearby), but it never really worked out. I grabbed my favourite book off the dusty shelf that I haven’t touched in months, which is next to my bed. I dawdled past the kitchen and stopped to get a packet of chips. As I opened the cupboard, my mum yelled from a dis-tance, “Catrina!” “Yeah!” I responded loudly so that she could me hear from her bedroom. “You haven’t been outside in two days! Go do some-thing!” My mum yelled. “Fine!” I muttered with a gasp of exhaustion. I went out to the veranda and closed the door behind me. As I headed towards the foot path, I gradually start-ed to walk on the unstable planks. My mind faded away to another place where no one else is there. I kept walking and getting closer and closer to the leopard patterned bark that clings onto the sweetgum tree. The branches were long and wide with enormous star shaped leaves that prevent the sun from coming in and protecting me with shade all year round. I sat down comfortably, with my legs bent to help my book stand up, and my back against the trunk of the tree. Sudden-ly, the wind started blowing furiously making my page blow back and forth in my book. The book suddenly rolled off my lap. “Ugh! My book!” As I chased after it, the book rolled under the gate and onto the road. I scurried past the gate and chased after my favourite book, every step I took I heard an engine roaring closer and closer towards me. I finally stepped onto the road with my favourite book in-between my feet. I looked up onto the road to see a set of beaming lights flash into my eyes. Just when the car was about to hit me, the leaves rattled, the branches vibrated and the wind whistled. Everything surrounding me stopped like a broken clock. I was ready to get hit by the car, to end my sufferings of my dad dying. My hand covered my eyes to stop the beaming light of the car. I heard a voice in the back of my head “Catrina, it’s okay.” It was a familiar, but deep and friendly toned voice. “Who’s that, am I dead, are you god?” I asked confused and scared. “Turn around.” said the voice I heard in my head. “All I see is the tree, what do you mean?” “Exactly, Catrina, it’s me… your Dad!” “Dad!” From then on, I communicated with my dad every day
while sitting by the tree. I finally started to go outside
for my dad and … live.
