Thurs 14 May: Kinder to Year 6 students surnames M to S

Friday 15 May: Kinder to Year 6 students surnames T to Z

In addition, students who have parents working in essential services will make up an 'overflow class' daily. As per Govt guidelines, physical distancing is to be maintained, with only 10 students per classroom, hence the phased approach in returning to school with approx 25% students in attendance daily, only.

Additional cleaning will commence of all school high traffic areas during the day, including toilet blocks, handrails, bubblers. It is advised all students use their own water bottle at school, accessing the drink refill stations available and avoiding the bubblers if possible. Regular hand washing routines will be monitored.

Please send back to school with your child their At Home Learning Pack and any other resources eg school laptop, library or reading books. Students will be in Stage/Class groups but not necessarily with their own class teacher.

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 2 Week 2

Phone: (02) 64 921 280

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Dear Parents/Carers

Thank you to all of our families for your support during this COVID-19 lockdown period. We have had almost 100% response from Parents/Carers in picking up their child’s At Home Learning Pack.

This has been an exceptional time to be a teacher in a school. Our staff have been learning new methods to apply in their teaching to incorporate learning at home. For many parents this has also been a very challenging time, juggling children, family needs, jobs the lot! We are constantly being told ‘We are all in this together’, well we really are. Some of our staff do have compromised health and are at a greater risk, remaining offsite and still working from home too. We are looking forward to getting ‘back to normal’ as soon as is safely possible.

Returning to School

Following Govt direction the phasing in of students returning to school commences next week, with all students attending one day. The following students are to attend school on set days:

Monday 11 May - Support class students in K6B, K6O, K6M and KM classes

Tuesday 12 May: Kinder students surnames A - L; Year 1 - 6 students surnames A to F only

Wed 13 May: No Kinder students; Year 1 - 6 students surnames G to L only

Thurs 14 May: Kinder to Year 6 students surnames M to S

Friday 15 May: Kinder to Year 6 students surnames T to Z

In addition, students who have parents working in essential services will make up an 'overflow class' daily. As per Govt guidelines, physical distancing is to be maintained, with only 10 students per classroom, hence the phased approach in returning to school with approx 25% students in attendance daily, only.

Additional cleaning will commence of all school high traffic areas during the day, including toilet blocks, handrails, bubblers. It is advised all students use their own water bottle at school, accessing the drink refill stations available and avoiding the bubblers if possible. Regular hand washing routines will be monitored.

Please send back to school with your child their At Home Learning Pack and any other resources e.. school laptop, library or reading books. Students will be in Stage/Class groups but not necessarily with their own class teacher.

I would also like to wish all of our Mums a very Happy Mother’s Day x and once again, thank you for your ongoing support of our school.

Carolyn Nugent Principal

Stage 3 News

The teachers for Year 5/6 are very happy with how

the kids are having a go at completing the tasks

being provided in this difficult time. Students have

been submitting work in the Google Classroom

platform and working on the take home packs. We

thank the kids for taking responsibility for their

learning and to our families for supporting their

children. Below are some examples of their fantastic

work.

The wave By Aimee 5/6R

Since the enormous wave was heading straight for

us, we knew that we were going to have to fight for

our lives. Green Pearl got her spear ready for the

fight and Pyrite got her shield and stood out in front

of us, defending from the maybe corrupted gem

controlling the wave. SWOOOOOSH! The wave

knocked us off our feet and into the raging water.

We couldn't breathe, suddenly the corrupted gem

showed itself. It was a quartz, a blue quartz that had

been corrupted. “I knew this was going to happen''

Green said “but why?” Pyrite gestured to me to get

behind her and for Pearl to get to her side. Green

pearl then decided to attack, running at the gem,

spear in hand and slashed at it until it turned into its

gem form. At least that's what we thought...

“Why didn't that work, Green?” Pyrite questioned

Pearl who looked confused. “I don't know! Maybe it

wasn't strong enough?” Green pearl replied. “GUYS

CAN YOU JUST STOP ARGUING!?” I shouted.

“Sorry...” the two gems responded. By this time the

corrupted gem was foaming at the mouth and ready

to charge once again. I got out my sword and stood

in front of the beast, still looking at it dead in the

eye. It ran at me, mouth still foaming but more

ferociously, and swiped my face leaving me with a

nasty cut on my face. “Aimee are you okay?” Pyrite

asked, fear in her voice, “I'm fine!” I responded.

Then something unexpected happened, the gem

uncorrupted but was still physically damaged.

“Who are you?” Pyrite asked the confused gem. “My

name is Blue Quartz and I don't know why I got

corrupted but I was scared” Blue quartz responded

“Who are you?” “The name’s Pyrite, this is Green

pearl, and Aimee. Welcome to the crew” Pyrite

answered. Me and Green Pearl waved. “Now let's

clean up this water, shall we?” I chuckled.

Sunrise by Zahlia 5/6J

Slash! Shiny purple blood gushed out of the giant

three headed beast as it screeched in pain. Hocus

Pocus hit it once more with a lightning spell, the

beast screamed again as it hit the ground, it’s eyes

closing slowly.

The movie suddenly stopped.

“Awww! What happened to the movie?” The kids

asked as Marie checked the projector.

“I guess the projector’s busted. Well! That was the

end of the movie, anyway and I need to go back to

the castle!” Marie said, walking outside of the small

house. The villagers waved as Marie ran past.

“Slow down, gorgeous! You almost ran into me!”

Perie squawked, his feathery mane shaking

“Heh! Oops! Sorry, Perie.” Marie apologised,

dusting herself off.

“Wait. Since when do YOU walk around town?”

Marie asked.

“Oh! The peasants need to know how beautiful I

am!” Perie said as Marie ran towards the castle.

The sky was flooded by orange and pink as the sun

hid behind the great cherry forest, pink leaves

danced in the wind as Marie walked into the giant

castle.

“Howww was your dayyy…?” Lizzie asked,

strawberry ice cream dripping off of her arms and

hips.

“.. Good.” She responded, walking onto the balcony

after grabbing a bowl of cloud candy. After standing

on the balcony for two hours, Kard Trick walked

onto the balcony with a bowl of silver lettuce.

“Hey. You’re still out here?” Kard asked. Hocus

Pocus walked onto the balcony.

“You guys are out here?” Hocus Pocus asked.

“Hm? Yeah. I’m gonna go to sleep.” Marie walked

into her giant room and flopped onto the bed,

immediately falling asleep.

3/4 C Class News Home Learning is a new

adventure for everyone in 3-4C.

We are part of a great team who

strive to participate, do our best,

learn from our mistakes and have

fun even in isolation.

Check out just a few of the things

we have done with help from our

families.

My Personal Narrative

Author: Dane Date4/5/20

Basketball

I like basketball. I have been practicing basketball at

home, even though I don’t have a hoop. My

favourite way to practice is playing a game against

my Dad, Justin. First, I have to ask my Dad to play.

He usually says no, not until I have done all my jobs.

After I finish my jobs and have a shower, I set up the

lounge room. I put the purple box at one end, and

leave a big box at the other end. Next, we pick a

team. I’m usually the Lakers and Dad is Portland

Trailblazers. To start, I throw the ball in the air and

then Dad catches it and bounces on the carpet to

slam dunk. The funniest thing is when I go to dunk

and miss and Dad isn’t even near me. The last game

we played, Dad won 45-4. After the game, I had a

cup of tea and went to bed. I will try and beat him

next time.

Stage 3 News Continued…

Woosh! Crash!

Marie quickly woke up, brushed her fur and ran

outside. The sky was still orange and pink and there

was a giant drill machine in the Great Cherry

Forest. She started running towards the forest, the

grass started to turn grey and the trees turned

purple.

There was someone on the drill, light grey fur with

purple swirls, her eyes were a bright pink with black

swirls in the middle and a blue tongue hung out of

her mouth.

“Hahaha! Where are your little servants? Where

are they? Did they leave you? Huh?” She asked, her

tongue flopping around as she cackled insanely.

Suddenly, Hocus Pocus, Kard Trick, Manta and Perie

appeared.

“What’s happening here?” Manta asked.

“I don’t know! She just appeared out of nowhere!”

Marie yelled, pointing at the giant drill. The

mysterious figure jumped onto the ground.

“You don’t remember me? Oh, what horrible

friends you are.” The figure said.

“We aren’t your friends.” Hocus growled, slowly

taking a wand out of her black coat.

“Ohohoho! If you want to be violent, i’ll be violent!

Hahaha!” The figure cackled.

“N- NO! No v- violence, please!” Kard yelled but

was barely heard.

“Let’s play a simple numbers game! When your HP

drops to zero. You lose! Let the game begin!” The

figure laughed.

“HP..?” Kard asked but he was instantly kicked in

the face, causing him to fall backwards. The figure’s

tail stretched around some trees, causing them to

be flung into the forest. Marie looked around,

confused. Suddenly, the figure hit Marie’s back and

wrapped her tail around her neck.

Class News K6O

Wow, what a different start to Term 2! This has

been such a challenging time, but it has been

fantastic to see my students engaging with their

Home Learning Packs. I need to say a big thank you

to the parents are carers for the massive effort they

have done to support the continuation of learning

for students in K6O. I have thoroughly enjoyed

having students share their home learning through

our Class Dojo. It has also been very special to use

Zoom to connect with my students and listen to

them read.

I would like to thank Ms Newton, Miss Welsford,

Mrs Dean and Mrs Creasey for their huge efforts in

posting videos and lessons on our Class Dojo.

Here are some of the photos from Mrs Creasey’s Art

lesson and some of the fantastic writing by Jayden

Daly after working through the lessons provided by

specialist writing teaching Ms Newton.

Class News K-2

This term has seen the K-2 children and parents

becoming more familiar with the Dojo platform to

complete their schooling as well as hard copies of

activities which are posted into the student’s

scrapbooks. The students are also able to post

photos or a video, text or a drawing of their

learning through the student’s individual portfolios

on Dojo. This allows the teachers to see the

student’s work and give feedback on the quality of

their work and suggestions on where to next.

The teachers have been busy planning and

designing activities both through the online

platform and hard copy booklets and worksheets.

We have been working as a team to ensure that all

the students in the stage are receiving appropriate

work to meet their needs. Our teacher team that

has contributed to planning, writing and presenting

lessons are; the K-2 class teachers, Miss Newton

(writing), Mrs McVeity (music), Mrs Creasey (art),

Miss Welsford Health/PE), Mrs Warne (Spelling),

Mrs Fay (reading & writing) and Mrs Benedyka

(speech).

These past few weeks have been a big learning

curve for the teachers as well as the students and

parents, especially how to teach and learn through

an online learning

platform. It has been a

great pleasure looking at

the tasks the children

have been completing at

home and the quality of

their work they have been

producing.

A big thank you to all the

parents and carers for

supporting their children

at home with their

learning, often around

their own work

commitments, and the

support they have shown

the teachers and school

during these challenging

times.

Voluntary School Contribution Every year we ask families to support our school through our Voluntary School Contribution Fund. In 2020 this contribution from you will fund your child’s online subscriptions to Mathletics, Literacy Pro, Reading Eggs and iPad apps used at school. At BVPS we invite families to pay the Voluntary School Contribution fee:

$30 per child or $50 per family The Invoice for Voluntary School Contribution will be sent home with this newsletter. Payment can be made directly through the Office or online: https://bega-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/ and click on

the make a payment tab.

P&C Newsletter Week 2 Term 2

Easter Raffle Although the Stage 3 Easter raffle didn’t go to plan and had to be rescheduled, we are so grateful for the effort that our students and families made in selling tickets and returning the unsold tickets to us. Thank you so much to our parents and carers who donated Easter Eggs to go towards the prizes and to Tuff As Work Wear who donated a considerable amount of Easter Eggs. The raffle raised $939.00. This money will go towards the end of year Stage 3 Camp and is an integral fundraiser that contributes towards the reduction of costs for families.

School Stream App Now more than ever it is crucial that parents and families download the Bega Valley School Stream App to stay up to date with alerts and school information. You can download this App for free at the ITunes store or the equivalent App store for non-Apple phones. The School will also 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.

Scripture/Ethics Term 2

In term 2, Scripture and Ethics will not be presented at school but will resume classes in term 3. Both Scripture and Ethics have an online site children can access this term. See below,

Primary Ethics Bites! Our weekly program for school-aged students. Each week in Term 2 we’ll upload a new ethical dilemma to get you thinking! You might like to share it with others in your house to see what they think. Primaryethics.com.au

Scripture News

Fantastic news! Quizworx, the puppet people that children love to watch, have arranged for Scripture lessons to be home delivered! Here is the link for you to use so that your children can participate in SRE classes at home.

https://bit.ly/QWHD2020