Issue: 26 22 August 2013 - Beaumaris Primary School Victoria

DALGETTY ROAD, PO Box 6140 , CROMER 3193

PHONE: (03) 9589 2619 FAX: (03)9589 1957 Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.beaups.vic.edu.au

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Education Support Staff Most people will know our classroom teachers and many of our specialist teachers, but our Education Support (ES) staff may be less well known. ES staff include integration aides, business managers, library technicians and office staff. ES staff at BPS:

Catherine Lamb ‐ Business Manager Robyn Meehan ‐ Office Helen Bradnam - Office Virginia Jackson - Office Julia Jones - Library Technician Amanda Byrne - Integration Aide

ES are highly valued by our school and perform a host of duties, most of them behind the scenes, to support the effective operation of BPS and to provide additional support to designated students. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the fantastic work done by our ES staff and thank them for their valuable contributions to BPS. Cake Stall A huge thank you Dawn Lazzaro for her superb organisation of the cake stall. Thank you to all who helped on the day and to all the parents who provided baked goods for sale. The stall was a fantastic success and raised $2,000. A magnificent result. A big thank you to "Ripponlea Fish Supply" for their very generous $300 donation. This money will be added to the Fete fundraising total. Removal of Old Portable Classroom and Relocatable Toilet Facilities We have been advised by the Department of Education and Early Childhood that the out dated portable currently occupied by 3P is to be removed from our site during the September school holidays. The building is a very old model of portable that is systematically being removed from school sites across the state. We are also officially over entitlement for classrooms for our enrolments. The unused relocatable toilets will also be removed. 3P will move to room 19 where science classes were previously held. A friendly reminder about Konnective. As mentioned in Stop Press last week we are one of 50 schools participating in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development two year trial with Konnective as part of the Victorian Government’s new ICT Strategy. At BPS we are always exploring a variety of ways to communicate to our community and we believe this is an exciting opportunity for our families. If parents wish to OPT OUT of Konnective please contact the school by Thursday 29th August . Parents who DO NOT OPT OUT will receive an email soon after the 29th August inviting them to upload the free smart phone application. If you do not have a smart phone, don’t worry—we will not be exclusively using Konnective to send out important messages, we will still use normal communication methods too e.g. email, website updates.

Issue: 26 22 August 2013

DIARY DATES

Thursday 22 August Year 3 Circus Skills

Friday 23 August Footsteps P-2

Monday 26 August Prep Scienceworks excursion

Wednesday 28 August Hockey 7s Tournament

Friday 30 August Footy Coin Drive & Fathers’ Breakfast

Footsteps P-2

Tuesday 3 September Parent Club 9am

Monday 2-Friday 6 September Year 5 Camp

Wednesday 4 September Year 3/4 Hooptime MSAC

Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 September Year 6 Production

Friday 13 September Seaside District Athletics Sports

Monday 16 September Year 5/6 Hooptime MSAC

Wednesday 18 September Whole school photo and Year 6&Sports

Photos

Friday 20 September BFAC Drive In Movie Night

END OF TERM 2.30 DISMISSAL

Tuesday 8 October Cybersmart Outreach Program-Internet

Safety Awareness Presentations Student presentation @ 2.30pm Parent presentation 7:00 - 8:30pm

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2013

Garden Club is cancelled for this month. Please watch this space for the next gardening session.




ATHLETICS SPORTS Congratulations to all the students in year 4-6 who participated in the BPS House Athletics on Wednesday. It was wonderful to see everyone participating fairly and supporting each other. The weather was fine, the venue of a high standard, the organisation excellent and the performances by the students on the track showed their enthusiasm. Thank you to all the staff and parents who worked tirelessly all day to ensure the day was a success. A huge thank you to Ross Bailey and Sam Robinson for organising the sports day – the preparation for days such as this is immense.

Sheryl M. Skewes Neven Paleka Principal Assistant Principal SICK CHILDREN There are a number of viruses circulating the school at present including various colds and flus but also gastro. If your child is showing any signs of being unwell we would appreciate you keeping them at home until they are fully recovered. In case of gastro, children need to be clear of symptoms for 24 hours before they return to school. SCHOOL COUNCIL PRESIDENT’S REPORT At this week’s School Council meeting, the Principal of Sandringham Secondary College, Allen McAuliffe, provided an update on the proposed plans for the College. He informed Council that the College is working towards establishing a new vision and accompanying long term strategy, including with regard to developing its science and sports learning. He confirmed that the current plan is for the Beaumaris campus to remain as a year 7-10 campus (although no year 7 will be offered in 2014), with future options for VCE years. The College anticipates making further announcements as their plans develop and become more certain towards the end of this year. Council also discussed the proposed removal by the Department of the old year 3 portable classroom and old toilet block between the oval and basketball courts. The removals are likely to occur in the upcoming school holidays. Staff are implementing a plan to smoothly transition the affected year 3 students to a suitable classroom before the end of term, with a priority of minimising any impacts on students. The school is engaging students, parents and the community to inform them about these changes. The school is also investigating options for making the best use of the spaces once these buildings are removed. Council approved the school’s new Sustainability Policy and updated Religious Instruction Policy. These policies will be available on the school’s website together with other policies of our school. Michael Scott School Council President BFAC TRIVIA EVENING Calling all dad’s and male guardians, BFAC (the Beaumaris Father’s Activity Club) will be at the Mentone Hotel on Tuesday 27th August to take part in the Hotel’s Trivia evening. The guys are meeting at 7pm, there is a charge of $15 per head which includes entry to the trivia evening AND an international super parma. If you would like to join in the fun of the evening please call the office and let them know – they will pass your details onto the event organisers. VILLAGE CINEMAS TICKET VOUCHERS

With school holidays looming on the horizon we have stocked up on our Village Cinemas movie ticket vouchers. You can purchase your vouchers from the school office Adults $13.00 and Children’s $10. Simply redeem the vouchers in person at the cinema box office or you can also use them when booking your tickets on line, by entering the unique barcode of the ticket when making payment. The tickets expire in May 2014 so you have plenty of time to use them or they make great birthday gifts.

TICKETEBO You can now purchase your fete unlimited rides wristband or your BFAC Drive-In movie tickets online at www.ticketebo.com.au/bpsfete (for Early Bird Tickets $30/pp fete unlimited rides wristband)

or www.ticketebo.com.au/bpsmovienight (Early Bird Tickets $25 per car, $7/pp walk in $20 per family walk in). The link can also be found on the front page of our website.

The TV Weather Man (Channel 10), Mike Larkin is still coming to BPS Mike postponed his visit yesterday to BPS to do a pre-recorded weather cross due to illness. The date has now been rescheduled to 9th October; we will remind everyone about the visit nearer to that date.

http://www.ticketebo.com.au/bpsfete

http://www.ticketebo.com.au/bpsmovienight




Parent Helpers— We want YOU Would you like to be part of our school’s library make-over? One of our parents—Sarah Patterson—has drawn up a plan to revitalise our library environment and to get all the work done, we are going to need the assistance of some energetic and enthusiastic parents. If you would like to view the concept plans for the new look area please take time to check them out in the glass display cabinet next to the school office. Due to the size of the works we will be closing the library from Monday 9th September until Friday 20th September. Some of the tasks you might like to help with during week commencing 9th September are:- 1. Box up books – move shelving away from walls 2. Prep walls, removal of all posters, blue tac etc and wash walls down 3. Paint walls 4. Hang wallpaper 5. Unpack books and assemble shelving 6. Paint wooden or cardboard alphabet letters (can be done at home) 7. Cutting out of cardboard leaves (can be done at home) 8. Artist – paint a smiling face on wall 9. Varnish wooden trees 10. Decorate/assemble the room These tasks can be done during the day with any time you have available. If you are keen to help please contact Sarah Patterson – 0487421922 / 95895774 / [email protected] or I can be found around 1S or prep area on a morning or afternoon. TRESTLE TABLES FOR SALE We have many old wooden trestles for sale if you are interested please call Imogen Miller on 0411237 025 KIND DONATION Thank you to the Farrington family who have donated a very large pallet of strong cardboard sheets to the school. The teachers are very excited with the prospect of using this wonderful resource in the classrooms and there has been a steady stream of cardboard sheets being moved into the rooms around the school since they were delivered this morning. REQUEST FOR PLASTIC SWORDS

Do you have any plastic swords at home like the two in the photograph. We would love to borrow them for the year 6 musical which takes place on 11th and 12th September. Please bring any you have into the office. Thank you, Caroline Rothberg, Performing Arts.

HOUSE ATHLETICS: YEARS 4-6 A huge thank you to all parents and staff who helped to make the House Athletic Sports a very successful day. We cannot run any sports day without a significant number of parents helping and we do sincerely appreciate the efforts of everyone who gave up their time to assist. Our students are the ones who benefit from the generosity and commitment shown by everyone who helped. Thank you very much. Sam Robinson and Ross Bailey This photo shows our year 6s gathered together during the day - we will be auctioning a photo similar to this as part of the Fete silent auction, so check it out on fete day.

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LEVEL LOW DOWN Prep

On Tuesday we were visited by Paul, John and ‘Grumpy Mick’ – the fire fighters from the Mentone Fire Brigade. They talked about what an ‘emergency’ was and the importance of ringing 000 in an emergency only. We learned to ‘Crawl down low and …go, go go’ in the case of a fire and our Preps have been practising it as a part of ‘dramatic play’ during investigations. Please discuss your ‘home’ fire plan with your children and help them remember their full address and home or mobile phone number. All Preps have learned what action to take if we have a fire emergency at school so please ask them to tell you all about that. Don’t forget our excursion to Scienceworks this coming Monday – 26th August. Please make sure your child is here in their classroom at 8.30 as we will be departing at 8.40 SHARP.

Year One The Year 1’s have had a BUSY week! We have been practising our subtraction and data collection skills by making our own graphs, playing subtraction bingo and race to zero. We have also been writing our very own subtraction stories. Here are some that you might like to work out at home; I had 15 bananas and my sister ate 10. How many bananas did I have all together? I had 25 balloons and 2 went POP! How many balloons did I have all together? (By Sarah, 1B) I had $99.00 and I spent $86.00. How much money did I have left? (By Archie B, 1B) We have also started investigating Procedural texts, which are texts that tell you how to make or do something. Our spelling focus for this week was words with the “Qu” blend such as, Queen, Quick and Quack.

Year Two The year 2’s have been busy learning lots about money! We have been adding money, working out change, playing banking games, building houses and working out the cost and even looking at exchange rates! The students have loved working on their money skills. We have encouraged them to continue working on their change skills at home when shopping with mum and dad.

During investigations, 1GP

practised their fine motor

skills as they designed and

made their own T shirts.




Year Three Parent experts talk about Design, creativity and technology Year 3 are very fortunate to have so my talented and skilled parents and grandparents who are always willing to come and share their knowledge. We are very thankful to have had four design and technology experts Joan Northfield, Heath Kerr, Marc D’Unienville and Andrew Read come in to share their knowledge with us on Wednesday. A big Thank you goes out to all these parents. They added another dimension to our teaching and learning and all the students benefitted immensely from each presentation. Today, my dad Andy came to speak to us about building. He taught us that you have to wear a lot of safety equipment to be safe. He also taught us about how

many types of bricks and materials there are and how we can use them to build a sustainable house.

Jess Read

Today, my dad Marc came in to class to talk to us about the body and how sometimes we need to use technology such as stents and balloons to keep healthy. We learned about arteries, veins, stents, hearts, brains and lungs. The balloons and stents help to unblock arteries. Some stents have balloons at the end to open the artery. Belle D’Unienville

On Wednesday the 21st of August, Josie’s Nan came in to make Owls with us. First we stuffed the Owl. Then we stuck the eyes on and sewed the bottom. After that we cut out the feet and stuck them on. I waited for it to dry then played with my Owl. Olivia Field

Today Milla’s dad Heath taught us about filming, Go-pros and the different camera lenses. We went outside and acted in a small film. The film was in slow

motion. We learnt a lot about camera technology. Bailey Parrot and David Overton

In addition we would also like to thank Warren Overton for presenting an exceptional double session on sustainable housing designs. Every grade 3 students was held captivated throughout the entire presentation and

all came away with a solid understanding of what sustainable houses could look like. In fact, they are all attempting to design their own for homework this week.




Year Four This week in Year 4 our students continued the immersion process of Design, Creativity and Technology. On Monday, we were fortunate enough to have Ryan from Supreme Incursions visit our school to teach us how to make a billy cart using various tools and materials. Students worked very well in teams and had lots of fun racing their billy carts too.

Year Five and Six What a fantastic day at our House Athletics yesterday. Our students participated, performed , encouraged and shone as did staff and our wonderful parent helpers. It was fantastic to see students support and encourage one another, demonstrate resilience and show great

sportsmanship. Most of all it was so wonderful to see our students enjoying themselves and having a go.

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Issue: 26 22 August 2013 - Beaumaris Primary School Victoria