Issue: 40 15 December 2016€¦ · Students resume on Thursday 2 February Dear Parents and Families: ... Jarvis, Miss Lauren ooper and Miss Sinead Pritchard for preparing the students

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

A friendly reminder

The students will be dismissed at 1.30pm on Tuesday 20 December

Students resume on Thursday 2 February

Dear Parents and Families: best wishes for the festive season On behalf of all the staff at Beaumaris Primary School we extend best wishes to all families for a safe and restful festive season. We hope you have a relaxing holiday and return refreshed ready for another exciting year.

Congratulations to all Year 6 Graduates of the Class of 2016 On Monday evening parents, students and teachers came together to celebrate the achievement of another milestone for our Year 6 students. Thank you to Mr Peter Jarvis, Miss Lauren Cooper and Miss Sinead Pritchard for preparing the students for secondary school. Our students leave with a sound academic foundation, a belief in themselves and a belief that learning can and should be fun. Thank you also to Liz Laws and Jodie Stewart, with the assistance of Parent Club, for preparing the decorations and organising supper and Natalia Redan who took all the photographs at the photo booth for all to enjoy after the ceremony. Thank you to Kostya and Anastasia from Party Boom Event Agency for the amazing balloons. To all our Year 6 students good luck next year! You should be very proud of your achievements and the contributions you have made to school life. We look forward to your visits in the new year and we hope all of you can come along to the Class of 2016 reunion in 2017. Some of our families are leaving BPS as their youngest child has now completed Year 6. We wish you well. We thank you for your contributions to the school over the years.

2016 Year Six Award Recipients Awards Thank you to MSP Photography for their sponsorship of our student awards. Sponsorship enabled each award recipient to receive a voucher redeemable at Beaumaris Books in the Concourse. Citizenship Awards: Amy Watkins, Milla Kerr, Byron Shim, Jenna Brown, Will Hoey, Amy Coppens ICT/Media Ryan O’Shanesy Sport (endeavour Award) Evie Stansby Sustainability: Olivia Self & Zara Callan Performing Arts: Kim Petley, David Overton & Harry Hayden PE/Sport: Katelyn Randall & Spence McLennan Japanese: Josh Fairhurst & Jazzy Kruss Visual Arts: Samantha Davidson & Cassidy Jackson

Beaumaris PS Yearbook 2016 The 2016 Yearbook was sent home today to those families who purchased one earlier in the year. We hope our families enjoy the special moments that have been captured during the year. Thank you to Miss Volkov for managing the production of the yearbook.

Issue: 40 15 December 2016

DIARY DATES Please refer to term newsletters

for more detail on year level important dates: http://www.beaups.vic.edu.au/

page/110/Term-Newsletters

SNACK SHACK Open Mondays, Wednesdays &

Fridays Last day Friday 16th December

Friday 16 December Year 5 Fun Day - GSAC

Monday 19 December Year 5 Ricketts Point 10am-2pm

Whole School Carol's Night 6-7pm

Tuesday 20 December End of Term 4, 1.30pm finish

Thursday 2 February 2017 Start of Term 1, 2017

Monday 6th February The Snack Shack reopens

Tuesday 14 to Friday 17 February Year 5 Camp

Monday 20 Feb Resilience Project Parent Session

6.30-8pm SALC

Tuesday 21 Feb Parent Club AGM

Sunday 4 June Bunnings BBQ and Cake Stall

Sunday 22 October School Fete

http://www.beaups.vic.edu.au/page/110/Term-Newsletters






Families on the move To all families moving on, relocating or returning overseas or interstate, we wish you every success. Our school is truly enriched by our international families, those from interstate and local schools.

Farewell to Mrs Madden, Mrs McSwain and Mrs Weppner Each year some of our teachers explore opportunities to expand their horizons. Congratulations and best wishes to Mrs Pip Madden who has accepted a teaching position at Mentone Grammar. Mrs Meg McSwain and Mrs Sally Weppner are both taking next year to spend time with their families.

Teachers on leave Mr Ross Bailey will be taking long service leave until March 2017. Mrs Kerryn Pearman will be taking leave for another 12 months.

Welcome to new staff in 2017 On Wednesday our students met their class teacher for 2017. The following teachers will join our teaching team: Miss Mel Vallance (Year 1 team), Miss Anthea Cain (Year 1 team) and Miss Tayla Corrigan (Year 2 team).

Thank you to all staff Every day all who work at BPS, the teachers, the administration team and our support staff, collectively contribute either directly or indirectly to the education of your child. They enjoy the collegiality of the co-workers, the challenge of their profession and we greatly value their commitment to our clear focus on student academic achievement, engagement and wellbeing and the smooth running of the school. We thank them for their professionalism and sense of fun woven in to all that they do each and every day.

Thank you to the Parent Community Your contribution makes possible and brings to fruition the many initiatives, programs and events that make this school a great place for our students to learn and develop. Parents generously support the teachers and the school overall in so many ways and your support truly overwhelms and amazes us. Thank you to School Council, Finance Committee, Education Committee, Buildings & Grounds Committee, Marketing and Communications Committee, Grants Committee, Canteen, BFAC, Scholastic Book Club, Clothing Recycling, Parent Club and Class Representatives, the Fete Committee, Gardening Club, and the huge team of parent helpers who assist in so many ways.

Louise Neave Thomas Prendergast Acting Principal Acting Assistant Principal

Resilience Project– Dairy Date 2017 The Resilience Project teaches positive mental health strategies by delivering emotionally engaging programs in schools for students, parents and teachers to provide them with evidence based, practical strategies to build resilience. On 31 January, the staff will participate in the program as part of one of our curriculum days. On February the 9th the Resilience Project will be presented to all students, then a parent session will be held on 20 February at 6.30pm. The Resilience Project continues on from our work this year with Resilient Youth Australia and Bayside Youth Services and our Bully Stoppers Program.

THE SNACK SHACK The last chance for lunch orders this year is tomorrow, Friday 16 December as it is the last trading day of The Snack Shack for 2016. I would like to thank all the volunteers who have helped out during the year and encourage everyone to submit their volunteer form to the office for 2017 by Friday 16th. I would also like to send best wishes all our Year 6 students who are moving on into their next phase of their education. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe break and I look forward to seeing students and staff again in February. Ellie Hilton. Access to Compass once your child has left Beaumaris Primary Once your child has left Beaumaris Primary School you will no longer be able to log into the Compass portal. This means you will not have access to your child's Semester 1 and 2 reports from 2016. If you wish to have access to a digital copy in order to retain these for your future use, you will need to download and save the reports. Your child will become inactive on Compass at the end of the final school day of 2016 - 1.30pm on Tuesday 20 December. From our Parent Club Many thanks for all the contributions made by all parents over the past Year - especially the Class Reps. We wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, healthy and peaceful 2017.







LEVEL LOW DOWN Year One

What a wonderful whirlwind of activities and events over the last week! Monday started off with a bang. Most of us rotated between Christmas activities including icing biscuits, making fruit sticks and creating ornaments. Wednesday was the highlight. We met our Year 2 teachers and classmates! It was a little nerve-racking to begin but also so exciting. After the fun get-to-know-you activities we were all feeling even more positive. Keep calm and bring on 2017!

Year Three

As we’re sure you all know it is the second last week of school so we decided what a better way to celebrate this fabulous year than enjoying each other’s company while taking part in some sporting activities. It truly has been such a special year in so many ways and here are some of our favourite moments of 2016: -Having an absolute ball at our very first school camp -Enjoying a beautiful day for our excursion to the market and Yakult factory -Having a blast to the past at Blackrock House -Being reading mentors to our Prep buddies -Learning from our many parent guest speakers And so much more!

From all of us in Year 3, wishing you and your family a merry

Christmas, have a safe and relaxing break and see you in the New

Year!

Year Four

On Friday we celebrated a very successful Village Market Expo as a conclusion to our study of Economics and Health this term. The children enthusiastically made and sold products or offered a service to customers. We will now tally up our profit and collectively decide which charity we will donate too. We would like to thank the parents and friends for their support on the day. Supreme Incursions visited us on Monday. We learnt and practiced some fantastic Hip Hop dance moves and discovered that we can all dance. We also participated in team building games and learnt strategies to support and encourage others. ‘You can do it” ideas. Our Life Saving and Fish and Chip Celebration Lunch at Beaumaris Life Saving Club is on Thursday 15th December. We are a Sun Smart school and it is compulsory for children to wear a school (or other Sun Smart) hat, bathers/ board shorts and sun screen together with a rash vest on the day. Please ensure your child has all of these items. Parents you are very welcome to join us on the day for lunch. We would also love one parent to walk down with us at 9.15am and one to walk back at 2.30pm. Please let us know if you can help.




Bike Ed ‘Catch Up Test’ is scheduled for Friday 16 December. 4F and the majority of 4W completed their tests last week.

For the remaining students in 4W, 4DG and 4M the test has been rescheduled for Friday 16 December (9.30am-

10.30am). These students are required to take their bikes home today (Friday 9th) and bring them back next Friday.

Please check Compass for details.

Year Six This week is an extremely busy week for the Year 6 students. Monday 12 December the Year 6 students had their graduation. It was fantastic to see all the students perform on the night musical items with wonderful singing and dancing. Each individual student delivered a beautiful speech. The parents put on a fantastic function in the SALC. A special thank you to Liz Laws and Jodie Stewart for decorating the SALC, it was amazing!

Wednesday the Year 6 students took part in “The School Project”. Their aim is to provide children displaced through domestic violence with everything they need to continue their schooling and homework. The students packed school bags with donated supplies. As Ally said ‘I feel really good doing something like this” Kim said “It was really nice to do something like this for other students”.




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Issue: 40 15 December 2016€¦ · Students resume on Thursday 2 February Dear Parents and Families: ... Jarvis, Miss Lauren ooper and Miss Sinead Pritchard for preparing the students