B E LLEVUE H ILL P UBLIC S CHOOL Phone: 9389 3928 9389 5526

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Email: bellevuehi-p.admin@det.nsw.edu.au

P & C Camp The P&C Camp is on next weekend, 13 –15 March. Book-ings close at midnight on Wednesday for both nights and Thursday for the day visits. Don’t forget to register.

Tell Them From Me Survey The Tell Them From Me Student Survey will be open in Week 8 for students in Years 4-6. This will give an insight into student engagement, wellbeing and effective teach-ing practices from the student perspective. Participation in the survey is optional and notes have been sent home with students and sent out on the SchoolBag App. These only need to be returned if you choose to opt out.

Communicating with teachers at school Teachers at school focus on the best possible education opportunities for your child/children between 8.15 am—4.00pm. If you need to communicate with the teacher please send them an email to arrange a suitable time. The Department of Education has a School Community Charter which out-lines how we can work together to ensure our learning environments are collaborative, supportive and cohesive. You will find a copy of this attached to the newsletter.

Learning @ Bellevue Hill Public School “Curiosity is to learning as kindling is to the flame.

The teacher’s role? To conjure the spark…” S. Brooks

Next week the teachers will continue their work with Simon Brooks on Cultures of Thinking. Action Research projects will allow teachers to explore how they can strengthen their skills on building rich leaning environ-ments where students develop deep understanding and become critical and creative thinkers.

Cherie Stone Deputy Principal

Term 1, Week 6 Friday 6 March 2020

B E LLEVUE H ILL P UBLIC S CHOOL Phone: 9389 3928 9389 5526

Email: bellevuehi-p.admin@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal’s Report Thank you to the P & C for a lovely welcome event held last Monday evening for new parents at the school! It was a wonderful opportunity for Mrs. Bennett and myself to meet so many new parents at the school. Mrs. Bennett had the opportunity to discuss all the events that are happening in Term 1 at Bellevue Hill Public School. The next meeting will be held on 6th April. Keep an eye on the newsletter for the topic that will be discussed at this meeting.

New Electronic Sign Yesterday construction began on our new electronic school sign which you will notice as you walk through the front gate. The new sign will allow us to post updated information on events and messages. Thank you to the school community who have funded this project.

School Spirit School Sprit is high in the school with the number of sport activities offered. Many thanks to Ms. Keeble and Ms. Vlahos who have organized the sports captains to report the results on all sport activities for both PSSA competitive and non-competitive sport at assembly. On Wednesday 43 students represented Bellevue Hill Public School at the Zone Swimming Carnival. Thank you to Mr. Rawson for doing all the organising. I heard that, even though it was very wet in the morning, everyone had a great day. Many thanks also to Ms. Keeble and Ms. Picone for accompanying our students.

Coronavirus Please note that the Department of Education is regularly monitoring this situation and providing schools with regular updates. At Bellevue Hill Public School we are being proac-tive with regular monitoring of personal hygiene and hand washing.

Student Representative Council (SRC) The SRC is a group of students elected by their peers to represent all students in the school. It works demo-cratically to represent the student body in school de-cision-making and to help organise ways for students to participate in school life. Congratulations to the following students who have

been selected SRC representatives for Semester 1

2020. These students were presented with an SRC

badge at last Friday’s Primary assembly.

Year 2 Jessie F Ethan K Rachel J Elaad S Layla C Zachary P Samuel J Lyla T Year 3 Oliver Ducat Lior Sharabi Chris Ganbat Grace Bernard Marcus G-S Jordana G

Year 4 Daniel M Anastasia L Jae T Danielle L Bayley K Alexis W Year 5 Noah Weinberg - 5S Riley Pager - 5S Amelie Lerner - 5L Ari Barr - 5L

Zone Swimming Report

On Wednesday 4 March the Zone Swimming Car-nival was held at Des Renford Aquatic Centre. Despite the weather the carnival went ahead and was conducted in tremendous spirit with everyone rallying in support of the competitors. The Centre Management team allowing students to remain in the Indoor Competition Pool area to avoid the worst of the conditions whilst not swimming. It is fair to say; however, that all of the students were more than enthusiastic and had no qualms about swimming, being very excited to experience swim-ming in the rain. Congratulations to all who represented our school. There was some very strong competition and great results included three of our swimmers gaining places in the following events: Chloe G: 1st place 8 years girls 50m Freestyle Bill Z: 3rd Place 11years boys 50m Breast-

stroke Arianna T: 2nd Place Open 200M

Individual Medley, 3rd Place 10 years girls 50m Freestyle, 3rd place 10 years girls 50m Backstroke

As finals were not held due to the conditions, we are awaiting confirmation to determine whether the students have qualified to attend the Regional Swimming Carnival. It was a great competition despite the conditions and I would like to thank all who attended to support the students —it was great to see everyone.

Best regards Darran Rawson

Student Wellbeing @ BHPS

You Can Do It!

Congratulations to all the swimmers who represented Bellevue Hill PS at the Sydney Coastal Zone carnival this week. The students displayed great confidence and determi-nation to compete in their individual events to the best of their ability. Teamwork was displayed by cheering for each other and encouraging their team mates. Despite the inclement weather, spirits were high and a strong sense of camaraderie ensured the students were all excited and determined to achieve their best. Congratulations to all of our competitors who were se-lected to take part. Doing so was a personal achieve-ment. Special mention must be made of the three swimmers

who were awarded ribbons for placing in their individu-

al events – Congratulations to Chloe (Year 3), Arianna

(Year 4) and Bill (Year 5).

News from the Russian Classes

International Women’s Day – 8 March

Many countries around the World celebrate the Inter-national Women’s Day this Sunday. Students from Kin-dergarten to Year 6 made lots of beautiful post cards and fridge magnets to congratulate their mothers and grandmothers with this celebration. They also wished a lot of joy, health and love to their sisters, teachers and aunties.

С праздником 8 Марта, милые женщины!

Premiers’ Reading Challenge is here! NSW Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleas-ure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. This year I am encouraging EVERY student to par-ticipate in the Premiers’ Reading Challenge. Students in years K-2 are challenged to read 30 books from the K-2 PRC list. Students in years 3-6 are challenged to read 20 books from their PRC reading lists.

Students must complete their personal online Student Reading Record by 28 August 2020 to complete the Challenge. To log your books, first go to the PRC website

homepage:

www.premiersreadingchallenge.nsw.edu.au.

Click on the NEW STUDENT SITE image.

It will take you to the PRC student site. Then click

on LOGIN in the top right hand corner. This will

take you to the NSW Department of Education

portal login page, students need to enter their

username and password.

If your child does not know their username or

password, please contact your class teacher.

Many thanks for all of your support.

Wendy Balafoutis—Teacher Librarian

Piano

I would like to congratulate Jessica, Bronte, Joshua, Daniel, Grace and Mila for completing their 30-piece piano Challenge at the end of last year. Students per-formed all their music musically and technically well. We look forward to hearing more outstanding musi-cal pieces sounding around school and especially at Assemblies this year!

Dr Petrova - Piano teacher

GO WITH THE FLOW (GWTF) RULES We all want safety for our kids and to keep Go With The Flow going! Please follow these rules: ONLY THE FIRST 15 CARS in the queue are allowed to park, no double parking down Birriga Road as you will be booked! Please use the turning circle at the school, turn right onto Birriga and use the roundabout to then re-join the queue. NO DOUBLE PARKING on either side of the slip road – offenders will be photographed. Police and rangers are patrolling the area both morning and afternoon. NO PARENTS SHOULD BE GETTING OUT OF THEIR CAR in the GWTF line as this causes unnecessary delays. Please be courteous, considerate and use common sense when dropping off or picking up kids in GWTF. SHOW APPRECIATION TO ALL OUR HELPERS with a simple smile and thank you, while they are assisting your children. GIVE CARS ON THE RIGHT AND BEHIND YOU, RIGHT OF WAY when pulling off from the GWTF line. BUSES HAVE RIGHT OF WAY before attempting to use the turning circle PLEASE DO NOT SLIP INTO THE GWTF LINE UNLESS YOU SEE A LARGE ENOUGH SPACE to Park parallel with the pavement. (Many cars park at an angle which creates further congestion). PLEASE PASS ON THIS INFORMATION to anyone pick-ing up your children

FINES: The fines for double parking in a school zone

or obstructing traffic is $344 and two

demerit points. https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/documents/roads/safety-

rules/demerits-school.pdf

ALL NEW GWTF USERS AND KINDERGARTEN PARENTS Please contact bellevuehillGWTF@gmail.com should you like to use the GWTF system. The shifts are: MORNING SHIFT (8.45am – 9.15am) or AFTERNOON SHIFT (3.10pm -3.40pm). If you are unable to make your shift, please first try and find a replacement. In the case of illness please let bellevuehillGWTF@gmail.com know as soon as possible. If you have a number and don’t already assist with GWTF your number will be cancelled in term 2 unless you give 2 dates you are able to assist. Guidelines and notes are included to assist helpers on how the system works (new helpers will always work with an experienced helper, to receive further assistance to familiarise themselves with how the system works).

CONTACT: Please email bellevuehillGWTF@gmail.com if you have available dates to help and/or would like to start using GWTF.

Upcoming Events

March 12 2021 Selective HS Placement Test 13 13-15 P & C Camp 16 Year 6 Camp—Canberra

New in 2020! Each term a parent

calendar will be posted onto the Bellevue Hill Public School website.

To access please use the link below:

https://bellevuehi-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Found on the front page: under ‘upcoming events’

Merit & You Can Do It Awards Yr K: Claudia A, Daniel D, Marlene P, Maya R, Ksenia E, Yahav K, Jake Mc, Amalia B Yr 1: Mia B, Levi R, Natalia , Natalia A, Taylor O, Ethan T, Demi K, Ruben Z, Gabi B, Yr 2: David L, Gemma M, Gabrielle P, Katerina D, Ella H, Coby H, Gray N, Amber P Yr 3: Alon G, Laura G, Mila S, Luca R, max G, Chloe G Yr 4: Jae T, Josh L, Zac F, Jayden L, Chris M, Leah Z Yr 5: Mika D, Mia W, Raffy J, Talia W Yr 6: Honey H, Caden H, Will H, Jan E Italian: Reginald C (Yr 1) Russian: Ksenia E (Yr K), Valery D (Yr 3), Adrian P (Yr 4), Hebrew: Lila V, Ori V, (Yr K), Levi T, Fiona I (Yr 1), Judd C, Elaad S (Yr 2), Maytal G, Chris G (Yr 3), Coby S, Sienna M (Yr 4), Oz L, Summer S (Yr 5), Keira S, Amy K (Yr 6) Principal’s Award: Taj O (Yr 6) Sports Awards: Week 5 Oz Tag: Aaliyah P, Aaron H, Anastasia L, Nate M Basketball: Shannon K, Paz C, Julie S Cricket: Bailey K, Robbie C, Ashley S, Eden S Taekwondo: Noam M Basketball Skills: Jenny P School Sport: Calev B, Josh K

Lunch Ordering - Botany Bites

Our lunch order delivery service from Botany Bites Catering will be commencing on Monday 3rd February. Lunch orders in 2020 can now be ordered on Mondays, Tuesday and Wednesdays during term time.

Please see the attached information on the menu available and how to download the Flexischools app to place your lunch orders. Cancellations: Should you ever need to cancel orders that have already been placed with Flexischools, the process should be as follows: If cancelling prior to delivery day: Visit www.flexischools.com.au – log into your account, access your order and nominate to cancel it. This can be done up until midnight of the day prior to delivery. If cancelling on the day of delivery: Please call us on PH: 96661799 by 10.30am. You must speak to us directly in order to ensure that the order has been cancelled and funds can be credited to your account. If you have any queries about our food, suggestions or special dietary requirements please email us at food@botanybites.com.au or by phone on 96661799. You can also follow us on Facebook & Instagram.