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In this week’s issue …

Principal’s Message

Covid Funding

Spreading Christmas Cheer

Year 5 Leader Speeches

Year 6 Teachers Versus Students Game

Year 6 Graduation

Important Notices

UPCOMING EVENTS

Wed 16th Dec Presentation Day

Wed 16th Dec Students last Day of Term 4, 2020

Wed 3rd & Thurs 4th Feb 2021

Staff Development Days

Fri 5th Feb, 2021 School resumes for 2021

Fri 12th Feb, 2021 School Swimming Carnival

Principal’s Message On our final week at school for 2020, we

would like to send Christmas wishes to our

community. We hope that the festive season

finds you recharging your batteries and

enjoying the company of family and friends.

Rejoice and celebrate your achievements in

2020 and bring in 2021 with optimism for a

new year filled with possibilities. We will see

you ready for learning on Friday 5th February

2021, the first day back for students.

Roslyn Buchanan

Principal (Rel.)

2020 NSW Term 4 Week 10 Newsletter T: 03 54 532 133

15/12/2020 F: 03 54 532 972

E: barham-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.barham-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

BARHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL

Covid Funding As we all know, 2020 has been a tough year.

This is particularly so for our students and

teachers who have risen to the challenges in

a disrupted year that included seven weeks

of remote learning due to COVID-19, and in

some areas, that came on top of bushfires

and floods.

For our students, this has been an unsettling

time.

The government and department have

recognised this with the announcement of a

$337 million program aimed at ensuring that

schools can identify students who would

benefit the most from intensive support. This

will be tailored to their requirements to

ensure that students’ educational outcomes

continue to improve in 2021.

The 2021 COVID intensive learning support

program will provide small group tuition for

students who need it most across NSW

primary, secondary and specialist schools.

All public schools across the state will benefit

with an allocation to employ additional

teachers and educators to support student

learning.

We are starting to plan for the

implementation of small group tuition

program focused on literacy and numeracy in

our school.

We will keep you updated. In the meantime

the department’s website has more

information on this program.

Spreading Christmas Cheer While it has been difficult to sing with COVID

restrictions, the Choir managed to learn a

few Christmas songs and went past Murray

Haven as carollers in the street to spread

some Christmas cheer. We performed an

encore of Six White Boomers and Aussie

Jingle Bells at residents requests. We will be

warming our voices up for a full year of

singing in 2021 and look forward to the

chance to sing and perform more often.

Year 5 Leader Speeches The Year 5 students excelled in their

nomination speeches for leadership positions

in 2021. The quality of the speeches were

outstanding. Mrs Radywonik has been

working with our students on developing

their speaking skills and considering the

content of their speeches. Their hard work in

crafting their speeches left our audience truly

entertained as they shared powerful

messages of what leadership in our school

could look like in 2021. Our School Leaders

for 2021 will be announced at our

Presentation Day tomorrow, which will be

live streamed.

Year 6 Teachers versus Students

Game The annual competition between Year 6 and

staff played out on the volleyball courts this

morning. Students boistered their teams with

cheering from the sidelines as points were

won and lost by both sides. It came down to

the wire in the end, with the winners only

two points up. Eventually, it was the staff

who held up the winners cup and set the

challenge for Year 6 in the year ahead.

Year 6 Graduation