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34R Tudar Rd Bonnet Bay NSW 2226 ABN: 63 048 191 268 Email: bonnetbay-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Ph: 9528 4111 Fx: 9528 4191 Website: www.bonnetbay.nsw.edu.au

Term 1 - Week 2 2nd Feb 2012

2012

Term 1

February

2 Kindergarten start

3 Text Book Sale Day

6 Sport in Schools

Australia starts

13 Parent session for

Sport in Schools

Australia

15 P&C 7.30pm in the

school Library

16 Official opening of

the school year

17 PSSA commences

29 Stage 2&3 go to

ANSTO

March

15 Selective HS test

16 End of PSSA for

Term 1

21 Harmony Day

Dates to

Remember

Principal’s Message

WELCOME BACK to all of our school

community. We are so pleased that the students have settled into routine so quickly. Thank you to staff and parents for making this happen. Kin-

dergarten started this morning and we had all but one smiling and settled. Well done Kindergarten! STAFFING We welcome Mrs Karen

Deacon who has started today with her new class of Kindy. Mrs Riggs is on Year 1. Mrs Turner is on a Year 2/3

class. We welcome Mrs Donna Layton and Mr Mark Green on Yr 3/4 and 5/6 respectively. Mrs Layton and Mr Green will be with us until the perma-

nent members of staff are chosen through the merit selection process which should be finalised by mid term.

SISA In Term 1 this year we will be trialling a new sports program called “Sport in Schools Australia”. The program will run for only first term.

Each lesson will be for 45 minutes and cost $3. The cost is usually $4 but the P&C have kindly agreed to subsidise this program by $1 per child per week.

Thank you again to the P&C for their ongoing support for these quality pro-grams. Lessons will be held on Mon-

days from 9.30-10.15 am and will start in the second full week of term, which is next Monday. All students are to wear their sports uniform and don’t

forget your hat. In the event of rain, the lessons will go ahead in the hall. SCHOOL HATS As part of the Sun

Safe program, we will be promoting sun safe hats. All students must have either a broad brimmed or bucket style hat-BY the end of WEEK 3 OF TERM 1

please. In Week 4 baseball caps will not be accepted as part of the school uniform. SURVEYS FOR PARENTS Last term

all of the students completed three surveys on-line. Parents need to com-plete their three surveys on Teaching,

Learning and the English curriculum.

These surveys are a vital part of our school’s review process and we hope all

parents from Year 1-6 will participate. See below for the links to these three surveys. Please complete them by Fri-day 17th Feb 2012. The “Three Things”

paper survey was sent home last term. If you did not get one or have misplaced it see Kyla for a new one. Please com-plete this paper one and hand in at the

box provided in the foyer.

Parent Survey about Learning http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/

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Parent Survey about Teaching http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/

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Parent Survey about English http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/

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PSSA SPORT for Term 1 will start on

Friday 17th Feb and finish on 16th March. BOOK SALE DAY This is on tomor-row. All books are purchased from LJ Harpers and all money (cheque or cash)

is handed to them. Envelopes for this purpose were sent home on Tuesday. COMBINED SCHOOLS SWIMMING

CARNIVAL Wednesday 22nd is our combined carnival at Caringbah pool for students who are 8yrs and older who can swim 50m unaided. Notes will be

sent home next week. DANCE PROGRAM 2012 We welcome Miss Angelique Barry to our school as

our new Dance Teacher. Our dance pro-gram will commence in with auditions on Tuesday 14th Feb for our two dance troupes for the Music Festival. Lessons

will start the following Tuesday. Details as to cost and lesson times will follow. Mr Roger Caines Principal

“ Always dream and shoot higher than

you know how to. Don’t bother to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than

yourself”. William Faulkner

If you see anything

happening to our

school that is not

right please

contact:

School Response Unit

9672 2061

Sutherland Police

9542 0899

We would also like to extend a warm

welcome to our Kindergarten students

and their families.

As the 2012 school year commences, we

would like to welcome the new staff to

our school and introduce our existing

staff to our new families.

Mrs Karen

Deacon

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Mr Mark

Green

5/6G

Mrs Janelle

Turner

2/3T

Mrs Donna

Layton

3/4L

Mrs Therese

Riggs

1R

School Awards - Term 4- Week 10

Assembly Awards

KK Elyse, Cassandra, Nathan

1/2R Aliyah, Beata, Bridget

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3/4/5T Jye, Dechlan

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Patch Hannah.G, Jake.M

Class of the

Week

Medals Bronze: Hannah.G,

School Assembly Awards

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Canteen News

The canteen will open next Tuesday 7th

February. Opening days this year will be

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each

week. Menus will be updated soon but in the

meantime please pick up a copy of the menu

from the admin office.

Procedure for lunch orders

1. Select required lunch item from menu.

2. Label a brown paper bag with your child's name and class and write the menu order on the front of the bag.

3. Enclose money in the paper bag (change can be given but please do not send $50 notes!)

4. Lunch orders will be collected each morn-ing by the class teachers and placed in a basket which will then be delivered to the canteen.

5. Orders are then picked from the canteen

at lunch time (any change given will be

taped to the front of the paper bag).

We are still looking for volunteers for can-

teen duty in 2012. If you would like more

information about what is involved, please

email Donna Brown on donnamarie-

brown@bigpond.com or call 0410797466.

Alternatively you can leave your contact de-

tails at the office.

Volunteers for Tuesday and Wednesday next week are Donna Brown, Lisa Seaman, Robyn Staudinger and Eleisha Legg. The canteen banking volunteer is Donna Brown.

Thank you for your contribution.

The Canteen Committee

Getting off to a Good Start

Wondering how to help your kids do well at home and at school this year? The depart-ment’s parent resource School A to Z has a webcast full of expert tips for you to help your children have a more successful year.

The ‘Getting off to a great start webcast’ has a number of chapters on how to moti-vate children for learning, advice on peer relationships and how to handle bullying, communicating with children and the im-portance of strong home-school relation-ships.

The expert panel features advice from a child psychologist, an experienced family doctor and the department’s deputy direc-tor-general (schools) Greg Prior.

Watch the webcast at: http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/wellbeing/development/getting-off-to-a-good-start

National Year of Reading 2012

Welcome to a new school year. This is the national year of reading and to celebrate, there is a host of literary-related events and competitions happening right around Australia. For an events calendar and more info go to: www.love2read.org.au. Why not make a late New Year resolution to read more yourself? And if you have younger children and don’t already read regularly to them, set aside some quality time to help instil a love of books and reading.

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Violin Lessons! Professional violinist is

offering violin lessons in Jannali

Days: Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons

Cost: $35 per half hour

Contact: 0423 496 333 / melanie@remmatell.com.au

www.sites.google.com/site/melaniecuthbertsonviolin

Melanie Cuthbertson Violin Tuition

In 2012, ACER;s Cooperative

Scholarship Testing Program

(CSTP) test date has been

brought forward and will now

occur in February, instead of

May as was the case in previ-

ous years.

The cut-off for student regis-

trations is 11.59 on 6 Febru-

ary 2012.

For further information go to

http://www.acer.edu.au/test

s/cstp