From the Seven Habits Tree: Put First Things First
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK
Quote of the Week: Dear Parents and Carers This week at Beauty Point…… We are already into week 4 and the classes are in full swing with their programs providing exciting lessons around the school. Today as I took a new family on a tour there was a class planting corn, another class learning about how to make public speaking a world you can imagine and a third studying one of my favourite books The Cay by Theodore Taylor. Two lucky classes will visit the Zoo tomorrow to highlight their Science learning on The Living World.
BEAUTY POINT BUZZ 17 Medusa Street, Mosman NSW 2088
Telephone: 9969 4260 Fax: 9968 1210 ABN: 18 246 198 266
Website: www.beautypt-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: [email protected]
TERM 4 WEEK 4 6 November 2019
A Quality School in a Picturesque and Caring Environment
Our colourful festival mural by students and Bibi Barba Kindergarten enrolments If you have any friends or neighbours who are in our catchment please remind them that we would love them to come and enrol as we are currently planning staffing and classes for 2020. Huge thanks to our school community as you have let us know who is returning and we can plan for that too.
Cooking at the festival
Festival of Creativity I have included a few extracts from student responses and photos from this event. All student responses were exceptional in their ideas. I have never experienced anything quite like our Beauty Point Festival of Creativity and was impressed by the warmth and generosity of our community who gave up much time to inspire our students. Thank you! Student responses from 3/4R (I will add responses from other classes in the next newsletter) This festival developed our teamwork and taught us new skills…I wish we could have festival of creativity every week so we could go and learn in different workshops… Juliette I liked the comedy and drama workshop because we talked about what it would be like to be a director of a TV show or an actor which I partially want to be. We were filmed talking about
ourselves or an experience or a made up advertisement. I did a small video on how I can solve 3 rubiks cubes. Felix The highlight was the costume designing because it was enjoyable and fun glueing the fabrics on the paper and then cutting them out to make a shirt, a skirt, pants, shoes and accessories. It was also interesting listening to Coco Chanel’s (designer) backstory…I liked movie and music making a lot! It was extremely interesting seeing how movies and music are made! Mr Mowday showed us a sneak preview of a new show coming out called Pretzel and Pickle living in medieval times. I also liked making our own song… Lucia I learnt how to play the ukulele and do fashion design. The performance on the school stage was fun and looked really cool…Ella The highlights were Art class with Ms Duffield, costume designing with Lou and pottery with Miss P because all of it was fun. I loved creativity week and think we should do it again! Mirella I liked that we moved around to different classes and saw their movies and Art. I liked Friday as we got to do different things in classes and the hall. We did drama and a play. I also did digital music. Eden The highlights were basically everything I did. My favourite were cooking and robotics. I could work with my friends and could combine creations in robotics. Ryuto My favourite was when we made three films because I had never done anything like that before and it had such a good message. Holly
Author talk at the Festival Illustrator talk at the Festival Festival Art Work Healthy faces with Mrs Duffield
Festival weaving with Mrs Facer Mr Stephens launching the festival films
Mask making with Ms Mowday Hansel and Gretel
Process drama – The Varmint Festival Robotics
Music Count Us In at Beauty Point PS 2019 Today our whole school participated in this event which involves singing a song composed by students together with public schools all around Australia. I can honestly say this is the best Music Count Us In which I have attended because of the spectacular and beautiful way the students sang. Thank you to our teachers Mrs Gregory, Ms Stevens, Mrs Coleman, Ms Weir, Ms Bentley and Ms Heath for increasing our musical opportunities in the school. Research has shown that Arts based education is a proven way to improve confidence, learning in all areas and mental health. Drama activities are being embedded by teachers in their units of work. Current research at Beauty Point PS has clearly demonstrated that Drama activities improve Writing, inferential comprehension and fluency in Reading. Classes 1ER, 2H and 2S and their teachers are working with actors from the Sydney Theatre Company over seven weeks this term and are focusing on improving English outcomes for their students while upskilling in this area. Hansel and Gretel and the Varmint Process Drama Last week all of our students watched Years Three and Four presenting two magnificent items. We are so proud of our students for the amazing theatrical and musical performances and the confidence they showed. Not to mention their excellent memories and timing. Well done Years 3 and 4, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Robertson for leading this. Year One at the Festival Special thanks to Ms Mynett, Ms Webster, Mr Robens and Ms Ewan for working with their wonderful students on singing with Mrs Coleman and drama with Amber for performances at the festival. STEM Showcase and Fair Please encourage your children to participate in the Science Fair led by Mr Johnston and Mr Robens. These teachers will mentor and assist any student who would like to participate. The school will buy resources for your child if there is a Science project they would like to do and are unable to access what they need. The Years 3 and 4 teachers and Mr Robens as leader will be attending the University of Sydney next Friday to present the project based learning of their students. We commend these teachers for creating such wonderful opportunities for their students. Punctuality Please ensure that your child attends school between nine o’clock and three o’clock each day. It is said that a student who attends only ninety percent of the time misses out on one year over their schooling. We know that there can be special circumstances but please adhere to these times on a regular basis. Many thanks, Janelle Warhurst
DATES TO REMEMBER TERM 3
November
Friday 8 Year 2 Band Readiness Program
Friday 8 Stage 2 School Sport – T-Ball
Friday 8 Stage 3 Surfing
Monday 11 Selective High School Online Applications – Website Closes at 10pm
Wednesday 13 Kindergarten Orientation – Sporting Activities with Yr 6 & Pickles Uniform in Hall
Wednesday 13 Mosman High School Experience Year 5 excursion
Friday 15 Year 2 Band Readiness Program
Friday 15 Stage 2 School Sport – T-Ball
Friday 15 Stage 3 Surfing
Tuesday 19 Kindergarten Robotics Incursion
Thursday 21 STEM fair 2019
Thursday 21 Day of Disability at Mosman Council – Year 6
Friday 22 Year 2 Band Readiness Program
Friday 22 Stage 2 School Sport – T-Ball
Friday 22 Stage 3 Surfing
Tuesday 26 Kindergarten Robotics Incursion
Tuesday 26 Band Pizza Day
Friday 29 Year 2 Band Readiness Program
Friday 29 Stage 2 School Sport – T-Ball
Friday 29 Stage 3 Surfing
December
Tuesday 3 Year 6 Graduation Dinner
Wednesday 3 Kindergarten Robotics Incursion
Friday 6 Stage 2 School Sport – T-Ball
Friday 6 Stage 3 Surfing
Tuesday 10 Annual School Concert @ Monte Sant Angelo
Thursday 12 Whole School Presentation Day – In the School Hall
Monday 16 End of Year Celebrations – Manly Surf n Slide Years 3-6
Monday 16 End of Year Celebrations – Collaroy Cinema Years K-2
Wednesday 18 Final Day of Term 4
January
Wednesday 29 First Day of Term 1 - Students Return
February
Tuesday 4 Swimming Carnival 2020 (Yrs2-6)
Tuesday 4 First Day for Kindergarten 2020
CHILDREN RECEIVING AWARDS
Award Student Name Roll Class Award Student Name Roll Class Gold Card Sofia, P KB Silver Card Emilia, C 3D Gold Card Hadi, A 1W Silver Card Bowie, L 3D Gold Card Zachary, L 1W Silver Card Kayla, L 3D Gold Card Max, P 3D Silver Card Stanislav, N 3D Gold Card Max, R P 3D Silver Card Leyla, O 3D Silver Card Vuk, B KB Silver Card Mackenzie, S 3D Silver Card Georgie, K KB Silver Card Sassy, T 3D Silver Card Sofia, P KB Silver Card Ellen, T 3D Silver Card Christopher, A KR Silver Card Jemima, H 4C Silver Card Timmie, A KR Silver Card Poppy, H 4C Silver Card Emily, C-D KR Silver Card James, M 4C Silver Card Isabella, F KR Silver Card Joy, P 4C Silver Card Brayden, S KR Silver Card Benji, P 4C Silver Card Clara, Z G KR Silver Card Loukas, V 4C Silver Card Amelie, B KW Silver Card Noah, G 6L Silver Card Sienna, C KW Silver Card Sophia, G 6L Silver Card Razi, F KW Silver Card Seb, P 6L Silver Card Noah, G-C KW Silver Card Mia-Rose, L KW Silver Card Rajan, P KW Silver Card Christian, C 1E Silver Card Kiara, M 1E Silver Card Jemima, O 1E Silver Card Albert, T-T 1E Silver Card Aarika, B 1M Silver Card Bailey, B 1M Silver Card Audrey, Y 1M Silver Card Hadi, A 1W Silver Card Emily, A 1W Silver Card Sonali, B 1W Silver Card Zachary, L 1W Silver Card Aster, M 1W Silver Card Joshua, Y 1W Silver Card Marlo, B 2F Silver Card Evie, D 2F Silver Card Jade, E 2F Silver Card Oliver, K 2F Silver Card Charlie, M 2F Silver Card Ines, W 2F Silver Card Alice, A 3D
EARLY STAGE 1 NEWS
KB – ‘Mr Archimedes’ Bath’ KBG is completing an author study this term. We are looking at the wonderful books by Pamela Allen. This week we are reading, writing and completing Drama activities using the text, ‘Mr Archimedes’ Bath’. KBG read and discussed the story and then constructed ‘freeze frames’ for particular scenes. We ‘tapped into’ the characters to find out what they were thinking and why they were behaving in a particular way. Mr Archimedes is puzzled: ‘Why does the bath water go up when the animals start to get into the bath and then it magically goes down when they get out?’ Our Stem unit this term is ‘Floating and Sinking’. We are looking at different materials and objects and wondering why some float and others sink. This work is in preparation for when we make our own boat out of recycled materials. We have to choose carefully as our boat must be able to carry a small object. Anika, Erina and Arcadia tried to make the tennis ball sink. Do you think they were successful?
STAGE 2 NEWS
3/4R – ‘The Cay’ by Theodore Taylor
3/4R wrote diary entries from the main characters (Phillip’s) perspective to describe the important events in the first two chapters of the book, ‘The Cay’ by Theodore Taylor. Tuesday March 21, 1942 Dear Diary, I have horrible news. My manipulative, racist, selfish mother is separating me from my beloved father. She has decided we must leave Curacao. I’m utterly devastated by the cruel and vile actions of my mother. I just feel like running away from everything - humanity, my feelings, reality, life. Yet I cannot hide or escape from depression I feel and I am living with. Every time I think of leaving the place I have learned to call home. It is as if strings are attaching me to the sadness I feel inside and there is no way to detach from it. I want to just cut off the string that’s connecting all my problems to me and be free again. Like I was in Curacao. But it doesn’t work like that. A raging storm inside me lingers with anger, anxiety, sadness, and darkness. But I just can’t stop all these negative feelings. No one is safe. Anywhere. War has made that certain. Deep down I know what I must do. I must follow my mother back to Virginia, even though I yearn for the life I once knew. Thursday 1 April, 1942 Dear Diary, I have lost everything. I feel helpless. Smoke engulfs my body. Flames, hot scorching flames dance around the vessel that was supposed to lead us home to safety. I knew I shouldn’t have followed my mother. She’s the reason we are in this mess. Tears roll down my face as anger swirls through me. As I finally fall asleep I feel it. Thud. My heart is pounding as I’m thrown from the top bunk. We’ve been hit by a torpedo. The screams are deafening. Then, nothing. Written by Lucia 21 February 1942 Dear Diary, I felt very disappointed about moving to America from Curacao. I wished I could stay but the decision is made. Why do my parents make the decisions not me? Now I understood that the war was about danger and destruction. I wanted to stay with my father and live in Curacao but my mother thinks it’s too dangerous to be around the war. If I leave with mother on an S.S ship it’s too risky. I felt dizzy and couldn’t sleep because I kept thinking about those U boats. I’m so sad to leave my home in Curacao! I will miss my friends and especially Henrik and I will really miss my father! Thursday 1 April 1942 I feel shocked about what was happening. Our ship was torpedoed with a crackling explosion and then by a fire. I rushed like a cheetah to the life boats. I heard explosions and saw fire around the ship. The sailors told us to move quickly and one of them helped my mother into a different lifeboat. I heard someone yell to lower the boats but the ship lurched violently and the life boats fell heavily into the water. Terrified, I looked everywhere for my mother. Something powerful happened and we were all thrown into the dangerous sea. As I saw my mother floating out into the distance, I desperately called out to her. That’s the last thing I remember. Written by Juliet Thursday 1 April 1942 Dear Diary, My mum should have listened to me! I charged out of my cabin to the deck. Pain seared through me, as the fire burned dangerously near me. All I could feel was worry, pain, darkness, death and destruction. Suddenly, two sailors with axes appeared. I could sense their distress. Violent explosions scattered debris everywhere. I heard the captain yelling “Passengers off the ship!” My mother selfishly boarded the lifeboat. Rage burst through me like a volcano. I always thought this would happen. A sailor grabbed my hand and dragged me to the lifeboats. Next thing I knew the “Hato” I groped around for my mother and found her arm. I shouted in her ear. My mother mouthed “Watch out.” It was too late. I was knocked out cold. When I awoke, shady trees covered me. I felt the sandy bay and theought where am I? Suddenly a soft velvety voice spoke “Young bahss, how are you feeling?” I turned. Written by Darcy
3/4R also wrote character descriptions using metaphors to describe the mother (“Grace”) in The Cay.
STAGE 3 NEWS
5J – Excursion to Middle Head On Tuesday 29th October, the Year 5 class had a day of outdoor learning at Middle Head. Ranger Mel once again organised for us a wonderful educational experience about the flora and fauna in our area. Uncle Les, an indigenous leader, introduced us to bush tucker and medicines, as well as teaching us important bushland survival skills in case any of us ever get lost in the bush. Ranger Mel also introduced us to weeds and gave us a hands-on lesson on how to remove them. We then had a workshop on propagating a native plant from seed. Acacia Terminalis is an endangered species of plant, with only around 500 left in the world. Each student tested seeds to determine which ones are good, and then we planted one each in a pot, which we have back at school. We will grow these until they can be planted in the wild. This excursion was a pilot in a program that could be rolled out to public and private schools learning about the unique and important features of Middle Head.
Beyond the shelves… a few words from your library.
Newsletter 6th Nov 2018 Term 4 Week 4
In This Issue • Welcome
• Shout out for Help
Library Links
• Student Portal
• Mosman Council Library
• Stanton Library
Contact Us
(TIP: click on above hyperlinks)
Welcome to Your Library Parents please come and visit the library with your child to help select books for reading before and after school – Ms Flower is always happy to see people visiting the library and is able to help you select books.
You can click links on left when viewed online
Shout out for help TERM 4. A huge thank you to all the parents/ grandparents that have helped cover books this year so far. You are amazing and we all benefit you’re your efforts. I asked the class parents to send out an email saying I have over 100 books to still cover. Many parents have come and collected books but I still have many more to cover. So if you can be a parent helper, come to the library and collect some books for covering during Term 4.
Library days and Library Bags Bring a book bag on library day. BOOK BAGS can be any bag - they protect our books from food and water in school bag.
Please remember to look after Beauty Point library book.
Happy Reading Ms Flower Teacher Librarian
K-6 TEA TOWEL FUNDRAISER
Hand Drawn Tea Towel from Your Children
Each child from K-6 will have their self-portrait, together with those of their classmates, printed onto a quality tea towel. All monies will raise funds for the school. Tea towels make a wonderful souvenir of 2019. • Everyone from K-6 is included • Includes the Beauty Point Logo • Wonderful memento • Great Christmas gift – easy for mailing
Orders are due by Friday 15th November 2019 Great value: 1 x Tea towel = $12 2 x Tea Towel = $20
To order your tea towel simply click on the following link https://www.trybooking.com/BGFBO
All enquiries: Ms Bentley
OFFICE NEWS
Welcome to Week 4, the weeks are rolling by. We will be holding our final Kindergarten orientation next Wednesday and we are very excited about our new kindergarten students who will be commencing next year. Pickles will be on site to allow parents to view and purchase uniforms for next year. The office is still enrolling for Kindergarten 2020, so If you happen to know of any friends or family in the catchment area that have a child commencing next year, please advise them to contact the office as soon as possible to contact the office receive an enrolment pack. Term 4 school statement of accounts have been emailed out to parents. Thank you to the parents that have finalised their accounts for the year. We would appreciate school accounts to be settled as soon as possible to assist in preparation for our end of year processes. If you have any queries regarding your account, please contact the office. Lemonade Icy Poles are sold from the canteen on Tuesday and Wednesdays for $1.00 in second break. We are experiencing students buying multiple ice blocks for other students which can cause distress to some students who may miss out. Given this, Ice blocks will be limited to two per student or in special circumstances. If students are celebrating birthdays and wish to bring Ice blocks to school, please contact the office prior to ensure we have freezer space available to store the ice blocks. Parents can order student lunches via Flexischools on Monday/Wednesday and Thursdays and are delivered to the school. Please register online for an account on their website https://www.flexischools.com.au/. Online orders can be completed prior to 8.30am on the day of ordering, once ordered and confirmed, you will receive a confirmation email that your order has been placed. Please note if you do not receive an email for each order that has been made, your lunch order will not have been submitted to Flexischools. It has been noted that some parents are not receiving our communication emails through Enews. Enews is available via the Beauty Point Public School App which can be downloaded on your smart phone from the App store. The App is the most effective way to keep in touch as you will receive the school newsletter and any other emails that are sent by the school. Emails sent via Enews will send an alert to your phone, please select Newsletter and your child’s academic year to view any information that is sent out by the school. See below on how to receive eNEWS and download the App. If you wish to receive eNEWS via email, please go to the Beauty Point Public School website and click on enews and subscribe with your email address.
We try our best to keep you all informed of events in the school so we encourage all parents to download the Beauty Point Public School E-News App. This app will send you an alert and allow you to be notified every time an email is sent from the school. The app provides you access to the newsletter and your child’s academic year. Please see below for information on how to download the E-News app.
Thank you, Barb and Matias
P&C NEWS
Dear Parents and Carers, Our next P&C meeting is on November 18 and at this meeting we will be voting on funding requests from the school for next year. A great meeting to attend to hear about the school’s plans for 2020. We are looking for new people to take on executive roles on our P&C - for some fresh ideas and to fill some roles that will be vacated. Here is a top line summary of all of the roles - exec and non-exec on the P&C at Beauty Point; Executive Roles
• President - liaises with the Principal on matters impacting the school community; leads monthly meetings; oversees other P&C volunteers - exec and non-exec roles and working committees
• Vice President (can have 1 or 2) - assists the President and stands in if the President is unavailable
• Secretary - takes and distributes minutes and agendas for all P&C meetings and liaises with the P&C Federation on administration and communications
• Treasurer - maintains financial accounts and pays invoices, expenses per budget and manages insurances via the P&C Federation
Non executive roles:
• Events Coordinator - liaises with the Events leaders in each year group regarding fundraising, logistics and organisation
• Class Parent Coordinator - initially recruits and then has ongoing communication with Class Parents regarding class specific communications. Coordinates whole school communications as required - particularly regarding events
• Band Manager - oversees the Band program at BPPS including liaising with the conductor and working with a Band Committee with a seperate treasury and coordination.
Some of these roles are filled but we would still like to know if you are interested! To find out more information regarding any of these roles please contact Lauren Adlam –
[email protected] or 0438 357 177
Many thanks Your P&C Exec
COMMUNITY NOTES
BEAUTY POINT SCHOOL NEEDS ETHICS TEACHERS URGENTLY
Primary Ethics is the sole Department of Education approved provider of Special Education in Ethics for NSW public schools. Beauty Point Ethics classes run each Wednesday afternoon.
Do you, or someone you know, have half an hour to help on Wednesday afternoons?
Beauty Point School currently offers the Ethics Program for classes from K to Y 6. We have six teachers for ten classes, with some teachers doing a double shift.
Currently, we are volunteer parents of Beauty Point students and former students. Some of our Ethics teachers have to move on. We urgently need teachers to train now to ensure the Program is viable in 2020.
“Ethics is a rewarding alternative to non-Scripture, a program that encourages lively debate on a range of social topics. It is a joy to teach and the students really love it. But we are facing a teacher shortage, which means BPS might not to be able to offer this Program for all students next year.” Laura, Y 6 Ethics Teacher.
Who can teach Ethics? Parents, grandparents, community members. This is a very rewarding way to be involved in the Beauty Point School community.
Teaching Ethics: What is required?
Primary Ethics website has detailed information: primaryethics.com.au
• Training course of 2 days is run by professional educators and is free of charge. Ethics is setting up accreditation of the course and the teaching experience for your CV
• Each lesson is provided in scripted form, including any photos or handouts, which can be read out, you do not prepare lessons except to print them or use an IPad.
• Prior to a lesson, you only need to read the topic background, the script, which is clearly marked for text, questions, there are no wrong or right answers. About 20 minutes.
• The teacher is the facilitator for the discussions which arise, as the object of the lesson is for students to develop their critical thinking and discussion based skills.
• There is a Beauty Point class teacher in the room to assist you when needed • You are given priority to teach your own child’s class if that is possible
Primary Ethics website has detailed information: primaryethics.com.au
At Beauty Point, Ethics is run on Wednesday afternoons in two sessions, K to Y 2 from 2 to 2.30, and Y3 to Y6 at 2.30 to 3.
Examples of lessons: Primary Ethics Parent’s Newsletter: primaryethics.com.au/parents
Any questions? Please contact Beauty Point Primary Ethics Coordinator Denise Wilton: [email protected] 0411 526 626
Sunny Kids School Holiday Writing Workshops
Please email parents and students about these wonderful writing workshops, or if possible, include this information in your school newsletter. Thank you!
Our Sunny Kids School Holiday Writing Camps are run by award-winning, multi-published author, Aleesah Darlison. These workshops have proven incredibly popular with young writers and we're
very excited to be bringing them to Sydney in January 2020.
These workshops suit students of all abilities, both G&T and mainstream.
Further info & bookings at www.eventbrite.com.au/e/78157752943
Sunny Kids Writing Camps with Aleesah Darlison Jan 2020
(Summer) School Holidays
Check out our awesome new options 2 sessions on offer
Venue
John Curtin Meeting Room, John Curtin Reserve, 21 Huxley Drive, Winston Hills
Camp Hours
8:30am - 3:00pm
Wednesday 15 January: Pets & Animals Picture Books Bring photos of your pet or favourite animal along to this session. We'll then plan, write and
illustrate a fun and memorable picture book featuring your beloved pet or animal.
Thursday 16 January 2020: Everybody Loves Llamas! Create a Hilarious Secret Agent Llama Character, Write a Funny Llama Story, and Learn to Draw Llamas. Based on Aleesah Darlison's soon-to-be-released side-splitting, laugh out loud kids book
series, League of Llamas.
PLACES FILL QUICKLY, SO PLEASE BOOK ASAP TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT
Further info & bookings at www.eventbrite.com.au/e/78157752943
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