School Matters

Old Bathurst Road, East Blaxland 2774

Phone 4739 1579 Fax 4739 8300

Principal Kerry Bryan

Email Blaxlande-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage www.blaxlande-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

P&C Email blaxlandeast@gmail.com

Term 4 Week 2 26 October

Morning Bell 9.00am Afternoon Bell 3.00pm Office Hours 8.30am - 3.15pm

P&C Association meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm Next Meeting 14 November

CORE VALUES

Be Respectful

Excellence Always

Participate Courageously

Serve Others

Public School Blaxland East

Core Values

Forensics Workshop

Talent Show

Office News

Principal’s Report

Core Values Awards

Principal’s Schoolwork Awards

P&C Report

Garden Update

Canteen News

October Meal Deal

Book Club reminder

Enchanted Trick or Treat

Community Market Day

Health snippets

2018 Fete Sponsors

In this School Matters:

On Wednesday 24th of October 2018, students from Years 3-6

were given the job of investigating the mystery of the missing

treasure. We participated in all sorts of fun, hands-on activities

such as...

Investigating DNA

Searching for fingerprints

Revealing invisible ink under UV lights

Code cracking

And much, much more!

It was held in the hall and was run by forensics worker, Kathleen. With the clues we found we worked out

who the suspects were from every grade. Some students got to wear special forensics uniforms and one

student from each grade was chosen to wear a super cool police uniform and arrested the suspect.

Everybody enjoyed it very much and we hope the Forensics Workshop comes back to BEPS again.

Written by Hayley Van Der Meer and Lara Tomkins 3D

Highlights from 3D & 3B

Fingerprinting

Using UV lights to read the invisible ink

Cracking the code Using DNA to obtain clues

Testing "poisonous" substances Using the special microscope to examine

fingerprints on the computer Making predictions from the evidence

We thought it was cool how forensic

science can be used to solve crimes

The office continues to hold a large collection of lost property items

including a ring, Pandora bead, Hogwarts earrings, Garmin fitness tracker,

earphones, watches and more.

CHANGES TO SKOOLBAG APP

Due to changes to Apple policy, individual Skoolbag apps are no longer supported in the app store and

therefore will not receive critical updates. Users are also reporting issues

with attachments not downloading.

We have been advised to delete the individual ‘Blaxland East Public

School’ Skoolbag app and download the single Skoolbag app in the

App Store or Google Play store.

You can then add multiple schools within the single Skoolbag app if you

have children at more than one school, and easily switch between them

from within the app.

You can now submit absence notifications and change of details information via the Skoolbag

app.

Go to the Home menu within Skoolbag and choose eForms.

A reminder that when returning permission notes for school activities it is a legal

requirement to return a SEPARATE permission note for each child.

In addition, if returning multiple notes for more than one child/activity, there is no

need to put each note in separate envelope. We are able to process multiple

payments for multiple activities/children in the one transaction.

PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD/REN’S FULL NAME AND CLASS ON PERMISSION NOTES!

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

We have started Term Four with a bang with all sorts of events here at BEPS.

Week One saw Kindergarten go on their excursion to Calmsley Hill Farm. While the weather had been

very wet, the day was dry and the children all had a wonderful time at the farm. I know that they have

been busy doing follow up activities in their classrooms.

This week has been particularly busy with Healthy Harold, Special Photo Day, Forensics Workshops and

our second Kinder Transition. Staff are already feeling tired! 3 – 6 students especially enjoyed the

Forensics Workshops.

Next Monday, Swim School starts for Year 2 and other selected students, so we are hoping for nice

warm mornings for the next two weeks. I am sure you will all have a fun time anyway. Healthy Harold

continues on Monday and Tuesday.

On Wednesday 7 November, at 7.00pm the Band and Senior Choir are holding a concert in the evening

for all parents, carers and family. Please come along and enjoy a night of music. I promise you will be

impressed!

On Thursday 8 November, the P & C are holding their final Disco for the year. It will be a Christmas-

themed outdoor disco for K-6 under the COLA. Come along, enjoy a fun time and help the P & C with

their fundraising efforts. Remember they are trying to raise enough funds to extend the School Hall so

we can all fit in!

Please remember to let us know if you are not returning to BEPS next year as we are now planning

classes for 2019. It makes our planning just a little bit easier.

Hope to see you around the school over the next few weeks,

Cheers

Kerry.

Stage 2 Term 4 Week 1 Afton Miels 3/6T Participating Courageously

Daniel Currie 3/6T Participating Courageously

Joaquin Perez De Arce 3B Serving Others

Catalina Cluff 3B Participating Courageously

Rosie Moss 3B Being Respectful

Felix Cohen 3B Excellence Always

Madeleine Nott 3D Being Respectful

Kaylee Muller 3D Being Respectful

Finn Kelly 3D Serving Others

Mason Gringhuis 3D Participating Courageously

Asherah Murray 4G Participating Courageously

Jack Godwin 4G Being Respectful

Cooper Strathdee 4G Serving Others

Wynter Cluney 4G Excellence Others

Leila Kennedy 4H Participating Courageously

Hannah Tankard 4H Excellence Always

Khelia Commins 4H Participating Courageously

Stage 3 Term 4 Week 1 Jayden Newell 5M Participating Courageously

Sam O’Connor 5M Excellence Always

Isabelle Baldock 5M Serving Others

Corey Turano 5M Being Respectful

Tavila Gibson Lelilio 5/6T Being Respectful

Jonny Turner 5/6T Excellence Always

Jarred Drake 5/6T Excellence Always

Jessica Skinner 5/6T Being Respectful

Aiden Johnson 6B Excellence Always

Oliver Stephens 6B Being Respectful

Dylan Blackmore 6B Serving Others

Boaz Freeman 6B Being Respectful

Daniel Clarke 6B Participating Courageously

Ebony Hitchon 6W Excellence Always

Isabella Gray 6W Being Respectful

Abbey Paag 6W Participating Courageously

Larissa Peresipkin 6W Serving Others

K-2 Term 4 Week 2

Addison Carew-Halse KC Excellence Always

Lincoln Flynn KM Excellence Always

Sarah Montgomerie KP Excellence Always

Lucy McKone 1D Excellence Always

Leah Hatcher 1H Excellence Always

Eloise Scott 1M Excellence Always

Erin Thorpe 1/2T Excellence Always

Lucy Gleeson Frater 2H Excellence Always

continued…….

K-2 Term 4 Week 1

Jackson Hrymak KC Being Respectful

Ruby-Rose Batko KM Being Respectful

Amelia White KP Being Respectful

Caleb Cable 1D Being Respectful

Christopher Dean 1H Being Respectful

Kieran Tomkins 1M Being Respectful

Henry Myhill 1/2T Being Respectful

Emily Brown 2H Being Respectful

The P&C love this time of the year. We have the following dates for your diary:

Christmas Outdoor Disco (K-6) 4.30 – 6.00pm Thursday 8 November

Walk to school breakfast Wednesday 14 November

Canteen Christmas special day and Raffle Thursday 6 November

UNIFORM SHOP

Our uniform shop is now taking orders for the new uniform. Shirts, jumpers and hats with new logo are on

display in the school office.

CANTEEN VOLUNTEERS

We are in need of canteen volunteers for 2019. If you or someone from your

family can help out , please see Mrs Halavaka in the canteen. You will need a

working with children check and due to health and safety reasons, no children

can be in the canteen.

RECYCLE TUBS

A lovely mum organised for yellow recycle tubs to be placed around the playground

next to the garbage bins. The items placed in the tubs, are then cashed in at the

service station and money raised is then returned to our garden group to purchase

seedlings and soil.

AGM

The P&C would like to give notice of our AGM Wednesday 5 December 7.30pm.

GARDEN TOOLS

If you have any garden tools that you no longer need and would like to clear out

your garden shed, we would love some extra tools to help out with our growing

number of volunteers.

It's a fabulous time in the garden after all the beautiful

rain and sunshine! The snowpeas are still growing for

the students to crunch on, a delight our compost

champions enjoy! We have beautiful lettuce for the

canteen to use in the salad roll specials and lunch

orders as well as some zucchinis on their way!

We had our first Garden Friends Club working bee last

week and welcomed new and regular volunteers!

Thank you for all your hard work! Our garden wouldn't

exist without you! We meet again Tuesday 13th

November. While it's nothing fancy like Melbourne Cup

day, please bring a hat! Prize for the best hat.

Our garden

classes have

started again

and we can't

wait to grow,

harvest, and

explore with

teachers and

students. If

your class

would like to visit the garden with our volunteers Beth or Claire,

please ask the teachers to contact us.

Special Events for this term:

Wednesday 14 November Walk to School Breakfast

Thursday 6 December Special Day - Christmas Theme

PLEASE NOTE THE CANTEEN’S LAST DAY FOR TERM 4 2018 WILL BE FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER

There will be NO CANTEEN on Monday 17, Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 December.

Tell Them From Me student survey:

Information and consent form for

parents and carers