DALGETTY ROAD, PO Box 6140 , CROMER 3193 PHONE: (03) 9589 2619 FAX: (03)9589 1957 Email: [email protected]Website: http://www.beaups.vic.edu.au ONLY 10 SLEEPS UNTIL FETE DAY FROM THE PRINCIPAL AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Dear Parents and Families, Thank you to the staff at BPS, School Council and parents who have offered their condolences through their kind words, messages, cards and flowers. My family and I greatly appreciate your thoughulness. A Night of Stargazing—TONIGHT 7.30pm-9.30pm We have a great weather forecast for The Astronomical Society of Victoria running our night of stargazing TONIGHT. Join us for this spectacular evening. The Terminator on Moon will be in sharp relief showing the fine structures of the mountains and craters and will not be too bright to see the fainter objects. Enter our school oval via Herbert Street, cost $5 per person, cash payable on the night (please bring correct money if possible) BPS Hosts Foundaon Teachers from our neighbouring schools Thank you to the Foundaon Team for facilitang the professional learning session for their colleagues, from our neighbouring schools, on Wednesday evening. All our local schools are strongly connected and exchange best pracce to ensure our students’ school experience is challenging and rewarding. Centenary Fete preparaon and Casual Clothes Day tomorrow The big day is almost here. How can we begin to thank all our families for their support through donaon of goods and me working behind the scenes. This is truly a wonderful school and I personally wish to thank everyone for their support. Our school community and the broader community will come together and it will be a great family day full of fun. Students can aend in casual clothes tomorrow, make a gold coin donaon and during the day they will spend some me making decoraons and signs for their class stall. Student Placement 2016 The creaon of 2016 classes and the placement of our students is a complex process requiring many factors to be taken into consideraon. Parent informaon is one part of the process along with the carefully considered informaon that teachers gather through their daily work with their students including their detailed knowledge of their students as learners as well as the way they work and interact with others. Issue: 31 15 October 2015 DIARY DATES Please refer to term newsleers for more detail on year level important dates: hp:// www.beaups.vic.edu.au/page/110/ Term-Newsleers SNACK SHACK Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Friday 16 October Year 5 Startsmart Workshop Fete Casual Dress Day–Gold coin donaon Return all fete raffle ckets to office Sunday 18 October Fete Working Bee 9am—11am Tuesday 20 October Year 2 Performance Night 6pm Wednesday 21 October 2016 Prep Transion 2pm-3.15pm District Basketball Final Thursday 22 October Kids Teaching Kids Conference ETIHAD Stadium Friday 23 October Kids Teaching Kids Conference Collingwood Children’s Farm Garden Club 9am Fete Silent Aucon Preview/ student art and photo sales SALC 3pm Saturday 24 October Fete Set Up Day 10am—2pm Sunday 25 October Centenary Celebraons Fete 10am—4pm Monday 26 October 2016 Prep Transion Parent Informaon Evening: 7pm-8pm Year 6 Transion Program Friday 30 October “Day for Daniel” - wear something red WORLD TEACHER’S DAY Year 5 Friendship Movie Palace Cinema Thursday 5 November Year 4 Performance Night Friday 6 November Year 3 Expo 9.15am to 10.30am Monday 9 November 2016 Prep Transion 2pm-3.15pm
Dear Parents and Families, Thank you to the staff at BPS, School Council and parents who have offered their condolences through their kind words, messages, cards and flowers. My family and I greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness. A Night of Stargazing—TONIGHT 7.30pm-9.30pm
We have a great weather forecast for The Astronomical Society of Victoria running our night of stargazing TONIGHT. Join us for this spectacular evening. The Terminator on Moon will be in sharp relief showing the fine structures of the mountains and craters and will not be too bright to see the fainter objects. Enter our school oval via Herbert Street, cost $5 per person, cash payable on the night (please bring correct money if possible)
BPS Hosts Foundation Teachers from our neighbouring schools Thank you to the Foundation Team for facilitating the professional learning session for their colleagues, from our neighbouring schools, on Wednesday evening. All our local schools are strongly connected and exchange best practice to ensure our students’ school experience is challenging and rewarding. Centenary Fete preparation and Casual Clothes Day tomorrow The big day is almost here. How can we begin to thank all our families for their support through donation of goods and time working behind the scenes. This is truly a wonderful school and I personally wish to thank everyone for their support. Our school community and the broader community will come together and it will be a great family day full of fun. Students can attend in casual clothes tomorrow, make a gold coin donation and during the day they will spend some time making decorations and signs for their class stall. Student Placement 2016 The creation of 2016 classes and the placement of our students is a complex process requiring many factors to be taken into consideration. Parent information is one part of the process along with the carefully considered information that teachers gather through their daily work with their students including their detailed knowledge of their students as learners as well as the way they work and interact with others.
Issue: 31 15 October 2015 DIARY DATES
Please refer to term newsletters for more detail on year level important
dates: http://www.beaups.vic.edu.au/page/110/
Term-Newsletters
SNACK SHACK Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Friday 16 October Year 5 Startsmart Workshop
Fete Casual Dress Day–Gold coin donation
Return all fete raffle tickets to office
Sunday 18 October Fete Working Bee 9am—11am
Tuesday 20 October Year 2 Performance Night 6pm
Wednesday 21 October 2016 Prep Transition 2pm-3.15pm
District Basketball Final
Thursday 22 October Kids Teaching Kids Conference
ETIHAD Stadium
Friday 23 October Kids Teaching Kids Conference Collingwood Children’s Farm
Garden Club 9am Fete Silent Auction Preview/ student
art and photo sales SALC 3pm
Saturday 24 October Fete Set Up Day 10am—2pm
Sunday 25 October Centenary Celebrations Fete
10am—4pm
Monday 26 October 2016 Prep Transition Parent
Information Evening: 7pm-8pm Year 6 Transition Program
Friday 30 October “Day for Daniel” - wear something red
Parents wishing to provide confidential information to assist us in the process of student placement should collect a ‘Class Placement of Pupils’ form from the office. Parents are requested to only provide information that may assist their child’s learning and educational needs. Requests for individual teachers will not be considered. If you have any educational requests related to your child’s class placement in 2016, please complete a form and return to us by Monday 9th November, 2015. Not returning in 2016? Please let us know now. This information will be treated with confidentiality. Families are asked to let us know now if they will not be returning in 2016. It is very helpful for our planning and much appreciated at this early stage. Sadly, as in all school communities, some families relocate at the end of the year. We will miss you and we wish you well.
Sheryl M. Skewes Neven Paleka Principal Assistant Principal Sustainability
Eight of our year 5 & 6 students have been working very hard preparing their workshop for presentation at the Target Kids Teaching Conference at Etihad Stadium next Thursday. Harriet, Molly, Saba and Sacha are presenting a component to educate participants about some of the creatures who live in our bay and how we need to look after their habitat, and Milla, Jazzy, Charlotte and Ashleigh will be guiding participants through our giant sized board game which
reinforces many ways in which we can look after our environment. Great job girls! We are all very excited. The Music and Brain Foundation in Highett is collecting older and unused iPods and MP3 players to help people with dementia make connections with their past through music, so if you have any at home you are willing to donate please bring them along to school and we will pass them on.
Last Friday we were lucky enough to have a special visit from Josh and his animal friends from Reptile Encounters. He brought snakes, a turtle, lizards, a crocodile, spiny leaf insects and a frog. We learnt lots of animal facts to help us write our information reports later this term. This week we have also been writing our own non-fiction books about animals and living and non-living things. Many of us were very brave and held and touched an animal during the Reptile Encounters visit. This week in circus skills we used devil sticks, poi and juggling scarves. In Numeracy, we have been making pictographs by interviewing our friends.
Year One
Meanwhile in Year One…. This week we continued learning about multiplication. We learnt a new word called an ‘Array’. Arrays are a way to represent ‘groups of’ using rows and columns. We made arrays with counters, drew them in our maths books and even created arrays outside. We went on an array hunt outside and realised arrays are all around us, including- the brick walls, windows, playgrounds and basketball nets. We used sticks and stones to make our own arrays. We also need to say a huge congratulations to Lexi and Freya in 1D! Both Lexi and Freya embraced the Premier’s Reading Challenge with gusto and individually read over 100 books, well above the 30 book requirement. Both girls said that they were motivated because they loved books and reading. They both said their Mum’s supported them to do the Challenge. When asked what their favourite book was, Freya said, “The Enchanted Charms” and Lexi said, “Blubber”. Once again well done Freya and Lexi on a fabulous achievement.
Year Two This term students have begun writing poetry. We are currently writing cinquain poems. The structure of a cinquain poem is: 1 noun 2 verbs 3 adjectives 4 words to describe the topic 1 noun The students in grade 2 have been working very hard at writing their own cinquain poems. Sheep White, fluffy Walking, stomping, running Gets fed every day Animals By Quinn
Year Three Meanwhile in Year 3… One of our subject focuses for this term is Health. Here are our learning intentions: Understand human development over the human life span Identify and explain healthy eating choices Understand the need for physical activity Understand how physical, mental, social and environmental health affects the human body. The immersion process of this unit is off to an exciting start. Last week St John’s Ambulance taught us some basic first aid and how to act in an emergency. This week we were visited by nutrition experts, who taught us about healthy food options and choices.
Horses Fun, cute Riding, playing, jumping Love playing all day Pony By Ruby
Year Four Welcome back to our last school term for 2015. It will be a busy one, so please keep an eye on important Term 4 dates. These dates can be found online in the Year 4 Term 4 Newsletter. The students are encouraged to record important Term 4 events into their personal school diaries. Last week the students in Year 4 worked closely with artist Matthew Butler. They completed their written self reflections after six months of work on the History Puzzle Project. The students were also involved in the final assembly of the 15 Zaishu chairs, a co-operative activity which saw the student’s panels of history-themed artwork being transformed into pieces of furniture. These attractive and functional Zaishus will remain in our school as a keepsake and be used with much pleasure by our students. Teachers introduced the personalised learning plan for Term 4 and the students will be assisted to relate their interests to our subject foci of Health and Economics. On Friday the students enthusiastically involved themselves in a variety of jobs to support our school’s Sustainability program. These jobs included gardening, weeding, sweeping, watering and general tidying of our garden areas. We would like to congratulate Aiden (4DP) who came first in both of his District Athletics races (100 metre and 200 metre events). He will be going through to the Regional competition on Thursday. Good luck Aiden! We have a new student in Year 4, Raphaelle, who started at BPS on Monday. Raphaelle has recently moved from France and this will be her first Australian school. We welcome Raphaelle and her family to Beaumaris Primary School!
Year Five Year 5 completed their Family Life sessions today. Our educator Gair from Family Life Victoria was fantastic and took the time to feedback to the year 5 teachers how respectful, polite and delightful the year 5 students were throughout the program. Thank you year 5 for upholding our school values. A huge congratulations to our lawn bowls team who represented Beaumaris Primary at the State Lawn Bowls competition on Tuesday. They were enthusiastic, competitive and worked together in their teams of four. They also cooperated with students from other schools to run their own competition. On Friday, the Commonwealth Bank will present their Start Smart program to year 5 students. Start Smart teaches students about financial literacy, empowering them to make wise financial decisions for themselves. The workshops are engaging as well as educational, featuring characters such as Captain Super Cents and Coach Cash, who represent all the temptations to spend money needlessly. Hopefully we will see many of you tonight at our amazing Stargazing evening.
Beaumaris Primary School - Coordinator Ash Bladen 14th October 2015 Dear parents & families This week at OSHC we have been getting quite creative, we have taken part in an awesome science experiment using only milk, food colouring and dish washing liquid!! The children all made predictions what was going to happen and loved the end results.
It has been such fantastic weather outside this week that we have spent a lot of time playing games in both the hall and outdoors which the children are loving! To ensure your children can continue to have fun in the outdoors please make sure that your child has a hat when in after school care. Just a reminder for parents that if your child is absent from a session they are booked in to attend, please contact the OSHC service and inform them on the service mobile number which is 0452 247 837. Have a great week! The Camp Australia Team
