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AUGUST
28th to 30th
Stg 3 Canberra
Excursion
SEPTEMBER
3rd SAKG Stage 2
5th YR 6 BIG DAY IN KHS
Primary festival of
Choral Music
6th Zone Athletics
SAKG Stage 3
9th Book Pde & Bake a Bk
10th SAKG Stage 2
12th SAKG Stage 3
13th Ball Games
16th Musica Viva
17th SAKG Stage 2
18th Stage 2 Primary Proms
19th SAKG Stage 3
20th Colour Run
24th Stage 2 Incursion
25th Science Workshop
Incursion
26th SAKG Stage 3
27th Last Day Term 3
OCTOBER
14th First Day Term 4
15th Stg2&3 UBM Dance
Festival
16th Kinder Transition
17th Sydney West Athletics
Group Photos
18th Open Day
23rd Kinder Transition
Kinder Dance with
Jo Clancy
25th Stg1 Minibeasts
Incursion
28th Kinder Dance with
Jo Clancy
30th Kinder Transition
PLEASE REFER TO THE SCHOOL WEBSITE OR
SKOOLBAG FOR RELEVANT NOTES & FURTHER
INFORMATION
Blackheath Public School Website:
www.blackheath-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Leichhardt Street, Blackheath NSW 2785 Email:
[email protected]
Office hours: 8.30 a.m.—3.15 p.m. Phone: 4787 8253 Fax: 4787
8320
Term 3, Weeks 5 & 6,
2019
Dear Parents, Carers & Friends,
What a busy, cold and windy fortnight we’ve
had with snow, wind and the usual myriad of
BPS events!
Congratulations to our Stage 2 and 3 Basketball teams who did so
well at the gala day in week 4.
Amazing performances, wins and sportsmanship. Thank you to their
coach, Mrs Gillian and to
Mrs Harris and her sons for their expert training in the lead
up.
We were fortunate with the weather for our Athletics carnival
and many thanks to our canteen,
parent supporters and helpers.
Monday 19th saw a cricket gala day and girls’ soccer gala day.
At both
events our Blackheath Public School students played with great
gusto and
fairness and the efforts of our parent helpers were much
appreciated.
Our Junior students performed at the Narragunnawali Festival of
Music, singing like birds and
giving us all goosebumps. Well done to everyone involved and to
our wonderful Mrs Lanyon who
conducted.
Many of the teachers were having flashbacks last Friday night at
the
80’s Disco. Great fun, great exercise and hopefully great
fundraising
happened for our P&C and the Canteen. Chris is in the market
for a
new oven for the canteen so every dollar helps.
Wakakirri was on Monday night and we were so proud of our
students.
The way they coped with all day rehearsals and the waiting
around was
exemplary, but their performance was absolutely magnificent.
Congratulations on receiving the ‘Best T-Shirt Design’, ‘Best
Individual
Costume Design’ and ‘Participation’ awards. Many people assisted
to
make this experience so positive for our students and this will
be
covered in the next newsletter but my most sincere thanks to
the
incredible staff, parents and community members for their time,
effort
and dedication to our students.
Best wishes to our Stage 3 students and staff who headed to
Canberra today. Have a wonderful
adventure.
Please be advised we adopt a cost recovery model for incursions
and excursions. The school is
required to pay service providers even if your child(ren) is
unable to attend on the day and
regrettably, we cannot provide a credit or refund.
Warm Regards, Jane Davies Principal
FROM THE PRINCIPAL 2020 enrolments are now open. If you have
children, or neighbours with children, who
intend to enrol their child here please let them
know. We have fabulous Kinder Orientation
activities coming up!
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MERIT AWARDS K-G Lucas McDonald, Ava Starkey, Marlon Kimel
K-R Charlotte Harper-Blease, Mae Kirchner, Zuko Collins
& AJ Collins
K-1H Reece Barwick, Leese Holwood, Flynn Bagnall &
Eden Jones
1-2K Henry Combs, Franklin Combs & Thawin Munmueang
1-2N Austin Stieger, Eloise Hugman & Robert Double
1-2R Ditas Dizon, Charlotte Pellegrini & Bailey Curtis
1-2S Jemima Dzwinek, Freya Bryant & Lily Kells
3-4B Eva Bryant, Axel Rose, Tavish Locke,
Max Manwaring, Mackenzie Gurney &
Phoenix Metcalfe
3-4Y Georgia Cooper, Lilliana Brown,
Alex Knight, Freya Wilson, Max Myers &
Cody Skinner
5-6H Xavier Dignam, Eve Collins, Marley Henderson, Chloe
Flugge,
Cateana Ewers, Ned Tomlinson & Oliver Gray
5-6L Tommy Blenkhorn, Anna Fergus, Jack Corkins, Shay -Lee Hosa
&
Alma Rose
5-6T Giorgia Macleod Laschke, Angie Collins, Will Touhill,
Jasper Brown,
Owen Peterson & Jacob Wooldridge
Be part of National Child Protection Week (1 – 7 September)
Children do best when life is on an even keel and their parents
have the support they need.
By being kind to parents, supporting family-friendly policies,
and building connected communities, we’re all helping to give
Australia’s children the best start in life.
National Child Protection Week is all about celebrating the many
ways – big and small – that everyone in the community can
make a difference in the life of a child.
Most importantly, we need to recognise that parenting is like
sailing a boat; it takes skill and practice, anyone can
encounter
rough waters from time to time, and we can all do our bit to
help build the safe harbours and lighthouses that all families
need.
This National Child Protection Week (1 – 7 September), we’re
making it easier than ever for everyone to get involved in
creating
better lives for children.
To learn more visit www.napcan.org.au.
The Blue Mountains Coalition Against Violence and Abuse (CAVA)
will be holding a stall at Blackheath Community Markets on
Sunday 1st September, 9am – 1 pm with free activities for
children and information for parents and caregivers.
https://www.napcan.org.au/
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Narragunnawali Festival of Music Congratulations to
our Year 2 Choir who performed, with other choirs from Lawson to
Lithgow, in last
week’s Narragunnawali Music Festival held at Katoomba High
School. You were
wonderful ambassadors for our school and helped make the concert
so special. Congratulations also to Georgia Masters
(voice, Year 5), Julia Ross (flute, Year 5) and the school band
who performed individual items in the Festival. A special thank
you to Mark O’Connor (Dad of Sam in Year 5) and Ramon Menon
(guitar teacher) who accompanied the choir so expertly.
AMEB Music Performance Exams At the recent round of AMEB Music
exams two students
received exceptional grades that deserve special mention. Ginger
Foster received an ‘A+’ in
Recorder, 2nd Grade and Archie Helm received an ‘A’ in Piano,
Preliminary Grade. Both
students achieved these fine results through practise and
dedication. Well done!
Jenny Lanyon, Music Teacher
MUSIC NEWS
On Friday 16th August more than a third of our Stage 3 students
went to Sydney for the CBCA Book of
the Year Awards, accompanied by Mr Morris and Ms Lamond. Once we
arrived, we listened to the
inspiring Sue Whiting talk about her book ‘Missing’ and watched
the amazing Jules Faber draw people.
Miette Hoekstra from BPS gave a book review for the book ‘Leave
Taking’. Everyone watching waited
nervously for the awards to be announced. The picture book
category winner was ‘Cicada’ by Shaun Tan, the early childhood
winner was ‘Tricky’s Bad Day’ by Alison Lester, ‘His Name Was
Walter’ by Emily Rodda won the younger readers category,
‘Between Us’ by Clare Atkins won the older readers category,
‘Sorry Day’ by Carol Vass won the Eve Pownall Award for
information books, and ‘Grandma Z’ by Daniel Gray-Barnett won
the award for new illustrators. And that’s on top of all the
honour books there were on the day! Finally it was time to go
home after a long day. We were the quietest school excursion
ever on the train on the way home. It must be because we were
all enjoying our new books so much. It was a really fun day!
CHILDREN’S
BOOK
COUNCIL OF
AUSTRALIA
AWARDS
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ATHLETICS CARNIVAL The school’s Athletics Carnival was recently
held at Pitt Park under beautiful sunny skies.
Some excellent results were achieved, with 9 school records
broken:
Georgie Touhill – Jnr Girls 800m, Jnr Girls Shot Putt.
Evie Schembri – Jnr Girls 200m, 9 yrs Girls 100m.
Noah Quirk – 10 yrs Boys 100m, Jnr Boys Long Jump.
Sienna Macleod-Laschke – 11 yrs Girls 100m.
Giorgia Macleod-Laschke- 11 yrs Girls Long Jump.
Tenzin Dodds-Bowering – 13 yrs Boys 100m.
Congratulations to the following children who were age
champions:
Junior Boys: Alton Freeman
Junior Girls: Georgie Touhill
11 Years Boys: Isaac Roberts
11 Years Girls: Allyssa Ng-Saad
Senior Boys: Jordan Monck
Senior Girls: Annabel Dignam.
The winning house was: Koalas.
We will be sending a strong team of 39 athletes to the Blue
Mountains Zone Athletics Carnival on 6 th September. Good luck
everyone!
Many thanks to the dedicated bunch of parents who assisted on
the day. We would not be able to successfully run the carnival
without your help! Kim Lynch.
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BASKETBALL GALA DAY Blackheath Public School entered four teams
into the Annual Primary School Basketball Gala Day at Katoomba on
Wednesday the 14th of August.
Two Stage Two teams and two Stage Three teams donned their green
singlets and hit the courts with a spirit of fun and
sportsmanship.
Excitement grew as team after team won their games and the Grand
Finals were in sight. In typical Blackheath style, as players were
waiting for their games, we supported our teams by enthusiastically
cheering from the side lines.
All of this excitement and hard
work resulted in three undefeated teams winning their Grand
Final and one team coming runner up in their Grand Final! Thank you
to all of the team Managers and parents who supported on the day!
Well done to everyone!
Coordinators: Ruth Harris and Amanda Gillian
STAGE 2 GIRLS: GRAND FINAL RUNNERS UP STAGE 3 GIRLS: GRAND FINAL
WINNERS
STAGE 2 BOYS: GRAND FINAL WINNERS STAGE 3 BOYS;: GRAND FINAL
WINNERS
MATHS WORKSHOP
Keen parents joined Mr Kelly and Mr Yeong for an hour of maths
on Wednesday, 21st
August to explore a range of concepts, skip counting, fact
families, inverse operations,
mental strategies, problem solving and working mathematically.
Different ideas were
shared to support students’ mastery of maths skills.
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STAMPS Do you throw away your used stamps? If so, please tear
off the stamp and bring it
to Sue in the school office for donation to the Red Cross. Money
raised by the
foundation is used to support under-privileged families in
Australia
ILLNESS AT SCHOOL AND NOTIFYIYING Please do not send your child
to school if they are sick. If your child has been vomiting or had
diarrhoea, they must not have vomited or had runny
stools for a minimum of 24 hours (even if they feel better) as
they may still be infectious. Staff have only the best interests of
our students at heart when we ask this so as to avoid outbreaks in
classrooms. We also have children with compromised immune systems
at school for whom contracting these illnesses can have serious
repercussions. It is important for these students that they
participate actively in the day to day school program without any
major limitations. Towards this end another major concern is if
these children were to develop measles, chickenpox, whooping cough
or influenza so I seek your cooperation in preventing this
situation.
If your child has, or may have, measles, chicken pox or other
infectious illness, I would ask that you please: 1. Do not send
them to school. 2. Notify the School Principal as soon as possible.
3. Take them to your GP or medical centre to confirm diagnosis if
possible. Thanking you in anticipation, Jane Davies Principal
A gentle reminder that all payments MUST be in by the
due date on the note. Owing to our Department of
Education system we cannot process money that comes in
after the closing date. You may find that the online payment may
seem to work as this is the bank ’s system but the money
cannot be processed for that event and will be put into credit
for your future use. If finance is an issue PLEASE complete the
assistance form BEFORE the due date. You are more than welcome
to reimburse us after the date.
PAYMENTS
Sue and Rhonda like to keep some spare uniform
items in the office and at the moment they are short
on tracksuit pants, especially in the smaller sizes, and large
jumpers. Any donations will be gratefully be accepted.
SECOND HAND UNIFORMS
Dear Parents/Carers,
A number of students have lost their labelled polar
fleeces. Would you please check your child’s jumpers
and polar fleeces to make sure they have not inadvertently
picked up another childs.
Thank you for your cooperation.
LOST PROPERTY
On Monday 19th August representatives from Stage 2
and 3 went to the Cricket Gala Day. We all had a lot of
fun. There were 4 teams entered in the competition
from Blackheath Public School, and each team was able to play 4
enjoyable full games of cricket. One of the teams even scored
a massive 264 runs. When we weren’t playing a match, we got to
practise our cricket skills on an inflatable pitch (or buy a
sausage sizzle or
lollies from the
canteen).
By Connor Oliver
CRICKET GALA DAY
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I would like to personally thank my amazing team for achieving
this accolade! We have all worked hard to ensure that we achieved a
great result, and we did! To achieve this result we needed; At
least 3⁄4 (75%) of the menu to be ”Everyday” foods and drinks –
ours is 87%
No more than 1⁄4 (25%) of the menu to be “Occasional” foods and
drinks – ours is 13%, this is made up of the corn chips, salsa, our
homemade pies, & sausage rolls. Whilst we can still sell corn
chips and salsa, these items aren ’t to be displayed on the front
counter.
All the “Occasional” packaged foods and drinks in our canteen
have a Health Star Rating of 3.5 Stars and above. Portion limits to
meet requirements of “Occasional” foods and drinks and “Everyday”
flavoured milk and juices on our
menu.
The 80’s groove is alive again!!
A big thanks again goes to my team , special guest appearances
by Tara & Alex and all the volunteers whom
made the Disco heaps of fun and successful! A special thanks to
all the bakers, the children LOVED all the treats
Women power for the athletics carnival! Thank you to;
Denise for picking up and returning the trailer to Mt Vic. Ali
Myers taking and returning the trailer to Pitt Park Robyn Stacy
& Lara Boehringer the BBQ Princesses
Justine Brown, The Sales Queen
Claire Strong, Comic Relief, she is a very funny woman!
Mt Victoria Public School lent us a trailer which the team and I
are extremely grateful for! We would also like to acknowledge BP
Blackheath for the last minute mercy gas dash!
We are still working on getting a new oven, thank you all for
being patient and understanding!
CANTEEN UPDATE
SOCCER GALA DAY
On Monday 19th August, a Stage 2 and a Stage 3
team of girls took part in the Blue Mountains Girls
Football Gala Day at Pitt Park. Despite the cold and
hail our girls showed great enthusiasm and
developing football skills. This is a relatively new
gala day for the mountains and is growing in
popularity every year. We will be there next year!
Kate Blackwell Coordinator
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The Tell Them From Me parent survey (Term 3, 2019)
This Term, our school will be participating in the Partners in
Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them
From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys)
on student engagement. The survey asks parents
and carers questions about different factors that are known to
impact on student wellbeing and engagement.
Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and
carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at
school. These include: communication between parents/carers and
staff, activities and practices at home and
parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and
behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school
make practical improvements.
The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads,
tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will
typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely
confidential. The parent survey will be conducted
between 26 August and 25 October. Although participating in the
survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are
very much appreciated.
More information about the survey is available at:
http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au or
https://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/images/FAQs/TTFM_Parent_Survey_FAQs_Parent_and_Carers_T3_2019.pdf.
The
survey is available in 23 languages.
To access the survey for our school go to:
http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/67hct
TELL THEM FORM ME
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BPS MARKETS
1st Sunday of each month
Coordinator Murray
042 904 1704
