Term 3 - Week 8 10th September 2018 continually praised for their outstanding effort in representing our school in the Creative Arts. These students have been practising since the beginning of the term and have put in a lot of effort. Thank you to Mrs Julia Armstrong for all of your hard work organising this opportunity and practising with our students. Thank you to all the parents for all of your hard work and for supporting Bomaderry Public School. We had so much fun and our students were able to make new friends and gain new experiences. Miss Rebecca Gallagher A thank you to the 3000 plus students who worked tirelessly with the staff from our schools to produce a show of excellence and quality. These students will take the friendships made and skills learned from their experience in Southern Stars and look upon their time in the show with much fondness well into the future. Ian Millard - Southern Stars Executive Producer Quality Work Here at BPS, we celebrate work which has been achieved after explicit criteria is explained to the class. Before the lesson, teachers explicitly explain what students will be striving to learn/demonstrate. When students work really hard to achieve this criteria, we label it ‘quality work’. Tamika and Paige from 5/6H were working on multiplying areas in centimetres. They used mental strategies to solve acts, used multiplicative language and partitioned facts strategically to play a game. Kalissa and Alira in 5/6B planned a narrative by using the elements of the planning process, were thinking as authors and used detailed information to support the writing process. Rocco from K-6D did high quality writing about the character, Grug. He wrote a description using uniform lettering and self-edited his work. Christopher, Jessica, Leela, Jack, Paige and Lateisha from 5/6S did great mathematical problem solving last week using multiplication strategies and explaining their thinking and solutions. Dear Parents and Carers Welcome to Week 8 and the Trivia Night week! So many staff, parents, community members already booked in to come along on Friday night. It is shaping up to be a HUGE night of fun with so many chances to WIN BIG. The prizes are too many to mention – silent auction, lucky door, heads and tails, coin toss, 100 Club, trivia team winners and placegetters, best dressed table, and MORE. Welcome to Ms Janie Hamilton Ms Hamilton has taken over 3/4B for Mr Hampstead who flies to Spain tomorrow for a teaching adventure in Madrid. We wish Mr Hampstead all the best and welcome Ms Hamilton onboard to our BPS community. Trivia Night - THIS FRIDAY - A Few Tables Left The trivia night is this Friday night, September 14th. Don’t forget to think of a great team name, costumes and table decorations if you’d like – PRIZES for BEST DRESSED team – think of a theme!! ‘Kicking’ our Learning Goals Every BPS student has individual learning goals and they strive to achieve these every day. It is with great pride and excitement, that students visit the Principal’s office to celebrate the achievement of these goals. Students talk about how they achieved their goals, who helped them, what they plan to achieve next – it is a very special time. Kya from 3/4S achieved her literacy goal last week and is now very proud to be reading level 22 texts. Bowen from K-6G can write his first name correctly and Liam can read his list of ‘first sight words’. Cassie and Chloe from 3/4G can both read level 24 texts. Skye has been awarded her pen licence and Isabella knows her 4 times tables. Southern Stars Following are reports from BPS classroom teacher, Miss Rebecca Gallagher, and the Southern Stars Executive Producer, Ian Millard, about the production. On August 30th - September 1st, nine of our support students from Bomaderry Public participated in the Southern Stars disABILTY dance. They danced to the iconic song, ‘Redback on the Toilet Seat’. Our students did such an incredible job and were
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Term 3 - Week 8 10th September 2018
continually praised for their outstanding effort in representing our school in the Creative Arts. These students have been practising since the beginning of the term and have put in a lot of effort. Thank you to Mrs Julia Armstrong for all of your hard work organising this opportunity and practising with our students. Thank you to all the parents for all of your hard work and for supporting Bomaderry Public School. We had so much fun and our students were able to make new friends and gain new experiences. Miss Rebecca Gallagher
A thank you to the 3000 plus students who worked tirelessly with the staff from our schools to produce a show of excellence and quality. These students will take the friendships made and skills learned from their experience in Southern Stars and look upon their time in the show with much fondness well into the future. Ian Millard - Southern Stars Executive Producer
Quality Work
Here at BPS, we celebrate work which has been achieved after explicit criteria is explained to the class. Before the lesson, teachers explicitly explain what students will be striving to learn/demonstrate. When students work really hard to achieve this criteria, we label it ‘quality work’. Tamika and Paige from 5/6H were working on multiplying areas in centimetres. They used mental strategies to solve acts, used multiplicative language and partitioned facts strategically to play a game. Kalissa and Alira in 5/6B planned a narrative by using the elements of the planning process, were thinking as authors and used detailed information to support the writing process. Rocco from K-6D did high quality writing about the character, Grug. He wrote a description using uniform lettering and self-edited his work.
Christopher, Jessica, Leela, Jack, Paige and Lateisha from 5/6S did great mathematical problem
solving last week using multiplication strategies and
explaining their thinking and solutions.
Dear Parents and Carers Welcome to Week 8 and the Trivia Night week! So many staff, parents, community members already booked in to come along on Friday night. It is shaping up to be a HUGE night of fun with so many chances to WIN BIG. The prizes are too many to mention – silent auction, lucky door, heads and tails, coin toss, 100 Club, trivia team winners and placegetters, best dressed table, and MORE.
Welcome to Ms Janie Hamilton Ms Hamilton has taken over 3/4B for Mr Hampstead who flies to Spain tomorrow for a teaching adventure in Madrid. We wish Mr Hampstead all the best and welcome Ms Hamilton onboard to our BPS community.
Trivia Night - THIS FRIDAY - A Few Tables Left The trivia night is this Friday night, September 14th. Don’t forget to think of a great team name, costumes and table decorations if you’d like – PRIZES for BEST DRESSED team – think of a theme!!
‘Kicking’ our Learning Goals Every BPS student has individual learning goals and they strive to achieve these every day. It is with great pride and excitement, that students visit the Principal’s office to celebrate the achievement of these goals. Students talk about how they achieved their goals, who helped them, what they plan to achieve next – it is a very special time. Kya from 3/4S achieved her literacy goal last week and is now very proud to be reading level 22 texts. Bowen from K-6G can write his first name correctly and Liam can read his list of ‘first sight words’. Cassie and Chloe from 3/4G can both read level 24 texts. Skye has been awarded her pen licence and Isabella knows her 4 times tables.
Southern Stars Following are reports from BPS classroom teacher, Miss Rebecca Gallagher, and the Southern Stars Executive Producer, Ian Millard, about the production. On August 30th - September 1st, nine of our support students from Bomaderry Public participated in the Southern Stars disABILTY dance. They danced to the iconic song, ‘Redback on the Toilet Seat’. Our students did such an incredible job and were
Canberra Emily and Amelia from 5/6B have written a report about the Stage 3 Canberra excursion and this is included in today’s newsletter.
‘Steptember’ As I mentioned last week, Emily in 5/6S and a number of staff members are participating in ‘Steptember’, to raise funds for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. As well as walking 10,000 steps each day, Emily has organised a guessing competition and raffle for students. A 50c ticket at the canteen could win a student one of a number of $5.00 canteen vouchers (these were very generously donated by Meagan’s Kitchen) and a correct guess of the number of jellybeans could win you a very sizeable jar of jellybeans! Raffle tickets are available at the canteen and Emily will be selling guesses in playtimes.
BOOSHC News Many community members would already know that our Before and After School Care company, BOOSHC will close their doors at the end of this term. Nikki and Marie have provided this valuable and much-loved service for many years and it is with a heavy heart that we will farewell them in a few weeks’ time. Demand for these services ebb and flow and other providers enter the market. At this time, the demand here onsite is not substantial enough to make it viable. Our regular BOOSHC attendees are already aware of this news, but I wanted to share this with other members of our community. I am sure you will join us in thanking our BOOSHC team for the wonderful care they have provided during their long ‘reign’ at BPS. Thank you, Marie and Nikki, and all of the past and present staff. We will miss you.
Aim High, Achieve High Dionne Hanbidge - Principal
P&C MEETING - THIS WEEK
The next P&C meeting will be held on Thursday 13th
September at 3.30pm in the school library.
PLEASE COME ALONG - ALL WELCOME! Book Club
Please return your Book Club orders to the office by
Thursday 13th September with payment.
Cheques should be made payable to “Scholastic”.
Thank you, Book Club Co-ordinator
BIG BLUE AWARDS
KC Isaac, Seth, Cain
1F Rebecca
5/6B Wendy
5/6H Steven
5/6S Leela
K-6G Kallen, Toby, Liam, Bowen, William, Constans
GOLD AWARD
KC Xavier
Uniform Shop Hours
The Uniform Shop is open
Tuesday and Thursday
8.30 - 9.15am and
2.30 - 3.15pm
Don’t forget that you can purchase your
Entertainment Membership through us and help our
fundraising at the same time! Make sure you order
now so that you don’t miss out on your exclusive
Entertainment Membership:
https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/
orderbooks/9443k36
P&C News
Silver September
This month is our ‘Silver September’
fundraiser, which is similar to the
successful 5 cent Challenge that was
held last year.
Each classroom are collecting loose silver coin
donations. Thank you to the local businesses that
are also participating in ‘Silver September’.
Trivia Night - This Week!
We are looking forward to our BPS Trivia Night this
Friday 14th September.
There are still some tables left - please get some
friends together and come along for a fun night.
If you don’t have enough people for a complete table,
please contact the office and we can add you to a
group.
Tables and raffle tickets are available for purchase
School Contribution Fee Each year NSW Department of Education Public
Schools seek a contribution fee from each family to
be paid to the school to help fund resources for
students. The fees are used for things such as
student awards, classroom supplies and books. The
fee is a one-off payment each year.
The School Contribution Fee for 2018 is as follows:
One student fee: $40.00
Family fee (more than one student): $50.00
Payment can be made by cash, EFTPOS or cheque
at the office, or online through the school website.
Your contribution is much appreciated by the
students who benefit directly from the additional
resources.
Thank you to those families who have already paid
their 2018 Contribution Fee.
Swim Scheme Continues This Week
Please remember to send the following items with
your child EVERY DAY THIS WEEK:
Swimmers
Towel
Warm Clothes
Raincoat or Umbrella
PLEASE ENSURE ALL ITEMS ARE LABELLED!
PACER Program
As you are aware our Stage 3 students recently
undertook an educational tour of the national capital.
Whilst on this tour they participated in a variety of
educational programmes focused on Australia’s
history, culture, heritage and democracy.
The Australian Government recognises the
importance of all young Australians being able to
visit their National Capital as part of their civics and
citizenship education. To assist parents in meeting
the costs of the excursion the Australian Government
has contributed funding of $20 per student under the
Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER)
program toward the travel expenses incurred. This
contribution will be paid directly to the school.
We would like to thank the Australian Government
for their support of this program.
Ms Bobyk - Assistant Principal
Term 3 - Week 8 10th September 2018
Home Reading Levels
Bomaderry Public School rewards efforts with Home Reading. Our level system promotes reading at home, motivates readers with special reading gifts and helps students aim for improvement. Congratulations to the following students who have reached these levels in Home Reading:
LEVEL 1 - 10 BOOKS Early Stage 1: Jason Stage 3: Reide
