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Term 4 Week 6 Tuesday 20th November 2018

Dates to Remember

Buckle up as the next few weeks are going to be very busy ones!

Year 5 Leadership Training Day Year 5 Leadership Training Day was held yesterday at Richmond North Public School. This day provided Year 5 students with an opportunity to work with Year 10 students from Colo High School to learn about the skills required to be an effective student leader.

The Year 5’s participated in activities from the Colo feeder primary schools and learnt about the 5 Building Blocks of Leadership. The Year 5’s had a wonderful day meeting new friends and learning

about effective leadership skills in the lead up to student leadership speeches that will take place on Tuesday 4th December.

We would like to thank our Year 6 students for being excellent helpers during the day.

Kindergarten Orientation The Kindergarten Orientation took place today. The students had a wonderful time meeting and working with their new Year 5 buddies! Our new parents had the opportunity to learn information about school routines, curriculum and extra-curricular programs offered at the school. Mrs McCloy conducted an informative presentation on Literacy and Numeracy strategies and activities undertaken in K/1/2.

Many thanks to our Uniform Coordinator Tessa McLaughlin and Danielle Boughton, who attended the orientation to discuss uniforms and assist with orders.

Thank you to Rebecca Tadrosse for arranging information about the canteen and to Mrs Chapman who assisted with enrolments and Best Start bookings.

We look forward to seeing Kindergarten all ready for big school on Thursday 31st January 2019!

Week of Tastes On Wednesday, students in Years 3 - 6 will be spending most of the day at Shields’ Orchard to experience a variety of food and produce related activities as part of our Week of Tastes program.

We would like to thank Bill and Julie Shields for hosting us and explaining to the students the inner workings of Shields’ Orchard! We would also like to thank Shane McLaughlin for demonstrating the mulled cider making process and Cheryl Baird for helping out with blind taste testing on the day. Many thanks to Darryl Carle for transporting the students to and from the orchard on the day.

We know the students will have an amazing time learning about some of our local businesses!

Small Schools’ Basketball Gala Day On Friday 23rd November, students in 3/4 and 5/6 will be attending the Small Schools Basketball Gala Day at Hawkesbury Indoor Stadium at Ham St, South Windsor.

There will be teams from Hawkesbury Small Schools competing in Stage 2 and Stage 3 competitions on the day.

TERM 4 2018

WEEK 6

Tues 20th Nov - 2019 Kindergarten Orientation

9.30am-11.30am

Wed 21st Nov - Week of Tastes

Fri 23rd Nov - Swimming Money and Notes Due

Fri 23rd Nov - Small Schools Basketball Gala Day

WEEK 7

Mon 26th Nov -

Fri 30th Nov - Swim School

Fri 30th Nov - Book Club Orders due

WEEK 8

Mon 3rd Dec - P & C Meeting Invites to follow

Tues 4th Dec-

Fri 7th Dec - Swim School

(No swim school Mon 3rd Dec)

Tues 4th Dec - Year 7 Orientation Colo High School

Tues 4th Dec - Year 5 Leadership Speeches

WEEK 9

Thurs 13th Dec - Presentation Day

Fri 14th Dec - Reports Home

WEEK 10

Mon 17th Dec - Final Parent Assembly

Tues 18th Dec - Year 6 outing

Wed 19th Dec - End of year and Party Day

P & C Meeting

Monday 3rd Dec

6pm Invites to follow

Bilpin Public School P & C Committee are as follows

President Angie Pirie 0414 570 365 Please feel free to contact any of Vice President Michelle Leer 0410 548 210 these representatives if you have Treasurer Cheryl Baird 0414 499 239 any concerns you wish to discuss Secretary Nikki Wheen 4567 1154

Term 4 Week 6 Tuesday 20th November 2018

The aim of this day is for students to participate in a friendly competition where students will be coached by the referees as they play.

Transport to this event will be via bus. The bus will be leaving school at 9.25am. Parents are welcome to come and spectate on the day. Spectators will be required to pay a $2 fee at the door. We hope all of the students have a fun filled day!

Special Swimming Scheme The School Swimming Scheme will begin next week on Monday 26th November and concluding on Friday 7th December. Students will need to wear their costumes under their uniforms for the duration of the program and ensure they have a towel, goggles and spare underwear with them each day. Students will need to bring and apply sunscreen each day for extra sun protection. Students will have an early lunch and return before 3.25pm. Any students ordering lunch on the two Thursdays during Swimming Scheme, will need to indicate on their order that they are swimmers so that their lunch Is prepared on time. Notes and money must be paid by Friday 23rd November. Remember you can pay online via the school website. If you are unable to pay by this Friday please contact Mrs Chapman in the office. Thank you in advance for your assistance with this organisation.

Japanese Visitors We were very pleased to welcome some special visitors from Japan last week. The Murayma family spent time with K/1/2 and 5/6 watching our students during classroom and outdoor activities.

Genko and Koto were also able to join in with the children and play games at lunchtime. After their visit the family presented the school with some origami books and later emailed to say how enjoyable the experience had been for their children at our school.

Year 5 Elections

Eligible Year 5 students will present their speeches on Tuesday 4th December at 9:45am in the library. Students will be given speech writing guidelines and criteria this week.

Speeches need to be handed to Mrs Mackie or Mr Hynds to read before Friday 30th November. The successful students will be announced at Presentation Day on Thursday 13th December.

Bus Travel

Students who have already been approved for school bus travel and their address changes, or the student is progressing from Year 2 to Year 3, parents will need to update your child’s details at:

apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/updatedetails.

This will need to be done before the start of the new school year 2019.

Colo High School Orientation

The Year 6 students will be attending the Year 7 orientation at Colo High School on Tuesday 4th December. All parents are reminded that they will need to attend the day with their child to receive important information about subject materials and school uniforms.

Presentation Day Presentation Day will be held on Thursday 13th December 2018. A program and RSVP will be sent home next week. The day will begin with the formal presentation from 9:45am - 11:30am. After this time parents and grandparents will be invited to the library for morning tea with Year 6. Time permitting, the Year 6 slide show will be shown. If morning tea is delayed, the slide show will be displayed on the last day of school prior to Year 6 leaving through their guard of honour. As we have a tight schedule with afternoon activities, we must adhere to the allocated break times. From 12pm a variety of activities will be held for the students, including Go-karting and activities from Camelot Amusements. The students will rotate through activities. This year activities will be held up in the top playground. This is where lunch will also be served to the students. A special guest will arrive at approximately 2:30pm. After this there will be some water fun with the fire truck! We hope you are able to join us to celebrate the achievements of our students Bilpin style! Book Club Book Club orders need to be placed online through the Book Club Loop by Friday 30th November. Cash orders cannot be accepted.

Jump Rope for Heart Day Our Jump Rope for Heart Day was a huge success. Students raised $210. A great day was had by all. Thank you Ms Wheen for organising such an energetic day.

Term 4 Week 6 Tuesday 20th November 2018

CLASS NEWS

CLASS K/1/2 - Mrs McCloy

We are finishing our multiplication and division unit this week and have been practicing our 4 times tables. K/1/2 have also been looking at calendars as part of our unit on time.

K/1/2 are also learning about the importance of sun safety. We have been sharing what we know about the sun and how it can be both good and bad for us. We have been singing the song ‘Slip, slop, slap, seek and slide’ to remind us of the things we need to do to protect our skin and eyes. In geography we have been investigating the design of a city. What needs to be in a city? We watched an amazing Lego city complete with roads and traffic lights and recorded what we thought was missing from the town—most noticeably a school! We thought about what would be different if children designed a city. Keep reading K/1/2! We will read to Week 9 and I will be collecting readers from Friday of that week.

CLASS 3/4 - Mrs Mackie

The students presented some very interesting speeches about numerous famous Australians last week. Russell Coight was a definite favourite! The next speech for the term will be given out tomorrow and due on Wednesday 28th November. Homework will conclude in Week 8.

The school has two more weeks of access to the STEM Kits before we have to send them back. The students have had a fantastic time exploring bee bots, dash and dot and the lego kits. Next year Ms Wheen has managed to book in the Virtual Reality Kit which will be very exciting!

Over the next few weeks the students will be learning songs for Presentation Day. The students will be also be learning the music to one of the songs on the glockenspiel, as well as learning some Indonesian songs on the angklung (Indonesian bamboo percussion instrument).

Don’t forget swimming begins on Monday of next week. Please remember to ensure your children have the correct gear for the day (as listed on the front page of the newsletter and the permission note). Enjoy your week.

CLASS 5/6 - Mr Hynds The next few weeks are very busy indeed with many activities coming up. We are looking forward to our ‘Week of Tastes’ excursion to Shields’ Orchard tomorrow and also our Basketball Gala Day on Friday. Our Swimming Scheme will commence next week. A reminder that we need those notes in by tomorrow. As we build up to our very exciting end of year activities there are still some important tasks to be completed. Year 6 will start working on their end of year memories booklet that will be presented at their graduation ceremony. Our Year 5 students have the opportunity to prepare and practise their speeches for leadership positions in 2019. We will be finishing a number of assessments in Literacy and Numeracy over the next two weeks and also completing some of our group tasks such as our 3D cities in Maths and our ants nests in Science in readiness for programming our robots to visit each nest.

K/1/2 Emily

3/4 Sam G, Zane, Joel, Luke, Mia, Sam P, Annika, Khannah, Leander

5/6 Abby, Aliza, Sasha, Nikola,

Ryley

K/1/2 Axle, Cassie, Layla, Sophia, Indiana, Khloe, Ivie, Josie, Ryan,

Cleo, Peppa, Lola, Tex

3/4 Isaac, Ben , Bailey

5/6 Beau, Mitchell, Zak

3/4 Leah

Term 4 Week 6 Tuesday 20th November 2018

P & C NEWS

Canteen News - The canteen is a valuable P & C asset that is the main fundraiser for the school, enabling many expenses for programs to be subsided, thus reducing costs to families. If you can assist with volunteering please Contact Rebecca Tadrosse on 0415 312 995. It has been difficult to fill the canteen roster this term. Please think about volunteering in our canteen in 2019 to keep it operational. Thank you to all the parents and our community member who have volunteered their time this term. The following items won’t be available this term: Fried rice, vanilla milk, orange juice, Up & Go.

TERM 4 CANTEEN ROSTER Canteen will be CLOSED Monday’s in TERM 4 due to there being

no volunteers available.

Thursday 22nd Nov - Rachael McKinlay & Cheryl Baird Thursday 29th Nov - Michelle Coe Thursday 6th Dec - Cathy Vecchio-Ruggeri Thursday 13th Dec - CANTEEN CLOSED (Presentation Day)

VOLUNTEERS WANTED For 2019

ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT FOOD, TEAMWORK AND

CHILDREN?

Bilpin Public School is looking for canteen volunteers on Mondays and Thursdays (9.30am to 2.30pm) and we’d love

your help.

No experience is required, we will teach you the

ropes!

This is a great opportunity to meet new people and become part of the school community.

Best of all, children love seeing their parents at school!

If you are interested or for more information, please

Contact Rebecca Tadrosse on 0415 312 995