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MOOD METER PROGRAM

Our school subscribes to a Parenting Ideas website that is hosted by Michael Grose. Michael is currently offering a 3 week online parenting course; “Mood Meter Program: Building Emotional Intelligence”. The course will look at empowering kids to recognise and respond to how they feel, teaching kids self awareness, and putting them in control of their emotions. Providing parents and kids a common language to use to talk about feelings. Further information about the course can be found at www.parentingideasclub.com.au/Info/Membership

TERM 4 CALENDAR:

Please add December 14th Year 6 Farewell to the Parent Planner that was sent home last week.

MERIT AWARDS: The following students will receive their Award at Monday morning’s assembly.

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD: Harriet Coates

BRONZE 1ST AWARD: Hamish Bourne

BRONZE 2ND AWARD: William Sruhan, Henry Boucher, Lily Sutton, Ruby Sruhan & Aidan Sruhan.

SILVER 2ND AWARD: Oliver Dolman & Mason Flanagan.

Congratulations to these students.

Kind Regards,

Steven Richard

Principal

Bolwarra Public School

25 Bolwarra Road, Bolwarra, NSW 2323

T 49301296 T 49301233 F 49300032

Email: bolwarra-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bolwarra Public School Success Through Effort

Term 4 Week 2

Newsletter

PRINCIPALS NEWS

Another busy start to the school term over the past week. It was fantastic to see the school in full school uniform on Wednesday for our photos. Wearing the correct school uniform is the easiest way that students can demonstrate their respect for the school. This week I have attended the NSW Primary Principals Conference in Sydney. The theme for the conference this year was “Sailing the Seas of Change”, which is reflective of the current initiatives of the Department of Education. The guest speakers included Peter Greste, Todd Sampson, Simon Breakspear and Lt General David Morrison. Many of the speakers focused on the continual changes that are occurring in schools and society in the 21st Century.

STUDENT WELLBEING

This year we launched our new policy for Student Wellbeing, in particular the introduction of five school rules and the monitoring processes for student misbehaviour. I will be holding a parent information session on Thursday 3rd November at 6pm in the school hall to discuss the policy and the introduction of Positive Behaviour for Learning in our school.

BUILDING WORKS UPDATE

Planning continues for the building works at our school, over the next week the Project Reference Group will be travelling to Sydney to visit the Futures Learning Centre and two recently built schools. It is certainly an exciting time with the designers aiming to build a school that is responsive to our needs, future ready and embraces technology. I will be posting pictures from our visit in the coming weeks.

SCHOOL SWIMMING PROGRAM

An expression of interest note has been sent home to students in Years 2 and 3 for the two week intensive swimming program. Please note that this is a learn to swim program, student who are capable swimmers do not need to return the note. Learning to swim is a vital skill, I encourage all students who need the lessons to return the expression of interest. The dates for the program are Monday 7th November to Friday 18th November, in order to gain the most from the program it is vital that students attend all 10 days.

SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

Our first whole school assembly of the term is next Monday at 9.30am in the school hall. Student performances will include 1/2D and 5/6A. All parents are welcome to attend.

Parents Online Payments (POP) on school website -

“$ Make a payment” tab (school payments only not P&C)

Online Uniform and Lunch orders www.flexischools.com.au

P&C Website www.bolwarrapandc.wordpress.com

Facebook Address www.facebook.com/BolwarraPublicSchool

School Website : www.bolwarra-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

K – 6 NEWS

OFFICE NEWS

Birthday Book Club

P & C NEWS

Notes in Circulation

Seasons for Growth Years 5 & 6

Term 4 canteen volunteer form

Upstage Youth Theatre Production-Stage 3

Mango Order Form

Important Dates

Tuesday

25 October Year 3—Tocal Homestead Excursion

Wednesday

26 October Year 4—Tocal Homestead Excursion

Monday

31 October Mango Order Forms due

Wednesday

2 November Red Day—Pizza Day

Friday

4 Nov

Upstage—Boy Overboard

CampOut with Kids

Monday

7 Nov

Point Wolstoncroft

School Swimming Program starts

ICAS Awards

When it is your child’s birthday, they have the opportunity to donate a book of their choice (already purchased by the library) for the small cost of $6.00. After paying, the children can come to the library and select a birthday book.

The books will be presented to the children on assembly. Each book will have a special message inside saying who has donated the book. The birthday child will be the first to borrow the book. Our new members for this week are Cooper, Lily, Isabella, Max, Ivy, Declan, Poppy and Serena. Welcome to these students.

APPLICATIONS FOR YEAR 7 SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOL PLACEMENT 2018 Information about applying for Year 7 entry to selective high schools in 2018 can be found online at

www.schools.nsw.edu.au/shsplacement (parents must apply online using this web address). Applications for entry in 2018

can be make online up until 14 November 2016. All applicants are required to sit the Selective High School Placement Test

to held on Thursday 9 March 2017.

Maybe you would like to help by donating or sourcing a prize or a voucher for the Christmas raffle? Any items to support the raffle would be greatly appreciated so please contact the

office or Beck Croese on 0418437820. Get your tummies grumbling Start thinking about fresh summer mangoes, mango on icecream, mango smoothies and icy cold sorbet. Order forms for the mango fundraiser went home this week. Be sure to ask family and friends and grab extra orders at work. Don’t forget orders can be made via Flexi school also.

DATES TO ADD TO THE DIARY:

Mango orders due Monday 31/10 Annual Gingerbread Christmas night 2/12

Congratulations to the following students who will be receiving awards from the ICAS English and Mathematics examinations at Monday's whole school assembly. The assembly commences at 9:30am and parents are welcome to attend.

Year 2 Mats R

Anna p

Zephyr M

Daniel J

Isla C

Thea S

Isabella A

Cooper H

Henry B

Daniel J

Year 3

Amber H

Audrey R

Marley A

Charlie P

Bethany S

Leo P

James M

Year 4 Hamish S

Aasha P

Max W

Julia I

Ben G

Lucas D

Siobhon B

Hassan A

Year 5 Abbie T

Hallie B

Hollie J

Travis F

Angus C

Jack R

Jack S

Grace S

Year 6

Madeline S

Noah M

Henry M

Luke J

Jonah C

Molly W

Edith M

Lucy B

Peter H

Oliver B

Kids Shed

My apologies for this “Update” coming after so long; more like “Outofdate”…

The last 5 weeks of Term 3 – since finishing with solar cars – has been a whirlwind of activity in Kids Shed.

Years 3 and 4 have completed a unit of work on Problem Solving. They were tasked with researching then designing and constructing toy hot

air balloons. We finished with four balloons on the last Thursday “ready” to fly. Again, we had crossed fingers for good weather; this time for a

chilly morning with no wind. No luck! VERY windy!

So, balloons are ready to fly. Kids are excited. It’s the last Kids Shed session for the term. And balloons cannot be released outside…. What

to do?? The hall? No, better not, jus’ gotta new floor… So we shut the roller door of the shed to keep the wind outside, lit a candle (our

source of lighting in KS), hung the balloon from the ridge beam…. and lit the fire-lighter. Hopefully the balloon would at least lift its weight off

the string it dangled from & demonstrate that it worked.

Well, none of the balloons actually flew… and one caught fire. We worked on persuading ourselves that they nearly flew, were taking their

weight… “Mr Lewis! I saw the string go slack!” “Oh, good observation skills, my boy!” Our conclusion? We needed bigger garbage bags…

and a bigger shed!

On to the Stage 1 Egg-Drop Challenge: students from 1/2D, 2B and 2L had been asked to drop a fresh egg onto a bathroom tile lying in a

plastic box from a height of 30cm – and their egg was not to crack or break. The challenge was to design the box so that packing material of

their choice would decelerate the egg, breaking its fall (not the egg). The children had just 6 cm available to them to stuff with softies. We

talked about gravity, acceleration, impact, Laws of Motion and how silly Humpty Dumpty had been. Children were asked to bring to school

materials they thought would be suitable for a “crumple zone”… feathers came, bubble wrap, straws, cotton wool, foam, pipe cleaners…

and… MARSHMALLOWS! Of course! Thank you, parents children and all, for your input, your purchases, for “thinking outside the box”!

Because this experiment, when it came to testing the crumple zones became intriguing.

We gathered outside classrooms so that other members of the class could witness results – and maybe soggy yellow marshmallows. The

“wall” from which Humpty dropped began at 30cm height. SUCCESS! No break! And then the height rapidly rose in 20cm steps… 50cm…

70cm and the egg bounced out of the box, cracked on concrete… FOWL! (woops – FOUL!) Repeat, SUCCESS! We reached a height of over

a meter, 110cm before we got soggy yellow marshmallows! Truly amazing to drop a fresh egg from over a meter onto a hard surface with just

6cm of gentle and firm deceleration! So don’t be surprised, now parents, if you find marshmallows stuffed inside your child’s bike helmet!

Mike Lewis, Kids Shed teacher

CANTEEN NEWS

The new term 4 menu is going very well, with lots of orders coming in for our yummy new summer meals- the taco wraps have

definitely been a winner! If you haven’t got a copy you can find it on the Skoolbag ap in the canteen section, or a paper copy can

be picked up from the canteen or office.

Flexischools is a quick and convenient way to place your child’s lunch orders- do it the night before from the comfort of your

lounge, or set up a regular order and you don’t need to worry about it again! No worries of lost monies or paper bags being

forgotten to be handed in, or scrambling for change in the morning. The canteen is running some exclusive offers and specials

only available on Flexischools, so jump on flexischools.com.au to see how quick and easy is to set up an account!

Red Day Pizza notes and money need to be in by Monday 24th October- no late orders are able to be accepted. Notes went

home last Friday, if your child did not receive a note please see the office or the canteen asap. Orders are now able to be placed

on Flexischools with the cut off being Monday 24th at 2pm for online orders.

Please read the following information about our Term 4 Volunteer year hosting. Volunteers are a critical part of our school

canteen- without helping hands food just cannot be prepared and served. If you are unable to help on your allocated week

please have a look over the roster to find a day that suits you, any time is greatly appreciated. And as always we need to keep

up with the demand for Anzac bikkies, our preferred recipe was put on the school Facebook page last Sunday or the office and

canteen have paper copies. Donations of cooked biscuits can be accepted at the office or canteen.

YUMMY FRUIT SMOOTHIES!

Available over the counter only on

Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.

Choc-banana

Mixed Berry

Mango

$1.50 each

Year Hosting

Starting from week 4, each school year will be having a turn being involved with ‘Year Hosting’ in the Canteen. Year 5 are

going to kickstart us off on the week starting Monday 31st October, and each year under them will be allocated a week

throughout term 4. Year 6 parents will have an opportunity to participate in the end of year/end of primary school activities

planned for their children.

Please find the week/s that are applicable to you, choose a day that suits you best and send your form back so we can have

lots of participation from each years families. On lunch order days you will be working with our Canteen Co-ordinator Mel

Caldwell who organises the day and ensures everything runs smoothly. Our canteen is air-conditioned, lunch is provided and

most importantly, your involvement directly helps your children.

Week starting –

31st October – Year 5 7th November – Year 4

14th November – Year 3 21st November – Year 2

28th November – Year 1 5th December – Kindergarten

The canteen is open from 8.45 am to 2.00pm, Monday, Wednesday & Friday (lunch order days) and 12.30pm to 2pm Tuesday

& Thursday. Any time is very much appreciated.

Our whole school hopes to benefit from this new class hosting system with parents given another opportunity to get to know

one another, help their school, encourage year team work that brings the home and school together and giving families a

better understanding of our canteen and what it has to offer.

Forms can be returned to canteen or office. Please contact our canteen

co-ordinator Mel on 0422335939 if you require further information.

Thank you.

CANTEEN ROSTER

DAY 8.45 – 2.30 8.45 – 11 11 – 2.30 12noon – 2.30 ANZAC BISCUITS

MONDAY 24.10 1 required

Supervisor Alison Hunter

Vanessa Seymour

TUESDAY 25.10 2 required

Angela Hill Alison Radford Carol Sjostedt

WEDNESDAY 26.10 2 required

Supervisor

THURSDAY 27.10 2 required

FRIDAY 28.10 3 required

Supervisor Greata Pollard Jo Beeching

Kerrie Baldwin

MONDAY 31.10 2 required

Supervisor

TUESDAY 1.11 2 required

WEDNESDAY 2.11 RED DAY 3 required

Supervisor Leah Robson VACANCY

VACANCY VACANCY VACANCY

THURSDAY 3.11 2 required

FRIDAY 4.11 2 required

Supervisor Melissa Bartlett Michelle Partland

Al Haggarty

FLEXISCHOOLS

If you have any queries regarding this process please phone Flexischools directly on 1300 361 769.

It is a legal requirement for all volunteers to fill and sign the Working with Children Check Form. It is also a requirement to pro-vide 100 point identification to accompany this form. Please attend the office to complete this form. If you need any more infor-mation please phone Melani or ask in the office. If you have already done your WWCC online, please give your number and D.O.B. to the office to verify.

ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL

Regular attendance at school is important for students to be able to reach their potential. The school is required to record the reason for any absences. Students are only to be absent when they are sick or have another good reason for missing school. If your child is sick you can notify us via the Skoolbag App, telephone us, or send a note in when your child returns to school.

You can download the App on Apple or Android devices– simply visit your Apple Store or Google Play Store and search for “Bolwarra Skoolbag”.

My child ..............................................of class ............. was absent on (date) ..................................

For the following reason .....................................................................................................................

Parent signature: ……………………………………………………………………………………………

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COMMUNITY NOTICES

If your child is interested in learning to play the guitar, bass or

ukulele, either during school hours or after school , please contact me on

the details listed below.

Group and individual lessons available for guitar and ukulele.

Eric Loi—0419 642 096 or ericloimusic@bigpond.com

MUSIC LESSONS

Girls Uniform available for Maitland Grossmann HS to Fit Yr7-Yr8

Blouse x 3 (size 8)

Skirt x 2 (size 10)

Woollen knitted jumper (size 12)

Sport shirt (size 12)

Shorts (size XS)

Further Information please contact Sally Friis on 0409 398 314.

GROSSMANN UNIFORM

Kids, say thanks to your grandparents for their love and sup-

port.

Bring them to the Hunter Wetlands Centre, Shortland on Sun-

day 30th October 2016

Free entry for everyone

Free devonshire tea for grandparents

Guided walks and buggy tours

Reptile encounter

Intergenerational activities

Fun for all the family

To see the program go to www.wetlands.org.au