School Matters

Old Bathurst Road, East Blaxland 2774

Phone 4739 1579 Fax 4739 8300

Principal Kerry Bryan

Email Blaxlande-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage www.blaxlande-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

P&C Email blaxlandeast@gmail.com

Term 4 Week 8 2 December 2016

Morning Bell 9.00am Afternoon Bell 3.00pm Office Hours 8.30am - 3.15pm

P&C Association meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30 p.m.

Next Meeting Tuesday 14 February 2017

Core Values

Aussie of the Month

Celebrating Achievement, Effort and Service

Sydney Writer’s Festival

Congratulations to Natasha Watson!

Celebration Concert

Performing Arts Assembly

Kindy Transition

High School Transition

Year 6 Fun Day

BEPS Students’ Success at Cheerleading Nationals

Student Honour List

Principal’s Report

We’re All at BEPS Together!

Toshiba Photocopier for sale

PHAT Kids Holiday Camp

** 2017 Kindergarten Enrolments now being accepted **

CORE VALUES

Be Respectful

Excellence Always

Participate Courageously

Serve Others

Public School Blaxland East

In this School Matters:

Aussie of the Month

Madeleine Nott

Madeleine is a quiet, well mannered and diligent student.

She takes great pride in her class work, always striving for excellence.

Madeleine is a kind and caring friend to many.

Her behaviour always reflects our school core values in the classroom and in the playground.

Madeleine is a delightful student to teach. Congratulations!

Grace O’Neill

Grace is an outstanding citizen of BEPS.

She is always kind and positive with everyone she meets.

She is a loyal friend who puts 100% effort into everything she undertakes.

Grace shows our core values in all areas of school life and is a valuable member of 4HW.

Aussie of the Month - continued!

Haylee Goetze

Haylee works very diligently in class and is always

happy and helpful.

She is a kind friend who makes new people feel

welcome, includes others in her group

and shows others how to be a good friend.

Haylee is a very reliable student. She offers help

to her peers and the teachers and always does a

fabulous job.

Haylee does her best in everything she puts her

mind to and is a very worthy recipient of the

Aussie Of The Month Award.

Sam Wootton

Sam is a reliable and motivated

student who strives to achieve in all areas of

school life.

He participates courageously in both academic

and sporting opportunities and represents our

school with pride. Sam is a fantastic leader and is

supportive to his peers.

Cecilia Hill

Cecilia is a diligent student who always upholds

her core values and is a role model for other

students.

She is always respectful in the way she speaks to

teachers and peers.

She strives for excellence in all she does and

takes her learning seriously.

Cecilia has been a valuable member of our school

soccer and AFL teams in 2016 and has taken all

opportunities presented to her. She is always

there with a smile and support for others, encour-

aging them in whatever they do. Cecilia has been

an outstanding member of the Opportunity Class

and thoroughly deserves this award.

Saxon Penberthy

Saxon exemplifies our school

core values. He participates in every

opportunity he is given.

Saxon is a good sport, always playing fairly and

congratulating the opposition.

In the classroom he works diligently, independent-

ly or with others.

He is always polite, respectful and helpful.

Maddison Hunter

Maddison is a respectful and trustworthy student.

She can be relied upon to complete any task with

excellence and positivity.

Maddison is dedicated to her learning and is a fan-

tastic role model for students at BEPS.

She displays our school core values constantly

and strives to make our school a better place.

Maddison gives 110% effort in all areas of her

school life and is a caring and loving friend.

Jessica Orme

Jessica has made a solid commitment to always

doing her best and working toward improving in all

areas. She is a hard working, dedicated student

who takes responsibility for everything she does.

Jessica is a kind friend who is willing to help those

in need.

She has been a valuable member of 6G.

Celebrating Achievement, Effort and Service

Service to School

Year 6 Sports Captains and Vice Captains received their ‘Service to School’ medallions last week at

the 3-6 primary assembly. They are to be congratulated for their service throughout the year.

Pictured L –R: Olivia Bird, Maddie Hunter, Ashley Bulsara, Sam Wootton, Calum Adams,

Alistair Begg, Saxon Penberthy, Tom Allport, Harry Pagg, Holly Richmond,

Alex Bezuidenhout, Hamish Batty.

Absent: Taylor Brickwood, Emma Odgaard Bailey, Haylie Fisher, Georgie Alexander

Sydney Writers’ Festival

On Monday 14th November, Mrs Fuller and Mrs Glazebrook had the privilege

of taking 30 budding writers and illustrators to the Sydney Writers' Festival.

There we were entertained and enthralled by the talents of James Foley,

Cheryl Orsini, James Roy and R. A. Spratt.

They provided lots of great information of how to build on ideas and we are

sure to see some fantastic writing from these students in the years to come.

Natasha Watson 6R is this year’s recipient of the Primary School Community

Service Award from the Rotary Club of the Lower Blue Mountains.

From Mr Riedy: ‘Natasha has had an incredible year. She has followed our

school core values, been respectful, shown excellence always, participated

courageously and served others in the way she has conducted herself

throughout the year.

Natasha has been part of the Blaxland East School leadership team this year

and has set an outstanding example in this role. She has tried out for every

sporting opportunity available to her and has represented the Blue Mountains

Zone in a range of sports.

She has made an incredible seven Sydney West Rep teams. While she is an

incredibly talented sportswoman what sets Natasha apart is the way she is so thankful to her coaches,

parents and fellow players. Every time I have been involved with Natasha she is humble, congratulates

the other team and her own players and always thanks her coach for the opportunity to participate and

the time they have given up.

Natasha is also a member of the Blaxland East concert band where she plays the trumpet and has

been part of the school dance group.

She has recently volunteered at Riding for the Disabled where she goes and helps saddle horses,

clean up the arena and even shovels horse poo, certainly not something many students are prepared

to do in their free time.

Natasha has been a member of the Opportunity Class at Blaxland East for the past two years, where

she has taken on academic challenges that have stretched her academically. At times she has found

the work difficult but she never gives up and perseveres with challenging tasks.

The one goal that she has failed to achieve this year is to

become taller than me. Although I was worried for a while

there.

Natasha has been an absolute pleasure to teach for the last

two years and is a thoroughly deserving recipient of this

prestigious award’.

Congratulations Natasha!

Congratulations to Natasha Watson!

Celebration Concert

On Tuesday November 22 the annual Celebration Concert was held at the

Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith. Wow! What a great night it

was.

For a little more than two hours the absolute best performing artists that BEPS has to offer showed us

all what amazing talent they have.

The band, choirs and dance groups performed beautifully, the K-2 item was just sensational and 6R’s

Five Years Old left many in tears.

Our whole school finale We’re All in This Together (re-written by Lavinia Loscialpo) was a sensational

end to a fantastic evening. Special mentions must go to all our year six individual and small group per-

formers who stepped up on the night (in order of appearance)–

Elora Brown, Isabella Lockett, Taylor Brickwood, Heidi Wood, Olivia Bird, Holly Richmond, Louise

Bowerman, Rachel Baker, Nikolai Miller, Keely Gray, Shianna Kay, Anders Ernest, Kerri Muhlmann,

Ethan El Fadle, Mark Babadzhanian, Dominic Hart, Sophie Chapman, Lavinia Loscialpo and

Ashley Bulsara.

(Continued on page 7)

Celebration Concert—continued!

Extra special mention to our school captains Sophie Chapman and Ben Watson who

not only took part in many of the performances, but hosted the entire night from be-

ginning to end.

Well done all!

Special thank you to Heather Smith (Mrs Przydacz's

mum) who cleverly sewed the reindeer onesies for the

Celebration Concert. They were a perfect fit and

looked amazing on the stage.

I'm sure we will be

seeing the costumes

re-appear for many

years to come.

(Continued from page 6)

Celebration Concert—more!

See the end of the newsletter for Lavinia’s words to ‘We’re All at BEPS Together’…….

Performing Arts Assembly

Year 6 students were

recognised for their

contribution to the

performing arts at

Blaxland East.

Band, Dance Groups &

Choir all performed under

the COLA.

Natasha Watson delivered

a very comprehensive

final school report highlight-

ing a very very busy second

half to the year.

Congratulations to the Aussie

of the Month recipients who

also received their awards at

this assembly.

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Kindy Transition

Kindy 2016 have joined Stage 2 and Stage 3 for sport when Kindy 2017 have been visiting.

They loved sport with the big kids especially dancing to Simply Irresistible with Stage 3 as seen here

with Holly Richmond surrounded by Kindy dancers grooving to the beat.

High School Transition

Twelve Year 6

students from

BEPS were given

an opportunity to

attend extra high

school transition

experiences.

Four visits to Blaxland High

School were organised on

Tuesdays leading up to next

week’s High School

Orientation on the 6th of

December and grade visits on

the last two Wednesdays.

Experiences included a tour of the grounds and

classrooms, meeting BHS staff including Year 7

advisor Ms Taylor, classroom teachers, executive,

office staff and significant student groups.

Students were also

involved in

demonstration lessons

including cooking, PE,

music, art, ‘hands on’

science experiments,

rehearsals of BHS

musical Miss Saigon

and woodwork where they made their very own

door stop.

A huge number of pizzas were consumed for

lunch on the final day.

They were free and enjoyed by all.

To parents who transported students to the

high school, your willingness and availability

to assist was much appreciated.

Year 6 Fun Day

Our Year 6 Fun Day was a brilliant success. On what turned out to be a very hot day, Year 6 worked

tirelessly to set up, run and pack up a wide variety of fun activities. There was a haunted classroom

to scare you, bottle flip to test your skills and face painting to make you look beautiful. A big thank

you to everyone who participated and made a contribution to the Year 6 gift to the

school. Congratulations to Year 6 for your hard work before and on the day, particularly the clean up.

BEPS Students’ Success at Cheerleading Nationals

Last weekend many of BEPS students trav-

elled to the Gold Coast to compete as a part

of the Fanci Footwork Cheer and Dance

team in the Cheerleading Nationals.

The Australian All Star Cheerleading Federa-

tion Nationals is the 3rd largest Cheer and

Dance competition in the world with over

10,000 competitors!

Fanci Footwork is a silver sponsor of our

school that is run by our school Dance teach-

er, Mrs Natasha Shandler and the teams they

took to AASCF Nationals contained many

BEPS students.

FFDC had a very successful

weekend at Nationals with

teams bringing home 3 National

1st place titles, a 2nd, a 3rd and

a 5th place.

The FFDC Mini Dolls team that

came 1st and are 2016 National

Champions has a total of 13

team members, 8 that are

BEPS students.

We could not be prouder of

everyone of our BEPS students

and the amazing way they rep-

resented FFDC at the AASCF

Nationals 2016.

Student Honour List

PRINCIPAL’S SCHOOLWORK AWARDS

Week 7

Katie-May Batko –

Demonstrating Excellence -

Honesty

Week 8

Lucy Presland –

Excellent sequencing

CANTEEN VOUCHERS WEEKS 6, 7 & 8

Amelia Lockett

Corey Turano

Jack Nicholls

Emily Crambrook

Sam Attard

Lily Jay

Kaia Forwood

Alexander Ley

Christian Flexman

Nathan Hall

Haemish Hrymac

Emma Rojas

Jake Murphy

Olivia Adams

ICEBLOCKS WEEKS 6, 7 & 8

Nikki Rufus

Sarah Elliott

Kiana Foote

Toby Watson

Georgia Brown

Andrew Plumpton

Mitchell Skarratt

Maggie Lawrence-Rogers

Quintin Handley

Kayla Vandiejen-Nicoll

Shianna Kay

Tom Allport

Nikolai Miller

Alistair Begg

Alexander Bezuidenhout

Imogen Handley

Oli Wickerson

Tamika Carreno

Keagan Reasbeck

Luke Ivory

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

Well, we are at the end of the term almost and there

are only two weeks till the Christmas holiday break.

Last week I had the privilege of sitting in the audience at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts

Centre and watching the students from BEPS participate courageously, demonstrate excellence,

serve others and be respectful as they played, sang, danced and recited their way to an excellent

performance.

A huge thank you to all the behind scenes staff and co-ordinators of the various items who did a

superb job rehearsing students and getting everything together on the night. The Principal guests

I had with me were astounded at the talent and were very complimentary of the performances.

Well done everyone!

This week we celebrated our last Aussie of the Month assembly and handed out the Creative Arts

Awards for 2016. There were so many! It’s amazing how many students are involved in the huge

variety of activities that BEPS has to offer.

On Monday we have our Parent Helper Morning Tea – our way of saying thank you to all the

volunteers that make our jobs that little bit easier. Thank you so very much for all you do.

Our Presentation Night is on Tuesday night, then the Year 6 Farewell is on Thursday. The 2016

Year 6 has been an absolute pleasure to work with and I know they will all go on to be great in

whatever they do in the future.

Our last week is a little less busy, but I know teachers will be already thinking about 2017 and what

class they will have to teach. We will all enjoy a more relaxed week leading up to the holidays.

I hope I get to catch up with some of you before the break,

Cheers

Kerry.

We’re All at BEPS Together!

We’re All in This To-gether

by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil

and with new lyrics by

Lavinia Loscialpo

(Verse 1)

Together, together, Kindergarten and Year 1!

Together, together, Year 2, let’s have some fun!

Together, together, Year 3, Year 4, that’s right!

Together, together, Year 5, Year 6, we’ve won!

(Boys)

Here we are, the Celebration Concert

Kindy to Year 6!

We strive to learn, under great, big sunsets

Core values are all around!

(Girls)

Everyone can learn things in their own way

Just if we use our hearts (use our hearts)!

We’re all students,

At Blaxland East Public School!

Here is where we belong!

(Chorus)

We’re all at BEPS together!

Here we are

Learning things

Making friends

Forever!

We’re all at BEPS together!

Striving to

Reach our goals

And grow up

With dreams coming true!

(Verse 1)

Together, together, Kindergarten and Year 1!

Together, together, Year 2, let’s have some fun!

Together, together, Year 3, Year 4, that’s right!

Together, together, Year 5, Year 6, we’ve won!

(Boys)

We’re singing songs,

And searching for new friendships!

Thinking ‘bout our school life (our school life)!

We’re trying to say a few things that we can do

To help us live as one!

(Girls)

We’ve arrived at BEPS to help us make things

That we’ve never seen!

(Chorus)

We’re all at BEPS togeth-er!

Here we are

Learning things

Making friends

Forever!

We’re all at BEPS together!

Striving to

Reach our goals

And grow up

With dreams coming

(Chorus)

We’re all at BEPS together!

Here we are

Learning things

Making friends

Forever!

We’re all at BEPS together!

Striving to

Reach our goals

And grow up

With dreams coming true!

In the January school holidays, two camps will run at York Public School Monday 9th- Friday 13th

January and Blaxland Public School Monday 16th January – Friday 20th.

The program is for children aged 5-12 and will run from 8:00am till 6:00pm.

Each day will bring new challenges both physically and mentally stimulating each child as an individual.

PHAT kids bring an innovative point of difference to all other school holiday care programs, combining

inquiry-based learning, sport, mindfulness, coding and the much loved history mystery. With permission,

students will post their projects on our YouTube Channel.

For more information and to secure your spot, please visit: www.phatkidsholidaycamp.weebly.com

Alternatively please contact Greg Bass on 0417 420 905