SCHOOL BULLETIN

In This Issue

Principal’s News

Stars of the Week

Important Dates to

remember

ICAS News

PFA News

Working Bee

Earn & Learn

Classroom News

Celebrations

Thursday 17 August 2017

Quote Of The

Week

YOU

WILL NEVER

HAVE THIS DAY

AGAIN

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MAKE IT

COUNT

Working Bee

A reminder that we will host our school working bee this Sunday between 9:00am and 12:00pm. If you can spare the time, we would love some help to keep our school grounds looking amazing. Coinciding with this is a Twilight Fun Festival community biscuit making event, with further details enclosed in the Bulletin.

Parent Opinion Survey

The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted with a sample of randomly selected parents at each school. It is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of parents’ perception of school climate, student engagement and relationships with parent communities. Schools use the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies. Randomly selected parents at Balwyn North Primary School have already been notified via Compass regarding their participation in the survey. We value the feedback of our parents and encourage those randomly selected to complete the survey by Sunday 27 August.

Save the Date: Father’s Day/Special Person’s Breakfast—Monday 28th August

Our Parents and Friends Association have been working hard to prepare for our

Father’s Day/Special Person’s Breakfast at Balwyn North Primary School. Keep

an eye out on Compass for further details!

Book Week

Next week is Book Week at BNPS! To kick the celebrations off, children and staff have been asked to dress up as their favourite book character on Monday the 21st of August, with a special Book Week Assembly to showcase all of the fantastic outfits. All parents are welcome to attend from 9:10am. This is definitely an event not to be missed!

Toilet Renovation Update

Our toilet renovations are nearly complete! The flooring and cubicles have been installed this week. Keep an eye out for an official opening next week!

Erika Bienert Tony Stokes

Principal Assistant Principal

Challenge

Sunday 20th August Working Bee 9:00AM—12:00noon

Monday 21st August Book Week Celebrations begin—Dress as a book character

Uniform Shop 2:30pm—3:15pm

Assembly 9:10am

Tuesday 22nd August School Banking Due

Wednesday 23rd August Uniform Shop 8:45am—9:30am

Fire Safety - Foundation Students

Thursday 24th August Responsible Pet Ownership - Foundation Students

Monday 24th August BNPS Father’s Day Brealfast

Bookworms 9:30am—10:15am

Wednesday 30th August Year 3/4 Camp Phillip Island depart

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

Captains’ Corner

Book Week!

Book Week is ever so close to B.N.P.S! Next Monday, you have the chance to dress up as your favourite book character! Be Harry Potter or come as the Three Little Pigs with your friends! Even if you have no costume, come as a Muggle! Book Week is set to be an exciting week full of book-related activities!

Hockey 7's – Results!

Last Friday two teams – a girls' and a boys' team – went to Hawthorn to represent our school in the regional Hockey 7's! The

girls' team won one game and drew the two others, and the boys won one game and lost the others. We didn't have much

training, so this is a huge achievement! Congratulations to the teams for an outstanding performance!

Housekeeping—Administration

Dear Parents,

As we are approaching mid way through Term 3, it is timely that we remind

families of the following items.

Book Week Celebrations: Monday 21st August is the beginning of

Book Week celebrations Don’t forget to dress up as your favourite

book character.

Uniform Shop Relocation: The Uniform Shop is temporarily located in

the School Hall. It is important that all children wear their school

uniform at all times. Uniform order forms can be picked up from the

School Office, or downloaded from the school website.

Parent Payments and Financial Contributions: Please ensure (if you

have not already done so) that all parent payments and financial

contributions are now up to date. You can log onto Compass to make

your payments, or alternatively please visit the school office.

Donations for the Twilight Fun Festival. Donations can be delivered

to the School Office at any time.

Student arrival and pick up: Staff are not on duty in the yard until

8:45am each morning. If children arrive at school before 8:45am , for

their safety, they will be sent to Before School Care. At the end of the

day, teachers are on duty in the yard until 3:45pm. Please ensure that

your children are picked up by this time or they will be sent to the

After School Program.

Last Day Term 3. Friday 22nd September is the last day of Term 3.

Students will be dismissed at 2:30pm.

ICAS SCIENCE RESULTS Congratulations to all students from Year 3 to 6 who participated in the ICAS Science

Assessment for 2017. The following students achieved very high results and will be awarded with

Distinction and High Distinction certificates at next Monday’s assembly. All other participants will be

awarded certificates by their classroom teachers. Parents are welcome to attend the assembly

presentation.

ICAS SCIENCE RESULTS CONTINUED

Class Name Achievement

FL Siena Derbogosijan For being a Risk-taker by challenging herself to write independently with great results. Well done Siena – what a star!

FS Keanu Khosravi For being a Communicator by confidently sharing his ideas with the class. Great job superstar!

FT Howard Zhang For being Principled by making good choices and always following our Class Essential Agreement.

1K Min Poh-Lim For demonstrating Respect by showing great interest and appreciation of the diversity of different cultures around the world. You are a star!

1F Thaddeus Choi For being Reflective by thinking about his learning and experiences, making good choices in the classroom.

1N Paul Pham For being a Communicator by sharing a very interesting story about his cultural background.

2G Melika Rezasoltani For being a Confident Risk-taker by always offering her thoughts and asking questions to assist with her learning and her classmates inquiries. Top Job Melika!

2S Shalini Balashanka For being Balanced by excelling in all areas of her work and displaying a positive, cool attitude towards new tasks.

3A Robinson He For demonstrating Enthusiasm by displaying his eagerness to learn and to share his ideas with his peers. Well done, Robinson!

3C Sean Hawkins For being Balanced by showing a positive attitude with his learning, having success with his Chess and being a fantastic friend to everyone. You really are a STAR Sean!

3R Ansh Dhurve For demonstrating Independence by always showing his best effort and completing all tasks to a high standard in a timely manner.

4A Mingkai Kwaw For being Principled and demonstrating Confidence by always taking responsibility for his actions and gaining greater confidence when speaking to his peers.

4J Alvin Simon By being Knowledgeable by clearly expressing his knowledge and understanding at our recent ‘Enterprize’ excursion.

4M Alex Golding For being Reflective by expressing his knowledge, thinking and wonderings in detail after our Enterprize excursion.

5B Jerry Yu For being Principled by always setting a great example for his peers and visitors to the school. Awesome work Jerry!

5C Clare Zhu For bring Principled, Balanced and Caring by showing commitment to her learning and her school with her enthusiasm and vibrant personality.

5L Monique Swaine For being a Communicator by contributing to class discussions and sharing times.

6D Sushan Wu For demonstrating Respect by being a friend to our special visitors from China.

6M So Young Ha For being Caring by displaying empathy, kindness and friendship towards peers in and out of the classroom.

6R Tawheed Khan For being an Inquirer and demonstrating Commitment by developing his natural curiosity and conducting excellent research during the Exhibition process.

PERFORMING ARTS

Hayden Singh 3A For being Caring by being kind and respectful in Performing Arts classes.

VISUAL ARTS Candy Wu 6D For being a Communicator and Caring by taking extra care to help out our Chinese visitors to have an awesome time in art.

Last term, 2G were ‘Waste Wise Warriors’ as we investigated and learnt so much about sustainability as

part of our Unit of Inquiry.

Landfill was our issue…..particularly waste with food. We found out our very own classroom had a prob-

lem with this when we searched our class bin!

So locally we were starting to make change for what we knew was a global problem!

We went crazy with investigations that involved even more ACTION!

We performed at assembly to share our message with a 5R’s song. We said ideas like, “Lets save the

world with Judy Moody” a super story we shared. Finally, we thought our own classroom waste needing

investigating further. ACTION happened.

We collected food waste in a COMPOST bucket and when it was full we contacted Nadia Robertson to see

if we could add a real COMPOST bin to the gratitude garden. She was so helpful, and with the support

from Ms Bienert, Mr Stokes, Bunnings Box Hill and Graydon we started a COMPOSTING program for our

classroom waste.

Here is some of the reflections from the 2G Waste Wise Warriors.

Today 2G was excited to work together as a team to make a big difference to their compost mission!

We planned to use our new tumbler compost bucket that Graydon built. Bunnings provided this for

free thanks to a link with Nadia and the wonderful community project of the gratitude garden.

We went to the garden to fill it with pea straw, mouldy fruit that we had collected last term, decompo-

sition powder and spray accelerator. The most important thing was wearing the gloves and a mask so

we didn’t smell the rotting, decomposing food and get any dust in our faces from the other items.

Once we finished our work we turned the tumbler and we opened the bucket again to see the stuff

starting to change into soil. We learnt a lot about the process. Anglein

In 2G we are making a giant compost pile. All 2G helped and enjoyed composing in the gratitude gar-

den. We all had a go and it was fun. We already had a compost bucket from last term and now 2G put

everything that is food waste in the classroom into a compost bin. All the food changes colours and

shapes. Audrey and Mahee

Today 2G was working on a compost bin. We can’t put cat or dog’s poo or any meat or diseased plants

into this bin. You can’t put these in because it will make the compost bad. We are doing a compost bin

because if the food scraps go into landfill it will cause a toxic gas and make our environment bad.

Drishti

Term 3: Working Bee – Sunday August 20th, 2017

The Term 3 working bee will be held on Sunday August 20th. Once again this term, we would appreciate the assistance of the Balwyn North Primary School community, as we continue to take pride in our wonderful school grounds. The Working Bee will be commencing at 9am and finishing at noon with a sausage sizzle.

A small yet committed number of people assisted at the Working Bee in Term 2. We would love to see many more helpers this Sunday 20th August.

Can you volunteer one, two or three hours of your time? No matter how long you can help for, your assistance in maintaining our school grounds would be greatly appreciated.

Listed below are some of the tasks we will be attempting to complete on the day.

A reminder that due to OHSC policy, no personal power tools can be used on the day.

Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions or queries. I look forward to seeing you on Sunday August 20th.

Trevor Cotsworth – cotsworth.trevor.t@edumail.vic.gov.au

Term Three Working Bee Tasks

The Foundation Garden, adding soil to garden beds.

Chaining Kitchen set to the fence in the Foundation area.

Check trees overhanging on footpath along Maud Street fence and in the staff car park. Trim if necessary.

Placing mulch into garden beds around the school.

Placing green waste into the skip.

Trim trees overhanging signs in the staff car park and along Buchanan Avenue fence.

Trim overhanging tree branches along the Balwyn High fence – hanging over the oval.

Complete a safety check of all garden beds in the school. Remove any unsafe objects.

Remove leaves and branches behind the school hall.

Tighten loose playground equipment.

Cleaning drainage pits.

Sweeping/removing leaves from school grounds, including the staff carpark.

Cleaning drinking troughs

Sweeping sand back into the Foundation and upper playground sandpits.

Sweeping and weeding of the balcony outside of the Grade 5 & 6 building.

Check the large garden bed between the principal/deputy principal’s office and the netball/basketball courts. Weed if required.