Term 3 - Week 10

34R Tudar Rd, Bonnet Bay NSW 2226 Email: bonnetbay-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Ph: 9528 4111 Fx: 9528 4191 Website: www.bonnetbay-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

School Calendar Term 4 October

5 Public Holiday 6 1st day back Term 4 7 Interrelate 8 Transition to High School Day (Yr 6) 9 Gymnastics Starts 13 Kindy Orientation 14 Art Show Opening 19 Calmsley Hill Farm Excursion 21 Kindy Orientation 30 Kindy Orientation

November 27 School Spectacular

December 2 Fun Day 4 Xmas Markets 11 Presentation Day 14 School Picnic 15 Year 6 Farewell 16 Last day of school 17-18 Staff Development

Weekly Schedule Monday

Band 8.30-11.30 Library 5A, K/1T, 2/3R,

3/4H, KLD Tuesday Japanese

Student Banking Wednesday

Senior Dance - 8.20 Junior Dance - 8.50

Thursday Choir - 8.50

Scripture/Ethics Friday Sport

Library 6R, 1/2L, KLD School Assembly 2.45

Notes Home Calmsley Farm

Excursion Artist in Residence

Program Notes are accessible from our website. www.bonnetbay-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Tell Them From Me – Surveys Apologies to those who have been trying to access the survey through the link below. We advise that you will need to enter the following details: The Username is parent18779 & the Password is Bon4507. The Partners in Learning (PIL) Parent Survey for is open from 17th August to 16th October. It would be fantastic if parents could spend a few minutes and complete the survey online through the following link and enter the username and password as detailed above. Link: https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/j_acegi_security_check?j_username=parent18779&j_password=Bon4507 This is a great opportunity for you as a parent to have your say in regard to our school planning process. We greatly appreciate your input and time to ensure we continue to provide the best possible outcomes for your child. Skoolbag As previously advised, we have subscribed to use the Skoolbag Smartphone school to parent communication mobile App. This has been very well received by our community as Skoolbag is the ultimate school to parent communication tool. The School Mobile App provides us with an easy way to communicate with families and provides families with everything they need to know about school news, newsletters, events calendars, announcements, sick note forms, and much more. The Skoolbag School Mobile App allows us to use the service to send Push Alert Notifications directly to parent smartphones. If you haven’t already downloaded it instructions are further on in this newsletter. We will continue to add features to the app eg. Pictures over the next term to enhance our communications. We would like to make better use of this fantas-tic communication tool but we cannot rely upon it entirely until all parents have come on board.

Staffing Due to continuing ill health, Mrs Riggs will not be returning to teach 2/3R this year and Miss Alysha Collis will continue to maintain and instruct the class for Term 4. We wish Mrs Riggs well in her recovery. Mrs Redmayne is also taking Long Service Leave for family reasons and Miss Griffiths who teaches Yr 6, 3 days will be fulfilling a full time roll on Year 6. Both these young casuals come with a great depth of knowledge and eagerness in taking on these classes and we fully support them in their beginning journey into teaching fulltime here at Bonnet Bay.

Live life Well Program Our Live life well project which has been initiated and driven by Mrs Lynch and Mrs Clark has been very successful here at our school. The community support including the introduction of healthy eating in the canteen has assisted staff with motivating students to think about how a healthy life style affects us. The fitness program promoted and organised by these staff members has had students moving and grooving and impressed the Health Promotion Officer, Lisa Moorhouse from Live Life Well @ School so much that she is featuring our school in the NSW Health Services monthly newsletter. Way to go Bonnet Bay!!

Thank you for all your continual support of our school, staff and students. We have a fabulous learning community working as partners in education. Rest, rejuvenate and relax ready for another productive last term ahead. Stay safe and enjoy some special family moments, we will look forward to seeing you all back on deck in Term 4.

Karen Deacon Principal

Congratulations to our ‘Care’ Values Award recipients

PSSA Sport This season students are participating in Cricket, Softball & T-Ball. Games commence at 9.15 until 10.45 at various ovals. Students need to arrive at school by 8.30.

Canteen News

Canteen volunteers for Term 4, Week 1 are: Mon: Public Holiday Tue: Kim Parkes Wed: Jodi Urey, Rae Gallagher Thank you for your contribution. The Canteen Committee

Band Try-Outs

Band try-outs which were meant to be con-ducted this week were postponed and will now be held in Term 4, Week 1. During the “obligation free” try-outs, each student will be individually assessed on their instrument preference as well as their suita-bility for an instrument. The band tutors will give a recommendation for which instrument best suits them. Janelle Turner

Xmas Markets Save the Date - Friday 4th Dec 2015

If you or someone you know is interested in hosting a stall at this year’s Xmas Markets, please email Mel Andersen at: bonnetbay-market@gmail.com. We will also need helpers to organise the m a r k e t s . P l e a s e e m a i l eleishalegg@icloud.com.

School Assembly Awards Term 3- Week 9

Award Recipient

K Class Oran, Bonnie

Values Alfie

K/1 Class Zane, Rashaylia

Values Luka

1/2 Class Bailey, Samantha, Indi

Values Samuel.M

2/3 Class Makayla

Values Natalie

3/4 Class Thomas, Skye, Sophie

Values Selene

5 Class Justin, Jarrod, Harvey

Values Tate

6 Class Cooper

Values Brielle

Principal Patch

Cadel.W, Will.R, Gabrielle.C, Andrew.Y

Medals Bronze: Kade.R

WE ARE PLAYING AGAINST: AT:

Round 1: Woronora River Prince Edward Park

Round 2: Sutherland Lakewood

Round 3: Sylvania Heights Lakewood

Round 4: Loftus Waratah Oval

Round 5: Jannali East Lakewood

Round 6: Oyster Bay Oyster Bay Oval

Round 7: Sutherland North Lakewood

Round 8: Woronora River Lakewood

Round 9: Sutherland Sutherland Oval

Round 10: Sylvania Heights Box Road Oval

Peer Support Wrap – Week 10 In this week’s final session of the Peer Sup-port module ‘Promoting Harmony’ the chil-dren created a chatterbox, helping them re-flect on what they have learned over the past 7 weeks. They were reminded to reflect on their values and how they can demonstrate these to other people. Each Peer Support group were given the opportunity to cele-brate what they learned and the new friend-ships and connections they have made. We would like to take this opportunity to con-gratulate the Stage 3 leaders for the wonder-ful job they have done this year in leading our Peer Support Program in its inaugural year. We are very proud of all they have done in leading the students in K-4. We would also like to thank the students in K-4 for how they have embraced their Peer Sup-port lessons. What a wonderful supportive school we have at Bonnet Bay. Mrs Redmayne and Mrs Host

Interrelate - Week 1, Term 4 Our Interrelate sessions will take place in the first week back after the holidays on Wednes-day 7th October. Comprising of 2 sessions; Session 1 will run from 6pm-7pm and target-ed at Years 3-6 exploring the topic of 'Where did I come from?'. Session 2 will run from 7.15pm-8.15pm targeted at Years 5-6 (3-4 at parents discretion) exploring the topic of 'Preparing for Puberty'. Sessions will be held in the school hall. The cost of one session is $25 per family or $30 for both sessions. A note has been sent home containing session details as well as a return slip for attendance confirmation and payment. If you have not done so al-ready and wish to attend, please ensure you return the slip with payment by Tuesday 6th September as final numbers will need to be confirmed with the Interrelate organisation by this date.

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