Silver Ribbon/Gold Medallion Awards The following students will receive silver ribbon at assembly tomorrow for excellent behaviour. The rule week 4 is Wear School Uniform

Halla D Alice H Ze L Seamus G Lucy F Manu W Erez L Kasey B

KLA Award PDHPE

Merit Award

Improvement Award

Citizenship Award

KR Sunni J Jemimah J Ayla A Eddie A

Yr 1/2K Ze L Seamus G Joshua S Payten H

Yr 1/2M Jack S Olivia L Ayla B Jack J

Yr 2/3CL Ruby T Jazmin S Kahlee M Louise P

Yr 3/4AP Catia S Teeka G Lauren W Alicia B

Yr 4/5FP Erika S Yindi S Akasha H Erez L

Yr 5/6S Cael B Mahala C Sari T Chelsea W

Weekly Awards—Congratulations to the following students who will receive an

award at Friday’s assembly tomorrow at 10.00am. The host this week will be 1/2K,

Mrs Cook’s class. Parents are welcome and invited to attend.

Front Page news by 2/3CL 2/3CL have been working on an inquiry study into our local environ-ment and threatened and endangered animals with ‘Miss Mandy’ Dumesny from the University of Southern Queensland. Our inquiry integrates the subject areas of human society and its envi-ronment, music, language, history, technology and literacy to find out more about threatened and endangered species. Part of our learning involved us performing a song about endangered animals in the Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve, and last week Na-tional Parks and Wildlife officer, Lori Cameron came to talk to our class with more information about the animals in our song. We had many interesting questions to ask her as part of our inquiry. This week we are going to the SAE Institute in Byron Bay to record our song in a professional recording studio and to learn more about the recording and production side of music.

We have also done a reading comprehen-sion exercise about the endangered shore-bird, the beach stone-curlew from a recent local newspaper article and Byron Bird Bud-dies will be taking us on a nature walk and talk to learn more about threat-ened and endangered local birds on Tuesday 4th September. Please bring binoculars on the day if you have some.

We will be completing our inquiry with a pro-ject on an endangered or threatened animal of our choice and doing internet research to find out more about their threats and habitat.

Thank you to Mullumbimby Rotary

We would like to extend a big THANK YOU to the Mullumbimby

Rotary Club for their kind donation of $500 that was presented to

us at last Friday’s assembly. This money will go towards the pur-

chase of our next inter-active whiteboard. Your generosity is most

appreciated.

ICAS Spelling Competition

The ICAS Spelling results and certificates will be present to the

following students at this Friday’s assembly. Well done kids!

Participation Certificates - Natasha F & Flynn B

Credit Certificate - Eddie R

Wakakirri—2/3CL - Please vote online for our class!! Our foray into music continues well after our amazing Bluesfest performance. Miss Clowes’ class 2/3CL are entering our song “Please Take Care (Bruns Nature Reserve)” in the Wakakirri na-tional performing and creative arts challenge.

**Please vote for our song by going to www.wakakirri.com, find-ing our profile in the Primary Story Singing section and clicking on Send a Star button. Your can view our Blues Fest performance of the song at : https:rattleandrollmusic.sharefile.com/?cmd=d&id=1d3973df48aa4083

You can view the Byron News article at http://www.byronnews.com.au/story/2012/03/28/bruns-kids-land-bluesfest-gig/.

Head lice

There have been several cases of head lice reported by

parents & teachers. If we are all vigilant in checking

and treating our children’s hair we can cut down on the

prevalence of this nuisance

P&C NEWS

Our next meeting will be on:

Wednesday 19th September 2012 at 6.30pm.

Childcare is provided for children preschool age and above, we would love to see you there. Meetings are held in the staffroom, come along and get involved, new faces welcome!

Hope everyone has had a chance to check out all the entries in the Simple Pleasures photography competition, especially all the BHPS entries, if not check out the school website for all the pho-tos!

Please don’t forget to spend a few minutes of your time and follow the BHPS P&C page on Community Engine. Just follow these steps, and you’ll earn us $1.00

1. Simply log on go https://communityengine.com.au 2. ‘Sign in’ (email address and create a simple password) 3. Click onto ‘check out the noticeboard’ 4. Type in ‘brunswick heads public school p&c’ into the

search bar 5. Click on the BHPS P&C profile, (please do not follow the

school profile as it is not eligible for the giveaway) 6. Click on the green ‘follow’ button 7. Follow the prompts

If anyone has any fundraising suggestions or ideas, please let either your class rep’s know or email us. We welcome fresh ide-as. If you would like to be involved in P&C but are unable to get to meetings, please email byronamy@hotmail.com to be put on the list.

Principal’s Comment Dear Parents & Guardians,

Spelling Bee – a Big Hit

In what was a great finish to a busy week our first ever

school spelling bee went terrifically. Once some nerves

from the students involved settled they got into their work

with style. Our winners had to negotiate some quite difficult

words but they weren’t fazed at all.

Our youngest participants weren’t competing for anything

other than pride and congratulations go to Eivissa and Kes-

trel for their fine spelling.

Our stage 2 and 3 students were equally impressive. As a

result of their application Marley and Alice (for stage 2) and

Chris and Erica (stage 3) emerged successful and will be

representing us at the regional finals on Tuesday 11th Sep-

tember. We wish them well.

Rugby League was the Winner

A group of our junior students travelled to Tweed Heads

last week to attend a rugby league gala day with Mr Sten-

ner. They had a terrific day, played their hearts out and

generally represented their school well.

Stars are Born

On Wednesday this week Ms Clowes’s class got to experi-

ence the thrills of working in a live recording studio. After

their success last year at the Blues Festival they’ve been

asked back to record their song. Who knows – it might go

viral on uTube and they’ll all end up rich and famous!

A Little Bit of Shuffling

Our school traditionally has a high turnover of students

during the year. It’s no surprise a place as beautiful as

Brunswick Heads attracts visitors who fall in love with the

place and try to stay as long as they can. This means our

school has a fair percentage of itinerant enrolments. Unfor-

tunately from time to time this means our classes can be-

come lopsided. Such a situation exists at the moment so

we’ve had to reluctantly move 3 or 4 students in the senior

years. It is not ideal to be moving students at this late stage

but with one class of 33 and others of 27 or less we had to

do something to ensure every child receives the maximum

input possible from their teacher. We thank those families

involved for their patience and understanding.

Athletes Shine

This Friday Ochre and Arikyi will be representing us at the

Regional Athletics Carnival in Coffs Harbour. In a coup for

the school Mrs Roberts has also been asked to attend as a

chaperone/event organiser for all AWD (Athletes With a

Disability) competitors.

Which reminds me – the Paralympics start this week. If you

want to be inspired by a group of young people who refuse

to let obstacles get in their way you could do no better than

to tune in and have a look at these young talents. This will

be good for your children and their development of toler-

ance of difference in our society as well.

Have a great week.

Mick

COMMUNITY NEWS Wealth Vision On Tuesday 4th September 2012, Wealth Vision are coming to the school to present information on wealth creation and financial guidance. If you are interested in attending please let the office know on 6685 1204. Information session to be held at 4.30pm and afternoon tea is provided. Ashton’s Circus Ashton’s Circus is coming to Mullumbimby Showground from Fri-day 31st August to Sunday 2nd September. Half price ticket vouchers are available at the school office. Entry fee to be paid when you arrive at the big top. Bookings advised 0407 120 953 or visit www.ashtonentertainment.com.au. Spelling it out at home The School A toZ website’s popular mobile Spelling Bee game can now be played on you home computer. The game is designed for both junior and senior primary school students, and features words from the Macquarie Dictionary. Parents might be tempted to test their skill on the harder levels. Go to : Spelling Bee http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/homework-and-study/educational-games/spelling-bee

Fun with friends and family Want to encourage your child to try something new outside of school? Try the range of options provided by NSW Sport and Recreation—from camps and sail-ing to a variety of disability sport activities. Go to: What’s on around NSW - Sport and recreation http://www.dsr.nsw.gov.au/active/whatson.asp

DATES TO REMEMBER August 2012 Friday 31st - North Coast Athletics Carnival September 2012 Tuesday 4th - 2/3CL Byron Bird Buddies walk Girls Softball Round 5, Lismore Wednesday 5th - 1/2M Our Families exhibition Tuesday 11th - Big Samba Visiting Performer Regional Finals Spelling Bee Wednesday 19th - Day of Celebration P&C Meeting Friday 21st - Last Day of Term 3 Kindergarten 2013 Orientation Dates:- Term 4 2011 Tuesday 9th October 9.15 to 11.15 for

students and parents Monday 15th October 9.15 to 11.15 for

students and 6.00 to 7.00 pm for par-ents.

Do you want your child to learn to swim

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From babies classes to mini squad

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The Big Samba —Tuesday 11th September 2012

I give permission for my child/ren in class/es

to attend the performance “The Big Samba” on Tuesday 11th September 2012 at the school in the hall.

I enclose $ being the cost at $5.00 per child

Signature: Date:

BRUNSWICK SLSC

JUNIORS

Sign on Info :September 9th & 16th September at the Mul-lumbimby Pool. From 9am to 11 Ages from 5 to 13

Bring your swimmers for a swim.

For more information contact us at : jac@brunswickslsc.org . Or go to our website and click on the JAC-Nippers tab

www.brunswickslsc.org

CANTEEEN SPECIAL

On Monday 3rd September we will be

having a special in the canteen for fruit

and vegie week.

It will be a choc-tipped frozen banana

on a stick @ $1 each -

while stocks last!

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