Bathurst West Public School ‘School of Opportunity’

Term 2 Week 9

18/6 K-2 Assembly, 12.20-12.40

3-6 Assembly, 1.00-1.40 Kinder Adventure Playground,

22/6 Monster Band Day (Band Members) Monster Band Evening Recital

30/6 Iexplore - Visual Arts

2/7 Kinder Adventure Playground, 1.45-3pm CANCELLED UNTIL SPRING

Upcoming Events

Principal : Mrs Toni MacDonald

P & C President: Anne Morrison

School Captains: Emma & Jack

Thursday, 17th June, 2010

Bathurst West Public School website http://www.bathurstw-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

GENERAL INFORMATION Administration Office Hours - 8.45am - 3.30pm School commences at 9.15am School finishes at 3.15pm Students are supervised from 8.45am Address - Suttor Street, Bathurst, 2795 Phone - (02)6331 1142 Fax - (02)6332 2319 Email - bathurstw-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

2010 Term Dates Term 2 ~ Tuesday 20th April - Friday 2nd July Term 3 ~ Monday 20th July - Friday 24th September

Annual School Report Term Calendar

Weekly Newsletter Stage/class information

It’s official—our chicken coop is open.

It was with much excitement that we cut the ribbon on our new chicken coop. Marcus, Nic, Isaac and Phil have done a wonderful job in building this structure for the chicks we have incubated in Boronia and Wat-tle. Their next big plan is the veggie garden and the compost heap. Our office area is really looking great of late, with our new digital photo frame and some colourful children’s work on display. Our office staff have also undergone a change in look and have implemented a new uni-form. They look great and I congratulate them on their initiative.

School reports will be distributed on Monday. Teacher/parent interviews will be held in the second week of Term 3. The Adventure Playground is now on hold until the weather warms up. Kinder and parents have had a wonderful time doing this activity. We are hoping to now go to the town library for visits until spring. Our Stage 2 and 3 boys are playing football today in the Peachey Cup competition. They were very keen and enthusiastic to get there despite the rain. We wish them the best of luck. Have a great week end Toni MacDonald

Principal’s Report

Bathurst West Public School - WINTER WONDERLAND FETE

21st August - 10am-1pm If you are interested in having a market

stall or helping out on the day please contact Kristy - 6334 2559 or via

Disclaimer As a service to the community, we will advertise events that may be of interest. Bathurst West Public School does not endorse or sponsor the events and accepts no responsibility

for the management or organisation of these events.

- Canteen News -

Emma , Harland , Lakayla , Shaman , Ben ,Jacob , Makaylah ,

Ivy

Sam , Jacob , Ronan -

Tiarna , Thomas , Brianna , Sean , Jamie-Lee , Kaitlee , Tiahla , Scott , Liam , Claudia , Mitchell ,

Sophie -, Annabelle , Jessica , Mitch , Tristian , Machayla , William , Dominic , Timothy , Jadzia ,

Issiah , Tyler , Jade , Cassie , Jonty , Kaylar , Angelique

White Level

Cake Roster

Silver Level

Monday 21/6

Tuesday 22/6

Wednesday 23/6

Thursday 24/6

Friday 25/6

Closed J.Baillie R.Small

J.Baillie T.Taylor

J.Baillie G.Harvey

C.Mansel J.Breach

Canteen Roster

WORLD CUP SOCCER MEAL DEAL LAST CHANCE TO ORDER YOUR CHILD A MEAL DEAL FOR THE SOCCER WORLD CUP.. If your child did not receive a note there are spare notes available at the canteen. This will be a great meal deal, so lets get behind the green and gold of the Aussie Soccer team and GET YOUR CHILD’S ORDER IN NOW. NO OTHER HOT FOOD WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THIS DAY ONLY BASIC SANDWICHES. ORDERS MUJST BE TO THE CANTEEN BY TUESDAY 22.6.10 SO I CAN MAKE SURE I HAVE ENOUGH SUR-PRISES FOR THE CHILDREN. Both meal deals are $4,.50 each and choices are either a Chicken Kebab Meal with a drink, packet of chips and a surprise or a Dagwood Dog Meal with drink, packet of chips and a surprise. ORDER NOW!

Congratulations

Bronze Level

Cake roster for next week is as follows: Tuesday, 22/6: R.Elward, R.Small Wednesday,23/6: R.Darlington Friday, 25/6: B.Thomas

And the winner is ……. I’m sure the word has passed around by now that Wentworth are the 2010 athletics champions. Congratula-tions to them! Congratulations also to our record breakers – it will be a very interesting District Carnival next term. We thank Julie Pattison, Marg Nicholls and Simon Coomans who kindly volunteered to assist with tim-ing and starting the races. Without their help the day would not have run as smoothly as it did. And finally, a word of warning – Lawson are out for revenge. Watch out for us in 2011.

Vegetable garden We were recently given a grant from Council to buy a tumble compost bin to reduce our food waste and to start a vegetable garden. Plans for this are underway. Very timely for us, McCain have announced a school competition whereby they give us “points” to spend on gardening equipment for every barcode we collect from their frozen vegetable packs. We ask you to spread the news around family, friends and neighbours and bring your barcodes to Mrs Little or Mrs Carr. We will keep you informed as to how we are going and what we are buying. Now, how about a nice bowl of peas!!!

Banksia Homereaders: Due to the reorganisation of the homereaders in the Banksia block the children will not be doing home reading in the last two weeks of this term. Please ensure all readers are returned by the end of this week ready for a fresh start next term.

The P&C would appreciate your donation of non perishable food items for a hamper for our WINTER WONDERLAND FETE. Please leave your donated items in the office. Thank you for your support.

Stage 3 Canberra Excursion There are still a couple of vacancies for the Stage 3 Canberra/Snow Excursion next term. If you are interested in your child attending contact the office to arrange payment. Please don’t hesitate to contact the School if you have further questions about this major excursion M.Low, Coordinator

Opera House Choir 2010 TICKET SALES—Monday 26th July If you plan on getting tickets you will need to purchase these on Monday 26th July In previous years they have sold out very quickly. Details you will need to purchase tickets for the Opera House Concert in August • Waratah Concert on Friday 27th August • Tickets only available from the Opera House Box

Office • Adults $30.00, Concession/Students $25.00 How to book • Online - www.sydneyoperahouse.com or • Telephone - 02 9250 7777 or • In person: Main Box Office, Sydney Opera

House 9.00am -8.30pm A fee of $8.50 per transaction is charged for all bookings.

Congratulations Aidan and Marcus who were members of the Bathurst District under

12 Goldminers basketball team who took out the Country Championships

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR’ READING FOR THE FUTURE’ PARTICIPANTS WHO COMPLETED THEIR 6 WEEK COURSE, THESE MUMS LEARNT ABOUT READING AND WRITING AS WE TEACH IT TODAY AND HOW BEST TO SUPPORT THEIR CHILD/REN AT HOME. WELL DONE!!!!

Have you seen Wide Horizons??? Wide Horizons is Bathurst West Public Schools yearbook. It details events and special activities that have occurred throughout the school year. As well as your child’s individual school photo, each class has separate pages to show achieve-ments throughout the school year. The Wide Horizons yearbook is the perfect memento for your child as a keepsake for their year at school. We still have copies of last years yearbook 2009 for sale avail-able at the school office priced at $25.

Wide Horizons relies on sponsorship. If you would like to be involved in a Wide Horizons Fundraising Committee

please leave an expression of interest in the office.

We are also seeking sponsorship from families to help with costs of publication for Bathurst West Public Schools yearbook - Wide Horizons. What are the costs to you? We are requesting a $10 donation, every family that sponsors Wide Horizons will be acknowledged within the publication. If you would like to be a family sponsor please fill in the below slip and return with your payment to the school office. Thankyou for your support Wide Horizon Family Sponsorship Family Name ______________________________ Donation Enclosed $10

Video games go live – what parents need to know. Games consoles like Xbox, Playstation 3 and Wii now let your child access the internet to connect with players from around the world. Whether they’re communicating live via text, speaking to each other through headsets or linking up through webcams, it means gaming now has a social network-ing element. It also means that as a parent, there’s a lot more research you need to do before you can plug and play. Read this month’s Click (www.schools.nsw.edu.au/click) to find out about the new gaming environments, and how parent controls can make it a nicer, safer virtual-world to be in.

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