birchgrove buzz term 3 week 9 13 september 2017

Birchgrove Buzz Newsletter of the Birchgrove Public School Ph: 02 9810 2469 A NSW Government School Fax: 02 9555 8653 Birchgrove Road, E: [email protected] Balmain NSW 2041 W: www.birchgrove-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 3 Week 9 13th September 2017

2017 Dates to Remember

Parent Music Sport Student Parliament

T3 15/9 P&C Movie Night – Moana- 5pm start 18/9-22/9 Readiness Testing Naplan Online Years 3 &5 19/9 Bunnings working with Stage 2 on garden projects 20/9 P&C Meeting 7pm Staffroom 22/9 Last Day of Term 3 T4 9/10 Students Return 12/10 – 13/10

Music Camp (Year 3 + only) Training Band, Concert Band, Rock Band, Concert Strings

16/10 Kindergarten Orientation Evening- 5:30-6:30 18/10-19/10 State Athletics Carnival 20/10 Big Night Out P&C The Birchgrove Cup- Spring Carnival 23/10 Kindergarten Orientation 9:30-10:45 26/10 Kids in Space – Evening Performance 27/10 Kids in Space – Matinee & Evening Performance 30/10 Kindergarten Orientation 9:30-10:45 3/11 Kindergarten Local Walk 6/11-17/11 Swim School Year 2 6/11 Kindergarten Orientation 9:30-10:45 20/11-22/11 Stage 2 & 3 Cybersafety- Life Education Incursion 22/11-24/11 Stage 2 & 3 Swim School 27/11-30/11 Stage 2 & 3 Swim School 1/12 St Johns Concert 1/12 Parent & Volunteer Thank you Morning Tea 4/12 Years 1 & 2 Recognition Ceremony 5/12 Preschool Concert- Blue & Green 6/12 Kindergarten Graduation 7/12 Years 5 & 6 Recognition Ceremony 8/12 Preschool Concert- Red & Yellow 11/12 School Picnic Clifton Gardens 12/12 Year 6 Formal 12/12 Preschool Party- Blue & Green 13/12 Years 3 & 4 Recognition Ceremony 14/12 Preschool Party - Red & Yellow 15/12 Year 6 Farewell Assembly & Arch 15/12 Last Day of School 2017

We are excited to be taking part in the 2017 Woolworths Earn & Learn program. During the previous campaign, we were able to purchase some great resources with the points we earned, thanks to you. From now until September 19th 2017, you can collect stickers at Woolworths that go towards Earn & Learn points and deliver them to school or drop them in our box at Woolworths. Hint: ask your family and friends to collect or ask the person in the line before or after you if they are collecting tickets!

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Principal Congratulations to the Year 3 Rosellas who received the Principal’s Award for Excellence in Learning, during this week’s assembly their fabulous work with public speaking. Their teacher was very impressed that every student in the class could structure their speech correctly when writing it and use the appropriate language. Congratulations to our fabulous public speakers who will be representing us at The Port Jackson finals in the Greater Sydney Public Speaking Competition. Stage 2 - Oren Lazarus Stage 3 - Eliza Bellas Our early Stage 1 and Stage 2 representatives will be announced in next week’s newsletter. The Possums and Numbats had a great time in maths groups last Friday. They had their differentiated group work and then came together on the handball courts to make a human graph! Then went back to class and analysed it. Peer Support This week we further develop the range of strategies we can use in challenging situations. This session focuses on step 3 of the model, Proceed. In order to learn from situations and move forward children need to go beyond thinking of strategies and action them. Children recognise despite the use of a range of strategies, sometimes they cannot change the situation. In these times, it is important to accept the situation and move forward with a positive outlook. Encourage your child to follow through with strategies they have discussed and planned to use. It is important to then help them evaluate if this has worked or if they need to try a different strategy.

On Thursday September 14th, 2017, stop what you’re doing for one hour and pick up a book. We want Australians to either rediscover or introduce themselves to the benefits of reading. In children, it has been shown to help with identity formation, setting them up for success in the future. In adults, it has been shown to reduce stress by 68% more than listening to music, going for a walk, or having a cup of tea. We will all be celebrating Reading Hour in class tomorrow (with younger children a bit less!). I encourage all families to make the time to celebrate Reading Hour together as a family tomorrow and show the children how much you value reading.

Preschool were very excited to see the fairies had left them a new friend in the fairy garden, a very cute little rabbit! They are really enjoying the revamped space and today it had a distinctly Latin feel as the pre-schoolers shook their maracas and boogied to the music!




School Uniform- Our school uniform policy is on our APP and website. Please make sure your children are in school uniform if it is not a special event day where alternative arrangements have been made.

Kindergarten had a great time at the zoo and displayed exemplary behaviour all day! Thank you to the teachers for their work and organisation and a special thankyou to all the parent volunteers who were such a big help. Yesterday we had our schools external validation. I would like to thank all the many parents and students who helped with this process, your contributions were greatly appreciated and helped reflect our whole school community clearly. The staff have been working extremely hard putting together our submission and I would like to thank each and every staff member for their hard work and dedication. As well as time we created during the school week the staff contributed many hours of their own time over the term. As a part of this process we looked at the school in terms of Learning Teaching and Leading. We broke this down to 8 areas based on our whole school plan that we wanted to review: 1 Assessment, Reporting and the Learning Cycle 2 Play Based Learning 3 STEM and It’s Foundations 4 Creative and Performing Arts 5 Transition 6 Personal Development Health Physical Education (including sport) 7 Learning and Support 8 Leadership As well as helping us reflect on our successes this helped us reflect on where we wanted to improve or change things and led to some fabulous discussions on how we could implement the changes we identified, which has put us in a great place to commence work on our 2018-2020 school plan. I was pleased with the acnowledgment of our extremely sucessful collaborative pratices and the innovation shown in the teaching programs developed by our staff. It reflected their dedication and caring for the students and the ideas they are developing for future learning is truly exciting. They are constently evolving and reflecting on their practices and looking at how they can best support the children’s learning. I could not be more proud! Thank you to the fabulous Birchgrove staff you truly are the best team I have ever worked with!




On Monday during assembly Rebecca Fearon, from Ray White Balmain presented a cheque $3032 to the school, as a donation from the sales and purchases by BPS families. The money is going towards the purchase of some more iPads for the K-2 classrooms. There are APPs we want to use for STEMS, that the older ones don’t run! Thank you to all the parents who helped with the cake, BBQ and coffee stall at the election we are hoping to convince the P&C to put the funds from the Election Day activities towards the iPads as well! Please join us at the P&C Meeting Wednesday 20/9 if you would like to support the vote for this. Tracy Gray




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Hello Movie Goers, We’re looking forward to our FIRST EVER Family Moonlight Movie - MOANA (PG) - this Friday on the basketball court. Gates open at 5pm Pizza delivery 5.15-5.30pm Movie starts at 6.15pm All pizza orders and movie tickets to be purchased online at www.trybooking.com/RUCC Please print and bring ALL your tickets with you for ease of entry and picking up your correct pizza orders. We are delighted to have Crust pizza as our caterers. The choice of drink for the Kid’s Meal Deal is either a bottle of water or a juice box. Freshly popped POPCORN $2 and Natural Confectionary Co. lolly bags $3 for sale on the night. Cash only - bring your gold coins. Wet or inclement weather will see us move into the cosy hall. Bring your picnic blankets, cushions or low back chairs. Don’t forget to wrap up warm!

• ALL CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED AND SUPERVISED BY AN ADULT.

For the enjoyment of everyone, restless or rowdy movie goers will be asked to leave with no refund provided. Thank you for your understanding.

• Due to safety regulations, there will be NO GO areas of the school. Please ensure children do not enter these clearly marked areas. They will be asked to leave immediately.

Hope to see you there, Susan PS. This is a P&C event trialling the viability of regular social movie nights for our students, parents, carers, friends and community. We are aiming to cover costs. It is NOT a fundraiser 😊😊


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