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

Term 2 Week 10 03 July 2018

2018 Dates to Remember

Parent Music Sport Student Parliament

4/7 Preschool Cleaning Day 5/7 10am & 11:30am NAIDOC incursion 6/7 Last Day of Term 2 Term 3 24/7 First Day Term 3 24/7 Music Committee Meeting 7pm Staffroom 6/8- 10/8 Education Week ‘Todays Schools -Creating Tomorrows World’ 6/8 Open Morning – Education Week 9/8 Stage 2 Kurnell Excursion 15/8 P&C 7pm Staffroom 16/8 Grandparents Day 16/8 Zone Athletics Carnival 23/8 Book Week Parade- Choose Your Own Adventure 28/8-31/8 Stage 3 Camp – Aussie Bush Camp 10/9 Kindergarten 2019 Information Night 5:30-6:30 11/9 Music Night 19/9 P&C 7pm Staffroom 21/9 Big Night Out 28/9 Last Day Term 3

Principal

Congratulations to the Koalas, who received the Principal’s Award for Excellence this week in assembly. They received the award for their wonderful, Kandinsky inspired trees linking to their science unit ‘staying alive’ and our need of oxygen.

Donations from the Wishing Tree at the fete have arrived and been distributed for use in the classroom! Thank you to all the families who donated resources to the classes, library and canteen. All classes who received less than $200 in donations received top up donations from the P&C, so every class has some new and exciting resources to enjoy.

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Gray wants a few of Harry’s ‘machines that help make you feel happy’ to put in strategic spots for when we feel sad.

Many students participated in Code 4 Fun’s Winter Coding Challenge (a half a year initiative, where we invite all our 1,400 students to participate from 26 schools around Sydney). One of Birchgrove Public School students Oliver Bone achieved an outstanding result and won CODE4FUN Winter Coding Challenge. He received a new laptop and an invitation to visit Google with an excursion. This tour is organised by Google and CODE4FUN for top 30 coding students, and it is absolutely great that we will have Birchgrove PS student in this group! Congratulations Oliver!

Our director, Rod Megahey who looks after our school’s area came to visit Monday. He particularly enjoyed working on the See Saw App with the Bilbies and stayed while they developed machines that would help them at school. Our parents liked the lesson too and recorded responses and voice messages for the children on the App. Miss




Camp Yarramundi Reflection By Heidi Campbell Camp Yarramundi was fun, exciting, cheerful and was the best! At the camp, we went in the dark, spooky cave maze. “Mmm this food is delicious!” said Tilda chewing her dinner. Pretty, pink sunrise in the morning. “Yay, it’s camp!” I said excitingly when we finally were there. Amazing, fun activities like the cave maze, orienteering and the giant swing. Roza, Wendy, Tilda, Zoe, Emily, Femke, Hana and Dana were in my cabin. Really fun and happy cabins. Archery is when you have heavy bows and sharp arrows. My friends were very when it came to night time. Under and over the crazy obstacles. Noisy classmates next-door! “Did you like Camp Yarramundi?” my friend asked me. I wish I could go back to that fun camp




Inner West Music Festival Huge congratulations to the Training Band who collected a Logan's Music Shop Voucher in their Beginner category at the Inner West Music Festival on Sunday the 17th of June. Their conductor, Nicole Barrett and parents were very proud of them and we hope they enjoyed gaining valuable experience of playing in a music festival. Dates for the Diary 24/7 Music Committee Meeting - 7pm Staffroom 11/9 Music Night (All Ensembles)




P&C

Wow! Splendour 3! Our very own school was transformed into the hottest new bar in town. What a BRILLIANT night and what an amazing pool of musical talent we have among our BPS parents! There are a number of people to thank for their assistance on Splendour in the Grove 3: Firstly, team leaders - Emma Baldwin, Yvonne Hilsz and Susan Bannister - congratulations on a fantastic night and thank you for all of your effort in pulling it together in just a few short weeks. We can't wait to see what you magic up for Big Night Out! Jack Robertson - music maestro, for your passion towards creating a night to remember. Rob Cormack - for your time, patience and support. Tracy Gray and the BPS Staff - for your accommodation during set up. Paul Angus - Thank you for putting up the huge tarp and for all your assistance during set up and pack down. Rocky @ Crust Pizza Balmain Janet Chakar @ InPress Printing Ruth Calleija @ Budget Waste Shane Mclucas & Cindy Tong - for the poster design P&C Executives- Michael Wright, Jacquie Gilmour, Quanchai Burns and Cosima Marriner Frankie Gaffney - for your wisdom Set up and pack down helpers: Catherine Mazzeo, Jonelle Mullings, Jeremy Hogg & little helpers - Tahlia, Leni, Frankie & Leila. The Piano Bar Musicians: Rebecca Matthews, Garry Luke, Duncan Thompson, Anna-Klara Skarp, Melanie Meyer and the Grove Note Trio - Jack & Tim Robertson and James Matthews. The Grateful Dads - Simon, Jack, James, Mark & Warwick - YOU ROCK!! DJ Unique & DJ Lady Tre And thanks to everyone who came along - had a drink, cheered the musos and grooved to the beats. Your support is greatly appreciated and we hope you all had a fun night. LOST PROPERTY - will be left out this week in the regular lost property spot near the school hall. There are A LOT of jumpers, hats, jackets - so please check if you are missing items. Any left items will be recycled through the 2nd Hand Uniforms. Have a great school holidays - be safe, have fun! See you next term.

Jonelle Mullings Parent Coordinator

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