School Matters

Old Bathurst Road, East Blaxland 2774

Phone 4739 1579 Fax 4739 8300

Principal Kerry Bryan

Email Blaxlande-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage www.blaxlande-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

P&C Email blaxlandeast@gmail.com

Term 4 Week 6 23 November

Morning Bell 9.00am Afternoon Bell 3.00pm Office Hours 8.30am - 3.15pm

P&C Association meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm Next Meeting (AGM) 5 December

CORE VALUES

Be Respectful

Excellence Always

Participate Courageously

Serve Others

Public School Blaxland East

Core Values

Principal’s Report

Core Values Awards

Principal’s Schoolwork Awards

Office News

P&C Report

Garden Update

Canteen News

Nov/Dec Meal Deal

Health snippets

2018 Fete Sponsors

In this School Matters:

Please see our school website for the latest news. You can also access

Skoolbag and an up to date calendar of school events.

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

Last week we had the “Walk to School” Breakfast, which was a huge success. The Canteen again sold

almost all their food, so thank you to all the parents who supported this breakfast.

This week has been another very busy one, with Year 5 completing their CPR certificates, our new OC

students having a Transition Day and the final Kinder Transition.

Next week our end of year activities commence with a “Blue Day” on Monday to support Ethan Haldane

in the State Cricket Team. On Tuesday we have our Celebration Concert rehearsal and performance. It

promises to be another brilliant show. On Wednesday 100 students will walk up to the High School to

see “Footloose”. I am sure they will love the performance. On Thursday we have the Combined

Scripture Service, and the final scripture for the year. Friday is the Year 6 Fun Day, and I know all the

students will have an excellent day. PHEW!!!! I am already tired just typing it all.

The following week is also a very busy week with the Parent Helpers Morning Tea on Tuesday,

Performing Arts and Aussie of the Month Assembly on Wednesday, and a Canteen Christmas lunch and

the SRC Christmas food drive on Thursday.

If you have not received notes for any of these activities, please check Skoolbag and download the note

and information.

Please note that you are now able to send absence notifications to school via Skoolbag. Please be

aware that it is a requirement that a written note be obtained when a student is absent. Sending a

message on Dojo, while handy for the teacher to note, does not cover our legal responsibility with

regards to student absences. Please ensure a note is sent the day the student returns if you have not

sent a notification via Skoolbag.

Thank you to all the parents who are working along with staff to prepare the many end of year events

and activities. Everyone is very appreciative of your efforts and it certainly is of benefit to the students at

our school.

Cheers

Kerry

Stage 2 Term 4 Week 5 Hannah Quass 3B Participating Courageously

Blake Nelson 3B Excellence Always

Neil Dexter 3B Serving Others

Evie Shandler 3B Being Respectful

Oliver Forster 3D Participating Courageously

Violet Langley 3D Participating Courageously

Lara Tomkins 3D Excellence Always

Talia McGregor 3D Excellence Always

Asherah Murray 4G Serving Others

Emma Gardner 4G Excellence Always

Ewan Latz 4G Participating Courageously

Benji Dalgleish 4G Being Respectful

Owen Griffiths 4H Participating Courageously

Ethan Wards 4H Excellence Always

Dallyce Rose 4H Serving Others

OIive Gauci 4H Being Respectful

Stage 3 Term 4 Week 5 Khyan Cavill 3/6T Serving Others

Shay Coburn 5M Being Respectful

Jesse Shandler 5M Serving Others

Jacob Vaughan 5M Participating Courageously

Alyssa Hunter 5M Excellence Always

Imogen Handley 5/6T Excellence Always

Cooper Terry 5/6T Being Respectful

William James 5/6T Participating Courageously

Maayan Buskila 5/6T Excellence Always

Patrick Gunn 6B Participating Courageously

Jack Nicholls 6B Serving Others

Caleb Dougherty 6B Being Respectful

Jackson Cooper 6B Excellence Always

Emily Crambrook 6B Excellence Always

Ryan Fisher 6W Being Respectful

Bella Watson 6W Serving Others

Toby Watson 6W Serving Others

K-2 Term 4 Week 6

William Moore KC Excellence Always

Ava Schnell KM Excellence Always

Josephine Karp KP Excellence Always

Ruby Gleeson Frater 1D Excellence Always

Jarvis Gauci 1H Excellence Always

Sienna Hovey 1M Excellence Always

Sophie Wheeler 1/2T Excellence Always

Emma Rojas 2H Excellence Always

continued…….

K-2 Term 4 Week 5

Ashleigh Adams KC Being Respectful

Lucy Schnell KM Being Respectful

Lily De Bartolo KP Being Respectful

Anita Kitaoka Reeson 1D Being Respectful

Jack Carew-Halse 1H Being Respectful

Macy Farrant 1M Being Respectful

Hamish Adams 1/2T Being Respectful

Bronte Tait-Wildman 2H Being Respectful

Lara Schuetrumpf 6B Larissa Niklaus 6B

Toby Watson 6W Nicholas Crerar-Daly 3/6T

Khyan Cavill 3/6T Ingrid Relling 3/6T

Daniel Currie 3/6T Tyler Bartho 3/6T

Afton Miels 3/6T Lucy Schnell KM

Harry Sach KM Max Warburton KM

Ryla Burgmann KM Baxter Adams 3/6T

The office continues to hold a large collection of lost property

items including a ring, Pandora bead, Hogwarts earrings, Garmin fitness tracker,

earphones, watches and more.

CHANGES TO SKOOLBAG APP

Due to changes to Apple policy, individual Skoolbag apps are no longer supported in the app store and

therefore will not receive critical updates. Users are also reporting issues

with attachments not downloading.

We have been advised to delete the individual ‘Blaxland East Public

School’ Skoolbag app and download the single Skoolbag app in the

App Store or Google Play store.

You can then add multiple schools within the single Skoolbag app if you

have children at more than one school, and easily switch between them

from within the app.

You can now submit absence notifications and change of details information via the Skoolbag

app.

Go to the Home menu within Skoolbag and choose eForms.

A reminder that when returning permission notes for school activities it is a legal

requirement to return a SEPARATE permission note for each child.

In addition, if returning multiple notes for more than one child/activity, there is no

need to put each note in separate envelope. We are able to process multiple

payments for multiple activities/children in the one transaction.

PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD/REN’S FULL NAME AND CLASS ON PERMISSION NOTES!

$31,903 Thank you to all who helped with the recent Fete - it was a fantastic day. The majority of money raised will

go towards the hall extension with remaining to purchase teaching resources to assist our wonderful

teaching staff.

Tickets for our huge Christmas Toy raffle valued at $400 have gone home to

each family. Tickets are $2 each. The raffle will be drawn on 13 December.

If you would like extra tickets to sell they are available from the Canteen.

While it may seem like such a busy time of year, this is the

time when our hard work in the garden is paying off. The

zucchinis we planted last term are producing a lovely

harvest for the canteen as well as lots of lettuce and herbs.

Thank you to

everyone for

your can and

bottle

donations -

we have been collecting them and cashing in! All the money

raised goes to straight to the garden. From land-fill to filled

land! Our Patch is full!

Thank you to our

Garden Friends

Club for sorting the

worm farms,

preparing the

compost and

maintaining the

patch. 5/6T and 6W

have been learning the recipe of compost cake. They looked

at how to bake a compost cake - what ingredients, how long to cook and who will eat it! They were

encouraged to make their own at home. The best ingredients, and the correct ratio equals the best results!

If you would like our recipe, jump over to our BEPS Kitchen Garden Facebook page and have a look.

While you may not be ready to think about next year, now

is the time for Garden Friends Club to plan seeds, plants

and irrigation. We will be having a brainstorming session

and celebrating with morning tea at the last Working Bee

on 11 December at 9am. We would love to see you there!

- Beth and Claire

Special Event remaining for this term:

Thursday 6 December Special Day - Christmas Theme

PLEASE NOTE THE CANTEEN’S LAST DAY FOR TERM 4 2018 WILL BE FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER

There will be NO CANTEEN on Monday 17, Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 December.