Newsletter Term 2 Week 9 2022

"We acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians on whose land our school rests. Their footsteps and whispers blow in the wind, drift on the clouds, remain deep in the sandstone and float on the waterways of this place. Their memories and Dreaming stories will continue to connect us to the land and guide future generations of our school community. Country is alive if you take the time to look, listen and learn."

Principal's message

NAIDOC Week
NAIDOC Week will be celebrated at Balgowlah North from the Monday the 27th of June. The dates for celebrating NAIDOC Week, the 3rd to the 10th of July, are in the school holidays. Keep an eye out for local celebrations that you may wish to be a part of during the holidays. 

This year’s theme – Get up! Stand up! Show up! – encourages all of us to champion institutional, structural, collaborative, and cooperative change while celebrating those who have already driven and led change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over generations.

On Monday, our Kindergarten students will be performing at our K-6 NAIDOC and Student celebration assembly at 1.45pm under the COLA. Parents who have a child performing or receiving an award are warmly welcome at these assemblies. 

P&C meeting
I look forward to seeing you all at our virtual P&C meeting tonight. The meeting is via zoom as Mr Lawler, Principal of Forest High, will be joining us for the evening.

Regional Cross Country
Tyler W, Matthew D, and Chloe W are to be commended on their terrific efforts last Thursday at the regional carnival at Gosford. Our students competed against twelve other districts and the competition was tough!  

Congratulations to Josie P (6th) and Isaac R (1st) who will represent their age group  for The Sydney North region at the NSWPSSA cross country on Friday 22nd July.

Well done, everyone!

Maths Instructional Leadership Wrap Up of Semester One

In Terms One and Two, I have had the great pleasure of working in our Stage Two classrooms on developing multiplicative strategies. Multiplicative strategies are an integral concept we want to strengthen in our Year 3 and 4 students to allow them to be able to access the mathematics syllabus successfully as they progress through primary school and into highschool.

Working alongside our exceptional Stage 2 Classroom Teachers, the focus of my work has been to provide our Stage 2 students with an opportunity to delve deeply into this aspect of the maths syllabus and develop creative, flexible strategies for thinking about multiplication and division. My goal has been to broaden our students' minds beyond multiplication facts and build their understanding that there are multiple ways in which we can apply the knowledge and skills from their ‘maths toolbox’ to find the answer.

We have also been working collaboratively to ensure there is the opportunity for rich discussion and development of reasoning skills as students learn to verbalise their thinking, describe their process and analyse if they have reached the answer in the most effective way.

Annual School Report
Our annual school report process for 2021 is now complete. Please see the link below to our progress over the past twelve months of our School Improvement Plan.

2R
What a fabulous opportunity I had to watch 2R students connect, create and problem solve this afternoon. Creating a Rube Goldberg machine, including a ramp, lever or a pulley into their design process and then modifying and testing!

Brooke Keevers,
Principal

School News

P & C Meeting and Forest High Zoom information Session

Please find below the details for our P& C meeting, featuring a special information session with Mr Nathan Lawler, Principal  of Forest High School:

Join Zoom Meeting
https://nsweducation.zoom.us/j/63181973643?pwd=Y0kvcmhlWGdrdlNUSDhVUktQSGNhUT09
Meeting ID: 631 8197 3643
Passcode: 783313

Our meeting will commence tonight,Wednesday 22nd,  at 7:30pm.

Please note that you do not need to use your child's DoE log in to access this Zoom session, however you will need a registered Zoom account. It is recommended you take a minute or two to sign up before hand if you are not already a Zoom user. 

ICAS 2022

We are delighted to inform you that Balgowlah North Public School will be participating in the world-renowned ICAS competitions this year. 

What is ICAS? 
ICAS is an online academic competition that is designed to assess students’ higher order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Writing and Digital Technologies. 

Each assessment celebrates students’ accomplishments by providing opportunities for recognition and development. Every student who participates will receive a printed certificate and an online results report. Top performers will be eligible for medals.  

Learn more about ICAS here. (https://www.icasassessments.com/products-icas) 

ICAS Assessments on offer at BNPS in 2022:

How to participate in ICAS 
If you wish your child to participate in ICAS this year, please:

1.  Read about ICAS subjects and prices here: (https://www.icasassessments.com/products-icas)
2.  Go to Parent Portal here: (https://shop.icasassessments.com/pages/pps) 
3. Enter our school’s access code – CQO552
4. Enter your child’s details, select the tests you would like to purchase, then proceed to payment.

Please note that the ICAS tests shown for selection are at the school’s discretion. Assessments will be conducted during the school day. If your child is absent on the specified assessment date, we will endeavor to schedule a make up session within the assessment window.

After payment is made via the Parent Payment System, you will receive an order confirmation email, please keep this for your records. Please note, parent ordering will close on Monday 1st August.

We will notify you of the date your child’s ICAS results are ready. You and your child can access the results once released via the Reports Portal using the TAP ID and pin found on the back of the ICAS certificate. 

The following information is a privacy notification about how your child’s data is kept private and secure. 

Privacy Collection Statement 
Janison is aware of our responsibility to protect the identity of, and all information relating to, children, and students in general, from disclosure and consequently Janison does not: 

• collect any personal information or data of children other than as required for the purposes of completion of the assessment, test or exam;
• transfer any personal information or data obtained during the delivery of assessments, tests or exams conducted in Australia to any jurisdiction outside of Australia other than with the specific consent of the person, or his or her parent or guardian;
• transfer any personal information or data obtained during the delivery of assessments, tests or exams conducted in other international regions out of the child’s jurisdiction other than with the specific consent of the person, or his or her parent or guardian;
• share any personal information or data relating to children or students with any third parties (other than a third party whose services are necessary for servicing our products, e.g. print/distribution companies, medal engraving, etc.) except with the specific consent of the person, or his or her parent or guardian;
• use any personal information or data relating to children or students for marketing purposes.

Janison may retain personal information and data relevant to a child for their future purposes or for research purposes by Janison for the duration of the school life cycle of the child. However, if you or your child at any time wish to have their personal information or data removed from our systems, they or you may opt out by simply contacting our Privacy Officer at privacy@janison.com. 

We are proud to offer ICAS and look forward to some fantastic results later in the year. 

Kindergarten 2023
We are looking forward to commencing our Kindergarten 2023 transition program in coming weeks, starting with our first school tour tomorrow. Please refer to our program overview below for other important dates.

Premier's Debating Challenge

Premier’s Debating Challenge

Last Thursday, round one of the 2022 Premier’s Debating Challenge saw the two BNPS teams pitted against Harbord PS Maroon and Harbord PS White. BNPS Team Bardoo (negative) were narrowly defeated on the topic ‘schools should make their top students spend one afternoon a week helping a struggling classmate’. BNPS Team Manning (negative) were successful winners in their debate ‘we should only ever give feedback in primary school instead of grades or marks’. As in previous debates, our two teams were very competitive and are looking forward to further challenges ahead.

Congratulations to Ella M., Naomi G., Darcy Y. and Talia W.

Chris McCall, Debating Coordinator

Sports News

PSSA results    Round 6    17th June 2022 

Girls Soccer

Boys Soccer

Girls Netball

NSWPSSA Netball Knockout

On Thursday afternoon the Balgowlah North Senior A netball team played in the 3rd round of the NSWPSSA Netball Knockout. The team of Maddy A, Addie B, Jess D, Charlie O, Milly P, Scarlett P, Neve R and Darcy Young demonstrated a high skill level and lots of enthusiasm but were unfortunately beaten by a very determined Harbord Public School.  I was very proud of your sportsmanship and conduct on the day. Well done!

Susie Stock
Assistant Principal (Relieving)

Netball Volunteers

A BIG SHOUT out to our Senior A netballers who have volunteered to umpire for Dee Why and Manly Vale Public Schools in the PSSA Netta competition. Feedback from their teachers is that they all approached the job with responsibility, respect and lots of patience.

Impressive effort, we are all very proud of you!

The week ahead

22 June             P&C Meeting - Zoom

22 June             Premier's Debating Challenge v Manly Vale

23 June             Kindergarten 2023 Morning Tour

27 June              Catchup school photos (individual/siblings)

28 June              Stage 3 Interrelate session 

Kindy's Secret Ninja Incursion

Class snapshot - 3E

PBL

Music and Dance News

Senior Dance Ensemble
The Senior Dance Ensemble is delighted to have been successful in our audition for the Sydney North Dance Festival this year. Students will be rehearsing their dance at Glen St Theatre this Thursday morning before performing live on Monday 27 June at 8:00pm. A filmed version of their dance will also be screened on Tuesday 28 June at 5:30pm. We wish our performers good luck and we can’t wait to see your big smiles up on stage!
Steph Rooleht & Eliza Ross

Waste Free Wednesday

Last week's waste free warriors - 1E, 1K/M and 4/3V were all 100% waste free!

Excellent effort BNPS. Keep up the good work!

P&C News

The P&C would like to thank our Platinum Sponsor, Andrew Lutze at Cunninghams and our Gold Sponsors, Pathfinder Recruitment and Vision Personal Training for their support of this year’s BNPS Trivia Night.

It was a huge success with everyone attending going all out with their costumes! Survivor NOBA took out best dressed with Rydell High Forever taking out Trivia glory!

Thank you to everyone who attended the event and to everyone in the school community who bought raffle tickets on Flexischools to help support our P&C. A big shout out to all the local businesses who kindly donated prizes for the evening we really appreciate your support.

There were a couple of prizes that were not collected at the end of the event. If you are one of those lucky prize winners please contact Sara (saravdso@gmail.com) to organise collection.

Second hand uniform shop

Our uniform shop is open weekly, on Wednesdays, between 2.30pm and 3.30pm.
It is located on the front verandah (Manning Street side), next to 6/5M - Just look for the clothing racks!
Credit card facilities available and cash also accepted.
Our parent volunteers Brooke and Vanessa are happy to accept any good condition uniform donations,  with new logo only please.

Koolkuna Vacation Care - Winter 2022

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