Newsletter Term 3 Week 4 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

Principal's Message

Thank you to the amazing students and staff for making Principal’s Day so special. I feel very fortunate to work with such kind, considerate professionals and to be surrounded by the positive energy of the students at Balgowlah North Public School.

Thank you to our fabulous P&C for supporting the school with an IT upgrade to our hall. They have contributed $30,000 to new screens, cabling and sound. This will be a fantastic upgrade to our performance space. We are now investigating performance curtains and lighting as our next steps in our upgrade process. 

What a fabulous day we had celebrating our students and their learning last Thursday. It was a proud day as the Principal to see the smiles on the faces of our students as they proudly showed off their classrooms, their work and performed for their parents and visitors.

Wonderful opportunity to support Darcy and Talon at the Bear Pit finals on Friday at Parliament House. The standard was exceptionally high and both students performed exceptionally well.

Congratulations to Isaac on his trip to Nationals.  

Kind regards

Brooke Keevers

Principal

Families and community of BNPS,

This is a rallying call for our BNPS working bee this Sunday the 14^th August. It is only 2 hours and makes a massive difference to our overall school grounds.

We are going to tackle jobs that just aren’t possible for our groundsmen to do! Many hands make light work, so bring the kids and get involved.

 The call is for families in Stage 2 (Years 3 & 4 ) to ‘own this’ as we have already had Kindie and Stage 1 step up and volunteer, but open to anyone that wants to get out of the house and their hands dirty.

Please sign up here: https://m.signupgenius.com/?fbclid=IwAR22B4ehZ7RhD7CqigBqFXhv-V2t2T-36O0PDj9CRyNbY-5cDLTGp2sctWA#!/showSignUp/30e0a4dada829abf49-bring

At the time of writing we have had 4 families sign up… We can do better! There will be a BBQ and cold drinks for those volunteers so please sign up and help… even if its only 30 mins it will be a huge help!

Richard Wokes 

P&C President

School news

Celebrating Mrs Keevers…

Last Friday, the 5th of August, was Primary Principal’s Day. This provided an opportunity for our staff and students to reflect on how lucky we are to have a Principal who leads our school with vision, passion, integrity and an unwavering commitment to ensuring BNPS continues to have quality teaching and learning as our core purpose. We are all the richer for Mrs Keevers leadership and this special day enabled us to acknowledge the tremendously valuable  impact she has on our school community.  

Rachel Ridley

R/Deputy Principal

Kindy 2023 enrolments are open, if you haven't already enrolled for 2023 please complete the online enrolment.This year, as every year it’s particularly important for us to confirm enrolments in all grades for 2023 as student numbers directly impact our staffing. 

If you know you will be leaving the school at the end of the year can you please complete the form below.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeg2Ol25PJX-AwIixymfrfxh7Y9Uq58GQvOU2qzIAQ1Fln3_g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Education Week

What a way to celebrate Education Week! After a hiatus for a few years, we were back with smiles and enthusiasm to celebrate all things education. Students excitedly hosted parents in our open classrooms, showing off their amazing work and engaging in some fun learning activities. Performances from our Stage 1 students, Bear Pit finalists and talented extra-curricular groups including choir, band, dance and drama ensembles kept the audience enthralled. Thank you to our staff for organising the day and opening their wonderful classrooms. A big shout out to our teacher librarian, Mrs Horsley for facilitating book donations in the library and to our canteen for providing such delicious recess treats!   

Sascha Carroll, Alice Pond and Olivia Wakelin

Library News

Open day - book fair

I would like to say a huge thank you for all the generous donations made to our library last Thursday. Your generosity is truly appreciated and will make a huge impact on our students reading experience at school. The total sales for the morning were $4320, which happened mostly from 8:30 – 9:00am. Thank you also for your patience when waiting in line. These books will take a few weeks to be ready for circulation, but as soon as they are, students can enjoy reading them at home.

With just a few weeks to complete the reading challenge for the year I would like to congratulate another group of enthusiastic readers! Well done to:

Kindergarten - Edie V

Year 1 - Matthew C, Liam D, Hugo M, John S,

Year 2 – Cleo M, Laila W,

Year 3 – Jack V,

Year 4 – Isabella G, Logan P,

Year 6 – Elisha D, Anneliese O.

Deborah Horsley

Teacher librarian

The week ahead

8-12 Aug    Winter walk to school week

10 Aug       Stage 2 excursion to Field of Mars

12 Aug       ICAS Digital technologies

14 Aug       Working bee

15-19 Aug  National science week

15 Aug       Junior band perfomance at assembly

16 Aug      Musica Viva

17 Aug      SRC fundraiser

Sports news

Athletics Carnival Track and Field Results 2022

What a fantastic day we had on Wednesday last week for  this year’s athletics carnival - lots of sunshine and smiles! Congratulations to everyone who took part. It was wonderful that we were able to hold the carnival this year albeit under different conditions.  The students competed in a variety of events with their age group including running events, vortex “javelin” throw, poison ball, novelty relays and tug-of-war. The teachers were extremely impressed with the teamwork and effort put into all the events by our students.  Congratulations to  Isaac R who set a new record in the Junior Boys High Jump of 1.29m. 

House Points Score:

Congratulations Koalas

The Zone Athletics Carnival will take place on Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 August at Narrabeen. The top 3 placegetters for 100m and the top 2 placegetters in field events, 200, and 800 m will proceed to the zone carnival.

Kerry Kelly

Sports Report

Date: 5th August 2022

Round: 10

Girls:  Soccer

Boys: Soccer

Girls: Netball

PBL Term 3 week 4

Class Snapshot - 5R & 6H

Waste Free Wednesday

P&C Band News

The BNPS P&C presents the 2022 School Disco, taking place on 18 August in the school hall! This year’s theme is VIVID AT BNPS, so kids should come dressed in their favourite Fluro outfit or feel free to Glow! Each ticket includes a drink and a small ‘glow pack’ for your child so if you want to avoid the shops - we’ve got you covered!

The Kindy to Year 2 disco is 4:30pm-6pm and Year 3-6 from 6:30pm to 8pm. Tickets to each disco are sold separately on Flexischools and are available now. No food will be provided at the event. This is a P&C run event so we need to ensure we have enough parent volunteers with Working with Children checks (easy to get via Service NSW) to meet parent:child ratios, so if you’d like to help on the day please register via the link here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040B4CACAF28AAF49-bnps1 

 Kids at Koolkuna that day? No problem. Talk to the Koolkuna team about drop off and pick up from the disco. Special thanks to DJ Jayson at The Party Starters for DJing the evening. 

 Looking forward to dancing!! 

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