Balgowlah North Public School eNewsletter

Principal's report

Celebrations

Last Friday we celebrated World Teacher’s Day. As many of you are aware the role of a teacher is extremely complex. Our teachers work is more than just teaching and learning. At the heart of it our profession provides the opportunity to make a true difference in a student’s life and enables a direct impact on our global world. We appreciate and celebrate the wonderful teachers we have at Balgowlah North Public school.

On that note today, our amazing Julia Gough will be taking maternity leave we wish her well on her next life adventure!

Yesterday was a great opportunity for our Kindergarten and Year One students to get active and enjoy the sunshine! Thank you to Olivia Wakelin and Molly Mc Indoe for their organisation of the event.

New play space

We now have another new area complete near Koolkuna. Great to see another space to be used by our students for outdoor learning opportunities, and a place for our teachers to have lunch together during these COVID times!

NAIDOC Week

Next week we recognise NAIDOC Week – ‘Always was, Always Will be’. We will begin the week with an official flag raising ceremony. We will be flying the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag along with our Australian flag. We also have Eleanor Clapham presenting a performance to our K-2 students this Friday the 6th November. Matthew Doyle will be presenting to our 3-6 students on Wednesday 2nd December. Thank you to Camille Hadley for the organisation of these events.

Kindergarten Orientation

We welcome our Kindergarten 2021 students to their first orientation this Friday. Our current Kindergarten students will be spending the morning with our other classes across the school while the orientation is conducted. The Virtual Information session for Kindergarten 2021 parents is on Thursday at 4pm. All details have been sent to attending parents already. Please contact the school as soon as possible if you have not received this information. Thank you to our current Kindergarten team for providing such a rich learning opportunity and introduction to school for our incoming Kindergarten students.

Parent Forums

Thank you to the parents who attended the parent forum this morning. There will be further opportunities for parents to engage with the school in this format. Please take the time to connect with these parents. I appreciated the deep commitment and engagement that the parents brought to this important work. Further opportunities will be provided at different times and days to allow a variety of parents to participate. It is important for us to continue to strengthen our community engagement in our students learning.

Brooke Keevers

Principal

Notice of student enrolment/non return 2021

Intention form

Deputy Principal's report

OC Test

The OC Test will be held at BNPS on Wednesday 18 November at 9.10am, in 5S classroom. Only students who have already submitted the application form earlier this year are permitted to sit this test.

Kindergarten Orientation

We welcome our Kindergarten 2021 students to their first orientation this Friday. Our current Kindergarten students will be spending the morning with our other classes across the school while the orientation is conducted. The Virtual Information session for Kindergarten 2021 parents is on Thursday at 4pm. All details have been sent to attending parents already. Please contact the school as soon as possible if you have not received this information. Thank you to our current Kindergarten team for providing such a rich learning opportunity and introduction to school for our incoming Kindergarten students.

NAIDOC Week

Next week we recognise NAIDOC Week with a flag raising ceremony for our two new flag poles and we have Eleanor Clapham presenting an performance to our K-2 students this Friday. Matthew Doyle will be presenting to our 3-6 students during Week 8.

Band

Our bands are having open rehearsals all this week and we encourage our Year 2 students to visit a rehearsal. Our band program relies on our intake from Year 2 to Year 3 in the Junior Band. Please see the band tab of this newsletter for further information.

Later this term, as a reward for the efforts of our band and strings students, they will be treated to an African Drumming workshop. It has been a challenging year for our band and strings students, with restrictions on performances and rehearsals, however, we have been proud of their resilience and ability to try new ways to rehearse and perform.

Year 6 Camp

Thank you to Miss Vitale and Mr Zeppel for accompanying us on our Year 6 camp. As this newsletter goes to publication, we are having a marvelous time at Adventureland, Forster, and look forward to sharing some photos in next week's newsletter.

Belinda Norrie

A/Deputy Principal

Assembly Awards

Years 3-6 Term 4 Week 3

PBL

Weekly focus: We use the correct bins and look after the environment

What it looks like:

After eating put rubbish in the correct bin
Separate plastics for recycling in the yellow Binions
Use the compost bins
Keep the classroom tidy by putting rubbish in the bin and paper in the recycling boxes

Class snapshots

Library news

Deborah Abela

Next Monday and Tuesday we are very excited to be welcoming our visiting author Deborah Abela to our school. Deborah trained as a teacher before becoming writer/producer of a national children’s TV show at Network TEN. Since then, she has become an internationally published and awarded author of 26 books including her climate change trilogy, Grimsdon, New City and Final Storm. Her family’s survival in WW2 and migration to Australia inspired Teresa A New Australian. The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee and The Most Marvellous Spelling Bee Mystery were inspired by her grade 4 teacher. Her picture books are, Wolfie, An Unlikely Hero and Bear in Space (2020). Deborah has won awards for her work but mostly hopes to be as brave as her characters.

Students will attend a one hour presentation from Deborah with their grade in the hall. All classes have been introduced to her books in library lessons and in class. Students can order signed copies of Deborah Abela’s books from the link below. Alternatively, you can call The Children’s Bookshop directly on 9571 1897 to order and pay over the phone.

The books will be delivered to the school.

https://www.thechildrensbookshopspeakersagency.com.au/person/abela-deborah-speaker/

Waste free Wednesday

Week 3 winners KW, 2A, 4C, 4M & 6Z

NAIDOC week

Dates for your diary

04-06 November

Year 6 camp

05 November

Kindergarten 2021 virtual information session 4-5pm

06 November

Kindergarten 2021 Orientation #1 9.30-11.00am

09 November

NAIDOC flag raising ceremony

09-10 November

K-6 incursion visiting author Deb Abela

11 November

Touch gala day

12 November

Australian reading hour

13 November

DanceSport gala day
Kindergarten 2021 Orientation #2

Band news

We hope your children have been enjoying our open rehearsals this week!Would you like to join the band in 2021?We usually have up to 80% of Y2 students (going into Y3 in 2021) join the band each year.Although entry from any year group is hugely encouraged!The BNPS band and strings programmes are amazing and often ensure a lifelong love of making music.If you would like to join the band or strings programme in 2021, please complete the attached form on the link below (note : dates have been extended by a week to take account of last minute enquiries!)
https://forms.gle/G4qusKkSyj8gQkcs7

If you have any questions about either the band or strings programme, please email bnpsband@hotmail.com or contact Annie White on 0410 957911

Newsletter Term 4 week 4