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Balgowlah North Public School

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10 Manning Street
North Balgowlah NSW 2093
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Phone: 02 9949 4499

Balgowlah North Public School

10 Manning Street
North Balgowlah NSW 2093

Phone: 02 9949 4499

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    Newsletter Term 4 Week 5 2022

    • Principal's message
    • Class Snapshot - Year 6
    • School news
    • The Week Ahead
    • Sports news
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    • Community News
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    "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."

    Winners of the Reel Deal - George W, Chloe H, Scarlett P, Oscar G

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    Principal's message

    Connections

    Tomorrow 5 of our teachers will be collaborating with teachers at Beacon Hill Public school as they share the opportunity to engage in Learning Walks and Talks, visit and chat with students about their learning. Questions asked assist students with reflecting on their learning.

    1. What are you learning?
    2. How are you doing?
    3. How do you know?
    4. How can you improve?
    5. Where do you go for help?

    Collaborating across our network of schools provides opportunities for teachers to share professional dialogue, build relationships of trust and work through feedback and inquiry.

    Challenge 

    Check In Assessments

    Students in years 3 -6 have participated in Check In assessments over the first weeks of term 4. These assessments provide our school with useful data about how our students are progressing in literacy and numeracy. We use this data, in correlation with our internal assessment data, to evaluate current teaching programs and implement effective strategies to support further growth and development. 

    The trend we are seeing across literacy in our Check In data is that our results are strengthening when compared to those of our Statistically Similar School Group ( SSSG). 

    Our current Year 4 students have exceeded the average results of our SSSG by 3.5% and our current Year 5 cohort has demonstrated 4.2% growth in relation to our SSSG. Year 3 and 6 data is also showing pleasing results, becoming stronger and more closely aligned to the results of our SSSG network.  We attribute these results to innovations in programming that have been implemented in our 3-6 classrooms over the past 12 months.

    While our numeracy results are slightly under those of our SSSG, they are still well above the state average and we are seeing greater consistency in the results we are achieving. We look forward to improving pedagogy that will endeavour to strengthen  these results in 2023.


    Creativity 

    Stage 3 enjoyed a fantastic film festival at the end of last term with some great talents showcased. We would like to recognise some of the student groups who excelled in various elements of film making.

    Creative camera work: The Super Normal Film about Friendship - Chloe W, Ewan O’S, Isaac R, Isla McL

    Brilliant cinematography: The Tale of the rude customer and the KFC worker - Eloise McL, Alex C, Addie B, Van H

    Outstanding acting: The Mix Up - Elisha D, Maddy A, Otto K, Luc B

    Well scripted and creative storyline: Friends that make a difference - Clementine R, Ella M, Rose K

    Most original short film: Unlikely Friends - Talia W, Evie W, Darcy H, Noah B

    Artistic editing: Global Letter - Talia T, Summer W, Alex D, Callyn S, Fletcher McF

    Highly commended: I Escaped - Anneliese O, Madeleine S, Kiana A, Asha H, Nina H

    WINNER OF THE REEL DEAL FILM FESTIVAL IS…

    The Unlikely Sport

    George W, Chloe H, Scarlett P, Oscar G

    Brooke Keevers

    Principal

    Our wonderful Minilit Graduates!

    Well done to Amelia C and Amelia S on their outstanding commitment to improving their reading. 

    Many congratulation to Lily, Chloe, Olive & Evelyn worthy recipients of our Citizenship Awards

    Congratulations to our recipients of Principal awards K-2

    Congratulations to our recipients of Principal awards 3-6

    Congratulations to our recipients of Banners K-2 

    Congratulations to our recipients of Banners K-6

    Many congratulations to our medal recipients

    Many congratulations to our age sport medal recipients

    Congratulations to our musicians of the month

    Congratulations to our debating team

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    Class Snapshot - Year 6

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    School news

    Planning for 2023

    The school leadership team has commenced planning for 2023. At this point in time we will have  16 or 17 classes for 2023. As we are aware this may change depending on our Kindergarten enrolments, students leaving the school and with the movement of families out of our catchment area we find this affects our enrolments as well. We are extremely fortunate at BNPS to have highly skilled, professional and passionate teachers. Creating classes is an extremely rigorous process that teachers take very seriously. Our aim is to provide equity for all students based on their academic, social and emotional needs. We will be creating composite (multi stage) classes in 2023. These classes, as all our classes, will be created carefully to create best fit for all our students at BNPS. 

    https://balgowlahn-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/schools/b/balgowlahn-p/rules-and-policies/Balgowlah_North_Public_School_compositeclasses.pdf

    If your child has any social, academic or emotional needs that we are unaware of which may have an impact on their class placement for 2023 please email the school - attention Brooke Keevers. This information must be submitted by Friday 4th November. Requests for specific teachers will not be taken into consideration.

    Students not returning for 2023
    If your child will not be returning in 2023 could you please complete the google link below. This information is very important because it has an impact on our class structures and staffing of the school.

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

    Year 7 Selective High 2024 information
    Please see the link below for further information.

    https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-7

    Important dates:
    Registrations open 18th October
    Registrations close 16th November
    Date of Test; Thursday 4th May 2023 

    Important Dates for your diary

    As we reach that point of the year where the weeks seem to zoom by as we head towards the end of 2022, we wanted to ensure we highlighted some important dates for your diaries.

    Monday   12th December:  3-6 Celebration of Learning ceremony
    Tuesday   13th December:  K-2 Celebration of Learning ceremony
    Thursday 15th December : K- 6 End of Year Picnic Day
    Friday      16th December :  Final day of 2022 school year for students


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    The Week Ahead

    10 November    Eagle tag gala day

                              Kindergarten 2023 Orientation day #1

    11 November    Remembrance day

    17 November    Kindergarten 2023 Orientation day #2


    Waste free Wednesday

    Week four winners were 6/5M, KH and KW. Congratulations to those winning classes and all the other students striving to be waste free each week.                        ‘ Remember, it’s not waste until you waste it!‘

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    Sports news

    Newcombe Ball

    Team A Girls

    Team B Mixed

    Opponents

    Curl Curl

    Narraweena

    Score

    11-5 (win)

    11-5 (loss)

    Opponents

    Narraweena

    Harbord

    Score

    13-11 (win)

    11-0 (loss)

    Best & Fairest

    Olive B

    Bronte S

    Volleyball

    Team A Girls

    Team B Girls

    Opponents

    Cromer

    Manly West

    Score

    11-8 (win)

    Volleyball

    Opponents

    Dee Why

    Harbord

    Score

    13-15 (loss)

    2-11 (loss)

    Best & Fairest

    Elisha D

    Georgia H

    Cricket

    Senior

    Junior

    Opponents

    Curl Curl

    Curl Curl

    Score

    Won by 6 wickets

    Won 41-22

    Best & Fairest

    Toby O

    Henry F

     

    Eagle Tag  (Girls)

    Senior B   

    Junior B

    Opponents

    Harbord

    Harbord

    Score

    3-5 (win)

    1-8 (win)

    Best & Fairest

    Charlie Orth

    Taylor Green

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    PBL

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    Band News

    What Instrument would your child like to play in Band? Come along and try the instruments.

    Our Band Program is building the bands for 2023.  If your child is interested in playing an instrument as part of a team then band is for you.

    Instrument suitability Assessments are being held on Thursday 10 November from 7.30am in the Music Room.  Register for a tryout and tell us which three instruments you would like to play, via the online form –Join the Band   

     Hear from our current band members about their experience in Band – BNPS Join the Band in 2023 (1).mp4 - OneDrive (live.com)



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    Community News

    LED upgrade for BNPS

    From Monday 7 November for upto 4 weeks there will be night work being carried out around the school to upgrade our lighting.

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    School Sponsors

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