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Volume 24 Issue 27
Thursday 30 August 2018
DATES TO REMEMBER term dates 2018 term 3 16 july - 21 sept 2019 term 1 30 jan - 05 apr
31 31 31 04 10, 11 12
august august august september september september
jim bell, principal
term 4 08 oct - 21 dec term 2 23 apr - 28 jun
father’s day morning tea foundation 9.00—10.30 father’s day afternoon tea year one 1.45—2.20 final payment due for year 4 camp Year 4 concert parent teacher interviews special lunch day - pie day
jenny reid, assistant principal
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arking and Maintaining Safety Around our School It’s important for drivers and pedestrians to be aware and take care during busy times, particularly when school is dismissed. Please by mindful when parking and picking up children at these times. The parking bays at the front gated entrance to the school are strictly a pick up and drop off zone: 8:00— 9:15 a.m. and 3:00—4:00 p.m.
jo-anne doran, assistant principal
To all our dads …
on Sunday 2nd September…
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oodbye, Harold, … until next year! Last Friday, the Life Education concluded its PLEASE do not park during these designated times! visit to Brentwood Park Primary School, City of Casey will be monitoring traffic control for the however, prior to departure, Harold, the Life Education children’s safety and will issue parking infringement van mascot attended assembly to give a personal notices!! farewell! Life Education is a wonderful resource which visits our school annually. Additionally, the City of Casey provides school crossing supervisors to enable parents and students to cross roads safely when coming to school and when leaving school upon dismissal. Please use the school crossing and then walk the short distance to your parked car. The safety of our children must come before any perceived slight inconvenience by not doing so! SAFETY FIRST.
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hank You Mums and Dad, on behalf of Dads! A huge thank you is extended to the members of our fundraising committee for organising and attending to our Father’s Day Stall. The r ange of gifts and prices meant that all children could be catered for over the three days of its operation! The children were excited and eager purchasers and I’m confident that their dads are going to be pleasantly surprised on Sunday! Thank you to Donna Foster, Sandra Prvulj, Belinda Muller, Leonie Roberts, Aimee Voet and John Leveque, Edina Sesenko, Kaylene Powell and Janine Russell for their contributions to its successful organisation!
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chool Sports Uniforms There are many cross country, soccer and football uniforms that need to be returned to school. Can all items please be washed before being returned.
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ear 4 Camp The camp date for Year 4 is 19th to 21st September. This year’s camp will be at Arrabri Lodge. Can parents please complete and return the relevant medical forms. Thanking you for continued support.
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Classes which have completed the challenge are: - FLP, FSM, FBC, FJF - 1HG, 1MK, 1BV, 1NC, 1KC, 1EN - 2AA, 2DK, 2CM - 3CH, 3MS, 3MF, 3SH - 6JA, 6JP, 6MB, 6LM TOTAL
21 classes in all
Four classes have only 1 or two students to go, and those are students that started this term. They are: - FTL, FJH - 2AD, 2AK To date, 89% (783 students) of the school has completed the challenge. 145 students have already reached 100 books, with so many more just teetering on the edge (138 students last year). There will be many more by the end of the week. There have been approximately 38,500 books read in our school alone. A GREAT achievement
Jim Narayan and Mel Dennis, H. & P. E.
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Annette Wright Librarian
arent Opinion Survey Brentwood Park Primary School The closing date for the online Parent Opinion eet some more of our Environmentalists! Survey has been extended to Most of our students are very responsible and Sunday 2 September 2018. “do the right thing - put rubbish in the bin”, Parents can submit completed however, there must be some online surveys until 11:59 who don’t, otherwise, where p.m. Sunday 2 September. would this bag of discarded Thank you to those families snack wrappers have come who have completed the brief from? Demi, Grace and online Parent Opinion Survey. Emmie from FTL as The results will be forwarded to the school in due course. responsible young environmentalists took the remiers’ Reading Challenge initiative and cleaned up the As informed previously, the Premier's Reading discarded wrappers from Challenge is a literacy engagement program that various locations around the was introduced by the Premier in 2004 to: school yard. Thank you!!
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Encourage students to read more books and enjoy How wonderful would it be to have ALL of our students reading follow their example and keep our school grounds tidy Improve literacy levels. by ensuring all wrappers and food scraps are placed in the rubbish bins provided. The Challenge requires students from Year 3-6 to read 15 nominated books between the beginning of the school ood Start Kinder Visitation year and the end of August, and students in years Prep The staff and students from one of our local 2 to have experienced 30 books from the nominated list. kindergartens took the opportunity to familiarise themselves with our school library and share in the Here at Brentwood Park Primary enjoyment of School, we have had an amazing picture story effort within the school in book reading! competing the PRC. Annette read three stories much to the Cohorts of students who have enjoyment of completed the challenge are: the children and herself!! - Year 6, Year 3 and Year 1
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Term 3
Week ending 24 August, 2018 FTL
Demi
for her great reading of the Oxford words.
FCV
Grace
for completing every single task she sets her mind to! AMAZING!
FBC
Samir
for staying focused when writing and sounding out unknown words.
FSM
Sharlene
for consistently showing 5Ls for listening and being respectful.
FJH
Chinmayee for always making sure your work is beautiful and neat.
FLP
Martin
FJF
Roel
for being very brave and showing great resilience this week. You are AWESOME! for his amazing report about cats.
1MK
Asini
for trying so hard and completing wonderful reading journals .
1BV
Roah
for writing an excellent narrative about ‘The Clever Squirrel’. Well done!
1HG
Zachary
1KC
Kaveesha
1NC
Chloe
for working persistently to produce the best Reading Journals that you can. Well done! for working hard to improve his handwriting this week! Your writing is much neater! Well done! for using efficient addition and subtraction strategies.
1EN
Kunal
2DK
Seji
2AK
Dhanvi
for writing a very interesting narrative using a variety of openers and some awesome WOW words. for his excellent contributions to class discussions and being so engaged in the learning. for working hard to identify skip counting patterns by 2s, 5s & 10s.
2CM
Do Hoon
for making excellent choices today! Well done and keep it up!
2AD
Stuart
for his fabulous comprehension skills in CAFÉ!
2AA
Ryder
for showing persistence in your writing this week! Well done!
3CH
Antr a
for demonstrating our school values and always having a lovely smile.
3MS
Br itney
for working hard on her fabulous letter writing! Keep it up!
3SH
Er ic
for his thoughtful letter to his favourite author.
3MF
Taylor
for his detailed letter to his favourite author, CS Lewis. Well done!
4SM
Hayden
for excellent focus and completing tasks to his best ability.
4GD
J ack
for stying focused and getting our work done. Well done!
4BM
Shia
for working hard to project his voice in his solo for the grade 4 concert.
4CP
J acinta
for taking great pride in her handwriting and work presentation.
4VK
Rachel
for working super hard to complete tasks super efficiently.
Term 3
Week ending 24 August, 2018 5LM
Br inda
5LF
J anna
for bringing such a positive energy into 5LM. We are so lucky to have you! for using recycled materials to make a pretty shoulder bag! Great job!
5SI
Liam
for repurposing recyclable goods in order to create an artistic pot plant.
5JG
Char li
6MB
Ler ato
for demonstrating kindness towards all of her classmates. Charli always treats others with fairness and understanding. for her positive attitude towards learning new topics in the classroom.
6LM
Henr y
6JP
Mina
for his positive attitude shown towards his learning at BPPS. We will all miss your beautiful smile and vibrant personality. for always striving to do his personal best. Keep up the great work!
6JA
Dulanya
for making great improvement in her maths. Congratulations!
SPECIALIST CLASSES LOTE: Chunyan FBC LOTE: Daisy 5LM
for your excellent participation in learning four names of vehicles in Chinese. Well done, FBC!
for your fantastic participation in the Chinese speaking game “Guess Who”.
Performing Arts: Kenneth 2DK for your excellent co-operation skills while playing the ‘Instrumental Memory’ game. Well done. Performing Arts: Troy 3MS for reading lines on their scripts so well. Physical Education: Jim 3CH for outstanding chipping with the gold professional.
Physical Education: Mel FCV for their outstanding landing from the vaulting tramp. Visual Arts: Joi 3CH Visual Arts: Jessica 1NC
for their fantastic God’s eyes.
for completing amazing painted backgrounds, ready for your Kandinsky trees.
Moonlit Sanctuary Keeper Club Kids enjoy environmental activities, animal encounters and native animal care. Day includes: interactions with dingo, python, off-limits animals, feeding animals & food prep, animal enrichment activities. Learn about our animals, their conservation and the environment. For ages 7-14 years.
Spring 2018 school holiday dates: Week 1: Mon 24th Tue 25th Wed 26th Thu 27th September Week 2: Mon 1st Tue 2nd Wed 3rd Thu 4th Fri 5th October 10am–4pm Cost: $80.00 per day, or $220 for 3 days (pro rata for additional days). Maximum 16 children per day.
Bookings essential as spaces are limited Dress for the weather and wear closed-toe shoes, long pants and remember your hat or raincoat. BYO lunch or purchase at the cafĂŠ.
Moonlit Sanctuary 550 Tyabb-Tooradin Rd, Pearcedale Phone 5978 7935 Web: www.moonlitsanctuary.com.au Open daily between 10am and 5pm
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LEASE DIRECT MONEY FOR EXCURSIONS, ETC TO YOUR CLASSROOM TEACHER - NOT TO THE OFFICE.
Please hand money and permission slip in sealed envelopes to classroom teacher first thing in the morning. By following this process teachers are aware that your child will be attending the excursion and mark them off their lists. Money is collected by office staff and processed each morning and a receipt given back to teachers along with permission slips. All money is tallied and banked daily – no money is left on the premises. If you wish to pay by credit card, a proforma is available from the office. This can be filled out with details and placed in a sealed envelope and handed to your classroom teacher Please deliver cash in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and grade on the front by 9.30 a.m. If you have a number of children attending an excursion you can place all money and permission slips in the one envelope with children’s names and grades on the front and deliver to one of the children’s teachers. The office staff will be able to allocate money to the children’s particular items and distribute permission slips and receipts back to teachers. Envelopes are available at the office. If you have a large amount to be paid or need to process an EFTPOS transaction through a savings account you can make arrangements to pay at the office. We also have a new Qkr payment system on our Skoolbag app. If you download our Skoolbag app and Qkr payment app you can now pay for your child’s excursion on line. All change will be delivered to the children in the afternoon. Re-imbursements will only be made under certain circumstances – they will be made by cheque (no cash transactions are made). Notices are sent out with a final collection time – please adhere to this time. All money and per mission slips ar e required to be sent back by this date – otherwise your child will not be able to attend. This enables us to confirm bookings and numbers with bus companies and organisations we are visiting. Also we need to send details to the Department of Education Emergency Management for all excursions, camps, etc. We also need to accommodate students who will not be attending. We would appreciate it if parents could please follow these processes.