We are a Positive Behaviour for Learning School.

Our values are Pride, Honesty and Respect.

TERM 1 FEBRUARY 28 Rugby 7s Carnival in Inverell - U12’s MARCH 2 Primary Regional Swimming Carnival in Armidale

3 North West Secondary Swimming Championships in Armidale 6 Uniform orders due 6 Elective fees due 9 P & C AGM

5pm in School Library 10 PSSA Cricket trials in Warialda 12 Fast 5 Netball Gala Day Secondary students 17 Northern Trials Soccer in Inverell

18 Cultural Day 20 National Day Against Bullying & Violence 20 Harmony Day 26 School Photos APRIL 1 PSSA Touch Football

trials in Inverell

Address: 55 Finch Street, Bingara, NSW, 2404 Ph: 67241606

Email: bingara-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: http://www.bingara-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/

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Sporting Success Congratulations to all of our primary students who participated in the zone swimming carnival held last Friday. We had a large cohort of 26 students representing Bingara Central School to the highest of standards. We are extremely proud of all your dedication and efforts to get to this point in representative sport. Special mention must go to:

Liam Johnson: Runner Up 11 Years Boy Following on from the successes at the Primary Zone Carnival, 18 students along with Blaire Johnson from secondary will be representing themselves and our school at the Regional Swimming Carnival next week. The primary carnival will be held on Monday, 2 March and the secondary carnival on Tuesday, 3 March. We wish all of our students the best of luck. PSSA Cricket will be held on Wednesday against Warialda Public School at Bingara. Our secondary students will also be participating in the Combined High Schools Basketball competition held at Inverell. We wish all of our students the very best in these competitions as I know that we have some very passionate and enthusiastic athletes. We also have had three students selected for Central North Rugby Union which include U13 Harrison Tevaga, U16 Leilani Tevaga and Brooke McKinnon. We also have U14 Brandon Tevaga who hopefully will finalise his spot in the team following a development camp later on in the term. This is a fantastic opportunity for our students. P & C AGM The AGM has been set for Week 7 this term, Monday, 9 March 2020. The team encourages all new parents to the school community and our existing parents to please come and join them. This is a great way to support the school and your children.

Brooke Wall Principal

BINGARA CENTRAL SCHOOL

Friday, 28 February Week 5, Term 1

What has been happening in Secondary English?

Stage 4 – Stage 4 students are getting close to finishing their Popular Poetry unit. Students have been exploring techniques, themes and the way texts create meaning through the exploration of popular music. The pictures show some of their own poetry creations using colour symbolism, personification, simile and metaphor as well as blackout poetry.

SECONDARY NEWS MERIT AWARDS Congratulations to the following students who received Merit Awards at yesterday’s Assembly: BRONZE Brandon Tevaga, Clayton Brien, Blaire Johnson, Dylan Weber, Malunna Robinson, Jacob Walton, Traye Clulow and Dianna Frewen. Andrew Bancroft, Emily-Kate Rattray, Sarah Dennis, Brooke McKinnon and Xavier Smith. William Johnson, Karys Smith, Angel Neal, Katie Dennis, Chelsea Stevenson, Jacqueline Coombes and Erica Dixon.

Stage 5 – This week, Stage 5 English will be concluding their Bingara Nine-Nine unit. Students have enjoyed exploring crime fiction and have made inferences supported by evidence from the texts and answered complex text-dependent questions. They have also liked responding creatively to texts, in particular developing a closing address to the jury as either the prosecution or defence in the case of the murder of Mr Patrick Maloney (Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl). This persuasive task will be the first piece of their term long portfolio assessment.

Stage 6 – Stage 6 will finish their close study of the novel ‘Raw’ by Scott Monk at the end of this week.

This unit has seen them develop some impressive multimodal presentations in the form of a character

life box. Students have represented their chosen character from the text using both tangible and

intangible elements and supported these with detailed reference and analysis of the text.

SECONDARY ENGLISH

Congratulations to the following students who received a merit award at this week’s assembly:

Mason White, Torah Walton, Jaxon Moore, Daniel Rowleson, Amelia Kilmore, An Qi Li, Jessica Smith, Harriett Webber, Bella Michell, Liam Johnson

SPORTS REPORT

Representative Swimming Last Friday, 26 of our students represented our school at the Inverell Zone Swimming Carnival. This was a fantastic day with many personal bests being achieved. Liam Johnson was awarded Runner-Up 11 Year old boy at the carnival which was a fabulous achievement for Liam. We now have a team of 18 students representing at Regional Swimming in Armidale on Monday. Congratulations and good luck to Tamiya McClymont, Jarrod Kilmore, Liam Johnson, Charles Turnbull, Anabella Ricardo, Bella Michell, Addison Dixon, Elle-Grace Haley, Harriett Webber, Ruby Miller, Morgan White, Lily Marshall, Lottie Lewis, Barnaby Munro, Kyenan Sutton, Scarlett Standerwick, Molly Green and Darcy Todd.

PSSA Soccer Congratulations to Cameron Tevaga, Kyenan Sutton and Liam Johnson for making the Inverell Zone Boys Soccer team and to Izabella Michell, Zoe Allen, Mailee Sullivan and Addison Dixon for making the Inverell Zone Girls Soccer team! This is a massive achievement for these 7 students who were up against some tough competition in Inverell today! A big congratulations to all of our students who tried out yesterday, your team spirit and sportsmanship shone through.

Upcoming Events Monday, March 2 – Regional Swimming Carnival – Armidale Tuesday, March 10 – PSSA cricket trials – Warialda Tuesday, March 17 – Northern trials, Soccer – Inverell Wednesday, April 1 – PSSA Touch Football trials – Inverell Thursday, April 2 – PSSA Rugby League trials – Warialda

Natasha Schmidt & Tanya Withers Assistant Principals

PRIMARY REPORT

ASSEMBLY AWARDS Congratulations to the following students who received their Bronze Awards at yesterdays Assembly: Ruby Miller, Morgan White, James Irwin, Lachlan Foster, Harriett Webber, Kyenan Sutton, Barnaby Munro, Mailee Sullivan, Benji Ricardo, Darcy Todd, Zoe Allen, Jymari Robinson, Bella Michell, Daniel Gomez, Elle’-Grace Haley and Addison Dixon.

CANTEEN ROSTER MARCH Monday 2 Tuesday 3 CLOSED Wednesday 4 Ann Lewis Thursday 5 Lorraine McKinnon Friday 6 Casey McClymont

School bus drivers have made contact with staff regarding safety issues with school students and buses. Please DO NOT call your children across the road in between buses as they arrive at school. This has been happening at home time when parents pick up their children. Obvious safety concern here as the parents should instead come and collect their children from the school grounds and walk across the road together.

NEWSLETTER If you have provided the school with an email address you will receive the Newsletter via email. If you wish to receive a hardcopy, please see the ladies in the front office.

Tell Them From Me student feedback survey (Term 1, 2020)

Bingara Central School, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in a Department

of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey measures

factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of

the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices.

More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au

The survey is a great opportunity for our students to provide us with valuable and quick feedback

on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways

that teachers interact with them. More than 6,300 schools in Australia and around the world have

used Tell Them From Me to survey 5.4 million students. Capturing the voices of our students will

help improve how we do things at our school.

I want to assure you that the survey is confidential. The survey is conducted online and will

typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be administered during school hours be-

tween 9 March and 8 May. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary.

If you do not want your child or children to participate, please contact the school by Friday 6th

March.

Copies of FAQs are available from: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents.

IMPORTANT NOTES Thank you to all the students who have returned their notes. If you have not returned the following notes, please do so as soon as possible. Student Information Sheet It is important this note is returned as soon as possible. It is vital for the school to keep your child’s information up to date Local Excursion Permission Note All students have received this note to take home. If your child does not return this note, they will be unable to attend local excursions. Indigenous Cultural Day All students received an Indigenous Cultural Day note yesterday. Please return to the front office as soon as possible. Please return all notes as soon as possible.

LUNCH ORDERS ON TUESDAYS Pre-order forms went home yesterday to each family to give them the opportunity to order lunch for their child next Tuesday. Order forms and money must be handed in to the front office by Friday. Next Tuesday will be Bacon & Egg Rolls - $6. Students can still purchase a drink from the canteen. Each Tuesday there will be something different on the menu for students to order. NO LATE ORDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER FRIDAY.

ELECTIVE FEES All families have received school accounts. If your child has chosen an elective this year, please ensure fees are paid in full by Friday, 6 March. If elective fees are not paid, your child may have to access alternative activities in the classroom. If fees are not paid by Friday, 6 March your child will be unable to participate in non-mandatory excursion and extra-curricular opportunities (including extra-curricular sporting events).

UNIFORMS Uniform orders closed on Friday, 6 March. If your child requires uniforms please fill the attached order form out and return to school with payment.

IMPETIGO (School Sores) There have been a couple of cases of school sores in the school. Children must remain at home until anti-biotic treatment starts and they must be covered with dressings.

Place all your school lunch orders online with Flexischools We are excited to confirm the introduction of a new online ordering system called Flexischools, which will commencing on Monday, 24 February. Flexischools is a well-established organisation allowing you to easily place all your canteen orders online at any time. Download the Flexischools app from the App store or Google Play https://wwww.flexischools.com.au/mobile-app) for details on how to set up your account. Once registered, you can start placing orders immediately. If you have any questions, please contact the Flexischools Customer Service Team on 1300 361 769, or you can contact them via their website. We hope this step forward will support families with a more convenient and efficient process of placing canteen orders.