School Matters

Old Bathurst Road, East Blaxland 2774

Phone 4739 1579 Fax 4739 8300

Principal Kerry Bryan

Email Blaxlande-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage www.blaxlande-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

P&C Email blaxlandeast@gmail.com

Term 3 Week 8 14 September

Morning Bell 9.00am Afternoon Bell 3.00pm Office Hours 8.30am - 3.15pm

P&C Association meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm Next Meeting 17 October

CORE VALUES

Be Respectful

Excellence Always

Participate Courageously

Serve Others

Public School Blaxland East

Buddy Reading

Office News

Principal’s Report

Core Values Awards

Fete Thank You

Garden Update

Canteen News

September Meal Deal

October School Holidays activities

Health snippet

2018 Fete Sponsors

In this School Matters:

On Monday 10th September KM enjoyed a lovely afternoon of Buddy Reading with some very helpful Year

5 students. 5M shared picture books with their Kindy friends and the clever Kinders even got to read one

of their own books to their buddy. THANK YOU 5M for your time and encouragement. KM look forward to

the next visit from their Buddy Readers.

The office continues to hold a large collection of lost property items

including a ring, Pandora bead, Hogwarts earrings, Garmin fitness tracker,

earphones, watches and more.

CHANGES TO SKOOLBAG APP

Due to changes to Apple policy, individual Skoolbag apps are no longer supported in the app store and

therefore will not receive critical updates. Users are also reporting issues

with attachments not downloading.

We have been advised to delete the individual ‘Blaxland East Public

School’ Skoolbag app and download the single Skoolbag app in the

App Store or Google Play store.

You can then add multiple schools within the single Skoolbag app if you

have children at more than one school, and easily switch between them

from within the app.

You can now submit absence notifications and change of details information via the Skoolbag

app.

Go to the Home menu within Skoolbag and choose eForms.

A reminder that when returning permission notes for school activities it is a legal

requirement to return a SEPARATE permission note for each child.

In addition, if returning multiple notes for more than one child/activity, there is no

need to put each note in separate envelope. We are able to process multiple

payments for multiple activities/children in the one transaction.

PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD/REN’S FULL NAME AND CLASS ON PERMISSION NOTES!

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

Congratulations to all our competitors who attended the Zone Athletics Carnival last

Friday. Every single one of you was a star and you represented your school with

courage and pride. A special mention to Isla Puri, Ryley King, Will Haydon, Junior

Girls’ Relay and Junior Boys’ Relay teams who all set new records at the carnival. Well done.

A big thank you to Ashlee Thomas who organised the day and to all the

teachers and parents who helped on the day. Without your help and

assistance the day would not have run so well.

Our Fete on Saturday was a huge success and a huge thank you goes out to

all the P&C, parent volunteers, teachers and others who helped and assisted

with the smooth running of the day. Everyone I spoke to said they had a

wonderful time. Well done everyone.

In addition, our Book Parade on Tuesday was a huge success, with all the

students having a great time dressing up as their favourite character. There

were some very creative outfits! Thanks to Mrs Swatridge for her

organisation of the day and to all the teachers who supported the students throughout the day.

Looking ahead, we have a Stage 3 Basketball Day, Regional Athletics, K–2 Sports Day, Kindergarten

Transition and Aussie of the Month Assembly to finish the term. After that, a short break for everyone

before we hit busy Term four.

We are currently starting to plan our classes and teaching staff for 2019, so we would appreciate families

letting us know if they will not be returning to BEPS next year. We are very close to forming an

additional class in 2019 so students leaving will affect our class structure and staffing. Thank you in

anticipation of your assistance with this.

Enjoy the last two weeks of Term 3.

Cheers

Kerry.

Stage 2 Term 3 Week 7

Joel Morton 3B Being Respectful

Riley Moore 3B Excellence Always

Caitlin Bestley 3B Participating Courageously

Rory Leonard 3B Serving Others

Talia McGregor 3D Being Respectful

Declan Hendrie 3D Serving Others

Lara King 3D Being Respectful

Tyler Liscoe 3D Participating Courageously

Haemish Hrymak 4G Serving Others

Heidi Page 4G Excellence Always

Alex McDonald-Tickner 4G Participating Courageously

Izabelle Wicks 4G Being Respectful

Coby McIntosh 4H Being Respectful

Isla Puri 4H Excellence Always

Amalia Vandiejen-Nicoll 4H Being Respectful

Vera Cable 4H Serving Others

Stage 3 Term 3 Week 7

Claire Nicholls 5/6T Excellence Always

Imogen Handley 5/6T Excellence Always

Lillian Byrnes 5/6T Excellence Always

William James 5/6T Being Respectful

Molly Gill 6W Participating Courageously

Georgia Brown 6W Serving Others

Emily Bestley 6W Being Respectful

Zoe Kimmings 6W Being Respectful

K-2 Term 3 Week 8 Alex Galet KC Excellence Always

Harry Sach KM Excellence Always

Alex Bornatici KP Excellence Always

Anita Kitaoka Reeson 1D Excellence Always

Dylan Thomas 1H Excellence Always

Maisy Allport 1M Excellence Always

Scarlett Dennis 1/2T Excellence Always

Alice Croft 2H Excellence Always

continued…….

K-2 Term 3 Week 7

William Hext KC Being Respectful

Kennedy Salmon KM Being Respectful

Jacinta Lamb KP Being Respectful

Savannah Jones 1D Being Respectful

Ivy Letertre 1H Being Respectful

Hannah Howard 1M Being Respectful

Aaron Dalgleish 1/2T Being Respectful

Jacob York 2H Being Respectful

Isla Puri 4H Olivia Adams 4H

Kalinka Jakubowski KP Stuart Vaughan KP

Jacinta Lamb KP Thomas Jack 2H

Vanessa Gamal-Debono 2H Harlee Vandiejen-Nicoll 2H

Tyler Farnham 2H Lylah Smith 2H

What is not to love about

spring? The sunshine and

rain, the helping hands and

many bright colours of joy!

Thanks to Cass at Bunnings

Valley Heights we were able

to pot and sell our pots for 1D

and 3-6T at the Fete. Thank

you to everyone for your help

planting, donating seedlings

and help with the plant stall.

While we have been focused on plants for

the Fete, we have also been busy preparing

the garden for open days and the Fete and

fertilising the beds ready for spring planting

in the next few weeks. We have a few

capsicums and lettuce as well as other seedlings to go in

You may have noticed that our Garden Club

volunteers have upgraded the Grow Free

Cart. It is the only one in NSW that is

available 24/7. We have volunteers growing

seeds and plants from home to drop off and hope to

get the classes involved at school. 1D helped plant some

two weeks ago ready to grow and share. If you have

any spare seeds, seedlings or produce you would

like to share with the community, please feel free to

drop them off on the cart. Please leave grow free

cart containers so we can keep giving.

If you would like to join us for a cuppa and chat

while we work, our next working bee for Garden

Friends Club is Tuesday 16 October, however we will be around in the

meantime. If you would like to donate seeds, seedlings, or just chat

gardening, we would love to see you.

Leave us a message at the office or email dirtmum@gmail.com

How to order at school or online

Lunch orders must be placed in class baskets before 9.00am each morning. Lunches are delivered to the

classrooms at the beginning of lunchtime.

Students in Kindergarten and Year 1 may order recess through class baskets and buy snacks and drinks

over the counter at lunchtime.

You can also order online via Our Online Canteen (now called QuickCliq) - information can be found

here.

Tell Them From Me student survey:

Information and consent form for

parents and carers