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Week 4 Term 1 - 19 February 2019

Positive Behaviour for Learning

Spotlight

Congratulations to this week’s winners Jasinta, Ned, Felix, Barra, Julion and Michael. Barra was this week’s prize

winner

For the next two weeks, the focus of our

PBL lessons will be around ‘Respectful’

behaviour. Students will be learning what it

means to behave in a respectful manner in

all non-classroom settings whilst at school.

Students who demonstrate respectful

behaviour will be rewarded with PBL

‘respectful’ tokens to reinforce the

appropriate behaviour. Once students

receive ten tokens, they can place their

token card into the weekly PBL draw for a

chance to win a small prize. Students have

been given new token cards this year and

they can use their cards from last year to

carry over.

DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR19 Feb Meet the Teacher & Consultation Evening

@ Wallaga Lake Community Centre 4.30-5.30pm

1 Mar Infants Assembly @ 2.30pm

(K/1 Bidhu presenting first assembly)

4 Mar Stage 3 Paul Kelly Cup (AFL).

29 Mar Infants Assembly @ 2.30pm

10 Apr School Photos

12 Apr Last Day of Term 1

30 Apr First Day of Term 2 for Students

8-10 May Kianinny Excursion – Stage 2

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS

MEET THE TEACHER AND COMMUNITY CONSULTATION

A big thank you to the families who were able to attend our Meet the

Teacher and Community Consultation evening last night. The teachers

will also attend the Wallaga Lake Community Hall from 4:30 to 5:30pm

tonight to meet and consult with more families. The school really

appreciates ideas and feedback as we make decisions about our current

practices and future planning. The teachers thoroughly enjoyed meeting

the families of our students and sharing their learning spaces with them.

ABSENCES

Students are expected to attend all school activities on time. If your child

is absent from school, is late or needs to leave early, an explanation

needs to be provided to the school.

Explanations that are justified include:

unavoidable medical/dental appointments

recognised religious holidays

urgent family circumstances, such as a funeral

your child is sick or infectious (doctor’s certificate may need to be

provided).

Unjustified explanations include running late and sleeping in.

Unjustified explanations are still counted as an absence.

If your child is absent, there are several ways you can provide an

explanation including:

Responding to the SMS message sent out on the day of absence

A notification using the Skoolbag app

A written note to your child’s class teacher upon their return

A ‘pink slip’ filled out at the office.

SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Thank you to our families and community members for supporting our

students at last Friday’s swimming carnival. Congratulations also to our

wonderful students for their enthusiasm and sportsmanship. I would like to

thank Ms Daly and Miss Gaertner for their organisation of the day. Good

luck to our students who have qualified for the Far South Coast Zone

carnival in Candelo this Thursday.

Brendan Constable

MERIT AWARDSThe Principal and staff would like to congratulate the following children who received Awards

at our Primary Assembly on Monday, 18 February.

3/4L BALINDJANG Maddox

Issy

Lucy G

Alicia

3/4RG MURRIYIRRAS Olivia

Sunny

Jessica

5/6D DJAMALANG Sonnie

Ethan

Raiyn

Phoebe

Ocean

Makala

5/6G GANAGUBADH Liana

Aaron

Ziggy

Lucy W

Meet the Teacher & Community Consultation Evening

Please join us to meet your child’s class teacher. We will also be holding some community consultation

during this session so please take the time to share your feedback, suggestions and ideas with us to help

inform our planning for 2019 and beyond. We hope to see you there!

TONIGHT Tuesday 19 February 2019

at Wallaga Lake Community Centre 4.30- 5.30pm

Time Class Staff4.30- 5.30pm All classes- all welcome All staff will be there to chat.

Please pop in anytime to chat with your

child’s class teacher.

4.30- 5.30pm Community Consultation- share your ideas,

feedback and suggestions to help us plan for

this year and into the future.

Mr Constable, Mrs Roche & Mr Gill

Tea, coffee and cake provided. All welcome.

School News

LITERACY NEWS

At the end of 2018, all students K-6 sat an imaginative writing pre-assessment task in readiness for 2019 teaching and learning

planning around Writing and Representing. All students in Years 1- 6 will be focussing on creating imaginative texts, specifically

narratives, for the next five weeks. Teachers have been working on creating learning intentions and success criteria based on our

NSW English Syllabus outcomes and the National Literacy Progressions. We are working towards students setting their own

learning goals in the sub-element of Creating Texts during 2019.

Students in Years 1-6 will be focussing on the b, bb grapheme this week.

Homework will commence in Week 5 for K-6 as outlined in last night’s parent information sessions.

Below is a link from the NSW Department of Education which provides a detailed glossary of English terms used in both primary

and secondary schools.

https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/practical-help-for-parents-and-carers/learning-resources/english/english-a-to-z

School SportANNUAL SWIMMING

CARNIVAL

Congratulations to all competitors in

our carnival. Well done to everyone

and your enthusiastic cheering and

war cries. It was a great way to

support each other. It was fantastic to

see those who have come through the

swimming scheme, now feeling

confident to compete in some of the

races.

Thank you to the parents who helped

with timekeeping. A special

congratulations to MUMBULLA for

being the winning house.

Well done to our age champions and

those who are going on to compete at

the Zone Swimming Carnival at

Candelo this Thursday.

AGE CHAMPIONS

JUNIOR BOYS Drew

JUNIOR GIRLS Liana

11 YEAR BOYS Ned & Aaron

11 YEAR GIRLS Sienna C

SENIOR BOYS Sam G

SENIOR GIRLS Jasinta

HOUSE CAPTAIN BADGE

PRESESENTATION

Last week, our House Captains and

Vice Captains were presented with

their badges ready to wear to the

Swimming Carnival. They did a

wonderful job supporting their house

groups and encouraging participation

throughout the day. The war cries

were fabulous too. Well done.

House Captain badge presentation

Parent / Student Race

Winning House Mumbulla

SUMMER READING PROGRAM

The Summer Reading Program which was run at all the

libraries in the Shire will conclude on Friday 22nd February

with The Big Draw at Bega library starting at 4pm. There will

be many prizes to be won including, Candelo Books,

Sportspower, Merimbula Aquarium, Potaroo Palace and

Magic Mountain vouchers. The main prize is Lego Boost

Robotics set. Everyone is invited to attend

Spaces are available in most classes for

gymnastics and trampolining. We are an

active kids provider. For more info please call

Ros after 7pm on 64934264

CREATIVE KIDS NOW JOIN ACTIVE KIDS

Active Kids and Creative Kids are programs designed to

encourage more children to participate in sport, active

recreation and creative and cultural activities.

Each year, parents, guardians and carers can receive a

$100 voucher to go towards both creative and physical

activities for school aged children. That’s $200 worth of

savings per year for each child.

A Creative Kids voucher will help parents to cover some of

the registration, participation and tuition costs on activities

such as singing, drama, coding, languages, music, writing,

drawing and photography.

The Active Kids voucher can be used on sports, fitness and

physical activities for registration, participation and

membership costs.

The vouchers can be used once with an approved provider.

To find out more, parents need to visit service.nsw.gov.au.

www.facebook.com/BermaguiPublicSchoolNSW

P&C and Community Announcements

P&C CANTEEN NEWS

Volunteers

WED 20 FEB Patsy

FRI 22 FEB Beth H

Thank you to Peta S for donation of some

roast chooks and Sara W for donation of

some fetta and onions.