Volume 21 Issue 6 Thursday 12 March 2015

C hinese Sister School Visitation In this week’s newsletter, we present another six pages of collaged

photographs capturing the heart-warming farewell extended to the visiting staff and students of our Chinese sister school, Yangzhong Experimental Primary School of Yangzhong City, Jiangsu, CHINA! If the saying, “a picture tells a thousand words”, holds true then our newsletter is certainly conveying voluminous amounts!! As expected, the whole experience was equally enjoyable and rewarding for everyone and the smiles on the faces of our own students and on the faces of our visitors are testimony to that! Collectively, Brentwood Park can be justifiably proud of our endeavours in hosting our first sister school visitation. Parents, students and staff alike certainly promoted our school value of teamwork, as everyone worked positively with each other to achieve our goal - the successful hosting of a visitation from our sister school!! Congratulations, Brentwood Park, and thank you to everyone!

S chool Council Elections 2015 At the close of our call for nominations, we had received four nominations for the “parent member

category” of school council. Given that we now have four standing nominations and four vacancies in the parent member category of school council, I automatically declare elected those four candidates

without the need for the school community to go to election. Congratulations are extended to Lana Cairns, Sandra Prvulj, Lorraine Bless and Taryn Bone. Whilst Lana and Sandra are embarking upon their second term of office at Brentwood Park Primary School, Lorraine and Taryn will be embarking upon their first. Lyn Timmins, current councilor whose first term is also concluding at this election has accepted a nomination as community representative. During the past two years as a school councilor, Lyn has been proactive in liaising with organizations within our community in support of our school. Her forthcoming appointment as community representative of school council will enable her to continue in this valuable role! Our next school council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 17 March. At this meeting, retiring school councilors will be acknowledged in addition to welcoming our new members. The full membership of school council 2015 and those elected to associated office positions, as well as acknowledgments to retiring councilors will be published in next week’s newsletter . Jim Bell, principal

P arent / Teacher Interviews Interviews are being conducted for all Foundation to Year 6 classes across two

afternoons and evenings - Monday 23 March and Wednesday 25 March. Please ensure that the interview booking request slips are returned to your child’s teacher. Attendance at the interviews is encouraged.

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DATES TO REMEMBER TERM DATES 2015 TERM 1 29 JAN - 27 MARCH TERM 2 13 APRIL - 26 JUNE TERM 3 13 JULY-18 SEPT. TERM 4 05 OCT - 18 DEC.

13 MARCH FAMILY GROUP PHOTOS 17 MARCH SCHOOL COUNCIL 7:00 P.M. 18 MARCH INTRA SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY 23 MARCH PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS 23 MARCH YEAR 5/6 CAMP INSTALMENT $100 DUE 25 MARCH PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS (SPECIALIST PROGRAM INTERVIEWS) 13 APRIL YEAR 5/6 CAMP FINAL PAYMENT $100 DUE 21 APRIL YEAR 2 COAL CREEK HISTORICAL VILLAGE EXCURSION ($20.00 DUE 13 APRIL) 27-29 APRIL YEAR 5/6 CAMP RUMBUG

JIM BELL, PRINCIPAL JENNY REID, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

S wimming News Well done to our eight swimmers who swam in the Divisional Swimming Carnival on Wednesday.

The competition was very tough, with great efforts given by everyone. Senuth, Tyson and Jack have progressed through to the Regional Carnival. Ty, Arbhi, Max and Cooper came 3rd in the freestyle relay. Lily swam an awesome race and came 4th in butterfly. Max came 3rd in breaststroke and Ty was very close in his backstroke race. Once again, the standard of swimming was super with everyone giving their best efforts. A special thanks to all of the parents and friends who have supported our swimmers.

S chool Cross Country The annual school cross country will be held on 18th March. Students who finish in the top 10

runners of each senior school race will be selected for the school team to run at district level next term. On the day, students are encouraged to wear a coloured t-shirt of their house team. Parent helpers are needed to assist with the running of this event. If you are able to assist please see Jim Narayan. Year 2: 9.15am and any year 3 that will only be 8 in 2015 Year 1: 9.45a.m Foundation: 10.15a.m RECESS 9/10 year olds: 11.00a.m 11 year olds: 11.25a.m 12 year olds: 11.50a.m Jim Narayan, H&PE Coordinator

M aths Extension Classes at Kambrya The Year Six maths extension class at Kambrya continue to be engaging sessions for

our students in attendance! Last week’s session began with a review of multiplication and division of numbers with decimals. The learning goal for the lesson was to be able to convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals. The success criteria for the class was being able to convert both easy and more difficult fractions to decimals. The second criteria was to convert decimals to fractions. Students used a number line to help them with their tasks. The whole class was very enthusiastic about their skills and Mrs. Ridoutt, mathematics teacher, was most impressed.

P ractice Makes Perfect Michelle Mason, Year 1 teacher, was married over the long weekend and her wedding went off

without a hitch; obviously due to the rehearsals at school last Thursday. At morning tea time, Michelle walked along a red carpet (practising to walk down the aisle) to the head table in the staffroom where she cut a wedding cake and was toasted by the staff (with bubbly lemonade of course) to her health and happiness with Shannon. Then at an assembly on Thursday, Michelle practised dancing with the children from her class, (not exactly the wedding waltz!) to the song ‘Celebration’, after the children in Year One to Year Three sang the song ‘Marry You’ to Michelle. Michelle wore a wedding veil throughout assembly! No wonder Michelle had a perfect day on Saturday!!!

Term 1 Week ending 6th March 2015

FTL Bailey For being a wonderful, helpful and enthusiastic member of FTL. FBV Arman For being a kind and considerate student towards his peers. Well done! FSM Melodee For working hard to achieve beautiful letter formation of the letter “a”. 1HG Hayden For demonstrating persistence with all learning tasks. CONGRATULATIONS! 1MB Angus For his detailed recount about investigations this week. Well done, Angus! 1MM Xander For trying his best during partitioning number activities this week! 2AD Nidhi For always doing her personal best in all her grade two work. Well done! 2RG Tiannah For sharing her highlights in a recount of the Chinese visit. Well done! 2/3C Sam For making such interesting maths patterns in this week’s homework. You’re a maths whizz! 3ER Azar For always asking interesting and thoughtful questions and being so enthusiastic! 3LP Mia For concentrating well during all activities and for always displaying the school values. 4SM Hannah For being a super “Word Watcher”! Keep it up! 4VK Chloe For working very hard in all tasks. Good girl, Chloe! 5CH Jai For improving your work habits and finding your positive attitude! Keep it up! 5CP Rohan For being organised and always working to the best of his abilities. 5LF Soroush For making a concerted effort to improve your listening and organisational skills. Keep it up! 6JA Vivii For settling in well and making new friends at Brentwood Park. 6JD Joel For being an outstanding member of 6JD and always doing his excellent personal best. 6TS Mackenzie For showing great resilience this week. Well done!

‘SPECIALIST’ Stars of the Week

Performing Arts 6TS For singing, creating actions and playing tuned percussion instruments for ‘Funga Alafia’. LOTE 4VK For your good discipline in the Chinese classroom. Most of you tuning in and well behaved when you studied the Chinese story about ‘Nian’.

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