Barwon Heads Primary School ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ 1574 Barwon Heads Primary School Newsletter 19th March 2015 Phone: 5254 2324 Fax: 5254 3073 Website: www.bhps.vic.edu.au Email: barwon.heads.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au *Please contact the school using any of the above details if you would like to join our school Konnective Application used by your smart phone to receive important news and notifications. Term Dates: Term 1: 28th – 27th March Term 2: 13th April – 26th June Term 3: 13th July – 18th September Term 4: 5th October – 18th December Important Dates: 19/03/15: Grade 5 – 6 Golf Clinic 26/3/15: Whole School Cross Country 02/04/15: Easter Fair Art Show 04/04/15: Easter Fair 15/04/15: School Photos 28/04/15: Connewarre District Cross Country Grade 4 - 6 12/05 – 14/05: Grade 3 & 5 NAPLAN Testing 20/05/15: 5 – 6 Connewarre District Winter Sport 26/05/15: Bellarine Division Cross Country 2/06/15: 5 – 6 Connewarre District Soccer 24/07/15: 5 – 6 Connewarre District Girls Football 6/08/15: 5 – 6 Hooptime Basketball 11/08/15: 3 – 4 Hooptime Basketball 12/08/15: BHPS Grades 3 - 6 House Athletics 24/08/15 – 28/08/15: Children’s Book Week - theme is: “Books light up our world!” 26/08/15: Connewarre Grades 3 - 6 District Athletics *2nd of September will be the back up day for this event if need be. 7/09/15 – 09/09/15: Grade 3 Camp 14/09/15: Bellarine Division Athletics 16/11/15 – 18/11/15: Grade 5 Camp * A full annual calendar is currently being prepared which we will publish for families in the near future Please note that the last day of Term (Next Friday 27th of March) there will be an early lunch at 1.00 pm an early Assembly at 2.00 pm and an early dismissal at 2.30 pm. A Word from Our Principal School Council Policies With our first school council meeting occurring tonight it is timely to remind the community that a key role of our school council is to construct and monitor school policies. Policies are constructed and reviewed in line with Department policy and after consideration and consultation with the school community. The Principal’s role in this process is to ensure that policies abide by Department guidelines and then ensure that policies are promoted and adhered to. Examples of such policies include, uniform, dogs in the yard, and the student engagement policy. Surf Awareness Program Due to Barwon Heads Primary School logistically being unable to continue the Surf Awareness program as we have outgrown the available facilities and resources, we are currently investigating a replacement program. Easter Fair We have been really pleased with the number of returned notes indicating your availability to support our Easter Fair. Another one is attached to this week’s newsletter for anyone who has misplaced it. A simple email to the school or to Sarah Jackson (Fair coordinator) will also suffice. The simple donation of 2 hours of your time would be greatly appreciated Our Easter Fair kicks off with the Art Show on Thursday 2nd April. This will be a great opportunity for our adult community to come together socially and enjoy a great night. There will be art auctions and art for sale. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased outside of the office each morning. Raffle tickets for the art work on display are also available. MAJOR SPONSOR: Art Show – RT Edgar Our historical Sheepwash Classic gets moving early Saturday morning with the first event starting from 9am and registrations open from 7am. More importantly you can register online and collect your bib from the school on Friday from 9am to 12pm at the school. Registrations will also be taken at this location and times. MAJOR SPONSOR: Sheepwash Classic – Barwon Coast/Bellarine Property https://www.registernow.com.au/secure/Register.aspx?E=15635 Finally we conclude with our Fair which starts at 10am and runs through to 3pm. There will be a large variety of stores and food available, as well as plenty of activities for children. MAJOR SPONSOR: Bendigo Bank Free Tickets – Supa Tramp The winners of the 5 free Supa Tramp tickets, the new indoor trampoline and climbing park, were Hero and Banjo Partos-Slattery. www.supatramp.com.au The correct answer to the number of activities on offer at Supa Tramp was 8. School Council School council will have their first meeting tonight at 6pm. The meeting will commence with an AGM before positions are declared open and vacant/ councillors then nominated to fill those positons as office bearers for 2015. Our first official meeting of 2015 council will then begin. School Council Members for 2015 Darren Roskosch Steve Copland Marc Duval Maureen Cross Viva Partos First meeting Thursday 19th March Mr Darren Roskosch Principal Megan Allender Sharna Sutas Georgie Imhoff Matt Walsh Modesty Kneebone Cathy Crane Linda Jordan Lisa Kebbell “YOU CAN DO IT AWARDS” Prep A Prep B Prep C 1A 1B 2A 2B 12C 3A 3B 3C 4A 4B 4C 5A 5B 5C 6A 6B Ava Marsden Darcy Cotter Cooper Hill Taj McPhee Ollie Cincotta Tex Lawrence Ruby Lo Daisy Tiernan Byron Foord Flynn White Calum Pate Eva Tegart Jema Hely Skye Sutton George McCulloch Nelly Naulty Spencer Park Dana Ford Rhys McKinnon Taj Hibbard Riley Dalley Eliza O’brien Will McNamee Campbell Lee Poppy Tunn – Mcgrath Miller Smith Harper Sullivan Johanna Dillon Sophie Blackett Bella Kostadinoff Lenny Moore Flynn Hanrahan Charlie Cox Maeve Brewer Jack Goddard Jazmin Squires Zeph Lampered Alannah Borg Are you a Parent Helper in your child’s class? Please note that if you come into the school grounds to help out in the Classroom at any point you must come through to the front office and sign yourself in. Absences If your child is absent from school for any reason you must notify the school. You can notify the school via email, phone or write a note and send it to school. We highly advise a phone call or an email to explain an absence. It is extremely important that if your child is absent that you let the school know otherwise it will be an unexplained absence that will show on reports and data. Late: It is Department regulations that if your child is late to school they are required to be signed in by a parent/guardian and they will need to bring a late pass to their teacher. On Tuesday the 10th of March the Grade 3's and parents had a science night as part of Festival of the Sea. The grade 3's did some exciting and interesting activities with Jon, Lisa and Mark. John did sea bingo, we learnt about some new fish and animals. Mark taught us about seaweed and how it is actually used in ice cream to smoothen it! Lisa taught us how fish survive in the sea and about the food chain. We all had a great time as well as the parents! Oskar and Jack After School Care – Camp Australia Hi Everyone! Last week the children had fun getting creative and participating in some arts and craft such as colouring in and painting! We also had a science competition last week which was to see who could make the strongest floating boat out of aluminium foil. We did the competition in pairs and then we got to test our boats individully in trays of water with how many lego bricks each boat could hold. It was lot's of fun and everyone in after school care got involved. This week, we have started off with some new group games we learnt about! It was lots of fun and everyone tried to get involved! It was great to see everyone playing together and getting involved. We are also coming to the end of the term and feel the children dying for their holidays so they are still enjoying having a break and colouring in and enjoying each others company! We are looking for some pre-loved sporting equipment, games and puzzles to add to our after school care collection, if you have anything you no longer use, please feel free to drop in, we would really appreciate it. Families please note that whislt we currently only provide after school care we are taking expressions of interest for BEFORE SCHOOL CARE, we have a bit of interest but we need a couple more families to get involved so that we have the numbers to provide the before school care service. Please let us know if you are interested to ensure we can try and provide this service as soon as possible. You can let us know by calling the OSHC phone (number is provided below) or calling into the office/room which is located near the gym, we are here Monday to Friday 2:30pm to 6:00pm. We would love to hear from you :) Any questions please call us on 0432 636 625. Suzanne and Nina House Cross Country 2015 The school cross country will be held on Thursday March 26 from 11:00 – 1:00. All parents are most welcome to attend to and watch this spectacular event. The event is run at Village Park. This enables the children aged 10 – 12 years to have the opportunity of completing the correct distance for their age group before our District competition. The top 8 finishers in the 9/10, 11 and 12 year age groups will go onto represent our school in the District event on Tuesday, April 28th at Eastern Gardens. QUALIFYING TIMES 10 year boys 10 year girls 11/12 year boys 11/12 year girls 11:00 12:00 14:00 18:00 While the older children are running, the 5 to 9 year olds will participate in their events as listed below. The coffee van will be there on the day. Due to the construction of the new kinder, the course has been altered slightly to ensure the children’s safety. Age groups for 10, 11 and 12 year olds and children in Grades 4 – 6 are taken as at 31 December 2014. This means the age that the child turns during 2014. For example, a child turning 10 in 2014 competes in the 10 year age group and a child turning 9 but who is in Grade 4 also competes in the 10 year age group all year. EVENT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 AGE GROUP 11 & 12 year BOYS 11 & 12 year GIRLS Grade Prep Grade 1 9/10 years (Grade 4) Grade 2 Grade 3 DISTANCE 3 kilometres 3 kilometres ½ lap of the oval 1 lap of oval – 300m 2 kilometres 2 laps of oval – 600m 1 kilometre THIS IS A HOUSE EVENT AND CHILDREN ARE ENCOURAGED TO WEAR THEIR HOUSE COLOURS ON THE DAY. *Students have been training during PE classes and have been encouraged to enter the Sheepwash Classic, which will be held on Easter Saturday. As a guide, the track around Village Park is 2 km and a great place to do some extra training. EASTER FAIR 2015 WRIST BANDS FOR UNLIMITED RIDES! Wrist bands for unlimited rides at this year’s Easter Fair are on sale at the discounted price of $25 each Available now at the school office only until Friday 27 March Price for wristbands $25 until 27 March or $32 on the day The cost of an individual ride on the day will be: Cha cha $7 Tea cups $5 Jurassic inflatable with rock wall and slides $5 Fibreglass slide $5 for two slides Buy yours now to receive this huge 20% discount DAZZLING DAN MAGIC SHOW & WORKSHOP! Appearing at the Easter Fair! Magic Show $2 & Workshop $4 Learn a trick to amaze your friends!! Limited tickets available Purchase at Barwon Heads Primary School office now! Lucky Bag Fillings I am looking forward to organising and running the lucky bag stall at the Easter Fair again this year, as this was one of my favourite parts of the Easter Fair when I was growing up. However we are very dependent on donations to fill these bags. We are now seeking donations for the fillings for our lucky bags. There will be three different sections this year, a boys section and girls section and a general section. Grade 5 students will be coming around to collect all the donations on a daily basis. Items such as stationary (pens, pencils, paper etc.), small toys (figurines, key rings, toy cars etc.), wrapped lollies and small Easter eggs are great. Thank you for your support. Sharna Renfrey Preserve Stall News Preserves stall news Thanks to all who have picked up jars - Tiara is ready and waiting to receive your finished products at the office before the end of term or you can even drop them off on Good Friday between 9 am - 12 noon. Cake Stall A great way to contribute to the Easter Fair is to bake! The There are still plenty of jars left, so here is the cake stall is always popular and sells out. Recipes for scones, world's easiest jam recipe for those who have biscuits, slices, meringues, sausage rolls muffins, mini quiches previously put preserve making in the too hard are found in the school cook book. Banana and carrot cakes or basket... Basic microwave jam lumbar jack cakes fetch a good price! · 1 lemon, halved *No cream or frozen cakes please. It would be appreciated if items for the stall could be dropped · 500g fruit (remove stone or stalk and chop in at school on Good Friday morning or on the morning of the fruit) · 1 1/2 cups (335g) white sugar fair. Juice the lemon. Place fruit, lemon juice and For the class who bakes the most, a FISH and CHIP LUNCH is the rind halves in a large microwave safe bowl. on offer, so encourage your parents to get cooking! Cook, uncovered, on High/100% power, Donations of eggs, flour, and sugar can be left at the office. stirring occasionally for 6 min. Plates and cellophane bags will also be at the office. Add the sugar and cook on High/100% power Thanks! for 20 min or until the jam reaches setting Questions/ more info Janet 0408226836 point. Discard lemon rind and spoon the hot jam into a sterilized jar. Invert for 2 min then turn upright to cool. Don't forget, jars, lids, labels, sterilisation tips and additional recipes are all available at the office. EASTER FAIR 2015 Lolly Stall Toffees are very popular on the Lolly stall and are simple to make and fun for the kids to help with too. INGREDIENTS -3 Cups sugar -1 Cup water -1/4 Cup brown vinegar METHOD 1. Combine sugar, water and vinegar in a saucepan and stir over low heat until sugar has dissolved. 2. Increase heat to boil mixture without stirring, for 15 minutes or until a small amount of mixture will crack when dropped into cold water 3. Remove toffee from heat, allow bubbles to subside, then pour into paper patty cases 4. Decorate with hundreds and thousands, coconut etc. 5. Bring to the Lolly stall on the day of the Fair or to school in the days before the Fair. Easter Fair Art Show Art Show Opening Party When: 2nd April 2015 at 7pm Art Auction, Canapés, Live Music, Awards and Great Art. $10 a ticket drinks at bar prices. Tickets for the Art Show are available for purchase at Barwon Heads Primary School Office and out at the front the office after school. Tickets will also be available for purchase at *Please note that you will find entry forms for the Art Show attached to the Newsletter Email (If you are on our mailing list.) You can also find the entry form Online by opening the following link: http://bhps.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Art-Show-Entry-Form1.pdf Grade 2 Rockpool Visit Yesterday Grade 2’s visited the rockpools to help celebrate Festival of the Sea. We were lucky enough to have four fantastic leaders in Jon Duthie, Mark Rodrigue, Maddie Glynn and Brooke Connor show us around the rockpools and talk to us about the diverse range of animals and life that make them home. The students came back and wrote an entry in their Writer’s Notebook. Here are some examples: Rockpools are amazing! There are all sorts of animals that live there. Some of them are crabs, sea stars, tiny fish, sea snails, algae, sea weed and much more. My Mum was one of the helpers so it was a lot of fun. Chelsea Wow! Look at that beauty! That was the biggest elephant snail I have ever seen. It was massive. It looks black and slimy. It’s so cool! Monty We had one minute to find a crab. I found a crab hiding under a rock, I showed it to Mark. He told us how to tell the difference between a male and a female. A female has a compartment for her eggs and is bigger. A male has a triangular shape on its head. Lachie In a rockpool against the rocks I found two little green sea stars. I held them in my hand under the water. I put one upside down and it rolled over quite quick. I gave one to Chelsea and we looked at them until Mark said it was time to move so I put my starfish back under a rock. Stella I liked looking at all the creatures that live in the rockpools. My favourite thing was looking at all the different kinds of seaweed. I liked the kind that was all in a bunch. Hayden Thanks to the Festival of the Sea for organizing such a great day! BHPS Superstars North Division Tennis Jye Bartley participated in the combined Bellarine and Geelong North Division Tennis Championships on Wednesday 18th March. Jye won in straight sets, making it through to Regionals in Williamstown on the 30th April. Great work!! Barwon Heads Tennis Clubs (BHTC) Mixed Doubles Team (Section 24) have made the Grand Final Tournament for the 2014/15 Summer Season, Geelong Junior Competition League! They face off against tough rivals, Point Lonsdale, this Saturday, 9.00am at Ocean Grove Tennis Club The Club is particularly proud as; a) For half of the players in the team, it was their first time playing junior completion tennis in an official Tennis Victoria regional league, (Tennis Geelong: comprising teams from 8 Clubs all around the Greater Geelong and Bellarine regions) b) These are amongst the youngest juniors filling the ranks at Barwon Heads Tennis Club c) They were one of only two Mixed Doubles Sections in the league during the 14/15 summer season All the best to … Maddie Barlow, Molly Condon, Maeve McLeod, Charlie Barlow, Isaac Ingham, … and Tias Morris Halse, who is part of the team, but has been overseas in Norway for half the season Since 2012, BHTC has attracted a whole new wave of juniors, with teams growing from 3 during the 12/13 season to 8 from the 14/15 season Winter Season Competition now open for players wanting to take part Head Lice Some isolated cases of head lice have been reported to our school, so now is a good time to check your child’s head for any sign of them. What to look for…… The eggs appear as tiny silvery white specks attached to the hair shaft near the scalp. Dandruff and hairspray may look similar but these are easily brushed away, the eggs are not. Other signs of lice infestation may be a red rash and scratch marks on the scalp, nape of the neck or behind the ears. They are best removed by scraping the individual hair between fingernails or using a fine toothed comb. (Any eggs should be placed in hot water to make sure they are destroyed). Using conditioner on hair will help to stun live lice and help remove eggs as well. If you do find lice or eggs please endeavour to complete treatment before returning to school. (Treatments are available at supermarkets and chemists). Part of our school policy and health regulations is that eggs be removed before re admittance to class after treatment. We understand that this is a laborious task but if we attend to it now, an outbreak may be averted. Once again, thank you for your help and cooperation with this task. If you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to contact the school. Community News Bellarine Community Farmers' Market This Saturday, Ocean Grove park, 9am-1pm The best of fresh, local and regional produce, come and meet the makers, growers & producers for a great family day out - with food-to-go, buskers, Kids Corner, playground and dogs on leads welcome, there's something for everyone. The 2015 AFL Auskick season is coming! NAB AFL Auskick is a great way for boys and girls to learn the skills of the great game of Australian Football and follow in the steps of their AFL heroes! Through weekly coaching sessions with our passionate coaches and coordinators, your child will learn the skills of the game, be part of a great team and play non-contact AFL games with their friends. PLUS Each participant will receive an awesome benefits pack full of gear when they join! All backpacks will be sent direct to your home once registrations are completed. Registrations are open now! All registrations must be completed online and can be done by following these easy steps: 1. Visit aflauskick.com.au 2. Enter your postcode in the centre locator 3. Select the centre you would like to attend 4. Complete the registration questions 5. Pay online *Please be sure to print out the completed registration form, sign it and bring along to the first session. The season commences on Friday 1st May, 2015 from 5.00pm – 6.00pm at Barwon Heads Football Ground. For further information please contact Richard Graham on 0488 771 155 or email richard@efes.net.au Looking forward to seeing you there BELLARINE PARENTS NETWORK A network for parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder on the Bellarine Peninsula Where: Parent resource room at Clifton Springs Primary School, Jetty Road, Clifton Springs When: 9.15 – 11am Thursday March 26th 2015 Speakers: Nicky Copley and Robyn Cameron Nicky and Robyn will talk about ways to support children and adolescents on the Autism Spectrum with academia. Come and learn about strategies for reading, writing, maths and spelling both at school and at home. Please reserve a spot with: Nicky Copley 52487153 Copley.nicola.k@edumail.vic.gov.au Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence. Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.