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Barwon Heads Primary School
‘It takes a village to raise a child’
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Barwon Heads Primary School
Newsletter #13
21st May 2015
Calendar Dates
Term Dates:
Term 2: 13th April – 26th June
Term 3: 13th July – 18th September
Term 4: 5th October – 18th December
Important Dates:
22/5/15: Do more with less Leadership
Conference
22/05/15: Open Classrooms 12.30 -1.30pm
26/05/15: Bellarine Division Cross Country
24/6/15: Parent Teacher Interviews
2/06/15: 5 – 6 Connewarre District Soccer
9/06/15: Queens Birthday Public Holiday
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 backup
day for this event if need be.
7/09/15 – 09/09/15: Grade 3 Camp
14/09/15: Bellarine Division Athletics
2/11/15 – 4/11/15: Grade 4 Camp
16/11/15 – 18/11/15: Grade 5 Camp
School Banking on
Wednesdays
Phone: 5254 2324 Fax: 5254 3073
Website: www.bhps.vic.edu.au
Email: barwon.heads.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Now Accepting 2016 Enrolments
Please note that you can find our 2016 Enrolment
forms online. Using the link provided:
http://bhps.vic.edu.au/parent-information/
Enrolment packs are also available at the front office
and via email.
Number of preps enrolled for 2016: 25
A word from our Principal
This week we are celebrating Education Week and students
have been working on Numeracy activities based around the
theme ‘Crack the Code with Maths’ with an artistic twist.
Students have created artistic pieces that utilised their
mathematical knowledge and skills. Student work will be on
display at the Multi-Function Centre tomorrow. There will
be guided tours of the exhibition available over lunch.
Visitors to our 'exhibition' will need to crack the code to work
out what maths has been used for the art works. Also
tomorrow parents and friends are invited to join students for
activities in the classrooms between 12:30 and 1:30pm.
Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.
Interschool Chess Tournament/BHPS Superstars
Last Friday a number of our students attended an interschool chess tournament hosted by Bellarine
Secondary School. By all reports the children really enjoyed themselves. They competed against a range of age
groups over 7 games and apparently made quite a few friends while they were there. They also reportedly
learnt something new and increased their confidence.
The Barwon Heads team ended up coming a close 3rd to Geelong East Primary School who had a large
contingent of 2 teams and a well-developed chess program.
Georgia Borschmann, Ben Reid and Campbell Hutton (the youngest competitor in the competition!) came
within the top 25% of the field. A very talented and skilled Fin Hutton maintained a consistently strong focus
over the course of the day and achieved first place overall. Well done to all those who participated and for
Caroline Hutton for assisting on the day.
PREP Enrolments 2016
We are now taking enrolments for 2016. If you have a child who you wish to attend Barwon Heads Primary
School in 2016, please collect and return the necessary enrolment forms. These are available at the school
office. If you know of any other community member who may wish to enrol their child please feel free to
inform them also. We have already had many inquiries from the nearby areas and are very conscious of the
fact that our room availability and staffing will be significantly impacted by late enrolments.
School Council Reminder
Our monthly meeting is tonight at 6pm Thursday May 21st.
Thanks for another great week at BHPS – looking forward to sharing Education Week 2015.
Darren Roskosch
Principal
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“YOU CAN DO IT AWARDS”
Prep A
Prep B
Prep C
1A
1B
12C
2A
2B
3A
3B
3C
4A
4B
4C
5A
5B
5C
6A
6B
Ava Marsden
Amelie Walter
Jaslyn Fernyhough
Malia Norling
Joshua Raleigh
Chloe Pannekoecke
Ella Rutjens
Chelsea Gillett
Isaiah Norling
Aston Perkins
Jemima Harris
Tara Shaw
Jeremy Lynch
Evelyn Thorne – Cooper
Jaspa Mitchell
Harry Luxton
Tilly Rutjens
Maggie Woods
Summer McKinnon
Iggy Partos – Slattery
Tom Fitzpatrick
Cooper Hill
Matilda Moroney
Campbell Lee
Isaac Dalton
Tex Lawrence
Stella Hely
Johanna Dillon
Olivia Quirk
Banjo Partos – Slattery
Erin Riggs
Dalton Keys
Angus Stephens
Grace Vilcins
Ella Panek – Mitchell
Leo Burgess
Zeph Lampered
Kobe Wigmore
Special Religious Instruction
SRI forms and information brochures were handed out to the eldest child in every family. All forms are due
back now. If you wish for your child to attend Religious Education please make sure that you fill in the form
and hand it back to school. There will be no charge for the program.
Bendigo Bank School banking program
Barwon Heads Community Bank® Branch have been up at the school every Thursday morning from
8.30am-9am to help sign some of our students to start their own school banking program.
Students who take part will receive a Piggy Banking Pack, which includes a Piggy Savings Treasure Map. Each
time your child makes a deposit they will receive a cool sticker or stamp, with little surprises each time they
reach ‘Piggy Island’. This will encourage our Bankers to keep coming back each week to make a deposit.
If you would like to get your little Banker involved with School Banking, there are three options:
In Branch: Bring the required identification for you and your child into Barwon Heads Community Bank®
Branch and open a Piggy Saver with the help of our friendly staff.
At School: Fill out an application form available from the office, then provide identification for the account
holder and parent/s who can sign on the account.
Identification required: Parents can provide a Driver’s Licence, children a Birth Certificate and Medicare
card.
We look forward to seeing you next Thursday! For further details please contact the Branch on Phone: 03
5254 1700 or email: barwonheadsmailbox@bendigoadelaide.com.au
Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.
LIGHTNING PREMIERSHIP
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On Wednesday the 20 of May grade 5/6 students participated in the interschool Lightning Premiership sports.
Barwon Heads PS competed against Ocean Grove PS, South Geelong PS, Drysdale PS, Surfside PS, Clifton Springs PS
and East Geelong PS in Netball, AFL Football, T-Ball, Volleyball and Volley Catch.
The students all had an amazing day. A T-Ball team came first and the footy players also were first overall, they
didn’t lose a match.
NETBALL
“I made friends with a player from Clifton Springs first we said hi and she mentioned that she liked my nails. After
that we wished each other good luck, we might be going to the same high school!” – Nelly N
“We had a great time building team work skills, and we had lots of fun playing” – Maeve O
Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.
FOOTBALL
“We would all like to thank Mr Steven our coach and all the parents that came and supported us” – Stirling S
“I liked the game we played against Ocean Grove, we were both undefeated and it was tough” – Harvey L
T-BALL
“When we started we were nervous and unsure of ourselves, but with a little help from Mr Sands we smashed,
caught and chucked our way to the finals and we won!” – Zac B
At T-Ball we versed several different school and came out first, we had great fun!” – Morgan W
Grade 5 – 6 Winter School
Sports Lighting Premiership
Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.
VOLLEYBALL / VOLLEY CATCH
“Volleyball was exciting and nerve racking we did our best and we would do it again if we could.” – Finley & Charlie
“It was all fun, we all had a great day and worked well as a team and did our best.” – Kendra F
“We tried our best, we co-operated as a team and had lots of fun.” – Tilly R
The Barwon Heads Golf Club is excited to announce the launch of its new Junior Golf Program on Sunday 31st
May and would like to invite Barwon Heads children to participate in this new program.
The BHGC Junior Program will be branded and known as the BHGC ACES program.
The BHGC ACES program features:
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BHGC Professional will provide tuition and range balls between 1.00pm and 2.00pm each Sunday
ACES tee times on the main course to be formally set aside on the Club timesheet for exclusive use of
ACES participants from 2.00pm each Sunday
ACES will play 9 holes with the support of rostered supervisors
Younger children and beginners would play the Par 3 course following the Professional’s tuition
Cost to participants:
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BHGC Junior Members will pay no fees to participate in the program
All other participants pay $10 per week payable on the day
Participation:
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Participants will be expected to have a basic understanding of the game golf and have their own golf
equipment
• It is intended that a program for complete novices will be developed and integrated into the BHGC junior
program at a future date. The details of this program will be communicated to the Barwon Heads
community at that time
If you would like to participate please contact Hague Shier on hshier@completehomestorage.com.au or on
0419887429 to receive a registration form.
Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.
Easter Fair News
Our committee is very excited to work towards holding the Easter Fair in 2016. We will announce a meeting
time, early in term 4, so that anyone who wants to get involved can come along.
We are always happy to hear new ideas and feedback.
Please contact me at wjackson2@bigpond.com to let me know if you’d like to become involved or would like
to share ideas.
Sarah Jackson
Entertainment Book
Exciting news as the new Entertainment Book has now been launched and is ready to be purchased now! If
you wish to purchase either a hard copy or a digital version of the Entertainment Book please head to this
website:
https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/113h127
If you have been provided with an Entertainment Book from the school and you don’t wish to purchase it they
must be returned now. If you do wish to purchase it please do so at the office or online.
After School Care News
Barwon Heads Primary | 19th May 2015
Hi Everyone!
This week at OSHC again, the children have been busy with creating, designing, colouring and painting. There
has also been a new found love for creating bracelets! The letter bracelets have been especially popular! We
have been able to use the gym to play several group games such as tiggy, line tiggy, green light & red light,
soccer and last but not least basketball! There has been plenty of participation from everyone which is always
really good to see! We have also started to announce our buddy bear leaders for those who come to after
school care which has been very exciting!
We are still looking to organise some theme weeks, some of the themes are to be announced soon – starting
from next week the themes will be put into action with suggestion from the children.
Once again, Families please note that whislt we currently only provide after school care we are taking
expressions of interest for BEFORE SCHOOL CARE. We have had some more interest but we need a
couple more families to get involved so that we have the numbers to provide a before school care service.
Please let us know if you are interested so 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) we are here Monday to Friday 2:30pm to
6:00pm. We would love to hear from you :)
If you have any questions please, feel free to call us on 0432 636 625.
Suzanne
Community News
WANT TO HELP BUT CAN’T COME IN TO THE CLASSROOM?
Teachers have jobs that need doing… and parents are helping; jobs that can even be done at home in front of
the telly!
Join the volunteers who are spending a little time helping to create the resources used in the classroom.
The more helpers, the less work. I don’t contact you directly, I just add the jobs to the Facebook group. You
only put up your hand when a job suits you.
Typically jobs are things like laminating, typing, photocopying, contacting, cutting and pasting (with oldfashioned scissors and glue)…
they are easy jobs for us to do, but time consuming for the teachers. Do you want to join “Teachers’ PAs”?
Send an email to Pip at pipamay@gmail.com
or join the Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogsbodies/
Missing
Missing size 6 Hoodie with MAY embroidered on front.
Please check you have your own hoodie and no extras? Please?
Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.
Belongs to Jasper May grade Prep C.
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.