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Newsletter No: 14 Friday, 25th September 2015

S:/209 Publications

Hardy Street, Bull Creek WA 6149

Tel : 9332 3244 : Fax : 9310 7578 : Email : bullcreek.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Web Address : www.bullcreekps.wa.edu.au

EDUCATION SECURITY - Ph 9264 4632 : CITY OF MELVILLE HOTLINE (24 hrs) - Ph 1300 653 643

BULL CREEK PRIMARY SCHOOL

This term the students in B5 have been studying a number of interesting topics.

In History we have been looking at Australian immigration; in

particular the gold rushes in New South Wales and the effect that

this had on the Australian population. For example over 500,000

migrants poured into Australia and those already in Australia also

came overland to the diggings. We were required to find three sources

of information on life on the goldfields and its effect on

immigration and produce a poster to present our work to the rest of

the class.

We have also covered a lot of interesting topics in maths but the two most

interesting projects were the planning of a mystery flight and

the building of houses. Our mystery flight required us to plan a

trip to four cities and to work out the accommodation and

excursions we would take at each destination. We were given 50

000 km of free flights and a budget was set for the other two

areas. We were not allowed to go over budget. With the house we

had to make a floor plan and then build it to scale using grid paper. Both these

activities were a great deal of fun.

Another activity we really enjoyed was the building of towers in Technology. We

were looking at what makes a structure strong and discovered that

triangles are the strongest for bearing weight.

B5 is excited to showcase their hard work to parents and other

students!

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Bull Creek Primary School

From the Principal’s Desk

Sports Thank You

A sincere “Thank you” to everyone involved with our 2015 Faction

Athletics Carnival. Many staff, parents and supporters of the school

assisted in all sorts of different ways - coaching; scoring; judging and

generally encouraging the girls and boys to do their best. A special

“thank you” to those staff who got to school very early on Thursday morning to set up for

the day. Special thanks and high praise for Mr Boyes (our Phys. Ed Specialist) for doing

the massive amount of pre-Carnival preparation - thank you Mr Boyes. Thank you to Mrs

Spence and her great Canteen Helpers for catering for the hungry athletes - thank you

ladies! Finally to Gold Faction - well done! Also we must acknowledge the efforts,

sportspersonship and enthusiasm of the lovely Bull Creek girls and boys!!

Student Numbers and Classes for 2016

Thank you to all our families who have returned the blue “Return Slips” about their

intentions to be at Bull Creek P.S for 2016. Some families because of house relocation or

interstate and international transfers will, of course, leave us at the end of this year. All

this early information helps greatly with class planning for 2016.

Have a Nice Holiday!

I would like to wish everyone an enjoyable Term 3 Holiday. We have two of our families leaving today

for interstate and another suburb - we wish those families all the best for the future and

thank them for their valuable contributions to our school. Conversely, we have two new

families commencing at the start of Term 4.

Just a reminder that the children commence school on Tuesday 13th October. The

Monday is a Planning and Professional Development

Day for staff.

Tim Cremin

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BULL CREEK PRIMARY

FACTION ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

2015 CHAMPIONS AND RUNNER-UPS

Faction Name

Runner up Boy Yr 3 BLUE ANGUS

Champion Boy Yr 3 BLUE

Runner up Girl Yr 3 BLUE IZZY

Champion Girl Yr 3 BLUE ERIKA

Runner up Boy Yr 4 GREEN KYNAN

Champion Boy Yr 4 GOLD MATTHEW

Runner up Girl Yr 4 RED LUCY

Champion Girl Yr 4 GOLD

Runner up Boy Yr 5 RED CONNOR

Champion Boy Yr 5 GOLD CAMERON

Runner up Girl Yr 5 GREEN DOMINIQUA

Champion Girl Yr 5 GOLD

Runner up Boy Yr 6 GOLD KAI

Champion Boy Yr 6 RED RENNETH

Runner up Girl Yr 6 RED EMELIA

Champion Girl Yr 6 GREEN DRUVINKA

WINNING FACTION

4th RED – 1030.5

3rd BLUE – 1057.5

2nd GREEN – 1068

1st GOLD - 1375

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Cello Excursion

In week nine of this term, three lucky cello students were selected to attend a School of Instrumental Music excursion for year 4 beginners. The selected students were Miriam, Fran and Aarani. The girls began studying the cello at the beginning of the year and were selected for the excursion as they have made enough progress to have their first orchestral experience. There were approximately 150 students from many different schools that attended the excursion over three days. Miss Monkhorst, the cello and orchestra teacher was thrilled with the girls’ efforts and consistent practice while preparing for the event. The Bull Creek music program will soon require three more students who would like to learn to play the cello.

Glee Club Performs at Crown Theatre

Congratulations to the Bull Creek Primary School Glee Club who performed at Crown Theatre on Wednesday, 9

th September as part of the WA Government Schools Music Society

showcase. The Glee Club consists of 31 girls from years four to six. They entertained the audience singing ‘Dancing in the Street’ and danced away to ‘Footloose’ by Kenny Loggins from the movie of the same name. The Glee Club worked as a team to bring together a very polished performance on the night. The girls from Glee were so excited to perform at The Crown Theatre! Thank you to the parents who came along to watch them perform. This is an experience they will never forget. Thank you to all the students in Glee Club for their hard work and their parents for their ongoing support.

Ms Eversden

Glee Club Co-ordinator

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GERMAN NOTES

CONGRATULATIONS - HERZLICHEN Gl¨üCKWUNSCH - CONGRATULATIONS Kunst und Poesie The years 5 and 6 took part in a German art and poetry competition. Four students were short listed. Last Friday the winners got announced at a ceremony at the Rhein Donau Club. Lots of students from years 4 to 10 with their parents took part in this great event. Congratulations to the winners: Year 6: 1st Prize - Arthur Year 5: 2nd Prize - Kelvin At the beginning of the term year 6 took part in a German exam. I am very pleased to announce that Bull Creek did extremely well. We had 5 prize winners at the DAS ceremony last Monday afternoon at Rossmoyne. Congratulations to: Arthur - special category Emilia 1st Sofia 2nd Pravin 2nd Dhanya 3rd Thanks to all parents for ongoing support. Schöne Ferien./ Happy holidays.

Tanja Colgan

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BULL CREEK PRIMARY SCHOOL

Thanks LJ Hooker Leeming,

Leeming Forum Shopping Centre

Farrington Road, Leeming

Tel: 9332 4000

For their sponsorship of 4 Paper Recycling Bins!

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MON 12 OCT

PD DAY

TUE 13 OCT

FIRST DAY OF

TERM FOR

STUDENTS.

SCHOOL NURSE -

CATCH UP

SCREENING

KINDY - KANGAS

WED 14 OCT

PERSONAL ITEMS

LIST SENT OUT TO

PARENTS TODAY!

THU 15 OCT

FRI 16 OCT

ASSEMBLY -

MULTICULTURAL -

GERMAN

EDU-DANCE

MON 19 OCT

EDU-DANCE

TUE 20 OCT

INTERSCHOOL

ATHLETICS

CARNIVAL

RIVERTON PS

9AM

WED 21 OCT

THU 22 OCT

INTERSCHOOL

ATHLETICS

CARNIVAL

RIVERTON PS

9AM

FRI 23 OCT

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P & C NEWS FLASH

WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARN The Earn and Learn

promotion through Woolworths has now ended. We have

tallied up all that we received (looks like about 704 sheets!)

and sent them to Woolworths. Hopefully we can buy some

great resources for our school!

ENTERTAINMENT BOOK The Entertainment Group has extended their

free postage offer! Until the end of September, order your Entertainment

Book via www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/860z42 and it will be

delivered free of charge (for standard shipping) straight to your door. Take

advantage of this fabulous offer just in time for the next school holidays!

UNIFORM SHOP We are searching for some fabulous people to

co-ordinate the Uniform shop for next year. It only requires around an hour

a week and full training will be provided. If you are interested, please drop

us a line on bcpspandc@outlook.com, come and see Meagan and Karen in

the Uniform shop on Tuesdays or drop us a line on Facebook.

For those families with children starting kindy next year, now would be a fabulous time to

beat the rush and purchase your uniforms for next year. There will be an opportunity to

buy your uniforms at the kindy orientation day, but why not get in early!

CANTEEN The new summer menu has been released! A copy would have gone home

with the children on Thursday and a copy is attached to this newsletter. We hope you

enjoy what we have on offer! We will be open on the first day back next term, Tuesday

13th October.

AMENITIES CENTRE It is with deep regret that we advise that the hiring out of the

school Amenities Centre for private bookings is no longer permitted under Department

of Education regulations. We would like to take this opportunity to thank one and all

within our school and local community for your valued support over the years! If you

have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact Lala on bcpsamenities@gmail.com

The next P & C Meeting will be on MONDAY 26th OCTOBER at 7pm in the school

library. If you would like to contact any of the committee, please email us at

bcpspandc@outlook.com or send us a message on our Facebook page - Bull Creek

Primary School P & C www.facebook.com/BullCreekPrimarySchoolPC

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