Issue 8, 2018 – Term 2 – Week 6

CALENDAR FOR 2018 Tuesdays Parent Walking Group -Top Quad 9am-9.45am Wednesdays Breakfast Club 8:30am – 9:00am

Thursdays Parent Art / Craft Class 9:15am – 11:15am

5/6/18 Debating 10:00am – 12:00pm

11/6/18 Queens Birthday Public Holiday

13/6/18 Australian Museum Excursion Yr 1 & Yr 2

14/6/18 Regional Cross Country Carnival

14/6/18 Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition – 9:00am

15/6/18 Whole School Assembly – 2:00pm – 3:00pm

19/6/18 Debating 12:00pm – 2:00 pm

21/6/18 Yarning Arvo – Aboriginal Parents and Children 3:15pm – 4:15pm

22/6/18 Athletics Carnival – At school 9am - 3pm

26/6/18 Home Reading Celebration 1:00pm – 1:40pm

28/6/18 Attendance Month Celebration

29/6/18 Whole School Assembly – 2:00pm – 3:00pm

5/7/18 NAIDOC Day Celebrations

From the Principal

STAFF NEWS

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the following staff for their permanent appointments to our school. Mr Nathan Davis was successful at merit selection in gaining the position of classroom teacher. Mrs Judy Anderson was permanently appointed to the position of Aboriginal Education Officer after filling this position in a temporary capacity for over 3 years. Congratulations to both staff members!

PRESCHOOL

Our preschool grounds are currently being transformed into an exciting and engaging play area for the students that includes a bike track and water play area. We have had positive feedback on the transformation to date and we look forward to seeing the final area soon. I am very proud that we can continue to improve all areas of our school for our students.

ATTENDANCE MONTH CELEBRATION

Attendance month has officially finished!. Congratulations to all the students who have qualified for the exciting celebration planned for later this month. Attendance is important during the whole school year and we will continue to focus on improving our attendance at Bonnyrigg Public School.

School Directions and Priorities

Priority 3 – Whole School Well Being

School goals related to Priority 3 are as follows: To review and implement wellbeing strategies and procedures for all stakeholders. Create more opportunities to utilise community voice to contribute to school planning and evaluation procedures. To foster and promote the heritage and welfare of all

cultural groups across the school.

Home Reading

Extra, Extra Read all about it! That’s right. Home reading is

where it’s all happening this year with Ms Gorrie, Miss Theo

and Miss Nhan. Please remember to keep reading! Did you

know? Research shows that learning to read is one of the

most important factors in school success and that an early

exposure to books and stories substantially contributes to

success in early literacy?, Please ensure your child reads

books every single day for homework and/or if in upper

primary, several pages of a novel. Ensure that their home

reading log has been signed after each entry has been

recorded. If your child reads 30 books consecutively and all

have been recorded and signed, then they will be able to join

Miss Nhan and Miss Theo for the home reading celebration

at the end of this term for yummy pizza. Please see your

teacher or one of us if you need a new home reading log!

Regards Miss Theo, Miss Nhan and Ms Gorrie.

Home Reading Ambassadors.

Library News

NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORYTIME

On Wednesday 23rd May, Bonnyrigg Public School

participated in National Simultaneous Storytime. The 2018

National Simultaneous Storytime book was "Hickory Dickory

Dash" written by Tony Wilson and illustrated by Laura Wood.

Our Library Monitors worked very hard preparing for their

play. They did an amazing job! Well done!

A big thank you to Mr Whyburn, who made our beautiful

Grandfather clock, especially for the day. It will now be

proudly displayed in our Bonnyrigg PS Library.

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

Congratulations to Ayesha Elabdallah, Bassim Elabdallah,

Sania Elabdallah, William Ngen, Mustafa Arsalah, Lusiana

Koroiravu, Adrian Lim, Jessica Segalla and Lina Ho who have

successfully completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge for

2018!

Happy reading!

Mrs Grasso – Teacher Librarian

Other News

COLOUR EXPLOSION FUNDRAISER

What an awesome day we had at the School Run4Fun Colour

Explosion. Thank you to each and everyone of you who

supported the fundraiser – we couldn’t have done it without

you.

Students ran the course that was filled with obstacles such

as a slip ‘n’ slide and a cargo net and were greeted with a

blast of colour from their teachers. All students went home

with a smile on their face and sprayed with colour from head

to toe.

We are excited to announce that we raised $1,500 to go

towards our Stage 3 camp. What an awesome job!

Prizes are on the way so watch out for these shortly. Thanks

again for your support.

Mr Davis

ZONE CROSS COUNTRY

32 students from Bonnyrigg Public School proudly

represented their school at the Zone Cross Country carnival

at Joe Broad Oval on the 24th May. Students competed

against schools in our area on either a 2000m or 3000m

track. We had some great results throughout the day, in

particular Ciara Le who finished 8th overall and will now

compete at the Regional Carnival on the 14th June at

Hurlstone Agricultural College.

Great job to all involved and thank you to those parents who

came along to support the fantastic efforts of the students.

Mr Davis

CHICKEN COOP

Throughout this term, our stage 3 students have been busy

designing and building a chicken coop. We are now proud to

announce that we have 8 new additions to our coop. Our

chickens have been busy feeding, foraging, sleeping and

laying eggs and all our students have been caring and visiting

them.

If anyone has any empty egg cartons at home could they

please bring them in for our chicken eggs. We plan on

eventually selling these back to the community very soon.

Stage 3 Teachers.