Respect, Responsibility, Personal Best Branxton Public School Newsletter to Parents

BRANXTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

Find us at: 12 King St, Branxton NSW 2335 Email: branxton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Phone: (02) 4938 1214 Fax: (02) 4938 1905 Website: www.branxton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Week 6 Term 3 WEDNESDAY 23RD AUGUST 2017

Premier’s Spelling Bee Last week students in Stage 2 and Stage 3 participated in activities for the Premier’s Spelling Bee. Well done to all those students who did their personal best. Two representatives from each Stage have been chosen to compete at the Regional final at Rutherford PS on Wednesday 13th September. Stage 2: Cooper McD and Jason W Stage 3 Blake B and Zander W We wish them the best of luck and we know that they will represent our school with pride and honour. Mrs Mungoven Spelling Bee Co-ordinator

Dates to Remember

29.8.17 Book Week Celebration

5.9.16 Fundraiser—Beanie Day (Gold Coin)

15.9.17 Infants Athletic Carnival

BOOK WEEK CELEBRATION

Our Book Week Celebration date is

12:30 Classes swap rooms and have a book read to them by another teacher. 1:05 Picnic lunch with family and friends Book Fair in Library (books provided by McDonald’s Bookshop. 20% of profit will be returned to BPS library – CASH ONLY. 1:50 Book character Parade—children dress up in book character costumes and parade in their classes.. We look forward to seeing you all in your wonderful costumes. Time to get planning.

Woolworths Earn and Learn is on again and we hope that everyone is collecting those stickers for us. The box is on Mrs Mungoven's verandah for your completed sticker

Tuesday 29th August – Week 7 Term 3

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Sport News On Friday 11th August, 47 students aged between 8 to 12 years old travelled to Fred Harvey Oval at Woodberry for the Zone Athletics Carnival. Well done to all the students who competed and achieved their personal best. Thanks must go to Mr Brecard and Mr Foster for accompanying the team, and to the parents and caregivers for their support and transportation. Branxton PS has nine students who will be joining the Maitland Zone team for the Hunter Regional Carnival on Friday 1st September at Glendale. We wish these students every success on that day.

Sport continues on Friday for Stage 2 and Stage 3. Please make sure that if you have outstanding sport money from Terms 1 and 2 that this is paid immediately. Yours in sport, Mrs Mungoven

Ella K 8 yrs 100m Riley H 12 yrs 1500m

Charlie A 10 yrs 100m and 1500m Jye T Senior 4 x 100m relay

Ella M 10 yrs 1500m Jayden A Senior 4 x 100m relay

Jake G 11 yrs 800m, 1500m and Senior 4 x 10m relay Dalton Mi Senior 4 x 100m relay

Keenan G 11yrs 1500m

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PBL At Branxton Public School students, staff and community are respectful, responsible, and achieve their personal best. Our first PBL assembly for this term

was held on Friday the 11th August where many students were presented with their bronze, silver, gold or principals awards. In the afternoon session these students enjoyed participating in a variety of activities. We would like to congratulate the following students for being recognised as a ticket winner in the past weeks. Term 3. Week 5 ticket draw winners were Travis– Responsibility, Evie– Lee—Respect, Maddy—Personal Best and Billie—Responsibility. Term 3. Week 6 draw winners were Joshua—Personal best, James—Responsibility, Bella—Personal Best and Ella—Personal best.

Great Aussie Bush Camp

Congratulations to our Stage 2 students who showed Respect, Responsibility and their Personal Best during the Great Aussie Bush Camp excursion last week. It was great to see the students challenging themselves and working together as a team.

A big thank you to the parent helpers who accompanied the students (especially the 3 dads who celebrated their birthdays at camp).

Thank you also to the staff who coordinated this excursion and attended with the students.

There are some wonderful pictures from the excursion posted on our school facebook page.

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P &C NEWS Facebook – Our P&C Facebook page is now live, please “like” or “follow” us for news and updates. Send us a message if you would like to be added to the canteen volunteers discussion group. Movie Night – A huge thankyou to everyone who sponsored, helped with and attended our P&C community out-door movie night. We screened the latest Cars movie on the school field. Everyone who attended enjoyed the popcorn, glow products, clear weather and the movie of course. Keep an eye out for this event again next winter! Canteen Update – We welcome any new volunteers for the canteen (please see Sharyn). Any ideas for the summer menu update are welcome, please email the P&C, post on Facebook, or talk to Sharyn by 11

th Septem-

ber. 5 Cent Fridays – All classes are challenged to collect the most 5c and 10c coins this August! The last collection will occur this Friday 25/8. The total amount raised and the winning class will be announced next week and re-ceive an ice block for each student….and the glory! Fathers’ Day Stall – It is only two weeks away so a big Happy Fathers' Day to all you great dads! Next Wednesday 30th August the Fathers’ Day stall will be held. It’s a great chance for our children to practice independent shopping. Gifts range from $2 to $8 and will come in a cardboard gift bag. Please send money with your child’s name, class and amount in an envelope or zip lock bag. The presence of parent helpers is greatly appreciated from 8.30am until recess. See the poster in this newsletter and on Facebook for the items available. Take note of the special options with-out the word “dad” or those made for grandads/grandpas. Uniform Shop Update – Spring is just around the corner! The Uniform Shop now has quality boys grey shorts, girls green skorts, unisex sports shorts, library bags and school backpacks. Check out the range and prices at flexischools.com.au.

P&C dates for your calendar –

Fathers’ Day Stall 30th August

We have decided to postpone the spring Pie Drive to next year

Next Meeting – P&C General Meeting 6pm on Monday 11th September 2017

We’ll debrief the movie night and Fathers’ Day stall, plan future events/purchases and more

Infants Carnival Lunch on 15th September

End of Term Canteen BBQ 22nd

September

Shopping Trip 28th October

Kindergarten orientation uniform sales 3rd

, 10th, 17

th

November

Maitland Bunnings BBQ 10th December

Please contact the P&C if you would like to get involved. All welcome.

Thanks for your support.

Kerrie P&C President

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Branxton Public School Canteen

Our school canteen is run by volunteers and we are in need of volunteers If you are able to help from 9am till 2pm on one or more of these days each term, we would love to hear from you. Please either phone Sharyn on 0428 520 451 or return the slip below to school.

I ………………………………………………………………………………………… (your name) am able to help

On: (please circle the day/s you prefer)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

I can be contacted on …………………………………………………………………… (your phone number) the

best time to ring me is ………………………………………………………………………………………………

Phone numbers do appear on the roster.

Canteen Roster

Week 7 Term 3 commencing 28th August 2017 Week 6 Term 3 commencing 4th September 2017

Monday CLOSED Monday CLOSED

Tuesday Mel C Jade N Tuesday Nat C Jane T

Wednesday Kylie N Jane T Wednesday Megan M Sharyn B

Thursday Heici C Sharyn B Thursday Mel N Kerry O’C

Friday Marianne Kylie B Friday Emma H Andrea F Sharyn B

Fundraiser for Ben Lott Ben is a teacher at Rosary Park School in Branxton. He has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. As a school community, we would like to contribute to a fundraiser to sup-port his efforts in travelling overseas to ac-cess medical treatment. Students and staff are invited to wear beanies or come with cra-zy hair on Tuesday 5th September. To par-ticipate, we are asking students and staff to donate a gold coin. This participation is not compulsory.

Branxton Greta Little Athletics Registrations online: Please join our facebook page for information. When: Thursday Evenings Starts: 12th October 2017 Where: Miller Park Oval Time: 5.15pm to 7:00pm Cost: 1st child: $98 2nd Child: $93 3rd Child: $88

MacDonald’s

Rutherford Singleton Greta

Coffee for a Cause

Purchasse a large McCafe beverage and 50c fro m each

purchase will be donated to Ben Lott

5th September from 6:00am to 10:30pm

‘Bucks for Ben’ Fundraising