Belmore Boys’ High School Newsletter 2018 Number3, Term 2 Week 5 also available at the School Website http://www.belmoreboy-h.schools.nsw.edu.au, on FaceBook and Twitter

Principal’s Message Belmore celebrates cultural harmony at Campsie Food Festival

Belmore Boys High School is always at the centre of its community, promoting harmony and celebrating diversity. On Saturday 12 May, our school held a stall at Campsie Food Festival. Every second year, Beamish Street and Anzac Mall are transformed into lively markets presenting visitors with food, drinks and sweets. Over 150 different cultural backgrounds are representing the residents of the Canterbury Area at the Festival. With over 20 000 people visiting, even the wet and wild weather could not dampen the spirits of Foodies. Our stall showcased a range of school projects, magazines and of course tasty foods. This year, we promoted the cheesy Kaak, a Middle Eastern sesame bread, filled with a 4 cheese blend, toasted to perfection. In addition to the oozy delight, our Belmore stall was frequently visited for baklava, a range of muffins, popcorn and of

course fairy floss. The event wrapped up at 4pm, with many staff, students and parents exhausted but feeling a sense of pride and achievement for our school. Many thanks also go to the staff of Canterbury Bankstown Council who worked tirelessly to support stall holders and visitors. Celebrating Mother’s Day Belmore Style As part of our commitment to our community, our P & C group held a fund raising BBQ at Bunnings Kingsgrove. With the BBQ being very popular, our Community Relations Officer, Ms Manal Sabbagh worked closely with Bunnings staff on securing a spot on Mother's Day. Our students, staff and parents worked closely throughout the day to ensure that customers received the tastiest sausage sandwich, the best customer service and of course, lots of great information about our school. Feedback received on the day reflected our school's system of values of Responsible, Respectful and Safe learners. Well done to all involved and special thanks go to all of our teaching staff who gave up Mother’s Day celebrations to support our P & C.

Ms Ramadan

Deputy Principals’ Message ANZAC Day

On the 25th April, Belmore Boys High School was represented at the Campsie Anzac Day service by Abdullahi Muzayen, Abdullah Ghazli and Morris Addo Junior. The boys had been part of a program run by Campsie RSL Club, which asked schools to send them a presentation representing an aspect of the end of World War 1. The boys did a PowerPoint on what occured when the men returned home and they looked at the way Australians remember this time in our history. The boys did an excellent presentation and represented the

school with pride. Well done boys!

Mrs Ellis

Belmore Boys High Upcoming Events 2018 Term 2

Event Date & Time Location Half yearly exams Yr 8 & 10 Mon 28th May – Fri 1st June In class

Half yearly exams Yr 7 & 9 Mon 4th - 8th June In class

Last day of term 2 Fri 5th July All students to attend

Project Based Learning and School Partnerships I am glad to announce that Belmore Boys High School has been working with nine of our Primary Partner Schools to develop projects that meet the learning needs of the students involved and expose junior students to the fantastic facilities and learning opportunities available at Belmore Boys High School. Our Primary transition officer Ms Hamdan, with the help of our specialist teachers have developed programs and lessons on a range of topics that are delivered by our students and teachers. If your son has siblings at

our local primary schools, our school is offering archaeological explorations, poetry slam competitions, Masterchef style cook-offs, student leadership development and garden projects. The Project Based Learning models are also being implemented at Belmore with a number of staff conducting Inquiry Based Learning projects, such as studying the roll out of the Sydney Trains Metro Project and an investigation into our local Ibis population with the support of Sydney University. It is anticipated that by the end of 2018 each staff member and all students from years 7 – 10 will have had opportunity to participate in the above projects or others that incorporate learning across multiple KLA’s.

Mr Borg

Athletics Carnival

Athletics Medal Winners Elijah Aruna received the All Round School Sportsman Trophy for 2018

Campsie Food Festival

Bunnings Mother’s Day Sausage Sizzle

These students were volunteers at the Campsie Food Festival and Bunnings BBQ on behalf of their school. Well done!

Learning opportunities in the Library

Adult Education

As part of Belmore Boys High Schools

commitment to our wider community we

have offered English classes to our

parents through TAFE NSW. This is

being held Monday mornings throughout

Term 2.

Student Profiles

Mohamad Dennaoui

Year 7

Favourite sport/team Real

Madrid

Fave food Chocolate

Best Subject Maths

What is Great about BBHS? Learning

Opportunities

Ambition Be a professional soccer player

Ali Qurmoshi

Year 8

Favourite sport/team Soccer

Fave Food Beef Burger

Best Subject Science

What is Great about BBHS?

Doing Teamwork

Ambition Become a Science Professor

Dinesh Bhandari

Year 9

Favourite sport/team Bulldogs

Fave food Supreme pizza

Best Subject Maths

What is Great about BBHS?

The teachers

Ambition Attend university

Chandara Ros

Year 10

Favourite sport/team

Basketball

Fave Food Everything

Best Subject Maths

What is Great about BBHS? My friends

Ambition Become a programmer Ismail Sankari

Year 11

Favourite sport/team Soccer

Fave Food Chicken

Best Subject Construction

What is Great about BBHS?

Good friends

Ambition Be a builder

Ayoub Ayoub

Year 12

Favourite sport/team Soccer

Fave Food Stuffed zucchini

Subject Modern History

What is Great about BBHS?

The people

Ambition Become an engineer

PBL- Please discuss with your child/ren our focus on Positive Behaviour and Learning. This term

we focused on aspects of bullying and empathy. Reading is also recommended to improve literacy

skills in our students. So please discuss these issues with your son/s

Students who achieved high praise for their PBL values at BBHS this term

Yr 7 Rony Adnan, Ahmad Aljbawi, Fares Alzamel, Ibrahim Basheer, Abel Gebremichael, Mohamad

Ghany, Yousef Kalasina, Ali Milhem, Fathi Milhem, Saad Mohammed, Awaas Saleem, Raid Habib,

Badr Al Kassib, Ethan Androutsos, Medhat Matar,

Fadi Elwadia, Ouwais Menzel. Yr 8 Abdul Malik