Barwon Valley News

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Contact Details

Barwon Valley School

Address:

76-94 Laura Av

Belmont, Vic, 3216

Phone:

5243 1813

0433118007

Postal Address:

PO Box 502

Belmont, Vic, 3216

Website:

www.barwonss.vic.edu.au

email:

barwon.valley.sch@edumail.vic.gov.au

Barwon Valley School is committed to safety and wellbeing of all children and young people and has zero tolerance for child abuse. (Child Safe Standards)

Principal’s Message

Celebrating at BVS

Stars of the Week

Wellbeing

Principal’s Message

May 18th 2017

Celebrating at BVS

Diary Dates

22nd—26th May Education Week

Tuesday 13th June Finance Committee meeting

Thursday 15th June Post School Options Information Evening

Tuesday 20th June School Council meeting

Friday 30th June Last day Term Two

I would like to remind everyone that next week is Education Week, with the

Theme Healthy Mind Healthy Body .

We have a number of activities planned for next week, so make sure you

come along to join in with your child’s group if you can.

Activities across the school include Dance, Music, Mindfulness, and Yoga.

We also have a special Whole School activity which involves a ‘walk’ from

‘Banana to Mt Lamington’ with the aim of everyone each walking/wheeling 2

1/2 kms over the week.

This journey will finish with a special celebration at Whole School Assembly.

Great Job doing external Work Experience at the Grinter Community Garden.

Amy and Jeremy learnt how to prepare a bed for planting, plant and water.

They planted strawberries and potatoes.

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Building Communities

Who listened to the Radio?

Did you hear our principal Anne Hume on Bay FM yesterday talking about the Geelong Connected Communites grant we received to

help put in our inground trampolines?

BVS AP elected PASS Committee member

Congratulations to Julie Brown, our Assistant Principal, who was recently elected to

the committee of Principals Association of Specialist Schools (PASS). This is a fantastic recognition of Julie’s leadership and a great opportunity for our

school to contribute to special education at a state level.

The aims of PASS include: •To promote the principles of special education and improved community awareness of the capacity for special education throughout the State of Victoria.

•To act as a representative body of principals of specialist schools in the state of Victoria.

•To promote the consideration and discussion of all questions affecting special education

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Whole School Assembly This week at Whole School Assembly we will be continuing our Who's Got Talent with

TJ and Felicity doing a performance.

Trivia Night We will be holding our Trivia Night on 18th August 2017. Our aim is to beat the figure

of $14000 raised in 2014. We are raising money for iPads and interactive whiteboards for classrooms.

More details regarding the night will follow in upcoming newsletters.

What we need now are items for silent/loud auctions, game/spot/lucky stars and door prizes.

Letters are being sent out to many Geelong and Melbourne businesses.

If you have a business that can help out or know of one that would be willing to donate goods or services please contact Karen Gibson in Admin or email barwon.valley.sch@edumail.vic.gov.au

Examples would be restaurant meals, accommodation, refreshments, chocolates, toys,

books, tradesman services etc.

Volunteer Needed We are looking for a volunteer who is interested in acting as a scribe for a student who is undertaking Certificate 2 in Warehousing at SecondBite, Belmont.

You would need to be available either Monday or Tuesdays (or both) for a few hours, be able to start as soon as possible and have a current Working with Children Check

for Volunteers.

If you are interested, please phone the school and ask to speak to Anne Hume, Sheila Hobson or Helen Walford.

Thank you.

Mothers Day Raffle We raised $240.00 from the Mothers Day raffle, this

money is providing balls for play equipment. The winners of our Mothers day raffle are

1st Prize Rhiannon Dent

2nd Prize Michelle Purcell 3rd prize Jodie Sears 4th Prize John Nancarrow

Post School Options Information Evening

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Stars of the Week

The following students will be given their Award at

Whole School Assembly this Friday at 2.30pm.

Izabelle (J6) - For her enthusiastic participation in Music with Megan.

Annie (J7) - For a good start on her Maths goal.

Hattie (JP2) - For excellent walking in her walker.

Harley (J8) - For making great choices at his table and using his inside voice.

Connor (S02) - For great effort when dressing after swimming.

Engy (S11) - For great independent walking.

Teo (S15) - For great work using his Proloquo2Go.

Kaiden (S16) - For fantastic bike riding. Well done!

Jeremy (S21) - For terrific effort at Grinter Garden Work Experience.

Principal’s Morning Tea

Congratulations to the following students who will be joining

Anne, Chris or Julie for Morning Tea this Friday.

Georgia (J04) Mia (JP1) Tash (JOS)

Bailey (S16) Louise (S12) Nathan W (S22)

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Qkr! is here at Barwon Valley School

The new Qkr! app is here for families of students at Barwon Valley School to order

and pay for canteen and payment of school fees. Qkr! by MasterCard can be downloaded for free from Apple’s app store for iPhones

(iPads should download the iPhone app) or from Google Play for Android phones and tablets.

If you have any queries regarding Qkr, please don’t hesitate to contact Noeline Burney, Business and Finance Leader on 5243 1813.

TIP:

Should I log out from the Qkr! app for security?

Qkr! is provided by Mastercard and is the safe, secure, reliable way to pay for school

items. Registration details and card information are not stored on your phone but are saved

securely on the Mastercard network.

As a security feature Qkr! Automatically logs you out after 10minutes of inactivity. You will still be able to browse the menus and add items to your cart, but you will be prompted to enter your password to submit payments.

If you wish to actively sign out after each session you may do so, however you wont

be able to browse the menus again without logging in. An alternative is to change your settings so that you are prompted to enter your

password at the “Submit Payment” step even if you are within the same 10minute logged in session. This saves you logging out after each session and logging in the

next time. To turn on the “Always prompt for password on checkout” option