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Phone: 9451 6203

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NEWSLETTER DATE: 30 May 2019 TERM 2, WEEK 5

Belrose Public School

Principal’s Message

Belrose OSHC Centre

Phone: 0430 247 493

Dates

ADDITIONAL ALTERNATIVE SUMMER UNIFORM FOR GIRLS Thank you to my uniform committee of Karen Judson, Bec Keiller, Sue Hefford, Nicky McInnes and students, Sarah W and Charli M. We are able to present the alternative Summer uniform for 2019 to the P&C on Tuesday 11 June from 7:15pm. In line with the new Department policy, the design of the new uniform achieves the required guidelines but ensures that the uniform continues to have the distinguishable design and colours of Belrose with the Summer and Winter uniform tabs con-tinued: Vic blue shirt (same colour as existing one) but a tailored finish

to sit outside with red piping on a rounded collar and sleeve trim. Two buttons behind the collar to attach the Summer tab

Navy blue pleated shorts with elasticised waist White socks Following the P&C meeting, orders will be made with the uniform avail-able in the last few weeks of Term 3 as there is a 12 week turn-around. Photographs will be put in the newsletter once the sample arrives at the school. The Winter uniform has been designed and will begin in 2020. DATES FOR THE CALENDAR Three important calendar events for Term 3 include: THURSDAY 25 JULY 2019 Athletics Carnival at Narrabeen Sports Centre THURSDAY 8 AUGUST 2019 9:30am Education Week Assembly. Recess then K-6 Open classrooms and from 5:30pm Evening Showcase for Belrose Aeronautical Space Agency (BASA). The search for interplanetary life (By Stage 3 stu-dents). THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2019 K-2 Musical Performance and Grandparents Day. More details to follow. ENROLLING AT BELROSE PS We are continuing to receive completed Kindergarten enrolment forms for 2020. Ideally, we want 40 students enrolling in 2020 to ensure the two classes so please continue to spread the good work of Belrose PS throughout the community. Enrolment packs with our latest flyer are available from the office. Out of Area applications considered.

Term 2 2019

Saturday 1 June Girls Night In

Monday 3 June Summer PSSA trophy assembly 2.10pm

Wednesday 5 June World Vision - Crazy Sock Day with Gold coin donation PSSA/Tennis notes due

Thursday 6 June 10 Authors visiting Belrose with books avail-able for purchase $10-$20 from 3:00-3:30pm Fair Meeting 7.30pm

Friday 7 June PSSA and Tennis begins

Monday 10 June Public Holiday

Tuesday 11 June Winter uniform begins P&C Meeting 7.15pm

Wednesday 12 June Publisher event in Li-brary. Refer to page 3

Sunday 16 June Training Band Workshop

Monday 17 June Assembly 2.25pm

Sunday 23 June Northern Beaches Instru-mental Festival, Pittwater High - Performance Band

ASSEMBLIES Trophies for summer sports (cricket, T-Ball and softball) will be presented at our next assembly. Parents of children receiving awards have already been notified. Parents are reminded that this assembly will commence at 2.10pm, Monday 3 June. Special congratulations to the softball A and B and T Ball A teams who are Zone Premiers with the Junior cricket as Zone runners up. Due to the considerable number of Bronze award recipients now, these students will only stand to be acknowledged at the as-semblies. YEAR 2 SWIMMING SCHEME As part of our PD/Health/PE program, all Year 2 students will be attending the extensive swimming scheme in Week 2 of Term 3 from Monday 29 July to Friday 2 August. Details of the program will go home later in the term. Pools will be heated. REGIONAL CROSS COUNTRY Well done to the Cross Country team who represented Belrose at the Zone Carnival. It was great to see the support from many parents and friends. Congratulations to Will K for winning his event, coming in 100m in front of all his competition. He convinc-ingly led the race from the beginning. Congratulations also to Sarah W and Thomas J for moving on to the Regional with Will C and Harry H coming 7th in both their races. In a highly demanding endurance race, we are all very proud of your achievements. SPORT PSSA teams will be organised tomorrow with notes going home on Monday. Although Mr Davidson will be training the AFL teams, Mr Niklas Martin will be taking and refereeing the games on a Friday until Term 4, Week 3 when Mr Davidson will resume the role. Each Friday, I will be taking the Years 3-6 tennis group to Evolve Tennis Academy. The $127.50 program covers 11 weeks of lessons for 11/2 hours each Friday morning. Please ask your child to obtain a note from the office. AREAS OF SCHOOL TO BE PAINTED Please refer to email sent on Tuesday, 28 May, 2019. SO MANY AUTHORS IN THE ONE PLACE AT BELROSE PS. A special thank you Matthew Shallvey for organising this for me. Hopefully everyone has seen the upcoming Author visits following lunch next Thursday 6 June at the school through the Face-book page. We are fortunate to have present the 10 Authors/Illustrators from the CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) - Northern Beaches Sub Branch, as part of their 10 year anniversary celebrations. The authors and illustrators will be delivering some engaging sessions across K-6 classes about writing and illustrating children’s books. As part of the event, the students and their parents will be able to meet up with authors from 3pm to 3.30pm in the school library to purchase signed copies by the authors. Books range in price from $10.00-$20.00. If you are available to support this event and are interested in purchasing any of the authors’ books at the end (3pm to 3.30pm in the library) that would be great. The authors and illustrators are providing this great event free of charge so it would be nice to see a couple of book purchases going their way as well as some fine reading material for your children. We have a great line up so please spread the word around to other Belrose Public families. Belinda Zorian Principal

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For Crazy Sock Day we are going to be donating all the money to our World Vision child, Paul Ndurutu. The money raised will improve his clean water, improve the sanita-tion in his village, child protection improvements and hygiene. Paul is 12 years old, in Year 7 and his favourite subject is mathe-matics and he loves sport, especially soccer. He lives in Kenya which is on the East Coast of Africa. In his vil-lage the access to safe water is 63%. There are 61,000 people in his village. Paul desperately needs your help, so bring in $2.00 to wear your crazy socks for the day.

By Charli M and Kade S OK Belrose it is now that time that we all wear our crazy socks to school.. We are supporting Paul our World Vision child. You will need a pair of crazy socks and a $2.00 coin to donate. We have a goal to hit and the goal is $700 and it would be amazing to raise that goal for Paul. So remember to bring a $2.00 coin and wear some crazy socks.

By Matt D

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Crazy Sock Day - Wednesday 5 June

Session 2 – 6.45pm – 7.30 pm

Diane Evans from Big Sky Publishing will talk about her role as publishing

director where she manages manuscript submissions and works closely

with authors, editors and key members of the sales and production team.

This session is suitable for adults and older students from years 3-6 who have an interest

in writing and wanting to know more about getting published through a publishing house.

Session 1 - 6pm – 6.45pm (Please arrive by 5.50pm)

Local author and school parent Matthew Shallvey will talk about his

experiences with self-publishing children’s picture books including the

process of taking an idea for a story and turning it in to a physical book.

This session is suitable for adults and students from years K-6 who have an interest in

writing and stories. Books will be available for sale with all profits going to the school.

Do you have a great idea for a story that you would like to write and have published?

The CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) – Northern Beaches sub-branch, are running a publishing event at Belrose Public School library on the 12th of June at 6pm.

Please RSVP to pubevent@msbooksandgames.com so we can correctly accommodate numbers.

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Stage 3

WRITING

WITH KG

STEM

MATHS

On the 3 May all of Stage 3 came into our class room to vote for our BASA patch. They were all amazing, but one stood out from the rest and that was Xavier M. His was amazing. Stage 3 are lucky enough to be able to use Hummingbirds which are Robotics that you control with a laptop or an Ipad. We will place it in our probe which we will drop off the balcony.

By Toby and Mika

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If you are in Years 3 to 6 and interested in playing chess please come along every second Friday morning. Chess will take place in my room, 5S every second week from 8.00am to 8.45am. From beginners to advanced. If you have a chess set please bring it along. Our chess mornings will be as follows:

Friday 7 June Friday 21 June Friday 5 July

Mrs Stephens

Stem - Stage 3

WINTER SPORT PSSA trials for winter sport will be held on Friday 31 May 2019 (Week 5, Term 2). Our first round of competition will be held on Friday 7 June 2019. Students in Years 4, 5 and 6 will be able to trial for:

Netball – Boys & Girls – Mrs Meikle and Miss Jarvis (coaches) Soccer – Boys & Girls – Mrs Stephens (coach) AFL – Boys & Girls – Mr Davidson and Mr Martin (coaches)

In order to reach the selection criteria for these sports, students must attend at least one trial. If your child is going to be absent please notify the coach in writing as soon as possible. Please note that previous involvement in PSSA and participation in these sports outside of school will have no bearing on selection. Coaches will be selecting teams based on the following criteria:

Sportsmanship Cooperation, attitude and listening skills Skill level and ability Commitment to training sessions and the team

If your child is selected to represent our school at PSSA please be aware that there is a cost involved and a strict uniform code. Students who do not wish to participate in PSSA, or who are not selected in PSSA, may choose to play tennis or be part of our home school program. Good luck to all students during their trial sessions.

Mrs Meikle Sport Coordinator

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Sport News

NSW PSSA Selection Trials - Athletics 2019 Applications are invited for students aged 10 – 12 years for the NSW PSSA Selection Trials for the 2019 School Sport Australia Track and Field Championships. This trial is not for participation at the NSWPSSA State Athletics Championships held on 6 and 7 November 2019. Students will need to qualify for these championships through their school and association representative pathway. In 2019 the School Sport Australia Track and Field Championships will be held in the Northern Territory. Due to extreme heat conditions in Darwin during November/December when the National Track and Field Champion-ships are traditionally held, this year’s SSA event will be held from the 18-23 September 2019. In order to select a NSW representative track & field team for this event, the NSWPSSA will be holding a special selection trial on Thursday 8 August 2019. Participation at these trials will be via a formal application to NSWPSSA and athletes MUST compete at this event to achieve selection in the 2019 NSW representative team. All athletes must apply using the form provided and include a verifiable official time, distance or height that meets the minimum qualifying requirements listed below, for each event he/she is applying for. Application forms and further information can be found here. Applications close: 5pm Wednesday 26 June 2019. https://app.education.nsw.gov.au/sport/Events/View?eventId=6094&subEventId=6095 Completion of this application does not guarantee the right to compete at these trials as there are strict entry limits for all events. The convener will consider all applications and send invitations and further information electronically to successful athletes. Please see the website address above for further information and the necessary forms to complete for consideration at this event.

Sport cont.. Congratulations to our wonderful PSSA teams on another successful season. I’d like to sincerely thank the T-Ball and cricket coaches; Mrs Stephens and Miss Jarvis for their brilliant work this season. It is a pleasure to work with you throughout the PSSA season. Well done to all students who proudly and re-spectfully represented Belrose Public School. Results are as follows: Softball Girls A – Zone Premiers (undefeated) Softball Girls B – Zone Premiers (undefeated) T-Ball Girls A – Zone Premiers Junior Boys Cricket – Zone Runners Up. Well done to all our Zone Cross Country runners. A wonderful effort competing at a new venue against other schools in our zone. Congratulations to the following students who will represent Warringah Zone at the Sydney North Cross Country next month: Will K – 1st place Sarah W – 2nd place Thomas J – 4th place Congratulations to Thomas J on being selected to attend the Sydney North trial for Rugby Union. Thomas and Charli M have also been selected to attend the Sydney North trial for Touch Football. We wish you both the best of luck at the next stage. Mrs Meikle Sport Coordinator

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P & C News

CANTEEN NEWS Friday 31 May Monday 2 June Wednesday 5 June Rebecca Keiller Julie Cincinnato Julie Cincinnato Christine Fortescue Julie Cincinnato CANTEEN VOLUNTEERS - TERM 2: We’re after one more volunteer for Friday 28 June. If you're able to help on this day, please click on the link to sign up: https://volunteersignup.org/K7MMT P&C Our Girls Night In is locked in for this Saturday, if you haven't RSVP 'd please do so today. This is a great night to meet new mums and spend time with friends, it would be incredibly disappointing to cancel/postpone as a lot of hard work has gone into the organisation of this fabulous night . Thursday 6 June - Fair Meeting at 7.30pm Belrose Hotel. All welcome

Tuesday 11 June - P&C Meeting at 7.15pm in the school staff room. All welcome. BAND Performance Band Workshop Congratulations to the Performance Band for their hard work on Sunday! The workshop was well attended and the students made great progress on the three pieces they will be per-forming at the Northern Beaches Instrumental Festival on the 23 June. The afternoon includ-ed band rehearsals, sectionals with tutors, piz-za and finished with a short concert for their parents. There were a lot of positive comments on how great the band sounded so, well done to all students! A big thank you to Mrs Killick, Tanya Taylor, Prue Macdonald, Mrs Fyfe for their help on the day and Andrew Fairclough for his guidance behind the scenes. To hear an audio of the band playing 2 of the 3 pieces with the tutors go to https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q51cxwpaew6rikq/AAAylPX2jZDfyxqx1-ysVnSCa?dl=0 Mrs Anderson Practice, Pizza and Performance On Sunday, I had the privilege of attending the Performance Band workshop. Mrs Anderson had organised for the students to enhance their musical skills, in preparation for the Northern Beaches Music Festival 2019. For part of the workshop stu-dents had the opportunity to practice with tutors to perfect playing their instrument. The sound created by the band was amazing. The students were fab-ulous. They were engrossed in their learning and performed beautifully to their families at the end of the workshop. A pizza break made it a truly memorable

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