Maitland

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Community From Kindergarten to Year 12 in Partnership

This week we have started the implementation of our Student Wellbeing Level System, I have attached a copy of it to the newsletter. The level system provides students and their parents with information about their child’s behaviour and assists all students to behave in the manner expected of students of our wonderful school. If you have any questions about the level system please do not hesitate to contact me.

2017 KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS

If you are going to enrol your child for next year buthaven’t yet done so, we would be grateful if you coulddo so as soon as possible. Similarly, if you know offriends or family who live in the Bolwarra PublicSchool zoning area and are going to enrol at our school, please encourage them to let us know either by phone or visiting our school office to complete the enrolment forms. To ascertain whether an address falls within the Bolwarra Public School catchment zone, please contact the office on 4930 1296. Having a more complete picture of school enrolments now will assist with our school planning for 2017.

MERIT AWARDS: The following students will receive their Award at Monday morning’s assembly.

BRONZE 1ST AWARD: Maya Robinson.

BRONZE 2ND AWARD: Max Flanagan, Ruby-Rose Carver & Mia Campbell.

SILVER 1ST AWARD: Sophie Cornish, Harriette Hill, Ellie Cousins & Ben Harrison.

GOLD 1ST AWARD: Lily Radford.

Congratulations to these students.

Kind Regards,

Steven Richard Principal

Bolwarra Public School

25 Bolwarra Road, Bolwarra, NSW 2323

T 49301296 T 49301233 F 49300032

Email: bolwarra-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web: www.bolwarra-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Bolwarra Public School Success Through Effort

Term 3 Week 6

Newsletter

PRINCIPALS NEWS Hearing Awareness Week

This week is Hearing Awareness Week. Did you know that exposure to noise is a known cause of one third of the cases of hearing loss. Damage to hearing from noise is cumulative. The louder the sound, the less time you can safely listen to it. Just because a sound isn’t annoying doesn’t make it safe. Many daily activities won’t harm your hearing, but some can start to cause damage after only a short time. The hearing awareness week website has a tool that demonstrates the impact of noise on your ears, playing loud music through an iPod can be as loud as 92dB. This can cause damage to your ears if listened to for more than 30 minutes. You can find more information at http://www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au/too-loud HUNTER REGION ATHLETICS

After a couple of postponements due to wet weather our students finally participated in the Maitland Zone Athletics Carnival last week. Congratulations to the following students who will represent our school and Maitland Zone at the Regional Athletics carnival next week; Riley Kent-Duong, Flinders Cobley, Callan Barber, William Agnew, Grace Sutherland, Holly Jones, Charlee Belcher and Abbie Turner.

5CENT CHALLENGE

The 5 cent challenge is up and running. I had 7 lucky students who correctly guessed the amount 5 cent coins in my car on Monday morning. These students received an extra 20 minutes play time on Tuesday afternoon. The challenge will run for another 2 weeks. The total amount raised stands at $288.45.

TELL THEM FROM ME SURVEY

This term our school will be conducting the “Tell Them From Me” survey. The survey will be available for parents, students and teachers to complete. The feedback provided from the survey last year was a key ingredient in the creation of the school’s Kids Shed program. Attached to the newsletter is an information note about the survey and a return note for students who DO NOT wish participate in the survey. If you would like your child to complete the survey there is no need to return the note. The student survey is open to students in years four to six. The link for the parent survey is: https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/mw8k7 The parent survey will remain open until the end of the term.

STUDENT WELLBEING

Our school rule focus this week has been “Respect Yourself and Others.” Classes have been discussing the importance of this rule, what it would look like and what it would sound like. Respect is an attitude of caring about people and treating them with dignity. Respect is valuing ourselves and others. We show respect by speaking and acting with courtesy. When we are respectful we treat others as we want to be treated.

Our focus rule for next week is “Be Safe”.

Parents Online Payments (POP) on school website -

“$ Make a payment” tab (school payments only not P&C)

Online Uniform and Lunch orders www.flexischools.com.au

P&C Website www.bolwarrapandc.wordpress.com

Facebook Address www.facebook.com/BolwarraPublicSchool

School Website : www.bolwarra-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

K – 6 NEWS Important Dates

FRIDAY

26 August

Boys State Cricket KO Competition

Registrations Due for Primary School Dance Ensemble

Book Week Parade

TUESDAY

30 August PSSA Girls Touch Football– Bolwarra

THURSDAY

1 September Festival of Choral Music—Sydney Opera

House

MONDAY

5 September Boys PSSA Soccer

SATURDAY

10 September Working Bee from 9am

OFFICE NEWS

Notes in Circulation

PSSA Girls Touch Football

Debating Team

PSSA Boys Soccer

Just One Thing

Working Bee

Festival of Choral Music

Primary School Dance Ensemble

Birthday Book Club

When it is your child’s birthday, they have the opportunity to donate a book of their choice (already purchased by the library) for the small cost of $6.00. After paying, the children can come to the library and select a birthday book.

The books will be presented to the children on assembly. Each book will have a special message inside saying who has donated the book. The birthday child will be the first to borrow the book. Two students are joining the birthday book club this week.

Welcome Ella and Lochie

BOOK NOW! We are still accepting deposits for the Sydney Weekend Shopping Trip being held on October 29 & 30, 2016. For only $250.00 you will be chauffer driver in coach transport, Saturday morning tea and lunch, accommodation at Harbourview North Sydney and full buffet breakfast Sunday. The weekend will involve 1 1/2 day warehouse shopping with Sunday afternoon being spent at Birkenhead Point, raffles on the coach and most importantly a fun weekend away! Contact Melinda on 0419 496 941 for more information or to arrange payment of your $50.00 deposit. Please note deposits are non-refundable but fully transferrable with the remainder of the balance able to be paid in installments. All funds raised will go to Bolwarra P&C to continue purchasing technology for our beautiful children.

P & C NEWS

We are after volunteers to help wrap gifts for the Fathers

Day Stall. If you are able to assist, can you please contact

Amanda on 0439 939 934.

CANTEEN NEWS

Thank You! The Olympic specials are over! We would like to thank everyone for supporting our wonderful canteen and the delicious dishes from around the world. We sold 730 dishes across the 5 days. And a huge Thankyou to our amazing volunteers, we could not have done it without you!

We Love Bikkies!!! Baking ANZAC biscuits is also a fantastic way to contribute to the school, they are so popular we can’t keep up with the demand! The school preferred recipe is available from the canteen or office, and cooked biscuit donations are able to be dropped off at either the office or the canteen.

Volunteers Needed For our canteen to be able to make all this delicious homemade food we need some helpers. The remaining terms roster has been updated on the Skoolbag App (please look under the new menu listing ‘Canteen’), if you could please have a look through as we still have some vacancies for lunch order days (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) as well as snack days (Tuesday and Thursday). The kids love seeing their Mums and Dads, Nans and Pops, Aunties and Uncles at the school and it is a great way to support the school as the largest fundraiser of the P&C. If you can give us even an hour of your time, even after groups in the morning, it is all very much appreciated. Please give our super friendly Canteen Manager Melani a call on 0422335939 or pop in to the canteen any time.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB

Book club orders are due by Friday 2 September. If you

wish to place an order for Fathers Day, online orders will

need to be submitted online via LOOP by Sunday 28 Aug at

6pm.

Can you spare some time to help around the school SATURDAY 10th SEPTEMBER from 9am

as a thank you we will provide lunch

On the day there are several little projects to be done these include;

Repairing the cricket nets, refurbishing arbores at the school entrances, pressure cleaning, gardening and laying turf.

We will need wheel barrows, cordless drills, pressure washers and gardening items like gloves, rakes, shovels etc.

All help is greatly appreciated!

If you can help please let us know by filling out the form below and returning it to school or by contacting Steve on 0409 308 471 or Phil

on 0402 224 073 so we can plan the day out and ensure we will be able to get all projects finished.

However if you are unsure or find you are free on the day you are still more than welcome to come along, the more we have the quicker

it will be finished.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Steve or Phil.

THANK YOU!

I am available to help out with the working bee on Saturday 12th September

NAME/S: Contact number:

I am able to help with:

and able to bring these items with me

5 cent Challenge 5c isn’t that much but together all our little silver pieces will raise funds for our Kids Shed. Run

over 3 big weeks with prizes each week for top class.

Monday 22nd August – Friday 9th September

Each classroom has a collection jar and no cheating 5c coin only

The overall winning class will get a pizza party for the whole class

8.45 – 2.30 8.45 – 11 11 – 2.30 12noon – 2.30 ANZAC BISCUITS

MONDAY 29.8

Supervisor Bronwyn Whitehouse VACANCY

TUESDAY 30.8

VACANCY

WEDNESDAY 31.8

Supervisor Shannon Grech

Casey Hosking

THURSDAY 1.9

Mia Fraser VACANCY

FRIDAY 2.9

Supervisor Jo Beeching Stacey Nash

VACANCY

Supervisor VACANCY

Amanda Barber Bec Croese

CANTEEN ROSTER

FLEXISCHOOLS

If you have any queries regarding this process please phone Flexischools directly on 1300 361 769.

It is a legal requirement for all volunteers to fill and sign the Working with Children Check Form. It is also a requirement to pro-vide 100 point identification to accompany this form. Please attend the office to complete this form. If you need any more infor-mation please phone Melani or ask in the office. If you have already done your WWCC online, please give your number and D.O.B. to the office to verify.

ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL

Regular attendance at school is important for students to be able to reach their potential. The school is required to record the reason for any absences. Students are only to be absent when they are sick or have another good reason for missing school. If your child is sick you can notify us via the Skoolbag App, telephone us, or send a note in when your child returns to school.

You can download the App on Apple or Android devices– simply visit your Apple Store or Google Play Store and search for “Bolwarra Skoolbag”.

My child ..............................................of class ............. was absent on (date) ..................................

For the following reason .....................................................................................................................

Parent signature: ……………………………………………………………………………………………

ABSENTEE NOTICE

COMMUNITY NOTICTES

Full details on community noticeboard.

Girl Guides: Sandra Herbert

Local Contact: Girls aged 5-9 years

0418 160 402

49 301780

HERBSHAVEN@bigpond.com

Producers of quality animal

and poultry feeds

East Maitland Athletics and

Little Athletics Club

Po Box 247 East Maitland

Registration Nights

Tuesday 16/8/16 5:30-7:30pm- Fun Night/Rego at East Maitland McDonalds

Tuesday 23/8/16 5:30 -7:00pm - Metford Recreational Reserve, Metford

Tuesday 30/8/16 5:30-7:00pm - Metford Recreational Reserve, Metford Tuesday 6/9/16 5:30-7:30pm - Fun Night/Rego at East Maitland McDonalds

Register Online prior to attending a Rego night

Cost: $90 for Tiny Tots & $100 for all other age groups.

Bring child’s birth certificate or proof of age.

Season will commence on Tuesday 13th September 2016 6:00pm

Registration are to be done online at: http://www.emalac.org.au/

Facebook www.facebook.com/eastmaitlandlittleathletics For more details contact

0487220275 0449255491

Megan Price Nathan Whyte

Secretary President

MAITLAND TOUCH FOOTBALL

REGISTER NOW—ONLINE!! REGISTER AT:

www.maitlandtouch.com.au Registrations CLOSE end of September

Team and individual registrations welcome.

www.facebook.com/maitlandtouch

OFFICE CONTACT:

Phone:0408 757 058 Email: admin@maitlandtouch.com.au

Earn some extra $$$ and become a touch referee Maitland Touch is also looking for teenagers and adults to become official referees, and GET PAID

(tax-free) to referee touch games!

For more info, visit www.maitlandtouch.com.au or contact our office on the details above.

Bolwarra Public School – Student Welfare - Levels System

Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

Up

All students are automatically placed on Level 0 at the beginning of each school year.

Behaviour Slip count restarts at the beginning of each term.

Students are placed on Level 1 when they receive 3 behaviour slips.

Students are placed on Level 2 when they receive an additional 2 behaviour slips in the fortnight from reaching Level 1.

Students are placed on Level 3 when they receive an additional 2 behaviour slips in the fortnight from reaching Level 2.

Students returning to school from suspension are automatically placed here.

Students are placed on Level 4 when they receive an additional 2 behaviour slips in the fortnight from reaching Level 3.

Down

Students return to Level 0 if they receive less than 2 behaviour slips in the fortnight from reaching Level 1.

Students return to Level 1 if they receive less than 2 behaviour slips in the fortnight from reaching Level 2.

Students return to Level 2 if they receive less than 2 behaviour slips in the fortnight from reaching Level 3.

Students return to Level 3 if they receive less than 2 behaviour slips in the fortnight from reaching Level 4.

Consequences

Students who have not moved up a level by the last week of each term will be rewarded with one of the following;

Movie afternoon Additional Playtime BBQ Lunch Ice Cream

Students who remain on Level 0 for the entire year receive a BBQ Breakfast with the teachers in last week of Term 4.

Parents are sent letter notifying of Level placement. (Notifying ineligible for term reward)

Students attend 1 day in Planning room to discuss behaviour.

Students complete 1 hour School Service.

Students on this level are ineligible to receive Principal, Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards.

Parents sent letter notifying of Level placement.

AP phones parents Students attend 2 days

in Planning room to discuss behaviour.

Students complete 2 hours School Service.

Students on this level are ineligible to receive Principal, Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards.

Parents sent letter notifying of Level placement. (may include Suspension Warning)

Students attend 3 days in Planning room to discuss behaviour.

Students complete 3 hours School Service.

Staff Check In Person assigned to student.

Student ineligible to represent school or attend school excursions.

Students on this level are ineligible to receive Principal, Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards.

Parents sent letter notifying of Level placement.

Students attend 3 days in Planning room to discuss behaviour.

Students complete 3 hours School Service.

Staff Check In Person assigned to student.

Student monitoring playground / classroom card.

Students on this level are ineligible to receive Principal, Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards.

School Service

School Service includes but is not lim-ited to:

School ground maintenance Sport shed / equipment re-

pair Classroom equipment prep-

aration Gardening

School Service is completed under teacher supervision and provides an opportuni-ty for students seek restitu-tion for their behaviour.

Check In System

The Check In System matches individ-uals Teachers and Students.

Each student is required to meet with their “Check In” teacher at the start, middle and end of each day.

“Checking In” involves telling the teacher how they are feeling, any events that occurred, how their be-haviour has been.

It is the student’s responsibility to find their teacher. A record is maintained for student accountability.

It is about strengthening relationships between students and teachers.

The students Check In teacher must be different to their classroom teach-er.

Senior students could be trained to be a part of the check in system.

Planning Room

Students in the Planning room discuss their behaviour and develop plans to improve upon it.

Plans may be written or verbal.

Students share their plan with their Check In Teacher.

Planning room may also provide sup-port to develop social skills and com-petencies.

The Planning room records completed School Service.