Thursday the 13th of September

Bonshaw Public School

School Captains Report

Hey guys!

We have been having some awesome stuff. For example

we have celebrated SAS (School Administration Staff)

Day. So we celebrated by giving Mrs Sharpe and Mrs

Blackford gifts for what they do for the school. Also, last

Friday we had our Father’s Day building session, where

we built an absolutely amazing sign for dad’s to use at

their barbecues! If you were wondering, the year 3-6

students had a great time at Lake Keepit, and the kinder-

garten students stayed at the school working with Mrs Bird

and Mrs Blackford. But the school has been ecstatic

because of the Poland PowerPoint is finally finished! The

huge project was completed this week and boy are we

proud!

Thanks for reading!

From the desk of William Hamel

This week all students finished their polish folk art eggs,

some students that finished early constructed a large egg

house for all the eggs to rest in. each of the eggs have

their own compartment so there will hopefully have no ar-

guments. All 3-6 have been assigned with a science pro-

ject this assignment includes constructing a model of our

solar system, as well as a power point. This will be a nice

way to finish of the science for this term. Macintyre young

writers have also been completed all of the stories are

ready to be posted to the judges. On father’s day we also

had a visit from a stem teacher she shared with us her In-

tel and introduced us to the We Do 2.0 kits.

By: Christopher Walker, Vice-captain

William Hamel Christopher Walker

Ella Ramsay

Principals Desk

We at Bonshaw Public school have had a

wonderfully educationally packed past few

weeks. The school camp was a huge success

with students pushing themselves beyond their

comfort zones, working as teams, solving

difficult problems and washing dishes. Yes,

children doing household chores and loving it.

all students represented our school well. New

friends were made, old friendships rekindled

and fresh activities attempted, from building

fires and cooking damper in the dark to

canoeing with 20 plus canoes all linked

together!

We had Ms Lollback visit us from Armidale to

teach us more about our STEM robots and set

us some challenges. This will be ongoing for

the rest of this term and next term. She taught

the Kindys about the Blue Bots and 3-6 about

the WE Build 2 Lego kits.

Students have been adding the finishing

touches to a number of projects. First of all the

McIntyre writers competition, which is a

difficult task, many students wrote way more

than the permitted 1000 words and then had the

difficult task of culling during editing. Then

they have had to finalise their Poland power

point display and complete their traditional

Polish eggs. Everything has been completed on

time, these students are a credit to the school.

Well done every body, thank you to all staff

who have put in so many hours and a huge

thank you to parents and community for your

total support. None of these wonderful things

can happen without everybody being on board.

Last but not least, we have a Polish

presentation on Wednesday 26th September at

10am at our school. This will be followed by

morning tea supplied by CWA.

Gary Barton

Principal,

Bonshaw Public School

RESPECT

PARTICIPATE

CHALLENGE

Next Bonshaw P & C Meeting

3pm Tuesday 18th September

At the School

Friday’s for students days off Term 3;

14 September

21 September

28 September

31 August (due to this date falling while we

are on the excursion it will be changed to Friday 21 September)

When: September 20 2018

Time: 10am – 1:30pm

Where: Yetman Public School

Lunch: a piece of cake and a sausage on bread or steak for the adults. Tea and coffee available Adults $15 Students $10 All funds raised from the BBQ will be donated to a drought related cause in our area!

Authors: Mick Elliott and Oliver Phommavanh will be coming up from Sydney to read to the students and to answer any questions.

Lunch from 12.00pm

There will be an activity table, games and one on one with the authors after the reading and lunch.

Orientation Days.

Kindy orientation will take place during Term 4. If you have a child that will be school ready for 2019 please enrol them prior to orientation, if you know of other children in the area that will be of school age please inform them of our orientation days. This will take place each Friday. The dates will be as follows:

Week 3 Friday November 2nd

Week 5 Friday November 6th

Week 7 Friday November 30th

Week 9 Friday December 14th

Yetman PS have invited us to yet another interesting and inspiring author meet. Published authors, Oliver

Phommavanh and Mick Elliott will be at Yetman PS in person for the filming of ABC’s Reading Hour. This will

involve lunch and then a sporting activity.

Yetman author study Thursday 20 September

Regional Athletics in Tamworth Friday 21 September

CWA Polish presentation and morning tea 26 September

END OF TERM Thursday 27 September

CWA

Poland Presentation and Morning Tea

Please join us at school on Wednesday the 26th of September at 10am when all

students will have their own traditional painted Polish egg on display and the years

3-6 students will present their PowerPoint presentation on Poland. The CWA will be

supplying morning tea after this presentation.

Dear community if you are looking to enrol a student at Bonshaw PS for 2019 please come into the school and begin enrolment procedures ASAP. Leah is at school Wednesday and Thursday of each week. We need to know who will be attending our kinder orientation days so that we can prepare for them. If students just turn up

on the day they will not have individual work prepared for them so please give us advance notice.

Students getting active on the school oval playing Bull Rush!

Fathers Day at Bonshaw Public School

Father's Day was a huge turn out with every Dad turning up for breakfast and a learning session with the students. I hope the outcomes will stand the tests of time and be central to many a great celebration. Thank you Pauline for your huge input into

Father's Day.

Thank you to our SAS Staff, Mrs Blackford,

Mrs Sharpe and of course Mr Boyd who

unfortunately wasn’t here for the photos

Students all made an apron for their Dads

prior to our Fathers Day get together. On the

day everyone enjoyed a big breakky and then

went ahead with their project. Results speak

for themselves!!! Well done everyone!

Thanks Dad’s for making the effort to be here

on the day. 100% attendance is something to

be proud of.

The students were able to have a turn on Mr Barton’s drums.

Lake Keepit Once again students had a

thoroughly enjoyable time a

the Lake Keepit Camp.