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Black Mountain School Times

Coming Events Calendar of Events

Week 6—ASAP Mon Tues Wed

Friday, 5th June Transition to Kindergarten Class

Week 7—ASAP Tues & Wed

Monday, 8th June Queen’s Birthday Holiday

Friday, 12th June Transition to Kindergarten Class

Week 8—ASAP Mon Tues Wed

Monday, 15th June School Banking

Friday, 19th June Transition to Kindergarten Class

Book Club Due

Black Mountain Public School

815 Black Mountain Road, Black Mountain NSW 2365

Phone: 02 6775 0192 Fax: 6775 0228

Email: blackmtn-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: http://www.blackmtn-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 2, 2020 – Week 6 Wednesday, 3rd June 2020

Notice:

ASAP 3 Days A Week

Queen’s Birthday

Holiday

Monday

8th June 2020

Last Day of Term

Friday

3rd July 2020

Reminder: Please contact the

school if any of your contact

details have changed.

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Principal’s Report

Dear Parents/Carers,

At our school, student wellbeing is extremely important . In line with the Department of Education’s Wellbeing Policy for all students, it is extremely important children attend school regularly to help them to attain the best education possible. Covid 19 certainly threw us some challenges with attendance. However, there is no excuse for students to be absent from school unless they have an appointment or are unwell. Please remember to advise the school as soon as possible so that you child’s absence is justified. Students will be recommencing wellbeing lessons with our new Zones of Regulation with Mrs Lord. We will also continue our ESmart lessons that help students develop resilience, identify bullying and staying safe. To help our students understand what bullying is and how to stop it, we will be having the Police Liaison Officer come to the school during this term. Above all, our school is a safe, engaging and wonderful place to learn and it is important to empower our students. Our anti-bullying policy can be found on our school website. Please can I remind parents that in our current Phase 3 returning to school arrangements, parents can walk their child/children into and out of school whilst maintaining distance. Our teachers are often very busy preparing for the day’s learning each morning. Should you wish to speak with your child’s teacher please see Mrs Moore at the front office to arrange for a time to meet with them. This helps our school to continue to follow our Covid-19 policies as well. Thank you so much for your understanding around these arrangements.

Kind regards,

Mrs Justine Eddy

Relieving Principal

Echidna’s Star of the Week

Term 2, 2020– Week 6 Wednesday, 3rd June 2020

Latai ‘Ale for always

working hard and helping

others.

Shylah-Lee Cutmore for

being a responsible learner

and supporting her friends.

3-6 Star of the Week

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This week 3-6 have been learning about 2

dimensional space in Mathematics. We have been

drawing shapes accurately using formal measuring

units, labelling them, describing their features and

then creating enormous shapes in the playground.

We used string, protractors, the trundle wheel and

spray paint to draw them. We worked with Mrs

Moffatt and Mrs Eddy to create a handball court

making sure to have right angles and equal, straight

sides.

This week, we are creating stories for younger

children. We will be using our photography skills to

illustrate our books. At the moment we are writing a

dramatic scene.

On Wednesday, Mr Matthew Hobbs, Director,

Educational Leadership made a surprise visit to our

school. It was lovely to have him in our classroom to

see the great work we are doing.

Xavier Eskenazi-Maunder demonstrated great

reading strategies in his reading group.

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Mrs Robinson Class Report 3-6 News

In Personal Development and Health this term we

are exploring the topic ‘Me and my Mates’, which

has involved getting to know more about what we

need in life to survive and thrive. Throughout this

topic we are also looking at our connections with

others and the varying range of factors that can

impact these relationships. It has been really

interesting to discuss the children’s perspectives

about what our needs are in life versus our wants. It

has encouraged some great talk about what is

actually essential in order to survive as opposed to

the things that make life more convenient.

This week we have re-iterated the importance of

feeling a sense of belonging, freedom, power and

fun. We have made links to Maslow’s Hierarchy of

Needs and created our own diagram to represent

where these potentially rank when thinking about

moving from surviving to thriving in life.

I absolutely love teaching this topic. The

conversations within the class are always meaningful

and for me, it is so satisfying to facilitate experiences

that help the students gain an understanding of

positive core values that will enhance their

wellbeing.

Mrs Robinson.

School Survey

We will be sending home a school survey with

each student. Each year our school strives to

improve our communication with families,

parents and carers. Please complete it and return

it to school as soon as possible so that our school

can make the relevant improvements to meet our

community’s needs. All information will be

completely confidential.

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Term 2, 2020 – Week 6 Wednesday, 3rd June 2020

Crazy Hair Day

Transition Report

Welcome to our latest enrolment in our Transition

Class. Malakai Pixton joined us on Friday to

participate in our activities and celebrate being

back at school full time for our other students with

crazy hair day.

See you next week for some more fun!

Mrs Mac.

The students and staff were all surprised

when Mr Hobbs our Director Educational

Leadership called in to our school to check

in and see how things are running now that

we are back at school 5 days a week.

A Surprise Visit