Canteen: No canteen at all this week.

Proud moments for this week are:

KN: Harry Spring-Lewis

K/1H: Charlie Hewitt

2M: Ruby Taylor

2/3C: Blake Staines

3/4B: Zac Conway

Intensive Swimming: This week is the final week for Intensive swimming. If you have not already done so, please finalise payments ASAP.

Christmas Raffle: Tickets will go out today for our Christmas Raffle. There are great prizes to be won. The Raffle will be drawn at our Presentation Evening on the 13

th December. Cost

is $1 per ticket.

Toormina High School: Reminder THS Extension Class Orientation Day is on next Tuesday 20

th.

Diary Dates: 28th Nov - Captain’s Speeches, 29

th

Nov - Last Kinder Orientation, 4th Dec - THS Yr7

Orientation Day, 6th Dec - Big Bike Ride, 13

th Dec

- Presentation Night, 17th Dec - Yr6 Farewell,

18th Dec - Bonville’s Got Talent, 19

th Dec - Big

Banana-Final day for students.

12th November, 2018 Term 4 Week 5

Dates for your diary:

Monday 12th November- 2M & 2/3C library, K-2 Intensive swimming, Yr 5/6 departs for Sydney. Tuesday 13th November– K/1H & 5/6G library, K-2 Intensive swimming. Wednesday 14th November - Music tuition, K-2 Intensive swimming. Thursday 15th November- $1 ice creams, Student Banking, KN library, K-2 Intensive swimming. Friday 16th November – Choir, 3/4B library, Music tuition, K-2 Intensive swimming, Stage 2 Coffs Rally, Yr 5/6 returns from Sydney.

Mr Burkitt’s Message

We must collectively cross our fingers and hope that our audition tape for the Combined Sydney Opera House choir is successful. Filming of the choir was completed on Friday and now it is just a waiting game. Thanks Miss Tanis for all of your ef-forts in this area. Intensive Swimming scheme continues this week. Hopefully the weather is a little more consistent this week after last week’s 16 degree turnaround. The next stage of our kitchen garden project requires large and medium terracotta pots. We would greatly appreciate any donations. If you have any that you no longer want we would be happy to take them off your hands. As students return home from school this afternoon Year 5 and 6 will be just pulling into Central station in Sydney after 9 long hours. Thank you to all of the parents who were able to join us for the Sydney Excursion meeting held on Wednesday afternoon. Child Protection Education lessons will commence this week. These age appropriate lessons follow three main themes: Recognising Abuse, Power in Relationships and Protective Strategies. I have once again included further details in the next section of this week’s newsletter. Rachel Gerathy from Live Life Well at School, several parents and myself met on Thursday evening to discuss the changes that need to occur to ensure that our school canteen meets the healthy canteen’s strategy. We are now compiling a canteen menu which will then be submitted for inspection to see if it passes. In the past, schools were able to have “red” days, however, the new strategy does not allow for some foods to be sold at all. Rachel was very informative and left the other attendees feeling very positive for our one day a week canteen. The next P&C meeting will be held on Monday 19

th

November. It was originally set down for this evening, however, both the P&C President and myself will be attending the Sydney excursion. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please be sure to attend the following Monday. See you all there at 6pm. Have a great week and thank you for your continuing support of Bonville Public School. Dean Burkitt

Child Protection Education is required to be

taught in every Stage of learning from

Kindergarten to Year 10 as part of Personal

Development, Health and Physical

Education.

Balanced child protection education involves

teaching and learning about three themes:

Recognising abuse

Protective skills cannot be used unless children

and young people recognise situations of

potential abuse or when abuse is occurring. It is

important that students develop knowledge and

skills, appropriate to their age and stage, about

what constitutes abuse.

Power in relationships

When discussing power in relationships,

particular attention is given to building

confidence in relationships which are positive

and caring. Skills in establishing and maintain-

ing positive relationships, including accepted

cultural practices related to caring touch, are

reinforced.

Protective strategies

With knowledge about positive relationships and

about child abuse, children and young people

can take appropriate actions if they are in

threatening situations. When learning about

protective strategies, students are given the

opportunity to analyse situations, to identify

feelings, and to explore alternative courses of

action and their consequences.

Through Child Protection Education in NSW

schools students learn:

about feeling safe and their right to be safe; to

recognise appropriate touching and

inappropriate touching; that appropriate touch-

ing is an important part of positive relationships;

that they have a right to say NO to a person

who touches them inappropriately or threatens

their safety; that it is important to tell trusted

adults about such situations; that they may have

to keep on telling people until they are be-

lieved ;that help is available to them within their

communities. If you have any further questions

please contact the school. We want to keep our

children safe.