Principal: Claire Morgan

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Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Parent Teacher Interviews

Our parent teacher interviews will be held in Week

8 of this term, we are currently in Week 6. This

term we are introducing 3 way interviews meaning

that your child will be involved as an active and

essential member of the interview. This will

provide them with the opportunity to demonstrate

understanding of their learning and celebrate their

achievements. This is an exciting change to the

traditional interview process. As parents you can

ask questions, express ideas and help make plans to

support your child’s learning at home and school.

Teachers will support students and parents by

clarifying, elaborating and responding to specific

questions and concerns. We ask that you bring

your child with you to the interview and we have

changed the duration of the interview to thirty

minutes. This will allow time for in depth

discussions to take place and transition time for

teachers between interviews. Classroom booking

sheets will be sent home this week.

SASS Week

This week we celebrate School Administration and

Support Staff (SASS) Week. I would like to

publicly thank Jenny, Monnica, Stuart,

Swaroopananda and David for their continual

support and dedication to Bemboka Public School.

We highly value your support and for always

going above and beyond to ensure our school is the

absolute best it can be. Thank you!!

Bemboka’s Got Talent

On Thursday September 26 we will be hosting

Bemboka’s Got Talent at school. There will be

prizes for everyone who wishes to audition for the

show. There is a time limit on each item to 3-4

minutes. Students are able to perform any act that

they wish to share. It could range from magic,

dance, music, science, drama and the list goes on.

More details of the event will be shared closer to

the event. Students need to start preparing and

practicing their act in the coming weeks in

preparation for our show.

STEM Project Firestorm

On Tuesday morning we welcomed Doug Reckord

from the Bournda Environmental Education

Centre to our school to work with students on our

STEM Project Firestorm. Doug spent the morning

with the whole school showing us how to use

MyMaps in our Google Education Suite and

Google Earth. It was a thoroughly engaging

morning and Doug had organised many different

activities for students to complete. We would like

to thank Doug for his ongoing support in our

project Firestorm and look forward to his support

as we progress further. Students have been

introduced to our essential question, ‘How would

the community of Bemboka prepare, survive and

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recover from a catastrophic bushfire event?’ Next week

students will be able to select ‘prepare, survive or

recover’ as their focus and join other students in that

group to create something that can be used to share to

the Bemboka community. At our assembly in Week 10

Thursday September 26 we will be inviting all families

and community members to join us to view our final

product of Project Firestorm.

Do you have a passion for making movies??

We are after any family or community members who

might be able to volunteer their time to help us edit,

insert animations and pull together multiple video

snippets and make it into a movie. You will be

supporting us in our Project Firestorm movie making

which we will be showcased to our local and wider

community. For more information please ring the

school.

Professional Learning

Amongst our daily teaching and learning our teachers

have also been busily participating and scheduling

professional development to further build their capacity

and knowledge as a teacher. Jaimi, Jo and Christa will

be attending the Minds Wide Open learning

opportunity at Candelo Public School on Thursday Sep-

tember 19. They will be introduced to the Design Think-

ing process and the effects this can have on engaging

students further in their learning. Next week, Jaimi will

be attending a two day course in Batemans Bay to

further our journey with our Positive Behaviour for

Learning. This is our wellbeing framework which

relates to our values of Respect, Responsible and

Resilient. Jaimi will be away Tuesday and Wednesday

of next week. Over the last two weeks, I have attended a

Teaching Principals Conference at the University of

Canberra where the Eden- Monaro (our network),

Batemans Bay and Yass network came together to

acknowledge and further support the teaching

principals in these areas. It was a fantastic two days

where we discussed small school contexts, multi staged

classrooms and curriculum. Last week I attended a

Thought Leaders Conference in Sydney as part of the

Principal Induction Program. As I am a new permanent

principal to the Department of Education they provide

us with support and learning opportunities in the first

couple of years of our principalship. Earlier in the year

I attended the Principals Induction Conference where

they went through all the things that we need to know

and who to contact for support. The Thought Leaders

Conference last week provided the opportunity for

newly appointed principals to hear three well-known

and international educational speakers. It was a

fantastic 3 days where I had the opportunity to meet

and listen to Helen Timperley, Dylan Wiliams and

Simon Breakspear. At this stage my next conference in

Sydney as part of this Principal Induction program will

be in November. Continued over page……………...

*HAPPY

BIRTHDAY*

Next Merit Assembly is

TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER at 9.30am.

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Bemboka vs Candelo Soccer Game & Book Week Celebrations

Thank you to all our wonderful students who participated in our

Book Week celebration and those that played and cheered on our

soccer team. I would like to acknowledge our parents and

community members who were able to participate in these events

and to all those parents who organised such amazing costumes for

the students.

Pancake Brekky

On Wednesday September 18 we will be hosting another pancake

breakfast at school. The cost is $5 per person and it will start at 9am.

All families and community members are welcome to come down to

the school to enjoy our delicious pancake breakfast.

Stage 3 Camp

Next week, I will be attending the Stage 3 camp to Canberra from

Wednesday to Friday. This is a combined Small Schools Camp

where students in Years 5 and 6 have the opportunity to meet other

students from our local small schools to help build friendships in

preparation for high school. Please remember that all students who

are attending the camp are required to have their school uniform

packed as it is required for our visit to Parliament House on

Thursday September 5.

Cricket Gala Day

Students in Stage 2 and 3 will be attending a cricket gala day in

Bega on Thursday September 12. Mrs Jo Collins and I will be

accompanying the students. Permission notes and more information

will be coming home shortly with students.

Water Bug Survey

All students will be participating in the waterbug survey on

Thursday September 19. A teacher from the Bournda

Environmental Education Centre will be supporting students down

at the creek to carry out the survey. On this day we suggest that the

students in Years 4,5,6 bring gumboots and spare change of clothes

as the senior students will be

collecting the bugs from the

river. Yours in Education

Claire Morgan

Late notices have been sent home. Please return OVERDUE books to school

COMMUNITY NOTICES

School Banking Every Wednesday at school.

For more information please Contact

Service One Alliance Bank Bemboka

on 64930422.

Learn to play the Drums call Trapper on 0408271135

NEXT P&C MEETING 2 September @ 3.30pm

School Beanies are

available from the office

for $10.00.

FATHER’S DAY STALL

THIS FRIDAY 30 AUG

The stall will be held after

lunch. Please send some

money for your child's

purchase. $5.00 for gifts.

Invoices with outstanding 2019 voluntary

school fees & Stage 3 Canberra Excursion

fees were sent home with the youngest

students at the beginning of term 3.

These can be paid by cash at the

office or via our school website page

under ‘Make A Payment’.

Great

Soccer

Game at

Bemboka

5-0 Candelo

WON

Thanks to

all who

came and

joined in

at

Colombo

Park

Merit Assembly

15 August

Congratulations to

our great students!

We visited the shed as part of our

STEM FIRE STORM PROJECT

Coming Events 2019

Aug 29 Bournda—Stage 3 x 4 students

Aug 30 Fathers Day Stall—( send in money)

Sept 2 P&C Meeting 3.30pm @ school

Sept 3 Merit Assembly 9.30am (Blue)

Sept 4-6 Stage 3 Canberra Excursion

Sept 19 Waterbug Survey

Sept 26 Merit Assembly 2.30 (Green)

Sept 27 Last Day of Term 3

Oct 14 First Day of Term 4

Broccoli is an edible

green plant in the

cabbage family.

Quinoa is gluten-free,

high in protein and one

of the few plant foods

that contain sufficient

amounts of all nine

essential amino acids.

It is also high in fibre,

magnesium, B vitamins,

iron, potassium,

calcium, phosphorus,

vitamin E.

Wk Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

WK 6

Term

3

28

BANKING

Kitchen

Garden

STEM

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3,4,5&6

Library

Bournda-

Good

wasp bad

wasp

St 3 x 4

30

P & C

Fathers

Day

Stall

Pre

school

visit

WK 7

Sept 2

K,1&2

Library

P&C

Meet 3.30

3

Merit Assembly

9.30am

Blue

4

BANKING

Stage 3

Canberra

Excursion

5

3,4,5&6

Library Stage 3

Canberra

Excursion

6 Stage 3 Canberra

Excursion

WK 8 9

10 11

BANKING

Kitchen

Garden

STEM

12 13

WK 9 16 17

18 BANKING

19

Water

bug

survey

20

WK

10

23

24 25

Kitchen

Garden

STEM BANKING

26

Merit

Assembly

2.30pm

Green

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Last day

of term

3

2 Sept Amanda Rush & Anita Lawrence

9 Sept Peta Alcock &

16 Sept Jodie Bajjada & Pinit Smits

23 Sept Amanda Rush & Kirsty Marsden

K, 1 & 2

are in the

garden and 3,

4, 5, 6 are

cooking and

doing STEM

this term .