in this week’s issue … principal’s message
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In this week’s issue …
Principal’s Message
Change of date – Parenting Information Sessions
Kitchen News
Garden News
Book Week Celebrations
What’s New in the Library
Term 3 PBL Reward
PBL Universal Expectations
PBL Awards
UPCOMING EVENTS
Fri 29th October Day for Daniel
Fri 5th November Whole School Assemly. Item K/1, Year 5 lead
Wed 10th November Book Fair
Wed 10th, Wed 17th & Wed 24th November
Parenting Sessions
Fri 19th November Kinder Transition, 2pm till 2.50pm
Principal’s Message Reading fiction is a pastime that we should all
embrace. A good book can hook you in. With
a good story, you want to turn the next page
and you must find out how it ends. Our
young readers learn so much about how to
read as they navigate their way through a
good story. Reading also helps to build
empathy. You get to look through the
characters eyes into places you have never
been and experiences you wouldn’t normally
have. When you put the book down, you are
a slightly different person. You have thought
about what it is like for other people. You
have learned lessons and you have imagined.
It is through imagining that things can be
different that individuals make a better
future.
What is the next book that you will read?
Roslyn Buchanan
Principal (Act.)
2021 NSW Term 4 Week 3 Newsletter T: 03 54 532 133 19/10/2021 F: 03 54 532 972 E: [email protected] www.barham-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
BARHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL
Change of Date - Parenting
Information Sessions
Intereach Deniliquin will be hosting sessions
for parents of teenagers on Wednesday 10th
November, 17th November and 24th
November from 9.30am to 12.30am.
More information will be advertised closer to
the date.
Kitchen News This term, years 4,5 and K/1 are having their
long-awaited turn in the Kitchen. We are
excited to welcome back Shirley Brumby to
the kitchen. Shirley has been busy organising
the pantry and getting the storage cupboards
back into order for our students to use.
On the menu this week we had – Mexican
green rice, Mexican chicken, wheat tortillas
and Moroccan carrot salad for Years 4 and 5.
The students were keen to try new recipes
and the feedback was positive. They were all
willing to try it – some were pleasantly
surprised that they did like some unfamiliar
foods.
The K/1 class had an ‘Introduction to the
kitchen’ session. We focused on hand
washing, putting an apron on, and sitting at
the table. Students were served carrots,
celery, cheese, corn relish dip and corn chips
on a plate. They practised walking to the
table and sitting up responsibly. Next week
Kinder will be focusing on the skills of
spreading and cutting.
It was a great start to the term, and we look
forward to more recipes from the Stephanie
Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
throughout the term.
Garden News In Garden this week, Year 2/3 were busy
maintaining the new native plants in the Fairy
Garden. There was a mountain of tasks to
carry out, these included hand watering,
weeding, mulching and redirecting watering
systems. You can see the difference in the
garden! Be sure to look over the fence if you
are walking past to see the progress we are
making with the revegetation.
Mrs. Mathers
Book Week Celebrations Last term we celebrated book week online.
Unfortunately, this meant we were unable to
host our annual book week parade. After
much consideration, we have decided to not
go ahead with the parade this term and
instead look forward to hosting the event in
2022. Despite this, we hope everybody
enjoyed their online book week activities in
their classes and celebrated their favourite
book in some way.
During book week, we posted a book week
drawing challenge to each class. Here are two
of the drawings submitted, drawn by Sid and
Matt. Great work Sid and Matt!
Miss Cobban and Mrs Mathers
What’s New in the Library! Exciting things have been happening in the
library this week! We have swapped out our
old wooden bookshelves for some new, taller
shelves, giving us a lot more room to put new
books. We’ve also upgraded our tote tray
shelf which features a seat on the top now.
This will be a great new spot to sit during
library lessons, as modelled by our lovely
Year 2 girls! Thank you to Mrs Buchanan and
Wayne for helping set this up and giving our
wonderful space a fresh a new look.
Miss Cobban
Term 3 PBL Reward
On Thursday and Friday of Week 1, students
enjoyed their Term 3 PBL reward of student
lead play. Even though the session had to be
modified due to COVID-19 restrictions
students enjoyed choosing the activities they
wanted to participate in. They expressed
creativity, co-operated with peers and
showed off some fine and gross motor skills
whilst exploring what their classroom and
yard had to offer.
Some activities included:
• LEGO
• Drawing
• Cricket
• Chess
• Dancing
• Football
• Toys
PBL Universal Expectations The beginning of
Term 4 has seen
students focus on the
Universal
Expectations. They have been revising what
our values are and how they impact students
and staff.
Week 1 & 2 saw Stage teams explore the
value of Respect.
PBL Awards Classroom and playground awards play an
important part in our PBL program.
Postcards
Postcards are handed out during class times
and given to a student displaying the value.
These cards are used to promote
conversations in the home about the values
and what behaviours were shown.
If your child brings home a PBL postcard
allow them to share and explain how they
behaved when they received the award.
Behaviour Merit Cards
Behaviour Merit cards are also given out
when values are shown in the playground
and the classroom. These cards are then
placed in a post box outside the Kinder/1
classroom.
At our Friday small assemblies one card is
drawn from the post box and the student will
receive a $5 book club voucher.
K-2 Reading Awards Weeks 1 & 2 of Term 4 have seen 19 students
receive a reading award. Teachers were very
pleased to see many students continuing
their home reading routines over the
holidays and into the new term. It is with
great excitement that the first 100 nights of
Reading awards have been awarded to Will,
Isabelle, Addison, Raymond & Robert.
It is an expectation that our K-2 students are
reading 5 nights a week and being exposed a
range of texts.
As Barack Obama once said, ‘Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.’
K/1 and 1/2 Science The K/1 and 1/2 students will be constructing
shields as a part of their science unit
‘Dinosaurs and more’. We would appreciate
any items that we can use to construct our
shields such as small containers (e.g. from
yoghurt, margarine etc), small cardboard
boxes and cardboard tubes. Thank you!
Mrs Rebecca Wickham
Learning Walks At Barham Public School we aspire for every
student, teacher and leader to collaborate
and seek feedback to improve. Our teachers
have been engaging in learning walks to
share their teaching with their colleagues.
This important collaborative practice helps
our teachers self-reflect and use feedback to
adopt highly effective teaching strategies and
improve outcomes for your child.
School Visitor Check-In A single School Visitor Check-in system for
every school across the state came in on 18
October!
The Department of Education has partnered
with Service NSW to provide a streamlined,
digital school sign-in system for visitors and
contractors at every NSW government
school.
Benefits of the new system include:
• Accelerating your check-ins to as fast
as 20 seconds!
• Linked to NSW Health’s COVID-19
contact tracing ensuring every school
is compliant with the NSW COVID-19
mandate.External link
• Giving every school greater access to
streamlined NSW Government
services.
Watch our short parent videoExternal link to
see how it works for parents or
our contractor videoExternal link.
Who can use School Visitor check-in
Visitors such as parents and carers,
contractors, service providers and
volunteers.
Students or visitors under the age of 18 are
not required to use School Visitor Check-in.
School Visitor Check-in will be ready from 18
October at all NSW Government schools.
For more information visit School Visitor
Check-in on the department website.
Assembly Awards
Congratulations to our Term 4, Week 1
assembly award recipients.
Congratulations to our Term 4, Week 2 K/1
assembly award recipients.
Congratulations to our Term 4, Week 2 Yr 1/2
assembly award recipients.
Congratulations to our Term 4, Week 2 Yr 2/3
assembly award recipients.
Congratulations to our Term 4, Week 2 Yr 4
assembly award recipients.
Congratulations to our Term 4, Week 2 Yr 5
assembly award recipients.
Congratulations to our Term 4, Week 2 Yr 6
assembly award recipient.
Uniforms School uniforms help to build a sense of
belonging in a school. With the days starting
to warm up, it is a great opportunity to check
in on school uniform requirements.
Summer for Boys
• Yellow Polo Shirt
• Black Shorts (NOT football shorts)
• Maroon Brimmed Hat
• White Socks
• Footwear suitable for all school
activities.
Summer for Girls
• Yellow Polo Shirt
• Black skort or Shorts (NOT bike
shorts)or Maroon & White Checked
Dress
• White Socks
• Maroon Brimmed Hat
• Footwear suitable for all school
activities.
Hair should be neat and tidy. We encourage
you to tie back long hair and limit jewellery
for health and safety reasons. Makeup should
not be worn.
Riverina sports uniforms, including shorts or
jumpers should only be worn on sports days
which is on Fridays.
If your child is not wearing the school
uniform, you may get a call from their
teacher to let you know and to see what we
can do to help. If you are having trouble with
school uniforms, please contact the school
for support.