■ 2019 ■ Term 2 ■ Week 2 ■ Principal: Bradley Gorman

■ Phone: (02) 6946 6214 Learn and Grow

■ Fax: (02) 6946 6207 Bongongo Public School

■ Email: Bongongo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Adjungbilly Road via Coolac

■ Website: www.bongongo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Adjungbilly NSW 2727

Bongongo Public School ■ Principal: Bradley Gorman Learn and Grow ■ Phone: (02) 6946 6214 ■ Fax: (02) 6946 6207 Bongongo Public School ■ Email: bongongo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Adjungbilly Road via Coolac ■ Website: www.bongongo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Adjungbilly NSW 2727

■ 2019 ■ Term 2■ Week 2

Events for the Calendar

Term 2 Week 2

Thur 9/5/19—Small Schools Cross Country

Term 2 Week 3

Tues 14/5 Wed 15/5 Thur 16/5 - NAPLAN -Year 5

Thur 16/5/19 -Puggles

Term 2 Week 4

Thur 23/5/19—Small Schools Athletics

Thur 23/5/19—Stargaze Night

Term 2 Week 5

Thur 30/5/19—Mortimer Shield, Tumut —Jetty, George & Archie

Thur 30/5 19 Puggles

Term 2 Week 6

Tue 4/6/19—Year 5—Nangus—Robotics day

Wed 5/6/19—Thur 6/6/19—Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Fri 7/6/19—Highlands Athletics—Tumut

Term 2 Week 7

Thur 13/6/19 -Puggles

Term 2 Week 9

Thur 27/6/19—Puggles, School Assembly

Student of the week

Mrs Lott receives her Student of the Week award for helping us make our beautiful Easter Bunny hats last term.

In this issue ... A message from Brad …………………………………….…………....3

A message from Miss Reynolds ………………………..………...3

Numeracy in the spotlight ……..…………………………………….….. .3

Times Table …...…....………………………………………………….………..3

Super Spellers …… …...………………………………………….………….. .3

Literacy ………………………………………………………………….…….…… .4

Cross Country………………………………………………………..…………. ..4

Humula Robotics ………………………………………………………….…… 4

Anti-Bullying………………………………………………………………………..4

Healthy Harold ……………………………...………………………………… .4

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A message from Brad

Welcome back everyone! I hope that everyone enjoyed their Easter break and allowed themselves some rest and recuperation.

We are going to have to buckle ourselves in for a massive Term 2 with numerous sporting events including athletics and cross country as well NAPLAN and school excursions!

This Thursday is the annual Small Schools Cross Country. We will be joined by our friends from Eurongilly, Binalong, Jugiong, Brungle, Gundagai South and Nangus. Our students have been in training since the start of the term and we all cannot wait to sample the wonderful P&C catering! I look forward to catching up with you all on the day!

We will also be learning about robots during the term as we receive our robotics kit as part of our science program.

Last Tuesday, our tennis court surface was completed with only the lights to be installed. Kerry ands his team from Riverina Sports have done a wonderful job. I cant wait to have the BBQ area and picnic tables installed in the very near future.

Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful mothers. I hope you all enjoy your day this weekend and get spoilt with a sleep in, gifts and maybe a cooked meal!

That’s about all for this week. Enjoy the week everyone!

Brad

A message from Miss Reynolds

Our students have commenced the term full of enthusiasm and vigour. During our Creative Arts lesson the students created ‘Picasso’s Dog’ using the primary colours to mix and form their desired secondary colour with the acrylic paint.

The Kinder students have been exploring the ‘ai and ‘j’ sounds while the Year 1 students are focusing on identifying verbs and writing verbs in our sentences.

In Numeracy we are continuing to have a number of the day focus where students identify the numeral, practice forming the numeral correctly and using that number to add or subtract with concrete materials.

Kel

Numeracy in the spotlight

This week in Numeracy we will tackle multiplication. Our senior students will revise 2 digit multiplication while our junior students will look at using groups to count in 2’s and 5’s. Do you remember what you call an answer to a multiplication problem?

Times table of the week is :

x 12 for year 5

x 5 for year 2

Literacy Corner

This week in Literacy, we will begin to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl during modelled reading. Our school will be off to see the theatre production of the story in Sydney on the 5th of June. Our students have thoroughly enjoyed reading Roald Dahl stories over the years including The Twits, James and the Giant Peach and Matilda. Which is your favourite?

Premier’s Reading Challenge

From March to August the books read at home and in the classroom will be collated for our students to take part in the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge. Miss Reynolds is currently recording the texts from the Home Learning Journal and those read in the classroom for individual students. If students are reading other books can you please send a list in with your child for Miss Reynolds to enter into each child’s Reading Log.

Small Schools Cross Country

This year’s annual Small Schools Cross Country will be held this Thursday, 9th May 2019. We will once again be joined by our great friends from Eurongilly, Nangus, Gundagai South, Brungle, Jugiong & Binalong. Our first race will get under-way from 10:30am. Thank you once again Kate and David Graham (now proud grandparents of the school) for the use of your property.

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Hot Lunch Wednesday

Hot food Wednesday will begin this week now we are in the cooler months. Students can bring an item of hot food that can be warmed up at lunchtime by staff. Items may include noodles, toasted sandwiches, soup or leftovers from home.

Tumut Street Stall

Last Thursday 2nd May 2019, our P&C ran the annual Mothers Day Street Stall in Tumut. Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time to support the stall from cutting wood, cooking and manning the stall. A great group effort. The stall made $1,600 for the P&C. The raffle winners are as follows;

Wood: Vicki Richards

50 Club: Helen Pearce

Scratchy Tree: Robyn Harris

Homework.

Our Homework this term will continue with the

recording of a Reading Log (in the back of stu-

dent’s book) with Spelling, sight words and Maths

added weekly. The Typing Challenge details are

the same as last term and the Login details are

glued into students books. Homework is checked

on Friday afternoons and sent home Mondays.

Our focus on Homework is to reinforce what is

learnt in the classroom.

Canteen Monday’s

Canteen will continue on Mondays with some small changes to the menu.

Pie or Sausage Roll $3.00

Chicken nuggets 3 for $1.50

Chicken schnitzel burger with lettuce, mayo or gravy $5.00

Warm Milo $1.00

Cake of the day 50c

Please write your order on a paper bag with your child's name.

Thank you for supporting the canteen. All money raised goes towards the students Rewards Day at the end of term.

Small School Athletics

The annual small schools athletics carnival will take place on Thursday 23 May 2019 in Gundagai. We will compete against our friends from Brungle, Nangus and Gundagai South Public Schools. Our students turning 5-7 years will compete in novelty games during the day as well as the 100m. Travel is by private vehicle. More information will be sent home with the permission note.

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Micalong Camp

Luke Weston drove Jack Archie and I over to

Micalong shearing huts early Thursday morning.

The shearing huts we stayed at were on a farm

called Cooradigbee. When we got to

Cooradigbee huts we settled into our rooms and

there were three Wee Jasper kids waiting for us,

after that we all went to the shearing shed and

played tap for an hour, Mrs Andrews called us

over and we learnt some history of Wee Jasper

for about 45 minutes, after that we rode push

bikes. We went back to the shed and played tap

for 25 minutes then it was recess. Two men from

Canberra University came, we got to play games

with lollies and we got to eat them we played

charades and we played teamwork games and

we also did something that involved lego. The

men from Canberra left they gave us a bag each

with vortexes and texters and pens. It was play

time Dougal, Archie, Jack Cathels and I played hit

each other with the vortex, after that it was

lunch. We went back to the shearing shed and

played tap until dinner. The Year 4’s made

dinner. They made hamburgers and the Year 5’s

had to wash up. After dinner we all made

damper in our own bowls and cooked it and

marshmallows over the fire, it was delicious!

Day 2 for breakfast we had bacon, eggs and

sausages the Year 5’s cooked it and the Year 4’s

had to wash up. After breakfast Shane

Herrington came and told us how to look after

the environment then we found a cave near

Careys Cave it was a shelter that the aboriginals

used. After that we went to a camping ground.

We made axes with rocks and wood and we also

found bush tucker at the bottom of baby

Currajong trees. We went back to the huts and

had a sausage for lunch. After that we said

goodbye and jumped in the car. Alison took us

home. It was a great camping trip!!!

By George

It is time for the winter wardrobe to begin making an appearance. The following is a de-scription of boys and girls uniform;

Boys Blue Polo shirt Blue Polar Fleece jumper or vest Grey pants Blue spray Jacket Blue Beanie Black Shoes

Sport uniform Blue Sports Shirt Blue Track pants Blue Polar Fleece jumper or vest Blue spray Jacket Joggers

Girls Blue shirt Navy blue jumper Blue check tunic, black/navy tights Blue spray Jacket Blue Beanie Black Shoes

Sport uniform Blue Sports Shirt Blue Track pants Blue Polar Fleece jumper or vest Blue spray Jacket Joggers Please label all clothing with your child’s name

School Uniform

NAPLAN Next week our year 5 students Archie and George Graham and Jetty Mason will complete their NAPLAN testing for Literacy and Numeracy. We wish them luck during the assessment period.

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ANZAC

It was 1942, Australia Darwin, when our plane got shot down. The French shot us down. We crashed into a

forest of trees and few survived.

One by one we crawled out of the wrecked plane. Five of us survived and two didn’t. Sadly my mate Will,

had a hard impact and died. But we couldn’t stay there and wimp, we had to keep on moving. The French

would come soon to see if there were any survivors.

Bruised and tired we walked south hoping to find an Australian plane. We had flare guns and water but

we had to hunt to eat.

After a few days we walked 37km south till we found an aboriginal camp. We were starving. We hadn’t

found many animals to kill, so we had no other choice but to go over and ask if we can have some of their

bush tucker, Andy was an Aboriginal so he could talk to them. They let us stay with them and while we

were eating some kangaroo we saw a French plane soaring above us. We put out the fire and all hid in

the bushes. Once they left we went back to usual.

Andy told the Aboriginals that the French were invading. When we heard people walking to us we could

not see who because it was night. When they got close we could see that they were Australians. Eleven of

them shot out of their plane as well. I said that we have to fight back so we all walked East 17km to

Frances Army box. We ambushed them and lit the place on fire. They all retreated back to France. With

the Aboriginals help.

We had won the War in 1942 Darwin 11th May.

George Graham

I am a Soldier at East Timor

It was a sunny day trying to help the people and kids rebuild towns and schools.

They were running low on food and water.

I was next to all these kids walking on the oval. Every one of them had a smile on their faces. They were

happy because of us helping them. They wouldn’t be here if we didn’t help. They were all nice kids there at

east Timor. It must have been terrible to leave your home just because of the war. They were excited for us

to come and build their new homes and schools. Even one of the kids told me how it was to leave their

homes, he was terrified. It was a good day at East Timor.

Archie Graham