UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES TERM 4

ASSEMBLY: Friday23rd November – Year 1 **NO LUNCH ORDERS THIS FRIDAY/MONDAY

NOVEMBER Friday 23rd – Kinder Orientation Wednesday 28th – Book Club Orders due Thursday 29th – High School Orientation Year 6

DECEMBER Thursday 6th – combined Christmas Tree/ School Concert Thursday 13th – School Concert back up date Friday 14th – Volunteers Appreciation Assembly Monday 17th – Year 6 Graduation Assembly Tuesday 18th - Year 6 Dinner

YOU CAN DO IT

Persistence

NO CANTEEN – Week 7 Monday 26th November

Kinder News – Week 7 – T4 Discribe what would be their best

celebration ever.

UNIFORMS Boys Blue Polo Shirts

Blue and Gold Polo Shirts (Sport – Girls and Boys)

Girls Skorts - Hats All in stock and available from the office

Girl’s Shirts for 2019 MUST be ordered before the holidays

Last Friday I was treated to some excellent public speaking speeches at the Lismore Schools Public Speaking event at the Town Hall in Lismore. My favourite speakers of course were Louis and Arlo who presented themselves most admirably, with Louis being runner up in the Stage 3 section. I then paid a visit to the Trinity pool where I witnessed the fantastic improvements in our participating students. The Austswim teachers commented that they were the most polite, happy and cooperative students they had taught. I would particularly like to thank all parent volunteers who gave up their time to assist over the two week program; as always much appreciated. A fabulous way to end the school week!!

SCHOOL CONCERT / CHRISTMAS TREE When: Thursday 6th December 6.30pm- students are asked to be in their designated classrooms. 7.00pm- concert begins Our school concert is fast approaching and classes are preparing for this special event. This year our theme is ‘THE ELEMENTS’. Each class has chosen a different element to interpret as their performance. Teachers are busily fine tuning scripts and organising costumes. Look out for costume arrangements from your class teacher. Please check for class letters to advise you in relation to your child’s costuming arrangements for this evening. Remember the back up date is Thursday 13th December. Please direct any queries to your child’s class teacher. PLEASE NOTE: There will be full dress rehearsal for all students on Tuesday 4th December. We also have it on good authority that Santa will find time in his busy schedule to call in at Bexhill PS during the evening. **Please note the P&C will notify catering arrangements for the evening in next week’s newsletter.

BEXHILL PUBLIC SCHOOL Phone: 02-66284223 - Fax: 02-66284248 Email: bexhill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.bexhill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 4 – Week 6

November

Makayla, Ayla S, Max, Arlo, Elijah, Ivy, Bailey and Marshall

Awards

Week 3 Term 4

Class/Merit Kinder – Kurt, Ethan and Levi E

Year 1 – Victor and Armani Year 2 – Georgie and Marlie Year 3/4 – Ayla and Connor

Year 4/5/6 – Sebastian, Zane, Tyleah and Blake

‘You Can Do It’ KEY - Resilience Kinder – Charlotte

Year 1 – Jimmy Year 2 – Samuel Year 3/4 – Ivy

Year 4/5/6 - Kane

Reggie Vegie Kinder

Gnome of Knowledge

Year 4/5/6

Bexhill Christmas Wishing Tree

The SRC this year has proposed that our annual charity collection will be supporting St Vincent DePaul.

In order to do this they ask that donated items be given to each class to build a ‘Wishing Tree’.

Please ensure items are non-perishable and not out of date. If presents are wrapped for children, please indicate appropriate age and gender.

Please have all donations at school before Wednesday 12th December to support this worthy cause.

P and C NEWS The position of Canteen Co-ordinator has become vacant and we are calling for anyone who would like to volunteer to take on the role. If you are interested, please contact Eloise on 0418 643 526 or Helen for more information. The next P & C meeting will be on Monday 3rd December commencing at 6.15pm in the school library. All welcome PLEASE NOTE: There will be NO CANTEEN this coming Monday 26th November.

Thank you Year 5/6 for a fabulous afternoon out at the Bexhill Cup. This fundraiser was to support the Story Dogs program so a big thank you to all who participated . We raised a grand total of $284.50 for this wonderful program.

On Friday, the robotics groups attended the SCU “Robo Cup Junior Challenge”. The students attended a workshop on how to program the EV3’s and then divided into two teams, whereby they competed in two separate competitions, being the “dancing robot” and “sumo”.

The boy’s group competed in the “sumo” challenge and were narrowly defeated in the knockout round.

The girl’s team competed in the “dancing robot” challenge, where they programed their robot Comet to dance the salsa. The girls did extremely well and were finally placed second to a high school team. We were the only primary school to gain place!!

As you can see by the photos the students absolutely loved the experience and showed great aptitude for robotics. We look forward to attending next year.

The robotics group and I would like to say thank you to the James family who sold raffle tickets at Eltham over four weekends, raising a total of $800.00 which is going towards purchasing new robots to extend our robotics club.

Mrs Jones and the Robotics’ group (Michael M, Johnny, Tom, Sebastian, Molly, Eva, Nina, Jonah Y)