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BOMBALA PUBLIC SCHOOL

8 Bright St, BOMBALA NSW 2632

T 02 6458 3423 F 02 6458 3376 E [email protected]

Term 4 Newsletter 1 Thursday, 17 October 2019

Welcome Ms Downes

We welcome Ms Annie Downes as our new Principal to Bombala Public School. Annie has come to us from Goodooga Central School in the north west of New South Wales and brings a wealth of experience.

Annie is very excited to be living and working in the beautiful Bombala area, being closer to family and buying some property soon.


From Annie’s Desk...

Dear Parents/Caregivers

I am so pleased to be here at Bombala Public School. I have witnessed in my short time here, a vibrant little school filled with wonderful students; amazing teaching staff; terrific support staff and I have met some lovely parents and carers. I look forward to working with our entire learning community to ensure that our children are always at the centre of all learning and wellbeing programs. ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ and I can already see that we have a beautiful village and that we all work as a team to support every child’s learning and personal welfare.

I was thrilled to analyse the K-2 growth patterns along with the year 3 and Year 5 NAPLAN results in the past few days. Our students have delivered outstanding results when looking at their growth across our school. The level of commitment that is given by our staff and our students is wonderful.

We have a busy few weeks coming up, with the many excursions that have been planned previously. Next week, Year 6 will be off to Melbourne for the week. We hope that they have an amazing time down there. We had a meeting last evening to outline all of the activities that the children will be involved in. I was so envious that I am not attending.

We also have the Year 3-4 excursion to Canberra next week, where the children will be staying overnight. Please remember to let the teachers and staff know whether your child needs to take medication on these excursions and give these medications and any instructions about administration to the teacher in charge. Your children are very precious and we want to look after them as best we can!

My door is always open and if any parent or carer has any concerns, please come in and see me or give me a phone call. Your children are my priority.

Kind regards,

Annie Downes

Events at a glance -

Mon 21st - Fri 25th Oct Year 6 Melb Excursion

Thu 24th - Fri 25th Oct Year 3/4 Cbr Excursion

Mon 28th Oct - 7th Nov Stewart House

Tue 29th Oct Karen Young W/shops

Thu 31st Oct K - 2 Bournda Exc.


Library Days Tuesday - all Primary classes - Yr 3, Yr 4/5 and Yr 5/6 Wednesday - all Infants classes - K, Yr 1/2B and Yr 1/2R. Please encourage your child to borrow from the library each week. A bag to safely carry any books is necessary. This bag can be a plastic bag, a recyclable shopping bag, a pillowcase, a document folder or a designed for purpose Library Bag. Encouraging your child to read, borrow and enjoy books is vital in their learning journey.

Melbourne Excursion Our Year 6 children as well as children from Delegate and St Joseph's leave for their Melbourne Excursion at 7am on Monday 21st October. They will be returning between 6-6:30pm on Friday 25th of October. They are very excited and a great time will be had by all.

They will be accompanied by Ms Ange Barrow, Abbey Kimber,Mrs Marsha Sten, Mr Brad Bannister and Scott Guthrie.

Year 3/4 Canberra Excursion Reminder

Next Thursday Year 3 and 4 will travel to Canberra for their overnight excursion. Can students please be at school by 6.50am to leave at 7.00am sharp. Students are expected to return on Friday between 4.00 - 4.30pm. Full school uniform including a school hat is required for during the day with casual clothes for Thursday night. Please ensure that students have enough food for morning and afternoon tea and also lunch on Thursday with plenty of water to drink. Meals will be provided for Thursday night and Friday.

Year K,1,2 Bournda Excursion


Sand Ticket Winners -

acknowledging students who

have demonstrated one or

more of the PBL values.

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) …


Rainbow Colour Run

What a success! Well done to our amazing community for getting behind this event. The smiles on our students faces were price-less! They made their way around our obstacle course in record time and completed several laps while being splashed with colour. If you still have the monetary donations at home, we ask that they come in ASAP. Also, a reminder to parents to log into the profile portal to select the prizes that match the dollar amount your child raised. To date, over $10 000 has been raised and will go towards the future construction of an Outdoor Learn-ing Hub. Again, a massive thank you to Ange, Abbey, Katrina and Dave for their assistance with organising this event.

Without their help, this event would not of been possible.


Classroom Happenings Year 1/2R

Mindfulness and Mathematics

This term we have integrated mindfulness into our maths sessions. Our topics this week are place value, partitioning and word

forms!

Getting back into the swing! 1/2R have had a busy few days getting back into their learning. We have

begun term two with a focus on informative texts and have finished planning ready for writing our first copy!

Ryan is an eight year old boy at Bombala public school. He lives on a large farm near Bombala. Ryan’s favourite sport is AFL. He has short brown hair and very blue eyes. Ryan once lived in Grenta, Tasmania.

Indie is an eight year old girl at Bombala public school. Indie’s fa-vourite food is rocky road. She has two little brothers called Jedd and Sonny. Indie lives on a road outside of Bombala. She has a brand new ba-by brother called Sonny Thomas Kimber.


Community Notices

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