Ralston Avenue Belrose NSW 2085 Phone: 9451 6203 www.belrose-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: belrose-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER DATE: 27 February 2020 TERM 1, WEEK 5

Belrose Public School

Principal’s Message

Belrose OSHC Centre Phone: 0430 247 493

Dates

LEARNING AT BELROSE PS This week began with the presentation of swimming ribbons. Congrat-ulations, boys and girls. At Belrose PS, we are big enough to provide the students with a diverse range of opportunities but small enough that all staff members know every child. We continue to create a stimu-lating learning environment so that each child connects to his/her learn-ing, to thrive and succeed and we continue to have a very engaging community that has a strong sense of ownership of which the P&C provides social events such as the successful Welcome Back night. My role continues to be a very important role with not just being a business and people manager but to lead the teaching and learning within the school. We have high expectations that every child will grow by at least a year with their learning. As explained to the parents on P/I nights, we are making our focus on integrated units of work so that the students can apply their knowledge, skills and capabilities across a wide range of curriculum areas to acquire a deep mastery of necessary skills. At least 50% of our teaching program includes the teaching of English and Mathematics. These essential skills are transferred across all KLAs to Science, Geography, History, Creative and Practical Arts as well as with PD/Health and PE. Students of Stage 2 and 3, as part of their liter-acy unit, will be working on a number of sustained learning tasks over the year. As shown in the photo below, we often use rubrics which pro-vide students with a clear understanding of what is expected of them. It indicates our high expectations of their work and provides students with concrete directions of what success can look like. It additionally pro-vides students with feedback, as a tool to further develop their abilities.

Term 1 2020

Thursday 5 March Sea Life Aquarium Excursion Yrs 4, 5 & 6

Monday 9 March Zone Swimming Carnival

Tuesday 10 March CARES Year 5 Excursion P&C Meeting 7.15pm

Thursday 12 March Selective High School Tests

Monday 16 March Assembly 2.25pm

Friday 27 March Syd North Swimming Carnival

Monday 30 March Assembly 2.25pm Parent Teacher Inter-views Begin

Thursday 2 April School Cross Country

Friday 3 April Disco P&C

Monday 6 April Awards Day 9.30am

Tuesday 7 April P&C Meeting 7.15pm

Thursday 9 April Easter Hat Parade 2.30pm Last Day of Term 1

WEARING OF SPORTS UNIFORM

MON TUES WED THUR FRI

YR 3 AND CLASS 4M IN NON ASSEMBLY WEEKS (REFER TO CALENDAR)

YR1

YR2

YR 3

YR 4

YR 5

YR 6

K—6

PEER SUPPORT We began our first Peer Support session with year 6 students greeting their group members. The multi-aged groups of about 8-10 students from Kindergarten to Year 5 began firstly with a focus on getting to know each other and then empowering our young students to support each other in the playground. CPR TRAINING All staff will complete their annual CPR and analyphaxis training next Wednesday afternoon. Our school has a defibrillator out-side the sick bay, red medical bags containing individual health plans for our analyphaxis students as well as five backpacks with first aid materials and asthma sprays. Our Health and Safety Directorate advises us to not provide sun cream, sting-goes or medi-cream for fear of an allergic reaction. If you child comes home wearing a bandaid, the wound has been cleaned with water but would require additional care at home. ENTRY TO YEAR 7 IN 2021—SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOL Test centre advice should have been sent to parents today. It will include the location of the allocated test centre, a letter of au-thority to sit the test and information about the test for parents and students. The advice is sent by email (to two email addresses if two have been provided) unless parents chose to receive all correspondence by mail. Most test centres will be filled to capacity so it is not possible to change a student's test centre. A list of 2020 test centres will be published shortly in the test section. The test will be held on 12 March 2020. It starts at 9am and finishes at approximately 1:30pm.

Belinda Zorian Principal belinda.storr@det.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations To Our Bronze Awards

Recipients

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Students of the Week

KIG Ava B Paige F

1S Ryley M Skylah M

1K Isla B Cooper D

2J Mitchell W

3K Ivy W Harry F

3W Claudia S Noah H

4M Noah D Isla S

4/5S Georgie M-C Bryce T

5D Byron B Abigail R

6M Kate B Mika L

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Swimming Carnival Presentation

1. Chess Coaching There are limited places available for Chess Coaching for any student in Years 3 to 6, who has played Chess before or would like to learn with Chess Master, Johnson Li from the Sydney Academy of Chess. Chess Coaching starts from 3.15pm until 4.15pm each Friday. These coaching sessions are held in the School Library. The cost is $35 per student. Please see the office if interested. 2. School Chess The Term 1 dates for School Chess, Years 3 to 6 are fortnightly on a Friday, 8.00-8.45am in Mrs Stephens' classroom: Friday 6 March Friday 20 March Friday 3 April

Mrs Stephens Chess Coordinator

Chess

Thank you to the P&C for our Welcome Back Night

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PSSA SUMMER COMPETITION THIS WEEK Cricket Belrose vs Mimosa @ Wyatt Oval Softball & T-Ball Belrose vs Mimosa @ Belrose Public School SENIOR CRICKET Last Friday, we played against Forestville in senior cricket. The score was 5/32 to 7/57 to Forestville. The player of the match was Max W for a really good catch.

By Jin T JUNIOR CRICKET It was a tough game against Forestville but we still managed to get in a few wickets. Congratulations to Alex S for getting player of the match and taking out a major six hitter. We had a good day. Good game boys.

By Matthew J SOFTBALL SENIOR Last Friday, we played Forestville and it was so fun. It was my first time playing. The score was 7-11 their way. The player of the match was Ruby because she did amazing pitching.

By Olivia T-BALL A Last Friday, we played Forestville and we won 17-5. Player of the match was Lucy because she was a good short stop.

By Emily W T-BALL B Last Friday, we played Forestville. The score was a tie at 14 all. Everyone played really well but the player of the match was Emily N.

By Mia B SPORT Congratulations to Amber K who successfully competed at the Zone Girls’ Soccer trials. Amber will now attend the combined Zones Soccer trials on Tuesday 3 March. We wish you all the very best of luck next week. Good luck to all students attending the Zone Swimming Carnival on Monday 9 March. Please en-sure you sign your name off with the Belrose Team Manager when you arrive. Please ensure you have your Belrose swimming cap and have returned your permission note to Mrs Meikle. Samantha Meikle Sport Coordinator

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Sport News

TROPHIES TO BE RETURNED

Could all PSSA trophies for softball, t-ball and cricket and the swimming aged

champion trophies please be returned to the office as soon as possible.

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We are asking all families to start to save your bread tags. The bread tags will

be sent to a recycling plant in South Australia to be made into door knobs,

coasters and floor tiles. The proceeds from the sale of these products will go

towards the less fortunate in South Africa to purchase wheelchairs.

Please leave all bread tags in the jar located in the school office!

Coding Club

Coding club is on every Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtimes for students in years 3-6. We are lucky enough to have 3

different robotics for use this term. Each week we are learning new things about the Dash and Dot robots and the Lego

Wedo 2.0. We have been problem solving, building using Lego and coding our robotics to move. Kindergarten will soon be

exploring the BeeBot robotics in class. Coding club continues to be very popular with Minecraft now available! Students are

busy creating new worlds, problem solving and collaborating together. Mrs Jones

P & C News CANTEEN NEWS

Friday 28 February Monday 2 March Wednesday 5 March Lee Purser Rebeca Keiller Lee Purser Jacky Power Susan Hefford 11.30am-1.30pm We still desperately need volunteers. Please click on the link and check the roster if you’d be so kind to spend some time helping out. https://volunteersignup.org/ATRTD P&C What a wonderful time we all had at the Welcome BBQ last Friday. The slide was awesome and all the children seemed to really enjoy themselves. A huge thankyou to all the volunteers that helped out on the day. A very special mention to the Year 6 students that came along and ended up helping with supervision and helping the really little ones up and then off the slide. They were not asked to help but all jumped in and leant a helping hand, which was very much appreciated. Thankyou. We will be sending out a poll in the next week or two to get the ball rolling on our beautification project. I have already been ap-proached by a couple of parents who would like to help. If there is anyone else please drop me an email at belrosepandc@outlook.com Our annual disco will be help on Friday 3 April, look out for information to come in the following weeks.

Jo Stracey

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