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Our values are Pride, Honesty and Respect.

TERM 1 FEBRUARY 10 -14 Swimming Program for students Yrs 2-16 11-12 Best Start Year 7 21 Primary Zone Swimming Carnival

27 Whole School Assembly MARCH 6 Uniform orders due 6 Elective fees due 9 P & C AGM

5pm in School Library 20 National Day Against Bullying & Violence 20 Harmony Day 26 School Photos

Address: 55 Finch Street, Bingara, NSW, 2404 Ph: 67241606

Email: bingara-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: http://www.bingara-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/

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Twilight Swimming Carnival Congratulations to Fraser, the champion house for 2020. Their reign continues, as they have dominated the competition for the past four years! Thank you to Mrs Kristy Johnson, Mr Mark Simpson and Mrs Ros Goodwin for organising the carnival. Regardless of the outcome and the very welcome intermittent rain, all our students aimed to have fun, compete and do their personal best. The evening was enjoyed by all and as usual, our students competed against each other with the highest level of sportsmanship on display. Our secondary students provided their support and guidance to our younger non-competitive swimmers. This event always provides some of the most heart-warming moments for our school community. We saw many students compete in every single race, regardless of their ability level they achieved their goals for the carnival, set new personal bests, cheered on their house and had fun with their family and friends. The photos by Mrs Kara Watson really captured all of this for our families and students to remember. Thank you to all the parents and family members who attended the carnival, everybody provided a great supportive and enjoyable atmosphere for our students. It was another big carnival with an impressive level of attendance by all eligible students. Well done to our age champions and our record breaker, Erica Dixon, who had an exceptionally successfully night. Good luck to all our students competing at the next level. Cultural Days Following the success of our Cultural Day’s held at The Living Classroom in 2019, we will be continuing with this program for 2020. Students will participate in cultural sessions held each term with Buddy and his team from Winangali Infusion. Students will further develop their knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal history, dance, art and language whilst being immersed in a range of activities. A permission note was sent home yesterday. You’re Better Off on Bingara Central Beef An expression of interest for Years 5-12 to participate in the Bingara Central Beef program will go out shortly. This program will be co-ordinated by Mr Charlie Mill with proposed excursions to The Ekka, Upper Hunter Beef Bonanza and/or Glen Innes Beef Spectacular. The aim of this program is to provide students of Bingara Central School the opportunity to participate in a beef cattle program which is designed to broaden their perspective on life and to foster and promote the following employability skills: 1. Teamwork 2. Leadership 3. Resilience 4. Time Management 5. Perseverance 6. Communication 7. Social Skills 8. Problem Solving Brooke Wall Principal

BINGARA CENTRAL SCHOOL

Friday, 14 February Week 3, Term 1

REMINDER The canteen is closed every Tuesday. Please ensure your child

has lunch packed as they are prohibited to leave the school grounds for lunch.

SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Jnr Primary Boy Howie Green

Jnr Primary Girl Ruby Miller

11yr Primary Boy Liam Johnson

11yr Primary Girl Elle’-Grace Haley

Snr Primary Boy Darcy Todd

Snr Primary Girl Addison Dixon

Jnr Secondary Boy Brandon Tevaga

Jnr Secondary Girl Blaire Johnson

Snr Secondary Boy Darcey Priest

Snr Secondary Girl Sarah Dennis

Open Secondary Boy William Johnson

Open Secondary Girl Erica Dixon

AGE CHAMPIONS

NEW RECORDS

Erica Dixon 33m Open Freestyle 21.50 Old Record 21.57

Erica Dixon 33m Open Backstroke 27.03 Old Record 28.41

Erica Dixon 100m Open Freestyle 1.23.69 Old Record 1.24.4

Erica Dixon Open Individual Medley

2.15.46 Old Record 2.22.2

SECONDARY NEWS

ELECTIVE FEES All families have received school accounts. If your child has chosen an elective this year, please ensure fees are paid in full by Friday, 6 March. If elective fees are not paid, your child may have to access alternative activities in the classroom. If fees are not paid by Friday, 6 March your child will be unable to participate in non-mandatory excursion and extra-curricular opportunities (including extra-curricular sporting events).

Stage 4 had fun learning the basics of hockey.

YEAR 7 AND YEAR 10 IMMUNISATION All students in Year 7 and Year 10 have been given an immunisation form. Please return these forms as soon as possible. The proposed date for immunisation is Tuesday, 31 March.

Thank you to CWA - Bingara Branch for the wonderful bags of goodies for our Secondary Students.

PRIMARY NEWS Congratulations to the following students who received a merit award at this week’s assembly: Lara Honeysett, Barnaby Munro, Addison Dixon, Carrina Larkins, Harriet Webber, George Devlin, Indra-Rose Bonarius, Zander Kilgour, Tyler Derwent, Leroy Evans, Amelia Kilmore, Koen Sullivan, Finn Miller, Lottie Lewis & Chloe Kilgour.

Zone Swimming Carnival

Good luck to the following students who will compete in the Zone Swimming Trials on Friday, 21 February in Inverell:

Chase Martin, Howie Green, Jarrod Kilmore, Lachlan Foster, James Irwin, Liam Johnson, Charles Turnbull, Jed Langan,

Barnaby Munro, Kyenan Sutton, Jymari Robinson, Darcy Todd, Edward Grant, Lottie Lewis, Lily Marshall, Morgan White,

Molly Green, Ruby Miller, Harriett Webber, Scarlett Standerwick, Anabella Ricardo, Elle’-Grace Haley, Ruby Turnbull,

Addison Dixon, Bella Michell, Zoe Allen, Tamiya McClymont and Hayley Clarke.

Swim School Swim School concludes this week. It has been wonderful to see the progression of skills by all students as this is an important life skill to develop. Well done boys and girls! Reminders: Have you sent in your child’s supplies for the start of the year? If not, teachers would appreciate them as soon as possible.

Please ensure you have read, signed and returned the Computer Code of Conduct. If not, please return the note as soon as possible to enable students to use digital technologies in their classroom.

Tash Schmidt & Tanya Withers Assistant Principals

IMPORTANT NOTES Thank you to all the students who have returned their notes. If you have not returned the following notes, please do so as soon as possible. Student Information Sheet It is important this note is returned as soon as possible. It is vital for the school to keep your child’s information up to date Local Excursion Permission Note All students have received this note to take home. If your child does not return this note they will be unable to attend local excursions. Indigenous Cultural Day All students received an Indigenous Cultural Day note yesterday. Please return to the front office as soon as possible Please return all notes as soon as possible.

Bingara Tennis Club Presents

Wednesday 26th

Feb. from 5pm to 8pm at the Sporting Club

Information Evening – An introduction to the Hot Shots Tennis Programme – presented by Tennis Australia’s Ken Wray and Ellie Ryan. An invitation is extended to parents of children learning or wanting to learn to play tennis. We also invite

those parents who help out or would like to help on Thursday afternoons with the children’s sessions. I am sure it will help us understand how and why this programme works. Any other interested people are also welcome. This will provide you with a great fresh insight into how the “Community Play” program should run. We will finish the evening with a barbeque. We would appreciate bookings, for catering purposes. So please phone Jan on 0429991747 or Nicole on 0427241103. Thanks and hope to see as many as possible there. This a free, no charge evening apart from whatever you may wish to purchase from the bar.

Thursday 27th

Feb. – Children’s coaching session from 3.30pm

Both Ken and Ellie have volunteered to work with the kids and us.

Thursday 27th

Feb. – Introduction to “Open Court – Get your Racquet on”

This will be the first night of “Open Court – Get Your Racquet On” that was being promoted during the Australian Open Tennis in Melbourne. It should be a fun night of tennis, games, music and food (different but fun).

The aim of this is to encourage people back onto the tennis court who haven’t played for some time (even years). Very social and laid back. A barbeque will round off the evening, including soft drink/water. Alcohol and coffee can be purchased in the club. The cost of the evening is $10 per player and $5 for any children under 18. This, of course, includes the barbeque and use of equipment.

Racquets are supplied for the evening, so don’t be discouraged if you don’t have one of your own.

We hope to see you there. - Please phone Jan or Nicole to book in (for catering purposes). Jan Miller