Term 3 Week 5

11th August 2021

4—10 Welman St, Beckom, NSW, 2665 Website: www.beckom-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Tel: 02 69782314 Fax: 02 69782342 Email: beckom –p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Seize the Day

Welcome to week 5. I can't believe we are halfway through Term 3 already! Debating

This week students from our RIEN network of schools participated in our yearly debating competition. It was great to see Charles and Megan step up and complete the debate by themselves and win their round. Debating is a fantastic skill and develops students critical thinking skills.

Mrs Emma Speirs

Book Week

23rd —27th August

Legacy Week

29th August—4th

September

Round Robin

10th September

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Megan Waters & Charles Bellamy For showing leadership and teamwork to

successfully win their first debate. COMPASS

www.compass.education/guide

Positive Behaviour for Learning

Our PBL focus for this fortnight is ‘Respect: Allowing Others to Learn’. Staying on task

and trying your best will allow others to learn. Managing your own distractions and not

talking while others are learning demonstrates respect for staff and peers.

Please talk to your children about how respect is shown in our community

and workplaces and why this is an important thing to learn and do.

You can check out your children’s attendance rate within our compass app. We are aiming for all students to achieve over 90% attendance rate for the term. That is 45 days out of 49 this term. To access your child’s attendance information: Open Chrome > Select a Profile > Attendance

4—10 Welman St, Beckom, NSW, 2665 Website: www.beckom-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Tel: 02 69782314 Fax: 02 69782342 Email: beckom –p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

TRIVIA CORNER

COVID 19 Non-essential visitors are not

permitted in schools.

• Parents should:   maintain physical distancing- avoid gathering outside of school gates

• remain outside of school grounds (note some exceptions may apply regarding schools for specific purposes, vulnerable students or students with disability

• follow mask-wearing requirements and sign in using the Service NSW QR code when entering the school.

All students are expected to be at school unless they

have even the mildest of COVID-19 symptoms. Under

the current health orders, there is nothing to restrict

students and staff who must attend school from

moving between two areas with different levels of

restrictions. Students and staff should reduce

traveling to geographical areas with higher levels of

COVID-19 restrictions in place.

A reminder for all families: Students should not

attend school if unwell, even with mild symptoms of

COVID-19. Any person with any COVID-19 symptoms

will be sent home and should not return until they

have received a negative test result and are

symptom-free. In circumstances where children

have other medical reasons for recurrent

symptoms a letter from their GP is sufficient to

negate the requirement for a negative test.

Anyone who is unwell with COVID-19 symptoms is

strongly encouraged to get tested and self-isolate

until a negative result is received.

What day of the week are most twins

born?

Twos-day!

Congratulations to Caitlin Waters who provided the correct answer for the student question last week, How many pairs of wings do bees have? Answer is 2 pairs.

The winner of our community question, Which ocean is

off the California coast? Is Janet Popple with the correct

answer of the Pacific Ocean. Please enjoy

your virtual chocolate!

This week’s questions:

Student’s: How many noses does a slug have?

Community: What was the first toy to be

advertised on television?

Coolamon Library News

Our next Storytime will be held at the Coolamon Library

on Friday, 27th August @ 10.30am - it’ s all about

“Transport”. Everyone is most welcome.

National Science Week, 2021 is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology and this year the Coolamon Library will be involved. It will take place between the Monday, 16th August – Friday, 20th August. The Library will have 30 free take home kits to give away to families. This includes a VR headset, each headset clips onto a smartphone. All instructions will be provided with additional resources and activities for the whole family to enjoy. Phone the Library to reserve your kit - 69272492

Megan, Charles & Ryan built these sand timers as part of a

learning maths activity and learning about time.