Respect, Responsibility, Personal Best Branxton Public School Newsletter to Parents

BRANXTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

Find us at: 12 King St, Branxton NSW 2335 email: Branxton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Phone: (02) 4938 1214 Fax: (02) 4938 1905 website: www.branxton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Week 6 Term 3 WEDNESDAY, 24TH AUGUST, 2016

Calendar of Events

26.8.16 PBL Assembly 9:20am

31.8.16 Father’s Day Stall

1 & 2.9.16 Stage 2—Sydney Excursion

Principal’s News This time next week we will have some extremely excited students about to head off on their very first overnight excursion. These types of activities can be quite daunting; however they are invaluable learning experiences that the students will remember for a very long while. The extra responsibilities of packing and carrying your own bag, trying new foods, sleeping away from home and traveling long distances are definitely challenging but also character building. Please be positive and encouraging to help your child on this excursion. We understand it can be a worrying time for mums and dads as well but the teachers accompanying your children will take the very best care of them and contact you if there are any concerns. Earlier this term the staff engaged in some very motivating Professional Learning about writing. They have already utilised some of the ideas into the classroom writing activities. One of the focus areas was teaching the students to begin their writing with a “sizzling start”. The students have been working really well and we are so excited about the results that we wanted to share some of the students writing with you each newsletter. So enjoy reading our Sizzling Starts and ask your child about what they are learning. I firmly believe if we discuss, value and show enthusiasm about our children’s writing we will continue to see improvement. I am concerned about some of the reports about the inappropriate behaviour on our school buses. Whilst this is difficult for us to monitor from school the children are still expected to adhere to our PBL values of Respect, Responsibility and Personal Best. If this negative type of behaviour continues and is reported to us by the bus company a child can be excluded from catching the bus, especially if the behaviour can lead to unsafe situations. I encourage you to speak to your child about bus rules and safety. I appreciate your support in this matter. As part of Departmental regulations all visitors to the school must sign on immediately upon arrival and departure, this supports the school’s WHS requirements and ensures the safety of everyone in the event of an Emergency Evacuation or Lockdown situation. I appreciate your understanding in this matter.

Our Bounce Tennis Program has started this week and

has been well received by the students. Due to a

funding grant from Sporting School, the five week

program will only cost $2.50! That works out at 50c a

lesson! So make sure if you haven’t paid, you get that

money in. Thank you to Mr Foster and Mrs Mungoven

for their work organising the funding grant and sourcing

this fantastic program for our students.

Sport choice payment must be finalised by this

Friday.

Stage 3 Bathurst Excursion—Final payments are due by Friday 23rd September, 2016. Please keep payments coming in. Our School Web Page www.branxton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au GOOD NEWS Parents will be able to access any missed notes on our website. There is a tab at the top of the web page where parents can get access to scanned notes. You can also pay accounts online with your credit card under ‘Make a Payment’ tab DVD of School Concert A envelope will go home today for you to order a DVD of School Concert. Cost of DVD $25. Please fill in the envelope, place money inside envelope and return to school office. BOCARS—School Concert Reminder for parents to send in permission note and $5 for the school concert. The $5 concert contribution will go towards the cost of organising such an event, such as costumes and props.

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PBL NEWS At Branxton Public School students, staff and community are respectful, responsible and achieve their personal best. The PBL assembly will be held this Friday, 26th August, 2016 commencing at 9:20am. Please come along to celebrate those students receiving certificates. The rewards afternoon has a theme of mini Olympics, which was decided by the SRC at their last meeting. We would like congratulate the following students for being recognised as a ticket winner in the last two weeks. Term 3, Week 5 ticket draw winners were Dakota Longley —Personal Best, Shantelle —Personal Best, Pat —Respect, Angela —Responsibility. Term 3, Week 6 ticket draw winners were Kiana —Responsibility, Cady Short—Personal Best, Kiara — Personal Best, Joshua C—Personal Best. Mrs L Wicks.

Sydney Excursion The countdown has started for our Stage 2 excursion to Sydney next Thursday and Friday. Final notes were handed out on Monday with packing details, emergency contact numbers and a brief overview of our trip. We are looking forward to a wonderful time with our Stage 2 students. Mrs Dennis will remain at school and she will be teaching those students who are not attending. Friday Assemblies This Friday is our PBL assembly. We will not be hosting another Friday assembly until Week 10 which is our second PBL Assembly for the term. We love our assemblies but at the moment all classes are busy rehearsing for our school concert in Week 9 and we want to allow ourselves as much time as possible to make this a spectacular showcase of our talent. We thank you for your understanding of this. Zone Athletics Last Friday, I went with over thirty of our amazing students to the Zone Athletics Carnival at Woodberry. I would like to congratulate them on their respectful manners, responsible behaviour and for striving to achieve their personal best in all the events they competed in. I would also like to thank all the parents, grandparents and caregivers that helped to transport our students, put up the shelters and take them down and generally helped out on the day. It could not have happened without your fantastic support! Mrs Mungoven

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Tell Them From Me Parent Survey We want your feedback! Our school will also be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement. Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements. The survey is conducted entirely online at home or on public computers. The survey will typically takes 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey must be completed by 16 October. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, however, your responses are very much appreciated. More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents A link to the survey will be emailed to you. If you do not receive this link please email the school branxton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au and we will forward it to you.

Rego Day 2016 We now have online registration. Go to gretabranxtoncc.nsw.cricket.com.au and click on the registration tab then complete the registration form. Or GBUCC's Registration Day will be held on Saturday, 17th September 10am-1pm at Miller Park Cricket Ground for anyone who is not able to register online Registration fees for this season: Milo In2 Cricket $75 Junior $60 Senior $100

President: Sean Wright 0429 578 322 Secretary: Mel Dagg 0407 006 907 Junior Coordinator: Roslyn Shearer 0427 558 416

Greta Branxton United Cricket Club

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Sizzling starts for the newsletter: Deep in the dark, gloomy forest there was a boy call Lynx. He was alone. “Hoot, hoot, hoot!” There were swirling trees and poison toads. The trees were whispering at him. He screamed! By Aden S Psssssssss! The fumes of paint shoot pain and nausea through my head like a bullet. I spray the head of the snake when I hear sirens. How did they find me again? I can’t get caught I thought. I jump to reach for the crack in the wall and hold on. I’ve done it before, I can do it again. I jump, rest my foot on a bump. OK. That was easy. As I climb up I can hear the policeman shouting at me to get down, but I don’t listen. I keep climbing the wind licks my head. I slip. I can’t die. But what if I do? Isabella F Ka-Boom! It was here. A big purple monster came running in my room. It had goowey dribbly red lips with slobber crawling down. Its hands like a ghost. I didnt want to go near its hair, it was as spikey as a cactus. Its mouth kept dribberling. His teeth were as yellow and rotten as a yellow piece of paper. His snot was running like Katherine Skinner in the Olympics. By Emily E The sharp, hairy, big, fat, yellow eye, rotten, teeth, hairy, hair, green nose, red, sloppy lip stick. It came to my home and his eyes were poking out like a steam train. It was REALLY funny. Then we went out to the park to have some lots of fun. Then we went home to have some breakfast. Then we played the xbox360 in my bedroom. Then we went to bed and played the xbox again. By Ryan B.

Whoooosh went the Alistars and Charlie he's and the tall men. The cat through the air and landed with a bump. By Emilia H

"Look out! Catch that cricket ball. It's going to hit you in the head, it's aiming for your face!" By Lara M

The farmer couldn't believe his eyes. Suddenly, the cows were balloons! They were huge! By Ayvah H

I am so excited and I cannot wait. Today is the Book Week Parade! I am going as Spiderman. My cos-tume is red and black. By Jensen H.

I sat in my warm, safe house on my chair holding my giant, green violin like a newborn baby. Starring out the glass window, dreaming of the day me and my new violin would become world famous musi-cians. BANG! WOOSH! The heavy metal door flew open and a whole forest of leaves and twigs barged in. "The wind is picking up faster than Usain Bolt can run the 100 metres," my panicked neigh-bour screeched, "Take cover!" she yelled as roughly twenty big rocks smashed into my house. It all went black. What had happened to y violin? By Lucy S

SWAAAAAAARRRKRKKKKKK! IT WAS COMING.....my mortal enemy that I had nothing against. My ancestors were scared. My family is too. It was no use to run. It would catch up too quickly. I could feel the beating of the air from its wings from metres above. Like a race car zooming around the track. Then... everything goes black, but i know that i am still alive because i can feel my blood trickling through my fur. By Lily A

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P & C Meeting The next P & C Meeting will be held on

Monday, 19th September at 6:00 pm in the Library All parents and caregivers are welcome to attend.

Father’s Day Stall Our Father’s Day stall will be held on Wednesday, 31st August, 2016. The will be gifts to purchase ranging from $1 to $10. Each class will be taken up separately to make a purchase.

A very big thank you to our school community for the unbelievable effort collecting 5 cent coins for our recent fundraiser. From your efforts and enthusiasm, we raised $874.30! That money has been depos-ited into our sport’s court bank account.

SCHOOL SPORT’S SHIRT We are hoping to have the design of the sport’s shirt on display very soon. Watch this space.

ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS There are only 8 left! Available from the office or online.

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Lost Property We currently have

28 jumpers 1 black jacket

1 green track pants 1 school shirt

……. All without names

Some quite new with the weather warming up no doubt there will be more. You will find lost clothing in the plastic tub in front of the canteen.

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Canteen Roster

Week 7 Term 3 commencing 29th August, 2016 Week 8 Term 3 commencing 5th September, 2016

Monday Penny Faustini John Faustini Monday Karen Carroll Aimee Wills

Tuesday Mel Cullen Jade Nicholls Tuesday Emma Morrow Lee Fenn

Wednesday Denise Bagley Tania Frost Wednesday Denise Bagley Megan Noble

Thursday Renar Hall Lisa Dunn Thursday Marg Jack Kylie Noyes

Friday Denise Bagley Kathy Brown Friday Denise Bagley Nicole Standen

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