BROKEN HILL PUBLIC SCHOOL A dynamic community encouraging life-long learning, integrity and success for all

Mica Street BROKEN HILL NSW 2880

Telephone: (08) 8087 3522 www.brokenhill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Email: brokenhill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

News at Central PRINCIPAL: Michael Fisher

Dates to Remember

Kindergarten

Orientation Days

31st October

7th November

14th November

21st November

28th November

Swim School

4th – 8th November

CANTEEN NEWS

Canteen will be

operating again each

Friday

Drumbeat

Performance

Our Drumbeat group,

pictured, gave a very

important performance in

our community last week for

Mental Health Month.

Week 3 already! Time flies when you are having fun, so the

saying goes. The dedication of the staff and enthusiasm of the

students at Broken Hill Public School certainly make the

experience of Relieving Principal an enjoyable one.

Thank you to the parents who have been checking in and

signing in at the front office. We do appreciate your

cooperation with our school policies. On Thursday, it will be the

celebration of Grandparents Day. We are looking forward to

meeting the Grandparents who can make it up to the school for

the morning. Grandparents will be able to sign in upon arrival at

the front office.

Friday 25th October was World Teachers Day. We had a special visit from ‘The Queen

of the Land of Munchkins’ who gave awards to three amazing teachers, Mr Hosken for

Wisdom, Mr Jones for Kindness and Mr Shipway, for Courage. We are fortunate to

have teachers who set a great example for students through their deeds and words.

Look out for who may be visiting this Friday, boys and girls!

I’d like to acknowledge the School Learning Support Officers in our school for their

dedication to supporting our students. They develop a very special relationship with

many students with whom they work in classes and the playground. We all appreciate

the work they do.

A P&C meeting will occur tomorrow at 6 30pm in the meeting room. I’m looking

forward to attending and meeting members of the P&C. We value the support that

our school receives from our parents.

Kinder Orientation starts this week. It will be very exciting for our young pre-schoolers to

be in the “big” part of the school. I’m looking forward to seeing their faces in the

Kindergarten rooms.

Don’t forget that Swim School starts next week. Please remind your children to return

their note if they are attending. Swimming skills and water safety are a very important

aspect of learning for all children.

Hoping everyone has an excellent and safe week and that all students learn and

“gain the keys to the doors of opportunity” (Wise Mr Hosken’s words) by attending our

school.

From the Principal

Yours in Education

Robyn Miani

Relieving Principal

Weekly Class & POP Awards Term 4 Week 2

NOTES SENT HOME

RAINBOW READERS

Congratulations to the following students who have completed their Reading Level on

23rd October, 2019.

SCHOOL & COMMUNITY NEWS

KV Patience P, Lily S.

KM Estelle R, Jarod C.

1Z Scarlett F, Keziah H.

2R

3/4P

3/4H

5/6J Emma J, Lachy W, Thomas W

5/6P Benevolence P, Cooper M.

CAPA

CLASS OF THE WEEK – 5/6J

NOTES WHO’S INVOLVED

Celebrating our Grandparents note All students

Year 6 into Year 7: Key Dates Year 6 students

Toy Run note Eldest students

Term 4 Calendar Eldest Students

If you did not receive a note, please come to the office as soon as possible

BLUE Layla C, Akayla T.

INDIGO Jacob H, Jordan H, Harrison S.

VIOLET Scarlett H, Nate J, Scarlett F, Kyle N, Rohan P, Payton D, Piper F, Emily J,

Cayden L, Ezekial W.

Please note Rainbow Reading Cards can only be returned on Wednesdays.

School Assembly Friday, 1st November

commencing at 11.20am

All welcome to attend

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB DUE BACK FRIDAY

1ST NOVEMBER

GRANDPARENTS WEEK

Jensen Fazulla - My Grandma’s Story

Growing Up: I was very lucky growing up, my father was a shearer and we travelled from shearing shed to shearing shed in a caravan as a family. I got to experience many things that other children rarely experience. I had many pets, there was a black rabbit a ginger coloured rabbit, a small fox terrier dog called Midgee who was my best friend, my father had a curly red rat tail retriever that he called “Red” and I had a kangaroo of course called “Skippy”. When we travelled, all the animals travelled in the car with us, Red curled up at my mother’s feet on the floor of the car in the front passenger seat, Skippy sat on the back seat of the car between me and my younger brother, the two rabbits and Midgee sat on the back of the back seat. We did not have seat belts then and my brother and I would lie down on the back seat and sleep as the travelling was often very long with only the bush to look at.

Family life: I had a great family life, we did everything together. We all had chores to do and they had to be done your family relied on you to do your job and do it properly. My brother and I were responsible for getting the water to keep the plants alive; this meant that I would drive the car with a trailer attached that had a big square water tank in it. We would drive 1 mile to the dam which is a big hole full of water which comes from the rain, so if it doesn’t rain like it is now for a long time there is no water and of course the plants die. When we got to the dam we had to syphon water from the dam into our water tank this is done with a piece of hose or pipe that is long enough to reach, to syphon you put one end of the hose in the dam and the other end in your mouth and start sucking until the water comes out then you just put the hose in the water tank and it will run unless the water tank is higher than the dam then it can’t run. When it came time to water the plants it was done by filling a bucket and carrying it to each plant there were no taps or hoses as water was too precious to waste like it is done in the town. There is not enough water to have toilets that flush instead you would have to dig a very large hole and then put a round tin can over the hole and put a toilet seat on top of the can, when the hole was full it got cover with lots of dirt and another hole was dug, if the hole was deep enough it would last for many years. Talking about toilets, old newspapers were used as toilet paper, they would be torn into medium size squares and a piece of fencing wire was used as a hook to hold the newspaper squares. I also grew up without electricity like town has. We had a truck engine that was placed on a cement floor with a shed over it and during the day we would start the engine to power electricity to cool the beer and light and TV, but at night the engine would be turned off to save the cost of diesel and give the engine a rest so it would last longer. So at night we had no electricity, the fridge we had was a gas fridge so it didn’t need electricity and the hot water, oven was also gas. We had a kerosene heater and in summer when it was really hot we slept outside. In winter we had to use lots of blankets and hot water bottles. All our water was form the rain so we had to be very careful not to waste any water so a shower was not to long we would have to turn the tap of when brushing our teeth or brush them in the shower. My mother used a wringer washing machine which you only fill with water once for all the washing, this is where I learnt that you washed all the whites’ thing first and all the dark things last

School: My mother taught me school which was called “correspondence” that was before school of the air that remote children have these days. My mother would send information to the education department explaining where to post the information she needed to teach me. My brother is 3 years younger than I and when my mother was teaching me school he would also be part of this and as a result he became very smart something that he reminds me of very often when we see each other. When I did eventually attend a school it was Burke Ward and it was a big culture shock to this bush girl. But as I discovered the land becomes part of who you are and no matter what it can’t be taken away from you. I found that my bush experiences were intriguing to other children and I had not problems making friends. After primary School I attended the Broken Hill High School and completed my school education in 4th form or as it is referred to these days as year 10.

Sports: Before living in Broken Hill my sports were catching yabbies with my father, shooting for food, driving cars and riding motorbikes and much time spent with animals. For the short time I did live in Broken Hill I like softball even though I played netball, basketball and volleyball I didn’t really like them like I did softball and I played softball into my early 40’s. My father would travel back to the pub every Friday evening and my mother would drive me into Broken Hill every Saturday to play softball and she watched every game I played. My other passion in sports was motorbikes, I went on many trial rides and gymkhana’s around the district dad would be with my brother and me for all of these events as they were always on a weekend. I still ride motorbikes and Jensen and I enjoy this together.

Employment: My introduction to work began at the age of 5 years. When travelling and living in the shearing industry you are taught responsibilities, chores and the trade regardless. So by the age of 10 years I could drive a manual car, shoot a rifle for food, how to butcher a sheep for meat and just about everything to do with shearing except to actually shear a sheep but that didn’t mean I didn’t know how to do it as I would copy my father the sheep was my brother he really didn’t have a choice because I was older. My parents were given an opportunity to buy a country pub 20 miles from Broken Hill, which is 32 kilometres. As a bush kid I had to learn all that was involved in running a pub and that included pulling beer and serving alcohol. Children were allowed in a pub then and it was not seen as a problem that a 10 year old girl was working behind a bar. After a year or two in the pub my father became a shearing contractor, the boss of the shearing team. The pub was left to my mother to run and every Friday my mother would have to travel to Broken Hill to get more supplies, so every Friday I would not go to school because I had to run the pub while mum was in town. My years living in the outback of Australia gave me strong foundations and has help me communicate to many different people in my carrier as a nurse, I have used my experiences many times in my employment and it has benefitted me immensely over the past 30+ years.

Arts and Culture: During my days travelling with my family throughout the bush area surrounding Broken Hill my father would stop the car to show us a clay pan where Aboriginals would camp, there where Aboriginal tools and cooking stones around the remains of a camp fire. This was a very common thing to see during our travelling but is no so anymore, I miss this respect and care for our country it does not seem to be considered a priority anymore and I feel for the generation to come wondering what will be left for them to be part of and care for. As Aboriginal plates and grinding stones, spear heads where a common thing during my childhood I have tried to bring them into my life as a reminder of the wonderful times I had but through careless behaviour these items have become precious and are not easily obtainable.

Summary: Overall, I have been blessed with many wonderful experience and could spend pages after pages telling my story. I feel sad to see the rush and hussle of many people’s lives, I leave with one last thing to say to everyone….. “Stop and smell the roses before there are none to smell.”

Cherylyn Maree Fazulla (nee Caldwell)

P&C News There will be a P&C Meeting this Wednesday 30th at 6.30pm in the Meeting Room.

All are welcome to attend.

Jodi Stokes

P&C President

Canteen News The canteen is still open Fridays.

We have some new items available for purchase at recess and lunch:

Veggie Cups $1.50

Fruit Smoothies $1.50 - these need to be ordered before 9.00am to ensure they are made.

We also still have all the favourites such as nuggets, pies, spaghetti, lasagne, chicken burgers and

cheese burgers.

New iceblocks are in stock just in time for the warm weather to hit.

If you can spare some time between 10.30am-1.00pm to volunteer to help in the canteen, that would

be greatly appreciated.

Jodi.

Queen of Munchkins presented the following awards at last

week’s assembly:

Mr Hosken received the award for Wisdom

Mr Jones the award for Kindness and

Mr Shipway the award for Bravery

MEDICAL UPDATES

Parents of students with a

medical condition will receive

a letter asking for updated

information with regards to

their child/children’s health.

Can you please endeavour to

complete, sign and return the

necessary documentation at

your earliest convenience to

allow us to care for your

child’s needs.

Please contact the office if

you require further

information.