Thursday the 23rd of August

Bonshaw Public School

School Captains Report

Hello! For the past term soccer has been very popular in

terms of lunch-break play time. Excitingly Mr Barton has

invested some new soccer gear including two fully-sized

goals, ten brand new soccer balls, two sets of goalie

gloves and a small foam ball for the Kindergartens’! We

also have shin pads coming, more soccer balls and two

different coloured sets of bibs! We are all making the most

of all of this awesome gear and have marked out a field on

the oval. Mr Barton has even started making our sport

soccer so we are all improving our skills very quickly.

By: Ella Ramsay, School-Captain

Over the week students have been very excited to be

going to Lake Keepit once again Year 3-6 will be leaving

for Lake Keepit on Monday next week at 7 am. Students

have been finishing off their Poland research this includes;

the Poland PowerPoint and the Polish folk art these have

been very fun and are looking great!

By: Christopher walker, Vice-captain

Howdy reader! I hope you are well because the students

of this school are really spoilt! We have just received our

STEM kits and we have been learning lots about coding

and robots. The STEM Share boxes were also full with

IPads, and cool robots that we are very ecstatic about

trying out in the next couple of terms. Mrs. Newton has

been teaching us all about the moon, stars and our

beautiful galaxy! We have learnt the phases of the moon,

different galaxies, and the stars that reside inside them.

This is a part of science that we are all very interested in!

Anyway, that’s the way the cookie crumbles!

From the desk of William Hamel.

William Hamel Christopher Walker

Ella Ramsay

Principals Desk

We have had a busy 3 weeks at school putting

together entries for the Legacy week poster

competition, researching and making

PowerPoint presentations for CWA Poland

competition and continuing on with our

entries into the Macintyre writers

competition, which is due by 14th September.

Students sat the ICAS maths test last week.

The Director of Schools for the Northern

Tablelands, Matt Hobbs, visited Bonshaw

Public School last week and expressed that he

liked the direction in which the school is trav-

elling. He enjoyed meeting all students and

was inspired by their traditional Polish art

and craft.

A huge thankyou to our fabulous P&C who

made a generous donation to cover all

excursion costs for Lake Keepit and $500

towards new readers. We received $500 as

an early readers contribution from the

Department of Education and matched that

with $500 from our budget making a total of

$1500 for new classroom readers. As I am

writing most of the readers have just been

delivered to the school. A combination of

early readers and letter sound PMs for Kinder

and some short reader’s theatre plays for the

older students.

Gary Barton

Principal,

Bonshaw Public School

RESPECT

PARTICIPATE

CHALLENGE

Next Bonshaw P & C Meeting

3pm Tuesday 18th September

At the School

Friday’s for students days off Term 3;

14 September

21 September

28 September

31 August (due to this date falling while we

are on the excursion it will be changed to Friday 21 September)

Hi Everyone,

Just letting you all know that I am in the office

every Wednesday, Thursday and on the

Fridays that the children are here. On these

days I am able to take admin enquiries,

uniform sales and any other queries you may

have.

Leah Sharpe

Lake Keepit

We will leave here at 7am on Monday 27th August. Return on

Friday 31st August at 6pm. Please check that you have

everything ready for the camp in advance. Pack some fruit and

a snack for the outgoing journey. Due to the Lake Keepit camp

our Friday RDO will be moved to Friday 21st September. The

forecast for Gunnedah is very cold so please pack warm

clothing like beanies, etc. Further, students will require a

sleeping bag, pillow and 2 sheets, please do not send swags as

there is not enough room for these in the bus. No mobile

phones are to be taken. Teacher’s will have phones if required.

We can be contacted on 0466966294 if an emergency arises.

When: September 20 2018

Time: 10am – 1:30pm

Where: Yetman Public School

Lunch: a piece of cake and a sausage on bread or steak for the adults. Tea and coffee available Adults $15 Students $10 All funds raised from the BBQ will be donated to a drought related cause in our area!

Authors: Mick Elliott and Oliver Phommavanh will be coming up from Sydney to read to the students and to answer any questions.

Lunch from 12.00pm

There will be an activity table, games and one on one with the authors after the reading and lunch.

Lake Keepit—Monday 27th to Friday 31st August

Thursday 6th September, Celebration of SAS staff. This is an opportunity

for us to thank the SAS for all the work they do.

Father’s Day, Friday 7th September early- breakfast for fathers and

students-then a make it session - followed by a quick meeting about the

Giant Chess board – paving etc.

Macintyre writers and CWA Poland competition both due on 14th

September.

Yetman PS have invited us to yet another interesting and inspiring author meet. Published authors, Oliver

Phommavanh and Mick Elliott will be at Yetman PS in person for the filming of ABC’s Reading Hour. This will

involve lunch and then a sporting activity.

Orientation Days.

Kindy orientation will take place during Term 4. If you have a child that will be school

ready for 2019 please enrol them prior to orientation, if you know of other children in

the area that will be of school age please inform them of our orientation days. This will

take place each Friday. The dates will be as follows:

Week 3 Friday November 2nd

Week 5 Friday November 6th

Week 7 Friday November 30th

Week 9 Friday December 14th

Students getting active on the school oval playing Bull Rush!

INTERVIEW WITH ELLA RAMSAY

Hello! I interviewed Ella and she has received

some great news from the Moree Zone athletics

carnival. She informs me that she is going to

Tamworth to represent and participate in the

Regional athletics carnival. Reason being

because all her hard work payed off at Moree

when she got 3 first place ribbon’s in running

and 1 second place in long jump. She has been

working and training really hard day after day to

go to Tamworth for her obviously exciting news.

She had received her medal yesterday, for

senior girl champion, after it was collected in the

mail and she has been very ecstatic. Ella explains

how there is about 5-10 schools from each zone

and a truckload of competitors. Thank you for

reading and we all hope that Ella will go to the

next level.

See you later!

From the desk of William Hamel.

In The Classroom

Students have been working on Macintyre Young

Writers and their Poland research.

Some of the soccer

equipment that Bonshaw

Public School was able to

purchase through the

Sporting Schools program

grant.

Fathers Day at Bonshaw Public School

On Friday September 7 we are having a special Fathers Day breakfast for Dad's and students. Dad’s if

you could arrive by 8.30 we will have something to eat and then go ahead with our “Make It” session. If

anyone has a Sander plus sand paper or/and a drill with bit, we will need one large bit, could you please

bring them along on the day. Other equipment will be available at the school.

See you on the day.

Students have been working hard in class. Recently

these students have received their Bronze Star;

Darcy Thompson, Beaudie Nenadic and

Lara Nenadic.

Both Ella Ramsay and William Hamel have achieved

Gold Star level.

GO ELLA!!!