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 2 Max Slater Drive Bega 2550 PO Box 994 Bega 2550 Phone: 6494 7777 Email: [email protected] Website: www.scac.nsw.edu.au 30th April 2015 Volume 9 Issue 7 From the Principal
John 15:3 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's
life for one's friends.
Welcome to another action packed term at Sapphire beginning
with the wonderful rain that has revitalised our Valley. I’m sure
you think I say that too often but I can assure you it’s the case.
I hope you all had a restful holiday because you’ll need it. The
first four weeks of Term 2 will be frantic. Please ensure that you
read your newsletters and notes from school and put the
calendar in a prominent place.
I’m sure you realise that the major event for this term is this
Saturday - the Country Fair. It is a wonderful opportunity to
showcase the College. So much is happening; I can’t begin to
list all the exciting things that will be on show. Please bring your
family and friends to help make the day a huge success. Mrs
Kirsty Umbers and the P&F Committee have put in a huge effort
to make this event even bigger than last year and your support
is appreciated. The Country Fair takes a massive amount of
organisation and we’re blessed when the P&F, and especially
Kirsty, put so much in to make it a success.
As well as this wonderful event we have the Bravehearts Child
Protection Presentation (Pre-Kinder to Year 4) next week, Life
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Education Van for Years K-6, SASSA Cross Country on 5 May
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for Years 3-12, SASSA Senior School Soccer on 8 May,
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SASSA Senior Touch Football on 11 May, LoveBites for Year
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10 on the 1 May, Mother’s Day Breakfast on 8 May, NAPLAN
during Week 4, RYDA Safe Driving for Years 11 and Year 11
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Half Yearly Exams starting on 18 May. Busy! Well I’m sure
that’s enough to keep us on our toes for a few weeks!
In our ANZAC Service at the College last week, we were
reminded of how it’s up to us, in all walks of life, to choose
whether to walk on ignoring conflict, problems and other
peoples issues; or like our ANZACs to stand up and be counted
as is the Aussie way. It was an inspirational service in which
Mr Bob Grimes, Vice President of the Bega RSL sub-branch,
spoke inspirationally about commitment to standing up for what
is right.
On behalf of the College and the Bega Valley I’d like to thank
Mrs Pat Raymond for researching and writing her book
“Remembering Bega Valley Servicemen of World War One”.
Inspiring Excellence This is the story of the 185 men from the
Valley who lost their lives during World War
One. Mrs Raymond is the Grandmother of
Brooke and Harley McCloy at the College.
Brooke presented the book to the College
at our Friday assembly last week. Her
background to the writing of this book was
presented in an outstanding fashion.
Congratulations to both Brooke and her
Grandmother.
I would like to thank all
the
families
who
attended the ANZAC
Day ceremonies all over
the Valley, Canberra
and other parts of NSW
to honour those men
and women who served
and in many cases gave
the ultimate sacrifice to
ensure freedom of all Australians. At the
Bega Service, Taylor Meers’ inspirational
message, Erin Hayman’s poem reading and the Senior School
girls who led the hymns highlighted what outstanding students
we have at Sapphire.
Today I had the pleasure of sitting down to cake and coffee at
our new College café, “Moo and Two”. Wow!!!! What a great set
up! Hospitality teacher, Melissa Wood, has worked tirelessly to
set up the café and a number of students and staff have been
trained to use the state of the art coffee machine. In the not too
distant future we will be hosting a coffee morning to launch the
cafe which will be open to parents some mornings a week.
Watch this space! However, you don’t have to wait too long –
‘Moo and Two’ will be open for the Country Fair to give you a
sneak peak of what’s to come. Thank you to Melissa for your
enthusiasm and drive.
Page 1 At Sapphire we are blessed to have dedicated parents who put
so much into helping our College and I’d like to take the
opportunity to thank Bianca Underhill for all that she is doing
behind the scenes. Bianca works (sometimes all day) on the
Lighthouse Garden as well as being the P&F treasurer. Thank
you, Bianca – and all of our other parents who go that extra
mile - for all that you do.
Parents have different ideas about raising children, but helping
them becoming independent must be a high priority. Attached
this week is an article by Michael Grose about this topic.
I look forward to catching up with as many parents as possible
at our Country Fair on Saturday.
Andrew Duchesne
Principal
Do Less – Not More For Your Kids – Michael
Grose
Good point. In this case, this mum has a son who is, to say the
least, fairly slack in the area of hygiene. But she didn’t become
overly fussed about that.
She certainly didn’t get fussed when he played a game of
football in the wet, muddy jumper that lay in his sports bag for a
week. And she happily showed him how to work the washing
machine when he wanted his favourite shirt (that he forgot to
put in the washing basket) to be washed for a special night out.
TIP NO. 2 for developing independence: Never be more
worried about a child’s job than they are, otherwise it becomes
your job, not theirs.
This mum remained very clear that it was her job to wash the
clothes but not to place them in the washing basket. She would
remind kids about washing night, but never nag them to put
clothes in the basket. She knows that as soon as she keeps
reminding them, it becomes HER job rather than her children’s
job to put the washing in the clothesbasket.
The basic task of parenting, whether you have a two year old or
a twenty-two year old, is to work yourself out of a job at the first
possible chance.
The school holidays provide a good opportunity to reflect on the
whole notion of job-sharing. It’s also a good time for kids to
increase their job load when they are not burdened with
schoolwork and extra- curricular activities.
REDUNDANCY should be the aim of the game! We never
become redundant in a relationship sense – the emotional
connection between our children and us is never severed. In a
practical, physical way we need to make children less, rather
than more, reliant on us.
Here’s my challenge for you: Think of a job that you regularly
do for your child that he or she can do for him or herself. Then
step back and enable children to do that for themselves on a
full-time basis. Do less not more for your kids.
Developing independence is really about stepping back to allow
children in. Doing less rather than more! We develop greater
independence in our kids’ one job at a time.
Recently I gave my 22-year-old son a job that I had been doing
for a while. He lives in North America and I had taken on the job
of being the connector between him and one of his sisters, who
lives in the UK. It had been my job to pass messages on
between the two via telephone and emails. I would update each
of them about how the other sibling was going.
Frustrated at being the go-between I made sure he had contact
details and let him know that it was his job, not my job, to
connect with his sister.
We easily take on children’s responsibilities - It is easy as
parents to take on the jobs and responsibilities that really
should belong to our children. With toddlers it is so easy to
dress, feed and clean up after them rather than give these jobs
over to them.
With school-aged children we can find ourselves making
lunches, getting kids out of bed and cleaning out schoolbags
rather than giving these basic tasks of living over to them. And
as I discovered, it is easy to still do the basics of life for adultaged children.
TIP NO. 1 for developing independence: Be clear about who
owns jobs or tasks in your family and never take on a child’s
job, or part of a task, unless there are extenuating
circumstances such as illness.
A mother I met recently is very clear on who does what in her
home. It is her job to wash the clothes of her early teenage
children but it is their job to place them in the washing basket.
She doesn’t check bedrooms, as it is not her job to place kids’
clothes in the washing basket.
Okay, I can hear your thought processes. Sounds good but
what happens if kids don’t give a toss and they don’t mind being
dirty.
Inspiring Excellence If you do that, then you can congratulate yourself as you have
moved one step more toward REDUNDANCY.
You’re invited to learn about
child protection
You are invited to a community information
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session on Monday, 4 May from 6-8pm at
Bega Valley Shire Council Chamber to learn
how we can better protect our children.
Hetty Johnston AM, CEO and founder of national child
protection advocate Bravehearts, is inviting parents, teachers
and community to attend the session to discuss prevention
programs that educate, empower and protect children against
child sexual assault.
The information session will also inform attendees through the
Supporting Hands program, which focuses on parents and
carers, making sure adults are more aware of the potential for
child sexual assault and how to respond appropriately.
People will also be given the opportunity to register for
Bravehearts’ free counselling services.
You are encouraged to attend this event and can register
interest by calling 1800 272 831 or by emailing
[email protected].
Bravehearts is also visiting schools and day care centres in
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Bega and Tathra, including ours on 6 May, to present its
personal safety program - Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure Show.
This program is tailored for children aged from three to eight,
teaching them in a non-confronting way the strategies and skills
to keep safe in a range of situations from bullying to sexual
assault. The program has now visited more than 450,000
children across Australia.
For more information
www.bravehearts.org.au.
about
Bravehearts,
please
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2 SCAC New Caledonia trip
18th - 25th September 2015 Opportunity!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, a student has had to pull out
of the trip. This leaves room for one more student (or parent or
teacher) to take their booking and to join the group for a
fantastic experience of a lifetime, on our school trip to Noumea
in September. Any interested students between Years 8-12
please see Mrs. Winterflood, or speak to Mrs. Thornton at
reception ASAP to get the information note to take home to
discuss with parents.
TAS Department Update
During Term 1 the students have been very busy producing
some outstanding work.
Year 7 groups have been busy working on computer designed
mosaic house numbers, key rings and photo frames. In Year 8,
Group One are working on graphic design using Adobe
Illustrator & Photoshop to produce individualised CD covers
from a design brief and Group Two have been producing a BBQ
spatula and portfolios.
In Wood Technology Years 8, 9 and 10 have all been busy with
individual tasks. Wood 1 have been making small drill boxes,
Wood 2 have been making Saw Stool Ends and Interlocking
Shelves, and Wood 3 have been very busy designing and
planning their major projects
Year 9-10 D&T have also worked on the raised garden beds
and produced a new garden bed on the southern end of L
Block. Before and after shots of the garden bed below.
Year 11 VET Construction has completed a number of tasks
including raised garden beds for Mrs Clark’s Lighthouse garden,
cement float and bench hooks. Pictures below
Sapphire Two-Hour Teams Event
$5 for Primary age and $10 for High School to
adults. Pump track and balance pole are free with entry
to any other event.
Vanuatu Fundraisers
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the
Fundraiser for Vanuatu Cyclone relief on the last day of
school. Altogether, the Junior and Senior school Vanuatu
fund raising activities, Funky Feet Friday and the last day's
activities, have raised over $800! What a blessing to have so
many generous people in our school community.
Well done all! Thank you so much to all those who baked
and brought in cakes to sell, to the girls who collected
money, to those who ran the cake stall, to those who
dressed in Hawaiian accessories and donated a gold coin,
to those who shopped at the cake stall, bought drinks,
bought sausage sandwiches, helped set up and cook and
serve and to those who helped clean and pack up and count
the coins!
What a team! Well done all!
Mrs. Winterflood
Inspiring Excellence Page 3 SCAC Junior Jottings
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Head of Junior School
1Corinthians 12:4-5 There are different kinds of gifts, but
they are from the same Spirit. There are different ways to
serve but the same Lord to serve.
God has given each of us a unique talent set from which He
hopes we will do our best to serve others. These talents
cannot be measured by written tests, they cannot be taken
from us and others cannot judge them. They are ours to use
when opportunities present, when the Lord is ready for us to
unleash them on the world. The best way to appreciate your
gifts and to say thank you to God for them, is to use them for
the betterment of others.
Term 2 is one of the most productive terms of the year.
Routines have been set, skills have been developed and
now, in Term 2, our wonderful students are set to flourish!
Their gifts and talents are always used to help each other
out, and this is why I’m so proud to be Head of Junior
School. The culture of the school last term was aweinspiring. I’m excited to see what our students can achieve
in the coming weeks.
Junior School Values
In Junior School our school rule is simple - to follow the
school values. These
are:
- Be a good friend
- Be honest
- Be cooperative
- Be respectful and responsible
- Be caring and compassionate
By simply embodying these values we keep each other safe,
secure and happy so that we can get on with the task of
learning and growing together.
ANZAC Service
Thank you to all students and their
families who attended the Bega (and
other regions) ANZAC Service. It was a
fantastic turn out for the 100-year
commemoration service. Our students
have
fostered
a
meaningful,
empathetic understanding of the events that unfolded at
Gallipoli, which was clearly demonstrated by their behaviour
on the day.
NAPLAN
This year’s NAPLAN tests will be held
at school from 12th - 14th May. These
will only impact Year 3 and 5 students
in Junior School. English and
Mathematical basic skills will be
assessed during this time. The results are not used to
generate our school reports and will not have any bearing on
the overall academic success of your child. The information
collected will, however, help inform our staff about their
teaching and learning programs, and the school executive
about the performance of the school as a whole.
Inspiring Excellence Year 5 and 6 Camp
The Year 5 and 6 Camp is fast
approaching. The final payment is due to
Reception by 15th May. Permission note,
dietary requirements, packing lists and an
itinerary have been sent home for all
students attending the camp. Please return the permission
form by 15th May.
Life Education Van
Healthy Harold and the Life Education Van
will be visiting our school again this year.
Once again we have been granted a
subsidy to halve the cost to students
($6.00 each). The units completed in
regard to the visit will continue all term in
class, with booklets and online activities. Pre- Kindergarten
to Year 6 will visit the van in the week beginning 4th May.
Notes and money will need to be returned to student
reception by Friday, 1st May.
Bravehearts
We have been very fortunate to be invited
to participate in a Child Protection
performance offered by Bravehearts on
6th May. The performance will be for
students from Kindergarten to Year 4 and
aims to educate children in the principles of
personal safety. Ditto the bear will guide the children through
an interactive show consisting of 8 segments: your body’s
warning signs, yes and no feelings, scared and yucky
feelings, it’s OK to say no, secrets, when it’s OK for an adult
to touch your body, private parts song and what to do when
someone tells you a secret.
AEDC
In early 2015 our school,
along with thousands of
others across the country,
will begin preparations for
the third Australian Early
Development Census (AEDC). The AEDC measures five
key areas of development in children during their first year of
full-time school to build a national picture of health and
wellbeing. Since 2009, the census results have helped
communities, schools and governments plan services and
target support for children and families.
Teachers are trained to assess each child and answer
questions. Children don’t need to be present so no class
time is missed and parents/carers don’t need to supply
schools with any new information for the census. Teachers’
individual assessments are then analysed by the AEDC and
reported as anonymous groups of children in the final report.
Census results have helped communities to plan new
playgrounds and parental services; schools are seeing
improved student performance through new literacy
programs; and governments are using the results as
evidence to develop better policies for children. To find out
more about the census and how communities are using the
data to help children and families visit the AEDC website
www.aedc.gov.au.
Page 4 Fundraisers for Junior School
Just a little clarification about fundraising
here at Sapphire: As you well know, our
students are the most socially aware,
compassionate students I have ever had the
pleasure of teaching. As such, there are always fundraisers
on the go. For Junior School, if there is a fundraiser in which
we have been asked to participate, a note will be sent home.
For Senior School, verbal reminders will continue to be in
place, as will notification via the homeroom teachers and
diaries.
Nuts At School
A reminder that some of our
Junior School students cannot be
exposed to nuts due to severe
allergies. Please don’t pack nuts,
nut bars, nut based products (like
Nutella) or peanut butter in your
child’s lunchbox. This will go a long way to keeping all of our
students safe at school.
Infants Eating Times
Although it has been lovely to have the infants
students eating inside at lunchtimes,
unfortunately it means that a staff member
has to miss out on their lunch break to
supervise. To help support our wonderful
Junior School Staff, starting from this term,
children will be given 15 minutes to eat their lunch inside.
Those still eating after this time will be asked to sit on the
benches outside under the supervision of the playground
duty teacher. Thank you for your understanding!
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Sapphire Facebook Page
Our Sapphire Coast Anglican College
Facebook page is proving to be a positive and
joyous space to share all the good news
generated from our school. We have 127
members! There are quite a few photos and
videos from school events, which I will
endeavour to add to as the year progresses. If you have a
Facebook account and would like to join, simply search for
‘Sapphire Coast Anglican College’ and ask to join.
Assembly and Chapel Roster for Term 2
Every Friday at 2.45pm, Junior School
meets in the College Theatre for an
assembly or Chapel service. All parents and
friends are most welcome to attend to share
our student achievements and the Word of
the Lord together as a school.
The assembly and Chapel roster is as follows:
Week 2 - 1/2B hosting assembly
Week 3 - Chapel
Week 4 - 1/2W hosting assembly
Week 5 - Chapel
Week 6 - KC hosting assembly
Week 7 - Chapel
Week 8 - Presentation Assembly
Week 9 - Chapel
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Laura Austin
Head of Junior School
Inspiring Excellence News From Your Classrooms
Pre-Kindergarten – Mrs Schwarze
It has been a great start to Term 2 for Pre-Kindergarten. We
have enjoyed a visit from Miss Russell and Miss Sconfienza.
They joined in with a doctor game we were playing.
Miss Sconfienza was reading to the patients waiting in the
waiting room while Miss Russell helped the nurse to fill in
the patient forms. It is likely to be an ongoing part of our
reading area as the children enjoyed it so much and of
course everyone needs to have a turn at being the nurse
and doctor too. If you are in need of medical attention you
could come and visit us! Of course we are very excited
about the upcoming Country Fair. Pre-Kindergarten will be
performing with Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 as well as having
the Lighthouse Garden open. We look forward to seeing you
there for an awesome day!
Kindergarten – Mrs Clark
It has been SO exciting to see everyone back this term and
Kindergarten has been raring to go! We are working on our
sight words and Mrs Clark is sending home ideas for games
and activities we can play to help us learn all the tricky
words. In our first week back we read a story called "My
Grandpa Marches on ANZAC Day" and it showed us lots of
the things that we might see if we went to the march last
Saturday. We looked at the things that helped people
remember others on ANZAC day... Things like flowers, the
plant Rosemary, soldier’s uniforms, statues and special
songs. Mrs Clark was VERY proud of the way we listened
during the service. We have been practising a special song
to sing for all the people at the Country Fair and would love
it if you came to listen. We are singing with Pre-Kinder,
Year 1 and Year 2 and our costume is jeans, boots, t-shirt, a
checked shirt if we have one and a country hat. We are
meeting in Junior School at 10:15. Don't forget to come and
visit the Lighthouse Garden while you're at the Country
Fair... We can show you the new Vegies we have planted
and you could buy some pesto or relish that was made from
produce from our garden!!!
Page 5 Year 1/2W and Year 1/2B – Mrs Whyman and Mrs Brown
Stage One have practised dancing for the Country Fair. We
will stand on the stage and dance and sing for the audience
on Saturday. It has been a lot of work but we have enjoyed
practising for the last week. We will be singing "We are
Australian" and doing sign language actions to it. We need
to wear jeans and a country shirt with a country hat and
boots if possible. Stage One have been asked to bring stuff
for the school to sell. Year 1 have to bring books for the
book stall and Year 2 have to bring sugar and lemons for the
lemonade stand. Everyone can also bring in second hand
clothes.
Stage One made poppies for ANZAC Day. We made them
using origami, cutting and pasting buttons, red tissues and
patty cake papers, pipe cleaners and tape. We put our
poppies onto a big wall hanging. We made them to
remember people who died in the war. Some of the soldiers
died in a field with red poppies. Some people from our
school marched in the ANZAC Parade and laid some
wreaths. We saw a really big war plane fly over us. The
people who organised ANZAC Day had a lunch and there
were poppies in front of the Bega Library. The crowd
disappeared all at once. It was the 100th year of ANZAC
Day.
In Week 3 we are going to Healthy Harold to learn about
healthy foods, being safe and healthy bodies. We need to
bring back notes and money so we can go. We are also
going to Sanananda Park soon to visit our friends. We might
even dance and sing for them. They would love that! It is
nice to make someone's day.
Thank you EVERYONE in Stage One - we were ALL on fire
with our sentences today!
Year 3/4R – Mrs Russell
Hello one and all. Welcome to an action packed Term 2!! I
can't believe that it is almost the end of Week 2 and guess
what?? It's the Country Fair on Saturday!! How exciting.
3/4R are looking forward to it. Thanks to all those people
who have been involved in organising it.
This term sees 3/4R looking at Australia's Gold Rush. The
unit was built around questions the students had asked at
the end of Term 1. So it is based on exactly what they
wanted to know. We are looking at how playing handball
involves Maths and focusing on addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division and whole numbers. For homework
we have our usual reading and spelling and maths but we all
now have an account for Study Ladder which we are using
to practise our times tables. We also have two projects this
term. The first is to make a representation of our solar
system and the second is to write a speech about being a
bushranger. Please read the time management plan to help
you complete these tasks on time. In fitness we are
practising for our athletics carnival in Week 8. We have
Healthy Harold coming up and lots more planned for Term 2.
Year 3 will be sitting Naplan in Week 4. We have been doing
preparation in class for this. And lastly, 3/4R changed the
table configuration this week and, as a class, they are very
happy with their new way of looking at the world - so to
speak. I can't wait to write again and tell you more of what
we have been up too. Thanks … until next time :-)
Inspiring Excellence Year 3/4F – Miss Fisher
Welcome to Term 2! We are very pleased to announce that
we have a new student in our class, Ryan Ward. We have
begun some exciting new units of work. One of them is our
new Mathematics unit on chance; we are investigating
probability and designing and making a mathematical bingo
game where all of the bingo cards have an equal chance of
winning. In HSIE we are learning about the Australian Gold
Rush and exploring the aspects of life during that time,
including the bush ranging era. We are enjoying reading a
very funny book about a bushranger named Midnight. In
fitness, we have started practising the athletics disciplines of
discus, shot put, turbo jav and long jump. The Country Fair
is on its way and we hope to see you there. Please let your
class teacher know if you could spare some time to assist on
a stall. Students are reminded to return your Healthy Harold
notes and money ($6) and remember that cheese toasties
are available for sale on Tuesdays.
Year 5/6L – Mr Lambie
Welcome back! Term 1 passed very quickly and Term 2
looks to be a busy one already. There are a number of
exciting events this term including the Country Fair,
NAPLAN, SASSA Cross Country, Athletics Carnival,
Year 5/6 Camp and an AFL gala day. Our focus for this
term is Gold; we will also be learning about matter.
Year 6A – Mrs Austin
This term, we will be studying Gold! We will be looking at life
on the goldfields and how the gold rushes changed Australia
for the better. We will complete another inquiry project,
hopefully culminating in a Stage 3 celebration at the end of
the term. In Science we will be studying matter (solids,
liquids and gases), investigating the properties of matter in
its various forms and applying these investigations to gold.
Literature Circles and text analysis will be a focus in
Reading, expositions in Writing and morphology of words in
Spelling. The students will continue developing their
understanding of number in Maths, incorporating
measurement activities throughout the term. Of course, we
are very excited about going on camp in Week 6! Phew!
What an exciting, fun-filled term we have ahead of us!
Birthdays These people have celebrated
birthday since the last newsletter:
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Ayden Neyle
Jonah Gear
Hannah Ubrihien
Bronte Neville
Jules Roche
Jordan Smith
Sienna Nguyen
Madeline Dawe
William Baker
Aharon Love-Myers
Aiden Zandt
Lachlan Harris
Dylan Morgan
Natasha Oesch
Page 6 Community Notices
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Year 10 Love Bites seminar
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Country Fair
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Life Education Van (Pre
Kinder)
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SASSA Cross Country
Life Education Van (1/2W,
3/4R, 5/6L)
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Year 11 RYDA Safe Driving
Course
Life Education Van (KC,
3/4F 6A)
PK – Year 4 Bravehearts
Child Protection
Presentation
6.00pm – P&F Meeting
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Life Education Van (1/2B)
6A to Sanananda Park
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7.45am - Mother’s Day
Breakfast
11am – Bimbimbie Mother’s
Day Stall
1 May
2 May
4 May
5 May
6 May
Free Playgroup for 0-5 Year olds, Morning Tea provided
TERM II classes resume at fLiNG Physical Theatre
Classes in Hip Hop, Contemporary Dance, Ballet and
Gymnastics, all ages and levels. Special boys only and Adult
classes. Get moving this winter; stay strong, healthy and
warm! www.flingphysicaltheatre.com.au / 6492 0222 /
[email protected]
NEW fLiNG Company Performance - RULE OF THREE
A triple bill of choreographic work that will entertain, amaze
and delight! MAY 15-24 at Bega Indoor Stadium
Tickets: www.trybooking.com/HLTH Contact:
www.flingphysicaltheatre.com.au
7 May
8 May
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11 May
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SASSA Secondary Touch
Football in Milton
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12 – 14 May
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14 May
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Year 1/2 to Sanananda Park
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18 May – 22 May
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20 May
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AICES Touch Football
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25 May – 27 May
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28 May
Year 5/6 Camp to Nowra
Year 5/6 at daVinci
Decathlon
AICES Cross Country
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School Photos
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P&F Meeting
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UoW Road to Success
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Long Weekend
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Kindergarten to Sanananda
Park
1 June
3 June
4 June
Women’s Self Defence
WGKA Karate Bega, Women's Self Defence course,
Effective easy techniques, Situational awareness, 8 Week
course, Starts Thursday 30th April, 5:30-6:30; $125, half
price for those that attended last course and any exmembers of WGKA. Course conducted by Adam Ross
(5th Dan, 30 years training) and Sandy Rogers (3rd Dan,
13 years training) assisted by Jenny Robertson
Ph 0409 413 242 and check us out on Facebook
(wgka karate bega)
Year 11 Half Yearly Exams
Senior Boys and Girls AFL
in Pambula
21 May
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NAPLAN Tests
8 June
9 June
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10 June
Junior School Athletics
Carnival
Year 10 Unique Experience
Day
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Senior School Athletics
Carnival
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Year 3/4 NRL Gala Day at
Bega Rec Grounds
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End of Term 2
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Start of Term 3
12 June
17 June
19 June
14 July
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