th Wednesday 18 Feb 2015 – Week 4-9 DIARY DATES TERM 1 th Thurs 19 Feb th Fri 20 Feb th Frid 27 Feb rd Tues 3 Mar th Thurs 5 Mar th Thurs 5 Mar th Fri 6 Mar th Mon 9 Mar th Tues 10 Mar th Thurs 12 Mar th Fri 13 Mar th Sat 14 Mar th Tues 17 Mar rd Mon 23 Mar th Tues 24 Mar th Wed 25 Feb th Thurs 26 Mar th Thurs 26 Mar th Fri 27 Mar Community Engagement & Wellbeing SC mee ng 9.15am School Council Candidates posted outside School Office Inter School Sports School Banking Commences School Council – Close of ballot 4.00pm P&F AGM Inter School Sports Labour Day Holiday – No School P&F Raffle Welcome to School Twilight Picnic Finance SC mee ng 9.15am Inter School Sports Working Bee School Council Mee ng – 7.00pm Elec on of Office Bearers 7.30pm First Mee ng Parent Teacher Interviews P-2 Parent Teacher Interviews 3-6 No Founda on Classes Term 1 BBQ Last Day of Term 1 – 2.30pm finish Curriculum Day Brunswick North Primary School Choir Our wonderful school choir sessions lead by parents Louise and Cath with support from a team of dedicated parents will commence next week, next Monday 23rd February, from 9.30-10.00am. Permission notices for Years 1-6 students are available from your classroom teachers or the Office. If your child would like to attend, please return the signed permission notice to your class teacher. The benefits of singing are well documented, I have included some interesting information from the American Los Robles Children’s Choir website that you may be interested in: “Singing in a choir is a team sport. It builds confidence in young people as they work together to accomplish a common goal. Singing also shares something unique from all other musical instruments: words. We have a special message to communicate with our audiences, a message of hope and life. Singing is also a powerful tool for memory and speech in children. “ “Singing is fun! But it also brings physical benefits. Increased lung capacity, increased immunity and greater oxygenation of the blood resulting in improved alertness are all claimed effects from singing. What’s more, singing is good for the brain, as Dr. Graham Welch, Professor at the Institute of Education maintains. “Singing is of great interest to neuroscientists as it would seem that there is more of the brain given over to the processing of music than almost any other activity.” It certainly sounds like a great way to start the week doesn’t it! School Photos - February This year’s School Photo days are on Tuesday 24th, Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th and Friday 27th February. You will have received an order form on Monday. The individual photography orders need to be completed and returned to school before the 13th March. Please complete an envelope and separate payment for each student. The sibling sessions are available and need to be requested via the yellow envelope. The timetable for photos is as follows, please note that last minute changes to the order of class photos may vary due to unforeseen circumstances. All enquires to [email protected] __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pearson Street West Brunswick 3055 Phone: 03 9383 1400 Fax: 03 93860583 OSHC: 0405 435 341 Email address: [email protected] Principal: Ms Sonia Abdallah School Photo Timetable is as follows: Tuesday 24th Feb – all Grade 1/2 students Tuesday 24th Feb – Staff Photo Wednesday 25th Feb – Year 3/4 Students and Year 5/6 students. • All children must be accompanied and supervised by a family member at the picnic at all times. For safety reasons students are not allowed to: • • Ride scooters or bikes around the school on the night. Climb trees or fences th Thursday 26 Feb – Foundation and Sibling photos Parent Helpers at Brunswick North Primary School We are very fortunate to have a terrific team of Parent helpers that contribute so much energy and enthusiasm to our school programs and environment. We really are a lucky school. I urge any parents interested to have a go at being a classroom helper. It really is a rewarding and fun thing to do. Working with Children Check The student toilets will be open for all students and the adult toilets just near the MPR for adult use only. We ask that you take home all of your rubbish home with you on the night, it makes the clean up at the end so much easier. I thank you for your support with this. Notice of 2015 School Council Election and Call for Nominations At Brunswick North we require all parents who wish to help out with any school programs to have a valid Volunteer’s Working With Children Check “ As Andrew has mentioned in his School Council President Update last week there is an election for School Council to be conducted for members of the school council of Brunswick North Primary School. The form is available from the Post Office or on line at no charge for volunteers. There are three parent member vacancies. We would also like to remind parents with existing WWC to ensure that they are up to date and have not expired. Thank you for your support in this matter. Welcome to BNPS Twilight Picnic - 12th March 2015 We look forward to seeing you all at our annual beginning of the year Twilight Picnic on Thursday 12th March from 5.30-7.30pm. This evening is a great opportunity to meet other families from Brunswick North Primary School. The picnic will commence at 5.30pm on the back oval and conclude at 7.30pm. We have organized the Animal Farm and Disco for the children’s entertainment. BYO: • • • • Something comfy to sit on and/or a picnic rug. Food, drinks and your utensils. Sun Smart gear such as wide brimmed hats, sunblock, water bottles (hopefully it won’t be too hot on the night) Please note that students are not able to go the Twilight Picnic on their own. Nomination forms have been available from the office from Wednesday 11th February. Nominations must be lodged by 4.00pm todayWednesday 18th February 2015. Following the closing of nominations a list of the nominations received will be posted at the school on the notice board outside the school office. If there are more nominations than vacancies we will then be conducting an election according to Department guidelines. Clean Up Schools Day – Friday 27th February This year is the 25 year anniversary of Clean Up Australia Day and we want to make it the biggest year yet! Schools Clean Up Day, an annual event in which schools across the country participate, is Friday 27th February. During the week, students will learn about sustainability, responsible behavior and recycling through classroom activities. On Friday, they will break into teams and take to the school grounds, gardens and playing fields to tidy up our school environment. It will be interesting to discuss how much rubbish has been collected and how we could reduce this in the future. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pearson Street West Brunswick 3055 Phone: 03 9383 1400 Fax: 03 93860583 OSHC: 0405 435 341 Email address: [email protected] Principal: Ms Sonia Abdallah Assistant Principal Report It’s great to see lower temperatures this week. The teachers and students have enjoyed working in the cooler weather. The rain we got over the weekend has done wonders for our veggie patch at the front of the school. The tomato plants are growing and invading the nearby sand pit. The tomatoes are ripening and we have started harvesting the fruits, along with some peppers, cucumbers and basil (mmm…sounds like the makings of a great salad!). Our Kids Gardening Club is scheduled to start up again for the year shortly and I will inform everyone of the day and time when confirmed. We are gearing up for the BIG Working Bee event and thank you to the parents who have volunteered so far. Don’t forget you can email Tim Carver at [email protected] or let me know at the office. The veggie boxes, compost and mulch have been ordered and I will be ordering the fruit and ornamental trees and vegetables soon. In the classrooms everyone has been quite busy at work. This week the Foundation students have had their first taste of exploring the whole school playground. I have noticed the Foundation students playing in the quadrangle, at the front of the school, in the Blue and Yellow Parks and mixing it with the older students out the back. Their 5/6 helpers are still around looking out for them and helping them to play happily and safely. Grades 1/2 started their Bounce Back groups last week. It’s great to see them being responsible and independent when moving to another classroom for these sessions. In the 3/4 area students are undertaking experiments on dehydration using potatoes. The grade 5/6 unit are setting up teams for their Healthy Lunchbox inquiry unit and are looking forward to the upcoming Market Fresh incursion. Great work everyone! At the 5/6 Parent Information Session last week I spoke to the parents about the Transition Program and the ‘Placement in Year 7 at Secondary School’ process. I advised parents to look out for notifications of upcoming Secondary School tour dates and to book them in as soon as they can. As this information comes to the school it will be published in the newsletter. This week Princes Hill Secondary College has informed us of tours that will be held each Wednesday and Thursday of Term One, beginning next week. (Wednesday 25th Feb). Please refer to the article for contact details. I also suggest to parents to get onto the website of the schools they are interested in for more information. The application process will begin early term 2 when forms will be sent home via your child. Have a great week everyone. Lina De Fazio Assistant Principal L’angolo italiano Italiano Vivo, as an extra-curricular activity, has commenced this week. We have a totale of 48 studenti from 3/4 and 22 from 5/6. Because we have such large numbers in 3/4 and we didn’t want any studente to miss out, it was decided that 3 B C D will have IV from Week 4 – Week 3 Term 2, and 3 F M S will have IV from Week 4 Term 2 to Week 10. Acceptance forms need to be returned promptly for administrative purposes. Any studente that would like to apply or reapply may do so for Semester 2 closer to the date. Compito has started this week for all 3-6s. It will need to be returned by the following lezione with a parent’s firma. So many studenti are really keen to start and it’s always a delight watching them with their wonderful organisational skills. Look out for la busta di plastica…I wonder what colore your child has for la sua classe? It is lovely to see that some studenti have extended their Italiano learning with classes at VSL. There are 49 languages available at 40 different campuses, one being Brunswick Secondary College. If enrolling at the start of the year the fees are very much reduced and subsided by the Government. Find our more at www.vsl.vic.edu.au We have been looking at OTTO and the fact it is a palindrome. We have had fun with Will’s words…Race car and Xaveira’s (punctuation aside) Go hang a salami i’m a lasagna hog! See if they work! Well done to Esan from 1/2 who won the 'Hamilton Island Has Talent' competition during the holidays with his dressing up as a chef and singing the Ciao Buongiorno song! Bravo for being differente and using his italiano outside of the classroom. Congratulazione, a wonderful language learner! Saluti, signora Bruna __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pearson Street West Brunswick 3055 Phone: 03 9383 1400 Fax: 03 93860583 OSHC: 0405 435 341 Email address: [email protected] Principal: Ms Sonia Abdallah Grounds News You may have noticed mysterious white lines and squares painted on the south end of the oval this week, these represent the final stage of planning for the orchard project. The Working Bee is coming up on the 14th of March so the Grounds Committee determined the final locations for the planter boxes and trees to ensure all runs smoothly on the day. See our flyer in this newsletter. With a lot to complete and to help the Parents and Friends to cater, we need to know volunteer numbers and times. We want to spread people across the morning and afternoon to spread the effort. For all of you with morning commitments here’s your chance! Please email me at [email protected] to tell us how many in your family are coming along and the approximate times. Tim Carver Tours will begin at 9:00am, so please arrive by 8:50am. Library News Students from the 1/2 area have been very busy during Library/ICT sessions so far this term. Students are working in four table groups, making new friends and sharing interests and experiences. We have just commenced a skill building project based on healthy eating. Over the next few weeks students will be making an information poster showcasing some new ICT skills. They are introduced to their new personal folder and finding out how to locate it and save to it. Their poster created using Word will include a Word Art heading, a page border, a saved image and simple text. The students are also enjoying browsing and there is lots of excitement when it comes to selecting a book to borrow. Thanks Robyn and Beth From the Café Student of the Week To be presented on Monday 23rd February 2015 The café is now selling Pastizzi (Ricotta and Spinach, Pizza) over the counter at recess and lunch $1.50 each. • • • Popcorn in a bag $1.00each 3 Chicken nuggets $3.00each Sweet and Sour sauce/Tomato sauce $.50 Twilight picnic: The café will be selling Spinach & Fetta filo pastry, Cakes, Slices, Cupcakes, Sandwiches & Baguettes, Coffee, Tea, Cold drinks, Icy Poles. 5/6B Connah Pugh 5/6S Louise Powell 5/6W Lucas Vico 3/4F Omar Ali Please note Café will close at 7.15pm. Parents feel free to come in and have a look at all our gourmet delights and take home meals. Silvana and The Café team Princes Hill Secondary College Tours Tours for Grade 6 students wanting to attend Princes Hill Secondary College in 2016 will be each Wednesday and Thursday of Term One, beginning next week. (Wednesday 25th Feb) To book in for the tour, could parents please phone Princes Hill Secondary College on 03 9389 0600. For working so well in class and completing work to the best of his ability! Well done! For trying extra hard during the times table challenge and improving her multiplication skills. For making some excellent contributions including one on fairness and elicited a round of applause! For coming to school with a smile on his face every day. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pearson Street West Brunswick 3055 Phone: 03 9383 1400 Fax: 03 93860583 OSHC: 0405 435 341 Email address: [email protected] Principal: Ms Sonia Abdallah 3/4D Uriel Tobing For getting 1/2M Milena Mohar For trying her involved in all best with all class activities learning tasks! and having a 1/2P Lily Yang For such an great start to amazing effort the school year. with all her 3/4C Flynn Magrath For excellent learning and for organisation being a great skills, and example to working hard to others. get his tasks 1/2S James Lycett For being a king completed on and caring time. friend. 3/4B Evie Johnson For creating 1/2W Raidyn Café For his excellent such a detailed contributions and interesting during character Web numeracy. based on F/C Pippa Van Delft For always Fantastic Mr putting 100% Fox! effort into her 3/4S Jade Gangi For the big colouring smile and activities in the enthusiasm she classroom. brings with her Congratulations, every day. Pippa! 3/4M Dashiell Chai For fitting into F/L Geordie Phipps For always the learning doing his best community so work for Miss comfortably and Nicole. making many F/P Annika For always contributions to Stinchcombe putting in her class best effort! Well discussions. done, Annika. 1/2A Aysel Tinas For settling in F/T Joshua Anthony For always wonderfully to trying his best grade 1. and using his 1/2B Remy Wright For learning lots wonderful of new things listening skills! about being in Awesome work year 1. Josh! 1/2C Gigi Streeter For showing Art Aya Kiki For always great enjoying coming enthusiasm to to the Art room. lean. Keep it up! ICT David Edmond For his love of 1/2L Amelia Fox For reading and demonstrating thoughtfulness her classroom in sharing this responsibilities with others. by keeping the room tidy and using materials appropriately. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pearson Street West Brunswick 3055 Phone: 03 9383 1400 Fax: 03 93860583 OSHC: 0405 435 341 Email address: [email protected] Principal: Ms Sonia Abdallah Italiano Annika Olden Music Andrew Wilson P.E Sabine Barnett Ms Lina Kolya Dalgarno Ms Sonia Principal Lucas Sabljack For demonstrating real enthusiasm and dedication in the learning of ITALIANO. Lots of answering questions and interesting items. BRAVA! For his excellent ukulele playing in Music! For trying her best on the lacrosse clinic. Excellent work! For being a great garden helper with our tomato harvest. For being very helpful to the office staff. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Pearson Street West Brunswick 3055 Phone: 03 9383 1400 Fax: 03 93860583 OSHC: 0405 435 341 Email address: [email protected] Principal: Ms Sonia Abdallah BNPS Parents & Friends News Events Upcoming planned Term 1 Activities: Event P&F Meeting Safeway BBQ (Sydney Road Festival) AGM Twilight Picnic- 2nd-hand Uniform Stall & Dance Costumes Sales Bunnings BBQ End of Term BBQ Date Fri 20 February, 9.15am Sunday 1 March Thursday 5 March, 7.00pm Thursday 12 March Location BNPS, Genesis Room Safeway, Albert Street BNPS MPR BNPS, Back Oval Saturday March 21 Thurs 26 March (lunchtime) Bunnings Coburg BNPS P&F Meeting – Friday 20th February - 9.15 am Our first monthly meeting will be held in the Genesis Room (around the corner to the right of the School Office Entrance) THIS FRIDAY. Join us to discuss the planned activities for Term 1, including the AGM. If you are curious as to know what the P&F is about, or have a hankering to assist with organising one of our social events, please feel free to join us. Safeway BBQ- Sunday 1st March- WE (STILL) NEED YOUR HELP! We are still planning to hold a fundraising BBQ at the Albert St Safeway on the day of the Brunswick Street Festival, if we can get a few volunteers to assist throughout the day. It’s a chance to fundraise for the school in the wider community, i.e. festival-goers who disembark from the train station, or those that duck around the back to Safeway to purchase festival necessities. These BBQs tend to be quite successful- we raised over $700 from our BBQ on the same day last year. If you’d like to join in the fun, you can let us know in a couple of ways: 1. Visiting VolunteerSpot via this link: http://vols.pt/5Jy44n or 2. Email your details to [email protected] or 3. Come along to the meeting on Friday in the Genesis Room. TO SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER SPOT: 1. Clink on the link to go to our invitation page on VolunteerSpot : http://vols.pt/5Jy44n 2. Enter your email address (you will NOT have to register an account) 3. Sign up! Choose your spots (You will receive an automated confirmation and reminder) Note: Volunteer Spot does not share your email Notice of AGM- Thursday 5th March- 7pm As part of our constitution, the P&F is required to hold an Annual General Meeting to provide members with information on the year’s activities and fundraising efforts, the opportunity to pay membership fees for 2015, and to elect the P&F team for the coming year. The following roles are open for nominations: Executive Positions • President • Vice President • Secretary • Treasurer General Positions • Assistant Secretary • Event Coordination • Grants Coordinator • Assistant Treasurer • Class Representative Coordinator • Membership/Communications Role-sharing is optional (and encouraged!). An explanation of the committee roles can be downloaded at www.brunswicknorthps.vic.edu.au under the Parents & Friends tab. If you are interested in a position but unable to nominate in person at the AGM, please collect a nomination form from the School Office. Completed nomination forms must be received by the office by 4 pm on the 5th March. Twilight Picnic- Thursday 12th March- Second-Hand Uniform Stall We will once again be running a stall offering Second-Hand uniforms at reasonable prices, as we did at the Twilight Picnic at the end of last year. If you have any unused school uniform items in very good condition, please leave them in the donation box to the right of the door into the School Office. If you are interested in helping Vicki out with the stall, please email your details to [email protected] so we can pass them on to Vicki or come along to our first P&F meeting for the year (details above). Do you: ● ● ● have a suggestion? want to help in organising or running an event? want to join our mailing list? Then…. please send us an email at [email protected], we’d love to hear from you! Brunswick North Primary School TERM 1, 2015 School Grounds ORCHARD WORKING BEE Saturday 14th March 2015 This is the Big One for 2015! Please come when you can between 9am and 4pm. The main activities will be heavy lifting, shoveling and wheel barrowing. Barrowing 25 m3 of mulch Positioning 25 wooden planter boxes Filling the boxes with 25 m3 compost ● Children and parent helpers welcome, there will be organised activities during the day and sausage sizzle Welcome back! We hope you had a great holiday and somehow managed to squeeze in some fun, rest and a bit of relaxation! We managed to recharge our batteries, and we’re excited to kick off the new term with our Camp Australia kids. As always, we’re excited to welcome a few new starters in the Before and After School Care timeslots this term. It’s a pleasure for us to meet new faces, and to spend time with our familiar kids (although some of them are almost unrecognisable after the holidays, having grown an inch or losing an extra tooth!). Over the last week we made rock creatures. The children created some interesting rock creatures ranging from aliens to hairy friends. These have been on display in the OSHC room and will be sent home this week. To celebrate Valentines Day we made beautiful tissue paper flowers and cards. Amanda showed the children how to make pom pom love bugs. We hope you enjoyed the gifts your children made for you. Kusum ran cooking club with a small group of children. They all assisted in making banana bread and at the end of After School Care they go to eat it. It was very YUMMY! This week in Before School Care and After School Care our Activities are centred on Chinese New Year (Thursday 19 FEB). In Craft we will be making paper lanterns, dragons, goat puppets and fish. These activities have been well planned and we hope that the children have lots of fun. Corey will be organising various sports clubs over the week. These include cricket, basketball and of course the most favourite sport of all at the moment soccer. In cooking club we will be making truffles, always a favourite amongst the children. We are always happy for parents to pop in and observe and would enjoy your valuable feedback. From everyone at the Camp Australia team enjoy your week! TWILIGHT PICNIC HAMPER ORDER A selection of Gourmet Sandwiches and Focaccia Sandwiches $8.50 Focaccia $9.50 OR Beef Scotch egg, chutney and side salad for a family of 4 $40.00 OR Large rice balls and side salad for a family of 4 $40.00 OR Cold chicken marinated with thyme, lemon and garlic and a side salad For a family of 4 $40.00 PLEASE HAND ALL ORDERS IN TO THE CAFÉ BY MONDAY THE 9TH OF MARCH OR YOU MAY EMAIL YOUR OREDER TO [email protected] 0411 858214 TWILIGHT PICNIC SANDWICH ORDER SNDWICHES / FOCACCIA / CHOICE OF FILLINGS (ALL SANDWICHES $8.50 FOCACCIA $9.50) Tuna mix (tuna, corn, Spanish onion, parsley, lemon, mayo) Chicken mix (poached chicken, mayo, celery) Ham and Pickle Rare roast beef, chutney and rocket Prosciutto and my own salad mix ADD TO YOUR ORDER A COFFEE AND CAKE FOR JUST $7.50 Interested in playing Saturday basketball? Girls & Boys Under 9 – Under 19 Register online at: www.collingwood.basketball.net.au or attend Registration Day Saturday 14th February Collingwood College gym McCutcheon Way, Collingwood 10.30am – 3.00pm New players welcome Players must register and pay by 22nd February to ensure a place in a Winter team Enquiries: Megan Rouse 0417 106 490 [email protected] BOOK LAUNCH Saturday February 28 | 3pm Book at www.littlebookroom.com.au Carlton North Shop 759 Nicholson Street
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