Barwon Heads Primary School
‘It takes a village to raise a child’
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Barwon Heads Primary School
Newsletter #14
28th May 2015
Calendar Dates
Term Dates:
Term 2: 13th April – 26th June
Term 3: 13th July – 18th September
Term 4: 5th October – 18th December
Important Dates:
24/6/15: Parent Teacher Interviews
2/06/15: 5 – 6 Connewarre District Soccer
9/06/15: Queens Birthday Public Holiday
24/07/15: 5 – 6 Connewarre District Girls
Football
6/08/15: 5 – 6 Hooptime Basketball
11/08/15: 3 – 4 Hooptime Basketball
12/08/15: BHPS Grades 3 - 6 House Athletics
24/08/15 – 28/08/15: Children’s Book Week –
theme is: “Books light up our world!”
26/08/15: Connewarre Grades 3 - 6 District
Athletics *2nd of September will be the backup
day for this event if need be
7/09/15 – 09/09/15: Grade 3 Camp
14/09/15: Bellarine Division Athletics
2/11/15 – 4/11/15: Grade 4 Camp
16/11/15 – 18/11/15: Grade 5 Camp
School Banking on
Wednesdays
Phone: 5254 2324 Fax: 5254 3073
Website: www.bhps.vic.edu.au
Email: [email protected]
Now Accepting 2016 Enrolments
Please note that you can find our 2016 Enrolment
forms online. Using the link provided:
http://bhps.vic.edu.au/parent-information/
Enrolment packs are also available at the front office
and via email.
Number of preps enrolled for 2016: 27
A word from our Principal
Once again the school experienced and enjoyed large parent
numbers that were able to attend their child’s classrooms to
celebrate Education Week last week.
Students had been working on Numeracy activities based
around the theme ‘Crack the Code with Maths’ with an
artistic twist which culminated in an extremely visual display
in the Multi-Function Centre. Congratulations to all students
and staff for their work. Thank you for those parents who
were able to share in the learning experience with their
children.
School Review - Parent Forum
Schools undertake a school review every 4 years which results
in the production of a 4 year Strategic Plan. We are hoping to
gain as much information and feedback as possible to
support us in this review. On June the 5th BHPS will be
hosting a parent forum as part of our school review processes.
An independent facilitator will meet with parents to seek
feedback from them. This feedback will form part of the
school’s self-evaluation, a key document that is part of our
school review.
Schools engage in one of two types of review every 4 years:
peer review, or priority review. The type of review a school
undertakes will be determined following assessment of the
school’s performance against a consistent set of statewide
measures about students’ achievement, engagement and
wellbeing, and the productivity of their school. Measures will
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be drawn from the School Performance Framework. Schools performing above key performance thresholds
will engage in a peer review. Schools performing below the thresholds will engage in a priority review. BHPS
will be undertaking a peer review. The forum will be held in the staff room at 9am Friday 5th June.
Camps, Sports and Excursions Funds
The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund has been provided to ensure that no student will miss out on the
opportunity to join their classmates for important, educational and fun activities. School camps provide
children with inspiring experiences in the great outdoors, excursions encourage a deeper understanding of how
the world works and sports teach teamwork, discipline and leadership. All are part of a healthy curriculum.
CSEF will be provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips,
camps and sporting activities. If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster
parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. The allowance will be paid to the school to use towards expenses
relating to camps, excursions, or sporting activities for the benefit of your child. The annual CSEF amount per
student will be: • $125 for primary school students • $225 for secondary school students. We are sending
home an CSEF application form to all families or one can be downloaded from www.education.vic.gov.au/csef
Closing Date: You should lodge a CSEF application form at the school by 26 June 2015. For more
information about the CSEF visit www.education.vic.gov.au/csef
School Council Report
School Council met last Thursday.
.
President: Steve Copland
Executive Officer: Darren
Roskosch
Vice President: Cathy Crane
Treasurer: Mark Duval
Maureen Cross
Viva Partos
Megan Allender
Sharna Sutas
Georgie Imhoff
Matt Walsh
Modesty Kneebone
Cathy Crane
Linda Jordan
Lisa Kebbell
Key Items of Discussion included:
Item 1:
 An environmental architect will be engaged to create a master plan of the school site which will enable
the identification of potential major projects and grounds developments
Item 2:
 School Councillors are assessing the 3 quotes that have been obtained for the installation of shade sails
over the senior playground equipment.
Item 3:
 SC approved the recommendation of the environment committee to erect suitable fencing along the
north side of the school grounds – from the alley way to the existing wooden paling fence at the front
of the school
Item 4:
 SC approved the ratification of the anaphylaxis policy pending one addition to the tabled policy
PREP Enrolments 2016
We are now taking enrolments for 2016. If you have a child who you wish to attend Barwon Heads Primary
School in 2016, please collect and return the necessary enrolment forms. These are available at the school
office. If you know of any other community member who may wish to enrol their child please feel free to
inform them also. We have already had many inquiries from the nearby areas and are very conscious of the
fact that our room availability and staffing will be significantly impacted by late enrolments. We begin our
planning at the end of this term.
Darren Roskosch
Principal
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An update on Teaching and Learning at our school.
Following is the recent Curriculum Report presented to School Council.
Staff Professional Learning

Professional Learning Communities – Weekly meetings occur between Educational leaders and teams. Staff
have been very productive in these meetings discussing data and how to provide intervention, extension and
ongoing programs to improve student learning. Staff have adapted well to discussing and monitoring student
learning in this way.

Whole School Assessment Schedule is currently being modified to reflect how assessment is conducted across
the school.

Literacy – Coach Julie Bennett’s last visit was very successful as she discovered teachers are engaged in and
implementing the Reader’s Workshop. Julie will continue to assist staff in their areas of need and will be
modelling the Reader’s workshop in a number of rooms. New professional texts have been provided to staff to
support the teaching of reading and writing and teachers are in the process of moderating writing samples and
assessing reading in order to prepare for report writing.
Words Their Way continues to form the basis of word study across the school as well as Fountas and Pinnell
the uniform approach to reading assessment. Both areas are assessed as per the assessment schedule.

Numeracy - Andrea Hillbrick continues fortnightly to work with the staff in developing teaching menus for
Numeracy topics. All staff have had an opportunity to work with Andrea in developing these useful planning tools
which will be created for all areas of maths.

Inquiry Based Learning – Following further professional learning, PLCs are developing Inquiry units based on
the Kath Murdoch model. During Inquiry units students are given the tools to develop their own research skills
and self-directed learning is promoted to enhance differentiation and personal learning.

Parent Assistance in the school –Following the parent helpers program many parents have taken up the
opportunity to work in their child’s class this term. Parents who work in our school are asked to sign an
agreement form which outlines the parent role, considerations and protocols for confidentiality.
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Assessment and Reporting- Term 2 is an assessment and reporting term. Reports will be written in a similar
format as before however it will now be within the parameters of the Compass Program currently being
implemented across the school. Three way parent –teacher-student interviews will occur in June with students
highlighting work they wish to share with their parents.
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Education Week- Education week was held last week. All classes have prepared a mathematical display
entitled ‘Cracking the Code with maths’ in readiness for this week’s activities. Parents are welcome to come into
the school on Friday 23rd between 12.30 and 1.30 to observe and participate in the different activities in which
the students will be engaged at this time.
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Technology: “Techy brekkies” for staff are held on a needs basis to assist teachers to increase their own
knowledge and technological skills. The use of Google Drive has become common practice now across the
school. Teachers use this program to share whole school documents.
So a very busy time for both teaching and learning
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“YOU CAN DO IT AWARDS”
Prep A
Prep B
Prep C
1A
1B
12C
2A
2B
3A
3B
3C
4A
4B
4C
5A
5B
5C
6A
6B
Skye Howard
Riley Dalley
Eliza Obrien
Lachlan Blacket
Charlie Whitehead
Spencer Graham
Hayden Yacoub
Sonny Gilmour
Max Frahm
Baz Maclean
Calum Pate
Abi Woodward
Charlie Harrison
Eva Darcy
Lily Harris
Sienna Wright
Hero Partos – Slattery
Finn Trickey
Cooper Barsby
Harvey Robertson
Archie Tribe
James Barry
Sophie Fitzgibbon
Ivy Dalley
Jack May
Beatrix Bent
Ruby Lo
May O’Sullivan
Ginger Osbourne – Grigg
Monique Guest
Joseph Cincotta
Maddie Heafield
Hugh Hanrahan
Mitchell McCAhon
Archie Wiltshire
Jazmin Squires
Harvey Lardner
Rhys Mckinnon
Language Awards
Well done to the following students for their hard work in Indonesian
Jema Hely 4B, Rocker Ramage 4B, Joel Bartley 1B, Ivy Daly 1B
Book Club
Issue 4 Book Club has been given out to students. There are lots of great books on offer including the latest
book Weir Do by Ahn Do. All orders are due in by next Friday 5th June. No late orders will be accepted.
Premier’s Reading Challenge Update
Congratulations to Prep B, Prep C, 1A and 5C. All children in these grades have completed this year’s
challenge. So far 162 children in the school have read and entered all their books on the website, to complete
the challenge. Many other children are almost there. Keep up the reading everyone.
The challenge finishes in August.
Chris Browne,
Librarian.
Cross country
The regional Cross country was held at Eastern Gardens on Tuesday. 11 BHPS students competed with 3
advancing to the next stage (1 First, 1 Second, and 1 third) – with the aim of making the State team. Typically
our students performed exceptionally well overall in every aspect. Thank you to those parents who were able
to attend in support.
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BHPS Superstars
During the long weekend in June, Jet Kneebone, Leo Burgess and Cooper Schwarz will represent Bellarine
Storm at the under 12 National Junior Basketball Classic. They won the right to attend this tournament by
winning the country Victorian Basketball Classic held in Bendigo last school holidays. They will be the only
Vic country team at the Australian wide tournament. This will be a great challenge for them as they will be
playing against the best under 12 sides from all over Australia. Good luck boys!
Special Religious Instruction
SRI forms and information brochures were handed out to the eldest child in every family. All forms are due
back now. If you wish for your child to attend Religious Education please make sure that you fill in the form
and hand it back to school. There will be no charge for the program.
Registering your child to ANZ Tennis Hot Shots
Our School is one of only 314 official venues of Tennis Australia’s National School Partnership Program
(NSPP) in Victoria which means students will experience the national kids’ starter program ANZ Tennis Hot
Shots in their health and physical education curriculum.
As a valued supporter of the NSPP, your child can register with ANZ Tennis Hot Shots and will receive a free
T-shirt as well as the opportunity to enter competitions which could win them $5,000 (the Hot Shots Kid of
the Year competition) or an opportunity to meet a tennis legend (last year’s winner of the relevant competition
got to meet Roger Federer). On top of that, prep students will receive a FREE racquet to take home as part of
the program!
You can collect a registration form from Mrs Sing.
Division Cross Country
Congratulations to the students who represented our school at the Division Cross Country on Tuesday at
Eastern Gardens.
Leo Burgess, Emily Benson and Archer Wiltshire will be competing at the Regional Cross Country on
Thursday June 11 at Brimbank Park in Keilor East.
10 Boys
Leo Burgess 1
Finn Cornell 26
Rocker Ramage 30
Will McGregor 39
11 Boys
Archer Wiltshire 2
Will Duncombe 20
10 Girls
Emily Benson 2
Lily Harris 11
Charlotte Liebhardt 13
11 Girls
Chloe Dillon 13
Jayde Young 26
CLK2SELL
CLK2SELL is a free application you can download on your smartphone if you would like to sell/purchase
second hand school uniform. It is so easy, free and convenient for all to use. Please head to the following
website to see how you can download clk2sell.
http://www.clk2sell.com/
If you start using the Application please feel free to offer your feedback to the front office.
Entertainment Book
We still have Entertainment books for purchase up at the front office. If you wish to purchase either a hard
copy or a digital version of the Entertainment Book please head to this website:
https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/113h127
If you have been provided with an Entertainment Book from the school and you don’t wish to purchase it they
must be returned now. If you do wish to purchase it please do so at the office or online.
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Sushi Tuesday
Please note that orders for Sushi on the week of the Queen’s birthday (8th Of May) must be in on Friday the 5th
of May (The week prior.)
Barwon Heads Golf Club news
The Barwon Heads Golf Club is excited to announce the launch of its new Junior Golf
Program on Sunday 31st May and would like to invite Barwon Heads children to
participate in this new program.
The BHGC Junior Program will be branded and known as the BHGC ACES program.
The BHGC ACES program features:
• BHGC Professional will provide tuition and range balls between 1.00pm and
2.00pm each Sunday
• ACES tee times on the main course to be formally set aside on the Club timesheet for exclusive use of
ACES participants from 2.00pm each Sunday
• ACES will play 9 holes with the support of rostered supervisors
• Younger children and beginners would play the Par 3 course following the Professional’s tuition
Cost to participants:
• BHGC Junior Members will pay no fees to participate in the program
• All other participants pay $10 per week payable on the day
Participation:
• Participants will be expected to have a basic understanding of the game golf and have their own golf
equipment
• It is intended that a program for complete novices will be developed and integrated into the BHGC
junior program at a future date. The details of this program will be communicated to the Barwon
Heads community at that time
If you would like to participate please contact Hague Shier on [email protected] or on
0419887429 to receive a registration form.
After School Care News
Hi Everyone!
This week at OSHC again, the children have been busy with creating, designing,
colouring and painting. Last week there was a new found love for creating bracelets! The letter bracelets have
been particularly popular! We have also been able to go into the gym to play several group games such as
tiggy, line tiggy, green light & red light, soccer and last but not least basketball! There has been plenty of
participation from everyone which is always good to see! We have also started announcing our buddy bear
leaders for those who come to after school care which has been very exciting!
This week at after school care, everyone seems to be quite excited and bursting with energy so we have been
spending a lot of our time playing outside on the playground while we have the good weather and also a lot of
group games inside. There was also an interest in board games this week. This week has also been the first of
our theme weeks, starting with a theme that the children are used to, 'colouring in', to ease them into the
theme idea. Although this is our theme week, not many children have participated which is still good as we like
after school care to be child orientated and do what the children want to do! Look out for some of our buddy
leaders talking at assembly in the upcoming weeks.
Once again, Families please note that although we currently only provide after school care we are taking
expressions of interest for BEFORE SCHOOL CARE. We have had some more interest but we need a
couple more families to get involved so that we have the numbers to provide the before school care service.
Please let us know if you are interested to ensure we can try and provide this service as soon as possible.
You can let us know by calling the OSHC phone (number is provided below.)
We would love to hear from you :)
If you have any questions please, feel free to call us on 0432 636 625.
Suzanne
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Community News
Are you a parent that would like to help but can’t commit to the classroom?
Teachers have jobs that need doing… and parents are helping; jobs that can even be done at home in front of
the telly!
Join the volunteers who are spending a little time helping to create the resources used in the classroom.
The more helpers, the less work. I don’t contact you directly, I just add the jobs to the Facebook group. You
only put up your hand when a job suits you.
Typically jobs are things like laminating, typing, photocopying, contacting, cutting and pasting (with oldfashioned scissors and glue)…
they are easy jobs for us to do, but time consuming for the teachers. Do you want to join “Teachers’ PAs”?
Send an email to Pip at [email protected]
or join the Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogsbodies/
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