1 Phone 6772 4263 – Email [email protected]Website – Facebook – School Stream Ben Venews Principal’s Message Week 4 Term 3 Educaon Week I would like to congratulate students and teachers on their fabulous efforts during Educaon Week. Each class parcipated in design and construcon challenges that required students to think creavely and crically reflect on the success of their design. Thank you to the many parents who came in and supported student learning during the week. It was wonderful to see such enthusiasm and posivity about learning. Feedback on the day’s acvies would be appreciated by emailing the school. Soſtball On Wednesday 1 August, our school soſtball team played their Regional Final here at school against Wee Waa Public School. Mrs Hunt commented on the wonderful team spirit and was very impressed by their sense of fair play. The team was defeated but should be proud of their achievement as Regional Runners-up in only their second year of compeon. We would like to thank Nikki Parsons, Teesh Wright and Heather Quarmbly for their help and support on the day and in the lead up to the match. New England Sings! The Ben Venue Primary Choir will again parcipate in ‘New England Sings!’, the region’s biggest choral showcase. Tickets are now on sale at www.trybooking.com/WXRS for $25 (adults) and $15 (students). These are selling fast so get in early if you wish to aend. The Ben Venue Choir will perform in the 2:30pm concert only. Trivia night Last Friday night the school technology team hosted a very successful Trivia for Tech evening. The night was well aended with all 10 tables sold. I would like to acknowledge the work of the whole team in organising such a fun evening and giving up many hours of their own me in order to raise funds for the purchase of addional technology for our students. I would especially like to thank the team leaders Rebecca O’Hara and Rhiannon Tro for their commitment and passion towards leading the team. Lou Moffa
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NOTICE
Ben Venue School Jackets have FINALLY arrived!
They are available for purchase at the front office for $75.00
Limited numbers of stock in size 8, hopefully more should be arriving soon.
School Stream Update
This week, the School Stream app will receive an update. If your phone is not set to update automatically, please ensure that you update the app when it’s released in your app store. Linked here are instructions for Apple Store and Google Play Store. To get the most out of the app features we recommend creating an account so you can easily manage the content the
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In Week 4 we are focusing on Getting Along as part of the
You Can Do It Program.
Examples of Getting Along behaviours are:
Taking turns and sharing
Helping at home for example making the bed, unpacking the
dishwasher, walking the dog
Telling the truth
Talking rather than fighting when faced with a problem
Some things you can say to your child to encourage Getting Along
behaviours are:
You are a helpful person
Solving this problem without fighting shows that you are really
Indoor Hockey It is time to start thinking about organising indoor hockey teams for the summer competition. The primary competition runs every Friday afternoon during Term 4 and Term 1 from 4:00pm at the Armidale HS Den. There are 3 divisions, depending on age and experience and players new to the sport are most welcome. I will provide further information to interested players next week. Sue Lye