BOURKE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER · 2021. 7. 18. · Monday 24th November 2014, Term 4 Week 8 BPS Calendar of Events Infants Intensive –Monday 24 November to th December. Meals on

Welcome to week 8! This week will be another busy and exciting week at Bourke Public School. Congratulations to all year 6 students who graduated from Primary school last week! All students had a fantastic night at the Year 6 Farewell. Thank you to Miss Griffiths, the stage 3 teachers and all other staff who helped make the night a special occasion. The P&C FETE was a huge hit last Friday. Thank you to the P&C for organising a great event and also to all the parents/carers and community members who assisted in anyway. Infants intensive swimming started today and continues for the next two weeks. We will be holding two graduation afternoons for our Early Years Transition Centre students in week 9 (please see the attached flyer). Check out our website for up to date information about what is happening at Bourke Public School. Kylie Pennell

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Monday 24th November 2014, Term 4 Week 8

BPS

Calendar of

Events Infants Intensive

Swimming – Monday

24th November to

Friday 5th December.

Meals on Wheels –

Monday 24th

November.

Hospital Trolley –

Monday 24th

November.

Year 6-7 Transition

to the High School –

Monday 24th

November.

AECG AGM – Monday

24th November

3.30pm at the TAFE.

Merit System Movie

Afternoon – Tuesday

25th November.

Year 5 Puberty Talks

– Wednesday 26th

November.

Primary Assembly –

Thursday 27th

November at 2.15pm.

Helpers Thank You

Morning Tea – Friday

28th November at

10.30am.

Merit System Lunch

with the Principal –

Tuesday 2nd

December.

BOURKE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Attendance

Goal

Weekly

Attendance

award

Bourke Public School, Green Street Bourke NSW 2840 Ph: 68 722 051 Fax: 68 722 278

Email: [email protected] Website: www.bourke-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

Term 4 Week 7 2014 Principal’s award goes to

DARCY MARTIN

KB, Miss Budd & Donna

Week

7

90%

OUR

GOAL

92% Deputy Principal – Jenine Milgate

Congratulations to our P & C on a wonderful Fete last Friday!

Thankyou to everyone who came and supported the night.

Infants are participating in the Intensive Swimming program this

week and next week. There are still some spots available if you

would like your child to attend. Please call the office to arrange a

note to be signed. Students are to bring their swimmers, towel,

sunscreen and a hat. Have a great week!

Early Stage 1/P&C News

Miss Budd KB students had lots of fun at the P&C

fete on Friday night. We would like to

thank all of the P&C members that

organised the event. In class we have

been reading different versions of

goldilocks and have started writing

our own story. We are very proud of

our work. This week we will be

publishing them. Have a fantastic

…..week.

Miss Heaney Week 8, time flies when your having fun! This week is the start of Infants Intensive Swimming so if you have bought your note in don’t forget to bring your swimmers and towel. The weather is warming up so make sure you are bringing a hat and drink bottle to school. Remember it is still important to come to school everyday! Lets try and win the weekly award KH! Have a wonderful week!

Early Stage 1 AP – Miss Budd A PLP parent survey has gone home. I would like to hear your thoughts about the process. Please fill in the survey and return it to the office or Miss Budd. Intensive Swimming starts this week for Infants. Remember to bring your swimmers, towel and hat to school everyday. Have a fantastic week!

Canteen news:

Last Fortnight’s Canteen award goes to ‘Kodee Booth’

for always using beautiful manners. P&C News:

The P&C would like to thank everyone who helped at the FETE

last Friday and also a big thank you to the committee for all of their effort in the last few months to

organise the night.

Stage 1 News

Miss Bartley Last week 1N started working on our coke bottle Pop art, we are going to finish our artworks off this week and we can’t wait for everyone to see them. In PDHPE we will be learning about pedestrian lights and how they are used with traffic lights for people to cross the road. 1N students have already mastered using a crossing to cross the road, we will be role playing using pedestrian lights in class. Thank you to every one for a wonderful fete!!

Miss McKechnie Welcome to week 8 everyone! This week in Theme we are learning how to cross the road safely by using the pedestrian crossing at the front of the school. This week we have Infants Intensive Swimming. If you are participating in this scheme and have returned your note, please remember to bring your swimmers and towel. Please remember to bring a hat to school each day. Have a fantastic week!

Miss Duiz Last week 1D had a lot of fun learning how to cross the road safely. This week in Literacy we are focusing on making sure our writing is neat and readable. In Maths we are continuing to expand our knowledge on multiplication and division. This week is also Infants Swimming Scheme so if your child is attending please make sure their swimmers, towel and goggles

are in a separate bag with their name on it. Have a lovely week!

Stage 1 AP – Miss Bartley Remember to come to school everyday to have an opportunity to attend our Stage One Splashathon. Students will have the reward of a swim at the pool and lunch too. Students must have 3 or less days off from school this term in order to attend. Just a reminder for those doing Intensive Swimming, please bring your swimmers to school every day. Thank you to the P & C and teachers for a wonderful fete last week!

Kodee Booth and Blake Barker

AEO Caught Being Good Award

2014 MERIT SYSTEM

AWARDS

BRONZE Jayarna Payne

Owen Locke

SILVER Shane Lamb

Shontay Knight

Joshua Mintern

GOLD Harrison Simmons

Vanessa Vincent

Emily Hopley

Marikki Smith

Kayleigh Lollback

Henry Scanlon

Antwon Fernando

Latoya Orcher

Salome Mann

Cooper Tiffen

Lucus Creighton-Kemp

DIAMOND Tahliyah Sullivan-Nean

Samuel Cannings

Lillian Milgate

Hailey O’Sullivan

Klaneesha Knight

Bernard Dixon

Tyrese Gibbs

PLATINUM Shilah Orcher

Nicholas Bates

FUN at the P&C FETE last week!

Miss Mowbray Wow Week 8 already! 2M Literacy have

completed some fantastic Free Verse poems,

which they are now preparing to publish. 2M

Numeracy are very busy with their numbers,

working very hard on addition and

subtraction. 2M Home Class have begun their

new Science unit, Mini-Worlds, where we are

learning about various types of environments

and the living things that can be found. Our

attendance has been outstanding lately, so

let’s finish the year with everyone here!

Have a wonderful week

Stage 2 News

Mrs Gaukroger & Miss Clark Welcome to week 8! I hope all the students who participated in the Intensive Swimming Program last week enjoyed themselves. This week we will beginning our Drama unit. 2G are very good at performing plays! We have been kept busy sending and receiving emails from our penpals. We have thought of lots of interesting questions to ask them about their community. Have a great week!

Miss Buckley Welcome to Week 8. I hope you all enjoyed the Fete last Friday. 2B Literacy wrote amazing poems about Spring. We have also been working hard on our spelling and handwriting. 2B have been working really hard on their artworks for Presentation Night, so make sure you come along and have a look. Have a wonderful week.

Stage 2 AP – Mrs Gaukroger

This week we continue to look at illustrators. We are examining the composition of the pictures and the techniques that have been used to guide the reader. For example the illustrations use of colour, theme, sterotype, shot angle and vectors. We will be looking at the work of John Howe and Donna Rawlins.

Stage 3 News

PBL- Week 8

Proud, Safe & RESPECTFUL –

Patience

Make it Real

Miss Dorrington 3D would like to congratulate all of year 6 on their fabulous outfits and manners at their farewell. Everyone was very proud of you all. This week we will be working on our theme work further investigating how the world is interrelated and issues that affect the world. We will be using Smarties to investigate probability and graphing the information.

Mr Porter What fantastic night Stage 3 students had at the Year 6 farewell last Tuesday. Last week we also had Year 6 shirts given out please remember to wear them. This week in literacy groups we will be finishing off Indian in the Cupboard while in Numeracy we will be challenging each other with our new maths games.

Mrs Douglas The Year 6 Farewell was a huge success and a great celebration of all the achievements attained by the graduating students; all the staff were very proud to attend this landmark event. In Literacy we will be continuing with poetry and in Maths we will be using protractors to measure angles.

Stage 3 AP – Miss Griffiths

I would like to thank everybody who helped out setting up for the Year 6 Farewell. I would especially like to thank Miss Buckley, Corey Brooks, Jackie Davis from the Nursery on Mertin, Rebecca Hopley for an amazing Graduation cake, Weefah for the catering, the Bourke Bowling Club, Anne-Maree Riches, Fiona Rankmore the the rest of the staff who helped out. It was an amazing night and it was a pleasure to organise. We have an amazing group of Year 6 students who are graduating and we have had an wonderful year!

Year 5 students presenting

their 2015 Leadership

speeches!

Miss.Bradley Miss Bradley is away this week and the students in the EYTC will be having lots of fun with Miss Hudson getting ready for their graduation afternoon all week! If anyone has any nappy or tissue boxes, silver pie tins or other bits and pieces we could use please send them in asap! Don’t forget that our graduation is on next week! Monday/Tuesday group is on Tuesday afternoon and the Wednesday/Thursday group is on Wednesday afternoon! Hope to see you all there!

Ms Topalov Last week we made a sign for our Twilight Fete that was held last Friday. We used an old car bonnet dontated to us from Simmo’s, and some various scrap metal objects from the tip. Thanks to the Shire Council members that hung the sign in the main street. The LC boys are proud of their efforts and even had their photo taken for the paper. The P&C Twilight Fete was fantastic.

Miss Nixon Last week we had Miss Hudson teach

our class. We wrote a recount about

our favourite animals that we saw at

the Dubbo Zoo. We also had fun

playing playdough and making

animals with it. Next week infants

will be participating in a 2 week swim

program. Please remember your

swimmers, hat, goggles and

sunscreen.

LC and MC News

Early Years Transition

Centre News

Instructional Leader

News

Bluey Star of the

Week KB- Harrison Simmons KH- Samuel Ord 1M- Kayleigh Lollback 1N- Emma Simmons 1D- Tahliyah Sullivan- Nean MC- Hailey Reed

Mrs Roe

Encourage your child to first try spelling unknown words themselves, and then praise the parts of the word that are correct and suggest what else is needed. Say, cover, write, check

Our Year 6 students had a wonderful night at their Year 6 Farewell last week! They all looked very grown up.