Principal: Claire Morgan 3 6 Dear Parents and Caregivers, Parent Teacher Interviews Our parent teacher interviews will be held in Week 8 of this term, we are currently in Week 6. This term we are introducing 3 way interviews meaning that your child will be involved as an active and essential member of the interview. This will provide them with the opportunity to demonstrate understanding of their learning and celebrate their achievements. This is an exciting change to the traditional interview process. As parents you can ask questions, express ideas and help make plans to support your child’s learning at home and school. Teachers will support students and parents by clarifying, elaborating and responding to specific questions and concerns. We ask that you bring your child with you to the interview and we have changed the duration of the interview to thirty minutes. This will allow time for in depth discussions to take place and transition time for teachers between interviews. Classroom booking sheets will be sent home this week. SASS Week This week we celebrate School Administration and Support Staff (SASS) Week. I would like to publicly thank Jenny, Monnica, Stuart, Swaroopananda and David for their continual support and dedication to Bemboka Public School. We highly value your support and for always going above and beyond to ensure our school is the absolute best it can be. Thank you!! Bemboka’s Got Talent On Thursday September 26 we will be hosting Bemboka’s Got Talent at school. There will be prizes for everyone who wishes to audition for the show. There is a time limit on each item to 3-4 minutes. Students are able to perform any act that they wish to share. It could range from magic, dance, music, science, drama and the list goes on. More details of the event will be shared closer to the event. Students need to start preparing and practicing their act in the coming weeks in preparation for our show. STEM Project Firestorm On Tuesday morning we welcomed Doug Reckord from the Bournda Environmental Education Centre to our school to work with students on our STEM Project Firestorm. Doug spent the morning with the whole school showing us how to use MyMaps in our Google Education Suite and Google Earth. It was a thoroughly engaging morning and Doug had organised many different activities for students to complete. We would like to thank Doug for his ongoing support in our project Firestorm and look forward to his support as we progress further. Students have been introduced to our essential question, ‘How would the community of Bemboka prepare, survive and 28 August 2019 Principals Message School Happenings P&C News Community Notices Tuckshop Roster Coming Events recover from a catastrophic bushfire event?’ Next week students will be able to select ‘prepare, survive or recover’ as their focus and join other students in that group to create something that can be used to share to the Bemboka community. At our assembly in Week 10 Thursday September 26 we will be inviting all families and community members to join us to view our final product of Project Firestorm. Do you have a passion for making movies?? We are after any family or community members who might be able to volunteer their time to help us edit, insert animations and pull together multiple video snippets and make it into a movie. You will be supporting us in our Project Firestorm movie making which we will be showcased to our local and wider community. For more information please ring the school. Professional Learning Amongst our daily teaching and learning our teachers have also been busily participating and scheduling professional development to further build their capacity and knowledge as a teacher. Jaimi, Jo and Christa will be attending the Minds Wide Open learning opportunity at Candelo Public School on Thursday Sep- tember 19. They will be introduced to the Design Think- ing process and the effects this can have on engaging students further in their learning. Next week, Jaimi will be attending a two day course in Batemans Bay to further our journey with our Positive Behaviour for Learning. This is our wellbeing framework which relates to our values of Respect, Responsible and Resilient. Jaimi will be away Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Over the last two weeks, I have attended a Teaching Principals Conference at the University of Canberra where the Eden- Monaro (our network), Batemans Bay and Yass network came together to acknowledge and further support the teaching principals in these areas. It was a fantastic two days where we discussed small school contexts, multi staged classrooms and curriculum. Last week I attended a Thought Leaders Conference in Sydney as part of the Principal Induction Program. As I am a new permanent principal to the Department of Education they provide us with support and learning opportunities in the first couple of years of our principalship. Earlier in the year I attended the Principals Induction Conference where they went through all the things that we need to know and who to contact for support. The Thought Leaders Conference last week provided the opportunity for newly appointed principals to hear three well-known and international educational speakers. It was a fantastic 3 days where I had the opportunity to meet and listen to Helen Timperley, Dylan Wiliams and Simon Breakspear. At this stage my next conference in Sydney as part of this Principal Induction program will be in November. Continued over page……………... *HAPPY BIRTHDAY* Next Merit Assembly is TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER at 9.30am.