14th November 2019

Persistence Confidence Getting Along Organisation Resilience

Car Parking Monday Exciting? Annoying? Probably both if you drive your child to school. The Breeze Street carpark will be inaccessible on Monday morning from 8am until lunchtime. The company that has been selected for the building project at Bonbeach is taking soil samples from around the school and, as the new Learning Centre will be built on the existing car park, they will be drilling holes at different points around the carpark. I apologize for any inconvenience but I’m sure you will agree it is for a very worthwhile reason.

Updated and New Policies The following policies were approved at School Council this week:

esmart student eSmart agreement Mobile Phones – student use (new policy) Personal Property (new policy)

All policies will be made available via our school website.

New Mobile Phone Policy At the School Council meeting this week, the new Mobile Phones policy was approved. This policy aligns with the department’s new mobile phones policy for student use and the recent ministerial order. From Term 1 2020, all schools are required to provide secure storage for student mobile phones that are brought to school. The biggest change in policy for Bonbeach is that students who bring their mobile phone to school, are required to drop their phone off at the office upon arrival in the morning. We have a system in place to store phones and identify who they belong to. These will then be locked away at the office for the day. Students will be able to collect their phone at the end of the day. This policy will be in effect from next week to enable students to get used to the new routine. We encourage families to read the Mobile Phone-Student use policy on our website as well as the Personal Property policy. Please note, that this policy also includes wearable devices such as smart watches that have internet and calling capabilities.

Farmers’ Market Thank you to all of the families who braved the cold and the wind to come along to the Farmers’’ Market last weekend. We had 35 stalls this month and 650 visitors through the gates. Thank you to all of the families who gave up their time to help on the day: Jon C, Cameron S, Laureen L, Paul K, David B, Brett S, Stuart L, Kenny W, Kelvin and Kaishu Y, Alistair S, Bridget S, Liliya S and family, Phil S, Kellie S, Ana B, Kate G, Kelly E, Anita P, Mayumi W, Hui L and Claire M. For our December market, $500 of the fundraising will be going towards supporting the students in our 2020 Aerobics teams. If you are able to support our teams by volunteering at the December market, please complete the Google form using the link below. https://forms.gle/7sYS8f5ViiwnG3gz6

Building Update As already noted, soil testing is being carried out on Monday around different areas of the school in preparation for the commencement of building works. Very exciting to see it finally started! Dura Constructions was the successful tendering company and we have our first site meeting with them at the school on Tuesday 26

th November. Work is expected to commence the

following week.

ICAS Last term, several students from Years 3-6, participated in the University of New South Wales ICAS assessments. Students had the opportunity to complete the Digital Technologies, Science, Mathematics and English assessments. Congratulations to the following students who participated in the Science assessment:

Students who received a merit, credit, distinction or high distinction for Digital Technologies and/or Science will receive their certificates at assembly on Monday morning. The English and Maths certificates will be arriving at school soon.

Regards,

Ken and Lisa

Participation award Credit Distinction High Distinction

Noah H Jasmine VL Sophie VL Chelsea W Dylan B Sarah L

Fyodor P Jack T

Charles AW

Bailey VL Lachlan W

Maddison W Timothy L

Are you leaving next year?

Are you leaving Bonbeach next year? Although we hate to see any of our families leave, we understand that life happens and that shifts often occur. If you are leaving, could you please notify the school in writing as it will greatly assist with future planning.

With effect from the 1st September all students should be wearing hats at school.

STUDENT SCHOOL BANKING

Please bring your student bank books to the school office on THURSDAY mornings. Please remember to fill in the payment slip when depositing money into your account.

Thank you Wendy

The P&F Committee would like to thank all Students, Parents, Carers and the Community for their wonderful support and sponsorship of our recent ‘Colourthon Colour Explosion’. Bonbeach Primary School & Preschool will receive $7570.00 which will go towards the new Air Conditioning for the Classrooms and the total number of prizes ordered was 377. The top 3 Fundraisers were: 1) Cowan Carrodus ($710.00) 2) Mason Kidd ($390.00) 3) Max Reynolds ($365.00) After expenses Australian Fundraising receive a profit of $639.32. The feedback we have received from Students, Parents, Teachers and Families has been 100% positive and we could not have done this without your continued support. Thank you again The P&F Committee P.S Come along to our next committee meeting 6

th December at 9AM and sign up

for 2020.

2019 Term 4 Tues 19/11 Prep Transition Day 9:30am-10:30am Tues 19/11 Whole school transition 9:30-10:30am Tues 19/11 SSR Prep Uniform Presentation Wed 20/11 Energy Breakthrough HPV and Push Cart 2019 (20/11—24/11) Tues 26/11 Prep Transition Day 9:30am-10:30am Tues 26/11 Whole school transition 9:30-10:30am Thur 28/11 Working Bee from 3:45pm Tues 3/12 Prep Transition Day 9:30am-10:30am Tues 3/12 Whole school transition 9:30-10:30am Tues 3/12 Peter Combe Incursion Grade Prep-4 2:30pm-3:15pm Wed 4/12 School Council Meeting 5:30pm-7pm Thurs 5/12 Education Sub Committee Meeting 5pm Fri 6/12 Uniform Shop 8:50am-9:15am Sun 8/12 Farmer’s Market 8:30am to 12:30pm Mon 9/12 Carols on the Lawn 6pm Tues 10/12 Final Prep Transition Day 9:30am-12:30pm Wed 11/12 School Council Meeting 5:30pm-6pm Fri 13/12 Final canteen for the year Tues 17/12 Grade 6 Graduation 6pm-9:30pm Fri 20/12 Final Day of Term 4 - students dismissesdat 1:30pm

2020 Term 1 Tues 28/1 Booklist Collection 9am-1pm Thurs 30/1 Grades 1-6 return to school Fri 31/1 Foundation students start school

What is happening in Maths at Bonbeach PS

Our year level of the week is Year Prep: This week the Preps have been investigating the concept of sharing. We integrated our topic of being sustainable by going out into the Asian Garden and looking at how plants grow. Gus and Grace showed us where they planted corn seeds with Jade and Amy. Gus was very proud to tell us that there was an equal amount of seeds in each row. This information became very important in our challenge:

Challenge: You have 16 seeds, share them equally. Look at all the ways we shared our seeds

Congratulations to the following children who will receive Student or Class of the Week awards at next week’s assembly. JCH Lily V C JFM Xavier V JST Bella C JDB Jackson R JMW Asher A JTC Marlon H JLL Alice V MCF Matt V MIW Riley M MJH Bridget K Senior School: PJ Gangemi, Ollie G, Kelvin S, Alex S and Elektra L Digital Technologies: MIW

2020 Booklists The 2020 Booklists have now been distributed to all students. Please return your child’s completed booklist to the Office by Friday 29th November 2019 even if you are choosing to purchase you booklist items through another supplier. Please note: IF YOU DO NOT RETURN YOUR BOOKLIST TO THE SCHOOL OFFICE BY FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER YOU WILL NEED TO PURCHASE THE BOOKLIST ITEMS ELSEWHERE AS WE WILL NOT HAVE EXTRA PACKS AVAILABLE ON COLLECTION DAY. Book collection has been scheduled for Tuesday 28

th January 2020 at the School Office

between 9am to 1pm and payment must be made in full prior to or at the time of collection.

Look at what arrived this week!

We have been excitedly unpacking all the Maths and Literacy resources we received through the Woolworths Earn and Learn program. Thank you to everyone who collected tokens, as these resources will be wonderful in supporting our students with Literacy and Maths.