Ralston Avenue Belrose NSW 2085

Phone: 9451 6203

www.belrose-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Email: belrose-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER DATE: 15 March, 2018 TERM 1, WEEK 7

Belrose Public School

Principal’s Message

Belrose OSHC Centre

Phone: 0430 247 493

Dates

ZONE SWIMMING CARNIVAL Congratulations to our Zone swimmers who represented our school in a highly physically demanding sport. I was exhausted just watching them swim race after race from the poolside. Our Belrose students depicted excellent behaviour, as usual, and excelled with their high support of each other on the day. We have students now swimming at the Area Carnival. Congratulations to Thomas J and Eloise S. A special thank you to Michelle Hall for being our Manager as well as the time keepers who continued their role throughout the day. With our Cross Country Carnival set to be run next Thursday 22 March students will run long distance races of 2km for 8-10 year olds and 3km for the years above. Congratulations boys and girls.

HONOUR BOARD The Belrose PS’s Honour board now proudly displays last year’s out-standing academic achievements of: Academic: Grace W and Ishan S Citizenship: April L and Joshua D-M Outstanding Student: Sienna C and Cooper S We wonder who this year’s award winners will be?

2019 KINDERGARTEN INFORMATION EVENTS

The 2019 Kindergarten Information Evening will be held in the school

hall on Thursday 3 May at 9:30am and 6:30pm. I will be taking group

tours each Monday morning from 9:00am. School captains, parents

and Executive staff will be addressing prospective 2019 parents.

PARENT /TEACHER INTERVIEWS FOR WEEK 11

Booking information made available in next week’s newsletter.

Term 1 2018

Friday 16 March Easter Bilby Year 1 incursion in the library

Monday 19 March Chess Tournament at Mona Vale PS Assembly 2:25pm

Tuesday 20 and

Wednesday 21 March

School Leadership Camp

Wednesday 21 March Scripture service in hall at 9:30am and 10:10am

Thursday 22 March Cross Country

Wednesday 28 March Zone netball trials

Thursday 29 March Sydney North Swimming Carnival

Thursday 29 March Easter Hat Parade 2:30pm

Friday 30 March

Good Friday

Sunday 1 April Day Light Savings ends

Monday 2 April Easter Monday

Monday 9 April Awards Day assembly 9:30am

Tuesday 10 April P&C Meeting 7.15pm

Last week of term Parent Teacher Interview Week

Friday 13 April Mwangaza Children’s Choir visit 11:30am P&C Run for Fun Colour Explosion 1:45pm

NEW DATES IN NEWSLETTER

CALENDAR WILL BE IN RED

OUR NEW KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS HAVE THEIR SAY What is the best thing about Belrose PS? Having fun—Hugo Learning—Nate Playing with our buddies—Lucas Having a lunch order—Sarah Having nice friends—Jack Sport—Audrey All the activities—Oscar Learning Japanese—Ava Music—Luke J What have you learnt so far? Letters—Leo Numbers—Valentina Playing ball games—Luke O Counting—Harrison Tracing my words—Isaac Being kind—Amelie How to do sport—Zoe

A girl from KD whilst visiting my office asked... ‘So what do you do? I know you visit my classroom but not very much, you go to lines in the morning and assembly but what do you do for the rest of the time? You don’t just sit in that chair all day, do you? Feeling quite inadequate, I rattled off a list of things of which she replied ’so you are not as busy as me.’ All this from a busy Kindergarten student. PRIMARY SCHOOLS’ LEADERSHIP CAMP The Warringah Community of School’s Student Leadership Camp will take place at Sydney Academy of Sport, Narrabeen next Tuesday and Wednesday. Austin, Kate, Jett, Jasmin, Will, Matt, Joscelyn and Izzie have been invited to participate. Mr Davidson will be joining the group on Tuesday.

Belinda Zorian Principal

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Years 3 to 6 students interested in playing chess? From beginners to advanced. If you have a chess set please bring it along. Chess will take place in my room, 4/5S every second week from 8.00am to 8.45am. Next chess mornings will be: Friday 23 March Friday 5 April Thankyou!

Lianne Stephens Chess Coordinator

FROM THE OFFICE

ICAS

Belrose Public School is providing the opportunity for students in Years 3-6 to participate in the International Competitions in

Computers, English, Mathematics and Science. Each test will be conducted at school under normal examination conditions.

Please note that these tests will be administered before school, beginning at 7:45am on the allocated day. Please refer to the

note. Please return permission notes and make payment by the closing date of Thursday 15 March. No late entries can be ac-

cepted.

2018 STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT—TERM 1

Reminders for the Statement of account for Term 1 has been emailed

out today. Payment by Thursday 22 March would be greatly appreci-

ated as this assist the school to meet its financial obligations in a

timely manner.

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All students who LOVE to sing in years 2 to 6 come and join us on

Wednesday mornings, 8am in the school Library

Mrs Cohen, Mrs Thoroughgood and Mrs Jones

1S children have been engaging in many activities during the term. Tuesday afternoons is an opportunity to get to-gether with 1DT for skipping. Many personal bests are being achieved through practising, as children exercise. There are some amazing skippers in 1S. In the classroom we collect fruit and vegetable scraps for the compost to help our environment. We also have wrap-per free lunches on Trashless Tuesday. We know that healthy and delicious lunches don’t need a plastic wrapping. Clear Minded for Life classes have given us a variety of ways to relax when feeling stressed. Our reading skills are improving with the assistance of parents and grandparents who participate in Reading Groups.

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Stage 1

1DT have been enjoying having lovely parent helpers during reading groups. Thank you to all of our wonderful volun-teers. 1DT have been learning about mass during mathematics lessons. They had fun hefting different objects, estimating the weight of objects and recording their findings. We introduced a new Soundwaves spelling program this year at Belrose Public School. 1DT enjoyed the interactive whiteboard activities and games from this program.

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Stage 1

2IW have been doing some wonderfully descriptive writing this term based on our theme of The Daintree Rainforest. 2IW really enjoy reading and are so thrilled when we have parents come in to help us!

In 2/3J, we have been learning about measurement and length. We used our hand span and our foot span to measure our part-ner’s body length. After that we then used a tape measure and recorded our measurement in centimetres.

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Stage 1

My CARES excursion On Tuesday 13 of March Year 5 went on an excursion to CARES. At CARES you learn about bike safety, you learn to give way, turn, and use roundabouts. You have to follow the signs otherwise you would crash. The Blue group which I was in did some challenges, first we had to go in and out of cones and try to drive straight. At the end of the challenges we had a slow race. I made it to the next round. I had to verse Calean, sadly. I put my feet down. Then we had morning tea. After morning tea the blue group went into the classroom and learnt that you have to wear a helmet otherwise you could get critically injured. Then we had lunch. After lunch we went on the road and we drove around. There was 1 set of traffic lights. I got 1 demerit point for not stop-ping but I looked behind me and no one was there. Then we drove back on the bus. What a phenomenal day.

By Georgia 5K CARES excursion BANG, CRASH, SKID! Just kidding. There was not any crashes except for after at the traffic lights. I will tell you what we did and what you might look forward to if you have not gone yet. The first thing we did was greet Sargent’s Cooper and Gould. My first activity (I was in red group) was about videos on road safety and helmet importance and road injuries. Our second activity was a riding an obstacle course which was great fun! The third was we got a seven point licence and went on a mini-track. It was great, if you have not been then look forward to it.

By Kade 4/5S CARES excursion CARES was so much fun and we learnt so much. Firstly 5S went in a room and we watched a few videos that mostly talked about the importance of wearing a helmet and about the road rules. The last one showed what can happen if you are not wear-ing a helmet. After recess we got to ride a bike and they showed us hand signals and how to give way and all the signs and what to do when you see one. After lunch we got our bikes with a fake licence with demerit points. How it works is we went on a fake mini road to show what it is like in real life when you are on a road. If you make a mistake you lose one of the seven demerit points. Sadly I did lose a demerit point but it was still SOOO much fun. Best excursion ever.

By Toni 4/5S

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Sport News

PSSA SUMMER COMPETITION THIS WEEK

Cricket Belrose vs Wakehurst @ Lionel Watts Oval Softball & T-Ball Belrose vs Wakehurst @ Lionel Watts Oval CRICKET SENIOR We played Terrey Hills today and loss the toss. Terrey Hills won the toss and elected to bowl. We started really well and 2 bat-ters retired. We got a great score of 124. Everyone bowled really well. We took some great catches. Player of the match was Danny .

By Alex C CRICKET JUNIOR The junior cricket team had a great game but sadly we lost. The score was 55 to Belrose and 56 to Terrey Hills. We did some amazing fielding and great batting. Player of the match was Caelan.

By Toby H SOFTBALL A On Friday 9 March we played Terrey Hills in softball and we won 16-2. Charleigh did some amazing batting and Izzy hit her first home run. Player of the match was Izzy.

By Ellen SOFTBALL B Softball B’s played a great game and we won 5-1. Player of the match was Sophia C. She was a great pitcher and got heaps of people out.

By Jess E T-BALL A Go Belrose!!! We smashed Terrey Hills 35-0. Everyone in the team got a home run. Player of the match was Milli because she got three homeruns. Good job Belrose for a phenominal win.

By Georgie T-BALL B Last Friday we played against Terrey Hills. We were all very prepared and trained well. The score was 21/2 Belrose won. Play-er of the match was Sienna, she cheered the team nicely.

By Nyzarel O

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VOLUNTEERS NEEEDED

Helpers to assist with the cross country on Thursday

22 March at 9.00am. Any amount of time is greatly

appreciated. Please contact Mrs Meikle or the office

Thanks

Sam Meikle

Sports Co-Ordinator

ZONE SWIMMING CARNIVAL Well done to all our wonderful Belrose swimmers who competed in the Warringah Zone Swimming Carnival on Monday. We had many children make it through to the finals. Congratulations to Eloise and Thomas who will be representing the Warringah Zone at the Sydney North Swimming Carnival which is an outstanding achievement. Eloise – 2nd 12 Year Breaststroke Thomas – 2nd 11 Year Breaststroke Millika – 3rd – 11 Year Backstroke Eloise, Millika, Isabel and Sophia - 3rd – Senior Girls Relay Thank you to Michelle Hall for managing the team on the day and to the parent helpers for time-keeping. Your help is always greatly appreciated. Congratulations to Charleigh K who was selected to attend the Sydney North trials for cricket on Monday. Charli M and Millika were also selected to trial, however elected to attend the Zone Swimming carnival. Congratulations to Will B, Caitlin, Sofija, Stefanija, Ellen and Sarah who have been selected to attend the Combined Zone trials for soccer. We wish you the best of luck on Thursday. Samantha Meikle Sport Coordinator

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Sport News Cont...

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CANTEEN NEWS

Friday 16 March Monday 19 March Wednesday 21 March Jenny Frangoples Jenny Frangoples Jenny Frangoples Tanya Taylor Katrina Mottee (9-11.30am ) Vicki Fairclough

P&C What a busy week we have had. The Fundraising brainstorm meeting was a great night, with plenty of ideas being floated around. We are currently working on the calendar for Terms 3 and 4 and dates for first 2 Terms are confirmed. Please mark these dates in your diary, with more information to follow closer to the dates.

Term 1. Run4Fun Colour explosion Friday 13 April—Information pack will be sent home early next week. Easter raffle- tickets will be sold in the office in the lead up to the Easter hat parade and will be drawn at that day Thursday 29 March. An email will be sent home via class parents next week Term 2. Friday 18 May Kids Disco Saturday 26 May Annual Girls Night In

Next P&C meeting will be Tuesday 10 April at 7.15pm, please forward any items for general business to: belro-sepandc@outlook.com

Jo Stracey P&C President

BAND NEWS Mr Hill was very excited to have the first rehearsal with this years training band. He has 31 very keen students who have never heard any of his jokes. Please save the dates Wednesday 11th April 6:30pm - Belrose are very privileged to have the ArtsAlive Combined Schools Primary Band, Junior Sec-ondary Band and Combined Schools Choir coming to Belrose for a very relaxed concert. Performance Band will perform during the evening as well. More information will be available shortly. This is a great opportunity for all our students to see what can be achieved through hard work and practice. Thursday 3rd May (evening, time TBA) - Mrs Zorian has invited our Performance Band to “WOW” prospective parents at the Kindy 2019 Open Night. Thursday 10th May (evening, time TBA) - Training Band, Concert Band and Performance Band are all invited to perform at Bun-nings Belrose to celebrate Mother's Day. Bunnings are very generous and supportive of Belrose Public School and we need to show our thanks. We’re a little light on numbers to make Guitar Group viable. If you’d like your year 4,5 or 6 student to learn Guitar and haven’t let the Band Committee know please send an email to belroseband@hotmail.com We're also waiting on 17 notes from Training Band. If you don’t want to be “That Parent” please drop your Hire Agreement, Per-mission to Print Note etc in the Band Box located in the school office.

Andrew Fairclough www.belroseband.com.au

belroseband@hotmail.com

P & C News

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Another Successful Man Night

Last Friday night 50 Belrose public school dads made a great effort and attended man

night.

All dads from new kindergarten dads to the year 6 warriors

who haven’t missed one yet.

It was great to meet all the new dads that have just joined our

amazing school.

Everyone had a great time in watching the footy and having just

a couple of beers.

Lets not forget the amazing food.

In doing so Man night managed to raise $1250 for the P&C

Great work dads hope to see you all there next year.

Many Thanks Cameron