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N E W S L E T T E R

Week 8 Term 3 – 9 September 2020

Tell Them From Me Survey This term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.

Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements.

The survey is conducted entirely online which is accessible on a variety of devices. It typically takes 20 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey can be conducted from now until Term 4, Week 2 (Friday, 23 October 2020). We had a great response last year and the information collected was extremely valuable to the school. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.

To access the survey for our school go to: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/3mty7

P&C Meeting It was a short but positive P&C meeting on Monday night. With the current COVID restrictions, we held the meeting via Zoom. The main item on the agenda was the ‘I Want Art with That’ proposal. The proposal is focused on the goal to enhance learning in the Creative and Practical Arts at Bermagui Public School. Through this proposal, we look to broaden and enrich our students’ cultural life and experiences at school and to strengthen our school community. The proposal acknowledges the skills and dedication of our teachers and the P&C aims to support our school and teachers to benefit all students. Educational Leadership is an area our school is striving to improve. This includes the themes of Instructional Leadership, High Expectations Culture, Performance Management and Development and Community Engagement. I see this collaboration with our community to further strengthen Bermagui Public School into the future.

Leading Evidence, Evaluation and Data project Yesterday Mrs Roche and myself engaged in the second day of the Leading Evidence, Evaluation and Data project to assist with our school’s situational analysis. This will support schools to identify their needs and enable us to target areas of improvement through capability building and tailored support. The situational analysis will support schools in understanding which evidence informed practices might be prioritised for deeper implementation. This will also include support in data analysis, evidence informed practices and evaluative thinking. Brendan Constable – Principal

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING

SPOTLIGHT

HONOUR CARDS

Congratulations

to our Honour

Card recipients

Anna Sofia and

Charlotte

Congratulations to our last week’s award recipients:

Otto, Matilda W, Jesse, Sienna, Ruby, Bella J, Liana, Isabella

G, Zoe H, Kelcee, Brooke, Khadeejah, Latarni, Kyan, James A,

Ali, Robbie, Issy V, Indi A, Sean, Stevie

and Aidan

DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR

25 Sep Last day of Term 3

12 Oct First day of Term 4 for students & staff

16 Dec Last day of Term 4 for students

LITERACY NEWS This week, students in Year 1 to

Year 6 will be focusing on the

graphemes for the sound box

below. The extended sound box

shows them more ways to

represent the weekly phonemes.

Sound Box

Extended Sound

Box

The Principal and staff

would like to congratulate

the following children who

received Merit awards on

Friday, 4 September.

K/1GC

GUBIDJA GURGADJ /

LITTLE FROG

Jacob

James BT

Sasha

Oliver

Otto

Quinn

1R

BADHA / WATERHOLE

Cooper

Hollie

Charlotte

Charlie H

2M

BIRDHUULAY / BANDICOOT

Millie C

Isabella G

Luke

Jake

3/4L

DURAYA / RIVER

Brooke

Lily

Michael

Catherine O

3/4S

BANA / RAIN

Sean

Zoe K-S

Shia

Issy V

5/6G

DJAGULA / LYREBIRD

Elijah

Annabel

Sunny

Levi

5/6MS

GUNJU / BLACK SWAN

Felix

Bella I

Latarni

Raphael

MERIT AWARDS

K/1GK GUBIDJA GURGADJ - PIZZA MAKING

PLASTIC LIDS

Many thanks to all those families who contributed

plastic lids for our STEM activities. They are much

appreciated. We now have plenty. Many thanks

also to Central Tilba school who donated a huge

number to our school. Ms Daly

The Kinder / Year 1 class are learning to write informative texts in the form of a procedure. Today they learnt the steps in making their own pizza.

• Step 1 make the pizza base

• Step 2 spread the tomato paste over the base

• Step 3 sprinkle your desired toppings

• Step 4 bake it in the oven

• Step 5 enjoy eating your pizza

On Friday the students will reflect on the cooking session, view the photos and videos of the steps involved and write their own recipe procedure.

Classes Resuming Soon!

Gymnastics and Trampolining classes will resume from Monday, 12 October (the beginning of term 4).

Beginners Gymnastics - Wednesday 3.30-4.30pm (Kinder and year 1)

Trampolining - Mondays 3.30-4.30pm and Wednesdays 4.30-5.30pm

Girls Gymnastics - Monday 4.30-6pm (year 1 and above) and Tuesday 3.30-5pm (year 1 to year 4) and

Tuesday 5-6.30pm (year 5 and above)

Please let Ros know if you are returning for term 4 or would like to start any of the above classes. You can

email ros.jubb@gmail.com or SMS on 0432 779 702.

P&C NEWS

Last night we held a Zoom meeting which went well. Over the last month we have been discussing and meeting with the school about a P&C Arts proposal and last

night all attending members got to hear some feedback from Brendan and Rebecca. I will write an in-depth review of this next week for all interested parties.

We have been trying to streamline our uniform ordering process and we will be sending every family a note describing our new ordering system. This will be all done

through Tuff As Workwear in the near future but in the meantime please carefully check where the order goes. Please call me if you need ANY HELP!

Thanks, Esme Markwort - P&C President - 0408 571 149

CANTEEN NEWS VOLUNTEERS

Friday 11 Sep Beth & Michelle

Monday 14 Sep Annette

Thank you!

Sarah - Canteen Manager