Berrigan Public School

‘The Bell Ringer’

Wednesday 29th May 2019

Principal: Dorothy Dore email: berrigan-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

It has been a particularly busy couple of weeks with many and varied school activities happening.

GRIP Leadership Conference – Year 6 students travelled to Albury for this leadership experience. Upper

primary students play an important role in the leadership of their school and after this leadership experi-

ence students should have a clearer vision, a solid understanding and dozens of ideas for their time as

leaders.

Lions Public Speaking – earlier this week selected students from Berrigan PS and St Columbus delivered

their presentations to the panel of judges. I was very impressed at the standard of students’ presentations,

delivered clearly, confidently and expressively. Well done to Lucy, Tom from Yr3/4 and Jessica, Mia and

Lachie form Yr 5/6 and to Lucy and Jessica who will now move to the next level in this competition.

Paul Kelly Cup – this 12 a side competition was run in Deni early last week. The JeriBerriO team won two of

their games in the round robin competition but their luck ran out in the semi final when they were beaten

by a combined Deni/Hay team.

Tony Lockett Shield – JeriBerriOs v Finley PS It was a bitterly cold morning and the students from Berrigan,

Oaklands, Jerilderie and Mulwala played a competitive game in great spirit. They didn’t win the game but

held the opposition to 5 goals in the windy conditions. The team was outplayed and outsized and a couple

of early injuries didn’t help! Great effort!

DrumBeat – Wednesday afternoons is significant for the rumble of drums! The beat of the drum signifies a

re-connection with self and the interconnection with others. We look forward to sharing a drumming per-

formance with the school community later in the term .

National Simultaneous Storytime – K/1 students enjoyed Alpacas with Maracas at the town library last

week. This is the 19th year of this national event celebrating Australian authors/illustrators and encourag-

ing a love of literacy.

Tony Lockett Shield—JeriBerriOs

Variation to travel routines (after school)

To save confusion for staff at the end of the day, any variations to usual travel routines must be communicated

to the school via a signed note or by ringing the front office. At times some students try to persuade staff that

they are allowed to walk home even though their usual practice is to catch the bus. We have a duty of care for

your children and the usual routines will be adhered to unless we have received notification otherwise.

Finley District PSSA Cross Country

This sporting event is happening this Friday 31st May at the Urana Aquatic Centre. The bus departs the school

at 9:00am sharp, the BPS team is managed by Mrs Arnold. We wish all of the students representing BPS all the

best – run well and give it your very best effort!

Alice@Wonderland

The students are busily polishing their performances for the whole school musical performance of Al-

ice@Wonderland. Please mark your calendars for Wednesday 19th June and join us for this creative arts ex-

perience at the Berrigan Town Hall

Breakfast Program

We have been cooking up a storm each morning – at this stage toast and vegemite is on offer from 8:30am.

Thanks to Jono for getting this up and going again. The Berrigan Bakery has generously donated bread and the

Lions Club has passed on goods sourced from the Moira Food Bank which we can add to the breakfast menu –

cereal, porridge, milk, baked beans, spaghetti and tinned fruit.

Breakfast is possibly the most important meal of the day and certainly has a huge impact on concentration lev-

els in the classroom first thing in the morning. Eating breakfast every day is “positively associated with im-

proved school performance.”

Lions Public Speaking—participants and winners

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P&C News

A belated welcome to our new principal Mrs Dore, we hope you are resettling well into life at BPS!!

Raffle tickets are going out today. Prizes include a JVC Sound bar and 4 in 1 games table ( kindly donated by Tammy

Wilesmith and family) and 5 kg of Cadbury Chocolates!! Please return sold tickets by MONDAY 17 June .

Raffle will be drawn at our school play on Wednesday 19 th June

Our P&C will be catering for the Berrigan Football Clubs 125 year celebrations on Saturday 27th July . We will be asking for

donations of food and for people to assist on the night, more information to come in the next few wee ks!!