We had a visiting performance “Sharing Culture” yesterday and our visiting performer was Gwenda Stanley. By all accounts, the children thoroughly enjoyed the educational experience and it was pleasing to see the show was extremely well supported. Today, we had athletes represent the Toormina District at the Mid North Coast Cross Country. I’m sure all athletes ran well with results to be published next week. School photos will be taken on Tuesday. Please ensure your child is in full school uniform, including black shoes. Sibling envelopes are available from the front office. Instructional rounds continue next week with each stage conducting professional readings based around the quality teaching framework and will then apply principles of that framework to lesson observations in order to provide feedback to each other. This important professional learning enables our staff to collaborate on a regular basis as well as ensuring quality teaching occurs across our school. On Wednesday 1st June, I meet with our parent validation team to discuss our milestones and progress towards achieving our strategic directions. I will be able to share with you in next week’s newsletter how we are progressing as a school. We also have the coffee van on site Wednesday morning from 8.00am until 9.00am. Parents are more than welcome to come and have a free coffee and have a conversation. All staff will be available to chat with you on the day. Hope to see you here! The Musicale is approaching quickly! Tickets are available from Toormina High School. It would be great to see you all there! Children in Years 3 to 6 will have the opportunity to watch a matinee performance on Thursday 23rd June. Notes and money are to be returned to the front office. Enjoy the weekend. Brad Lyne - Principal

Keep Kids Safe: #parentscheckthecheck! Parents or carers who engage the services of a private tutor or coach have an important role to play in helping to keep their children safe. From 1st April 2016 adults who provide private tuition or coaching services to children will need to obtain a new Working With Children Check. The Certificate for Self Employed People will no longer be valid after their expiry date and the certificate holders will need to apply for a new Working With Children Check. Parents or carers should ask their child’s tutor or coach for their name, date of birth and their Working With Children Check number. They must then go online and verify the tutor or coach is not barred from working with children in NSW. Verifying that a tutor or coach can work with children is quick and easy – just follow the simple steps at www.kidsguardian.nsw.gov.au/parentscheckthecheck If you suspect that an adult is providing services to children without a Working With Children Check you can go online to make a confidential report or phone (02) 9286 7219. Help to keep kids safe by sharing #parentscheckthecheck with your family and friends through your own social media networks.

27th May, 2016 Term 2, Week 5

BOAMBEE BULLETIN Phone 6653 1107 ‘Achievement through Effort’ Fax 6658 2543

E-mail boambee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au BPS online www.boambee-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

“You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose” Dr Seuss

P&C Meeting You are invited to the next P&C meeting held on

Monday 6th June 2016 at Boambee Public School’s meeting room. Everyone in the school community is welcome to attend. We encourage

all parents/caregivers to come along.

Stage 3 Cake Stall Thank you to everyone who helped with our Stage 3 Fundraising on Tuesday. There were a lovely array of cakes that were gobbled up very quickly. We raised $393.50 to help with our excursion. Thank you! Staff Changes Mr Collier has gained a position at Mullaway and will be leaving us. We would like to wish Mr Collier all the best of luck in his new role. Mr Spencer will be our new General Assistant. He has been busy with our students making new raised garden beds. They look great!

ASSEMBLY Week 4 CLASS AWARDS Congratulations to the following students for their fantastic week at school.

KL Piper Thompson & Stephanie Gilman KD Flynn Townsend & Charlotte Jones KF Lucas Forsyth & Jessie Crossland KW Abigail Snape & Lucas Singleton 1G Stephanie Perry & Ivy Sothman 1A Lachlan Snape & Izabell Trebilcock 1W Chloe Paine & Isaac Ryan 2H Piper Howe & Bailey Roach-Maddock 2D Noah Corner & Shae Jackson 2S Sofia Zariquiey & Mokura Rutter 3/4D Harrison Stone & Jorja Barnes 3/4T Jack Gaulton & Joshua Jones 3/4F Chantelle Smith & Jesse St Leon 3/4J Tomoyo Ikehara & Larissa Smith 5/6T Tyler Morris & Erin Krainik 5/6M Chloe Brown & Oscar Croak 5/6G Montana Anderson & Rogan Rixon

1W won the Gus Award at the last assembly.

Stage 1 Assembly Performance At last Friday’s assembly Stage 1 performed a song made famous by Vanessa Amarossi,“Absolutely Everybody”. The song encourages us to do our Boambee BEST and show respect to others. It reminds us that “everybody breathes, everybody bleeds and everybody needs a little lovin’!”

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Making our Gardens Beautiful This week Mrs Bullivant had some wonderful helpers plant some franjipani offcuts in the garden. Mr McGowan was also very busy with his crew tidying up the gardens.

Medication at School If your child requires any medication at school please call by the school front office to discuss your child’s requirements. Panadol is not administered by our staff unless prescribed by a doctor for a health condition. All medication at school must be labelled from the pharmacy with the child’s name and dosage. We also require the parent/caregiver to fill in documentation prior to us administering the medication. Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.

Year 1 and 2 Gymnastics This program is starting this Thursday. The cost is only

$10.00 each for the five week program. If you have not paid

for this yet, please make payment before Thursday.

Year 5 and 6 Sydney Excursion All Year 5 and 6 students who will be attending this excursion should have paid $200.00 in total by today. The next instalment of $100.00 is due to be paid by Friday 1st July 2016. You may make instalments of any amount, anytime. You may pay by cash, cheque, credit card or by our online services through the school website or our skoolbag app. Thank you for your payments.

School Photos this Tuesday 31st May 2016 This year Advanced Life Photography will be taking our school photos. One envelope for each child. It is vital that each child returns their own envelope, even if the payment is enclosed in a siblings envelope. If you need a family envelope please see the front office. Please return envelopes with correct money inside by Monday 30th May 2016 (no change will be given as the envelopes are processed by Advanced Life Photography). Uniform News This week the uniform shop will be open on Monday from 9.00am until 10.30am. If your child needs a new school shirt for the upcoming photos they will be at a cost of $19.00 each for sizes 4 to 16 and $21.00 each for small to adult sizes.

Bingo Eyes down at the Coffs Ex Services Club every Tuesday from 7.00pm. Please come along and have some Bingo fun. Vicki Totzl and Ann Beynon will be the organisers on 31st May 2016.

Canteen News Please remember a separate bag for your drink when ordering lunch. If you would like to volunteer at the canteen please phone or text Leanne on 0427 686 291. Canteen Roster Wed 1 June Leanne Krainik & Kylie Welsh Thus 2 June Allison Main & Veronica Richards Fri 3 June Susan Dean-Hickey, Ellen Davis & Donna Nash

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2017 Kinder Enrolments From the 14th June 2016 we will be starting our

enrolment process for Kindergarten 2017. In preparation, if you have a child that will be starting school next year

please make sure you have their Birth Certificate, Immunisation Statement from Medicare and proof of

address.

Important Dates 31.05.16 School Photos 01.06.16 ICAS Science 01.06.16 Coffee Van 02.06.16 Year 1 & 2 Gymnastics 03.06.16 Assembly 1.00pm (Early Stage 1) 06.06.16 P&C Meeting 13.06.16 Queens Birthday Public Holiday 14.06.16 Kinder 2017 Enrolments commence 20.06.16 to 24.06.16 Musicale “Take The Leap”

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“Sharing Culture”