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NEWSLETTER: 25 AUGUST 2016 - ISSUE 26

Our Vision: To create confident, passionate and curious learners who are highly literate and

numerate, have high expectations and are engaged in their community.

www.beps.vic.edu.au PLEASE NOTE: Children are supervised at school between 8.45am and 3.45pm each school day. They should not be on school

grounds outside those times. If you require your child to be supervised outside those times they need to be at OSHC.

Phone: 9387 3361, 9387 5707;

Fax: 9388 1949; OSHC Phone: 9387 2631

Email: brunswick.east.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

TERM DATES: 2016

Term 3: July 11 to September 16

Term 4: October 3 to December 20

Next Friday Market: Friday 26th August (Su Nei Cieli )

Friday Market Dates.docx

BEPS Calendar includes term dates

Next Friday Market

From Janet: Do you have a child starting school in 2017?

Please enrol ASAP to secure a place.

BEPS Community Events

Community Ads

From Janet Hi Everyone,

I am so sorry not to get this written last week. It was just one of those weeks where so much

was going on that it makes my head spin just thinking about it. We had visitors from New

Zealand and locally come to look at BEPS, regional meetings and much more. However, the

last two weeks have been very productive and I want to take the time this week to tell you

about some of the things that are going on and celebrate our successes.

Child Safety As you know BEPS is committed to child safety. In the wake of the Betrayal of Trust findings I

want to reiterate to you that we as a community want children to be safe, happy and

empowered. We support and respect all children, as well as our staff and volunteers. There is

zero tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be treated very

seriously and consistently. We already have policies and processes in place to protect the

care, safety and welfare of children. However, we have now reviewed, strengthened and in

some case written policies and procedures to ensure that we meet our legal and moral

obligations to contact authorities when we are worried about a child’s safety and ensure a

zero tolerance approach to child abuse We will follow these rigorously. As policies are ratified

at school council, they will be made available to you through the newsletter and on our web

page.

BEPS is committed to preventing child abuse and identifying risks early, and removing and

reducing these risks. We have robust human resources and recruitment practices for all staff

and volunteers. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, the cultural

safety of children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a

safe environment for children with a disability. Brunswick East Primary School has specific

policies, procedures and training in places that support our leadership team, staff and

volunteers to achieve these commitments.

There will be clear boundaries about how adults in our school community may interact with

the children here, set out in our school’s Child Safe Code of Conduct. This will be made

available when school council ratifies it at school council.

The child safe standards apply to all school staff (including volunteers and contractors),

visitors and students’ family members.

Keeping children safe is everyone’s responsibility.

I want you to know that all unsupervised contractors and instrumental music teachers have a

Working With Children check as a condition of working with us and all parents/guardians who

go on excursions are required to have a WWC check. Can I please remind all parents who

come in and help in the LCs that we also require you to get a WWW check, bring it in to

school so that we can keep a copy. You can apply on line at

http://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/ and remember that it is free for volunteers.

Additional help We all know that the world is a beautiful place that is full of adventure and fun, but it can also

be quite messy and scary sometimes. Childhood can be a difficult and challenging time for

some students. There are so many experiences to navigate and sooooo much to learn.

Numeracy and Literacy are just 2 areas in which we need to learn. However, there are

numerous social and emotional skills we need to navigate and learn.

BEPS is in the fortunate position of being able to offer extra support, in addition to our Ed Psyc

(Peter) and Speech Therapist (Charmaine), to help students deal with these challenges and if

necessary linking them to specialist staff.

BEPS is lucky to have Kim, a Masters of Counselling student at Monash University, with

us at the moment. Kim holds a Bachelors of Psychology from Melbourne University and

is a certified Applied Behaviour Analysis therapist with Autism Behavioural Intervention

Australia.

Kim will be working with 123 students to help them in developing their social skills

through Play Therapy, Music Therapy and Art Therapy.

onPsych services offers services to students and their families at school, at no cost,

under the GP Health Plan. This service utilises qualified professionals and will entitle the

student/family member to a maximum of 10 sessions per year with the psychologist/

social worker. If you have concerns about your child’s anxiety, behaviour, depression,

stress, managing anger……… onPsych offers individual or group skills training sessions.

Please contact your LC teachers or myself and we will inform you how to contact

onPsych as soon as possible.

Student Attitude to School Survey

The results of this survey have come back and it is really pleasing to see the improvement

in all area of student attitudes, particularly in the areas of:

school safety - BEPS is at the 93rd percentile. This means that according to our

students we are in the top 10% for student safety for all schools in Victoria (State,

Independent and Catholic). This is a fantastic improvement and I thank the staff

for their commitment to making BEPS a safe school, to the Junior School Council

for their work at assemblies and to the students for their improved behaviour and

care of others in the yard.

student motivation and engaging teaching – which we attribute to our

improvement in digital learning and the Tinker Lab.

Maths Talent Quest

Well the results have come back and they are outstanding! We all need to celebrate the

success of all our Mathematicians and the fantastic effort they put in to their MTQ projects

and the tremendous results the groups have achieved. It will now be a difficult decision as to

how to get so many students to the award ceremony. Please read the news from Bicicletta

below.

NAPLAN results are here and again show good results for student’s numeracy and literacy.

We had a fantastic participation rate.

Please remember that you need to pick up the results for your child only. If you want your

child to pick up the results then please write a note allowing them to pick it up.

Remember if you have any questions about the results please ask and above all remember

that they are one result on one day.

Janet

A friendly Reminder: Thankyou to all families for handing in the concert rehearsal forms:

There are still some outstanding so please return to school with payment

as soon as possible:

Thankyou

Office staff

Bicicletta’s Big News

We have some exciting news for today…

“Maths games. Maths puzzles. Everything maths.”

In today’s news we will be talking about MTQ.

There has been some outstanding news in the Australian Maths Talent Quest competition.

There’s a lot of maths in the world but where to look?

There’s a disease of competitive action spreading across public schools full of math and

prizes.

The MTQ or as schools know it Maths Talent Quest is a contest of design and creativity and

math talents. This has spread over Brunswick East with the scores of encouragement, credit,

distinction and high distinction. As we venture into Brunswick East Primary 15 games have

been made…

If you don’t know what MTQ is then this is the thing for you to read…

OK well, MTQ stands for Maths Talent Quest. MTQ is where schools enter a big or small maths

project. You have to create maths things or answer a big maths question.

We had about 12 weeks to do it. You then have to send your project off to the Maths

Association of Victoria to be tested. After a few weeks they come back and tell you your

results and give you feedback on your work.

Now you know what MTQ is, lets talk about what we did…

“What we did was make a game with as much maths as we could put in it and we put a lot

of maths in it.”

“We did it to improve on our maths.”

“In Bicicletta we have been doing MTQ

The fun thing is we did cool maths games.

There were 15 games.”

Our MTQ was making games.

We played some games ourselves. We then made a game all together.

That game making was so fun.

Then we made our own games using maths to make boards and characters and cards.

We made powerpoints to explain how we did everything.

It was mostly (obviously) in Bicicletta and not so obviously in the library. Because in term 2 the

library became the tinker lab - a highly advanced centre for BEPS.

Bicicletta started with some brainstorming and playing lots of games, then we did lots of

designing and thought about what we could include in our games. We were really trying to

figure out what made a good maths game.

We started designing our boards and the pieces and had to do lots of reflecting and also

create a logo.

We started in term two and our MTQ sessions flew like a single click of your fingers. Next thing

you knew it, it was term 3, by then we were on fire! All the teachers were about to die with

stress.

Sometimes it was hard working in a group too.

We had just found a new system for the pieces and then we were done!

We did it not to win, but to have fun, to learn and to play.

Next thing on a completely random afternoon during the roll Chiara stops us and said:

“I’ve just read the most exciting email!”

We all go silent, then Chiara reads:

“We’ve just won the high distinction award for our MTQ!”

We all suddenly erupted with excitement!!

She thought it was so exciting she interrupted the roll and she told us that we had got a high

distinction in MTQ!

It was awesome.

We all feel so happy because we worked so hard,

MULTIVERSE

SCHOOL CONCERT INFORMATION

The concert will run from 7.00-8.15pm. The doors will open at 6.30pm with pre-concert

entertainment as you are being seated. All students will be required at Brunswick Secondary

gym by 6.15pm.

Tickets

Please buy your tickets through the Try booking by 31st of August. If you are unable to buy

online, remaining tickets will be on sale at school from 3.30-4.30pm at the School office on the

day of the concert. There is no longer a 4-limit ticket per family.

Buy Tickets here: https://www.trybooking.com/MPKT

Adult Seat - $25

Adult Floor - $20

Student/Concession card holder - $10

Child under 5 – Free

Concert tickets will be sent home with students on Wednesday August 31.

Full Dress Rehearsal

On Wednesday the 31st of August students will dress up in full costume and perform their

concert item at School in the hall. Students will require their costumes at school on this day.

Parent’s helpers may be required to assist with face paint, LC teachers will send out

information in regards to this.

Tech Rehearsal

On Thursday 1st of September the whole school will catch buses to Brunswick Secondary for a

technical rehearsal. They will depart school at 9.30am and return to school at approximately

2.00pm. Students will need to bring a snack, drink bottle and their lunch. There are no lunch

orders this day.

Performance Time

Students will be required at Brunswick Secondary in full costume from 6.15pm to meet with

their LCs, prepare and be seated ready for the commencement of the concert at 7pm. The

doors will open for the audience at 6.30pm.

From 6.30-7pm there will be performances by the Junior & Senior Choir and bands while the

audience is being seated.

The performance will run until approximately from 7.00pm-8.15pm. Students will be dismissed

at the end of the evening.

Parking & finding the Venue

Parking is available in the school car park off Dawson St between Brunswick Secondary and

RMIT. There is also parking available in the streets around the school.

All gates will be open to the school and signage will be placed to help direct you to the gym.

Below is an image of the gym; the entrance is located next to the hockey field.

CHECK THE CHOOKS

Weekends and school holiday slots available.

Email the girls with your availability at:

bepschooks@gmail.com

You will receive a confirmation of your roster time and can

check the chook roster calendar for dates.

All the care details are on the Beps website

(link from Buildings and Grounds page).

https://sites.google.com/site/bepschookroster/

If you’re lucky there’s an egg or 2 in it – they’ve just started laying.

Thanks for helping! And Enjoy!

REQUEST FOR PARENTS TO USE QKR, BPAY OR CREDIT/EFTPOS CARDS

Dear Parent/Guardian, In our endeavour to reduce cash handling and to move with common money handling practices today, we ask that you please use the following methods for paying money to the school.

ALL OSHC PAYMENTS SHOULD BE PAID THROUGH THE QKR APP (please speak to Rena at OSHC for instructions and assistance).

ALL other payments of fees including excursions/camps, swimming and athletics should be paid via BPay OR with Credit/Eftpos card at the school office. This is the most effective way to make payments to the school.

BPay is easy and a secure way to pay the school. Money is transferred directly into the school bank account and is tagged to your student’s fees. Credit/Eftpos card payments are made at the office and we can identify immediately who and what the payment is for. Each morning the school office receives a report of any payments made through our school’s BPay facility and our Credit/Eftpos machine. Office staff will then credit the individual student’s account with the fees paid. To use BPay:

In anticipation, thank you for your support of the preferred BEPS Parent Payment Options, using BPay and Credit/Eftpos card. ALSO, thank you for using QKR for payments for OSHC fees. It is much appreciated. Regards, Janet Di Pilla Principal

BuildingsGro

undsCommittee News

Working Bee

THIS SUNDAY!

weeding

digging

community PIZZAfixing

socialising

10-2pm

&

Jobs Include:

• Kitchen Garden make over: New K.G. teacher

Ange needs some help getting it into shape

• Nicholson St Fence nooks: Prepare garden beds

for planting

• Long jump: Install edging for a longjump pit

• Planting: Our latest batch of Trees4BEPS trees

Bring kids & b

ikes, gloves &

waterbottle

Friday Market Dates:

TERM 3 2016

August 26: Su Nei Cieli

September 2: Father’s Day

September 9: Orizzonte

September 16: No Market Last day Term 2

STUDENT FREE DAYS 2016

Monday 31st OCTOBER

Monday 19th DECEMBER

BEPS Community Events

LAST CRAFTING WEEKEND for

Father's Day Market -

Wednesday August 31st 2016 BEPS MAKERS invite you to:

Come & get crafty at the last of our

Father’s Day crafting days:

Sunday August 28, Open Craft Day,

10.00am - 2.00pm We still need a bunch more stock so we have

& NOT

Come along for the morning, afternoon, or just an hour and make something to contribute

to the Father's Day stall.

If you've got a craft idea to share, email BEPSMAKERS@gmail.com.

We’ve still got plenty of :

Comic Book Craft

Cards / Bookmarks etc..

Pots For Painting/Decorating Rosemary & other cuttings to go need a lick of paint on their pots

Mugs for Decorating Cuppa holders for Dad / Grandpa / Uncle / Friend

&

Please RSVP to bepsmakers@gmail.com so Kelly can arrange materials, otherwise just drop

by on the day.

Kids welcome with supervision.

BEPS - Community Events Team

CALLING ALL BAKERS

For the

BEPS Father’s Day Stall Wednesday 31st August

We need your help! This year we are aiming to have

600+ baked items contributed to the Father’s Day gift stall.

Think things that will travel well and last the

distance like novelty iced biscuits, slice, brownies, protein balls, preserves, nuts...

Packs with all your packaging needs will be available from the foyer in the weeks leading up to the stall and prepared items will need to be dropped packaged and

labelled to the Parents/Art room kitchen by the morning of Tuesday 30th August.

Questions or keen to help? Email bepsmakers@gmail.com

SAVE THE DATE

Friday 25 November 3.30pm to 8pm

Our Twilight Market is a huge festival of fun for kids and grown-ups.

Why not leave work early or take the day off? Invite your friends and family to come too. We want the entire BEPS community to join in, lend a hand and have fun together.

Beer, toys, postcards, publicity – help needed Lots of people have volunteered to help with the Twilight Market – thank you – but we still need people to join the team in a range of roles: as Team Leaders for the beer stall and the Kids Café (starting in last week of Term 3); as collectors to help sort second-hand book and toy donations (Oct/Nov); a publicity coordinator to work through our list of free ‘what’s on’ listings and websites (Oct); as postcard distributors (letterboxing) in November; plus a range of small jobs that can be done at home or at school. Please get in touch! Email: twilightmarket2016@gmail.com

The Twilight Market is our biggest fundraiser of the year and is run by volunteer BEPS parents/carers. The 2016 organising crew includes: Kate Jeffrey, Cate O’Neill, Anthony Alembakis, Jane Agius, Jane Kemelfield, Libby Smith, Helen McDonald, Susi Allender and Clare Barry, with support from many others in discrete roles. A BIG THANKS to Jenni Wanigasekera for help seeking raffle prizes this month.

Community Ads

The Moreland School Holiday program information and enrolment forms will be

available for the September 2016 School Holiday Program from Friday 5 August 2016, 5pm, bookings will close on Friday 19 August 2016.

Our existing families are able to make a booking via our online booking system using the casual booking option on https://www.qkenhanced.com.au/external/

New families to our program are able to contact us on sd-schoolholidayprogram@moreland.vic.gov.au and we will assist with setting up an online profile

For those wanting to use a hard copy Forms are available from:

Local Primary Schools in the municipality;

Council’s website and;

Citizens Services Centres – Monday to Friday between 8.30 am to 5.00 pm. o Coburg Offices, 90 Bell Street, Coburg o Brunswick Offices, 233 Sydney Road, and o Glenroy, 796N Pascoe Vale Road, Glenroy

If you have difficulty accessing the information and enrolment forms or general queries, please contact Council on Ph: 9240 1111. Thanks and regards Mena Matheas &Shanel Di Salle

School Holiday Program Officer Moreland City Council 90 Bell Street, Coburg 3058 | Locked Bag 10, Moreland 3058 9240 2427 mmatheas@moreland.vic.gov.au

Mena: Monday to Wednesday 9.30am to 5pm Shanel: Wednesday to Friday 9.30am to 5pm