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Newsletter Term 3 - Week 8 , 9 September 2020

Bilambil Road, BILAMBIL NSW 2486 . 07 5590 7210 . [email protected] . Bilambil-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Social Media Issues Late yesterday afternoon, our school was alerted to disturbing content circulating via social media

platforms in the wider community, which included Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram and other social

media feeds, that many of our young people are using. The eSafety Commission is aware of distressing

reports about a video of a suicide circulating social media platforms. eSafety has contacted social

media companies about the reports and will continue working with them to monitor the situation.

The eSafety Commission has asked that Schools exercise discretion in communication about this

incident to students, parents, staff and communities as drawing undue attention to the issue may

cause unnecessary worry or distress and increase exposure. Please avoid the urge of asking your

children if they have seen the video as this will often result in them searching for it online.

We have considerable cybersecurity attached to our school network, so your child/ren’s supervised

online activities are safe while they happen here at school. However, online activities that occur out of

school hours can often impact adversely on relationships between peers and the implications for our

school environment. I ask parents to be wary of your child’s involvement with social media sites. It is my

understanding that to be eligible for an account with Facebook/Snapchat/Tik Tok/Instagram, users

must be older than 13 years of age. I assume that parents are aware of their child’s membership to

such sites if they are members. With the increase in cyberbullying and online predators, I urge parents

to be involved with your child’s online “adventures”. Know who they are communicating with and the

details they are passing on.

If you need support or have questions, some of the following may be of help:

People who encounter this content are encouraged to report it to the social media platform they’ve

seen it on, or to eSafety at www.esafety.gov.au/report/illegal-harmful-content.

• If a life is in danger call Triple Zero (000) right now.

• Please encourage anyone who may be at risk or experiencing emotional distress, including worried

family and friends, to contact one of the following services:

Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800. Phone support is there all day, every day. Online support is open from

8am-midnight every day (AEST)

Suicide Callback Service 1300 659 467. Phone support all day,

every day, and follow-up calls.

eHeadspace 1800 650 890. Open 9am-1am daily (AEST).

Lifeline 13 11 14. Phone support all day, every day. Online

support 7pm-4am daily (AEST).

Beyondblue 1300 22 4636. Phone support all day, every day.

Online support 3pm-midnight every day.

Please also note that I have recently been in discussion with the Safe

On Social group to provide practical support and ideas for our

students and community members. Details of this activity for us here

at school will be forthcoming in due course. Thank you for your

support as we work together to keep our young people and

community safe.

Life online works better when people maintain good manners and

treat each other as they'd like to be treated. Talk about this with

your child and it may lead to a decline in bullying behaviour and

disagreements that children have. More safety tips can be found at

https://www.esafety.gov.au/

Gold Award Winner!! Congratulations to Mason who was our very first GOLD award

winner last Friday!! What a great achievement!

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.esafety.gov.au/report/illegal-harmful-content

https://www.esafety.gov.au/

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Term 3 Weeks 6 & 7

KH Van - Outstanding improvement with his reading

KT Eden - Being a focussed learner this week

Adelaide - Being a kind and compassionate friend

K/1B Samara - Always trying her best in everything

Lucas - Great work in MiniLit

1/2B Lily - Positive mindset

Summer - Positive mindset

1/2C Bodhie - Improved handwriting

Heath - Positive attitude towards learning

1/2H Akira - Thorough explanation of his mathematical

thinking

Ahriel - Always pushing herself with her learning and

her goals

1/2P Charlie - Always has a positive attitude

Jackson - Focussed preparation for public speaking

3/4C Seth - A wonderful speech

Jesse - Always doing his best in the classroom

3/4S Izaiah - Great work in speeches

Lylah - Caring attitude towards others

3/4T Jade - Improvement in focus and effort

Luke - Insightful input into class discussions

Ellidy - Courage and determination

4/5V Michael - Researching and drafting a well-structured

speech

5/6B Mia - Being a fantastic leader and role model

Lilli - Active participation in class discussions

5/6E Thomas - Demonstrating resilience and perseverance

5/6S Serenity - Consistent work ethic across all subjects

Tamsyn - Being a fantastic helper and organiser

LIBRARY Georgia KH - Consistently bringing her library bag and

borrowing from the bilrary

MUSIC Kadey 1/2P - Wonderful score reading in percussion

Daniel 3/4C - Great improvisation in Drama!


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Rainbow Colours

Dress-Up Day for our

Buddy Bench This Friday, 11 September, is

our SRC Rainbow Colours

Dress Up Day to help raise

awareness and a fundraiser

for our buddy bench. Students

have been invited to dress up

in rainbow colours for a gold

coin donation and also to

participate in a design

competition to make our

Buddy Bench look better. I

thank the SRC for doing a

great job to enhance this

program in our school. Our

Buddy Bench is a seating

space students can go to if

they don’t have anyone to

play with, and when other

students notice someone

sitting on it, they invite those

sitting to come and join in on

their games. Bilambil PS is a

beautifully inclusive space,

where students seem very

positively engaged with many

friends in the playgrounds and

in our classrooms. The Buddy

Bench is a nice space.

Thank you to all students who

have been busy designing.

The lucky winner will be

announced on Friday .

Good luck and be colourful.

Amy Calleja

SRC Coordinator

The Multicultural Perspectives Speaking

Competition - Congratulations to our Stage 2 students,

Sophia 3/4T and Eve 4/5V for competing in the Multicultural

Perspectives Speaking Competition! This is an annual competition

that is open for all students from Stage 2 and Stage 3. Both girls have

worked very hard to write and perform a speech, have it videoed

and sent to the Department as part of a National competition. I am

very proud of them both, they each performed compassionate

speeches addressing racism in our country in a confident and

composed manner. Good Luck girls!

Donna McGlinn - Teacher




Beginning Teachers Professional Placement We are lucky enough to welcome Mrs Aylin Baydar into our

school. Mrs Baydar is a beginning teacher in her third year of

teaching studies at Southern Cross University and will be working

in 1/2P with Miss Ninness and Mrs Preston for the next 2 weeks

and then again for 5 weeks next term.

Interrelate Program for Stage 3 Please be aware for students in Years 5/6 that we had the Inter-

relate program commence this week and that it will run for the

next two weeks. Parents of the children involved may need to

be prepared to engage in discussion about growth and devel-

opment around puberty. Please note that sessions are delivered

by trained professionals from Interrelate.

Gymnastics for Sporting Grants We are very excited to have Springloaded from Banora Point

coming into our school during the next two weeks to run a 3 ses-

sion gymnastics program for every class in our school, following

our successful application for a Sporting Schools grant. Teachers

will let students know the days and times for their sessions. Stu-

dents are encouraged to wear appropriate footwear and their

sport uniform on these days.

Athletics Carnival Re-boot As we had to cancel the Colour Run for the last day of term, we

have re-scheduled our running events only Athletics Carnival for

this day, Friday 25 September. It will be a good way to end our

Term 3! More details to come from Mr Touzell and the organising

team.

Kiss and Drop School Pickup Zone Our earlier Kiss and Drop zone pick up time seems to be working

to ease some of the congestion. Parents are reminded of the

following:

Parents with students in Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2, can

arrive to pick up their kids from 2.30pm, as well as older siblings.

Parents with children in Years 3/4/5/6 only are asked to arrive

for pick up after 2.45pm.

1/2B Eager Father’s Day Shoppers

Pirate Fun Day Ahoy me landlubbing

hearties!! Advance warning

that International Talk Like A

Pirate Day is coming up, and

we will have a dress up day on

Thursday 24 September. We

are planning for some fun with

the lingo and I’ll be

threatening a few of the kids

with making them walk the

plank, while they deliver their

very best impressions of

“Aaaarrrgghh!”. The kids will

have a fun time in class with

lots of activities to finish off the

term. It is also a fun food day

for our canteen so the kids

can avoid getting scurvy!!

Details to follow from Danelle

in the canteen. We hope to

see everyone in Pirate clothing

(I have asked them to check

with a parent before they go

tearing up their clothes!!) but

the kids can come in sensible

sun-safe mufti if they prefer.

Let’s finish the term off in a

great way before going on

holidays. So get your pirate

gear on and hoist the

mainsails, ya scurvy dogs!!!!!




3/4S have been working with money developing their life skills.

We have also been studying Australian history through the eyes

of children based on the book “My Place”.

“Boggle” is a fun class activity in our literacy groups.




Too much hard work




BRONZE WARD

Term 3

Weeks 6 & 7 3/4C Abbey

4/5V Elyana

5/6B Evie

5/6E Jack, Isabella

SILVER AWARD

Term 3

Weeks 6 & 7

KT Maverick, Skye

K/1B Lexi, Myles

1/2B Tel

1/2C June, Olivia P, Olivia R,

Talei

1/2P Maui, Juni

3/4C Dean, Azarliah, Daniel,

Hayley, Gypsy

3/4T Sophia,Ellidy

5/6B Lily, Mia, Jake

5/6E Georgie, Aleigha

5/6S Lara, Serenity

GOLD AWARD

Term 3

Weeks 6 & 7

KH Mason

UP AND COMING EVENTS TERM 3 2020

School items P&C Items

TERM 3 WEEK 8

Wednesday 9 September • Canteen Open

• Newsletter

• Yr 6 Debating v Banora Pt PS

Thursday 10 September • Canteen Open

• Book Club Due

Friday 11 September • Canteen Open

• SRC Rainbow Dress Up Day

TERM 3 WEEK 9

Monday 14 September • Canteen Sushi Day

• Interrelate Year 5 & 6

Tuesday 15 September • CANTEEN CLOSED

• Student School Banking




• Stage 3 Careers Major Project &

Expo


• Science Day

TERM 3 WEEK 10

Monday 21 September • Canteen Sushi Day


Tuesday 22 September • CANTEEN CLOSED






• Athletics Carnival

• Last Day of Term 3 for students

Happy Holidays

TERM 4 WEEK 1

Monday 12 October • School resumes to commence

Term 4

• Canteen Sushi Day

Tuesday 13 October • CANTEEN CLOSED


Wednesday 14 October • Canteen Open

Thursday 15 October • Canteen Open

Friday 16 October • Canteen Open

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NSW Premier’s Sporting Challenge This term we are participating in the NSW Premier’s Sporting

Challenge. The purpose of the challenge is to encourage

students to participate in sport and physical activity to lead a

healthy lifestyle.

We began in Week 6, (Monday 24 August 2020) and all classes

are monitoring physical activity levels during class time, at

recess and lunch as well as during sport lessons. Physical activity

outside school hours also counts towards the Challenge award.

The aim is to work towards an average at least 60 minutes of

activity a day for ten weeks. Our school will be working towards

a class-based award for K-2 students and an individual student

award for Years 3-6, at the conclusion of the Challenge. We

are also very excited to announce that we have Student

Ambassadors for the first time. Our school leaders George,

Mia, Rigby and Hannah will be taking on this responsibility,

which includes visiting classrooms weekly and updating

physical activity data, promoting the challenge and

organising lunchtime activities.

We would like to invite families to support us in encouraging

students’ healthy use of leisure time and to experience the joy

of being active together. Physical activity is valued for its

physical, social and emotional benefits. It also helps young

people to develop communication skills, confidence and

resilience.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the

Challenge, please contact Mrs Butler who will

be pleased to talk further with you.

Sharon Butler

Assistant Principal

Science Day On Friday 18 September, 2020 (Week 9), Bilambil Public School

will be holding a Science Day for the entire school. The day will

consist of rotational activities for each class to participate in

and will showcase the fields of PHYSICS, BIOLOGY and

CHEMISTRY.

Students will have the opportunity to explore biology by using

microscopes to investigate micro organisms, observe and

interact in chemistry demonstrations with a

variety of safe substances and learn about the

integrity of built structures through physics.

It will be a great day!

Thank you,

Ryan Thomas

Anthony Touzell

Zane Vockler

Co-ordinating Teachers

Stage 3 Careers

Major Project & Expo

Dear Parents/Carers,

Stage 3 students are currently

participating in ‘Become Me’

which is a careers program

that provides students the

opportunity to investigate a

career path that they are

interested in. To complement

this learning, students have

been working at home on

their own personal careers

project.

The students will be presenting

and displaying their projects in

the school hall on Thursday, 17

September 2020( Week 9) for

students throughout the

school to view.

We look forward to seeing the

amazing work they have been

doing and learning about the

incredible range of careers

they have been exploring.

Analie Boland , Sharon Butler

Michelle Eddy, Mitch James

Ryan Thomas, Zane Vockler

Stage 3 Teachers

Debating Team Bilambil PS Year 6 debaters

consisting of Cael 5/6E, Tayla

5/6E, Jarah 5/6B and Hannah

5/6E, argued the affirmative

position in their second round

debate this morning

(Wednesday 9 September),

against Banora Point PS.

The topic was “That Years 5&6

kids should have to

cookdinner for their families

one night a week”.

They were narrowly defeated

in a very entertaining debate.

Michelle Eddy

Teacher




Thursday

10 September

Book Week Celebrations Due to COVID interruptions, Book Week has officially been moved to Week 2 Term 4.

Bilambil Public School will be celebrating Book Week in a variety of ways including a parade on

Thursday, 22 October 2020.

More information will be sent home closer to the date. In the mean time, start planning what

Curious Creature you might come dressed up as!

Karen Baird

Assistant Principal

A huge thank you to everyone

for their donation of books and

participation in The Great Book

Swap. It was fantastic to see so

many children excited to buy

books and then enjoy reading

with students from 5/6E . A

massive $807.00 was raised for

the Indigenous Literacy Foun-

dation and we could not have

done it without the support of

this wonderful school commu-

nity. A huge thank you to Mrs

Eddy and 5/6E for organising

such an amazing day.

Sharon Butler

Assistant Principal


Term 3 - Week 8 , 9 September 2020

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SMILING DADS We hope all our dads, step-

dads, grandparents and

special people who were

lucky enough to receive a

hand-picked gift from our

Father’s Day stall had a

wonderful day on Sunday. We

hoped you loved your present

just as much as we loved

seeing the excitement on the

children’s faces as they

browsed, pondered and

selected something they

believed was just perfect for

you!

UNIFORM SHOP

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We’re in need of some extra

helping hands in our uniform

shop. We’ll provide full training

on how to check for online

orders and pack them ready

to send home. We’re hoping

to get a few extra people

trained up in the uniform shop

ready for the start of the 2021

school year when the uniform

shop gets really busy fitting out

all our new kindy kids, new

enrolments and all those

students who’ve had growth

spurts over the summer.

Please contact Tamara on

0431 141 715.

MANGO TRAYS ARE BACK! If you missed out on last year’s mangoes we have good news –

we’re bringing them back again very soon! We had so many

comments on how good the mangoes were that we will be sell-

ing 7kg trays of mangoes for $27.

You’ll get about 18 mangoes per tray, and trust us, they’re the

best mangoes you’ll taste all summer! Keep an eye out for the

mango order form that will be coming home in the next couple

of weeks.

From the

tree

To your

plate

Yum!


Term 3 - Week 8 , 9 September 2020

THE COUNT IS ON! Our 5c fundraising challenge finished this week. Thank you to all

families who contributed their 5 cent pieces. Every little bit helps

towards the establishment of a fantastic community garden for

our school. Winning classes will announced shortly, once the

counting is completed! Thank you to everyone.

BUSY WITH BIRTHDAYS We’re thrilled that our birthday cupcakes have been a huge

success. Parents are telling us how good it feels not to have to

stress over the task of making enough cupcakes to bring in for

the class. At just $1 per cupcake we can make them on site for

you in whatever colour the birthday boy or girl wishes. However,

we only have a limited number of cupcake tins – and

volunteers – so please place your order early so you don’t miss

out.

Send in your order and money in like you would a lunch order

and just be sure to write down the day you want the cupcakes

delivered. If you’re not sure how many students are in the class

you can send a message to the P&C via our Facebook page.

Don’t forget to order one for your teacher!

TENNIS LESSONS UP FOR GRABS! Keep your eye on our Facebook page for a chance to get

some tennis lessons from a fantastic local tennis coach worth

$70. We’ll be auctioning off the lessons to the highest bidder so

keep a look out and you could ace yourself a bargain!

P&C ZOOM MEETINGS The P&C is currently holding its meetings online via ZOOM.

We’ve changed our meeting day to Tuesdays at 3.30pm on the

3rd and 8th week of Term. P&C meet Tuesday September 8, and

again on October 27. Email the P&C on

[email protected] to be sent a link to

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