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Booral Public School

Phone: 49 949 266 Fax: 49 949 102

Newsletter Term 2 Week 8 Dear Parents and Carers, Reports Teachers have been very busy preparing midyear reports. These will go out in week 9 on Thursday 21st June. Teachers will be available for interviews in week 10 from Monday 25th June to Friday 29th June. Notes about these will go out next week. eLearning Mitchell Elliott, from Year 6, had the wonderful privilege of participating in the Bucketts Way Community of Schools eLearning Project this term. The focus for this year’s project was to construct an anthology of poems un-der a variety of themes and then present them at an eLearning Expo at Gloucester High School. Mitchell was mentored by students from Year 9 at the High School who provided him with feedback on his poems. At the Expo, last Friday, Mitchell and students from all the Bucketts Way schools presented their works and anthologies. Mitchell used a PowerPoint to present his item which highlighted his four excellent pieces of work. Well Done Mitchell!! Wetlands Excursion I had a conversation with a staff member from the Wetlands Centre who spoke very highly of our children at both yesterday’s K-3 excursion and of the 4 -6 excursion last week. I felt very proud of our school after hearing the very positive comments she made about our children’s excellent behaviour and attitude. Our children were very inquisitive, involved and showed a love of learning. This says a great deal about our children, our school and our parents. I can report from my observations that the K-3 group had a wonderful time at the excursion and were immersed (no pun intended) in the wetlands activities. Rewards Day We will have our last Rewards day for the term on Friday, 29th June. Apart from the usual ‘rewards’, I will be providing a sausage sizzle for all children on the day. This is to recognise the high level of good behaviour that the children have displayed this term. Let’s get physical Getting outside for just a short while everyday is healthy in many ways. In just 10-20 minutes you can receive your daily dose of vitamin D, important for bones, muscles and overall health. Vitamin D is not readily available from food, so good old fashioned sunlight for a few minutes a day (outside peak UV times of course) is the best way to get it. Heading outside also ensures you and your kids get some physical exercise and a break from TV and computer screens. For more ideas to get physical go to: www.activekids.org.au/ Telling the time Learning to tell the time is one of those life skills that, well, takes time. There are some great resources on the School A to Z website that can help. This page includes a downloadable clock template and both analogue and digital time references. www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/detresources/tell_the_time_uHKOzycPnd.pdf Max Labecki Principal

Proud member of The Bucketts Way and Myall Lakes Community of Schools

E-mail: booral-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

P & C News Canteen Helpers The canteen needs your help. We urgently need some more can-teen volunteers to go onto our roster. If you can help us, please contact Kim or Juanita. P & C Dates to Remember 27th June P & C Meeting 5.30pm

Thank you to all the families who voted on the uniform change, the votes have been counted and while several families preferred to keep the pale blue shirts, twice as many voted to change to Option 1. The P and C have decided that we will make the new shirts available from the end of term 4 (ready for 2013) or sooner if we run out of current stock. Please remember that we expect the change-over to take about 2 years, you will not be expected to purchase the shirts immediately. Just a reminder that we have the flying jackets and jumpers in stock now, the jackets are shower proof and fleecy lined , great for extra warmth on these cold mornings.

Manning Myall Music Camp 2012 Camp Elim (via Forster) from Sunday 14

th October to Wednesday 17

th October 2012.

Please note that applications close Thursday the 19st

July with final payments due Thursday 13 September. All cheques should be made payable to Tuncurry Public School. Note that cash payments can be made and details to do so are provided in the documentation. Parents also have the flexibil-ity of a payment schedule. Woolworths Earn & Learn Tally

3150 points

Congratulations to Georgia W, Charlotte, Alex S & Aidan who have successfully

completed the 2012 Premier's Reading Challenge.

If you have also completed the challenge, please bring your paper copy to show me.

Mrs Courtney

Proud member of The Bucketts Way and Myall Lakes Community of Schools

E-mail: booral-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

BOORAL BLUE Bridgette

Class Awards - for week 7 K-1 Josh - For the care and effort taken with his handwriting. Elsie - Listening carefully to collect information about octopuses Alex - For an informative and well thought out compost poster. 2-3 Charlotte - Consistent effort in class Ben - For effort in all areas Emma - Working consistently in class Angus - Improved effort and concentration in class 4-5-6 Georgia - Excellent behaviour at the ‘Wetlands’. Luke - Interest shown whilst on ‘Wetlands’ excursion. Paige - Responsible work in group activities- ‘Wetlands’. Library awards Georgia - Enthusiastic participation in role playing activities. Emma - Fantastic contributions to class discussions. Bridgette - Always being helpful and responsible in the library.

Dates to Remember - 2012 Week 8 Term 2 Wednesday 13/6 - K_2 Wetlands Excursion - Thursday 14/6 - Friday 15/6 - SRC Assembly - 9.00am

Week 9 Term 2 Monday 18/6 - Canteen ( Tammy D & Mandy S) Tuesday 19/6 - Wednesday 20/6 - Thursday 21/6 - Reports sent home Friday 22/6 - K_1 Assembly 10.30am

B Safe, B Responsible,

B Respectful, B Green

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E-mail: booral-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

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