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

Important Dates:

MARCH MARCH

Fri 6th Swim for Sport Fri 13th Swim for Sport

Tue 10th P&C AGM 6.30pm Mon 16th Amaroo visit

Wed 11th Riverina Swimming Carnival Albury Mon 16th FHS visit Year 6

Thu 12th Bluearth Fri 20th Scripture begins

Fri 13th Forensic Day Year 6 Thu 26th Bluearth

Wednesday 4th March 2020

Berrigan Public School ‘The Bell Ringer’

Representing Proudly

TENNIS SWIMMING

CRICKET FOOTBALL

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The Finley District PSSA Swimming Carnival was held in Cobram on Friday 28th February. BPS convened this carnival this year. It was a perfect day with a big crowd in attendance to cheer on the school teams.

I would like to thank Mrs Phillips for her huge effort in convening such a successful carnival , she put in many hours of organization to cover the smallest detail in order for the day to run smoothly. She was ably assisted by Miss Bacchetto and a team of committed BPS staff on the day. Karlina helped out as a stroke judge and Jono achieved a 100% success rate with the starter’s gun.

Our P&C did a marvellous job in assisting with the setup and catering for the hungry masses and the Berrigan Lions Club’s cooking effort completed the team effort. Well done to everyone!

Representative Sport

We have many participants across a range of sports coming up, both at the State and Zone level and JeriBerriO’s. Firstly congratulations to Mia Cameron who has qualified at the Zone Tennis Trials at Griffith last week, please see Mia’s recount further in this newsletter. She will now represent the Riverina in Newcastle in May. Congratulations to the following successful participants; Ryan, Jeremy and Justin who were selected in the Finley PSSA AFL Trials. Jeremy, Flynn, Zavier, Ryan and Jason for qualified for the JeriBerriO Cricket team. Congratulations to Michael, Rosie, Jack, Zoe, Tom, Jordan, Lachlan and Flynn who will swim next Wednesday at the Zone Swimming Carnival in Albury. Thank you to the parents who have transported students to and from these events. Please note the following:

Finley Zone Netball Trials—Tocumwal Monday 9th March Zone Swimming Carnival— Albury Wednesday 11th March JeriBerriOs PSSA Knockout Cricket—9th March - training session. 12th March - game at Tocumwal. AFL– Western Riverina trials - Leeton 19th March

Riverina Tennis—Newcastle 5th—7th May

Parent Teacher Interviews

You have an opportunity coming up to meet with your child’s teacher for an informal chat about early progress in learning for 2020. This is a great chance to share your concerns, to talk to the teacher about what works best for your child and pave the way for a successful learning journey in 2020. If you are unsure of your interview time please contact the front office.

Voluntary Contributions

These are not mandatory but very welcome should you wish to contribute to the running of the school, the cost extra curricula activities and classroom requirements. See Simone if you wish to do this - $30 a child/$50 a family.

Many thanks to those families who have already paid this voluntary contribution.

Eggs –cellent!!

A very egg-citing day in Year 4/5. We sold our first dozen eggs to Mrs Fox today—$5 a dozen! Get your orders in. Watch this space for more information about our new resident chickens.

Welcome Ms Di Parker

This week we welcomed Ms Parker to BPS. She will be here on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the remainder of the year. She provides the classroom teacher with release and is teaching History/Geography and Science in all classes

across those two days.

Dorothy Dore

Principal

Principals Report

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Canteen Roster — Term 1

Thank you to all our canteen helpers. Please remember if your day(s) are not suitable to organise your own swap and please notify the office.

Please do not order snacks, lollies or icy poles with your lunch orders.

PLEASE NOTE: Students are NOT to bring food to school for lunches etc. that requires heating up in the canteen, as this is a WH&S issue.

STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE CANTEEN AS THIS IS A WH&S ISSUE AND THEY ARE NOT COVERED BY PUBLIC LIABILITY.

P&C News

P&C NEWS PSSA SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Thankyou to all those families who donated yummy treats for the carnival and to those who helped out on the day. A

huge thankyou must go to the Berrigan Lions Club who cooked the BBQ all day.

AGM

Our AGM is Tuesday the 10th March at 6.30pm in the school library. Come along and have your say in how funds are made

and spent!! EVERYONE welcome and encouraged to attend!!

SCHOOL NEWS Mia recount of Riverina Tennis Trials

On Thursday the 28th of February, I went to Griffith to try out for the Riverina team in tennis.

I played 3 matches at the start of the day. My first match I won, I was down 5-2 and I didn’t know what I was doing wrong so I started concentrating more then I came up from 5-2 and won 7-5. I was so proud of myself. I also made a friend, her name was Lucy.

After all the games were over the top 8 girls made it into the playoffs. In the play offs it was a tie breaker first to 10. I had to play Lucy first, I won 10-4. I played another 6 matches and lost one 10-4 but winners are decided on the score. I won the rest of my tie breakers.

I couldn’t wait to hear if I had made it in to the Riverina team or not. Did you know that 20 girls were trying out for the team after making it through trials across the Riverina? All the girls had to wait for the boys to finish which was another half an hour later.

When the boys finally finished, they started calling out the top 5 names of the girls. I was so nervous but then I heard my name, I happily walked up with the rest of the girls.

I am really looking forward to representing the Riverina in the NSW PSSA Tennis Competition in Newcastle on the 5th – 7th May. I love playing tennis and every time I play tournaments I make new friends.

By Mia Cameron

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