NEWSLETTERBETHANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

IN THIS ISSUE

30th November 2017

Newsletter Week 7

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

1 From the Principal

2 Deputy's Corner

3 Community News

4 Community News

5 Sports News

6 Sports News

7 Sports News

8 Sports News

9 Important Dates

support our Junior primary students. I am constantly reminded of how each person’s contribution is so important in building the Bethany community.

If you do not have tickets for the Primary concert next week, please refer to the the email you received. The DVD for both the Junior Primary and or the Primary concerts is only available to school families through the order form until 7th December. This is a strict cut-off date so please ensure that you have included the money or paid at the office to receive your DVD.

Next week, on Friday 8th December, our new Reception students for 2018 will be visiting for their orientation visit. We have met all these students and are very excited to see them again. Our ELC students have already been visiting the library, outdoor spaces, the classrooms and I know that they will be excited to meet with new friends. Our ELC students have also been preparing for their end of year celebration on Wednesday 13th culminating with a shared picnic. It is wonderful to see the new opportunities that we have to celebrate learning in our school since opening our ELC.

We provide a transition visit in the last week of school for all of our students, as well as those who will be joining us in 2018. The students will bring home a notice with the name of their new teacher as well as some friends that they have in their class. The teachers have worked hard to ensure that your children are well placed for a year of successful learning.

Year 6 Graduation will be held on Tuesday 12th December with a dinner for the students followed by a ceremony which is open to parents, staff and family which begins at 7:30pm.

Our final awards assembly is on

Wednesday 13th December at 2pm. School dismissal is at 3:10pm as usual, and academic reports are given to students to take home. Parents are welcome to attend the assembly with any parents of students receiving an award receiving a letter of notification. OSHC will be available on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th December for Bethany (and Temple Year 7) students. Even if you have not used this service before, you can register via the Bethany website. Follow the link to Camp Australia to register your child for these days.

Over the next two weeks, classes are celebrating the year with excursions and incursions so please check with any notices that you receive to make sure that your child is ready for the day.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for helping your child to get to the many different events with just the right costume, or clothing, well rested and ready to enjoy the many celebrations heading into the Christmas season. Parenting is such an important role and we appreciate all that you do, seen and unseen, to provide for your children.

God bless,

Wendy Matear

Principal

Thank you for a wonderful celebration with our Junior Primary students this week!

I always enjoy watching the joy and concentration of our Junior Primary students as they do their best for parents, friends and siblings. They are always excited to show you the hard work they have put into preparing for such a wonderful event. The teachers who wrote the script, planned the class items, and the media team who helped to film, photograph and rehearse, working together to make the night so enjoyable. I would like to thank everyone who contributed and came along to

Term 4 - Week 7

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Deputy's CornerSRC Fundraiser

A Student Representative Council (SRC) was created this year as a direct result of re-imagining student leadership within the school. After years of not having an SRC, the students who chose to take on an SRC position have worked well together to lay a foundation of student governance. It has been a big learning curve but with tremendous results. This Friday (Friday 1st December) is the culmination of attending class meetings, weekly lunch time SRC meetings and really listening to what the students of Bethany wanted changed. The SRC held a vote on a suggestion put forward from class meetings that students would like to have a hand held ball pump located in each classroom for easy access to pump up any flat balls as they go out to fitness or play. The SRC then wrote a letter to the Principal, Mrs Wendy Matear requesting permission to hold a fund-raiser. The choice of a casual clothes day was again chosen by listening to what the students wanted, and there was an overwhelming desire to have a casual clothes day in the school year.

Permission was provided through writ-ten correspondence between the Princi-pal and the SRC, then the SRC members were responsible for advertising and notifying the school about the fund-raiser. SRC members have also sourced affordable hand held ball pumps and have investigated if they have enough money to include a basketball for each classroom in addition to the pump. It has been a sensational experience for the Year 6 students to see how the process of finding a solution to a need

within the school has unfolded. A big congratulations to the SRC students is in order for their diligent work on behalf of their school community!

Cars, children and hot weather

Recently the school received a phone call from a concerned school community member who noticed that a parent had left a young child in a car during a very hot day while the parent went to pick up their child from within the school. The car was left running, and the concerned parent assumed that meant that the air-conditioner was left on. There have been numerous reports in the past few years of children who have been left in hot cars with disastrous results, most are not with deliberate intent to harm but are decisions made due to being time-poor. It is sometimes very tempting to leave a child or children in a vehicle for that ‘really short time’ especially if the child is asleep, but cars heat up very quickly putting young and vulnerable children at risk. Please re-think any deci-sion to leave a child unattended in a car (regardless of whether or not the car is running), even somewhere as safe as the school car park. I know first-hand how cumbersome getting young children into and out of car seats can be, but the risk far outweighs any benefits.

It has been my absolute pleasure to work with you all this year. I wish you and your families a wonderful Christmas school break, and look forward to seeing you all in the new school year.

God bless you,

Debbie Clifford

Premier’s Reading Challenge and Pre-mier’s Be Active Challenge Update

Congratulations to all those students who participated in the Premier’s Read-ing and Be Active Challenges. We had an incredible response and we are so pleased that so many students are inter-ested in reading and keeping themselves fit. Both attributes are excellent contrib-utors to increase learning.

Unfortunately delivery of the medals for both challenges have been delayed from the Premier’s office. Some medals and certificates will be delivered over the next week and we will give them to the children as soon as we can. Due to the lateness these will not be announced at Chapel as has been done in previous years.

Please be advised that if your child is due to receive a silver medal this year they will not be receiving their medal until 2018, as advised by the Premier’s office.

If students are moving on from Bethany Christian school next year and they ha-ven’t received their medals we will en-deavour to pass them on as soon as we can. Please advise us of any forwarding details.

We apologise for the delay and thank you for your understanding for something that is out of our control.

Kind Regards

Cherie Boxall

Premier's Reading Challenge

Usually at the end of every year we send home student medications that we store in the Care Room. However, this year the school is not sending the medications home. If you would like to have your child’s medication at home during the school holidays, please notify the front office by 8th December, and the medication will be sent home with your child on the last day of the school. The medication expiry dates are checked and the medical appliances are cleaned thoroughly during the holiday period and will be ready to use for next year.

Student Medications

The opening times for the Uniform Shop during O Week 2018 are:

Monday 29th January 8.15-10.30 am

Tuesday 30th January 8.15-10.30 am

Thursday 1st February 2-4 pm

Friday 2nd February 8.15-10.30 am

The final day that the uniform shop will be open this year is Tuesday 12th December.

Uniform Shop Times P & F News

Please come along to support the Par-ents and Friends at the Upper Primary Concert next Wednesday 6th December as they will be holding a BBQ between the two concerts. Please remember that students who are performing on the night will not need dinner as the school will provide dinner for them.

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Community News

Hi Young Netball Players,

I would like to invite you to join our Pooraka Allstars Sub Junior side for the summer 2017/18 season in the South Australian District Netball Association (SADNA). The only requirement is that you are under 14 years of age on the 31st December 2017.

If you are interested in playing please feel free to attend training as detailed below or contact me for further details.

Training is on Monday night at 17:45 to 18:45 and is located at Pooraka Netball Club, Quinlivan Road, Pooraka.

Games are played outdoors on Tuesday evening at 18:50 on Atlantis Drive at Golden Grove.

Contact Scott Curley on 0402237719 for further details.

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Sat 17th Feb @ 7pm & Sun 18th Feb @ 2pmBookings on 8561 4299 www.barossaconvention.org

Now Productions and Nigel Major-Henderson presents

The stay at home parent, the student, the worker, the politician, the actor, the doctor - when we think of all

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Community News

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Sports News

SPORTS DEPARTMENT WEEKLY SPORTS RESULTS

SPORT TEAM OPPOSITION COACHES PICK SCORE [BCS . OPS]

MATCHES WEEK ENDING: 18/11/2017

BASKETBALL

U8 Raptors Forfeit

U10 Bulls GGLPS Warriors Jacob Karklis Marcus Audino 24 . 6

U10 Bobcats Tyndale Tornadoes King Batiancila Austyn May 20 . 14

U10 Suns Homecorp Puzzles Navy Rodante Padilla Anthony Barker 17 . 9

U12 Thunder Homecorp Puzzles Blue Bobbi Halls Jaiden Karklis 15 . 30

U14 Rockets AFCBC Clippers Michael Batiancila Thomas Curley 35 . 25

NETBALL

9 & U Sparkling Stars OLOH Storm Imogen Johncock-Smith Kolika Kong Not Scored

11 & U Shining Stars GS Tigers Holly Sobey Eden Lyrtzis 0 . 24

11 & U All Stars Keithcot Knights Emily Curley Amber Mossop 10 . 3

U12 Shooting Stars Fireworks Purple Victoria Gatzopoulos Shayleigh Montgomery 6 . 14

13 & U Megastars Game Cancelled

13 & U Superstars No Game

MATCHES WEEK ENDING: 25/11/2017

BASKETBALL

U8 Raptors TVCS Heat Brayden Henderson Armstrong Hill 4 . 8

U10 Bulls Tyndale Hurricanes Levi Bermingham Connor Tootill 8 . 14

U10 Bobcats AFCBC Falcons Liam Cooke Ilyas Drokhshan 18 . 14

U10 Suns Kings Comets Rodante Padilla Amelia Liemareff 28 . 11

U12 Thunder Hot Shots Johnny Arruzzolo Bailey Mooney 11 . 11

U14 Rockets Wolves Angelo Cuzman Caleb Pavljuk 39 . 10

NETBALL

9 & U Sparkling Stars Tyndale Diamonds Amelia Davies Isabella Rodriguez Not Scored

11 & U Shining Stars GS Lightning Bolts Alyssa Brecknell Mackenzie Clinton 1 . 20

11 & U All Stars Kings Diamonds Amy Mossop Danielle Pellicone 2 . 13

U12 Shooting Stars Renegade Blue Samara Madi Imogen Perris 10 . 20

13 & U Megastars Kings Challengers Angel Brouwers Charlize Penaluna 19 . 2

13 & U Superstars Ardtornish Angels Alysha Gliddon Ashlyn Sobey 36 . 15

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Sports News

SPORTS DEPARTMENT 2017 RECEPTION & YEAR ONE MINI OLYMPICS

On Friday November 10th we held our annual Mini Olympics for all children in Reception and Year One. It was a fantastic day with everyone having so much fun. The students competed in the 70 metre sprint, Water & Puzzle Relays, Vortex, Distance Kick, Tug-O-War and also were able to play on not one but two bouncy castles.

Final House Results were as follows:

MESHACH 921

SHADRACH 699

ABEDNEGO 677

Thank you so much to everybody involved in making this day a true success including every person who came along to support our little athletes. We would particularly like to thank the following people:

* All Reception, Year One Teachers and the ESO’s that helped on the day – we could not have done this without you!

* Mr Jeremy Graetz and Mr Tristan Crowley for organising the sound system for the day.

* Year 6 students who helped officiate the events and take the photographs.

* Mr Peter Wyten & Mr Arddy Nottle for helping with the oval set up and also to Mr Nottle for starting the 70 metre sprints on the day. * The amazing Parents & Friends and the wonderful Temple Christian College catering group who put on cake & drinks on the day for the supporters to buy.

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Sports News

SPORTS DEPARTMENT 2017 YEAR 4/5 BASKETBALL CARNIVAL

On Tuesday 14th November, 16 year 4 & 5 students had an early start on a very warm day to the Morphett Vale Basketball Stadi-um. There were a total of 9 teams through 2 pools in the girls’ competition and there were 16 teams through 2 pools in the boys’ competition. This year we made history with our year 4/5 boys’ team who are the first of any Bethany team before them to win a SACSA basketball championship. Congratulations boys on an outstanding effort.

4/5 Girls Team – 7th Place

Team List: Bobbi Halls, Denae Kelly, Hannah Creek, Imogen Perris, Bella Huddy & Mackenzie Brewer Captain: Rotating Captains Coach: Ms Raine Williams Manager: Mrs Cherie Boxall Scorer: Dylan Baker

The girls played really well as a team and improved throughout the day. They displayed great sportsmanship and never gave up. Ms Raine Williams

4/5 Boys Team – Champions Team List: Addison Davies, Blake Barker, Eric Webb, Ezeikiel Togo-Emnace, Hudson Munzer, Jake Bain, Johnny Arruzzolo, Jordan Bermingham, Lachlan Ridge & Robinson Son Captain: Rotating Captains Coach: Mr Brett Richardson Manager: Mrs Cherie Boxall Scorer: Steven Webb

What an amazing day! SACSA Yr 4/5 Boys Champions! The boys played brilliantly and were the best team on the day. All players contributed during the tournament whilst being extrememly supportive of each other. A massive congratulations boys on a job well done! Mr Brett Richardson

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Sports News

SPORTS DEPARTMENT 2017 YEAR 6/7 GIRLS BASKETBALL CARNIVAL

On Wednesday 15th November, 10 year 6 & 7 girls made their way to the Morphett Vale Basketball Stadium. There were a total of 12 teams through 2 pools in their competition and the girls competed well throughout the day.

6/7 Girls Team – 5th Place Team List: Alysha Gliddon, Annika Sipos, Chelsea Camilleri, Christina Gliddon, Maddy Etherton, Malaya Hach, Mikayla Librandi, Monet Stirling-McCreight, Taylah Anderson & Zara Gidman Captain: Taylah Anderson Vice Captain: Zara Gidman Coach: Mrs Jacqui Gliddon Manager: Mrs Cherie Boxall Scorer: Macey Borges

Congratulations ladies for a great day of fun mixed in with some new found skills! The girls won 4 out of 6 games with 3 of those games stopping all oppo-sition scores. On top of this, these girls only lost to the eventual champion team by 9 points which is a great achievement. Mrs Jacqui Gliddon

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TERM 4 2017Mon 16th October - Wed 13th DecemberTerm 1 2018Mon 5th February - Friday 13th AprilTerm 2Tuesday 1st May - Friday 6th JulyTerm 3Tuesday 24th July - Friday 28th Sept

2017/18 Term Dates

WEEKLY INFORMATION

IMPORTANT DATES

WEEKLY PE LESSONS MONDAY MORNING PRAISE

WHOLE SCHOOL WORSHIP 10 - 10.30am

WEDNESDAY

PRIMARY CHAPEL (Years 3 - 6) 10.50 - 11.30am

JUNIOR PRIMARY CHAPEL (R - 2) 12.10 - 12.50pm

UNIFORM SHOP 2017

MONDAY 8.15 - 10.30am TUESDAY 8.15 - 10.30am

WEDNESDAY CLOSED

THURSDAY 2.00 - 4.00pm

FRIDAY 8.15 - 10.30am

CHAPEL

TERM 4 2017

RD: Tuesday & ThursdayRG: Tuesday & ThursdayRHW: Monday & Tuesday1D: Tuesday & Thursday1T: Tuesday & Thursday1B: Monday & Thursday2Z: Monday & Friday2P: Wednesday & Friday2R: Monday & Wednesday3L: Wednesday & Friday3N: Wednesday & Friday3T: Wednesday & Friday4G: Monday & Tuesday4WH: Monday & Tuesday4WY: Monday & Tuesday5P: Tuesday & Friday5RK: Monday & Friday5T: Tuesday & Friday6H: Monday & Friday6S: Tuesday & Friday6T: Tuesday & Friday

CHAPEL

DATE EVENTFriday 1st December Casual Day

Wednesday 6th December End of Year Concert for Year 3 - 6

Thursday 7th December Reception excursion to St Kilda

Thursday 7th December Year 1 excursion to the movies

Thursday 7th December Year 2 excursion to Waterworld

Thursday 7th December Year 5 excursion to Bowland

Friday 8th December Reception/ELC Orientation

Friday 8th December Year 3 excursion to the movies

Friday 8th December Year 4 incursion

Tuesday 12th December Year 6 Graduation

Wednesday 13th December Final Assembly 2pm Dismissal 3.10

Wednesday 13th December ELC End of Year Celebration 4.30 pm

2018

Monday 5th February First day of Term 1