Blaxland East Public School

Old Bathurst Road, East Blaxland 2774 Phone 4739 1579 Fax 4739 8300

Principal Kerry Bryan Email Blaxlande-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage www.blaxlande-p.school.nsw.edu.au

P&C Email blaxlandeast@gmail.com

Term 4 Week 4 4 November 2016

Morning Bell 9.00am Afternoon Bell 3.00pm Office Hours 8.30am – 3.15pm

P&C Association meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30 p.m. Next Meeting (AGM) Wednesday 30 November 2016

In this School Matters:

Core Values

Thank you and Farewell to Mrs Lamplough!

2017 Student Leadership Team

Aussie of the Month

Celebrating Achievement, Effort and Service

Blaxland High School Transition Dance Group Visit

2017 Kindergarten Enrolments

Skoolbag App

2016 ICAS Mathematics Competition

Student Honour List

Relieving Principal’s Report

Music 43 Concert

Springwood High School 30 Year Reunion

Toshiba photocopiers for sale

** 2017 Kindergarten Enrolments now being accepted **

School Matters

CORE VALUES

Be Respectful

Excellence Always

Participate Courageously

Serve Others

Monday 31st October was a special day in

Kindergarten as we held a surprise Baby Shower for

Mrs Lamplough.

After the children realised that it wasn't actually

going to rain babies, they had a lovely time eating

party food and drinking home-made lemonade.

Many thanks to all those who contributed to Mrs Lamplough's gift. Special thanks to Mrs Richards for

organising the gift and setting up the party.

KP have thoroughly enjoyed having Mrs Lamplough as their teacher each Monday. They gave her a

beautiful book full of their thanks. It also contained some very helpful advice

including:

Thank you Mrs Lamplough for all your hard work! We wish you all the best for your new baby.

Babies like milk and pies.

Take the baby to Flip Out.

Only let the baby play the iPad on the

weekends.

Don't let the baby eat glass.

2017 Student Leadership Team

The selection of the 2017 Student Leadership team has been finalised following voting last

week. Parents presented badges and school ties to the 2017 team before the Leadership Pledge at the

Aussie of the Month / Service assembly.

Eli Eli P

Ella

Eli Amy

Eli Melody

Eli Maggie

Eli Eli G

Eli Archie

Eli Lucas

Congratulations to newly elected –

Captains - Ella Terry and Eli Przydacz

Vice Captains - Archie Gill and Amy Rossetto

Prefects - Melody Frith, Maggie Laurence-Rogers, Eli Geisker and Lucas Turano

Thanks once again to Josh Watson, Dom Eagle, Lachlan Nelson, Charlie McGauley,

Lily Jay, Charlie Huszar, Matilda Duncan and Skye O’Neill who all made outstanding

speeches last week for your willingness to serve! You will all no doubt be a great support

to the elected leaders next year.

This year’s Leadership team, lead by Sophie Chapman and Ben Watson have been outstanding

examples as school leaders and continue to impress with their support of others in

guiding and supporting the year five students throughout the leadership election

process. They are to be commended for their general leadership, outstanding speech

making skills and the fine example they display running all the major assemblies at

BEPS.

During interval we were entertained by a very talented cello group consisting of Virginia Cole,

Jeremy Spikmans and Leon Spikmans.

Aussie of the Month

Abbey Paag

Abbey is a kind, thoughtful and generous friend.

She is a student who puts 100% effort into everything she undertakes and tackles challenges

enthusiastically and with great perseverance.

Abbey approaches all areas of school life in a mature way and consistently shows our core values.

Emily Shepherd

Emily is a delightful student.

She brings a friendly smile and a willing attitude to learn and improve every day.

Emily’s behaviour reflects our school core values in the classroom and in the playground.

She shows initiative in a variety of school activities and is quick to offer assistance to fellow students.

Emily is a most valued class member. Congratulations!

Jemima Freeman

Jemima is a friendly and cooperative student who puts her best effort into her work.

She has participated in a wide range of school activities and done so enthusiastically and fairly.

Jemima has willingly given up her time to help and support others.

She is always polite and respectful.

Celebrating Achievement, Effort and Service

K/1M 1M have participated courageously this week, while presenting their Health Speeches to the class.

KM enjoyed visiting Healthy Harold and also participated courageously answering lots of questions.

Blaxland High School Transition Dance Group Visit

On the 26 of October Blaxland High School Transition Dance Group came and visited us. There

were so many talented dancers, including some ex-students from Blaxland East.

Well done to Talulla, Charlotte, Heidi, Olivia, Holly,Taylor, Amy, Louise and Melody for being

a part of the event. The group danced at Warrimoo, Lapstone, Mount Riverview, Blaxland and

Blaxland East Public Schools and most importantly, got to eat at Macca’s.

By Harry Smith 6R

2017 Kindergarten Enrolments

If you have or know of a student that will be enrolling in Kindergarten at BEPS in 2017 please call into the

school office to complete the enrolment process.

The remaining transition days for 2017

Kindergarten students are as follows:

Friday 11 November 2016. 9:15 -10:45am

Friday 25 November 2016. 9:15 -12.00pm

Skoolbag App

Our School now has our own free Skoolbag iPhone and Android App to help us communicate more

effectively with our Parent/Student community. We are asking

Parents/Students to install our Skoolbag School App. To

install it, just search for our school name Blaxland East Public

School in either the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

For Windows users search for Skoolbag in the Windows Store and install the app and then find your

school. Please note it must be a Windows 8.1 or 10 device.

2016 ICAS Mathematics Competition

Results have been received from the University of New South

Wales for Blaxland East students who entered the ICAS

(International Competition and Assessment for Schools) Mathematics Competition for 2016.

Students from Blaxland East again achieved outstanding results when they participated this year. Those

students whose achievements were outstanding were rewarded with certificates of Merit, Credit and

Distinction.

These ICAS tests are designed to assess students’ academic abilities in aspects of

Mathematics such as Number, Arithmetic, Algebra, Patterns, Measures, Units, Space,

Geometry, Chance and Data. Each year, many BEPS students take the plunge and

attempt these tests, putting themselves up against gifted and talented students from

all parts of Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia. These students deserve the

highest praise for their efforts and participation.

The highlights of our results this year are as follows:-

Distinction Awards: David Babajanyan, Ian Laurence-Rogers, Jeremy Spikmans (Year 3),

Hamish Batty (Year 6).

Credit Awards: Kiana Foote, Imogen Handley, Lucinda Page, Corey Turano (Year 3), Logan Myhill,

Isabelle Cooke, Hannah Moss, Alexander Williams (Year 4), Dylan McKerrell (Year 5) Rachel Baker,

Sebastian Boucher, Alexander Bezuidenhout, Cecilia Hill, Hannah Irvine, Lavinia Loscialpo,

Jeroonish Rufus (Year 6).

Merit Awards: Tamiela Korber (Year 4), Lucas Turano (Year 5), Alistair Begg, Martin

Brown, Darcy Thurling (Year 6).

Congratulations to all these students, and to all who participated.

All ICAS results and certificates have now been received and awarded. Congratulations to

all students who ‘Participated Courageously’ over the past terms.

We look forward to your continued involvement in 2017.

Mrs Robyn Wallis and Mr David Riedy

ICAS Coordinators

Student Honour List

CANTEEN VOUCHER WINNERS

Weeks 2 & 3

KP Scarlett Dennis

1H Lou-Lou Farrant

2C Andrew Bell

3M Lita Murphy

3M Claire Nicholls

4W Alex Williams

4H Mackenzie Hawkins

5T Isabella Godwin

5M Thomas Cairns

6R Cecilia Hill

6T Haylie Fisher

ICEBLOCKS

KP Scarlett Dennis

KW Amelia Duncan

KM Christian Flexman

1H Lou-Lou Farrant

1F Hayley Van Der Meer

2C Andrew Bell

2/3F Wynter Cluney

2T Olivia McKone

3F Juliette Latouche

3F Jessica Bell

3M Lita Murphy

3M David Babajanyan

3M Claire Nicholls

4H Grace O’Neill

4H Zoe Kimmings

4H Mackenzie Hawkins

4W Larissa Niklaus

4W Alex Williams

5W Lachlan Nelson

5M Thomas Cairns

5M Tamika Maynard

5M Jake Wood

5T Isabella Godwin

6T Noah Fitzgerald

6T Haylie Fisher

6G Alana Whyte

6G Jesse Wickerson

6G Luke El-Fadle

6R Montana Dexter

6R Saxon Penberthy

6R Cecilia Hill

(R (Relieving)

Relieving Principal’s Report

Whilst Mrs Bryan is on leave, I have had the pleasure of once again,

stepping into the position of Relieving Principal.

I’d like to thank Mr Bryan for replacing me whilst Mrs Bryan is on

leave. I can assure you that the students in 1F (and many others)

are definitely amused that Mr Bryan is replacing Mr Frith who is

replacing Mrs Bryan…!

A big congratulations to our new Leadership Team for 2017.

Captains: Ella Terry and Eli Przydacz

Vice Captains: Amy Rossetto and Archie Gill

Prefects: Melody Frith, Maggie Laurence-Rogers, Eli Geisker and Lucas Turano

I would also like to congratulate Josh Watson, Dom Eagle, Lachlan Nelson, Charlie McGauley, Skye O’Neill, Charlie

Huszar, Matilda Duncan and Lily Jay. These eight students just missed out on being elected. Their speeches were

outstanding, and the effort they put in was amazing.

Healthy Harold has been visiting our school. He has been helping the children learn about healthy choices, body

systems and safe and unsafe situations.

Well done to the Year 5 and 6 girls who participated in the Transition Dance Group Feeder School Tour. Dancing in

five schools in one day is a big effort and is really tiring. Apparently the McDonald’s lunch makes it all worthwhile

though!

Thanks to Mr Riedy for organising the AFL clinics for K-2. I know that all the children really enjoyed the games and

activities.

We had our second Kindergarten Transition day last Friday. It was lovely to meet and welcome so many new families

to our school. Thank you to all of the BEPS staff for jumping in and assisting with the transition days. You all know the

part you have played, and you have all done it with a smile on your face. I really do appreciate your teamwork.

A number of our students have been participating in the Special Swimming Scheme over the past two weeks.

Learning how to be safe in and around water is very important, particularly with summer approaching. Luckily the

weather has been superb.

Well done to Mr McGowan and the boys and girls who were part of the Regional T20 cricket finals. Everybody enjoyed

the day, and our students displayed outstanding sportsmanship.

Year 2 have been learning Square Dancing with Mr Todd. We had lots of parents and grandparents in the hall earlier

this week, enjoying watching them dance.

Thanks to the P&C for organising last night’s disco. Everybody had a great time.

Good luck to the T-Ball and Cricket teams representing Blaxland East at the Summer

Games. I know they will be displaying our core value of Participate Courageously.

And finally, a big thank you to the staff, students and BEPS community for your support whilst I have been relieving for

Mrs Bryan.

Regards,

Michael Frith.

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TOSHIBA PHOTOCOPIERS X 2 – GOOD WORKING ORDER

1) Black and white e-studio 855 with basic

stapling unit 2) Colour e-studio 454Oc with saddle stitch unit

and fax unit Please enquire at BEPS office 4739 1579