Week 3, Term 2 —Thursday 6th May 2010 Weekly Awards— Congratulations to the following students who will receive an award at the assembly tomorrow which will be hosted by Yr 3/4CK Mrs Cook’s class. Parents are invited and welcome to attend.

KLA Award

Merit Award

Improvement Award

Citizenship Award

KW Ivy Guyler

Jack Stevens

Harry Taylor

Dash Brunsdon

K/1 Elijah Adamek

Jatrel Cole

Jet Knight

Tia Cook

Yr 1/2H Dylan Dwight

Eddie Toman

Jordan Argue

Tully McAleer

Yr 2/3/4G Madison Dwight

Kasey-Joe Sheridan

Paris Guyler

Eva Adams

Yr3/4CK Zahli Currie

Ruby Dicostanzo

Ethan Swinkels

Chelsea Williams

Yt 5/6C Renee Gollan-Essex

Joel Ellison

Cooper Cardak

Hadyn Serone

Yr 5/6S Oli Sheridan

Jorgii Cameron-King

Amy Williams

Trent Arthur

Yr 1/2C Lachlan Cook

Kahlee Murphy-Wyness

Rumi Hagedoorn-Storey

Adam Patter-son-Atkins

Silver Ribbons For 60 !! Positive Behaviour stickers

The following students will be presented with their ribbons at tomorrow’s assembly

WELL DONE!

Riffkan Cole, Jordan Ellis Indi Allen, Aaron Cramer,

Joel Ellison, Blake Greenhalgh

Front Page News by Yr 5/6S In our class 5/6S we have had a prac-tice teacher Ms Daly. With Ms Daly we were kept busy. We mostly did normal work, but she taught us to make bas-kets out of raffia, which she learnt to do when she went to Alice Springs in Cen-tral Australia, the Aboriginal ladies taught her. After she taught us how to make them, it’s been raffia, raffia, raffia. Another cool thing she’s done with us is music. We’ve learnt lots of songs with a guitar accompanying us because she can play the guitar. Some of the songs we’ve learnt are Home Among The Gumtrees, What a Wonderful World, Aint No Sunshine, I Can See Clearly Now and King of the Road. We sang some of the songs at an assembly. Having Ms Daly has been fun and I hope she comes for a visit again.

Our school cross country was held last Thursday at Bruns beach. It was a lovely sunny day and everyone enjoyed the run or in some cases the walk. Have a look at the following pictures. All the winners and placegetters are off to Dur-rumbul for the district cross country next Friday.

By Sam, Lola and Nathan

The students had a great time at the cross country last week. Our school champions and runners-up (below) will be presented with their medal-lions at a special assembly later this term. Well done for a great effort. Event Champion Runner-Up Sub Junior Boys Lachlan Cook Conlin Carlin-McVey Sub Junior Girls Teeka Gibson Lucy Efanow 9yr Boys Kasey-Joe Sheridan Tiger Toman 9 yr Girls Madison Dwight Tiare Lee 10 yr Boys Willow Guyler Jett Jorgensen 10 yr Girls Kate Morley Zahli Currie 11 Yr Boys Kaine Guyler Hadyn Serone 11 Yr Girls Zoe Wynd Jorgii Cameron-King Senior Boys Jake Tulloch Sam Morley Senior Girls Taryn Curtis Azi Currie

Principal’s Comment Dear Parents/Guardians, It is with much sadness I write on the passing of Edyn Fawcett. Edyn was a student at our school as was her brother Shannon. Together with their mother, Robyn, they were a well-loved family and vital part of our school community. Edyn passed away last Friday after a long and courageous battle with cancer. The disease that took her life never touched her spirit or her zest for life, as you can see in the photo below. It may have changed her appearance but it never touched her beauty.

Edyn was an inspiration to everyone who knew her and leaves a great big hole. Our thoughts and wishes go out to Robyn and Shannon at what is a very difficult time. Edyn’s funeral will be on tomorrow at 1:00p.m. at Mul-lum lawn cemetery followed by an afternoon of cele-bration of Edyn’s life at the Brunswick Bowling Club. Whilst many of our staff will be attending these events, arrangements have been made for lessons to continue at school. Every year students in Years 3 and 5 across Australia complete literacy and numeracy tests called NAPLAN. They are tests that provide a snapshot of an individual student’s performance on a given day. The do not give the total picture of the child and their progress nor do they give an overall picture of the school and its per-formance. Unfortunately the Federal Government’s ‘MySchool’ website relies almost exclusively on NAPLAN data to give their impression of whole school performance. Despite the very limited nature of this data it is in-creasingly being used by media organisations and others to rank schools in “league tables”. The damage that can potentially be done by “naming and shaming” schools with lower test scores can be significant. For this reason teacher unions across the country have placed a moratorium on NAPLAN. At Brunswick school this means that teachers will not be assisting the running of the tasks that make up NAPLAN. These tasks will still go ahead at this stage under supervision of trained staff – just not your child’s regular teacher.

Have a great week. Mick Channells

PS The Dragons dined on fricasseed fish last week and will follow it up with some Brookvale fried bird this week.

Impact Leadership Conference On Tuesday 27th May our school leaders Renee Gollan-Essex, Azlan Currie, Kaine Guyler and Riz Mahoney went to Twin Towns for an Impact Leadership conference. The Impact Leadership team consisted of Andy, Jen and the “loud noise boys” Ronan and Mason. At the beginning we received book-lets and pens that said “Impact Leadership”. The booklets had worksheets to do with the program inside them. We met other leaders and did activities, like games and hands on tasks, all to do with different aspects of a great leader. It was an excel-lent day, where we learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. We would highly recommend it to any school with aspiring leaders. By Renee & Azlan. Walk Safely To School Day

The Walk Safely to School Day is held through-out NSW TOMORROW Friday 7th May 2010. Its aim is to encourage parents and carers to walk to school with their child/ren to reinforce safe pedestrian behaviour. We hope you can participate in this very rele-vant event promoting community road safety

and health. Stickers will be given to all students who partici-pate. The key road safety messages are: Hold a grown up’s hand when you cross the road. Hold a grown up’s hand when you’re on the footpath. Use a safe place to cross the road. Stop! Look! Listen! Think! every time you cross the road. Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary—Kindergarten to Yr 2 Next Thursday 13th May 2010 our Kindergarten to Yr 2 stu-dents will be travelling by bus to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanc-tuary. This is a great excursion and we would like to see all students participate. If you have any problems with the cost, please contact the office. Notes and payment must be made to the office by Tuesday 11th May 2010 and students will need to be picked up at school at approximately 3.45pm. Stewart House Donation Drive There are a few spare envelopes at the office. Stewart House is a fantastic organisation which supports over 1800 public school children annually who experience a healthy and much needed break at Stewart House. Please support this worthy cause and also have a chance to win a $4,000 holiday for your family to the destination of your choice!! Envelopes must be returned by Friday 14th May to be in-cluded in the draw.

DATES TO REMEMBER May 2010 Friday 7th - Walk Safely to School Day 11th to 13th May - NAPLAN Language, Writing,

Reading and Numeracy tests to Yr 3 and 5 stu-dents

Wednesday 12th - P&C Meeting 7.00pm Thursday 13th - K-2 Currumbin Sanctuary Excursion Friday 14th - BV Cross Country—Durrumbul Tuesday 18th - BV Netball Knockout & Gala day Thursday 20th - Deadly Dancers to MHS practice Tuesday 25th - SCHOOL PHOTOS ICAS Computer Skills Competition 26th & 27th - Op Art Thursday 27th - Deadly Dancers to MHS practice Friday 28th - FNC Cross Country—Lennox Head June 2010 Wednesday 2nd - Kindergarten to visit Fire Station 11am Thursday 3rd - Deadly Dancers to MHS practice Tuesday 8th - AFL Gala Day & Knock Out Rnd 1 & 2 Public Speaking Competition Yr 3/4 10am, Yr 5/6

12.30pm at Byron Bay Public School Wednesday 9th - ICAS Science Competition Thursday 10th - Deadly Dancers to MHS practice Monday 14th - PUBLIC HOLIDAY—QUEENS BIRTHDAY Tuesday 15th - Stage 2 visit Fire station 11am Wednesday 16th - NAIDOC Day—Deadly Dancers perform BHPS Friday 18th - NC Cross Country ICAS Spelling and Writing Competitions Tuesday 22nd - BHPS Athletics Carnival Friday 25th - BV Softball KO & Gala day Monday 28th - Visiting performer—Wala Ghana July 2010 Friday 2nd - last day of term 2

Brunswick Valley Cross Country Next Friday 14th May we have around forty students who will be competing at Durrumbul in the BV Cross Country. Travel will be by bus and the cost is $10.00 per student. Notes have gone home and there are spares kept at the of-fice. Good luck to all those competing and well done. Please return notes to the office by Tuesday 11th May so we can send off the list of competitors Light Up When Riding!! The Ride2School program is urging all bike riders to light up during dusk, dawn, darkness and during conditions of poor visibility such as fog or heavy rain. National regulations require the following. The rider of a bicycle must not ride at night, or reduced visi-bility, unless the bicycle or rider displays: A flashing or steady white light that is clearly visible for at

least 200 m from the front of the bicycle and A flashing or steady red light that is clearly visible for at

lease 200m from the rear of the bicycle and A red reflector that is clearly visible for at least 50m from

the rear of the bicycle when light is projected onto it by a vehicle’s headlight on low beam.

Penalties are $56 for each offence = $112 for a rider with no front or rear light. Newsletter Advertising Anyone who is wishing to advertise on the back page of our newsletter has only one week left to get it in before the new print happens for the coming year. If you are interested in placing an annual advertisement which goes out to all families and staff at our school by pa-per and is emailed to subscribers every week needs to con-tact Australian Newsletter Service on 1800 245 077. The Young Bruns The Brunswick Heads Chamber of Commerce and Bruns-wick Heads Public School will partner with industry profes-sionals to make a television commercial. The program aims to create rich, interesting learning opportunities for BH school students. It works across the curriculum to inspire local children to focus on what they have rather than what they don’t have. Stage 3 (Year 5 and 6) students will write, produce, direct, perform in and assist with editing their own 30 second com-mercial—and have a lot of fun doing it! The theme of the commercial will be Simple Pleasures. The message is that there is a lot for young people and their families to do in BH, on holidays as well. Students will work on the project for 1 to 2 hours per week throughout Term 2. It is hoped that a screening of their work will take place early in Term 3. Please direct any en-quiries to Lanie Loughlin on Mondays and Tuesdays on 6685 1003.

Monday 17.5.10 Friday 21.5.10 Rosie Jones

Monday 24.5.10 Friday 28.5.10

Monday 31.5.10 Fiona Walkinshaw Friday 4.6.10

Monday 7.6.10 Friday 11.6.10

Monday 14.6.10 PUBLIC HOLIDAY Friday 18.6.10

Monday 21.6.10 Friday 25.6.10

Monday 28.6.10 Friday 2.7.10

Name: Phone Contact: Canteen Roster To Date—TERM 2 Child’s Name:

Autism Spectrum Disorder Parent Support Group Meeting Date: Friday 7th May 2010 Venue: Mullumbimby Community Health Time: 9.45—12.00 Joy McGrath—Child & Family counsellor—6684 1677 Gayle Moore—Support Teacher Autism—6680 2766

P&C NEWS

P&C Meeting - our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 12th May, 6.45 for a cuppa with meeting to start at 7.00pm. Please think about coming along to share any ideas you may have and participate in the running of your child’s school. Canteen—We are receiving a new demountable can-teen, BUT it has not happened as yet and it does not look like we will be able to open until Monday 17th May at the earliest. We are still looking for volunteers for the rest of term. If you can help, please put your name down on the roster below.

NOW YOUR CHILD CAN LEARN A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT! NOW TAKING ENROLMENTS 2010

Did you know that BHPS currently runs a successful instrumental music program at the school, during school hours, which is avail-able for your child to attend? Give it a try for the term. Some instruments are available for a nominal hire cost from the school. Did you know? Learning a musical instrument has been proven to improve your child’s: * Speaking and Reading ability * Memory skills * Social Skills * English skills and ability to learn other languages * Mathematics and complex problem skills * Confidence

Andrew Hills —Mondays—6684 9430 (Woodwind) Joanne Sloane—Wednesdays—0422 562 179 (Keyboard/Piano and African Drumming) Michel Voets—Thursdays—0403 700 157 (Guitar—acoustic and bass) Rex Carter—Wednesdays—0412 184 494 (Drum Kit) Sonja Henderson—0412 184 494 (Trombone and all brass instruments) Student Name: Parent Name: Year: Class: Daytime Phone: Mobile: Please return this form to your school office and they will pass on to the appropriate music tutor to contact you.

Please tick the instrument your child would like to learn or num-ber in preference.

COMMUNITY NEWS Tweed Wollumbin Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) Members and guests are invited to attend the following meetings of the Tweed Wollumbin Local AECG. The NSW AECG is a three tiered structure made up of local, regional and state members and delegates and is the primary source of advice to the Minister of Education and Training and other service providers on all matters relating to Aboriginal education and training. All are welcome to attend. All enquiries to 07 5536 9629. Meeting dates— Monday 7th June at Wollumbin HS 6672 5121, Monday 9th August, Banora Point 07 5513 1960, Monday 18th October AGM at Tweed River HS 07 5524 3007 and Monday 6th December at Kingcliff TAFE.

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