3 July 2019

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From the Principal

Our Motto: Friendly Respectful Courageous Learning

Our Commitment: With courage we learn, connecting to people and place. Striving for excellence by being curious, creative and resilient.

As the end of term approaches I would like to thank: our hard working staff team for their professionalism and dedication to student learning and wellbeing; our amazing students who strive to their best every day learning in the classroom and who also continue to look after each other like extended family; and finally to our parents/guardians who provide such great support to their children and also to teachers in providing that crucial home-school partnership focussed on learning improvements within our strong school values environment.

This week the final ENE Country Gold trials are being held at St Mary’s and we are sure that all our students participating in the selections will be again giving their best to maximise their chances of selection. We really look forward to hearing the results of the selection process.

On Tuesday 30 July we will be holding out next Wilds’cool meeting with Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife staff. The purpose of this meeting will be to identify a plan around environmental projects that our students can be involved in. We will provide more information around this meeting in week 1 of Term 3.

Many thanks to Carl Noonan for his excellent work with our students around images that reflect our school and also, conceptual designs and ideas for our new school logo. This work is displayed both in the library and on the glass windows outside the Prep/1 and Grade 1/2 classrooms corridor. Please have a look when you get a chance as we move into the shortlisting phase and final design selection. As school community input to this process is essential, we aim to finalise this process early in Term 3.

Our school camp is fast approaching and parents of our Grade 3-6 students will receive paperwork to fill out and bring back by Friday. This will enable us to finalise numbers for the trip to Hagley Farm on 7-9th August. Please look out for warm gloves, beanies, jackets, thermals, waterproofed footwear, and scarves that can be bought, borrowed or recycled as keeping students warm will be an imperative, particularly the Grade 5/6 students who will have a day trip to Cradle Mountain on Thursday 8th August.

Just a reminder that on Monday 22 July is a pupil free day and all teaching staff and teaching assistants from St Mary’s, St Helen’s, Campbell Town, Winnaleah and Bicheno schools will be attending a professional learning focussed on a consistent Instructional Model across our schools. Students return to school for Term 3 on Tuesday 23 July.

Thanks everyone for a wonderful term 2 and we wish everyone a safe and happy holiday where everyone has a wonderful opportunity to catch up with family and friends!

Best regards
Rob Presswell

What’s happening in our classrooms?

Prep/One

Prep/One has been reading the book Magic Beach andwe looked at making connections to our own lives as a comprehension strategy.

Social/Emotional:

We are learning to keep our problems small and use our problem solving wheel.

Reading:

We are learning to chunk words in our reading.

Writing:

We are learning to use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, for names of people and places and for the letter I.

Numeracy:

We are learning about positional language.

Science:

We are learning to understand how the weather affects everyday life. .

HASS:

We are learning about built, managed and natural features of our community.

Grade 1/2

In English, we are learning to accurately spell words with regular spelling patterns and words with less common long vowel patterns. For example, long vowels: ai/ay, oa/o_e, and ee/ea.

We are also learning to use punctuation accurately, and write words and sentences legibly using unjoined upper- and lower-case letters.

In Maths, we are learning to recognise increasing and decreasing number sequences. For example, we have been counting on and back in 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s from any starting point.

We are also learning to recognise patterns in number sequences, such as adding and subtracting 10 always results in the same final digit. (e.g. 74, 84, 94, 104, 114 …)

In Science, we are learning about mixtures in our chemical sciences unit All mixed up. We are learning about materials that don’t mix well, and others that are difficult to separate.

Grade 3/4

English: We are learning to identify homophones and understand how they sound the same but can be spelt differently and mean different things.

Maths: We are learning to make 3 Dimensional shapes and identify lines of symmetry within them.

Grade 5/6

Grade 5/6 recently travelled to Hobart to visit Parliament house where they learnt about the building’s history and consolidated their learning on Australia’s system of law making.

Three levels of Government in Australia

In Hass, the 5/6s have been learning about the levels of Government in Australia. We explored the levels of Government and the people and places involved with them. In our projects, we had to include something visual. Most people chose pictures but some did drawings too. We then had to display our research in our own creative way, such as a poster, PowerPoint or diorama. These are our finished presentations.

Ruby and Ocean

In English

Reading :- author’s purpose: - making predictions

Writing :- persuasive devices : moving away from making bare assertions (expecting our reader to take our word for it). Instead of: “horse racing is dangerous” using “statistics would suggest that horse racing is dangerous.”

Spelling:- recognising unstressed vowels in polysyllabic (many vowel) words, Uncommon prefixes

In Maths

Transformation – enlarging two dimensional shapes to scale using factors and using the Cartesian plane for plotting and finding locations

Number - working with positive and negative numbers and undertaking multiplicative thinking challenges

In HASS

Australia’s system of law making – researching, planning and writing persuasive statements for our House of Assembly role play.

In Science

We are learning about the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gas and investigating changes in states of matter

In Art

• portraiture

Indonesian

In Kinder we are continuing with counting up to 11 and using the ELLA apps.

In prep/1 and 1/2 we will be revising our terms learning via participation in some songs and games.

In 3/4 and 5/6 we will be revising our learning and participating in some revision memory games.

Important information about the school holidays

The school will be undertaking some Repair and Maintenance work over the holidsay so we would ask parents and students to cooperate by staying away from the school when the work is being undertaken

Projects

• Removal of the old cladding from the music room
• A new ceiling installed in the Prep/One classroom
• New carpet in the Prep/One and Grade 1/2 classroom and the library
• New vinyl floor boards in the hallway and administration area

Student Free Day:

School Association Update

School Disco

A reminder to return disco permission forms to school tomorrow please

Thank you

On behalf of the BPSAssoc I would like to thank Megan Coelho for being a member over the last 3 years. Megan, Brad, Lachie, Sophie & Sienna will certainly be missed by parents, teachers & peers.

Enjoy your next adventure to Western Australia, and safe travels.

Carrie

Kinder working with Carl Noon on the new school logo

Lego Holiday Program

Footy Margin Tickets

Winner for round 15 was Shayne Taylor

Unclaimed winners:

Round 10

Ticket number 661486
Margin 7

Round 14

Ticket number 660486
Margin 19

Check those tickets!!! They could worth $100

Songwriting Holiday Sessions

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Dental Service

More information regarding the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Information for parents

A friendly reminder that the school has a duty of care for student from 8:15am, extending to 3:15pm. Students on the school grounds outside of these operating hours must be under parental supervision. The school toilets and classrooms are closed at 2:45pm. There are public toilets located next to Little Penguins Child Centre.

Rob Presswell

School Information

Phone: 63751222
Email: bicheno.primary@education.tas.gov.au
Principal: Robert Presswell
School Business Manager: Sandra Silberberg

Teachers

Kinder and LiL: Eliza Spykers
Prep/One: Bronti Cooke and Bron Pierce
Grade 1/2: Bruce Campbell and Jen Sliskovic
Grade 3/4: Sam Kelly
Grade 5/6: Jill Bosua
Support Teacher: Bron Pierce

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