31 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.

Welcome back to a flying start to Term 3! Our students have made an excellent start to their learning and are also having fun in the process. Thanks to our wonderful teachers and support staff who spent time during the holidays preparing each learning environment and also to parents for preparing children to return back to school with a positive learning mindset.

Our pupil free day on Monday 22nd July was a great success up at St Mary’s with teachers, teaching assistants and some relief teachers from 5 schools: St Helen’s, St Mary’s, Campbell Town, Winnaleah and Bicheno Primary joining in on this valuable professional learning day. This collaboration across our 5 schools is such a powerful opportunity to continue building all of our teachers and support staff’s skills around our new Instructional Model.

On Tuesday our WildSc’ool planning meeting was well attended by KEON students, student leaders, parents, Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife rangers, and volunteers from various Bicheno community groups including: Earth Ocean Network, Kids Earth Ocean Network, Bicheno Friends of Penguins, and the Seymour Community Action Group. This meeting was a great opportunity to share ideas around our WildSc’ool planning within a community collaboration model. We will share our planning outcomes with everyone in our next newsletter. Two focus areas are Bicheno Little Penguin monitoring and Redbill Beach shorebird monitoring.

Next week our Grade 3 to 6 students head up to Hagley Farm on 7-9th August for our 2019 school camp. Students are getting very excited, as are the parents attending. Lisa O’Neill shared with us that she attended a camp at Hagley farm when she was at school and everyone really enjoyed the learning activities which are still similar to the ones our students are involved in next week e.g. the Cottage Industries, the Olde Classroom, Animal Feeding, and Homelife in a Previous Era.

As these cold fronts move through, we hope everyone has organised their warm clothing/footwear that can be bought, borrowed or recycled to keep students warm during the camp. Particularly our Grade 5/6 students, who will have a day trip to Cradle Mountain on Thursday 8th August.

At 5pm on Thursday the 1st August we have our first School Association meeting for the Term in the school staffroom. All interested parents are welcome to come along and join in making our school a better place for our students and community. Please refer to the School Association update in this newsletter.

This week is the first week that our bus will be utilised for transporting students up to the ENE Country Gold training sessions at St Helens. Parents are encouraged to travel with your student as this is an out-of-school activity. Next week we will all be away on camp, so the next bus for training session will be Wednesday 14th August.

Have a great week everyone and enjoy the beautiful sunny East Coast winter days!

Best regards
Rob Presswell

What’s happening in our classrooms?

Kinder: Chatterpix – Kinder drawings come to life

Prep/One

Social/Emotional:

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

Reading:

We are learning our set 8 sounds and about non-fiction books.

Writing:

We are learning to edit our work for capital letters and full stops.

Numeracy:

We are learning to tell the time to the half hour.

Science:

We are learning about different habitats in the local environment such as beach,

bush and backyard.

HASS:

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

Grade 1/2

In English, we are learning to write procedures. A procedure tells the reader how to do or make something. An example of a procedural text is a recipe. We wrote procedures when we made fairy bread.

We are learning to re-read and edit our writing for spelling, punctuation and text structure.

In Maths, we are learning to recognise and represent multiplication as repeated addition, using terms such as ‘groups of’, ‘lots of’ and arrays. In an array, items are arranged in rows and columns to make counting and calculating easier

We are also developing our mathematical understanding by playing the game ‘Guess my number’. Students try to guess the number you're thinking of in the fewest number of guesses possible by asking yes/no questions, e.g. is it an odd number?

In Art, we are exploring different media to create artwork of our favourite parts and character/s from our class novel ‘James and the Giant Peach.’

Grade 3/4

English:

We are exploring the structure of procedural texts and the language features that are used within them.

We are identifying Homophones and apply the correct writing form of spelling when using them.

Maths:

We are learning to recall multiplication facts up to 10x10

Grade 5/6

In English

Reading :- making predictions on how our class novel will end, using clues from the story so far and by considering other fantasy books and author’s.

Writing :- creating holiday recounts in a comic strip format

Spelling:- adding vowel and consonant suffixes to words that end in –e and -y

In Maths

Measurement – difference between, length, perimeter, the difference between 2 and 3 dimensional shapes and calculating area and perimeter

In HASS

Research – the difference between primary and secondary sources and how (and why) to be discerning when using the internet for researching

In Science

Scientific questing and investigating Earth’s Place in Space

Kinder Excursion to Apslawn

Book Week Reminder

Important dates

School Association Update

Canteen Volunteers: BPSA is seeking volunteers for the school canteen. If you have time and are interested please email BichenoPSA@gmail.com

New School logo: Is in the design phase and will be incorporated into the new uniform design.

Uniform Update: A sample polo short in the new design will be available to view soon. Keep an eye on the space near the school office. Manufacturing has begun with a view to new uniforms being available to kick off term 4.

Sample Polo shirt

Bali Children's Project: The first three backpacks have been delivered to students who were in desperate need of help. The remaining backpacks will be delivered over the next two months as uniforms become available. The Project has also just launched an appeal for School Entry Backpacks. We will provide more information on this in the near future.

We have set-up an email address for the association to enable parents and community members to get in touch with us more easily.

The address is BichenoPSA@gmail.com

Footy Margin Tickets

Round 17 winner was Shelly Gluth
Round 18 winner was Stuart Moore

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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