Barwon Heads Primary School
‘It takes a village to raise a child’
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Barwon Heads
Primary School
Newsletter
12th May 2016
Barwon Heads Primary School
Phone: 5254 2324 Fax: 5254 3073
Website: www.bhps.vic.edu.au
Email: barwon.heads.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Compass Website: https://bhps.vic.jdlf.com.au/
Term Dates:
A Word from Our Principal
Term 2: 11 April to 24 June
With the grade 5’s and 6’s at Lightening
Premiership this Friday, I asked the grade 4’s if
there were any willing volunteer leaders interested
in running our assembly tomorrow. Typically the
response was both fantastic and overwhelming.
There is no doubt about our students, when it
comes to stepping out of their comfort zone and
having a go at something new and potentially
challenging. We are always looking for
opportunities to give our students public speaking
experience, regularly getting students from all
grades to speak at assembly. The experience can
help to build confidence, and resilience. Our
students often make it look all very easy in speaking
in front of a 500+ audience, but I know that they
prepare thoroughly behind the scenes.
This week’s assembly will be lead by:
Daniel Griffen
Pippi McIntyre
Liv Quirk
Hazel Burgess
I’m sure they will be great replacements for our
unavailable school captains. Well done to all our
grade 4s who tried out.
Term 3: 11 July to 16 September
Term 4: 3 October to 20 December (Tuesday)
Calendar Dates:
13/5/16: Lighting Premiership – Grade 5 – 6
16/5/16: Grade 3 Lobster Pot Excursion
16/5/16: Education Week
17/5/16 – 25/5/16: Life Education Van
18/5/16: Life Education Parent Session
19/5/16: Grade 1 Scienceworks Excursion
20/5/16: Open Classroom session for Education Week
24/5/16: Division Cross Country @ Eastern Gardens
13/6/16: Queens Birthday Public Holiday
16/6/16: Division Soccer
17/6/15: Grade 4 First Australians Incursion
21/6/16 – 22/6/16: Student parent teacher conferences
22/6/16 – PUPIL FREE DAY (Reporting)
19/07/16: 3-4 Hooptime Basketball
4/8/16: Grade 5/6 Hooptime Basketball
17/8/16: whole school performance: “Australian Folklore”
10/8/16: Grades 3 – 6 Athletics Day (Back up day 12th
August)
10/8/16 – 12/8/16: Grade 6 Camp
19/8/16: District Basketball @ Bellarine Secondary
22/8/16 – 26/8/16: Children’s Book Week Theme:
Australian Story Country
24/8/16: District Athletics @ Landy Field (Back up day 26th
August.)
5/9/16 - 7/9/16 – Grade 3 Coastal Forrest Lodge Camp
2/11/16 – 4/11/16: Grade 5 Cave Hill Creek Camp
8/12/16: Grade 1 Dinner
15/12/16: Grade 6 Graduation evening
16/12/16: Whole School Sports Day
19/12/16: Grade 6 Celebration day @ Adventure Park
Parent Helper Course
Ms Booth concluded the 2016 Parent Helper
Program this week, with the second and final
session attracting even larger numbers than the first.
It is great to see so many parents proactively seeking
training in how to help their child in the classroom
(and at home) Ms Booth has told me she
thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and was very
impressed with the level of engagement in the
questions that were asked. Ms Booth made
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modifications to the previous program, and as an experienced teacher and educational leader in the school, I
know the content was both detailed and informative.
Social Services 2015/2016
The two social services BHPS students have voted on supporting in 2016 are:
Give Where You Live
Beyond Blue
Gold Coin donations collected for ‘Out of Uniform’ last day of terms goes towards supporting these social
services.
We were fortunate last week in having representatives from both the Red Cross, and River’s Gift attend our
assembly where we were able to present both organisations with cheques for $500. It was extremely
informative for our students to have the representatives provide us with some background into their charities
and what the money goes towards.
We received this letter during the week
On behalf of Red Cross, I would like to thank you and the whole school for the generous donation to Red
Cross. It will certainly be appreciated and will help out for people in need.
I enjoyed being part of your assembly and am pleased to see such a wonderful Primary school in your town.
Your Sincerely,
Biddy Gubbins
Staffing News
We look forward to Mrs Cross returning next week from her 5 week Long Service Leave. Ms Booth and Miss
Jordan have been very capably filling the Assistant Principal role in her absence. The shared position allowed
them the opportunity to lead new school improvement projects, as well as be on hand to support their
teaching grades where required. Like our students, our staff are always willing to step up when required and I
am extremely appreciative they do so in such a competent and capable manner.
Web Article
A parent recently sent me the link to this story which I thought was well worth sharing also.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/-gopqef.html
Education Week
There will be a number of special activities planned next week and we would like to invite all parents to join in
classroom activities with their children from 12.30 1.30 Friday week, 20th May. We also encourage parents to
and to share lunch with their child/ren
Miss Curtain and 4A have also been working on the construction of an Estimation Exhibition, which will be in
the gym. All classes will attend throughout the day to estimate the collections in each jar. Parents are also
invited to estimate the contents over the lunch break.
NAPLAN
Students in Grade 3 and 5 students undertook the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy tests
(NAPLAN) this week. Students sat 4 x 40 to 50 minute tests in Language Conventions, Writing, Reading and
Numeracy over a 3 day period from Tuesday to Thursday. These tests along with formal assessments
undertaken by classroom teachers assist us in measuring the progress of students and in planning for future
curriculum. Schools are held very accountable for the results of these tests and all students were expected to
complete them.
These tests do not however assess all of what makes each of our students exceptional and unique.
The people who score the NAPLAN tests do not know that some of our students love to sing, are good at
drawing or can teach others to do things on computers or the iPad. They have not seen the way they
communicate with others or how they care for others. They do not know that their friends count on them to
be there for them. The people who score the NAPLAN tests cannot see how they take care of their brothers,
sisters and pets. They do not know if they participate in sports or see that they are caring and that every day
Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.
they do their best because these attributes are not tested. These are the things they know, their parents know
and their teacher knows.
The scores they get from these tests will tell us how they performed on that day, but they will not tell us
everything. They don’t tell us that they may have improved on something that they once found difficult. They
don’t tell you that they brighten up their teacher’s day. They don’t tell you how amazingly special they are.
And they don’t tell us how special they make our school and the lives of everyone they interact with.
Building Works
Our appointed builders will be a regular fixture on our school environment until the end of the year. The
anticipated completion date of our 5 new classrooms and external associated works will be January 2017.
Despite the obvious and necessary inconveniences that will occur during the building phase, the final outcome
will make this period extremely worthwhile. It is yet another exciting time for BHPS and we look forward to
the official commencement of the building phase.
The first notable inconvenience has been the reduction in the capacity of our office area car park and
playground.
There are plans for this major project on the window of my office for those who are interested.
Mr Darren Roskosch
Principal
School Communication Update
In the weeks to come you will notice a change in the way you receive your information that is usually contained
in our school newsletter. Since the introduction of Compass the way in which we communicate with our
school community has changed significantly. This was a direct response to our parent opinion survey. Classes
have their own newsletters, blogs and class dojo’s has led to a reduction in the amount of information that
needs to appear in our newsletter. Over the next few months we will continue to provide both the old type of
newsletter and also transfer our favourite items like BHPS Superstars to our Compass program.
“YOU CAN DO IT AWARDS”
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1A
1B
1C
2A
2B
2C
3A
3B
34C
4A
4B
5A
5B
56C
6A
6B
Helena
Iluka
George
Sarah
Eden
Harper
Scienceworks Excursion
Scienceworks Excursion
Scienceworks Excursion
Tallin
Beatrix
Monty
Liv
Meg
Erin
Lenny
Emma
Max
Hero
Floyd
Leilani
Harry
Mackenzie
Lucy
George
Scienceworks Excursion
Scienceworks Excursion
Scienceworks Excursion
Harper
Taiyo
Banjo
Ethan
Emi
Jema
Abi
Flynn
Sienna
William
Language Awards
Well done to the following students for their outstanding work in Indonesian.
Zara 1A, Jasper 1B, Darcy 1B, Taj 6A.
Barwon Heads Primary School promotes integrity, life-long learning and the attainment of excellence.