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Volume 22 Issue 12 Thursday 5 May 2016
TERM DATES
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TERM 3 11 JULY - 16 SEPT . TERM 4 03 OCT . - 20 DEC .
06 MAY -03 JUNE INTER SCHOOL SPORTS YEAR 6 AND SELECTED 5 S
10 MAY -12 MAY NAPLAN
16 MAY -19 MAY MONSTER BOOK FAIR
18 MAY EDUCATION WEEK OPEN NIGHT 6:00-7:00 P .
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18 MAY
10
JUNE
YEAR 5 SOVEREIGN HILL EXCURSION ( PAYMENT $50.00 DUE 11/05/16 OR CSEF )
LIGHTNING PREMIERSHIP AT SWEENEY RESERVE
14
JULY CULTURAL INFUSION
JIM BELL
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PRINCIPAL
INCURSION YEAR
3/4’
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($14.50
PAYMENT
JENNY REID
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DUE BY
6/06/16)
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
2017 FOUNDATION ENROLMENTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE OFFICE .
T hank You Mums, on Behalf of Mums!!
A huge thank you is extended to the members of our fundraising committee for organising and attending to our Mothers’ Day Stall. The range of gifts
E ducation Week 2016
Education Week will be celebrated from 15-21
May 2016 when kindergartens and government schools throughout Victoria will open their doors to and prices meant that all children could be catered for parents and their broader communities through over the two days of its operation! The children were information nights, open days and evenings, student excited and eager purchasers and I’m confident that their displays, performances and other special events that mums are going to be pleasantly surprised on Sunday 8 showcase their programs and achievements.
May!
For Victoria, the key to a prosperous future lies in a highly-skilled workforce, including strong capability in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This is why the Department is dedicated to providing all students high-quality curriculum, as part of its
Thank you to Donna Foster, Sandra Prvulj, Janine commitment to make Victoria the Education State.
Russell, Leonie Roberts, Glenda Lambie and Barb Scott A highlight of Education Week is the much anticipated for their respective contributions to its successful Calendar of Free Events presented by the Department of organisation! Education and Training in partnership with galleries, museums, libraries, farms and zoos, performance groups, tourism attractions and other community organisations with educational programs.
This year, schools are encouraged to explore technology with this year’s theme titled - Technology. Create Your
Future .
Our Open Evening will be held on Wednesday 18 May from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. We look forward to a GREAT attendance on the evening!

C urriculum Highlights
This week, we continue with published articles in relation to the Year 6 excursion to Scienceworks , the Little Scientists Program at John
Monash Science School, the Year 5
Graffiti Awareness Talk , the Responsible Pet Ownership incursion for Year Prep and 1, the Year 6 inquiry unit on
Government and Kambrya Extension Maths ! What a busy few weeks!!!!!
Anu wrote a poem about the task:
Fred was an egg, who came in the world in a bundle of red.
But will now be renamed as Fred the Dead.
K ambrya Extension Maths
This week, the students continued to consolidate their understanding of Algebra!
L ittle Scientists Program—- Second Outing
On the 27th of April, we, the little scientists of
Brentwood Park (Anu, Ali, Hannah and
Jaskaran) went to John Monash Science School in
Clayton for our second day after 2 weeks . There were 5 schools and 4 children in each group participating in the program. The topic was Gravity and Surface area.
At first, the senior students gave the worksheet to all participants which had a questionnaire based on Gravity and Surface. We all finished this activity in 15 minutes and following we were given a group activity called The
Egg Drop. In this activity, all participants were asked to design a shockproof model using minimal resources. All
TOPIC : Solving equations through balancing.
LEARNING GOAL : To use the balancing method to participants were given 1000 dollars to spend toward the solve an unknown variable. purchase of the materials for the model.
Firstly, we worked on preparing a shockproof design and
SUCCESS CRITERIA : Use inverse operations of addition and subtraction to solve the unknown variable. bought the required material with the money given to us. This week year 6 students studied solving the variable in
Our design was similar to a parachute, in which the speed an equation, such as x in the equation x-5=8 of egg was minimised with air drag. We were very happy and excited to work on this model then a Year 11 student Method : came and said: “It is really interesting but your Egg x-5=8 Step 1. Move the pronumerals to the left might fall”. Then we thought about that problem and came up with a good solution of using the masking tape hand side of the equal sign. x=8-5 Step 2. Move the numbers to the right hand as a belt for the egg. Now was the time to do the testing side of the equation. of all the models from cracking or breaking of the egg. x=3
In the initial testing, all the egg models were to be The students found problems, such as above easily solved dropped from the first floor of the building. In this initial but will need more experience solving the variable in round, Brentwood Park Primary and Ansleigh Park equations, such as 2x+4=x+2. Next week they will
Primary School were the winners. It was a great moment continue with their learning. for BPPS team but at the same time, we all were nervous as we were moving to the second round of testing the Jack, Vincent, Aamir and Tyson are looking forward to models. In the second round, the egg models were to be next week’s lesson. They were quite pleased with their dropped from the second floor. As we dropped our egg understanding of this week’s algebraic learning. from the second floor, we were holding our breath. When our egg landed it started leaking. We all were upset about that. Now was the turn for APPS to drop their egg; everyone was standing still to know what will happen; as this was going to determine our success. Unfortunately, their parachute crashed into the railing and the egg got out of the basket and SPLAT! Their egg broke and we were the winners. It was really a cheerful and delightful moment for all of the BPPS team. Everyone gave us a big hand of applause.
Now it was almost the time to leave; thus, we all left to return to BPPS happily!
Jaskaran 5/6TS

OUR LITLLE SCIENTISTS-ALI, JASKARAN, ANU AND HANNAH AT WORK
DESIGNING A
DEVICE THAT WOULD PROTECT AN EGG FROM BEING DROPPED FROM A
HEIGHT.

G rade 6 Excursion to the Scienceworks
Museum
T he Lightning Room
This was my favourite. Before the lightning display,
On the
22 nd
April, grade
Kat, our host, did some experiments where static electricity caused balloons to stick onto someone’s hair.
6 students spent She also made a student’s hair stand up and made a an enjoyable and educational day at the Scienceworks pickled onion light up. A large cage protected us from the
Museum in Spotswood. Our visit to The Planetarium lightning. Five different models were inside the cage: a addressed our unit on Physical Sciences whilst the plane, a car, a man holding a golf club, a girl near a tree, experiments in The Lightning Room demonstrated electrical energy, safety and lightning. Various other interactive exhibitions, based on science, quickly engaged our students.
T he Planetarium
What an amazing experience! This was my favourite show. I leaned back in the reclining chair and watched the domed ceiling. The first show, TILT, explained how the earth’s axis is tilted which causes the four seasons. The second show explained the and a person inside a bus stop made of a metal roof with wooden sides. The lightning struck each object. We discovered that the plane and the car were safe. To keep safe from lightning strikes when outside, crouch down close to the ground on ‘tippy toes’ with your hands on your head. Taryn
E xperiments in The Lightning Room
I was excited about going to Scienceworks. Our second last activity was The Lightning Room. I constellations, the planets and the stars. I enjoyed the day and suggest you go and see it for yourself! personally like learning about electricity. Kat, our guide, showed us where to sit on rows of seats. Before us stood
Eliza G old Class
As soon as I walked through the doors into The
Planetarium, I felt as if I was in Gold Class! There were a tall metal fence and behind it were a model aeroplane and a car, a dummy holding a golf club in the air, a smaller dummy near a branch of a tree, and a dummy under a bus shelter with a metal roof and wooden sides. and a massive projector also behind the metal fence. It shot out a thick, crooked domed ceiling. Watching space from our chairs, models and dummies. we saw how the seasons Kat explained what circuits were. My friend, Jacob, held change due to the tilt of a wire at one end and a girl held the other. When their the earth’s axis. Using a other hands touched each other’s, the light in the middle diagram of the night sky, we saw the constellations of an emu, a man, a dog and a scorpion. We saw The Southern of the wire started to glow. My favourite experiment was when Kat fitted a pickled onion between two metal rods.
Cross and were shown how to tell if we were in the north, south, east or west based on the cross.
When electricity ran through the rods, the onion gave off a nice, yellow light. Azaan
Maddy T he Planetarium
In my opinion, Scienceworks is a great place to learn about how the world works. By far, my favourite
S tars and Shadows
Inside The Planetarium, we watched a cartoon. The girl was making a project about the seasons and why they part was The Planetarium. We walked through a red change. A robot took her and her brother into space. The hallway and into a large circular room with a domed robot explained why our shadows change in summer and ceiling. We sat in the reclining chairs and leaned back. winter. In summer, the sun is higher and makes our
Imagine lying in bed shadows look shorter. In winter, it is the opposite. I ceiling and watching a movie. It was basically that. When the movie started, everyone was quiet.
It was about the tilted axis of the earth and how this causes the seasons to happen. Later we were shown a picture of the night sky.
We went star gazing and saw lots of constellations.
Riley constellations. The teacher told us that if we looked outside that night, we would see the full moon, the Southern Cross and some constellations. After dinner, I went outside and looked at the stars. I found
The Southern Cross.
Tina

Grade 6 have been looking at Government and have been running a Wizard
Parliament. 6 JA have been conducting elections to elect representatives of electorates, through making speeches, electing party leaders, the government and the Chief Wizard. The highlight and conclusion of the unit was the debate on
Broomstick Regulation.
Which was held like it is in
Parliament and each child contributed to the debate. A vote was then held and it was passed.
6JA
Chief Wizard
BROOMSTICK
REGULATION BILL
The Regulation and licencing of broomsticks
A) All broomsticks must have clear registration.
B) Only permitted to travel at 1/2 speed until receive full licence after testing at age 15.
C) No flying under curses or spells; if apprehended will have their licence removed.
D) Under 12 years must have training wings.
The ministers and members making their speeches in Wizard
Parliament. Every child hade to speak and add to the debate.

To support the City of Casey’s community wide program to help stamp out graffiti, Xavier arrived on Tuesday, 12th
April to inform the grade 5 students about graffiti, its effects on the community and how choices can affect their future. Together they explored options for filling in time, alternative activities and choices that can be made instead of engaging in graffiti, as well as, the benefits of positive self-expression. The consequences of graffiti for the perpetrator, victim and the wider community were discussed and portrayed in a hilarious role play.
I thought Xavier was very funny and he made the talk interesting because he wasn’t serious and boring. It turned out to be really fun, yet educational.
Jack P . and Gaby W
.
The Graffiti talk was amazing as we had so much fun and learnt how bad graffiti really is because it can change people’s lives.
Holly
Graffiti can ruin the environment, the person who’s doing it and I also learned that it may ruin the person and their family’s lives.
Abhijit
Other people have to pay to clean the graffiti that they didn’t do which is unfair. Ashton
The graffiti talk was a hilarious and educational event where Xavier told us the damage that graffiti could do while still making us laugh our heads off! Anu
People do graffiti on houses and trains.
People who use trains pay for cleaning the graffiti from the trains.
Jerald
I learnt that graffiti is illegal. There is also a huge difference between graffiti and street art. Remember if you spray, we all pay.
Natharie
I think Xavier taught us a very important thing. Stop doing graffiti and do something different or try a s t r e e t a r t .
Lydia
The inspiring talk made me realise how much graffiti affects everything-not just the building that got vandalised but the buildings next to it too .
Ebony

Xavier taught us the difference between Graffiti and Street Art. I got to be a ballerina in the play which was really funny but we mostly talked about Graffiti and why it’s not right. Ty
Xavier told us that tagging was damaging properties. He went into costume and told us a story about a boy who joined other boys and did graffiti.
Sherinder
The talk was quite funny so easy to understand. I know the difference between ’Street Art’ and ’Vandalism’.
Molly
Last week a gentleman called Xavier came and explained how Art and
Graffiti are different. Then he explained that agreeing to bad ideas could get you into even more trouble.
Daniel
Graffiti is bad for your health because we breathe in the fumes.
Shameera
Graffiti damages properties. People get less money for their house if they want to sell it when there’s graffiti in the neighbourhood.
Sam
I learnt what the consequences were for doing graffiti, as well as, the importance of being honest and doing the right thing, ALWAYS!
Gabrielle
Some people risk their lives to do graffiti even though it’s wrong.
They could get caught by the police and get put in jail. They could even die by breathing in the fumes.
Darby
Artists have to ask for permission to do street art but people who do graffiti don’t ask for permission and this is known as vandalism.
Will
People want to express themselves and they should do it through their art, not graffiti.
Nekeytah
It’s illegal to do graffiti on private property, well, it’s illegal to do graffiti anywhere! Mikayla
I liked Xavier’s graffiti’s lesson because it taught me if you do graffiti, we all pay. Varina
I thought it was important for someone to warn us about graffiti and tell us how it hurts others. Trinity
Xavier was very interesting and inspiring to listen to, because he didn’t just stand there and talk. He asked us questions, talked and did demonstrations. Hanna S.
If you do graffiti, you should have to clean the walls.
Jasmine
I learnt what to do when you are in a situation to do with graffiti.
Hannah D.

On Thursday the 28th of April, the Grade Foundation to Two, attended sessions to inform the children of how to care for and interact with pets responsibly. The children had the opportunity to observe how dogs can be scared, happy or angry and the signs to identify this. They learnt how to approach a dog safely and what to do if confronted by an unknown or angry dog. The children participated in role plays of various scenarios and learnt what responsible pet ownership involves.
As part of follow up activities the children in the Foundation to Grade 2 completed recounts, posters, role plays and reflections on how they care for their own pets. Below are posters from 1/2 RG.

Books vs Video Games
I believe that books are better than video games because you can get sore eyes playing computer games. Also, it is more fun reading than just wasting time and you learn more than playing games.
Firstly, if you keep on staring at one computer screen you get sore eyes. That means getting a dry eye or getting uncomfortable in certain parts of the day. It sometimes makes people uncomfortable.
Secondly, it is way more fun using your imagination than looking at a computer screen. You enter a world of your own, you know that you are free when you read.
Last but not least, you learn more when you read. I like to follow the saying of Doctor Seuss, ‘The more you read the more you will know, the more you will know the more places you’ll go’, in nearly every activity I do at school.
In conclusion, there is no doubt that books are better than boring computer games. We can clearly see books are better than video games. Books rule! By Amna.
Books are better than computer games
Books are better than computer games because you will do better at school when you have a reading test. You will also understand more words if you read every night. If you just play computer games all day you will never get a good school report.
Firstly, you will do better in school if you have a reading test. You could get smarter by reading all day.
Secondly, you will understand more words if you read every night and day. So if your teacher says what does ‘Satellite’ mean you could just answer it quick smart.
The people that play computer games all day, they will just say ‘ummmmmmm’.
Finally, if you just play computer games all day long, you will never get an A on your report. Your teacher will be very MAD!!
In conclusion, you will do better at school. You will understand more words and you will get a good report. That is why books are better than computer games.
By Lincoln.

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May 16 th -19 th (am only)
8.30am-9am & 3.15-4pm

FBM Chloe
FBV Tyler
FLP Mauryan
FSM Max
FTL Dyaal
1/2R Rohan
1HG Aaliyah
1MB Milly
1MC Arman
For always trying your best in everything.
For being a lovely and kind member of FBV. You are a Superstar!
For reading the first 20 frequently used words. AWESOME effort,
Mauryan!
For segmenting and blending words! You are an awesome sound detective!
For great blending of words. Well done!
For his role play during the Responsible Pet Incursion. A terrific effort!
For always demonstrating persistence to achieve her personal best as well as consistently smiling.
For her wonderful letter writing to a friend. Well done, Milly!
For always being a polite and respectful class member. You are such a
2AD Ruachkuoth For his amazing improvement in his spelling results! Well done!
2CM Kyle For doing a great job in all areas of your homework this week.
2DK Yassavi For settling in so well and making a fantastic start to term 2.
Welcome to B.P.P.S!
3CH Liam For accepting feedback & applying this in your learning.
Keep up the good work!
3LM Michael D. For an awesome start to Brentwood Park Primary!
For writing a fantastic, well-structured persuasive writing piece. 3SH Vilara
4CP Jackson
4CV
4VK
Zach
Larato
For his fantastic contributions to our VCOP openers. Well done!
For writing an outstanding narrative. Fantastic use of WOW words,
Zach. Well done and keep up the good work.
For improved concentration on your class work! Superstar!
5/6T Daemon
5LF Ebony
5SM Ashton
6JA Sandavi
6JD Jack
6JP Asher
For being a focussed reader and completing The Premier’s Reading
Challenge ahead of time.
For a super effort in learning your times tables. Keep it up! Well done!
For persisting with his times tables challenge! Well done!
Keep at it!
For writing an AWESOME reading journal and being a fabulous Chief
Wizard in our Wizard Parliament.
For his outstanding achievements od ‘2’ medals at the State School
Swimming!
For achieving such a fantastic result at the district cross country!

Staff Super Star Marina For your ability to make everyone feel included and your consistent happy
Health & P.E.
6JD disposition.
For an AWESOME effort in being the only grade to complete the
Visual Arts FTL For working so beautifully on your Very Hungry Caterpillar and butterfly
collages.
Performing Arts 1MB For demonstrating your ‘Getting Along’ skills and teamwork when you were working out the rhythm of ‘Tick Tock’.
LOTE 4CV
1MB
For the excellent cooperation between Cassie V and Chunyen and for your initiative in finishing your homework early this week.
For your quick mastering of the Chinese sentence ‘I love you, Mum’
‘M a ma, wo ai ni’ in Chinese. .

P LEASE DIRECT MONEY FOR EXCURSIONS, ETC TO YOUR CLASSROOM TEACHER - NOT TO THE
OFFICE.
Please hand money and permission slip in sealed envelopes to classroom teacher first thing in the morning.
By following this process teachers are aware that your child will be attending the excursion and mark them off their lists. Money is collected by office staff and processed each morning and a receipt given back to teachers along with permission slips. All money is tallied and banked daily – no money is left on the premises.
If you wish to pay by credit card, a proforma is available from the office. This can be filled out with details and placed in a sealed envelope and handed to your classroom teacher
Please deliver cash in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and grade on the front by 9.30 a.m. If you have a number of children attending an excursion you can place all money and permission slips in the one envelope with children’s names and grades on the front and deliver to one of the children’s teachers. The office staff will be able to allocate money to the children’s particular items and distribute permission slips and receipts back to teachers. Envelopes are available at the office.
If you have a large amount to be paid or need to process an EFTPOS transaction through a savings account you can make arrangements to pay at the office.
We also have a new Qkr payment system on our Skoolbag app. If you download our Skoolbag app and Qkr payment app you can now pay for your child’s excursion on line.
All change will be delivered to the children in the afternoon.
Re-imbursements will only be made under certain circumstances – they will be made by cheque (no cash transactions are made).
Notices are sent out with a final collection time – please adhere to this time . All money and permission slips are required to be sent back by this date – otherwise your child will not be able to attend. This enables us to confirm bookings and numbers with bus companies and organisations we are visiting. Also we need to send details to the Department of Education Emergency Management for all excursions, camps, etc. We also need to accommodate students who will not be attending.
We would appreciate it if parents could please follow these processes.

2017 Year 7 Future Students
REMINDER
Applications to Alkira's Sports Program and Accelerated Learning Program close on Friday May 13th 2016.
Applications after this date will not be considered.
Accelerated Learning Program testing will take place on Saturday May 28th 2016.
Skills testing for the Sports Academy will take place beginning Friday 27th May.
Additional enquiries for either programs can be made to Alkira Secondary College 03 5991 3518