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Welcome back to school for Term 2!  We hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful term break and are ready for a busy and action-packed term!  Wishing all of our Mothers and Mother type people, a Happy Mother’s Day for last Sunday. Thank you for all that you do for your children and for the support that you show for their education. It is with great delight that we have been able to start the term mask free and with fewer restrictions due to COVID. We can now welcome parents and visitors to our school more freely due to the dropping of requirements around vaccination certificates, although these are still required for volunteers and people engaging in work at our school. Regular hand washing, sanitising of high use areas and other COVID precautions are still in place and students, staff and visitors are still welcome to wear masks if they prefer. Please refer to my parent letter sent out earlier this term for further details.

We have already held a number of events and activities at school and are looking forward to many more before the end of term.  Last week we held our annual Mother’s Day stall and Mother’s Day breakfast.  Both events were very successful and well attended. Many students were able to buy gifts for their mothers and significant people and we were delighted by the turn out of approximately 150 people to our special breakfast. It was great to see so many of our families come together to enjoy a special breakfast in celebration of our wonderful Mums!  A massive thank you to our Fundraising committee for their work in shopping, wrapping, pricing and setting up for the Mother’s Day stall and also a big thank you to our staff for the extra hours you put in to make our breakfast such an amazing experience.

Mrs Slade has also run our whole school cross country trials with 20 of our students being selected to represent our school at last week’s District Cross Country.  Our students certainly did us proud and ended up placing 4th out of 10 schools due to their amazing efforts.  Five of these students have now qualified to compete at the next level, Division Cross Country.  Best of luck to these students.  A big thank you to Mrs Slade for all her work in making this happen.

As you may be aware, the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) 2022 for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students started yesterday on Tuesday 11th May, and will continue until tomorrow, Thursday 13th May. Our year 3 and 5 students have had a smooth start to the testing period, beginning with a special NAPLAN breakfast on each of the mornings.  NAPLAN tests assess student knowledge and skills in Writing, Reading, Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and Numeracy. Tests are conducted in the mornings when students are well rested and most energised. NAPLAN is one measure through which governments, education authorities, schools, teachers and parents can determine whether or not young Australians are meeting important educational outcomes in Literacy and Numeracy. The tests can provide parents and schools with an understanding of how individual students are performing at the time of the tests. They can also provide schools, states and territories with information about how education programs are working and what areas need to be improved. 

NAPLAN tests are only one aspect of Bayswater Primary School’s assessment and reporting process; they do not replace the extensive ongoing assessments made by our teachers about each student’s performance. Help your child prepare by reassuring them that the NAPLAN is just one part of their school program, and by reminding them on the day to simply try their best. The teachers will ensure that the children are familiar with the types of questions in the tests and they will provide support and guidance. Individual student results will be provided to parents and students later in the year. Results are expected to be sent home from mid-August to end-September. 

Next Wednesday the 18th of May will be our first Pancake Breakfast supplied by Appleby Real Estate in over 2 years!  For the previous 2 and a bit years before COVID hit, we have been extremely fortunate to have been able to hold a special pancake breakfast for our students and their families, once a term. This will be held in the breakfast club room from 8:15 until 8:45 and all students are welcome to attend.  A massive thank you to the staff from Appleby Real Estate for your continued support and generosity shown to our school. Our regular and weekly breakfast club will be up and running again shortly also.  Unfortunately, we have had difficulty staffing this program as Breakthrough Church have struggled to find available volunteers. We will advise you all as soon as we have details confirmed.

Our 2023 Prep Open Morning is this Saturday from 10 am until 12:00 pm and is a great opportunity to come and meet with myself, Mrs Shrimpton (our current Prep teacher) and have a look around our school. We will also be holding a free sausage sizzle for those that attend on the day. So, if you or someone you know, has a child due to begin prep next year, we encourage you to come along.

Education week this year is from Sunday May 22 until Saturday May 28. This year we are celebrating 150 years of public education in Victoria.  We will be marking this event with a special Open Night where we will be inviting our current students and their families along to have a look around our school, meet our wonderful staff in person and look at the work being done by your children in each of their classes.  There will be displays of work, classes will be open, and we will have activities based around our 4 school values to take part in. The school will be open from 5:00 – 6:30pm on Monday May 23 to hopefully enable everyone to attend. Again, further details will be sent home closer to the date.

Lastly, as you will no doubt be aware, our school will be used a polling place for the upcoming Federal election taking place on Saturday May 21.  Our school holds the busiest polling place in the city of Knox and we are anticipating that there will be thousands of voters choosing to cast their vote from our school hall.  Our fundraising committee will be running a BBQ on this day to raise funds for us to build a deck on the side of our B Building to enable an outdoor learning space for our students. Unfortunately, we have been unsuccessful in obtaining a grant for these works on two occasions now and desperately need to replace the rapidly deteriorating temporary steps that were placed there when the building was first built. We will be calling for volunteers to help out on the day so if you have a spare couple of hours, we would really appreciate your help as this will be one of our major fundraising opportunities for the year. Please contact Raelene or Kelly Roberts to have your name put on the roster.

Enjoy the rest of you week and we hope to see you up at school for one of our community events, soon.

Brooke Cross

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Diary Dates

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May

 

Wednesday 11

NAPLAN – Years 3 & 5

Newsletter Day

Finance Committee Meeting 4pm (Conference Room)

Thursday 12

NAPLAN – Years 3 & 5

Healthy Harold Incursion – Prep-Gr 2 students

Friday 13

Healthy Harold Incursion – Gr 3 – 6 students

Saturday 14

Prep 2023 Open Morning – 10am-12pm

Monday 16

RACV Incursion – Preps-Gr 2

Assembly 3pm

Tuesday 17

Lunch Orders

School Council Meeting 5pm (Conference Room)

Wednesday 18

Appleby Pancake Breakfast – 8.15-8.45am

Saturday 21

Election Day – Fundraising BBQ at school from 8am – 4pm

Monday 23

Education Week commences

Education Week Open Night 5pm-6.30pm

Tuesday 24

Lunch Orders

Monday 30

Assembly 3pm

Tuesday 31

Lunch Orders

June

 

Thursday 2

School Photo Day

Friday 3

Division Cross Country (selected students)

Monday 6

Prep Swimming commences Mon-Fri

Tuesday 7

Lunch Orders

Prep Swimming

Wednesday 8

Prep Swimming

Thursday 9

Prep Swimming

Friday 10

Prep Swimming Fun Day

Monday 13

Queen's Birthday Public Holiday

Tuesday 14

Student Free Day - Staff Professional Practice Day
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Sunflower Display - Grades 1 and 2

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During Term One the students in 1M and 2A each modelled a sunflower using air dry clay. Once the clay had dried the students painted them and a week later they applied PVA to seal and gloss their sculptures. Each class was given the collaborative task of creating a scene to display their sculptures.

Grade 1M’s background was inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s sunflower paintings. The students in created a vase, background and leaves using a combination of acrylic paint, slicks and crayons. Grade 2A’s background was inspired by Emil Nolde’s paintings of fields of sunflowers. To create their field scene the students used acrylic painting and fabric.

The students have been proudly showing their teachers their work on display in the ELC building. Please enjoy the photos of the process and finished exhibition. 

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Student Stars

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Prep S

Sienna M - For demonstrating our school value of excellence.

You are doing a wonderful job with your reading. Keep up the great work!

Grade 1M

Hunter C - For demonstrating our school value of resilience.

It has been wonderful to see you settle back into the classroom and make good choices in the playground. Keep up the great work!

Grade 2A

Aaron B- For demonstrating our school value of connection.

It is great to see you getting along with other students and quickly forming friendships at BPS!

Calvin T- For demonstrating our school value of excellence.

Your explanations in our Money and Chance units have shown a great understanding of the topics. Keep up the great work!

Grade 3K

Scarlett L - For demonstrating our school value of connection.

It has been fantastic to see you settle in so well to your new school. Welcome to BPS and keep up the great work!

Grade 4/5C

Vivi C - for demonstrating our school value of connection. I

t has been wonderful to see you fitting into our classroom and making wonderful friends. Welcome to BPS!

Lucas L - for demonstrating our school value of connection.

It has been great to see you make new friends in our classroom. Welcome to BPS!

Grade 5/6H

Chase Bradbury - for demonstrating our school value of connection. It has been great to see you settle into our school community. Welcome to BPS!

Art

Abbey W (2A) - For demonstrating our school value of excellence.

Your attention to detail and care with your observational drawing of autumn leaves was impressive. Well done!

Phys Ed

 Ruby B - For demonstrating our school value of resilience.

Your perseverance and determination you are dedicating to sport this year is phenomenal. Great job, Ruby!

Science

Johnny N (45C) - For demonstrating our school value of excellence.

Your effort and focus when working individually and within a group is fantastic. Keep it up Johnny!

School Values

James P (1M) - For displaying our school value of connection.

Thank you for including others and being kind to others.

Principal’s Award

Caitlin B (56H) - For demonstrating our school value of respect.

For always showing care and concern for all members of the Bayswater PS community.

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Wellbeing News from Mrs Roberts

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Wellbeing_Week_3.pdf
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Chaplain's Corner - Joseph Ting

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Healthy Harold Incursion

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A final reminder that the Healthy Harold Incursion will be happening tomorrow for the junior students and on Friday for the senior students.

If you have not yet responded on Operoo and paid (unless you are eligible for CSEF) please do so ASAP so your child doesn't miss out.  You can also pay at the office if you prefer.

CSEF will not be allocated to the incursion until we have received your acceptance / permission.

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Prep 2023 Open Morning - Saturday 14th May

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Student Free Day - Tuesday 14th June

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For Term 2, 2022, the Department of Education and Training has provided schools with the option to hold each teacher’s allocated professional practice day on the same day for all staff. This is to enable the most effective and efficient use of this day.

As a result, we have scheduled our professional practice day for Tuesday, 14th June (the day after the Queen's Birthday Public Holiday). Students will therefore not be required to attend school on this day.

We have notified After the Bell and asked them to offer care for this day.

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School Photo Day - Thursday 2nd June

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Our School Photo Day has been booked for Thursday 2nd June.  Order envelopes will be sent home next week.

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Permission Forms - Reminder

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We are still waiting on quite a number of permission forms to be returned.  

If you would like your child's photo to appear in the newsletter, we cannot do this without written permission.  Please click on the links below to download and print out all the permission forms that we need to have returned to the office ASAP.

If you are unable to download and print the forms, please contact Raelene in the office to request a paper copy to be sent home.

Media Annual Consent Form.pdf

 

 

 

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Instrumental Music Lessons

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If your child is interested in learning an instrument, we offer piano and keyboard, drums and guitar through external music teachers.  See the flyers below if you would like your child to learn (note - the guitar / drum flyer is 2 pages).  Please note that this is a private arrangement between the parents and the music teachers.  They come to the school and provide lessons during class time each week.

If you have questions regarding the lessons or would like to enrol, please contact the teacher directly.

Guiter_and_Drum_Lessons.pdf
Piano_Ad.pdf
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OSCH Newsletter

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What's New on our Noticeboard?

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