Belair Public School Newsletter Take Just Pride 34 Carolyn Street, Adamstown Heights NSW 2289 Phone: 4952 1735

Email: belair-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 4 Week 7 26 November, 2019

Principal’s Message Hi Folks, Tomorrow evening I will attend the final P&C meeting of my career. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Belair community members who have contributed to the P&C over the years. It has been a pleasure working with you over the years and our school is a better place for student learning and play as a result of your commitment. The P&C plays many key roles in the school. Our uniform shop and canteen are both coordinated by the P&C. These two endeavours provide great service to our community. Over the years the P&C has supported our school to enable the purchase of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of classroom technology, reading resources, play resources, playground shade sails, garden beds and resources, support for needy families and much more. To enable all this great work the P&C has relied on our whole school community to support fundraisers and I thank the community for this support. I also want to recognise the multitude of parents who contribute to our school through a range of activities such as being classroom helpers, sharing their expertise to support student learning, helping with gardens and environmental programs, cooking at events, covering library books, teaching scripture and ethics, coaching teams, transporting of students to sport, chess, debating, dance, band, mentoring students and more.

Term 4

November

27 Kinder 3rd transition visit and information session

28-29 Y5 Leadership speech to peer

29 ES1 Outdoor Classroom Day

Mini Fete

December

3 Stage 1 Celebration Assembly and Presentation Day

5-6 Prefect Speeches

6 Whole School Assembly

(Starting at 9am) Voting for Prefects

10 ES1 Presentation and Celebration Assembly

Year 6 Farewell

12 Swimming Carnival

13 Carols Night Reports sent home

16 Presentation Day Stage 2 & 3

17 Stage 1, 3 and Early Stage 1 Part Day

18 Stage 2 Party Day

Year 6 Last Day of Term for Students

It would be lovely to see a big rollup at our last P&C meeting of the year in the staffroom on Wednesday at 7.00pm. I look forward to catching up with staff, community members and colleagues on Saturday evening at my farewell bash. Regards, Warwick Beard Playground Play Helpers Thanks to the parents who have already nominated to help pot with the playground play initiative. If you would like to register your availability to support our activities, please jump on the following google form: https://forms.gle/UnjMtjSJwfVw7GN9A , call the office, or contact Mrs Belfield on 0407 327 188. In addition we are still seeking donations of the following reclaimed or recycled equipment: This can be dropped at the rear of the hall where you will see other materials. Please contact Mr Beard before dropping off materials to arrange a time when it will be OK to drive into the playground to unload.

• Ropes and/or pulleys • Tarps or plastic sheeting • Lengths of timber • PVC piping • Cable reels - plastic or timber • Tyres - car, barrow, pram, bike etc • Pallets - plastic or timber (just no splinters or rusted

nails/staples please) • Barrels, baskets and pots • Enamel or Stainless Steel Kitchenware • Wheelbarrows / Carts • Gardening equipment • Plants, seedlings and seeds • Outdoor games

Kotara High Bunnings Fundraiser Kotara High is manning the BBQ at Bunnings Kotara on Sunday. If you have a child soon to attend Kotara High you might like to start making connections with other parents and help out the school in a way that will ultimately help your child, jump on the link below and spend an hour cooking or serving sausages. htp://signup.com/go/oGtWgpn Outstanding Excursion Payments and School Fees As we are entering the final few weeks of the 2019 school year I urge all parents to finalise outstanding payments for excursions, book packs and school fees. Each year, as a school we end up carrying bad debts and then we have difficulty trying to retrieve late payments. At present, the school has covered these costs from our budget allocations which is affecting our ability to organise other activities. Our budget is designed to be shared equally throughout the entire school population.

Belair Public School

Stage One Presentation Day and Celebration Assembly

Tuesday 3rd December 2019

9.30am in the hall

Families of Year 1 and Year 2 students 2019, are warmly invited to celebrate the wonderful achievements and student learning at our Stage1 Presentation Day and Celebration Assembly to be held in the school hall 9.30am-11.00 am (approx.) on Tuesday 3rd December 2019. All Stage One students will have an opportunity to perform as a class on the stage as well as participate as part of our community singing activities. The junior choir will also perform. Students are asked to wear their school uniform on the day. Three awards at a grade level will be presented to three students in Year 1 and three awards for Year 2 for outstanding achievement at a grade level and five students in each Stage One class will be recognised for high success and/or effort over the year. We look forward to families joining us on this day of celebration. Mrs Bridget Bruce, Mrs Rose Swinburn Mr Warwick Beard Mrs Jacqui Critchley, Mrs Keira Bale, Mrs Kellie Bevan Principal Ms Alison Loredo and Mrs Rozi Marsh Stage 1 Teachers

Friday 29th November – Outdoor Classroom Day Kindergarten students will engage in a range of activities from 9am – 12pm. Thank you to all parents who have volunteered to run an activity. Volunteers will receive more information shortly. Tuesday 10th December – Kindergarten Presentation Day and Celebration Assembly This special celebration assembly will take place in the school hall from 9.30am – 11.00am. We look forward to welcoming our Early Stage One families to join us in recognising student learning and achievements over the past year. Students have been enjoying practicing class and whole stage performances for our special day. Students are asked to wear their school uniform on the day. Tuesday 17th December – Kindergarten Party Day

Kindergarten’s party day will take place at school with a range of craft and play activities organised. A note will be sent home in the coming weeks with more information.

Year 6 Mini Fete The annual Year 6 Mini Fete is on Friday 6th December. The aim of the Mini Fete is for Year 6 students to raise money for a present to the school. It also engages the students in real world problem solving, critical and creative thinking. Students in Kindergarten to Year 5 are invited to participate in the Mini Fete by purchasing items from stalls including ice cream, cupcakes, colour hair spray, Trash and Treasure and side show alley games. Students will be able to purchase tokens on Friday morning to spend at the fete rather than carry money around with them. Tokens will be in $5, $2 or $1 sheets. Extra tokens will be available during the fete. Donations required: Students running the Trash and Treasure stall at the Mini Fete require donations of books, toys and bric a brac. Please send donations to the 5/6F classroom.

Swimming Carnival The annual Belair Swimming Carnival will be held on Thursday 12 December at The Forum.

Students received an orange note with further details.

School and Community performances - Carols Rotary BBQ - Mexican Food onsite - BYO Picnic

Ice-cream stall - run by year 6

Family + friends welcome

Farewell Mr Beard - gates open 4.40pm Santa guest appearance

Gold coin donation to the Bushfire appeal

Dept of Education Policy: no alcohol or smoking on school grounds. Parents and Carers responsible for the supervision of their children.

B R I N G A R U G, B R I N G A C H A I R , C E L E B R A T E

CHRISTMAS AT BELAIR FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER 5 . 00 - 7 . 30 PM

Healthy Harold Still time to buy your tickets There’s still time to buy your tickets to Win Healthy Harold’s Hyundai! Tickets on sale until 15 December unless sold out prior. Belair Public School, is participating in the Cash for Schools raffle, where one lucky winner will win a Hyundai i30! Organised by Life Education, profit from tickets sold through our school will be equally shared between Belair and Life Education. AND if we sell the most tickets per school capita we’ll win a Life Education voucher to use in 2020! Help us raise money by: 1. Visit https://www.raffletix.com.au/lifeeducation?sref=r5nksxup 2. Buy tickets in the raffle (tickets are only $5) 3. Keep your fingers crossed to win a car before Christmas For more information visit lifeeducation.org.au/cashforschools.

The LAST ISSUE for this year will be sent home this week. Orders are due by:

WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER The issue will be closed-off in LOOP after this date. Book Club orders can only be placed via LOOP. Paper forms cannot be completed and placed at the office. All orders earn resources for our school.

What is LOOP? LOOP is Scholastic Book Club’s “Linked Online Ordering & Payment” platform. This system allows parents to place and pay for their order without the need to return the paper form to school. With LOOP you can pay using credit card and you can use any Scholastic vouchers. LOOP includes a gift option so you can still request that your order is left at the office to be collected. You can access LOOP either at www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP or via the app (download from the App Store or Google play). If you have any problems using LOOP, Scholastic are more than happy to help out parents directly – call them on 1800 021 233. Belair Book Club Co-ordinator – Catherine Whittaker, 0414 945 817

Student Awards

KA

Chase M, Jacob L 2L Jayden K, Edie P

4/5J

Reuben K, Payton G

KM

Lachlan B, Audrey S 2M Ben W, Elijah G, Ruby J

5G

Alexander W, Ruby M

KZ

3E

Sam P, Gracie G

5K

Madeline T, Charlotte D

1B Jacob G, Lucy M, Cooper M 3H Oliver B, Phoebe S

5/6F

Sebastian K, Alexander J

1K

Rico Z, Aliya S, Keigan H

3M

Liam C, Sia V 6P

1S Joshua G, Cooper A

4B

Ryder T, Oliver B

6W

Cameron A, Bella S

2C Eli A, Austin F, Jasmine B

4R

Ellie G, Nicholas Y

Dance Awards

Maddison M – Junior Dance

Eve T – Senior Dance Genevieve L Lulu E

Jacob G

Junior Choir Awards

Sarah L Matilda L Isabella H

Canteen Roster and News ~ Canteen Supervisor Sonja

0438 684 401

The Green Tree Kitchen Online only specials are now up and running. Check them out at

flexischools.com.au

Wednesday 27th November Robyn S.

Thursday 28th November Vicky S.

Friday 29t November Danielle W,

Karen R, Leah W.

Monday 2nd December

Janelle

Tuesday 3rd December

Sally A.

Have you tried our new Hash Brown Triangles for 50c? They are now available online for your convenience.

ONLY AVAILABLE AT FIRST BREAK.

Meatball Subs are back! Only $4

canteen news