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Blaxland East Public School

Old Bathurst Road, East Blaxland 2774 Phone 4739 1579 Fax 4739 8300

Principal Kerry Bryan Email Blaxlande-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage www.blaxlande-p.school.nsw.edu.au

P & C Email blaxlandeast@gmail.com

Term 3 Week 8 9 September 2016 Morning Bell 9.00am Afternoon Bell 3.00pm Office Hours 8.30am – 3.15pm

P & C Association meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30 p.m. Next Meeting Wednesday 14 September 2016

In this School Matters:

Core Values

Celebrating Achievement, Effort and Service 2017 Kindergarten Enrolments

State Girls Touch Carnival District Athletics

Blue Mountains & Nepean Dance Festival 2016 Seniors Concert at Blaxland Uniting Church

Student Honour List Skoolbag App

Principal’s Report Fete Sponsors

Get Ready Blue Mountains flyer AECG flyer

CORE VALUES

Be Respectful

Excellence always Participate Courageously

Serve others

** 2017 Kindergarten Enrolments now being accepted **

School Matters

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Celebrating Achievement, Effort and Service

K/1Marvellous Pickle and Jam team

We have been very fortunate to have people make lots of

goodies for us to sell. Particularly Mrs Krzyszton, Mrs Williams,

Mrs Wallis, Mrs Chisholm, another Mrs Wildman, Mrs Cairns,

Mrs Ayo, Ms Richards and Mrs Flexman’s friend Gill.

They have contributed in an amazing way so that K/1M will have

a wonderful assortment and variety of close to 400 jars of

produce to sell on Fete Day. Mrs Flexman, Courtney (Lylah’s

Mum), Bronte’s Grandma, Stephanie Tait-Wildman and

Monique had a great day prettying up and preparing our

donations for sale. We are all so happy team K1Marvellous is

ready to go and we hope to raise lots of money for BEPS.

2C

Sienna McGrath from 2C has been making great progress in Multilit with

Mrs Walker. She has been very focused over the last week and has been

putting in a huge effort. Well done Sienna!

4/5W and K/1M

Buddy reading in Book Week

What a great day to share a book. Despite the looming clouds and

the threat of rain, the weather held off while we shared our favourite

Mr Men books with members of K/1M.

Thank you K/1M for being such good listeners.

Thank you to Mrs Watson for organising this opportunity to share our

love of reading.

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5/6T & 6G

Holly Richmond, 6G has consistently achieved extremely high results in recent

times tables challenges between 5/6T and 6G. In just one minute she has now

successfully completed 53 correct answers. Harry Paag in 5/6T has also

achieved extremely high results. Harry and Holly are battling it out to be the

champion within both classes.

Most impressively, both classes have continued to improve their average and will

soon be times tables experts!

5/6T Achievements

5/6T are celebrating efforts with the Mathletics program. We have been working

hard to achieve bronze, silver and gold certificates. Here are some of our class

members with their certificates. Well done! Keep up the hard work 5/6T.

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We are also celebrating our class members who participated courageously and displayed

excellence at the BMPSSA Athletics Carnival and special mention to Eli Przydacz who

participated in the State Championships for gymnastics recently. Congratulations everyone!

2017 Kindergarten Enrolments

If you have or know of a student that will be enrolling

in Kindergarten at BEPS in 2017 please call into the

school office to complete the enrolment process.

The transition days for 2017 Kindergarten students

are as follows:

Friday 23 September, 2016. 9:15 -10:45am

Friday 28 October, 2016. 9:15 -10.45am

Friday 11 November, 2016. 9:15 -10:45am

Friday 25 November, 2016. 9:15 -12.00pm

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State Girls Touch Carnival

Zara Ebeling and Natasha Watson enjoyed a week recently at

Coffs Harbour completing in the NSW PSSA Touch carnival

representing Sydney West who finished in 6th place overall.

Both girls enjoyed the touch and meeting new friends.

Well done girls!

District Athletics

On Friday, September 2nd 2016, 46 of our students represented our school at the Blue Mountains PSSA

Athletics Carnival. I commend all of our students on their courageous participation and sportsmanship.

Despite the awful weather conditions, the students showed up and gave 110% effort in all of their events.

We had outstanding results from the day, with TEAM BLAXLAND

EAST gaining first place overall, beating second place by almost 200

points!

This was a team effort. Congratulations to every single competitor on

helping us achieve this amazing result.

A big congratulations to Zara Ebeling for winning Senior Girls Age

Champion and Jessica Stevens for winning Junior Girls Age

Champion. This is a huge achievement and we are very proud of

them both.

More fantastic achievements were made by Natasha Watson, who broke two event records, one in the

Senior Girls Shot Put (7.80m) and one in the Senior Girls Discus (24.95m). Jessica Stevens also broke an

event record in the 10 years Girls 100m event (15.52). Congratulations to you both, your names are now

part of PSSA Athletics history! Well done!

We have 17 students who have qualified for the Sydney West Regional Carnival, which will

be held on Wednesday, September 14. Good luck to all of these competitors, we wish you all

the best and hope this time you have a sunny day!

Heidi Wood

Holly Richmond

Maddison Hunter

Natasha Watson

Tom Allport

Zara Ebeling

Jake Wood

Jessica Stevens

Keegan Reasbeck

Laila Givens-Christensen

Lochie Davies

Lucas Turano

Emma Orme

Jezebel Mills

Jarred Drake

Aiden Hall

Virginia Cole

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Blue Mountains and Nepean Dance Festival 2016

On Monday evening, at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, BEPS dance groups were ready to

amaze the audience with their spectacular, fantastic, jaw-dropping dance moves.

Firstly, the senior girls danced to “70’s Groove” in

their Austin Powers inspired clothes. The audience

was astounded by their groovy moves.

Next, the boys crept onto the stage to take their

positions. When the stage lights were turned on the

zombie apocalypse began to the tune “Thriller”. The

audience was on the edge of their seats in fear as

the well-prepared group powered through their

“deadly” performance.

The junior girls looked in character dressed in their jungle outfits. They danced to “Jungle Party”.

They sure looked like they were enjoying themselves in party-mode.

All the dance groups went well and the

audience loved their performance. It was a

great experience for all the dancers.

Mrs Bryan and the teachers were proud of all

the students who represented BEPS with

great behaviour and courageous participation.

Ethan El-Fadle

6G

A special thank you to Mrs Fisher, Hayley and Ryan's mum, for coming along to

each dance routine and helping with the boys makeup.

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Seniors Concert at Blaxland Uniting Church

On Friday 26 August the Concert Band participated in

their 3rd event in less than two weeks. This event was

different – there was no competition, no ribbons and no

bus travel – just smiling and appreciative faces, tapping

toes and many rounds of applause.

The event was the concert for the Seniors Group at the

Uniting Church, across the road from our school. The

children got to experience real teamwork and

preparation, as we had to take everything we needed,

including the full percussion kit.

We turned many heads of the drivers who kindly stopped for us at the pedestrian crossing.

We educated our audience with introductions to the sections of the band.

Congratulations must go to Sophie and Sebastian for their explanation of the clarinet and its

history.

We sounded the best we have all term – perhaps we should compete in the church – the

acoustics seem to suit our group.

Following our performance we were thanked by seniors with a morning tea for the children. The chips,

cheezels and fairy bread are always a treat. The children were a credit to themselves and their families

as they thanked the ladies behind the serving table.

My thanks to Mr Smith for conducting the band on the day and to Miss Morris for

her assistance with the excursion.

The children finished the day with a band session where three new

pieces of music were handed out. These pieces will form the basis

for the Celebration Concert performance in November, so the need

for home practise in preparation for whole group rehearsal is still

present.

Yours in music,

Mrs Robyn Wallis

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Student Honour List

WEEK 2

CHILD OF THE WEEK

KP Frances Cleary

KW Alexander Cooke

KM Harlee Nicoll

WEEK 3

KM Bronte Tait-Wildman

KW April Robeson

KP Chase Riedy

WEEK 5

KW Oliver Presland

KP Isabella Gray

WEEK 6

KW Sage Cluney

KP Luke Halir

PRINCIPAL’S

SCHOOLWORK AWARDS

2T Aiden Hall

1F Jake Bunting

Leevi Flynn

Talia McGregor

Hayley van der Meer

Euan Woodsell

Violet Langley

Lara Tomkins

William Mitchell

Joshua Sach

Ben Webber

1H Emily Shepherd

Jake Murphy

Madeleine Nott

Lou-Lou Farrant

CORE VALUE

AWARDS

TERM 3

CANTEEN VOUCHERS

WEEKS 2 & 3

5M Cohen Haldane

5T Archie Gill

4H Tamiela Korber

4W Emily Bestley

3F Jared Drake

3F Amelia Lockett

WEEKS 4 & 5

3F Jesse Shandler

4H Lara Brear

4W Claire Skinner

5W Lachlan Baldock

5M Brayden Watson

6G Keri Muhlmann

6R Darcy Thurling

WEEK 3

K/1M Lylah Smith

1H Bella Wootton

2T Cristina Cluff-Garcia

WEEK 4

KW Bonnie Przydacz

K/1M Felix Cohen

2/3F Olivia Adams

WEEK 5

KW Stella Davies

1H Rosie Moss

2T Mitchell Kennedy

WEEK 7

K/1M Jared Hodges

1F Joshua Sach

2T Joshua Millett

ICE BLOCKS

WEEKS 2 & 3

Lachlan Baldock

Kane Tarrant

Matilda Duncan

Liam Latz

Melody Frith

Curtis Smith

Amelia Jeyachandran

Cory Zikking

Zoe Kimmings

Aurora Manchester

Isabelle Cooke

WEEKS 4 & 5

Annaliese Woods-Felton

Xyla Towner

Maayan Buskila

Lara Brear

Bethany Davison

Hannah Dent

Liam Pearce

Skye O’Neill

Mark Babadzhanian

Taylor Brickwood Adams

Montana Dexter

Darcy Thurling

Jerry Rufus

WEEK 3

Lucy Gleeson-Frater

Emily Brown

Leevi Flynn

Sienna McGrath

WEEK 4

Frankie Cleary

Jake Murphy

Lara Tomkins

Laela Gadsden

Jacob Przydacz

Summer McIntosh

Harley Lamb

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WEEK 5

Luke Halir

Lylah Smith

Ben Webber

Emma Gardner

Elliott Cairns

WEEK 7

Emma Rojas

Sage Cluney

Tyler Duric

Heidi Page

CANTEEN VOUCHERS

WEEKS 6, 7 & 8

Ian Laurence-Rogers

Chelsea Milkovic

Grace O’Neill

Larissa Peresipkin

Joseph Ristoski

Oli Wickerson

Jayda Berry

Sienna Williams

ICEBLOCKS

WEEKS 6, 7 & 8

Jacob Davis

Riley O’Donohue

Lucy Webber

Ryan Fisher

Emma Orme

Hannah Moss

Dylan McKerrell

Charlie Huszar

Louise Bowerman

Heidi Wood

Dennis Davis

Ben Watson

Hannah Irvine

Adrian Martinovici

Skoolbag App

Our School now has our own free Skoolbag iPhone and

Android App to help us communicate more effectively

with our Parent/Student community. We are asking

parents/students to install our Skoolbag School App. To

install it, just search for our school name Blaxland East

Public School in either the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

For Windows users search for Skoolbag in the Windows Store and install the app and then find your

school. Please note it must be a Windows 8.1 or 10 device.

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Principal’s Report

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

My apologies, first of all, for missing two newsletters due to

illness. I was surprised at how unwell I quickly became, but

thankfully am on the mend now.

Thanks to all those parents who have wished me well in the

past weeks.

Well, it’s finally here, the 2016 Fete is tomorrow commencing at 10.00am. I know that an enormous

amount of work has gone into this event and the committee has worked extremely hard to make it

successful. I know the school will benefit from all the funds raised. The staff and students are always

extremely grateful for the support our P & C gives the school.

As you are aware, we now have a new electronic sign at the front of the school, a joint project between the

school and the P & C. We are very pleased to have been able to replace the old manual type sign with a

new updated version. Thank you to the P & C for sourcing this sign and giving us funds towards the

installation of it.

At the District Athletics, held at Blacktown in the rain last Friday, our students represented the school with

pride and fortitude. All our students participated courageously and showed excellence in their events.

Congratulations. Well done to those students who are moving on to the next level of Athletics, the

Regional Carnival. Special mention should be made of Zara Ebeling and Jessica Stevens who were

Age Champions, and Natasha Watson and Jessica Stevens who both broke records at District level,

despite the inclement conditions! Well done.

Another big thank you to the community for your patience and support of our office ladies as we

transitioned to the new accounting system. The transition has gone relatively smoothly, and we are happy

to have finally made it. Thanks to our wonderful office staff who have worked extra long hours to make

sure everything was ready and the transition smooth.

As we near the end of the term, please keep your eyes out for notes coming home, particularly for next

term’s events. Please check the Fridge Flyer and our Skoolbag App for coming events.

I hope to see you all at the Fete tomorrow.

Yours in partnership for quality education,

Kerry.

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Pk **Please note** CHANGE OF DATE:

Now Thursday 15 September