Principal: Dorothy Dore email: berrigan-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Important Dates:

MARCH MARCH

Wed 11th Riverina Swimming Carnival Albury Mon 16th FHS visit Year 6 at BPS

Thu 12th Bluearth Wed 18th Friends Program

Fri 13th Forensic Day Year 6 Fri 20th Scripture begins

Fri 13th Swim for Sport Mon 23rd Cricket program

Mon 16th Cricket program Thu 26th Bluearth

Wednesday 11th March 2020

Berrigan Public School ‘The Bell Ringer’

Busy in the Classrooms!

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Thank-you to all parents who have already and will be having informal parent-teacher conversations. These are very productive discussions about your child/children and strengthen the home-school partnership that is essential in growing great students.

Last week I reminded students to 'play their part' by upholding the school values at school and in the community as it come to my attention that:

• Bus behaviour, particularly the use of inappro-priate language, has been less than satisfactory by some students

• Student attitude towards volunteer canteen mums has been a little disrespectful in relation to the choices available under the banner of the Healthy Schools Canteen, and

• Student behaviour, in BPS school uniform, in the community has been very disappointing and on view to the general public

Representative Sport

Good luck today to Michael, Rosie, Jack, Zoe, Tom, Jordan, Lachlan and Flynn who are swimming at the Zone Swimming Carnival in Albury. Thank you to the parents who have transported students to and from these events.

The JeriBerriO Cricket team will play Tocumwal Public School on Thursday in Tocumwal.

AFL– Western Riverina trials - Leeton 19th March

Riverina Tennis—Newcastle 5th—7th May

Forensic Day

Year 6 are travelling to Finley on Friday to partici-pate in the annual Forensic Day. For a number of years Finley High School has run a Forensics Day. The day involves Year Six students from our feeder Schools coming to the high school to participate in several forensic science workshops. The day begins with the students participating in an interactive forensic science workshop. The students then break up into mixed groups to complete two forensic science experiments.

Moving into Year 7

This week going home with the Year 6 students is an ‘Expression of Interest’ form for placement in Year 7, 2021. Principals are required to arrange for each Year 6 students designated local secondary school, which is Finley High School. Could you please complete the ‘Expression of Inter-est’ form and return to BPS school office no later than Monday 13th March 2020.

Voluntary Contributions

These are not mandatory but very welcome should you wish to contribute to the running of the school, the cost extra curricula activities and classroom requirements. See Simone if you wish to do this - $30 a child/$50 a family.

Many thanks to those families who have already paid this voluntary contribution.

Eggs –cellent!!

The school chickens now have names; Stripey, Lola and Shelly. Eggs are available for sale—$5/dozen

Federal Hotel Friday Night Raffle

Notes will be sent out next week asking for volunteers for the Friday night pub raffle. This is a great fundraiser for our school. Any volunteers would be greatly appreciated.

Dorothy Dore

Principal

Principals Report

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Canteen Roster — Term 1

• Thank you to all our canteen helpers. Please remember if your day(s) are not suitable to organise your own swap and please notify the office.

• Please do not order snacks, lollies or icy poles with your lunch orders.

• PLEASE NOTE: Students are NOT to bring food to school for lunches etc. that requires heating up in the canteen, as this is a WH&S issue.

• STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE CANTEEN AS THIS IS A WH&S ISSUE AND THEY ARE NOT COVERED BY PUBLIC LIABILITY.

P&C News

SCHOOL NEWS

A permission note has gone home today with information about the Prime

Minister’s Spelling Bee that our Years 4, 5 and 6 students are participating in.

Please sign the permission note and return to the school by Monday 16th March

2020.

The Prime Minister's Spelling Bee will test students on familiar words and some

that are a bit tricky. The spelling bee is open to all students across Australia.

MARCH Monday 9th Friday 13th

Monday 16th Friday 20th

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Notices