Calendar of Events Coming Events
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Black Mountain School Times
Coming Events Calendar of Events
Week 8 – Electricity Safety Week
Friday, 11th September
Book Club Due
Week 9
ASAP— Mon Tues Wed
Week 10
ASAP— Mon Tues Wed
Friday, 25th September
Last Day of Term
Term 4
Week 1
Monday, 12th October
All students return to school
Black Mountain Public School
815 Black Mountain Road, Black Mountain NSW 2365
Phone: 02 6775 0192 Fax: 6775 0228
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.blackmtn-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Term 3, 2020 – Week 8 Thursday, 10th September 2020
Notice:
Heat up Lunch Day
Tomorrow!
ASAP
Mon Tues Wed
All Term 3
Transition Program
On hold till further notice from
the Department Of Education
Library Books
Could all books please be
returned as soon as possible
before the end of term
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Principal’s Report
Dear Parents/Carers,
Spring is here! It’s beautiful to see
the warmer weather and our school
looking amazing with the gardens
looking very spectacular.
HATS
With the warmer weather can I please remind parents/carers to
ensure your child has a broad brimmed hat for sun protection.
Please remember our school sun smart policy NO HAT, NO
PLAY. Hats can be purchased from Terry’s Menswear in Guyra.
Unfortunately, our school no longer has any spare hats available
to borrow.
POSITIVE PARTNERSHIPS—CONTACTING PARENTS/CARERS
It is extremely important for our school to be able to contact
parents/carers at any point during the school day. This helps our
school to ensure the safety and wellbeing of your child/children.
In working closely with our families, our teachers and staff enjoy
sharing your child’s successes and a phone call is a great way to
let you know about these successes.
We also may need to provide you with updated information or
any changes to the school day that you need to be aware of.
Should your child be injured at school, we need immediate
access to parent/carers to communicate important information.
Your child/children’s wellbeing is, above all else, our priority!
There are times when we need to contact you about your child’s
absence from school. This phone call regarding attendance, is a
requirement of the Department of Education. Alternatively,
please contact the office to inform us of your child’s absence.
Our Office Manager, Mrs Moore, updates contact details on a
regular basis to ensure the smooth and timely communication
with all families. If any of your contact details have changed
please call the office as soon as possible. We truly appreciate
your understanding and assistance with maintaining effective
communication with the school .
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to our awardees this week—Tyleek Jerrard and
Harley Ferguson! Well done, boys!
Have a lovely week everyone. Enjoy the warmer weather and
sunshine.
Kindest regards,
Mrs Justine Eddy—Relieving Principal.
Echidna’s Star of the Week
Term 3, 2020– Week 8 Thursday, 10th September 2020
Tyleek Jerrard
Creative Fairytale Writing
Harley Ferguson
Great Improvement
in Writing
3-6 Star of the Week
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The senior class has been extremely busy reading about famous explorers such as Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. These two amazing men climbed Mt Everest and we are beginning to build an informative writing report using the format—Show Don’t Tell.
Our writing on Pobble365 continues to improve with all students planning, writing, editing and sharing. We time our Pobble365 writing session and this is certainly proving to be very popular with everyone. It is designed to encourage dynamic and responsive writing.
We have continued play practice, with intense rehearsals. Mrs Eddy says we have a very talented drama class!
In Maths, we are learning new strategies to solve double digit and triple digit multiplication problems. We are now racing the clock to really learn our times tables.
Mrs Siddell is continuing to teach us drumming. Restrictions because of Covid-19 we are not able to do choir or recorder practice.
Mr Harris is teaching us all about Indonesia in Geography.
For Fathers’ Day last week, we made a card using Seesaw and QR codes to send a message to our Dad’s and Grandfathers. We hope you liked your Fathers’ Day messages.
Term 3, 2020– Week 8 Thursday, 10th September 2020
Echidnas News 3-6 Class News
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WOW! We have been super busy. We have been
reading Fairytales, looking at how they are
structured, exploring good and bad/evil characters
and describing settings. To finish our Fairytale unit
everyone has written their own Fairytale. I am
extremely proud of each student because of the
persistence they used to publish their stories. We
have read them to our reading buddies and have
now taken them home to read with families.
In Science we have been looking at different
mixtures and substances that mix and don’t mix -
they all loved the cornflour slime.
In Geography we have been placing photos of
important places at school onto a school map and
have drawn maps for the story ‘We’re Going on a
Croc Hunt’.
We are still working hard on our play and have
started thinking about a talent we could show the
whole school for the talent show.
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Term 3, 2020 – Week 8 Thursday, 10th September 2020
Assembly Awards
Last Thursday we held an in-school assembly.
The students were presented with Principals
Awards, Merits Certificates, Music Awards and
Super Reader Certificates for their great work in the
classroom and resilience in the playground.
Also we presented two very special Education
Week Awards. Eli Wood received a Certificate of
Recognition for his Commitment to Learning and
Leadership in Year 6 and our K-2 Classroom Teacher
Mrs Simone Lord was presented with her Certificate
of Appreciation for her Excellence in Teaching and
Learning.
We’d like to congratulate all our award recipients
for their efforts in all areas of school life.
Pen licences were also
awarded to lucky
students in the 3-6 class
who have demonstrated
that they are
responsible and
competent to use this
device.
Water Bottles
Due to Covid-19 restrictions our bubblers
are still out of action.
As the weather is warming up it is very
important that your child brings a water
bottle of their own to school everyday. This
can be refilled at school if necessary.
Also a reminder, please do not send
poppers or sugary drinks to school as this
sometime makes children more thirsty and
does encourage bees to hang around.
School Uniform
As it is school policy all students must
attend school in school uniform everyday
unless it is a special occasion which you will
be advised of in advance.
Our clothing pool has a vast range of
uniforms available so if you are having
difficulty making sure your child is in
uniform please do not hesitate to contact
the office and we can arrange for
whatever you require to be sent home
depending on size availability.
School Drop Off /Pick Up
In the interest of your child’s health and
safety we are trying to keep visitors on site
at our school to a minimum.
When dropping or picking up your child
could you please say goodbye or wait at
the school front gate.
Please phone the office if you need to
communicate with any staff. A Covid-19
tracking sheet has to be completed by all
personnel who enter our school.