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WESTSIDE ESPRESSO

Café and takeaway open Monday- Friday 7:00am-5:00pm.

Saturday-Sunday 8:00am-2:30pm.

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local call : 5713 0003

TERM 3 2014 CALENDAR

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

5

6

NAIDOC WEEK

11.8

NAIDOC

Week starts

12.8

ICAS Maths

Hockey Girls

BVPS vs Oxley Vale

13.8

Armidale Remembers

P&C Meeting

14.8

New England Sings

NAIDOC Week

morning tea

15.8

Author visit Yr 6

Debating ACPS/BVPS

18.8

Starmaker

Semi Final

3/4

19.8

Starmaker Semi Final

5/6

Hanna Shield 1:30pm

20.8

Spelling Bee Final

21.8

Book Week Parade

Book Fair

22.8

Boys Hockey in

Tamworth

89 The Corner Store

Weekly Special

Lasagne & a

Flavoured Milk or Popper

$6.50

Please ring through your

order on 6772 5571

Did you know…?

8 to 12 hot chips (100 g) have around 3 teaspoons of fat and 1000 kJ. Compare this to a small baked potato (100 g) with a light spray of oil that has less than ¼ teaspoon of fat and 400 kJ. The main difference is added fat, hence the added energy or kilojoules. Here is a quick, easy and delicious way to make healthy, hot chips:

Ingredients

2 large potatoes cut into chips or wedges

1 teaspoons canola oil

1 teaspoon soy sauce

Method

1. Place a large tray or baking dish into the oven and preheat oven to 200°C.

2. Place all ingredients into a small plastic bag and shake.

Take hot tray or baking dish from oven using an oven mitt, and empty bag of potato lightly coated with oil and soy sauce onto the hot tray. Discard the plastic bag. You can cover the tray with a piece of oven paper (optional). Return to the oven to cook for about 12 minutes or until the potato is golden brown and cooked, then serve. Amanda Swain

Parent Club

Parent Club meets on the 3rd

Tuesday of the month in the

staffroom at 9:30am (August 19).

We hope to see some new faces.

Michelle Peak

BEN VENEWS Erskine Street, Armidale 2350

PO Box 398 Phone:02) 6772 4263

Fax:(02) 6771 2037 Email: benvenue-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Ben Venue Public School…

where great things

are always happening!

Welcome to Week 5 Term 3 August 12, 2014

Health Alert

The influenza/viral illnesses have meant that some classes have been down to 10 and 12 students. It is very

difficult to cover classes when students, teachers and casual teachers are sick. I look forward to everyone

feeling better and the weather warming up so we can move on with the many exciting things that are

happening.

Sporting News

Congratulations to the Ben Venue Rugby Union Boys who are

now into the final four in the State. So many of the boys were

sick in Sydney – I am very surprised that they could play at all.

The final will be played in Sydney on August 27. Thank you to the

Armidale Ex-services Club who have donated $500 towards the

boys’ accommodation in Sydney.

Congratulations to Hayley

Lennon who was part of the

Gold Medal winning NSW

Hockey Team who last week won the Australian PSSA Hockey

Championships. Hayley is an integral member of the Ben Venue Hockey

team, the North West Hockey Team and from there was selected to play

for NSW. Great work Hayley!

Teachers have reported some great

performances at last Friday’s Zone

Athletics and I will ensure that

names go into next week’s

newsletter.

Judy Graham

Ben Venue Starmaker

Round One of Starmaker will be completed this week during music lesson time due to some fabulous acts still to be seen!! WOW, it has been an absolute privilege watching the many acts talented students have created.

The Finals will be held next week in Week 6.

Years 3-4 Final Monday August 18 at 2:00pm in the Hall

Years 5-6 Final Tuesday August 19 at 11:40am in the Hall

All parents and friends are welcome!!!!

AROUND THE CLASSROOMS

1D have been investigating our family identities as

well as looking at famous artists’ self portraits. In

Mathematics students have been working in groups

studying different strategies for subtraction

problems. Last week students used the tens and

ones units in a special ’Commonwealth Games

Subtraction Race’ . Our New Zealand and Canadian

teams blitzed it!

Students gained confidence as they practised for

the assembly item last week and everyone from1D

was very excited to perform for our parents and

friends.

1D have introduced some special baby dolls into our

classroom recently as there are a few mums having

babies over the next few months. Students are

learning how to hold, feed and change the babies.

Jules Ditchfield

KD Kindergarten students had a fantastic week

focusing on fairies a fortnight ago. We followed

procedures to make sparkling fairy wands and to

make delicious fairy bread. Each classroom has

created a magical fairy tree and the students have

written about where fairies live. Here’s a sample

from the Kindergarten Dolphins:

Fairies live in ancient trees. They have cobwebs

hanging near the door. Fairies are beautiful. On

their beds there are roses. I love beautiful fairies. By

Charlotte.

Fairies live in little mushrooms. The mushrooms are

in a forest. By Tobias.

Fairies live in rainbow flowers. Cobwebs sparkle on

the rainbow flowers. Their couches are made of

feathers. Their beds are made out of cobwebs.

By Eevi.

Our writing is becoming very descriptive and many

students have become confident in their ability to

write several sentences using capital letters and full

stops correctly. Soon we’ll be visiting all of the

Kindergarten classes to learn about the Arctic

animal they have been studying. We are going to be

very knowledgeable about the animals of the Arctic.

In Mathematics we are revising our number writing,

solving many addition problems and will also be

playing some bundling games.

Thank you to those parents who are spending time

with their children each night reading Home

Readers and revising sight words. This is a valuable

activity. Similarly we appreciate the assistance and

guidance being given to the children in the

preparation of their news items each week.

Kellie Divall.

4H students have been busy over the last 6 weeks

working on a digital presentation of an Aboriginal

legend they have written. The students studied

legends and found that they were used by

Aboriginal people to explain things in their world or

to teach a lesson or explain values. The students

are using PowerPoint to compile a short Quick Time

movie using voice recordings and art works they

have drawn and photographed to go with and help

tell their stories. We are planning to have these

ready for our NAIDOC Week celebrations and are

hoping to be able to share them with younger

students. It has been an interesting and challenging

project and all students have learnt a great deal

about narrative writing, illustrating a story and how

to combine many aspects of digital technologies to

create multi-modal texts. We hope our younger

BOOK WEEK 18-22 August

Book Fair 21 August 8:30am - 4:00pm in the Library

Book Week Parade 21 August 12:00pm - 1:00pm in the Hall

Students are invited to dress-up as their favourite book character. Parents, grandparents and friends are invited to come along and enjoy the parade.

P & C Wednesday

7:30pm

In the Staffroom

All Welcome!

NAIDOC WEEK CELEBRATIONS

Tuesday 12 August

Students Casual Dress Day

Students are asked to dress in Aboriginal prints or in the colours of the

Aboriginal Flag

Thursday 13 August

Parents and carers are invited to join our staff for morning tea in the Hall