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26h Feb 2014

Term 1, Issue 4 A reminder that the school newsletter can always be accessed from our website at

www.buninyongps.vic.edu.au

School Assemblies

Feb 28th Whole School Assembly

March 7th P - 2 Assembly

March 14th 3 - 6 Assembly

March 21st Whole School Assembly

March 28th P - 2 Assembly

April 4th Whole School Assembly

DATES TO REMEMBER

March 3rd Space Centre 5KG & 5BH

March 5th Preps begin full-time Space Centre 5JG & 5JS Information evening on Bring Your Own Device at 6.00pm

March 5 & 7th March 12 & 14th

Classroom Helpers Program

March 6th Grade 1 Sovereign Hill

March 10th LABOUR DAY—NO SCHOOL

March 19th Three Way Conversations 1.30 - 6.00pm

March 20th Athletic Sports Grade 3-6

March 25th Three Way Conversations 4.00 - 6.00

April 2nd Teddy Bears Picnic—Prep

PrEP Social Gathering

To help the adults get to know some of the other Prep parents, a play date for all the Preps and their families has been arranged for Thursday March 6

th

straight after school.

When : Thursday March 6th

3.30 – 4.30pm

Where: Grade 5/6 playground at front of school

BYO : Small plate of food to share & your own drink

RSVP : No need – just turn up

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

Forum – 5th of March

On Wednesday the 5th of March, the eLearning Team

from Buninyong Primary School will be holding a ‘Parent Forum’ to explore the notion of a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) program that we are considering for the beginning of 2015. The purpose of the night is to explain what BYOD is all about and what it may look like at our school. This is a good opportunity for you to ask questions and add your thoughts to help us develop the best way forward for the use of IT to promote learning at Buninyong PS. In short, the details are:

When: Wednesday the 5th of March (6 – 7pm)

Where: BER Building Open Space

(New Building).

Who: Anyone who wishes to attend.

What: A discussion forum on BYOD

(Bring Your Own Device) for consideration in 2015.

Why: To develop a way forward with IT at

Buninyong together.

REMINDERS 10th MARCH - LABOUR DAY - NO SCHOOL

19th MARCH - THREE WAY CONVERSATIONS

EARLY FINISH

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Amazing Buninyong Child Our winners for this week are:

PEB Bradley Fitzgerald

PNP Ted Voss

PRS Max Gamble

PNS Soraya Mangere

NH SCOT

Ryan Lyons

1CA Angus Gunn

1JB Zac Sharp

1SM Flynn Batrouney

1HM Scarlett Grant

2PG Brody Turner

2NJ Yvan Ugon

2MM Ned Renfree

2JO Erin Almeida

3HA Harry Lee

3DS Harley Bisognin-Kerr

3PW Chloe Gibson

SO SCOT Drew Davis

4SD Emilie Robertson

4WH Kaida Leehane

4JT Levi Thornton

5JG Joel Smith

5KG Declan Glenister

5BM Annabelle Fletcher

5JS Zoe Rowland

6AC Jaida Palmer

6PM Emily Giles

6VS Hannah Farhall

RB SCOT

Nathan Levens

SOME OF LAST WEEKS ABC WINNERS

BRINGING PERSONAL PROPERTY TO SCHOOL

At this time each year the department asks us to give our parents and students the following reminder.

Personal property is often brought to school by students, staff and visitors. This can include mobile phones, electronic games, toys, musical instruments, sporting equipment, and cars parked on school premises.

The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development does not hold insurance for personal property brought to schools and it has no capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property.

As such staff and students are discouraged from bringing any unnecessary or particularly valuable items to school.

Three way conversations

Early finish 19th Match

Information regarding the three way conversations and online bookings will be

explained in next weeks newsletter.

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CLASSROOM HELPERS PROGRAM

Dear Buninyong and Scotsburn Parents,

Successfully managing a classroom and meeting the needs of all students can be a real challenge, so we are always keen to have parents helping out. Each year we run a Parent Helpers Program which aims to help parents build knowledge and confidence that is useful when helping out in classrooms. The focus is on Literacy and the course is comprised of 2 sessions. Attending the program is not a pre-requisite to help out in classrooms, but it is certainly very helpful.

We would like to invite you to participate in the Classroom Helpers Program for 2014. Details are as follows:

Session 1—This session has a focus on home reading and sight words as is useful for parents wanting to support their child’s reading at home. This session will be run on Friday March 5th from 2:00 - 3:15pm and repeated on Friday 7th of March from 9:00 - 10:15am

Session 2—This session has a focus on being a helper with literacy in the classroom and is to be run on Thursday March 12th from 2:00 - 3:15pm and repeated on Friday March 14th from 9:00 - 10:15am.

All sessions to be held in the staffroom at our Buninyong Campus in the meeting room which is located in the admin block.

If you would like to participate please complete and return the slip below to the office.

Thank you

Joy Hoey (Literacy Intervention)

Parent: (please print)

Signed:

Please circle choice

I will attend :

Session One

March 5th or

7th March

Session two

12th March or

14th March

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SPORTS NEWSSPORTS NEWSSPORTS NEWS

TENNIS Well done to the Buninyong Primary School Tennis team who played in the District tennis championships last week. The children played some fine tennis over the 2 days with great sportsmanship along the way.

SWIMMING Congratulations to the 17 swimmers who represented the Buninyong Primary School on Sunday. It was a beautiful day and there was some sensational swimming throughout. We wish all the best to Cooper Krezlik (Butterfly), Lucas Edmonds (Backstroke), Daisy Rodgers(Freestyle), Lucy Richardson (Breaststroke) and Bailey McQuie (Breaststroke) who have qualified for the 2014 Greater Western Region Swimming Championships on Friday 14th March.

Well done. Daniel O’Kelly

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SCOTSBURN NEWS

COMMUNITY TEA On Friday 28

th February, Scotsburn

community will hold a shared dinner at Scotsburn school beginning at 6pm. We will welcome Shaun O’Loughlin to our Scotsburn school community. Please bring a salad/meat or dessert to share.

COOKING PROGRAM Our cooking program has begun. Payment of $15 for half year or $30.00 would be appreciated.

Congratulations to Rory Ludeman who played in the school cricket team last week. He played extremely well and made 34 runs and also took 4 wickets. Well done Rory. School cricket starts again in Term 4 and we look forward to some more Scotsburn kids representing the school.

SCIENCE WITH PREP/1 AND 2

Students have been studying how Xylem allows moisture to get to the leaves and flowers of plants to help them grow. The students replaced the rain moisture with food dye to see the process. The pictures today show the results.

SANDPIT TOYS

If you have any pre-loved sandpit buckets, spades or toys, we would love to have them for the sandpits at school.

WOODWORK PROGRAM

This week the Buninyong Mens Shed are beginning a woodwork program with our grade 2/3’s. The students are really looking forward to this. If any parents can help with this program see Shaun. It is taking place on Wednesdays from 11.30- 1pm.

Important Dates (so far) Term 1 10

th March Labour Day Holiday

19th & 25

th March Three Way Conversations

20th March 3 - 6 Athletic Sports Day

22nd

-24th April Gr. 5 camp

Saturday 26th April Bunnings barbecue

fundraiser Sunday 4

th May B.A.D. bike ride fundraiser

8th & 9

th May Grade 3 Camp

(Queenscliff) 13

th – 15

th May NAPLAN (Gr 3’s)

Friday 16th May School photos

Term 2 Gymnastics 10

th June Earth Ed (Gr 3-6)

27th August Ecolinc

21st & 22

nd August School Concert

14th October Quantum Victoria Science

Program (Gr 3-6)

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STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT

A big thankyou to the many parents who have taken the time to sit down with their child to read through and sign the Student Code of Conduct that went home recently. It’s not too late if you haven’t managed this yet. Some of you have no doubt have gone into the school’s website and had a read of the Student Engagement Policy which has been implemented at BPS since the beginning of last year. This policy explains in detail a whole school approach to managing student behaviour.

Sending home the Student Code of Conduct at the beginning of each year helps all members of

the school community (students, parent & staff) to be on the same page with consistent

understandings and expectations related to student behaviour. As always, please contact your

child’s teacher, Bernie or Sue if you have any concerns.

Student Code of Conduct - 2014

I will always follow the School Values:

Respect – Treat yourself, others and your environment with care and respect

Optimism – Be confident, resilient and optimistic, always hoping for the best

Compassion – Show care, understanding and compassion towards the feelings of others

Commitment – Be dedicated to do your best

Honesty – Be truthful, sincere and honest in what you say

Be willing to co-operate and share Show respect to others - be kind in my

words and actions

Care for my own, the school’s and others’

property

Be willing to give things a try Strive to be confident and resilient Strive to do my best

Help others to feel they belong Listen to others Be tolerant and considerate of others

Make sure my words match my actions Attend school and be on time for class Take on responsibilities and follow

through to the best of my ability

Ask for and accept help when needed Be truthful, sincere and honest in what I say and do

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CANTEEN *Sorry, Flavoured water out of stock due to supply problems*

Check out the new menu/price list for 2014 sent home (in the newsletter) 2 weeks ago.

New helpers, if you have not heard from me yet please contact me, I may not have your

details. Thank you, Tara on 53413799hm or 0417540095.

Day/Date 9:00-11:00 11:30-2:00

February

Wednesday 26

Shane Pearce

Tracey Coats

Kathryn Pegg

Kenny Dalby

More help needed today

MARCH wk 6

Monday 3

Tracy McGregor

More help needed

Heather Mould

More help needed today

Wednesday5 Andrea Jones

Paula Rigby

Judy Cheswick

Coral Stone

Emma Custance

Monday 10 wk 7 No School Labour Day

Buninyong Soccer Club

“Redbacks

SEASON 2014 U/8, U/9, U/11, U/13 (all mixed)

(age as at 1st January 2014)

SUNDAY 2ND MARCH 9:30am – 1:00pm

Sign up morning, Working bee & Sausage sizzle Come along on Sunday to Buninyong Soccer ground (off Forest Street), or email us, if

interested in playing for the Redbacks this season. Email: buninyong.soccer@yahoo.com.au