William Street Email: bellingen-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Rel. Principal: Dylan Harry PO Box 42 Website: www.bellingen-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Phone: 02 6655 1147 Bellingen NSW 2454 Fax: 02 6655 2615

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From the Principal Welcome back to Term 2. I hope all students and families had a lovely and safe holiday. Student success I would like to congratulate Anouk Laverty and Liam Ball on their success at the NSW State Swimming Carnival. Anouk placed 2nd in Breaststroke and Butterfly, 4th in Freestyle and 6th in Backstroke. Liam placed 20th in 50m Freestyle, 25th 100m Freestyle and 30th in the individual Medley. What an amazing achievement. Good luck to Aidan Carey at the North Coast Rugby League trials tomorrow. NAPLAN 2019 NAPLAN testing for all Year 3 and 5 students will begin in week 3 and continue into week 4.The NAPLAN tests that these students will be undertaking at school are Writing, Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy. If you do not wish your child to participate please put this in writing and return to the office prior to week 3. Dylan A Harry, Relieving Principal Piano News End of Term Celebration.

When a Piano student moves up a new level in Music Studies and plays confidently through all the pieces in their book, which often takes a few years and hundreds of hours practising, there is much excitement on finally reaching our goal to share the achievement with a friend, playing our favourite pieces, an afternoon tea and awarding a certificate with the next level tutorial. Hannah McNeil is an extremely motivated student in her practise and besides playing the Piano, is working hard on her second instrument the Clarinet which she plays in the School Band and enjoys the ensemble work, opportunities for workshops with BPS combined concerts and interschool Orchestral days.

I am extrememly proud of Hannahs progress and comittment in all areas of her Music studies. Well Done Hannah. Ms Viv, Piano Teacher EASTER HAT PARADE AND RAFFLE Well it was certainly a memorable 2019 Easter Hat Parade for all involved. The weather started out kind to us but ended up literally raining on our parade!! Thank you to all students and their families who went to great lengths to create wonderful hats. Thank you also to school community for supporting our Easter Raffle. We will let you know in a future newsletter what this money will go towards buying for our school. A list of prize winners is included below.

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Elizabeth Mulligan, Assistant Principal Thinking Skills At Bellingen Public School we focus on 21st century Learning Skills. In Thinking Skills lessons this term, students will be practicing their creative and critical thinking skills, as well as continuing with their mindfulness practice.

In the Australian Curriculum, students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems. Critical and creative thinking involves students thinking broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as reason, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school.

Thinking that is productive, purposeful and intentional is at the centre of effective learning. By applying a sequence of thinking skills, students develop an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the processes they can use whenever they encounter problems, unfamiliar information and new ideas. In addition, the progressive development of knowledge about thinking and the practice of using thinking strategies can increase students’ motivation for, and management of, their own learning. They become more confident and autonomous problem-solvers and thinkers. Responding to the challenges of the twenty-first century – with its complex environmental, social and economic pressures – requires young people to be creative, innovative, enterprising and adaptable, with the motivation, confidence and skills to use critical and creative thinking purposefully. This capability combines two types of thinking: critical thinking and creative thinking. Though the two are not interchangeable, they are strongly linked, bringing complementary dimensions to thinking and learning. Critical thinking is at the core of most intellectual activity that involves students learning to recognise or develop an argument, use evidence in support of that argument, draw reasoned conclusions, and use information to solve problems. Examples of critical thinking skills are interpreting, analysing, evaluating, explaining, sequencing, reasoning, comparing, questioning, inferring, hypothesising, appraising, testing and generalising. Creative thinking involves students learning to generate and apply new ideas in specific contexts, seeing existing situations in a new way, identifying alternative explanations, and seeing or making new links that generate a positive outcome. This includes combining parts to form something original, sifting and refining ideas to discover possibilities, constructing theories and objects, and acting on intuition. The products of creative endeavour can involve complex representations and images, investigations and performances, digital and computer-generated output, or occur as virtual reality. Concept formation is the mental activity that helps us compare, contrast and classify ideas, objects, and events. Concept learning can be concrete or abstract and is closely allied with metacognition. What has been learnt can be applied to future examples. It underpins the organising elements. Dispositions such as inquisitiveness, reasonableness, intellectual flexibility, open- and fair-mindedness, a readiness to try new ways of doing things and consider alternatives, and persistence promote and are enhanced by critical and creative thinking. In the Australian Curriculum, students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems. Critical and creative thinking involves students thinking broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as reason, logic, resourcefulness, imagination and innovation in all learning areas at school and in their lives beyond school.

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Thinking that is productive, purposeful and intentional is at the centre of effective learning. By applying a sequence of thinking skills, students develop an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the processes they can use whenever they encounter problems, unfamiliar information and new ideas. In addition, the progressive development of knowledge about thinking and the practice of using thinking strategies can increase students’ motivation for, and management of, their own learning. They become more confident and autonomous problem-solvers and thinkers. Responding to the challenges of the twenty-first century – with its complex environmental, social and economic

pressures – requires young people to be creative, innovative, enterprising and adaptable, with the

motivation, confidence and skills to use critical and creative thinking purposefully.

Denise Head (RFF Thinking Skills) Opportunity Class Year 5 2020 All students in year 4 were given an Intention to apply for Year 5 entry to an opportunity class in 2020 note. What are opportunity classes? Opportunity classes located in government primary schools cater for highly achieving Year 5 and Year 6 academically gifted students. These classes help gifted and talented students to learn by grouping them with other gifted and talented students and using specialised teaching methods and educational materials at the appropriate level. For more information follow the link: https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5 Uniform Shop News The Uniform shop is open Monday and Friday each week from 8.40 am to 9.30am. Payment is by cash or cheque only. Order forms are available from the office. Completed orders can be left at the office to be filled, sent home with your child/ren or collected when ready. Uniform Special Winter clearance of outgoing zip jackets. Only $1 each. (we only have sizes 4, 14 and 16 left) Music Students LET YOUR MUSIC TEACHER KNOW; If you child is on an excursion. If your child is sick. If you are planning to leave for holidays early and won’t make lessons. Kind Regards Liz Scott, Muisc Co ordinator

Photography at School Parents/Carers are reminded that when taking photos at school events they should not post these photos online when they include other students. If you would like to post a photo of your child please take an individual photo. Canteen News To cater for the students and other members of our school community, providing the healthiest and most nutritious food in a responsive, courteous and impartial manner. Welcome back everybody and hope everyone had a well-deserved rest over the holidays. The biggest news this week is welcoming the crew at Coffs Coast Sushi Express who will provide our school with their brand of sushi this week. The prices remain the same and the varieties are listed below Crispy Veg Roll w/ Carrot, cucumber, capsicum; Tuna Roll w/ cooked tuna and cucumber; Steamed Chicken Roll w/ avocado; Avocado Roll and Teriyaki Chicken w/ chicken in a teriyaki sauce. This week’s winners of our biggest and smallest apple competition are Riley Humphries in 5/6P whose apple weighed in at 57 grams and the largest, which was Cedar Edmonds in 5/6O, his apple weighed in a modest 392 grams. $2 goes to both of you. Watch this space for our weekly winners and keep those apples coming, big and small Our 2 weekly specials this Thursday and Friday to round out the term are butter chicken with the chicken supplied by Valley Quality Meats. Our second special being a lean beef lasagne both stand alone for $4.50 or you can meal deal the whole lot for $5.00 and include a frozen juice popper If you would like to join us in term 2 on our exciting journey of enhancing the health and wellbeing of our School Community, simply fill in a form, obtainable from the canteen and hand it back to us or into the front office and we can get you onboard our amazing team. Thank you everyone for being a part of and making our school community so awesome. Matthew Knight, Canteen Superviser

Canteen Roster – May Wed 1st Sue Travis Thurs 2nd “Action” Ann Mackerras and Tanya Donoghue Fri 3rd Action” Ann Mackerras, Jen Di Conceicao and Thea O’Connor Mon 6th “Rockin” Rob Gale

Volunteers Do you volunteer at Bellingen Public School? All volunteers need to complete a Volunteer application together with appropriatate volunteer appendicies and provide 100 points of identification. A Working With Children check is only required for overnight excursions or if you do not have a student relative at this school. All volunteers need to sign in at the office or other designated sign on site. Applications need to be updated annually. Please see the office for more information.

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Stewart House

Stewart House are due back by Friday, 17 May. Envelopes have been given to every family. Entry into the draw is only $2.00 for your chance to win a family holiday valued at $4,000 to the destination of your choice. To find out more about Stewart House follow the link https://www.stewarthouse.org.au/ Please return envlelopes to school by Friday, 17th May 2019. P & C Notice Facebook - P&C often try and connect with the community and give reminders about upcoming events or fundraisers. If you join the group on Facebook you can ask questions, make announcements and share your support of the school and your children. Thanks for your participation.

School Banking Our School Banking day is Wednesday. Available in Term 2, we have two new reward items from our 2019 Polar Savers range for students to redeem: Yeti Fluffy Notebook and Icicle Slapband Ruler.

If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2019 School Banking program information pack from the school office or visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking Ashlie and Sandra, School Banking Co-ordinators

Payments online All school student related payments can be made on-line. Just go to our school’s website and look at the top menu bar for the MAKE A PAYMENT sign, and click from there. Please complete the mandatory fields only. I encourage all parents and carers to use this facility as it is far more secure and easier for all concerned, including our students, teaching and office staff. Current Notes

NAPLAN testing Yrs 3 & 5 District Cross Country PSSA Girls Soccer Year 5 Opportunity Class 2020 (current yr 4) Stewart House envelopes Yr 6 to Yr 7 Highschool EOI

Diary Dates

May

Mon 6 P & C Meeting, 6.30pm, School Library Tue 7 PSSA Girls Soccer Round 2 – Connell Park Wed 8 P & C Mother’s Day stall Thur 9 P & C Mother’s Day stall Fri 10 P & C Mother’s Day stall Fri 10 District Cross Country, Bowraville Tue 14 NAPLAN Wed 15 NAPLAN Thur 16 NAPLAN Fri 17 NAPLAN Fri 17 Walk Safely to School Day Fri 17 Last day for Stewart House envelopes Mon 20 NAPLAN Tue 21 NAPLAN Wed 22 NAPLAN Fri 24 Whole School Assembly, 9.30am, School Hall Fri 24 MNC X Country, Nana Glen

June

Mon 3 P & C Meeting, 6.30pm, School Library Mon 10 Queens Birthday Fri 21 Whole School Assembly, 9.30am, School Hall Fri 21 NC Cross Country, Nana Glen Fri 28 Athletics Carnival, BHS

July 2019

Mon 1 P & C Meeting, 6.30pm, School Library Wed 3 School Photos Fri 5 Last day of Term 2 Mon 22 SDD Tue 23 First day back for students Term 3 Fri 26 All Schools Cross Country, Eastern Creek

August

Fri 2 District Athletics, Urunga Mon 5 P & C Meeting, 6.30pm, School Library Fri 16 Whole School Assembly, 9.30am, School Hall Fri 23 MNC Athletics, Coffs Harbour

September 2019

Mon 2 P & C Meeting, 6.30pm, School Library Wed 4 Choir to sing at the Opera House

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Fri 13 NC Athletics, Lismore Fri 13 Whole School Assembly, 9.30am, School Hall Thur 19 Stage 3 Musical Fri 20 Stage 3 Musical Fri 27 Last day of Term 3

October 2019

Mon 14 First day for students Term 4

November 2019

Mon 4 P & C Meeting, 6.30pm, School Library Wed 6 State Athletics, SOPAC Thur 7 State Athletics, SOPAC Mon 18 – Fri 29 Yrs. 2 & 3 Swim Scheme

December 2019

Mon 2 P & C Meeting, 6.30pm, School Library Mon 2 – Fri 6 Yr. 5 Lake Keepit Excursion Mon 2 – Fri 6 Yr. 6 Canberra Excursion Wed 18 Last day of Term 4 Thur 19 SDD Fri 20 SDD

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