2425 Cecil Plains Road Biddeston

Via OAKEY Q 4401

Phone (07) 4691 6145 Fax (07) 4691 6133

Email: the.principal@biddestoss.eq.edu.au Web Site: www.biddestoss.eq.edu.au

Thursday 18th May 2017 17/15

The Biddeston Bulletin The Newsletter of the Biddeston School

Newsletter articles: staffbss@biddestoss.eq.edu.au

Mobile Phone: 0409 896 233

BPOINT BPOINT is available with Mastercard, Visa Debit or Credit Cards

but NOT Keycards. One invoice, one amount. Parents will need to enter the CRN

(Customer Reference Number) for each invoice. Parents or other customers can make payments on school

invoices from home and office or from smartphones. Why BPOINT? It is the SAFEST method for payment of accounts. It is our school’s aim to eliminate cash payments except for amounts less than $10.

WHAT’S COMING!! 22 Centenary Meeting 6pm 23 ICAS Digital Technologies Challenge 26 TRAX Sports Education Day 30 ICAS Science Challenge June 9 School Performance Tour ‘Journey to centre of Earth’ 14 ICAS Spelling 15 Interhouse Athletics

CHECKLIST RECYCLE ALUMINIUM CANS and support the Biddeston

School Playgroup. Collection bags at the school AND the Biddeston Store.

Recycle your newspapers at Biddeston – any day! PLEASE ensure that ONLY newspaper, magazines & junk mail are deposited in the bins – definitely NO plastic of any nature, cardboard or shredded paper or ANY FOREIGN MATTER.

NO soiled baby nappies to be placed in ANY bins at the school.

 

 

 

      25     Lacee Peters  

               02   Ace Smith           12   Letiesha Shaw 

13   Mrs Wilson 23 Mrs Mason 

             23   Jessica Ziebell 

To

Fletcher Voll

For massive improvement in his spelling knowledge

We’re proud of you, Fletch.

PRINCIPAL’S PEN Dear Parents, Families and Community Members, 

With much  excitement  afoot  today  for Under  8s Day,  it  has been  a wonderful  time  celebrating  this  year’s  theme: Children are playing Country  to Coast –  Inspiring  learning  in  the early years  through  play. There was  play  and  fun  to  be  had  by  all. Thank  you  Mrs  Mason,  Mrs  Shaw  and  Ms  Ribot  for  the organisation and running of this  important event for our school and cluster of schools. Thank you to our wonderful ladies in the tuckshop  ensuring  all  students  and  adults were  amply  catered for. A true team effort for our precious children!  

Congratulations  to  our  soccer  teams  who  travelled  to Pittsworth  last  Friday  and  demonstrated  their  soccer  prowess and  more  importantly,  their  sportsmanship,  with  one  of  our Biddeston  teams  winning  the  grand  final.  Thank  you  to  Mr Young and Mr Morris for their time and effort on this event.  We have  some  talented  students who  have  been  selected  for  the Rossvale soccer team to play  in Toowoomba at a  future soccer carnival. Well done Ace, Cianna, Ruby, Nick H, Fletcher, Dustin, Danielle, Nicholas D, Charlotte, Eva  and Zarcody. What  a  fine effort.  

We currently have our musical students in Years 3 to 6 attending the  annual  Choir  Camp  in  Pittsworth,  being  run  by  Mrs Wheeldon. The final concert to showcase the students’ learning over the three days will be held at the Pittsworth Town Hall from 7pm  for a gold coin donation. Thank you  to Mrs Wheeldon  for sharing her expertise in offering this opportunity and thank you to Mrs Huffam for being our school representative in generously giving her time to be there each day, assisting students.  

This term  in English the Year 2/3 students have been working towards writing  a  persuasive  letter.  They  have  learned  about modality  and  evaluative  language,  giving  their  opinion  and including  supporting  detail  to  justify  their  stance.  They  are learning to make comparisons and connect events from a story to  their  personal  experience.  The  Year  4/5/6  students  have practised  both  narrative  and  persuasive  writing  techniques. Students will also listen to, read and view novels and films with a range of characters  involving  flashbacks or shifts  in  time. They will create a written comparison of a novel and the film version of the novel.  Everyday  learning  tip: The  social and emotional  learning  that students  experience  through  the  Respectful  Relationships education  program  can  be  reinforced  informally  at  home.  A suggestion for engaging your child and consolidating their social and  emotional  learning:  Encourage  and  model  positive interaction with others.  

Be  Safe,  Be  Respectful,  Be  Responsible  The  students  have been  reminded of  the  importance of being punctual after play and being back in class on time, ready to learn.  

There will be no athletics next week, with athletics  resuming on Tuesday 30th June. The remaining sessions will be run on the following  dates:  Tuesday  6th,  Wednesday  7th,  Tuesday  13th, Wednesday 14th, Tuesday 20th and Tuesday 21st.   

TRAX  Sports  Education  Tours  that  South  West Indigenous  Network  (SWIN)  will  be  running  in  the Dalby/Jondaryan area will visit our school on Friday 26th May  11:50am  to  1:15pm.  SWIN  will  bring  accredited Development  Officers  from  State  or  National  Sporting Organisations  to  run  sessions  at  the  school.  This  is intended to give students the opportunity to try different sports and  to promote a healthy  lifestyle  through sport. These  sessions  are always  a  lot of  fun  for  the  students. For  this  TRAX  Tour,  the  following  sports  will  be represented: Queensland Touch Football, National Rugby League, Golf Queensland, Hockey Queensland, Baseball Queensland,  Indigenous Traditional Games  (SWIN). The TRAX  sessions  are  completely  FREE,  and  open  to  all students to participate. All Officers and Staff that run the activities  have  blue  cards  and  relevant  accreditation  to conduct  the  activities. We  are  very  excited  to have  this opportunity at our school.  

Shooting  for the Stars will be  run on Tuesday 23rd May for selected students. Have a great day!  

The  very  popular  P&C  Thermomix winning  ticket was drawn  last Friday, with Sarah Kelly being  the very  lucky winner. Thank  you  to Mel  for  organising  this  and  to  all who sold and bought tickets.  The next P&C meeting is Monday 5th June at 4pm in the library. Everyone is welcome to attend.  

Assistant Regional Director Mr Graeme Lacey (ARD) will be visiting the school on Friday 26th May from 11:30am to discuss student achievement and school progress.  

Centenary  Preparations  Did  you  know  the  Principal’s residence was built in 1964?  Before that the Principal and head  teachers  boarded with  local  families.   No  excuses for  homework  not  done  in  that  family!  The  next Centenary meeting is on Monday 22nd May at 6pm in the school  library. Everyone  is welcome  and  if  you  know of community  members  who  may  be  interested,  please invite  them  along.  The  Centenary  will  be  held  on Saturday 19th October 2019.  

Congratulations  to  past  student,  Olivia  Holgate  who represented  her  high  school,  St  Ursula’s  at  the  recent Maths  Team  Challenge  and  being  a  member  of  the winning  team. Well  done, Olivia! We  are  very  proud  of our students, present and past.  

Have a lovely weekend.  

Kind Regards,                                                                          Sharon

CHOIR CAMP NEWS Day one of Choir Camp was a great success with all of our Biddeston students having a great day of singing and dancing. Today soloist singers and dancers etc will be chosen Mrs Wheeldon and her great team of volunteers have done a great job getting ready for this event. The next two days will be really busy for all of the children involved . The Concert on Friday night promises to be great and well worth the gold coin donation See you there Regards .. Kate Huffam

Found: Ladies ring. If you have lost a ring, please call into the office to claim it.

P & C Association

The next meeting will be held on Monday 5th June 2017 at 4:00pm

AGENDA:

P&C Contacts: President: Danielle Lorenz 0408 074 801 Vice President: Ian Speed 0402 227 206 Secretary: Kate Cooke 0438 307 044 Treasurer: Mel Patch 0448 494 639

General:

Fundraising: Uniforms For any uniform orders, please text Belinda Strasser to arrange suitable time for fitting and pick up. Belinda will be at school Friday mornings.

Belinda Strasser 0421 774 599

Tuckshop Take-away Meals are back for Week 6. Orders in

by 9am on Monday. Week 6 Spaghetti Meatballs

On the weeks of State of Origin, take-away meals of PIZZA will be available on the Wednesday afternoon.

TUCKSHOP BAKING Week 6 K. Norton B. Strasser C. Ribot

Week 7 M. Patch A. Garthe M. Keutmann

Week 8 G. Hart K. Buckley A. Fiechtner

Week 9 ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

Week 10 A. Bess K. Werth G. Hart

Heidi Kruger & Jeanette Ziebell

At Biddeston State School

every THURSDAY from 9-11am

We wish to acknowledge the sponsorship of the following

business. Please consider their business.

 

Centenary Recipe Book Keep those recipes coming! Don’t think – oh, we’ve got plenty of time. We need to get started now. Please refer to attachment from Week 7 for details.

Host a  Japanese Student 

 Oakey State High School will be hosting a 

visit from Ena City in a program conducted by AIIU from 31st 

July to the 7th August. There will be 23 Students coming – 13 

Girls & 10 Boys, each student has an individual Homestay experience!! 

 Share your lifestyle & home while experiencing another culture. 

 

Daily program (Mon‐Fri) organized by a Coordinator 

Japanese language not necessary 

Normal Australian meals 

A stipend of $25 per night will be given to Host Families to assist with hosting costs. 

 Your family will benefit from the experience  

 For further information, please phone Allyson 

on 4693 1208 or 0409 059 438 or uzz25@bigpond.com 

A big ‘shout out’ to all our wonderful Mums………………

COMMUNITY NOTICES   

 

KATE HUFFAM Qualified Justice of Peace

By appointment ONLY 

Phone 0402 303 164 

CAN YOU HELP??? There’s a Mum with two little boys looking for

a rental property in the area (not Oakey). We’re asking if you can help, to get in touch

with Kate Cooke on 0438 307 044.