Congratulations to:

Audrey, Jayde, Micah, Chase, Lucy, Ebony, Mabel, Jacob, Theo, Chloe, Emmanuel and Seb.

Our annual athletics carnival will be held on Friday 12th March. This year the carnival will be held on our school oval. Carnivals are designed to encourage participation and teamwork in a friendly house competition. We aim for the day to provide a fun, positive environment that encourages aspiration, growth, perseverance and sportsmanship.

On the day, students will move to the oval ready for an approximate 9.05am start and will move back to their classrooms at 2.45pm ready to be dismissed.

There will also be a BBQ for students to purchase lunch for the day run by our School Association.

More detailed information including order forms for the BBQ, have been sent home with students.

Mel Fleming
PE Teacher

How we learn to communicate……

As we grow, we learn to communicate by listening and watching those around us. As a baby we see the people around us waving so we copy, we hear the people around us using certain sounds, so we copy these too. In the beginning children might get it wrong, but through trial and error, they quickly learn to pick words and put them in an order that makes sense and efficiently communicates their messages. As the adults modelling communication, we can use different ways to correct and respond in a way that provides feedback to the child:

Expand – expand on a child’s talking by adding one or two words to add meaning or include new or different grammar

Child: “Unicorn”
Adult: “A sparkly unicorn” or “Let’s play unicorns!” or “More unicorns”

Recast – recast or restate the child’s message so they can see different ways of conveying messages. Think of it as repeating the ‘right way’ or a ‘new way’:

Child: “I fallded down”
Adult: “Oh no, you FELL down!” or “Oops, you tripped on the step”

Neither of these strategies require the student to copy or repeat what the adult has said. Just as when babies first start learning from listening so do older children who are still fine tuning their communication.

ACTIVITY

Try spending a small amount of time each day talking with your child – “What did you do today?” “What is one good thing that happened in your day?”

Try and use the strategies to expand on their language or recast and model to them either the correct way their sentence could have been said or a different way.

Maddisen Burke
Speech & Language Pathologist

Ordering canteen is done online via our Qkr. Parents need to update their child/ren’s class every year. Please look further in the newsletter for instructions to download the Qkr app.

Plastic Free/Recycle

In our canteen we are trying our best to be as Plastic Free and recycle as much as possible.

1. We don’t use any plastic wrap anymore at all, we place our pre made toasted sandwiches into large Sistema tubs before they are toasted
2. We use metal spoons for our frozen yoghurt
3. We use block cheese which we slice and grate which are placed in Sistema containers
4. We use reusable bowls for our popcorn and cheese and biscuits
5. Any items that can or need to be frozen (Ham, Chicken, Pineapple or Baked Beans) we freeze in Sistema reusable containers
6. Our Cheese and Biscuits and Popcorn are sold in reusable bowls which are returned to the canteen
7. We wash and dry yoghurt containers and lids to recycle
8. We only use paper bags for our lunch orders
9. We use a piece of foil to cover our pizza muffins before placing into a paper bag
10. We place 4 Black Tubs in our eating areas so all our return items, bowls, spoons, yoghurt containers. They are returned after lunch to the canteen washed and put in appropriate places
11. We have 4 Soft Plastic Bins around the eating areas, only soft plastic is placed in these bins. Our Waste Warriors empty the bins on Wednesdays and the soft plastic it taken to the appropriate deposit areas, Coles or Woolworths. The bins are washed and placed back in the playground eating areas
12. We recycle everything that are one use items in the correct way
13. We also compost our food waste in the school compost area
14. We only offer wholemeal bread, rolls and wraps also wholemeal fruit loaf when available

Entry forms are available at the office.

Outside School Care Hours (OSHC)
Located in the Hall

Early Birds and After School Care

Early Birds 7:45am - 8:30am Monday – Friday
please contact the school office 6398 2302 ($3 per child)

Please Note: Payments and bookings can be made via cash or the Qkr app
(our preferred payment method).

Please Note: Parents are required to personally drop off children to BSC.

After School Care – Midlands Kids Club (Northern Midlands Council)
please contact Kate Lee – 0438 911 303

School Banking day is Thursday.

If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2021 School Banking program parent guide from the school office or visit the link below:

Information from our School Psychologist

Monday 2:45pm – 3:00pm

Payments by cash, Qkr, or EFTPOS (at the office)
Hats are available from the office

Easter colouring competition entry forms are available from the office.