2019 Term 1 Week 8 Principal: Bradley Gorman

■ 2019 ■ Term 1 ■ Week 8 ■ Principal: Bradley Gorman

■ Phone: (02) 6946 6214 Learn and Grow ■ Fax: (02) 6946 6207 Bongongo Public School ■ Email: [email protected] Adjungbilly Road via Coolac ■ Website: www.bongongo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Adjungbilly NSW 2727

Bongongo Public School ■ Principal: Bradley Gorman Learn and Grow ■ Phone: (02) 6946 6214 ■ Fax: (02) 6946 6207 Bongongo Public School ■ Email: [email protected] Adjungbilly Road via Coolac ■ Website: www.bongongo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Adjungbilly NSW 2727

■ 2019 ■ Term 1 ■ Week 8

Events for the Calendar Student of the week Term 1 Week 10 Wed 3/4/19 – Life Ed –Brungle Wed-Fri 3-5/4/19- Micalong Camp – Yrs 4 & 5

Term 1 Week 11 Fri 12/4/49– 10:30 Assignment Presentations 11:30 ‘Bongongo’s Got Talent’ 12:30 School Assembly 1.30 Lunch ,Easter Hat Parade and Egg Hunt

Fri 12/4/19 Last day Term 1

Tue 30/4/19 Students return for Term 2 Jetty Mason receives her Student of the Week award for showing Positive Leadership skills. ‘Bongongo’s Got Talent will be on Friday the 12th In this issue ... of April as part of our A message from Brad …………………………………….…………....3 school Reward program. A message from Miss Reynolds ………………………..………...3 Numeracy in the spotlight ……..……………………………………….. .3 Times Table …...…....………………………………………………….………..3

Super Spellers …… …...………………………………………….………….. .3 Literacy ………………………………………………………………….………… .4 Cross Country………………………………………………………..………… ..4 Healthy Harold ……………………………...………………………………… .4 Anti-Bullying………………………………………………………………………..4 Community News …………..………………..…………………. .……… ...5

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A message from Brad Numeracy in the spotlight Welcome to week 8 everyone! This week in Numeracy we will tackle , 3D space. Do you know the names of the I begin this week by thanking everyone your very properties of 3D shapes? Faces, edges and kind messages, gifts and wishes over the past week vertices. What is the difference between a 2D after the birth of baby Hazel Cate. Mum and bub are shape and a 3D shape? doing very well and I am very excited about the fun times ahead.

On behalf of Bongongo Public School I would also like to acknowledge Kelly Smith who celebrated a milestone birthday last weekend. Happy birthday to you on your 21st birthday!

On behalf of the Bongongo Public School community , I send our deepest sympathies to Matt and Siana Lucas and their family after the tragic and sudden passing of Matt’s father Rod Lucas. You are in our thoughts at this difficult time.

That’s about all for this week. Enjoy the week everyone! Brad

A message from Miss Reynolds On Friday our students took part in the National Bullying! No Way day. This encouraged students to Times table of the week is : think about what Bullying in, how it makes those affected feel, what we can do as bystanders to stop bullying and trusted people we can discuss Bullying x 9 for year 4 and 5 with. The small group discussions and posters that were designed encouraged artistic flair. George, Joe x 4 for year 2 and Oscar created a fantastic Acrostic poem that is in the Newsletter.

We have been continuing our Sports and PE to participate in hand/eye co-ordination, Spatial Super Spellers awareness. The highlight for students has been the interactive cricket game with Mick scoring over 150 Congratulations to the following students on runs during our one sided game. achieving 100% in their spelling test last week We focused on Time during our Numeracy learning over the week. Focusing on the minute hand position to determine the hour (quarter to and quarter past)  Archie Graham *George Graham assisted students to identify learning their conceptual understanding.  Harvey Graham * Joe Graham This week students in K/1 will be busy with sounds ‘g’,  Edward Smith * Max Weston ‘o’ and ‘b’ and the ‘qu’ and ‘ar’ blend.  Harrison Smith * Finn Onus

Kel  Jetty Mason

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Literacy Corner Healthy Harold Last week the focus for Literacy for the K/1 Our students will be participating in Healthy students has been on sounds and blend focus. Harold this year at Brungle Public School on The focus sounds for Kinder students is Wednesday 3rd April 2019. All students will continuing the Jolly Phonics d and g. The year 1 and 2 students are focusing on Proper nouns for participate in age appropriate activities grammar and ‘ng’ for their blend. targeting health, hygiene, drugs and social media. Transport will be by bus. More details Students focused on reading and researching are to come. texts about ‘Mars’ and using this information to find important facts on the planet. We are using this information to extend our knowledge and Anti bullying contextual understanding of the Space topic. This Friday, our students will participate in an anti bullying seminar through a video conference. Students will learn about what is Small Schools Cross Country bullying, the effects of bullying and what we can do to deal with bullying. This years annual Small Schools Cross Country will be held on Thursday 9th May 2019 (week 2 Term 2). We will once again be joined by our great friends from Eurongilly, Nangus, Gundagai South, Brungle, Jugiong, Binalong.

Bullying! No Way Day George, Joe and Oscar worked collaboratively on Friday to create this fantastic Acrostic Poem. B– Be Kind U– Use Nice words L– Like each other L– Let People Play Y– You can be nice I– Inclusion of our friends N– Never be disrespectful G-Good friends are the best

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Community news Coolac Cricket Well the Coolac cricket team topped off another fantastic year with victory in the Elders Cup cricket Grand Final over Junee. Junee won the toss and sent the Coolac team into bat with Coolac going on to make 203 in their 40 overs. Junee fell short in their reply with 104 in their innings. This victory makes it 7 in a row for Coolac which is an amazing feat. Tim Graham was awarded player of the match after yet another 50 runs. Other notable mentions were Luke Graham out on 49 and Mark Sharman taking 5 wickets. Well done to all the Coolac cricketers and good luck next season. Adjungbilly Elders The local men's touch team, Adjungbilly Elders made the grand final of the Gundagai touch football competition after winning their semi final against Fully Charged 5-4. Unfortunately the team have had to forfeit the game due to a number players having prior commitments. Well done to the Elders team for a successful year. Pre season training will begin after the first frost for season 2019/2020! Wild Dog Meeting The next dog meeting will be on the 26th of March at 5 pm at the school hall. Everyone welcome Also a reminder our second round of baiting is tomorrow and the majority of people have not yet ordered any baits so please let me know if you would like some while I am up that way.

I will be able to bring baits to the meeting if it would suit some people. Regards

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