Barrack Heights Public School HUNTER STREET BARRACK HEIGHTS 2528 Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 42 964 222 Fax: (02) 42 972 818 ‘WORKING TOGETHER’ NEWSLETTER 2019 Term 1 Week 5 YOU CAN DO IT! Focus of the Week: Persistence We are SAFE, RESPECTFUL and ACCEPTING TERM 1 IMPORTANT DATES What’s on this week: Monday February 25 Debating at Wollongong University Wednesday February 27 BHPS School Assembly Friday March 1 Clean Up Australia Day What’s coming up: Monday March 4 Parliament Induction Ceremony @10am Wednesday March 13 BHPS School Assembly Friday March 15 McKeon Swimming for Stage 3 starts Wednesday March 20 BHPS P&C Meeting @ 9am Friday April 5 Musica Viva Dear parents, carers and community members, Can you believe we are already in Week 5? Where has that time gone? There is a wonderful feel to the school as I walk around the playground and pop into classrooms. Students are engaged and enjoying the learning opportunities they are taking part in. We are continuing to focus on our five keys of the You Can Do It initiative – Organisation, Confidence, Resilience, Getting Along and Persistence and our students are constantly sharing how they are demonstrating these keys to success. Take a look further in the newsletter to see what our focus for this week is. McKeon Swim and Water Safety Program This year, our school has been lucky enough to be chosen to participate in the McKeon Family Foundation Swim and Water Safety Program. This foundation, in conjunction with Clubs NSW and Healthy Cities Illawarra will run a five week program for our Stage 3 students starting next Friday. The aim of the initiative is to reinforce the water safety message and skills of our students before they enter young adulthood; where they can make incorrect choices of when, where and how to swim. It is an incredible opportunity for ALL our students, regardless of swimming ability and I 1 can’t wait for our students to be involved. A big thank you to the McKeon Family Foundation, Clubs NSW and Healthy Cities Illawarra (who run our very own Play Pod) for involving our school. Changes and reminders about school events There have been some slight changes to a few school events this year due to timetables and clashes with learning times. School assemblies will now be on Wednesday afternoons at 2pm (odd weeks in Term 1, then even weeks Terms 2, 3 and 4). These will be advertised on the front of the school newsletter to remind all parents and carers when they are on. Scripture will now fall on a Thursday afternoon to ensure our students are engaged immediately in learning opportunities on a Monday morning. Our Breakfast Club initiative runs every morning from 8:30am – 8:50am. After 8:50am, our staff are preparing for their day in the classroom and cooking has stopped. Having breakfast every day is an essential part of being ready to tackle the day ahead. Without this important meal, students feel lethargic and find the absorption of learning difficult as the morning progresses. If your child has not had breakfast, please ensure they are at school during this timeframe so they don’t miss out. Koori Catch Up Last Tuesday, we held our very first Koori Catch Up for the year and what a fantastic turn out. Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, siblings and carers who came to our Catch Up to hear all the wonderful opportunities our Aboriginal Education Team are working on with our students. If you missed this opportunity to pop into school, we will be having a few during the year so watch this space for details on when the next one is organised. Thank you to Mrs Mangos, Troy and Veronica for organising this opportunity and to Mrs Maranesi for working as part of our Aboriginal Education Team to ensure events such as this are possible. Debating Today a team of five students went with Mrs Parkes to the University of Wollongong to take part in a debating training day. Students were put through their paces and enjoyed all the new learning they were involved in. They especially enjoyed the workshop presentations and the demonstration debate. We can’t wait to see these new skills in action and hopefully our team will compete in a number of debating tournaments this year. Clean Up Australia Day Our school is participating in Clean Up Australia Day this coming Friday. Our students will assemble at 2pm and each stage will be given a designated area to clean. Thank you to Miss Finlay for organising our participation in this important event. The theme of the initiative is Change Starts with You and the idea behind this event is to ignite an enthusiasm and desire among the community to get involved and make a difference to their local environment themselves. For our own event, it would be greatly appreciated if students could each bring in a pair of gloves and a plastic bag (plastic gloves and bags can be recycled in a soft plastics bin which our Stage 3 students will organise). Thank you for your support of this initiative. ThinkUKnow This week you will again find a helpful information sheet from ThinkUKnow – Australia’s first (and only) nationally delivered crime prevention program. The focus for the week is Instagram; please look over this information and if you have any more questions head to https://www.thinkyouknow.org.au Have a wonderful week! Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 Warm regards, Lake Illawarra Police 4232 5599 Skye Seymour Crimestoppers 1800 333 000 Principal 2 You Can Do It Week 5 focus Focus of the Week: Persistence Penny Persistence Persistence is… • working on a task until it is finished, no matter how hard it is or how long it takes. • Trying hard and not giving up when something feels like it is too hard to do. Community Announcements 3 4 5 School Route Number & Name Changes from Monday 2 July 2018 All School route numbers and names will be updated from Monday 2nd July 2018. The new numbers will ensure that school buses are easily identifiable. All new school bus numbers will start with a capital ‘S’ and be followed by a new 3 digit bus number, e.g. S100. You can access further information in the following ways: • Ask for the Schedule of School Route Service Changes from the school office. • View the Schedule of school route service changes on the Premier Illawarra website at www.premierillawarra.com.au • Contact Premier Illawarra on (02) 4271 1322 • Contact Transport for NSW directly on 131500 Schedule of School Route Service Changes – Premier Illawarra Effective from: 2 July 2018 Old Route New Route Number Number New Route Name AHS1 S050 Albion Park HS to Calderwood Rd af Mellows Rd AHS2 S051 Ti Tree Ave bf Maple St to Albion Park HS AHS3 S052 Woollybutt Dr bf Jarrah Way to Albion HS AHS4 S053 Esperance Dr at Danjeera Dr to Albion Park HS AHS5 S054 Danjera Dr opp Chinchilla Way to Albion Park HS APS1 S055 Terry St af Badgery St to Albion Park PS APS2 S056 Albion Park PS to Princes Hwy af Woollybutt Dr ARS1 S057 Princes Hwy bf Mallee St to Albion Park Rail PS ARS2 S058 Woollybutt Dr bf Jarrah Way to Albion Park Rail PS ARS3 S059 Terry St af Badgery St to Albion Park Rail PS BHP1 S060 Woodlands Dr af Shellharbour Rd to Barrack Heights PS BLP1 S061 Rothery St opp Tressider Pl to Bellambi PS BPS1 S062 Squirrells Hills Pre-School to Oak Flats HS CCC1 S063 Shellharbour Bus Depot to Cedars Christian College via Oak Flats & Dapto CCC2 S064 Wollongong TAFE to Cedars Christian College CCH1 S065 Bonaira St at Henley Ave to Corpus Christi HS CCH2 S066 Corpus Christi HS to Pur Pur Ave af Shellharbour Rd CCH3 S067 Wentworth Rd af Darcy Rd to Corpus Christi HS CCH4 S068 Bong Bong Rd opp Parkdale Ave to Corpus Christi HS CCH5 S069 Ocean Beach Dr af Shellharbour Rd to Corpus Christi HS CCH6 S070 Tongarra Rd opp Albion Park PS to Corpus Christi HS CCH7 S071 Dunmore Station to Corpus Christi HS via Shell Cove CCH8 S072 Wollongong St opp Addison St to Corpus Christi HS CHS1 S073 Balgownie Rd af Princes Hwy to Corimal HS CHS2 S074 Corrimal HS to Bellambi PS via Rothery St CHS3 S075 Corrimal HS to Cabbage Tree Lane af Mclean Ave via Fernhill CPS1 S076 Gladstone Ave to Coniston PS via Roland Ave DHS1 S077 Huxley Dr at Colony Gdns to Dapto HS DHS2 S078 Dapto HS to Dapto PS DHS3 S079 Horsley Dr af Ashwood Pl to Dapto PS DHS4 S080 Dapto HS to Dapto PS DHS5 S081 Fairwater Dr af Highcroft Bvd to Dapto HS DHS6 S082 North Marshall Mount Rd to Dapto HS DPS1 S083 Wongawilli to Dapto PS via West Dapto Rd & Darkes Rd DPS2 S084 Dapto PS to Kembla Grange Station via Wongawilli, Sierra Dv & Bong Bong Rd DPS3 S085 Dapto PS to Marshall St af Cleveland St via Kanahooka DPS5 S086 Sunnybank Roundabout to Dapto PS via Horsley Rd & Bong Bong Rd ER1 S087 Stocklands Shellharbour to Edmund Rice College via Albion Park & Figtree Heights ER10 S088 Bellambi Bowling Club to Edmund Rice College ER11 S089 Edmund Rice College to Wollongong Central & Keira St via Burelli St ER2 S090 Wollongong St opp Addison St to Edmund Rice College via Shellcove ER3 S091 Mount Kembla to Edmund Rice College via Cordeaux Heights ER4 S092 Farmborough Rd at Princes Hwy to Edmund Rice College ER5 S093 Bong Bong Rd opp Parkdale Ave to Edmund Rice College Schedule of School Route Service Changes – Premier Illawarra Page 1 Old Route New Route Number Number New Route Name ER6 S094 Wentworth Rd af Darcy Rd to Edmund Rice College via Lake Heights The Avenue Shops Mangerton bf Taronga Ave to Edmund Rice College via ER7 S095 Wollongong Central ER8 S096 Balmoral St at Kembla St to Edmund Rice College via Mt Pleasant ER9 S097 Corrimal PS to Edmund Rice College FHS1 S098 Harry Graham Dr opp Central Ave to Figtree