Broken Hill North Public School

Newsletter No. 36 - 22 November 2021

From the Principal

What’s on?

Week 8

Monday 22 Nov        Staff meeting – Numeracy focus

Thursday 25 Nov      Kindy Orientation – 11.30am – 12.30pm

Pop Up Lunch Day – Pies, pasties & sausage rolls

Friday 26 Nov           Crazy Hat & Hair day

 

Week 9

Monday 29 Nov       Staff meeting – School planning focus

Thursday 2 Dec       Kindy Orientation – 11.30am – 12.30pm

Friday 3 Dec             Superhero Day

                                    Christmas Toy Run

                                    End of year reports sent home

 

Principal’s Report

Firstly, some really good news. Both Mrs Burke and Mrs McEvoy were successful in their applications for 2 new Assistant Principal Curriculum & Instruction positions at our school.

The department allocated 1.4 FTE but the school with provide continuing funding of 0.6 to ensure we have 2 full time positions. Congratulations ladies!

 

Kindy Orientation went off rather smoothly given the guidelines we had to follow. Pretty sure we had 27 turn up and looking forward to round 2. Huge thank you to Mrs Fisher for her coordination of this program. YLB!!!

Plus, the NAIDOC acknowledgement with the tree planting and rock art on Friday rounded off the week very positively. Again thanks to Mrs Fisher, and Mrs Vette-Welsh for their leadership of this. Cheers!

 

Heads up re 2022 – The calendar has Friday 4th Feb and Monday 7th Feb as the designated School Development Days to kick of the year. Our plan is to move 20th Dec SDD to Thursday 3rd Feb to allow for 3 days at the beginning and finish on the 19th Dec. This only effects the staff. However, our Year 1- 6 students will kick the year off on Tuesday 8th February while our Kindys will undertake Best Start Assessments Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday and have their first day in class on Friday 11 February. 

Level 3 settings

Parents and carers on site
Parents and carers must check in using the school check-in, show proof of vaccination on entry to the school site and follow mask-wearing requirements.

Parents and carers must follow their school’s advice regarding student drop-off and pick-up, which will usually require parents to remain off school sites at these times. This includes staying in the car when dropping off and picking up children if it is safe to do so.

Parents and carers should follow the physical distancing advice for their local area and avoid gathering outside of school gates.


Assemblies and presentations
Assemblies and presentations will be allowed outdoors on site. Cohorts will be separated with physical distancing in place where practicable.

Fully vaccinated visitors (including parents and carers) are only allowed to attend if completing a specific role (such as presenting) and at the invitation of the school. All visitors must check in using the school check-in and show proof of vaccination.


Graduations and formals
Schools can plan for these events to be held from 1 December.

Graduations and formals will be allowed within cohorts, either on school sites or at external venues.


For graduations and formals held on school sites, students in the cohort may attend regardless of vaccination status.


Currently masks are required for anyone aged 12 and over while indoors (and strongly recommended for primary school students) except while eating and drinking. If graduations and formals are held outdoors, masks are not required.


Using shared spaces at school

Shared spaces, such as changing rooms, libraries, school halls and other communal areas, may only be used by one cohort at a time, with adherence to strict personal hygiene protocols and physical distancing requirements.


Parents and citizens associations meetings outside of school hours

P&C associations may hold meetings on school sites outside of school hours without a Community Use Agreement or COVID-19 Safety Plan.


The local President of the P&C, or a delegate, must ensure:

  •  All P&C members that attend meetings on the school site must be fully vaccinated. The President (or delegate) must visually sight vaccination status to verify that requirements are met.
  • All P&C members in attendance at each meeting must check-in using either the school check-in code or a P&C-specific QR code.

How2Learn

Fixed Mindset

Intelligence and ability are fixed

Change to

Growth Mindset

Intelligence and ability can grow

Which mindset is most likely to result in learning?  Change the words, change the mindset!

Attendance Snapshot

Term 4 Week 7

Target 91%

Actual - 82.17%


K FK-1 MK-6 CK-6 DK-6 D1 H2 M
86.3%86.3%85.7%65.7%91.4%96.5%80%


2-3 P3-4 K3-4 S3-6 L4-5 M5-6 G5-6 W
78.1%85.2%74.8%88%83.3%72.3%76.7%

Lots of room for improvement here - Every day counts!

Classes of the Week

Raise Responsibility Class Points ( > 90% ) All classes!!! YLB’s!

100% Green students – K F, 1 H, 3-4 K, 5-6 VW & K-6 C

Attendance – 1 H

100% attendees – 146 students attended every day this week. 

Levels

Congratulations to the following students who achieved Gold Level last week 

K FAaliyah Devlin-Knott
K-1 MEmery Doyle
K-6 RMahlei Kennedy
2 MKayden Bugeja
3-6 LCeletia Hayward
4-5 MEli Hayes, Steven Neale, Isabella Miller, Jarryd Farmilo, Willow Robertson, Shae Dawson
5-6 GEmmanuel Wild
5-6 VWMarcus Spencer, Brylee Hocking


The following students will be awarded their Silver Level certificates –Manny Chavez Slater, Corben Halliday, Aspen Reid

The certificates will be presented to students on Friday. Congratulations and thanks for setting the example at our school.

Awards



Class Awards
2 MKaden Balman, Nahla Everuss
5-6 VW

Siarn Brady, Kasey Boatswain, Ella Clarke, Samuel Harvey


Thought for the week

Life isn’t about waiting

for the storm to pass,

It’s about learning

to dance in the rain.

No Breakfast Club

Sadly, due to COVID restrictions, we are still unable to run Breakfast Club. We will notify you when we are able to restart. You will need to ensure that your child/children have breakfast at home before they come to school.

Year 6 Transition

There are still quite a few Year 6 students who have not completed their high school enrolment forms and sent them through to Willyama High School.

Please get these to the high school as soon as possible as we need all students to be enrolled before they will be allowed to attend transition days at the high school site.

If you are having any issue completing the forms, please let us know and we can support you to complete them.

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