We are all looking forward to "Pyjama Party Day" TOMORROW, where we all get to come to school in our comfy, warm PJs. Our student leaders look forward to hosting a little disco party for our Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 on Friday as well. We hope this will be a lovely way to end Term 2!
Our student leaders have done an exceptional job planning and leading their "Challenge Week" project this week. Lots of fun and excitement has been shared as well as a little bit of 'mostly' healthy class competition! We congratulate 6M on being the champion class of "Challenge Week" finishing with the highest point score. We are sure they will enjoy their Pizza Party tomorrow!
Enormous thanks and congratulations to our wonderful student leaders who initiated this project as a way to strengthen connectedness across the school and give us all an opportunity to have some fun in the last week of Term 2! Well done leaders! I'm so proud of your efforts!
You have, no doubt, at some point come across "Mount Lost Property" located right in the heart of the 4G
bagroom! I am sure you have wondered lately how the items from that region somehow magically make their way back to the village to be returned safely to their rightful (when labelled) owners each week!
Let me introduce you to Josie, Matilda and Kaitlyn- 3 very kind Year 5 students who identified a need at school, knew they had a strategy to help and ever so kindly offer their assistance to the office each week to provide a service to our BHPS students, returning lost items promptly to them and always with a smile!
We are so grateful to Josie, Matilda and Kaitlyn for their kindness and willingness to help others. It has not gone unnoticed and is certainly appreciated. Thank you Josie, Matilda and Kaitlyn, from everyone who has ever accidentally left belongings behind (and I'm pretty sure that covers everybody at some point ;-) ). What would we do without you? (Probably be cold!)
Our Year 4 students are very excited to be commencing Project Penguin this week. This Northern Beaches
Learning Alliance Project involves collaboration across local primary and high schools, Taronga Zoo, Manly
Environment Centre and Sydney Water. In 2020, in line with the Covid-19 restrictions in place, Project Penguin has needed to evolve, and as a result has gone virtual!
Through virtual inquiry based learning, our students will discover the challenges for the Little Penguins trying to survive in a changing urban environment. The framework of Design Thinking will guide their work and deepen their understanding of a creative process, supporting our students to create a film, display piece or performance to raise awareness of the plight of these cute little creatures. Thank you to Miss Gately and the year 4 teachers for coordinating our involvement in this project. Our students are certainly very excited about it and we look forward to them sharing their ideas!
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Tell Them From Me: Student Survey Term 2Traditionally our school participates in the Tell Them From Me student survey in Term 1 and Term 3 each year.The survey is open for students in Years 4-6 to participate. The survey provides our school with valuablefeedback on what our students think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different waysthat teachers interact with them.At the end of this term we will be capturing student voice across our school by surveying arepresentative sample set from each class in Years 4-6. This will give us an opportunity to check-in with ourstudents. Especially as the COVID-19 crisis has presented unique challenges for students, teachers andparents across NSW. As we have now transitioned back to face-to-face learning, now is an opportunity tocheck-in on your students’ wellbeing and engagement during this extraordinary time. Please find attached theInformation and consent form for parents and carers. Please note: you only need to send back in the form ifyou do not want your child to take part in the survey.
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Congratulations to the following students who have received the Aussie Star Award for Respect. They consistently take pride in themselves and our school by wearing the correct school uniform, they look after their own and others’ belongings and treat all people and things with care and respect. These students will receive their awards at our virtual assembly next Monday.
KB - Lily H, KG - Grace B, KT - Tayla Y, KW - Mary-Rose V.
1G - Luke B, 1M - Conor C, 1S - Ashton F.
1/2K - Erin H, 2HC - Jasper S, 2M - Asher B.
3A - Addi C, 3H - Max C.
3/4R - Lily H, 4B - Stanley H, 4G - Maisy C, 4/5T - Alfie A.
5G - Jorja W, 5N - Ava M.
6M - Will N, 6O - Gerard F, 6R - Kayla L.
Our students continue to be enthusiastically engaging their BHPS Star Learner Superpowers in class. These
students displayed the qualities of Being Collaborative, by
Staying Flexible
Talking and connecting
Alternate points of view
Realise the potential of the group
Congratulations to the following students!
KB – Archer G, KG – Jake I, KT – Maia E, KW – Abby E.
1G – Archie TL, 1M Luca F, 1S – Nicholas G, 1/2K – Ethan H.
2HC – Fletcher W, 2M – Piper W.
3A - Dylan D, 3H - Tim L.
3/4R – Toby W, 4B – Dash B, 4G – Santiago P, 4/5T – Charlie W.
5G – Josie B, 5N – Toby J.
6M – Javier Z, 6O - David G, 6R – India C.
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ICAS AssessmentsWe are delighted to inform you that Beacon Hill Public School will be participating in the world-renowned ICAS Assessments this year. ICAS is developed by UNSW Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of UNSW Sydney, with over 35 years’ experience in educational assessments. Please see the document attached for further information on how to register and the Parent Payment System. Each test will start before school on both days, starting at 8am |
The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is underway and goes through until August 28th 2020. The challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge for each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is available for all NSW students in Kindergarten to Year 9.
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Go to the new PRC student website. There is a video on the PRC Support site that you can watch that demonstrates how to login, search for books and add them to your child's individual Student Reading Record (SRR).
A link to the Premier’s Reading Challenge website can be found in the
The URL to use is https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/studentExperience.html#/
Students can access the PRC website using their Department of Education (DoE) username and password. These are the same details a student would use to access the Student Portal and the computer network at school. If you are unaware of your username and/or password, please contact your class teacher and ask for your Student Portal username and/or password.
We encourage as many students to partake in the challenge as possible. All students who participate will go into a class draw, with a prize for a student per class at the end of the challenge.
Please come and see me if you would like more information on the PRC or assistance in sourcing books.
This year we are asking all students in K-6 to log their own books to complete the challenge.
Happy reading!
Miss Shearer & Mrs Thomas
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Canteen UpdateNacho's are back on the menu. Thursday is Nacho Day!! Order online on Flexischools
Milk Cups are back. Only 60c. Order Online for lunchtime delivery.
Due to issues with suppliers we are unable to receive Karama Rama and Apple Juice from Emma and Tom's. We have a substitute of Apple Blackcurrant and Apple Juice from Harvey Fresh. This is a popper style juice. Hopefully things will be back to normal in Term 3.
Hot food items can change due to ingredient and supplier availability. Sorry for any inconveniences. Hopefully we will be back to normal next term. |
Winter hair accessories and cotton tights now in stock at the uniform shop.
Place your order online www.bhpsuniforms.com.
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SkoolbagSkoolbag delivers school notices directly to your device, all the instructions you need to download skoolbag are attached in the file below.
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BH OOSH Vacation Care Program July 2020Download |
Hi everyone, thanks for joining me for a few minutes of Bible chat.
The book of Psalms is a book of poetry, many chapters of both short and longer writings, which provide peace and reflection for anyone who chooses to read them. Psalm 139 is one of the long ones. Verse 1 says: “You have looked deep into my heart lord, and you know all about me.” That’s a comforting thought I think, to know that God knows all about me! It means he knows what I need and where my heart is at. In SRE classes
with year 6, we talk about this verse in lesson 2. We learn that God knows us deeply and therefore he’s like a best friend.
This week, who don’t you take a few minutes each day to think about this verse. The graphic above (and the ones I provided in the last few weeks) can be printed in credit card size and carried around or hung on the fridge – a quick reminder that God is good.
Maybe you’d like to pray with me… “Dear Lord, I pray that you’ll be close to me today and every day, that I may get to know your goodness. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.” ?
If you’d like to know more, please feel free to contact me on Jacqui.mikac@c3syd.church
To access fun kids programs at any time, click https://c3syd.church/kidsonline/
and for the mums and dads, click the link https://c3syd.church
Jacqui Mikac
C3 Church Pastor and SRE manager
“Together we provide a respectful, happy and friendly school environment where everyone strives to achieve excellence.”