Newsletter – Term 4, Week 3, 2022

What wild weather we have been having – rain one minute and sun shining the next. We hope all of our families have stayed safe during this time.

The Sentral calendar has all the dates we are aware of at this stage for Term 4. We will add to this as we are made aware of them. Some important dates coming up in Term 4 –

OCTOBER

• Monday 24^th October – School Council Meeting 6.30pm
• Tuesday 25^th October – Preps 2023

NOVEMBER

• Wednesday 2^nd November – First Prep 2023 Transition Session
• Thursday 3^rd November – French Day – school uniform with a ‘touch of French’ (more information to come)
• Monday 7^th November – Year 1 excursion
• Thursday 10^th November – Second Prep 2023 Transition Session
• Friday 18^th November – Last Prep 2023 Transition Session
• Monday 28^th November – School Council meeting

DECEMBER

• Wednesday 14^th December – Year 6 Graduation
• Thursday 15^th December – Year 5 excursion
• Friday 16^th December – Reports released, Year 4 excursion
• Monday 19^th December – Year 6 excursion
• Tuesday 20^th December – LAST DAY 2022 1.30pm finish

2023

JANUARY

• Monday 30^th January – FIRST DAY FOR ALL STUDENTS

We are very excited that our Prep transitions begin next week. We have around 78 Preps beginning in 2023.

In Australia, due to school holiday dates throughout the country, World Teacher’s Day is celebrated in Australia on Friday 28^th October. It is a day to celebrate our wonderful teaching staff at Bellaire Primary School. We appreciate all that they do for our students and families. We are so lucky to have such a dedicated staff at Bellaire.

Congratulations to the students who represented Bellaire at the Regional Athletics on Tuesday. It is an achievement to make it to this level. Mr Canny attended the event to support our students.

On Tuesday, 8 students represented Bellaire in the Regional Athletics at Keilor Park. In beautiful weather, we had some amazing results on the day with an extremely strong level of competition. Well done on making it this far, you should be very proud.

The following student will progress to the state level competition

Congratulations to Indi O who came 2^nd in the 12/13 Hurdles.

Alice A who came 2^nd in the 11 yr Hurdles and 2^nd in the 200m

The 12/13 yr Relay (Indi O, Indi M, Hannah R & Zoe R) who came 1^st.

Mr Canny

The shade sails that were taken down for repair and cleaning were meant to be put back up at the start of this term. They came to put them up and there was an issue. They are booked to come back soon.

This year Ms Kite organised for students to put in entries for the National Water Week Competition.

(From the Barwon Water Website) Primary school students from across the region have showcased their creative talents for National Water Week (17–23 October).

In total, we received 320 entries from 10 local schools for the annual poster competition, focusing on this year’s theme “Our water stories”.

We congratulate our following winners.

Category: Yr 3&4

Student: Emily Healy

Prize awarded:  Winner

Category: Prep

Student: Charles Y

Prize awarded:  Second

Category: Prep

Student: Frida J

Prize awarded:  Third

Bellaire Primary School was also awarded a $500 Education Voucher.

We are excited to say we have nearly completed our staffing process for 2023. We have some wonderful things occurring in 2023 for our students. We try to ensure we offer every opportunity and support for the students within our school.

• The Tutor Learning Initiative will continue in 2023
• We are expanding our extension / excellence program in 2023 to include lots of opportunities for students throughout the school.
• We are participating in a Maths research project with Deakin University, strengthening our partnership.
• We will continue with, what is now called by the Department, a Mental Health practitioner (currently Casey Hawkins is working with students throughout the school).
• We will continue with employing a Speech Pathologist.

We are very excited that our scarecrow – ‘Ed Sheeran” – won FIRST PRIZE at the Geelong Show Scarecrow competition. Congratulations to the group of students that spent many hours, including lunchtimes, working on Ed with Ms Kite. Ed is currently displayed in our school entry if you would like to see him.

At lunch time we have a scheduled 15-minute eating time, inside, where students have the opportunity to eat prior to heading outside to play.

Previously, at recess time, the students have headed straight outside when the bell goes at 11am. Some students would head straight out to play and not eat any food, as they were excited to play, others would find a place to eat, and others would walk around eating. At the end of last term, we trialled eating inside prior to heading out to play. We found that some students who had never eaten their recess before, as they were too excited to go and play, were now eating their snack and they all had the opportunity to eat prior to heading outside. We acknowledge that there was some miscommunication around food being allowed out at recess, we can assure you that this miscommunication has been. As at lunch, students can take the rest of their food / lunchbox outside if they have not completed their food, however we ask that students are not taking rubbish out with them.

For your diaries – first day of 2023 for ALL students is MONDAY 30^th JANUARY.

Principal

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