Newsletter: Term 3 - Week 2
A Message from the Principal
Pupil Free Day – You will have received communication regarding our pupil free days this term. Our first of these is next Friday. If you are going to be sending your child to school on this day, please let the front office know through calling 61421201 or emailing nevillebonnerps@ed.act.edu.au to enable us to plan our supervision arrangements for the day.
SeeSaw – This semester we will be trialling the online platform SeeSaw with our Learning Support Groups and Kindergarten and Year 1 cohorts. This platform will replace traditional student portfolios of work, where instead of at the end of each semester, parents will receive more regular updates on the work their children are producing. Information has been sent out to these families, and we ask that you return the permission note as quickly as possible. Assuming our trial is successful, it is likely we will explore the use of SeeSaw in all of our year groups.
2023 Enrolment Intentions – I will be sending out an email to families of students from Kindergarten to Year 5 shortly requesting for those that are intending on leaving the school at the end of the year to complete a short Microsoft Form to let us know. This information is extremely useful for us to have in advance, ensuring we can have an accurate picture of enrolment numbers per year group.
ICAS Reminder – I sent an email out a number of weeks ago inviting families to register their children for ICAS testing. The online registrations close on Monday 1 August. No late registrations can be accepted.
Reminder on Mask Wearing - Masks remain an important measure to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our community and in our schools. Alongside other COVID Smart behaviours, masks can help reduce transmission of COVID-19 respiratory illnesses in our schools. Staff and visitors to schools must also wear a mask indoors when physical distancing can’t be maintained. The Directorate, through your school will keep you updated over the term. For more information read the updated ACT Public Schools COVID-19 Management Plan available on the Directorate’s website. ACT Health has developed an online resource on acute respiratory infections in children which you are encouraged to read.
Dates to Remember
Wednesday 27 July - P & C second hand uniform stall (morning)
Friday 29 July - Preschool T/F - Nutrition Magician Show
Saturday 30 July - P & C second hand book fair
Monday 1 August - ICAS registrations close
Wednesday 3 August - P & C second hand uniform stall (afternoon)
Friday 5 August - Pupil free day
Sunday 7 August - Scholastic book club online orders close
Thursday 11 August - School photo day - Pre T/F, Kinder to Year 5
Monday 15 August - School photo day - Pre M/T, Year 6, siblings
Tuesday 23 August - Book week parade
Thursday 25 August - Preschool T/F book week parade
Friday 9 September - Pupil free day
Monday 5 - Friday 16 September -Year 2 Swim school
Friday 16 September - School Disco
Friday 23 September - Last day of term 3
Communications Sent Home This Week
Notes and Emails Home
Year 6 graduation shirt order
Seesaw permission note (Kindergarten, Year 1 and LSP)
Learning Overviews Term 3 - (Kindergarten to Year 4)
SMS Texts Home
Absences
Sharing Food for Celebrations
We are happy to invite families to bring in food to share for birthdays and celebrations.
We ask that you please comply with our allergy policy and do not include nuts or nut products.
Unnamed Lost Property
A range of unlabelled lost property will be displayed on the River next week. Items include hats, jumpers, jackets and non-uniform clothes. If your child has lost a non named item last term please encourage them to visit the River. Items will be available until next Friday, any unclaimed items will be donated.
Over 40 pieces of clothing have been collected. Please take the time to label school uniform items. If property is named it is much easier to return it to the owner.
2022 School Satisfaction & Climate Survey
Each year, the Directorate surveys all parents and carers, school staff and students in Years 4 to 12 about their experience of public education. The 2022 School Satisfaction & Climate Survey will be available online from 19 August to 9 September. The survey results will help us to continue to make quality informed decisions about how to improve our school. No personal identifying information will be provided to any school or college.
For each child in their family who attends an ACT public school, parents and carers will receive:
§ An email about the parent survey, including a link to access the survey.; and
§ A letter about the student survey outlining the reasons for collection and privacy provision for the data
If you do not receive the survey invitation, please check your Junk email folder; if it is not there, contact the school and you will be provided a survey link. If you do not have an email listed with the school, please contact Reception and we will provide you with the link.
The Parents and Carers Survey will be available online in other languages: Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Urdu, Vietnamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Spanish, Telugu, French and Italian. Respondents can select their preferred language when they start the survey. A shortened paper-version of the Parents and Carers Survey is also available in the following 5 languages: Dari, Dinka, Farsi, Karen and Mon. These surveys are available at the Front Office.
For the results to reflect the opinions of our whole school community, we need as many parents and carers, staff and students as possible to complete the survey. Your feedback is important, and we hope you will take part.
For more information, visit: https://www.education.act.gov.au/public-school-life/school-satisfaction-and-climate-survey
Seesaw
We are very excited to announce the introduction of Seesaw, a digital learning platform, to further support student learning and enhance communication with families. Seesaw is a digital portfolio that assists educators collect students’ physical and digital work in one place with immediate access to connected family members. Each child will have their own personal journey to add work samples and photos of their learning.
Students in Kindergarten, Year 1 and LSP learning groups, and their family members, will be utilising the application for the remainder of this year with the aim to extend to additional learning groups in 2023.
Permission notes went home to all kindergarten, year 1 and LSP students this week. Please review Seesaw permissions and return signed note by Thursday 4 August to the front office.
A support stall will be established near the front office before and after school during week 4, Monday 8 - Friday 12 August, to support families needing assistance to set their Seesaw accounts up.
Specialist Term Overviews
Learning overviews for Kindergarten to Year 4 have been emailed home and Year 5 and 6 uploaded to Google Classrooms. Please enjoy watching the specialist videos below to hear more about what is happening this term.
Kindy overview T3.mp4Term 3 Year 2 Digital Technologies (2).mp4Y 1 and 2 Overview.mp4Y 3 and 4 Overview x.mp4year 1 and 2 term overview.MOVYear 3 Kate T3 Science Specialist.mp4year 3 term overview.MOVYear 4 Term 3 Science Specialist.mp4kinder term overview.MOVSchool Photos
Don't forget to order your school photos by Friday 12 August!
Neville Bonner PS~Parents ChoiceACT_sFLYER.pdfTransition Planning Info Sessions for Families
Transition to Preschool for children with developmental delay and disability on Monday 15 August from 10:00 am to 11:30 am at Hall Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning or Wednesday 24 August 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm online. RSVP to preschoolpathways@act.gov.au.
Transition to Primary School for children with developmental delay and disability on Tuesday 16 August from 10:00 am to 11.30 am at Hall Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning or Thursday 25 August from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm online. RSVP to EDUCommunityPartner@act.gov.au.
Transition to High School and College for children with disability on Thursday 11 August from 10:00 am to 11:30 am at Hall Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning or Tuesday 16 August 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm online. RSVP to EDUCommunityPartner@act.gov.au.
Augmented Road Safety Activities
Kidsafe ACT and CreativiTek have collaborated to create augmented reality road safety learning experiences and games for ACT kids. Mobile users can scan QR codes to try the augmented reality activities.
To read more about the project and augmented reality, go to Augmented Reality Children's Activities - KIDSAFE ACT.
Year 5 Camp
Preschool Learning Page
‘Wonderful Whales’ – What to Wear?
Within the Preschool unit, children have recently been exploring the concept of how we can keep ourselves healthy. Through discussing and sharing ideas, the Learning Group have focused on diet, different forms of movement, sun safety and hygiene practices. This led to children wanting to trace around their own bodies with chalk.
After further conversations, the ‘Wonderful Whales’ continued to consider and share ideas about how the weather and seasons may affect what we wear. Children were then invited to trace around their body on paper before painting clothes for certain weather.
Year 5 Learning Page
The Aqua Innovators have started to explore measurement in Maths. The children were intrigued to investigate the areas of different parts of the school and find out their areas. The formula of area is Length x Width. Here are measurements they found across the school.
Lamisa: The River has a length of 85 metres and a width of 29 metres, which equals to an area of 2465 m2.
Aaminah: Guginya has a length of 11 metres and a width of 17 metres, which equals to an area of 187m2.
Isabella: The Hall is 14 metres in length and 20 metres in width, which equals to an area of 280 m2.
Ivan: Under the hall is 42 metres in length and 22 metres in width, which equals to an area of 924m2.
Alex: The Mundang building has a length of 95 and a width of 24, which equals to an area of 2280m2.
Iksha: The Library has a length of 38 metres and a width of 17 metres, which equals to an area of 646 m2.
Orlando: The Dyinyuk building has a length of 95 metres and a width of 24 metres, which equals to an area of 2280 m2.
Shanay: The Arnhemland grass area has a length of 53 metres and a width of 16 metres, which equals to an area of 848 m2.
Kai: Guginya has a length of 11 metres and a width of 17 metres, which equals to an area of 187 m2.
Jake: The Gurubun grass has a length of 35 metres and a width of 21 metres, which equals to an area of 735m2.
Adam: Arnhemland fixed equipment is 8.39 metres in length and 4.3 metres in width, which equals to an area of 36.07 m2.
Ib: The Canteen has a length of 9 metres and a width of 6 metres, which equals to an area of 54 m2.
Ethan: The Garrit building has a length of 95 metres and a width of 24 metres, which equals to an area of 2280 m2.
Shaarav: The shared area in our classroom is 4 metres in length and 4 metres in width, which equals to an area of 16cm2.
Alice: From the preschool gate to the edge of the basketball court is 92 metres in length and from the green building to the glass of the hall is 49 metres in width, which equals to an area of 4508 m2.
Vaishanya: The Dyulang stage has a length of 7 metres and a width of 11 metres, which equals to an area of 77m2.
Zach: The Garrit building has a length of 95 metres and a width of 24 metres, which equals to an area of 2280 m2.
Shawn: The basketball court is 30 metres in length and 16 metres in width, which equals to an area of 480 cm2.
Jordan: The bike rack is 49 metres in length and 6 metres in width, which equals to an area of 294 m2.
Arya: Birimbigang has a length of 54 metres and a width of 27 metres, which equals to an area of 1458 m2.
Ruby: Gurubun has a length of 44 metres and a width of 26 metres, which equals to an area of 1144 m2.
Saliha: From pole to pole in Arhenland is 13 metres in length and 19 metres in width, which equals to an area of 247 m2.
Abdullah: Birimbigang has a length of 55 metres and a width of 26 metres, which equals to an area of 1430 m2.
Ryan: The Yuyu deck is 2m in length and 68m in width, which equals an area of 136m2.
Parents' and Citizens' Association
Contact Information
Principal:
Will Johnston
william.johnston@ed.act.edu.au
Deputy Principals:
Haeley Simms (P-2) haeley.simms@ed.act.edu.au
Sylvia Headon (3-6) sylvia.headon@ed.act.edu.au
P&C President:
Jayne Trustum nevillebonnerps.pandc@gmail.com
Board Chair:
Amani Kerr
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