We will be celebrating Book Week at Neville Bonner on Tuesday 23 August. The theme this year is "Dreaming with eyes open”. On this day, students are encouraged to dress up/accessorize to reflect a book character with whom they connect. Due to the financial pressures on many families at this time, we encourage you to keep this a low-cost event and create costumes from household items.

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

Book fair

Thank you all to all the volunteers who assisted at the Book Fair on Saturday. We had a fantastic day - perfect weather and a really good turn out! At this stage, we haven't committed the funds to anything yet, but we do have some ideas and will be discussing them at upcoming P&C meetings. Keep an eye on the newsletter for meeting dates and come and join the conversation - you are all always welcome :)

Events such as these rely on volunteers and it's always a pleasure to work with such a great group of people. Thank you all for jumping in and making it work! We want to send an extra shout out to the pack up crew who stayed an extra hour to get everything sorted beautifully on Saturday evening! Your willingness to stay on is much appreciated!

We received a lot of great feedback on the day, and we are already looking at ways to improve for next year. We're looking forward to it already. :)

We hope you all enjoyed being part of the Neville Bonner P&C Book Fair.

Canteen General

Our canteen is open for lunch five days a week, orders are via Flexischools website (https://flexischools.com.au/), the Flexischools App or cash direct to the canteen. Any cancellations must be advised prior to 9am on the day.

Remember, if you happened to forget to pick up some lunchbox items over the weekend, we have some great meal deals on Mondays and Tuesdays to ease the stress!

Unfortunately we have had to increase the pricing of some items in the menu, please see the new menu below. Flexischools has been updated accordingly.

Birthday cupcakes

Our amazing canteen team offers birthday cupcakes! Cost is $30 per class, with orders required one (1) week in advance. To place an order, or for more information, please email canteennbps@gmail.com.

Over the counter sales.

The Canteen will have over the counter sales available for the following periods:

** Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: 11.15am to 11.45am - Break One.

** Thursday and Friday: 1pm to 2pm - Break Two.

Our canteen will have some delicious snacks available for the children to buy. There will be freshly baked muffins and pikelets, popcorn, crackers, potato sticks, pretzels, fruit, yoghurt, juice, flavoured milk and more! Gluten free and halal options will be available.

Prices start from $1.00, and this is a great way to learn and be responsible about handling money.

Come and support your canteen and grab a yummy snack!

Second Hand Uniform Shop

Neville Bonner Primary School P&C Second Hand Uniform Stall has returned for Term Three.

** Week 4 - Wednesday, 10th August from 8:45am to 9:45am - under the school hall covered area.

** Week 5 - Wednesday, 17th August from 2:45pm to 3:45pm - in the Mabo Bvd carpark.

We have loads of pre-loved uniforms for sale. Preferred payment is via EFTPOS, however cash will be accepted. The photos provide an idea of the availability of stock.

If you have good quality Winter school uniforms (tracksuit pants, jumpers, long sleeve shirts) you no longer need, the P&C will gratefully accept your donation to our second hand uniform stall through the canteen (or please place them in the tub near the front office).

Contact Us

Want to touch base with your P&C?

You can email us at nevillebonnerps.pandc@gmail.com, or connect through FB at https://www.facebook.com/NBPS.PandC.