Our school is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair on Monday the 22 of August until Friday the 26 of August. The fair will be held in the school library every morning from 8:30am until 9:00am and every afternoon from 3:00pm until 3:30pm (closes Friday morning).

Our Book Fair Family Event is on Wednesday from 3:00pm until 6:00pm and we would love to see you there!

You and your child will have the opportunity to explore a huge range of affordable books featuring characters and subjects kids love and want to read about. From newly released books and bestsellers to award-winning titles and perennial favourites.

This is also a great way for you to learn about and discuss your child's interests and every book sold benefits our school, adding resources to our library and classrooms.

Scholastic Book Fairs help us show students the wonder of reading. After all, when kids choose their own books, they will be more excited to read, and they will naturally read more!

Thank you

Jane Hellyar

Teacher/Librarian

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.

The Australian Girls’ Choir are preparing for 2023 and will be running an assessment workshop at Neville Bonner Primary School. There will be a fun and non-competitive 30 minute workshop on Thursday 8 September at 12.00pm with an experienced tutor involving simple rhythm, pitch and movement activities and games. Following the workshop, parents of participants will receive an encouraging personalised written report. Please contact the front office for a flyer and permission note. If you would like more information please contact our music specialist teacher Christopher Pound through the front office.

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

The athletics carnival was in Week 10 Term 2. We went to the Amaroo oval by bus. We participated in many events, such as Long Jump, Shot Put, Discus, races, and much more! We would like to give a big thanks to Richard, our P.E specialist teacher, and all the other teachers that helped organise and run the carnival. Everyone enjoyed themselves there. A lot of people earned ribbons and they must be very proud of themselves. We would like to congratulate those who made it to the Gungahlin district carnival and wish them good luck.

Written by Keya, Year 6

A big thank you to all those who came along to our first Defence Meet and Greet on Wednesday this week. There were plenty of big smiles and eager students ready to get amongst the events for the afternoon. It was lovely to see students from all year levels coming together in our new community space to brainstorm ideas of how the space for Defence Social Club will look as well as activity that they would like to see incorporated.

Legacy Week, 28 August to 3 September this year.

We’re excited to announce that Canberra Legacy is running a student and school competition that includes everyone in a Canberra school, even those isolating or working from home! The Legacy Week creative competition calls on Canberran children to get creative and colour, the Legacy Bear Mascot.

Canberra Legacy have decided to put their efforts into supporting schools around Canberra by providing an exciting competition for students and schools that will (hopefully) alleviate some of the stress placed on your community over the last few years.

This competition entry – Open to all students of Neville Bonner

• Students can colour-in the provided image and name our new Legacy Bear mascot - Can be collected from the Library or Sam the DSM

There will be one winner. The prize will be a $250 experience voucher of the winner’s choosing – cinema, trampoline, bowling, or arcade. The school with the most entries will receive a $500 voucher from a store of their choosing.

looking forward to receiving entries by Wednesday 31st August 3pm