Newsletter: Term 4 - Week 2

A Message from the Principal

Fire Visit – Our Kindergarten students had a visit from ACT Fire and Rescue this Thursday.  The visit included an in-class presentation and handing out of activity books. The students’ favourite part of the visit was getting to see the fire engine up close and having a turn with the fire hose.

P and C Donation – Over the school holidays, our P and C accompanied our wonderful library assistant Robyn to a scholastic warehouse sale. Here, they purchase $1500 of books to replenish our library stocks.  We thank our P and C for this support – the books will make many of our young readers engaged in quality texts.

Peer Selections – Term four is a busy time of the year where we consider logistics for the following school year. In the first half of the term, your child will complete a peer selection sheet which will be used in our class formation process later this term. We will ensure that each child has at least one of their selections in their 2023 class. Teachers are aware of dynamics that may not work in the classroom and will consider these when formulating classes. If you have any strong concerns about 2023, please contact the executive teacher of your child’s area. Please be aware we will try to take these concerns into consideration, but may not be able to satisfy all requests. As a reminder they are;

·                     P-K – Brittney Phillips – Brittney.phillips@ed.act.edu.au

·                     1-2 – Kelly Dunstan – kelly.dunstan@ed.act.edu.au

·                     3-4 – Janet Hagan – janet.hagan@ed.act.edu.au

·                     5-6 – Lynette Eddowes – lynette.eddowes@ed.act.edu.au

 

Bookpacks – We were expecting bookpacks to go live this week to enable families to purchase for the 2024 year. There has been a slight delay with WINC and we are expecting lists to go live soon. As with last year, if you purchase before the end of the school year, the delivery fee will be waived and packs will arrive at school in time for the 2024 school year. If you purchase outside the free delivery window, the pack will be delivered to your home and will incur a delivery cost.

Dates to Remember




2024 Dates to Remember

Communications Sent Home This Week

Notes and Emails Home

SMS Texts Home

Student Wellbeing at NBPS

Kindness-Tenacity-Resilience-Empathy-Equity

Safe - Respectful - Learner 

Loud Shirt Day

At Neville Bonner our school values include equity and empathy. To promote these values and to support students at Neville Bonner who are hard of hearing we will again be fundraising for Loud Shirt Day. Loud Shirt Day will take place on Friday the 27th of October (Wednesday the 25th of October for the Mon-Tue Preschool group). Students are invited to donate a gold coin and wear their loudest shirt to support students who are hard of hearing. All money raised will go to the Sheperd Centre. The Shepherd Centre offers early intervention for children with hearing loss helping them learn to listen and speak in a variety of ways. 

Fortnightly Focus Week 1 & 2- We use the toilet space only for using the toilet and the sink. 

Specialist - Term Overviews

Term 4 overview for junior school Amanda

Amanda - The Arts K-2

Term 4 overview senior school Amanda.MOV

Amanda - The Arts Year 3-6

Science Tarun-T4TermOverview.mp4

Tarun- Science

Kathryn - Term 4 Overview Science.mp4

Kathryn - Science

Colour Run

Get your colour on, Neville Bonner Primary School is hosting a Colour Explosion School Fun Run fundraiser! 

The Colour Explosion School Fun Run will be on:

Friday 24 November 2023.  

and Monday 27 November for M/T preschool groups

Colour runs are great fun and will be an enjoyable afternoon for our students. See an example of how much fun in the Colour run video

Not only are we hosting an awesome explosion event, students can win up to 15 awesome automated incentive prizes by fundraising via online sponsorship donations. Students will shortly receive a prize booklet.

Instructions on setting up their cybersafe, online fundraising profile at www.australianfundraising.com.au have been emailed to families. This is an entirely online fundraiser; all cash donations must be converted to online donations to redeem your prizes.

Extra Incentives to Fundraise!

Online Golden Coins – complete fun online tasks to redeem an extra $75 towards your prize credit.

Monty the Monstar’s Bonus Prizes – achieve milestones to unlock Monty’s bonus prizes.

$10,000 JB HI FI Spending Spree for one organisation’s highest fundraising student – it could be you!

Our school will win an extra $5,000 if we have the highest average fundraised amount per student in 2023.

A Play Station 5 Gaming Bundle – see your child’s sponsorship booklet for more!

 

For more information, please contact nevillebonnerps.pandc@gmail.com

Happy fundraising!

Update Household Details

If you have moved house or changed phone numbers, please be sure to update your details with the front office. 

You can do this in person at the office or via email: nevillebonnerps@ed.act.edu.au

It is important to keep this information up to date in case we need to contact you in an emergency as well as for when the new parent portal is released next year.

Thank you, the admin team.

The Smith Family Saver Plus Program

The Smith Family (ACT) offers a range of programs to help families and individuals to stay engaged with education. Saver Plus is a program with a specific focus on supporting families and individuals with low incomes to meet their education expenses.

Saver Plus is a matched savings and financial education program that aims to help people on lower incomes to strengthen their financial skills and to develop a savings habit. The program provides financial skills education and motivates participants to save by matching their savings dollar for dollar, up to $500. These savings can be used to pay for education costs such as computers, books, uniforms, extracurricular activities and school excursions. To fill in the online enquiry form; Saver Plus enquiry form | Brotherhood of St. Laurence (bsl.org.au) 

Contact Saver Plus on 1300 610 355 or saverplus@bsl.org.au. 

Parents' and Citizens' Association

Neville Bonner Parents and Citizens Committee

Our P&C provides services to the school such as canteen, second hand uniform shop, disco and other activities. Without a P&C, we cannot continue to do these things. 

For more information on our committee and event notices and updates, please head to the P&C Facebook or the Neville Bonner P&C page We are always happy to accept new members into the P&C and event volunteers as well - send us an email.

More information about our canteen; lunch orders with flexischools, over the counter sales and birthday cupcakes, as well as the uniform shop can be found on the P&C component of the school website.

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.

Second Hand Uniform Shop

Neville Bonner Primary School P&C Second Hand Uniform Stall is hosted under the school hall covered area.

** Term 4 - Week 4 - Wednesday 18th October, from 8.45am to 9.45am. ** We have had to close the afternoon stalls. 

Volunteers for uniform shop wanted
 We would love to host another morning stall on another day, however, our current volunteers are unable to assist.  If you're able to volunteer an hour of your time, on any other day of the week, we can provide the training and assistance to run the stall for the hour.

Please email us at nevillebonnerps.pandc@gmail.com 

P&C Family Portrait Fundraiser
 Dates: Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 October 2023

Professional family portrait to be taken at Yerrabi Pond (weather permitting, here at school in the event of wet weather). You will receive a: 10x13 inch Family Portrait + Wallet Photo for $20 You will have the option to purchase more photos, with additional poses and digital images, if you wish.  See QR code and link in image.

*Limited offer one voucher per person/family
 *Parent/guardian to view own portraits or p&h applies
 *No refund for failure to keep appointment

P&C Colour Run
 Towards the end of Term Four the P&C and School are working together to host a colour run fundraiser for P-6. Students will have the opportunity to fundraise for this event, where monies raised will be shared between the school and P&C. Colour runs are great fun and will be an enjoyable afternoon for our students. 

Date: 24th November (during the school day) 1-3pm

Consent forms, posters and more information will be shared through the school. Volunteers: We will be looking for Parent volunteers to manage the tables of 'colours', please email us though nevillebonnerps.pandc@gmail.com, if you can help out through the afternoon.

Scholastic Book Club

Issue 7 catalogues are on their way home.  Orders close at the end of Week 3 - 27 October 2023.
 Don’t forget 20% of every sale is given to the P&C in ‘rewards’ that the school can use to purchase resources from the catalogues.
 Thanks to your support, we were able to purchase $1574 worth of books, at the Scholastic Book Sale, for the school library.

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

Community Information