Messages from Mrs Inglis
Happy Friday! With the sun shining and the weekend approaching, it is easy to put a smile on your face. I hope you have something happening this weekend that makes you smile.
Movie Night
Thank you to the Beacy community for supporting this event – it was certainly the place to be on a Friday night. Unfortunately, I was hit by illness and unable to attend but all recounts from everyone was that it felt great to be with other parents and children.
There were some challenges that were presented on the night but the resilience of our community shone through. Thank you to all those people who show patience, understanding and support as everyone worked very hard to get this event happening. Speaking to the students the highlights were being at school at night and having the glow sticks and parents have fedback that it was nice to take the time to stop in our busy lives and catch up with friends.
We need to thank Alison and the P&F committee for organising this night. As we are all aware, there is lots of planning beforehand and lots of hard work on the night. The committee is made up of a small number of dedicated volunteers and with the addition of volunteers helping on the night, they ran an event that saw hundreds of people of attend. Also thank you to our grade 6 students for being part of the stall and the HPV students and parents.
We are all looking forward to what you are planning for next year!
Transition
Change is coming and this can make many people nervous and anxious. We all know that it is inevitable that change happens in life. As part of education, every year at Beaconsfield Primary School our students say goodbye to their grade and teacher for the year and move to the next stage in their education. This is a time of celebration that we are ready for the next challenges.
However, we must be aware of what change does to us and our children. For some people, it comes easily and they have the resilience to deal with it well. This is what we hope for all of our students. We have supported our students all through the year to deal with issues and worked with them on their mental wellbeing.
To support your child, here are some suggestions:
- Make sure that you are talking about their next stage in a positive way – how exciting, you are ready, this is a good thing, you can do this.
- Be mindful of how much you talk about it – sometimes it might be too much.
- Support your child to see what they can control. Somethings are not in their control so there is no need to worry about it. They need to trust the process and they will be able to deal with the outcome.
- Be mindful of how you are feeling about change as you are their role model. If you are nervous or anxious, this is contagious and your child might be ‘catching’ your emotions.
- Take moments to check in with your child as to how they are feeling and see if they are able to state what they are wondering or concerned about. Answer their questions honestly and if you don’t know what the answer is, try problem solving as to how you find out the solution – who could we ask?
As a school, we are constantly working with our students to deal with ‘change’ in a healthy way. As we get closer to the end of year, your child will have transition sessions in their grade for next year. Yesterday, we held sessions for our 2023 Preps at our school. They had opportunities to see our school and meet some of our staff. Our grade 6 students will have visits to their secondary schools in December to have similar experiences.
If you feel your child’s emotions are making them struggle with transition, please seek support and reassurance from your child’s classroom teacher.
Remembrance Day
On Friday 11th November, Beaconsfield Primary School came together to take a moment to acknowledge our history of Remembrance Day. Our SRC representatives presented at the ceremony the history of Remembrance Day. The school participated in a minute silence.
We thank those members of our community who joined our ceremony. We thank the SRC representatives for presenting a beautiful and moving service.
School grounds
Have you walked through our grounds lately? We have had lots happening and I thought I would bring it to your attention as all these great things happen from the support of our community. With your support with paying contributions, contributing to building and grounds funds and fundraising we have been able to make our school grounds a lovely place for our students.
Our bike shed has a concrete floor and bike racks.
Grade 1 students have been planting and making signs to promote people to look after our gardens.
Grade 5 students have a new garden area in between their portables and have been busy planting. We have also had extra concrete paths and widen paths around their portable area.
Mia was instrumental in organising a grade 6 garden which saw all our grade 6 students planting succulents outside their classroom. Trish and Pete were amazing support for this project – and many more that happen around our school.
Here is one of the many new games that we have had added to our playground. We have had 8 new games placed in our playground for students to use during lunchtimes. I hope your child has told you about them.
2022 Art Show
Our amazing Visual Arts teachers have been working hard with your children and have put together an Art Show. Every student has a piece of artwork on display. We hope you are able to come and view all the masterpieces.
The Art Show is located in our Gallery in level 2 from Monday to Wednesday next week from 3:30 to 4pm.
This weekend we have our HPV team at Maryborough. We wish them all the best and look forward to our next newsletter to hear about the event.
Have a lovely weekend.
Heidi Inglis
