Month: October 2023

Happy Friday!  Next week we have our Curriculum Day on Friday 3^rd November.  We hope you are able to enjoy the extra long weekend and my fingers are crossed that you have lovely weather to get out and about.  Our teachers will use the Curriculum Day to spend time learning about ‘How Students Learn’ – looking at strategies to engage and motivate students and Assessment and Reporting.

Grade 5 and 6 camp

Last week we held our grade 5 and 6 camp to Camp Coolamatong.  I had the pleasure of joining the grade 5s on their camp.  Both camps were fortunate to have great weather.  This camp is down on the coastline and many activities are on or near water as well as on the farm.  The students took part in working on teamwork, respect and gratitude.  The catchphrase for the camp was ‘respect and gratitude are contagious, it’s like a boomerang that comes back to you’.  We all had a great time together and the camp staff feedback to me was how respectful our Beacy students are, they were all very impressed with their behaviour.

The view at camp!

A students take on their experience of camp.
” At camp Coolamatong, the staff reminded us of the value of respect and gratitude, which was their theme. Most of the activities at camp involved teamwork, for example one of the activities, we had to move some tires using certain rules, and respect played into that as you needed to respect each other’s opinions. My favourite activity at camp was the boat trip because we went to the beach and played games. Camp was a great experience, the bonding with friends, activities and the food made it the best – Dom Grade 6

Village Green Playground

The Shire of Cardinia have reached out to ask for our community’s voice asking for your feedback on the Village Green playground renewal.  This is a great opportunity for you to sit with your child and have their voice heard by their local council.  They have developed design options and they would like you and your family to choose your favourite one.

I have attached the information flyer and you will need to send in your feedback by 5^th November.  All information is on the flyer.

Prep transition 2024

We held our Prep 2024 Information night on Wednesday and in a couple of weeks we will begin our onsite program that sees our 2024 Preps visiting us for a few hours.  As part of the program, our grade 5 students will come down and help us with our new friends.  It is lovely to see our future leaders of our school caring and supporting our new students. 

World Teachers’ Day

Today is World Teachers’ Day.  At Beaconsfield Primary School we are so grateful to have such dedicated teachers who come to school every day to make a difference to your child.  The commitment they make to ensure they are meeting the learning and wellbeing needs of every child is amazing.

The staff at Beaconsfield Primary School would like to thank our community for the support you have shown in the past two weeks.  We knew we were part of a special community but this has been evident with the display of compassion that you have given us and each other.

Heidi Inglis

Principal

Welcome to term 4!  I hope you had a nice break with your family. 

Beacy’s Got Talent

Last Friday our school community sat down to enjoy the amazing talents of our students.  We watched performances of singing and rapping, dancing and acrobatics, instrumental pieces and ventriloquism.  What a wonderful diversity of talents we have at Beacy!  The students did a wonderful job of getting up in front of the large audience to perform their acts and the audience did a terrific job of being appreciative and supportive.

Thank you to our Student Representative Council for organising the event and introducing the items and to Mr Jeffries for working with our students to help get this event from concept to performance.

Building works on the holiday

You may have seen we had lots of workers at our school over the holidays.  We were able to resurface our basketball court, replace fencing at our wetlands, build a retaining wall and seating at the Princes Hwy gate, and extend the retaining wall along Lyle ave and plant a new garden bed.  It was very exciting to come back to school to see the improvements in our school grounds.

‘End of Year Celebration’ concert

We have decided on the date for our ‘End of Year Celebration’ concert.  We hold a concert where all our students will perform a couple of items to an audience.  Due to the size of our school we split our concert up into junior – Prep, grade 1 and grade 2 and senior – grade 3, grade 4, grade 5 and grade 6.  This year we will hold our junior concert at the end of the school day and the senior concert after school.  The day and times are:

Thursday 7^th December

• Junior (Prep, grade 1 and grade 2) 1:45pm to 3:00pm
• Senior (Grade 3, grade 4, grade 5 and grade 6) 4:00pm to 5:00pm

The concert is held in the shed and parents and families are invited to attend.  More information about the event will be sent out closer to the date but mark it in your calendar.

Medical information

As we have changed into Spring (even though we have still experienced some wintery days), it brings different health concerns.  There is an increased risk of seasonal asthma, hay fever and epidemic thunderstorm asthma as we are in a season with increased grass pollen levels.  It typically occurs between October and December.

We are reminding our families to ensure that their child’s asthma is being managed well with visits to the doctors if requiring relievers frequently and ensuring their child is using their preventers.  Also make sure that the school has your latest action plan and a reliever in the event of an attack.

Curriculum day

We have our final curriculum day on Friday 3^rd November.  This is our fourth curriculum day this year and we had one additional Professional Practice days. 

Next year the first curriculum day is the day before students return to school, Monday 29^th January 2024, with grade 1 to 6 students returning to school on Tuesday 30^th January.

2024

This time of year we begin to plan for 2024.  This involves working out our workforce.  If you know that your child will not be attending Beaconsfield Primary School in 2024, can you please let the school know by sending an email through to the school account or coming into the office.

Enjoy your weekend and hopefully we will see spring weather soon.

Heidi Inglis

Principal