Term 3 Week 4 

Tuesday 9 August 2022 

From the Principal

Welcome to Week 4

We had a very successful Education Week last week. The highlights being Choral Festival, Explore our School, BH Athletics Track & Field and ending with a dress as your Future Self Day. Thank you to all of our families who were able to join us for these events. It was great to have you visit in person again. Have you seen us in the BDT?  

A special congratulations goes to our students who participated in the extracurricular activities of choir and athletics. We recognise their commitment and enthusiasm to try something different.

This week we celebrate and recognise NAIDOC Week. All students will be participating in various activities throughout the week and finishing with a special assembly on Friday. We welcome visitors and families to join us. Information was sent out with students last week, however, updates will be on our Facebook page. Thank you to Mrs McInerney, Miss Niass and Ms Minnis for organising this event.  

We held a special meeting with our Stage 3 families and together we decided to cancel the Stage 3 excursion to Canberra due to Covid-19 risks and guidelines. We are now trying to make alternative arrangements for an excursion for our Stage 3 students as many will leave for High School next year. We will make a decision about the Stage 2 excursion by this coming week. We thank all of our parents for their patience and understanding. 

 

Liz Gleeson 

Relieving Principal

School Notices

Important Dates & Events
See all upcoming events on our website here

  Thursday 25 August 

  Monday 29 August 

  Tuesday 30 August 

  Wednesday 31 August 

  Thursday 1 September 

  Friday 2 September 

 Monday 5 September 

 Wednesday 14 September 

 Thursday 15 September 

 Friday 16 September 

 Thursday 22 September 

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Notes sent home

School Attendance - Week 2

Target attendance rate 92%

K W: 90.8%

K-6 G: 73.3%

1-2 N: 81.2%

1-2 R: 78.8%

3-4 E: 74%

4-5 M: 68.6%

5-6 M: 61.6%

School: 73.9% 

Unfortunately none of our classes met our green class target for attendance this week. A reminder to call or message about your child's absence. 

School Attendance - Week 3

Target attendance rate 92%

K W: 87.7%

K-6 G: 63.3%

1-2 N: 78.8%

1-2 R: 83.5%

3-4 E: 83%

4-5 M: 67.6%

5-6 M: 80.8%

School: 78.8% 

Unfortunately none of our classes met our green class target for attendance this week. A reminder to call or message about your child's absence. 

Home Reading Nights

25 Nights: Kendall Byrne 

  Hugo McCunnie

  Bryce Salaver

50 Nights: Ayrton Smith 

75 Nights: Scarlett Betcke

100 Nights: Alexis Slater 

  Kaidan Chaplain 

  Sharnii Chaplain 

125 Nights: Mackenzii Chaplain

150 Nights: Summer Barron

  Mila Barron 

Assembly Roster


Week 4: 5-6 M - Mrs McInerney

Week 5: 4-5 M - Mrs Medcalf

Week 6:   K W -  Miss Williams

Week 7: Mr Chapman - Book Week

Week 8: K-6 G - Miss Gorton

Week 9: 1-2 N - Miss Niass

Weeks 10: No assembly




Assembly Awards - Week 2

K W: Memphis Roberts

Niveah-Lee Riley

K-6 G: Abbie Kenedy

1-2 N: Mervyn Webster

Violet Williams 

1-2 R: Willow Hughes

Victoria Bloomfield

3-4 E: Bella Roberts

Tyreece Dutton

4-5 M: Sharnii Chaplain 

Shyla Marks 

5-6 M: Eamon Clavel 

Angelina Bloomfield

Library: Sam Smith


Congratulations to these students!

Assembly Awards - Week 3

K W:   Kendall Byrne 

  Tannix Christos 

K-6 G:       Blaze Scarce

1-2 N: Zildjian Murphy

  Mila Hoffman  

1-2 R:   Summer Morris

  Zarli Kennedy

3-4 E:   Gabriella Bloomfield

  Chase Kemp

4-5 M:   Steele Bedford

  Natasha Morrison-McManus

5-6 M:   Kyreece McEvoy

  Athena Singleton

Congratulations to these students!

Gallery

Assembly Award  Recipients - Friday 29 July 2022

Congratulations! 

Assembly Award  Recipients - Friday 5 August 2022

Congratulations! 

Tree Planting - Friday 29 July  2022

Landcare Broken Hill provided 40 plants to Railway Town as part of National tree day.

Landcare member Abbie Kelly joined students at our school for a morning of planting.

Hats off to all involved.

Photos by: Sophie Angell


Choral Festival - Wednesday 3 August 2022

The Primary and Infants Choirs did an amazing job representing our school at Choral Festival last Wednesday. 

Exploring our School - Thursday 4 August 2022

What a great afternoon spent at Explore our School! We were so glad to have our families back in our school.

Education Week - Creating Futures - 5 August 2022

Students were encouraged to dress up as their "future self" for education week. 

Welcome Noah & Jakob, our Occupational Therapy students. We look forward to spending Term 3 with you! 

Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) are still available to all families for COVID-safe testing.

Students cannot attend school if they are showing any symptoms of COVID-19.

Any student who develops even the mildest of symptoms should get tested for COVID-19. Students who are close contacts need to test daily for 5 days and receive a negative result before attending school.

Please consult https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families for more information.

P&C Notices

P & C Pie Fundraiser 

All order forms must be returned to class teachers or front office by Thursday 18 August. Cash only in envelopes attached to the order form. Correct money, NO CHANGE will be given & no late orders accepted. Orders to be collected from Railway Town Wilson Hall on Thursday 25 August. Time to be confirmed on Facebook or Class Dojo closer to the date.

Members Needed

 

A little about our P&C we consist of parents, grandparents and community members who have had children attend our school in the past. We also have the longest serving member who is 87 years young. And has stood on our P&C for 63 years. We meet once a month in the staff room to hold our meetings.


The P&C runs the canteen and holds fundraisers to help provide to our children and school such as educational materials, playground equipment, shade shelters. We hold the mothers/Father’s Day stalls. We are also trying to come up some fun ideas for the children to take part in. We r hoping to hold a colour run later in the year. We also help ease the costs of excursions and the year 6 farewell.

Everything our P&C does benefits our students.

 

At the end of this year we will be losing some members so we will b needing new members to take over these positions or unfortunately we will no longer b able to provide these things to our children. If your a grandparent/ parent or carer u are all welcome to come along to meetings. U don’t need to hold a position but to lend a hand when these special events take place. All hands make light work and we would like to b able to continue to provide for our little school. Meetings will b advertised in the school newsletter or on Facebook so please please feel free to come along.


Community Notices