NEWSLETTERBETHANY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

IN THIS ISSUE

Term 4 - Week 9

14th December 2016

Newsletter Week 9

Memory Verse: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son."

John 3:16

1 From the Principal

2 2017 Information

3 Term 3 Highlights

4 Community News

5 Community News

6 Weekly Information

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At this time of year, I am reminded of how brilliant a team we have here at Bethany. I would particularly like to thank our volunteers who come and serve the school. We couldn’t accom-plish all that we do without you! We had a volunteer’s afternoon tea at 1pm this Wednesday, in the Function Room, to say thank you to our volunteers for their efforts in 2016. This was followed from 2-3pm with our final awards assembly. Students received their academic reports and were dismissed at 3:10pm.

Our Year 6 graduation on Tuesday night celebrated the success we have seen over many years in the lives of our students. We are very excited to see how they have grown in to young adults and are proud of the way they have applied themselves over the time they have been with us here at Bethany. We also wish them well as they move on to further their education.

Wednesday is the last day of school, but OSHC open Thursday this week. Please refer to our website to register.

Each year we have some staffing chang-es within our school.

We will farewell Ms Sally MacPherson who has been working with our Junior Primary students in computing. We also farewell Ms Melissa Warren who is mov-ing interstate with her family. We have really appreciated the years of service both of these teachers have given to our school. We also have two staff leaving temporarily with the impending births

Welcome to our final Newsletter for 2016. Our transition visits this Monday went extremely well and the students were very excited to meet their teacher for 2017. I have attached the teacher roles for 2017 to this newsletter for your infor-mation. We welcome new families to Bethany and it was wonderful to have our new Reception students last Friday. They were very settled and it was lovely to see their excitement as they were finally able to play on the Junior Primary

of their children. We wish them all well in their future endeavours.

We welcome some new staff, Ms Ame-lia Burfield in Year 1, Ms Rachel Looi in Adaptive Education and Mr Scott Sheeky in Year 6.

School returns on Monday 6th February.

I wish you a blessed Christmas and a peaceful and safe and happy New Year.

God bless,Wendy Matear

Principal

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2017 INFORMATION

2017 Staff list

Leadership TeamPrincipal Mrs Wendy Matear

Deputy Principal Mrs Debbie Clifford

Adaptive Ed Coordinator Ms Melissa Symonds

Curriculum & Mrs Melissa TaylorCoaching Coordinator

Class TeachersReception G Mrs Jacqui Gliddon

Reception D Mrs Bethany Doveton

Reception HW Mrs Katie Haywood

Mrs Sarah White

Year 1T Mrs Rebecca Thompson

Year 1D Mrs Jasmine Duckworth

Year 1B Ms Amelia Burfield

Year 2Z Ms Elyse Zimmerman

Year 2P Ms Donna Prenzler

Year 2R Mrs Jeanette Ross-Naylor

Year 3L Mrs Rachael Lee

Year 3T Mr Joel Tothill

Year 3N Ms Kelly Nesbitt

Year 4G Mr Nathan Grierson

Year 4WH Ms Rachael Whitby

Year 4WY Mrs Cheryl Wyten

Year 5P Mr Alex Peterson

Year 5RK Mr Brett Richardson

Mrs Marie Klaproth

Year 5T Mr Steven Taylor

Year 6H Ms Ashleigh Heida

Year 6S Mr Scott Sheeky

Year 6T Mr Simon Traeger

Specialist TeachersAdaptive Education Mrs Rebecca Ward

Adaptive Education Mrs Kirsty Harman

Adaptive Education Miss Rachel Looi

ICT Coordinator R-6 Mr Jeremy Graetz

Computing UP 3-6 Mrs Robyn Curtis

Curriculum Release/ Miss Sarah DaviesLibrary (R-2) & NIT

LOTE - Indonesian Mrs Estelita Hester

P.E. (4-6) & Sports Coordinator Mr Ben Hannaford

P.E. (R-3) Sports Teacher Mr Nathan Grieger

Media & RBL 3-6 & Events Mr Aaron Mabikafola

ESL Support/ Adaptive Ed. Mrs Monika Heida

A note from the library

Thank you to all students who have demonstrated dili-gence and responsibility in returning all loaned books. As a library team we have been encouraging students to do so each week and have been recording the results on our “Class Star Borrowers Chart“ classes 4G, 3T, 4Wy and 1Z are to be commended for consistently borrowing, reading and returning books. We love seeing the children excited about furthering their learning through reading.

Thank you from the library staff

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Upper Primary Concert

TERM 4 HIGHLIGHTS

Year 2 WaterworldExcursion

Reception St Kilda Excursion

Congratulations

We are delighted to announce that Jai-mee Lehmann was awarded the Bethany Christian School Kelly Sports Star of the Term by our Kelly Sports coach for Term 4.

The reasons for Jaimee's nomination were:

• always attends the Kelly Sports sessions with a great attitude

• always gives 100% effort in the session activities and games.

Congratulations Jaimee!

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Temple Christian Collegeis a Christ­centered Year7­12 Christian College with900 students over twocampuses and is part ofAdelaide Christian Schools.

This is an exciting opportunityto join a very vibrant andcommitted Christiancommunity and to contributeto the life of the School.

Applications are invited fromsuitable qualified persons whoare committed Christians andare active in church fellowshipto fulfill this advertisedposition.

For other enquiries, pleasecontact Cheryl Barnes on08 8405 0936.

Student Services OfficerParalowie Campus

www.tcc.sa.edu.au Pursuing excellence for the glory of God

Employment OpportunitiesEmployment Opportunity

Commencing Monday 23rd January, 2017

Permanent Part Time (0.47 FTE)

20 hours per week / 42 weeks per year

(4 hours per day 10am­2pm / 5 days per week)

Grade 1 Year 1 of the TCC EA 2015 ($46,850 ­1.0 FTE) + First

Aid Allowance

Position Requirements

Reporting to the Manager Student Services Office, the Student Service Officer will

assist in providing services to the student body and administrative assistance as

needed. Your duties will include but are not limited to:

• Provision of services to the students including first aid

• Administration assistance as required

• Assistance at College events as required

• Assist Manager Student Service Office as required

Application Process

Completed applications including names and contact details of two professional and

one pastoral/church referee should to be sent to:

The Principal—Mr Marcel Rijken

2 Henley Beach Road, MILE END SA

or can be emailed to jobs@tcc.sa.edu.au

Applications close: Friday 16th December 2016

All applicants should refer to the Collection of Information from Job Applicants

Notice which is available on our website at www.tcc.sa.edu.au under

the employment tab.

Person Requirements

It is expected that applicants will:

• Hold a current Child Related Employment Screening clearance

• Hold or willing to obtain a current Responding to Abuse & Neglect in Education

and Care qualification

• Be committed to Christ & Christian education

• Hold a current Senior First Aid Certificate or be willing to complete

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Temple Christian Collegeis a Christ­centered Year7­12 Christian College with900 students over twocampuses and is part ofAdelaide Christian Schools.

This is an exciting opportunityto join a very vibrant andcommitted Christiancommunity and to contributeto the life of the School.

Applications are invited fromsuitable qualified persons whoare committed Christians andare active in church fellowshipto fulfill this advertisedposition.

For other enquiries, pleasecontact Cheryl Barnes on08 8405 0936.

Student MentorMile End Campus

www.tcc.sa.edu.au Pursuing excellence for the glory of God

Employment Opportunities

oyment OpportunityThis position is responsible to mentor our male students

Commencing Monday 23rd January, 2017

Permanent Part time (0.29 FTE)

6.5 hours per day ­ 2 days per week ­ 41 weeks per year

$58,642 (1.0 FTE) PLUS 9.5% Employer Superannuation

Position Requirements

Reporting to the Assistant Principal Student Development, the Student Mentor

provides vital support to our male students helping them to deal with difficult issues in

their lives including providing biblical Christian guidance & encouragement.

• Have completed Cert IV in Youth Work, Pastoral Care or equivalent qualification

including mental health related and making appropriate referrals unit/s of

competency.

Application Process

Completed applications including names and contact details of two professional and

one pastoral/church referee should to be sent to:

The Principal—Mr Marcel Rijken

2 Henley Beach Road, MILE END SA

or can be emailed to jobs@tcc.sa.edu.au

Applications close: Friday 16th December 2016

All applicants should refer to the Collection of Information from Job Applicants

Notice which is available on our website at www.tcc.sa.edu.au under the

employment tab.

Person Requirements

It is expected that applicants will:

• Hold or be willing to undertake a current Child Related Employment Screening

clearance and Responding to Abuse & Neglect in Education & Care (RAN­EC)

training.

• Be committed to Christ & Christian education

• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Experience in a similar Student Mentor role would be an advantage but is not

essential.

Employment Opportunity

The Job & Person Description is available on our website at

www.tcc.sa.edu.au

COMMUNITY NEWS

Bethany Christian SchoolPo Box 2125Salisbury Downs SA 5108

37 Countess StParalowie, SA, 5108www.bethany.sa.edu.au

P. 08 8283 0000F. 08 8283 0101E. office@bethany.sa.edu.au

TERM 1Mon 8th February - Fri 15th AprilTERM 2Tues 3rd May - Fri 8th JulyTERM 3Mon 25th July - Fri 30th SeptemberTERM 4Mon 17th October - Wed 14th December

2016 Term Dates

WEEKLY INFORMATION

IMPORTANT DATES

WEEKLY PE LESSONS MONDAY MORNING PRAISE

WHOLE SCHOOL WORSHIP 10 - 10.30am

WEDNESDAY

PRIMARY CHAPEL (Years 3 - 6) 10.50 - 11.30am

JUNIOR PRIMARY CHAPEL (R - 2) 12.10 - 12.50pm

UNIFORM SHOP 2017

MONDAY 30TH JANUARY 8.15 - 10.30am TUESDAY 31ST JANUARY 8.15 - 10.30am

WEDNESDAY 1ST FEBRUARY CLOSED

THURSDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2.00 - 4.00pm

FRIDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 8.15 - 10.30am Please remember that from next year prices on the Uniform Shop will increase.

CHAPEL

TERM 4 2016

RD: Monday & WednesdayRG: Wednesday & ThursdayRW: Wednesday & Thursday1D: Monday & Thursday1T: Monday & Thursday1Z: Monday & Thursday2H: Tuesday & Friday2P: Tuesday & Friday2R: Tuesday & Friday3K: Tuesday & Friday3N: Tuesday & Friday3T: Monday & Friday4G: Monday & Thursday4WH: Monday & Thursday4WY: Monday & Tuesday5P: Tuesday & Friday5RD: Monday & Friday5T: Monday & Friday6H: Tuesday & Friday6MC: Thursday & Friday6T: Tuesday & Friday

CHAPEL

DATE EVENTWednesday 14th December Last day of Term 4 - 3:10pm finish

Monday 6th February First day of Term 1 2017