and Early Learning Centre

Email: office@burdekincc.com

2-12 Melbourne St, Ayr QLD 4807

Phone (07) 4783 5552 Fax (07) 47835926

www.bccollege.net.au

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Newsletter 2 — Thursday 28th February 2013

School

Council

Disco

Friday 8th March

Term 1

finishes

Thursday 28th March

At 11am

From the Principal’s Desk

Andrew Evetts, Principal

Dear Parents and Caregivers

I was reading an ar�cle last week that talked about a school that had

a sign up in the Library �tled ‘say yes to respect.’ It presented the

following way of defining what was meant by the word respect.

Refuse to repeat gossip or rumours

Extend only posi�ve gestures

Speak up on behalf of others

Protect the property of others

Eliminate hur�ul words from your vocabulary

Cul�vate a climate of peace and safety around you and your school

Tolerate and accept diversity

This is an excellent summary of what it means to treat one another with respect. Respect is one

of the core values of Burdekin Chris�an College. Our CARE policy is clear:

Christlikeness

A/tude

Respect

Excellence

In many ways respect is a prerequisite for all the other values. It is difficult to act in Christ-like

ways if you don’t treat others and their property with respect. It is difficult to learn if there is no

respect for teachers, fellow learners and the knowledge, skills and processes being taught. It is

impossible to achieve excellence without respect, as respect is a key component of having a

posi�ve a/tude.

A lot of things which are part of the culture of BCC, are part of how we do things around here,

and are deliberate strategies to help develop respect. These include some quite simple, and

seemingly small things such as the wearing of correct uniform, bringing the correct books to

class, lining up in straight lines, addressing teachers appropriately, being on �me for class and

school, and many others like these.

Please help us by suppor�ng our efforts to build the value of respect into the lives of our

students at BCC.

Yours in Christ

Dates for your CalendarDates for your CalendarDates for your CalendarDates for your Calendar

Queensland state term dates - 2013 (College Term tba)

NB: The first day of each term is usually a Pupil Free Day. The last day of each term

usually finishes at 11am.

March Friday 1st March—12.30pm—Interschool Sports for Year 5-7

Wednesday 6th March— Smart Start to Ayr High—11.45am to 2.05pm Thursday 7th March—3pm to 4pm—After school sports training—Years 5-7

Thursday 7th March—3pm to 4pm—BCC Craft Club—Years 2-4 Friday 8th March—Student Council Disco

Thursday 14th March—3pm to 4pm—After school sports training—Years 5-7 Thursday 14th March—3pm to 4pm—BCC Craft Club—Years 2-4

Thursday 21st March—3pm to 4pm—After school sports training—Years 5-7

Thursday 21st March—3pm to 4pm—BCC Craft Club—Years 2-4 Friday 22nd March—Eisteddfod entries close 5pm

Thursday 28th March—end of Term 1—School finishes at 11am

Friday 29th March—Good Friday

April Friday 5th April —non-school art work and written work needs to be in at Eisteddfod office

July Monday 22nd July —ELC Photos Tuesday 23rd July—School Photos

Queensland term dates - 2013

Term Dates Length

Term 1 Tuesday 29 January - Thursday 28 March 9 weeks

Term 2 Monday 15 April - Friday 21 June 10 weeks

Term 3 Monday 8 July - Friday 20 September 11 weeks

Term 4 Tuesday 8 October - Friday 6 December 10 weeks

2013 Burdekin Junior District Eisteddfod

18th May to 28th May

A6er the tremendous success for lots of our students at the 2012 Eisteddfod we are again invi�ng you to enter this

years Eisteddfod. The classes that are par�cipa�ng in the Eisteddfod this year will receive a note home from your

child’s teacher asking you if you would like your child to par�cipate with informa�on on entry fees and due dates.

If you would like your child to submit something they haven’t done at school please go to the Eisteddfod website to

see how to submit an entry. The College office also has spare entry forms and Fiona will be happy to help you in

ge/ng started. www.burdekinjunioreisteddfod.org.au

Entries are due on the 22.03.13 and the art work and wri9en work needs to be handed in at the eisteddfod office

(142B Young St, Ayr) on or before the middle Saturday of the Easter holidays.

The Eisteddfod starts on the 18th May and concludes on 28th May.

These are the sec�ons that your child may wish to submit an entry in:

SECTIONS

Art Sec�on 140—Collage—Primary—A3

Sec�on 142—Any 3D Art Form—Primary—30cm x 30cm x 30cm

Sec�on 144—Drawing Colour—Primary—A3

Sec�on 146—Drawing—Black and White—Primary—A3

Sec�on 148—Pain�ng—Any Medium—Primary—A3

Sec�on 152—Photography—black and white—Primary—A4 max

Sec�on 154—photography—colour—primary—A4 max

Sec�on 156—photography—computer enhanced—primary—A4 max

Sec�on 158—special needs drawing—all ages—1m x 1m

Sec�on 159—Special needs pain�ng—any medium—all ages—1m x m1

Literary

Short story

Sec�on 130—primary Year 7 and under—500 words maximum

Sec�on 132—special needs—all ages

Poem

Sec�on 134—primary year 7 and under—500 words maximum

Sec�on 135—special needs—all ages

Func'onal Wri'ng

Sec�on 137—primary—years 7 and under—500 words maximum

Sec�on 138—special needs—all ages

Disco Student council are holding a disco!

When: 8th March 2013

Come dressed as your favorite FAMOUS PERSON

We will have a sausage sizzle at 5.30pm

and at 6pm we will go inside to party!

5:30pm Sausage Sizzle

6pm—DISCO

Where: College Hall

Entry cost: Gold coin

Sausage sizzle: $2

Other food for sale: chips, so6 drink, lolly bags

Kindy/Pre Prep

Jayne Orchard, Director & Kindy/Pre Prep Group Leader

ELC

We have been learning about nursery rhymes this week. We learnt about Humpty

Dumpty, we learnt the rhyme and then we made some Humptys! We even cut it

them out ourselves.

We love to dress up in home corner with our

friends. We like to pretend we are

chefs. Last week we learnt about the

‘t’ sound. We made some ‘99’ turtles.

We painted them using co9on buds.

We have been blowing bubbles. We

love bubbles. We also

love to play in the play-

ground and the boat is a

very popular choice. We

also love to catch and

throw with a ball. Playing in

the water trough has been

great fun on these hot days

We have been reading lots

of different stories includ-

ing ‘The Runaway Pig’,

‘Two Hungry Bears’. Some

of favourite finger plays at

the moment are ‘Five Cheeky Monkeys’, ‘Where Is

Thumbkin’ and ‘Mr Clickerty Kane’.

Headlice – Unfortunately headlice is a part of life when going to school

and Kindergarten. Please check your child’s hair regularly to help keep

them under control. Sunscreen— Please apply sunscreen and insect repellent to your child before dropping

them off at the ELC. We have sunscreen and insect repellent available at the Centre if you do for-

get to apply it. The mozzies are really bad a6er the recent rains. Have a great day!

ELC

Toni Smallman, Group Leader, Toddlers

Toddlers

We have been having lots of fun outside and have been climb-

ing the dome. Some of us climb up the ladder then slide

down the slide. We enjoy being outside. On some days we

have had water in the water trough and even though we wear

aprons we s�ll manage to get our clothes very wet. We like

ge/ng wet as it cools us down.

We have done some co9on bud pain�ng and some wet

chalk drawing. We also did some shaving cream

pain�ng on the tables. We put red food colouring in

the shaving cream to make it pink. That was lots of fun

and very messy.

The Li9le People buses have been popular with the

children. We have also been playing with the cars,

buses and trains on the carpet

We have danced to “Robot” song as the children ask

for this song.

We have been singing some nursery rhymes including “Open Shut Them”, “Twinkle Twinkle

Li9le Star” and “Once I caught a fish alive”. The children like doing the ac�ons to these

songs.

Just a reminder to clearly mark all your child’s belongings with their name and could we

please have a family photo so we can put it on our Family Photo wall. The children

enjoy looking at their photos during the day. We have had a wonderful �me during

the last couple of weeks and we enjoy having your child with us.

Meet the Staff Hello! My name is Brooke Vuce�c and I am the prep teacher at

Burdekin Chris�an College. I grew up in Brisbane but transferred

to Ayr nine years ago with my brother Pastor Marty. This is my

tenth year of teaching. I have taught grades 3, 1 and prep. I must

say the preppies are my favourite! When I ‘m not at school I love

to cook (especially desserts), watch movies, go for a walk, have

coffee and cake with my friends but most of all I love to shop! I

a9end the Burdekin Community Church where I help out on the

Cherish Women’s Commi9ee,

organizing events each month to spoil

the ladies. I am really enjoying my

�me at BCC and I would like to thank

the administra�on, staff and school

family for making me feel so welcome!

I look forward to mee�ng you all and I

am very excited and enthusias�c for

the term ahead!

Brooke Vucetic

Prep Teacher

An open le-er we received from a Clinical Hypnotherapist & Psychologist, Is-

abella Parker

22nd February 2013

TO: The Principal, Burdekin Chris�an College

The minister for educa�on, Mr Langbroek, has effec�vely given his blessing for me to send this le9er to

Queensland schools.

I am invi�ng you to peruse a new website which provides guidance for parents on how to improve their

children’s Self Esteem and Wellbeing: h9p://selfesteemparen�ng.com.au.

We hear a lot about the increasing mental health problems among the youth. Recently, there have been

comments about the low Self Esteem and Wellbeing of kids (in Australia) which puts them at risk of men-

tal health issues such as depression and increases risk of drug and alcohol abuse. There has then been a

sugges�on to implement programs into the schools to build Self Esteem and Wellbeing. However, the

youth problems are mainly a consequence of ‘abroga�on of paren�ng’ and the proposed solu�on is

‘more of the same’, ie, ‘abroga�on of paren�ng’.

Although well-inten�oned, the school programmes are only a band-aid solu�on unless parents play

their role in building a sound emo�onal founda�on of a healthy sense of Self Worth. Hence, as part of

the school programme, parents need to be made aware of their essen�al role in building Self Worth.

This is much, more than merely being supporters and par�cipants in school programmes.

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist & Psychologist, I have spent several years working on developing, and fine

tuning, a model of Child Emo�onal Development. The model is drawn from informa�on obtained from

adult clients and from communica�ng with their child ego states while the clients were in hypnosis. I

have found that the common denominator for my clients is ‘some degree of low self worth’ that had its

origins in childhood. I have developed the CAARP-ALIAS model of development of Self Worth which iden-

�fies five emo�onal needs and the five corresponding classes of paren�ng behaviour (Essen�al Principles

of Paren�ng) required to meet these needs in building a healthy sense of Self Worth which is the founda-

�on for Self Esteem and Wellbeing.

The model, which emerges from A9achment Theory, explains how paren�ng behaviour that leaves child

needs unmet results in some degree of ‘low Self Worth’, a risk factor for depression or other emo�onal

and mental health issues. When needs are violated (even though generally this is uninten�onal), there

is low Self Worth plus anger which has to be repressed so as not to alienate the parents on whom the

child is dependent for care. This displaced anger is either internalised (against the self, crea�ng a risk for

drug and alcohol use, self harm, depression) or externalised (and expressed against targets that won’t hit

back such as property damage, bullying, domes�c violence, animal cruelty, aggression, violence and

‘alcohol-fuelled violence’). While it is common knowledge that there is o6en a link between childhood

experiences and vulnerability to later issues with emo�onal or mental health as an adult, what is not

generally understood is the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of this link. The CAARP-ALIAS model can account for this link.

I have created a website, h9p://selfesteemparen�ng.com.au which guides parents how to build a sound

founda�on for Self Esteem and long term Wellbeing. There is also other relevant informa�on: A9ach-

ment (what it is, how to achieve it and why it is important); Valida�on Hypothesis (what valida�on is,

how it works, why it is important, the consequences when it is lacking); Drug and Alcohol use (Self Med-

ica�on Model, the role of the different neurotransmi9ers); anger (reasons for anger and why it must be

repressed); youth problems due to parents being misled by social engineers; common examples of im-

pact of CAARP-ALIAS needs being unmet or violated.

Informa�on on this website has a range of applica�ons: (i) Paren�ng - How to Build Kids’ Self Esteem and

Wellbeing; (ii) Paren�ng - ‘A9achment’ informa�on for new Mums; (iii) Child psychology – development of

Self Worth; (iv) Self help - Self Understanding; (v) Therapist resource (working with child, adolescent or

adult clients).

RE: Being Proac�ve – training future parents

There is a related topic I would also like to bring to your a9en�on – improving Self Esteem and Wellbeing in

a future society by ge/ng in early to provide basic paren�ng educa�on for future parents.

Jokes are made regarding the irony that a person needs a licence to drive a car or own a dog, yet no such

requirements for fitness, knowledge, training or tes�ng are required to take on the most responsible under-

taking there is – being a parent. No one teaches us how to be parents and “Babies don’t come with a manu-

al”. Perhaps it is �me to do something proac�ve to correct this oversight. Ideally , kids need to be intro-

duced to the basics of paren'ng in Year 9 or 10 while they are a ‘cap've audience’.

Kids do need to understand that having a baby aught not to be simply the accidental consequence of mean-

ingless, careless sex. They need to understand that having a baby is not just a means to receiving social wel-

fare. They need to understand that having a baby aught to be the consequence of two responsible adults

making a considered decision and a commitment to raise that child together. They need to understand that

pu/ng a baby into ‘child care’ does not cons�tute paren�ng. They need to be aware that babies have emo-

�onal needs and parents have a responsibility to meet those needs.

If mental health and emo�onal wellbeing in a future society are going to improve on the poor rates of well-

being and mental ill health that exist now, then future parents need to know a bit more about paren�ng and

the responsibili�es that entails. Kids do not need full-on paren�ng educa�on but at least an introduc'on to

the basics in Essen�al Principles of Paren�ng which is on my website: h-p://selfesteemparen'ng.com.au.

Any enquiries are welcome.

Regards

Isabella Parker Email: isabella@selfesteemparen�ng.com.au h9p://ntpages.com.au/therapist/33

Photo of the Week!

School isn’t always hard

work! Our Year 4 girls

clowning around—Lauren,

Emily, Steph, Riley & Keeley

RemindersRemindersRemindersReminders Lost Property

Please check the lost property basket at the College—it is overflowing

with items from 2012 which will be disposed of next month if not

claimed.

Walkathon Vouchers

Please ensure your child spends their Toyworld vouchers as soon as

possible as their expiry date is drawing close. Toyworld have advised

there are a number of vouchers s�ll to be spent!

Healthy Food Shack

Tuckshop has commenced for 2013 and is available each Wednesday.

The band of volunteers always welcomes new faces in the tuckshop so

if you can lend a hand from 9am to 11am on a Wednesday please let

Fiona in the office know. You don’t have to be cook and you don’t have

to be there every Wednesday, just whenever you have �me.

Pick up zone

Please remember that parking in the College grounds is not permi9ed

at pick up �me (3pm). Students will be wai�ng for collec�on under the

mango tree in Chippendale Street. If you must park and walk into the

College please park OUTSIDE the school grounds and walk in.

If you are dropping off your children in the morning DO NOT park in

the school grounds if you are ge/ng out of your car. Once again park

OUTSIDE the school grounds and walk in.

Please remember it is a school environment and therefore there will be

�mes that children WILL run out in front of cars. The rules are there to

protect YOUR child.

The school gates will be closed from 2.30pm each day.

Here are the Preppies with

Miss Vucetic and Mrs Downs,

all practising their school

photo smiles. They are all

settling in so well!

Notes/handouts to be returned to office:

• FastForward (only some students)

• A6erschool Sports training sessions permission slip—Years 5 to 7

• Newsle9er distribu�on—all of school & ELC

• Musical Instruments—home use permission slip —Years 5 to 7

• Cra6 lessons—Years 2 to 4

• Interschool Sports—Years 5 to 7

• Smart Start to Ayr High—Year 7

Teacher Appointments

If you need to speak with your child’s teacher, please make an

appointment through the office. Fiona will take details of your

availability and liaise with the teacher for their availability. All teachers

have extra-curricular ac�vi�es to a9end to a6er school so you may

need to provide a couple of different days and �mes for a mee�ng.

Please be aware that if you are speaking to your child's teacher during

school hours they are giving you their a9en�on and not the students.

This isn’t fair on the students who are either lining up wai�ng to go into

class or si/ng in class unsupervised.

Healthy Food Snack

At 10am each day, every class has a Healthy Food Snack short break in

their classroom. Students must have a piece of fruit or yoghurt to eat

at this �me. Ideally a piece of fruit or vegetable (carrot s�cks etc are

preferable. UNACCEPTABLE food items are chocolate mousse, chips,

chocolate etc.

Peanuts

We have a number of students with nut allergies. To assist with

keeping the possibility of these children coming in accidental contact

with nuts, please do not send any peanut products with your child’s

lunch. These include Nutella, peanut bu9er, some museli bars etc.

Some students can have a severe reac�on if another child touches their

skin with peanut bu9er on their fingers. We hope you can help us keep

our students safe.

Meet the Team Andrew Evetts—Principal

Brooke Vucetic—Prep Teacher

Heather Mackay—Year 3 Teacher

Fleur Vigerzi—Year 1 Teacher

Sarah Watson—Year 2 Teacher

Daniel Walsh —Year 4/5 Teacher

Chris Knight —Year 7 Teacher

Judy Kedar—Year 6 & Year 1 Teacher

Sandra Fowler—Year 6 Teacher

Ray Caine— IT & H&PE Teacher

Wally Ford—Music Teacher

Kim Smith—Teachers Aide & Library Assistant

Leeza Goon-Chew—Teachers Aide

Sandra Saunders—Teachers Aide

Ronda Downs—Prep Teachers Aide

Audrey Heppell—Teachers Aide

Joanna Ford—Teachers Aide

Paul Haller—Year 4/5 Teachers Aide

Jayne Orchard—Director and Team Leader—ELC

Toni Smallman—Team Leader—ELC

Gessie Wilson—ELC

Natasha Patterson—ELC

Raywin Mayor—ELC

Jill Sutcliffe—ELC

Cheryl Taylor—ELC

Rob Harper—Groundskeeper

Bronson Hutchen—Groundskeeper

Jackie Gudge—Cleaner

Zilya Bunakova—Cleaner

Rose Giardina—Financials (Church and School)

Fiona Christie—Reception/Principals Assistant