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Phone: 02 6963 9202

Fax; 02 6963 9302

Email: barellan-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au

www.barellan-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

WEEK

Monday, 18th March

2013

8B,Term 1

Principal’s Report

Barellan Central’s Winning Writers

Congratulations to all the students who entered the annual John O’Brien Writing Competition. The judges were as always impressed with the high quality of writing coming out of our school.

The following students were this year’s award winners:

Best Entry 2013

Mitchell Marlin

Senior High School (Year11/12) Short Story

1st Prize Mitchell Marlin

Junior High School (Year 7/8) Short Story

1st Prize Hannah Boyd

2nd Prize Jessie McDermott

Upper Primary (Year 5/6) Short Story

1st Prize Ryan Findlay

2nd Prize Max Findlay

Lower Primary (Year 3 / 4) Short Story

1st Prize Paige Kenny 2nd Prize Jane Haeusler

Highly commended certificates will be sent to the school soon.

2013 John O’Brien Winners

Innovation, Excellence, Opportunity, Success

Staff and students of

Barellan Central School

invite parents and friends to the

Term 1 Whole School Assembly

A celebration of excellence and achievement

Thursday 28 March 2013 In our renovated canteen area

11.30am

Our assembly will be followed by a Hot Dog lunch and inspection of class rooms.

Future Leaders

Our Year Six students leave for Sydney on Sunday morning at 7am to attend the Young Leader’s Con-ference in Sydney on Monday.

The conference has always proven to be an enjoya-ble and worthwhile experience for all who attend. We look forward to hearing about the two days in a future Gazette.

Year 11 & 12 Continue the Learning Experience.

Year 11/12 students will travel to Ariah Park tomor-row with a number of teachers to attend a RAP Study Day. These days are an excellent opportunity for all students to come together with their teach-ers. The face to face time and relationship building is important to the success of our partnership.

Spray Cans at School

A reminder that spray deodorant cans are banned from school grounds. A number of students and staff are highly sensitive to spray deodorants. These products can bring on severe headaches and asthma attacks.

Primary News Primary Students Learning Hard It’s been great over the past few weeks to enter each of the primary classrooms and see the wonderful learning taking place. The students at Barellan are certainly being provided with the best opportunities available to them and the staff are dedicated to presenting high quality, stimulating activities. Keep up the great work everyone!!!

Primary Staff Learning Hard Not only is it students learning hard, but also the staff. Miss Nicholls visited Griffith Public and Narrandera East Infants Schools last week to observe and learn about Language, Learning and Literacy (L3). Miss Nicholls very much enjoyed her time at the schools and has come back ready to trial as-pects of the program into the K/1 classroom.

This week, the Primary staff will be participating in a MOODLE session. Mr Whytcross will be assist our new staff with the basics of MOODLE, whilst extending the skills of staff already using MOODLE.

I will also be providing training to our new staff this week in Accelerated Literacy (AL). I am currently completing AL Tutor Training and therefore need to trial my tutoring skills and pro-vide instruction in the planning and programming process of the program.

Easter Parade Easter is quickly approaching and as with every year the Pri-mary Students will be participating in the Annual Easter Pa-rade. All parents of students in K-6 are invited to come along and enjoy the festivities on Thursday, 28th March at 10.15am. Join us under the COLA near the Library to see the wonderful creations from our students.

Extra Hands in the Classroom During the Parent Information Sessions, parents were asked if they were willing to come into the classroom and lend a hand with literacy groups, numeracy groups or Accelerated Reader (AR). We had a great response and teachers have timetable parents into different sessions throughout the day for assis-tance in implementing high quality, tailored lessons for our students. If there are any other parents willing to come in and assist in the classroom, please come in and talk to the staff and offer your time. If you do not feel comfortable with litera-cy or numeracy, any area where you can offer an extra pair of hands would be greatly appreciated.

This week’s Healthy Lunchbox Idea: Beef Burritos

Olive oil spray

200g lean beef strips

4 wholemeal flat bread (such as Mission Food Wraps)

2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce

2 Roma tomatoes, sliced

1 red capsicum, seeded, thinly sliced

1 carrot, peeled, coarsely grated

1 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce

Step 1

Lightly spray a large non-stick frying pan with oil spray. Place over high heat. Add one-third of the beef and cook, stirring,

for 2 minutes or until browned and cooked through. Transfer to a bowl. Repeat in 2 more batches with remaining beef.

Step 2

Place the wraps on a clean work surface. Top with beef, lettuce, tomato, capsicum, carrot and drizzle with sweet chilli

sauce. Wrap to enclose filling.

Recipe and photos: taste.com.au

Literacy and Numeracy Tips for Parents When your child gets past the initial learning to read, write and basic mathematical concepts, it can be hard to know how to assist them with Literacy and Numeracy. Below are a few activities to help you child:

make your kitchen a ‘cooking’ zone and a ‘reading’ zone — use fridge magnets to make new words and short sentences, or have your child write the weekly shopping list and read names on packages

play word games and do crosswords to help develop spelling and vocabulary

count everything — toys, the number of pegs needed to hang clothes on the line and the number of buttons on your clothes

take your child on a ‘number hunt’ in your home or community — point out how numbers are used on everyday household items such as the telephone, or your house number in the street

talk about time — ask your child to check the time on the clock when they go to school, eat meals, watch their favourite television program and go to bed

Mrs Rowe

Book Club

Could all March Book Club Orders

please be returned to the front office by

Wednesday 20th March 2013

No late orders will be accepted.

Calendar for March 2013

This week @ BCS RAP Study Day @ APCS

RAP AFL Netball Trials @ Narrandera

Young Leaders Conference @ Sydney

Tuesday 19 Mar RAP Study Day @ APCS

Friday 22 Mar RAP AFL/Netball Trials @

Narrandera

Monday 25 Mar Young Leader’s Conference

Thursday 28 Mar Easter Church Service -

Catholic Church, 9.15am

Friday 29 Mar Easter Break Commences

Tuesday 02 Apr School resumes from Easter Break

Claim the Date: Term 3, Week 2 July 25th

‘2013 Variety Night’

Canteen Roster

Mon 18/3 Julie Kenny

Thur 21/3

Jeanette Brumby

Fri 22/3

Karen Smith

Mon 25/3

Alison Male

Thur 28/3

SRC Hot Dog Day

Fri 29/3

Closed

Mon 1/4

Closed

Thur 4/4

Tina Haeusler

Fri 5/4

Karen Smith

Mon 8/4

Sarah Lees

Thur 11/4

Karen Smith

Fri 12/4

Closed

The Barellan Central School Calendar is now available

through the following address

http://web2.barellan-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/webcal/calendar/3?type=term&year=2013

This takes you to the BCS calendar which is updated daily with upcoming events and information.

1/2 Class News

Congratulations to Ben , the first person to achieve a Mathletics and

Spellodrome certificate in one week. Remember 1000 points earned in one week achieves a

Certificate.

No Hat, No Play - Some students are frequently forgetting their

hat. Lending hats is not a good habit because it can lead to

head lice problems. Students must remember their own hat

each day.

This Week

Leaders Ben G, Emily & Zach

Writing Character descriptions

News

Please Note Changed News Days

We have news after recess at 11.10. Show & Tell family treasures, photos are fine if the treasures are too precious to bring to school or free choice news this week if you have talked about the family treasure.

Homework

Ring Words

Home Reading When you are discussing the

pictures , ask your child to predict what they think the story will be

about.

Home

Reading

Encourage your child to look for the meaning of unknown words in the text they are reading. Clues are often in the sentence where the word appears or the sentence before or after. Students could also understand the meaning of the unknown word by thinking about the facts and details in the para-graph where the new word is found.

Peer

Citizenship Award

Ella Male was the Peer Citizen of the week 7. Ella is a good leader, she thinks about other people and always tries to help her class mates. Well done Ella!

Mathletics &

Spellodrome

Mathletics—BRONZE Ben Riley 240, Jonathan 680, Emma 696, Lillian 243, Marian 290, Emily 565, Nace 90, Matisse 960, Jack 180, Ella 280, Ruby 280, Anike 807, Jordan 280 Millennium Helmet— Ben, Ella Male, Anika Praestiin Riley 120, Jonathan 210, Marian 300, Matisse 140, Olivia 150, Jack 70, Emma 110, Lillian 50

1/2 Writing An excellent

John O’Brien

Writing

competition entry

Nace.

I went to the Farm to go yabbying at the dam and I caught 10 big yabbies in the dam. Yab-bies are creepy crawlies and they have four legs and two claws at the front. I like going yabbying with Nan Pop and Mum. Nace Bor-land

Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday

Ben T

Marian

Ryan

Ben G

Emily

Emma

Clancy

John

Matisse

Ella

Nace

Olivia

Ruby

Zach

Jordan

Anika

Jack

Lillian

Riley

Lachlan

Jonathan

RAP Touch Football Last Friday, students competed at Griffith in the first rounds of the boys and girls CHS touch football knockout. James McDermott and Kurt Bandy played in the boys RAP team while Sally Brown, Jo Phillpot, Shane Gibson, Theresa Goring and Hannah Kenny played for the girls RAP side. Although the teams didn't record a win on the day, both played well and scored a number of tries. A special thankyou to Sally who refereed other games on the day. Netball and AFL Trials This Friday, 22nd, trials for the 15 and under AFL and Open Girls Netball RAP teams will be held in Narrandera. So far, a number of girls have indicated they wish to participate. Any other students who want to attend, please see me ASAP. The trials will start at about 10am and be finished by lunchtime. Girls RAP Cricket I hope to have details soon concerning the girls cricket knock-out. A match is scheduled to be played in week 10. Swimming After a long, hot summer, swimming is now finished for Sport and PE lessons. Alan Hesketh - Sport Organiser

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Barellan Community News Flu Immunisation Barellan Community Health Centre April 2nd 9.30am to 12.30pm.

Immunisation is free to all people over 60 years and those with a chronic illness e.g. asthma, diabetes, heart condition.

Please phone 69639266 for an appointment time.

2013 Gazette Subscription

The cost for community members to receive the Gazette

is still $10 for the year. Payment can be made at the

post office or at the school. We are currently sending it

out to those who received it last year. If you wish to

continue this year please pay by the end of this term, if

not paid your name will be removed from our subscrip-

tion list. If you are computer literate and have the in-

ternet the gazette is placed on our website each week.

Thank you Wendy Clark

Register now for Barellan Auskick

Wednesday 13th March - 3.30pm at Barellan Central School

or

Thursday 21st March - 5.30pm at Barellan Football Oval

All boys and girls 5 Years + welcome.

More Information from Shawn Conlan 0429093046

Dave Curran 0427639315

Under 12s Football Training this Thursday at 5pm

Barellan Museum Committee Annual General Meeting

Tuesday March 19th , 7.30pm at the Museum.

Barellan Swimming Club News…. Tuesday - last Swimming training followed by Hot Dogs.

Wednesday - Presentation Night -

Please bring a salad to share.

Thursday - Pool closes

Missing …….

Narrandera Road area - Border Collie Dog

8 months old answers to ‘Tim.’ Phone

69639437.

BARELLAN AGED CARE MEETING Tonight @ Barellan Club 7.30pm Everyone more than welcome. Swap Meet this Sunday $5.00 adults Gates open @6am Sites still available please call Colleen 0427 708140 Donations of groceries for the raffle can be dropped off to Colleen or please call to arrange pick up. Help still required on the day for the canteen. Times are: 6am - 8am; 8am - 10am; 10am - 12pm & 12pm - 2pm. 3 people are needed for each time slot. All help would be most appreciated. Please contact Colleen 69639151 or Sandra 69639266. Barellan P&C Easter Raffle Tickets Please remember to have all tickets (sold or unsold) back at school before Tuesday March 26.

Netball News ……..

Coaches needed for 2103

Please contact Julie Kenny or Christie Smith if you are interested in coaching a team.

Registrations 2013

Registrations are now due. If you have not com-pleted your registration form, please contact Christie.

Pie Drive

Get those orders in ASAP!

Julie Kenny

Glen Lucas Guitar Lessons

Glen will be having his guitar lessons the 4th and 11th April.

Barellan Ecumenical Council ~ BEC All invited to a Good Friday service 2:30pm, Friday 29th March at the Barel-lan Community Hall. Hot cross buns, tea and coffee available afterwards

SUNDAY 24TH MARCH 2013

Barellan Showground 6am - 4pm

(turn over the railway line opposite Commercial

Hotel) $5.00 Gate Entry

CAR & BIKE

“SHOW & SHINE”

$5.00 Entry Fee per car/bike

ALL Proceeds to Barellan Aged Care Support

Fundraising to build Units for the Aged in

Barellan

Site Fees

$20.00

Outside

$30.00 Inside

Pavilion

BBQ Breakfast & Lunch &

Refreshments available.

Camping sites available - $10 per night

extra for powered sites.

Accommodation also available at Commercial Hotel

(Ph. 02 6963 9249)

For more information

(02) 6963 9151

Email: shortcol66@gmail.com

NO FIRES OR ALCOLHOL

ON GROUNDS

New Restaurant opening

Barellan & District War

Memorial Club

CHINESE ON BEN-DEE

Friday 22nd March, 6pm

Large selection of Chinese & Australian Dishes

Special deals - Dinner for Two

Deluxe Banquets for Four or More People

Come down and meet Ben and his wife who move

from Wollongong.

Highly recommended former Head Chef of Sussex

Inlet Bowling Club and Windang Hotel.

Take away available

Please phone 69639301 for bookings

Australia’s first commemorative $2 coin in colour has been unveiled by the RSL

and the Royal Australian Mint. A unique Australian legal tender, this ground

breaking $2 coin is simply an outstanding keepsake for every Australian.

The coin depicts the red Flanders Poppy, which is synonymous with Remem-

brance Day and the sacrifices made by Australians in conflict.

All funds raised go to support our vital RSL programs helping thousands of Vet-

erans’ and serving Defence personnel and their families in homes and communi-

ties across Australia.

Available from the RSL National Office at Level 3, 65 Constitution Avenue CAMPBELL ACT

Phone orders can also be made through the National Office at 02 6248 7199.

Please note there will be a minimum postal charge of $5 per coin.

www.rsl.org.au

For a $10 donation

the $2 Poppy Coin will come with a Certificate

of Donation

TAKE ACTION TO RAISE AWARENESS AND FUNDS FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH EP-

ILEPSY

put your purple on,

spread the word and join the world in

celebrating Purple Day 2013 - March 26.

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