The Boat Harbour Primary School Athletics Carnival was a wonderful event for our school community to come together. The support shown for students from parents, grandparents and friends was outstanding. This support enables students to feel valued, connected and encourages them to be their best. Thank you for making the time to attend, the importance of this cannot be over emphasised.

At the carnival students showcased excellent sportsmanship, teamwork, persistence and participation.  While running is not for everyone, we encourage students to try their best at everything they do.  For those students that are strong runners, it was fantastic to see them shine.  These students in Grade 3 – 6 made the BHPS Athletics team to compete in Penguin on March 13^th.

The Boat Harbour Primary School Association held their Annual General Meeting last night.  It was fantastic to have Kathryn Dixon, Pip Sadler, Maire Maccana, Pippa Mills, Narelle Edwards, Teresa Regan and Kristy Russell nominated and accepted to represent parents on the School Association. These members join Mandy McNamara, Kearah Baker, Georgette Moore and Merian Ellis as current sitting members. All of these people are your voice on the Association. Please always feel welcome to speak with any members to discuss Boat Harbour Primary School, supporting our school in continuing its excellent pathway forward.

Congratulations to Kathryn Dixon for being elected as Association President and to Pip Sadler as Vice-President. Narelle Edwards will continue as Association Treasurer and Mandy McNamara as Secretary.

The Association will continue to inform policy driven structures across the school and directly align these with the recent changes to the Education Act.

The Boat Harbour Primary School Parents & Friends (P&F) will return to working as a separate group, with the primary focus to support school events and fundraising to benefit all students. The P&F have some exciting things in the pipeline for 2019! If you are interested and can contribute in any way to the P&F I know that you will be made extremely welcome.

Peter Brown
Prinicpal

In the new timetable that was given out at the start of this year State Growth had anticipated it would take time at each stop for the new fares and allowed time at each stop for students to pay fares, be issued tickets, etc. This is not the case. 

PM Timetable Changes:
3:10PM    Boat Harbour Primary School 
3:15PM    Corner Bass Highway and Pecks Road
3:20PM    York Street, Wynyard
3:25PM    Wynyard Interchange
3:30PM    Departing Wynyard Interchange

Boat Harbour Primary School has two teams in the Winter Netball Roster - BHPS Blue and BHPS Purple. Further information has been sent home with students today. Uniform consists of school polo top, maroon skirt (girls) and black short (boys). The roster commences Saturday, 23rd March at Howe Street, Burnie. The playing times can be found online at bna.tas.netball.com.au. All players need to be registered before their first game. Registration is online at MyNetball.

Reminder for tomorrow (Friday, 15th March) Savoury Scrolls will be sold during Recess and Lunch times and will be brought to classes for purchase. Two varieties are available:

• Cheesymite - cheese and ham
• Pizza style - cheese, tomato and ham

50 cents each. Bring the money to pay on the day (no pre-orders, no payment at the office). Profits help Grade 6 to their target for camp and leavers t-shirts.

50 cent specials will continue on Friday's until the end of term.

Friday, 22nd March - Anzac Biscuits
Friday, 29th March - Cheesy Corn Puffs
Friday,  5th  April  - Pear and Raspberry Muffins

Sue Bowers
Canteen Supervisor

Our Athletic Carnival was a great day. The children certainly put in a big effort and it was very rewarding to see so many moments of fantastic sportsmanship. Thank you to the many parents, relatives and friends that could make it along to support the children, this certainly adds to the quality of the day.

A huge thank you to those people that helped us run the day, setting up, on the results desk and packing up at the end of the day, your efforts were greatly appreciated. The carnival ran very smoothly, thanks to the fantastic team effort from staff and the contribution from this year’s house leaders, from both Boat Harbour and Wynyard High School.

Well done to the placegetters. They were:

The final house point competition results were:

Yesterday, 36 of our Grade 3- 6 our students headed off to Penguin to participate in the NWPSSA Athletics Carnival. All participants ran their best and represented Boat Harbour Primary School well.

Congratulations to our Grade 5 Girls (Hailey Janssen, Teegan Hyland, Luka Whitcombe and Tayla Jackson) who came first in the relay! 

Many students achieved a first, second or third in their heats and competed strongly in the semi-finals.

A huge congratulations to Tanna Crutchett who made it through to the Twilight Finals Carnival which will be held this Tuesday, 19th March.

Tanna will be participating in the 75m sprint and the 100m sprint.

We wish Tanna the best of luck with her events!

Police Visit

On Tuesday, 12^th March Constable Fergus and Constable Neil visited Kinder Wombats and Wallabies.

Constable Fergus told us what he does when he goes to work and showed us all the items that they wear on their clothes. We got to ask them lots of questions and got a sticker when they left.

Wanted

If you have any plants or herbs that you are wanting to donate, we would love some for around our cubby house area. Please drop them into Kindergarten or to the front office. Thank-You.

Breakfast Club is a volunteer run program that provides a free breakfast to students every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning. The parents who run the program are after parents/carer donations in order to buy some new supplies (e.g. bowls, spoons, porridge, etc.). If you are able to make a donation please login to the Qkr! app, head to payments and make a contribution. 

A big thank-you to Wynyard IGA and Cripps for sponsoring our breakfast club.

Parents/carers please ensure that you are sending your child to school with a nice big drink bottle full of water each morning.

The annual Wynyard Show will be held this Saturday, 16th March.

Boat Harbour Parents and Friends will be holding a stall selling pancakes. The funds raised will go towards our Grade 6 camp.

There will also be Boat Harbour Primary School students artwork on display.

For more information on the Wynyard Show please click the link below. 

Book Club order forms are coming home with your child today. If you wish to place an order please do so by Monday, 25th March. If your oder is to be a surprise please mark it as such otherwise orders are sent home with your child when they arrive.

Orders can also be made using the Scholastic website:

Andrea Beswick

Violin, Cello & Classical Guitar Lessons are available at Boat Harbour Primary School. 

Players of violin and cello can be 5 years or older while guitarists need to be 7 years old.

Instruments are available for hire.

For more information please contact Philip Nicholas.

Riverbend Youth Centre provides a happy holiday for young people in an environment where principles of Christian living are taught and practiced. Upcoming camps will be helf in the school holidays:

• April Camp 2019 (Grades 3-5)  April 13th - April 18th

If you are interested in registering for a camp there are forms available at the student counter. Alternatively and for more information you can register online at: https://riverbend.org.au/