After a busy start to the school year, the end of term is upon us! Some of the highlights have included our Athletics Carnival, NWPSSA Athletics Carnival, Harmony Day activities, PCYC, Grandparents' Day, and today's Grade 3-4 excursion to Launceston.

It has been great to see parents, family and community members helping to support our students and being part of these activities.  

Garage Sale

Last week we held a garage sale to sell off unwanted furniture and equipment. Some of our community members also ran stalls.  Thank you to our Parents and Friends for organising the sausage sizzle and assisting with sales.  Monies raised to date is approximately $450.

Assembly

Yesterday, our SRC co-ordinated the end of term assembly. Well done to those students who showed excellent leadership skills in presenting in front of the school community.  Students' work this term was highlighted through presentations including the art frames, Robotics Program and class items.  Congratulations to those students who received recognition for their outstanding efforts this term.

Merit Awards

Mia Eiszele, Poppy Clarke, Alyssa-Mae Paulson, Riley-John Russ, Harry Wilson, Jacob Billing, Ruby Pointon, Brooke Russ, Samantha Donnolley, Huegh Williams, Oswald Harvey, Bella Maine, Ari Handy, Archer Mills, Mani Sushames, Meg Saward, Savannah Stokes, Murray Haines, Zy Crutchett, Nina Vincent, Rachael Dunn, Dylan Sawada, Ciara Harvey, Heidi Ross, Casey Wolfe, Bo Ellis, Isla Inkson-King

Target 200

Elka Lazenby , Bryce McNab, Chloe Gula

Art Frames 

Jayda Whitcombe, Margot Roberts-Thomson, Marley Hill, Heidi Korthof, Bradley Douce, Maija Saward, Indi Winter, Anthony Dicker, Leo Taylor, Jessie-Lee Hansch, Isla Woods-Kreemers, Isla Inkson-King, Lila Stott

Staffing

Mr Brown is currently on leave for the next 5 weeks. He would like you all to know that he is finally getting to say goodbye to “the boot”.  He is currently excited to be in Sydney having his foot and lower leg amputated, enabling him to get on with his life pain free. He is looking forward to getting back to school early in Term 2.

In his stead, Miss Moore will be Acting Principal and Mrs Eiszele will be taking on further AST duties.  Mrs Donaghue will be teaching in Bilbies full time during this period.  

Mrs Wilson will be taking Long Service Leave for 4 weeks. Mrs Evetts will be teaching in Prep Joeys Mondays - Wednesdays in her absence.

We would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday, and we look forward to seeing you in Term 2!

In History, 1-2 Koalas, 1-2 Bilbies, and 1-2 Quolls have been learning about leisure time activities that our grandparents may have played in the past. Mrs Morgan’s class taught us how to play some of these games, so we decided to invite our grandparents/special elders in to join us for games and afternoon tea.

First, we all gathered outside and welcomed our grandparents to our lovely school. Mrs Eiszele read a special story about a button tin, and Mrs Bentley had brought her own tin in to share.

Then, we had a chance to share with our grandparents some special games that they used to play. The skipping rope was a big hit, and even some of our grandparents had a go!

Next, we offered our special visitors a nice cup of tea or coffee with an ANZAC biscuit on the side. We made the biscuits with the help of Mrs Bowers. They thought they were very tasty.

Lastly, some of the grandparents shared their special game with everyone. Mia and Jovi’s Ma Ma had a creepy doll that was about 150 years old! Ashley’s Granny showed us her beautiful handkerchief.  Corey and Hope’s Nan had her old cash register that still made noises, and Ollie’s Pop explained how to play marbles for keeps, or for fun.

We were so happy to have our grandparents come to share the afternoon with us because it doesn’t happen very often. Our special photos that Mrs Baker took will be treasured forever!                                                                          By 1-2 Koalas

Students interviewed their grandparents and wrote a newspaper article about them.

On Thursday 25th April, Boat Harbour Primary School students, families and staff members are invited to take part in the ANZAC Day Parade and service in Wynyard.  Students wishing to participate in the parade will need to wear full school uniform and meet Mr Groenewege and Mrs Eiszele at the bottom roundabout (opposite Save a Buck) at 10.30am.  We particularly encourage our SRC representatives to attend. Our students will lay a wreath at the service commencing at the Cenotaph at 11.00am. Students can be collected from the Cenotaph at the end of the service.

Mrs Eiszele, Acting AST

The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) encourages students from Prep to Year 6 to read 10 books in 10 weeks and can be integrated with existing classroom reading programs,  i.e.  Reading Rules or Home Readers. Students can negotiate with their teachers or at home to have a large chapter book counted as being more than one book.

The challenge this year starts on Monday, 29th April and finishes Friday, 5th July. Log books will be given to the students on the first day back in Term 2 and can be kept at school or at home. When students have completed the challenge, they can return their log books to either the library or their class teacher.

Our school has registered all students from Prep to Year 6 for the challenge.  

Happy reading!

Recently, Bo, Angie, Aylah, Morgan, Alyssa and myself were lucky enough to participate in the Under 13s roster for the Wynyard Football Club. We all tried our best and gained a lot of new skills. We were lucky enough to meet Emma Humphries who plays for the North Melbourne AFLW team. A lot of fun was had by all.

By Aysha Edwards

Thank you to everyone that has supported us by collecting Earn and Learn stickers when grocery shopping and sending them into school.

We are still tallying up the final amount of stickers, at our last count two weeks ago we had 40,000 and therefore have smashed our goal of 50,000! Well done everyone.

All the stickers go towards purchasing resources for our school.

Well done to both our BHPS Purple and BHPS Blue netball teams who have had a great start to the season. A big thank you to all the parents who have volunteered to help where they can.

There will be no netball this Saturday or throughout the school holidays.  Netball will recommence on Saturday, 4th May.

We will see everyone in Term 2!

All past and present Boat Harbour mainly music families are invited to a mainly music event called Messy Church on Sunday, 14th April 4:00pm - 6:00pm at Boat Harbour Church. 

Messy Church will begin with children making take home crafts (the messy bit) centred around the Easter Story. We will then have a familiar mainly music song or two followed by an interactive presentation of what really happened on that first Easter. We will finish with a sausage sizzle for tea.

Please come and join us for this free, fun, celebration. RSVP to Jo on 0458 377 724 or Sharon on 0408 144 817.

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4th Term commences from 29th April

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