New Kinder enrolments are now being taken for 2011

 

KINDER 2011 ENROLMENT APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY BEING TAKEN.

Excitment grows as everyone in primary gets ready for the Kids in Camelot performance.

The Wonky Donkey is a delight!

This book, The Wonky Donkey, is going to be part of our Special Collection section of our new library.

Students who are triple R (RRR) borrowers will be allowed to borrow these books.

(Regular, Responsible, Reliable borrowers.)

To watch a book trailer on The Wonky Donkey go to Scholastic Australia and press the play button on the Wonky Donkey image in the Latest Video section.

To listen to Craig Smith singing his story check out his video- Wonkey Donkey 


There's more:See Craig perform Wonkey Donkey in front of a live audience and a real donkey ...

K1/0 and 5/6I loved this story today. 

 Craig Smith delights and entertains as he shares the story on the CD provided with the book. 

It  really adds that extra dimension to the reading experience.You cannot help but join in as Craig sings the story verse.

Enjoy some of our kids drawings of the Wonky Donkey:

Hee Haw!!

Our students have been visiting Healthy Harold in his special caravan classroom.

If you or you child would like to learn some more about the Healthy Harold program or access some Healthy Harold games please visit the links.

Don't forget to follow Healthy Harold's tips.

These were some of our favourite books......What about now?

View this Photopeach slideshow from our new BlogED blog-Read This-You Just Must!!

Photopeach is a very easy tool to use. It has a variety of applications from displaying students work or school events, to create multiple choice quizzes with a timer and the creation of digital stories. 
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 View the spiral view below...

These were a few of our favourite books.... on PhotoPeach

Wow-we see framework on our new library.

Our new 21C BER School Library takes shape!!

 The last piece of the roof frame goes in....

We are so lucky to have such a green environment.....

 Juliet Robertson commented in response to Ed's blog post:  10 ways to think about your learning space…

"There is substantial research about the positive impact of having access to greenspace and natural materials. The more “green and blue” in your learning environment, the calmer and less stressed everyone is (Wells & Lekkie, 2000). Adults and children. Have lots of plants in your room (why not grow a forest). Furthermore a PhD student, Kathleen Bagot (2009) from Melbourne has conclusively linked the amount of vegetation in primary school grounds to concentration levels and subsequent impact on attainment levels within schools.

It prompted me to share some of our gorgeous gardens around our school thanks to Pat's dedication and hard work. 

 

Zone Athletics- Good luck girls and boys!!

Congratulations
to all the winners at our athletics carnival .

Good luck to the following students who will be going on to represent our school at the

Mid North Coast PSSA Zone Athletics Carnival 

on Friday 20th August.

Jana                                             Riley
Gabi                                             Kye
Lily                                              Josh
Annabelle                                    Ashley
Billee                                           Dane
Summer                                       Byron
Dakota                                         Tom
Billi                                             Jesse
Chloe                                           Logan
Jade

40 kilos of lego will be available for bridge building at the library.

 Coffs Harbour City Library 

will be hosting a free bridge building, fun, children's activity to celebrate Story Bridge Book Week.

Check out the details.

Father's Day stall coming up soon...

Our Father’s Day stall will be held on Tuesday 31st August. 

Gifts will cost $5.00

HELP!! Donations (for the hamper raffle) 

and volunteers needed!!

See Help needed for Father's Day stall on our Parents-Partners in teaching and learning blog

What will you buy for your Dad?
Will you do something special for your father this year?

4C share their recently completed, beautiful art works.

Vocab: Word of the day

Word of the day: ZANY

Do you know what it means?

Enjoy some of the Shortlisted Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) books

Click on the title to hear Len read:  The Terrible Plop one of the shortlisted picture book from 2010 CBCA .
You could try to draw your own bear after watching this short video:

How to draw a bear (from The Terrible Plop) from Andy Joyner on Vimeo.

You can visit Mrs B's interactive books to do some activites, including puzzles, based on the 2008, 2009 and 2010 shortlisted picture books, early childhood books, and books for younger readers.

Year 1 read:I don't want a posh dog!! and then proceeded to draw the dogs they would like!!

3 H and 3 E explore the character Fearless in a 2010 CBCA shortlisted picture book.

3H and 3E created a wordle using words that they chose to describe the dog in the story "Fearless."

Fearless certainly wasn't!

Our 21C Sandy Beach Public School Library is on its way.....

Have a read of a Storybird story I created:

Our 21C Sandy Beach Public School Library is on its way.....

Kids' who read, succeed!!!

Cheers

:-)

1M sharing our library rule with you....

SBPS hall becomes a Bookfair!! SBPS kids are real book characters!!

Congratulations to the winners of our "Be Well Read" Bookfair competitions.

Family Competition: Favourite Book Winners:

  1st place -  Beedie Family  -$25

     2nd place - Fleutcher Family -$20

                                                       3rd place - Redshaw Family-$15                         
                                                       Highly Commended - Meale Family -$10
Special mention to Patricia in Year 6 who produced a glogster (online interactive poster) after giving up her time at luh time to learn about this new Web 2.0 tool.

Special Reading Spot Competition:
 It was so wonderful to see all the places that people like to read in. I hope to place some of the images in a post  after the bookfair is finished so we can share them with you.
The three winners, of a $10 voucher each, are :
Billi  -Year 6
Luke - Kinder
Holly - Year 3

The Way We Were

Looking back a few years....

2005 Education Week