2009 Netball Gala Day

2009 Netball Gala Day on PhotoPeach

Year 6 survey

We have a group of Year 6 students who are involved in a DET sponsored project to develop a resource/resources to enhance the transition of students from Year 6 to Year 7. The first step in the project is to find out some of the things that concern/excite kids about going to high school.

Being a small school with a Year 6 of only 16 students they decided that this size cohort was not going to be big enough to gain any relevant data so they developed a simple online questionnaire and asked me to send it off to other schools for help. It will only take about 5 mins to complete.

The Student Action Team will be analysing the results and then developing some form of action to make the transition an easier process. They would be only too happy to share the results with the schools that participate. The Student Action Team will be eagerly awaiting the results.

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NB: The survey is completely anonymous.

Come one, come all to the Sandy Beach Bookfair

Links to Jurassic Park Bookfair 2009:

Jurassic Park Competition 

There's More!!! Another competition!!

The process of creating a winning jurassic creature.

2009 Jurassic Park Bookfair a huge success!!!

Jurassic Park Bookfair was enormous!!  

View the kids entries at this stage on PhotoPeach  ( Automatically make your own free slide show in seconds. Upload photos, pick music, add captions in the show, and more!)

 

Jurassic Park Bookfair on Photopeach

View all the kids entries and the great decorations in the library that the students worked on over the weeks!!

Our Jurassic Park Bookfair roared!!

Northern Beaches Inter-School Debating Program

Debating

Selected Years 5 and 6 students from Sandy Beach Public School will participate in the Northern Beaches Inter-School Non-Competitive Debating Program from next week.

All students that have participated in this program will receive a “Top Kid”. We wish them well with their arguing!!

Mrs Nay
Debating Coordinator

Jurassic Park Bookfair Competition

Library News

There's More!!! Another competition!!

CAR POSTER COMPETITION
Students will be bringing home car posters to help advertise the bookfair this week.

Year 6 students have worked on their designs. The winner is
After your child decorates the poster please help them to place it on your car so we can spot them. We will have spotters out looking for attractive posters and noting down your car's number plates. The winners will be announced in the newsletter the Tuesday before the bookfair.

4 prizes of $5 bookfair vouchers and
4 “pick a poster” prizes are on offer.

I hope your very own “air”, “land”, or “sea” 2D or 3D, Jurassic Park creature is almost ready!!!

To all our families this is NOT an assessment activity so please feel free to work with your children to create a great creature.

Please send the creature to school by next Thursday May 21st.


Plenty of prizes for participants.
3 x $10 book fair vouchers
5 “pick a poster” prizes

Wonderful news for Sandy Beach!!

"Under the Australian government’s Building Education Revolution, subject to Ministerial agreement, we are being offered:
A new school library worth up to $1.6million
Three (3) new permanent classrooms worth up to $900K

This is great news because it means not only $2.5million of new buildings for our school but also opportunity for local businesses to be part of the building and fit out over the next 2 years.

It is also great news because our existing library becomes available for other purposes.

The addition of a new library and 3 permanent classrooms and the freeing up of the existing library space provides us with much more flexibility for teaching and learning in the 21st century". Ray Rincheval Newsletter No. 14 – Wednesday 12th May, 2009

Jurassic Park Bookfair

BOOKFAIR

Thursday, May 28 from 8am-6pm in SBPS library.

JURASSIC CREATURE COMPETITION

Help us create our very own Jurassic Park in SBPS library.

To all our families artistic and creative opportunities await you!!

Make a creature from the Jurassic period and send it to school by next Thursday May 21st.

It can be an “air”, “land”, or “sea” creature.

It can be 2D or 3D.

It is not an assessment task so all the family can share their skills and talents.

Yunnanosaurus

Coelurosauravus

Ornitholestes

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Plenty of prizes for participants.

3 x $10 book fair vouchers

5 “pick a poster” prizes

These websites may be helpful:

http://www.kidsdinos.com/

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/dino_Jurassic.htm

http://www.thelearningpage.org/dinosaurs/dinosaur_facts.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/mesozoic/Jurassic.html

http://dsc.discovery.com/dinosaurs/jurassic-period.html

http://www.prehistory.com/timeline/jurassic.htm

Jurassic animal printouts:

Download a dinosaur:

Designer Dinosaurs - paper maché

3D papercraft kids series-Dinosaurs of the Jurassic

Dinosaur Papercraft -Jurassic 2

Dinosaur Papercraft -Jurassic 3

Dinosaur Papercraft- Jurrasic 4

Walk Safely to School Day

Walk Safely to School Day (WSTSD) is an annual, national event in Australia in which primary school children are encouraged to walk or commute safely to school, an initiative of the Pedestrian Council of Australia (PCA). It is held annually in May on a varying date. In 2009, it will be held on May 15. Wikipedia


Walk safely to school this Friday.

Looking for something to do in the holidays?

Do your bit to provide rice to the hungry.
Free Rice - Practice math, geography, grammar, and vocabulary while fighting world hunger at the same time!




















Educational Video game-Food Force

BTN offers HOT teaching ideas and resources

BTN Teachers Site

Watch segments of the show when it suits you.
Full transcripts available.
Teachers notes and questions.

Thinking resources

Story Archives 2009

Tooth Tally Project

Our Year 1 classes have been participating in the Tooth Tally Project. The kids have been really enjoying the project.

Check the Tooth Tally Project website out. The wiki is private and as such only available to teachers and students.

Sites Discussed at Staff Meeting and more

Copacabana Public School Get Smart Interactive Activities

Lake Munmorah Treasure Hunts

Lake Munmorah Online worksheets

Lake Munmorah Microsoft lessons by software


NSW Country Areas Program On-Line Research Modules

Lesson Plans, Units of Work and Resources to assist Teachers in their Classrooms.-happen to include the above links and many more!!

Animation comes alive

Some classes have been exploring animation in the library.

If you haven't had a chance yet, check out Bubblicious.

Watch this entertaining example of animation at work:

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

Some students then demonstrated the Pivot animation program.

It is amazing what you can do!!

Woolgoolga Fun Runs

Woolgoolga 28th Annual Forest Footrace
11.2 kms- Saturday 21 March, 4.00pm
Start and finish at corner of Pullen St and Pacific H'way

Woolgoolga 28th Annual Seaside Scamper
5km-Sunday 22 March, 8.00am
Start and finish at Beach reserve

Inaugural Beach Bash
2km-Sunday 22 March, 8.45 am
Start and finish at Beach reserve

13th Annual Tiny Tot Trot
1km-Sunday 22 March, 9.00am
Start and finish at Beach reserve

$6 per adult for Forest Footrace or Seaside Scamper or $10 for both
$3 for pensioners & students for Forest Footrace or Seaside Scamper
$2 for everyone entering the 2km Beach Bash
$1 for Tiny Tot Trot

Cheques payable to Woolgoolga Fun
ENTRIES CLOSE 10 MINUTES BEFORE EACH RACE.

Further enquiries -phone Steel Beveridge 02 6656 2735 (h) 02 6654 1500 (w)
or Jennie Williams 02 6654 0305

Harmony Day Friday 20 March

Parents and carers welcome to join us celebrate Harmony Day at SBPS
Friday 20 March 9:30 Assembly
Click on the link for further information

Fabulous Moonlight Mayhem Fete at Sandy

Moonlight Mayhem Fete
It wasn't just the weather that was fantastic!
So much to see, do, hear, taste and touch!!!
So many great bargains! Marvellous music!
Well done to all the Parents & Community,
staff members and students who worked
hard to make the fete such a success.
There were plenty of smiles on faces!

2009 Premier's Reading Challenge site now registering

See the following SBPS pages for updated information:

PRC 2009

Parents-Partners in Learning

Parents-Partners in Learning is a new blog specially for SBPS parents.

Check it out and please let me know if you would like me to include certain content.

DK Eyewonder Books

A big thankyou to all the kind people

who sent in vouchers from the paper

for the Eyewonder books.

Also, a very big thankyou to Geoff, at the local Woolgoolga Newsagency, for his efforts in ensuring that we received a great selection of these engaging books.

The SBPS kids love them!!!

The class sets of Eyewonder books will be most valuable for classes when studying many of the related topics over the year, as well as individual kids borrowing them from the library.

Moonlight Mayhem Fete Friday 13th March 3pm->

MOONLIGHT MAYHEM FETE

Lots of great stalls and entertainment
will be set up ready for the
3pm start.

Chocolate Walk Show Bags Hair Colouring

Lucky Dips Cakes Biscuit Decorating

Plants Scratchies Dress-up Fun Photos

Lolly Smashing Disco Drums

Slippery Sixpence Golf Portraits

Lolly Jar Teacher Baby Photo Competition

Bidding auction Lion Club BBQ Spooky Search & Find

Cake Box Competition Books Trash and Treasure

Take Your Best Shot "Yummy Tummy" food from the canteen

Teachers are collected donations to help support some stalls e.g., plants, colour, hair spray, books,trash and treasure, chocolates. Please send them in as soon as possible.

If you can offer some time to help out during the fete-from 1/2 hour can really make a difference please contact the P&C through Diana Della.

Musical entertainment will commence in the Covered Outdoor Learning Area (COLA) from 4 pm Finish your week with some Jazz and Blues from 6-7pm.

So much to see and hear and do...
Don't miss it!!!