Year 6 really enjoyed their excursion to Canberra.

Yr 6 reflect on their years of learning so far.....

Year 6 share their learning....enjoy some of their presentations

Kye shares his reflection presentation from Pre-school to year 6 using glogster as his tool of choice.

Portfolio: s38cyxp | Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students
I apologise that it is not in order.

2010 NSW PRC Gold Honour Roll

Congratulations to the 30 students from Sandy Beach Public School who earned their Gold award this year. Check out your names on the Honour Roll.

Sandy Beach School Fete 2010

Sandy Beach Public School 2010 Fete on PhotoPeach

Thank you to everyone who organised, helped and supported the fete. It was from all accounts fun and successful.

Sandy Beach Public School 2010 Presentation Day on PhotoPeach

Congratulations on a very entertaining musical K-2 students and staff.

Some of our students have been selected to join in a new NSWDET initiative

Thursday 4 November is the inaugural RAMS video conference. Our kids are really excited and keen to fins out more about the first tool to be shared "Xtranormal" where you can make 3D movies for free.

Image via CrunchBase

"Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century." Jane Hart Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

#RAMS   Students teaching students

Enjoy the following Xtranormal videos:

Interview with Neil Armstrong from George of Year 3 BlogDogs

Interview with an astronaut by Jack and Lachlan, also of the Blog Dogs Year 3 class.

For more information about #RAMS check out: Rams Video Conferencing Wiki

Congratulations to our great orators.

Congratulations to our Sandy Beach Public School Great Debate Team

Our team won the 2010 Northern Beaches Public Schools Great Debate Competition

Well done Zoe, Masyn, Liljana and Oliviah.

 

 Congratulations also goes to Liljana for her wonderful delivery of her speeches.

Liljana won the 2010 Multicultural Perspective Public Speaking Competition in our area.

Our Bike Safety Day was great fun and educational.

Thanks to all the parents and carers who brought in bikes or items to push, for their children to participate. We had a huge range of wheeled items from strollers to wheelbarrows!

The three stations that the kids attended all offered different challenges. Lots of skills were tested! Many signs had to be read!

A big thank you Mrs Murtha and Graeme who set up the course and to Mr Holmes for running the day. You only had to look at the kids' faces to see what they thought of the experience.

Congratulations to the Sandy Beach School Community-Great result for the Wheelathon

Over $7000 raised!!
An announcement will be made when a final decision is made about where to spend these valuable funds.

Many thanks to all who contributed to this success!

Lots of very lucky kids went home today with some terrific prizes.

Free interactive eStories to enjoy over the holidays from TheLittleBookClub

Cat   by Mike Dumbleton & Craig Smith



Boom Bah!  by Phil Cummings & Nina Rycroft


The Terrible Plop by Ursula Dubosarsky & Andrew Joyner
This book was one of the shortlisted books this year by CBCA.

These books are available in seven languages.

3H would like to see us use the existing library as outlined below.

We have been discussing the needs of the school community.

We will be contemplating this issue for some time, until everyone gets a chance to have their say and then a decision will be made.

We have a new blog at Sandy Beach Public School......

 NSWDET introduced a new blogging platform for students to use safely both at school and from home through their portal- BlogED. 

 This is a new learning tool for students to learn to use.

SBPS Library's first BlogED blog is now up and running-

It is:

Read this book-You JUST MUST!

September Springtime Search and Seek.........

 We know that some books have a habit of playing hide and seek...... 

Often they hide so well no-one finds them for ages.

We have had as many as 21, 32, and 36 books sent back to us as a package, when students have finished primary school and parents have a really big clean up.

We are always delighted to see our books return back to our library-which belongs to all of our students!!!

As we will soon have a lovely new set up at S.B.P.S. with our new 21C library and three new 21C classrooms S.B.P.S. staff and students would love to ensure that all our resources are available and ready for action!!

Please have a really good hunt...play detectives for an hour or so in all the likely and unlikely hiding holes. Don't forget the car and the bottom of the lego box. You would be surprised where we have heard that books have found to hide in the past!!

               Please make

by returning all books with a SBPS barcode on them!

Click here if you like to create your own old WANTED poster?

Year 6 are working on a reflective portfolio in library.

 I am encouraging year 6 students to use a number of different presentation tools to present their portfolio. One tool is Prezi.

Definition from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames."

Here is a Prezi about Mrs Lofton -a TL I met on twitter.

About Mrs. Lofton on Prezi

The Prezi demonstrates a very simple autobiographical outline of her life.

Year 6 students are being encouraged to search for copies of photos, awards, school work or any special reminders of their past years at primary school. 

They need to use digital copies for their work. Digital copies can be created at home, if it is possible. Copies can be emailed to the student or can be transferred via a thumb dive-(memory stick)

Year 6 students can bring their hard copies to school if the necessary equipment and know-how is not available at home to transform them into digital format.

I am happy to help students with this process before school each day and at lunch times as there is not enough time in their library lesson to help all students at once.

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.