Dear Families

Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful warm weather!

Wellbeing

Our Wellbeing Day last Friday was a fun day and I am sure our children went home feeling good about themselves. Yoga, mindfulness and an exciting Colour Run made for a great day. The wellbeing of our children is important given the last few years of Covid and the recent floods. We cannot underestimate the impact these experiences have had on our developing children.

Richard Poole our chaplain is always available to assist children and their families when they are experiencing trauma of any kind. Please don’t hesitate to call us for assistance.

Shade

We are getting a few more shade sails placed in our yard to further protect our children from the hot damaging sun. The poles have been put in place and the sails will be erected in a few weeks. We have many children playing in our yard without a hat. Please help us to protect them by ensuring they have a hat for all outdoor activities. Hats are available for purchase on QKR or at the office for $10.

Transition

Transition for our new 2023 Foundation students is exciting. We have two more sessions before Orientation Day on 13 December. All transition session assist our children to be ready for the next year. On Tuesday 13 December all our students will move to their new 2023 classes for a transition session to prepare for the coming year. They will spend some time in their new classroom with their 2023 teacher and class mates.

Mosquitoes

We know that there are heaps of mosquitoes everywhere and we know that their bite can affect people differently. If your child acquires a severe reaction please let their teacher know. We are trying to increase prevention as much as possible. Your help with this will be welcome. If you currently use repellent it might be good to apply it before school and we will endeavour to make it available to those that are happy to use it when needed.

Literacy and Numeracy

You are encouraged to take every opportunity to expose your children to literacy and numeracy in real life in your very own environment. Read, write, draw, play board games, count and measure, calculate, shop and anything else you can think of!

Developing literacy and Numeracy skills in real life situations are for ever lasting.

Take care

Denise

As the year is coming to an end, we have many end of year excursions that our students will be attending.

For your child to attend these outings, the excursion levy needs to be paid before they attend.

(If you applied for CSEF, excursion levy is covered)

If you have recently obtained a Health Care Card, please advise the school office.

Please contact the front office if you have any queries - 58 213 488

If your child/ren is in Foundation to Year 5 and will not be returning to Bourchier Street next year, can you please contact the front office as we need to attend to the administration documents, and this will also effect allocating students to classes. Thanks

Senior students celebrated the Spring Racing Carnival with their annual Bourchier Cup. Students dressed to impress and showcased their outfits with a fashions on the field red carpet. All students participated in relay races, games and competitions throughout the day. The highlight was the ever-popular yabby races to finish out the day with some excitement and friendly competition.

On Friday we celebrated our Wellbeing and Colour Run Day. Our students got to participate and engage in a range of wellbeing sessions which allowed them to be exposed to different ways which we can look after our wellbeing. All students got to learn about healthy foods for our bodies, participate in yoga sessions and listen to an athlete. Then it was time to bring out the colour! So many happy smiles and laughter was had at our whole school colour run. I’m sure all students had lot to talk about when they got home.

Friday 11th November 2022

Bourchier Street will be selling Poppies to remember those

who lost their lives in the First World War.

Red poppies symbolise remembrance.

Students will be come to classroom and sell the poppy

badges for a gold coin donation in remberance of our soldiers.

We would like to finalise our 2023 Foundation enrolments. If you have a child or know of anyone with a foundation student for 2023, please ask them to phone front office for an enrolment pack on 58 231 488. We will be running another 3 transition afternoons, (refer dates below) where students get to experience the classrooms and famililarise themselves with our school.

Click here for Issue 8

Issue 8 is ready to distribute today!

This exciting Issue of Book Club has all the best books to get festive for the holidays and to be ready for summer holiday reading!

It's the last issue for the year, so make sure families place their orders on time using the poster in the centre of Teacher Essentials to ensure they have books for Christmas gifting and school holiday reading.

If your cupboards are overflowing with Bourchier uniforms that your children have out grown, well we would appreciate receiving them as spares here at the school. We have children getting wet with all this rain so some spares will come in handy!

Our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Program allows devices to be brought into the school, and connected to our secure network

Our school has an online BYOD portal organised by JB-Hifi where you can access discounted rates on approved devices. THE PASSWORD IS BSPS23

If you would like more information on the program, please visit the BYOD page on our website or open the attached BYOD toolkit for parents.

Click here for BYOD PARENT HUB

If your child is not wearing a hat in term 4 , they will be asked to spend recess/lunch time in the hall to protect them from dangerous UV rays!

Overexposure to UV radiation from the sun causes skin damage

No hat – No play

Please label your child’s hat clearly with their name and grade.

Hats are available at the front office for $10

Order via QKR and we can send hat to the classroom

Just a reminder to keep up the payments for the Year 6 Canberra camp via QKR or phone the office to make payment over the phone by eftpos. 58 213 488 Thankyou

Often Bourchier Street communicates to our families via the Compass app, important information of what is happening within the school. Sometimes you are prompted through your email to open important news items. Please make sure your email is up to date, so you do not miss valuable information. Please phone front office 58 213 488 if your email address needs updating. If your child is absent from School, please logon to Compass to document this.

Every family needs to download the Qkr! app which will enable you to pay school fees, purchase hats/jackets, order lunch through the canteen and purchase tickets for special productions etc.

Simply download on your phone and you will see how easy it is to manage!

Our region is promoting a Parent Information Session – Andrew Fuller Building Resilience in Children – Tuesday 22 November 2022 at 7:00pm via Zoom.

The session content will include:

The active ingredients of resilience

• How parents can develop these in their children

• Friendship and relationship skills

• Neurochemistry and parenting

• Parenting tricky kids/ teens

• Creating happy kids

• Building self-esteem and dealing with setbacks

Workshop duration: 1 hour evening session for parents. + Q and A Drawn partly from Andrew’s books ‘Tricky Teens’ and ‘The A to Z of Feelings’ and ‘Tricky Behaviours’

Parents are required to register via Parent Information Session - Building Resilience in Children Tickets, Tue 22/11/2022 at 7:00 pm | Eventbrite

Registrations are now open and will close on Tuesday 22 November 2022 at 5:00pm

Participants will be provided with a zoom link once they have registered

Email: bourchier.ps@education.vic.gov.au
Website: bourchierps.vic.edu.au
Location: 1-19 Bourchier Street, Shepparton VIC, Australia
Phone: (03) 5821 3488
Facebook: facebook.com/bourchierps
Twitter: @bourchierps

https://www.bourchierps.vic.edu.au/projects-3

Bourchier Street Primary School has a zero tolerance of any form of child abuse. The school is committed to acting in children’s best interests. The safety and wellbeing of children at this school is our highest priority. We want children to be safe, happy and empowered.