Filter Content
A Note from the Principal
Welcome to Term 4 but I already feel exhausted! Not sure about you!!!
Dance Sport winners-Congratulations to both our teams and their coaches. Well done once again Mr Woolard!
Wannabees- Kinders thoroughly enjoyed the experience and I got to go for the first time! Wow! Real fireman's pole and water.
Sydney West Athletics- with some well earned results and personal bests!
Year 5 and Year 6 to Canberra- seeing some get pictures and hoping the weather holds!
Stage 2 visited the The Rocks -I am sure I will hear about their adventures!
New uniform provider Excel and I think our new shirts look great!
Blackwell buddies have started the term by planting some of the hundreds of Woolies pots we collected. Thanks for your contributions!
New outdoor kinder purchases with 2 sandpits now in operation and a water table to come!
School leaders for 2020 nominations are underway with some big shoes to fill!
SRC holding one of their last fundraisers with a lolly guessing competition.
Yr 6 Farewell plans are well underway with parents and staff discussing themes and all that goes into this event. Join our closed Facebook group to find out more!
Kinder 2020 evening all planned and our staff excited to meet all our new families.
A farewell to Vincent Chau, our wonderful school counsellor, who has left us for private practice. We will miss his expertise and sense of humour!!
And 7 weeks still to go!!
Our last formal P&C meeting 7pm next Monday night. Please join us as we plan for 2020! Your ideas and suggestions are always most welcome. Come and help us spend our monies wisely.
We have decided to only send our newsletter out twice this term!!!! Nobody reads it anyway!!!! Correct me if you read this!
We will post one out in Week 7 and a calendar in the last week of term, Week 10.
I will continue to post on Facebook each week as I feel this is helpful at such a busy time!!
And during it all we still find time to teach!!!
Kris Hudswell
Principal
The next P & C meeting for Term 4 will be held on:
When: Monday, 4th November 2019
Time: 7pm
Where: Blackwell Public School Staffroom
All welcome to attend.
Meetings are held once a month, 1st Monday of the month 7pm in the staffroom.
New members welcome.
Visitors to Blackwell Public School
All Visitors, Parents, Caregivers to our school must report to the front office to sign in when they visit our school. If you are here to volunteer in the classrooms for Parent helper, to visit a teacher for an appointment or any other reason, due to Health and Safety obligations with the Department of Education.
Parents are able to make online payments to the school for amounts owing for students, via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac. Payments can be made using either a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card, and can be made via computer. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the schools website by selecting $ Make a payment Button below.
Items that can be paid include the school pack, excursions, creative and practical arts activities (these include choir, drama and dance). There is also a category called ‘Other’ to cover items not covered in the previous headings. Other can be used to make a complete payment of a school invoice.
When you access the $ Make a payment you must enter:
- the students name and class, date of birth
- contact details-full name, phone number and email address
- payment item-other, then description
These details are entered each time you make a payment as student information is not held within the payment system.
This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured in a secure manner, these details are not passed back to the school.
You have the ability to check and change any details of the payment before the payment is processed
Details of the payments are passed daily to the school where they will be receipted against your child’s account. For any enquiries regarding the Online Payment process please contact the School Administration Office.
**PLEASE NOTE** Please do not pay any online payments which should be paid to a third party provider. For Example, School Photographers; P&C Fund-Raising etc. If unsure please call the school to check. CASH Only when paying at the Front Office.
Upcoming Events
CARES Program
Who: Stage 2 Students
When: Monday, 11th - Thursday, 14th November, 2019
Where: Community and road Educstion Centre,
Creek Road, St Marys
Cost: Students to bring an Opal Card for Bus transport
**********************
Year 6 Polo Shirt
Who: 2019 Year 5 Students
Cost: $50.00 Polo Shirts
$37.00 Sweat Shirts
Permission Note and money to the front Office by Monday, 2nd December 2019
**********************
Medication at School
If prescribed medication is to be given to students at school, a blister pack either supplied from the chemist or in its original packaging is now required. Medication that needs to be cut will need to be done so by a pharmacist and delivered to the school in a blister pack.
PLEASE NOTE THAT MEDICATION SUPPLIED IN SANDWICH BAGS or PILL CONTAINERS CAN NO LONGER BE ACCEPTED.
Merit & Virtue Awards Term 4 Week 1
Class | Merit | Merit | Virtue |
KD | Angelo C | Rashmika Y | Ava T |
KH | Archer P | Leo T | Mia L |
KK | Zach L | Oliver P | Gabriella C |
KL | Shania F | Delylah S | Chelsea O |
Merit & Virtue Awards Term 4 Week 2
Class | Merit | Merit | Virtue |
KD | Jean Paul C | Izaih D | Ayla G |
KH | Renwa B | Dominic H | Deyanah B |
KK | Amira B | Eren C | Zach L |
KL | Jezibelle A | Xavier M | Lachlan N |
Merit & Virtue Awards Term 4 Week 1
Class | Merit | Merit | Virtue |
S1C | Andre H | Luke K | Harrison M |
S1D | Erin G | Mason P | Georgia D |
S1H | Mase C | Edie D | Jaide T |
S1J | Dallan M | James R | Elouise M |
S1M | Piper S | Xavier S | Rory D |
S1R | Makelita N | Pihu P | Jayden H |
S1T | Kyah M | Fiona S | Tahlia W |
S1W | Avaya P | Talia V | Preston L |
S1W | - | Sasha Z | - |
Merit & Virtue Awards Term 4 Week 1
Class | Merit | Merit | Virtue |
S2A | Deakon M | Zara T | Lauren S |
S2B | Zakery A | Dean S | Xavier S |
S2C | Jaxon A | Julian L | Grace Y |
S2L | Leah B | Brooklyn M | Kayla N |
S2MK | Angelina C | Max O | Ruby M |
S2S | Noor A | Kye N | Nickolas V |
S2W | Kaan C | Harlow J | Riley K |
Merit & Virtue Awards Term 4 Week 2
Class | Merit | Merit | Virtue |
S2A | Makayla S | Annika M | Indianna B |
S2B | Sheena K | Jhidyn K | Mia A |
S2C | Angela L | Dylan S | William B |
S2L | Myleigh K | Sash T | Ayah J |
S2MK | Alexa B | Svetlana O | Abigail D |
S2S | Logan | Michael S | Aidan C |
S2W | Finlay J | Georgia M | Ethan F |