28 November - Term 4 Week 7
Check out our FOTS section and scan the QR code to find some really cool items to bid on in our fabulous Jingle Silent Auction. Happy Bidding!
Coming Up
Tuesday 03 December - BBS Board of Trustees Parent Helpers Morning Tea - 10.30am (School Hall)
Thursday 05 December - Jingle - Starts 4pm (Performances start 6pm) - (School Field)
Monday 09 December - Dental Van will be at school all week
Tuesday 10 December - Jingle (Save Day)
Thursday 12 December - Y6 Graduation
Friday 13 December - New Class Placements - 1.30pm-2.15pm
Friday 13 December - Reports to Parents - 3pm
Monday 16 December - Y5 Movie Trip
Tuesday 17 December - Full School Assembly - 11.20am (Y5 Hosting)
Tuesday 17 December - Last Day of Term 4 - (School Closes at 1pm)
Contents
Principal News
Roof Replacement Rooms 1-7
Courts Upgrade
Pool Repairs and Painting
Pool Key Hire
School Notices
BBS Board of Trustees Parent Helpers Morning Tea
Awhi Update
Random Acts of Kindness
Friends of the School/P.T.A
Jingle Silent Auction/Scan the QR Code
Jingle Jars
Volunteers for Jingle Day
Browns Bay Santa Parade
School Events
Superstars
Mathletics Achievements
Bikes and Scooters
Junior Cross Country Results
Year 4 Bulldogs Miniball Team Success
Chinese Traditional Dance Group
Principal News
It has been a busy time preparing for building work to be done over the upcoming summer break. I am sorry that many areas of the school grounds and pool will not be available during the holidays, but the work is essential and will significantly improve the grounds for our children.
Roof Replacement Rooms 1-7
Unfortunately, during the tender process, asbestos was found in the ceiling cavity of Rooms 1-7. This is currently sealed and is of no danger, but the asbestos will need to be removed before the work on the roof replacement can begin. The preparation work for this will begin as soon as school is finished.
The buildings will be wrapped so that removal of the asbestos can begin. Work on the removal of asbestos should begin before Christmas but this will depend on the availability of the contractors. The removal will be completed before Term 1 starts in 2025, but it is unlikely that the re-roofing project will be complete by then.
For the first 4 weeks of Term 1, our Room 1-7 classes will be relocated to other spaces in the school. We will keep you informed of this in the class placement information later this term. If everything goes to plan, children will be able to move back to their classrooms after this, but we do have contingency plans in place if the project is extended.
All staff are working hard to manage this unfortunate situation and we will keep you updated.
Courts Upgrade
As we shared earlier this year, the courts outside the Year 3 classes are being upgraded with Astroturf and new Netball and Basketball hoops.
Work on this project should also begin as soon as school finishes. Before Christmas, work will begin on the base. The team will be back on 06 January to begin laying the new turf. They expect to be onsite for 2 weeks.
Pool Repairs and Painting
The pool will be emptied as soon as school finishes so that work can begin on 06 January. This project involves stripping back the current surfaces, repairing cracks and then applying several coats of sealer and paint.
We have been advised that the work should take 10 days to complete, but we should allow a period of 4 weeks to allow for weather conditions.
The pool should be ready for the start of school, but as with all of these projects we are at the mercy of the weather, contractors and no nasty surprises being discovered along the way.
We will open the pool as soon as possible and will offer you the opportunity to hire a key to the pool during Term 1. (Details can be found below).
Pool Key Hire
We will do our best to have the pool open from Thursday 06 February 2025 for the use of our BBS families. This is dependent on work being completed and the pool being refilled, brought up to temperature and chemical treatments working effectively.
We will soon be taking pre-orders for pool cards. There is a $110 fee for a pool card which gives you the use of the pool facilities for the Term 1 period. This includes a $50 bond which will be refunded upon the return of the pool card at the end of the season. We have taken into consideration the rising costs of chemicals and additional staffing needed to maintain the pool while it is hired out and the hire fee has been reduced to $60.
Further information and agreement forms will be sent home to families early next week. Please return your completed agreement form to the school office and make payment on Kindo to secure your pool card. All forms returned by Friday 13 December will receive their cards on Wednesday 05 February 2025.
School Notices
BBS Board of Trustees Parent Helpers Morning Tea
On Tuesday 03 December, the Board of Trustees is hosting a morning tea in the school hall to acknowledge and thank the wonderful parents, caregivers, grandparents and friends that contribute to our school over the year.
If you have been involved in a sports team through coaching or managing, a regular classroom helper, supported our school library, been involved in FOTS etc, please join us in the school hall at 10.30am.
To those who are unable to make it, please accept our thanks for your valuable contribution to the success of our school.
Awhi Update
Random Acts of Kindness
It was great to hear about students doing random acts of kindness over the past week or so. They make everyone feel good. We’d love for this to continue to the end of term and throughout the holidays.
Our final lesson for 2024 is a new initiative which we hope will help your children to know what to expect as they transition into their new year level. Each year group team has created a lesson about “The day in the life of..” a Year 4 student etc. The lesson will be done while students meet their new teachers and classmates later this term. We’re hoping that it’s a positive experience. Thank you for your support this year.
Friends of the School/Browns Bay School PTA
Jingle Silent Auction
Click here to view items or scan the QR Code:
Jingle Jars
Please keep those Jingle jars coming in to your child`s classroom. The more the merrier!
Volunteers for Jingle Day
If you can help out at Jingle, please contact FOTS:
Browns Bay Santa Parade
Any parents, caregivers, children interested in walking in the Browns Bay Santa Parade? This is happening on Saturday 07 December in Browns Bay from 4.30pm-6pm. Please contact FOTS if you would like to take part:
School Events
Superstars
YEAR 0/1 TEAM - Makar Petrov R5, Thomas Sommerville R5, Ben Bartley R7,
Petra Dapjas R7, Leia Loberant R8, Oliver Klun R8, Owen Huang R9,
Maddie Cronje R9, Harland Wilson R10, Nancy Shi R10, Charlie Jackson R11,
Ziyu Liu R11
YEAR 2 TEAM - Sophia Ji R1, Rudi Human R1, Jasmine Pienaar R2,
Miller Du Plessis R2, Poppy Hazelden-Welsh R3, Willa Barry R3, Mia Wu R4,
Hailey Ratakhin R4
YEAR 3 TEAM - Niklaus Bai R14, Gabriel Zhong R14, Liam Huang R15, Ava Bartley R15, Amelia Vryer R16, Kobe Milsom R16, Hayley Weldon R17, Devin Liang R17
VALUES AWARD - Suhayla Suaad Khan R3
YEAR 4 TEAM - Eaden Liu R30, Jeremy Cheng R30, Jordan Florence R31,
Jack Lewis R31, Joey Nicholas R32, Anna Quirk R32, May Fei R33, Robin Huang R33
YEAR 5 TEAM - Cody Faure R18, Joory Makki R18, Lily Wandler R19, Adam Wang R19, Zoey Watkins R20, Reina Wang R20, Remy Chen R21, Yuni Kim R21
YEAR 6 TEAM - Vincent Xie R24, Gabriella D’Aguiar-Sanders R24, Yi-Tsung Lo R25, Kyven Fernando R25, Starry Liu R26, Nora Abbas R26, Sarah Jiang R27,
Ari Jinn R27
VALUES AWARD - Runa Kambe R18
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL – Nora Abbas R26
ACHIEVEMENT CUPS - Jessica Feng R33, Leah Wang R19, Margarita Qiao R27
ARTS AWARD - Layla Russell R25
SPORTS CUPS - Liam Bezuidenhoudt R24, Zaid Saqqa R27
Mathletics Achievements
The Mathletics Team have advised us that 3 of our students have achieved the complete ‘Legend’ status in their Mathletics certificates – a huge achievement that takes commitment and dedication to get to this point in a single school year!
They`ve created a very short video for us which highlights some of our school’s achievements. Click the following link to view:
Browns Bay School Mathletics Achievements
Bikes and Scooters
We are so pleased that so many Year 5 and Year 6 students have taken up the opportunity to get a bike licence. These students have been provided with a High-Vis vest and can travel to school independently on their bikes. In the past few weeks, spot prizes have been given out to students spotted travelling to and from school by bike. This week, our lovely Year 5 students were the lucky winners! They received an awesome Travelwise water bottle.
Junior Cross Country Results
New Entrant Boys:
1st Oliver Rm 7, 2nd Hendrix Rm 5, 3rd Makar Rm 5
New Entrant Girls:
1st Mila Rm 5, 2nd Petra Rm 7, 3rd Maya Rm 5
Year 1 Boys:
1st Cole Rm 8, 2nd Voijin Rm 9, 3rd Kayden Rm 10
Year 1 Girls:
1st Sophie Rm 9, 2nd Layla Rm 8, 3rd Leia Rm 8
Year 2 Boys:
1st Aaron Rm 4 & Matthew Rm 4, 2nd Arlo Rm 4 & Noah Rm 1, 3rd Levi Rm 1
Year 2 Girls:
1st Wanjiku Rm 3, 2nd Juliette Rm 2, 3rd Iris Rm 4 & Mira Rm 4
Year 3 Boys:
1st Max Rm 17, 2nd Oliver Rm 17, 3rd James Rm 17 & Martin Rm 16
Year 3 Girls:
1st Nicole Rm 15, 2nd Delphi Rm 17, 3rd Farah Rm 14
(See photo gallery below for more photos).
Year 4 Bulldogs Miniball Team Success
Congratulations to our Year 4 Bulldogs Miniball team who have been undefeated all year. They moved from the Local competition to the North Harbour competition for Semester 2 and were recent winners of the Year 4 section. A huge achievement! Congratulations to all the players, Coach Luka Topic and Manager Kirsten Billinghurst, along with all their supporters.
Chinese Traditional Dance Group
BBS is so fortunate to now have a Chinese Traditional Dance Group, thanks to the expertise and dedication of one of our parents, Jessey Song. The children are learning more about Chinese cultural traditions through dance. This has long been a dream of Jessey's and, with help from Mrs Cebalo and Cecilia and of course the support of our lovely school, we finally formed our own dance team. Thanks to a FOTS grant, they have been able to purchase beautiful, authentic costumes from China too.
The dancers are Meilun, Eileen, Felicia, Celine, Nicole, Margarita, Stephanie, Gloria and Sophia. The girls have devoted every Thursday lunchtime to practicing for the past two terms. They will perform one of the dances they have learned at Jingle.
Community Notices
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1.00 - 3.00pm
1.00 - 4.30pm
1.00 - 6.00pm
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