BBS Newsletter 12 November T4W6

Teresa Burn — November 12th, 2025

Twin up and get Travelwise this Friday! 🚴🛴🚶🚌

Coming Up

Junior Cross Country - Thursday 13 November - 9am (Year 0-3) - Parents are Welcome (School Field)
Travelwise Event - Twin Day - Friday 14 November
FOTS Sausage Sizzle & Ice Block After School Sale - Friday 14 November - 3pm (Junior Playground) - Plus Raffle Tickets on Sale for the Grocery Grab Fundraiser (More Information Coming out Tomorrow)
BOT Meeting - Thursday 20 November - 6.30pm (Staffroom)
Y6 Rainbows End Trip - Monday 24 November
Cluster Athletics - Tuesday 25 November
Jingle - Tuesday 09 December - (Save Day Thursday 11 December)
FOTS Pie Day - Thursday 11 December *orders on Kindo
School Sports Assembly - Friday 12 December - 9.45am
Y6 Graduation - Tuesday 16 December - School Hall
Y0-2 Assembly - Wednesday 17 December - 9.30am
Y3-6 Assembly - Wednesday 17 December 11.30am
Term 4 Ends - Wednesday 17 December - 1pm

Principal News

Lost Property
Parking Around School
Principal for the Day

Awhi Update

Random Acts of Kindness

School Notices

Scholastic Book Orders

School Events

Travelwise - 'What`s My Speed?'
Travelwise Event - Twin Day
Superstars
Gumboot Day

Friends of the School/P.T.A

Sausage Sizzle & Ice Block After School Sale. Plus Raffle Tickets on Sale for the upcoming Grocery Grab Fundraiser (More information coming out tomorrow)

Principal News

Lost Property

Now that swimming has started we see a massive increase in the amount of lost property at school. It is really easy for your child to pick up items belonging to someone else or even come home wearing them.

Please help out by;

Making sure everything your child brings to school is clearly named - including their room number
Checking your child has the right uniform

If your child has borrowed uniform items from us, please return to the school office as soon as possible as we now have very few spares.

Parking Around School

Parking on Masterton Road is causing lots of problems at the moment. If you are parked on yellow lines it is illegal and you are compromising safety at the school crossing.

Principal for the Day

It was lovely to spend time with Miss McGovern on Friday. Miss McGovern won the auction run through FOTS in Term 3. Thank you FOTS for everything you do for our children.

Awhi Update

Random Acts of Kindness

Term 4 is a time of excitement, anticipation and some nervousness as students and staff look ahead to 2026. We work really hard to support students during this time because we understand that change can be hard for some people. Mantras often heard around the school are ‘We can do hard things’ and ‘I can’t do it - Yet!’ Our Awhi lessons throughout the year aim to develop resilience and the ability to persevere.

At this time of the year we add kindness into the mix. A little bit of kindness goes a long way. We encourage you to demonstrate random acts of kindness for your children and to talk to them about the power of being kind even when things go wrong. Have a wonderful week.

School Notices

Scholastic Book Orders

Parents wanting to order Scholastic books, to do so online by Thursday 13 November.

There will be no cash orders at school.

How parents order from the online Book Club:

Log in, or create a new account at LOOP
Click the ORDER tab, and select the child's school and issue of Book Club
Select your child's name
Enter the product item number from the Book Club catalogue
Make a payment via credit card

School Events

Travelwise - 'What`s My Speed?'

The Year 5 and Year 6 Travelwise students participated in a ‘What’s My Speed?' activity together with our local Travelwise Representative, Cathy Betty. They held placards that encouraged passers by to abide by the speed limit. Students also had the opportunity to use a speed camera to check the speed of cars approaching the crossing. They noticed that all of the cars slowed down and abided by the speed limit. The students want to say a special thank you to the Browns Bay community for helping to keep the students and families at Browns Bay School safe.

Superstars

YEAR 0/1 TEAM - Lameta Langaoi R6, Mark Guo R8, Petra Dapjas R8, Daniel Cho R9, Charlie Wenham R9, Yiyi Sun R10, Leo Regotti R10, Aurelion Lion R11, Oliver Wilson R11, Jack Wallis R12, Lacey McKenzie R12

YEAR 2 TEAM - Doria Fung R2, Corrin Burrowes R2, Neda Vukovic R3, Rufus Frost R3, Lyla Gillbee R4, Eason Zhang R4, Macey Ou R5, Shuyi Liao R5

YEAR 3 TEAM -Luke Nicholas R14, Sophie Ni R14, Nathan Booysen R15, Octavian Stavar R15, Flynn McGregor R16, Axelle Moyon R16, Milly Li R17, Jasmine Pienaar R17

JUNIOR VALUES AWARD - Coast Bassett R11

YEAR 4 TEAM -Jayden Yan R30, Mackenzie Adolphe R30, Yuki Mu R31, Aaron Ma R31, Vivienne Wu R32, Emma Yao R32, Aria Derks R33, Max Dobbie R33

YEAR 5 TEAM -Sierra Vu R18, Jack Liu R18, Wian Schwartz R19, Jayde Li R19, Stanley Qiu R20, Elle Turner R20, Saskia Burrowes R21, Jakob Kranenburg R21

YEAR 6 TEAM -Reina Wang R24, Richie Jones R24, Darin Ding R25, Adam Wang R25, Zeppelin Message R26, Crystal Shen R26, Micaela Torres R27, Margarita Qiao R27, Amelia Lyons R28, Toby Barrett R28

SENIOR VALUES AWARD - Eileen Cho R25

SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL - Julia Aranyos R18

ACHIEVEMENT CUPS - Joey Nicholas R18, Celine Shi R27

ARTS AWARD - Chavez Paul-Nehua R28

SPORTS CUPS - Charlotte Weeks R24, Callum McLaughlin R25, Cody Faure R27

In Week 1 Sports Assembly:

SPORTS CUPS - Ruby Talia R24, Hein Van Vuuren R25, Isla Packer R27