IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES

Important school dates to remember:

Athletics carnival – Grade 3 – 6 – Thursday 29th April

School colour run – 17th May – 2.30pm

Greetings to our wonderful school community,

It is wonderful to be back after our break and to have started the term with such a bang! On Tuesday all of our grade 1-6 students went on a fully funded trip to see the Alan Brough play, Charlie and the War against Grannies. It was an absolutely fantastic day. The show was full of action, laughs and music. Our student’s behaviour was exemplary! We were so fortunate to be able to eat our lunch in the glorious foyers of the Playhouse Theatre…it was a bit like fine dining!

Victorian Arts Centre Promotional Video.

Over the past 12 years, Badger Creek Primary School has received over $100,000 worth of funding to take our students into the Arts Centre, with no cost to us. We have seen the MSO on many occasions and also many vibrant and interesting productions. This money is provided by the Victorian Arts Centre through donations from the organisations and the general public. Let’s just let that sink in. Large amounts of money are given to young people who would otherwise find it difficult to attend these types of performances because of cost or distance from Melbourne. This just shows how important participation in the Arts is considered by our broader community.

As we have been so keenly involved in these programs over the years, we have been asked to assist with making a video to help the Arts Centre with future fund raising. Several of our students and myself have been involved in video interviews over the past week, to highlight the benefits of this provision for our school. It was such fun, just like being on TV!

Thank you to the students and families who participated and a very big thank you to the Victorian Arts Centre for their amazing community work.

Have a great week,

Jenny Legg

Music Teacher

Welcome back to Term 2!

Our students have hit the ground running in PE this week, our Foundation students practiced their underarm throwing skills in various games and skill development activities.

Our grade 3-6 students have been busy practicing and learning the different Athletic events in preparation for the upcoming District Athletics Carnival next Thursday 29^th April.

They will get one more final practice session before they participate in the event at Morrisons Reserve.

A reminder to all parents, could you please ensure the permission form is completed and returned to your classroom teacher as soon as possible.

Payments can be made now on Qkr!

If you require a Spare form, they can be found in the office.

Parent helpers are greatly appreciated on the day! If you are able to assist, please fill in the parent helper form or contact me directly on David.Pitts@education.vic.gov.au

Colour fun run!

We are excited to announce that we have booked our Colour Run 4 Fun for Monday 17^th May and invite all parents and children to participate !

Stay tuned for more details to come!

Welcome back to the art room for another term. Our students enjoyed a much needed break and have returned invigorated and ready for learning.

In art for the next two weeks, students will be working with clay. This week every year level had the opportunity to play with clay and refresh their knowledge of making spheres, pinch pots, slabs and coils. They also learnt the importance of using the slip and score method when attaching one piece of clay to another. Next week each class will use this knowledge to construct an artwork that they will fire in the kiln and then glaze.

During the week I met with my art leaders Ava and Olive to choose the paint colours that they would like to use in their mural on the outside wall of the art room. Next Monday they will run art club for grades 3-6, where they will begin working on it. I can’t wait to see the results!

Have a great week everyone.

Vanessa Imberger

Art Teacher

“We have had an outstanding start to our second term of Prep! The children have literally picked up from where they left off. We have been doing all sorts of things from blowing /b/ /b/ bubbles to baking anzac biscuits. It’s always exciting to see all our little learners have a go; Maths always hooks us in as we continue to conceptualise our numbers from 1-20. We have begun learning about shapes and their features. And we have moved full steam ahead in Literacy with our word of the week (cat) and our sentence of the week (The cat sat on the mat.) We kindly ask that you remind your children that they need to change their readers on a Monday morning (or any other day if forgotten). We have loved watching our readers take on this responsibility and your gentle reminders in the morning to pack their blue folder before school really help!

One last thing from us, next week in Show and Share, our theme will be SEASONAL. Please discuss with your child something related to a season that they could bring into school next Friday to share with their class. Our Show and Share themes can also be found on our prep notice board near the prep entrance… look for the leafy backdrop.

Who knew so much learning could fit into one week?! Until next week, rest and recharge team!”

Year 1/2

What an amazing week we’ve had! Term two has started with a bang! Our excursion to The Arts Centre was just amazing! Here are some words from our kids: 

“It was great and I’d like to see it more times!” (Ava 1/2B) 

“I thought it was good because there was so much action!” (Jack 1/2A)

We thank all our parent helpers for their assistance on the day, your support is greatly appreciated. We’d like to congratulate our Yr1/2 cohort on the way they conducted themselves at The Arts Centre. You showed pride in your school, responsibility and respect – well done. Check out some of our photos below! 

In Literacy this week, we have been working on visualising when we read (making a movie in our mind), creating ideas in Writing, and learning to spell works containing the digraph /sh/ (two letters than make one sound). 

In Numeracy, we began a unit of work on measurement. We investigated our own heights using informal measurement, and compared heights in our class. This exercise proved to be more challenging than we expected! We discussed the accuracy of informal measurement including hand spans. 

Next week, we’re continuing our work on visualising and ideas in Literacy, and are going to use our city scape photos from our excursion to The Arts Centre, to create a city scape of our own, demonstrating our measurement skills! We look forward to an exciting Week 2! 

Hi Everyone,

We hope you have all had a well earned relaxing and refreshing break (not to mention a couple of chocolate eggs at the start of the holidays).

It’s been a busy week amongst the Grade 5/6 students. This week in the classroom, we’ve been focusing on ANZAC Day on the 25’th of April. In order to form a deeper understanding of the history and significance of the ANZACS students have been researching common symbols used to commemorate the ANZAC spirit and have created some truly inspiring posters. They’ve also been focusing on delving into the events around World War I and how these shaped the creation of the ANZAC’s through building detailed timelines and role playing these events in the classroom.

In addition to this, this week our students were introduced to Entrepreneurship which is their major inquiry focus for the term, and have begun formulating ideas to create their own small business enterprises which you’ll be hearing about as the term progresses. The end goal of each business is to raise money for charities, which will continue Badger Creek’s strong tradition of helping students value their place as global citizens who can contribute to the betterment of their communities. We’ve already seen some incredible examples of creative business thinking, as well as remarkable examples of ingenuity. We can’t wait to see where students take their enterprises during the project.

All The Best from

Ms Murphy, Ms Drill and Mr Miller

Dear Grade 6 Families,

It has now come time to decide which high school you will be sending your wonderful Grade 6 student.

Please find a link attached to the  Department website where you can download a copy of the form.

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/parents/going-to-school/Pages/year-6-to-7.aspx

This form will also be emailed on Thursday night to all families.

A hard copy of the form needs to be returned to your students’ teacher by Friday 14th May 2021. 

Please ensure you read through this form carefully, and fill in all sections required.

If you require a hard copy, please email your students’ teacher and ask for a copy, and we will send it home.

Kindly,

Alyssa Drill, Erin Murphy and Greg Miller

Upcoming excursions

This is a call out for any Badger Creek families who may have any of the Coles little shop mini figures at home they are no longer using or need.

We are hoping to collect some here at BCPS to use in the hands on Maths.

Any donations would be greatly appreciated.