Market Night

Wednesday November 20th was the BNPS Twilight Market. It was a fantastic night, thanks to the Parents Club for organising this. To check out the action from the night click here.

LOTE

All of the children have been very busy in LOTE and were lucky enough to have several incursions such as a sushi making demonstration, a Kendo demonstration and a Japanese drumming exhibition. Also the BNPS children were involved making paper cranes to be displayed in the Hiroshima Peace Park. The directors of the Hiroshima Peace Park wrote a letter of thanks, click here to see. Check out all of the photos below.

Mini Fete

The Level 4 Social Action Project was a huge success and a great day for all involved. The Level 4 students raised over $4,500 dollars for a childrens charity that will be announced early next term. Check out the photos below.

Junior Disco

The Junior Disco was a roaring success and everyone had a fantastic night, thanks to the parents club for organising this event.

Superclubsplus

This semester Level and Level 4 are participating in an exciting ICT program “SuperClubsPlus.”
The program allows the students to communicate with each other, interact with students around the world, create their own web pages, gather information for school projects and participate in interactive activities. The program is only accessible to primary school students and is monitored 24/7 in order to provide a safe and secure environment for students to participate in online.

As part of the program students are able to participate in Online Interviews with celebrities and interesting Australians. Recently the Year 4’s participated in an Online “Hot Seat” interview with author Andy Griffiths and were lucky enough to have Andy answer their question. Year 4 students posed the question “Andy, who is your favourite author (apart from yourself of course!)” and Andy replied that he loved reading Enid Blyton books. All of the students were very excited to see that of the thousands of questions sent in theirs was chosen by Andy for a response.

All of the students are looking forward to participating more in SuperClubsPlus over the rest of the year and progressing their ICT skills.

Thank You Wentworth Constructions

In recognition of the donation of the concrete slab for the floor of our new sports shed we put up a sign on reserve road. See the picture below and another big thanks to Wentworth Constructions.

Skype in LOTE

Year 3 and 4 students have been videoconferencing with students in Japan in English and Japanese through Skype. This has been very exciting for all of the students involved. We even managed to make an appearance on the news in Japan.

New Japanese Intern

BNPS has a new Japanese intern, her name is Chiaki. Chiaki is university student from Kyushu and she loves playing volleyball. She is here for two terms and is learning to teach Japanese as a second language.

Schoolyard Safety

To make sure that we are all safe in the schoolyard we are having a blitz on riding bikes and scooters. For more details click here (PDF)

Bushfire Appeal

In response to the recent Victorian Bushfire Crisis the school community banded together to donate a total of $7032.90 to the State Schools' Relief Fund Bushfire Appeal.

In appreciation of our efforts we recieved a certificate from State Schools' Relief.

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