Boneo Buzz: 30th October

In returning on-site, our students have demonstrated an excitement for being back with their peers. There is ongoing work at our end to support the children to re-engage in respectful relationships, take turns, listen to each other with interest and use ‘helpful’ language when working through challenges. We recognise that this period has been full of changes and has meant that our children have had to be resilient and adaptable; returning to school has been a moment of readjustment for some.

A huge thank you to our community for the gorgeous acknowledgement of our staff today. Our hearts are full!

Take care and enjoy next week’s Melbourne Cup Day long weekend. On Monday, staff will be involved in Professional Development, focusing on Mathematics and Reading and we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

URGENT REMINDER – Parent Opinion Survey

Just a reminder that the 2020 Parent Opinion Survey is open until Friday 13th November 2020. Your details to access the survey were recently sent home with the 2021 Parent Payment information. Please be assured that your responses are completely confidential and the survey is anonymous.
Here is your link to access the survey: https://www.orima.com.au/parent
Please do not hesitate to contact the office if you require assistance.

Poppies & Icy Pole Day

Please note, that from next Wednesday Year 6 students will be selling Rememberance Day badges for the RSL. The badges are a gold coin donation and the Year 6’s will visit each class room next week.

‘Icy Pole Wednesday’ will also return from next week. Icy poles will be available at lunchtime – $1 each.

Boneo School Fun Run

On Friday 27th November all students will be participating in our annual School Fun Run. This was a fabulous success last year with all students having a wonderful day. Please see details below and use the following link to create your student profile page; schoolfundraising.com.au

SAKG – Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

Our Year 3 students had an opportunity to trial the new kitchen space today. They prepared Spanokopita using fresh produce from our garden.

A special Boneo thank you to Beni and Alan (our cleaners), who have worked in the vegie garden over recent months to ensure the students were able to harvest when the SAKG program resumed. We are incredibly grateful for the wonderful work they have undertaken to have the garden looking fabulous and ready for our budding chefs.

Yesterday, the children assisted Miss Downward to make up Miss Raven and Miss Ritchie as a vampire and a zombie. The children did a fantastic job of painting and using other kinds of makeup. We even used fake blood!

Our proudest moments included –

• Raffy doing a very neat, tidy and full coverage foundation base.
• Daisy’s very careful latex application for the scabs with a very steady hand.
• Annika even put on one of Miss Raven’s false eyelashes (most adults can’t even do that!)

With a whole range of ages welcome, we have a lot of fun together. There are some exceptional budding artists in our school, and I can’t wait to see the work they do throughout the rest of the term.