Dear Parents,

So much success and many celebrations in the last week to end a wonderful Term 1 at Bathurst Public School. Congratulations and well done to all of our children on a wonderful term of work. Thank you to our parents and families for their continued support of our school. And a special thank you to the outstanding and dedicated staff who all go above and beyond with the work they do for our children everyday. Thank you, all.

We had a hugely successful K-2 Easter Hat Parade on Tuesday. The children loved parading their Easter Hats and showing all of our parents and friends the Easter dances we have learnt. Thank you to our entire school community who not only supported us on the day, but purchased Easter Raffle Tickets. We had 65 prizes that were donated by our very generous children, parents and friends. Congratulations to everyone who won a prize in the raffle. The Easter Egg Raffle made $2283.00 which will be used in Term 3 to subsidise the cost of the Be Skilled Be Fit Commonwealth Games Day for every child K-6. A very big thank you to the K-2 staff who have spent many hours preparing the children for this terrific event.

Congratulations to our Term 1 Green Award Winners who attend a lunch with Mrs White this week. These children have had an extremely successful term in their classrooms. Well done to;

KM - Arlo Brennan, Gabriel Mannion and Charlotte Heiner

KMc - Leo Dempsey and Tayha Bermingham

K-2R - Liam Dargan 

1/2G - Bronte Paine-Bell, Evie Rossiter and Zoe Kneller

1/2W - Tilly Barnes-Roberts and Cooper Bayliss 

1/2SP - Caleb Kneller and Mahira Rashid

1/2M - Jed Cole, Indiana Stokes and Margot Heiner

K-6R - Zee DeGuzman

2-4B - Dante Ross and Neil Hooper

2/3F - Ivy Connell, Jeremy Melo and Hunter Kime

3/4W - Patrick Muldoon and Claudia Thackray

3/4GW - Connor Hunt and Joe Melton

3/4M - Zoe Carter and Asha Melo

5/6C - Alli Theobald and Archer Fell

5/6T - Zara Spadavechia and Lexi McGrath

5/6B - Samishka Sathish Kumar and Hamish Webster

5/6D - Lila Kolkman and Billy Wharton-Manley

3-6J - Oscar Naylor and Will Ellul-Harrison

3-6N - Imogen Beinke-Knight

Congratulations to our swimmers who represented Bathurst District and Bathurst Public School last Thursday at the Western Region Swimming Carnival in Dubbo. The best swimmers from the biggest region in the state were all there, and our swimmers did a great job, with lots of PBs.

Special congratulations to Addison Jones who won 5 events on the day and was named Western Region Senior Girls Champion! Addison will represent Western at the NSW PSSA Swimming Championships at Homebush on Tuesday 28th April. Amazing work, Addi!

Congratulations to our Bathurst Public Netball team on a successful day last Friday at the Netball Gala Day. Our team had a bye in Round 1. Our Round 2 match was against Bathurst West PS and we had a terrific win 22-15. Our Round 3 match was against a very fast and skilful Raglan PS team. We lost this match 26-7. The BPS team had a terrific day and were supported well by their coach Ms Reedy. Congratulations to the team on their preparation and sportsmanship.

On Monday, we held our School Cross Country Carnival, and it was a wonderful success. The day was hot, but students competed in mass numbers, whether they walked, sprinted or jogged, almost everyone had a go in their age event. What a wonderful effort, everyone. Well done.

The District Cross Country will be held on Mt Panorama on Friday 15th May, with the first 4 placed runners being selected in the school team to compete on this day. 

The results of the Cross Country and qualifiers for the District Cross Country Carnival are;

Congratulations to Lilly Guihot, Mia Higgins and Frankie Klein, who have been selected in the first ever Girls Rugby League Team for the Western Region. The girls will represent Western at the first State PSSA Girls Rugby League Championship, which is to be held in Cronulla in early June. Amazing achievement, girls!

Thank you to all of our children that competed in the Athletics Carnival Field Event Trials at school this week. Long Jump, Shot Put and Discus were the field events completed at school. We have released the preliminary field event final results today. Children on the lists will compete in the finals at our Athletics Carnival on Friday 1st May. Thank you, Mr Thackray, Mrs Woolfe and Mrs Francis for your work at the trials this week.

Exciting Library News

We have had an increase of 69 more books borrowed this month for a total of 1077. Fantastic effort by students and staff!! 

A big thank you to Mrs Glasson for her mammoth effort in adding 115 new books to our collection in March. Thank you, Ms Lloyd, for your continued work in the Library.

General Reminders:-

• Food Allergies - We do have several children at our school who have peanut allergies and have severe reactions if exposed to this food. Parents are asked to be mindful of this when packing recess and lunch and are encouraged not to send products which contain nuts in them to school. 
• All items of clothing and personal belongings should be clearly marked with your child’s name.
• All children require a broad brimmed hat each day as our school has a “No Hat, No Play” policy.
• All gates around our school are kept closed during the day. This is a to ensure our children and staff are able to learn and play in a safe and happy environment. When parents and friends come to the school during the day, please come to the gate in George street and press the buzzer. The office staff will then open the gate. Please ensure you QR code in (QR code on the gate area). All parents and visitors should present to the front office on arrival.  This is a Legal and Workplace Safety requirement and is followed for the safety and security of all children and staff.

We wish all of our families a wonderful Easter and a happy and safe vacation period. 

School resumes for all children on Wednesday 22nd April at 9am.

If any parent has any concerns regarding any aspect of school life, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kate White

Principal