From the Principal Team

Natalie Shanahan, Sam Fleming, Claire Johnston

As the dust settles on a wonderful Wellbeing Week, we welcome you all to this week's newsletter, and scratch our heads at the fact we're all of a sudden days from the end of term. Once again we don't know where the time has gone, but our long list of some of the things that went well this term shows we certainly were busy throughout Term 2...

Wellbeing Week

As you may have seen through our 'socials', our Wellbeing Week was a great success! The strong focus of Resilience began with an inspiring presentation to staff on the Curriculum Day, when author, TV personality and inspirational speaker Abdi Aden shared his story of escaping civil war in Somalia and beginning his life as a refugee in Australia. We purchased Abdi's children's book YES I CAN! for use with our older students and hope to invite him back to speak with them later in the year.

Thursday saw our students dress to un-stress and attend Cardy's Cartoon Workshop. Great fun was had, learning a variety of cartooning tricks of the trade. These snaps taken during the workshops suggest the workshops were quite the success and that we have possibly have lots of future cartoonist in our midst. Cardy informs that his cartooning books will arrive tomorrow for those that have ordered them. Books can still be ordered using the QR code below and will be delivered to school next week.

Wellbeing Week also saw lots of activities happening in and out of classrooms, from mindfulness activities, to compliment sharing, to lunchtime yoga- there was something for everyone's wellbeing throughout the week that was.

URSTRONG

Our social skills development program happens all the time here at BPS. As the children grow tired towards the end of term, it is often helpful to remember these tips on how to support children through the ups and downs of friendships.

Building Project

This week we were fortunate that many of our staff were able to have a guided tour through the new building to see the progress and it was wonderful to see their excitement rise as they walked through the spaces, and being able to better image what all the noise, mess and construction chaos is creating. Here's some pictures from this week:

End of Term Break

A reminder that the term break begins next Friday, June 28th with a 2.30pm dismissal.

We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable break and look forward to seeing everyone again when school resumes on July 15.

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