Melbourne International Film Festival Excursion

Last Friday, 5th August, a group of 40 students drawn from Extension Year 8 and Elective Year 9 French classes attended the Melbourne International Film Festival.

We saw the award winning animated historo-drama called 'Adama'. It followed the journey of an 11 year old African boy travelling from his native home to WW1 Europe in search of his older brother who is serving in the French army. In addition to the film, we went to St. Paul's Cathedral and Flinders Street Station to see European inspired architecture, as well as the Paris end of Collins Street. The students were a pleasure to chaperone and seemed to enjoy the day.

Joy McGrath

Calling all BHCS AFL Fans

Cheap Tickets to the AFL MCG - $10 each

Carlton v Melbourne

Sunday 21 August at 1.10pm

Richmond v St Kilda

Saturday, 20 August at 2.10pm

We only have 10 tickets available for each game, and will be allocated to the first 20 paying applicants.

Bring your money to Reception in a clearly marked envelope with:

Your name, eldest child’s name, Year Level and number of tickets required and game you would like to go to.

The cost of these tickets will go towards the Vetamorphus students' missions trip to Fiji.

Plastic Bottles Needed

The Science department urgently needs 4 litre plastic bottles, preferably with no handles on the side for the upcoming Maths Science Night. If you have any of these, could you please leave them at Reception. There is a box there for bottles. Thank you.

Drop Off & Pick Up

The School would like to remind all families that the office does not officially open until 8.30am and yard duty does not take place until 8.40pm. Students dropped off prior to these times remain the responsibility of their respective families.

We also kindly request that families pick up children promptly at the end of the day and by no later than 4.00pm. Junior School students who have not been collected by 3.45pm will be taken to the After School

Care Service which will be held in the M Block. It will then be necessary for parents to collect their child or children from the service. Please note that charges may apply. Should an emergency occur and there is a valid reason for a late pick up, please kindly inform the school

LEAD Parent Satisfaction Survey

The school is taking part in the 2016 Independent Schools Victoria Parent Satisfaction Survey. As your opinion is valuable to us, we invite all parents to participate in this survey.

The aim of the survey is to gain general feedback and understand your perceptions regarding the quality of your child’s educational experience with the school.

The information obtained will be used by us to evaluate parent opinion, in order to improve the quality of education at the school for students, and will enable benchmarking of the school against other Independent schools.

The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. The survey closes on August 26.

Links for the survey have been sent home to all families via email and Tiqbiz this week. A reminder to check your spam folders if the email is not in your inbox.

Child Safe Standards for All Schools

This year the Government introduced new legislation implementing new child safe standards for all schools. Recently BHCS families were sent an email containing our School's Community Code of Conduct in line with this legislation. We also included a link to our Statement of Commitment to Child Safety and the Child Safe Standards Guide for Schools, which can be found at http://www.bhcs.vic.edu.au/child-safety.html

You can also read more about the New Child Safe Standards for all Schools on the Independent Schools Victoria Parent Website at

https://www.theparentswebsite.com.au/new-child-safe-standards-for-all-schools/

Year 8 'Art Electives' Exhibition

Thanks to all those who came along to the Year 8 'Art Electives' Exhibition Opening today. The exhibition will be open for parents to view during school hours until 19th August, 2016. We invite all parents, family and friends of our Year 8 Art, 3D Art and Visual Communication students to come in and view the students' amazing work.

BHCS 2017 Musical - Fiddler on the Roof!

Auditions will be held during the Headstart Program in Term 4, and all information for auditions will be made available in Week 6 of Term 3. There are opportunities for performance, backstage help, playing in the orchestra, being on the tech team and more!

If you are interested, please attend the information audition session on Thursday, 18th August in M1 at lunchtime for all information. We hope to see you there.

Annie McDowell

Community Announcements

Belgrave South Basketall Club

Mountain Tigers Basketball Club