Belmore South Public School

All of the community are very proud of Mrs Pericles achievement. She has been at our school for many years. She is an exceptional innovative 21st century teacher. Click on the link to see Mrs Pericles citation.
Mrs Pericles Highly Commended

What are the Australian Awards for Teaching Excellence?
The Australian Awards for Teaching Excellence celebrate teaching and its contribution to our nation.
They are the peak national awards for the teaching profession, supported by the Australian
Government.
The Awards recognise the pivotal role of the teaching profession in delivering high quality education
for young Australians. They honour exceptional teachers, including teacher leaders and beginning
teachers, principals and support staff who work creatively and tirelessly to make a difference to the
lives and opportunities of young people.
The national awards were introduced in 2003 and renamed this year. The new imagery is
celebratory, spreading out to eight external rings, across the eight state and territories of the nation.
Teaching Australia, in partnership with the Australian College of Educators, has had a central role
managing the awards on behalf of the Australian Government.
The nomination and selection process directly involves members of the teaching profession from all
sectors, states and territories, and levels of schooling across Australia.
The Australian Government provides more than $1 million annually to reward outstanding
individuals and schools in six categories. Individual winners receive a cash prize, with a further cash
prize for their school. Winners in the school category receive a cash prize for their school.
The Awards for Teaching Excellence categories are:
• Excellence by a Teacher
• Excellence in Teacher Leadership
• Excellence by a Principal
• Excellence by a Beginning Teacher
• Excellence by a Support Staff Member
• Excellence by a School and its Community
A seventh award, for Excellence in ICT, is made by the Minister for Education.
An important aspect of the awards from their inception has been raising the status of the teaching
profession and schools by:
• recognising and celebrating teachers, principals, support staff and schools who in different
ways make an exceptional contribution to their students, their school and/or the wider
community;
• developing a better understanding and greater appreciation among Australians of the skills
and quality of the teaching profession; and
• providing professional learning by giving award recipients opportunities to share their
knowledge and experience with their peers.

It was with mixed emotions all members of our school watched as the mighty Fig, which has stood in our playground for nearly 100 years was felled to make way for our new hall, canteen and more undercover playing space.
Mighty machines mulched all the trees. It only took one day to clear our playground of our trees.
Huge machines have dug up the asphalt, pulled out the seats and torn down brick walls.
Giant cranes have lifted cabins onto what was once our carpark and the fence now has two big gates.
All the teachers have to park their cars down in Area 6 and our playing space has changed.
It will take until July next year for all the buildings to be finished.
Look at what our playground looks like now! Keep watching as we will keep you posted on the progress.
This project is being funded by the Federal Government’s Building Education Revolution.

Wednesday morning was weird. The sky was an eerie red and a little bit scary. Many of us wondered what it was. The Weather Channel gave us the answer.
Sydney had been hit by the biggest dust storm in over 40 years. The dust came on strong winds from the central west of the continent.
It left everything covered in a thick layer of red dust. In some places it rained red mud.
Health experts advised us all to stay inside, no physical activity and all windows and doors closed.
Many classes explored the reasons for the red dust and expressed their feelings about it in both pictures and words.
Hope you enjoyed the work of Stage 2S which was inspired by the dust storm.

 

Book Week this year had the theme of Book Safari and we had a great time.

The teachers and our Librarian Mr Vitale organised all sorts of activities in the Library.

We had a Jungle Safari Performance which many of the students went to see.

During this week we have all worked really hard to earn money to buy more Home Readers for our school. We raised nearly $3000.00.

We had a Guessing Competition with the following great prizes: a bike, a DS Lite and games, an ipod shuffle, a teddy bear and a whole pile of Guiness World Record Books.

The Guessing Competition was drawn on Friday after our Book Week Parade.

The parents ran a Cake Stall so there was plenty of bad stuff to eat.

Wow!!! All the amazing characters that were walking around our playground were incredible. Check out the photos of the ugly group who are more often identified as the teachers.

The other photos are of the students who won their stage Best Dressed Competition as well as one of our teachers who won the Best Dressed teacher Competition. UGLY!!!!!

All the hard work, the determination and dedication have been rewarded by the accolades given to our dance group and their teacher after a great performance in the Our Spectacular at the Opera House.

All the performers looked amazing in their costumes BUT it was the discipline and precision as dancers that blew us all away.

Congratulations to the group and to Mrs Papadis who created the entire piece along with her talented troupe.

Thanks to Mrs Harrison and Miss Salmon who helped Ms Papadis on the day and to all the other teachers and parents who went to the Opera House to support our team.

Enjoy this short video clip of the beginning of their performance.

Recorders are on the increase in the playground around our school. They are the new fad as Jellybean Music inspires young musicians to play and enjoy.

As you can see from the short clip the students are totally engaged sight reading music, using their voices, percussion instruments and the recorder.

All our teachers are joining in and learning along with their classes.

This term the K to 2’s are dancing to be fit and to getting used to the idea that dancing is for all ages, shapes, sizes, boys as well as girls!!

The School Dance group has so many boys keen to perform because the school’s consistent and constant approach is to ensure all our students are given the opportunity to make up their own minds about dance and movement from an early age.

The students have had a ball exploring all aspects of Light ‘n Sound. The CSIRO Scientists are great because they tailor the general concept to fit with the work classes are working on.

Look at the sheer delight on the faces of these active, excited young scientists.

While the big kids were running and jumping, breaking records and trying to get into the Zone Athletics the little ones were having a less pressured time running, jumping, playing ball games and generally enjoying the sunshine and playing games with their friends and their teachers.