Charnwood Junior School

8 records broken at the BCC Athletics Carnival

The showcase at yesterday’s BCC Athletics Carnival was the Girls 800m where Katherine M, from Year 9, shaved 50 secs off a 30 year old record.

ACT Fire and Rescue educate Canberra children

There was a commotion on Monday morning in the grounds of Brindabella Christian College, caused by a boisterous group of tiny children rolling around, flailing limbs as they pretended to be on fire.

A Good relationship with your child builds resiliency

Having a good relationship with our children not only feels great for parents and children, but it also helps children to develop positive friendships at school, it can help them to build resiliency and it can also help with their behaviour at home and at school. This week I am sharing with you an article from the Raising Children website about Good Family Relationships. In it, you'll find some great suggestions on how to make sure you're spending quality time with your children as well as ways to communicate positively with your children. It might be possible to make a few simple changes to your family's routine in order to increase connection and strengthen the relationship that you have with your children. http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/building_a_good_relationship_with_your_family.html If you have questions or want to learn more about this then please come and have a chat with me and together we can work on some ideas that suit your family. With blessings, Carrie Coghlan Student and Family Counsellor Charnwood Junior School Campus

BCC 2017 Junior School Camps

BCC at World Cup

Cameron N from the BCC Lyneham Campus was selected to participate in the Flag and National Anthem squad at the World Cup Cricket match between the West Indies and Zimbabwe. Everyone had a great time.

BCC students at the World Cup Cricket

Two of our Charnwood campus students, Benjamin W and Mikayla M were selected to be part of the Flag and National Anthem squad at the World Cup Cricket match between the West Indies and Zimbabwe. Both students were very excited about being part of the official opening and they enjoyed the outing with their parents.

Book Week at Charnwood Kindergarten

Last week the kindergarten class at Charnwood celebrated Book week with a Lego Building competition, based on a favourite book, and a parent reading afternoon. Mrs Hutton came to and after reading her favourite book presented the children with certificates and prizes.

Brindabella's Got Talent

It certainly does! Congratulations to all who were involved in this fantastic event – the student talent exhibited was fantastic with some very funny and very skilled performances.

Celebrating a fabulous BCC Twighlight Fete

A big thank you to all those people, P&F members, staff and parents, who put in so much time and effort to make Friday’s Twilight Fete such a huge success. Special thanks and appreciation to Suzie Fowler who gave up so much of her time to coordinate the entire event. This was my first Brindabella Fete and the sense of community and spirit that I witnessed on Friday was another highlight to what has been a very big year for Brindabella. Bruce Handley Principal Brindabella Christian College

Celebrating Mother's Day

Charnwood KB families joined with ELC families this morning to celebrate Mothers Day. It was wonderful to see so many happy families together.

Charnwood Community service

Today our K - Year 3 Charnwood students visited the Belconnen Community Services BEST Club. The program included group singing led by Mrs Sarah Lim, musical items from Ben W and Timothy B as well as items from a variety of students. Mr Roberts entertained with jokes and fun games. The oldest gentleman was 93 years old and we even discovered a lady who used to go to school on a horse. Thank you to our parent, Mrs Ruth Gill, for inviting us and to all BCC staff, parents and students for a most enjoyable outing. The visit went so well that we have been enthusiastically invited back for a return visit.

Charnwood is looking good.

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Congratulations Kelsey-Lee!

Former BCC Student Kelsey-Lee Roberts has, for the last few weeks, been touring Europe and competing in a number of athletics meetings in preparation of the World Championships in Beijing later this year. Last night she competed in Sollentuna, Sweden in the Folksam Grand Prix. She threw 63.17m to win the event and the exciting news from that is that she has now qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio next year. Congratulations to Kelsey-Lee the whole of BCC is proud of you!

Healthy Bones Day

Charnwood students celebrated Healthy Bones Day today, in support of Arthritis ACT Milk was donated by Canberra Milk, Fruit and Veg from Woolworths Belconnen and students enjoyed an informative chat from local dietician, Jenelle C. (Feed Inc.) Activities also included skeleton art work, song and dance to "Dem Bones" and story time. A gold coin donation was received from students which will be forwarded to Arthritis ACT. Thank you to staff, and in particular Mrs Wilks, for planning and organising the day.

Kenny Koala came to visit!

Charnwood campus enjoyed a visit today from the AFP today, in particular Constable Kenny.

Today's message was about travelling safe in the car, to and from school as well as road safety when riding a bicycle or using a scooter.

Last few days of 2015

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Let Them Run Wild

As the days are getting shorter and the weather is colder it is a good reminder that children still need to get outside and do exercise and activities. This is not only good for their health but also good for their mental health. Click here for recent research in this area.

Mathletics Workshop

Last night an interested group of about fifty parents (from Kindergarten to Year 6) attended the Mathletics workshop organised by Mr Roberts and run by Tracy Gallagher of 3PLearning. It proved informative and gave all those present a better understanding of the program and why the school is so keen to see students succeed in their use of the program. Thank you to Tracy, all staff and parents who attended the workshop.

Netball at Charnwood

All our K to Year 3 students took part, today, in the first part of a Netball Clinic provided by ACT Netball. Warm up, general and basic ball skills were all explained to the students. All students were enthusiastically involved. Thank you to Emily and Molly from ACT Athletics.

Remembrance Day planting at Charnwood

Kindergarten had a wonderful afternoon learning about the importance of Remembrance Day and the significance of the red Poppy when Mrs Kate Wainwright came to visit and we planted poppies for November.

Resolving Conflict

Conflict is a normal part of life. It is the way we resolve conflict that is important. According to Kids Matter setting the stage for positive conflict resolution involves setting up WIN-WIN outcomes, having children state their own needs and concerns, helping children listen to the other person and understand their needs and concerns, helping children think of different ways to solve the problem,building WIN-WIN solutions and putting the solution into action to see how it works. These are all things we can do as parents and as educators to teach children how to develop the skills they need to manage conflict.

https://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/families/about-friendship/resolving-conflict/resolving-conflict-how-children-can-learn-resolve

Today's Assembly was presented by 4E

Here are some of the Highlights

Todd Woodbridge visits BCC Junior School, Charnwood.

On Thursday 7 June, Todd Woodbridge visited out BCC Charnwood Campus as part of Tennis Australia's HOTSHOTS program designed to encourage younger Australians to become more active. Todd presented our Kindergarten class with a HOTSHOT tennis rackets before joining them for a little tennis in action.

Welcome back to BCC

BCC Lyneham Campus was abuzz today as students came to meet their new BCC Pastoral teachers. It was lovely to see so many smiling faces as students and teachers chatted and got to know each other. On Friday 2 February Interviews will continue in preparations for the first full day of Term 1 on Monday 5 February. On Monday all students should be in full Summer Uniform. Junior School (Kindergarten to Year 4) children need to assemble in the Junior school morning muster area at 8.55am. Middle School students (Year 5-Year 8) assemble at the outdoor amphitheater at 8.55am when the first bell sounds. Senior School students (Year 9 to Year 12) assemble in the LLC Building at 8.55am when the first bell sounds.

Welcome to Richard Gallagher, Deputy Principal Charnwood Campus

To get to know some of our new school teachers we have asked them a couple of questions.

1. What are you teaching at BCC? LOTE (Mandarin) and HASS (Commerce). I’m the Deputy Principal on the Charnwood Campus. 2. Are you a local? I’ve been living in Canberra since 1985 apart from 8.5 years in East Java, Indonesia. 3. What cheers you up? Spending time at the coast with my lovely wife, Lynlee. 4. What was the last photo you took on your phone and why? I took a photo of my wife standing on top of Manly’s North Head Lookout with the Sydney Harbour skyline in the background. 5. What is your favourite book/magazine/vlog/Youtuber? I love JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. 6. Where do you go to church? I attend Life Unlimited Church – City Campus. 7. What was the last movie/TV program you watched? Winter Olympics Men’s Aerials – How amazing of those guys! 8. What historical event would you have liked to witness and why? Apart from witnessing the resurrection of Jesus, I would have loved to have witnessed the day of Pentecost with all the wind and dancing flames on resting upon people. These moments changed history profoundly. 9. What type of music do you listen to (Genre, Artist, Songs)? I really enjoy guitar based progressive rock and blues. Bands like Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Muse and Stevie Ray Vaughan are on my playlist. Check out SRV’s version of Little Wing. It’s great. 10. What is your favourite restaurant? My favourite meal was at Char Restaurant in Darwin. 11. Do you prefer Windows or Mac? Why? Probably Windows… A bit more software options out there and inter-operability with others. Although I also use an iPad too. 12. What sports do you enjoy playing, watching? I enjoy surfing, scuba, fishing and kayaking. 13. Who do you support NSW or Queensland in the State of Origin? I’ve always supported NSW even when I lived in Queensland. 14. What Teams do you support? I support the Brumbies, Raiders, Swans and any Australian Team. 15. Where have you worked previously? Most recently I was working at Trinity Christian School in Wanniassa.

We love our BCC Bus!

The wheels on the bus........ Charnwood students prepare to head off to swimming on one of the Action busses suitably highlighting that the passengers are from BCC

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