Term 3, Week 10 - 2024
Message from the Principal
Werte,
A big thanks to all those who came to Bradshaw’s 50th anniversary yesterday. It was great to see so many former and current students and teachers come together to celebrate a wonderful 50 years of Bradshaw Primary School.
Once again, thanks to Ms Mack for her work in coordinating this event and to all the staff who dedicated evenings and weekends to ensuring the celebration went off without a hitch.
It was fitting end to a great term. Plenty was achieved. Year 4 and 5 camp, the roll out of a new spelling program in years 4-6, bike building programs, dance programs, CrossFit and of course loads of top-quality teaching and learning.
Please enjoy the next two weeks and we look forward to seeing all the students back on Tuesday the 8th of October.
Tim O’Sullivan
Principal
Thank you for celebrating with us
🎉✨ Thank you all for making the Bradshaw School's 50th birthday celebration such a memorable event! It was amazing to see so many familiar faces and to share this special milestone with our wonderful community. We hope you enjoyed the festivities as much as we did! Here’s to the next 50 years of learning, growth, and great memories together. 🎈❤️
We would also like to thank the following local Alice Springs businesses for their generosity towards our 50th Birthday celebration:
Shoots n Roots for their generous donation of trees that classes have planted during the 50th Birthday Celebrations.
Woolworths Alice Springs, for the donation of sausages and bread that fed all of our families.
Coles Alice Springs, for the donation of sausages and bread that also helped feed all of our families.
8CCC for the stage set up as well as the live broadcast and music during the event.
Lasseter's Casino, for donating our major raffle prize.
Yeperenye & Gillen Club for donating our minor raffle prizes as well.
Miss Amy for making our delicious 50th birthday cake we got to share with you all.
Miss Melissa McDonald for co-ordinating and executing such a special event for our Bradshaw Families.
Our staff, students and volunteers for coming in and lending a helping hand. Thank you all so much for coming in and helping out. Truly added to the success of our night.
SCIENCE REPORT: Term 3
Our Science Program is divided into three overlapping segments: T – 2 (Schoolyard Exploration); 3-4 (Under Our Feet); 5-6 (Desert Biomes). On top of that, we have vignette projects targeting hands-on skills for use in horticulture & agriculture. I can report back that our kids have enjoyed the program and have also gained great, useful knowledge along their journeys in Science. The Science Room is more like a learning hub which operates every day before school and during recess and lunch. In that capacity, it doubles as an animal shelter. We have nurtured several noisy minor birds during Term 3 and hence kept them alive and well leading to their being returned to their natural habitat. Come and see our Giant Dinosaur Tummy Worm and our propagating nursery. Cheers Prof Howie.
Learning in 3M
We have had an extra busy term in 3M!
In our mentor text unit, we have been busy learning about the States, Territories, and landmarks around Australia. We have expanded our knowledge of the Traditional Owners of the land and the amazing natural locations around our country such as The Great Barrier Reef, The Daintree Rainforest, Ningaloo Reef, The Great Dividing Range, and The Bass Strait. We then used this new knowledge to create a setting for our very own narratives which we planned using the narrative hill structure, and are almost finished writing! Our narratives include complex sentences, compound sentences and even appositives to describe our characters and settings.
We have also been working super hard with our buddy class, Transition Twine, to prepare for Bradshaw’s 50th Birthday! We have joined together numerous times over the term to help our buddies create ‘bottle people’ to use in our stores and even got to sit and read a story with them during book week.
2025 Transition Visit and Info Session
We have some exciting dates coming up for our 2025 Transition Students.
Monday 28th & Thursday 31st October 11am to 12pm
We invite 2025 Transition families to come along with your child to our Come and Try days. Here you will meet the teachers, get to see where our Transition students learn and help your child gain a familiar belonging at Bradshaw.
Wednesday 13th November 4.30pm to 5.30pm.
We will also be having our Principal tour & Info session and we welcome families to come along to meet our principal, see our whole school and find out more about our values at Bradshaw Primary School.
**New families wanting to enrol at Bradshaw Primary School must meet the Priority Enrolment zoning. To check, please visit: Alice Springs Primary Schools Priority Enrolment Maps - Google My Maps
All current families with siblings currently attending Bradshaw, you will need to complete an enrolment form upon enrolment interview. We will also need a copy of your Childs birth certificate, immunisations and any additional information we will need to know about them.
For more information, please call our front office on 08 8955 2100 or email bradshaw.school@education.nt.gov.au
The Alice Beat Festival tickets on sale NOW!!
Miss Jamilee has been practising all year with out choir students and the time is finally near. Our students will be performing on the 31st October at the Araluen Art Centre.
Tickets are on sale now. These can be purchase either online at https://araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au/whats-on/alice-beat-festival-home or phone 8951 1122.
Vacation Care with YMCA
Contact details for Vacation care are on the flyer attached.
Important School Dates
First Day of Term 4: Tuesday 8th October.
The Alice Beat Festival: 31st October
Year 4-6 Guest speaker Tom Wickham: 10th October
Year 6 Market Day: 23rd October
2025 Transition Come and Try day Session 1: 28th October
2025 Transition Come and Try day Session 2: 31st October
Transition Principal tour and Info Session: 13th November
Community Notices
