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NAIDOC week activities and Family Assembly This week we have been celebrating NAIDOC week at Bullimbal. NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This years theme - Because of Her, We Can! - celebrates the essential role that women have played and continue to play as active and significant role modes at the community local state and national levels. A range of Cultural and art activities were conducted in classes throughout the week. We have also been joined by students From Peel High School to work with a group of our students on a NAIDOC dance which was performed at our Family Assembly held today. Congratulations to our dancers on a wonderful performance. A special thanks to Manduway Dutton who has played an integral role in leading music, dance, art and cultural activities throughout the week. Thanks also

to our special guests from Birralee Preschool, KADS - Kamilaroi Ageing and Disability Services, Zeta Knight and Natalie Briggs from NDIS, and our very own Rosie Armstrong who is the CEO and Founder of Dhabiyaanbaa Maarumali Consultancy. Her resources strive to bring back to people a sense of belonging to achieve healing outcomes and togetherness through culture. Rosalie’s work is a modality which embeds cultural strength, Oneness with country, Love and Resilience. Rosalie believes that these attributes are the essence of who we are as first nations soverign people. As a special treat Rosie has kindly included a Yanay Strength card from her Yinarr Wii healing resource. Thank you also to our wonderful P & C for organising the Family Assembly BBQ for us. Tamworth Running Festival Organisers from the Tamworth Running Festival have kindly agreed to once again donate the proceeds from this year’s event to Bullimbal School. The running festival will be on Sunday 5th August. It incorporates a variety of events including a 4km walk, 5km run, 10km run and Half Marathon. Previously the school has organised a group of families to do the 4km walk which was a great success. We are asking if there are families or extended friends of the Bullimbal community that would like to join our Bullimbal 4km walk group. If you are interested please contact the school We

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hope to see you there. Parents and carers can also show their support by assisting staff on Saturday morning 4th August and Sunday morning 5th August to help the organisers to run the event. Please contact the school office if you are interested. School Holidays The school holidays commence today. Students will return on the same day with staff on Monday 23rd July. We hope you have a wonderful and safe school holiday period. To assist you with talking with your child about the holidays and when school returns we have included a copy of a calendar with visual supports. We hope this is helpful. A reminder that our rescheduled School Development Days (Pupil Free Days) will occur next Term on: Monday 13th August 2018 – Supporting Student Behaviour Monday 17th September 2018 - Literacy and Augmentative and Alternative Communication Please put these dates in your calendar. All students will stay home on these days. Augmentative and Alternative Communication Conference First week back next term a team of our staff will be attending the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) Conference. This will be a fantastic opportunity to learn more about this vital area of support for our students in order for our school to continue to be leaders in providing communication supports for our students. Student Reports Student Semester 1 Reports will go home to families today. This Semester we have added a section to identify student effort and engagement in a subject, in addition to the usual scale that identifies student individual performance in each subject area.

P & C Update A reminder our P & C Movie themed Trivia Night will be held on Saturday 4th August at North Tamworth Bowling Club. Parents and Carers and extended family and friends are welcome to attend. For more information please contact the school. Tickets at $10 Our recent Pie drive was a great success. Thank you to everyone who supported this fundraiser. As a result of your efforts we raised approx $400 for the school. Our next meeting: 9th August at 10:30am. We hope to see you there. Facematch Parent Information Session

Dr Tracy Dudding-Byth Clinical Geneticist within the NSW Genetics of Learning Disability Service is providing

a parent presentation to discuss advances in genetic testing and the recent launch of the International FaceMatch Project [facematch.org.au]. This Project is the first of its kind to use advanced computer face-matching technology to match the faces of children with moderate to severe intellectual disability who remain undiagnosed following genomic sequencing. Up to 50% of these individuals have facial features which can provide a clue to diagnosis. By matching faces from around the world, the research team hope to be able to match people with the same rare genetic conditions. Enrolment can be initiated by a parent. Parents of children with known genetic diagnoses are also invited to participate. Dr Dudding-Byth will not be taking any photographs of children during this educational presentation.

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This session will take place at Bullimbal School on Thursday 23rd August 2018 at 9:15am. CALENDAR 2018

JULY

Monday, 23rd July First day of Term 3

AUGUST

Saturday, 4th August P & C Trivia Night – Movie Theme

Thursday, 9th August P & C Meeting 10:30am Monday 13th August School Development Day

(Pupil Free Day) Thursday, 23rd August FaceMatch Information

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Thursday, 13th September P & C Meeting 10:30am Monday, 17th September School Development Day

(Pupil Free Day)

OCTOBER

Thursday, 18th October P & C Meeting 10:30am Saturday, 20th October Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser

NOVEMBER

Friday, 9th November Variety Club Postie-bike Dash lunch

DECEMBER

Friday, 14th December Presentation Day

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Tamworth Running Festival are again this year generously donating their proceeds to Bullimbal School. The event involves; Half Marathon: 18 years +

Tamworth 10: 13 years and over

5km Fun Run: All ages

Community Walk: All ages

Staff at Bullimbal will be volunteering their time to help with the event or are entering to show their support of this great event. So, if you are feeling like a walk with the family or friends or even a run please come and join us. Date: 5th August 2018 Where: Number 1 Oval Kable Ave For more information and to register please visit www.tamworthrunningfestival.org.au