Lisa, Cailyn and Erica our visiting US teachers

We have had lots of exciting learning opportunities this week. 

We were very fortunate to have 3 visiting teachers from the United States with us for 6 days. During their stay they visited different classrooms and explored many of our beautiful tourist spots. These teachers were part of a Bookbag Tour and enjoyed learning about life and education in Bowen.  They certainly enjoyed our mild winter weather.

Life Education-Healthy Eats 

Year 4-6 students had a visit from Life Education educator, Matt who spent time in each classroom discussing the benefit of healthy eating.  The program “Healthy Eats” is all about encouraging kids to eat and enjoy the world of fruit and veg. The Australian Government Food Guidelines recommends children eat two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables every day.

Why? Because only seven percent of North Queensland kids are eating enough fruit and veg. This puts them at risk of obesity, infections, and poor growth and development. Next term we will be continuing with our healthy eating focus.

Did you know your family’s favourite healthy meal could win you $1,000 of Woolworths gift vouchers!

Share your meal or healthy snack recipe with us for your chance to win!

The top five breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack ideas will be published in our Healthy Eats family recipe booklet. See information brochure that was sent home yesterday for more details.

Matt from Life Education, Rory and Keely from Year 6

Safety Circus

All Year 3 students from our region were invited to attend a performance aimed at addressing safety concerns that face our children today. Students from Merinda and St Marys joined our BSS Year 3s for this engaging show.