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BINYA PUBLIC SCHOOL
Learning Together

 16 Stephensons Rd, Binya NSW 2665
 Phone 69683221
 School Website http://www.binya-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 3 Week 10 Thursday 16 September 2021

Holidays ahead!!! After an unsettling term of
events we are facing holidays already. We hope
everyone gets a change to unwind and re-charge
the batteries over our break, and the added
bonus of a long weekend! School will resume
TUESDAY 5th October. (note- no school
development day term 4).

 Wanted: more gorgeous kindergarten students to
 join Harry and Asta!
 ENROL NOW FOR KINDERGARTEN 2022
 We are now accepting enrolments for
 SASS Recognition Week Kindergarten 2022.
Our School Administration and Support Staff play Information packs are available from our school
an important role in our Binya PS school office.
community. They are often the first people our If you would like to discuss readiness for school
community see when they enter our school. They or any other matters regarding enrolling your
are essential to maintaining positive relationships child, please make an appointment with the
with students, parents and the community. They school office to see Mrs Conlan. Transition
work in the front office, in classrooms and program will be confirmed next term, in line with
maintaining and caring for school grounds and public health orders.
buildings and their work is critical to the success Binya PS will accept students from Kindergarten
of our students and school. Thank you from the to Year 6 under the Department of Education
BPS school community for all that you do. enrolment policy. We welcome any newcomers…
 Who wouldn’t want to join this fabulous crew 

‘Mrs VB’ and Miss Salvestro
(Mrs van Buuren)

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 We thought we’d have a bit of artistic and social
 fun when students FINALLY returned from
 lockdown. Miss Salvestro and Mrs Conlan
 organised a ‘Paint ‘n Sip’ session, where students
 learnt how to draw/paint a caricature fox, in the
 theme of ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ by Roald Dahl.

 Miss Salvestro
What’s on Term 4 week 1
 Monday 4 October PUBLIC HOLIDAY
 Tuesday 5 October Back to school first
 day term 4
 Wednesday 6
 October
 Thursday 7 October
 Friday 8 October Sport uniform
 Library
What’s on week 2
 Monday 11 October Life Ed Van via zoom
 Sport uniform

 Tuesday 12 October
 Wednesday 13
 October
 Thursday 14 October
 Friday 15 October Sport uniform
 Library

 Sport uniform is to be
worn on a Monday and Friday for term 4.

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 any chicken. Not even a wing!

 Eventually his friends didn't want to keep helping
 him because they would do all the work and Mr
 Fox would eat all the chicken and not give them
 any. Together they plotted...

We then applied our new art skills, and our When Mr Fox told his friends to meet him at the
comprehension of the novel, to depict the setting coop but they didn't come? So went in by himself.
of the novel. An interesting read, as Roald Dahl And in the end... bang! Mr Fox was dead. Fox
makes us feel sorry for ‘poor Mr Fox’ and despise Stew.
the despicable farmers! (Not a popular view in
Binya!)

 Mr Fox might think about sharing with his mates
 next time! By Max

 Mr Fox
 ‘Cluck, cluck,’ squawked the chicken’s after Mr
 Fox's midnight feast at the coup!
Prior to our novel study, Fantastic Mr Fox, Mr Fox goes out when the clock strikes 12 every
primary students developed a plan for their own night. He burrows under the fence, sneaks in the
story about a fox. They considered the character coup and eats one chicken a night, so that he
of the fox, the setting and the kind of doesn’t run out.
problem/event this fox could have. They then
mapped out a plan, and wrote their stories…

Bang, bang, bang! The shotgun echoed across the
night.

Mr Fox is a greedy, unfair, and mean animal,
because in the middle of the night he goes off to
steal chickens. Worse still, he doesn’t actually do
the hard work, he gets his friends to do the dirty Mr Fox lives in the scariest forest behind a tree
work! And he would take them all back to his that is burrowed out. Mr Fox is a thief. He doesn’t
creepy old shack in the middle of the woods and just steal chicken, he loves the thrill of stealing
eat them. All to himself. And not give his friends other goodies from the nearby farmers. He bribes
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friends with his stolen treasures for chickens. He from his belt and shot him between the eyes.
eats chickens to feed his friends and himself. McGoven fell down; the cage broke; Mr fox ran.

 One farmer down, one to go. Mr fox arrived at
 farmer Bob's house. Mr Fox was ready to kill the
 farmer who once killed his family. But Bob had his
 shot gun at the ready.’ ‘Well, well, well, little fox
 what have you g…’’ Quick as a flash Mr fox
 snatched the gun and shot old farmer bob!
One day the farmer checks on his chicken coop
and notices that some of his chickens have blood
and have missing feathers. Immediately he sets
up fox traps everywhere.

Mr Fox does the usual, but steps on a pin? He
doesn't think much of it... until his foot lands
straight in the middle of the trap! The farmer
rushed out with a muzzle. As he got closer he Mr Fox is now happy. He now lives on the farm
found what he knew would be Mr Fox… The and has all the food he needs. So, at the end of
farmer shoved the muzzle on Mr Fox. ‘Yes!!’ the story; every fox has its day. By Charlie
The next morning, he sent Mr Fox to the pound Mr Fox
where he was sent to the cafe and was made into Tip toe, tip toe, tip toe... Mr Fox quickly sneaks
a fox stew. under the gate that leads into the chook pen. Mr
 Fox is a kind and caring fox, except for when it
The farmer then tried to find Mr Fox’s house. He comes to chooks, he's greedy. He takes all that he
found footprints leading to the back of a tree. can for him and his family, whenever he wants.
Peeking inside he could see a ton of goodies. He
cut the tree down and brought all the goodies One day Mr Fox started to notice that all the
back to the owners. The people gave him money chooks were slowly decreasing their numbers. He
for finding their precious goodies. He had enough stood and thought for a minute, “Was I really
money to buy all his chickens back. By Jonty being that greedy!? Nahhhh surely not, I couldn't
 possibly be that greedy. I am the nicest fox on
Pew, pew, pew! Mr Fox is cornered by crazy dogs. earth. Meh, I really couldn't care less.”
But the fox knows what to do… 3. 2. 1. Bang! The
scare gun goes off. Mr Fox is safe… for now. The very next day, there were no longer careless
 old men looking after the chooks but instead
Just then, at that very moment, he remembered there were 3 men standing in front of the chook
three years ago, when the farmers ran the fox pen: one fat one and 2 skinny ones. The fat one's
family from their den. Mr Fox was the only one to name is Bobby, the tallest skinny one's name was
survive. He had escaped… but without a tail! Now Sticky, and the other skinny one's name was
he's here to get them back! Bean, ridiculous names I know.
Mr Fox ran through the wheat crop, all the way to One stormy night Mr Fox went to get some
farmer Mc Govens house. Mr fox opened the dinner (chooks) for him and his family, when all
door. He was about to go in, when an iron cage three men Bean, Bobby and Sticky were all
fell down on him. Mr Fox was trapped. He standing in front of the chook pen waiting for the
couldn't get out. Farmer Mc Goven picked up the pesky fox to come and rob them. Bobby and Bean
cage, ‘What shall I do with you little foxy?’ he were unarmed and sticky with a gun. They
said. Mr fox quickly grabbed his tranquilizer gun spotted Mr Fox’s red eyes glistening in the dark,

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as he stood and watched. Bobby was alarmed. because it stank in there! It smelt like spilt milk,
Straight away he shouted, ‘There! There he is! rotten eggs and the horrid smell of the dead
The pesky fox we’ve been looking to catch!!’ chicken’s blood and rotten flesh! It's a place that
Sticky aimed to shoot at the fox but in a blink of no one would dare enter.
an eye he vanished, and got away.
 One night, at the same chicken pen he always goes
The next day the three men set out on a journey to, the closest one to his hole, he had heard a truck
to find Mr Fox and his family's burrow. It took had arrived that day... which meant more
three hours to search a whole 2000 acres… they chickens! So now that it was night, it was time to
finally found it. Their plan was to blow up the do some night time shopping! As he arrived at the
home with explosives, but of course Mr Fox and gate, he had seen it was locked, but that didn't
his family were too smart and got out of the stop Mr Fox. He started to dig into the ground and
burrow half an hour before they arrived. The men when there was a hole just wide enough for him to
blew the burrow up and hoped that they would fit through, he went under. But as he entered, an
never see Mr Fox again, and they were right… Mr ear-piercing siren went off like a bomb! He felt his
Fox had made a new home... the next farm over. neck being strangled! It was the man who owned
By Ella the chicken pen! “Well, well, well, what have we
 got here?'' Mr Fox tried to break out of his grasp
 but it was no use. He was stuck between a rock and
 a hard place. Was this the end of Mr Fox?
 By Tom

 Mr Fox Escapes

 I would like to tell you about Mr Fox’s amazing
 story. It’s a story about Mr Fox getting caught.

 Snap! Thud! Oh No! Those darned kids!
Mr Fox is a vicious, blood-thirsty character. He
lurks in bushes just in front of a chook pen, but is Mr Fox is orange, yellow and white and he lives in
still out of sight, watching helpless chickens a deep dark den with hay on the ground. Mr Fox
running around in the massive pen. Every night is a sneaky fox, but he is not very sneaky. Mr Fox
he waits for the humans to go to bed, and then comes on Christmas night; it is so cold outside it
he strikes! Taking as many chickens as he can, is snowing. Mr Fox likes to steal presents because
leaving a big, bloody mess for the humans to see, he thinks it is funny.
so they know who they're dealing with. But of
course, there was a problem; as he takes more One Christmas night Mr Fox sneaks into a house
and more chickens the less and less there and picks up a colourfully wrapped Christmas
becomes. But Mr Fox is also a clever fox. He present. Before he knew it, a ginormous trap falls
stocks up, so when there are no chickens left in on him and some kids catch Mr Fox!
the pen he has many back in his den…
 Mr Fox used his claws to escape from the
Every night when Mr Fox steals chickens and ginormous trap and he ran as fast as he could!
eggs, he takes them back to his den, which has a The kids didn’t catch him, so Mr Fox was safe.
rather small opening, just wide enough for him to
fit through. Inside he didn’t have anything except Mr Fox thinks he should move away because he
for a blanket, which he had stolen from the didn’t want to hurt his family… but I think he
humans, and his great big pile of chickens. It's a might try again. By Jessica
good thing this story isn't a scratch n sniff
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Mr Fox Mr Fox
It was a cold winter's night. Mr Fox was looking You wouldn’t believe what Mr Fox did… he fell off
like a sneaky, mischievous, slick fox. He was a fire truck!! But how did he get there?
creeping slowly. He was in a deep dark forest
where he lived in a hole under a tree. It was deep Mr Fox was watching the chicken Olympics on
down and dark and dusty. Mr Fox was cold. Mr channel 166 when a big lightning bolt shot the
Fox was hungry. aerial and broke it. He tried climbing up the
 house to fix it, but he kept falling off and hurting
Mr Fox popped his head out of his hole to check if himself. He remembered that the town fire truck
the coast was clear. He saw it was night had a ladder on top.
time. Then he crawled out of his hole and ran
across the river. When he got to the farm he He went to town, climbed up the fire truck. He
went to the chook pen. Then he got two chickens didn’t know it, but the lightning bolt had struck a
in each hand, and he was wearing a jacket with tree making a bushfire! So now all of a sudden,
pockets to put the eggs in. He took them back to the fire truck took off with its lights and sirens …
his burrow. He crawled out again, went to the with Mr Fox on top.
rabbits’ pen and got two rabbits in each hand and
took them back to his burrow. When they arrived at the fire he was shocked
 because it was his shed that was now on fire! He
He went back outside to get water for his big was so shocked he forgot he was on the fire
pot. He tipped it in, chopped the heads off the truck. He ran to help and DONK! He fell off the
rabbits and chickens, plucked all the feathers off fire truck!
the 4 chickens and mashed those up. He put the
rabbit bits into the pot after it boiled, and put the He went to try and help, grabbed a hose, holding
chooks bits into the pot. He sprinkled the feather it with his legs. The hose came on and lifted him
bits onto the stew. into the air onto his roof! He fixed the aerial, did
 a happy dance then fell off his roof! Ouch! This
But then he remembered he’d left his jacket at time he went to hospital, and had a broken leg
the chook pen! With all his eggs! But it was nearly and arm.
morning, and he saw the farmers were awake! He
said, “How can it taste good without eggs?!” By the time he got home, sat on the couch he got
 to see only the last minute of the chicken
Luckily, he saw they were going out for breakfast Olympics closing ceremony! By Noah
so he quickly ran out of his burrow, raced across
the paddock and grabbed his coat. When he got This week students have been looking at vocab
back he finally got to eat it his perfect stew! By and using different words to broaden their
Macey knowledge base.

 By Natalie
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Students have also been looking at the different Year 4-6 explore flight and design thinking in
seasons. designing rockets.
 The rocket launcher was borrowed from Griffith
 High School to test our rockets. Amazing results.
 Further activities and competition will follow
 next term.

By Asta

 Year K-3 designed and tested their own rockets
 using their own air pressure.

By Harry

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