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‘Striving for Excellence’
Open since 1887
Principal - Kevin Warne
Assistant Principal - Allyson Dixon
School Council President – Anne Trevena
Telephone - (03) 57931288
Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/
Email - puckapunyal.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Alamein Road
Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662
Postal: Military P.O.
ABN: - 74134967962
Term 3 Issue 3
July 29th
2015
Thursday 30th July
Young Leaders Course
Monday
10th August
3 Day Bike Training
Begins (Yrs 5-6)
Tuesday
11th August
School Council
Meeting
Thursday 13th August
Team Triathlon
Thursday
20th August
Parent Forum
Team Biathlon
Thursday-Friday
3rd-4th September
Years 3-6 House
Athletics Carnival
Tuesday 8th September
Year 1 Latestay
Tuesday 8th September
School Council Meeting
Wednesday
9th September
District Athletics
Thursday
10th September
Foundation Latestay
Website Address -
http//www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/
Inside this Issue: School Canteen 2
Earn and Learn 2
DSTA Report/Happy Birthday 2
Outstanding Invoices 2
Tissue Boxes 3
Assembly Reading 3
Value of the Week/Rule Reminders 3
Student Awards of the Week 4
Look at What is Happening Around the
School – Years 5/6 5
Puckarook Football-Netball Club 6
Indo Lingo 7
Teaching/Learning – Week 3 Term 3 7
‘Television in the Bedroom’ – article
Healthy Sleep Patterns 8
***Have you heard your child read today? We encourage all students to
practise their reading at home about 5 nights per week. Therefore, by now,
most students should have read at least between 110-115 nights. Well
done if you have kept up! ***
***Sunday Nights - a great
night to check for Head Lice.
***
With many families
leaving at the end of
the year, it is
imperative that we
know the
movements of our
families. To employ
teachers and
organise classrooms
we need accurate
information to
determine how many
students will be at
Pucka in 2016. If
you are aware of
your plans for next
year and know
whether your
child/ren will or will
not be attending PPS
for the year 2016,
please fill in this
form and return to
the school a.s.a.p.
2016 - NEXT YEAR
Family Name:
_________________________________________________
Given Names of Children:
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
Circle and complete one section:
a. The above mentioned children will be at Puckapunyal
Primary School in 2016
b. Our family is moving to
________________________________ (destination)
Their last day of school at Puckapunyal PS is
____/____/15
c. It is yet uncertain as to where we will be living in 2016.
The use of opinion data as a measure of school performance is a very important
step towards making our school the best it can possibly be. For many years, we
have conducted annual and anonymous opinion surveys for staff, students and
parents. We use this information to inform and direct our plans for school
improvement. Many parents over the years will have completed these surveys.
Every year, 40 families are randomly selected to participate in the Parent
Opinion Surveys. We ask the selected families for 2015 to take the time to complete the survey as
honestly as possible as opinions are important to us and will be reflected in the
management and organisation of the school.
If you receive a survey, please return it to school, completed by Friday, 7th
August 2015. Please be assured that all responses are totally confidential.
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‘Striving for Excellence’
Open since 1887
Happy Birthday to Jason Pennycook who
is having his birthday on Friday.
On behalf of the Puckapunyal Primary School
Community, we wish Jason a very Happy
Birthday!
Used Uniform: We desperately require tracksuit
pants, jocks, knickers and socks in sizes 6 and 8
to replace wet clothing when students get wet.
Thank you.
Sporting Schools: Our school is a member of
‘Sporting Schools’, an organisation that aims to
support and increase children’s participation in
physical activity. Here are a few tips for
families:
TIP 1: Foster a full range of fundamental
movement skills. This includes kicking or hitting
a ball, running, jumping, climbing and basic
aquatic skills.
TIP 2: Promote play by setting up diverse and
stimulating environments at home. Use a variety
of areas around the home, like the backyard or
even the hallway, to play. Provide a variety of
sports equipment. Encourage ambidexterity (use
of limbs on both sides of the body).
TIP 3: Foster everyday sport activity at home
and be an effective support provider. Limit
screen time at home. Provide a positive
encouragement for sporting activity and get
involved.
TIP 4: Insist on the right sport format and
equipment. Sporting Schools provides a great
choice of appropriate sport formats for primary
school children that are lots of fun. Buy the right
sized equipment.
TIP 5: Sample and have fun! Resist the
temptation for your child to specialise in one
sport too early. Sampling a large range of sports,
at least until the age of 15, is likely to assist the
development of a full range of sporting skills,
coordination and control. It also minimises the
risks of overuse injuries and allows kids to work
out which sports they like most.
Have a terrific week.
Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide
POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR
REWARD UPDATE Well done Melba house – jumping from
fourth to second place in a week with a
massive 114 tickets!! Keep up the
positive behaviour everyone! CURRENT SCORES
Bradman: 270 points
Melba: 243 points
Hume: 242 points
Chisholm: 224 points
The School Canteen is open for Lunch Orders this Friday.
Each and every Friday students can order lunches from the
school canteen. The menu will be different each week. Please
ensure that a paper bag comes with the order. Please indicate on
the lunch bag if the money is in another sibling’s bag.
This week the menu is - Party Pies or Sausage Rolls $1.00 each or 3 for $2.50 Chocolate/Strawberry Milk $2.00 each
Apple/Orange Juice Popper $1.50 each
JJ’s $1.00 each
No charge for tomato sauce
Earn & Learn has started! Thanks to everyone who is collecting stickers for your
school. We really appreciate it!! Let’s keep those stickers
coming in – either in the collection box labelled
Puckapunyal Primary School at Woolworths, Seymour or in
the collection box in the school foyer. Alternatively you
can complete a sticker sheet (available in the school foyer
or in week one’s newsletter).
Thank you so much for supporting our school.
Total at the end of week two: 1200 stickers.
We desperately require the help of our school community. At
this moment we are owed over $13,000 just from our families.
We have far too many outstanding invoices that are now
affecting our bank balances. All families have received a copy
of their outstanding invoices this week. Please promptly help. If
any family requires some assistance to work out a viable
payment plan, please contact the office so we can do that for
you.
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At assembly this week Compassion was announced as our School Value of the week. That means teachers are looking for
students who are demonstrating ‘Compassion’ to be eligible for the Student of the Week award. We encourage parents to
talk to their students about our values throughout the year.
What is Compassion? Year 6 student, Xtina Chalson-Riley read out the meaning of Compassion.
‘Compassion is caring about someone who is hurt: physically, emotionally or psychologically. It’s being kind and
understanding because the other person matters to you.
Compassion is forgiving someone who has hurt you. It’s caring deeply and wanting to help even if you do not know that
person.’
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Each week at assembly, SRC representatives remind
our students of a few important school rules. This week, SRC representatives, Lachlan Thompson
and Hailey Altas reminded our students of the
following rules:
Show some respect – give way to adults.
Use your manners at all times
Walk carefully around corners – you don’t
know who is on the other side.
Eat on the asphalt - put your litter in the bin.
Please discuss these rules with your children to help
ensure that they understand.
Did you hear Libby
Brown read part of
her narrative writing at
assembly this week?
We did! She is a
terrific author!! Come
along and see who
reads next week.
Every now and then, we ask families to donate a
tissue box to their children’s grades. As you
can imagine each grade uses thousands of tissues
throughout the year and school can only supply so
many. Please help to contribute. We also encourage
students to carry handkerchiefs.
27 of our Years 5/6 students received
certificates for participating in the
Hooptime Basketball
competition last week. Well done,
kids!
More Hooptime information on page
5.
Most of our Years 5/6 students
have expressed an interest to
attend the 3 Day Bike Ride
that takes place in October.
They will ride 160kms in 3
days. That is an event that
requires strong commitment by
the students who are involved.
Training for the ride will begin
during the week of Monday
August 10th. Each week, they
will participate in 3 training
sessions to keep fit Good luck
kids!
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Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and
satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,
beginning school for the first time and even returning for another
school year can be daunting for students and parents. It is great
to see parents eager to support their children at this time and be
an integral part of their education. If you have any concerns, or
just feel like a chat about school and your child, please find me!
SWAPP Select Program
I have information about the ADF partners career assistance
program if anyone is interested.
NEW UNIFORM
We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that
includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents
have been waiting on this to arrive.
Best wishes for the week.
Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide
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Congratulations to the following students who
were ‘Students of the Week’ for last week.
Winners – Bill Clode, Lilly Mackay, Eamon
Constable, Hamish Kenny, Emily Watson, Carter
Grant, Kade Altas and Dominic Plessey. These
students were selected because they were modelling
‘Tolerance’. This week teachers are looking for
students who are modelling ‘Compassion.’
Congratulations to the following students
who were ‘Authors of the Week’ for last
week. Winners – Ryan Connie-Carbery,
Dimitri Corocher, Matilda Turner, Gracie
Beattie, Jordan Haywood, Cooper Dickinson,
Libby Brown and Somaiya Harriden. These
students were selected because they showed
great skills as an author.
3/4 D in Room 10 won the
Yard Duty Competition. Jett Miller and Ashby Murphy
were very happy to take the
trophy this week.
Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and
satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,
beginning school for the first time and even returning for
another school year can be daunting for students and parents.
It is great to see parents eager to support their children at this
time and be an integral part of their education. If you have
any concerns, or just feel like a chat about school and your
child, please find me!
SWAPP Select Program
I have information about the ADF partners career assistance
program if anyone is interested.
NEW UNIFORM
We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that
includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents
have been waiting on this to arrive.
Best wishes for the week.
Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide
Don’t forget kids, we need you
at school everyday!
5/6 I in Room 1A won the
Senior School Times
Tables Trophy. Jake Haywood was delighted
that his classroom won the
winning trophy this week!
3/4 A in Room 11 won the
Middle School Times
Tables Trophy. Cooper Dickinson was very
happy that his classroom won
the winning trophy again this
week!
Congratulations to all of the
above students who received
the ‘Bike Education’ Awards
this week. Happy riding!
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‘Striving for Excellence’
Open since 1887
Look at what is happening AROUND
OUR SCHOOL Photographs and writing
by Year 5/6 students Jake T, Lochlon and Trinity JIM VISITS PPS On Tuesday 21
st July 2015 Jim Asimakopoulos OAM came to our school to talk to us about ‘Respect’. Jim
Asimakopoulos OAM has cerebral palsy. Jim came to our school and talked to theYears 3 to 6 students. Jim
played some footy with us. He named all the football premierships and Jim got all of them right; he was very
good at them. Jim did a wonderful slideshow on respect and talked to us about what it meant to show respect.
AUSSIE KIDS ROCK Last Thursday, three musicians came to show us what Blues, Heavy Metal, Hip-hop and Country music are.
Their names were Rusty, CJ and Deano and they started by asking one teacher to be Miss Tree and her role was
to pick all of the helpers for them. They started off by doing their theme song. After that they did the awesome
Blues with a slow style of music. Not long after, they were into Heavy Metal with it being so loud some kids
went into Mrs Philp’s room. A few minutes after that, they started to do some Country music and sang some
songs like all of the other songs and when Deano kept on drumming, we had to yell as loud as we could and say,
“Stop drumming Deano.” After all the other music they did Hip-hop, then played some games, then it was over.
It was really good fun!
H O O P T I M E
On Friday the 24th
of July, 27 students went to the Seymour Aquatic Centre to play basketball. There were 4
different teams. There were 2 Rookie teams, 1 All-Stars team and 1 Future Stars team. The Rookie teams were
called Pucka Pistons and Pucka Pirates. The Future Stars and the All- Star teams are called the Panthers and
Pucka Navy. Pucka Pistons won 2 out of 4 games, the Pucka Pirates won 1 out of 4 games and the Future Stars
team won 1 out of 4, the same as the Pirates. The best team for us on the day got a score of 3 wins and 2 losses
and that was Pucka Navy. A very big thank you to Miss Atkinson for all her work with training us during
lunchtimes and for Mrs Ranger and Miss Lewis for helping on the day. Thank you to the parent helpers who
helped out on the day.
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Football Under 12’s
It was nice to have our first home game after an absence of 6 weeks when we hosted Alexandra for this week’s
game. We welcomed another player to the Under 12’s side; James Chalmers. Welcome to the club James. This
week’s Captain and Vice-Captain were Ryan Cox and Bryce Williams respectively. Ryan asked his team
mates to ensure they ‘man up’, tackle hard and make an effort during the contested ball.
At the start of the game, Alexandra came out hard and strong and kicked almost half of their final score during
the first quarter. Our team dug deep during the 2nd and 3rd quarters however and slowed Alex’s scoring
opportunities to a trickle. For the 2nd week in a row, Tristan Murphy played a great game and was even moved
from his normal position of full back into the centre where he managed to apply a lot of pressure on the
opposition’s followers and centre-men. Again, the mercy rule came in to play about half way through the 3rd
quarter with our team continuing to play hard football right up to the final siren.
This week’s Player of the Day went to Zac Gripske. Zac’s second and third efforts after trying to mark the ball
were exactly what the coaches want to see from everyone during every game. Well done Zac!
The official final score – Alexandra 9.9.63 defeated Pucka 0.0.0
Football Under 16’s
This week saw the Bulldogs take on a much improved Alexandra. Our boys attack on the ball was again much
improved from the previous game and saw the boys shoot out to an early lead. It was a hard fought contest all
day and it was pleasing to see the boys’ aggression towards the ball. However a few simple mistakes and
wasted opportunities to score saw the boys hold the slender lead for most of the day. The last quarter saw a
determined Saints fight back as our boys tired and in the end it was tied up at 24 pts each side for a draw. It
was disappointing not to take the four points but from an overall team effort, it showed improvement.
However there is still room for more.
Final score: Puckarook 3.6.24 drew with Alexandra 3.6.24
Goals: M. Ranger, C Thomson, T. Howe 1.
Netball Under 14’s
Today the under 14 Pucka girls started off with the centre pass, moving the ball well down the court into our
shooting end where Courtney and Emma did great shooting. The first quarter we were in a nail biting
contest as Pucka and Alex went goal for goal. Taylah, Shelley, Kiara, and Kaylah continued to put up fantastic
pressure in the centre with every pass, with some especially strong leading that is improving every
week. Consistently strong defence was provided throughout the game by Chloe and Erin. Steph put up a great
first-time long distance goal. I am so proud of how much all the girls have improved and how they are
playing... WELL DONE GIRLS!!! Pucka 12 def by Alex 27
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Each week in the newsletter, we will give families a summary of the Teaching/Learning Focus for the week.
That can help families by: being aware of what classrooms are covering; with discussion topics at the dinner table when
discussing school (eg. ‘How are you going with addition in Numeracy this week?’); helping their children study at home,
etc. Parents have indicated that this information would be very useful. We also ask families to be aware that schools are
very busy places and events can be unpredictable at times. We therefore must remain flexible. That means, we can plan to
cover certain topics at particular times and have to change them according to arising needs.
Junior School – Preps/Foundation Rooms 3 & 6
Literacy: We are continuing to develop early writing skills with a focus on sounding out and using the golden words in
our writing. We are learning about the letter c. We are using basic punctuation.
Numeracy: We are learning about the number 16 and number stories.
Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 8 & 9
Literacy: We are focusing on verbs (doing words). We are focusing on the blends bl and br.
Numeracy: We are continuing to add and subtract by counting on and counting back on number lines. We are
consolidating skip counting to gain fluency in 2s, 5s and 10s. We are investigating tools to measure weather.
Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 8 & 9
Literacy: We are practising writing more detailed sentences (conjunctions). We are starting to look at narrative.
Numeracy: We are looking at the connection between addition and subtraction. We are also using calculators.
Middle School – Years 3/4 Rooms 10 & 11
Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will work on Narratives. We will also focus on Synonyms.
Numeracy: We will focus on recognising and modelling numbers up to 10 000 and equivalent number sentences.
Another focus will be measuring angles. Tables facts will be practised throughout the week.
Senior School – Years 5/6 Rooms 1A & 1B
Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will continue to focus on Narratives. We will also focus on
colons and semicolons.
In reading we will be focusing on fluency and expression.
Numeracy: We will continue with work on the four processes, the order of operations, place value, number patterns and
fractions. A continued focus will be work relating to Statistics: Mean, Mode, Median and Range. Tables facts will be
practised throughout the week.
Foundation-Year 2 - Grades F - 2 will revise colours and the song Balonku (My Balloons).
merah (red) biru (blue)
kuning (yellow) hijau (green)
jingga (orange)
ungu (purple)
You can watch a version of the Indonesian children's song below on You Tube. Just search the title of the song 'Balonku'. Your child might like to have a go at singing the one below for you!
Balonku = My Balloons Balonku ada lima = I have five balloons
rupa-rupa warnanya. = of assorted colours.
Ada hijau dan kuning, = There's a green and a yellow, merah, biru dan hitam. = red, blue and black.
Grades 5 - 6 will focus on colours, describing hair and eyes in Indonesian.
Bagaimana rambut kamu? = What's your hair like?
Rambut saya ... dan ... = My hair is ... and ... Rambut saya coklat dan keriting = My hair is brown and curly
pendek = short panjang = long
keriting = curly
lurus = straight coklat = brown
Salam (Regards)
Bu Hooper (Mrs Hooper) Guru Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian teacher)
abu-abu/kelabu (grey)
merah-muda (pink) hitam (black)
putih (white)
coklat (brown)
merah = red
pirang = blonde hitam = black
Bagaimana mata kamu? = What are your eyes like?
Mata saya ... = My eyes are ... Mata saya biru = My eyes are blue
biru = blue
coklat = brown hijau = green
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Television In The Bedroom May Hurt Child's
School Performance ScienceDaily (July 5, 2005) — A study of elementary school students found that children who had television sets in
their bedrooms scored significantly lower on school achievement tests than children without TVs in their bedrooms.
Having a computer in the home was associated with higher test scores, according to the same study, which was
conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Stanford University. The
study is published in the July 4, 2005, edition of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
“In this study, we found that the household media environment was related to a child’s academic achievement,” said
Dina Borzekowski, EdD, lead author of the study and assistant professor in the Department of Population and
Family Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Among these third graders, we saw that even
when allowing for the parents’ education level, the child’s gender and the amount of media used per week, those
who had bedroom TV sets scored around 8 points lower on math and language arts tests and 7 points lower on
reading tests. A home computer showed the opposite relationship—children with access to a home computer had
scores that were around 6 points higher on the math and the language arts test and 4 points higher on the reading
test, controlling for the same variables.”
The study followed a diverse group of third-grade students from six schools in northern California. During the
course of a school year, nearly 400 students and their parents were asked to report on the types of media available in
the home, including television, videotapes, computers and video games, as well as how often the child used them.
The children’s math, reading and language arts skills were tested twice over the year using the Stanford
Achievement Test.
Overall, children who had a television set in the bedroom but did not have a computer at home scored the lowest,
while students without TV in the bedroom but with access to a computer at home scored the highest. Students who
gained a television in the bedroom over the course of the school year scored lower in all areas than those who had
their TV taken away during the same period. The researchers did not find a consistent negative association between
test scores and the amount of television watched per week.
“Educators and parents are looking for ways to improve children’s standardized test scores. This study suggests that
something as logical and straightforward as taking TV sets out of kids’ bedrooms, or not putting them there in the
first place, may be a solution,” said the co-author of the study, Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH, an associate
professor of pediatrics and medicine at Stanford University and director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Lucile
Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. “While this study does not prove that bedroom TV sets caused the lower
test scores, it adds to accumulating data that kids shouldn’t have TVs in their bedrooms. It also suggests that
investing in a home computer for a child to use may be an additional strategy to help your child’s test scores. The
best combination was having both: no TV in the bedroom and also a home computer to use.”
Children are usually tired after school and might look forward to bedtime from about 7.30pm. Your
child needs about 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night. Some children fall asleep very quickly; others
sleep lightly at first, moving and fidgeting before settling into a deep sleep.
While every child is different and the way they sleep will be different as well, in most children the first
half of the night is made up of deep sleep. Closer towards morning their sleep will change to a lighter
sleep, making it easier to wake them up.
-Positive habits and routines will assist children to feel sleepy and ready for bed at the right time.
-Getting a good night’s sleep helps your child stay settled, healthy, happy and ready for school the
next day.