The PURPOSE of Plenty Parklands Primary School is -

to educate children as lifelong learners to shape a better Australia.

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

Principal’s Message

Principal - Claire McInerney Assistant Principals - Julie Nixon and Alison Devereux

Business Manager - Ann Moritis 48 Blossom Park Drive, Mill Park, 3082 Phone: 9404 4311, Fax: 9404 4702

E-Mail: plenty.parklands.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.plentyparklands-ps.vic.edu.au

EDUCATION MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE—2ND INSTALMENT

If you are the holder of a current Health Care Card you are eligible to apply for this

allowance. Eligibility date 14 July 2014. Applications

close 1 August 2014. Forms available from the school office.

If you applied for EMA at the beginning of the year there is no need to apply for the

2nd instalment, this will happen automatically.

Calendar of Events

Term 3

Week 2

Friday 25/7

Winter Divisional Finals

Years 3 and 4 PIT gymnastics program begins

Week 3

Wednesday 30/7

Prep 100 days at school celebration

Year 5 excursion to Werribee Zoo

RMIT PE resumes

Friday 1/8

Years Prep to 4 dance program begins

Week 4

Friday 8/8

Years 5 and 6 basketball tournament

Week 5

Monday 11/8

Parent Helpers catchup in conference room

Wednesday 13/8

Year 1 Light and Sound in school activity

Week 6

Tuesday 19/8

Head Lice check—whole school

Wednesday 20/8

8.30am Prep Breakfast at school

Head Lice check—whole school

Year 2 excursion to Cooper’s Settlement

On your behalf I would like to welcome three new members of staff. Ms May Sem Wong has now been with us for a week in 1-21 following Ms Lyndal Archibald’s move interstate. On Monday, after bidding Mrs Stephanie Serollo a teary farewell, Ms Melissa Low joined 2-25 for her first day at PPPS. This week we also welcomed Mrs Helen Knower who is replacing Mrs Binh Hoang, a member of our Education Support Team who is expecting her third child in August. I know that you will join us in making them feel welcome to our community. We wish Mrs Jenny Hornidge a wonderful holiday as she visits her son and his family overseas. Jenny's last day is next Wednesday, 30th July and she will return to PPPS on Monday 20 October in term 4. This time last week I pulled back the curtains, after sleeping in, to be greeted by glorious sunshine and a beautiful vista of sea and sand. The view from my office window this morning is, I must admit, less glorious as I try and make out the shapes moving around in the fog. I had a lovely time away in Queensland however I also really enjoyed seeing all the smiling faces when I returned on Monday. We hope that you can join us on Friday for Planet Art National Tree Day when each class will plant a tree from 2 pm onwards. Special thanks to Mr Rob Peel who dug our 32 holes on Tuesday. We are very excited to have the support of Toyota South Morang and Toyota Preston who have donated the 32 good sized trees for the planting; this is a terrific contribution to our school grounds. You may remember that we have enjoyed a partnership with Toyota South Morang with their sponsorship of $2000 for our Maths Garden several years ago; it is lovely to work with them again. I must admit that I had to smile when I read these tips from Michael Grose. Any parent who has listened to me say ‘a few words of wisdom’ at Presentation will know why. “Children don’t need their mother and father to be their friends. They need them to be their parents. Parents make the hard choices whereas friends will take the easy way out. Parents want to be loved and respected whereas friends want to be popular and liked. Parents help kids to be safe, whereas friends want to have fun. Both are important for family functioning, but it’s only adults who feel confident enough to step ito their parenting role that can provide the safety kids need. Here are five ways to make sure you’re a parent and not a peerent: 1. Use an authoritative approach that mixes firmness with warmth and be willing to take children’s ideas on board. 2. Identify important rituals that bring your family together. 3. Conduct regular family meetings to give children a voice in their family. 4. Get help when you are not coping or feeling overwhelmed. 5. Learn ways to bind your family together so they think ‘we’, not ‘me.’ Lead your family wisely.” I will try to follow Michael’s words of wisdom too as I attempt to lead the “PPPS family” wisely. Claire McInerney Principal

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

2014 Parent Opinion Survey Each year the school conducts an opinion survey of 15 per cent of the school community. Parents are randomly selected to

participate and we use the information to support future school planning and improvement. If your family has been selected, the

survey will be sent home to you on Monday 28th July and is to be returned by Friday 1st August. The survey is designed to take no

more than 20 minutes to complete and your feedback and opinions play an important role in making our school the best it can

possibly be. Please be assured that your responses are completely confidential. The survey is conducted anonymously and it is

important to us that you complete the survey as honestly as possible. The results will be shared with parents via the School

Council later in the year.

SIGN ME IN APP

TOURNAMENT OF MINDS

Tournament of the Minds (ToM) is an exciting problem-solving program run annually in every Australian State and Territory, culminating in an Australian final in October. The aim of TOM is to enhance the potential of our students by developing diverse skills, enterprise, time management, and the discipline to work collaboratively within a challenging and competitive environment. As a part of the program, teams of seven students work together to solve two problems, one a long term and one a spontaneous problem. There are four Long Term Challenge disciplines:

Applied Technology Language Literature Maths Engineering Social Sciences

Teams have six weeks to formulate a solution to their one chosen challenge and ten minutes to present their solution to an audience

and panel of judges on Tournament Day. The Spontaneous Challenge will be revealed on the day of the Tournament.

Plenty Parklands Primary School is entering one team in Tournament of Minds. Our team will be involved in a presentation on

Saturday 16th or Sunday 17th of August at La Trobe University, Bundoora.

The State Final will be held on Sunday 14th September at La Trobe University, Bundoora.

We wish them the best of luck with their challenge.

TOM Coordinators Kristy Caruso, Rose Di Cecco, Lauren Heath, Kristy Harvey

We are one step closer to a paperless age….. You will be aware that we have a sign in/out book for visitors,

children leaving the school early due to illness etc. which has now

been extended to include trained volunteers. This system ensures

we have a record of all visitors on site and has now been upgraded

to an electronic format. Please be sure to sign in whenever you are

here helping at the school or collecting your child unexpectedly ie.

illness. You don’t need to sign in if you are attending assembly,

year level activities or sporting events. Our friendly office staff are

here to help if you need any assistance.

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

1-22’S Assembly

Performance Take a look at life in the Olden Days ....

Christina and Natalie– If your feet were cold you would have to make a fire.

Cooper– In the olden days you had to feed the animals and grow your own

crops.

Sienna W– They had to walk for miles and miles just to get to school.

Abigail and Sienna S– Back then you had to light a fire to cook toast.

Tiana and Matthew– At school they got punished with the dunce hat, strap or

a cross on the blackboard.

Jonathan and Jacob– If you were naughty you got the cane which was made

of cane.

Zoe and Christopher– Children had to wear the dunce hat if they didn’t do

their homework.

Lucas T and Isi– They used to walk the pigs and the sheep.

Merton and Nicholas– Children used to do jobs at home before and after

school.

Aryan and Hena– In the olden days you were punished at school and at

home if you misbehaved.

Brodie and Jasmine– The warmest place in the house was the kitchen

because there was a wood fire.

Leah and Lucas M– Some people played Jacks.

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

2-25 experienced an amazing interactive performance from the Salaka African Drumming Group as part of music.

This is what we learnt ....

Allana: In Ghana they speak 46 different languages.

Paschal: I learnt that in Ghana they speak 46 languages.

Chelsea: I learnt that dancing is like exercise.

Jaycob: They use instruments like a game.

Jaxon: I liked when the man played the instrument and said it was like playing

playstation.

Liam: I liked when he played the instrument and said it was like playing play

station he got up to level 10.

Narmatha: In Ghana they speak 46 different languages.

Hannah: I enjoyed how the instrument was played

like a play station.

Isabel: I liked it when the performer played the

instruments like the play station.

Jordan: I learnt that they use drums for exercise in Ghana.

Olivier: I learnt that they don’t have TVs in Ghana.

Eva: I liked it when he played different instruments.

Sienna I: I liked it when he played different instruments.

Oscar: Drumming is like exercise.

Ceren: I learnt that they don’t have play stations in Ghana but use instruments to play games instead.

Nikita: I liked when the lady was doing different

clapping patterns.

Dean: I liked it when he played the different instruments

and when I got to play the drum.

Ziad: In Ghana they use musical instruments to have fun.

Nicolas: There are over 46 languages in Ghana, they make music to get fit and

they were nice too.

Alexander: In Ghana they have no TVs

Zara: I learnt that the large drum add flavour and African do lots of different

dance moves.

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

H i g h l i g h t s o f Ye a r 6 s o f a r

It is hard to believe that we are already in Term 3! The year is flying by and so we thought that we’d take a moment to reflect on the highlight of our

year so far and the thing we are most looking forward to.

Angelica- Dinner

for 8 and Market

Day

Leah– Dinner for

8 and Market day

Loucas- Zoo project

and Market Day Chris D- The Zoo

project has been

the best

Lewis– Camp

and Market Day Mikayla- The projects

and Market Day

Chris S– Making the football

team and Market Day

Interschool sports

and Market Day

Dante- Debates

and Market Day

James C– Debates

and Market Day

Rebecca- Camp and

Market Day

Emma- Camp and

Market day.

Jake– zoo project

and Plentex Project

Taya-

Camp and

Market

Day

Alana–

Interschool

Sport and

Presentation

Imogen- Camp

and Market Day

Claudia is currently

AWOL in the United

States. We miss her a

lot.

Marcus- Camp and

Market Day

James G— Camp and Market Day

Peter– Camp

and

Presentation

Michael- Sport

and Market Day

Zac- Camp and

Market Day

IT’s been a great first half of the year and we are really looking forward to a fantastic Term 3 and 4 with

many exciting things thappening. We are especially looking forward to presenting our Market Day stalls to

the school community in week 9 of this term where we will showcase our Economics skills and hopefully

raise money for some worthy charities.

Ilannah– The projects

and Market Day

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

about SALAKA.

On Thursday last week, about 600 students at PPPS, were transported into the sounds and culture of Ghana. Having 120 children play drums simultaneously was an amazing sight and sound! The teachers had to have a go too, which they loved. Tuza Afutu and Naa Ayikai taught, entertained and involved everybody, Salaka means ‘sharing’, so they lived up to their name, sharing their skills and West African music and knowledge with us. Many students have been asking about the ‘African play station’ (‘aslatua’ is the Ghanan name), that was introduced by Tuza. I can put in an order for these if anyone is interested. They cost $20 a pair. Please write a note with your child ’s name, home group and your order (with the correct money), if you wish to purchase these. I hope to put in an order on Friday 1st August. If you would prefer to investigate prices and other instruments yourself, the website is www.africanbeat.com.au It has been wonderful to see the students’ enthusiasm for learning with our international visitors. Anne McKay (Music Coordinator)

MUSIC NOTES

S C H O O L N U R S I N G P R O G R A M

Today we have sent home information about the School Nursing Program to all Prep families. This program offers prep families with children in primary schools the opportunity to consult with a school nurse. It provides parents/guardians, teachers and nurses with the opportunity to work together for the wellbeing and educational progress of Plenty Parklands Primary School children. A referral and follow-up service is provided to children in other year levels. If you would like to access this service, please contact your child’s teacher or myself. We require all prep families to complete the health questionnaire and return it to your child’s class teacher in the envelope provided by Thursday 31st July. This information is very confidential. The school nurse will visit prep students in term 3. The school nurse assessments will begin on Monday 18th August. If you require any further information please contact your child’s class teacher or myself.

Thank you, Leanne Weston.

Classified advertisements: The School and the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT accept no responsibility for the goods or services offered in advertisements in this newsletter.

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

REMINDER

The return date for money is Thursday 7th August.

Chocolates are $1 each and $50 per box with a variety of freddo frogs

and caramello koalas.

If you are interested in selling another box once you have paid for your

first box, just let us know at the office.

The more boxes sold, the more will go towards synthetic resurfacing of the

2/3 playground.

Thanking you in anticipation of your support. Coffee and Chat group.

COFFEE AND CHAT CADBURY CHOCOLATE FUNDRAISER

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

DISTRICT GRAND FINAL results Friday JULY 18TH Congratulations to our soccer team for winning the grand final last Friday against St Francis of Assisi Soccer: PPPS Bushrangers 2 goals to Falcons 0 goals.

WHITTLESEA DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP On Monday July 21st the Divisional Soccer Finals were held at RMIT (synthetic pitch), McKimmies Road. We had our girls team play off against Marymede Catholic College in the grand final. The game was played in great spirit and it was our girls first official game as our Bundoora District does not have a girls competition. Our girls worked extremely hard and were only beaten on penalties 4-1. The boys squad had to play off in a semi final to qualify for a spot in the grand final. Their first game was against Broadford P.S. It was quite a one sided affair and our team won comfortably 13-0. This set up a grand final between Marymede College and Plenty Parklands. It was a physical and hard game in the beginning until the Bushranger team found space and played their own style of soccer. The final score was 3 to 2 goals with the Bushrangers coming out victors. Congratulations to our girl’s and boy’s teams who represented PPPS so proudly and demonstrated the school values at all times. A huge thank you to all of the parents who came and supported our school. A special mention to Mrs Anamourlis (parent helper) and Mrs DeAngelis (supplying oranges) on the day. The Bushrangers will now move onto the Northern Metropolitan Regional Finals which will be held at the Banyule City Soccer Club, Somerset Drive, Heidelberg on Monday 18th of August.

GYMNASTICS IN YEARS 3-4

The PPPS gym program will run on the following Friday’s: July 25, Aug 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 and September 12. It will be held at PIT Gymnastics and the following classes are timetabled: 9:30 - 10:30 3-17 and 3-20 10:30 - 11:30 3-18 and 3-19 11:30 - 12:30 4-29 and 4-30 12:30 - 1:30 4-31 and 4-32 Parents are most welcome to come along but must be seated behind the glassed area and are not permitted to enter the gym teaching space.

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT (Year 5-6) Friday August 8 All parents and friends are invited to come along and support PPPS students from 9.30am-2.30pm at the Mill Park Basketball Stadium located next to the Stables shopping centre, Childs Road. If you are able to assist as a coach or scorer please contact Mr Scanu as soon as possible. A reminder to all students that when attending sports lessons appropriate footwear and clothing is required. It is vital that your child wears comfortable running shoes so that they are not being disadvantaged in working to their full potential. This also decreases the amount of injuries when running or involved in dodging games. Also the preferred clothing for girls is to wear a skort (available from school uniform shop). Shorts are also an option. A school dress at times makes it awkward and uncomfortable for the child to move freely and limits their involvement in particular class activities. Please consider this when your child is getting dressed in the morning, particularly on P.E. days. If unsure please ask your child the days they have PE sport lessons.

BDSSA ATHLETICS CARNIVAL 2014 This is being held on Wednesday August 27th at Meadowglen Athletics Stadium on McDonald’s Road in Epping (next to Skate Park). All parents and friends are welcome. Students involved over the coming weeks will receive a permission form to attend. FUTURE SPORTING STARS Hannah (3-20) and Jordan (3-17) have been selected in the Victorian Karate team that's heading to the Nationals in Perth on July

30th. The Nationals will be held from August 1st to August 3rd. Hannah is competing in the female 8-9 year old kata and the under 13 synchronised team. Jordan is competing in the male 8-9 year old kata and is the reserve for the under 13 synchronised team. As these two kids are only 8 years old and are the youngest male and female of a 218 person team, they are too young to be selected in the kumite (fighting) events, but that's their goal for next year. It's been a long 6 1/2 months for these little kids with training 5-6 times a week as well as compulsory tournaments they have had to attend, but they have enjoyed every minute of it. They are very excited about going away with all their friends they have made along the way, and can't wait to get to Perth to have fun and compete at their very first Australian Karate Championship whilst representing Victoria. We wish them them the very best and a successful tournament.

Physical Education & Sports Coordinator - Sebastian Scanu

YEARS 5/6 SPORT PROGRAM 2014

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

2015 PREP ENROLMENTS ARE NOW BEING TAKEN

If you are a member of our school community and have a

child commencing Prep in 2015 please call in to the office to collect an enrolment pack as soon as possible.

CANTEEN ROSTER LOST PROPERTY ROSTER

Fri 25/7 Kim Crawford / Rose Gobaira / Bettina Lagoulis / Loretta Fairchild Fri 25/7 Betty Fiume

Mon 28/7 Win Caddy / Mimma Marini Fri 1/8 Bianca O’Connor

Wed 30/7 Win Caddy / Mary Serovski / Catherine Norton FIRST AID LINEN ROSTER

Thurs 31/7 Lolita Opasinov / Barbara Tsourou Fri 25/7 Pamela Hatzipanagiotidis

Fri 1/8 Kim Crawford / Danielle Krstevski / Soula Van De Kuit / Julie Costa / Loretta Fairchild

Fri 1/8 Sule Aygun

P-13 Ethan P-12 Alyssa P-11 Cleopatra P-10 Zahli

P-9 Chloe

PREP STUDENT OF THE WEEK The following students will be presented on Monday July 28

6-33 Jake 6-8 Jasmine 6-7 Roxane 6-2 Tiffany

6-1 Tess 5-6 Emily 5-5 Ilona 5-4 Georgia

5-3 Ethan 4-32 Rivi 4-31 Brandon 4-30 David

4-29 Denver 3-20 Paul 3-19 Leyla 3-18 Charlie

3-17 Leah 2-28 Mathangi 2-27 Sebastian 2-26 Trinity

2-25 Sienna 2-24 Surya 1-22 Jasmine 1-21 Nicholas

1-16 Nicholas 1-15 Selena 1-14 Nicole

STUDENT OF THE WEEK The following students were presented on Monday July 21

ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE ROSTER

Term 3 July 28 5-4 August 4 P-12 August 11 2-27 August 18 4-31 August 25 3-19 September 1 P-10 September 8 2-24 September 15 1-22

ROOM OF THE WEEK AWARD:

6-2 P-9 Jade P-13 Abraham

P-9 Emily 1-15 Selena

2-29 Ahmad 5-3 Lara

ANTI LITTER AWARDS: Congratulations to the following students

for receiving an anti litter award.

HOUSE POINTS 21/7/2014

1st Red Rosellas 2nd Green Grasshoppers and Blue Bandicoots 4th Gold Goannas

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: July 24, 2014 Issue 20

PLENTY PARKLANDS PRIMARY SCHOOL CANTEEN MENU & PRICE LIST FOR 2014

PLEASE NOTE: Canteen will only be open on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, THURSDAYS and FRIDAYS, during morning recess, for lunch orders and lunch recess. Canteen will open first day of each term. Please write child’s name, home group and lunch order on a paper bag, correct money would be appreciated. Add 30 cents if no bag is handed in with the lunch order.

LUNCH MENU. SANDWICHES (add .50 cents for Rolls ) GREEN FOODS- EVERYDAY FOODS

HOT FOODS AMBER FOODS SELECT CAREFULLY

SNACKS – RED OCCASIONAL DRINKS & FROZEN – AMBER

Fillings Cheese Vegemite Tomato Cheese & vegemite Egg & lettuce Cheese and tomato Tuna & lettuce Pikelets

$ 2.00 1.90 2.00 2.20 3.00 2.80 3.00 .60

Fillings Ham Salad – lettuce, beetroot, carrot, tomato, Cheese, cucumber. Boiled eggs ADD $1.50 for tuna ADD .60c for any meat listed ADD .40c for extra (not including tuna/egg) ADD .60c for egg

$ 2.60 3.50

.60

Hot dog with sauce Half hot dog with sauce Pies / Pasties (Patties) Vegetable Pastie Gluten Free large pies Lite party pies (Patties) Party sausage rolls (Patties) Jumbo sausage rolls (Patties) Corn cobs Chicken nuggets

3.00 2.00 3.00 3.00 5.00 .90 .90 2.50 .70 .50

Lasagne traditional 97% fat free Macaroni & cheese 97% fat free Twista bolognese pasta Ravioli beef Pizza – ham & pineapple / margarita Chicken burgers – Lettuce, cheese, mayo (served in a round roll) Beef Burgers - lettuce, cheese, tomato. (tomato sauce, mustard or mayo) (served in a round roll) Dim sims (steamed with soya sauce) Tomato sauce sachets PLEASE NOTE: Tomato sauce is an extra .30c for a sachet.

3.50 3.50 3.50 3.50 3.20 4.50 4.50 .80 .30

Chocolate chip cookies Gingerbread boy/girl Popcorn – butter / salt & vine-gar/pizza Rice sticks – cheese Delights - sour cream & chives /BBQ / salt & vinegar Vege Chips Grainwaves sour cream & chives

1.50 1.30 1.00 1.00 .80 1.00 1.00

Natural spring water Focas – Fruit tingle /Lemonade / Raspberry Big M – chocolate / strawberry Up & Go – choc / vanilla ice Just Juice 200ml apple / abc / orange Zooper Dooper Streets Paddle Pop - rainbow, banana, choc Vanilla School cups Icy twist – lemonade Calippo mini – lemon , raspberry pine Sunnyboys – Cola / Lime Shake e Shake choc icecream cup

1.00 1.90 1.70 1.70 1.50 .50 1.30 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00