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Cavendish Primary School– A Rural Tradition of Excellence 1

Principal’s Notes:

Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

Cavendish Primary School

Ph: (03) 55742282 Fax: (03) 55742353 Email:[email protected]

Website: www.cavendishps.vic.edu.au

22/03/2019

Barker St (PO Box 28) Cavendish VIC 3314

Dear parents and friends,

Congratulations to everyone for their efforts in the inter-school sports on

Wednesday. The children all tried their very best in all events. We had some

placegetters who were very proud of their ribbons. It was pleasing to see the

athletics carnival run so strictly to time this year. Congratulations to Macarthur

PS for their management of the day. A very big thank you to Miss P for her

wonderful work in preparing for the sports day. The attendance at meetings,

management of selections and organisation on the day doesn’t just happen. We

all appreciate her work. As always, I thank all the Cavendish community for their

attendance at the sports. We always bring along a large cheer squad to the

sports and it makes the children feel very special to have family and friends

cheer them along. Thank you also to the adults who assisted with setting up and

packing away our camp, providing extra supervision with the movement of the

age groups, running the long jump pits, and all the other tasks which helped

make our day run smoothly. It was great to have Kerrie Jones back with us for

the day as our first aid attendant.

The age group champions and overall school winner have just arrived today.

Congratulations to Thomas who won the age group championship medal for 5/6

year old boys, with first places in 200m, 100m and high jump. He also had a

second in long jump. Other successes for Cavendish included:

Sam P: 2nd high jump and 3rd in discus.

Emma: 1st in 100m, 200m and high jump.

Lexi: 1st in high jump

Holly L: 3rd in 100m, 200m and discus

Fletcher: 3rd in discus

Talia: 1st in shot put , 2nd in high jump, 3rd in discus.

Ruby: 1st in high jump

Heath: 3rd in 800m

Imogen: 1st in hurdles, 3rd in 800m

Cavendish relay teams finished 3rd in the 6, 7 and 9 year old shuttle.

The Cavendish team finished 1st in the 11 year old girls circular relay and 3rd in

the 10 year old girls.

Children who achieved a first in the 10/11/12 year old field events, and first or

second in 10/11/12 year old track events will qualify to participate in the

Division athletics in Warrnambool next term (Friday, 3rd May).

Trotter’s bus travellers—please check the note home today and page 22 of this

newsletter.

NEWSLETTER ISSUE 8

http://www.cavendishps.vic.edu.au


CAVENDISH PRIMARY SCHOOL

MARCH 2019

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

31 1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 Colouring Competition Due Back

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April 2019

Sun

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 MARC 5 School Cross Country Easter egg hunt Hot cross bun treats. Last day of Term 1 2.30

6

7 8 School Holidays

9 School Holidays

10 School Holidays

11 School Holidays

12 School Holidays

13

14 15 School Holidays

16 School Holidays

17 School Holidays

18 School Holidays

19 Good Friday School Holidays

20

21 22 Easter Monday No School

23 Term 2 starts

24 25 Anzac Day No School

26 27

28 29 Year 6 Bio Cats Geelong

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PARENTS’ CLUB

Presidents Trish Hurley, Kate

Thomas & Didi Todd

Secretary Julia Barking

Uniforms Alicia Lewis

STUDENT LEADERSHIP

TEAM

Imogen Thomas & Mia

Hutchins-Cross - School

Captains

Lincon Baker & Caitlyn

Gribbin - Presidents JSC

James Cordy—Music Captain

James, Lincon & Caitlyn -

Wannon House Captains

Mia & Imogen - Glenelg

House Captains

Kaidyn Roberts, Holly Quinn

& Logan Lewis -Bus Captains

Tasha Smee & Samantha

Gribbin—Library leaders

School Council

Nikaila Glenn: President

Michael Todd: V/President

Lisa Ferrier-Secretary

V/ Secretary

Sally Purnell: Treasurer

Simon Thomas

Alicia Lewis

Mark Freeman

Cathy Norris

Anthony Hill

It was a pleasure to travel with the Year 4/6 students last Friday to Mt

Gambier for the GRIP leadership conference. They all engaged with

the activities and met other senior students from schools in South

Australia and Victoria. A very big thank you to Jill Lewis and Didi Todd

for driving pupils to the event and helping with the supervision.

We have all been thinking of Isabel this week. She, and her family,

have had to make some massive adjustments in the space of a few

days. The whole school has missed her and can’t wait to see her back

at school next week.

We have welcomed back Codi to our school this week. Codi has quick-

ly slipped into the routines of the school again after spending the first

few weeks of this term at Balmoral.

Thank you to all students for their prompt returns of MARC books this

year. The MARC system is paid for by all participating schools and the

costs of lost books can be enormous. Any unreturned books will at-

tract a fine of $15 if not found by the end of the year.

On the final day of this term, the junior council will run an Easter egg

hunt and also would invite students to wear a funky hat. There will be

a gold coin fine for this, with the proceeds going to the Royal Chil-

dren’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. Don’t forget the Parents’ Club are

also organising the hot cross bun treats on this day as well.

We are now only two weeks away from the school cross country. This

will be held on the final day of term, along the usual course beside

the river. Children are asked to have their running shoes at school

each day (these can be in their school bag if they normally wear their

school shoes) so they can practice for this event. The next level

events will be on the 10th (District event - Tarrington) and 27th May

(Division event in Warrnambool).

There are still quite a few ICT Acceptable User Agreements that have-

n’t been signed and returned. These were handed out in February.

Please read through it and discuss it with your child (Years 2 to 6), to

ensure they fully understand the importance of using technology ap-

propriately and return them to school as early as possible. If you re-

quire an additional copy, please see Tammy in the office.

Reminder for students that are attending Somers Camp this year that

your application form, medical form and the payment of $260.00 are

due by Monday 1st April.

Have a great weekend,

Anthony Hill


2019 Annual Calendar of Events

March:

Friday, 29th - Colouring Competition due back

April:

Friday, 5th - Easter egg hunt/hat day (junior council)

Friday, 5th -Parents’ Club hot cross bun treat day

Friday, 5th - Cavendish PS cross-country

Friday, 5th - Last day of term. 2.30pm dismissal.

Tuesday, 23rd - Term 2 commences

Thursday, 25th - Anzac Day holiday

Monday, 29th - Year 6 excursion to BioCats—Geelong

May:

Friday, 3rd - Division athletics, Warrnambool (selected teams

from SGSSA athletics)

Sunday, 5th - Working bee at school

Friday, 10th - SGSSA cross-country, Tarrington (selected team)

Monday, 27th - Division cross-country, Warrnambool (selected

team)

June:

Thursday, 6th - Eisteddfod performance day (whole school)

Monday, 10th - Queen’s Birthday holiday

Monday, 17th - Eisteddfod speech and drama section (selected

students)

Thursday, 18th - ‘Robot Song’ performance at the Hamilton PAC

18th-26th - Somers camp—selected Year 5/6 students

Friday, 28th - End of term. 2.30 dismissal

July:

Monday, 15th - Term 3 commences

Wednesday, 24th - Life Education Van visit


School Mission Statement: Cavendish Primary School

provides a warm, friendly and caring environment that

enhances and challenges learning, personal growth and

well-being of students. The school has high

expectations for staff and students and aims to create a

stimulating and supportive environment for all its

students to excel in their learning and personal growth.

August:

Monday, 5th - Sheepvention. Pupil-free day. Staff PD.

September:

Wednesday, 18th - Cavendish PS concert

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The Student of the Week Award Winners:

Mietta Price - adding extra detail in her writing

Ava Huf - trying hard to write the sounds

Holly Lewis & Hughie Price - neat organised work

Mia Hutchins-Cross, Tasha Smee & Logan Lewis - attentive

listening at the GRIP Leadership Conference

Notices distributed at school this week:

Sports reminders

Year 6 BioCATS excursion note

School council paperwork (members)

Trotter’s bus times (for bus travellers on this route)


Inter-school athletics


GRIP leadership conference


We learnt about empathy. This means putting your-

self in other people’s shoes. There was a video show-

ing some students from a school who put themselves

in the position of refugees by only eating the food

that they get. This made them realise that your day

isn’t as bad as other peoples.

We also had to go up onto the stage to work on our

confidence with humility. This means being confi-

dent but not showing off and bragging.

We went around the room and spoke to students

from other schools to show confidence. We had to

ask questions about themselves and they had to talk

to us.

We learnt about developing ourselves to lead. The

four themes were:

Confidence with humility

Reliability

Others focused

Empathy

Leadership is about people, not about position or

power.

All the Cavendish students enjoyed this wonderful

day at the GRIP leadership conference in Mt Gam-

bier.

By James and Ruby


We welcome Willow Weilbaecher to school

It was great to have

Tamara bring along

baby Willow on

Tuesday. Nate and

Noah were very proud

to show her off to

their classmates.


Aboriginal dioramas


Easter

treat day Friday, 5th April (last day of term)

Hot cross bun

Fruit

Fruit free

Chocolate choc chip

$1.00 per bun

Trish will accept orders through

messenger, or text 0411197222, or they

can be placed in a named envelope in the

wooden box on the office counter. All

orders to be in by Friday, 29th March


BATTERY DRIVE Please remember to keep collecting batteries

for our Battery Drive. This is a very easy

and great fundraiser for our school. If you

are in town at a business which could possi-

bly have batteries, please ask if they have

any and if they would like to donate some to

the school. Batteries can be left at Glenn

Barling’s workshop.

Prep’s Birth Certificate & Immunisation

Could the families that have not yet provided the

school with a copy of their Prep’s Birth Certificate

and Immunisation Record please do so as soon as

possible.

Please contact the school on the morning

of any absence (phone message, note,

personal visit, answering machine, email

or text). It is a requirement that we have

notification of all absences on the day of

the absence.


Cavendish PS

olive oil. Last

remaining stocks

are now for sale

for only $10 per

500ml bottle.

TROTTER’S BUS

A note is being sent home today for all

Trotter’s Coach traveller. There have

been some small adjustments to the

pick-up times in the morning to try to

have the children at school a few

minutes earlier. Please check the times

and let me know if there are any prob-

lems with the new schedule. We will

continue with the old schedule until the

end of next week to allow for any con-

cerns to be addressed.


Bushfire At-Risk Register - Schools

School procedures for the bushfire season

Fire danger ratings and warnings are used in Victoria to provide clear direction on the safest options for preserving life.

Schools and children’s services listed on the DET Bushfire At-Risk Register (BARR) will be closed when a Code Red fire danger rating day is determined in their Bureau of Meteorology district. Our school has been identified as being one of those at high bushfire risk and is listed on the BARR.

Where possible, we will provide parents with up to four days notice of a potential Code Red day closure by letter and/or SMS message. A Code Red day will be deter-mined by the Emergency Management Commissioner no later than 1.00 pm the day before the potential closure. Once we are advised of the confirmation of the Code Red day we will provide you with advice before the end of the school day.

Once confirmed, the decision to close will not change, regardless of im-provements in the weather forecast. This is to avoid confusion and help your family plan alternative care arrangements for your child. It is also important to note that:

No staff will be on site on days where the school is closed due to a forecast Code Red day.


School camps will be cancelled if a Code Red fire danger rating day is determined for the Bureau of Meteorology district in which the camp is located.

As a bus co-ordinating school all bus routes will be cancelled.

On these Code Red days, families are encouraged to enact their Bushfire Survival Plan – on such days children should never be left at home or in the care of old-er children.

For those of us living in a bushfire prone area, the CFA advise that when Code Red days are forecast, the safest option is to leave the night before or early on the morning of the Code Red day.

As part of preparing our school for potential hazards such as fire, we have updated and completed our Emergency Management Plan.

What can parents do?

Make sure your family’s bushfire survival plan is up-to-date and includes alterna-tive care arrangements in the event that our school is closed.

Ensure we have your current contact details, including your mobile phone num-bers. Keep in touch with us by reading our newsletters, by checking our website http://cavendishps.vic.edu.au/ and by talking to your child’s teacher or any other member of the teaching staff about our emergency management plan. Immediate con-tact can be made through the school’s phone number prior to any Code Red Day on (03) 55742282 or directly to the principal’s mobile on 0402526258.

Most importantly at this time of year, if you’re planning a holiday or short stay in the bush or in a coastal area, you should check warnings in advance of travel and remain vigilant during your stay.

If your child is old enough, talk to them about bushfires and your family’s bushfire survival plan.

You can access more information about children’s services closures on the Depart-ment of Education and Training website – see http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/health/pages/closures.aspx

For up-to-date information on this year’s fire season see:

https://emergency.vic.gov.au

Facebook (facebook.com/cfavic)

Twitter (twitter.com/CFA_Updates)

ABC local radio, Sky News and other emergency broadcasters

VicEmergency Hotline (1800 226 226)

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/health/pages/closures.aspx

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/health/pages/closures.aspx

https://emergency.vic.gov.au

http://www.facebook.com/cfavic

https://twitter.com/CFA_Updates


A rural

tradition of

excellence

Birthdays for March

Tasha Smee

James Cordy

Jack Quinn

Sammy Gribbin

Mia Baker

Sam Packman

Families are reminded that we have

fresh chooks eggs for sale from our

school chooks. $3 per dozen or $2 for a

1/2 dozen.

We thank the following busi-nesses and organisations for their sponsorship and support of the School and we encourage all school families to support the businesses and clubs that support the school.

Coates Electrical, Landmark-Hamilton, Hamilton Produce, LA Walkers Mitre 10, Coles Su-permarket, Dunkeld & District Community Bank ®, Lions Club of Cavendish, Bunyip Hotel, Bridge Café, Toyworld, Caven-dish Community Service, Tops n Tails and Catch of the Day

Visit our school web page and

Facebook page!!

You can access our newsletters and look for

upcoming events on the webpage and see a

range of photos of the students on our

Facebook page.

If any parents have questions

in relation to Parents’ Club or

school related information

Trish Hurley can be

contacted on 0411 197 222

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