Term 4 2016 No. 39 Friday, 16th December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”

Daylesford Primary School Newsletter Vincent Street (P O Box 20) Daylesford, 3460 Ph: (03) 5348 2480 Fax: (03) 5348 3958 Website http://www.daylesps.vic.edu.au

� “SEMPER MELIORA” (Always better things)

PARENT VOLUNTEERS Term 1 2017

FRIDAY SICK BAY WASHING

BANKING

10th

Feb Karyn McColl Shelley Sandow

17th

Feb Kathryn Earley June Cooper

CANTEEN DUTY Weds 8

th Feb

Thurs 9th Feb

Fri 10th Feb Sandow, Lesley Thompson

Weds 15th Feb -

Thurs 16th Suzanne Newman

Fri 17th

Graham DUX Award Winners

for 2016

Congratulations to Keyla Walker and Asher Waldon

School Captains for 2017

Congratulations to Ruby Hurst and James Childs

House Captains 2017

Sutton - Aleesha Walker Jed Resuggan Wyuna - Perri Eaton Jake Murphy Corinella - Jasmine Gruar Tyson Scoble Tipperary - Nikita Vendy Michael Armstrong

Specialist Captains for 2017

LOTE Sienna Milton Freya Taylor Performing Arts Josephine Edwards Asha Loft Visual Arts Paige Torrance Eve Britten ICT Francesca Khoury

Be Respectful, Be a Responsible Learner, Be Honest and Trustworthy Be Caring and Compassionate, Be a Good Citizen

DIARY DATES

DECEMBER

Monday 19th

Final day of Term 4. 3.20 finish.

SEPTEMBER

ASSEMBLY 9.00am every Tuesday in the Gym

Office Hours : 8.30am to 4.00pm

Students’ School Banking Day : Fridays

Term Dates 2017 Term 1 30

th Jan – 31

st March

Mon.30th

Staff return, Tues 31

st P-2 testing by appointment

Weds. 1st

Feb Grade 3-6 start and P-2 testing continues.

Thurs. 2nd

Feb Prep – 2 start.

Term 2 18th

April – 30th

June Term 3 17

th July – 22

nd September

Term 4 9th

October – 22nd

December

Term 4 2016 No. 39 Friday, 16th December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Week 11 Term 4 Final Newsletter report

• Grade 6 Graduation

• Grade 6 Dinner

• Highly successful year

• Ivor Bowen Cultural Awards

• 2017 School Captains

• 2017 House Captains

• 2017 Specialist Captains

• 2017 classroom teachers

• Newsletter and website

• Farewells, final assembly and farewell BBQ

What an amazing night last Thursday night. Congratulations

to Suzanne Hobson, her expertise enabled the grade 5/6

students to shine on stage with a terrific performance of

‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’. The academic and

excellence awards were presented (refer to list on page 3)

and the 2017 School Captains were announced. Thank you

to Claire Clifton our School Council President for her kind

words and best wishes for me as I move into retirement.

Thank you to Sophie and Tim for the terrific photos.

The Grade 6 Dinner was a fitting way to farewell the grade 6

students and I thank them for being such terrific role models

across the school throughout 2016. Thank you to the grade 6

Dinner Committee for all their work behind the scenes to

make the night a great success for our grade 6 students.

Wow, what a year! Wonderful success stories across the

school in so many ways. From Prep to Grade 6. The slide

presentation presented at assembly illustrated this very well.

Congratulations to all students, staff and parents/carers for

an excellent year.

The Cultural Awards were presented at assembly this week

(see list page 3). Congratulations to all the students who

were recognised. Thank you to Sam Bowen for presenting

the awards. Thank you to David Dawson from Overwrought

for his sponsorship and the beautiful trophies.

The 2017 School/ House, ICT & Specialist Captains were

introduced to the school at assembly (see front page). I

would like to acknowledge all the 2016 captains for their

work this year, a job well done. Of particular note can I say

thank you and congratulations to the two school captains,

Keylah and Lewin who have done a mighty job throughout

2016.

The classroom teacher’s list has also been included in this

edition of the newsletter on page three, our final newsletter.

It is important to note that despite a number of composite

classes, priority is given to individual learning needs and

therefore this will have no impact on learning. In fact we are

very fortunate to be able to offer 13 grades (which has

resulted in a number of composite classes) as this structure

keeps student numbers down in classes across the school.

I would like to acknowledge Marilyn, and Leonie and Deanne

who have produced the newsletter every week, throughout

the year. They allocate considerable time to this role to

ensure that a high quality is maintained. Thank you Marilyn,

Deanne and Leonie. I would also like to acknowledge Ross

Richard for his work on maintaining our school website and

for posting my Principal Report every week. This is an

excellent means of communication for our parents. Thank

you Ross.

Farewell and thanks to Mr Garner who is relocating across to

Ballarat. Dave has been a very valuable member of staff over

the past three years. In his role of Assistant Principal he has

supported student engagement & wellbeing and grown our

understandings in curriculum and data analysis. His has led

the school as the Acting Principal whilst I have been on leave

and has touched many other elements across the school,

including supporting Drummond Primary School. For all that

and more we say thank you Dave and all the very best in

your new position.

As you know, I too will be finishing at the end of the year. It

has been an absolute honour to lead Daylesford Primary

School and Annexes over the past 10 years. I consider it a

privilege to be associated with education for the past 41

years. I have enjoyed working within seven different schools,

teaching for 29 years and in Principal class for the past 12

years. I would like to think I have made a difference in the

lives of a number of students and in turn their families and

our community. I would like to say thank you to the

Daylesford, Yandoit & Drummond communities for your

support during my time as Principal. The partnership

between, staff, parents and the greater community has most

certainly resulted in very positive outcomes for our students.

I am very proud of what I have achieved over the past ten

years, but this was only possible because of the united and

team effort of all the staff, School Council and parents. To all

of you I say a very huge and sincere thank you and wish the

school and the members of this amazing community all the

very best for the future.

Finally, thank you to the staff and parents who organised a

wonderful send off and farewell at our assembly and

farewell BBQ. I very much appreciate the parents who have

come forward and passed on their thanks and best wishes.

Very humbling, thank you!

Have a lovely holiday, Merry Christmas and all the very best

for the New Year.

Peter Burke

Principal

THANK YOU We'd love to say a big thank you to all those

people and businesses in the community who donated or discounted items for this week's

BBQ. Brent Streat at Spa Centre Meats, Bendigo Bank, Tonnas, Baker's Delight, Leanne and Adam Purtell at Home Hardware.

Term 4 2016 No. 39 Friday, 16th December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”

ACADEMIC AWARDS 2016

Graham Dux Awards Keylah Walker Asher Waldon J Richards Award Ahlia Pfleiderer E E Leggo Award Lewin Judd Terry Brooker Award Harry Strawhorn Murray Stewart Sports Awards

Mackenzie Downing Sebastian Streat

Stella Armstrong Awards Performing Arts Demi Henderson Visual Arts Marissa Fisher LOTE Italian Award Mila Arias-Parker Principals Awards Ebony Treacy Jack Elliott Shire of Hepburn Citizenship Award

Aoife O’Neill DSC Bursary Awards Eero Partonen

Nikkola Wallace William Crooks

Congratulations to all the recipients of the Academic Awards for this year

2017 TEACHING STRUCTURE Prep 0FF * Jendy Fry

Prep 0FS * Melissa Stevens

Grade 1 1TW Jenni Thompson(Mon,Tues & Fri) Emma Wells(Wed, Thurs)

Grade 1/2 1/2K Kerry Carman

Grade 1/2 1/2F Lillian Fry - McBean

Grade 2/3 2/3C Gill Carron (T-Fri), Emma Wells (Monday)

Grade 3/4 3/4A Amy Kinnear (M, T, Th, F), Francis Comber (Wed T1)

Grade 3/4 3/4W Kim Wrigley

Grade 3/4 3/4K Andrew Kiellerup

Grade 5 05P Alex Parsons(M-Thur), Francis Comber (Fri)

Grade 5 05S Nicola Stephens (Tu-Fri)/ Francis Comber (Mon)

Grade 6 6KB Karen Brothers

Grade 6 06P Alex Playsted

* Please Note: As from 2017 the EducationDepartment has changed the name of the first year of Primary School from Prep to Foundation. Therefore Jendy’s grade will be 0 (year level), F (Foundation) and F (Fry) and Liss Stevens will be 0 (year level) F (Foundation) and S for Stevens.

CULTURAL AWARDS 2016

Gr Performing

Arts

Choir LOTE VISUAL

ARTS

3 Dru

Dickenson-

Bray

Rani

Comber

Daisy

Gruar

Ellah

Carpenter

4 Evie Douglas Indigo

Toner-

McLachlan

Scout

Kinnear

Eliza

Strawhorn

5 Giselle

Karibian

Alyssa

Douglas-

Dewhirst

Sienna

Milton

Eve Britten

Congratulations to all the recipients of the Cultural Awards for this year

Mr Garner officially opening our Bush Tucker Garden.

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