5 Harriet Street TOORA, 3962 Ph: (03) 5686 2283 / Mob: 0475 605 437

Email: toora.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.tooraps.vic.edu.au

26th October, 2017

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From the hills to the sea, being the best we can be...

We are hoping to keep Deb Clavarino on through the Chaplaincy Program and expand her role to incorporate student wellbeing and mentoring along with classroom support. We are also currently doing a lot of pre-work for setting up new curriculum programs for next year, which will increase our ability to differentiate our teaching to each individual student’s needs. During weeks 7, 8, and 9 of this term we will be trialling a new whole school reading program called Taskboard, which will include 4 x 1 hour intensive reading sessions a week. I am also busily researching various spelling programs to develop our very own whole school spelling program for Toora – one that is based on best practice and is sequential from P-6. More info will follow in later newsletters on these programs. To support the curriculum work, we have also just purchased a new student tracking system called Clear Track. Student tracking databases allow teachers to track students learning and provide differentiated programs that target students learning at their individual point of need. While TPS have been doing this, Clear Track will make this process much less time intensive and produces some excellent graphs and data tables to make it much easier to track results across year levels. Have a great fortnight, Mr. H.

PRINCIPAL NEWS Firstly, I would like to congratulate the students on an excellent start to Term 4. It has been great to see all students come back to school and get straight back into their learning from day one, and for them all to do it so enthusiastically. I love seeing students who are passionate about learning, and this is very much the case at our school – great work kids! Welcome It is with much pleasure that I extend a warm welcome to two new students to Toora Primary School, Layella (Gr.4) and Zahara (Gr.2) who will be starting with us after Melbourne Cup weekend. The girls and their family will be moving to Toora in the coming weeks, please make them all feel welcome. Reading and Mutual Exchange I seem to have created a bit of a monster with mutual exchange as the 3-6 students have been bugging me about negotiating a new deal, and having now developed an understanding of collective bargaining they are a formidable force! We sat yesterday and went through the list of ideas that they came up with last term (I will attached this to the newsletter so that you know what we I am on about) to come up with a new deal. Something students are always keen on is free-time, and they managed to bargain a deal that includes half an hour free time each Friday after-noon for those students who have completed four nights of reading for that week. Xmas Concert Di and I sat down together this morning and ran through the calendar for Term 4, which is shaping up to be very busy. Given this, we are wanting to get an early start on the Xmas Concert before the term gets away from us – however we are also wanting input from the school community as to what we do. If you would like to be a part of planning process please come and see me. 2018 Planning for 2018 is well underway and we are very excited to be setting up for what is going to be a big year. At this stage we are looking to maintain a similar staffing profile next year with similar grade structures. Mr. Whittle will continue as our senior room teacher and Mrs. Gilbertson in the junior room.

Grade 3-6 have been involved in the Dairy Victoria initiative of “Painting Daisy” - Mrs Gilbertson has led this project with the Senior grade. The students are now finalising their cows artwork.

2017 CALENDAR OCTOBER 26th Swimming Sessions 26th Pie Warmer lunch 27th Junior Athletics Day (P/1/2) at Foster 30th School Dental Van visit NOVEMBER0 2nd Kinder kids visiting School 10—11:20am 2nd Swimming Sessions 2nd Pie Warmer lunch 3rd World Staff Day Afternoon tea 3rd Student Lunch Order 6th Curriculum Day PUPIL Free 7th Melbourne Cup Public Holiday 9th Swimming Sessions 9th Pie Warmer lunch 15-17th Wilsons Prom Camp Yrs 3-6 20th Kinder kids visiting School 10—11:20am 23rd Swimming Sessions 23rd Pie Warmer lunch 30th Swimming Sessions 30th Pie Warmer lunch DECEMBER 1st Student Lunch Order 7th Pie Warmer lunch 7th Swimming Sessions 11th Grade 6 Graduation Dinner 12th State-wide Transition Day 14th Pie Warmer lunch 14th Swimming Sessions 14th School Council Dinner - venue TBC 15th Volunteers Morning Tea 18th Curriculum Planning Day - PUPIL FREE TBC 20th End of Year celebration evening 21st Student Semester 2 Reports go home 21st Student pack-up day & Class Parties. 22nd Staff clean-up day - Early dismissal 1:20pm

CURRICULUM DAY - PUPIL FREE Monday 6th November

MELBOURNE CUP PUBLIC

HOLIDAY Tuesday 7th November

Coal Creek upcoming Events: Anne Frank Exhibition: “Let me be myself”. Gold coin entry with proceeds going to the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam. Halloween: 5.30pm – 10.30 pm, 28th October. Free and paid activities available Carols at the Creek: 22nd December 6.30pm start, gold coin donation Greek Fest: Sunday 21st January 2018. Entry free but tick-ets for activities and guest speakers. Lyric Theatre Annie auditions: Workshop & Information Sessions Sunday 29th

October: Workshop – 10.30am at Lisa Pellin Dance Studio (18 Watson Rd, Leongatha) Information Session – 12 noon at Lyric Theatre Eagger Studio (13 Watson Rd, Leongatha) Auditions – November 10-13. Bookings for audition times may be made following the Information Session. Further information from Production Manager, Ann Hemming e: annhemming@hotmail.com

Community News

Teen Mental Health First Aid in Foster

Are you interested?

Bronwyn Clifton at Foster Secondary College Is calling for persons who may be interested in doing a Teen Mental Health First Aid in Foster ( December, 2

days at college ). She is trying to get this organised, but needs numbers before the Course can be booked.

If you’re interested please contact Bronwyn at the Foster Secondary College ph:56822066

We are investigating all about Weather and Seasons. We have written some opinion pieces on our favourite and least favourite seasons: My favourite season is Spring because there is new life and the weather is sometimes hot and sometimes cold. I hate summer because I react badly to the heat. By Ella B I like Winter, Spring and Summer. Winter is my favourite season because I can roast marshmallows on the fire. Spring is my favourite season because it is new life. Summer is also my favourite because I like sun. I don’t like Autumn because I get rashes. By Tess My favourite season is summer because it is fun to play Zelda inside when its hot on Nintendo Switch. I don’t like winter because you can get a cold if you go outside in the snow. You also get frostbite. By Hamish

My favourite season is Winter because I can stay inside and play electronics and sit with my cats. I hate summer

because I go outside and I can’t play electronics. By Ash

Spring is a nice day and there is new life and flowers grow and it is sunny.

I don't like summer because it is hot and I have to go to the pool - By Adrian

My favourite season My favourite season is summer because I can go to the beach and pool . Then I can wear shorts and do gaming because it’s hot outside. My least favourite season. My least favourite season is winter because It’s cold and I can get sick.in winter sometimes you can get frostbite. - By Phoenix

Show and Tell Timetable for Term 4:

Next week’s diagraph is Ph - sounds as in F

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Aemaeth Hamish Joel Adrian

Tom Ash Ella Scarlett

Tex Wesley Phoenix

Mitchell Lara Jaxon Jerara

Jade Tess Bella

P– 2 Classroom News

My favourite seasons My favourite seasons are summer and winter. Because summer is hot and we can go to the pool a lot. I like winter because we go to mount Baw Baw and have a snow ball fight. My least favourite seasons are autumn and spring because you can’t play outside. By Tom D

Love: Spring Hate: Summer By Mitchell

I like Winter because I like to play with snowballs. - By Wesley

Milk is sometimes called nature's most nearly perfect food. It is full of calcium and other vitamins that make our bones strong and healthy. Cheyenne Gr.3 Hello, I am Django. This is Chea. We have done years of research, and we found out most unhealthy meals are in fact HEALTHY! Ice cream, cheesecake, other cakes and cream all healthy because they have calcium, protein, iodine, riboflavin and vitamin B12. Yep, I am not lying, it has all of the above. Django & Chea Gr.5 Life on a dairy Farm The smallest dairy farms have at least 100-200 cows. The larger farms have about 1000-2000! cows. Imagine how long it would take to milk all those cows. Looking after all the animals on the dairy farm will take a while. Make sure your fences are very strong so the bulls don’t break the fences. If you don’t buy all the stuff you need you can’t get calve’s and you won’t be able to feed your animals. Spraying weeds is important but if your cows are in the same paddock that you were just spraying the cows will get sick and die. By Ella.H and Sarita Gr.3 The life of Mrs Mooington the V1111 4th in line to the Throne Mrs Mooington the V1111 4th in line to the Throne, lived

a normal dairy cow life. Mr Delson the farmer works from

5am-9pm none stop on his 3000 dairy cow farm. The

Farm produces milk for the factories far away making

cheese, yogurt, cream, butter, ice-cream and of course

100% pure dairy milk. Mackenzie & Scarlet Gr.6

Dairy Products The Dairy industry produces a lot of products. For example: milk, cheese, ice cream, butter, cream and many more products. Dairy products are very important in your diet.

This is Old McDonald life on a farm Old McDonald had a farm And on that farm he had some cows But his job was not just to milk cows He had to fence the fence Making hay and silage Go down to the shop Plant trees for shelter Water management Sowing and fertilizing And that’s how old McDonald lived his daily life. By Olivia Gr.3

What Dairy Products do for your body There is a lot of dairy products. Dairy products have lots of vitamins and minerals that are healthy for your body. New dairy foods and beverages like milk, Greek yogurt, yogurt, cheese, ice-cream, cottage cheese, novelties, nondairy beverages, dairy ingredients, whey protein and other dairy trends and dairy news from top dairy processes. Milk is sometimes called nature's most nearly perfect food. The best sources of calcium are milk, yo-gurt, and cheese. About 72% of the calcium in the U.S. food supply comes from dairy foods. These foods also provide protein and several other important nutrients. Aim for 3 dairy servings (about 3 cups) of low-fat milk products each day. Some good choices are listed below. Low-fat dairy products: 1 cup of 2%, 1%, or skim (fat-free) milk. The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend eating dairy foods every day. The foods in this group are excel-lent sources of calcium, which is important for strong, healthy bones. Not many other foods in our diet contain as much calci-um as dairy foods. They also provide important nutrients such as protein, iodine, riboflavin and Vitamin B12. The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating suggests only eating 2-3 serves of full fat cheese each week, as while it does provide lots of calcium and protein, it also contains a lot of saturated fat and salt and so serves should be limited. It’s best to choose reduced or low fat dairy products whenever possible. By Tom Hughes and Sun-day Plowright Gr.4

Painting Daisy and learning about dairy

HAVE you ‘herd’ the good word about Painting Daisy? Primary aged students all around Gippsland Victoria are learning about the importance of the Dairy Industry to our local community through a creative, educational and fun filled program called ‘Painting Daisy’. The program showcases the relevance of the Dairy Industry to the school community through art.

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