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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

Acting 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 1 Issue 3

February 13th, 2019

Tuesday 19th February

Darwin Defenders Day

Wednesday

20th February

District Swimming

Carnival

Monday

25th February

Parent/Teacher

Information Sharing

Session

Monday

25th February

Visiting Artist

‘Heave Ho Off We Go’

Wednesday 27th February

Division Swimming Carnival

Tuesday 5th March

School Council A.G.M.

(Shrove Tuesday)

Wednesday

6th March

Regional Swimming Carnival

Monday

11th March

Labour Day

Public Holiday

Saturday

16th March

School Working Bee

Monday

18th March

School Photos

Monday 25th March

Family Chat Group

Friday 5th April Last Day

of Term 1

Inside this Issue: Happy B’Day/DSM Message 2

Parent/Teacher Info Sharing 3

Student Awards of the Week 4

Teaching/Learning Focus 5

School Volunteer Course 6

Student Leaders 2019 7-8

Indo Lingo 8

***Tomorrow morning is the last morning for ‘Before School

Swimming’ for Years 3-6 students. Well done to those students who

got up early to participate.***

All students have been put into House

Teams. Years 3-6 students can represent

their teams during sporting events in 2019.

The teams are green, blue, yellow and red.

16 years ago, we decided that these teams

should also have names that can be the start

of a long tradition. These names were taken

from significant Australians who have made

valuable contributions to what our country

represents.

The names are: Hume, Melba, Bradman

and Chisholm. Throughout the school there

will be displays of our House names and

background information of our chosen

names.

HUME - GREEN (1797-1872) Hamilton

Hume was born in Parramatta, N.S.W. on

18th June 1797. He was the first Australian

born explorer who began exploring at the

age of 17. He began exploring in the

Berrima district (between Sydney and

Canberra). He explored the Wingecarribee

River, Lake Bathurst, Goulburn Plains,

Yass, the Murrumbidgee River and Jervis

Bay. He led an expedition from Lake

George to Bass Strait.

CHISHOLM - BLUE (1808-1877)

Caroline Chisholm was born in England.

She arrived in Australia in 1838 and set up

a home for other women who had come to

live here. She worked to improve life on

the ships bringing people to Australia to

start a new life and began a loans plan to bring poor children and families to

Australia. She arranged free trips so that

the families of convicts who were

transported to Australia could come to join

them. She also helped poor people buy

farms. She was known as the ‘emigrant’s

friend’.

BRADMAN - YELLOW (1908-2001)

Don Bradman was born on 27th August

1908 and grew to become one of

Australia’s most esteemed cricketers.

He played his early cricket in the N.S.W.

town of Bowral. He played Grade

cricket for St George in Sydney and

Kensington in Adelaide. He represented

N.S.W. between 1927 – 1934 and South

Australia between 1935- 1948.

Knighted for his services to cricket in

1949, he remains the only Australian

cricketer to receive a knighthood for the

game. He retired from Test cricket with

a batting average of 99.94. He is

revered in all sporting circles! His

Foundation supports youth cricket across

Australia.

MELBA - RED (1861-1931) Dame

Nellie Melba was an Australian opera

soprano who was the first Australian to

achieve international recognition in this

genre. She was born in Richmond,

Melbourne into a musical family. In

1886 she travelled to Europe to begin a

musical career. She was tutored in Paris

and then began her career in Australia

and England. She set up a music school

in Richmond in 1918. She performed

her last concerts in Australia in 1928.

Our School Captains, House Captains

and Student Representative Councillors

have been chosen for 2019. See them on pages 7 and 8.

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***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 10-15 nights. Well done if

you have kept up!

Happy Birthday to Angela Klein, Braxton

Toby, Tom Goss, Chase Dawson and

Alexander Morton who are all having their

birthdays this week.

On behalf of the Puckapunyal Primary

School Community, we wish them all a

very Happy Birthday!

POSITIVE

BEHAVIOUR

REWARD UPDATE We love seeing positive

behaviour in our school! Keep it

up and contribute to your house

tally!

CURRENT SCORES

Melba - 157 points

Bradman - 143 points

Hume - 126 points

Chisholm - 110 points

Deployment Sessions and absence support –

With the swimming program finished next week I

will resume regular deployment sessions. This is

for any student with a parent overseas or away for

an extended period of time. If this applies to your

family please let me know. Thank you to everyone

who returned the ‘Defence Information’ letter.

Fundraising – getting involved as a volunteer is a

wonderful way to settle into a new community. If

you think you may be able to help with fundraising

throughout the year or even for ‘one off’ events, I

would love to hear from you. Thank you for your

consideration.

sullivan.karen.a@edumail.vic.gov.au

Karen Sullivan

Defence School Mentor

In 2019, Years 3-6 classes will use ClassDojo as a communication tool.

Teachers will use the app to share with families the following: student

work, positive behaviour and reminders throughout the year. Please come

along to the information session to find out about how you can connect

with your child’s account and use this wonderful program to communicate

with their teacher.

When: Thursday 14th February 5pm

**PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE APP BEFORE YOU ARRIVE**

See you then.

Kind regards, Damien Humphrey 5/6 Teacher

Well done to our school choir who performed

admirably at the DCO Welcome to Pucka Event

last week. Thank you, kids, especially for the short time

frame! Well done, Ms O’Connor! More photos on page 3.

Good luck to our Years 3-6 students who will be competing in their House Teams for the first time this year. They will

be competing in the House Swimming Carnival on Friday 15th (*this Friday).

*Students in Under 9 events (turning 8 or 9 this year) and 10 Year events (turning 10 this year) will swim from

9:30am-11:30am. They will leave at 9:00am and return at 12:00 noon for their lunch at school.

*Students in 11 Year events (turning 11 this year) and 12 and over events (turning 12 or 13 this year) will swim from

12:00 noon-2:00pm. They will be walking to the pool at 11:30am (after their recess) and return at 2:30 pm for their

lunch at school.

Term 2 – Friday 31st May

Term 4 – Monday 4th

November and Friday 15th

November (Tuesday 5th November is the

Melbourne Cup public holiday)

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On Monday 25th February, we are having Parent/Teacher Information Sharing Day. The day will be a normal school day where students arrive at 9:00 a.m. and are dismissed at 3:30 p.m.

The interviews will begin from 2:00 p.m. and finish at approximately 6:30 p.m.

From 1:15 p.m. the students will have a supervised lunch outside and then participate in a Visiting Artist Show -

‘Heave Ho Away We Go’ (with School Performance Tours).

It will give teachers an opportunity to let parents know how their children have settled into their classrooms. It

will also give parents an opportunity to inform teachers about any important issues relating to their children.

We now have the facility for you to choose and book your interview times online. Please visit our website

www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au for the link to the booking page.

If you experience any difficulty using the online booking system, please contact the office and they can

make a booking on your behalf.

Helpers Needed School Canteen Lunches will be available on

Fridays when a working group of volunteers can be

organised. If you are a parent with some time and

you can help in the school canteen please contact the

school office. We would love to hear from you.

We hope that families were able to read last week’s

newsletter in relation to Homework and

Homereading.

So, we prefer students and families to put their time

and effort into the following areas…..

We do ask (Foundation-Year 2) families to spend

time listening to their children read and practise

counting and number patterns each night.

We also ask (Years 3-6) families to spend time

listening to their children read and practise their

times tables each night.

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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

Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Students of the Week’ for last week. Winners – Tom,

Pippa, Mia Said, Ruth Reilly, Abbygale Buxton, Nova

Miller, Gemma Koch, Wade Hansen, Laylah Bunt,

Liam Cannon and Sophie van der Waal. These

students were selected because they were modelling one

of the school values. This week teachers are also looking

for students who are one of the school values.

Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Authors of the Week’ for last week. Winners –

Evanna Chalson, Brooklyn Sheridan, Samara

Wildin, Brandon Hyville-Shaffer, Madden Young,

Thais Ornsby, Savanah Naunton, Rihanna Sweet,

Lucy Reimers, Tessa Thompson, and Cally Morgan. The students were selected because they showed great

skills as an author.

1/2 C in Room 4 won the

Yard Duty Competition. Fiona Hill enjoyed collecting the

winning trophy for her classroom

this week!

Congratulations to Samara Wildin, Lily

Ferrari, Xavier Farmer, Ethan Sage,

Nova Miller, Olivia Farley, Ryan

Lindner and Tyson Birrell. who won the

raffle prizes for ‘Positive Behaviour’ this week!

3/4 P in Room 13 won

the Middle School

Times Tables

Trophy. Maddi Matangi

was delighted to look after

the winning trophy this

week!

5/6 H in Room 1 and 5/6

I in Room 2 jointly won the

Senior School Times

Tables Trophy. Lachlan Donnelly and Killian

Hill will share the winning

trophy this week!

Did you hear Owen Brown from

5/6 H and Emily McBride from

4/5 D read at assembly this week?

We did! They did a brilliant job

reading their job applications!

Come along and see who reads

next week.

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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 6 & 8 Literacy: We are looking at the letters ‘a and i’ and writing our names.

Numeracy: We are looking at patterns and learning about the numbers 1 and 2.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms Rooms 3, 4, 9 & 10 Literacy: .We are learning that sentences have a capital letter and full stop. We are working on recount writing.

Numeracy: We are revising numbers up to 20. We are looking at calendars and seasons.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 3, 4, 9 & 10 Literacy: We are remembering punctuation when writing sentences. We are working on recount writing.

Numeracy: We are revising numbers up to 100. We are looking at calendars and seasons.

Middle School Years 3/4 Rooms 11, 12 & 13 Literacy: This week we will be doing a wide range of testing as well as focusing on our school values and the VCOP

components. We are setting a routine for home reading and the expectations for student diaries.

Numeracy: We will also be working on the four processes and times tables in Numeracy.

Senior School Years 5/6 Rooms 1, 2 & 11 Literacy: This week we will be doing a wide range of testing as well as focusing on our school values and the VCOP

components. We are setting a routine for home reading and the expectations for student diaries.

Numeracy: We will also be working on the four processes and times tables in Numeracy.

Occasionally, students get injured at school. The

process would be that we would contact families

immediately. We will report all head injuries even if

minor. We do not report the very minor scrapes and cuts,

etc., especially if they only require the odd bandaid.

Most staff members are trained at Level 2 First Aid and

all staff are trained in C.P.R., asthma and epipen usage.

Parents and guardians are responsible for paying the cost

of medical treatment for injured students, including any

transport costs.

If there is the need for an ambulance, the school will not

hesitate and will ring immediately. It does not matter

whether a family has ambulance cover or not. Therefore,

we must encourage all families to seek coverage.

Reasonably low cost student accident insurance policies

are available from the private insurance market. These

cover a range of medical expenses not covered by

Medicare.

Good luck to our

newly appointed

School and House

Captains who will be

attending a Darwin

Defenders commemoration at

the Melbourne Shrine

on Tuesday.

They will report

about the day in next

week’s newsletter.

Last year’s captains,

Abbey Kendell and

Harry Fletcher

enjoyed the

commemoration in

2018.

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If you would like to be a volunteer at our school to help in the classroom occasionally or routinely please

attend the following School Volunteers course. All volunteers will also need Working with Children’s Check as

well.

Presenters: Jane Challis and Katie Hartland All sessions will be held in the Staffroom

Session 1 Monday 18th February

9.30-12.00pm

Literacy

Welcome/Introduction to program

Confidentiality

Working with Children Check

Being a Helper

Reading

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Classroom Visits/ Sharing Observations

Please contact the school office if you are interested.

Session 2 Tuesday 19th February

9.00-12.00pm

Numeracy

Introduction

Goodger Maths Program

Linking maths to real life

Numeracy at home

Developmental continuum

*Classroom visits/Sharing Observations

Could parents please check children’s school

clothes (especially jackets and hats) at home for

names on the labels. If your child has brought home

the wrong jacket or hat, could you please return it to

the school office.

***We can all work together to

rid the community of any chance

of Head Lice. Let’s check our

heads once per week!***

All students who have been identified through their

enrolment forms as being asthmatic will need to

complete 1 of the following 2 options:

1. Family to visit a local doctor and return a

personalised and signed ‘Asthma Action

Plan’ form to school, or,

2. Parent/s to visit school and sign a standard school

accepted ‘Asthma Action Plan.’

Please organise one of the above options a.s.a.p.

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Tessa Thompson and Sam McGhie are our School

Captains for 2019.

Their role is to represent the school on behalf of their fellow

students. They will be very busy organising letters, making

speeches and conducting a variety of activities in the school.

Congratulations, School Leaders. We wish them well.

Hume House

Captains: Jack Lindner and April

Beckham

Chisholm House

Captains: Melvic Pambai and Mia

Bradman House

Captains: Jack Kennedy and Caleb

Baumann

Melba House

Captains: Cally Morgan and Izabella

Meiselbach

Their role is to represent their

house by taking charge of a

number of sporting activities.

They will be busy organising

teams for sporting days and

making speeches on behalf of

their peers. Congratulations,

House Leaders. We wish

them well.

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This week 'introductions' will be the focus in Indonesian. Each lesson starts with an Indonesian greeting,

followed by marking the roll in Indonesian and end with an Indonesian farewell.

Good morning (sunrise till 11am) = Selamat pagi

Good day (11am till 3pm) = Selamat siang

Siapa ada? = Who's here?

Ada = Here

Siapa tidak ada? = Who's not here?

Tidak ada = Not here

Siapa nama kamu? = What's your name.

Nama saya ... = My name is ...

Siapa nama bapak/pak? = What's your name sir?

Siapa nama ibu/bu? = What's your name madam?

Pak = respectful term of address for a man, short for 'bapak'; it also means father/dad

Bu = respectful term of address for a woman, short for 'ibu'; it also means mother/mum

See you later = Sampai jumpa

(photo in next week’s newsletter)

F O’M Chase Dawson Jesa Allen

FO’C Dante Capes Sophie van der Waal

1/2 R Emma Lowerson Samara Wildin

1/2 C Eva Naunton Oska Tanti

1/2 I Macey Crichton Lucy Tanti

1/2 M Harvey Birks Lilah Blaxland

3/4 M Milli Miller Andrew McGhie

3/4 P Maddi Matangi Ava Clarke

4/5 D Paige Cooper Ayssa Crawley

5/6 H Saskia Greenwood Rohanna Murphy

5/6 I Jake Quinn Emily Wills

Their role is to represent

their classrooms during

S.R.C. meetings. The

representatives discuss

school issues and report

back to their

classrooms. Their

minutes will be in the

Wednesday Notes

throughout the year.

Congratulations, S.R.C.

reps. We wish them

well.

Salam (Regards)

Bu Hooper (Mrs Hooper)

Guru Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian

teacher)