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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal -Kevin Warne

Assistant Principal – Allyson Dixon

School Council President – Matthew Postill

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 2 Issue 5

May 21st, 2014

Friday 23rd May

Multi-aged Activities

2:30-3:30pm

Friday

23rd May

Walk Safely

to School Day

Tuesday

27th May

School Photo

Day

Thursday 29th May

Visiting Artist

‘To Federation and Beyond’

Friday

30th May

District

Cross Country

Website Address -

http//www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Inside this Issue:

DSTA Message/Birthdays 2

School Photos 2

Positive Behaviour Awards 2

Canteen Lunches 2

Walk Safely to School 2

Student Awards of the Week 3

Teaching/Learning Focus Week 5 4

District Cross Country Team 5

House Cross Country results 6-7

Jane’s Handy Reading Hints 8

Education Week 9

Classroom Pumpkin Fun 11

Puckapunyal PS Shopping Tour 13

***Sunday Nights - a great night

to check for Head Lice. ***

***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

65-70 nights. Well done if you have kept up!

Hume Wins Cross Country!! On Friday, we had our

School House Cross Country. Students from Years Foundation-6

competed in their respective age groups and grade levels collecting points

for their Houses. Hume House won the House Cross Country Carnival.

Congratulations to Hume House!

We also congratulate all of the students who gave their best.

‘Striving for Excellence’ is our school motto, which means we aim to give our

very best. Our students were doing exactly that!

As you can see by the scores below, it was very close. For the Years 3-6,

64 students have been selected to represent our school at the District Cross

Country on Friday 30th May, 2014. The event will be held at Lighthorse Park in

Seymour. We will report how they

go in the newsletter soon. Go Pucka!

Place getters are reported on pages 6 & 7.

Hume House (Green) - 73 points

Melba House (Red) - 72 points

Bradman House (Yellow) - 60 points

Chisholm House (Blue) - 54 points

Hume captains, Nic Franks and Marisa

Zantey proudly hold the winning

trophy.

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‘Striving for Excellence’

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Healthy Tip – To encourage happy, healthy family

meals:

-Enjoy and eat a variety of foods yourself

-Make water the main family drink

-Make a food shopping list and stay within your budget

-Plan the list to include a variety of fresh, seasonal,

healthy family foods

-Involve your children in selecting foods to buy and in

meal preparation

-Keep preparing a variety of foods each day for meals

and snacks

Try planting a family garden as a rewarding way to

experience new tastes

(www.goforyourlife.vic.gov.au/kids)

Creative Play – Last year we collected lots of different

toys for students to play with at lunchtime, and it would

be great to continue that. If anyone has toys their

children no longer use, especially dolls and dolls

clothes, Lego and other blocks, cooking utensils, ‘dress

ups’, ‘Matchbox’ cars, trains and tracks, puppets,

marbles etc….we can use them. Thankyou!!!

Mobile ‘phone recycling – We receive money for

‘phones that you no longer use, so please keep bringing

them in. Thanks!

Enjoy your week!

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD UPDATE All houses did well last again last week. Hume House

is still leading the way. Keep working hard, kids!

CURRENT SCORES Hume- 169 points

Melba- 162 points

Bradman- 148 points

Chisholm- 144 points

Happy Birthday to Cooper

Dickinson and Taylah Studte who

are both having their birthdays this

week.

On behalf of the Puckapunyal

Primary School Community, we

wish them both a very Happy

Birthday!

The School Canteen is open for Lunch Orders again

this Friday. Each and every Friday students can order

lunches from the school canteen. The menu will be

different each week. Please ensure that a paper bag comes

with the order (no sticky tape or staples please). Please

indicate on the lunch bag if the money is in another

sibling’s bag.

This week the menu is - Steamed Dim Sims 50c each

Chocolate/Strawberry Milk $2.00 each

Apple/Orange Juice Popper $1.50 each

No charge for soy sauce

Walk safely to school day: On

Friday 23rd

May (this week)we are

celebrating walking to school. This

encourages parents, carers and their children to build

regular walking to and from school into their daily

routine, as children need a minimum of 60

minutes physical activity per day.

Less driving and more walking is

great for the environment too. Give it a try!!

On Thursday 29th May the whole school will be

attending a Visiting Artist session called, ‘To

Federation and Beyond’ at the PC Centre.

The Show, ‘To Federation and Beyond’ deals with the

Political structures that have been in place in the past

and present.

Parents are welcome to attend the session at the PC

Centre

The School Photos will take place on Tuesday

27th May (next week). We encourage students to bring

their best uniforms and their best smiles that day.

SMILE!!

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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

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Congratulations to the following students who

were ‘Students of the Week’ for last week.

Winners – Phoenix Miller, Matthew Jenkinson,

Angela Klein, Alex Potts, Abby Chetcuti, Haikal

Shukri, Joe Gilmour, Tea-Rose Porter, Holly

Hastie and Marisa Zantey. These students were

selected because they were modelling

‘Excellence’. This week teachers are looking for

students who are modelling ‘Honesty.’

Congratulations to the following students

who were ‘Authors of the Week’ for last

week. Winners – Sophie Van der Waal, Lauren

Gourlay, Aaron Bennett, Jordan Haywood,

Trey Ward, Claudia Carrick, Shay Benson,

Xtina Chalson-Riley and Liam Sullivan. These

students were selected because they showed

great skills as an author.

3/4 B in Room 13 won

the Yard Duty

Competition Trophy. Oliver Kenny and Emily Cox

collected the winning trophy

this week.

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 Jackson

Birmingham who received

a ‘Recycling Cans’

Award this week. Every

little bit counts!

Did you hear

Sophie Van der

Waal read her

writing at

assembly this

week? We did!

She did a fantastic

job! Come along

and see who reads

next week.

3/4 A in Room 11 won

the Middle School

Times Tables Trophy this week. Paige Paul and Claudia

Carrick are both very

happy with their

classroom’s effort.

5/6 H in Room 1A

won the Senior

School Times

Tables Trophy this

week. Holly Hastie and Giselle

Andrew believe that

their class did very well

indeed!

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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 3 & 6 Literacy: We will continue to develop early writing skills with a focus on pencil grip, capital letters and full stops. We

will be focusing on the letter ‘Ww’ and the sound it makes. We are also encouraging students to use finger spaces in their

writing. We are encouraging the use of Golden words within our writing.

Numeracy: We will practise counting to 20 by 1s. We are learning about the number 11. We are also looking at ‘light’ and

‘heavy’ things.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 8 & 9 Literacy: We will continue to revise our writing skills, correct letter formation, use of dotted thirds and the construction of

sentences. We have been continuing to focus on questions, commas, nouns and exclamation marks within our writing.

When writing we are looking and thinking about the sounds within our words. We are also trying to use resources such as

dictionaries/devices to assist us with our spelling.

Numeracy: We will continue to reinforce place value concepts including confidently and fluently saying numbers. We

are also looking at Mass, comparing the mass of different objects.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 8, 9 & 10 Literacy: We will continue to revise our writing skills, correct letter formation, use of dotted thirds and the construction of

sentences. We have been continuing to focus on questions, commas, nouns and exclamation marks within our writing.

When writing we are looking and thinking about the sounds within our words. We are also trying to use resources such as

dictionaries/devices to assist us with our spelling.

Numeracy: We will continue to reinforce place value concepts including confidently and fluently saying numbers. We

are also looking at Mass, comparing the mass of different objects.

Middle School - Years 3/4 Rooms 10, 11 & 13 Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will work on persuasive texts and narratives. We will also

be focusing on adverbs.

Numeracy: We will continue to learn about fractions and 3D objects. Tables facts will be practised throughout the week.

Senior School - Years 5/6 Rooms 1A&1B Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will continue to work on narratives. We will also focus on

prefixes.

In reading we will be focusing on fluency and expression while also identifying key words and phrases during note

taking.

Numeracy: We will continue work on place value (including decimals), processes, fractions and decimals. Another

focus will be work relating to prime numbers, composite numbers, factors and index numbers. Tables facts will be

practised throughout the week.

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9 & under boys 9 & under girls 10 Yr boys 10 Yr girls Rhys Billen

Amy Franks Jack Chetcuti Sophie Spinaze

Lachlan Thompson

Somaiya Harriden Tristan Murphy

Saskia Truter

Carter Grant

Hannah-Rose

Simmonds

Jake Tanis Jade Ryder

Ethan Calle

Nannah Taylor Lochlon Nabbs Emma Harbert

Erol Yildiz

Amelia Pearse Samuel O’Connor-

Hudson

Shelby Marston

Oliver Kenny Ashby Murphy Elijah Zantey Casey Grant

Noah Chetcuti

Naomi Pennycook Bryce Williams Eden Free

Nathan Munn

Raelene Lazaro Kade Altas Jamie Clark

11 Yr boys 11 Yr girls 12 & over boys 12 & over girls Mackai Harriden Giselle Andrew Ethan Neilson

Isra Elsheikh

Matthew Sharrad

Skye Saunders Nic Franks

Elaf Elsheikh

Alex Waugh

Emily Gourlay Mark Porter

Mara Beveridge

Ben Postill

Holly Hastie Ethan Bowerman Melanie Waszczuk

William Burn

Taylah Studte Patrick Broughton

Sarah King

Isam Elsheikh

Sofia Lopez Lachlan Taylor Janelle Paz

Connor Claassen

Xtina Chalson-Riley Liam Sullivan Marisa Zantey

Ryan Cox

Shanay Muirhead Ethan Adams-Hastings

Congratulations to the following students who performed extremely well at the School House Cross Country Carnival on

Friday. They have been selected to represent the school team at the Seymour District Cross Country

Carnival. The District Cross Country Carnival will involve 4 schools and will take place on Friday 30

th May, 2014 at Lighthorse

Park, Seymour.

Approximate Race Times: 11:20 Boys 9 years and under

11:35 Girls 9 years and under

11:50 Boys 10 years

12:05 Girls 10 years

12:20 Boys 11 years

12:35 Girls 11 years

12:50 Boys 12 years and over

1:05 Girls 12 years and over

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Prep Boys:

1st – Matthew Jenkinson

2n d

- Cohen Ryder

3rd

– Hamish Petty

Year 2 Girls:

1st – Hailey Altas

2n d

- Rhiannon Jagers

3rd

– Abigail Major

Year 2 Boys:

1st – Will Hastie

2n d

- Riley Berger

3rd

– Jackson Spinaze

Year 1 Girls:

1st – Janae Senner

2n d

- Chelsey Turpin

3rd

– Abby Chetcuti

Year 1 Boys:

1st – Blake Cooper

2n d

- Aaron Bennett

3rd

– Riley Gilmour

Prep Girls:

1st – Paige Cooper

2n d

- Kathleen Cox

3rd

– Olivia Scotman

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9 Years & Under Boys:

1st – Rhys Billen

2n d

- Lachlan Thompson

3rd

– Carter Grant

11 Year Girls:

1st – Giselle Andrew

2n d

- Skye Saunders

3rd

– Emily Gourlay

11 Year Boys:

1st – Mackai Harriden

2n d

- Matthew Sharrad

3rd

– Alex Waugh

10 Year Girls:

1st – Sophie Spinaze

2n d

- Saskia Truter

3rd

– Jade Ryder

10 Year Boys:

1st – Jack Chetcuti

2n d

- Tristan Murphy

3rd

– Jake Tanis

9 Years & Under Girls:

1st – Amy Franks

2n d

- Somaiya Harriden

3rd

– Hannah-Rose Simmonds

12 Years & Over Girls:

1st – Isra Elsheikh

2n d

- Elaf Elsheikh

3rd

– Mara Beveridge

12 Years & Over Boys:

1st – Ethan Neilson

2n d

- Nic Franks

3rd

– Mark Porter

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Keep practising to write! Enjoy your children!

Praise all attempts at writing and spelling. Talk about what your child has

written, have your child point to the writing and talk about the message it

carries.

Demonstrate how you write by recording the message too.

Let your child observe what you do when you try to spell unknown words;

eg say it, write it down, try again, check it with a friend or in a dictionary.

Ask your child to read their work to other people, such as a friend or family

member.

Look for your child’s work in class books that are brought home to share.

Identify letters and words around you. Play with letters of the alphabet and

find letters and words in magazines that are of significance; eg. “That letter is

in your name. That’s the way you spell my name.”

Have fun writing with your child!

Seymour Little Athletics Centre is again running their cross country season. It will be held on

Saturday 31st May and Saturday 21

st June at Light Horse Park, Seymour. The running events will commence at

9am with various distances being run depending on the age group.

Come and enjoy a morning run in the historical landmark of Seymour and enjoy a free sausage sizzle as well.

Parents and non-members are most welcome to participate.

For enquires contact Centre Secretary, Julie Calderwood, 0438662139.

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This week is Education Week. What have we been up to??

On Monday, families were invited for school tours. Students took

their families around the school showing them their classrooms, school work and other resources of the school.

Many families just joined in the classroom activities. The students loved the responsibility and enjoyed their

families visiting as well.

Don’t forget that on Friday, all classes will be participating in a Multi-aged activity about

Mathematics. We will also open the classrooms to our families. The activities begin at 2:30 p.m. The

students love to mix with other students from different classrooms every now and then. Please come along and

visit some of the classrooms.

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Discovery Day

Wednesday 28th

May 2014 2:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Resource Centre, Administration Building, Stewart Street

Seymour College invites all prospective students and parents to attend

an afternoon of displays and information: Programs from Years 7 to 12

Meet key people and discuss the Learning Programs offered

See displays of student work

RACV Energy Breakthrough display

Young Zoo Keepers Program

Meet our Wellbeing team

Speak to our parents and Student Leaders

PRESENTATION, OFFICIAL WELCOME &

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE HELD AT 3:30 pm & AGAIN

AT 6:00 pm Key topics covered during the day:

Our Literacy and Numeracy Program

Netbook Program

School Wide Positive Behaviours

Active Library Program

Technologies Program

Enhanced and Accelerated Learning Program

Pathways Program – VET, VCAL and VCE

Inter-house & Inter-collegiate Sports Program

College tours will also be available every Monday from 2nd

June at 9:30 am

To book for the weekly tour please ring on 5771 1300 All enquiries to Mrs Trish Bulluss

Assistant Principal - Welfare and Wellbeing

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PUMPKIN FUN

PROMOTING HEALTHYWELCOME

MISS ATKINSON AND 3/4 BRINCAT JOIN MRS A-W FOR SOME NEW PUMPKIN TASTES TESTS

EATING AND INSPIRED BY A HUGE HOME GROWN PUMPKIN

PUMPKIN SCONES…..Mmmmmm…yummy! Just

what did 3/4 Brincat students think?

Pouring the flour was fun and it was the best when

Miss Atkinson got flour all over her and pumpkin on

her nose. I thought they would taste like pumpkin,

but they didn’t, they were yum! Emily Cox

It looked great when all the ingredients were piled

high as it changed when they were mixed together,

like a magic trick.

The mix looked good. Ethan Calle

My favorite bit was when Miss Atkinson was mixing

it and then it turned yellow and it was soooo yummy.

Danielle Corocher

SUBHEAD GOES HERE

GOOGLE ‘PUMPKIN SCONES TASTE’

TO MONTH, YEAR VOL # ISSUE #

STE’ KITCHEN ONLINE

OR

Ask the kids to bring home the recipe

as they have used it for a literacy lesson on

‘procedural text’ in class. They could even take a

photo of the recipe at school on their device!

WELCOME

MISS ATKINSON AND 3/4

BRINCAT JOIN MRS A-W FOR

SOME NEW PUMPKIN TASTES

TESTS

Ali Jenkinson, our

pumpkin mascot

for the term.

Mrs Ranger sure

knows how to grow

a pumpkin!

Wow, look at

those scones

rise!

I’d better be

quick, Mrs Philp

and Mr

Humphrey are

hiding nearby in

the hope of a hot

scone!

I was

helping

but I don’t

wish to be

identified.

Cherie, Jade

and Amelia

are very keen

to get

cooking!

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During the School Tours on Monday, some of

our parents participated in some art activities. Mr. and

Mrs. Plessey showed us that they are terrific artists.

Do you like their work? We do!

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Puckapunyal Primary School

Alamein Road, Puckapunyal

03 5793 1288

puckapunyal.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Expressions of Interest School Fundraiser

Melbourne Shopping Tour October 18th 2014

Make a day of it with family & friends.

It is a great chance to start preparing for Christmas. The cost will range from $46 - $75 per head depending on our numbers,

so the more attending the cheaper the cost. Thank you for your support.

* The cost will cover the coach, lunch & visiting eight

factory outlets. * Departing from the front gate on the Base 7.00am

Pick up at Broadford Railway Station at 7.20am * The outlets will be confirmed once we have enough numbers to make the booking. * Please give me a call at school with your name, phone

number and how many seats you would like to book by June 3rd. I will call you back by July 30th to confirm the price. After confirmation, a $20 per head non-refundable deposit must be paid within the week to confirm your seat.

* The balance of the cost is required to be paid at the school office no later than 8th October.

Simone Hall: Business Manager

Puckapunyal Primary School 5793 1288