31st October 2012

OUR SCHOOL VISION: Encouraging all members of the school community to work together

to create a positive and motivating environment, allowing all students to maximise their educational

opportunities in an ever changing world.

PARENT

PAYMENTS

RECEIVED

162 families at

WPS.

Completed

payments

= 70% (114 families)

Have you

recently asked

your

child/ren......

“What

did you

learn

today?”

Rail Street, PO Box 402, Wandong 3758

P: 5787 1232

F: 5787 1821

www.wandongps.vic.edu.au

Principal: Rhonda Cole

‘The Puggle Post’

Congratulations to our ”Students of the Week.”

Prep B: Ruby Stebbing—(For her diligent approach to learning)

Prep G: Brooke Mazzarella—(Showing great confidence at the swimming pool)

1/2 C: Haylee Dennehy—(Excellent reading during class)

1/2 H: Eruera Tapp—(Trying hard with all his learning all week)

1/2 M: Noah Hazeldine—(Asking great questions in class)

3/4 C: Jedro Lunn—(A fantastic improvement with his Numeration)

3/4 S: Luke Cashen—(Helping others when they were unsure of the task)

3/4 Y: Kimberley Coad—(Always being the first one to help others)

5/6 E: Cassidy Garratt—(Explaining strategies really clearly with a lot of detail)

5/6 K: Damien Brislin-Wentink—(Writing a fantastic letter as part of home learning)

5/6 P: Tara Sibun—(Persisting with challenging tasks)

Public Holiday - Melbourne Cup Day

Next Tuesday 6th November

A Message from the Principal….

Dear Families,

How delightful to witness our students enjoying the grassed

terraced area adjacent to the hall on Monday. The area certainly

was well used – with students chatting in groups, sunning

themselves and a few even reading. We expect the area to be highly

popular and have labelled it a “no sports equipment” area to ensure

it remains a relaxing space that encourages students to interact

with each other and enjoy each other’s company.

Student Leadership Conference: On Monday, our grade six

leadership team participated in a Student Leadership Conference held

at our school. Student leaders from Beveridge and Upper Plenty

Primary Schools also attended. Throughout the day the students heard from Arthur

Townsend (the DEECD Regional Director), Councillor Sue Marstaeller and

representatives from the Mitchell Shire Youth Forum. The day concluded with

a “surprise visit” from Natalie Smith – the Australian bronze medallist for

shooting from the recent London Para-Olympics. All guest speakers talked

about their leadership role - the challenges and triumphs; the importance of

goal setting; how to delegate to get a task completed; making hard decisions

and being true to your goal and dream. The day was certainly very busy, with

many new things discussed and learned.

Kindergarten Transition Visits: This week we will begin our Kindergarten Transition visits for our 2013

Preps. All future Preps have been paired up with a current grade four buddy, with many of our grade four

students already having visited their their little buddy at kindergarten. At this stage we are expecting thirty two

Prep students next year and we welcome them and their families to our school. During two of their next five visits,

I will meet with the parents to go over some basic information about our school, ensuring our new families are in

the loop and are feeling well prepared and well informed prior to their official beginning next year.

We thank our Parents’ Club for purchasing a school hat for all of our future 2013 Preps.

MPOWER Girls Course: Today I am in Melbourne with our Student Wellbeing Officer, Toni. We are both

attending a course titled “MPOWER Girls” – meaning empower girls. It is all about building and maintaining

relationships between girls and it builds on the course attended by Mr Potesta and Toni last week that was

focussed on boys and their relationships. We look forward to working with our students in the near future to share

the new knowledge we have gained.

Safeway Tokens: Last week we enjoyed ordering the many pieces of equipment that we were able to purchase as

a result of the kind donations of Safeway vouchers we received from our school families and various members of

the wider community. Listed below are the items ordered – well in excess of $3000. As you can see we have tried

to cover many bases – Mathematics, Literacy, Developmental Play, Physical Education and a few fun items to use

on the oval (especially those giant bubble wands!)

Bunnings Barbecue: Thank you once again to the super helpers, the amazing “onion slicers” and Ross for his

donation of drinks - all of whom contributed to our very successful barbecue. My apologies to the adult helpers

whose photos I took on the day but somehow accidently deleted…. or did I really even take the photo properly?????

Anyway we were happy to include your child’s photo last week as the next best option. Next time I’ll get Ros to

take the photos! Sorry.

Melbourne Cup Weekend: A little reminder that our school is open as usual on Monday 5th November but will

be closed for Melbourne Cup Day on Tuesday 6th November.

Have a great week ~ Rhonda Cole

Working Bee

FRIDAY 9th November 3:30PM – Lock it in your diaries!!!!! Our twilight working bees are always a successful

event, so if you are able to offer your services on Friday 9th November, it would be greatly appreciated. There

will be a BBQ and drinks for all those who attend. Jobs for this working bee will include; installation of a new tree

near the cricket nets, installation of a new drain outside the 3/4 portables, installing prep art work pavers around

the school, repairing brickwork and a general tidy up of the school. If you are available on Friday 9th November,

please return the reply slip in this newsletter.

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Working Bee Reply Slip

I .............................................................. will be able to attend the working bee on Friday 9th November from 3:30

onwards.

I will be able to supply the following tools;

Wheelbarrow Pick

Shovel Pressure Cleaner

Rake Other (please specify)

Change a light bulb and see what you can save.

An energy-saving light bulk might not seem cheap but over its lifetime it could save up to

75% of electricity consumption and a lot more besides. Like the planet for example. You

shouldn’t flick the switch on and off all the time, because you will waste electricity.

By Austin T, Olivia B, Patrick A, Tyler C and Bryannon B.

3/4 Inquiry Unit

“Life In An Ecosystem”

Tips

Fun with Numeracy

Go on a number hunt!

1. With your child, find numbers around you, for example house numbers, calendars.

2. Look at and say the numbers on car number plates, signs, calendars, newspapers, shopping

catalogues, speed signs, house numbers.

“Children’s Week” 22nd—26th October

3/4 Y and Prep G playing sport together.

To celebrate

‘Children’s Week’

every grade played

sport with another

grade for one hour

last week.

If was great fun and

new friends were

made.

Muffin Break Muffin Vouchers: Haven’t got your vouchers yet?

Time is running out for this great bargain.

Earlier this year we were fortunate to win the Muffin Break Facebook competition. Half of the muffins were

sold to families with the remainder of the muffins being provided through a voucher system. Vouchers are

available for purchase through the newsletter or directly from the front office….. What a great idea with the

school holidays coming up. No doubt many of us will be at Epping Plaza enjoying endless hours of shopping

over the holiday break and a cheap nice muffin with a nice cuppa will fill that hunger gap.

Cost: Each voucher will provide you with FOUR Muffin Break Weight Watchers Muffins

Each voucher of four muffins costs $8.00 each (which totals $2.00 per individual muffin) or 3 vouchers

(12 muffins) for $20 (which totals $1.60 per muffin)

Vouchers can only be used at the Epping Plaza store and are valid until 31st December 2012.

Don’t forget that these muffins can be frozen so they are also a cheap, nice lunch box filler.

Money raised is all profit for the school and will be used to pay for the instant turf we have laid on our new

terraced area near the hall. Thank you for your support.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

MUFFIN BREAK VOUCHERS:

Family name: ……………………………………………..

Eldest child’s name: ……………………….. Grade: ……

Please send home ……………. voucher/s for four muffins

with my child at a cost of $8.00 for one voucher (4 muffins) or $20.00 for three vouchers (12 muffins).

Wool Required

3/4s are currently writing procedures and next

weeks task requires wool.

If anyone has a ball of wool, could you please send

along to the 3/4 teachers.

Congratulation to Daley Gibbons.

Daley played in the Mitchell Rangers Soccer under 9’s. Daley is

proudly holding his trophies for ‘Best and Fairest’ and

‘Participation’ in 2012

Chook News…..

5 cent Friday…

To assist with the upkeep of our chooks, we collect any loose coins

on Fridays. Please send any loose coins along with your child. They will then

place them into the class jar for counting. We need to buy grain, nesting

straw and fresh greens to supplement the chickens regular meals of lunch

scraps.

Last week’s total…$17.20

(This total also contains the money from the sale of the very fresh

eggs which are available from the office)

WANDONG PRIMARY

SCHOOL SUPER

READER’S

CLUB:

Congratulation 50 nights

reading:

Alesha McIntosh, Mace Upton

Congratulation 100 nights

reading:

Noah Hazeldine,

Mohamad Al-Ghazawi

Congratulation 150 nights

reading:

Baily Lunn, Will Vicary

Congratulation 200 nights

reading:

Hugh Drofenik, Catherine Clancy,

Maata Cartisciano, Olivia Brincat,

Jeremy Nastevski, Ella Harris,

Charlyse Greeno

Congratulation 250 nights

reading:

Bridgette Davies, Jack Trenfield

Uniform Shop

Any orders for uniforms can be placed at anytime at the office.

The orders can be filled and picked up the next day. If there

are any items out of stock, they will be ordered and delivered

usually within one week.

Blue House shines

through

Blue house was the winner

last week.

Trent Cook is proudly

holding the winner’s cup.

Congratulations to the following students who participated in

the UNSW exams in ICT, Writing and Maths.

D’arcy Bourke

Grace Hannemann

Hayley Mumberson

Shelby Reeves

Jarek O’Neill

Ryan Ashfield

Caitlyn Harris

Mikayla Gibbons

Zoe Warne

Tajhana Gibbons

Ayden Bellman

Ben Leavold

WOW! …. WHAT’S ON @ WANDONG

NOVEMBER

Friday 2nd November - Swimming Session

Tuesday 6th November - Melbourne Cup Day (Public Holiday)

Thursday 8th November - Parent’s Club Meeting 9:15amin the

staffroom

Friday 9th November - Working Bee at school

Friday 9thNovember - Swimming Session

Tuesday 13th November - Thinklinks session (12:30pm—1:30pm)

Thursday 15th November - Pizza Day (Parent’s Club)

Friday 16th November - Swimming Session

Friday 23rd November - Swimming Session

Friday 23rd November - Grade one sleepover

Friday 23rd November - Grade two camp and sleepover

Tuesday 27th November - Thinklinks session (12:30pm—1:30pm)

Friday 30th November - Swimming Session

Friday 30th November - Beach Party Disco (Starting at 7pm at

DECEMBER

Monday 3rd December - Payment for 2013 Mathletics due

Monday 3rd December - Information Evening for 2013 Prep

parents

Tuesday 4th December - Parent’s Club lunch

Thursday 6th December - Out of uniform day (xmas hamper

collection)

Friday 7th December - Swimming Session

Friday 7th December - Prep ‘Camp’

Friday 21st December - Last day of term four (1:30 finish)

(You can check the website for more information or forms)

Student attendance

in semester two:

“EYES ON THE

TARGET”

Staying below 750

absent days for semester

three and four.

(approx 3.5 absent days

per child)

Number of students

per grade level at

school every day last

week.

Preps: 26

(Total number of preps: 37)

Grade one/twos: 62

(Total number of 1/2s: 67)

Grade three/fours: 51

(Total number of 34s: 61)

Grade five/sixes: 60

(Total number of 5/6s: 79)

Total absence days across

the school for this

semester

{612}

Congratulations to

this week’s winners….

One/Two unit

(92% of students had

full attendance)

Fantastic effort!

“Every day is an important

day to be at school.”

Respect Wildlife

Keep the environment clean and respect all

animals and plants. Do not litter and respect

the original landholders (the aborigines).

By Adrian A, D’arcy B, Catherine C, Jessica D,

Cameron S and Kim C.

Toy Club

This is for all the bargain hunters out there!

This is the last opportunity to purchase some cheap, and I

do mean cheap, excellent Mattel toys for Christmas.

Wandong Primary School Parent’s Club have secured a

‘shopping day’ at the Mattel Toy Club on Saturday 24th November,

2012 in Derrimut. These shopping days are very hard to secure and

there are only fifty tickets available. Each ticket is only $10.00 and

numbered so please be very quick to secure your spot in this shopping

extravaganza!

Please contact the office for booking and tickets.

150th Kilmore Show at the Kilmore Racing Complex

www.kilmoreshow.org.au

The Kilmore Show Schedule is out now.

Talent Quest entries need to be submitted by Friday, 2nd November

Art and Craft entries need to be submitted by Friday, 23rd November

We hope that you will be involved in these competitions!

Lest We Forget ~ In remembrance ‘wear a poppy’

Poppies and wristbands are available at the office for remembrance day on

11th November.

Poppies lapel pin $2.00 and wristbands $3.00

5/6 Softball Last Friday the 26th October the girls softball

team played against Epping Primary School in

the Whittlesea Division finals. The girls gave

it their all, working well as a team by cheering

and supporting each other, and showing great

sportsmanship towards the other team. Even

though Epping P.S proved too strong, our girls

put up a great fight. They did Wandong P.S

proud!

‘We played a great game. It doesn’t matter if we lost, it’s all about teamwork’ – Emily B

‘We tried our best although we lost. It was a fun day’ – Shani H

On Friday 26th October the Wandong Primary School Rounders team travelled to Lalor East Primary School to

compete in the Whittlesea Division Final of Rounders. All students were busy training during recess and lunch

time in the weeks leading up to the competition. Each of the students played their best and represented

Wandong Primary School, displaying a fantastic attitude to each other and the other team.

Lalor East won the game but our team did extremely well to make it as

far as they did.

‘We all played a good game and we all had fun’ - Tatum

Wandong Primary School Rounders Team

Daniel Adam (Captain), Jess Lees (Vice Captain), Joshua Selvaggio, Alex

Marke, Ayden Bellman, Macey Gibbs, Tatum Laughlin, Ben Kutz, Cayden

Barlow and Sebastian Nizoridis

Wandong Memorial Stadium Official Opening The Mitchell Shire Council has invited Wandong Primary School families to the official opening

of the Wandong Memorial Stadium on Saturday 10th November, 2012 beginning at 11:00am at

the LB Davern Reserve. Refreshments and a sausage sizzle will be provided.

To help with the catering, could you please let the school know how many family members are

likely to attend this wonderful event.

Family Name: …………………………………………………..

Number of Adults…………………………….Number of children…………………………………...

Opening Classroom Doors What’s happening in Prep Giacomini? Wow! What an amazing start to term four. We have been practising writing recounts on dotted thirds. Our

letter formation and letter placement on lined paper has improved greatly! During reading sessions, we are

focusing on reading Sight Words and reading with expression.

During Numeracy sessions, our class has been learning to count on from a two digit number. This week we

began looking at picture graphs. We created a graph looking at how many children have blue,

brown, and black coloured eyes. It was very interesting!

In Investigation sessions, we have been looking closely at Bugs. We discovered

that ants can swim and walk on water. Some of our classmates created ants

using recycled materials. Others wanted to work on constructing buildings using blocks. A

few classmates decided to open a Café, employing front of house and cooking staff.

We have also had a visit from Wandong Kindergarten. It was really nice to show them around our classroom.

We can’t wait to see them again. After giving them a Welcome card we created we were able to play games

together.

This term is shaping up to be very exciting indeed!

Opening Classroom Doors 5/6 K This term our Inquiry topic is ‘We are the Earthkeepers’. We

are focussing on topics such as global warming, the water cycle

and food chains. Students have been exploring aspects like the

effects of human involvement, how each topic works and how

they relate to each other. Students are also discovering how to

be sustainable to keep our world healthy for longer.

Here are some expert posters students have made in groups. This week students are making a sustainable mini

ecosystem which they will have to monitor throughout the term. Come and check it out!

PARENTS CLUB PIZZA DAY This term Parents Club will offer our students a special pizza lunch. The yummy pizza will be available on

Thursday 15th November. Cost is $1.50 per slice. Please select type of pizza and enter number of slices

required.

Please fill in the slip below and return it by Tuesday 13th November so we can order the delicious pizza.

Name: …………………………………………………………….. Room : …………..

Aussie ( no egg) or Hawaiian - number of slices……………

Name: …………………………………………………………….. Room : …………..

Aussie ( no egg) or Hawaiian - number of slices……………

Name: …………………………………………………………….. Room : …………..

Aussie ( no egg) or Hawaiian - number of slices……………

Thank you! $…………………….. Enclosed