Thursday 22nd May 2014 The guiding principle for Port Fairy Consolidated School is to provide a high quality education for all

students and an opportunity for all students to grow to their full potential – creatively, socially, physically and intellectually.

Our children are our future and we are honoured to be a partner in a child’s journey through life.

A SAFE SCHOOL - I HAVE A RIGHT TO A SAFE SCHOOL AND A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP KEEP IT SAFE

Café Lunches for next week are -

Tuesday – Crunchy Chicken Bake

Thursday – Hamburger We will be using large amounts of parsley and beetroot in the next couple of weeks. If anyone has any in the garden, donations would be wonderful!

Principal’s Award – Isabella Condon

For her positive presence and her encouragement of other students.

00C – Annabel Dargan

For excellent work in Spelling Stars. Keep up the good work.

00B – Brooke Bartlett

For completing a wonderful pattern that continued on and being able to explain

it.

1/2D – Ella Gray

For showing initiative in organising a fundraising event for "Peter's Project"

1/2A – Jack Dwyer

For working hard to complete his writing when adding extra detail.

1/2W – Xavier Cassidy

For his attentive listening and showing persistence in class activities.

3/4M - Billy Dempsey

For putting in 100% effort in his testing and remaining calm throughout the process.

3/4H – Emily Huismann

For her “taking a chance” and “having a go” attitude towards her learning.

4/5B – Jaz Royal

Always has a positive attitude towards her work and gets along with others easily.

5/6M – James Ferguson

Improved commitment & determination in all school work.

5/6D – Ginger Conquest

For her outstanding assessment results and her 1st place in the Eisteddfod Public

speaking.

STATE EDUCATION WEEK This week state schools across Victoria have been celebrating Education Week 2014.The annual week-long celebration is an opportunity to recognise the talent and achievements of students and teachers in state schools, and showcase their wonderful work to the wider community. At Port Fairy Consolidated School we have had a very busy program. This week we have opened our doors for school tours, visited the local library with our pre-school friends and sang with the elderly at Moyneyana House. Our Education Week program culminates tomorrow with our ‘Walk safely to School Big Breakfast’ and our ‘Movie Day’ for Peter’s Project. WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL At Port Fairy Consolidated School physical activity is a high priority and to this end our staff and parent community work hard to ensure that all children are encouraged to take part in as many active pursuits as possible. The government’s ‘Walk Safely to School Day’ provides a great opportunity for all of us to be more active.’Walk Safely to School Day’ is an initiative of the Pedestrian Council of Australia. It is an annual national community event to encourage primary school students and their parents/carers to put their best foot forward and walk to school to promote road safety, health and sustainability. THE OBJECTIVES OF WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY ARE:

To encourage parents and carers to walk to school with primary school-aged children and reinforce safe pedestrian behaviour.

To promote the health benefits of walking and create regular walking habits at an early age To help children develop the vital road-crossing skills they will need as they become mature pedestrians To reduce the car dependency habits that are being created at an early age To reduce the pollution caused by single occupancy vehicles To reduce the level of traffic congestion in school communities.

It’s important to remember that the habits your children form now will shape the way they live their lives as adults. We are very lucky in Port Fairy with our access to a spectacular natural environment, quality sporting facilities and junior sports programs. Let’s make sure we take full advantage of them! (Please check the map with today’s newsletter for meeting locations to walk to school.) AND PLEASE ENJOY BREAKFAST AT SCHOOL!! REPORTING ON STUDENT PROGRESS 2014 This year our reporting on student progress will be two fold.

Student Led Conferences. At this event each student will have the opportunity to present to their

parents/carers with regard to what has been happening at school this year. These conferences will take

about 15 minutes and they will take place in classrooms. These will be held on Tuesday, June 3 and

Wednesday, June 4, 4pm to 6pm. Booking information was sent home this week for these conferences.

Traditional Parent/Teacher Conferences. At this event parents/carers will have the opportunity to spend

time with the classroom teachers to discuss student progress and student written reports. These will be held

on Thursday, July 17, 4pm to 6pm and Friday, July 18, 8:30am to 3:30pm (this will be a pupil free day)

STUDENT LEADERS’ NEWS As you may know our Year 6 student leaders are planning a ‘Movie Day’ to be held tomorrow, Friday, May 23 (11:30am – 1:30pm), to raise money for Peter’s Project. To this end eight mini-cinemas will be set up in the school. All of the children have booked a seat at one of the cinemas. The following movies will be showing: CROODS, SMURFS 2, DESPICABLE ME (2), LION KING, TOY STORY (3), FINDING NEMO, TANGLED, STEP UP (3). Popcorn & ice-creams sold at recess (50c each). Entry cost to the movie will be a gold coin donation. SCHOOL COUNCIL REPORT Last night we held our May meeting of the Port Fairy Consolidated School Council. Some of the items reported on and/or discussed were: Our Wind Turbine, Out of School Hours Care, Skoolbag App and School Grounds. School Council gave approval for our proposed student camp dates (see calendar) and they also approved the following pupil free days, Friday, July 18, Thursday, August 28 and Friday, August 29. Thank you to everyone for their attendance. The next meeting is on Wednesday, June 18, at 7pm. EISTEDDFOD PUBLIC SPEAKING This week saw the culmination of many hours of hard work preparing speeches for the Warrnambool Eisteddfod. Throughout the last couple of months eleven of our Year 6 students have been working closely with our ‘Public Speaking Mentor’, Jennifer Chambers. The students have all performed magnificently. Congratulations to Ginger Conquest (first place), Amy Buck (second place), Rebecca Crowther (third place), Millie Hogan (honourable mention) and Flynn Davis (honourable mention). Well done also to the rest of the team; Tahj Beardsley, Amber Sanderson, Maya Steele, Eilish Vail, Issy Finnigan and Jaiven Callendar

Parents &

Friends

Association

The Parents & Friends

Association of PFCS are holding

their Annual General Meeting

on Monday 3rd March in the

Staff Room at 7.00pm .

This night is an important

one for the P&F with new office

bearers to be elected, and plans

made for 2008. We would love

to see as many parents and

friends as possible and

especially invite all new

parents/friends of PFCS to

attend.

If you are unable to come

on this night, but wish to

contribute, please let Jenny or

Ronda know at the office, or

phone Mandy on 55683196 or

mobile 0408993356.

Tip Top Easter Buns –

These orders are due next

Tuesday, please fill your order

forms and return to the school

by Tuesday.

Thank You.

Up Coming

Events

Friday 29th

Jug Band Workshops

Monday 3rd March

Parents & Friends Annual

General Meeting

7pm in Staff Room

Wednesday 5th March

“The Best Little Town in the

World” performance.

Wednesday 5th March

Hot Cross Bun Orders

Due at school.

Wednesday 5th March

Yr.5/6 Travelling Treasures

Exhibition – Warrnambool

Friday 7th March

Folk Festival

Performance

Monday 10th March

Labour Day Holiday

Thursday 14th March

Hot Cross Bun Deliveries

Tuesday 18th March

School Photos

Thursday 20th March

Last Day of Term One.

Dismissal at 2.30pm.

Student name, class and day of order –

Student/s Class Tuesday Thursday

Café Lunches for next week are:

Tuesday – Crunchy Chicken Bake

Thursday – Hamburger

Orders can be placed at the office up until 9am on the day at a cost of $5 per child, which

includes a piece of fruit at snack time and a delicious home cooked /prepared meal, with a

treat at lunchtime.

Ex Libris Quiz Night Fundraiser

TONIGHT!

At the Star of the West Hotel

at 6.30pm.

$30 includes a two course

meal.

The Port Fairy Theatre Group is

desperately in need of two

people to take part in its next

production “Taking Care”.

No prior acting experience

required – just interested people

willing to have a go.

The two roles to be filled are

those of care workers in an

aged care residential facility.

Come along and help us out

whilst having fun at the same

time.

Please phone Tricia Smith on

55681280 or 0439884120.

ROTARY CLUB OF PORT FAIRY SHOWCASE EVENING Next Monday, May 26 at 6:30pm, all of our public speaking team and our senior choir members will perform for the Port Fairy Rotary Club. This event will be held in our environmental science room. We will be cooking dinner for the Rotary Club members and the families of the students who will be performing. Thank you to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program for supplying the meal. This event provides a great opportunity to showcase the many talents of our students to the local community. We thank Rotary for their ongoing support of the young people in Port Fairy.

KID’S QUOTE OF THE WEEK - You should not pick your nose because your mum will SCREAM!!!

STUDY TIP OF THE WEEK

Teach It: Find someone and explain it to them. Nothing forces you to learn better than teaching.

PLEASE REMEMBER

‘We aim for every child to be the best that they can be – without exception!’

‘MY DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN’ Regards, Mark

Upcoming Events

Friday 23rd May

Walk to School & Big

Breakfast

Movie Day at School

Wednesday 28th May

Division Cross Country

Friday 30th May

Celebration Assembly

Sunday 8th June

Movie Fundraiser -

“Frozen”

Monday 9th June

Queen’s Birthday Public

Holiday

Tuesday 10th June

Uniform Shop

8.30am – 9.30am.

Thursday 12th June

2015 Prep. Information

Evening

Friday 13th June

Regional Cross Country

“Spooky” Dress Up Day

Friday 20th June

Winter Sports

Friday 27th June

Last Day of Term Two

Pupil Free Day

(Reporting to Parents)

18th July

Pupil Free Days (Staff

Residential)

28th-29th August

Years 3/4 -

Grampians Retreat

15, 16 & 17th October

Years 5/6 - Ballarat

5th 6th &7th November

Year 2 - Sleepover

27th November

Homeroom Happenings

Preps – What a busy and wonderful week Education

Week has been. We loved spending time with our buddies

at the Port Fairy town library on Wednesday and we can't

decide whether we liked the library visit or our hot

chocolates at Rebecca's café more. This week we are

focusing on the letter 'E' and the sound that it makes. We

have started listening to a story by Enid Blyton, The

Enchanted Wood, we are very excited to see what

happens to these interesting characters.

1/2’s - This week in Reading we will be learning the

strategory of how to blend, stretch and re-read words. In

writing we will be writing recounts. In Maths we will

beginning an independent task that uses addition and

subtraction strategies.

3/4’s - More testing!! On Demand, spelling and PaT.

Thank goodness we are nearly there. As well as all this

intense work we have been focussed on making

sentences more interesting by adding adverb and

adjectives. We have found the meaning of conclude in

the dictionary and have been writing procedural texts.

We continue our work on addition and subtraction. We

are designing a fruit shop and a smoothie shop. We are

looking forward to walking to school and breakfast

tomorrow.

4/5’s - This week we have been finishing our testing in

Reading, Maths and Spelling. In Maths we have created

our own subtraction problems and demonstrated the

different ways we can find a solution. Thank you to Melissa

for organizing our cooking session. We will correct

homework contract 6 this Friday.

5/6’s - What a hectic week we have had in 5/6

world. The 5/6 students faced a myriad of assessments

covering Literacy and Numeracy during the week. Also,

they took part in education activities that included shared

reading with preps and play group at the Port Fairy

Library. Once again our representative students did us

extremely proud with all their efforts at the public

speaking Eisteddfod. A big thank you to Miss Rebecca

Scarborough (4th yr teaching student) who has worked

with us over the past two weeks.

SCHOOL PHOTOS

GROUP PHOTOS – e.g. Choir, Ambassadors, Bus Captains, House Captains, are available to be

ordered, and can be viewed at the office. These are at a cost of $20.00.

Tennis Club Hopes

A meeting will be held this weekend to try to kick start a tennis club in Port Fairy.

The meeting will be held on Sunday at 5 Wishart Street.

Anyone with an interest in re-establishing the club is invited. For further details on

Sunday’s meeting, or to confirm attendance, call Gary on 0417 447 272.

PRIMARY WELFARE NEWS FROM DANEEL.....

The importance of having a role model.

Who do you most admire? For a moment, stop and consider who most influences

you now and why. You will no doubt agree that the people you admire now are

giving you your most important life lessons.

In a child’s life, their parents, immediate family and teachers are their most obvious

role models. Children don’t just learn knowledge; they take in the whole attitude of

the person who is teaching them – who is role modelling to them.

As parents we can’t choose role models for our children as such. But we can make

sure they are exposed to a variety of different people, places and positive situations.

This also includes the books, magazines, television shows and computer games that

your children are exposed too.

Take the time to ask your child who is your role model?

· Who does your child look up to and admire?

· What have they taught your child?

· What qualities does your child admire in them?

· How does your child’s role model cope with difficult/challenging situations?

· How can your child be more like their role model?

· Is your child’s role model a member of your family, your local, national or

international community or a character in a book.

Characteristics of role models

· Speaks up about beliefs

· Helps others

· Has overcome adversity or hardship

· Has a good work ethic

· Is honest, peaceful and or wise

· Is concerned about human rights issues and social justice

· Has a sense of humour – able to see the funny side of life

· Contributes to society and or the local community

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” (Ralph W Emerson)

Art News - DO NOT MISS!!! Leading Australian Sculptor, Patricia Piccinini is exhibiting at the Warrnambool Art

Gallery until June 12th. Opening Times – Monday to Friday 10-5. Saturday/Sun 12 – 5.

We are looking intensely at Piccinini’s artwork in years 3-6 so all of these students are

greatly encouraged to attend.

WANTED FOR THE ART STUDIO –

Old Sheets /Doona Covers and Fabric for a major artwork installation project.

Physical Education Good Luck to the students competing next Wednesday at the Division Cross Country in Warrnambool. It has been wonderful to see the students in training at lunch time with Mr Dwyer and after school running around town in their trainers! Winter Sports Netball training started this week. Year 4 - 6 students interested in playing can meet every Tuesday and Thursday at the start of lunch time at the Astro turf. The boys have been training as well at lunch times with Mr Dwyer and Mr Beekhoff but we are still looking for a couple of dedicated coaches to come assist us. If you are available we would much appreciate it. The Moyne Winter Sports Football/Netball Carnival will be held in Koroit on Friday 20th June. It has been wonderful in the last week to walk into the school yard at play times and see all the sports equipment being used by our students. The equipment has brought a new life to the playground and some trees!!! It will be up to the classes to take responsibility now to look after them and be in the running for a class reward at the end of term. …Ms Ellliott

Warrnambool College Scholarship Program

At Warrnambool College we provide a scholarship program which is an incentive to promote involvement in our College academic and extracurricular programs. A scholarship at Warrnambool College offers your son or daughter the opportunity to experience outstanding curriculum opportunities and physical resources. At Warrnambool College we have high expectations of our students. A wide educational perspective encourages them to discover, pursue and fulfil their individual interests, while equipping them with essential thinking and communication skills. Warrnambool College students are well prepared to take charge of their future and become active and productive members of the community. We have 7 x $500 scholarships available to grade 6 students enrolling at Warrnambool College in 2015 in the follow categories.

Leadership Scholarship

Academic Excellence Scholarship

Sports Scholarship

Community Service Scholarship

Performing Arts Scholarship

Music (Instrumental) Scholarship

Endeavour Scholarship

If you would like further information regarding our scholarship program please give our Business Manager, Chris

Dickson, a call on 5564 4435.

Uniform Shop Dion will be conducting his next visit to PFCS and uniform shop on Tuesday 10th June

between 8.30 - 9.30am. Please phone Dion on 0412 654 406 or email

dion@directwear.com.au

DIRECTWEAR is pleased to announce a website upgrade with school uniforms now

available online. Visit us on www.directwear.com.au.

Port Fai ry Kitchen Garden

Walk to Schoool Day, Healthy Breakfast On Friday the 23rd of May we are encouraging all students and parents living in Port

Fairy to walk to school. Students living out of town are more than welcome to join in.

There will be five starting points and students may join in along the way (please refer to

attached map). The walk to school will be led by the teachers and they will leave their

starting points at 8am. Students can join in anywhere along the given path.

Bus travelers will be involved in the Walk to School Day as well. The buses will drop the

Port Fairy Consolidated School bus students at the front of St.Pat’s to be met by Mr

Beekhof. We will walk to school from there.

To coincide with Walk to School Day a healthy breakfast will be provided for all

participants. The breakfast will be run by our “Parents & Friends Group” and will begin

at 8am in the Hall. Please provide your own cup, plate, bowl and cutlery in a bag so it

can be taken home for cleaning after use.

We encourage everyone to be involved in the breakfast for the cost of a gold coin

donation.

Any queries or concerns, please see your class teacher.

Thank you to those parents who have offered to assist with our Healthy Breakfast

preparations. Please help out if you can on the morning.