Red Cliffs Primary School

NEWSLETTER Wednesday 19th March, 2014

Week 8 Term 1

IMPORTANT DATES

Monday 24th March-- Hot Cross Bun Orders Back

Saturday 29th March– Lunarfest Street Parade

Monday 31st March– Easter Raffle Tickets Back

Home Page Address - http://www.redcliffsps.vic.edu.au

EMAIL: red.cliffs.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Phone: 5024 1044

Fax: 5024 2020

Principal’s Report: Bunnings BBQ:

Sunday’s Fundraiser barbeque

at Bunnings was a great

success. I sincerely thank all

parents and staff that came

along and cooked or served

customers. We made a

sensational $1,150 profit for

the day. Thanks again to

Fisher’s Supermarkets for

donating the sausages for the

day.

Walk to School Day:

Today’s National Walk To

School Day was very well

supported by our staff,

students and parents.

A total of 136 students either

walked, rode, scooted or

skated to school today.

Yesterday we had 72 children

walk or ride to school. Well

done to all involved.

Grade 6 Polo Shirts:

Students in grade 6 are now

proudly wearing their 2014

year 6 Graduation Polo Shirts.

The design selected by the

students, looks fantastic.

Lake Cullulleraine:

Students in grade 5 and 6 will

be participating in the Lake

Cullulleraine Camp next week.

Students depart Red Cliffs

Primary at 9.30am Tuesday.

After spending 3 days (and

nights) canoeing, bike riding,

painting and orienteering they

will return at 2.30pm on

Friday.

I sincerely thank our staff–

John Warburton, Brooke

Allen, Tracy Craig, Wendy

Allford, Shiralee McCarthy

and Kevin Laity for making

this camp possible.

Whole School Maths Day:

Today was the annual Red Cliffs

Primary School whole School

Maths Day.

Students worked in their usual

grades, in buddy classes and in

unit groups exploring maths

concepts and playing maths

games. The purpose of the day is

to focus on how important maths

is to everyone.

It was great to see a large number

of visitors throughout the day.

It is important that our students

see their parents value maths and

have an interest in it.

I urge parents to “talk maths”

with their children at every

opportunity– count things out,

have number fact quizzes, discuss

money and hopefully have fun.

Welcome:

On behalf of everyone at Red

Cliffs Primary I welcome

Lucas Gallardo (gr.6) and his

family to our wonderful school.

I know that Lucas will soon feel

at home in his new school.

Rod Beer

Principal

Stars of the Week

This Week’s Birthdays……

Ashlee Manzie 10 Thursday 20th March

Parent Club News; Please support our

Parent’s Club Hot Cross

Bun fundraiser.

Orders are due back at

school by 24th March.

Red Cliffs Schools Swim

Meet:

Seven students from grades

4-6 represented Red Cliffs

Primary School at Monday’s

District Swim Meet.

Although we failed to win

the major relay, our students

collected a number of

ribbons and had a great

time. Well done kids.

District Tennis

Competition:

Congratulations to Dan

Nulty and Kynan Mitchell

for representing Red Cliffs

Primary School at last

week’s District Schools

Tennis Competition. Both

boys performed really well

on the day. Kynan won the

competition and will

represent Red Cliffs Primary

School in the next round in

Swan Hill. Well done boys!

Somers:

Seven Students from Red

Cliffs Primary attended

the 2014 Somers Camp

last week. All students

had a great time while

making new friends.

See their report next

page.

Mildura City Soccer

Club: Training and Registration

for Under 6 through to

Under 11.

Hi kids! If you are keen

to play soccer again this

year, or you are new to

the game, then come

along to our training and

registration day.

When: Thursday March

20th

Where: Mildura City

Soccer Club Home

Ground, Kenny Park

Reserve, Merbein

Time: 5.00pm– 6.00pm

Come along and meet the

coaches and get involved.

For more details phone

Vince Pollifrone: 0408

235 669

Nathanyl

Dempsey

PrepH

Confidence

Always sharing

ideas in class.

Ben

Sharp

P/1G

Persistence

Ben is very

persistent when

reading tricky

words.

Skye

Payne

1/2K

Persistence

A great effort

all week.

Lucy

Sharp

2V

Confidence

Gaining

confidence,

answering

challenging

questions.

Abbey

Allen

3/4D

Organisation

Using her time

wisely in

writing.

Patricia

Douglas

3/4L

Organisation

Always being

ready to learn.

Tahlia

Coad

56A

Organisation

An awesome

effort all week.

Jorja

Parker

56W

Organisation.

An organised

and helpful

class member.

Great Behaviour in the Yard:

Congratulations to Jemmika Douglas (gr.3), Nadia

Cohrs (prep) and Jerry Markadonatos (gr.6) for their

Great Behaviour in the Yard this week. Enjoy those

free Great Australian Ice Creams kids!

Trent Hamilton:

Somers was a great camp. The thing I liked

the best was the flying fox. We had to wear

a harness and get attached to two hooks.

We went really fast! Rock climbing was

indoors and also really fun. I missed the

practise climb but went straight to the really

big one! I made a new friend from Ranfurly

Primary which was great!

Olivia Doolan:

Last week I went to Somers Camp. It was real-

ly fun and my favourite activity was the Chal-

lenge Swing! On the Challenge Swing you had

to go up really high on a pole and you got to

choose how high you wanted to go up. I went

all the way to the top! When I got to the top, I

was nervous but then I let go of the rope and it

turned out to be really fun! I made some new

friends named Jasmine and Samantha who are

both from the Lake Primary School. The food

and the dormitories were all good and I would

love to go back there again one day!!

SOMERS CAMP 2014

By Zac Stevenson

When I got to Somers I was so excited. I just

couldn’t wait to get out of the bus to do all the

activities. We got to do archery first which was

fun. The second activity I did was surfing. I

did it with Gordon and Helen. They made sure

that we were all safe. I only stood up on the

board twice which was a big achievement for

me.

By Natasha Sandler

Somers camp was awesome because when you go

there you make a lot of friends. Whilst you are still

making friends you can go to E.S. (environmental

studies) and feed guinea pigs, birds and two goats.

When I went there my favourite activity to do was the

flying fox because it was dual cables so you could

race your friends but when you get to the end make

sure to land on your feet. My second favourite

activity was a challenge swing because you can go all

the way up (18.5m) and if you don’t feel confident

enough you can choose how high to go and you will

always have a supervisor in your group.

By Tahlia Coad

I really like Somers camp it was sooo awe-

some! You get to meet new people and make

new friends. I made heaps of friends but my

closest friends were Ashlee and Mae. We

love talking in an accent. It’s really funny.

Ashlee and I went partners for orienteering.

By Tyrell McKenzie

On Somers it was lots of fun. It was good be-

cause my first activity was biking. Someone in

my group got a little piece of bark in his tyre. My

hut was number 4 and there were 19 other people

in your hut and they are from other schools. I

made a friend named Jake from another school.

We made nicknames for each other. His nick-

name was Norton, I had a nickname and it was

Sessie.

By Jackson Norris

On Somers we did a lot of things. The things

I liked the most were the flying fox and ar-

chery. For the flying fox you had get into a

vest. It was the same as the c/swing. It is basi-

cally a high speed vest. For archery if you are

left handed you hold the bow in your left

hand and there are different grips for different

hands.