REMINDERS

NPS Athletic Sports - TOMORROW - Friday, September 18th

Concert DVD’s - available now, please contact office @ $5.00

TERM 2 - Concludes Friday, September 18th - 2.30pm

TERM 3 - Commences Monday, October 5th

September 17th, 2015

‘Learning for Life”

www.nathaliaps.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 03 58662677

Principal: Chris McCallum

Holders of Nathalia’s educational history since 1878

Nathalia Kids Are Friendly Kids

“Including Others”

Last week’s Winners

F/1 W Nate Seath

1/2 B Kiana Guligo

3/4 J Sasha Daniel

4/5 I Emily Bell

5/6 R Archie Congues

Congratulations to our

weekly winners.

This week’s theme is:

“Teamwork”

School Concert

The Nathalia Primary School concert last Thursday night was a fantastic celebration for our school. The children performed beautifully on the night and their costumes looked wonderful. Congratulations to Mrs King-Jones for the work she has done with the children during the school year. The performance of the choir was a highlight at the concert. Mrs Zammit also did a great deal of work preparing the children for the school concert and should be proud of this achievement. It was great to see so many parents, grand parents and friends of the school in the audience and I’m sure they enjoyed the concert as much as I did.

Athletic Sports

This Friday we are having our school athletic sports at the Nathalia Recreation Reserve from 10.00am. The children will attend school at the usual time and then we will walk to the reserve for a 10.00am start. The sports will conclude by 1.00pm and school will finish at 2.20pm for the end of term. Parents are welcome to take their children home at the conclusion of the sports but please let the teachers know if you are doing this.

End of Term

As I said earlier, term three concludes this Friday at 2.20pm. I’m sure all families will enjoy the extra time they spend with their children over the break and the kids will come back refreshed for a fantastic term 4. Thanks, Chris McCallum—Principal

“Study Ladder” and Mathletics

Achievers

Grade six student Aiden Lindsay represented Nathalia Primary School at the regional golf championships in Shepparton on Monday. Aiden did very well and came fifth overall, earning the right to play at the next level in Benalla in November. Well done Aiden and best of luck in Benalla.

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Parents’ Club News

Thank you to all those families who donated hamper items and purchased

tickets. Our raffle prizes were all donated with thanks going to The Good Guys,

Nathalia Post Office, K & A Tyre & Blake Street Butchery. A profit of $700 was

made on the raffle which is a great effort.

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Winners – 2015 School Production Raffle

1st - $50 Good Guys Voucher & Food Hamper - Cheryl Thorn

2nd - Laundry Goods - Doug Hutchins

3rd - Food Hamper - Roy Peachey

4th - Car Kit - Donna Schram

5th - $30 Blake St Butchery Voucher - Denise Simpson

6th - Head Phones - Fred Jeffries

7th - Sports Camera - Melissa Bell

8th - Wine - Ellen Jeffries

Thank you Parents Club

Prep Transition Program The 2016 Prep / Foundation Transition Program is available to families who have enrolled, or are considering enrolling, their child at Nathalia Primary School in Prep (Foundation) next year. The Dates are: November 10 (includes parent information session) November 17, November 24. These sessions run from 9am - 11am. and December 1st. This session will run from 9am - 11.30am Pick up and drop off at day care can be arranged. Please contact the Principal, Chris McCallum, for further details.

TERM 4 - 2015

SCHOOL CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER

18th - School Athletic Sports

- Term Three concludes

OCTOBER

5th - Term Four commences

9th - Inter-School Athletic Sports

12th - Division Athletics Carnival -

(Shepp)

16th - Region Athletic Championship

(Shepp)

19th - Parents’ Club Meeting

20th - School Council Meeting

23rd - State Athletics Championships

NOVEMBER

2nd - Pupil Free Day

3rd - Melbourne Cup Day

10th - Prep Transition - 9.00am - 11.00am

11th - Remembrance Day

16th - Parents’ Club meeting

17th - Prep Transition - 9.00am - 11.00am

17th - School Council meeting

18th - Division Hot Shots (Shepparton)

24th - Prep Transition - 9.00am - 11.00am

26th - Region Hot Shots (Wangaratta)

DECEMBER

8th - State wide Transition Day -

9.00am - 11.30am

- School Council Meeting

- Parents’ Club Meeting

18th- Term Four concludes

TBA - Grade Six Graduation

- Pool Day

- Infant Activity Day

January 2016

January 26th - Staff Resume

January 28th - Term One commences for all

students

2015 School Concert DVD

DVD’s are now available from the school office at a cost of $5.00

Please complete the order form below and return to school along with payment.

I would like to order Copy/ies

of the Concert DVD @ $5.00 - $ enclosed.

Student Name/s : Grade/s :

FAMILY FUN AT PURPLE LAND

THURSDAY:

Come along to training to support and

encourage our U15 netball team and

senior football team. Help decorate the

rooms. Meals available from 6pm.

All welcome

SUNDAY:

BBQ lunch and games at the Rec Reserve.

All welcome.

Kids Basketball

program starting in tem 4.

Time: 3.45pm - 4.45pm

Where: Nathalia Community Centre

Cost : $60 per person for the term

For 6yr old and up

Starts 1st Tuesday back after the school holidays

October 6th

For further details contact:

Christie 0408 721 252

or

email vicki.stirling@ymca.org.au

Learn new ball skills

Meet new people

Play a game

Come have some fun

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (www.kidshealth.org)

More Than One Kind of Intelligence

You may have heard people mention “IQ” when talking about intellect and how smart someone is. (For example, “My

brother doesn’t need to study as much as I do because he has a really high IQ.”) IQ stands for “intellectual quotient.” It

can help predict how well someone may do academically.

IQ is just one measure of our abilities, though. There are many other kinds of intelligence in addition to intellect. For

example, spatial intelligence is the ability to think in 3D. Musical intelligence is the ability to recognise rhythm, cadence,

and tone. Athletic artistic, and mechanical abilities are other types of intelligence.

One important type of intelligence is emotional intelligence.

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand, use and manage our emotions. Emotional intelligence is sometimes

called EQ (or EI) for short. Just as a high IQ can predict top test scores a high EQ can predict success in social and

emotional situations. EQ helps us build strong relationships, make good decisions, and deal with difficult situations.

One way to think about EQ is that it’s part of being people-smart. Understanding and getting along with people helps us

be successful in almost any area of life. In fact, some studies have shown that EQ is more important than IQ when it

comes to doing well in school or being successful at work.

Some people have naturally good EQ skills. Others need to work on them. The good news is that everyone can get better.

Unlike IQ, people can actually improve their emotional intelligence – if they know what to do.

More next term on improving your emotional intelligence.

STUDENT WELLBEING - Glenda Harding