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PANNAWONICA PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER What’s On

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19—23 April

Monday—Staff Return

Only

Friday—School Photos

26—30 April

Monday—ANZAC DAY

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Tuesday—ANZAC Day

Service 9am ANZAC

Memorial

Wednesday—Health

Nurse

Thursday—Health Nurse

Friday—Faction

Swimming Carnival

Yr 1-10

3—7 May

Wednesday—Assembly

Rm 5

Thursday—Mother’s Day

Stall Kindy

Friday—Mother’s Day

Stall PP– Yr 12

Room 2

The work this afternoon was the

student’s STEM project for this term -

we have been learning all about living

things. In particular we have been

focussing on the external features of

living things and how a habitat meets

an animals needs e.g food and shelter.

Students had to create an alien animal

with a variety of external features.

Students also had to identify the habitat

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 31 2021 PANNAWONICA PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER , (08) 9134 9100

Celebrating Success

Bronze Ohana– Brock Nelson, Kye Vernede, Khloe Falzon, Ayla Branigan, Reegan Blanco, Harry Norton, Lacey Piggott and Airlea Michelmore. Silver Ohana— Tia Marie Harvey

Merit Certificates

The following students received merit certificates at our latest assembly

Congratulations!

Quinn Harrod, Alfie Unsworth, Tillie O’Loughlin, Willow O’Loughlin, Jude Legg, Kye Vernede, Belle Snow, Khloe Falzon,

Evie Johnston, Kurtis Rutherford, Lynckon Jenkins, Claire Channon, Lucy Rowe, Paige Nelson, Skyla James,

Mason Bunney and Noah Jordan.

Just remember what Mr J says, “Keep turning those lemons in to lemonade!”

Principals Lunch

These very lucky students were nominated by their

teacher for showing improvement within and outside of

their class rooms, to attend the Principals Lunch with

Mr J. The students enjoyed a yummy lunch

rewarded courtesy of the school for their incredible

efforts, including, sandwiches, pies, sausage rolls, fruit,

spring rolls, pizza and cup cakes.

Congratulations—

Samuel Wood, Airlie Michelmore, Ryley Walker,

Lachlan Willis, Fionn Mistry, Brock Nelson,

Kendrick Walker, Lucca Symes, Nate Mehlert,

Addy Desmond, Rhys Evangelista & Paige Nelson.

Dear Parents/Caregivers – welcome to Week 9! As we come to a close on our first term for 2021, I would like to start by acknowledging our wonderful P&C who have worked tirelessly this term over a number of fundraising initiatives and special events for our students and school, including the Easter Bonnet Parade which was held at the Community Hall. On behalf of our students and staff, thank you for the work that you do. Additionally, our P&C alongside the Shire of Ashburton provided tremendous support of our recent Harmony Day Event. The Shire organised close to one thousand dollars worth of funds to support our students with the activities for the day. In particular I would like to acknowledge Chanele from the Shire for her hard work and dedication towards our students. Additionally, we were inundated with parent and community helpers, to that we are truly grateful. Finally, thank you to Mrs Piggott, Mrs Blanco & Mrs Martin for their organisation and coordination of our Harmony Day event. The word around with our students was “we wish every day was Harmony Day.” This week, our Secondary students where recognised by their teachers with over 40 Acknowledgement Certificates for an excellent achievement on assessments and tasks or an A Grade on any assessment or assignment. These certificates were handed out today along with an ice-cream to every student who received one; congratulations to our students who received a certificate today – their hard work and effort needs to be acknowledged and celebrated. These photos have been posted to Facebook. Additionally, on the topic of our Secondary Students, Interim Reports are being sent home this week from our Secondary Teachers. Please keep an eye out for these in your child’s bag. If you have any questions about your child’s achievement or progress, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s subject or homeroom teacher via Seesaw. Finally, on behalf of all of the staff at Pannawonica Primary School, we wish everyone a safe and relaxing holiday and look forward to welcoming everyone back to school on Tuesday 20 May.

Ben Jamieson—Principal

High School Pie Making Competition As part of our Harmony Day celebrations this year we wanted the high school students to have their own aged appropriate activities.

These activities were Origami with Megumi Marsh and Chanele Lucht, Megumi originates from Japan and Chanele has a Masters degree in Japanese. We were very lucky to have them share their

culture and experience with the students, they made rabbits, bunny faces and cranes with the students teaching them the

names in Japanese for these animals whilst they were creating origami. Then we had our very first Pie Baking Competition,

students were asked to use their culture as inspiration for a pie recipe. They then had to bake a pie to be judged by

Ben Jamieson, Leigh Piggott, Annette Hansen, Emma Jamieson and Rykia Blanco. It was a fiercely competitive bake off and we were impressed with the flavour combinations, the winners were 1st Place Savannah Ryalls, 2nd Place Chayse Jenkins and 3rd Place Toby Nelson, they were awarded trophies and a prize of

much loved chocolate. We look forward to many more fun

activities with the High School students in the near future.

Easter Bonnet Parade

A huge thank you to our wonderful P&C for organising our Annual Easter Raffle and Easter Hat prizes! Thank you to our

special visitor for joining us this year and celebrating with our students, Mr Easter Bunny himself!

Congratulations to our winning Easter Hat students—Lily Jamieson and Jayce Innes from Kindy, Noah Martin and

Charlotte Revie from Pre-Primary, Airlie Michelmore and Asher Innes from Room 2, Ryley Walker and Griffin Bentley form

Room 3, Lucca Symes and Lydia Batt from Room 4, Skyla James and Daisy Unsworth from Room 5, Paige Nelson and

Rhys Evangelista form Room 6

Congratulations to our Kindy to Year 6 students for creating such wonderful hats, to our parents who came in and assisted

making the hats in class, and Congratulations to our Easter Raffle winners too. Happy Easter everyone!

Harmony Day Celebrations

On Tuesday 23 March, we held our annual Harmony Day celebrations, which saw parents, caregivers and community

members join us in our whole-school festivities. Students were in for a treat, making origami with Megumi Marsh and

Chanele Lucht; learning how to make fried rice with Rose and Paul Evangelista; making pot plants with Ms Garrett and our

Chaplain Mrs Martin; African dancing with Huda Mohamed; and heard stories about Maori culture, whilst singing and

dancing to Maori music with Karorina Kingi, Moana Harrison and Denise Berryman. The week prior, saw our high school

students celebrate Harmony Day by becoming masters in origami and having a pie making competition. Students were

tasked with researching and developing their own personalised pie recipe, then produce two pies each. The teaching staff

voted, with their wrought-iron stomachs, for the best pie-maker and proclaimed Savannah Ryalls in first place, followed

closely by Chayse Jenkins in second place and Toby Nelson in third place. The Harmony Day message “everyone

belongs” seeks to highlight Australia’s rich multi-cultural diversity, calling for inclusiveness, respect and belonging for all

Australians, regardless of cultural or linguistic backgrounds. Harmony Day also gave our school an opportunity to give back

to those in need, our free-dress day raised $158.70 for our sister-school in Cambodia, The Rokar Thom Nippon Foundation

School. Well done to Mrs Leigh Piggott, Mrs Talitha Martin and Mrs Rykia Blanco for all their hard work and efforts to make

Harmony Day a fun-filled event. We’d like to extend a huge THANK YOU to our wonderful parent and community ‘Helping

Heroes’ for giving up their time to join us; also, to our extraordinary P&C for organising the yummy lunch; and to the Shire

of Ashburton and Sodexo for their generous donations – we greatly appreciate their continued support!!

Harmony Day