SEBASTOPOL PRIMARY SCHOOL RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY & READY TO LEARN

INFORMUS NO. 14 September 5th 2019

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Sebastopol Bowling Club

Year 4/5 were excited to be coached by Nora Thornhill at bowling on Monday. We really value our and appreciate our time at the

Sebastopol Bowling Club. According to esteemed coach Neville, we are improving our accuracy.

THIS COMING FORTNIGHT: Assembly 2.40pm, SWPB Celebration and Assembly 1.45pm for End of Term 2.10pm NOTICES: Trivia Night Swimming commences Wednesday 17th October - Payments due by end of Term 3.

SEBASTOPOL PRIMARY SCHOOL Warreen Street, Sebastopol Victoria 3356

Phone: 03 5335 8157 Fax: 5335 9173 Email: sebastopol.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.sebasps.vic.edu.au

Facebook: SebastopolPrimarySchool

Wed 11th Aug Assembly 2.40pm

Wed 18th Sept SWPB Celebration

Fri 20th Sept End of Term 3

Assembly 1.45pm

2.10pm Dismissal

TERM 4

Mon 7th Oct Term 4 Starts

Wed 9th Oct Assembly 2.40pm

Fri 11th Oct Yr4-6 Art Centre

Wed 16th Oct Life Education Van

Thurs 17th Oct Swimming Starts Change

of Date

Thurs 17th Oct Life Education Van

21st-25th Oct Children’s Week

Wed 23rd Oct Assembly 2.40pm

Concert

Thurs 24th Oct Sovereign Hill Snrs

Swimming

Fri 25th Oct Sovereign Hill Snrs

Trivia Night

Wed 30th Oct School Photos

Thurs 31st Oct Swimming

Wed 6th Nov Assembly 2.40pm

Thurs 7th Nov Swimming

Thurs 14th Nov Swimming

Wed 20th Nov Assembly 2.40pm

Thurs 21st Nov Swimming

Thurs 28th Nov Swimming

Wed 4th Dec Assembly 2.40pm

Thurs 5th Dec Swimming

Wed 11th Dec Gr 6 Graduation

Thurs 12th Dec Swimming

Fri 13th Dec Volunteers Morning Tea

Wed 18th Dec Reports Go Home

Thurs 19th Dec Swimming Finishes

End of Term 4

Assembly 1.45pm

Dismissal at 2.10pm

Coming up in Term 3

CONGRATULATIONS!

Amelia Relouw - Prep/1L For her great approach to her learning, everyday. Well done Amelia.

Kai Lendon - 2/3W For a fantastic start to our school. He is ready to learn and respectful. Isaiah Howgate - 4/5S A more pro-active approach to work and behaviour. Keep up the great effort! Serena Shelby - 5/6B For always being respectful, responsible and ready to learn. You are a wonderful role model in our class.

Congratulations to our School Choir for a fantastic effort at Royal South Street 2019

Student Recognition Awards

2020 Enrolments Now Open

PRINCIPALS MESSAGE

Principals Message 22/08/2019

NAPLAN 2019 – a reason to celebrate! I am proud to advise you that our NAPLAN results across all areas of literacy and numeracy indicate learning growth and improvement. A greater number of Year 5 students, 81%, have made medium and high growth since their NAPLAN assessment in Year 3 2017. This achievement exceeds our 2019 Annual Implementation Plan target. ‘We are ready to learn’. My congratulations to the Year 5 students, their educators and families for working together to achieve a higher level of learning growth. Our NAPLAN Relative Gain exceeds the remarkable progress made in 2015, so we are so proud of our collective work and learning. New Enrolments This week we welcome Kai, Year 3 and Gemma, Year 6 to our school community. Kai and Gemma have relocated from Horsham and they are already proving to be great role models and fantastic class members. Attendance 2019 Please remember to call us if your child is unable to be at school. The school needs to follow the Child Safe Standards and confirm where children are each day. Thanks you to the families who remember to do this. Unless your child is unwell, they should be at school. If tiredness is an issue then please review bedtime, access to screens, sleepovers, fruit and veggie intake and daily active exercise. These positive steps will make a huge difference in your child’s wellbeing and energy. Our attendance data is not as positive as it should be. A number of children are missing a day of school each week, this is not appropriate. We need to build positive habits for learning, secondary school, working and community engagement. Foodbank Breakfast and Lunch Club Every 5 weeks we have over 300kg of food staples delivered to school, including ten boxes of apples, thanks to the wonderful team at Foodbank. Foodbank have now expanded their support to include lunch packs and hampers for families. Please contact us if you would like a hamper.

Michelle Wilson Principal

Hi, my name is Ms McKinley and I am super excited to be teaching in the Prep-One classroom at Sebastopol Primary School for the remainder of term 3 and term 4! To give you some idea of who l am l would like to share a little bit about myself. My favourite food is Vietnamese street food, though l am also partial to chocolate. I love a cup of tea and my favourite thing to do in my free time is to work in my garden. My favourite team to barrack for is the Essendon Bombers, mainly because my Mum and Dad follow them. My favourite book is a tricky one, as there are so many wonderful books to chose from. I think that the Faraway tree would have to be my all-time favourite. The place l like best is the beach, l love to swim in summer and watch the waves crashing on the beach in winter. I enjoy driving holidays, exploring different places and l think the Grampians are my favourite place to stay. My favourite colour is blue, l like all shades. My favourite subject to teach and learn about is Science, l love doing practical experiments like making slime and sherbet or reactions with bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. More than anything, l love spending time with my family, especially my two boys, Michael and Ryan and my daughter, Elise. I look forward to getting to know all students and their families at Sebastopol Primary School better over the coming weeks!

Welcome Mrs McKinley

Last week we played Alfredton Gold we lost 13-0.

Last night we played Ballarat College Gold we won 15-3.

Could all Netballers please ensure that the school or coach is aware if you are unable to attend a game on a Wednesday night. All players need to be at the game

10 minutes prior to the game starting. $6 per game.

To pay VNA go to https://netball.resultsvault.com/common/pages/reg/welcome.aspx?id=35969&type=1&save=0&entityid=39405

NETBALL

Our School Swimming Program is due to start next Term. Students will travel to the Ballarat Aquatic centre by bus every Thursday for 10 weeks at a cost of $93.50 per student. Payment plans can be arranged with the office. Please ensure that your children have appropriate swimwear before Term 4 Begins.

Students now have the opportunity to participate in clubs every lunch time. Clubs include Art/Craft, Just Dance, Skipping, ICT and Talent Show.

Sebastopol Primary

School Learning Club

For Students in Years 2-6

Learning club is designed to provide children with extra help in Literacy and Numeracy.

Learning Club is conducted by The Smith Family and will be running at Sebastopol Primary School from 3:10 – 4:30 Wednesdays afternoons.

The program will start on Wednesday 1st of May and finish on Wednesday the 4th of December.

If you would like your child to participate, please will in and return the attached form to the office. For further information please contact Holly on 0408602298

SWIMMING

Clubs

LEARNING CLUB

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Our Young Authors enjoyed their third and final workshop for 2019 at the Australian Catholic University ACU with 90 students from schools across the Central Highlands. This time they focused on writing in the Sports genre. Topics included reporting, commentating and working with an author who writes narratives based

on sports. My thanks to Hannah Sheeran for coordinations the program and leading a workshop at ACU last Friday. Our Young Authors know that writing can take many places in the world of tertiary study, work and community in the future. We would like to thank ACU for hosting this program for talented students.

National eSmart Week. Year 5/6 had a great time at the Sebastopol Library on Monday creating instructions for robots cars.

eSmart Week

Young Authors

Baker’s Delight

Bakers Delight continue to support our school on a

commission based fundraiser.

Whenever you purchase any items at Bakers Delight

quote ‘4017’ and we receive 5% of every sale.

TRIVIA NIGHT Tickets $12 per person or

$100 for a table of 10

MONDAY Me & My Dad Community Playgroup 10.00am - 12pm FRIDAY Sebastopol Community Play Group 9.30am - 11.00am Me & My Dad Community Playgroup 10.00am - 12.00pm

For more information contact City of Ballarat Playgroup Coordinator on 53205682

FUNDRAISING

PLAYGROUP NEWS

Sebastopol Primary School

TRIVIA NIGHT

Friday 25th October 2019 7PM

SEBASTOPOL BOWLING CLUB

Albert Street, Sebastopol Profits raised will go towards

upgrading our school re-sources

To all Learning for Life stu-dents….. We would like to invite you (and a parent) to call in to an art/

When: Tuesday 24th Sep-tember

Where: Phoenix P-12 Com-munity College, Secondary Campus Hertford Street, Sebastopol

Time: Drop in any-time between 10.00am and 12.00pm

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Term 3

2019 TERM DATES

Term 1: 30th January to 5th Apr il Term 2: 23rd Apr il to 28th June

Term 3: 15th July to 20th September Term 4: 7th October to 20th December

WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

WEEK 8 2/9 4/5 Library 5/6 Library 4/5 Bowling

3/9 4/9 5/9 OPEN DAY Young Authors Newsletter

6/9

WEEK 9 9/9

10/9 11/9 Assembly 2.40pm

12/9

13/9

WEEK 10 16/9

17/9 18/9 SWPB Celebration

19/9 20/9 Assembly 1.45pm End of Term 2.10pm

TERM 4

WEEK 1 7/10 Term 4 Begins

8/10 9/10 Assembly 2.40pm

10/10

11/10 Yr4-6 Arts Centre

WEEK 2 14/10 15/10 16/10 Life Education

17/10 Life Education Swimming Starts

18/10

WEEK 3 Children’s Week

21/10 22/10 23/10 Assembly 2.40pm Concert

24/10 Sovereign Hill Seniors Swimming

25/10 Sovereign Hill Seniors Trivia Night

WEEK 4 28/10 29/10 30/10 School Photos

31/10 Swimming

1/11

WEEK 5 4/11 5/11 6/11 Assembly 2.40pm

7/11 Swimming

8/11

WEEK 6 11/11 12/11 13/11 14/11 Swimming

15/11

BELL TIMES 8.50 am - Music Play 9.00am School starts

11.00 - 11.10am Children eat Lunch 11.10 - 11.40 Lunch Break 1.40pm - 2.10pm Recess

3.10 Dismissal Last day of Term 2.30pm Finish

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