20th March 2019

OUR SCHOOL VISION: “Wandong Primary School … Making a difference by developing confident, independent

and resilient learners who strive for personal excellence.”

‘The Puggle Post’

“We make a

difference.”

www.wandongps.vic.edu.au

Foundation C: Flynn Ross (Showing all of our school values)

Foundation M: Kevin Zugaro (Demonstrating whole body listening)

Foundation N: Olivia Langdon (Being the BEST ‘mini teacher’ EVER!)

Foundation Z: Eliza Miller (Being a motivated and independent learner)

1/2B: Oliver George (Excellent counting work)

1/2D: Will Mann (Being a kind and caring member of his class)

1/2E: Riley Mendola (Great participation during maths discussion)

1/2Y: Nayte McMaster –Kennedy (Doing all his handwriting straight away)

1/2K: Kaitlin Clarke (Listening carefully in class)

1/2W: Kobe Fogliaro (Writing wonderful poems about his dog and BMX riding)

3/4E: Beau Toohey (Displaying great responsibility and initiative in classroom activities)

3/4G: Mia Keenan (Completing two digit by two digit subtraction problems using the “jump strategy”)

3/4G: Ava Locke (Attempting all learning tasks, quickly organising her materials and sharing her ideas)

3/4O: Corey Arnup (Making some fantastic choices in the classroom to ensure he makes the most out of his learning)

3/4P: Mia Clarke (Demonstrating persistence when challenged in maths)

3/4S: Charlie Searle (Trying 100% of the time)

3/4Z: Kassidee Nelson (Completing neat handwriting)

5/6A: Alyssa Nelson (Showing concern and caring about everyone)

5/6H: Charlie Thomas (Using excellent word choices and considering sentence fluency to write a wonderful free verse poem)

5/6K: Kane Lemmar (Exceeding expectations and producing work to a high standard)

5/6O: Piper Hobson (Pushing herself with reading and writing)

5/6S: Beraiah McMaster (Committing to our poetry unit and writing an amazing free verse called “Wild Reuben”)

Reminders Thursday 21st March - Junior Neighbourhood Watch session for Grade 5/6 students

Thursday 21st March - Scholastic Book Club Term 1 Issue 2 orders and payments due back today

Tuesday 26th March - Grade 5/6 Quantum excursion (Group 1 – 5/6A and 5/6H split students)

Wednesday 27th March - Grade 5/6 Quantum excursion (Group 2 - 5/6K and 5/6H split students)

Wednesday 27th March - School Tour for 2020 enrolments (2:00-3:00pm)

A Message from the Principal Team

Dear families,

It has again been a busy week as we approach the end of term 1. Although everyone is tired, it is great to see that excellence in teaching and learning which we pride ourselves on at Wandong, has continued in classrooms.

Curriculum Day: As you would be aware, Monday was a pupil free day, due to it being a Curriculum day for all staff. The purpose of any Curriculum day is to address key areas of need for staff professional development and school growth, in-line with our Annual Implementation Plan. All staff are to be commended on their dedication and collaboration throughout the day. The key foci of the day included:

Differentiating learning tasks effectively and tackling authentic problem solving in Mathematics Effective strategies for teaching Reading Writing meaningful Learning Intentions and Success Criteria which help students become directors of their own

learning

School Council: On Monday night we held our first official School Council meeting for 2019. The following items were discussed:

School Council positions are as follows: President- Adam Russell, Vice President- Leanne Pretty, Treasurer- Dave Warren, Secretary- Kaitlyn Hall

School Council members selected sub-comities to be a part of this year, as follows: Finance- Dave Warren, Stephanie Pollock and Adam Russell Education- Stephanie Pollock, Yvette Curlis, Kaitlyn Hall, Dean Carmody, Sharon Delaney & Kimberly Gregory. Buildings and Grounds- Dave Warren, Adam Russell, Brett Ward, Justin Gomez, Emma Brancastiano

& Leanne Pretty

The 2019 Annual Budget was ratified

The 2019 Annual Implementation Plan (our key focus areas for teaching, learning and student welfare) was explained and endorsed. At each school council meeting, members will be updated on our progress towards these goals

Updates regarding the current building works, staff professional development and future school projects were given

Book Dress Up Day: Last Wednesday was our ‘Book Dress Up’ day. It was fantastic to see the level of effort which families, students and staff went to- making the day a huge success! It was a wonderful way to begin the year with a focus on home reading and many families made the most of the pop up book fair to restock their home libraries in preparation for the year ahead.

Victorian School Sports Awards: On Thursday, Mr Warren and Mr Fearn attended the Victorian School Sports Awards to support Kirra Wright in receiving the prestigious Cross Country with a Multi-Class award. This was a huge achievement for Kirra who had the opportunity to meet many sporting icons and to have her achievements and future goals published as a part of the event media. Congratulations to Kirra for these amazing achievements. Your resilience and dedication are to be admired.

Stephanie Pollock - Acting Assistant Principal

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

Wallan & Kilmore Community Bank® branches

PAFA COLOR FUN RUN The date for this amazing event is Friday 5th April (the last day of Term One).

This will be a major event for our school.

If you have any queries in relation to the PAFA Color Fun Run please log on to https://schoolfundraising.com.au

or contact our school office.

IMPORTANT REMINDER You will notice some new signs around the school. Miss Pollock has created

these signs to go on the gates to remind parents that gates should be closed at all times,

even if they are not locked with a padlock.

To help keep our students safe, we ask the members of our school community

to close gates as they enter and exit the school for drop off in the morning

and in the afternoon, as they arrive for pick up.

Scholastic Book Club

Issue 2 orders are due back on Thursday 21st March.

Payment can be made by money or cheque (payable to Scholastic Australia) with order forms

to be returned to school. Alternatively, orders can be done online with credit card and

no paperwork is required.

Every order earns free books & resources for our school.

A Message from the School Captains

Dear families,

Wow, what an amazing first week as School Captains.

We have enjoyed the many jobs that our role has. Like proudly raising the flags each day. We ran

our first assembly last Friday and looking forward to running them each week.

The book week dress up day was a load of fun. It was great to see everyone dressed up, even the

teachers! They looked awesome. We liked the Aides as Wally and the Foundation teachers as

crayons.

We are excited to have such a great leadership team with us and cannot wait to get started on the

many ideas we all came up with.

Massive congrats to Nayte, who competed in the Regional Swimming Championships yesterday at Watermarc, Greensborough.

We hope you all had fun on the pupil free day on Monday.

It is a massive privilege to get this role. We are excited to see what amazing things will come in the months ahead.

Xander Fearn and Aurora Sheehy

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL SUPER READER’S CLUB:

Congratulations on 50 nights reading:

Logan Harrison, Chloe Mazurek, Caitlin Rees and Lacy Cesaria.

Student accident insurance, ambulance cover arrangements

and private property brought to school Schools are reminded that the Department does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for

students. Parents are asked to please not send valuable items to school with students. Additionally, the school does

not have ambulance cover. It is recommended that all families organise ambulance insurance for their children as,

in an emergency, this is our first telephone call made by staff at the school. In the event that an ambulance takes a

child to the hospital and the family do not have cover, the family will be billed by Ambulance Victoria for the trip – and

it is VERY expensive without cover.

What’s gone home recently?

The following notices were sent home between

Thursday 14th March & Wednesday 20th March:

Whole school:

PAFA request for Easter Raffle donations PAFA Easter Raffle ticket sheet

Selected Families:

Wakakirri payment reminder

Selected Students:

Nil

Individual grade levels:

Foundation:

Grade 1/2:

Nil

Grade 3/4:

Wandong Cross Country consent & payment form

Grade 5/6:

Second letter in relation to Important Student Medical Information for students in Grade 5/6K

Grade 5/6 - Group One Excursion to Parliament House & ACDC Lane consent & payment form

Grade 5/6 - Group Two Excursion to Parliament House & ACDC Lane consent & payment form

Wandong Cross Country consent & payment form

Spare copies of notices are in the

school foyer in the grade level trays

PARENT

PAYMENTS

RECEIVED

288 families at WPS.

188 Completed

payments

= 65 %

Have you

recently

asked your

child/ren....

“What

did you

learn

today?”

CONTACTERS NEEDED

We are looking for volunteers to contact books that are new to our classroom and school library.

If you can help, please fill out the book contacting slip details slip available at

the school office or speak with our lovely office ladies for more information.

WOW! … WHAT’S ON & WHAT’S DUE @WANDONG

MARCH

Thursday 21st Junior Neighbourhood Watch session for Grade 5/6 students

Scholastic Book Club Term 1 Issue 2 orders and payments due back today

Tuesday 26th Grade 5/6 Quantum excursion (Group 1 – 5/6A and 5/6H split students)

Wednesday 27th Grade 5/6 Quantum excursion (Group 2 - 5/6K and 5/6H split students) School Tour for 2020 enrolments (2:00-3:00pm)

Thursday 28th Grade 5/6 Quantum excursion (Group 3 - 5/6O and 5/6H split students)

Friday 29th Grade 5/6 Quantum excursion (Group 4 - 5/6S and 5/6H split students)

APRIL

Monday 1st Grade 5/6 Summer Sports Tournament consent and payment due today

Thursday 4th Grade 5/6 Summer Sports Tournament

Friday 5th PAFA School Colour Fun Run PAFA Easter Raffle drawn at assembly Last day of Term One (school finishes at 2:30pm)

Tuesday 23rd First day of Term Two (school starts at 8:55am

Grade 5/6 Parliament House and ACDC Lane excursion consent and payment due today

Wednesday 24th Wandong Cross Country consent and payment due today

Friday 26th Wandong Cross Country (Grades 3-6 only)

Monday 29th PAFA Silver Coin Challenge starts today Grade 5/6 Parliament House and ACDC Lane excursion (Group 1– 5/6A, 5/6K and half 5/6O)

Last day to order School Fun Run prizes

Tuesday 30th School Photo day PAFA Meeting (9:15 start in the staffroom)

MAY

Wednesday 1st PAFA Mothers Day Stall

Thursday 2nd PAFA Mothers Day Stall School Tour for 2020 enrolments (9:30-10:30am)

Friday 3rd District Cross Country (qualifying students from Grades 3-6 only)

Tuesday 7th School Tour for 2020 enrolments (9:30-10:30am)

Wednesday 8th Grade 3/4 Quantum excursion (Group 1)

Thursday 9th Grade 3/4 Quantum excursion (Group 2)

Friday 10th Grade 3/4 Quantum excursion (Group 3) Grade 5/6 Parliament House and ACDC Lane excursion (Group 2– 5/6H, 5/6S and half 5/6O)

Tuesday 14th to Friday 24th

NAPLAN Testing (Grade 3 and Grade 5 only)

Tuesday 28th School photo catch up day

Wednesday 29th Whittlesea Division Cross Country (qualifying student for Grades 3-6 only)

JUNE

Tuesday 4th PAFA Hot Dog Day (Foundation to Grade 2)

Wednesday 5th PAFA Hot Dog Day (Grades 3 to 6)

Tuesday 11th School Tour for 2020 enrolments (2:00-3:00pm)

Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th

Mobile Dental Van booked to come

Friday 14th School Tour for 2020 enrolments (9:30-10:30am)

Wednesday 19th Northern Metropolitan Region Cross Country (qualifying students from Grades 3-6 only)

Friday 28th Last day of Term Two (school finishes at 2:30pm)

The Healthy Schools Mitchell eNewsletter (see link below) is for school staff, parents and students. It includes news, resources and local events on eating well and being active,

and will be released each school term.

https://mailchi.mp/32470254cb41/healthyschoolsmitchellterm1

Term 1 - Edition 7, 2019