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Warranwood

Primary School www.warranwood.vic.edu.au

Term 3, Week 8

Thursday 3rd September, 2015

CYBER SAFETY We do lots of cybersafety work with our students, particularly in the Senior School, when social media starts to become a regular was of communicating. It is very important to talk to your children about what they are doing, the social media they are using, the security and privacy settings and more. A good question for users of Face-book, Instagram etc is “Do you know all the people who are your contacts or ‘friends’?” If not, why do they have them? We have recently found that PicCollage has added a social media component. PicCollage is a really useful app that allows you to create great photo presentations. Check out our Facebook page – the Father’s Day stall pic-ture was created by PA’s Jenny Brown with a little (?) assistance from her Middle School daughter. If your child uses PicCollage they may also have an account and followers!! While this is a creative/ photo sharing account, all children should have the settings in that account (and all accounts) on PRIVATE. Communication is the key – have open conversations with your children about what they are doing online! SPRING FAIR Don’t forget to use our new online roster system for registering your time and support at each class stall! You have a notice, it was emailed, it is on our website – impossible to miss!! THANK YOU The mystery takeover of MY front page last week made Sue and I very proud. We greatly appreciated the kind words of Brenton and Kellie on the occasion of Principal’s Day. And then on Monday we were again surprised and delighted to be presented with student art work, some fine poetry and a great deal of affection from all our students! LEAVE I will be on long service leave for the last 2 weeks of this term. My wife and I are escaping the cold for a few weeks in Vietnam and beyond. I am confidently leaving our wonderful school in the capable hands of Sue Dean during this time. Rod Neal will be absent during the same time – he is going in a completely different direction – Oman!

WHAT’S ON? September 1 District Athletics 2 Fathers Day Stall 4 Maths Day—Clothing with Patterns and Shapes 9 Slushie Day 11 Prep Excursion—Hedgend Maze 13 Working Bee 14 The Chocolate Factory—Senior School Production 15 School Council 18 End of Term—2:30 finish October 5 Term 4 begins! 8 Division Athletics

Ned B PS Chloe B PS Patience D PR Jasmine W PS Daniel S PR Zali K 1/2P Sarah O 1/2C Daisy S 1/2C Sam J 1/2P Sam P 1/2J Claire M 1/2J Orland C 3/4D Codi C 3/4D Jacob T 3/4A Zac P 3/4A Angus E 3/4M

Elise H 3/4M Chloe W 3/4M Lauren F 3/4M Rebekah P 3/4S Abbey J 3/4S Jessica T 3/4H Nina S 3/4H Thomas 5/6D Rachel C 5/6T Brydee J 5/6T Jack B 5/6A Andrew G 5/6A Brooke B 5/6S James H 5/6S

Principal Awards

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ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL REPORT Personal Thanks Thank you to all students for making me feel special by presenting my art piece at assembly. A Principal or As-sistant Principal job is challenging but rewarding. I love my role and I am lucky to be at Warranwood. Thanks again. Having an impact on your child’s learning The Commonwealth government has developed an app, The Learning Potential, for parents helping them to be more involved in their child’s learning. The app covers all stages of development. Have a look at the follow-ing website for more information: http://www.learningpotential.gov.au/ Planning Week Next week students will have their specialist classes on one day and staff will prepare for next term. Planning days will be as follows: Monday – Prep Tuesday – Juniors Wednesday – Middle Thursday – Senior (including full dress rehearsal for The Chocolate Factory production) Friday - Specialists

Sue Dean

SPRING FAIR WINNER! Hayden’s prize winning design is featured on the first of our advertising

boards at the front of the school! he has good reason to be proud!

WORKING BEE PROJECT Sunday 13 September 9:00 am – 12 midday

Bring wheelbarrow and tools to clear the present garden located in the courtyard beside the art room and Mia’s room. The building aspect of the project is to raise the sleeper wall to contain the mushroom mulch and improve the soil for the planting of an orchard and vegetables. There is also a Japanese garden planned for a corner nearest to the art room.

Andrew Tonkin

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Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge A reminder that all completed books must be entered on the website by Monday September 7th. If you have forgotten your username or password, please let me know and I will send home the details again. Happy reading! Jacquie Durik Challenge Co-ordinator

Performing Arts

The Senior School Production of The Chocolate Factory will be performed on Monday 14th September at the

Mahon Theatre, Aquinas College. Tickets are available today the whole school community.

To book your tickets for this outstanding event please follow the attached link Adult tickets $14.00/Child $10.00

http://www.trybooking.com/153438

Jacinta O’Leary

Performing Arts

Reflections of Camp Jungai The thing I liked most about Camp Jungai was the picto rally. This is where you get a mini picture of an area and there’s a letter hidden somewhere near where the picture was taken. There’s a number on the back of the card and you put the letter you found under the number. We did it in pairs of 2. The way the photo was shown made it a really big mystery. I found all the letters that were hidden but I could not unscramble the letters to make a word. So that is what I liked best about Camp Jungai. By Zac P 34AT

My favourite thing I did at Camp Jungai was definitely throwing/making boomerangs. It was amazing learning about boomerangs and throwing them. After three days I finally got to throw my boomerang with my dad on Sunday at school. I also loved their food. My favourite food was for dessert chocolate mousse, for dinner the penne pasta, for lunch the soup and garlic bread, and for breakfastit was definitely the pancakes! Those were my favourite foods at Camp Jungai. By Liam C 34AT

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SPORTS NEWS Our team of 70 students competed in the District Athletics Sports last Tuesday. Nine other schools took part in a friendly atmosphere being matched by the perfect weather. We had many tremendous results and we proudly won the field section trophy (high jump, long jump, triple jump, shot put and discus), finished third in the track events (running and hurdles), equal fourth in the ball games and a very creditable second overall. While each student’s efforts are appreciated and recognised I have listed below those who finished first in their individual or relay events and therefore earn the right to compete in the Division sports. Athletic day firsts. Ben S. Triple jump, 100m. Jacob B. High jump, 200m. Teagan H. 100m, triple jump. James H. Triple jump. Cameron A. Shot put. Jake S. Long jump. Jeremy B. Discus, shot put. Rhys H. 100m, 200m. Jessica S. High jump. Cooper deP. 100m, shot put. Olivia J. 200m. 11G 4 x 100m relay. Teagan H, Kenna K, Jessica S & Olivia J. 12B 4 x 100m relay. Ben S, Jacob B, Toby B & Jake S. Sophie S. 2nd in 1500m & 800m, also advances to Division. Thanks to all the parents and grandparents who supported the students and especially Kristy, Jen, Deb, Sue and Rachael who helped run events or helped teachers with their responsibilities. National Cross Country. Cooper had an extremely busy 4 days at the National Cross Country Championship representing Victoria. He ran a PB in his individual 2km event and was selected to run in a relay event on Monday. This team came sec-ond and each runner, including Cooper received a silver medal. Besides the running there was a tour of the MCG and chances to mix with other athletes from across Australia.

Rod Neal

News from the Health Centre

A Question of Health - Hayfever Season It is just about spring and the dreaded hay-fever strikes many of us. If your child suffers from seasonal hay-fever, please ensure they have their antihistamine prior to school to allow it time to work, ensuring a more com-fortable day at school . Asthma symptoms may also increase with more windy days and pollen in the air. Ensure your child uses their preventer medication correctly, and provide a spacer to use with ventolin if needed for relief of symptoms . If any increase of asthma symptoms occur, please review with your local doctor or respiratory nurse specialist for advice. If your child is required to take medication at school, we requires a written authority from your doctor (the origi-nal packet of medication with the script on it), medication form with instructions and parent signature .

Gay Brown

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JUNIOR SCHOOL WELLBEING PROGRAM

JUNIOR PROGRAM

This week was the last session on Helpful vs Unhelpful thoughts and the last session of the program. Key messages: We can’t stop our brain from having unhelpful thoughts but we can get into the habit of having them less

and less. The more positive/helpful thoughts we grow the less unhelpful thoughts we will have.

Thoughts create feelings and feelings create actions/behaviour, to change the feeling or action we have to

‘kill off’ the thought that we don’t want and the feeling and action/behaviour will die with it. The helpful

thought will stay and have a dance party in your brain!

People can think about situations in many different ways so pick the thought that gives you the nicest feel-

ing and creates the most helpful actions/behaviour.

Let go and take time out from thoughts by imaging they are clouds in the sky or leaves on a stream. “It is

just a thought….it will pass”.

ANXIETY: PARENT INFO SESSION

I am running a session for Parents on Anxiety on Thursday 10th September from 9.00 – 10.15am at Croydon Hills Primary. If you and/or your child tends to worry this session will be helpful to gain insight into brain func-tions, and help you develop parenting strategies to support your child’s emotional wellbeing. Email me to regis-ter sartori.mia.m@edumail.vic.gov.au LIVING AUTISM: TIME FOR YOU

Recently had a child diagnosed with autism? This can be a challenging time and you do not need to go through it on your own. Jo White is a specialist in working with children with Autism and she holding a seminar for parents. Get informed and linked in with the supports you need! Flyer with details are below. ANDREW FULLER RESILIENCE SEMINAR

Get informed on how to help your child build resilience with the expert on Adolescent Mental Health. Flyer with

details below.

Mia Sartori, Student Wellbeing Officer

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SPRING FAIR ROSTERS This year we are very excited to announce that the 2015 Spring Fair stall rosters will now be online, saving you and your class reps time and resources! You can select each of your children’s stall links and following the prompts on screen fill in your choice of time selections! Rosters will be open online until Friday 9

th October, which will allow your class reps time to get the rosters sorted and print-

ed and up on your class window. As a thank you, when you finish your shift, sign the roster near your name and you will go in the Hamper Raffle to be drawn at assembly on Monday 19

th October.

It will be a fabulous day but please remember, we need your help - by sharing the load, everyone can enjoy the day. These are all the online roster links for our Spring Fair stall. Please navigate your way through the prompts (after clicking on your link) to select your times. Remember, first in, gets first time choice!

When you get to the signupgenius page for your child’s stall, you will see various time slots and numbers in brackets. This means we need, for example, 5 people from 10.00am – 11.30am. Please choose a slot, clicking the Sign Up box, and press Submit and Sign Up. From then, fill in your child’s name, and your own contact details. You’ll need to provide your name, email address, and mobile number. Then select “Sign Up Now” bottom left of screen. This will confirm that you have selected your time slot. You are still able to change this if needed. Your information will remain private. The details you enter will be used only by the school appointed delegates for the purposes of filling the roster and will not be passed on to any other companies. You will get a reminder from the system a day or two before the event – you can swap with other people on the same stall if you need to. You can view the roster to check your spot, you can also add it to your Facebook page as a reminder or calendar, etc. To continue on with booking a time slot for another of your children’s stalls, select the relevant roster for your child’s stall. If you have any trouble with the online rostering system, please contact your class reps, Jo Hales (bandjhales@bigpond.com) or Brigid Campbell in the of-fice. If you do not have access to online rostering, please see your class rep and they will add your time requests to the roster.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Class Teacher Stall

Prep R Yvonne/Jacquie Ticket Booth

Prep S Suzie Craft Activities & Art Exhibition

1/2J Jenny Hot Beef Rolls

1/2M Ashleigh Hot Dogs, Nachos, Sushi

1/2P Vicky Hot Donuts & Slushies

1/2C Dee Preloved Toys, Games, Books & Baby Goods

3/4D Katherine Silent Auction

3/4M Alison Preloved Clothing

3/4A Andrew BBQ1 (Main Area)

3/4S Anita Cake, Produce & Showbags

3/4H Shane BBQ2 near the Wine Tent

5/6P Roseanne Wine Tent

5/6A Anne Plants

5/6S Sue Hot Chips, Dim Sims, Potato Cakes, Chicken Nuggets

5/6D Dylan Chocolate Coin Toss

5/6T Chris Devonshire Tea & Coffee

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SLUSHIE DAY Wednesday 9

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September Bring your $2.00

and enjoy a lovely

Raspberry Slushie!

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Canteen News

Footy Day Lunch - Thursday 17th September, order forms have been sent home and need

to be returned by Thursday 10th September.

SPECIALS Bulla Choc Crunch $1.00 (until sold out) Butter Popcorn $1.00 (until end of term 3)

$5- Meal Deals – available till end of Term 3

~ Meal Deal 1~

Hot Dog with YOUR choice of BIG M Chocolate or Strawberry Milk and a Choc Chip Muffin $5.00

~ Meal Deal 2~

Sausage Roll or Meat Pie with YOUR choice of BIG M Chocolate or Strawberry Milk and a Choc Chip Muffin

~ Meal Deal 3~

Hawaiian or Margarita Pizza with YOUR Choice of Drink and a Choc Chip Muffin $5.00

~ Meal Deal 4~

Two Homemade Ham and Cheese Mini Quiches with YOUR choice of Drink and a Choc Chip Muffin

REMINDERS

Tomato Sauce sachets are 0.15c each. Please ensure you add this when ordering.

Students are also able to come to the canteen at recess and ask for something from their lunch order for snack.

Thanks to those parents who have offered to volunteer in 2015. Volunteer hours are: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 11am to 2.30pm, Friday 10am to 2.30 pm

If you are a new volunteer please come 15 mins prior for an induction.

If you are unable to attend canteen on the day you are rostered please contact me in advance on 0419 387 370.

Warm regards

Megan Parker

Canteen Roster, Term 3, 2015

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 3 2015

Date Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

Thursday, 3 September 2015 Bec Parry Kate Braunthal

Friday, 4 September 2015 Tania Cullen Hall Nicole Thorpe Liz McGinley/Sam Ireland

Monday, 7 September 2015 Jo Aikman

Tuesday, 8 September 2015 Rachel Arsens Sue Budge

Wed, 9 September 2015 Canteen Closed

Thurs, 10 September 2015 Jane Fletcher Katie Bronstring

Friday, 11 September 2015 Andrea Haywood Sarah Mitsalis Andrew Gersh

Monday, 14 September 2015 Melinda Peatling

Tuesday, 15 September 2015 Sylda Jones

Wed, 16 September 2015 Canteen Closed

Thurs, 17 September 2015 FOOTY DAY Joanne Hales Wendy Harrison / Mel F

Jenny Brown / Blair Pennell

Friday, 18 September 2015 Lisa Owen Angela Williams Heather Johnson

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Community

Announcements…..

Australia-Wide 'Bushcare Major Day Out', the Warranwood Reserve Committee is holding a Planting Day on Sunday Sep 13th. from 10.00am.

The reserve committee would welcome help to plant almost 800 indigenous seedlings around the new wet-land between the Bryson's Road ends of Kardinia Crescent and Omeo Parade .(Melways 36 B9). Free morning 'cuppa' and BBQ lunch (at 12.30pm). If not completed, the planting will continue after lunch. If you are not able to come for the whole time, we would welcome whatever time you have available. Participants should wear strong shoes. Long sleeves and trousers recommended. Tools and (some) garden gloves provided. EVERYONE WELCOME, but because of the wetlands, small children will need supervising. To help with catering for the BBQ lunch, if you know you will be attending, we would be grateful if you could let us know. Email WarranwoodRes@hotmail.com