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We have EXCITING news! Last year we applied for an Artist In Schools grant for 2017 and have been successful! Our Visual Arts teacher Jeenah Metcalfe developed a project idea with Rob Scholten, a Melbourne based artist that will result in a series of art installa-tions in the central courtyard of our school. The project will involve not only all students, all staff and parents but a range of members from the wider community. The project entitled River of Voices encourages an exploration of local history, culture and the environment and the changes to community over time. It considers the role of the Yarra River, explores the culture of the Wurunjderi people, promotes understandings about agriculture and the impact of urbanisation, the modern climate as well as encourages stu-dents to make predictions about the future. Throughout the project members of the community to which Warranwood PS belongs, will share their stories with our students aka the ‘Voices’ component of this project. Students will look for ways to answer 3 key questions: What was life like? What is life like? What might life be like in the future? The project has three aspects:

Researching as a part of classroom programs Translating ideas and feelings through a range of hand drawn designs into visual artworks that express the

learning that occurred in the classroom. Making and creating art on tiles using paint.

The first part is underway! The second and third aspects are components of the Visual Arts program and will begin to-wards the end of this term and in conjunction with Rob Scholten who will be our artist in residence for approximately 20 days during Term 3. What can you do?

Share your own stories with your child/ren. Try to answer the 3 key questions using your personal experiences. You may also have family members and/or friends who have valuable information to share.

Explore local areas including but not limited to Warrandyte, Warrandyte south, Warranwood, Wonga Park, Croydon, Lilydale, Ringwood and Ringwood North. There are many historical walking trails and places of interest that you can visit. Council websites provide a great deal of further information.

Speak to your classroom teacher if you think you know of someone who might have an interesting story to share with our students. We can arrange for them to be interviewed and filmed by the senior School HAWK research group working with Andrew Tonkin this term. They will share it with all classes. Join our Facebook page Warranwood River Of Voices for reg-ular updates and photos of the project.

The results of this project will be an exciting intersection between art, history and culture. If we can imagine this as some-thing that is alive, that affects us and is affected by us, the students and other participants will gain a greater understand-ing of where they come from and how they can positively impact their community. And by looking back at the past, it will also give a higher awareness of the future and our indi-vidual impact. This is a BIG project that involves many people. We want you to be a part of the journey with us by creating artwork for the mural also. More details about this soon!

Inspiration for our mural – a community mural in St Kilda

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Warranwood Primary School

www.warranwood.vic.edu.au

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT WORKING BEE

Unfortunately I couldn’t attend the working bee, so thanks to Shane for coordinating and cooking! And thank you to the 5 families who came along! Despite being a small group, they did a great job getting the prep playground looking just fabulous. Terrific to see the painted seats as well!! And our Preps have been working in the garden today, planting out lots of flow-ers!

CANBERRA CAMP

Our Senior School students are having a ball in Canberra. So far they have been to the National Library, Nation-

al Dinosaur Museum, Old Parliament House, Australian Institute of Sport, Questacon, Parliament House, the

Australian War Memorial, the Royal Australian Mint and more!! The weather has been kind despite a chill in the

air morning and night! (That is Canberra!) Check out our Facebook page for lots of photos!

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT

On Wednesday 24 May the school will be open for Education Week. We are showing off our school to

the local community as well as our parents and friends.

9:00 – 1:00 All classes will be on display.

6:00pm Prep 2018 Information Night – for new families.

7:00pm Open night. Launched by our famous Taiko drum group, the evening will feature CODING

UNPLUGGED, where students and classes across the school will be showing off the work

we have all been doing in coding as part of STEM.

RIVER OF VOICES

As you will have seen on the previous page, we have been very fortunate to receive funding from Arts Victoria

for an Artist in Residence project! Please get involved if you can!!

REMINDER - SECONDARY SCHOOL TRANSITION Parents of year 6 students will be receiving information about the secondary school transition process to-day. All student Application for Year 7 Placement forms need to be returned to the school no later than Friday 12 May.

Term 2, Week 3 Thursday 4 May 2017

THIS WEEK’S PRINCIPAL AWARDS Prep Avvy S Year 1/2 Fallon H Year 3/4 Eamonn W, Floyd D

Compass Reminders Update your child’s at-tendance DOWNLOAD THE APP! Grade 1/2 Excursion

WHAT’S ON? May 5 Prep Grandparents Day 10 Mothers Day Stall 15 Middle School Incursion Spring Fair Meeting 7.30pm 16 Sushi Day School Council 19 Prep Incursion

The next Grown Up’s Garden club is

Tuesday 16th May from 9-1 (see page 5)

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ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL REPORT

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK A SPOT BY FRIDAY 6TH

MAY May 10

th is fast approaching and our first ever Fathering Project night is looking to be a great chance for Warranwood

dads to get together and talk about the challenges of being a dad! Don’t miss your chance to book a spot at the night and secure a beer and some pizza! RSVP closes on Friday May 6

th as we need to arrange catering for the night and can’t ac-

cept bookings after this time. Please return your personal invitation to guarantee a spot! The benefits of effective fathers, or father figures, are profound and have a very important influence on a child’s life. Mums generally do a great job as do some dads. However, some dads need to get more involved to be really effective so come along and get some great tips. Everyone “wins” - dads, wives, partners, kids, school and the community. IT’S GETTING COLDER! The weather has definitely changed in the last couple of weeks and the cold fresh mornings are with us to stay! If you have any Warranwood uniform jackets that are no longer needed or grown out of, we can put them to good use to support students who need a jacket to stay warm. If you have spare uniform items could you please send them in a bag to the office and we will redirect them to a needy and appreciative new owner. WARRANWOOD PEER MEDIATORS Over the coming weeks you will see our 2017 Peer Mediation team in action at lunchtimes helping students to solve social situations that don’t need an adult to be involved. The volunteer Year 5s have been participating in a special training pro-gram and have committed to giving up a lunchtime each fortnight to assist in the school community to help support War-ranwood’s safe and caring environment. Our Peer Mediators will also facilitate special games in the courtyard each lunchtime to assist lonely students with finding new friends and learning the skills of positive play. We are lucky to have so many Year 5 students who want to be so pro-active in making our community so supportive! Well done team!

At Warranwood we include Cyber Safety awareness and learning throughout the varying levels of the school. The content and focus obviously varies according to the age, skills and needs of the students. The RUIn values underpin our wellbeing work with students and naturally integrate to their digital citizenship. A wonderful resource available to parents is the iParent site at https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-the-office/resource-centre#forparents

MANAGING SCREEN TIME AT HOME! It can be a real challenge to lock horns with young people who feel they are the only ones whose parents don’t allow unlimited screen time! “Everyone else is allowed to!” - I hear this all the time from my 15 year old and in fact often get told I’m just old fashioned!!!! Please have a look at this tip sheet and reflect on how it might be useful to you and your fam-ily as it is always better to prevent a problem rather than cure it! Screen time and dependence is a challenging issue for many young people to sort through and come to terms with and the hints below might prove to be very handy! Shane

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PE/SPORT NEWS

The next Winter Sport game is against Good Shepherd PS on Friday 12 May. At Warranwood PS: Softball x2 (20) Bill Shorten Tennis (10) Danielle Rushford Netball C (9) Volleystars (51) Natasha Walden Total: 50 At Good Shepherd PS: Soccer (12) Chris Turner Football (22) Andrew Tonkin Netball A & B (16) Olivia May, Jennifer Davis & Lee Stack Total: 50

WHOLE SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY RUN: We nearly did it before the heavy rain hit! Congratulations to all stu-

dents for their efforts on the ‘long run’. It was great to see everyone trying their best and endeavouring to score as many

points for their House as possible. Thanks to the Year 5 and 6 big buddies for supporting and encouraging their Prep

and Year 1 buddies.

The final House scores were: 1st

: Wonga 14.3, 2nd

: Eden 11.9, 3rd

: Yarra 11.02, 4th

: Wellington 10.5.

Well done to the top 10 finishers in each run: Preps: Boys- Liam P, Oliver P, Ashton T, Lachlan D, Damon K, Sam H,

Lachlan C, Logan M, Cooper M. Girls: Zara F, Matilda M, Charlie O, Laura M, Chloe R, Jacinta H, Genevieve B, Char-

lotte N, Ruby K, Liliana F. Year 1 Boys: Riley K, Zac K, Taylor H, Josh F, Max G, Duke S, Ben B, Cooper K, Rhys D,

Logan W. Girls: Fallon H, Lily M, Elyssa A, Paige F, Isabella T, Imogen Q, Sienna P, Jessica P, Ella S, Ava V. Year 2

Boys: Fraser B, Luke S, Christian T, Ethan C, Flynn B, William A, Charlie M, Ryder T, Lucas J, Jarrod A. Girls:

Charlotte N, Emily B, Hannah R, Amelia D, Emma C, Kitty O, Ellia W, Kate T, Amaya P, Bianca J.

A number of 10, 11 and 12 year old students are invited to compete in the District Cross Country on Tuesday 23

May. Well done to: 10 Year Boys: Flynn P, Tom M, Angus H, Archer M, Judd W, Alex L, Jackson F, Flynn N, Matt

B, Ned G. Emerg- Liam R. Girls: Sidney N, Maddi R, Kiera W, Jade W, Lexi H, Laura O, Charlotte H, Erica P, Hayley B,

Indiana C. Emerg- Paige F. 11 Year Boys: Joseph H, Cambell S, Raf M, Jacob T, Liam B, Matt D, Caleb R, Liam K, Alex

P, Kynan A. Emerg: Brody A. Girls: Lainey M, Ella R, Leila H, Rebekah P, Charlotte J, Claire B, Sofia R, Maddie C, Ash-

lee T, Lily C. Emerg: Chloe O. 12 Year Boys: Aiden B, Noah H, Matt H, Jared G, Austin D, Cruz R, Matt W, Mason

E, Drew S, Liam C. Emerg: Felix R. Girls: Charlotte O, Bianca P, Maya V, Olivia M, Eve P, Olivia P, Emma F, Tayla C,

Asha P, Kaitlyn A. Emerg: Lauren F.

Cross Country training: Tuesday 9 & 16 May and Thursday 11 & 18 May mornings at 8:30. Meet on the basket-

ball court.

SUMMER SPORT PENNANTS

Congratulations to Rounders Boys and Girls and Cricket teams for successfully winning the North Ringwood District

pennants in Term 1.

Andrew Tonkin PE teacher

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Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge 2017

The Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge is now open and we are excited about participating again this year. The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to 16 years in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition, but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by the closing date of the challenge. Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books. You can register your child by completing the form in this newsletter and returning it to school. All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll. For more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge and to view the booklists, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc I hope that we have many enthusiastic Warranwood students participat-ing this year! Jacquie Durik Challenge Coordinator

Library News Dear Parents and Students, The library has had a problem in the loans database recently. I would appreciate if any student/parent has a problem or queries with their loans to please see me. I am available Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday’s, to help. Just pop in when convenient to you. With thanks Kim Barlow Library.

Grown Up’s Garden Club Our garden club consists of parents, grandparents and friends from the local community who meet to garden, maintain the school and enjoy a cuppa. We are mindful that some people have physical limitations, but there is plenty to do, so there is always an appropriate job for everyone. Projects are allocated based on what needs to be done in the school and the ability of the group from sweeping leaves to weeding, pruning, planting, mulching etc. In addition to the gardening we do, it’s a social morning with refreshments provided too. The kids love to be a part of it and often join in during recess or lunch times. Our next Garden club is Tuesday 16

th May from 9-1 and you are welcome to come for any part of this time you can

spare. If you have any questions or would like to be involved in any way please contact the office (child teacher etc) Or you can contact Kirsty on 0438 666 638 or kirstyannb@yahoo.com.au

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~ Meal Deal 1~ Hot Dog

Apple Slinky Just Juice fruit box

$5.00

~ Meal Deal 2~ Hot Cheese Sub

Apple Slinky Big M Choc or

Strawberry

$5.00

~ Meal Deal 3~ Hawaiian or Margarita

Pizza Apple Slinky

Just Juice Fruit box

$5.00

2017 Canteen News & Roster The canteen will be having a SUSHI DAY on Tuesday May 16th Order forms are due back by Thursday 11

th May

Please write your child’s name and grade clearly on the form To keep the students warm at recess and lunch we have Hot Milos , Chicken Noodle soup and warm choc chip or cinnamon muffins available over the counter. Homemade Pumpkin Soup is back! Please order through the lunch order system. Cup of soup with a warm buttered roll $5.00

A reminder that Canteen is open on Wednesdays at lunch time for over the counter sales only

(no lunch orders are available on this day)

Super Saver Meal Deals $5- Please include additional 20c if you require sauce

If you are unable to attend canteen on the day you are rostered please contact me in advance. Volunteer hours are:

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 11am to 2.30pm Friday 10am to 2.30 pm

Warm regards,

Megan Parker

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 2 2017

Date Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

Wednesday, 3 May 2017 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 4 May 2017 Jas Halls Volunteer Required

Friday, 5 May 2017 Mischelle Deylen Terri McKinnon

Monday, 8 May 2017 Sylda Jones

Tuesday, 9 May 2017 Sue Allan

Wednesday, 10 May 2017 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 11 May 2017 Wendy Harrison Heather Jones

Friday, 12 May 2017 Sarah Mitsalis Andrea Heywood Cheryl Butler

Monday, 15 May 2017 Belinda Humphreys Jo Aikman

Tuesday 16th May Sushi Day Dee Halls Sue Budge Tali Stewart

Matoula Gatsoulis Sylda Jones Trish Grant

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 18 May 2017 Jenny Brown Volunteer Required

Friday, 19 May 2017 Kylie Donis Cheryl Butler Maureen Adams

Monday, 22 May 2017 Lee Stack Susan Skerry

Tuesday, 23 May 2017 Louise Robinson

Wednesday, 24 May 2017 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 25 May 2017 Nicole B Jessica Hollien

Friday, 26 May 2017 Christian Arsensis Jessica Lancashire Simone Simpson

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FOSTER CARERS NEEDED

If you have thought about foster care, please get in touch and ask the questions you have always wanted to.

Ring: Key Assets 1800 932 237 or 1800 WE CARE Email: info@keyassets.com.au

Web: canifoster.com.au or keyassets.com.au Interested families would receive a brochure, information and no

pressure!

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