24th May 2017

OUR SCHOOL VISION: Encouraging all members of the school community to work together

to create a positive and motivating environment, allowing all students to maximise their educational

opportunities in an ever changing world.

‘The Puggle Post’

“We make a

difference.”

www.wandongps.vic.edu.au

Reminders

Friday 26th May - Education Week Open Morning (9:00am to 10:00am) Wednesday 31st May - “The Ditto Show” visit (Grade 1/2 students only)

Foundation G: Jayden Nixon (Working hard to achieve his goals)

Foundation J: Madison Martyn-Jones (Displaying outstanding writing progress)

Foundation K: Ruby Luciani (Working hard to achieve her goals)

Foundation V: Abigail Sheather (Trying her best and persevering at every task)

1/2C: Emma Marks (Getting the job done, no matter how long it takes)

1/2G: Whole Class Award (Being excellent learners, working together and showing that you care)

1/2H: Ainsley Rimmer (Consistently being a kind, caring and considerate member of her class)

1/2M: Cody Faralla (Showing a sound understanding of skip counting by 5s & 10s with 4-digit numbers)

1/2P: Samantha Joslyn (Showing concern and caring about everyone)

1/2S: Sarah Seeger (Displaying great work when exploring synonyms)

3/4H: Jarvis Sleep (Always helping out his classmates and being supportive)

3/4J: Xander Fearn (Being an important and supportive member of his team)

3/4M: Jackson Naylor (Always being ready for new learning adventures)

3/4R: Kane Lemmar (Being willing to work with others in a peaceful way)

5/6M: Imogen Maher (Displaying tremendous effort and perseverance with simplifying fractions)

5/6H: Thomas Bond (Being respectful, responsible, honest and caring to all those around him)

5/6R: Mia Thomas (Tying 100% of the time in every single learning task she approaches)

5/6W: Lucas Pettit (Persisting with Numeracy goals when simplifying fractions)

Congratulations to our ‘Students of the Week’

A Message from the Principal Team

Dear Families,

Last week was certainly full of fun ... and lots... and lots and ... lots of

walking.

Walkathon: Our Walkathon day was perfect and the students were

excited and ready to go. Funny dress ups were worn by many, and

together we all enjoyed lapping the school. A huge thank to the

PAFA for organising the event, with special thanks to Liz Clarke,

Danielle Miggiani and Danielle Luciani for their assistance on the day.

Students enjoyed a bottle of cool water and a zooper dooper on

completion. Students are now asked to collect their pledge money

and return it to school within the coming week.

Walk to School Day: The walking continued on Friday. Well done to all students who managed to walk all, or part,

of the way to school. Our relocated Kiss and Drop at the CFA station was a huge success. Thank you to the parents

that I asked to turn their cars around and drive through the Kiss an Drop Area - we were just wanting to make sure all

students were perfectly safe. Unfortunately, our Walk to School Day stickers did not arrive in time – as soon as they

arrive, we will hand them out.

Meeting regarding our State Government Grant: On Monday, I attended a meeting in Seymour related to the

process for our master-planning and building grant. The timeline includes an Asset Management Phase (AMP),

selection of an architect, development of a five-year plan, development of designs, tendering for building works and

then, finally, the commencement of building/s from September 2018. The initial asset planning phase needs to be

completed before the end of this term.

The Asset Management Phase looks at our current state - hard facts about our school, including enrolments, Student

Family Occupations, any historic perspective, over entitlement of buildings and what our student data says.

It also includes a section of where we would like to see our teaching and learning practice (staff will be involved in this

discussion) heading into the future.

This will provide the architect with a big picture idea of where we are currently and our future aspirations for how we

teach our students. I will be using our SAMS plan (school maps) and our 2017-2020 Strategic Plan to help determine

this Asset Management Phase as these documents already have most of the information we need in them.

A number of architectural firms that plan to tender for the project have visited the school this week to get an

understanding of the site and the possible works to come. Exciting times ahead!!! Once an architect has been

appointed, an information evening will be held to explain how the community is consulted and when this will occur.

Mr Potesta’s Farewell: All families are invited to Friday’s assembly were– at which we will officially farewell Mr

Potesta. Assembly will start at 2:45 p.m.

First aid course: Next week on Tuesday after school, several our staff will complete their level two first aid course.

It is vital that we have trained staff in each teaching and learning unit, so as to provide assistance on camps and

excursions, and then additional staff trained across the leadership and administration team.

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

Wallan & Kilmore Community Bank® branches

English, Mathematics & Specialist Subject

Certificate Winners

Top Mathlete - Kayleigh O’Shannessy

Mathematics Award - Rhys Lemmar

(Working on some tricky maths and explaining his thinking)

English Award - Riley Fenech

(For a detailed explanation of how and why he reads to self and reads to

someone during Daily 5 rotations)

English Award - Cohen Mitchell

(Trying his best and producing excellent work)

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL SUPER READER’S CLUB:

Congratulations on 50 nights reading:

Mark Thompson, Scarlette Taylor, Olivia Johanesen. Charlie Camilleri, Miley Northrop, Rhys Frendo and Annabelle Clarke.

Parent’s & Friends Association

Chocolate Drive Fundraiser

Chocolates will be sent home in the last week of term two to sell over the holidays.

All families who do not return this form will be allocated a box of chocolates to sell.

Opt out form: Please fill in if applicable to your family.

I (print)……………………………………..……………………………… (Parent name)

DO NOT WISH to receive a box of chocolates to sell this year.

Eldest child’s names …………………......... Eldest child’s grade …......……….. Parent’s signature : ………………...……………

SEL Stars of the Week Award

Congratulations to

Foundation - Rubi McLoughlin, Olivia Johansen, Tayla Moran and Kealey McGregor.

Grade 1/2 - Amelia Paxinos, Zachary Green, Samuel Shingles and Danika Horton.

Grade 3/4 - Aaron Luciani, Marley Tasevski and Madi Roddy.

Grade 5/6 - Dakota Patrick, Brianna Dalton-MacCrea and Riley Lyons.

These students were selected by their peers for identifying and demonstrating the weekly SEL focus

in class in the area of “Bullying - Who is a Target?”.

A Message from the Principal Team (continued ….) 2017 Grade Five Peer Mediators: Last Wednesday, our grade five students

completed a full day’s training to prepare them for their role as peer

mediators. Every school day there will be two mediators on yard duty.

The role of a peer mediator is to assist students with smaller concerns

whilst at the same time building their own leadership skills. Today we

introduce you to Cody, Findlay, Lucas, Liam, Eli, Nola , Trinity, Ellie, Ruby

and Maddison. Look out for them in their bright yellow vests.

Have a great week. Rhonda Cole

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

MAY

Friday 26th 2017 Education Week Opening Morning (9:00am to 10:00am)

Round 4 WPS Team Shirt orders close today (students in Grades 3-6 only)

Monday 29th Foundation Flying Bookworm permission and payment due today

Wednesday 31st “The Ditto Show” visit (Grade 1/2 students only)

JUNE

Friday 2nd SRC PJ/Dress Up Day & Family Movie Night (doors open at 6:30pm)

Monday 5th Foundation Flying Bookworm incursion

Tuesday 6th PAFA Meeting (9:15am onwards in the staffroom)

Thursday 8th 2018 School Tour (9:30 to 10:30am)

Monday 12th Queen’s Birthday public holiday (no students required at school)

Tuesday 13th Curriculum Day (no students required at school)

Saturday 17th PAFA Ladies Night

Have you

recently

asked your

child/ren.....

“What

did you

learn

today?”

PARENT

PAYMENTS

RECEIVED

270 families at WPS.

153 Completed

payments

= 57 %

What’s gone home recently?

The following notices were sent home between

Thursday 18th May & Wednesday 24th May:

Whole school:

Block Update information

2017 Education Week information

Selected Families: Nil

Selected Students: Nil

Individual grade levels:

Foundation:

Foundation News - 19th May 2017

One/Two:

Bravehearts “Ditto Show” Parent Letter

Grade 1/2 Campaspe Downs PGL Camp forms

Amended 1/2 camp information

Three/Four:

Grade 3/4 Briars Mount Martha Camp forms

Five/Six:

Grade 5/6 Anglesea Surf Camp forms

Spare copies of notices are in the school foyer in the grade level trays.

Centrepay - Centrelink payments can be used for Education expenses.

For those families in receipt of Centrelink payments the following service is NOW available:

Centrepay is a voluntary bill paying service that is easy to use. You can start, change, or cancel Centrepay deductions at

any time, to suit your own personal circumstances. By choosing to use Centrepay you benefit from knowing that your bills are

under control. Instead of having large bills every month or quarter, you can pay your bills in manageable amounts from your

Centrelink payment, making budgeting easier. You can nominate a fortnightly amount to cover education expenses.

Minimum $10 per fortnight. Please contact the school for an application form.

Family movie night! The SRC are organising a night of movie magic in our hall.

Come and join us on 2nd June 2017 from 7:00 p.m.

Entry is a gold coin donation

There will be popcorn cooked fresh on the night and lollies for sale

Help support our SRC students with their fundraising.

Comfortable seating is a must, so please bring your pillow, bean bag or foldup chair.

The hall will be open from 6:30pm onwards

There will be no pass outs and parents must stay to supervise their children.

We hope to see you there !

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEAM SHIRT

Don’t forget to order your Wandong Primary School Team Shirt.

Shirts are available for students in Grades 3-6

Orders will be submitted on Friday 26th May.

Wallan Junior Indoor Netball New season commencing Term 3

Games played Thursday after school at the Roy Robson Stadium in Wallan

Age groups; U9,U11,U13 and U15 teams

To enter a team please see all details on;

our Facebook; www.facebook.com/Wallan-Junior-Indoor-Netball-

or Website; www.wallananddistrictnetball.org.au

Meet and greet session 4.30pm Thursday June 15th at the stadium for any new players who do not yet have a team.

Can anyone in our school community assist with

transport to and from school on Thursday and

Friday from Kilmore for one of our students?

Please contact the office if you are able to assist.

TORO RIDE-ON MOWER

FOR SALE - $1,500 ono The unit has had approximately 50 hours use.

Please contact Wayne on 5787 1244 should

you require any further information.