School Council Summary On Monday evening, the Council members convened for the

October meeting. The following items were discussed and

ratified:

School Council cleaning contract

School uniform changes and options

Grade 6 camp, Energy Breakthrough and the Grade 2

sleepover

Gifts, benefits & hospitality policy changes

School Councils in Government School performance

audit opportunity survey involvement

LED light replacement

Next meeting changed to Monday 13th November

instead on 20th November.

Possible Uniform Change The school has the opportunity

to change to a new dress as

modelled in the photo.

Would you like to keep the old

style dress or change to the new one?

Please let us know what you think.

Thanks to the handful of parents who

have sent an email, please feel free

to let us know your thoughts.

Please email your vote/thoughts to

white.hills.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

The new style dress will be approximately $25, Current dress

is $38

Prep Familiarisation Days Our first Prep Familiarisation Day for children commencing

school in 2018 will be held on Monday, November 13th and

Tuesday, November 14th from 9.45am-11.45am. These visits

will consist of stories, making activities and play sessions both

inside the classrooms and in the outside play area. Children

have been allocated one of these days to attend school so

they can spend some time practising being Preps in

readiness for next year. Remember to bring a hat because if

the weather is fine we will be spending some time outside.

Our second Familiarisation Days will be held on Monday,

November 27th and Tuesday, November 28th, from 9.45 to

11.45am. Notices with full details of our first Familiarisation

Day have been distributed in Pre-schools or sent to parents at

the start of this term. If you do not receive a note please contact

Jan Ellis.

Safeway Earn & Learn, how it is helping us Thanks to everyone who contributed Earn and Learn stickers.

Our order (due to arrive at start of next year) included

stopwatches, calculators, buckets, sieves, counting equipment,

literacy packs, PE activity mats, timers and student clocks to

use in maths. All this equipment will directly benefit students.

In total 85 different items were able to be ordered.

Lost Uniform Parents please check the name labels on your children’s

clothing; the lost property box is full.

White Hills Primary School No 1916

Week 33 Thursday 26 October Ph 54430799 F 54437222

white.hills.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

At White Hills Primary School we provide students with skills to be

lifelong learners. We are a community which caters for academic,

physical, social and emotional needs, preparing our students to

contribute productively to an increasingly globalised world.

Term 4 2017: Monday 9 October – Friday 22 December

Week 33

Friday 27 October Prep Swimming

Gr 2 Sleepover payment due 4.00pm

Week 34

Wednesday 1 November Bendigo Cup Day Holiday

Thursday 2 November Music Count Us In Prep Swimming Gr 6 Camp payment due 4.00pm

Friday 3 November Prep Swimming

Week 35

Wednesday 8 November P&F Meeting 9.10am in staffroom

Thursday 9 November Gr 2 Sleepover

Week 36

Mon 13 – Fri 17 Nov Book Fair Monday 13 November Prep Familiarisation Day 9.45-11.45am Prep Tea Payment Due 4.00pm

Tuesday 14 November Prep Familiarisation Day 9.45-11.45am

Wed 15 - Fri 17 Nov Gr 6 Camp

Thursday 16 November Prep Tea 5.00-7.00pm Friday 17 November 2018 Gr 1-6 Book Packs go out

Week 37

Monday 20 November Gr 4 Botanical Garden Walk

Wednesday 22 November Gr 4 Botanical Garden Walk

Thursday 23 November Gr 1 Tea Payment due 4.00pm

Parent H&H Gr 6 Session 5.00-5.30pm

Thurs 23 – Sat 25 Nov Energy Breakthrough Experience

Week 38

Monday 27 November Prep Familiarisation Day 9.30-11.45am

1st Group Prep Book Packs go out

Tuesday 28 November Prep Familiarisation Day 9.30-11.45am

2nd Group Prep Book Packs go out

Wednesday 29 November Gr 6 H&H Session

Gr 5 Camp Payment due 4.00pm

Thursday 30 November Gr 1 Tea 5.00-7.30pm

Friday 3 November Gr 5 Camp Medical Notes due today

Thursday 7 September Gr 6 H&H Session

Friday 8 December 2018 Gr 1-6 Book Packs due

Tuesday 12 December Orientation Day 2018 Preps 10.30am – 1.30pm

2018 Gr 1-5 11.30am – 1.30pm

Wednesday 13 December Gr 6 H&H Session

Wed 13-15 Dec Gr 5 Phillip Island Camp

Tuesday 19 December Gr 5/6 Pool Party

Wednesday 20 December Gr 5 Celebration Day

Carols / Presentation Night Thursday 21 December Gr 6 Graduation Night

Friday 22 December Last Day Term 4, 1.30pm Dismissal

Term 1 2018: Monday 29 January – Thursday 29 March

Term 2 2018: Monday 16 April – Friday 29 June

Term 3 2018: Monday 16 July – Friday 21 September

Crossing Plumridge Street at the Bike Path The City Of Greater Bendigo received a call from a concerned resident about children and parents crossing Plumridge St on the

Linear Trail (Bike Trail) and not giving way to vehicles.

The road hump is not a zebra crossing. Pedestrians and bicycles are required to give way to all vehicles. There are even give way

signs on the linear path to reinforce this.

The safest location to cross is at the supervised school crossing.

Whilst the school is conducting a ‘Safety Day’ including a session on traffic safety on 8th November, I would like to remind parents

to please abide by the above rules to ensure the safety of everyone.

Dragon Colouring Competition Win $250 for your school!

Bendigo Northern District Community Enterprise is proudly partnering with the 3 other community

enterprises to donate $20,000 to support the Dai Gum Loong Dragon project.

To complement our support of this important cultural project the enterprise is coordinating a Dragon

Colouring Competition with the primary schools in the northern corridor.

Students from White Hills, Holy Rosary, Epsom, Huntly and Goornong primary schools are encouraged

to enter the competition by completing the official colouring sheet, available from your class

teacher/school office.

The school with the highest number of completed colouring sheet entries as a percentage of the school’s

enrolment returned to the White Hills branch of Bendigo Bank will be the winner. The school will win:

$250 for their school

a copy of the publication “Loong – Bendigo’s Golden Dragon’ by Leigh McKinnon

a school visit/performance by a Lion Dragon courtesy of the Bendigo Dragon Team.

To find out more about the community enterprise visit < www.bndce.com.au > and find us on facebook.

Mayor Welcomes our Chinese

Visitors to Bendigo

Last Friday the Mayor, Margaret O’Rourke

hosted an official welcome ceremony for

the 42 Chinese students and 6 teachers from

Suzhou Industrial Park. Following the

formality, we enjoyed a morning tea on the

lawns.

Please let us know if there is anything further that we can do to support you here at WHPS.

Andrew Schaeche Principal

Parents & Friends (P&F) Group News Next Meeting

Our next meeting is Wednesday 8th November in the staff room after drop off. All newcomers

are welcome to attend and enjoy a cuppa with us.

P&F Group Visit to Cadbury Factory For the first time, WHPS P & F Group members were lucky to receive an invitation to visit the

Cadbury retail shop last Thursday. The Cadbury factory is in Ringwood, in the outer eastern suburbs

of Melbourne. Some lucky P & F Group members carpooled to Ringwood on a rainy day last week

after dropping off children at school. We spent just under an hour at Cadbury, grabbing lots of

bargains for ourselves and buying for others who couldn't make it. Although it was a day spent

mostly in the car, we had plenty to talk about and quite a few laughs. Unfortunately there was no

time to visit anything else, as we had to be back before the bell at the end of the day. It was a very enjoyable day out, had by

all. Hopefully we get to go again next year! We are always looking for new members! So if you are the slightest bit interested,

please consider sitting in on our meetings, or let one of our friendly P & F Group members or school office staff know, if you would

like to help with up and coming events. We are a friendly dynamic group of helpers, where some can offer a lot of time, and some

only a little bit - but it all helps no matter how much time you can give. Being a part of Parents & Friends Group helps you to know

more about our school, how it operates, and its friendly community. You are kept up to date with what is happening, meet other

parents/grandparents from your school community, and you can enjoy having break-up breakies at the end of every term, with lots

of laughs and yummy food. You are most welcome to bring younger siblings to our meetings or breakies, as we all have children

and understand. Join us any time, or even next year in Term 1, where we will have a busy start to 2018. We are looking forward to

meeting some new members soon!

Thank you for all of your continued support

Parents & Friends Group Fundraising Committee

Students of the Week CLASS NAME AWARDED FOR…. CLASS NAME AWARDED FOR….

PM Chelsea Approaching all learning tasks with

confidence 3J Eh Bu Excellent problem solving and setting out in maths

last week

PW Hailie P Doing amazing writing about her worm! 3B Shaylee Being a cheerful and friendly class member

PAS Bridie Excellent working out in the MORE or

LESS maths work 3G Kira Lee A great start to WHPS and taking interest in

everything

PF Tamati Being ready to learn when sitting on the mat

and for concentrating when doing his work 3C EJ G Making good choices with his learning

PT Aiden L His great work learning his oxford words 4K Samarah Her persistence when learning to add attachments

to emails

PE Nate Sharing great information about bugs 4D Sophie Excellent persistence and describing her camp

recount

1F Nobleson Being a good friend & including others in

games 4M Mattia A Always being kind and patient in the classroom

1B Tahnee Great work in fractions 4S Tayte S His excellent comic life camp recount

1D Levi R His awesome efforts each day at the pool 5P Seraya C Making better decisions during class time

1DW Sonny T His confidence & participation in our

swimming program last week 5W Shea S Her positive attitude and effort in golf during

platoon

1P Jillian P Remembering to use rainbow breathing and

her mood jar when she needs to 5D Harry O His improved effort in all aspects of his learning

2CK Harry A great week of swimming 6G Hunter Excellent work in all areas of his learning

2M Ashton His fantastic efforts at swimming & brilliant

reading 6B Cameron Her great visualisation piece for lit circles

2B Tynan Listening to instructors at swimming all

week 6V Jakob L His detailed and well-presented family tree

2F Joel P Great listening at swimming and trying his

best Sport Hayden S His excellent effort and PB in the beep test!

Junior School News Prep News

No Lunch Orders on Friday No orders for Prep E, T, M & W, they will be at swimming at lunch pickup time.

Return Portfolios Please return your child’s portfolio as soon as possible.

Volunteering For Swimming Parents please be aware that if you are wanting to help with the swimming, you will need to have a Volunteer Working with Children

Accreditation. These can be obtained online.

Without this, you will be unable to enter the change rooms.

Insect Mania Incursion All students had a great time at our Insect Incursion last week. They enjoyed learning about bugs and getting to see them up close.

Grade 1 & 2 News Grade 1 Tea Thursday 30th November – Notes for Grade 1 tea have gone home. Please ask if you have any queries.

Swimming Congratulations to all involved! We could see some great improvement as the week progressed. While the week was exhausting, it

was very beneficial for their learning! There was also some swimming gear left behind, please visit the Grade 2 end of the BER

building if you are missing some items.

Junior School Teachers

Middle School News Grade 3 News Excursion Next Friday, 3rd November, is our excursion to The Central Deborah Gold Mine, Talking Tram Tour and The Chinese Dragon

Museum. Could you please ensure the blue note and payment of $35 is finalised by Tuesday 31st October. Please see your child’s

class teacher if you have any queries.

Home Reading Please encourage your child to keep up their daily reading routines. Reading Journals should be taken home each night and filled

out. We ask that they are signed at least once a week when you hear your child read at home and a comment added.

Grade 4 News Camp

Term 4 got off to a flyer with Maldon Camp in week 1. There was plenty of bike

riding along with activities including mini golf, damper making, camp fire, and a

night walk. Our parent helpers Cam, Scott, Tash, Kate and Eleanor were fantastic.

Without these volunteers it’s not possible to run the camp. Thanks, the students

really enjoyed your efforts and enthusiasm! To see some samples of students

writing, comic making and pictures of the camp, visit our section of the school

website.

CERES Excursion

Students learnt a range of ideas to become more sustainable during our excursion.

I wonder if they have brought any ideas home for you to try?

Thanks to Tash, Caitlin and Sharon for coming along and helping throughout

the day!

Upper School News Grade 5 News Team China All our Chinese students have settled into classrooms well and we are looking forward to hearing about their life and schooling in

China.

Music Count Us In

This performance is next Thursday. The whole school will connect Australia wide to sing Shine Together.

Camp Medical Forms They are to be returned by Friday week.

EBT Students are visiting La Trobe University to get some advice on making an effective presentation.

Grade 6 News Camp Just a reminder that our major camp to Anglesea will be held on 15th-17th November. Payments are due this Tuesday, 31st October.

Can parents and guardians please make sure they are making payments for camp before this date. Also, students were handed a

medical form and parent/student camper agreement note last week. Can parents please make sure that these forms are filled out and

returned to school as soon as possible. Students were also given a clothing list for the students to keep at home for reference.

Homework This week’s homework is a Maths and spelling task, which will be handed out on Friday, and will be due back on Friday the 3rd of

November. If students do not hand in their homework, they will be kept in at lunchtime to complete the task. We appreciate parents’

encouraging and supporting their child with the completion and submission of homework every week.

Heath and Human Development Sessions All Grade 6 students will participate in three, one hour health and development sessions preparing them for puberty, led by Leona

Evans, our school nurse. These will occur on Wednesday, 29th November, Thursday, 7th December, and Wednesday, 13th December.

Leona will also offer a parent information session for any parents who would like to discuss what these sessions include on Thursday,

23rd November at 5.00-5.30pm. Notes will be handed out early in November.

Upper School Teachers

Community News

White Hills Cricket Club will be commencing its Milo In2Cricket program for 5 – 8 year old girls & boys on Tuesday 14th of

November, 4.30pm at the White Hills Primary School Oval, Bosquet Street White Hills.

To register, please go online to “Play Cricket”, insert White Hills Cricket Club.

For all enquiries, please call Andrew Stewart, Junior Co-Ordinator on 0403942551 or email stewartan@bankofmelbourne.com.au

NEWSLETTER ROSTER Thursday 02 November Sam Olsen

Thursday 09 November Kate Campbell

Please collect from the office at the end of the day

CANTEEN ROSTER Friday 27 October Kristy Rowe

Heather Veitch

Dianne Egan

Wednesday 1 November Bendigo Cup Holiday

Friday 3 November Tarra Monro

Kimberley Dean

Anne Johnson

Extra Helpers Needed Helpers to arrive at 12.30pm

Orders are to be written on a large paper lunch bag unless

ordered through Qkr, (NO ENVELOPES), one per child.

Lunch bags are available for 10 for 60c or 10c each, with

lunch orders and will be sent home.

Urgent Reminder: If you are unable to assist with canteen

duty, please arrange a swap or inform the office so that a

replacement helper can be arranged.

Mrs Helen Williams, Canteen Manager

UNIFORM SHOP Friday 27 October Heather Veitch

Tuesday 31 October Samantha Griffin

Friday 3 November Kimberley Dean

Opening Times

Tuesday 3.30pm – 4.00pm and Friday 3.30pm-4.00pm

Uniform Shop Leaders: Kim and Terri

SICKBAY ROSTER Friday 27 October Belinda Filbey

Friday 3 November Kathleen Lovely

Please collect from the office at the end of the day

Inspiration Cafe - Future Movers, 26th October, Register NOW! Make a Change Australia’s final event for the year is on this Thursday 26 October in Bendigo.

Set to be a “party with a purpose”, this gathering is bringing all kinds of transport users together in a fun and friendly way. Looking

at how we can create safe, enjoyable and sustainable travel for everyone, now and for the future.

From drivers of buses, cars, trucks and trams, to bike, motorbike, scooter, skateboard and walker users, everyone is welcome!

Thursday 26 October, 6.45-9.30pm, La Trobe Arts Institute Gallery, 121 View Street, Bendigo

Register here for your FREE ticket. Refreshments and light supper provided.

More information at www.makeachange.org.au/events

Big Birthday Bash At Eaglehawk Anglican Church 63 High Street Eaglehawk, from 1.30pm on Saturday 28th October 2017, Celebrating 155th Anniversary

Great activities for all the family including:

Jumping Castle, Fairy Floss, Slushies etc. Old-time games, Entertainment by Floreena Forbes & Olive Bice, Stalls and Displays,

tree planting, Devonshire Tea, Thanksgiving Service in Church at 6pm followed by light refreshments

EVERYONE WELCOME FOR ALL OR PART OF AFTERNOON

Inquiries: bjrains@bigpond or 5448 3912

Zodiacs Netball Club try out dates for Season 2018 The Zodiacs Netball Club affiliated with the BSNA will hold their annual tryouts for Grade 6 (2018) and Under 13’s (Year 7 2018)

teams for SEASON 2018 on the following dates:

Sunday 19th November Registrations from 9:45am

Tryouts - 10am - 12pm

Monday 20th November Registrations from 5:15pm

Tryouts - 5:30pm - 7pm

Attendance at both sessions is preferred for best chance of selection.

Tryouts will take place at BSE on the outside courts. Please make sure you bring along a drink bottle and be sun smart.

For further information please email zodiacbgo@yahoo.com.au