Congratulations to

Thank you to Special Thanks to

Bus Travel Walking School Bus—Friday 20th May

Both Brendan and Michelle are attending the Phillip Island Camp this week along with Mr Blythman and our Grade 5/6 students. As a result MiniLit will not be operating for the remainder of the week.

Our next Friday Lunchies is happening on 2nd

of June. Parents’ As-sociation will be ordering Pizzas from the Duck Inn. Order Forms will be sent home this Friday.

Any parents / siblings / grandparents / community members who are interested in coaching or umpiring our Soccer and Netball Win-ter School Sports teams, we would love your help. Please speak to anyone at school.

Parents are reminded to please use the booking form available from the office when placing your children in the After School Care Program. If you have a regular booking and you need to can-cel or change days, please complete a new form. If you have booked your child into ASC and need to cancel, please do so be-fore 12:00pm or you may still be charged for the service.

At Willow Grove Primary School we are a community of happy,

healthy and resilient learners. We embrace challenges in all

that we do and have high expectations of ourselves and others.

Willow Grove School and

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DATES FOR 2017

1st June—West Gippsland Mobile

Library

2nd June—Friday Lunchies

2nd June —Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids

Robotics Incursion @ 1:45pm

5th June—Classroom Teachers

attending PD—CRT’s employed

12th June—Queen’s Birthday

Public Holiday

14th June—Parent Assoc. Mtg

15th June—West Gippsland Mo-

bile Library

15th-16th June—Regional Princi-

pal’s Conference

16th June—Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids

Robotics Incursion @ 1:45pm

19th June—Grade P-2 Planning

Day

19th June—Brendan at Ellinbank

Primary School

20th June—Building & Grounds

Meeting—7pm

20th June—School Council Meet-

ing—7:30pm

21st June—Division Winter Sport

30th June—Last Day Term 2

BEYOND TERM 2

21st September—School Concert

22nd—24th November—Gr 3/4

Camp Rumbug

27th Nov—1st Dec Whole School

Swimming Program

14th December—School Presen-

tation Night

20th—21st December—Gr 6

Graduation Camp

MON TUE WED THU FRI

22

23

Gr 5/6 Phillip Island Camp

24 Brekky Club Lunch Order Day LV Division Cross Country

25 Brekky Club

26 Brekky Club

29 Simone at STEM PD

30

31 Brekky Club Lunch Order Day MARC Van

01 Brekky Club West Gippsland Mobile Library

02 Brekky Club Friday Lunchies Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids Incursion @ 1:45pm

May/Jun 2017

Find us at—www.willowgroveps.vic.edu.au

TERM DATES 2017

Term 1 30th Jan (teachers start) to 31st March

Term 2 18th April to 30th June

Term 3 17th July to 22nd Sept

Term 4 9th Oct to 22nd Dec

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SUPERVISED HOURS: 8.45AM—3.30PM

VOL 17 : ISSUE 14 24TH MAY 2017

School Office Hours—Terms 3 & 4

Congratulations

News from Ann

School Working Bee—Saturday

NAPLAN

Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.

Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.

Can you help?

News from Ann

Winter

Student Achievements

P A G E 2

W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y

Before the end of this term we are going to send a test SMS (text mes-

sage) to parents via our student database software. This is a convenient

and effective way of communicating to parents in the event of last minute

changes to camps/excursions etc. In order for this method of communica-

tion to be effective the school must have current parent mobile phone

numbers. If you need to update your mobile phone number please con-

tact the office before 2nd

June. A date for the test will be confirmed and

communicated to parents via the Newsletter in June.

Over the coming weeks parents of Grade 6 students will receive a form to update their

student enrolment details. All students transferring from one Victorian government school

to another Victorian government school will now have their enrolment details transferred

electronically. This will reduce the administrative burden on schools and parents when a

child moves schools. As your grade 6 student will be leaving us for secondary school at

the end of this year, we need to ensure the details in our student database are correct be-

fore this data transfer takes place.

Below are some photos of our Grade 5 and 6 stu-

dents enjoying their Phillip Island Camp this week

School Software SMS test

Grade 5/6 Phillip Island Camp Fun

Enrolment Details Update—Grade 6 Students

P.E. Award

W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R

Playground Award Kasey

For playing basketball nicely, displaying all school values.

Student

of the Week Benny P

For showing resilience by

persisting with his STEM

activity.

Happy 13th Birthday Ryley (Ex-Student)

From Your Nan

SPECIALIST

AWARD

Kara

for Japanese

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P.E

LOTE

STUDENT ACHIEVERS

Parent Association News

Congratulations

News from Ann

School Working Bee—Saturday

NAPLAN

Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.

Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.

Can you help?

News from Ann

Student Achievements

P A G E 4

W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R

Win-

ROSTER

WEDNESDAY 31st May Louise P.

WEDNESDAY 7th June Nicole W.

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