Woodville Primary School

Warringa Crescent, Hoppers Crossing Phone: 9749 2770 Fax: 9748 9870 Website: www.woodvilleps.vic.edu.au School Council President: Rebecca Scott PFA President: Hyla Ryan Before and After School Care: Camp Australia: 1300 105 343 www.campaustralia.com.au

Dear Parents/Carers and Students, Education Week Woodville has been abuzz this week with the school community celebrating Education Week. The theme for this year has been ‘Cracking the Code with Maths’. Staff and students have been using their investigative and detective skills to find numbers and shapes hidden around the school yard as part of the Numeracy Search Around the school. Special thanks to Ms Walsh and Ms Gilchrist for organising the many fun activities for the children this week. It has certainly kept them engaged and entertained! Keeping with the maths theme, our SRC invited all students and members of our School Council to guess the weight and amount of objects in various jars. The names of the students who have guessed most accurately will be announced at our assembly tomorrow. It was lovely to see so many parents, grandparents, and family members walking around and visiting our classrooms during our open afternoon yesterday. The children thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to share and ‘show off’ their work and classroom with family and friends.

WEEK ENDING

May 22nd 2015

NEWSLETTER

Number 09

CALENDAR OF EVENTS – IMPORTANT DATES

Tuesdays School Banking

Thursdays (fortnightly) Newsletter Day

TERM TWO 2015

Monday 18th – Fri 22nd May EDUCATION WEEK and ANNUAL BOOK FAIR

Thursday 21st May Newsletter Day

Friday 22nd May Whole School Assembly 2.40pm

Tuesday 26th May Book Club Orders Due

Wednesday 3rd June Whole school PFA Sausage Sizzle fundraiser

Wednesday 3rd June PFA Cadbury Chocolate fundraiser

Thursday 4th June Year 1/2 excursion to Hamer Hall (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

Thursday 4th June Newsletter Day

Monday 8th June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday – no school on this day

Monday 15th June School Council Meeting

Mon 15th “June – Fri 19th June Planning Week for staff

Tuesday 16th June Year 5/6 Rugby Clinic

Thursday 18th June Newsletter Day

Thursday 18th June REFUGEE day

Monday 22nd June Year 5/6 excursion to the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance

Wednesday 24th June Mid year reports and student profile sent home to families

Wednesday 24th June Year 1/2 excursion to Sovereign Hill

Friday 26th June End of term two – whole school assembly 1.30pm - early dismissal 2pm

The Library was packed to capacity yesterday with eager children and their parents, browsing and buying books from the Book Fair. Thanks to Mrs Novinec for organising the Book Fair – we have many happy readers in our school!

School Council News… School Council met on Monday evening. The Annual Implementation Plan and Annual Report to the Community were both endorsed by attending Councillors. Upcoming excursions were also endorsed as was a staff curriculum day planned for Monday 27th July, during which staff will complete the School Self Evaluation in preparation for our impending school review which will happen later this year. Thank you to Eddie McCuspie and Martin Talbot for their hard work in raking and spreading the soft-fall mulch in the senior playground. The playground is now safe for the year 3 – 6 children to play on.

Launch of our school website Mark Carriedo, our ICT technician has worked tirelessly over the past few months to get our school website up and running. It looks amazing! Although not all links are active (they soon will be) please log on to www.woodvilleps.vic.edu.au and have a look. Please let us know what you think!

Happy Education Week! Lyn, Nadia and Jodi Principal Team

Introducing Centrepay

Woodville Primary School is now able to offer parents the ability to pay school levies and other school expenses using Centrepay – the easy way to pay your bills and expenses

Use Centrepay to arrange regular deductions from your Centrelink payment. You can start or change a deduction at any time. The quickest way to do it is through your Centrelink account online. Centrepay is a voluntary and easy payment option available to Centrelink customers. Go to www.humanservices.gov.au/Centrepay for more information and to set-up your Centrepay deductions. If you have a current Health Care Card can you please come into the office and let us know. Upon presentation of a current Health Care Card, parents/carers of students at Woodville are entitled to receive $100.00 off the total cost of the Essential Learning Costs per student. PFA News…

The PFA needs YOU now! New members are warmly welcome to join the Parents and Friends Association. A PFA meeting will be held in the community hub (opposite the office) at 9am on Monday 25th May – please come along for a cuppa and a chat.

Better Buddy of the Week

A Better Buddy…

Is Friendly

Cares for others

Is responsible

Values difference

Respects others

Includes others

ongratulations to Temia S (56A) for being the Better Buddy of the Week.

Classroom Pride Award

Congratulations to Ms Laird and 5/6D for an exceptionally sparkly-clean room…

And for…

Tidy tables

Spotless floors

Organised bookshelves/library corner

Chairs being stacked on tables at the end of the day

Rubbish bin used appropriately (pencil shavings and rubbish IN bin not near

Term 2 Core Value: Cooperation

Week 5 & 6 11.05.15-22.05.15

TEAM NEWS…

This year each team will contribute to our school newsletter. Teams may contribute samples of work, photos, student’s thoughts and opinions. Woodville students produce

fantastic pieces of work and this is another way to celebrate their wonderful achievements. Prep Team This last week in Preps we have been learning about what makes a pattern. Here are some examples.

Being Assertive Identify and Express Needs

Prep 00A Isobel A Caroline L

00B Charletta R-G Vansh S

Grade 1 & 2 12A Ashmi S Alex P

12B Kevin K Blake T

12C Alla A-E Isaak F-S

12D Darya L Khaled T

12E Airez C Soliman T

Grade 3 & 4

34A Bridget T Georgia P

34B Connor J Fono T

34C Scott W Raed E-N

34D Olivia B Mark A

Grade 5 & 6 56A Chase M Sandra P

56B Angel G Holli McL

56C Zeyounce M Megan B

56D Noah H Mathew C

SPECIALISTS Tina E H Ryan P

1/2 Team

School Fete During our recent school fete the Grade 1/2 students performed two smashing hits including ‘Let It Go’ (1/2A & 1/2B) and ‘One Thing’ (1/2C, 1/2D, & 1/2E). Everyone enjoyed singing and dancing on stage.

“I like that lots of people were watching us.” Peyton, Grade 1. “I felt a little bit nervous but I loved singing and when people were clapping” Taleigha, Grade 1

“I loved singing our song and doing our dance moves. It was exciting!” Abigail, Grade 2.

And More 1/2 News…

As part of our Creative Curriculum, the Grade 1/2 classes have been busy organising a garden bed outside Mrs. Cogan’s classroom. We were lucky enough to have a water tank donated from Greenco Water and Bunnings as well as a $200 donation to go towards installation. Company representatives came out to make the presentation to our school last Thursday. The students enjoyed watching teachers putting the water tank together. The teachers managed to construct the tank in 1 minute and 38 seconds and if this is the fastest construction time, the school will be given another $500. Fingers crossed!

3/4 Team This week the 3/4 team has participated in many activities to celebrate Education week 2015. We have enjoyed the Numeracy Hunt around the school yard and whole school open afternoon. We have had the opportunity to work with our Buddies to do reading and play fun games. What a great experience this has been.

5/6 Team

Year Six Doxa City Camp Monday 11th May to Wednesday 13th May. Walking, walking and more walking but loads of fun and things to do and see. Congratulations to all year six students for the exemplary manner in which they conducted themselves

during the camp – you made Woodville proud!

Specialist Team

Our Prep students participated in the Melbourne Storm Backyard Rugby League clinic. Students learnt how to score a try, play the ball back to their teammate and evade defenders through dodging. The 3-6 Cross Country trials were held at Heathdale Christian College. This was our team that represented Woodville PS. Congratulations to all students who did a fantastic job! The 3/4 students were involved in AFL clinics over a 3 week period. Students learnt how to handball, kick, bounce and mark. This picture shows the students learning how to bounce the ball. They had to start on their knees and then practising bouncing the ball while standing.

WOODVILLE INAUGURAL SHOPPING TOUR Please join us on Saturday 1st August for our inaugural Woodville Shopping Tour School Fundraiser. An amazing day has been organised with many bargains to purchase, laughs to be had and most importantly money to be raised so that our Woodville students can enjoy new and adventurous play equipment. We will be visiting 12 outlets on this day from clothing for adult and children, cosmetics, jewellery,

bags and luggage, chocolates, nuts, shoes, linen and lots more. We will be stopping at Barkly

Square for lunch where you are able to buy coffee and snacks if you’re feeling hungry or need a

snack. Our day will begin at 7:30am in the Woodville staff car park and conclude at approximately

5:30pm. To secure your place we require a non-refundable $25 deposit by Monday 22nd

June and

full payment to be made by Monday 24th

July. Payment can be made at the school office. Please

come along and bring your friends and family so that our day is successful. Looking forward to

shopping with you!

EDUCATION WEEK 2015