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NEWSLETTER NO.24 THURSDAY, 15TH
AUGUST, 2013
WEBSITE ADDRESS is burwoodhps.vic.edu.au/
THURSDAY 15TH
& 16TH
AUGUST
MOBILE FARM – KINDERGARTEN FOUR AND
THREE YEAR OLD GROUPS
TUESDAY 20TH
AUGUST GRANDPARENTS VISIT KINDERGARTEN
FRIDAY 23RD
AUGUST SUMMER SPORT – LEVEL FOUR
BOOK WEEK – LEIGH HOBBS VISITS
MONDAY 26TH
AUGUST ROTARY PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION
WEDNESDAY 28TH
AUGUST FATHERS DAY EVENING – FOUR-YEAR OLDS
SCHOOL COUNCIL SUB-COMMITTEE
MEETINGS
FRIDAY 30TH
AUGUST SUMMER SPORT – LEVEL FOUR
SATURDAY 31ST
AUGUST MORNING TEA – SPECIAL PERSONS – THREE-
YEAR OLD KINDERGARTEN
MONDAY 2ND
SEPTEMBER SCHOOL COUNCIL
WEDNESDAY 4TH
SEPTEMBER DRESS REHEARSAL – ALL DAY
TUESDAY 10TH
SEPTEMBER SCHOOL PRODUCTION
THURSDAY 12TH
SEPTEMBER SCHOOL PRODUCTION
FIRE BRIGADE VISIT - PREPS
FRIDAY 13TH
SEPTEMBER SUMMER SPORT – LEVEL FOUR
FRIDAY 20TH
SEPTEMBER END OF TERM THREE – 2.30PM DISMISSAL
MONDAY 7TH
OCTOBER TERM FOUR COMMENCES
FRIDAY 11TH
OCTOBER SUMMER SPORT
MONDAY TO
WEDNESDAY
21ST
TO 23RD
OCTOBER
LEVEL THREE CAMP
FRIDAY &
TUESDAY
25TH
& 29TH
OCTOBER
DOVE PUPPETS - KINDERGARTEN
TUESDAY 5TH
NOVEMBER MELBOURNE CUP DAY – PUBLIC HOLIDAY
FROM THE PRINCIPAL … Esther Wood
BRAINSTORM STUDIOS
FOUR WEEKS TO GO!
Ticket sales are well underway. If you do not have
a ticket order form you can obtain one from the
office. Don’t miss out!
Students will need to be collected by an adult or a
designated person after the performance.
Work on sets, props and costumes is near
completion. Make-up requirements for performers
are being finalised, tickets are being sold,
photographs organised, rosters for ushers
compiled, technical management (light and sound)
planned, programmes prepared and other
organisational details well underway.
PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT YOUR
CHILD IN THIS PERFORMANCE!
COLLECTION OF STUDENTS AFTER
SCHOOL
The school grounds are supervised by staff until
3.45pm. All students must be collected by this
time.
There are many occasions when there is no-one in
the office, so parents should not assume that their
child/children will be supervised.
Please ensure that your child is collected at the
appointed time.
If parents are unable to pick their children up by
this time we have an After School Care Program
which they should attend.
PREP 2014 ENROLMENTS AND STUDENT
NUMBERS
It is that time of year when schools are preparing
for the following year and student numbers are
critical to the school’s staffing structure.
If you are aware of any families who may live
near you and have not enrolled, would you please
advise them of this timeline.
If your child will not be attending Burwood
Heights Primary School next year would you
please advise us of this?
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
NO HAT, NO PLAY
Coming up shortly is school hat time again.
From Monday 2nd
September, all
students are required to wear hats
outside during recess and lunchtime.
Any student without a school hat, will
need to sit in the designated area. If
you know your child has lost his/her
hat now is the time to purchase one. Please make
sure your child’s hat is clearly named!
Prep M- Gemma Webber - for a wonderful
effort in everything she does. You are a star!
Prep W- Magot Deng - for helping classmates in
Science and being a caring friend.
Grade 1/2A- Yikai Yao - for settling in well to
his new classroom and making new friends.
Grade 1/2E- Momoria Gringi - for her
enthusiastic and wonderful performance during
every production practice.
Grade 1/2T- Rayna Sharma – for excellent diary
writing this week. Well done!
Grade 1/2WM- Alistair Lau – for a colourful
and creative red back spider. Super effort!
Grade 3/4A- Jacinta Karipidis – for her
outstanding effort during production practice.
Sensational!
Grade 3/4G- Jerome Atkinson – for working
really well in Literacy and with Mrs Cooper.
Grade 3/4J- Paige Davidson – for being such an
excellent school community member and taking
part in so many school events and activities!
Grade 3/4P- Amelia Rutherford-Lemon – for
sharing her insightful ideas during a class
discussion about, ‘The Rabbits and how they
changed the land’. Well done!
Grade 5/6 A- Yasmyne Chung - for consistently
demonstrating outstanding abilities in mental
calculations during games in number groups.
Grade 5/6H- Monica Magot –for dedication and
success in all areas of school.
Grade 5/6L- Zachary Willett – for working
extremely hard on his maths about direction. Well
done!
Grade 5/6M- Benyamin Mousavian – for trying
his best in all areas of school life. Thanks for the
wonderful effort champ!
HOMECRAFTS – Tegan Griffiths 5/6A –for
being a cheery, capable and always reliable team
member. There is nothing Tegan will not do!
VISUAL ARTS- Kyle Richards – for his
articulate and insightful art quote. Great work!
GARDEN VIEWS Hello, last week I shared how observation can
discern three parts to plants and three parts to the
human body, how limbs move, leaves live in rhythm
and how roots tend to be still. ( legs, chest and head.)
As a gardener handy man, a person
whose task requires him to use his limbs, I
spend my days in movement, big
movements like digging and small fine
finger movements like thinning carrot
seedlings. When I get home I want to sit still
and be like a carrot, a balance to my day.
Modern food is more like the root kingdom, its
vitality has been cooked away. White sugar and its
replacements are in essence minerals, a word that
means little rocks. This food stimulates the head.
Green leaves tend be absent from most western diets
and protein a derivation of seed from animals and
plants feeds the muscles. Our diet makes us want to
move not sit still.
Trouble is, especially for children,
most limb activities in the West have
been replaced by machines, they move,
we don't. We watch movement on telly
and computer with our still bodies, we sit in a car
immobile looking at a moving scene, we no longer
wash clothes by hand, make bread by hand, clean
floors by hand, knit wool into garments, use sewing
machines etc etc. Useful and artistic movement is
disappearing from our world.
Kids, as growing beings, though are
like butterflies, they love to move and can
feel easily frustrated and unable to give
attention. Sadly many of the games such as
skipping, hopscotch, ring dances etc have also
disappeared. Craft too has disappeared, an outlet for
fine finger movement. Learning too can be devoid of
imaginative movement.
To me the left male brain, dominant in our
culture, is more like the root, it examines bits and
pieces as it very slowly searches in the darkness under
the earth. Up above in the light, able to have
overviews, is the fruit queendom. This view of reality
has by and large been displaced by left brain
functioning. Ideally both aspects of our
brain should function…whole plant
whole brain! Movement serves to build
neural (nerve) pathways across the brain.
Side effects accompany left brain thinking as a
rule because the right hemisphere is not consulted.
This leads to corrective modalities, activities like “
brain gym and educational kinesiology”. Should you
ever want to participate in great public lectures offered
by the world’s movers and shakers for free, consider
googling the “TED talks or RSA Animate”, but please
do wiggle your toes while watching.
Here's hoping that you have many moving
experiences.
Cheers Peter Le Ray
HEAD LICE
Instances of head lice being present have been
reported. I do ask all parents to be vigilant in
checking their child’s hair and taking appropriate
course of action to prevent the spread of these
pesky critters.
Don’t wait until your child is obviously scratching
his/her head. Check before this.
If you require any assistance with this matter
please contact the office.
KINDERGARTEN EXTENSION
It is planned that an access road to the
kindergarten work-site will be established in the
next week. This is dependent on favourable
weather conditions. Two panels of the “old” fence
on Mahoneys Road will be removed and a gate
established to allow easy and safe access. The
concrete foundations will be completed and it will
be no time until we see the building commence.
WEBSITE NEWS
Remember to check the website for news photos
and updates, especially the “What’s on” section on
the home page.
www.burwoodhps.vic.edu.au
FROM THE OFFICE
PAYMENTS: When sending along
money with your child please make
sure it is in a labelled envelope or
bag with their name, class, amount
and what the payment is for.
NOTICES: A ticket notice for the production
“Brainstorm Studios” was sent home on Friday. If
you have not received one or you have been away
you can obtain one from the school office or print it
off from the school website, you will find in under
Parent Information - notices.
ATTENDANCE: If your child is absent for any
reason, please send a note to school on their return.
Strathdon Community Art Show
On Friday 9th of August the Strathdon Community
Centre held its 10th annual art exhibition and fund
raising event displaying the work of student artists
from schools in the local area. The organisers of the
exhibition had gathered a vast array of art works, of
which seventy five pieces were from Burwood
Heights Primary School. The art work exhibited was
of a very high standard and of varied techniques
including painting, drawing, printing, textiles and
collage. Our students did extremely well with prizes
awarded in the Year Five/Six category to Lachlan
and Yuying for their relief prints depicting the
Melbourne CBD. Towa and Bobby were awarded
prizes in the Year Three/Four category for their John
Brack inspired prints of ‘5pm Collins Street’.
Congratulations to the winning students and to all
students who participated in the event. It was great to
see so many of our students and their families attend the art exhibition.
Artists about Whitehorse—Bobby & Towa at
the Strathdon Art Show
FUNDRAISING NEWS
1. Chocolate Drive – please return your
order form for chocolates by Monday
19th August to Mrs Fahey’s letterbox
(next to the office). Expected delivery
date for the
chocolates is Friday
23rd
August – this
will be confirmed
next week.
2. Election Day – As
the school is a
polling booth,
Election Day
presents us with a
wonderful
opportunity to raise funds from
outside the school. As such, we will
be holding a SAUSAGE SIZLLE on
Saturday September 7th
. If you are
available to help, please fill your
name in on the roster at the back of
this newsletter and return the roster to
Mrs Fahey. We will also be BAKING
CHOC-CHIP COOKIES on Friday 6th
September in the school kitchen – all
helpers welcome, so please set the
morning aside. If you are unable to
help, but would like to support us
please consider donating any of the
following:- white sugar
butter
self raising flour
SMALL choc chips
(homebrand from
Woolworths are ideal).
Any donations can be handed to Mrs
Fahey.
Thank you for your support!
Classroom Co-ordinators
STUDENT BANKING NEWS
Banking day is WEDNESDAY
New School Banking Reward Item Available
As part of the 2013 School Banking Rewards
Program students can now also redeem 10 silver
coloured Dollarmites tokens for a Dollarmites
Calculator.
Students can now choose from:
Dollarmites moneybox
Wallet
Handball
Knuckles Game
Torch
Calculator
The School Banking program is designed to
encourage individual savings behaviour and to help
children achieve their saving goals. For this reason
pooling of tokens is not allowed.
NEW BANKERS ALWAYS WELCOME.
Come into the school office to collect a pack and get started or contact your local Commonwealth Bank and provide the details they require and you can open an account for your child and they can begin school banking immediately.
FOR SALE If you or anyone you know is interested in good
condition baby furniture for a low cost Description: Bulk lot of baby furniture. All solid timber
Boori Baby cradle with mattress. (Walnut colour rrp
$499. For cradle only)
Baby Bunting cot with mattress.
Baby Bunting chest of draws with removable
changing table (see photos)
Baby Bunting book shelf with draws
Please note that assorted sheet sets and blankets for
cradle and cot will be included in pick up
All in great condition. Pick up only. Payment on
pick up in Burwood East area.
Please call Toni Ph: 0404 092 781
Boori Baby cradle with mattress. (Walnut colour rrp
$499. Cradle only)
Baby Bunting cot with mattress.
Baby Bunting chest of draws with removable
changing table
Baby Bunting book shelf
with draws
Grade Prep, 1-2 Maths Puzzle
Name: Class:
Put your answer in the box in the office from MONDAY
Grade 3-6 Maths Puzzle
Chocolate Puzzle There were 100 chocolates in a box. The box was passed
down along a row of people.
The first person took one chocolate. Each person down the
row took more chocolates than the person before, until the
box was empty.
What is the largest number of people that could have been
in the row? Answer:______________
Name: Class:
Put your answer in the box in the office from MONDAY
OSHClub News
After School Care Program
Program Update 15.08. 2013
Hi Everyone!
I can't believe that we're already halfway through the term, it's gone super quick! This
week the children have been doing a few activities together as a group including decorating
biscuits on Monday. They had a lot of fun during this activity and I thought I would show you some
pictures of their fantastic sugary creations.
Have a great week!
OSHC TEAM
Next Week's Activities
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
ACTIVITIES Hoop Racing
AASC – Hurricane
AASC - Mixed Pickle
(Game)
Underwater Volcano
(Science)
ACTIVITIES
Melt and Mix Shortbread
Coffee Fossils Craft Stick Box Metamorphic
Pancakes Puffy Fish Craft
Parent Information
OSHC program phone: 0423 225 807
Coordinator: LINDSAY
Assistants: JACKSON, ANTHONY, BELINDA, POOJA, ALEX.
OSHClub Head Office: 03 85649000
All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is Free!! Please create an
account online at www.oshclub.com.au all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via
your online account. For on the day bookings please contact the Coordinator direct at the
program.
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