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AXEDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL
“Excellence Through Endeavour”
High Street, Axedale 3551
Ph. (03) 5439 7232 Fax. (03) 5439 7575
Principal – Lex Johnstone
Email: [email protected]
NEWSLETTER No. 30 September 13th 2018
Important dates:
Sept 14th Footy Colours & Hot Dog Lunch
17th/18th Dental Checks
18-21st Grade 5/6 Camp
20th Pie Orders Delivered 3pm
21st Hot Lunch Day P-4
21st Last Day of Term 3 – 2.30pm
dismissal
Oct. 8th First Day of Term 4
11th Finance Committee 3.45pm
13-14th Family Photo Fundraiser
16th School Council 6.30pm
17th Free Dental Checks
18th Free Dental Checks
19th Athletic Sports
SCHOOL VALUES AWARDS
Harry W – For being kind and respectful to
everyone at school.
Harry E – For working hard to always show his
personal best, resilience, respect and co-operation
in and out of the classroom.
Kaiya - For settling well into school life at
Axedale and treating her classmates and teachers
with respect and kindness.
Callum – For giving his personal best in all tasks
he undertakes and always looking to assist others.
CLASSROOM ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Max – For reading instructions very carefully and
asking questions if he is unsure of what to do when
completing his worksheets.
Lachie – For ensuring that all work he produces in
class is to the best of his ability and completed in the
given time.
Riley – For being a productive and enthusiastic
member of the class during learning activities and
making significant improvements to his classroom
behaviour.
Della – For working hard to improve her spelling with very pleasing results.
GOLDEN BRUSH Well done to Grade 2/3
HOUSE TROPHY
Well done to McIvor for winning our House Point Trophy this
week.
READING AWARDS
Well done to our P/1/2/3 students who have achieved another
level of word recognition this week. Great work!
25 NIGHT READING AWARDS
Well done to Harry, Zac, Henry, Oscar, Mitchell, Lincoln and LJ who have completed 25 nights of reading
so far this term.
BSE BAND VISIT
Last week we had a visit from some very talented musicians from BSE. The Yr. 8 & 9 students had only
been learning for two years but were amazing with some of their skills and creativity. We hope that the visit
has sparked an interest for our many students who are currently learning to play drums, guitar, keyboard and
to sing.
GRADE 3/4 CAMP
This week our Grade 3/4’s have been
on camp in Queenscliff. Blessed with
perfect weather, they made the most of
their environment with rock pool
investigations, canoeing, bike riding,
beach paddling, sandcastle
championships, lots of time in the
ga-ga pit, pizza cooking, beach walks
and time at the top of the Queenscliff
Lookout Tower and the Point Lonsdale
Lighthouse.
Well done to the students for their
efforts at camp, thanks to parents for
their support and to our staff who
attended camp.
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
VALE - GILBERT COCHRANE
On behalf of the school community, I would like to pass on our sincere condolences to the Cochrane and
Jubb families on the sad passing our local friend and past parent Gilbert Cochrane.
To Gilbert’s wife Tess, mum Lynette, and children and step children Johnny, Ella, Ronan, Nita, Lily,
Zachary, Magnus and Abbey our thoughts are with you during this sad time. While a parent at our school,
Gilbert was always involved in school maintenance, mowing, building and working bees.
Gaye Saunders represented Axedale PS at Gilbert’s funeral last Monday.
GRADE 5/6 CAMP MEDICAL FORMS
A last reminder for
Permission forms
DOXA forms
Sleeping bag and a pillow case – DOXA have moved our accommodation to their Elizabeth St.
venue near Melbourne Central. Because of the change, students will now need a sleeping bag and a
pillow case
HOT LUNCH DAYS
Due to our hot dog lunch day tomorrow for footy colours day there will be no hot food available from the
shop. We will be having a hot lunch day next Friday 21st September for grades Prep-4.
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VOTING CLOSES NEXT MONDAY – have your family and friends voted for Axedale?
NETBALL COURT ROOF - PICK MY
PROJECT
As well as sourcing grant funding and local
financial support for our Netball Court Roof
Project, we have also nominated this proposal
as part of the ‘Pick My Project’ Victorian
Government funding initiative. Pick My Project
is a Victorian first community grants initiative,
with $30 million available to fund local projects. Come up with a
project idea, vote for your favourites, and make your community
an even better place to live.
The State Government received over 2500 project ideas from
across Victoria and now it’s time to get ready to vote – voting
opens at 9am on Monday 13 August 2018 and closes at 5pm on
Monday 17 September 2018.
You’ll need to register for a Pick My Project account and select the local community you wish to vote in.
You’ll be shown projects in our local community from which you’ll be able to vote for your three favourites.
Please vote for our project Axedale Primary School Netball/Basketball Court Roof & Surface Upgrade
https://pickmyproject.vic.gov.au/
GOLF DAY - TO SUPPORT THE AXEDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL AND PRE-SCHOOL
On Sunday 21st October the bi-annual Axedale Primary School and Pre-School Golf Day will be held at
Axedale Golf Course. The proceeds from this major fundraising event are shared between the Axedale
Primary School and the Axedale Pre-School. Hit-off will be from 12 noon, with BBQ available from
11.00am
We are sending home some information about how you can help on the day as well as an entry form for
people wishing to play golf today.
CRAZY HAIR DAY
Thanks to all of our students for supporting Crazy Hair Day. We were able to raise $183.05 for Cystic
Fibrosis.
2019 PREP ENROLMENTS
If you know of any families who are yet to enrol their child for Prep in 2019 can you please encourage them
to return their forms ASAP for planning purposes.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Thank you to Sonya Browne who has volunteered to go on our Finance Sub –Committee of School Council.
REGIONAL ATHLETICS SPORTS
Senior students have been trying out recently to qualify for the Regional Athletic Sports. The Sports will be
held on Monday 17th September at the Flora Hill Athletics Track. We will be taking a group of
approximately 20 students to compete in both individual events and age group relays.
Good luck to all our participants.
NATURAL LEARNERS – TERM 3 HOLIDAY PROGRAM:
Are you looking for a school holiday program that engages, inspires and supports your children to be active
citizens with a voice and hand in how their day unfolds? Where they are empowered to challenge
themselves and each other in healthy, meaningful ways and gain new skills for life? Yet still loads of fun...
Added bonus, no need for their digital device quota for the day to be wasted, whilst in our environment /
care. As they are too busy socialising and being hands on Natural Learners to even want it...
Don't delay if this sounds like a good fit for your family as our numbers are deliberately limited for
maximum opportunity to get out & about exploring.
See flyer in the community section and on our school website.
AXEDALE PIRATE DAY
Pirate Party Organisers are asking for school families to donate any large boxes they might have, to help go
towards the construction of the pirate ship.
People are welcome to call Sonya Browne - 0438 904 611- to arrange drop off or pick up. Please see the
flyer at the end of the newsletter.
DENTAL CHECKS
Bendigo Health will again be offering free dental checks for students in Term Four. On October 17th & 18th,
Bendigo Health Care Dental Nurses will be at school to conduct these free checks.
Paperwork to sign up is attached to the newsletter today.
STUDENT ABSENCES
We ask that you notify the school as soon as possible on the day of absence using our school app (this is the
preferred method as it provides us with documentation), email or phoning the school.
Parents who have not notified the school will receive an automated SMS message when your child is marked
absent on the electronic roll without explanation. This will occur before 10am each day. Thank you for your
assistance with this new process.
Details on how to download the App are below.
SCHOOL APP
If you haven’t already signed up to our school app we ask that you take the time to
download it.
The majority of our families have now signed up for our school app and are finding it is a
great way of staying in touch with easy access to newsletters, receiving calendar updates
direct to your phone and entering absence notes. It is also the way we send our alerts and reminders.
To download the app just visit the App Store for iPhones or Google Play for Android’s.
Search for Updat-ed and from the menu select our school. We’ll receive your registration
request and will need to approve you before your app is up and running.
FRESH FRUIT FRIDAY
The Fresh Fruit Friday Program continues this term. Fruit will be provided during lunch and afternoon
recess each Friday.
Friday 14th September – Susie McGrath & Samantha Condon
Friday 21st September – Tara Coffin & HELP NEEDED
BREAKFAST CLUB
Thank you to our volunteers, a new roster for Term 3 has been sent home.
Tuesday 18th September – Kellie S & Sam G
Thursday 20th September – NO BREAKFAST CLUB
MICHAEL GROSS PARENTING RESOURCES
Our school is a member of Parenting
Ideas. Visit
www.parentingideas.com.au
This free webinar is on tonight on
“Managing video games and the next
digital craze”. Parents who have
participated in these webinars in the past
have found them to be very beneficial.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Q: Why did the banana go to the doctor? A: Because it wasn’t peeling well.
The person who invented fairy bread recently retired. Apparently hundreds and thousands turned up to their
farewell ceremony!!
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Strive for progress – not perfection.
Lex Johnstone
Principal
FORMS TO BE RETURNED OR ORGANISED AT SCHOOL
GRADE 5/6 CAMP FORMS – Permission and DOXA forms due ASAP.
CLASSROOMS
PREP/1
Next Thursday 20th September Prep/1 will be having a games day where they will need to bring along a
board game, card game etc to share with us. They will need to know the rules of the game and how to play it
with their friends. Mrs E will also be sharing her childhood games played in the Netherlands.
PARENTS VOLUNTEERS &
FRIENDS
FAMILY PHOTO FUNDRAISER
We are holding the family photo fundraiser again
this year. A flyer was attached to the newsletter
last week. Please note a $50 non-refundable
booking fee is payable on booking.
COMMUNITY NEWS
KINDER ENROLMENT FORMS
We have enrolment forms for 2019 Kinder and
Pre-Kinder available at the school office.