From The Principal Dear Parents/Caregivers We look forward to having all parents join teachers for parent teacher interviews in the last week of term. If you need more information, please contact your child’s teacher. Have a fantastic break with your children and I look forward to seeing all your smiling faces again on Monday 18th July for term 3. Leanne Sheardown PRINCIPAL

Dinjerra Messenger

Term 2, No. 8 Thursday, 23rd June ,

2011

Games, toys and equipment

from home are NOT

allowed to be brought

to school.

Morning Tea with the Principal

On Friday 10th June I had the pleas-

ure of meeting with Bernette,

Temepara, Cing, Rebecca, Esmeralda

and Tra-Mi for morning tea.

Bernette, Esmeralda and Tra-Mi

shared their Writer’s Notebooks and

how much they enjoy using them. Temepara shared a reading book,

her snowing window and read a poem about weather, Cing shared her

writing book and Rebecca shared her maths books as well as talked

about a trip she made recently with 3 other children and Ms Petridis

and Ms Marshman to the MGC to learn about games.

Please see the Community Noticeboard for more information on: Asthma Newsletter Braidstone Blast— newsletter from the Braybrook/Maidstone Community House RecWest School Holiday Program CSIRO Holiday Program

A reminder to all that the Canteen and Uniform Shop are closed on Mondays and Tues-

days.

Please make sure that your child brings lunch to school on these days.

Coming Events for Term 2, 2011 Tuesday, 28th June: SPARK reading program with 2/4A&B

Wednesday, 29th June: Parent/Teacher Interviews from 1.30pm to 7.00pm

Friday, 1st July: Last day of Term 2. School finishes at 2.30pm

Monday, 18th July: School resumes for Term 3 at 8.50am

WANTED BY THE ART ROOM……

EGG CARTONS

FOAM

BOXES (SHOE BOXES, CEREAL ETC)

CARDBAORD CYLINDERS (NOT FROM TOILET ROLLS)

P/1A Yassir Ahmed Always contributing wonderful ideas to our class discussions. P/1A Trang Le For gathering our weather information and giving a report to the class.

P/1B Andrew Asafo Settling into school and trying hard in reading. 2/4A Kelly Ly Being very helpful to your classmates when using the comic life program. 2/4B Danny Leung You set yourself high standards in Maths (Numeracy) and work to achieve them. 4/6A Nuam Laiteng You have settled into the class very well. You are a valued member of the class. 4/6B George Efthimiadis, Jacklyne Biar and Patrick Tam For your excellence leadership help at the camp meeting night.

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Stars of the Week

20/06/11 SUPERSTAR

RIBBONS Congratulations to the

following students who have

been awarded Superstar

Ribbons for great behaviour

and Citizenship:

25 Stars: Nuam Laiteng, Erin Johanudin & Mahdi Mo-

hamed.

50 Stars: Huda Abdi, Bansil Patel, Sui Zi, Joshua

Tran, Dustin Vu, Suweyz Abdi, Hiba Muse

& Tracy Chiem.

75 Stars: Ayse Aydin, Lilian Du, Salwa Yassin Sui,

Soren Chowdhury-Pearce, Lydia Toth,

Chosyn Kaiwahia-Tunui, Jayden Le, Hiba

Muse, Ayse Aydin, Kurea Adrian, Kristy

Ha, Hitarth Pithava, Karl Asafo, Isabella

Phillips-Triolo, Abigail Perez

& Nastho Yusuf.

100 Stars: Sui Zi, Moses Batshoun, Bradley

Heffernan, Ashis Kumar, Jason Leung,

Matthew Duong & Hiba Muse.

Over 100 stars Isaac Jacob, Chin Chin Sangluai, Tony

Anthony, Nicholas Batshoun, Jack Co Pah,

Danny Leung & Cindy Tran.

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Physical Education News

Please make sure your children wear runners to school when they have a Physical Education lesson.

Your children have Physical Education on the following days.

Prep / 1 – Wednesday

2/3/4 – Thursday

4/5/6 – Tuesday.

2011 Swimming Program The Dinjerra Swimming Program will run in 4th term this year. The children will be able to gain fur-

ther confidence in water and learn swimming and survival skills. The children will attend for 9 con-

secutive days from Tuesday 11th October until Friday 21st October. The children will be travelling by

bus everyday to the Maribyrnong Aquatic Centre near Highpoint West. Permission notes and the cost-

ing will be going home early term 3.

The Dinjerra Sports Carnival Our Annual Sports Carnival will be taking place in 4th term this year. It’s a day of games and fun com-

petition between our green and gold houses. Children and teachers dress up in their house colours and

parents are invited along to join in the festivities. Our National Bank buddies also attend to help run

events on the day. Last year gold house won by only a few points. Good luck everyone!

Debbie Domas – Health and Physical Education Teacher and Coordinator.

Parents as Volunteers in our Classrooms

Thank you to all those parents who have been generously giving up their

time to volunteer in the classroom. An extra set of hands to help with tasks,

an extra ear, another person to assist and encourage a student and another

role model in our classroom. Both staff and students enjoy and value the

presence and support of our parents volunteering in our classrooms or around

our school.

There are a number of ways that you as parents can volunteer in the school. Perhaps you have a special tal-

ent or skill that you can share and teach. You may like to help with reading, during literacy or numeracy, in

art or PE. You may just wish to be present in your child’s classroom to share in their learning experience.

If you are interested in volunteering in the classroom or around the school please have a chat with your

child’s class teacher or Kathleen.

Yesterday the whole school was involved in a “Jump Off” as part of our participation in Jump Rope for Heart. We have some

amazingly talented skippers!

Dinjerra Primary School No. 5450 PO Box 4005 WEST FOOTSCRAY 3012 44 South Road BRAYBROOK 3019 Telephone : 9311 1598 Fax : 9312 3182 email : dinjerra.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Principal : Ms Leanne Sheardown Assistant Principal: Ms Sharon Higgins

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Start banking now!

If your child has recently submitted a Youthsaver account application they may have now received their account welcome pack. Please re-member to bring in your weekly de-posit each week on School Banking day.

If your child does not yet have an account please visit the School Of-fice for a parent pack which includes a Youthsaver account application form to get started with School Banking. If you are an existing Common-wealth Bank customer with access to NetBank you can apply for your child’s Youthsaver account online. Simply log into NetBank, click the “Offers and apply” tab, then select “Accounts” and “Youthsaver”. Please have your child’s birth certificate handy.

School Banking day is Tuesday

School Banking Co-ordinator: Miss Felicia Important information: Terms and conditions issued by Commonwealth Bank of Australia ABN 48 123 123 124 for Youthsaver Account are available from the Bank and should be considered before making any decision about the Youthsaver Account.

GOURMET KIDS SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER

Yeah! Gourmet Kids will be running Parties & School Holiday Program at the Maribyr-nong Community Centre - no need to

travel to Malvern. To help celebrate Gourmet Kids would like to offer a 20% discount for

parties booked prior to the school holidays for birthdays celebrated in July & August 2011. To

make your enquiries & bookings please call Susan on 9824 5979. Conditions apply.

For further details please see our website: www.gourmetkids.com.au

It’s Not Okay to be Away or Late. Being at school everyday helps to create happy, con-fident and positive children! Just a reminder to all parents that children need to be

at school everyday unless they are ill. Children who

are frequently late or absent from school find it more

difficult to learn routines and have to work hard to

catch up on their learning. Being at school everyday

also helps children to develop good friendship and

have positive experiences with their peers. Please

contact the school or send a note if your child has

been unwell and absent from school.

Have you been to the Ultranet lately to check out what’s new and exciting in your child’s schooling?

CSIRO Holiday Science Activities These school holidays, the CSIRO Science

Education Centre is offering a fun-filled day of enter-

taining and educational science activities. Programs

are available for 7-9 years olds and 10-13 year olds.

Both days run from 10.00am to 4.00pm with a pizza

lunch and morning and afternoon tea provided.

The location of the activities is the Yarraville

Guide Hall, Clare St., Yarraville.

Please see the Community Noticeboard near

the Office for more information. Or go to

www.csiro.au/events/VicHolidayPrograms.html for

on-line bookings.