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DIARY DATES
NUMBER 8 – 20 March 2014
Fri 21 Mar Yr 5/6 Summer Sport Lightning Prem
Family Accounts due today.
Yrs 1 - 4 Southern Voices Choir visit
Mon 24 Mar Senior School Assembly 9.10am
Thur 27 Mar Yr 3 & 4 E.F.A.
Yr 6 Student Leadership Day - Frankston
Fri 28 Mar Yr 5/6 Interschool Sport
Sat 29 Mar PLPS Trivia Night 7.30pm
Mon 31 Mar Junior School Assembly 9.10am
Wed 2 April Easter Bonnet Parade 9am
Free Dress Day - Gold Coin Donation
District Trials (select Yr 5/6 students) 4pm
Hot Cross Buns - orders delivered today
Thur 3 April Yr 5 excursion to MCG
Yr 3 & 4 E.F.A.
Fri 4 April Yr 5/6 Interschool Sport
End of Term 1 - 2.30pm finish
Mon 21 Apr Easter Monday - School closed
Tues 22 Apr Term 2 begins
Prep - Yr 1 Swimming begins
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
SCHOOL COUNCIL ELECTIONS
Congratulations to Andrew Hornibrook, Scott Dargan, Marika Creaser, Peter White, Paul Clohesy, Melinda Bowly and Kellie
Davis who have been appointed to School Council for 2014 -
2016.
The new PLPS School Council is:
President Andrew Hornibrook
Vice President Julie Howick
Treasurer Scott Dargan
Secretary Melinda Bowly
Executive Officer Stan Szuty
Councillors Judith Allatt Marika Creaser Jodi Kitchen Ruth Letch Kristen Mellet Peter White Melinda Bowly Paul Clohesy Kellie Davis Kate Shannon
ANNUAL REPORT TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY The 2013 Annual Report was presented on Tuesday night at School Council. The school had another successful year with all key performance indicators above the state mean. The Annual Report will be uploaded to the school’s website shortly with hardcopies available at the office.
FUNDRAISING PURCHASES
School Council approved the purchase of 4 outdoor aluminium settings [identical to the ones outside the Year 5 and 6 area] for outside the canteen area. In addition, the outdoor basketball courts will be top dressed with Plexipave. It is arguably the best acrylic surface available on today's market and will extend the longevity of the court. It will have a dark blue base with white line markings. The school logo will be incorporated into the centre of each court. In addition, basketball poles will be removed, powder coated and reinstalled. Total cost of works will be approx. $47,000.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS
Congratulations to the following students who won our ‘Student of the Week’ awards for Week 7 of this term. Keep up the terrific work everyone!
Prep A – Antonio M for working very hard on his writing.
Prep B – Matthew S for his outstanding effort in talking to the class about his cricket.
Prep C – Ahllia D for working really hard to learn how to write.
Prep D – Nicolas C for being such a happy learner in Prep D and always helping others.
Prep E – Dion V for being a wonderful Prep E team member and putting so much effort into all of his work.
1A – Lucas R for demonstrating a clear understanding of how making ‘text to self’ connections helps him understand when he is reading.
1B – Diing D for having a fantastic ‘have a go’ attitude.
1C – Will H for working hard and being a leader in his reading group.
1D – Isaac S for being an all-round awesome student every day in 1D.
1E – Ryder S for completing excellent homework for our sounds sensational topic.
2A – James M for displaying excellent work habits in class.
2B – Pippa L for being a speedy mathematician when prac-tising doubling this week.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
NAME BIRTHDAY
Lincoln A 20 March
Diana F 20 March
Olivia S 20 March
Blake T 20 March
Anthony S 20 March
Madison H 21 March
Lara H 21 March
Jonathan W 21 March
Narece M 21 March
Wayd G 23 March
Jaeda C 23 March
Luke H 23 March
Madeleine T 23 March
Emily T 23 March
Ellie H 24 March
Hollie H 24 March
Darby B 24 March
Harrison C 24 March
Charlotte F 24 March
Jamieson E 25 March
Corey O 25 March
Charlotte E 26 March
Jett B 26 March
Cooper F 26 March
Peta B 26 March
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
2C – Ayla S for using her schema to make a relevant connection to her book during our Independent Reading session.
2D – Bailey G for working really well with his reading strategies.
2E – Tahlia C for always bringing a smile to school and giving everything a go.
3A – BJ A for displaying our school values when taking care of a sick friend and doing everything you could to help him.
3B – Jay C for his excellent work in Maths and demonstrating knowledge of great strategies in solving addition problems.
3C – Isaac T for his determination to solve mental maths tasks.
3D – Will B for his excellent work writing his Space narrative.
4A – Aaron C for an informative and confidently presented project on Lionel Rose.
4B – Whynter V for her enthusiasm in assisting with classroom organisation.
4C – Emma B for her wonderful performance in the Dreamtime play ‘How the Brolga Became a Bird’.
4D – Charlotte H for showing confidence during her class presentation.
5A – Isabel C for working efficiently in our Maths investigation and producing a well presented Dot Plot graph.
5B – Mayen D for writing an excellent discussion piece and always being a kind and caring member of our class.
5C – David T for improving his homework and organisational skills to a very good level.
5D – Jaxon P for his resilient efforts in his information report and completing all tasks on time.
6A – Luke V for being brave and completing the high ropes course at Camp Coonawarra.
6B – Yasmin B for her wonderful manners and being a helpful and supportive team player at Camp Coonawarra.
6C – Valen P for showing great teamwork during our time at Camp Coonawarra.
SPECIALIST CLASS AWARDS for last week were: Art – Prep B & 6C, P.E – Prep C & 5A, Music – Prep A & 2A, Italian – All Preps, Spanish – 5C, French – 1D and Comput-ers – Prep B & 3C. Congratulations to these classes on their super efforts with our specialist teachers.
WEEKLY HOUSE POINTS WINNER
Last week’s winning House team was the McLeod Mustangs (Green). Congratulations to all students in this team.
SOUTHERN VOICES CHOIR VISIT
A representative will be visiting our Year 1, 2, 3 & 4 classes tomorrow morning, Friday 21st March to speak to the students, listen to them sing and provide information about the choir.
WHAT IS ‘TOURETTE SYNDROME’
We have a student at our school who has this disorder. Below
are some snippets from an article ‘Taking a tic
for Tourette’s’ which explains what Tourette’s is:
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
Tourette Syndrome affects about 1 in 500 Australians and is a neurological disorder that lasts for life — there is no known cure for it. Tourette Syndrome is characterised by a number of rapid and involuntary muscle movements and vocal actions called tics. Awareness, understanding and acceptance are key strategies to improve the quality of life for those with TS. Tourette Syndrome is not defined as someone who swears. This tic is called Coprolalia and is only experienced by 10-15 per cent of those who have TS. TS is not a rare condition, with one in every 100 children affected. The best way to improve the lives of Tourette Syndrome sufferers and their families is to get the word out there to enable community knowledge, education and acceptance. TS is nothing to be ashamed of, it is the same as having asthma or diabetes in that it is an inherited physical condition.
■ For more information on the Tourette Syndrome Association of Victoria visit www.tsavic.org.au or for more information on Tourette Syndrome Awareness visit www.tourette.org.au
SCHOOL PHOTOS - TODAY
Today school photographs were taken using the company SchoolPix. If you have any questions or have not placed your order yet, please contact SchoolPix on 1300 766 055.
WALLA RUGBY & BASKETBALL VISITS
This week at school we have been lucky enough to have Chris Aho from the Melbourne Rebels Rugby team
come out to visit some of our Year 5/6 students during PE classes. The Year 4’s had a special guest with a visit
from Chuck Long a Bayside Blues representative who engaged our students with his basketball skills. Please see
the advertisement further down the newsletter regarding the School Holiday Basketball Camp at the FBDA these
school holidays.
SURF CARNIVAL - WARNAMBOOL
1500 nippers attended the Junior Surf Life Saving Championships in Warrnambool on the 7th and 8th of March. Abbey T (4C), Ellie C (4A), Joshua K (4C) and Lachy L (4C) represented Chelsea Longbeach Surf Life Saving Club and Ruby G (4B) and Holly B (3B) represented Bonbeach Surf Life Saving Club. The nippers competed in individual events including Wade, board race, swim, beach flags, beach sprints and a 500 metre run. The events on the Sunday included the march past teams and lots of relay races. A fantastic effort from all students who participated!
SPORTS NEWS
CANTEEN NEWS
In line with the new timetable changes, all canteen baskets from the classroom are taken straight to the Canteen by 9.15am. Due to the fact that lunch orders are now collected from the Canteen at 11.40am, no lunch orders will be accepted after 9.45am.
Teachers will always ask if anyone has a lunch order to be placed in the basket first thing in the morning, but if your child forgets and wants to put it in after 9.45am, the canteen will not be able to take the lunch order.
To support our new timetable changes that commenced last week, we will no longer be opening the Canteen for afternoon recess sales. The canteen will still remain open for lunch (11.52am) Monday, Thursday and Friday, but will not be open for recess in the afternoons (2.18pm).
SPORTS NEWS
Ride2School Day!
On Wednesday we had a fantastic turn out for National Ride2School Day! Around 100 students (and their parents) rode their bikes to school. What a great way to start the day. The turn out was much greater than last year and led to a very full bike shed! Well done to everyone who made the effort and participated!
Is this your Bike?
With so many bikes in the bike shed on Ride2School
Day there was bound to be two exactly the same!
A student believes his bike was mistakenly taken as
there was one the same as his and his was gone by
the time he arrived at the bike shed.
This is a picture of the bike that was left behind.
The student says his bike had a bit more rust on the
handlebars and his seat was up higher.
If you believe you have made this mistake can you
please contact Miss Conway and we can arrange to
swap them over!
Thanks.
OFFICE NEWS
5c FRIDAY
THE WINNER OF 5c FRIDAY FOR LAST
WEEK WAS
PREP D
ACT OF KINDNESS
EASTER RAFFLE TICKETS
Easter raffle tickets have now been sent home with the
youngest child. There are 20 tickets in a book and they are
$1 each. If you require more ticket books, please ask the
girls in the office. We made up some amazing baskets last
year and with all the lovely donations we were able to
make up lots of baskets, so don’t miss out. We are still
looking for Easter Egg Donations. The more eggs we
get, the more baskets we can make up and of course
the better chance you have of winning one.
Recruit a New School Week
Do you or a family member know someone who attends a school that does not have The Act of Kindness? Your job this week is to tell them about the program so they can become a member. For more information please visit the following link: http://www.theactofkindness.org.au/ or contact Mr Zarb on 9772 4011.
FREE DRESS DAY
To coincide with our Easter Bonnet Parade Wednesday 2nd April, we will be holding a Free Dress Day for all students in
return of a Gold Coin Donation.
All proceeds from the gold coin donation for wearing free dress on the day will be donated to the Royal Children’s
Hospital Good Friday Appeal.
Good news! Patto TV and Radio
The latest ‘Where, Oh Where is Nosey Bear’ TV show is now online. http://bit.ly/pattoTV (YouTube) and www.noseybear.podomatic.com
Catch the highlights of the commencement of Term 1 2014. While you’re there catch up on some previous episodes. The kids and Nosey Bear do a great job. They would love to get your feedback.
Our Friday radio broadcasts are also podcast on the Nosey Bear site. Hear our live Friday broadcasts and participate in our competitions. Have a giggle and learn some cool info with the R@dio Crew.
Enjoy
Nosey Bear and Mrs Bearup
PATTO TV AND RADIO ACT OF KINDNESS
THE DATE
ThinkUKnow a Cybersafety division of the Australian Federal Police. It is an internet safety initiative which aims to raise awareness of the issues which young people face online and whilst using mobile phones. It is a partnership between the AFP and Microsoft Australia, and is now proudly supported by Ninemsn and Datacom.
Our school will be hosting a ThinkUKnow presentation on WEDNESDAY 28th
MAY @ 6pm and all parents, carers and teachers are encouraged to attend. With the number of cybersafe-ty issues facing our children today and the difficulty facing parents dealing with such issues we strongly urge you to attend. This presentation will cover topics such as how young people are using technology to have fun, online grooming, cyber-bullying, inappropriate content and e-security. Booking are essential as places are limited
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn more about how young people have fun online, how you can help them to stay in control on the net, and how to report a problem. To make it possible for all to attend we are offering babysitting for school aged children but places will be limited.
For more information, you can visit the ThinkUKnow Australia website at www.thinkuknow.org.au or contact [email protected] or [email protected]
We look forward to seeing you all at the presentation
COMMUNITY NEWS COMMUNITY NEWS
Chelsea Basketball Winter Season
Commences April 28th 2014. Juniors U8s, 10, 12, 14, 16,
18 and seniors. Entry forms now available or on our
website www.chelseabasketball.com.au. Entries close
March 28th 2014. Phone 9776 1895 for more details.
Mordialloc College
Open Afternoon Saturday 3rd May 2pm - 4pm
Open Night Tuesday 6th May 7pm - 9pm
SEAL Entrance Exam - Saturday 10 May 10am - 12pm
For further details, contact the college on 9580 1184.
Moonlit Sanctuary Wildlife Conservation Park
Open 10am - 5pm daily. 550 Tyabb-Tooradin Road,
Pearcedale. For further details call 5978 7935 or
www.moonlit-sanctuary.com
Long Beach Tennis Club Open Day
Roy Dore Reserve, Carrum. Saturday 22nd March from
5pm - 9pm. For further details go to their website
www.longbeachtennis.com.au
Skye United Football Club - “Soccer is for Girls”
The light foot work, the weaving & the passing, Stamina,
Strength, Courage, Confidence. Looking for girls aged
9-13 yrs. Enquires, please call Olga Ristevski 0419 356 378.
Frankston Arts Centre - The 13-Storey Treehouse Prod
Monday 28th April at 11.30am. 4pm & 6pm. Tickets $16, Family of 4 $56. Call Box Office on 9784 1060.
Chelsea Basketball School Holiday Program
8th, 9th, & 10th April 15th, 16th and 17th April. 10am-3pm
Bonbeach Stadium. $80 per week, $150 for both weeks or
$30 per day. Contact stadium on 9776 1895
