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From the Principal’s desk…..

Issue No 27 28/08/2019

ELLY NEWS

In this issue:

Principal’s Report

Parents & Friends Info

Indo Corner

Classroom Connections

Book Club

School Diary

August 29th—Senior

Swimming Program

August 30th—Father’s

Day Stall

September 2nd-6th—

Bike Ed Week One–

Years 3 to 6 students

September 12th—

Melbourne Museum

Excursion—Preps

September 16th-20th—

Bike Ed Week Two–

Years 3 to 6 students

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Father’s Day Stall

THIS FRIDAY our P&F will be running their annual Father’s Day stall, providing our children

with an opportunity to purchase a gift for their Dad or the special man in their life. This is

only possible due to the amazing donations we get from our school community each year, so

thank you to those who have donated to this cause. As you know, our kids love ’shopping’ at

these events!

Footy Clinic

Tomorrow, 26 of our 5/6 students will head to Central Reserve for an AFL clinic held by

Geelong Football Club in association with the Next Generation Academy. This is free of

charge for our students. The students will be accompanied by Mr Harkness and there is also a

clinic running after school for girls footy, as well as for Indigenous students (girls and boys).

This commences at 4:30pm at Central Reserve.

Stig Wemyss visit

Also tomorrow we are fortunate enough to be hosting a visit by the renowned narrator Stig

Wemyss, thanks to the Colac Library. We are very much looking forward to being

entertained by Stig as he has a great reputation for engaging children in literacy in a fun and

creative way. This would be a great opportunity for ‘tea table’ discussion with your child, and

maybe the perfect platform for launching into a new book!

EPS Netball

Last Friday night our U11 girls netball team, the

Kestrels, were grand finalists! Unfortunately they

didn’t come away with the win, but we are super

proud of all of the girls for their effort and the way

they represented our school. Well done to them

all, and their coach, Renee Hall. It’s wonderful to

see our kids being successful, well supported and

conducting themselves in a way that reflects very

positively on our school—great work!

Bike Ed

Next week is the first week of our two week Bike Education program. All students, Years 3-6

need to ensure they have their bike and helmet at school on Monday, and then again each day

for the remainder of the week. Bikes can be left at school and can be locked up, however this

is the responsibility of each child. Teachers will not be checking the yard for bikes left out.

Angela Hall Principal

Room 1 Macy O for being a great worker and always being attentive in class. Well done! Room 2 Hank M for always trying his personal best in all tasks and working hard towards his writing goal. Well done Hank. Room 4 Kai F for his excellent editing of his writing. Keep up the great work! Room 5 Ben W for working on his resilience and for always working cooperatively with his team members! Room 7 Koby O for her dedication to learning and her can do attitude! Room 8 Chloe H for becoming an increasingly responsible learner and always giving her personal best. Room 9 Jacob H for increasing his focus to ensure personal best with each task. Harry I for making the best use of his task time and avoiding distractions. Room 10 Josh S for always being a helpful, positive and energetic member of Room 10! Keep it up Josh! Art Austin D & Aden D for amazing work. Great focus, respect and responsibility. Sport Jordan G for improving his listening skills and always trying his personal best. Science Sienna M for a brilliant Science project! Nice effort Milvo! Indonesian Isabella K, Sascha H-H, Lachlan D, Sienna M & Mia J for their great work in Indonesian over the last few weeks.

This week Principal’s Award goes to Rhys C for being a supportive friend and encouraging others to make good choices. Well done!

INDO CORNER:

THE GARUDA BIRD The mythical Garuda bird is found in many Indonesian sculp-tures, carvings and batik fabrics. In the ancient Indian Hindu sto-ry, the Ramayana, the Hindu God, Vishnu, rode Garuda across the heavens. The Garuda is also the symbol on Indonesia’s coat of arms (gold in colour) and their national airlines.

Pak Gray

Canteen Friday 30th August, 2019

Morning Supervisor:

Jordana Swanson

9:00am: Carla Marshall, Liz Drever

Afternoon Supervisor 11.30am:

Dave Ryan

12:30pm: Kirsty Cuthbertson, Karly Shaw

CORRESPONDENCE THIS WEEK

Year 5/6 Camp Note—Year 5&6 Students only

PARENTS & FRIENDS INFO

Friday is our Fathers Day stall. There is still time to donate, just

drop them in to the office. We would greatly appreciate items

in lots of 10 to allow for fair

distribution across all classes. Here are some suggestions: key rings, stubby holders, hankies,

chocolates, pens, baked goods, golf

balls/tees, socks, fishing things. The kids love shopping for Dad,

please remember to send a shop-

ping bag with your child/ren so they

put their goodies in, to take home.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB Book club order forms were sent home last week. If you wish to order books without your child’s knowledge please mark this request very clearly on the order form. You will be personally contacted when the orders arrive so that you can collect the books from the office.

Orders for this issue are due back by Thursday 5th September. If you are paying by cheque please make it payable to ‘Scholastic’. Remember every book purchased through the book club gives the school credit to purchase more books for the library.

Thank you, Marg Phillips

LOST PROPERTY If your child/ren are missing any articles of school uniform, please come and have a look in the lost property as it is overflow-ing with jumpers at the present stage.

PREP MELBOURNE MUESUM

EXCURSION There are still a few children who haven’t re-

turned consent forms or paid for this excur-

sion, if you are one of these could you please

make sure you return the form and money as

soon as possible. Children will not be permit-

ted to attend without consent and payment,

or a payment arrangement.

Thanks.

Classroom Connection

Our Year 3 to 6 students have continued their swimming lessons at Blue

Water. Some of our Senior Students will have the opportunity to attend a

football clinic with the Geelong Football Club at Central Reserve this week,

which is very exciting! 20 senior students have completed their 4th Maths Olympiad this week,

which has a focus on developing problem solving skills. Students will be lucky enough to meet Stig Wemyss who is an Australia

narrator of audio books for children and young adults this Thursday. Bike Education begins next week, which we are very much looking forward

to.

Preps It’s been all about dinosaurs in our Prep rooms with lots of fun, engaging and authentic learning

taking place through the Developmental Curriculum. In addition, our little ones have been

transferring and further developing their knowledge of dinosaurs through the creation of

information reports during Writing and role plays. Lots of number work has been the focus in

Maths sessions and learning how to summarise during reading opportunities. It’s not long now

until our little archaeologists make their way down to the big smoke to visit the Melbourne

Museum.

Years 1 & 2 The students have been very busy learning about and applying key elements to their persuasive writing. The kids have been eager to persuade their audience through the topic statement of ‘My

Dad’s the Best Dad’. Learning about compound sentences and the continuation of the ‘Under

Water’ theme has seen the 1-2’s continue to build their knowledge of these topics. During

Maths, students have been working hard to refine and improve their understandings of division

and data.

Years 3 & 4 During Maths, lots of engaging activities focusing on measurement and algorithms have been

evident in the 3-4 classrooms. Students have been working on information reports and using

punctuation correctly during Writing time. Creating a timeline of Australian Prime Ministers and

researching facts and details of a chosen Prime Minister have increased student knowledge of the

Australian Government.

Years 5 & 6 The big kids have continued to actively engage and represent our school values whilst participat-

ing in Winter Sports. Drawing caricatures of Prime Ministers and learning about how a bill is

passed in parliament have been key features of Integrated Studies. Having a free choice to create

a discussion text have formed Writing sessions. Students have also be discussing, analysing and

reviewing local, national and global issues through viewing ‘Behind the News’. Our senior

students have also been very focused when interpreting, analysing and creating sets of data during

Maths.

Thankyou,

Jarrad Cook

Leading Teacher

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