FOUNTAIN GATE PRIMARY

SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Prospect Hill Road, Narre Warren 3805

Telephone: 9703 1187

Fax: 9703 2001

Email: fountain.gate.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: http://www.fountaingateps.vic.edu.au

School No. 5072

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December

2016

DIARY DATES Friday 9 December

Peer Mediator Excursion – Tunz a Fun

Monday 12 December

Level 5-6 End of Year Excursion – Movies & Jump Crazy 8.55am – 3.00pm

Tuesday 13 December

Level 3-4 End of Year Excursion – Luna Park 8.50am – 3.15pm

Thursday 15 December

Christmas Concert & Parents Morning Tea 9.00am - 11.00am

Friday 16 December

Reports to go home

Monday 19 December

Grade 6 Graduation – Students arrive 6.15pm Ceremony begins 6.30pm

Tuesday 20 December

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

STUDENTS FINISH AT 2.30PM

Tuesday 31st

January

FIRST SCHOOL DAY FOR 2017 All Students Grade 1-6

Wednesday 1st

February

First school Day for 2017 Prep Classes

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 00B 3C

00M 3S

00R Zahra Jaffary Not rushing and making an extra effort to complete her best work. Well done Zahra!

3/4H

00V Mehria Sarwari Trying her best to sound out words when writing a sentence about a magic wand. Well done Mehria!

4D Rohin Sidiki Speaking up and contributing more in class and to discussions.

1S Annabelle Teycheney

Great thinking about school safety.

4W Brandon Ludena Working hard to research information for you ERP. Great work, Brandon!

1P Meira Moreno Making great progress in her reading and writing this semester. Well done!

5C Zuli Jafari Sadaf Yaqoobi

Two well-presented and confidently delivered speeches this week. Well done! Working hard to improve her multiplication and fractions learning sequences. Well done!

1/2M 5D

2C 5H

2H Soriya Sarwari Always being willing to help and always following the class rules. Well done Soriya!

5/6T

2M Bailey Thompson Developing and organising the fundraiser for the tree house oil. You did a wonderful job at making the announcement to get the school involved. Congratulations!

6H Tulin Velievski Being very helpful and supportive towards her peers! Much appreciated!

3B 6S Omed Anwari His great similes poem which he wrote with his junior buddy today. Well done!

MATHLETICS AWARD Prep to Grade 2

Name: Alexander Woolley

Grade: Prep R

Reason: For developing excellent addition and subtraction skills

Grade 3 – 6 Name: Yen Tran Grade: 3/4H

Reason: For working hard to apply the knowledge and skills she has

learnt to solve complex mathematical problems which

involve numerous solutions.

ENGLISH AWARD

Prep to Grade 2

Name: Hussain Karimi

Grade: 2H

Reason: For his great work with persuasive writing.

Well done Hussain! Grade 3 – 6

Name: Imtiaz Qureshi Grade: 6H

Reason: For using his prior knowledge to make links within a text

to further develop a deeper understanding of the text.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2016

There will be a Christmas Concert for the whole school in

the Big Gym on Thursday 15th December starting at 9.00am

and finishing at 11.00am. All grades will be performing items

as well as the Glee Club and the Dance Group. The children

are able to wear Christmas coloured clothes, special

celebration clothes or costumes appropriate for their item

on the day. If costumes are needed on the day the children

will receive a note from their teacher. All parents and family

members are invited to join us.

After our concert we invite parents and family members to

stay and share a picnic morning tea with the children. Please

bring your child’s favourite food for morning tea.

Hope to see you there.

Meredith Dinsdale

Performing Arts

Artist for the Month of

December

Artist: Jayden Hang

Grade: 5H

Title: Sydney Harbour Bridge at New Year

Medium: Water Colour

“Free the child’s potential and you will transform him into the world” Maria Montessori

Jayden enjoys art and this is reflected in his finished drawings and

paintings. He is talented and works enthusiastically in the art room. His

water colour painting of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of his high

quality works.

Very impressive Jayden! Well done.

Kathy Mottahedin

Visual Arts Teacher

Mad On Music have pleasure in announcing that Rayven H. (3/4H)

Was Term 4’s winner of the MOM Signature Chart Award. Congratulations Rayven!

LIBRARY BOOKS

ALL LIBRARY BOOKS MUST BE

RETURNED TO THE LIBRARY

BY FRIDAY 9th OF DECEMBER

IN ORDER THAT STOCKTAKE

CAN COMMENCE.

PAYMENT WILL BE

REQUESTED FOR LOST BOOKS.

CSEF

Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund

To be eligible for Camps, sports and Excursion Fund payment:

You will need to provide your current Healthcare / Pension card for the office to sight and photocopy-

must be valid past 30th January 2017.

Please collect your application form from the office.

Compulsory wearing of hats in

Term 1& 4

All students must wear a school hat during

term 1 & 4 for recess, lunch and any outdoor activity.

The Department of education & Fountain Gate Primary School does not endorse the products or services of

any private advertiser. No responsibility is accepted by the Department of Education or Fountain Gate Primary

School for accuracy of information contained in advertisement or claims made by them.

Prep Enrolment 2017 Just a reminder if you

have not yet enrolled your

child for Prep 2017,

please come to the office and collect

an application form.

PAYMENTS

All payments that are handed to either the

classroom teacher or office MUST be

clearly marked on the envelope