PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Building Progress Our building works are now moving ahead quick-ly and we are all looking forward to moving in next term. I know that all of our Prep to Year 2 parents will agree that our students are doing remarkably well in their temporary classrooms. Whenever I visit these classes, I am amazed to see how quietly our students are working and how engaged they are in their learning. This week I visited the 1/2 classes while they were writing about animals and each student, was trying hard to use some “powerful words” in their writing. Our preps are continuing to move ahead in leaps and bounds. Yesterday I had a quick discussion with them about their goals. They can now all sit beautifully in a “five point check” and they have (almost) mastered putting up their hands and waiting quietly for their teachers to ask them to talk, instead of calling out. Although we have enjoyed the team teaching aspect of our temporary classrooms, we are all looking forward to moving back into our newly refur-bished building at the beginning of next term Sporting Successes Two weeks ago, we managed to include a pro-gress report on the District Cross Country, but at the time of writing the newsletter, not all of the races were finished. All of our students tried their best on the day and many ran personal bests placing very highly in the events, but congratula-tions to Ethan Zafer in Year 6 who finished sec-ond in his event and together with Summer Wil-son (who was in the newsletter a fortnight ago) will compete at the Zone level next week. We wish both Ethan and Summer all the best at this next level. Both Ethan and Summer enjoy run-ning and can always be seen at our jogging club in the mornings. Our students took part in the District Field Athlet-ics competition last Wednesday at Ballam Park. We had a team of approximately 55 students who represented the school in High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Shot Put and Discus. Our students competed very well, with many also achieving personal best distances in their events. On the day, two districts participate at Ballam Park and the top three placegetters will continue at the Zone level. Many of our students placed in the top four in their event, but we are still waiting for results from both sections before we find out who will represent Frankston Primary School at the Zone level.

Friday 2nd June 2017

Don’t cope alone!

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MONTH OF JUNE

Thursday 1st June UNIFORM SWAP DAY

3 til 3:45pm Office Courtyard

Wednesday 7th June

Provisional Cross Country

Wednesday 21st June School Council 7pm

LAST DAY OF TERM

Friday 30th June Early dismissal is at 2:30pm

CONGRATULATIONS ON REDUCING ABSENCES AND COMING TO SCHOOL

Keep up the great job kids!

“EVERY DAY COUNTS AT SCHOOL”

FRI 30TH JUNE ‘LAST DAY OF TERM’ FRI 30TH JUNE Remember that this is the last day of term and there is an early dismissal time at 2:30pm for all students. Please ensure you make arrangements to pick them up early.

Newsletter Friends Learning Together

We wish all of our students all the best. The fol-lowing students placed first in their events, Harri-son Hughes (Discus), Tahnaya Jacob (Discus), Lucia Weiss (Shot Put), Lucky Freeman (Triple Jump) and Brooke Coxhell (Shot Put). Well done to all of our team. Our Aerobics teams are travelling to Geelong this Saturday to take part in the State Finals. We will keep our fingers crossed that our girls can do the very best they can. Choir Congratulations to our Choir for participating in the Mornington Peninsula Choral Festival on Tuesday night. The choir did a wonderful job and sang beautifully. We are very proud of our choir and our students who are part of this have enjoyed per-forming in front of large audiences. Prep Tours This week we have continued to conduct several prep tours for our prep intake for 2018 and our numbers for 2018 are steadily increasing. At this stage we would also like our sibling enrolments to pick up an enrolment pack at the office so that we can begin to process your enrolments as well. This way we will be able to plan effectively for 2018. Canteen We have a wonderful group of parents and even a past grandparent who do a wonderful job in preparing our special morning snacks in the canteen. I would like to acknowledge the work of this group and thank them for their wonderful efforts. The best thing about all of you is that you always have a smile. Thanks for all your hard work we really appreciate your involvement especially the children. Lost Property There are 26 jumpers and 7 coats in lost property. The coats are all very good quality coats and need to be claimed. Most of the items in lost property do not have names on them and of those that do, are so washed out and faded that they are impossible to read. If your child has lost their jumper or a coat recently, please come into the office to have a look though the ones that are there.

Hope you all have a good weekend.

Morry Rubinstein (Principal)

FRI 9TH JUNE ‘CURRICULUM DAY’ FRI 9TH JUNE Don’t forget that this is our Report Writing Day and no students attend school on this day. Please make sure you mark this date on your calendar.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS

CELEBRATING THEIR BIRTHDAY

THIS WEEK

Tyson

Jasmine

Masee

Jed

Lennox

Kyah

May the year ahead be a great one!

NOTE: If you are planning to provide a class treat for your child’s birthday please check with your child’s teacher first to arrange a

suitable time and to check on numbers of students in the class.

ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS CLASS AWARDS - LAST WEEK

PREP C Hayley PREP L Tanessha GR 1/2G Seerat GR 1/2M Abhishek GR 1/2C Zoe GR 1/2J James GR 3/4W Matilda GR 3/4V Faithful GR 3/4R Rua GR 5/6M Sean GR 5/6S Lessa GR 5/6V Stephen

SPECIALIST AWARDS PHYS ED with Mrs Kylie Crebbin

Devika 1/2M VISUAL ARTS with Mrs Janelle Doyle

Sehajleen 1/2M PERFORMING ARTS with Mrs Sally Grage-Moore

Lennox 3/4W CULTURAL STUDIES with Mrs Sally Grage-Moore

Monika Prep C

SMOOTHIE CLUB AWARDS

The following children were commended for excellent behaviour and attitude OR for achieving personal goals set for them. These students joined in celebrations at Frankston Primary School’s Smoothie Club as part of the ‘YOU CAN DO IT’ program. Commendable Behaviour Awards Asher Billie Milly Sonia Isabella Sana Sienna Summer Riya Kane Alex Filip Personal Goal Awards Rydah Lennox

Congratulations kids keep up the great effort!

CANTEEN TREATS WEDNESDAY Dim Sims $2:00 for two THURSDAY Nutella and Banana Jaffle $2:50 each

ICE CREAM FRIDAY $2:00 each Ice cream cones on sale every Friday at lunchtime.

FRANKSTON PRIMARY SCHOOL’S ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM-SMILEY HOUR

ENJOYING TAKING PART IN POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS

OUR PERFORMING CHOIR

On Tuesday 30th May, the Frankston Primary School Performing Choir participated in the Mornington Peninsula Choral Festival at Toorak College. We were one of 35 schools and community choirs involved in this fantastic event. Our students sang beautifully and it was a wonderful, inspiring and educational experience to see and hear so many other choirs perform.

Congratulations to all our students in the Performing Choir! Sally Grage-Moore (Performing Arts Specialist Teacher)

APPLES APPLES APPLES We are so excited to announce that apple growers ‘Montague Fresh’ have made a generous donation of fresh Jazz apples to our school. Our students certainly benefit from the generosity of these sorts of donations and we can’t thank them enough. Our 5/6 students indulged in them as they were watching part of the ABC series called ‘A War On Waste.’

OUR SUSTAINABILITY TIP OF THE WEEK

Gian and Alex shared a great Sustainability Tip at assembly this week……..Did you know that you can recycle plastic bags, biscuit wrappers and any other plastic packaging from your food?

Well the answer is YES!!! At Coles Supermarkets you can drop your plastic wrappers etc into the recycle plastics bins provided. These are then collected and recycled. They make all sorts of things out of them, even plastic seating and benches that you see in

some of our parks. Remember next time you are in Frankston to see if you can find the Plastics Recycle Bin outside Coles.