HAZELWOOD NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 2382

121 Church Road, Hazelwood North. 3840 Phone: (03) 5166 1267 Mobile: 0407 505 569

Fax: (03) 5166 1669 ABN: 28 632 191 311

Email: hazelwood.north.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: http://www.haznthps.vic.edu.au

Thursday 17th August 2017

Term 3 – Newsletter 25 WEDNESDAY’S SCHOOL BANKING

Wednesday 26th July to

Tuesday 19th September

Monday 14th to 19th August

Friday 18th August

Friday 18th August

Monday 21st August

Friday 25th August

Friday 25th August

Friday 25th August

Monday 28th August

Tuesday 5th September

Thursday 21st September

Friday 22nd September

Monday 9th October

Wednesday 11th -13th October

WEDNESDAY’S SCHOOL BANKING

Earn and Learn Program

Science Week

Krispy Krème delivered to school.

Subway Lunch

Book Week

Hot Dog/Dim Sim Lunch

FATHER’S DAY STALL-Volunteers needed

Book week Activity Day – Dress as

Favourite Book Character

Literacy/Numeracy week

Division Athletics

Grade 2 Sleepover

Term 3 finishes @ 1.30pm

Term 4 – First Day Back

Grade 3/4 Phillip Island Camp

2017 SCHOOL CAMPS: Years 3/4 Phillip Island Camp Wednesday 11th October to 13th October

cost $270 by Monday 11th September

PRINCIPAL COMMENTS: PAUL JORGENSEN

Our NAPLAN results have been delivered and each child in Years 3 and 5 should have received their individual NAPLAN results. It is important to remember that these results show how your child did on these particular tests on these particular days and are only one set of data that indicates your child’s progress and achievements. The tests were carried out in early May so there has been sometime between the tests and getting the results. If you have any concerns please contact your child’s classroom teacher and they will be able to show you up to date test results and a range of other data indicating your child’s progress.

The NAPLAN data the school receives gives us information on how we are going in relation to growth and achievement across the school. We use this data to track individual students and cohorts of students and to inform us of areas to improve on.

The data this year again shows a positive trend of improving results in most areas, but a small drop in some areas. This can sometimes be attributed to relevant

cohorts of children but this will be something that we will analyse in the coming weeks and put measures in place to address any concerns found.

After a short period of decline in our data we have made some good gains over the past four years and although our work is not done yet we are pleased that we have been able to put in place procedures that allow us to reflect on our school data and make adjustments where needed. We can attribute the improvement over the past few years to a number of factors but two of our key initiatives over this time has been on Challenging Learning through the focus on the work of James Nottingham and also the development of our Writing Checklists that students use regularly and set personal goals against. This was particularly evident in the great results in the Grammar and Punctuation tests in NAPLAN.

WOOLWOOOORRRRTTTTHS EAAAARRRRN & LEARN PROGRAAAAM has started for 2017. Hazelwood North Primary School is participating in Earn and Learn this year

and if we receive enough stickers we could earn for our school some amazing

equipment just by shopping at Woolworths from Wednesday 26th July until

Tuesday19th September.

KEEP THE STICKERS

COMING! MORE THE BETTER!

MAGAZINE DONATIONSMAGAZINE DONATIONSMAGAZINE DONATIONSMAGAZINE DONATIONS

Dear School Community,

We would appreciate any donations of Caravan, Travel, Camping, Fishing, Boating

and destination magazines by Wednesday the 23rd of August. We will be using

these for our Book Week activity.

Thank you,

Jayla and Ashlee!

Preview for Foundation/Ones

• In Reading we will be focusing on the reading strategies of making predictions about a story and looking at the beginning and ending sounds in words.

• In Maths Miss Waite’s grade will be focusing on place value, reading and making numbers while Miss Stockdale’s grade will be looking at sharing into equal amounts. On Monday and Tuesday we will be completing a Maths CAT (common assessment task) on money and worded problems.

• In Writing we will be working on achieving writing goals and writing recounts and procedures. • In Inquiry we will be continuing to look at simple machines, focusing on levers and pulleys. All students in Miss Waite’s grade will have spelling words or

letters to practise for testing on Friday.

Next week on Friday we will be doing our Book week activities. We encourage the

students to dress up as a book character.

This week Josh and Jo from Federation University did a science experiment

involving water rockets. The students got to measure water and put this in a bottle.

With Josh’s assistance students were able to test their rockets. Here are a few

pictures from the incursion. We made predictions, tested our hypothesis and made

conclusion based on the results collected by Jo.

We will be having Library on Wednesday as we have our Book week

activities during our usual Library time. Please bring your Library books on Wednesday!

Please check that you have access to your

child’s seesaw account. If you have misplaced

the log in details please see your child’s classroom teacher.

Miss Waite and Miss Stockdale

2/3 Preview As you can see from our Seesaw uploads this week, we have been exploring

fractions. Next we will deepen our understanding of naming fractions by knowing

how many equal parts a whole object or collection of items has been divided into.

For example, a pizza is normally cut into 8 equal parts. Each part would be called

an eighth and could be written as 1/8. If you ate three pieces, you would have

eaten three eighths or 3/8. We will also be learning about rotating, sliding and

flipping 2-dimensional shapes. For some online activities involving these concepts,

you can visit http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1386463/shape-sorter-

modify-tool.

Next week in Writing we will be publishing the stories that we have

recently been planning and drafting. Before publishing our stories, we

will be revising and editing them using our Writing Checklists to

make sure that we are on track to reach the next level in our writing.

We will also be extending our writing by learning more about

compound sentences. A compound sentence has two simple sentences that are

connected using a conjunction. For example “Jane ran as fast as she could, but she

couldn’t escape the monster.” In this sentence, the word but is the conjunction that

joins the two simple sentences.

In Reading we will be learning the Café strategy “Use word parts

to determine the meaning of words” to extend our vocabulary.

Take for example the word “playing”. We know the meaning of

the word play and that when we add –ing to it, the word

becomes a verb. See how many words your child can write down

that have the word ending (suffix) –ing.

In Inquiry we will be exploring simple and complex machines. The focus of this will

be to investigate the way different machines work in the world around us. An

example of a simple machine is a shovel which is a type of lever. How many other

types of levers can you think of?

We all wish you a safe and warm weekend. See you next week!

Mark, Kelly and Natalie.

4/5/6 Duncan & Simmons Preview

Maths

In Mathematics we will be reviewing topics covered this term: BODMAS (Brackets Order Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction) and place value. To assist with students concepts of place value please complete these activities, or some of, with your child.

• Write a variety of 3-6 digit numbers on separate pieces of paper and then order them from smallest to largest

• Draw some columns (including decimals to tens of thousandths) and give your child a variety of numbers to place correctly in the columns

• Write a large number and have your child circle different values as you call them out.

• Play a game of Wishball : http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L495/index.html

• Write a variety of mixed sums and have your child use BODMAS to correctly solve them.

As a revision of clocks and time, log onto this interactive clockface and ask your child to show a variety of times. http://www.visnos.com/demos/clock

Language

Our focus in Writing will be how to write paragraphs. Students must read at least four times a week. Please monitor your child’s reading. If this is not happening, make a time to ensure your child reads. Most students have added their spelling words on SeeSaw please help your child learn their words. If your child has not uploaded their words, please message their teacher so this can be rectified.

Inquiry

In previous weeks, we have focussed on designing a complex machine. Students have drawn three possible designs and have chosen the most suitable. Next week students will continue to make a model of their design while analysing their creation and thinking of possible improvement

PARENTS AND FRIENDS NEWS

TERM 3 FUNDRAISINGTERM 3 FUNDRAISINGTERM 3 FUNDRAISINGTERM 3 FUNDRAISING

Moneys raised from fundraising this year will go toward the purchasing of the STEM equipment.

KRISPY CRÈME Delivered to school Friday 18th August being ready for pick up about 3pm.

WANTEDWANTEDWANTEDWANTED FATHERS DAY STALL donations by Monday 21st please, we will be doing preliminary sorting from

9.00am

Thanks to those that have already dropped off their donations.

As usual we are looking for donations of items for the children to purchase for Dad or that special person in their life. If you do not have time to shop monitory donations can be left at the office and we will shop for you. Groups of 6 are appreciated for this day. Examples of gifts, golf balls, gardening items, puzzle book, games any little nik nak. FATHERS DAY STALL will be held at approx. 9.30 as we also have book week dress that day as well Children bring $5 to spend on a gift or 2. If we have enough items left over we will open again at recess for those that have extra money for that other special person in their lives. We also have special Lunch that day, Hot Dog and Dim Sim. What a day it’s going to be with dress up for book week also. VOLUNTEERS WILL BE REQUIRED THROUGHOUT FRIDAY 25TH ANYTIME YOU CAN SPARE WOULD BE GREAT IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW SMALL ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED. WEDNESDAY 23RD HELP NEEDED TO COLLATE LUNCH ORDERS, FROM 9.30, may also be some Father’s Day sorting. BUNNINGS BBQ - Sunday 17th September We have the opportunity of being involved in the Bunnings BBQ this year. We would love your help on the day, a roster will be organised and prior cutting onions picking up bread and sausages. If you feel you could help out with any of this please leave or name at office or contact any of us.

LITTLE JOB FOR SOMEONE Thanks to you we recently purchased some skirts (12) as part of district sports uniforms. These need to be labelled with iron on labels, if anyone has some time to do this for us that would be appreciated. Please contact myself or Francesca Don’t forget to mention our school when you are shopping at the below businesses as a % of all purchases come back to school. BAKERS DELIGHT , Stockland Plaza, Ritchies, IGA Churchill. Also CBA Student Banking a commission on deposits through school come back to school. If you have any queries or suggestions for Fundraiser please don’t

hesitate to contact me 0412855933or bronwyn@wideband.net.au .

JOSHUA SALIBA SCIENCE INCURSIONJOSHUA SALIBA SCIENCE INCURSIONJOSHUA SALIBA SCIENCE INCURSION

On the 15th of August 2017, Joshua Saliba from Federation University came to our

school to teach us how a bottle rocket works, how to make it and the safety rules

about working with rockets. First, he gave us a talk about how different machines

work and how they help us.

Then, he gave us a slide show presentation about how a bottle rocket flies. Josh

then showed us how many millilitres of water goes in each bottle. The lowest

amount was 0ml and the highest was 1500ml. Everyone got into partners and each

pair poured a different amount of millilitres of water in each bottle.

Next Joshua told us to make a prediction about how high you thought your bottle

will go in metres. Josh had built a contraption that when air was pumped into the

bottle, and the trigger was pulled, it would fly up in the air like a SPACE ROCKET!

We would pump air in the bottle until it reached 30psi. Then we would pull the

trigger and all the air pressure forced the water out of the bottle and then…

BOOOOOOOOM, it would fire up in the air like a ballistic missile. We learnt about

predicting and estimating height.

Mr Saliba recorded the angle of each flight in a table. We will use this table in

maths creating a graph of our results. The highest flight, 27.7 metres, was achieved

by the bottle which had 400ml in it. We thought Mr Saliba’s session was fun and

interesting.

By Hunter and Hughie.