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Principal—Mr. Brent Richards 80—118 Jetty Road, Assistant Principal—Mr. Ben McCredden PO Box 276, School Council President—Mrs. Stephanie Towse Clifton Springs, 3222

Email: clifton.springs.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Phone: 5251 3581 Website: www.cliftonspringsps.vic.edu.au Fax: 5251 3405

Newsletter No. 7 Tuesday March 15th, 2016

Page 3 BRENT’S BANTER

Preps attending full time

This week our Prep students start attending full time and while this may come (at least initially), as a little

bit of a shock to the system and they may feel a little fatigued, it is important that we continue to support

them through this week and into next week which will be the last week of term. Getting to bed early is the

best way to recharge your batteries so as we travel later into the term, it is a great idea to make sure

students are getting a good nights sleep.

School Council Annual General Meeting

Tonight will see the final meeting of our 2015-16 School Council which will then be closely followed by the

first meeting of our 2016 – 17 School Council and our Annual General Meeting where we will appoint our

new executive officers, and decide on our co-opted members for this year. I look forward to seeing all of

our school councillors at the earlier time of 6:30pm for our meeting tonight

School Council Training

It will be a big week for our school councillors as many will attend the school council training on

Wednesday evening as well which will be hosted by Mathew Flinders Girls Secondary College and begins

from 6:30pm.

Moonlight Movie Night Feedback

We would love to hear your thoughts on the moonlight movie night to make it even better for next year so

please feel free to visit our website newsletter page and complete the survey. Thank you to those who

have already given feedback.

Sports Academy Excursion

Today our Sports Academy students are travelling to Barwon Heads to learn about Stand-Up Paddle

Boarding. Next week we will be able to see and hear from them about this sport and the key challenges

they faced in learning how to navigate these boards.

House Cross Country coming up Tuesday next week –March 22nd

Next Tuesday will see the running of the Clifton Springs Primary School House Cross-Country. This event is

always great event and each year our students do an amazing job to cheer and support each other as they

strive to achieve their personal best. Last year the winning house was Coriyule, but Bayshore, Dell and

Springs will be keen to take out the title this year. Every runner collects points for their House so

maximum participation gives your House the best chance for success.

PARENT HELPERS NEEDED PLEASE

ANY PARENTS WHO ARE WILLING AND ABLE TO HELP WITH THE

HOUSE CROSS COUNTRY ON TUE 22ND OF MARCH BETWEEN 9.00-11.00am

COULD YOU PLEASE EMAIL MRS SARAH TOLLEY – tolley.sarah.b@edumail.vic.gov.au or contact the office.

Duties will include course marshalling, lap counting, timing and point recording.

Photo Boards

As part of their roll, the House Captains are using the photo boards outside the gym to communicate with

our school community about some of the wonderful things that have been happening around our school.

With assistance from Mrs Hales, the House Captains are choosing the photo categories and are putting up

a display of photos so next time you are wandering through the Gym foyer, take the time to stop and look

at some of the images on the photo boards.

Last Week of Term– Assembly on Thursday at 2pm Next week is the last week of Term 1 with school breaking up on Thursday March 24th before Good

Friday. There will still be an assembly on Thursday at 2pm and students will be dismissed at 2:30pm.

After School Care is available from 2:30pm.

Transition Feedback Forms

A feedback form has been sent home with all our Preps and new families to the school. We appreciate all

feedback and suggestions and would like to have the feedback forms returned as soon as possible.

Until next week I wish everyone a wonderful week and remind all families that maximising attendance is a

critical factor in your child achieving their potential so, remember it’s not OK to be away unless you’re

sick!

Brent Richards,

Principal

Assembly presentation by

56H

34B working collaboratively with

34P on a Maths lesson exploring

fractions

34B

Art Room News It has been a busy start to the year for the art program. After a few weeks of

working from a trolley in classrooms while the portables for the

senior students were completed, we are now in the art room.

The students in every class have been working hard to create a

variety of wonderful designs to decorate seven sheep which were

displayed at the Bellarine Show last weekend. Every class is now

working on a new project whilst the end of term approaches rapidly.

A big thank you to everyone who helped us collect drink cans and the

Year 5 and 6 students who volunteered to work through two

lunchtimes to complete enough drink can flowers to make their

sheep look great. Jill Petersen Visual Arts Teacher

2016 HOUSE CROSS COUNTRY

For students in Years 3-6

Tuesday March 22nd 9am-11am at CSPS

This is a compulsory part of the PE Program

will all students earning points for their

House, even if they walk.

Students will compete in the age they turn on

their birthday this year.

9/10yr old students will compete over 2km

with 11, 12 and 13 yr olds competing over 3km.

The top 8 runners in both boys and girls age

groups will be invited to represent our school

at the next level, if they meet qualifying times. Parent helpers are needed to assist with

timekeeping, marshalling, point recording or

lap counting. If you can spare some time

between 9-11am please email Sarah Tolley

on tolley.sarah.b@edumail.vic.gov.au

This week at school your child/ren will be involved in a whole school writing activity that gives us the opportunity to see how our Writing Program is progressing across all levels. Every class from P-6 will have the same writing prompt (see above), and we would like you to become involved by talking to your children to generate lots of ideas for a narrative. These ideas can be written in their diaries or the children could draw pictures and bring them to school to prompt them while they are writing. A great way to have this discussion is while you are having dinner (preferably without the TV on!) or in the car on the way to any activities. Happy chatting!

GEELONG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal

together with the Sidney Myer Fund, the

Origin, Potter, ACF, Ross, Flett, Buckland

and Menzies Foundations along with Target

and the Geelong Community Foundation are

proud to again bring us the Back to School

Program. Our school has been provided with

22 Target Gift Cards valued at $50 each to

help families with the costs associated with

the start of the school year.

Consultation with staff and consideration of

several factors went into choosing just 22

out of 221 families.

If you received a gift card and don’t wish to

use it, please return it to the office so it

can be forwarded to another family.

We thank Geelong Community Foundation

and all the sponsors for providing this

assistance to some of our families.

Whole School Writing Task

Canteen open FRIDAY LUNCHTIME

for over the counter sales only

CANTEEN ROSTER

Friday March 18th

12.30-2.00pm

Kellie Broomhall & Nina Sladoja

Van towing

Ross

Setting up / collecting food

Michelle

8am – 10am

Ross Michelle

10-11am

Melanie Taylor Kerry Churchill

11am-12pm

Renee Tate

Amanda Marsh Kate Page

12pm-1pm Mel Brew

__________ Tanya Bonney

1.20pm

towing from

reserve

_________

Easter Lunch Order Day

Thursday 24th March 2016

To celebrate Easter the canteen will be

having a lunch order day

on the last day of term.

There will be delicious lunches, drinks

and hot cross buns to order!

Orders and payments due by:

THIS Wednesday 16th March.

MARCH MARKET FOOD VAN

The next Drysdale Market is

THIS Sunday March 20th

Please check the roster and if you are

unavailable for your shift, please contact

Tanya Bonney or Michelle in the School

Office.

COLOURING-IN COMPETITION LJ Hooker are inviting all children aged 12

and under to enter their colouring-in

competition to help add some colour to

Mr Hooker Bear’s outfit!

Colouring-in pages are available at the

school office and need to be dropped off to

the LJ Hooker Office in Drysdale by

Thursday March 31st

PRIZES— Year 3-6 $50 voucher from Surf

Junction

Prep—Yr 2 Basket of Easter Eggs &

LJ Hooker Bear

Pre-School Basket of Easter Eggs &

LJ Hooker Bear

Good luck to Adam Towse in 56D

who is competing in Javelin at the

State Track and Field Championships

this weekend.

CAMPS in 2016

In 2016 the Year 3/4 students will be

attending Camp Sunnystones for a 2 night

camp on Oct 5-7th.

For the first time our Year 5/6 students will

be having a 4 night camp at CYC in Melbourne

from Sept 5th—9th.

Whilst the camps are much later in the year, we strongly encourage families to start paying towards the cost of camp now.

Final costs will not be confirmed until

activities and student numbers attending are

confirmed, but costs will APPROXIMATELY

BE Sunnystones $250.00 and CYC City

$450.00.

Please see the office if you would like our

bank details to pay into.

ASSEMBLY

Friday March 18th at 3pm

OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS CARE

This week at OSHC we will be making

Easter crafts, exploring the science

of bubbles, cooking cupcakes and

playing Dodge ball in the gym.

Our Autumn Vacation Care

Brochure is currently available from the

school’s office or the OSHC program.

Numbers are already filling fast so

families are advised to book early to avoid

disappointment.

Our service currently has vacancies at both our Before School and After School Programs for both permanent and casual

bookings. Bookings can be made through the

school office or directly at the program once

an enrolment form for the service has been

completed.

The Clifton Springs PS OSHC Team

NUT/EGG/SEAFOOD ALLERGY ALERT

Please be aware we have children with life threatening allergies to PEANUTS, TREE NUTS,

SEAFOOD and EGGS at this school.

Children are asked not to bring any foods containing nuts or sesame seeds to school. Please encourage all children to wash their hands after eating any peanut/nut products.

DATES TO REMEMBER—PLEASE CHECK FOR UPDATES

PH—Riley Comfort

PJ—Keegan Sims

PN—Huntah Connor

12B—Summer Rickard

12K—Senya Galangagodage

12M—Riley Illingworth

12P—Alexis Thompson

12R—Jae Longstaff

34B—James Sharman

34C—Alexis Marcus

34P—Lewis Bonney

56D—Flynn Reading

56G—Lincoln Everett

56H—Jayree Herbert

You’ve Earned it Award: Lucy Fincher &

Amber Rickard

Rubbish Free Award—Mahli Kraus

Tuesday 15th March

*School Council AGM & March meeting 6.30pm *Bellarine Secondary College-Tour 6.30pm & Info Evening 7pm *Sports Academy SUP excur. * Last Multi Skills session

Tuesday 22nd March

*Matthew Flinders Information night. *House Cross Country Yr 3-6 from 9.15am at CSPS * Regional Swimming Comp *Responsible Pet Ownership *Environment Meeting 6pm

Wednesday 16th March

*Preps are at school *Walk on Wednesday for March *Easter Lunch orders due *School Councillor Training 6.30pm at MFGSC

Thursday 24th March

LAST DAY OF TERM 2:30pm Dismissal

Assembly 2pm

Thursday 17th March

*Bellarine Sec College – SEAL (Select Entry & Accelerated Learning) Info evening 7-8pm * Bellarine Dental

Tuesday 29th March

Holiday Program commences

Sunday 20th March

Drysdale Market Food Van Monday 11th April

Start Term 2 Free First Aid Sessions all grades

Monday 21st March

Newcomb Secondary College Information night 7pm *Last Multi Skills session *Responsible Pet Ownership

Wednesday 13th April

Finance meeting - TBC

SCHOOL HOME MADE

TOMATO SAUCE

NEEDED—

Some clean ice cream containers, 1lt,

2lt or 4lt, to freeze the tomatoes until the

sauce is made.

We also need lots of GLASS bottles

with lids, (not plastic bottles or jars) clean

and without labels would be greatly

appreciated! Please leave them at the

office.

Cheers, Paul (the Gardener!)

FREE KIDS DENTAL The Commonwealth Government Dental

Scheme provides eligible children with

$1000 free kids dental benefits on

selected dental services within a 2 year

calendar period.

To gain access to benefits, children must be

eligible for Medicare, must be between 2-17

years of age for at least 1 day of the

calendar year with the child or parent,

guardian or carer receiving Family Tax

Benefit Part A or another relevant

government payment.

If you are not sure if you are eligible,

please contact your local Pacific Smiles

Dental Centre, have your Medicare card

ready and they can easily check to see if

your kids are eligible or have remaining

benefits from 2014.

WANTED

Netball teams for indoor

competition at Bellarine Aquatic & Sports

Centre, Ocean Grove.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights

Junior, Senior and Mixed.

New outdoor 11/U competition at Shell Rd.

Netball courts.

All inquires to Kerry 0404011635 or

surfsidenetball@hotmail.com

INTERNATIONAL

WOMEN’S

2016

Jenni Garland & the Year

6 girls enjoying morning

tea for International

Women’s Day

The first International Women’s Day was held on March 19th 2011 when more than one million

European women and men rallied for the right of women to vote and work. The inspiration

came from a New York march against poor working conditions and child labour, held in 1908.

Peace, human rights, and social, economic and political issues have therefore always been an

important focus of International Women’s Day. The first International Women’s Day in

Australia was held on 25th March 1928. From its inception International Women’s Day has

stood for equality between men and women. The Colours—Symbolically, white represents purity, purple is for dignity and self-respect, and green stands for hope and new life.

WHY PRACTICE BEING MINDFUL?

The way we interact with our kids has a huge impact on the way they think about themselves

and their levels of personal resilience. Ellen Langer and team, a world-renowned mindfulness

researcher, found that children not only prefer to interact with mindful adults, but actually

devalue themselves following interactions with mindless adults (Langer, Cohen & Djikic, 2010).

The benefits of mindfulness with children.

Research shows that mindfulness training increases connectivity in the frontal lobe of

the brain, which is linked to improved attention, memory processing and decision

making abilities

Mindfulness training involves tuning in to internal and external experiences

with curiosity, resulting in increased self-awareness, social awareness, and self-

confidence.

Mindfulness training increases children’s ability to self-regulate their emotions,

especially difficult emotions such as fear and anger, through breathing and other

grounding techniques.

Mindfulness has been shown to improve empathy or the ability to understand what

another person is thinking or feeling, which improves children’s awareness of others and

helps them to build positive relationships.

Mindfulness and childhood mental health

Mindfulness training has been to shown to reduce the severity

of depression, anxiety and ADHD in children.

Mindfulness builds resilience by giving children skills to help them to cope better with

stress, as well as engage more fully with themselves and the world.

CLIFTON SPRINGS PS HOLIDAY PROGRAM

BOOKINGS OPEN NOW

March 28th—April 8th

6:45am—6:15pm Places filling fast with excursions to— Jirrahlinga Koala and Wildlife Sanctuary and the Barwon Heads Playground,

Tiger Moth World Adventure Park

Jetty Rd Reserve

Lots of great Centre—based activities including an Autumn Day, a Minion Day

and of course a Last Day Fun Day on April 8th.

Enrolment forms are available from the school office or from OSHC.

Fees are $45 per day plus excursions (CCB will apply)

Please note the cancellations will only be accepted until one week prior to the

program commencing. There will be no refund after this time.

Second Hand Uniform Shop Next term, we will trial a second hand consignment uniform shop but ONLY for items from A+

Uniforms.

Items will be priced at half their original value if in excellent condition, and will reduce from

there depending on wear and tear. All transactions will be cash only.

We will be taking donations of second hand A+ uniform items on

Wednesday March 16th and Wednesday March 23rd from 3.15pm—3.45pm

At the external staffroom door.

Hopefully we will get enough to begin selling in term two.

The shop will be open on a Wednesday afternoon from 3:15 – 3:45pm outside the

staffroom. Once your clothes sell, you will be notified via email and able to collect your pay-

ment.

If you have any items you would like to sell, please complete the form below (also available at

the office), and return along with the clothes.

Please note the shop is run on a voluntary basis and items are NOT to be left in the office.

If you are unable to make it during the above mentioned time, please email Cindy Rickard

cindyrik@gmail.com to organise an alternate time. The school will receive $2 from every sale.

to be donated to the KIND fund.

You are of course, still able to donate any re-sellable uniform items you don’t want to sell on

consignment, to the office. All funds raised through second hand sales go into our KIND fund

which is used to help send students to camps and swimming lessons.

Clifton Springs Primary School Second Hand A+ Uniform Sales

Parents Name _______________________________________ Phone number:___________________

Parents email address: ____________________________________________________________________

Date Item to sell

QUALITY

(OFFICE USE

ONLY)

PRICE

(OFFICE USE

ONLY)

CODE

(OFFICE USE

ONLY)

All Mechanical Repairs & Servicing - Tuning Pre-purchase Inspections

Batteries - Brakes - Suspensions - Exhausts EFI Service

New Car Servicing - Licensed Roadworthy Tester 51 Murradoc Rd, Drysdale 5253 2505

DRYSDALE REMOVALS

& STORAGE

PACKING SERVICE & CARTONS AVAILABLE

Local and Interstate

Phone Gary 5251 3674

Advertising space available

for $7.70 per week

Give Greig McKinley a call for our current special offers.

GROUP GUITAR LESSONS

With Kevin Mahoney

(VIT registered teacher)

$18/student for 45min lesson

max 6/ group

Classes start Monday Feb 1st at 4pm

New classes formed throughout term

Private lessons $30/30min

Classes in Tin Whistle, Recorder, Piano and Percussion

also available

PH: 0411 103 260

Drysdale Football Club Junior Girls

We are currently looking for girls to compete in our Under 13’s girls football team.

For all enquiries, please call Mel de Bruin on 0431 695785.

ADVERTISING SPACE AVAILABLE

ADVERTISING SPACE AVAILABLE

NAB Auskick Registrations are now open! The Drysdale Auskick Centre will be in operation in 2016.

It operates on Drysdale Primary school oval every Sunday from April

17th. It is the perfect opportunity for your son and or daughter to be introduced to the

great game of Australian Rules Football.

Registrations can be done by going to the NAB Auskick website

http://www.aflauskick.com.au/

Or if you have any questions you can call or email the new Drysdale Auskick Coordinator

Shane Lowe 0400 982 856 or shane_lowe@tagwealth.com.au