TOOTGAROOK TELEGRAPH Weekly newsletter of

TOOTGAROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL Website: www.tootps.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 5985 2864

Email Address: tootgarook.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Issue 15 22nd May, 2014

CALENDAR

Education Week 19th – 23rd May 2014

Friday 23rd May - Celebration Open Day Saturday 24th May - Tootgarook Community Market – 1P rostered on

Book Fair – 23rd – 29th May

Friday 30th May – PA Lunch Day – Jacket Potato with various toppings

This week, all government schools across Victoria will be opening their doors to celebrate and share the wonderful things that happen in our government school system every day. We hope you might be able to join us on Friday 23rd May as we warmly invite all Tootgarook parents/grandparents & friends to come up to school and spend some time in your child/ren’s year level. Classrooms will be open to all parents from 9:00am – 11:30pm and you will have a chance to join in some fun. As part of the program, we invite all families to a sausage sizzle lunch beginning from 1:30pm (we have our fingers crossed that our run of lovely mild weather will hold out for the picnic!). Just prior to our sausage sizzle, parents are also invited to attend the presentation of Prep information and a tour starting in the Library from 11.30am. At this presentation we will briefly outline the school’s Prep transition program and answer any questions. To finish the day off a disco will be available from 2.30 onwards, with Prep-2 participating until 3.00pm and Years 3-6 concluding at 3.45pm.

NATIONAL WALK TO SCHOOL DAY Tomorrow, Friday 23rd May, all schools across Australia will be participating in National Walk to School Day. We hope that you might be able to consider leaving the car at home and walking to and from school. If you live towards the outer areas of our school zone, maybe you could drive half way and then walk the remaining distance to school? In addition to the health benefits, you will also be doing your bit towards the environment. We encourage all parents and students to make note of National Walk to School Day this Friday as a step towards a healthier start to the school day.

Throughout each school year, we will regularly practise our evacuation and lockdown procedures

to ensure student safety is heightened at all times. We understand the potential anxiety for

some students during these drills and please be assured that we aim to sensitively support our

students through these procedures so that they feel safe and secure at all times. If you ever

have any queries about this important area, please don’t hesitate to give me a buzz or drop in for

a chat. Over the next few weeks we will be rehearsing evacuation and lockdown techniques.

A huge thank-you to Grant and Scott Wilson for their generous donation of a lounge to

our 4/5 reading room. We are all so grateful and very excited to read in comfort!

Students will be presented with certificates at Monday morning assembly.

Prep B – Mrs Bos – Willis Golding – for his enthusiastic and positive can do attitude to learning. Prep P – Mrs Prossor – Layla White – for the enthusiastic way she participates in all her classroom activities. 1H – Mrs Hughes – Tahlia Oliver – for the effort she puts into all that she does. She is a caring, thoughtful and hardworking student – Congratulations Tahlia. 1P – Miss Perkins – Connor Hojby – for his improved attitude in the classroom. Connor has been working on making his handwriting smaller and is doing a wonderful job. 2B – Mrs Baird – Jack Sterling - for improved integrity towards his learning and for his good listening skills. Jack is working hard to do his best in all school activities. 2J - Mrs Johnstone – Jai Goodwin – for his fantastic improvement in reading his Oxford word list and for counting backwards. 3/4T – Ms Ward– 3/W – Ms Walton – Aysia Fyson – for the effort she put in when running in the Interschool Cross Country. Well done Aysia. 4/5S – Miss Staley – Riley Plant - for being a kind, helpful and reliable student. Riley does an outstanding job as Computer Monitor and is always willing to lend a helping hand. Well done Riley! 5Q – Miss Quintin– Well Done Tamaya Kupsch- You ran your little heart out, came 10th and made it to Zone! We're so proud of you and your efforts. You always give everything 100% and smile the entire way. 6B – Mrs Bruin – Emma Kennedy - For an outstanding performance at the District Cross Country. You gave the race every ounce of energy you had and showed that you have great determination and focus when needed. Well done! Art / Craft - Miss Davey – Jack O’Brien – 2B – for showing fantastic persistence when completing his paper weaving. Congratulations Jack it looks great! Music – Mrs Young - Ella Giarrusso – 2B – Ella is consistently doing very well in all aspects of music and right now she is especially doing an excellent job learning the recorder. Ella is also learning the clarinet and is overall a great musician!

BOOK FAIR Friday 23rd May - Thursday 29th May The fair will open after school tomorrow - Friday and continue before and after school 8:45 - 9:00 and 3:00 - 4:00pm until next Thursday 29th – thank you for your continued support.

Congratulations Tamaya - 10th in the

District Cross Country you are now

representing our school at the Zone

Cross Country – Well Done!

Reminder: Parents Association Lunch Day – Jacket Potato with a choice of toppings – Friday 30th

May – Orders to be returned by Wednesday 28th

May. NO LATE ORDERS ACCEPTED!