Newsletter 33-2012

Friday 26th

October

Well the icy poles have certainly been popular this week with the Grade 6 students making

plenty of sales to help their fundraising effort. The sunshine certainly helped to boost sales!

Remember all profits go to the Grade 6 Graduation Dinner and also helps provide decorations

to make the evening special. Sales will continue over the coming weeks – regularly on

Fridays and on any forecasted day over 25 degrees. The students have been great

remembering to put the papers and sticks in the bin and keep our playground tidy.

As part of our planning for 2013, forms were distributed to all families about who is returning

to Glenroy Central next year. If you have still not returned your form please make sure that

you do so as soon as possible so that we can make sure your children are included on our lists.

If you have a prep student for next year or you know someone who does and have still not completed enrolment

forms, it is important that you do this now – we have already had our Prep Information Evening and transition

sessions begin next week. These sessions are really important and will give you and your child the opportunity

to meet their teacher and to find out some things about our programs.

Coming up on November 11th

is Remembrance Day - the day many countries

around the world remember those who have sacrificed their lives for their country

in war. The poppy flower is the symbol of Remembrance Day and to support the

RSL we are selling poppies, pins and wrist bands at the office. See below for prices.

Congratulations to those students who won prizes in our Nude Food Day – Lehana Grant, Omar Nachar,

Maryclaire Giuliano, Aisha Khoder, Rheanne Zayat and Minaal Shahid. Thank you to everyone for supporting

this Juniour School Council activity by making an effort to cut down on packaged and processed food in

lunches. This important initiative highlights the need to provide our children with healthy food that is good for

growing bodies and brains as well as help to protect our environment from an overload of litter.

The back gate to the school is beginning to be used by some families which is great. The proper gate and fence

will be put up during Cup Week. As we are still trying to get into a routine of locking and opening this gate at

set times, if you get to the gate at the end of the day and it has not been unlocked feel free to give the office a

ring and we will come and open it!

Have a good weekend.

Jo Money

Principal

PREP ENROLMENTS ARE NOW BEING TAKEN

GET AN ENROLMENT FORM AT THE OFFICE

DIARY Subway Lunch Day – Tuesday 30

th October

Prep Transition Session 1 – Tuesday 30th

October 2:20 – 3:20pm

Active After School Program -Tuesday 30th

October – Softball

Active After School Program - Thursday 1st November – Basketball

‘ARTS MANIA’ – Wednesday 7th

November 4:30 – 7.00pm All welcome!!

Prep Transition Session 2 – Tuesday 13th

November 2:20 – 3:20pm

Prep Transition Session 3 – Tuesday 20th

November 2:20 – 3:20pm

Grade 6 Graduation –Wednesday 19th

December – 6:30pm

RETURN TO SCHOOL ADVICE: Thank you to all the families who have

returned these forms. If you have not returned your form yet please do so ASAP as it is vital we receive

this information.

HELPING YOUR CHILD TO READ AND WRITE Questions play an important part of establishing how

much your child understands from what they have read.

There are different types of questions which show various

levels of understanding.

These types of questions require your child to refer back to the text

that they have been reading;

What are the character’s names?

What was the setting?

What did each character do?

What happened at the beginning, middle and end of the text?

MATHS TIPS FOR PARENTS: There are lots of activities you can do at home, using everyday items, to help explore maths

with your child. Below are a few ideas:

Play family games like chess or checkers to add excitement

to maths activities. Play games in the car such as maths

bingo or adding licence plate numbers. Lots of board games

need maths such as ‘Junior Monopoly’ or card games such

as ‘Uno’.

This week’s puzzle: 8 monkeys take 8 minutes to eat 8 bananas. How many minutes would it take 4 monkeys to eat 4 bananas?

Maths joke of the week: Why did the maths book look so sad? Because it had so many problems.

Answer to last puzzle: 987654

ATTENDANCE AT GLENROY CENTRAL

Congratulations to the following students in the prep, grade one and two area that

have been at school every day and on time all week from Monday October 15th

to

Friday October 19th

.

Ahmed Abdullatif Abir Abou-Eid

Noor Fatima Dogar Rashid Abou-Eid

Hussein El Achkar Hashim Dogar

Amaan Haider Bronte Hood

Devumi Hewa Raven Jumawan

Samir Mohamad Preshon Luitel

Haroon Mohammed Matteo Modica

Zeinab Mourad Sean Naismith-Lazarus

Arietta Nasalio Jean Nott

Selma Olsson-Kurtoglu Darwin Singh

Holly Petrie Jacob Taha

Mousa Said Mikail Tillem

Iva Srinivash Logan Young

Fareeha Amjad Ibrahim Allouche

Georgie Archer Manahil Amjad

Taha Ayoubi Mia Archer

Rayan Daoud Ashraf Daoud

Nasser Ghazi Alex Guo

Nasrine Houssein Christopher Hope

Eishan Jamal Mohammad Houssein

Ali Kerhani Eliana Jerjes

Elly Khodr Summah Khodr

Jasmin Merhi Issa Khoder

Tyson Moodie Areef Mohd-Azhar

Emma Ali Mikayla Moodie

Suhel Barami Brayden Munnings

Lucas Brockfield Lance Mundo

Josh Cachia Izaiah Nachar

Sara El Achkar Yusuf Samsa

Hind Kerhani Ramy Najmeddine

Minaal Shahid Kallam Shingles

WELL DONE!

Keep up the great effort!!

GLENROY CENTRAL ‘ARTS MANIA’

Come along and enjoy the fun as Glenroy Central Primary School showcases ‘The Arts’

When: WEDNESDAY 7th

NOVEMBER

Time: 4:30pm – 7:00pm

Student Artwork on display and performances by the Choir and Rock Band

BBQ – sausages $2.00

Canteen to sell drinks, ice-creams etc

Entry to exhibition and concert via a gold coin donation at the gate

Children’s art work can be purchased by parents for $2.00

Raffle – a basket of Art Materials

ALL WELCOME!!!!!

CHICKENS HAVE COME TO THE JUNIOR LEARNING

COMMUNITY!!

The 1/2 area have been very busy looking after the chicks. Out of the ten eggs

that were delivered we have had seven hatch and survive. They have been

watched with interest everyday by the students and many observations have been

made.

REMEMBER: ICY POLES - NICEY ICY NOT SO PRICEY

Help the grade 6 students get their dream graduation!!!

Just $1 to buy yourself an icy refreshment, many flavours available.

EVERY FRIDAY AND

ANY DAY OVER 25 DEGREES!!!!

REMEMBRANCE DAY POPPIES & WRIST BANDS

Please support our ANZACS by purchasing Poppies or Wrist Bands – available at the main office.

Poppies $1.30

Poppy Pins $2.00

Wrist Bands $3.00

Poppy emblem for school bag $4.00