93 Macs Street PO Box 110 Creswick Vic 3363 Phone: (03) 5345 2012 Fax: (03) 5345 1224 Email: creswick.north.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.creswicknorthps.vic.gov.au

No. 1. Term 4. 19th Oct, 2017

NEWSLETTER

Dates to Remember Oct 21st Market Day 23-25 & 27th Bike Program 26th Milo Cricket Nov 3rd Fireman Phil 3rd Disco, 5-7pm

Principal: Darren Mooney Business Manager: Zelma Brugger Office Hours - Zelma Tuesday 8.30am - 4.30pm every fortnight Wednesday 8.30am - 4.30p.m Thursday 8.30am - 4.30p.m.

Meet & Greet Afternoon Tea

Thursday 26th, 2.45pm Come along and meet our Acting

Principal and tell her what is special about Creswick North Primary School and what you

love the most. Captain Underpants Suggestions

School Council would like to hear from parents and students on what

they would like to see the $5000 prize money from Captain Underpants

Competition spent on. If you could write your suggestions down and hand

them to Sue please.

ENROLMENTS 2018 If you have decided that your child/ren will be attending Creswick North Primary School or you know of

anyone intending to and have not officially enrolled them, please see Zelma or Darren to obtain an enrolment form.

OCTOBER is Walk to School Month

https://www.walktoschool.vic.gov.au/

Acting Principal’s Report Hello to all the parents and friends of the Creswick North Primary School Community. I am in the role of Acting Principal for this term while the position of Principal is advertised and subsequently, filled. I am very excited to be here and my first week and a half in the role has been very enjoyable. I have loved meeting and working with the students and the staff here and gradually I am getting to say ‘hi’ to the parents at the beginning and end of each day. I come to Creswick North Primary after an Acting Principal role at Mount Egerton Primary School. Prior to this role, I have had permanent positions as Principal in schools in Melbourne. After many years living in Melbourne, I now live in Lal Lal with my husband, Bernard, two children, Celia and Ruby, and an assortment of horses, goats, cats and dogs. We hope to have chickens one day but not until I am able to build the coop! It was terrific to see parents, children and staff come together on Saturday last weekend for our working bee. We had so much gravel and mulch to spread, not to mention the digging, raking, weeding and pruning, in order to get the place looking tidy and impressive for the Market this coming Saturday. We were fortunate to be donated an entire truck load of mulch from Tree Top Tower Hire. This was greatly appreciated. Everyone worked so hard and we were rewarded with BBQ sausages and drinks courtesy of Miranda Chalmers and Lesley Vanderpol. Thank you to everyone for all your efforts. This Saturday is our Market Day. Classes, staff and parents have been extra busy with the preparations and the weather looks like it will be fine so we hope to have many visitors and a successful venture. Thank you to all those parents who have dedicated many hours and a great deal of energy to ensuring this will be a well organised and enjoyable day. If you haven’t put your name down for assisting on the day yet, please contact Miranda Chalmers via the school or ClassDojo. We look forward to seeing everyone there. Traditionally Term 4 is very busy in schools and it looks like Term 4 at Creswick North Primary School will be no different. We have many activities happening as the term progresses including a 5/6 Camp, Year 6 Graduation, Bike programs, a Cricket day, a Golf day as well as Year 6 Transition programs and Kindergarten to Foundation Transition days, not to mention the ongoing learning and teaching. We will send home reminders each fortnight through the Newsletter and you should already have a Term 4 calendar – we will reprint this in each Newsletter to enable you to update your copy as new events are added. On Thursday 26th October at 2:45pm, I will be hosting a Meet the Acting Principal afternoon tea for parents. I have seen so many positive things in and around Creswick North Primary school, I am keen to find out what parents see as the best and special things that make Creswick North Primary their school of choice, so come along and have a chat over a cuppa! I’m looking for-ward to it. Here’s to a great Term 4!

Sue Izard Acting Principal

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

October 8

Week 1

9

Students resume

3:10 Assembly

10

11

12

13 14

Working Bee

9am until lunch time

15

Week 2

16

3:10 Assembly—

presentation

17

18

School Council

Meeting—6pm

19

Newsletter

20

21

Creswick North PS

Market Day

8am-2pm

22

Week 3

23

Bike Program

Yr 3-6

11:30-12:30

24

3:10 Assembly

25

Bike Program

Yr 3-6

11:30-12:30

26

Milo Cricket—Yr 5/6

9:30am Victoria Park

2:45 Parents

Afternoon Tea—

come and meet the

Acting Principal

27

Bike Program

Yr 3-6

11:30-12:30

28

29

Week 4

30

31

November 1

2

Newsletter

3

Fireman Phil

—Fire Safety

Junior School Disco

5pm-7pm

4

5

Week 5

6

3:10 Assembly

7

Tony Collier—Golf

Yr 5/6

10:15-11am

8 9

10

Ballarat Show Day

PUPIL FREE DAY

11

Remembrance Day

12

Week 6

13

14 15

School Council

meeting

6:30pm

16

Newsletter

17 18

19

Week 7

20

3:10 Assembly

21

Kinder Transition—

9:00-1:30pm

22 23

24 25

26

Week 8

27

28 29

Year 5/6 Camp

30

Newsletter

Year 5/6 Camp

December 1

Year 5/6 Camp

2

3

Week 9

4

3:10 Assembly

5

6 7

8

9

10

Week 10

11

12

Statewide Kinder

9:00-1:30pm

& Year 6 Transition—

all day

13

School Council

6:30pm

14

Newsletter

15 16

17

Week 11

18

3:10 Assembly

19

Year 6 Graduation

20

Whole School

Sports Day

End of year picnic

tea, Art Show &

Awards night

21

Whole School

Picnic and Movie

Day

Victoria Park

22

Last Day of Term PUPIL FREE DAY

23

Creswick North Primary School –Families

Term 4, 2017

Year Foundation/1 It has been a fabulous start to Term 4 for Foundation & Year 1 students. The students are excited about our investigations on mini-beasts this term. They have been exploring the school yard, finding many different mini-beasts. They were particularly engaged with the large spider nest they discovered on one of the trees! Students have been very busy in the classroom with their learning and establishing new routines. Currently, in literacy, we are focussing on understanding what we read and writing procedures. In mathematics we have been busy investigating halves and addition. Many parents have come in to introduce themselves and it has been fantastic to be welcomed into the community. If you have any concerns regarding your children’s learning please do not hesitate to come and see me. Andrea Hood Foundation/Year 1 Teacher

Year 2/3/4 Welcome back to school! It is hard to believe that Term 4 is already upon us. Over the last two weeks we have been doing a lot of work in Maths on fractions, mapping and symmetry. The children have been identifying symmetry in the environment and have enjoyed taking photographs of objects that have lines of symmetry. Our students have been busily learning about fractions of collections of objects. Please take the time to quiz your child on this topic to help to reinforce their un-derstanding. In English, students have been refining their narrative writing skills and focusing on creating interest for the reader. They have also been learning about the importance of reading fluently. Opportunities to practice this skill by reading aloud at home, would be greatly appreciated. Mrs Baulch and Mrs McLennan

I had 20 lollies. I gave Lachlan half of my lollies so he got 10. (Kaden)

I have 20 Unifix and I want to give Nathan three quarters. He will get 12 Unifix. (Lachlan)

I have 8 Unifix and I want to give one quarter to Emmy and I

will have three quarters left. Emmy will have two and I will have six. (Ella Jo)

I have ten lollipops and I put them into two equal groups. If I give five to Ella then I will have five left. We will have half each. (Emmy)

I have 15 lollipops and Charlie wants two thirds. I will only have five left.

(Zali)

I had 20 M&Ms and I gave three quarters away to Nate. I only have five

left. (Reed)

Year 5/6

We have an EXTREMELY busy Term ahead which we look

forward to. Students continue to build on their learning as

they prepare to transition to Secondary School or Year 6. We

need to continue working hard through to make our learning

count.

We have two new students which is very exciting, we

welcome both Elle and Blake to our class and our school.

Let’s Go!!

Working Bee

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to Isabelle, Charlie, Riley, Ella & Mungo

P.R.I.D.E Awards Persistence Respect Initiative

Determination Excellence Congratulations to Chelsea, Kade, Blake, Mackenzie,

Chelsea and Riley for demonstrating our school values.

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