Newsletter Drouin West Primary School

'Nurture, Enrich, Inspire, Succeed'

Issue 22/13 Hours of supervision: 8.45am—3.45pm 24th July, 2013

P.O. Box 176 Phone: 03 56 251971 535 Main Neerim Road

Drouin 3818 Fax: 03 56 252175 Drouin West 3818

Email: drouin.west.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Mondays Lunch orders and Student Banking

Wednesday July 24th Grade 1/2A singing concert in the multi-purpose room. 7pm to 7:30pm

Thursday July 25th Hockey team to play St. Gabriel's at Bellbird Park

Monday to Friday

July 29th to August 2nd

Literacy and Numeracy Week

Wednesday July 31st Family Maths Games. 7pm to 8pm. Come and join in the fun.

Friday August 2nd Grade 4 camp payment due

Friday August 9th Finance Meeting 3.30pm

Monday August 12th Curriculum Day. Students not required at school.

Tuesday August 20th School Council 7.30pm

Wednesday August 28th Father’s Day stall - order forms will go home Monday August 19th

IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS TO REMEMBER:

Cricket (Tuesdays) Year levels: 2-6 Coach: Brenton Jones

Dates: : July 23rd

& 30, Aug 6th, 13

th,

20th & 27

th and Sept 3

rd.

Time: 3.15-4.15 Venue: Oval

Dance (Wednesdays) Year levels:

Prep - 2 Coach: Stacey Van Verooy

Dates: : July 24th & 31

st, Aug 7

th,

14th, 21

st & 28

th and Sept 4

th.

Time: 3.15-4.15 Venue: Multi-purpose room

Active After School Communities (AASC) Term 3 programs- Starting this week!!

Starting this week, students in years 2-6 have the chance to play cricket on Tuesday afternoons. On Wednesday afternoons, students in years Prep-2 can join Dancing. Both programs will start at 3:15pm and finishing at 4:15pm. Students get a piece of fruit and are encouraged to bring along their own drink bottle with water.

This program is funded by the Federal Government and targeted to Primary School aged children to promote a healthy and active lifestyle. Links to local sporting clubs are encouraged.

We have vacancies in both programs.

Mid Year Processes

As part of the mid year process families are asked

to ensure that all their details are up to date. If

you have moved or changed your phone number

please inform the office of your new details.

If you have received a request for information

regarding OSHC please provide this as soon as

possible as the 2013 accreditation will be taking

place shortly.

We are available to assist you if you have any

questions.

Super ‘B’ Award Winners Super ‘B’ award winners for week 1, term 3:

PrepA Sam Doherty

Prep/1A Thomas Dennis

1/2A Brock Walsh

2/3A Lilly Forsyth

3/4A Hayden Peggie

4/5A Dallon Jeffrey Molan

5/6A Madison Whitford

Do You Have Old Pre-School Puzzles and Educational Toys taking up cupboard space at your house?

The junior students at Bass Coast Specialist School would

appreciate your help in building up our resources. We are in

need of solid complete puzzles and any educational or

imaginative toys which are in good working order, for our

younger students to develop their pre-literacy and early

numeracy skills.

If you can help please box up your old toys and bring them to

the school office to be collected by staff from Bass Coast

Specialist School.

With a huge thanks from your little friends at B.C.S.S.

Cadbury Chocolate Drive Our fundraising this year is focusing on raising

money for the Maths Garden. A notice is

attached to this newsletter about our Cadbury

Chocolate Drive. If you would like to take part

and sell some chocolates on behalf of the school

please return the form by Thursday 1 August.

Participation is optional and if you do not sell all

the chocolates in the box you can return them to

the school.

From The Principal’s Office of the 4 B’s in all aspects of school life and willingly accept the responsibilities of being a school leader. Parent Opinion Survey 44 randomly selected families will be invited to respond to this year’s Parent Opinion Survey. Schools are expected to return all surveys to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. It would be great to have 100% participation for 2013. If your family receives a survey please help us by sending completed surveys to school by Friday August 2nd. National Tree Planting Day- This Friday Did you know that this is a great time of year to plant native shrubs/trees? It is time to rejuvenate our environment and plant out native trees and shrubs that will attract birdlife, solve some drainage problems at the bottom of the oval as well as further enhance our surroundings. All students in Mrs Collins and Miss Henzen’s classes as well as students who are new to our school will have the opportunity to plant out a tree or shrub on Friday. Parents who are interested in coming along to support this project are very welcome to come along between 10.15am and 1.00 on Friday to lend these young gardeners a hand. Chaplaincy Program Each year School Council seeks feedback from the school community on our Chaplaincy Program. This is a requirement to ensure that we can apply for funding from the Federal Government. Please take the time to fill in and return the survey attached to last week’s newsletter. If anyone has any questions around how Chaplaincy in our school operates please catch up with your child’s class teacher or myself. Wendy, our school chaplain will be away until the end of August. Special Visitor- Private Chris Mooney What a delight to meet Private Mooney last Friday before he went into the classroom to talk with the students from 1/2A and 2/3A. Chris was a student at Drouin West many years ago and is now in training to be a Chef in the army. Students enjoyed the opportunity to ask questions and find out about the many different careers available through the army.

Drouin West will be celebrating National Literacy and Numeracy Week with our school families next week on Wednesday July 31. All school families as well as our new prospective families have been invited to join us on a Family Maths Night starting at 7.00pm and finishing at 8.00pm. Family Maths Night provides an opportunity for families to experience a variety of “hands on” math activiites and games, many of which can be played at home. Great family prizes will be drawn on the night for some lucky families who experience different activities in at least three classrooms and have their passports stamped. Let’s Celebrate! Positive Behaviour Support News 88.4% of students at D.W.P.S. consistently followed the 4 B’s for the month of June. This shows continued improvement with the data and is an outstanding result for the last four weeks of term 2.

Teachers are always excited about the improvements that this creates for learning. As a reward, these children will be able to have a 10 minute extension at playtime this week with all staff joining students in the playground for games and activities. Students who have shown improvements towards their personal behavioural goals will also be acknowledged and encouraged to aim for this bonus playtime for the month of July. 100 Days of school On Tuesday we celebrated 100 days of school. Students spent the day investigating what “100” means. It was lovely to see the collections of 100 things brought to school and find out the time it takes to do different things 100 times. It is amazing to think we have had 100 out of 200 school days already this year! Student Leaders Congratulations to our new Student Leaders: Sarah Conlin, Shelby Van Riet and Corey Taylor who were presented with their jackets, badges and certificates at assembly on Friday. These students continue to demonstrate the expectations

Extra curriculum opportunities.

Parents can contact individual musical teachers to arrange private lessons.

Drum & Guitar Lessons— Peter

Brown. Monday afternoons. Phone:

0437 595 490 or email: monkeydrum@live.com.au

Piano Lessons– Karen Thomson.

Mondays 11am onwards Phone: 0356 299 268

Singing Lessons— Tammy Patrick Thursdays 9.15am. Phone: 0356 233

948 or 0428 233 948

Flute Lessons - Anne Bridgeman

Tuesdays 0418 356 020.

Science News This term all grades are learning about physical science. Grades Prep, Prep/1, 1/2, 2/3 and 3/4 have a homework task to

complete this week.

Grades Prep, Prep/1, 1/2 are learning about light and sound. This week we

walked around the school listening to all the sounds and then drew about what

we heard and sorted the sounds in various way.

Grades 2/3 and 3/4 are learning about heat. This week we looked at items that

produce heat and items which are heated by something else.

Grades 4/5 and 5/6 are

learning about light. This week we went into a dark room. Can you see if

there is no light? Why? In coming weeks we will be learning about how

we see different colours, how far light travels, what direction light

travels and other things to do with how we see.

If parents have any objects which we can display in the science room to

do with sound, light or heat could they please send them to school.

Thank you for your support.

Marion Proctor

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EDUCATION MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE Applications for the second round of EMA are now open. The closing date for applications is the 2nd of

August 2013. If you are the holder of a Centrelink pensioner concession / health care card or a foster parent,

then you are eligible to apply for EMA. Your card must be valid as of the 15th, July 2013.

If you have already applied in the first term then a new application is not necessary.

Application forms are available at the office.

CONVEYANCE ALLOWANCE Conveyance Allowance is payable to families who live 4.8 kilometres or more from their nearest school. The distance is measured from the families’ home gate to the school via the shortest possible route. This payment is provided for by the Government for families where a bus is not available. A form only needs to be filled in once for the whole of time that the student attends their chosen school. If your circumstances change then a new form must be completed E.G. you have another child start at the school. Forms must be completed and returned to the school no later than 2nd August 2013. Forms are available from the office.