Newsletter No. 18 9th June, 2015

In This Issue: Beauty and the Beast Parent Teacher Interviews School Sponsorship

Student Achievement – Chess Club Reminders Notices Recently Sent Home

Dear Parents, What an exciting week this will be with the school production- ‘Beauty and the Beast’ being held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the George Woods Performing Arts Centre in Ringwood. The highlight in the lead up to the production has been the enthusiasm, team spirit, co-operation and support that the students have demonstrated to each other.

Some final reminders:-

Students should arrive at the venue at 6.45pm

on their performance evening

After the concert the students will be brought

out to meet their parents. They will all have to

quickly change out of their costumes but this

should only take about ten minutes. We will

inform you of the collection arrangements at the

end of each performance.

Parents are reminded that as indicated on your

tickets, videoing of the production is not allowed.

Please respect this request. Apart from being

illegal due to copyright restrictions it can cause

angst for people in nearby seats if their view is

obstructed. Thanks for your understanding of

this. You will have the opportunity to purchase a

DVD of each concert at a later date.

I would like to thank the teaching staff, particularly Clare Hyland for her expert leadership of this production and all the parents who have been involved with making costumes, props etc. Without your help there would be no production! I would like to welcome back Kris Moore after her period of leave, we hope she is refreshed and revived and ready for the rest of a busy term.

2015 Term 2 June Wednesday 10 School Production

A – L Cast Rehearsal at George Wood PAC 9am – 3pm CANTEEN CLOSED

Thursday 11 M – Z Cast June 19 Curriculum Day Friday 26 End of Term 2 –

dismissal at 2.30pm Term 3 July Monday 13 Term 3 commences Tuesday 28 ICAS English

Competition Wednesday 29 Year 6 Incursion August Thursday 6 HART ART Opening

7.30pm Friday 7 HART ART Sales Saturday 8 HART ART – Main

Day Tuesday 11 Maths ICAS

Competition Wednesday 12 Book Week-Whole

School Incursion Wednesday 19 Hartwell House

Athletics Years 3-6 Monday 24 - 28 Year 5 Camp September Friday 18 End of Term 3-

dismissal at 2.30pm October Monday 5 Start of Term 4 Thursday 15 Year 2 Sleepover Thursday 22 Italian Day November December Thursday 17 Year 6 Graduation Friday 18 End of Term 4

dismissal at 1.30pm

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS Parent Teacher Interviews will be held in the last week of term as follows: - Monday 22 June – Preps Tuesday 23 June – Year 3 & 4 Wednesday 24 June – Year 5 & 6 Thursday 25 June – Year 1 & 2 Friday 26 June – Specialists. The booking system will be live at 9.00am on WEDNESDAY 17 June at 9.15am .You will need to book your times early as allocations are on a first come, first served basis. Teachers will allocate 15 minute timeslots for each interview and will commence interviews at 8.00am and conclude them by 7.00pm. It is a huge help if you are able to schedule an interview during the day as this helps free up evening time slots for those parents who are unable to attend during the day due to work commitments. The venues for each teacher’s interviews will be on display in the school office and the teachers will let you know where they will be holding their interviews. SCHOOL SPONSORSHIP I am very pleased to announce a new major sponsor of the school. For the next two years we will be partnering with Jellis Craig who will be sponsoring our major events of the Great Fete, the Hart Art Show and the Market Night. This enables us to have access to advertising boards, marquees, an auctioneer and the ability to advertise school events through Jellis Craig. I would also like to thank and acknowledge Fletchers for being a major sponsor over the last two years. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT - CHESS CLUB Last Wednesday was the final session of the Lunchtime Chess Club for this term. We had 53 enthusiastic participants from Prep to Year 6 who spent the 50 minute sessions learning the rules, new strategies and playing games against each other. The sessions were run by Northern Star Chess who provided the equipment and coaching expertise. The students were divided into three groups and awarded certificates for taking part in the program. Three students from each group also received medals.

They are: Beginners (Prep & Year 1) Gold: Matthew WS, Silver: Freya K, Bronze: Julia A Intermediate (Year 1 & 2) Gold: Andrew BF, Silver: Charles N, Bronze: Stephanie C Advanced (Year 3 - 6) Gold: Ben B, Silver: Harrison W. Bronze: Sarah T & Joseph H. For the first time, four students from Years 4 and 5 represented Hartwell at a Chess Tournament run by Chess Victoria recently. They were Ben B, Krish G, Joseph H and Jacqui T. They each played seven games and competed very well in

their first tournament experience. Most of all they all had a lot of fun. Details about Chess Club in Term 3 will be in next week’s Newsletter. Reminders

Beauty and the Beast Tickets – All tickets were

sent home on Friday evening last week. Please

contact us immediately if these tickets were not

received. Thank you

The Canteen will not operate on Wednesday

this week due to rehearsals at the venue.

A further reminder that there is a Curriculum

Day on Friday 19 June. Canteen will not be

operating on this day. Camp Australia will run a

childcare program. A minimum of 18 students

is required for this to operate. Parents who

want to use this service and have not yet booked

their children in to the program should do so early

this week.

Notices Recently Sent Home

Year 4 Excursion to Circus Oz

Lisa Banks Assistant Principal SCHOOL PRODUCTION- Beauty and the Beast Jr.

Performance week is here! Below you will find details of the final rehearsal and the performance nights.

Wednesday On-stage Rehearsals

A-L students will leave school at 9:15am and return at 1:15pm

M-Z students will leave school at 11:15am and return at 3:15pm

Please note that these rehearsals will be in school uniform. Students do not need to bring any required items of clothing to school on this day.

Please also remember that there will be no lunch orders on this day and children will be bringing either their lunch or recess with them to the rehearsal.

Wednesday and Thursday Evening Performances

Students must arrive at the George Wood PAC by 6:50pm on the night of their performance.

When you arrive, follow the signs to the

side door to drop off your child/ren before

heading back to the foyer to enter the auditorium.

The show begins at 7:30pm and will finish at around 8:45pm.

After the performance, students will head backstage to change out of their costume before teachers bring them back to the side entrance of the theatre. Teachers will be holding signs with year level numbers on them so that you can easily find your child/ren. Prep students, however, will be collected directly from the stage after the show.

Clare Hyland Music Teacher

PE UPDATE BOROONDARA DIVISION CROSS COUNTRY What an exciting day for our Cross Country runners who competed at the Boroondara Division Cross Country Championships last Thursday. You could feel the anticipation and adrenalin in the air, of what started out as perfect racing conditions. However, the grey clouds loomed and very soon the rain came down. To make things even tougher, the start of the Ruffey Park Lake course went straight up hill and did not get much easier from there. Nothing deterred our team though, who all showed their true Hartwell spirit to push themselves harder than they had raced before. The quality of racing was extremely high as you would expect when the best runners in the division come together. Our Hartwell kids should be extremely proud of their efforts as they all put out superb performances. Congratulations to: 9&10yr boys: Isaac E (12th), Bowen H (14th), Cooper M (18th) and Campbell D (DNF unfortunately Campbell rolled his ankle near the fast and furious start and could not continue the second half of his race. A brave effort Campbell.) 9&10yr girls: Ella R (23rd) 11yr boys: Lachie F-B (23rd) Luke K (24th) 11yr girls: Ginger O (18th) 12&13yr boys: Jordan M (15th), Hugh K (17th), Dylan E (23rd) , Ed C (Unfortunately Ed was a late scratching due an injury he sustained earlier in the day playing school football.) 12& 13yr girls: Saskia H & Julia G (equal 31st well done girls!)

Thank you to all parents (and grandparents) for your support and arranging to have your children at the event in good time. It was a terrific experience for the runners to compete at division level and get a taste of stronger competition and a tough XC course. They handled it extremely well. Well done Hartwell!

HOOP TIME This Friday our Junior Hoop Time All Stars teams will travel to Nunawading Basketball stadium for their round robin day. I realise this will be a big week with our wonderful Beauty and the Beast production coming to fruition. However, these basketballers do need to be at school and in the gym by 8.50am as the bus will leave the school at 9am. Thank you. Go Hartwell!

YEAR 6 SPORT Last week we travelled to Camberwell South Primary school for interschool sport. Congratulations to our girls’ netball team who finally cracked it for a win 24-9! As I have said, this team gets better and better with every match and last week it all fell into place. Well done girls on your determination and perseverance, a well-deserved win. Our mixed softball team lost in a tight one 9-7, but did well to remain composed under some testing conditions. The girls’ team also went down, but showed great skills once again. Our footballers kept on their merry way with another big win by 46 points. Mr. Lee’s soccer team once again dominated 7-1. This week we will host Ashburton PS. Well done to all players on their great sportsmanship. It is pleasing when a teacher from our opposition emails me with positive feedback regarding this. Go Hartwell! Have a great week. Jo Bayes PE Teacher & Sport Co-ordinator ART ROOM In art everybody has been working on fabulous pieces for “Beauty and the Beast Jnr.” musical. Everyone did a great job and worked really hard. Here are the finalists: Grade 3 Belle’s Cottage at night

Saria 3G Belle’s Cottage at day

Olivia 3G Grade 4 Stained Glass Window

Riki 4O Audrey 4H Serena 4H Justin 4O Sophie 4S Marcia 4H

Grade 5-Inside Castle and Tavern Ruby 5D Joshua 5M Violet 5G Caitlin 5M Cassie 5G Jasmine5D Ginger 5G Jacqui 5M Grade 4 – Forest - Night

Elise 4O Della 4S

Grade 4 – Forest - Day

Sophie 4S Mikayla 4S Tijai 4O Joachim4A Sam 4A Grade 6 – Daytime at French Village Lucy 6L Julia 6L Zeanna 6L Grade 6 Night time at French Village Roxanne 6S

Well done to all the students who got selected and well done to everyone who participated. Look forward to seeing these wonderful pieces of art projected during the musical on the big screen. Thank you to everyone in Grades 3,4,5&6 for putting in such a big effort. Joy Birrell Art Teacher

Good Food Shop The Good Food Shop will be closed on Wednesday 10th June due to all day rehearsals at the Concert venue. Helpers We encourage helpers to pop in to the Tuckshop on a Wednesday or Friday if able to help. We really value your assistance. Good Food Shop Rosters for this week

Roster Wednesday 10.06.15

30min 9.00 –

9.30am

Closed

1st Shift 9.00am-

11.00

Closed

2nd Shift 11.00-

1.00

Closed

Full Session 9.00am-

1.00pm

Closed

Roster Friday 12.06.2015

30min 9.00 –

9.30am

Tracey Garvey

1st Shift 9.00am-

11.00

Cathy Arundel, Sarah

Searle, Bernadette Reggli

Sybilla Boyd-Fox

2nd Shift 11.00-

1.00

More Helpers Please

Full Session 9.00am-

1.00pm

Georgia Beamish

Catriona McCraw 0409 097 000 Canteen Manager

Uniform Shop The Uniform Shop is will be open on every alternate Tuesday from 8.45 – 9.00am for fittings only. The Uniform Shop will be open next on: Tuesday 16th June All orders must be processed in the school office first. If you need to place an order, please pick up an order form from the office or download one from the school’s website and place the order through the office. There will be approximately a two-three week wait on all orders as we are unable to store large quantities of stock. Hats and folios are available to purchase from the office. cpedder@bigpond.com Nikki Matchett nicole.matchett@yahoo.com.au

Sick Bay Washing Roster Thank you for volunteering to go on the sickbay washing roster. The roster for 2015 is below. If you are unable to do the week you were allocated, please swap with someone else on the roster. Could you please collect the sheets on Friday and return them some time the following week. If you require any assistance please see the office staff. Week ending:-

Term

2

12.6.15 Ruth Chien Jared Lim PC

19.6.15 Nicole Bainbridge Mia 5D

26.6.15 Imogen McKendry Imogen 5G

Emergency Names

Meta Holdgate Mia 3G

Liz Tritton Gus 1O

Helen Porter James 2C

Michelle Hopkins Thomas 2C

Shivani Bhatnagar Siddh P

Support Services, Rosters, Community & Social Events

Social Calendar

Grade 3 Social Function

Where: Fordham Ave Milkbar

When: Saturday, June 13th 7pm

See flyer for more details

Prep Parent’s Social

Where: Firechief, 169 Camberwell Rd,

Hawthorn East

When: Saturday 20th June, 7.30pm

Book: before 12 June

through http://www.trybooking.com/138242

Year 5 Coffee morning

Where: ‘Three Ducks in a row’

122 Highfield Rd, Camberwell

When: Friday, 12th June (9am after drop off)

see flyer for more details

Year 2 Parents Night Out – Save the date

Saturday 25th July (Term 3)

SAVE THE DATE - YEAR 6 DRINKS!

When : Friday 17th July, 8pm onwards

Where: Firechief Camberwell

Details to follow.

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