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DATES TO

REMEMBER: Wednesday 24th Oct. School Council

7.30pm. Friday 26th of October Drouin South’s Got

Talent (See inside for details).

Book Club Issue 7 Due.

Auction Night. 6pm in the Hall.

Monday 29th October State-Primary

Schools Athletics Championships @ Lakeside Oval, Melbourne.

Tuesday 30th October Woolworths Cricket

Blast Competition at Buln Buln.

Attachments:

Student of the Week

No. 32 October 19th, 2018 www.drouinsouth.vic.edu.au

School Contact number: 5627 6286

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

At Drouin South Primary School, we are a safe, proud, respectful community of learners striving for harmony and academic excellence.

Be proud, Be safe, Be respectful and Be a learner.

Casey: For always listening to and following in-

structions.

Lilly: For being such a joyfully proud student this

term and sharing her cheerful nature. Lilly, your

smiles are delightful!

Jack: For being a Safe, Proud, Respectful

Learner and working cooperatively with

classmates. Tarkyn: For trying really hard to follow the

teacher’s instructions first time, every time and

finishing your work. Well Done!

Mitchell: For his caring and considerate manner,

and the effort he shows to reach his learning

goals.

Ash: For his specific focus on following directions

the first time this week.

Jharyn: For applying himself diligently to his work

this week. Congratulations for showing pride in

our learning.

Performing Arts: Awarded to 1/2A for working

as a team to learn an Australian Folk Dance.

Science: Awarded to Larissa for always demon-

strating an outstanding attitude to learning!.

OSHC: Awarded to Lincoln for helping a friend in

need.

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Principal’s Report

Dear Parents,

Athletics Success!! It is always fantastic to celebrate the achievements of our Drouin South Primary School students! Last week we had six students represent our school at the Regional Athletics Championships at Newborough. All six students put in enormous performances so each of them deserve a big congratulations for their efforts. The results are as follows: Charlie - 11B Shot put - 1st place (off to state athletics) Discus - 4th place Hayley - 12G 80M Hurdles - 1st place Long Jump - 2nd place (off to state athletics in both events) Chloe - 11G Triple Jump - 8th place Darcy - 11G 1500M - 11th place Kira - 9/10G Shot Put - 3rd place High Jump - 7th place Courtney - 9/10G Multi Class Shot Put - 1st place Long Jump - 1st place 100M - 1st place (off to state athletics in all events) Thanks to our parents who transported students and cheered them along on the day! Good luck to Charlie, Hayley and Courtney who are off the State Athletics on 30th November.

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Auction Night Our Parents for Fundraising will be holding an Auction Night on Friday 26th October at the Drouin South Hall. The doors will open at 5.45pm. Bids will commence from 6pm and will run for 1 HOUR ONLY. You will need to get in to snare a bargain or two!!

Reader’s Workshop at Drouin South PS

Just a reminder to all parents that our Reader’s Workshops take place in all classrooms from 9.00am each morning. All students enter the classrooms and are ready for learning as soon as possible after 9.00am. The Reader’s Workshop approach has seen great improvements across the school in Reading achievement of students since we have introduced it this time last year. A Reader’s Workshop consists of several lesson parts. These include: 1. Introduction and Explicit Teaching. The teacher discusses with the students the lesson intention and what students need to achieve to be successful at this. The teacher then uses a carefully selected text to model and demonstrate how this particular reading skills or strategy is used. 2. Independent Reading with Support Students read independently through texts that they have selected, with teacher guidance, and spend time practising their independent reading skills. Teachers confer 1:1 with students during this part of the workshop to provide positive and constructive feedback to the reader. 3. Reading Tasks and Guided Reading Whilst independently reading, students are required to complete a related task or a task that involves responding to the text in some way. This may be on sticky notes, in Readers’ Notebooks or on some type of thinking organiser. It may also be in discussion form. At this time, the teacher generally works with students in a group to focus on a specific reading strategy aimed at the needs of the group. 4. Reflection Time Students and teachers come back together as a whole group to reflect on what they have learned. The lesson intent is revisited and the success criteria discussed as students talk about their learnings from the lesson. We welcome parents to discuss our Readers’ Workshop approach to reading with class teachers. Parents can also assist by ensuring that children have reading time at home each day, discussing what the learning intention for the day was and by ensuring students are at school, ready to learn by 9.00am each day.

Michael Smith—Principal Drouin South Primary School, Safe, Respectful,

Proud, Learners

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4/5B is practicing

reading aloud so

that we can share

our favourite

picture book with

F/1B.

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Book Club Orders for Book Club Issue 7 are due

back by Friday October 26th.

Drouin South Primary School is looking for some

donations of board games to add to the collection in

the School Library. In particular we would love

Cluedo, Monopoly (the kind with the credit cards)

and any kind of card games.

Pre loved and second hand games are also

greatly appreciated.

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IT’S ON AGAIN!!!

You can do a dance, sing a song, play an instrument, do magic tricks, tell

jokes, act out a skit or show any other amazing talent. Your act needs to

go for less than 2 minutes and all music used in during you performance

needs to be approved by Mrs Phillips prior to the day.

Friday Week 3 (October 26th) — Foundation/1/2/3 Semi Final

Friday Week 5 (November 9th) will be the Grand Final.

TRY A TRI at WILD DOG TRIATHLON CLUB Hey kids! Put on your bathers, get

your bike out and grab your runners. The Wild Dog Triathlon

season starts this week! Races are held on Saturday afternoons at

4.30 in the Warragul Leisure Centre and around the Burke

Street parkland. All children from 5 to 12 years old are welcome to come along to our Try a Tri day on Saturday the 27th of October. For more info visit our webpage

www.wilddogtriclub.org.au or get mum or dad to check our

Facebook page @WildDogTri .

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KATE’S WHOLEFOOD KITCHEN presents

FRIDAY NIGHT DINNERS. Why cook when you can have someone else do it for you!

Starting Friday 19th of October you can order dinner for the family, each week will be a new dish made fresh using wholesome ingredients. Orders need to be in and paid for by 5pm the WEDNESDAY PRIOR. Meals cost $10 per serve. (You will not go hungry). Orders to be paid for via direct deposit (name attached). Please text your order to Kate (number below) including name,

amount of meals & contact number. Pick up will be from the Drouin South Primary School car park on

FRIDAYS at 3.30pm or placed into the fr idge at OSHC if your children are in OSHC.

Please advise of any allergies/ intolerances at time of order as not all ingredients are listed.

This week will be:

Indian Spiced Mince with Salad & Rice

Friday 26/10/18 Beef mince, peas, tomatoes, garlic & ginger cooked with mild Indian

spices, served on basmati rice with a green salad.

Important Info: Kate Robert Mobile: 0439475368 Bank Details: Text or Call Kate for details.

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