BOOK WEEK 2017

Special Events Next Week

Tuesday 5th September

Grade 4, 5 & 6 Makers Fair at Echuca College

Premiers’ Reading Challenge Ends

STUDENT LEADERS

Jacob Collins & Max Collins

Thank you for your work as Student Leaders.

Our School Values

Respect-having regard for self, others

and the environment

Inclusion-sense of belonging

Integrity-being honest and fair

Responsibility-being responsible for your actions & words

Personal Best-striving for excellence

In Term 3 our focus is on Responsibility.

Echuca West Primary School

Personal Best at the West echucawestps.vic.edu.au.

(03) 5482 2263

Newsletter No. 25 Friday 1st September 2017

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Interschool Athletic Sports

Congratulations to all of the students who competed in the Interschool Athletic Sports

this week, especially the Grade 3 students who were participating in their first carnival.

Eight primary schools were involved in the carnival with over one thousand students

participating over the two days. The overall trophy (based on the average number of

points per student) in the senior school section (11 & 12/13 Year Old Age Groups) was

won by Rochester with our school placing seventh. Lockington won the overall trophy

in the middle school section (9 & 10 Year Old Age Groups) with our school placing

sixth.

Students who finished 1st or 2nd in their respective age groups will now get the

opportunity to compete at zone level in Bendigo on Monday 18th September. These

students will be notified and asked to confirm their availability early next week.

Father’s Day Breakfast

Once again, our annual Father’s Day Breakfast was a huge success and it was great to

see so many dads turn up and spend some time with their children at school. Thank

you to the staff for preparing the food and to everyone who donated produce and

purchased raffle tickets. Thank you also to the Parents and Friends Committee for

organising the fabulous prizes. The winners of the raffle prizes are published on page

three.

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARD

Grade Prep/1 A—Billy Elliott—Welcome to Echuca West Primary School Billy! It has been wonderful to see you settle into life at our school so quickly and confidently. Your friendly disposition has enabled you to make new friends already, which is great to see. We are so lucky to have you in our class. Congratulations on being our special STAR OF THE WEEK!

Mitchell Clarke—Mitchell, you are on FIRE with your learning this week and it is great to see you giving everything a RED HOT GO! Miss Dove has been so impressed with the way you have been actively participating during her reading groups and how motivated and eager you have been towards your learning. We are loving your energy levels. Go Mitch Go!

Grade 2B—Caiden Kerber—You have exceptional focus in the classroom and you don’t let yourself get distracted from what is happening around you. No matter what the task is, I always know you will be ready and eager to get started. Your attitude towards your learning has been fantastic and you are doing really well with the extra challenges during Maths. Keep it up. Well done Caiden!

Grade 3C— Brandon Hall Rosendale—Brandon, it was excellent to see you giving your all during the Interschool Athletics on Wednesday. The way you conducted yourself and showed determination in all events was commendable. Give your all to every challenge and you will succeed. Well done Brandon.

Kym Underwood—Kym the positive attitude you displayed during our Interschool Athletics was phenomenal. It was great to see you giving your all. You interacted well during our visit to ESPS on Thursday and you are showing a great deal of enthusiasm when meeting up with new friends. Well done Kym.

Grade 4D—Cooper Wallis—Congratulations Cooper on being a super helper on Tuesday at the Grade 5 and 6 Interschool Athletics Day. You were a responsible and diligent assistant at the Discus event, fulfilling your role with maturity and swiftness. It is great to see you step up and represent our school so well. Awesome work.

Grade 5E—Kiarrah Johnson—An acrostic poem just for you… K is for Kindness, you show this every day. I is for Independent worker. A is for Athlete, your energy is outstanding. Double R is for Respectful and Respected, the way you treat others is the way they treat you! A is for Awesome and H is for hard-working. We are so pleased with the progress you are making in Grade 5 so far, Kiarrah! Thumbs Up!

Grade 6F—Will Kervin—You were a terrific helper on the day of the sports. Even though I am sure you would have preferred to be participating, you worked tirelessly to ensure the discus ran smoothly. It would have been a very difficult job without you. Well done and thank you.

FATHER’S DAY BREAKFAST AND RAFFLE

What a wonderful morning we had at the Father’s Day Breakfast. Lots of Dads, Grandpas and special friends enjoyed a yummy hot breakfast. We would like to thank the Fundraising Committee for organising the raffle and also the businesses that donated prizes for the raffle. The raffle winners are listed below:

We would also like to thank the Echuca Workers and Services Club for donating bacon, and Moama Bakery for the donation of bread for the Father’s Day Breakfast.

PRIZE DONOR PRIZE WINNER

Bunnings Voucher Bunnings Daniel Clarke

Tractor with Tank Hausler’s Jacob Coad

Coffee Mug Under the Gable Mason Bayley

After Shave Chemist Warehouse Jake McKay

After Shave Chemist Warehouse Tegan Stone

Beckham Shave Pack Chemist Warehouse Logan Blachford

BackPack with drink bottle/cool towel etc

Chemist Warehouse Mark Swalling

Darrell Lea Pack Echuca Lucky Lotto Billy McKee

Darrell Lea Pack Echuca Lucky Lotto Jake McKay

Bandicoot Brewery Voucher $50 Bandicoot Brewery Mason Golding

Savoury Bite Vouchers Savoury Bite Café

Saul Clarke, Aaron Kenna and Kerber family

Mens Fragrance – Intimately Beckham Priceline Pharmacy

Alanna McKee

Toblerone Chocolate Colin Mckee

CLASS OF THE WEEK

This week’s Class of the Week is Grade Six : For setting a good example at lunchtime and getting involved

in sensible games and activities.

MOVIE FUNDRAISER WITH ECHUCA SOUTH—”CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS’ PREMIERE

We are combining with Echuca South PS to have an exciting Fundraiser in September. The

movie fundraiser will feature the Premiere Movie of “Captain Underpants” (PG) which is based

on the extremely popular children’s novel series. The movie night is on Thursday 14th

September at 6.30pm so SAVE THE DATE in your calendars for a fun night at the movies. There

will also be raffles on the night. Tickets are on sale at the school office and prices are $18 for

Adults and $15 for Children.

Don’t forget that the Premiers’ Reading Challenge ends next TUESDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER.

Remember all books need to be logged as read and marked as finished by this date online

to complete the PRC. If you need any assistance with this please see Vikki in the office

who will happily help you out. The online honour roll will be published next term along

with completion certificates.

PREMIERS’ READING CHALLENGE—ENDS TUESDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER

GRANDPARENT’S MORNING—TUESDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER AT 10AM

On Tuesday 19th September at 10am we are having a Grandparents’ morning. We welcome any Grandparents or special friends to come along and enjoy a picnic to share. We are requesting grandparents to bring along a picnic rug and a picnic basket with some morning tea to share with their grandchildren. Grandparents are also welcome to bring along a favourite book or game to share with children on the day.

EWPS READ A THON

This Readathon concluded on Friday 1st of September. Don’t forget to bring in donation money and the last page of your sponsorship form which should be filled in with your name, class, money raised and your choice of prize(s) by the end of next week. Thank you for helping us fundraise for a polo top and hat for students of the new school -Echuca Twin Rivers Primary School.

BIRTHDAYS IN THE SCHOOL THIS WEEK

We would like to wish a happy birthday to Lila Rix and Jacob Collins who are celebrating their birthdays this week. We hope they have a great day.

ADVERTISING SPACE

If you would like to sponsor our newsletter and advertise your business in this space we would love to hear from you. This will cost $20 each week to include your business card or logo in our weekly newsletter. If you are interested please contact the school on 54822263.

REMINDERS

Lunch Orders are Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Lost Property Box is in the Undercover area.

Student Banking Day is Thursday.

TERM DATES FOR 2017.

Term 3: 17 July to 22 September

Term 4: 9 October to 22 December

FUTURE DATES

Monday 11th-Wednesday 13th September

Grade 3/4 Camp with Echuca South to Maldon

Thursday 14th September

Movie Fundraiser with Echuca South—”Captain Underpants” -

6.30p.m. at Echuca Paramount Theatre

Monday 18th September-Friday 22nd September

Grade 3/4 Swimming Program

Tuesday 19th September

Grandparent’s morning 10.00a.m.

Wednesday 20th September

AFL 9’s Carnival—Reconciliation Day

Friday 22nd September

NO LUNCH ORDERS

Footy Colours Hot Dog Day

Last Day Term 3—dismissal 2.10pm

Monday 9th October

Term 4 begins

Monday 9th October –Friday 20th October

GRADE REPORTS

Grade Prep 1A & 2B: Spring has officially sprung! This week we have all ‘BEAN’ really excited to see our bean seeds starting to open up. We have kept a very close eye on them each day, ensuring they get enough water and taking them outside to soak up that warm sunshine. With Father’s Day just around the corner, we have been writing about our dads and the other special people in our lives. During Maths this week, Grade Two have been very engaged in a variety of addition and subtraction games, while we also took another look at rounding numbers. The grade Prep/Ones have worked hard on addition, counting on, partitioning and subitising. It was fantastic to see so many families come in for the Father’s Day Breakfast this morning! We were all very excited to share our Book Week stories with our parents and grandparents. Looking forward to another great week and hopefully the start of some warmer weather.

Grade 3C & 4D: On Wednesday, Grade 3 and 4 went to Interschool Athletics at Vic Park. It was nerve wracking. We had to compete against 7 different schools. We competed in long jump, triple jump, high jump, sprints, long distance, shotput, discus, loop relay and circle relay. We came 6th in the loop relay for the girls and the boys came

last. Lots of ribbons were won. On Thursday we went to Echuca South Primary School! We had three groups and three activities. The first one was games in their gym. The second activity was a craft. Finally, we played with their robots! We had lunch there also which was a yummy sausage in bread! We had a great time and at the end they gave us a lollipop to end the day. Money matters has been the focus in Math for both grades—giving change, adding amounts, rounding off and giving correct coin and notes. Grade 4 are planning their arguments for next Friday’s debating day. Happy Father’s Day to all. We had a great turn out for breakfast this morning. Enjoy your day on Sunday. Camp notes have all gone out and excitement is building for this great adventure.

Disposable named cameras are optional for Grade 3 and 4 students to take on camp.

Grade 5E: Wow! Cool! We had an awesome week this week in Grade Five.

Every one enjoyed doing P.E on Thursday, we did different types of skills and flexibility tests. It was fun. We have been learning about long division and symmetry in Maths. We have been learning about fact and opinion in Literacy. Facts are something that has been proven and an opinion is what someone thinks about something. We have started a marketing strategy for our product in Think It, Make It, Market It. My product is a vending machine and I have designed a mascot to sell it. The Father’s Day breakfast was a success with lots of yummy egg and bacon sandwiches eaten.

By Archie and Emma

Grade 6F: This week we had Interschool Athletics. We competed against all the Echuca Schools, as well as Lockington, Rochester, Moama and many others. Overall Rochester won the Interschool Athletics. On Friday we had our Echuca West PS Father’s Day Breakfast. All the children sang a ‘Father’s Day’ song and the duck song. The bacon and egg brekky was delicious. By Jacob and Max.

COMMUNITY NEWS

ECHUCA CRICKET CLUB JUNIOR PRE-SEASON TRAINING & INFORMATION DAY.

Echuca Cricket Club invites all existing, new and prospective Junior U/16, U/14, U/12, U/10 T20 Blast and 5 to 8 little cricketer age players to a Pre-Season training and information day, followed by

a BBQ lunch.

We extend the invite to all females interested in playing cricket in the above grades as well as the

proposed 11 - 14 age all female competition.

Date: Sunday 10th September

Time: 10.30am

Venue:Victoria Park Nets (Crofton St Echuca)

Contact: Jason Carlile 0408802880

Tim Hawker 0417558440

Jeff Shannon 0418365683