9th August 2019 Edi tion Twelve

Pakenham Consolidated School Empowers students to become respectful and resilient lifelong learners

Dates to Remember

August

12th—16th Bucket Filler Helping Hand s Week

13th Education Support Day

14th Swimming Program for

Foundation to Year Four

16th Year 3 Camp Permission

and Payment Due

19th—23rd Book Week

19th Arthur Reed Photography– Year Six and

catch up photo day

Fundraising Committee Meeting @ 9.00am

21st Swimming Program for Foundation

to Year Four

22nd Book Week Dress Up Day

23rd Foundation Transition Program

VSSS Payment Due

28th Swimming Program for Foundation

to Year Four

29th Father’s Day Breakfast

30th Father’s Day Stall

District Athletics

31st Bunnings Cake Stall

September

4th LAST DAY of the Swimming Program

for Foundation to Year Four

5th CURRICULUM DAY

NO STUDENTS REQUIRED AT SCHOOL

From the Principal

Oh my! It has become very cold. Please remember that

our classrooms are all fully heated so children often take

their jumpers off during class. It is important that all

clothing is named so we can make sure it is always

returned to the correct person. We are also aware that at

this time of year it can be difficult to get washing dry. If

your child has to come out of uniform, please give them a

note and try to find clothing that matches in with our

uniform. We do not have hoodies as part of our uniform

and they should not be worn as a substitute item.

This morning we welcomed some of our 2020 Foundation

students to their first transition session. We had 30

children attend. They enjoyed reading Spot Goes to

School and completed a follow up activity with tracing and

colouring. Our next session will be on Friday 23rd of

August.

Today we have the Year three and four Hooptime teams

competing at Cardinia Life. We wish them well and hope

they enjoy this experience. Our three aerobics teams

competed at the State Championships recently. The two

senior teams performed extremely well and were great

sports. Our Year three team have made it through to the

National competition in Queensland in September. This

is a huge achievement.

On Thursday 22nd August we are having a Dress Up day

for Book Week. The theme for Book Week is ‘Reading is

My Super Power’. I look forward to seeing all the children

dressed up as their favourite characters. During the week

we will also be having a book swap. More information will

be coming home soon.

PO BOX 120 PAKENHAM 3810 T: 03 5941 1511 F: 03 5941 1541 E: pakenham.cs@edumail.vic.gov.au

Our Early Learning Centre is NOW

OPEN. If you have any enquiries

please contact Kylie on 5945 7117

WEEK TWO STARS

0CA— Carolina 0JP— 0KP— Rory 0RW— Tessa

1CM— Harvey 1DF— Isaiah 1JA— Fletcher 1KW— Lucius

1ZK— Jordan 2JZ— Annabelle 2LR— Nate 2SM— Jack

2TS— Eden 3AB— Xander 3CC— Coadhey 3ER— Evie

3HC— Scarlett 3MG— Jamie 4JS— Allyra 4KW— Yasmin

4SC— Cruze 4SL— Jack 5JD— 5JK —

5MW— Taj 5SN— Aiden 6DS— Archer 6LD— Yasmin

6OH— Josh

WEEK THREE STARS

0CA— Amelia 0JP— Uelese 0KP— Adithya 0RW— Riley

1CM— Gabriella 1DF— Taya 1JA— Brooklyn 1KW— Shylo

1ZK— Lily 2JZ— LJ 2LR— Alier 2SM— Aliyah

2TS— Harry 3AB— Dakoda 3CC— Chaz 3ER— Tori

3HC— Lily 3MG— Oscar 4JS— David 4KW— Jack

4SC— Aiden 4SL— Becky 5JD— Bella 5JK — Ally

5MW— Taya 5SN— Aiden 6DS— Alexis 6LD— Kayla

6OH— Huia

WEEK TWO BUCKET FILLERS

Foundation— Hope

Year One— Logan

Year Two— Joy

Year Three— Ethan

Year Four— Riley

Year Five— Raffa

Year Six— Zoran

WEEK THREE BUCKET FILLERS

Foundation— Olivia

Year One— Lukos

Year Two— Brax

Year Three—

Year Four— Indiana

Year Five— Ally

Year Six— Zoran

2020 Enrolments

We are now taking 2020 Foundation Enrolments. If you would like an Enrolment

pack please come and see us at the Administration Office. We are also taking

school tour bookings, if you or someone you know would like to book a tour please

call 5941 1511. We currently offer school tours every Thursday at 11.30am.

Do you have the Updat-ed APP?

To download the app just visit the

App Store for iPhones or Google Play

for Android’s. Search for Updat-ed and from the menu

select Pakenham Consolidated School. We’ll receive

your registration request and will need to approve

before the app is up and running. This usually takes up

to 2 business working days.

WINTER HAS ARRIVED

We are well into Winter and we are asking for ALL Students to have a change of

clothes and a plastic bag in their school bag. We are very limited in what spare

clothes we have and if your child happens to borrow an article of clothing can you

please wash and return that item at your earliest convenience.

Have you notified the school of your

child’s absence????

We now have a new feature on our phone system. You

can now leave a message on our Absence voice mail line.

Dial 5941 1511 and press 2, then leave your child’s name

and reason for their absence.

Student

School

Banking day

is Tuesday

Staff Carpark

Parents can you please refrain

from using the staff car park

as a drop off and pick up zone.

It is extremely dangerous for

children to be walking in the

car park unattended.

Thursday 22nd August

Come dressed as your favourite

book character. Our parade will

begin at 9.30am in gym.

Have you returned your Father’s Day Breakfast Form???

Please return NO LATER than Thursday 22nd August.

Father’s Day breakfast is on Thursday 29th August from

8.00am to 8.30am.

Our Father’s Day Stall will be on Friday 30th August.

Items range from 50 cents to $10.00.

Breakfast Club

Just a reminder that breakfast club is open from 8.30am to 8.45am Monday to Friday. If you

would like to help keep this program running we are always in need of margarine, strawberry

jam, cream cheese spread and cereals other than cheerios or weetbix. Weetbix bites, Nutri grain

and rice bubbles are always greatly appreciated.

Bucket Fillers

**Change of date** Bucket Fillers “Helping Hand” week will now commence next Monday the 12th

August.

Helping Hand week is a way of filling other people’s buckets by showing kindness and support.

After the success of last year’s Helping Hand Week, this time we are asking for donations of

toiletries and/or toys to help us assist local families who may be struggling leading up to

Christmas.

**Donations can be left next week at the Main Office**

Uniforms – Attention Grade 6 parents

Applications for Year 7 CSEF uniform packages for 2020 can be submitted by contacting the

Secondary College that your child will be attending.

Applications open from Monday the 7th October, 2019. ***Get your application in early so your

child is ready for the New Year***

Colouring Club

Colouring Club runs every Monday and Wednesday for second half of Junior lunch – this is a

great opportunity to help with social skills.

We would like to thank Annette and Lyn (Grandma’s) for their commitment and support to the PCS Breakfast club.

Annette and Lyn have been long term volunteers to this program and their warm smile and kind words will be

missed by us all.

Thank you ladies and best of luck for the future

The Wellbeing Team

What’s on in the Science Room?

More to see and do in the Science room in Term 3

Most of you know of or have meet, the resident lizard Charli, our two long necked turtles. Shelly and Squirtle.

Our stick insects are growing and changing and this term our giant Panda snails Laurel and Hardy have been

joined by a Macropanesthia rhinoceros , (AKA a giant burrowing cockroach)

ELECTIVES.

The Grade 5 & 6 electives get to explore a little more, this week for Science they have continued the build their understand-

ing of different sorts of energy and how they are made and used. The room was full of bursting balloons as they generated

static followed by blinking lights as they linked up batteries into basic circuits.

In the LEGO Technics elective, the senior students were challenged to create a moving model using some of the engineer-

ing skills they had learned. Two of the teams have graduated onto the programmable robotics of LEGO Mindstorms and are

learning how to code commands into their builds.

THIS WEEK IS SCIENCE WEEK.

DESTINATION MOON: MORE MISSIONS, MORE SCIENCE.

Students and I will learn about missions to the Moon and space programs that have solved some of the seemingly unsolvable problems. We will look at current and future space programs, operations and missions.

Many using big picture thinking in science to solve problems and how technology, engineering and mathematics can design new solutions. This will help forge our children’s future paths in the areas of space

operations and science,

Continuing this term, classes from Foundation to Grade 2 have changed specialists and new students are

learning how we can describe different types of matter and will have the opportunity to experiment with differ-

ent types of solids, liquids and gases and talk about how and where you might find and use them.

Mixing Vinegar and Bi-Carbonate together to create CO2 is a big favourite, as is watching solids melt or dis-

solve in warm water and then describing what can be seen.

The Grade 3 & 4 classes are continuing with their learning on how different types of matter mix. Currently there are crystals being grown, and eaten! (Don’t stress parents they are sugar crystals!!)

AEROSKOOL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Last week our very talented Aerobics team members travelled to Diamond Creek to participate in the AeroSkools State Championships. This was our second competition of the year for our three teams, who have all been tirelessly preparing for this competition with extra trainings before school and during their lunch times.

Our Year Four and Five team ‘Pakky Panthers’ with Jordan, Bella, Blake, Reid, Gemma, Natasha performed wonderfully in the heats placing 17th out of 24 teams. Unfortunately this dynamic group did not make it through to the finals competitions, however we are super proud of their efforts and sportsmanship shown throughout the day.

‘Pakky Power’ our Year Five and Six team with, Achol, Abigayle, Ashleigh and Kaneisha also performed in the heats placing 11th out of 24 teams progressing them through to the next stage. The finals competition was a close one with all teams scoring within tenths of each other! They continued their great efforts but unfortunately did not qualify for Nationals. We are proud of their dedication they have shown in the aerobics program this year.

Lastly our Year Three students, Evie, Samantha, Lily and Zoe in ‘Pakky Panthers’ competed in the minis section placing 3rd in their finals! We are delighted that they have now qualified for the AeroSkools National competition in Queensland! This devoted team is always bounding in to rehearsals full of energy, and are all excited to continue their aerobics journey to Nationals. We look forward to sharing their progress with you all.

We are very proud of all our aerobics students and their efforts this year. It takes a lot of confidence to perform in front of large crowds. A big thank you to all our aerobics coaches this year; Miss Nixon, Miss Sbisa, Mrs Knight, Miss Hogan, Miss Cammerino and Mrs Dawson. They too have arrived for early morning rehearsals and spent lunchtimes training our teams. We thank you for all your efforts! Thank you to Mrs Raab for attending our recent competitions and helping with our hair.

Finally we would like to thank our school community for supporting us and cheering us on in our recent assembly performance. We hope to see lots more PCS students interested in our aerobics program and trying out next year when we hold our auditions for our 2020 teams!

Thank you,

Mrs Dawson

Aerobic Championships

By Lily Thomson and Sammy Woodbridge

On Thursday 1st August the Aerobic teams including the Year Three Team, Year Four/Five team, amd Year Five/Six team went to Aeroskool Championships at Diamond Creek.

It was 7.10am in the morning! It was an early start for our Aerobic teams. We all met at the OSHC

building, then we got ready to go out in front of OSHC.

So then we hopped into Miss Cammerino’s car that the Year Threes were going in and the mini bus

with Mrs Dawson and Mrs Raab and the rest of the teams.

After that, when we finally arrived we saw all the other teams we were competing against. This

made us very nervous and excited at the same time. It was time for our hair to be put into a bun and

change into our costume.

The Year Four/Five team went on stage first and they gave it all they had. Unfortunately they did

not place.

Next it was time for the Year Five/Six team to compete. They did excellent and made it to the finals,

but did not place.

Finally it was our turn the Year Three team to dance. We tried our best and got third place meaning

we made it to National Queensland.

We are proud of all the hard work the PCS Aerobic teams did. THANK YOU to all the teachers who

took time to train us.

Let’s leap into LEAP (Learn, Explore and Play)

LEAP is our schools very own combination children’s service. We have the capacity to assist you with your children’s needs for education from Six weeks – Five years with our LEAP, Early Learning Centre (ELC) as well as your Before School, After School and Vacation Care needs for Five – Tweleve year olds with our LEAP, Outside School Hours Care (OSHC).

Let’s look at a few projects and activities some of our children have been assisting with. Both our ELC and OSHC educators and children have created a specific tree in each of their areas as an interactive display. The families of our community have begun to add to this display to enhance the communication and strength of our partnerships.

Our ELC have their tree displayed in the corridor entrance area to the service, families pass by this every day, and they are invited to add to the tree at their own discretion. A leaf is provided for each child to add individual messages. This tree is growing day by day and will continue to be part of our ongoing interactions with our littlies and their families.

Our OSHC service has been very fortunate to have several of our families assist with the enhancement of developing our tree. We have been able to bring nature inside to create a central display for all to see upon entering the building. The children have been heavily involved in the planning of each stage of our ongoing tree project. This has been from the original development of the tree when originally seeing the ELC display and liking the concept, through to obtaining tree parts – some from family members, some from our very own trees within the grounds.

The kids began to research the various designs/leaf shapes which were able to be used. We have created our leaves, now our families and children can further add to this display through the comments they leave.

We are looking forward to hearing and seeing your comments.

Our Next Fundraising Meeting will be

held on Monday 19th August at 9.00am

in the OSHC Building.

Bunnings Cake Sale

Saturday 31st August

8.00am to 1.00pm

Father’s Day Stall Friday 30th August Volunteers Required