Principal’s Report FRIDAY 4th AUGUST 2017

PERANBIN PRIMARY COLLEGE NEWS

DATE EVENT

7th&8th

August

VisitfromMuseumVic

24th August

Marguk Workshops

Whole School Assembly

7th September

School Athletics at Strathbogie

15th September

District Athletics Nagambie

On Wednesday 26th and Friday 28th July, all students from across the Peranbin campuses travelled to Melbourne for an excursion to both the Immigration Museum and Museum Victoria. At the Immigration Museum our senior students were involved in the launch of a brand new exhibition called Game Changes, all about diversity in football. They spent time in the exhibition thinking about the objects, photographs and films presented in the exhibition. They had a chance to meet Western Bulldogs player Lin Jong and Jason Johannisen, which caused a great deal of excitement. They then participated in the official launch of this exhibition and a panel discussion with the two footballers, the curator of the exhibition and football commentator Samantha Lane. Feedback from a range of sources involved in this launch and the museum has been glowing about how wonderfully our students participated and that the launch would not have been what it was without them. Fantastic! At Museum Victoria they were introduced to a project they will undertake for the rest of Term 3. They spent time with the curator of the Invisible Farmer exhibition that is being put together. Here they viewed a special hat from a special woman, Heather Mitchell. This hat captured many of our student’s attention. We had a very great surprise at Museum Victoria. We were met by a curator at the Bunjilika Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Isobel Murphy-Walsh who is Peranbin alumni. How fantastic for our students to see someone from our school doing such wonderful and exciting work. The junior students went down on Friday and participated enthusiastically in their session at the Immigration Museum enthusiastically dressing up and imagining. They also had a tour of the Bunjilika Aboriginal Centre and were particularly taken with the wonderful moving sculpture and light show telling the story of the creator spirit Bunil, which is the creation story of our area’s first people- the Taungurung people. Again it was commented upon about how enthusiastic and well-mannered our children were. These excursions were to launch our work with Museum Victoria, engaging our students as community researchers, working on the Invisible Farmer Project which is almost now in full swing. Thank you to all our helpers on the excursions. Both days were really great.

Next week our senior students will work with the Museum staff on how to tell stories digitally. Swanpool Baddaginnie will work with them on Monday afternoon and Violet Town and Strathbogie will do so on Tuesday morning.

Public Speaking Congratulations to all our students who participated in the Lion’s Club Public Speaking competition on Sunday. They all spoke well and represented our school showing all of our school values! Congratulations to Arthur Gerrans who came runner up in his age group.

BIRTHDAYS FOR AUGUST Shyann Waye 5th Connor Garden 5th Adam Franks 7th Alice Thornhill 9th Billy Hood 10th Elly Croxson-Mitchell 13th Ruby Davis 26th Pauline Briggs 26th

Last Thursday our students at Swanpool and Baddaginnie campuses planted 100 native trees and shrubs along the Lima East Creek as part of National Schools Tree Day. The works contributed to an overall project to revegetate a 1km section of the Lima East Creek on the Blackwood Park property on Lima East Road. The Lima East Creek runs past Swanpool and into the Broken River. Thus the works conducted by the students contribute to improved downstream water quality in the Broken River catchment. The plants and guards used on the day were supplied by the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority as part of a four year Strathbogie Streams project. The project is actively supported by the members of the Swanpool Landcare Group. Geoff Brennan from the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority talked with the students about the importance of improving water quality though revegetation projects. Thank you to Geoff Brennan for assisting the students with the tree planting on National Schools Tree Day. Thanks to Jess Bakker for supplying the scones, jam and cream that provided the energy for the planting. The student enthusiastically planted then guarded a mix of Silver Banksias, Wattles and other locally native species. They did a great job as you can see from the photo.

You can find Eron next week: Monday – Violet Town Tuesday- Violet Town & Strathbogie Wednesday- Violet Town, Swanpool & Strathbogie Thursday- Strathbogie Friday- Strathbogie Please email me if you need anything. I check emails very regularly. chapman.eron.l@edumail.vic.gov.au

NEWS FROM BADDAGINNIE SWANPOOL

Mr. Clelland’s Room In class this week we worked on multiplication and rapid recall in class. The children learnt a range of tables and worked on finding patterns through doubling and halving and using arrays. In our poetry unit we completed alliteration poems and tongue twisters. The children use a range of strategies to make poems about animals. In Science this week the students started their recycling programs around the school using compost bins and eliminating plastic bags.

Alliteration poems:

Tommy Tiger ventured through the terrifying trees

Till Tommy stopped at ten o’clock

To tell a terrible tale to terrified tomatoes

Charlotte/Jasmine

Milly Monkey makes mysterious cake

At Milly Mathieson’s house at midnight

For Murray’s mingle at midday

Rose/Gemma

Ms. Fitz’s This week we have written a recount about our excursion to Melbourne. We have also been working on a type of poem called ‘Alliteration”, where nearly every word of the poem starts with the same letter. Eg. Pretty Pauline plays the piano perfectly. On Friday we edited and published our writing. In Maths this week we have been focusing on counting by 1’s. Foundation have learnt about number 15, Year 2’s and 3’s have completed work and made models of 3D shapes. Have a good weekend.

NEWS FROM STRATHBOGIE

Kitchen Garden this week was a buzz of activity. The gardening group investigated the anatomy of seeds, made newspaper pots and sewed tomato seeds in preparation for summer planting. The cooking group made a hearty Vegetable and Lentil Dahl using a new ingredient- fresh turmeric- and Yoghurt Flatbreads.

If you can help us out of Tuesday morning with driving senior students to Violet Town for our session with Joan and Liz from Museum Vic, please let us know- we need one car.

Cleaning- Monday- Wednesday Margrie Family Thursday- Bond-Rowe Family Friday- Croxson-Mitchell Family

Ms. Hanby’s Room This week, we have been reflecting on our excursions to Melbourne last week and discussing the things we saw and learned from the museum. The students all loved the dinosaur exhibit as well as exploring toys from different time periods in the past. In Literacy, we have been looking at Acrostic Poems and developing our descriptive language. We took advantage of the beautiful weather we had on Tuesday, and went outside to get inspiration for our Acrostic Poems through looking at the things around us. In Maths, we have been looking at addition strategies and counting, which aspects of will lead into multiplication strategies, such as repeated addition for multiplication. We have also started our new class novel "I Was a Rat" by Philip Pullman. The students have been analysing the book in class, predicting what will happen next and using descriptive language to describe characters and events as they unfold in the story. Ms Chapman and Mrs Week's Room In Maths we have been looking at the concept of multiplication and what it means in a range of situations. This is so that we can give context to multiplication in a range of situations. As part of our Invisible Farmer Project we have looked at how objects can tell us stories about the past and the present- how objects can hold memory. In Art we have begun a wonderful project making pavers for our garden with Suzie Bates.

NEWS FROM VIOLET TOWN Mrs. B’s Room It was a very big day out last Friday as the students had their Museum visit and introduction to the Invisible Farmer Project. The students were commended on their behaviour and good manners - well done to all. To further build on this project l would like the children to bring an item from home that has a special meaning for them or your family. It could be a photo of a family event, a toy given at birth or something like a piece of household equipment that has been passed down through the family. Items such as these often have a little story attached to them and provide an insight into the family's recent or past history. This notion of objects being a way of looking at the past is an aspect of the Invisible Farmer we will be developing to appreciate the role women have played in Australia’s farming history. Ms. Barratt’s Room In English we have been learning about Figurative Language, and using it in our poetry. Here are some of our simile poems. With our buddies, we learnt about Onomatopoeia, and created Onomatopoeia cartoons. In Art, we have been creating prints with Mrs. Moore. In Maths, we have been working on our counting and multiplication skills. Thanks to Kirsty, Lou, Mychelle and Sue for their help with reading this term! Sunrise Sports Cars The sunrise is as slow as a sloth Fast as the wind A sunrise is as beautiful and the rain pelting hard Cool as a Rottweiler The sunrise is as orange as a fire Colourful as a rainbow A sunrise is a beautiful time rushing past Low as the ground Bronti Kane

Wolves Sunset Grey as a misty night As beautiful as dawn Eyes as yellow as the moon As cheeky as a fox Swiftly walked through the forest Always happy either rain or shine With a mystic howl during the dark lonely night. Swiftly running through the sky Bridey Neva

VALUES AWARDS

Isobel Sutherland for showing high expectations and responsibility completing her poetry work in class.

Samy Tatai for demonstrating High Expectations and Responsibility in Reading.

Wesley Shea for showing high expectations of himself and is always ready to congratulate and praise others for their good efforts.

Jack Williams for his unfailing sense of responsibility. Jack always volunteers to do extra around our school and no greater evidence of this was on Thursday when he optimistically helped

unload a trailer full of clay pavers, in the rain!

BIG WRITER AWARD

Ruby Davis for her focused effort in poetry writing this week. Ruby used rhyming couplets and her favourite interest of horses to compose her little poem.

Kane Horwood for creating vivid metaphors and similes.

MATHS SUPER HERO

Bronti Mustey for her dedication to improving her skip counting skills.

STUDENT AWARDS

Badda/Swans Tree Planting

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