Term 4 Week 5 7th November 2018

143 Bailey St Grovedale 3216 Tel: 5243 3902 Fax: 5243 0823

‘A Path to Success’

PRINCIPAL NEWS WORKING BEE THANKS: A HUGE thank you to the people that came to our Working Bee last Friday after school. They worked tirelessly and cer-tainly achieved a great deal. The area looks so much better behind the Open Learning Centre and behind the garage in particular. Our hope is to now get it ready for establishing our classroom garden beds. Thank you to the following: Colin and Adam Sharp, Marc Rob-inson, Ball-Manzur family, Brad Magowan & Maisie (OHSC), Jeff Shiell, Brad Venn, Tamara Shaw. Your help is greatly ap-preciated. FAST CARS: We currently have the Fast Cars Track set up in the Open Learning Centre. This has caused lots of excitement for the Year 5/6 children as they have worked in teams to construct and gain sponsorship from community businesses. You will see attached to this newsletter the amount of sponsors that the children gained. Today we have hosted students and teachers from St Margaret’s Primary and tomorrow our stu-dents/ teams will present their posters but also race their cars. Car racing planned for 9am till 11am. However due to technical issues, the racing may have to be postponed. Unfor-tunately we are unable to confirm the race schedule at this time. ELECTION DAY BBQ HELP NEEDED FOR TIMESLOTS: 11AM-12PM, 12PM-1PM AND 2PM-3PM As you may know, we will be holding the election here at the school on Saturday the 24th of November. Your help is needed for an hour on the day of the BBQ in the timeslots noted above. If you are able to spare an hour to help cook or serve sausages on the day we would really appreciate you filling out the slip attached to this newsletter and return it asap please. This is a fabulous way of raising funds from others outside our own school community. CHINA TRIP GET TOGETHER: It was with great excitement the students who were lucky enough to go on our recent trip to China together with their parents got together last night at South Geelong Primary School. It was wonderful to not only reminisce about our trip but to also be presented with a polo shirt and USB with shared photos. It certainly brought back many happy memo-ries of our very first student trip to China and our sister school. The students that attended have certainly set a high standard that hopefully future students will live up to. They represented our school, state and country very proudly. We certainly hope to continue this exchange next year depending on the interest gained from students/families.

BIG BIKE RIDE: This Friday the Year 4 children will be doing their Big Bike Ride to use their skills and knowledge learnt over the last four weeks to go for a ride along the Barwon River. Let us hope that the weather is kind to us. A huge thank you to the parents that have volunteered their time to either ride with the children or to help at the BBQ on the day. Another thank you to Brad Venn, Paul Waldron as well as those parents that have helped each week of the pro-gram. We know that we could not run this program with-out parents that volunteer their valuable time. THANK YOU.

REMEMBRANCE DAY: This Friday we will be running a Remembrance Day ser-vice at 11am in the multi purpose room. I will also be tak-ing our school captains as representatives of our school to Rice Village and to lay a wreath at the service at 10:30am. Remembrance Day is on Sunday however teachers will be talking to the students as to why we commemorate this day on Friday. Have a great week! Kathy Wesolowski Principal

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COMING EVENTS

NOVEMBER 2018

Fri 9th Nov Big Bike Ride Grade 4

Fri 16th Nov School Colour Explosion (Colour Run)

Mon 19th Nov Geelong Waterfront Excursion

Wed 21st Nov Prep 2019 Orientation—Session 3 9.15am—10.45am And Uniform Shop

Thurs 22nd Nov Blue Light Disco Gr 5/6

Sat 24th Nov Election Day—BBQ Fundraiser—Parent Help required

DECEMBER 2018

Fri 7th Dec Prep/Gr 1 BBQ 5pm-7pm

Fri 7th Dec Gr 2 Sleepover 5pm

Mon 10th Dec School Council meeting

Tues 11th Dec Prep 2019 Orientation—Session 4 9.30am—12pm

Mon 17th Dec Grade 6 Graduation

Wed 19th Dec Adventure Park Gr 5/6

Fri 21st Dec Last day of Term 4

FORMS / PAYMENT DUE BACK

Thurs 8th Nov Geelong Waterfront Prep - Grade 2 $3

Fri 9th Nov School Colour Explosion (Colour Run)

Fri 16th Nov Year 5/6 Blue Light Disco $10

Wed 28th Nov Prep/Gr 1 BBQ $8

Wed 28th Nov Gr 2 Sleepover $10

NEW UNIFORMS: Deal directly with Coastal Uniforms. Phone: 5255 4897 Maureen will be at the school on Thursday 8th November from 8.45am if you have any que-ries regarding school uniform. SECOND HAND UNIFORMS: in the Sick Bay on Tuesday afternoons only from 3:00pm-3:20pm.

BBQ on Election Day - HELPERS NEEDED Grovedale Primary School will be a registered Polling Booth venue on the 24th November 2018. We will be running a BBQ over the course of the day and it would be appreciated if you could assist in helping. The timeslots we still need are as follows: 11am-12pm

12pm-1pm

1pm-2pm

Even if you can only spare 1 hour that would be greatly appreciated. If you are interested in helping, please tick one of the above times and return this form back to the school as soon as possible. Many Thanks. Name:_____________________________ Contact Phone: ____________________________

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Parents and Friends News

Reminder: Please return the Colour Explosion forms this Friday. Anyone who has set up online can order a prize but still return the forms to school. If you would like to be a parent helper for the Colour Explosion, please contact the school office or message Claire Hauenstein on 0400 572 989. We will be having an end of year Christmas raffle. We are now asking for donations for the raffle. Please bring all donations to the office. Thanking you in ad-vance! Parent and Friends next meeting is Wednesday 16th November at 9am. All welcome. Parent and Friends Committee

STUDENT AWARDS Kiara PD For really thinking about what you are reading and answering questions about what you have

read. Cohen PD For making text to self connections as he reads. Sienna PD For working really hard to learn your spelling words. Clemence PS For always putting in her best effort in learning tasks. Will PS For making good spelling choices when writing new words. Bailey 12B For the super effort he put into his persuasive writing on why it is important to learn to swim. Spencer 12B For fitting in so nicely into our grade. We are lucky to have you Spencer. Grace 12C For her positive attitude towards swimming and helping those around her to

be super organised. Grace 34M For writing some amazing, awesome alliterations. Alexis 34M For writing some amazing, awesome alliterations. Jason 34S For your great work placing fractions on a number line. Dylan 34S For your amazing effort when writing an alliteration poem. Daniel 56C For persisting with interpreting different graphs during Mathematics. Indica 56C For making good choices to improve her focus during tasks. Well done! Tamana 56C For extending herself in Mathematics and creating accurate pie charts. Darby 56R For the creative display of angles in his name. Great work. Noah 56R For his insightful contribution to group reading discussions. Jude 56S For his great effort and us of a range of skills to produce a data poster on favourite foods. HJ 56S For sustained effort in creating a data poster and analysing the results.

Extend OSHC at Grovedale Primary School Last week at OSHC, children had a great time putting on their ‘Chef’s Hats and Aprons’ and participating in our cooking week! We made some delicious snacks and learnt about some healthier alternative ingredi-ents we can use when cooking. Next week we will be starting our ‘Challenges’ week, using our records book to keep track of all the challenge records children set, so we know what scores we have to beat later in the term! Our Extend Superstar for the 2nd of Novem-ber is Ella Hauenstein for her ability to lead with equity! Next week’s activities are… Monday 12th November: Egg and spoon race Tuesday 13th November: Cup stacking challenges Wednesday 14th November: Pom Pom Race Thursday 15th November: Minute to win it challenges Friday 16th November: Balloon Challenges Extend-a-Hand Learn | Aid | Appreciate Each year Extend launches Extend-a-Hand, a major social initiative that educates primary school children on the benefits to contributing to the wider community. This year, we are extending a hand to our hard working farmers who have been suffering through one of the worst droughts in living memory. Learn | Children will learn about weather systems and cycles, the impact of drought and who really provides our food. Aid | Extend has partnered with GIVIT.org.au to raise funds for farmers and their farmers Appreciate | Children will create handwritten letters and drawings expressing sentiments of gratitude and encouragement to the farm-ers and their families. Visit Extend’s donation page via GIVIT and participate in this fantastic cause! http://givit.org.au/Extend-a-Hand Look forward to seeing you all! Maisie Thompson (Service coordinator) and the Extend team