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Red Cliffs Primary School
NEWSLETTER Wednesday 29th October, 2014
Week 4 Term 4
IMPORTANT DATES
Pupil Free day—Monday 3rd November
Public Holiday—Tuesday 4th November
Home Page Address - http://www.redcliffsps.vic.edu.au
EMAIL: [email protected]
Phone: 5024 1044
Fax: 5024 2020
Principal’s Report: End Of Year Concert:
Parents and community
members are asked to note the
new date for the Red Cliffs
Primary School End of Year
Concert. The concert will
now be held on Monday 15th
December.
As always, the Red Cliffs
Lions Club will be cooking a
barbeque tea (available from
5.30pm) prior to our concert.
Final details will be published
closer the date.
Grade 3/4 Camp:
The 2014 Grade 3/4 Camp
commences tomorrow,
Thursday 30th October.
Our grade 3/4 students will
tour the “Red Cliffs” before
travelling to Mildura for a
mystery activity. After
enjoying lunch at Apex Park
they will travel to Wentworth
to visit the gaol and the
junction.
The students will then travel to
a Mildura Caravan Park for a
restful night’s sleep.
Parents must collect their
children at 1.00pm on Friday.
Children who are bus
travellers will be supervised
until 3.15pm
Grade 2 Sleepover:
Grade 2 students will enjoy a
sleepover at school on
Thursday.
Children will go home as usual
after school on Thursday.
After showering and changing
they should return to school at
6.00pm ready for a night of
pizza, fun and sleep
(hopefully).
Parents must collect their grade
2 child at 1.00pm Friday. Bus
travellers will be supervised
until 3.15pm.
I sincerely thank all staff for so
willingly giving up their time
to make the grade 3/4 camp
and the grade 2 sleepover
possible.
Reminders:
Parents/carers are reminded
Monday 3rd November is a
Pupil Free Day. All staff will
be at school undertaking a
professional learning
programme in Maths.
Tuesday 4th November is the
Melbourne Cup Public
Holiday.
Students do not come to school
on Monday 3rd or Tuesday 4th
November.
Enjoy the extra long weekend!
Enrolments:
Parents are asked to remind
neighbours/friends and
relatives that enrolments for next
year are still being
accepted.
It is essential for planning
purposes that enrolments are
finalised as soon as possible.
Prep enrolments are high for this
time of the year.
It is most likely that there will be
four infant grades in 2015, all
with very small class sizes. We
are also planning on having an
additional senior grade in 2015.
It is important that parents
advise the school as soon as
possible if they know their
children will not be attending
Red Cliffs Primary School next
year.
School Council:
Members are reminded the next
School Council meeting will be
held on Wednesday 12th
November.
Swimming:
Students in grades 2-4 will be
participating in their Intensive
Swimming Programme next
week. Our students will be
travelling to the Mildura Waves
Pool on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday.
Have a great week!
Rod Beer
Principal
Stars of the Week
This Week’s Birthdays……
Ruby Malik 11 Monday 27th October
Riley Somers 7 Thursday 30th October
Isabelle Zapia 11 Friday 31st October
Parent Club News;
Parents Club are looking
for donations of
non-perishable items for
their Christmas Hamper
raffles. Items can be left
in the office. Thank you.
School Disco 18th
November $2 Entry.
Prep-Gr.2 2.15-3.15pm
Grades 3-6 6.30-8pm
Students in Grade 5/6 to
bring a plate of food.
All Calendar orders
and monies to be
returned to office by
Friday 31st October.
No late orders will be
accepted.
Cody
Laird
PrepH
Persistence
Fantastic work
in maths.
Nadia Van-
Miltenburg
Lucas
P/1G
Persistence
Fantastic
persistent effort
with story
Writing.
Whole
Grade
1/2K
Persistence
Working tough
on assessment
tasks.
Erica
Wright
2V
Getting Along
A Caring and
co-operative
student
Clay
Ellis Castle
3/4D
Persistence
A very good
all- round
student!
Kordie
Hartnett
3/4L
Persistence
Great problem
solving in
maths.
Isabelle
Martin
5/6A
Persistence
A helpful class
member.
Simauga
Motufau
5/6W
Persistence
Awesome work
at all times!
Great Behaviour in the Yard:
Congratulation to Aaliyah Rosebottom (Prep) Ezgi
Donmez (Gr.4) and Blake Lidsey (Gr.6) for their
Great Behaviour in the Yard this week. Enjoy those
free Great Australian Ice Creams kids.
OOSH Pupil Free Day:
It appears very likely that
the Red Cliffs Primary
School Out of School
Hours Care program will
not be operating this
Monday, November 3rd,
due to lack of numbers.
This Week in Science:
Prep-Prep1: Day and
night time animals.
Gr.1/2-Gr.2:
“Air vehicles” e.g. planes,
balloons etc.
Gr.3/4: “The Sun”
Characteristics and
importance to Earth.
Gr.5/6: “Planets”
Continued— Projects
started.
Alice Vallender
Science Teacher
VICSWIM Summer
Kidz: Learn to Swim. Enrol now
for summer.
$25 for 5 sessions.
For more information visit
www.vicswim.com.au
Aysha, Hannah, Holly, Cassie and Lucy
play a maths game with Hula Hoops .
They put a piece of paper with a number on
it in every hoop. As they hop in each hoop
they use the number to make a maths
problem. At the end they see how many
they have made.
Lauren, Jonty, Noah and Eva find
using multiplication cards lots of fun. It is a good way to learn their times tables and a great way to develop their multiplication skills. Lots of people can play the one game. They co-operate and play by
the rules.
Harvey, Emrich, Jy and Molly use Mathletics on the iPads to practise their maths skills. Multiplication,
regrouping, rounding off and
telling the time are their favourite activities. They work on their own or with a partner.
Here are some of the fun ways
children in 2V practise the skills
they have learned in Maths .
Katie, Kyron, Erica, Sina and Dylan
use MAB blocks to help them solve number problems. They like to use these blocks because they can see what hundreds, tens and ones look
like. If they want to add or subtract they can just move the MAB blocks
around to help them work out the answer. They can see what happens as they solve the problem.
