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Dinjerra Messenger Term 3 No. 10 Thursday 18th July 2019

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Coming Events

Wednesday 27th July

4/6 – Braybrook Library Visits

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Wednesday 31st July

Grades 4/6 Excursion to

Melbourne Museum

Wednesday 7th August

4/6 – Learning Through Lunch

Excursion to William Angliss

Monday 12th August

Swimming Program begins

12th – 23rd August

Tuesday 13th August

Finance Committee Meeting

6:30pm

School Council Meeting

7:00pm

Monday 26th August

Curriculum Day – NO SCHOOL

Book Week 26th – 30th August

Principal’s Report

Welcome to Term 3, 2019. I must apologise for the mud that greeted all

of us on Monday morning if you entered from South Road. Work had

taken place over the holidays to finish linking the storm water pipe to the

drainage pits near the BER building. Unfortunately, they had to dig a deep

trench and remove some of the concrete and asphalt that runs between

the car park, the BER and the sand pit. Over the next school holidays, the

car park and the pathways will be sealed properly so until then, don’t wear

your best shoes if you have to enter the school from South Road. If you

are able to enter through the back gate via Adamson Street that runs off

Joy Street, you will find it a much cleaner way.

During the first three weeks of this Term, Ms Ivy Leach will be the Acting

Assistant Principal in Ms Catherine Robertson’s absence. Catherine is on

her honeymoon following her recent marriage. Also starting this Term is

Ms Marta Rodrigues who will be teaching Spanish to your children. Marta

is an experienced teacher who is on loan to us from St Albans Heights

Primary School. She will be with us two days a week.

Term 3 is generally the time when many children get sick with coughs,

colds and hopefully not, flu. If you are able to get your child a flu shot,

please do. There have been a number of deaths from flu this year,

including children and a flu shot is a good way to keep your children safe.

If your child does get sick, please keep them home until they are well. We

do not have the staff or the space to look after sick children and it is unfair

on the staff and other children who run the risk of getting sick themselves

when helping your child.

Graeme Smith

Principal

2019 Parent Opinion Survey

WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK!

The Department of Education and Training is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The

Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted

amongst a sample of randomly selected parents. It is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of

parents’ perceptions of school climate, student behaviour and student engagement. Our school will use the survey

results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies.

Approximately 30 per cent of parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey. All responses to the survey

are anonymous. If you are one of the 30%, you will receive your information about how to log in in an envelope we

will give to your child/ren. This year the Parent Opinion Survey will be conducted from Monday 22rd July to Sunday

11th August.

The survey will be conducted online, only takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient

time within the fieldwork period on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones. The online survey will be

available in a range of languages other than English. These include: Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Chin (hakha),

Hindi, Japanese, Somali, Turkish, Punjabi and Greek. The survey results will be reported back to the school at the

end of September.

Please speak to your child’s teacher if you would like more information.

Regards,

Graeme Smith.

Principal.

Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Dinjerra is excited to be participating.

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 6 September 2019.

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.

Students at Dinjerra will be given class time to enter the books they have read into the system. If you would like to do this at home, please see Ms Naz for login details.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc Thank-you, Ms. Naz

4/5/6 Learning

Interschool Sports On the last day of term 2, the mixed netball team went to the grand finals and played against Footscray Primary

School. Before we played Footscray P.S, they played with another school first so we practiced a bit. Some students

played on the playground too. After they finished playing with the other school, it was our turn. Some of us were

nervous, some of us were competitive. We played a fun game and we were kind of sad that we didn't win, but at

least we got a certificate and in the end, the score was 0 to 15.

We have finished our winter sports and are now moving to our summer sports; Cricket, Newcomb and Basketball.

Information Projects

In our term 2 Inquiry/Reading & Writing we did

information projects to inform our readers of our

chosen topic and most people wrote about different

countries. Some people did their projects on posters,

Prezi, in books, Powtoon and other things. Our

projects are for other people to read and learn more.

We all did great making our projects look presentable

and fun!

Maths In Maths we have started learning about shape and

the properties of shape after finishing up last term

learning about compass and location. We are excited

to find out what else we’re going to be learning.

Trixie, Alice and Sarimah.

Life Ed Van In Life Ed Van we learned about internet/cyber

safety and who to trust and not to trust online. We

met Harold the Giraffe. We helped Harold make

good choices on what he was doing online. We also

watched a video about a boy who goes on an

unsafe website and the consequences. We talked

about not giving your personal information to a

stranger and about who you know and trust online.

Our Wonderful Learners in the Grade Prep/One Learning Area.

Learning our sight words.

Kelly Club Dinjerra

Program Phone: 0466 665 941

Email: dinjerra@kellycluboshc.com.au

KELLY CLUB DINJERRA

Hi all parents and children.

Get along to Kelly Club Dinjerra OSHC program for loads of fun, sport, games, cooking, craft, arts, structured free time and healthy, yummy breakfast and afternoon tea!

We’re open Monday – Friday for Before School Care 7am – 8.45am After School Care 3.15pm – 6pm,

providing breakfast and afternoon tea.

Prices start from $3.00 per session with your CCB/CCR rebate connected with Centrelink. Our programmes are approved, with government rebates and subsidies available. Ask at the office or contact Nanda for more information and to book: Contact the program phone/email to book! 0466 665 941 dinjerra@kellycluboshc.com.au

We are learning about Subtraction.

Attending the Life Education Van

We are learning to add 2 numbers together.

Physical Education News

Fundraising News……….

Grade 4/5/6 Interschool Sport…

Grade 4/5/6 students will be practising

Basketball, Cricket and Newcombe skills

this term and will be competing against

schools in term 4.

Many students still need to wash and

bring back their sports uniform tops,

skirts and shin guards.

Dinjerra Swimming Program…

Students have received their swimming notices to attend the

Dinjerra Swimming Program at the Maribyrnong Aquatic Centre

near Highpoint West. The swimming program goes for 10

consecutive days from 12th – 23rd August 2019. I can’t emphasize

enough how important it is for your children to gain confidence in

water, learn survival skills and improve their swimming technique.

Students need to return their permission notices, their medical

forms and the $95 by 30th July 2019.

Collecting 5c competition….

Congratulations to all grades who collected

heaps of 5c pieces. The school raised close to

$300.

Grade Prep/1L won the competition

collecting the most 5c pieces with Grade

2/3V coming second.

Mr. Graeme did some muscle building taking

it all to the bank!!

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Please put this date in your calendar if you can help cook

and sell sausages with us. Please let the office know if you

can help out for an hour or two!!

Bunning Sunshine

Sausage sizzles are one of

Dinjerra’s biggest

fundraisers. We are having

a sausage sizzle at

Bunnings Sunshine this

Saturday 20th July.

Fathers’ Day Stall

We have a Fathers’ Day stall to look forward

to later in Term 3. Great presents have been

purchased which will be $5 each. Stay tuned

for later this term.

Thankyou everyone from the Fundraising

Committee

Cadbury’s chocolates to sell.

Selling Cadbury’s chocolates is also one of our biggest

fundraisers. We will be sending each family home with a

large box of Cadbury’s chocolates to sell on Friday 26th July.

Each box contains 60 giant chocolate frogs and caramello

bears which sell for $1 each. Dinjerra receives $24 from

each box as profit. If we sell them all we will raise $1800.

Please let the office know if you don’t wish to sell them.

Scholastic Book

Club Our 5th issue of Scholastic Book

Club is going home today with the

Newsletter. All money and order

forms are due back on Monday

29th July 2019. The more orders

we get, the school earns bonus

points and it goes towards books

for our library.

School Banking day is Tuesday Remember, Tuesday is School Banking day and students should bring in their weekly deposit. For every deposit made at school, students will receive a silver Dollarmites token. Once students have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for an exclusive School Banking reward item in recognition of their regular savings habits. School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives a Regular Savers Contribution of $5 for every 10 deposits processed per student as well as an Annual Contribution which is based on the number of students who made at least one School Banking deposit in the prior year. Thank you for supporting the School Banking program at Dinjerra Primary School. If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2019 School Banking program information pack from the school office or visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking