17th July 2019

OUR SCHOOL VISION: “Wandong Primary School … Making a difference by developing confident, independent

and resilient learners who strive for personal excellence.”

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“We make a

difference.”

www.wandongps.vic.edu.au

Congratulations to our ‘Students of the Week’

Foundation C Whole Class Award: (Being awesome and well done on surviving the first semester)

Foundation M Whole Class Award: (Being outstanding achievers)

Foundation N Whole Class Award: (Being amazing whenever we have visitors in our classroom)

Foundation Z Whole Class Award: (Being positive and fun learners)

1/2D: Nicholas Staffieri (Being a positive contributor to class discussions)

1/2E Whole Class Award: (Showing wonderful teamwork)

1/2K Whole Class Award: (Having a fantastic first semester)

1/2W: Emma Downey (Showing creativity and enthusiasm towards her learning)

1/2Y: Max Rickard (Being a super energised writer)

1/2Z: Addisyn Mazzone (Outstanding effort towards publishing, illustrating and presenting her information booklet)

3/4E: Robert Fair (Always being ready for a new adventure in learning)

3/4G: Damien Stranieri (Attempting to complete all set tasks with a positive attitude)

3/4P: Jax Martyn-Jones (Excellent work in writing and publishing his information report about Egypt in two different ways)

3/4S: Maddison Louis (Completing everything no matter how long it takes and paying close attention to detail)

3/4Z: Daniel Calleja (Being self motivated to complete his project about ‘Australia’)

5/6A: Iris Scott (Remaining ‘on task’ all term and producing some amazing work)

5/6H: Jarvis Sleep (Showing dedication and paying attention to detail and completing integrated work to a high standard)

5/6K: Scarlett Staub (Displaying effort and dedication when preparing her work for the Integrated Showcase)

5/6O: Natasha Wigney (Putting in extra effort for her presentation on Brazil)

5/6S: Jesse Robinson (Altering his mindset and being an optimistic learner)

Reminders Wednesday 17th July - Wakakirri excursion permission slip due today Friday 19th July - School Tour for 2020 enrolments (9:30-10:30am)

Monday 22nd July - 2019 Swim Program consent and payment due today Tuesday 23rd July - PAFA Meeting (9:15am start in the staffroom)

Tuesday 23rd July - Foundation Quantum excursion (Foundation N & Foundation C) Tuesday 23rd July - Wakakirri Performance

Wednesday 24th July - Foundation Quantum excursion (Foundation Z & Foundation M)

A Message from the Principal Team

Dear families,

Welcome back to what will undoubtedly be another amazing term at Wandong Primary School! I hope you have all had a chance to rest and recharge and to spend some time with people special to you over the holiday break.

I was lucky enough to escape the cold Melbourne weather for a brief time and enjoyed some sunshine and surf in the lovely Hawaiian islands. It is good to be back on home soil, however it has been a BIG adjustment coming back to the freezing temperatures here in Wandong (I’m pumping my heater!!)- haha!

This term promises to be another great one, with lots of fun activities and excursions planned throughout the coming months, not to mention the ongoing excellence in teaching and learning. I am most looking forward to the upcoming Wakkakiri performance and Education Week celebrations!

Little Fort Bridge: A big thank you to two of our parents, Yvette Curlis and Yorin Miller for kindly fixing the broken bridge on our Little Fort. This was a great service to the school and it is wonderful to see our playground back in action and our F-2 students enjoying themselves.

Earn and Learn: It’s time to decide what we want to order for our school! Thank you to all of the families who have been diligently saving their Woolworths Earn and Learn stickers. In total we have accumulated 28,620 Earn and Learn points (not dollars- we wish!), which can now be used to purchase specific educational resources for our school. We will update you when we know what we will be receiving- how exciting!

Silver Coin Challenge: The totals are in from our term 2, Silver Coin Challenge, with families raising an incredible…drum roll…$1414.95!! It was a close final sprint, however Foundation M pulled ahead, raising a total of $202.45. Stay tuned in the coming weeks FM, as your class reward is announced…

Thank you to all of the families who donated spare change throughout the challenge, it is greatly appreciated and will mean that we are able to further supply our students with the best educational experience possible, by purchasing more resources and equipment for our school.

Staffing Announcement: We would like to welcome Olivia Mathews to our Education Support Staff team. Olivia began in classrooms on Monday and enjoyed getting to know the students that she will be working with. We look forward to her settling in and getting to know the Wandong family. Welcome!

Mrs Cole & Principal Appointment: As you would have been aware, a letter was sent home to families yesterday regarding the successful appointment of Mrs Cole as Senior Education Improvement Leader- the role that she has been undertaking for the past twelve months. It is with mixed emotions that we congratulate Mrs Cole on this huge achievement. After ten and half years at Wandong Primary School, Mrs Cole will be missed by teachers, students and families alike, however we know that she will go on to do amazing things in the field of education and will now be able to spread her impact beyond just one school. As always, Wandong Primary will continue to be one of Mrs Cole’s schools, in her new SEIL capacity.

Attached to Mrs Cole’s letter was some information from our school council regarding the process of appointing a principal. As with the recruitment of any person within a school setting, there are a series of actions which must occur within the Department of Education to prepare to fill such a role. These procedures are carried out externally to the school and can take some time. Until this time, Mr Warren will continue on in the Acting Principal role and we thank families for their understanding while this process takes place.

Wishing students and teachers a wonderful first week back at school- keep smiling, keep learning!

Stephanie Pollock - Acting Assistant Principal

A Message from the School Captains.

Welcome back everybody, we hope you all had a safe holiday and enjoyed your time off.

We have lots of exciting things happening this term. Firstly - Wakakirri! We are both soooooo

excited about this next Tuesday as we head off to Moonee Ponds to compete in this year’s

Wakakirri Performing Arts competition. Wish us luck.

Our swimming program starts in a few weeks, Foundation are off to Quantum, Incursions for

Grade 5 / 6 and Foundation, Father’s day stall, just to name a few. And don’t forget about our

Athletics Carnival at Meadowglenn!

Good luck to Kirra as she competes in the State Cross Country tomorrow. GO KIRRA!

Finally, big congratulations to Mrs Cole on her new role as the Principals Principal. Mrs Cole has

been an inspiration to us both, someone we have learnt great leadership skills from. I (Aurora)

remember when Mrs. Cole held my hand on a school tour when I was in kinder. We will miss you

Mrs Cole. Good luck in your new job and thank you for everything you have done for us and for

Wandong Primary School.

Xander Fearn and Aurora Sheehy

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL

SUPER READER’S CLUB:

Congratulations on 50 nights reading: Emma Downey, Aliyah Harrison,

Jackson Macdonald, Kurtis Ritchie and Indy Liddicoat.

Congratulations on 100 nights reading: Luca Minnitt, Holly Roberts, Kiara Scattolin,

Kalle Saunders, Marshall Scholes, Ophelia Tarrant, Harper Irons, Isabelle Leiper,

Sebastian Delovski and Addisyn Mazzone.

Congratulations on 150 nights reading: Lola Ituarte.

What’s gone home recently? The following notices were sent home between

Thursday 27th June to Wednesday 17th July:

Whole school: A message from Mrs Cole Principal Appointment Billy G’s Gourmet Cookie Dough fundraiser information

Selected Families: Nil

Selected Students: Nil

Individual grade levels:

Foundation: Nil

Grade 1/2: Nil

Grade 3/4: Nil

Grade 5/6: Nil

Spare copies of notices are in the school foyer in the grade level trays

PARENT

PAYMENTS

RECEIVED

286 families at

WPS.

196 Completed

payments

= 69 %

Have you

recently

asked your

child/ren....

“What

did you

learn

today?”

Indonesian News Year 3-6 students have now completed their Indonesian studies for the year. Year 5-6 have been learning to describe people and they have just completed a poster to describe a famous person. Year 3-4 students have been learning about Indonesian houses. In second semester, the current

Digital Technology room will be transformed into a new Indonesian room. Everyone is welcome to pop in for a look. Here is a picture of students playing a traditional Indonesian shell game called Congklak. It is a game of skill and strategy and is played widely in Indonesia and South East Asia.

Ibu Jenny

Specialist

Certificate

Winner

Indonesian Award

Bridget Elliot

(Demonstrating consistently

excellent behaviour and

class work)

WOW! … WHAT’S ON & WHAT’S DUE @WANDONG

JULY

Wednesday 17th Wakakirri excursion permission slip due today

Friday 19th School Tour for 2020 enrolments (9:30-10:30am)

Monday 22nd 2019 Swim Program consent and payment due today

Tuesday 23rd PAFA Meeting (9:15am start in the staffroom) Foundation Quantum excursion (Foundation N & Foundation C) Wakakirri Performance

Wednesday 24th Foundation Quantum excursion (Foundation Z & Foundation M)

Friday 26th School Tour for 2020 enrolments (9:30-10:30am)

Monday 29th Junior Neighbourhood Watch session (Grade 5/6 students only) School Council Meeting (6:00pm start in the staffroom)

Wednesday 31st Broadford Secondary College Production excursion (Grade 6 students only)

AUGUST

Thursday 1st WPS 2019 Athletics Carnival consent and payment due today

Friday 2nd Billy G’s Cookie Dough online & paper orders due back today

Monday 5th Pupil Free Day (no students required at school)

Tuesday 6th Foundation Bravehearts incursion (Foundation M & Foundation N)

Cadbury chocolate fundraising money due back today

Thursday 8th Foundation Bravehearts incursion (Foundation Z & Foundation C)

Friday 9th WPS 2019 Athletics Carnival

Saturday 10th WPS Ladies Night at the Magpie & Stump

Monday 12th Grade 5 Dianella Hostel visit (Group 1) Junior Neighbourhood Watch session (Grade 5/6 students only)

Monday 19th Swim Program Session 1 Grade 5/6 VSSEC Incursion: Reach for the Stars (Science) Group 1

Tuesday 20th Swim Program Session 2 Grade 5/6 VSSEC Incursion: Reach for the Stars (Science) Group 2

Wednesday 21st Swim Program Session 3

Thursday 22nd Swim Program Session 4

Friday 23rd Swim Program Session 5

Scheduled pick-up date for Billy G’s Cookie Dough orders

Monday 26th Grade 5 Dianella Hostel visit (Group 2)

Thursday 29th PAFA Father’s Day Stall (all classes allocated a time during the day)

Friday 30th District Athletics Championships PAFA Father’s Day Stall (lunchtime only for students and before and after assembly for parents)

SEPTEMBER

Monday 2nd Grade 5 Dianella Hostel visit (Group 3)

Friday 6th Premiers Reading Challenge finishes today

Monday 9th Grade 5 Dianella Hostel visit (Group 4)

Tuesday 10th Whittlesea Division Athletics Championships

Thursday 12th Young Leaders Conference for Grade 6 school leaders (Kilmore PS)

Monday 16th Grade 1/2 camp forms and payments due back today

Tuesday 17th PAFA Hot Dog Day (Foundation to Grade 2)

Wednesday 18th PAFA Hot Dog Day (Grade 3 to 6)

Friday 20th Last day of Term Three (Assembly at 1:45pm and school finish at 2:30pm)

Parents and Friends, we need your help!

Have you got an interest in star gazing? Do you have a telescope at home?

Do you know any stories about the stars and constellations in the sky?

If you have answered yes to any or all of these questions

(or know anyone who does), please contact Mrs Williamson to discuss

an exciting Science Week activity.

I look forward to hearing from you

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

Wallan & Kilmore Community Bank® branches

Victorian Premiers’

Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Wandong Primary School

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 6th 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.

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

Jump on the Facebook Ladies Night Fundraiser for Wandong Primary School event page

for a Sunday night LUCKY DIP !

Hello Everyone

Hope you all enjoyed the break in routine, being so busy it was lovely to have some downtime.

Thanks for your idea's for the friendship tree area, we have some terrific suggestions to brighten it up.

My girls got stuck into the chocolates but we have extra boxes available from the office if you can sell more. Chocolates & money are due back by Tuesday 6th August.

The Cookie Dough fundraiser is making a return. General information is below and family information was sent home yesterday.

Our final big fundraiser for the year is Ladies Night which is on Saturday 10th August from 7pm at the Magpie & Stump Hotel. Grab your tickets now! We have been working hard on bringing you a terrific night out. Also don’t forget to jump on the Facebook event page for updates and you could get lucky with Sunday night Lucky Dip! Look up Ladies Night fundraiser for Wandong Primary School.

Our next PAFA Meeting is Tuesday 23rd July from 9.15am in the staffroom. Come on in and have a chat. All members of our school community are welcome to attend.

Thanks Fiona Scott - WPAFA President

Edition 1, Term 3, 2019

This term, the Social and Emotional Learning focus will surround

‘Resilience Building’. Each week we will be learning about a skill that helps us

to build on our overall ability to Bounce Back during hard times. The following

is a list of foci that will be explicitly taught to students over the coming weeks.

Elasticity

People moving Forward. Bouncing Back.

Courage

Looking on the Bright Side

Emotions

Relationships

Humour

Success