TOOTGAROOK TELEGRAPH Weekly newsletter of

TOOTGAROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL Website: www.tootps.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 5985 2864

Email Address: tootgarook.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Issue 17 5th June, 2014

CALENDAR

Friday 6th June - Curriculum Day – no students required at school Monday 9th June - Public Holiday-Queen’s Birthday – no students required at school

Wednesday 11th June - Winter Lightning Premiership – Gr 5 + 6 students 18th – 20th June – Music Camp

Friday 20th June - Student Reports sent home Tuesday 24th June - Parent/Teacher Interviews

- Lipsync Idol Friday 27th June - LAST DAY TERM 2 – 2.30pm dismissal

Tomorrow is Report Writing Day – School staff will spend the day preparing students’ mid-year

reports for Semester One.

Tuesday June 24th June is set aside for our mid year parent/teacher discussion afternoon. This forum is an opportunity for you to meet with your child’s teacher and discuss your

child’s half yearly report and any other matters that you believe may impact upon

your child’s education. An interview notice will be sent home next Wednesday -

please return to school asap so times can be allotted.

Half yearly reports will be sent home on Friday 20th June.

Breakfast Club is a HUGE success and the children are thoroughly enjoying

coming to school and having breakfast with their friends. All children are more than

welcome to come along each Tuesday and Thursday and have some cereal, toast, warm

milo or juice. A BIG thankyou to the many parents who help out on each of these days..

Some children have brekky at home and then enjoy some toast with their friends and

their more than welcome to do that !

REMINDER to all parents

CURRICULUM DAY tomorrow

Friday 6th

June

MONDAY 9TH

June

Queens birthday public

holiday

No students required at

school on either day

Students will be presented with certificates at Monday morning assembly.

Prep B – Mrs Bos – Destiny Watkins – for her fabulous mathematics work, knowing the numbers before and after up to 10. Prep P – Mrs Prossor – Shauna Staunton – for her improved concentration and work habits. 1H – Mrs Hughes – Matilda Livesley – for her enthusiastic approach to all of her learning. She always joins in discussions and is a valued member of 1H. 1P – Miss Perkins – John Malloy – for sharing his wonderful knowledge during Integrated Studies and being such a great detective in Literacy. 2B – Mrs Baird – Ashtyn Williams – for being a helpful and thoughtful class member. Ashtyn is a great role model and provides detailed explanations for concepts. Chloe Underwood – for her active participation in all class activities and doing her best at all times. Chloe always follows the 6Ls and the RICH Values. 2J - Mrs Johnstone – Luke Santamaria – for his fabulous story. Luke put a new twist on an old tale, included lots of great vocabulary choices and we all loved it! 3/4T – Miss Withers– Miah Taylor – for always trying her best and being a great role model to others. You always follow through on your responsibilities. Well done! Keep it up! 3/W – Ms Walton – Zoe Tracy – for her amazing recount of her recent holiday to Queensland. The diary she kept was of huge interest to us all. 4/5S – Miss Staley – Sophie Holliss - for being a friendly, kind and generous student whose smile lights up our grade. Congratulations Sophie! 5Q – Miss Quintin– Thanks Tom Connelly - You've been extremely helpful the last week doing so many little things around the classroom to help me. You've got a great sense of humour and a happy nature we all appreciate you in our class. 5Q wouldn't be the same without you!

6B – Mrs Bruin – Anastasia Nancarrow-Stewart - For an amazing effort to improve your work in Maths. You should be proud of your achievements. Well done! Art / Craft - Miss Davey – Music – Mrs Young – Macayla Hahn – 6B – you have worked so hard on your Music Project about Queen. You take every opportunity to put in extra work at lunch time. I am really looking forward to your presentation. Great Effort! Please Note: there is an updated School Lunch Menu available from the school office – on our school website www.tootps.vic.edu.au and children have been given the new update in their lunch orders – please keep for your reference.

On Thursday the preps went outside to watch a digger demolishing the old op shop. It was a lovely example of incidental teaching full of language experience rich in vocab as we were focusing on the letter d for the week. So the next day we reflected on what we had seen. Here are the sentences along with the photos we took of the event.

Prep B Yesterday we watched a digger smashing the op shop down. It was fun, cool and really noisy.

Prep P Yesterday we watched the digger demolish an old op shop from across the road from our school. The digger swung its bucket into the walls and they crashed down.

Stories by 2BJ - Once upon a time there was a little boy named William. He lived with his mum and his older brother in the country side. They had nothing to eat except green grass. So one sunny day he went to an old farmer and he gave him 6 eggs. So he brought them home in his hands. But then he bumped into a tall stranger and then dropped the eggs! Then he picked the eggs up carefully and took them home.

“What have you got there?!” said his mum. “Yeah, what is that?” sneered his older brother. “Eggs!” said William. “What have you done!?” said his mum. “That’s not the way to carry eggs!” said his mum. “The way to carry eggs is to ask someone for some paper then wrap it in the paper then put them in your hat and then walk very slowly home” said his mum. “Sorry mum. I’ll do that next time” said William.

So the next day he went to a dairy and got a big lump of scrumptious cream cheese. So he asked for some paper and wrapped the cream cheese then put it in his hat and walked home slowly.

By the time he got home it was melted. He took off his hat and his mum said “What is that!?” “A big lump of scrumptious cream cheese” said William. “Oh William!” said his mum. “That’s not the way to carry cream cheese” said his mum. “The way to carry cream cheese is to put it with something cold then pop them in a plastic bag and walk home” said his mum. “Sorry mum. I’ll do that next time” said William.

So the next day William went to an old lady and she gave him a small, black, scruffy cat. So he put it with something cold and popped them in a plastic bag and then walked home.

By the time he got home the small, black, scruffy cat was too cold and was frozen! “What is that?” said his mum. “A small, black, scruffy cat” said William. “Oh William!” said his mum. “That’s not the way to carry a small, black, scruffy cat” said his mum. “The way to carry a small, black, scruffy cat is to ask someone for some string then tie the string around its neck not too tight otherwise you will strangle it and not too loose otherwise it will escape, and then drag it home with you” said his mum. “Sorry mum” said William. “I’ll do that next time” said William. So the next day William went to a butcher and he got a big piece of juicy, medium rare steak! He asked for some string and tied it around the big piece of juicy, medium rare steak. Not too tight otherwise he would strangle it and not too loose otherwise it would escape and then he dragged it home.

By the time he got home it was covered in dirt! “What is that dirty thing your dragging in here?!” said his mum. “A big piece of juicy, medium rare steak” said William. “Oh William!” said his mum. “That’s not the way to carry a big piece of juicy, medium rare steak” said his mum. “The way to carry a big piece of juicy, medium rare steak is to put it with something hot pop them in a paper bag then walk home” said his mum. “Sorry mum. I’ll do that next time” said William.

So the next day he went to an ice-cream shop and got an ice-cream. He thought to himself that when his mum gives him instructions he gets them wrong and the ice-cream looked so delicious. He went home and on the way he ate the ice-cream.

“Finally you got something right” said his mum. “Hooray!” cheered his older brother. By Luke – 2J

Noodle Head

Once upon a time there was a boy called Noodle Head. He got everything wrong.

He lived in a house on a hill in the outback. One day he went to the market and bought some

bread. He held it in his palms very tightly – but it crumbled.

Then his Mum screamed, “ What do you have in your hands?”

“Bread Mum!``

“That is not the way to carry bread,” Mum said.

``The way to carry bread is to cover it up with leaves and put it under your hat and came

back home.”

“Ok! Yes Mum!” he said .

The next day he went back to Grandpa and Grandma’s house. They gave him a Dog!

The dog scruffed up his hair on the way home. THE END!! By Nash - 2B

Our school is collecting the Masterhead below – if you read the Herald Sun please

cut the Masterhead off and place in the box provided at the school office – thanks!

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July School Holiday Program forms from the Mornington Peninsula Shire *Youth Services* are available from the school office for children aged 10 up!

Applications are open between Friday 6th June @ 9am – Monday 16th June @ 5pm. Places for excursions are strictly limited and will be confirmed upon availability.

BELEZA SCHOOL UNIFORMS

5/855 Pt Nepean Rd, Rosebud

03 5982 2388

QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY

TRADING HOURS

SATURDAY 7TH

JUNE CLOSED

MONDAY 9TH

JUNE CLOSED

NORMAL TRADING HOURS RESUME TUESDAY 10TH

JUNE