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Principal: Robin Stickland Assistant Principals: Joy Cook and Helen Murphy

What’s On? Term 4 October 30 Production Year 4/6 31 Second hand Uniform November 1 Student Leaders Day 4 Curriculum Day 5 Cup Day 6 Foundation Incursion 5GP/5AS STEM Exc. F-2 Footsteps 7 Family Life Level 4 3KY/3RC STEM Exc. 8 6JS/6BP STEM Exc. 11 Assembly 5PA/5KM STEM Exc. 12 4JS/4AM STEM Exc. 13 3RF/3CQ STEM Exc. F-2 Footsteps 14 Level 2 Incursion Level 4 Family Life

4JH/4SD STEM Ex. 15 Level 2 Incursion 6ZA/6AW STEM Ex. 19 Practice Lockdown 20 Grandparents’ Day 21 Maths Afternoon 22 Student Leader Day 26 Foundation Excursion 27 Footsteps F-2 28 L4 Excursion 29 F-2 Sports Day

Principal’s Report Spring Fair Thank you Thank you to our community for supporting such a wonderful event, the 150th Spring Fair Celebration. We had over 80 parents volunteer to work on a stall or assist with the set up and clean up on the day, the day would not have been as successful without your help. Contributions from the Community were outstanding with over 100 items for the Silent Auction, over 300 cakes donated, more than 300 scones were baked fresh and 10 of our staff bravely volunteering to be dunked in the dunking machine. The weather mostly held out and many past, present and future students were at the event enjoying the rides, food, stalls and performances. A special thank you to the Spring Fair Committee have been working hard for the past 18 months to bring this event to you, it really had a community focus and was a day of celebration. Fundraising totals will be presented at the next School Council and we will be able to provide you with final numbers later in November. Requests 2020 Grades Please remember, if you have any special educational considerations for the placement of their child for next year please put these in writing and send them to your child’s current Team Leader by Friday 1st November. Notes received after this date cannot be considered. Please see the previous Newsletter for more information regarding this. School Production Well done to the Year 3 and 5 students who participated in the Production last night. Many families, extended families and friends came to support the students as they performed on stage. It was rewarding seeing the students shine and enjoying themselves as they sang and danced with their peers, it was a great night, well done. We look forward to the Year 4 and 6 students performing tonight, break a leg! Vermont Reserve Play Equipment The Whitehorse City Council have begun works and are installing the equipment next to the Vermont Reserve. This area is accessed by the Year 3 to 6 students during lunch recess, the students are very much looking forward to playing on the equipment. The Whitehorse City Council are hoping to have fencing down today, we will let the kids know they can get out there and test it! The Council will be installing a path before Christmas and the rockwork landscaping next year after the second installation of equipment. Vermont Primary School Oval The fences are up and the works have begun. Many students are eagerly witnessing the restructuring of the slope below the basketball courts and resurfacing of the grounds. The plans continue to be on show outside the office for you to view. The project aims to be completed for the beginning of the 2020 school year. Thank you to our school community for your support in fundraising for this project.

PO Box 53 Nurlendi Road Vermont 3133 Telephone: 9874 2511 Fax: 9872 4170 Out of School Hours Care: 0419 208 028

We aim to be nut free and rely on parents to assist us on achieving this goal.

Vermont Primary School http:www.vermontps.vic.edu.au vermont.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

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Community Award 2019 I would like to thank those members of our school community who have made nominations for the Annual Vermont Primary School Community Award 2019. This award, which is presented at the final assembly, goes to a member of our school community, a friend of the school or a staff member who has given outstanding service to the school and its students throughout the year. If you would like to nominate a member of our community, please complete the nomination form below and hand it into the Main Office by 15th November Nomination forms will need to be returned to the school office or via email by 15th November. ==============================================================================================

Vermont Primary School Annual Community Award Name of person nominated: _____________________________________________________________________________ Reason for the nomination: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Name of the person making the nomination: ________________________________________________________________ Phone number: ___________________________________________ Date: _______________________________

Engagement and Wellbeing House Points Congratulations to Canterbury for achieving 1st place in the House Points for the fortnight. The results are as follows:

Terrara Cantley Nurlendi Canterbury

Fortnight

29.97 3rd

26.85 4th

35.33 2nd

41.38 1st

Yearly

737.68 1st

580.74 4th

644.86 2nd

607.20 3rd

Walk to School 2019 When: 7th October – 1st November Every October, Walk to School encourages Victorian primary school kids to walk, ride or scoot to and from school. It’s a great way to help students learn healthy habits and achieve the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity, every day. Active

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travel options to and from school are also a great opportunity to connect and chat with your kids, plus meet up with other local families along the way. If you can’t walk all the way, your child can still get involved – simply drive part way and walk, ride or scoot the rest! By participating, you could help your school win great regional prizes and you will enjoy the benefits of walking, riding and scooting to and from school! Commit to Walk to School today and build healthy habits for life. Last year, over 600 Vermont Primary School students participated, accumulating to over 12,000 walks, rides are scoots to or from school. This was an outstanding achievement and no doubt can be equalled or even surpassed this year!

Vermont Primary School Curriculum Year 5 Students are Complimentary Year 5 students have been talking about the importance of giving and receiving compliments. Did you know that for every one negative comment a person may receive, it takes seven positive ones to put the negative one aside? Did you know that starting the day on a negative remark from someone sets you up for a bad day? We wrote compliments to each other and found that sometimes giving compliments is actually not that easy. But we certainly enjoyed receiving them from our peers this week. The Year 5 students have got each other's backs and have been very supportive and we look forward to a positive Term 4. Level 4 English – Choose Your Own Adventure In our writing lessons this term, we have been making an interactive story based on a natural disaster. We worked in groups of three and mapped out our stories; making sure that we knew where each decision would take the reader. After a particular scene, the reader will have to make a choice as to what direction they would like the story to go. When the reader clicks on a link, they will be taken to a different part of the story. It is very much like a “Choose Your Own Adventure.” We have now written our interactive stories into PowerPoint. Jake, Ambrose and Hasan

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Community Information

Orders Close 1 November 2019

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Thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors who supported the Silent Auction at our Spring Fair, it was a huge success.

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Vision Portraits

This year Vision Portraits will be visiting the school on Sunday 10th November 2019. Vision Portraits can

cater for family photos that include pets and extended family (e.g Grandparents). Please note that only 1

booking per family and each person (adult or child) can only appear in 1 special offer fundraiser photo but

can appear in additional prints on USB. To make a booking visit: https://vprimary2019.eventbrite.com.au

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