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Warranwood Primary School

www.warranwood.vic.edu.au

PRINCIPAL REPORT

LAST WEEKS

As I move into my final weeks at Warranwood I have been pondering all the things we do well and the success-

es we have had. I have also been spending time talking to other principals and teachers. We are very fortunate

at Warranwood to have such a strong vibrant community focussed on the needs of our students. We are able to

do that very successfully because of our focus on wellbeing – the way our RUIn program and logo has crept into

daily life at the school makes me smile every time. Of course there are many schools which run great programs

and have fantastic students and relationships, but this is OURS and we are proud. People ask what I take away

from so many years as Principal, and the answer is simple – the importance of relationships!

As Assistant Principal, Shane will step up into the Principal role from 11 September until the end of the year. We

have been working together on many things over this year to support him into moving into this role. I know that

he will be strongly supported by regional staff and local schools, but mainly by our fantastic staff!

I am so pleased that two of the final things happening before I retire are

the absolutely AMAZING River of Voices project. Every day I walk around our courtyard and

delight in the new additions! The student work is great, and has been enhanced by the talent

of Rob Scholten, our artist in residence. Again, congratulations to Jeenah for exceptional or-

ganisation of the project.

the visit from Lilyvale Primary School. This week has been a great celebration of inter-

national collaboration, which has been embraced by everyone her at Warranwood and

at Kalinda. Students and staff from all three schools have benefitted by the visit. I was

also able to introduce the Lilyvale Principal, Mike Akubo, to staff at Melbourne Poly-

technic to support the establishment of a relationship between them and some of the

other aspects of the Lilyvale Academy. It has also been very good to repay the hospi-

tality we have experienced in Japan over the last few years.

DOGS IN SCHOOL YARD!!

A reminder that it is school policy that dogs are not to be brought into the school yard, or tied up at entrance

gates. This policy is mainly for the safety of our younger students and the many pre-schoolers we have at the

school on a daily basis. We ask that you respect this policy and ensure dogs are left at home or tied up outside

the school away from where students will be walking. On occasions pets are brought into classrooms for “show

and tell”. This is ok as long as this is approved with the teacher, who will ensure the visit does not impact on any

students with allergic reactions.

Term 3, Week 5 Thursday 17 August 2017

WHAT’S ON? 18 Year 1/2s Local Excursion to Steiner 18 Japanese Students — Healesville 19 Trivia Night 20 Food Swap—Bush Foods talk 21 Book Week Aussie Dress Up Day —

Farewell to our Japanese Visitors 23 Father’s Day Stall Spring Fair Meeting

Principal Awards Prep Hannah P, Harry M, Sampson Q Year 1/2 Ava V, Flint T, India C, Amber Q, Kitty O, Oscar S, Lucy T, Amelia D, Ronmark M, Cooper K, Kaden C, Xavier R Year 3/4 Floyd D, Nicholas M, Dylan I, Liam B Year 5/6 Jacob DC, Kynan A, Jared G, Sidney O, Olivia P, Liam C

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ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL REPORT

RIVER of VOICES It has been an exciting week with so many things happening around our school. Our River of Voices artwork is really taking shape and making our courtyard come alive with vibrant colour and shape. The grand opening evening on Thursday 7 September will be a great celebration of the amazing creative work inspired by Jeenah and Rob, our stu-dents, staff and community. I can’t wait to see the finished product! LILYVALE VISIT Our Japanese friends form Lilyvale have settled so well into their host families and have been busy making presenta-tions to all classes throughout our school, sharing cultural stories and information about Japan with our students. The visit provides our students throughout the school with rich opportunities for building meaningful cultural understandings and improving their skill and abilities with the Japanese language. PARENT AND COMMUNITY FAREWELL TO STEVE

Special Assembly - 3pm Friday 8th September

Parent Community Afternoon Tea in the Gym from 4-5pm. Light refreshments and tea/coffee. After 12 years at Warranwood Steve will finish as principal of our school on Friday 8

th September. Throughout his last

week, Steve will hold his very own “John Farnham Last Time Tour” around the classrooms to say goodbye to each group individually and reminisce about his time as a teacher and more specifically as our Principal. The assembly will be a nice way for him to say goodbye to the wider community and then for those who would like to chat and with him good luck we will hold an adult only afternoon tea in the gym form 4pm. IMPORTANT NEWS!!!!!!!! Warranwood’s League of Extraordinary Gentleman would like to invite all key male figures to a very special Cyber Safety and Social Media Presentation on TUESDAY 5

th SEPTEMBER from 7.30-9pm. Adults only! See infor-

mation below for details. Please return the booking slip along with the $5 to assist with the cost of the night to book your spot. Please complete booking before Friday 1

st September as no bookings can be accepted after this date.

Fathering Tip of the Week: Making time after school. Pick them up from school when possible. Take them out occasionally for after-school ice creams, swims, bowling or other fun times. Turn the TV off during dinner and listen to them. Shane

Warranwood League of Extraordinary Gentleman

CYBER SAFETY AND SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENTATION WHEN: TUESDAY 5

th September

WHERE: In the SENIOR SCHOOL BUILDING COST- $5 per person

Names of adults attending: …………………………………………………… Contact Number: …………………………………………………… Amount enclosed: …………………………………………………… If you would like to be included in our Warranwood Fathering Project Events information and updates, please add your email address below. This will also provide you with access to the online resources site of the Fathering Project. Email Address: ……………………………………………………

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https://www.esafety.gov.au/iparent

5 MOBILE PHONE RULES FOR KIDS Essential tips to help keep the peace from Caroline Knorr Senior Parenting Editor | Mom of one Whether your kid is heading to school toting a brand-new device or is already a mobile-phone pro, it's important to make sure everyone is on the same page about what "responsible use" means. As with any kind of boundary setting, these conversations can be tense. Fortunately, there are only five rules for them to remember and one for you, to show that you're all in this together. (Tweens and teens can also play our animated, interactive Digital Compass game to pick up digital-citizen skills.) Here are our key guidelines for mobile-phone carrying kids: 1. Respect the school's rules. Abusing this privilege could jeopardize your freedom. Your parents could rightly suspend your phone use. 2. Pick up when it's Mum or Dad. Ugh, it's the parents calling again. Well, guess who's paying for your phone? When your mum, dad, or caregiver call, it's probably very important, so don't send it to voicemail. 3. Ask permission before downloading anything. Even if you have your own app store ac-count, get sign off on any apps you download. If something has in-app purchases, those costs could wind up on your parents' bill so they need to know what extra charges a download may incur. They also need to make sure it's age appropriate and reasonably good for you. 4. Don't flaunt it. Owning a mobile phone is a privilege that not every kid has access to. It's OK to be proud of your phone -- it's an expensive piece of equipment for which you've been given responsibility but showing off could make other people feel bad. Also, it could get stolen. 5. Use your phone for good, not evil. You'll see all kinds of misbehavior and mischief regard-ing phones. Set an example for others by being respectful and responsible with yours. Ask permis-sion before taking someone's picture. Take a moment to consider whether a text or video could hurt, annoy, or embarrass someone else. Turn off the phone when you're supposed to. Don't let the phone be more important than someone standing right in front of you. And here's our essential rule for parents: Parents — don't text your kid during the school day. Unless it's a real emergency -- like, you're going to the hospital -- resist the urge to text your kid during the school day. Kids have sur-vived for many, many years without talking to their parents while they're at school -- and they need to be allowed independence. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/5-back-to-school-cell-phone-rules-for-kids

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Compass Tip of the Week—Repeat

If you miss the initial notification or wish to check on an upcoming event your child is participating in; when you receive the reminder, click on the link embedded in the email and select Open in Browser

This will open your home page, click on Profile (attendance, Schedule, Reports) that you wish to follow up.

This will bring up the Schedule, and you will see highlighted at the bottom upcoming events.

You will also see notifications if you have outstanding attendance requirements or event permission requests.

If you click on the event highlighted, this will then give you the information required for that event, times, location etc.

Lost Property Please check the name tag on your child’s jacket we have a number of reported lost or miss-ing jackets, your child could have brought home someone else's. A number of named jackets are in the Lost Property bin in the foyer of the gym so please check if your child has one miss-ing.

Scholastic Book Club Scholastic Book Club will be changing to a completely on line ordering system in the near future. We will take this opportunity from the start of this term to no longer accept cash/cheque/eftpos at the Office for Book Club orders. Please order your books on-line and then drop your order form at the office for Sue to finalise the pro-cess. Office

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2017 Woolworths Earn & Learn Program—26 July to 19 September We are excited to be taking part in the 2017 Woolworths Earn & Learn program. During the previous cam-paign, we were able to purchase some great resources with the points we earned, thanks to you. Collect your sticks at Woolworths and for every $10 you spend (excluding the purchase of tobacco, liquor and gift cards), you will receive a sticker. Your children can then place them on the special sticker sheet. Once completed, bring it to school to pop it in the box in the foyer of the Office. The more points we earn, the more we can redeem from a choice of over 10,000 educational resources including mathematics and English resources, art & crafts materials and much, much more! We are grateful for your support and look forward to a successful program. If you require more sticker sheets, please collect from the Office.

Market Day

Wacky Wednesday is fast approaching!! Date: Wednesday 6th September 2017 Time: 1 1 :30 am – 1:30 pm Place: Courtyard

Each year level is running a special stall Prep- lollies Junior School- Lucky Jars Middle School- preloved toys, book and games (in excellent condition) Senior School- a variety of activity/game stalls Prep students to please bring bags of lollies to be sorted and regrouped for selling. Junior School Students to please bring plastic jars filled with a mixture of goodies. eg a range of novelty items such as plastic dinosaurs, different hair ties, pencils and erasers or bouncy balls etc. Middle School Students to please bring in clean and excellent condition toys, books and games to sell.

We are ready and waiting for the Wacky Wednesday Market day items!!!!

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Premier’s Reading Challenge If your child is enrolled in the Premier’s Reading Challenge, please make sure that you are entering the books read into the Challenge website. This is not done by the school. I ratify the books after you have entered them. It is important to make sure that your child has read enough books from the Challenge List to qualify. This information is on your log in page. It is pleasing that so many students are taking part. Keep reading! Jacquie Durik Challenge Coordinator

TICKETS ARE ON SALE FROM 4PM 21st AUGUST 2017 Dear Parents The NEVERLAND (Peter Pan) production is quickly approaching….

DATE: Monday 11th September 2017 TIME: SHOW 1 – 6.30pm (Cast 1)/ SHOW 2 – 8.30pm (Cast 2) WHERE: Mahon Theatre, Aquinas College, Great Ryrie St, Ringwood TICKETS AVAILABLE AT- https://www.trybooking.com/306283 PRICES: $15 – Adult, $12-Child

There is no limit to the number of tickets that can be purchased per family. The students have been working very hard choreographing dance routines, learning lines and developing characters during their Performing Arts sessions and it is shaping up to be a fun filled and bright show.

ON THE PERFORMANCE DAY On Monday 11th September ALL students will need to arrive via their own mode of transport to the Mahon The-atre at 4.30pm. We will then do a full dress rehearsal and tech run in one. Students will need to bring along a lunchbox filled with healthy food options and at least one bottle of water to sustain them from 4.30 till 10.00pm. All Middle School students are required to perform in both shows and pick up time will be approximately 9.45pm from the theatre. Allocated pick up zones are as follows: GRADE AS: From the dressing room/stage door GRADE RP & JD: From the stage GRADE PS: From the foyer

Jacinta O’Leary Performing Arts teacher Warranwood Primary School

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NOTE TO PARENTS Book Week Day

Monday 21st August, 2017 Australian Authors

On Book Week Day students are asked to dress up as a character out of an Australian author ’s book or an Australian poem. Please make a small sign or sticker stating the name of the character, the book and the au-thor. Below is a list of Australian authors and some of their books to give you some ideas. Of course this list is just the start!

We are looking forward to bringing our Australian characters to life and sharing our wonderful array of Aus-tralian books and culture with our Japanese visitors.

Aaron Blabey Pig the Pug series

Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley The Bad Guys

Thelma the Unicorn The Brothers Quibble

May Gibbs Snuggle Pot and Cuddle Pie

Mem Fox Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

Koala Lou Hattie and the Fox

Possum Magic Where is the Green Sheep?

Boris the Pirate Jackie French

Diary of a Wombat series Josephine Wants to Dance

Rod Clement Edward the Emu Olga the Brolga Grandad’s Teeth Banjo Patterson

Man from Snowy River Bob Graham

Queenie the Bantam Buffy- an Adventure Story

Phil Kettle Too Cool series

Boyz Rule/Girlz Rock

Emily Rodda Deltora Quest series

Morris Gleitzman Boy Over Board

Girl Underground Jeannie Baker

Where the Forest Meets the Sea Paul Jennings

Quirky Tales, Rascal Series, Gizmo series Leigh Hobbs

Old Tom series, Mr Chicken series Horrible Harriet

Fiona the Pig Nick Bland

The Very Cranky Bear series Alison Lester

Are We There Yet? Noni the Pony Magic Beach

Imagine My Farm

Andy Griffiths The Treehouse series

The Just series Dreamtime Stories such as Tiddalick the

Frog, The Rainbow Serpent, etc. Stephen Michael King

Mutt Dog Henry and Amy

Word Mania Competition Congratulations to all of our students who participated in the Word Mania competition this year. Many of our stu-dents have enjoyed watching their scores increase over the last few weeks. Congratulations to the Year 1s, 3s, 4s and Year 6s in particular for ranking within the top 6 in the Melbourne East area for either competition skill or partici-pation in Round 2. Lots of fun was had by all as students

developed their spelling and word building skills!

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~ Meal Deal 1~ Hot Dog

Apple Slinky Just Juice fruit box

$5.00

~ Meal Deal 2~ Hot Cheese Sub

Apple Slinky Big M Choc or

Strawberry

$5.00

~ Meal Deal 3~ Hawaiian or Margarita

Pizza Apple Slinky

Just Juice Fruit box

$5.00

2017 Canteen News & Roster To keep the students warm at recess and lunch we have Hot Milos , Chicken Noodle soup and warm homemade Choc Chip or Cinnamon muffins available over the counter.

Our Hot Milo and Muffin Meal Deals are back! Available at Recess or lunch for $1.50

If you are unable to attend canteen on the day you are rostered please contact me in advance. Volunteer hours are:

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 11am to 2.30pm Friday 10am to 2.30 pm

Warm regards, Megan Parker

Super Saver Meal Deals $5- Please include additional 20c if you require sauce

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 3 2017

Date Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

Thursday, 17 August 2017 Jessica Hollien Volunteer Required

Friday, 18 August 2017 Simone Simpson Jessica Lancashire Maureen Adams

Monday, 21 August 2017 Lee Stack Susan Skerry

Tuesday, 22 August 2017 Louise Robinson

Wednesday, 23 August 2017 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 24 August 2017 Volunteer Required Melissa McLachlan

Friday, 25 August 2017 Sue Budge Cheryl Butler Nicki Stevens

Monday, 28 August 2017 Jo Hunter Chantelle Watt

Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Wednesday 30th August 2017 Canteen Closed

Thursday 31 August 2017 Katie Bronstring Jenny Brown

Friday 1 Sept 2017 Courtney Phillips Megan Dumbrell Kylie Donis

Monday, 4 September 2017 Liz McGinley Lisa Marshall

Tuesday, 5 September 2017 Tali Stewart

Wednesday, 6 Sept. 2017 Wacky Wednesday

Thursday, 7 September 2017 Wendy Harrison Heather Jones

Friday, 8 September 2017 Peta Pennell Melinda Peatling Connie P

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PE/SPORT NEWS, 2017

DISTRICT ATHS TEAM

The final points were Yarra 176, Wonga 158, Eden 138 and Wellington 120.

The District Athletics is on Tuesday 5 September at the Bill Sewart Track, East Burwood.

The crossball, tunnelball and 10 x 100m shuttle relay teams are on display.

Training for the District Athletics team will commence next week.

Congratulations to Keira W for breaking the school record in discus with a throw of 20.15m, Christian A for

breaking the shot put record with a distance of 8.56m and Shelby H for breaking the long jump record with a jump of

2.9m.

Andrew Tonkin

Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Discus High Jump

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Jacob DC Ashlee W

Mitchell P Kyla Mc

Ethan C Keira W

Tom M Keira W

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Raf M Lily C

Sam A Rebecca P

Christian A Maddie C

Sam A Leila H

Joseph H Rebecca P

12 Aiden B Brooke C

Aiden B Summer D

Macauley H Lauren F

Connor O Summer D

Matt H Brooke C

100 m 200 m Hurdles 800 m 1500 m

9- 10 Alex L Zali K

Judd W Lexi H

Kalan C Indi C

Jacksyn F Tom M Sidney N Madi R

Ned G Flynn P Holly K Indi C

11 Joseph H Leila H

Sam B Leila H

Raf M Maddie C

Liam B Kynan A Lainey M Ella R

Liam B Matt D Lainey M Sofia R

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Jared G Mikayla H

Noah H Asha

Josh A Mikayla H

Jared G Noah H Maya V

Noah H Felix R Charlotte O

4 x 100 Circular Relay 10 Girls

4 x 100 Circular Relay 11 Girls

4 x 100 Circular Relay 12 Girls

Lexi H Rebecca P Mikayla H

Indi C Lainey M Asha P

Sidney N Maddie C Ella Mc

Zali K Leila H Charlotte O’N

4 x 100 Circular Relay 10 Boys

4 x 100 Circular Relay 11 Boys

4 x 100 Circular Relay 12 Boys

Alex L Joseph H Jared G

Jacob D C Sam B Aiden B

Judd W Raf M Ben P

Kalan C Kynan A Cooper De P

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