Ward Street Warrnambool.

Phone 5562 4100. Fax 5561 1841 Edition 40 December, 2013

Dear Parents, Friends and Carers,

Next week we will celebrate the end of another terrific year at Warrnambool East Primary

School. Tomorrow accompanying the Student Reports there will be a letter with comprehensive

information relating to 2014. There will also be a copy attached to the school website.

Tomorrow our Koorie Student Leaders and Kate Buchanan will participate in the Eumeralla Walk

- Celebrating Aboriginal History through Walking Traditional Lands. Local Elder Uncle Robbie

Lowe will be walking from Macarthur to the Warrnambool Art Gallery to celebrate local Indige-

nous history and highlight the newly-opened exhibition Strong Women, Strong Painting, Strong

Culture featuring work by leading Indigenous women artists from the Central and Western De-

sert country of Australia. Our leaders will be joining Uncle Robbie at Woodford P.S. at 9.30am

to join Robbie Senior, hear the traditional stories and then walk for an hour along the track to

Warrnambool, before returning to school by bus. If anyone would like to join in the walk then

please do so and also take the opportunity to view the

exhibit at the gallery during the holidays.

Tomorrow our choir will be singing carols for our

friends at Lyndoch. A special thank you to Janet – Ja-

net has not only been preparing the choir, but has

been ferrying our choir to many places around

Warrnambool to entertain and spread the Christmas

message.

The happy Year 3 /4 campers are due back this after-

noon and from all reports they are having a brilliant

time. Thank you to all involved at this very hectic time

of year.

Jane Dunn, Sally Kilpatrick and I are heading to Mel-

bourne tonight for a briefing on our successful appli-

cation to undertake Teacher Led research in 2014.

This is a DEECD initiative and will provide funding for

both teachers to have time to research while they are

teaching. They will be researching the correlation be-

tween oral language and literacy learning.

Koorie Family BBQ tonight – thank you to Kate Bu-

chanan for organising this event.

I look forward to seeing many of you on Monday at ei-

ther the Year 6 Graduation and or the Family Picnic.

Lindy

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year!

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IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

Mon Dec 16th: Year 6 Graduation. 9.15am—11.00am

Whole school picnic lunch 12.30pm –1.30pm (details on page 4)

Whole school assembly 1.30pm

Return to class for the last part of the day

Last day of school dismissal 3.30pm

Year 6 Graduation Disco 3.30pm—5pm

Tues Dec 17th: Numeracy/literacy assessments-students/families to attend interview times.

Wed Dec 18th: Numeracy/literacy assessments-students/families to attend interview times.

Thurs 19th: Numeracy/literacy assessments-students/families to attend interview times.

Fri Dec 20th: Carols by Candlelight school Choir at the Warrnambool Civic Green

Thurs Jan 30th: First term commences for 2014

IMPORTANT NEWS FOR BUS TRAVELLERS – if your child is a bus traveller please read this

information very carefully.

THERE WILL BE MAJOR CHANGES TO THE CITY BUS NETWROK IN 2014 – this includes

the Town School Bus Specials. Please phone Warrnambool Bus Lines on 55621866 from mid

January for information on the new services. Country bus services will remain unchanged.

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State Final, Milo T20 Blast School Cup Cricket

What a fantastic and exciting day we had last Friday. After an early start at 5.45am, we arrived at the MCG

at 9.15am ready to take on the other 7 state finalists. We played 3 games in the lead up to the final and after

some close games we won all three to take our place in the final. Our bowling and fielding had been excellent

and we were all hoping the girls could take this great form into the finals. Our girls played Dandenong North in

that final and they continued to display excellent batting, bowling and fielding skills to win the game 155runs

to 137runs. A state gold medal was their reward which was a fantastic achievement. This is a fine achievement

considering there were 1800 teams at the beginning of this competition. As well as winning a medal the school

will receive a laptop. Well done girls and we all agreed the MCG

experience was fantastic. Congratulations to Bella Rantall, Shona

Noske Poulton, Zhane Heremaia, Telicia Brittain, , Amy Morton,

Grace Farrer, Meg Luderman and Olivia Burn. Emerson Knight and

Alannah Sharp unfortunately couldn’t play last Friday however

their contribution at district and regional level was invaluable. A

huge thank you to all the parents, grand parents and friends who

made the effort to come down to Melbourne to cheer on the

team. Your encouragement throughout the day was greatly appre-

ciated. Also many thanks to all the parents who drove their car on

the day.

WELL DONE GIRLS!!!

Thankyou all so

much for your kind

donations towards

the Mulready

Children’s Appeal!!

Jimmy did a great

job and we raised

an incredible

$3500!!!

On Friday 6th December the Grade 6 boys

played in the State Volleyball Championships at

MSAC in Melbourne. They won 2 games out of 3

in the rounds which meant they went through

the to semi-finals. They played Tecoma in the

semi. WEPS won the first set then Tecoma won

the second set. In the third set the score was

15-13 and East just lost. It was a very close

game. East are the third best in the state.

GREAT JOB BOYS!!!

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Harlee Loveridge Phoebe Hall Trae Ngatai

Noah Welsh Klara Torneus Meg Shanley

Rachel Waterhouse Marli Pettit Lochlan Droste

Oliver Bridgewater Ella Westley Aimee Birrell

Finn Hayes Emily O’Toole Bridie McDonough

Brayden Mahony Brayden Knowles Darcy Bridgewater

Grace Rodgers Jacob Carter Latoya Folima

Curtis Finch Flynn Bourke Natalka Keegan

Hayley Eldridge Archer Spelling Ihipera Sciascia

Isabella Looby Alannah Sharp Serenity Heremaia

Jai Godwin Sam Biasol Schkaya Smith

Tahli Crabbmor Luke Byrne Malakye Folima

Meg Ludeman Kate Huebner Lindsey McDonald

Amarli Frankel Nikita Carter Nathan Collins

This Friday 13th December ONLY. Small group to Lyndoch Living at 11am. Lindsay, Olivia, Amy & Sam.

Christmas Party—1.30pm on Friday 13th December for regular Chess/Choir children. Please bring food or drink to share

in the stadium.

Carols by Candlelight Choir—Must come to practice on Sunday 15th at 4pm at Kings College if you want to sing in the

choir on Friday 20th at the Civic Green at 6.30pm.

Thankyou Janet

Well done to these

students on being

chosen as our new-

est Aussies of the

Month!

Congratulations to Ann, one of our wonderful Lolly Pop ladies. She is retiring from her duties after an amaz-

ing 22 years of service. Well done Ann the students will miss you.

You are invited to come along and have a picnic lunch with your child/children to celebrate the end of a great

year. Bring along a picnic lunch to share with your child/children. And don't forget to bring a rug to sit on.

There will also be games to play which have been organised by our year 6 students.

When: Monday

Time: 12.30pm—1.30pm

Where: Small Oval