Weekly Views 8th August 2019 Issue No. 24

Weekly Views Epping Views Primary

Issue No. 24

8th August 2019

School Mantras

School Motto

‘From Little Things Big

Things Grow’

EVPS Values

Respect Honesty

Caring Excellence

Responsibility

PLEASE REMEMBER we are an ‘egg & nut free’ school: no eggs,

peanut butter, nuts or nutella spread to come to school at any

time. Please assist us to keep our students safe. Thank you.

Keep your hands and feet to yourself. Everyday Counts!

Reduce, Re-use, Recycle, Re-Think We don’t swear at Epping Views!

Sustainability: It’s our responsibility

Principal Views

LOCAL SCOUTING OPPORTUNITIES

On Tuesday night I had the pleasure

of attending the Annual Reporting

meeting for the Epping North Scout

Group. Some of the youth members

were present to share their experiences and it was evident that they had

thoroughly enjoyed their experiences. Scouting in

2019 offers your child fabulous opportunities to

engage safely with outdoor activities, risk taking and

developing new friendships. If you are interested in

finding out more about the Epping North Scouts

then please visit the website.

https://www.facebook.com/ENScouts

SCHOOL UNIFORM

Please don’t forget that students are required to

wear plain black pants as part of the uniform which

means no stripes, logos, colours, brand names,

flowers etc. The weather is quite cold at the moment

so we would encourage students to wear coats to

and from school however they do need to wear the

correct school uniform items under their coats.

The preferred colour of tights and leggings under the

girls’ dresses is black, white or bottle green.

Thank you for assisting to show that all of our

students belong to the EVPS team.

If your child is in Prep and you registered for CSEF

then your child is eligible for a free winter uniform

pack. Please see Deb in the office if you have not

organised for this as yet.

CURRICULUM DAY FRIDAY 16th AUGUST

Please don’t forget to mark your calendars with our

next pupil free day which is next Friday. The OSHC program will operate on this day. Please book in

with Lyn so she can arrange correct student/staff

ratios for the day.

STAFF CHANGES

We have a number of our teachers who will be

commencing Maternity Leave in the coming

weeks. We thank them for their work at our

school and wish them all the best as they begin

anther part of their life journey.

On Friday 16th August we

farewell Jasmine Rolfe who has

been working in 4KK and 2MA

this year. We wish you all the

best Jasmine as you await the birth of your

second child.

When a staff member leaves part way through a year we work extremely hard to replace the

teacher in a timely manner. Our school along with

the majority of other schools in Victoria are

finding it difficult to replace teachers leaving part

way through the year. We do our best to find the

best teachers however from time to time we need

to amalgamate classes or take teachers from

Support Programs. Please be assured that we

exhaust all avenues to ensure continuity of the

programs and classes. If you have any questions

at any time please do not hesitate to email me.

PREPS 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL

Congratulations to the Preps on their terrific

projects. The staff and students had a wonderful

day last Friday and we really enjoyed viewing all

the projects.

NO ASSEMBLIES ON MONDAY 12th AUGUST

We will be participating in our Review on Monday

and as such will not be holding either assembly.

We will resume assemblies on Monday 19th

August with the Prep/Ones and Two/Threes.

Pauline Kubat - Principal

[email protected]

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Weekly Views Epping Views Primary School

20 Mansfield Street, Epping 3076 P: 8401 3791 F: 8401 3793

[email protected] www.eppingviewsps.vic.edu.au

Diary Dates Term 3, 2019 Term 3, 2019

Friday 9th August

- Year 3 Mav Games Day

Monday 12th August

- NMR Boys Soccer Finals

Wednesday 14th August

- Year 4 Mav Games

- Year 5/6 District Basketball

- NMR Girls Soccer Finals

Thursday 15th August

- Year 3 PIT Gymnastics

Friday 16th August

- Curriculum Day

NO SCHOOL

Tuesday 20th August

- Year 3/4 Hoop Basketball

Wednesday 21st August

- Year 1 Science Works

Excursion 1KB,1SZ,1MA,1MM

Thursday 22nd August


- Book Week Parades

9:15 - Prep, Grade 1, 5 & 6

2:45 - Grade 2,3 & 4

- Grade 6 Games Night

Friday 23rd August

- Year 1 Science Works

Excursion 1KH,1TB,1HT,1JS

- Father’s Day Stall

- Bridge Inn South District

Athletics

Monday 26th August

- Father’s Day stall

- Year 5 Camp to Woorabinda

- Year 2 Museum Excursion

2RM,2JM

Tuesday 27th August

- Father’s Day Stall



2BL,2CD

Wednesday 28th August

- Year 5 Non-Campers

Excursion



2MA,2CJ

Thursday 29th August


- Year 4 Pit Gymnastics


2MR,2MC,2JI

Friday 30th August


Thursday 5th September

- Prep Ceres Excursion

PCA, PNH, PSM, PSR

- Year 4 Pit Gymnastics

Friday 6th September

- Prep Ceres Excursion

PCM, PJB, PLB, PMO, PRQ

- Year 5/6 Mav Games

Wednesday 11th September

- Year 5/6 Hoop Basketball

Thursday 12th September


Friday 13th September

- Grade 2 Sleepover

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Cultural Calendar 2019 August 9 International Day of World’s

Indigenous People

Australia

August 9 National Day

Singapore


Ecuador


Chad

August 12 Eid

Islam

August 15 Dormition of

the Theotokos

Christian

August 15 Raksha Bandhan

Hindu

August 15 Feast of the Assumption

Of Blessed Virgin Mary

Catholic


India


Liechtenstein

If your child is turning 5 and you are intending to enrol them at EVPS next year,

please have their enrolment in by the

end of August.

If you know you are leaving our school at the end of 2019 please notify the office so

that we can plan for 2020 accordingly.

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SCHOOL BAGS Please note: As of January 2020, school

council has implemented a guideline that EVPS school bags are compulsory for all students in Year Prep to 4. School bags are

available for purchase from the office.

CONGRATULATIONS to Darsh of 3GC who recently competed in the 2019 RUN Melbourne Marathon. Darsh completed the 5km run in a time of 42 minutes and 6 seconds and proudly wears the medal he received - a great achievement, Darsh!

Well done to the following classes for

having ZERO overdue books this week!

2CD, 2JI, 2MR, 3GC, 3PM, 5KT

and 6KF

As per Compass notification:

We have had a reported case of Chicken Pox in year 3. If your child experiences symptoms

of Chicken Pox, please go to your GP.

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KITCHEN & GARDEN PROGRAM

The Year 5 and 6 students were very excited to commence classes

this semester. In the first weeks we discussed expectations, safety,

hygiene, dish washing and clean up procedures and students

undertook a knife skills assessment. We also made placemats to use

on the tables. Our first venture into cooking was to make pancakes.

These proved to be very popular AND delicious, especially when

topped with a choice of jam, choc chips, cinnamon, sugar and our

very own lemons grown in the orchard!

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5/6 SPORT PROGRAM 2019 Year 5/6 Swimming Program : The swimming program has commenced. The dates are listed below:

Group 2

Monday July 29th

Tuesday July 30th

Wednesday July 31st

Thursday August 1st

Monday August 5th

Tuesday August 6th

Wednesday August 7th

GYMNASTICS IN YEARS 3-4

The EVPS gym program will run on the following Thursdays for Year 3 students: July 18, 25, August 1, 8, 15. Year 4 students will attend on August 22, 29, September 5, 12 and 19. It will be held at PIT Gymnastics and classes will attend an hour session. The times scheduled are:

9:30am - 10:30am (year 3 and 4)

10:30am - 11:30am (year 3 and 4)

11:30 am- 12:30pm (year 3 and 4)

12:30pm- 1:30pm (year 3 and 4)

Parents are most welcome to come along but must be seated behind the glassed area and are not permitted to enter the gym teaching space.

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT (Year 5-6) Wednesday August 14th and Tuesday 20th August (Year 3-4)

All parents and friends are invited to come along and support EVPS students from 9.30am-2.30pm at the Mill Park Basketball Stadium located next to the Stables shopping centre, Childs Road. Please remember to applaud both teams’ efforts and understand that school sport is different to community or weekend sport in the way it is played and umpired.

NMR HOCKEY 7’s

EVPS has a boys team playing off at the NMR Hockey 7’s on Wednesday August 7th down at the Greensborough Hockey Club. It was an extremely successful day with both teams making the grand final. We wish the boys team every success at the NMR Finals.

NMR BOYS/MIXED SOCCER FINALS

On Monday August 12th, our EVPS soccer team will compete at the Northern Metropolitan Regional Finals at John Fawkner

College. There are two pools of 3 teams playing off. The winner of each pool will play off in a grand final. The grand final winner

will progress to the State Finals. We wish Bale and the team every success. Go EVPS!

HEALTHY FOOD SNACKS

Cut up pieces of fruit are more likely to be eaten as opposed to whole pieces. Cut up fruit at meal times and for snacks, or place it in your child’s lunchbox cut up . The fruit will also be easier to manage and far less messy!

Kids – ‘Go for your life’

Why should students drink water throughout the day? Thirst is not a good indicator of dehydration. By the time a person is thirsty they are usually already dehydrated to some extent.

Children rarely drink enough during break times at school and often forget to drink unless reminded. Allowing and reminding students to drink water in class increases the likelihood that they will drink more. Drinking often, especially before, during and after physical activity is the best way to stay hydrated.

How much water should children drink?

The recommended daily amounts of fluid for children and adolescents are:

5 glasses (1 litre) for 5 - 8 year olds

7 glasses (1.5 litres) for 9 - 12 year olds

8-10 glasses (2 litres) for 13+ years * a glass is 200 ml

More water is needed if children are exercising or sweating due to heat.

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Weekly Views

Epping Views Primary School 20 Mansfield Street, Epping 3076

P: 8401 3791 F: 8401 3793 [email protected]

www.eppingviewsps.vic.edu.au

Student of the week awards - EXCELLENCE Prep CA Skylah For trying your very best to improve your writing.

Prep CM Parbeen For trying her best in her learning.

Prep JB Arjun For taking on feedback and trying his personal best.

Prep LB Ali For joining in all reading activities.

Prep MO Gabriel For being his personal best in all his work.

Prep NH Rajvansh For helping others and being a good friend.

Prep RQ James For trying his best in writing by writing more than 1 sentence.

Prep SM Girisha For always showing all of our school values and trying your best.

Prep SR Waris For following teacher instructions and trying his best when working.

Grade 1HT Emin For being your personal best and challenging yourself.

Grade 1JS Ersheen For always doing your personal best.

Grade 1KB Jamie For always doing your personal best.

Grade 1KH Romeo For doing his personal best in Writing.

Grade 1MA Ruby For always doing her best “5 Star” work.

Grade 1MM Chanderveer For always trying his best both inside and outside the classroom.

Grade 1SZ Ali For working towards learning goals in Mathematics.

Grade 1TB Sammy For completing work to the best of his ability and having great starts to his day.

Grade 2CJ Duaa For always completing her work to the best of her ability.

Grade 2JI Damien For working towards your goals.

Grade 2MA Seerat For always trying her best and working towards learning goals.

Grade 2MC Nameera For always trying her best to complete learning tasks.

Grade 2RM Libiniyaa For taking on teacher feedback and applying this to learning tasks.

Grade 3AC Diesel For making a fantastic effort in his learning to be his personal best.

Grade 3CB Kieren For the improvement in your overall academics.

Grade 3GC Rishi For working hard on planning his narrative.

Grade 3JP Mason For displaying the value of excellence by staying on assigned tasks.

Grade 3LA Carter For completing five star work when planning and drafting his narrative.

Grade 3LB Riley For taking on feedback and being persistent in his learning.

Grade 3MP Jayden For being a good role model by encouraging others to make good choices.

Grade 3PM Diya For always completing all set tasks with great effort.

Grade 3ST Keicee For the effort that she puts in to the presentation of all work.

Grade 4AM Arsha For always putting in extra effort when completing her homework.

Grade 4EA Anthony For always trying his personal best and participating in all learning.

Grade 4JD Ashvik For always striving to achieve his personal best.

Grade 4JT Rehan For taking on feedback and working towards his goals.

Grade 4KK Cooper For being a persistent learner and always trying his best when working.

Grade 4NW Taru For always trying his best and completing his homework every week.

Grade 4SB TJ For taking on feedback about her narrative and making it engaging.

Grade 5AT Brahma For doing his personal best.

Grade 5BZ Rohit For trying his best in everything he does.

Grade 5KN Riwaj For always challenging himself in his learning.

Grade 5KT Sharbel For showing persistence and Excellence in his learning tasks.

Grade 5SF Ava For always striving for her personal best in every aspect of school.

Grade 5SS Connor For always trying his personal best in all areas of his work.

Grade 6AS Phoenix For showing persistence and working towards his goals.

Grade 6JS Jacob For being persistent while working in a teacher group.

Grade 6MB Dominic For demonstrating the value of Excellence when researching his notable person.

Grade 6SH Divjot For always working hard and completing all tasks to a very high standard.

Grade 6SL Harrison For challenging yourself to take risks.

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Platypus killed by litter in Darebin Creek

My name is Therese and I’m a Ranger along Darebin Creek.

Last week we heard the sad news that a platypus had been found just above Northland Shopping Centre, along the Darebin Creek that was entangled in litter. It had a rubber band around its neck, packing straps as well as fishing line that prevented it from feeding. This is very sad as we have worked hard to get these rare creatures to return to our urban waterways. They have only been spotted in the creek twice in 10 years! You can help by picking up litter in your school grounds and on your way to school. Litter that goes down the drain is on its way to your local creek. Rubber bands as well as hair ties are one of the worst litter types as they easily wash into the drains in your school and in the street and into our waterways. Platypus become entangled when feeding. Any litter that is round and has a diameter of eight centimetres or more is a hazard to platypus. It is recom-

mended that you cut rubber bands and hair ties or any round litter before disposing of them in the bin.

Other ways you can help? Organise a clean-up day at school or join a clean-up group such as Darebin Creek

Sweepers or a Friends group. We can also visit your school. Thanks for helping your local wildlife.

www.dcmc.org.au

http://www.dcmc.org.au

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