Congratulations to

Thank you to Special Thanks to

Bus Travel Walking School Bus—Friday 20th May

Breakfast Club will resume on Wednesday the 26th of July at

8.30am. Please arrive promptly.

If any families require financial assistance with the purchasing of uniform items, please return the Uniform Assistance slip that was sent home in a letter with the eldest child last term or contact any member of staff or Chaplain Deb (Deb works on Monday and Thursday). It is our goal to have 100% of students in correct school uniform by the end of year. Currently we have only 60% of our stu-dents in correct school uniform.

This Thursday 20th July, from 9-11am is the final Open Morning for

2017. Please invite any prospective families to come and tour our school. Enrolment packages are also available. Enrolment forms are due by the 31

st of August.

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DATES FOR 2017

17th—21st July—No Brekky Club

20th July—Open Day—School

Tours 9-11am

25th & 26th July—Brendan, Sha-

ron & Jack @ PLC Training

27th July—100 Days of School

27th July—West Gipps Principal’s

Meeting

28th July—Gr 3/4 Camp Payment

#2 Due—$50

4th August—Friday Lunchies

8th August—Teachers @ PD

9th August—Parents Association

Meeting

10th August—Student Free Day

11th August—Parent Opinion

Survey Closes

15th August—Building &

Grounds Meeting—7pm

15th August—School Council

Meeting—7:30pm

22nd August– Gr 5/6 Leaders of

Evolution Session 2 @ WGPS

21st September—School Concert

BEYOND TERM 3

22nd—24th November—Gr 3/4

Camp Rumbug

27th Nov—1st Dec Whole School

Swimming Program

14th December—School Presen-

tation Night

20th—21st December—Gr 6

Graduation Camp

MON TUE WED THU FRI

17 No Brekky Club this Week

18

Open Day—9-11am Building & Grounds Meeting—7pm School Council Meeting—7:30pm

19 Lunch Order Day

20 Open Day—9-11am

21

24

25 PLC Training—Brendan, Sharon & Jack

26 Brekky Club Lunch Order Day MARC Van

27 Brekky club 100 Days of School Mobile Library West Gipps Princi-pal’s Meeting

28 Brekky Club Gr 3/4 Camp Paym #2 Due—$50

July 2017

Find us at—www.willowgroveps.vic.edu.au

TERM DATES 2017

Term 1 30th Jan (teachers start) to 31st March

Term 2 18th April to 30th June

Term 3 17th July to 22nd Sept

Term 4 9th Oct to 22nd Dec

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School Office Hours—Terms 3 & 4

Congratulations

News from Ann

School Working Bee—Saturday

NAPLAN

Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.

Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.

Can you help?

News from Ann

Winter

Student Achievements

P A G E 2

W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R

Welcome back to Term 3. I hope that you had a fabulous holiday and enjoyed the break with your child/children at home. We are certainly excited to have them return to school. During the last week of Term 2, the eldest child in each family received a letter regarding the implementation of our school uniform, detailing clearly what is acceptable and also what uniform items are regarded ‘out of uniform.’ As a school, it is our goal to have 100% of students in correct school uniform by the end of the year. To help with this goal, we are hoping to arrange a 2

nd hand uniform sale for our

families. If you have any unwanted uniform items that you would be willing to donate, we would love to have them. Please simply drop them off to the office or your child’s class-room teacher. From the start of next week, our staff will be monitoring students in and out of uniform. If your child is ‘out of uniform,’ an out of uniform notice will be sent home. The intention of this note is to inform families of what is acceptable and what is considered ‘out of uniform.’ If there is a reason that prevents your child from wearing the correct uniform for a particu-lar day, such as the washing was wet, they have out-grown their shoes etc we would ap-preciate a written note informing us of the explanation. If your child is consistently out of uniform, a 2

nd notice will be sent home requiring you to

provide a written explanation as to why your child is out of uniform. Thank-you in advance for supporting us to ensure that all students at Willow Grove are in correct uniform. Take care and enjoy the rest of the week. Brendan Dawson

Thank-you to Michelle, her husband Glen and Mr David Boyd (a WGPS volunteer) who helped move, tidy and clean up our new staffroom space over the holiday peri-od. As you can see from the photos, it is a welcoming and inviting space that will benefit and be able to be used by all members of our school community.

The old staffroom is now in the process of being transformed into our STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) resource room and another meeting room available for use by our teachers and other professionals who visit Willow Grove Primary School. This is part of the ongoing development of our school facilities to ensure we pro-vide up to date and modern environ-ments for our students and staff.

P.S. Thanks also to Brendan who helped with the move.

Principal’s Report

Thank You—Our new staffroom!

Parent Association News

Congratulations

News from Ann

School Working Bee—Saturday

NAPLAN

Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.

Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.

Can you help?

News from Ann

Student Achievements

P A G E 3

W I L L O W G R O V E

Win-

Our new lunch order menu

and pricing commenced this

week.

Please write your child’s name on a

brown paper bag and safely secure

the correct money inside the bag

(place the money inside foil or glad

wrap—as the food is delivered to

the classroom in the paper bag).

Parent Association News

ROSTER

WEDNESDAY 26th July

Nicole W.

WEDNESDAY 2nd Aug

Pauline B.

Parent Association News

Congratulations

News from Ann

School Working Bee—Saturday

NAPLAN

Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.

Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.

Can you help?

News from Ann

St

P A G E 4

W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R

Winter

This information is collected as part of the annual August census. If a portion of our parent occupation and education data is missing or incorrectly complet-ed our funding is affected. The information is used to ensure that the allocation of funds is fairly distributed to schools with families and students most in need. ‘Need’ is based on the best available evidence of how those identified factors impact on outcomes for stu-dents.

Has your occupation or education level changed? If so please contact the office by 31st July, so we can update our records prior to the August census. This data is directly used to calculate on-school’s funding for 2018. Being a small school, it is important that this information is accurate so that our funding for 2018 is not affected.

This year we will be participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through this program we will be able to get new educational resources for our school. From Wednesday 26

th July to Tuesday 19

th September or while stock lasts,

we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. You will get one Wool-worths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10 spent at Woolworths (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and when it’s complete, the

Sticker Sheet can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school or at your local Woolworths. A sticker sheet is attached to the end of this newsletter.

If you don’t have enough stickers to fill a sheet, please drop them into the collection box also, and we will complete the sticker sheets for you.

At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport and for our li-brary. If you’d like to know more visit woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn

Don’t forget School Banking day is every Friday. Please hand your Dollarmites deposit wallet into the school office. The Commonwealth Bank is offering a Grand Prize in Term 3. See details attached to this newsletter.

Student Family Occupation Data

Woolworths Earn & Learn 2017

School Banking

Jacob

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A student has lost

a Garmin Watch.

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dow sill above

Grade 3/4 bag

area.

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