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FRIDAY 8th • Grade 5/6 District

Basketball.

• Parent Opinion Surveys

due back.

• NO BREAKFAST CLUB

SATURDAY 9th • Parents and Friends

Shopping Tour starting at

6:00am.

MONDAY 11th - MONDAY 25th • Read-a-thon.

MONDAY 25th - SUNDAY 31st • Math-a-thon. • Literacy and Numeracy

Week. WEDNESDAY 13th • Grade 3/4 Basketball.

FRIDAY 15th • SLC Students attending

Peter Pan Production

11:30am - 2:30pm.

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THURSDAY 11th • Division Athletics.

• Grade Prep/1 Tea.

Number 24 7th August, 2014

Wonthaggi Primary News

WONTHAGGI PRIMARY SCHOOL ● Phone:

(03) 5672 1600 ● Fax: (03) 5672 3865 ●

Principal: Mrs Leonie Anstey

From Principal…….

Please note that there will not be a BREAKFAST program this FRIDAY.

This week we have installed two new air conditioners into room 2 and room 5. The

children have enjoyed the new warmer rooms today. This was possible through

our schools successful energy grant. We have also replaced all the older plastic

tables in the grade 2/3 rooms. The new “ocean mist” and “green grass” tables

look fabulous. Our school improvements are made

possible through the hard work of fundraising with

our community.

I would like to thank all community members who

donate time, money and energy to our school

efforts.

Our Leap into Learning Program started yesterday,

with 27 pre-prep children attending the program.

Congratulations to Lynne Carter and Chris Blundell

on a great first session for the children. This program has

state-wide recognition for the wonderful start it gives

children who are commencing school. We are taking

further enrolments for 2015, and anyone interested

should contact the office to organise a school tour.

It is really important as a school community that we plan

for the learning that will enable our children to best the best adults that they can

be. To help discover some of our community views at our recent school council

meeting, I posed the following to the group. This was;

when my child/ren leave Wonthaggi Primary School, I would like them to be….

Each member of the group gave their views of what was important for their child.

They group brainstormed some of the following ideas.

Resilient, adaptable, risk-taker, enjoy and love learning, confident, kind,

considerate, organised, literate and numerate, healthy.

As a parent/carer/grandparent it might be good to think about what is most

important for your child and what experiences might you provide for them to

enable them to achieve what is most important in your family. I would

encourage you to continue to work in partnership with your child’s teacher to

ensure that your child’s learning (academic, social and emotional) continues to

grow and develop.

Wonthaggi A-THONs

To help celebrate literacy and numeracy week during August we are running two

events. The first event is the Math-A-Thon which is a Student Representative

Council (SRC) event. The children can practice problems and in the week of 25th

to 31st August, each child will participate in a two minute challenge. They can

access the website for practice prior to the running of the challenge

www.smartkiddies.com.au. All children will be involved in the challenge,

regardless of sponsorship for this event.

The second event is a Parent’s Club event, and is a Read-A–Thon. This is slightly

different in nature as the children will be eligible for prizes from the company

running the event. Approximately 70% of the money raised goes directly to the

school.

We continue to encourage all children to participate in one or both events.

Good luck to our Grade 5/6 basketball team that are competing this Friday.

Principal

Leonie AnsteyLeonie AnsteyLeonie AnsteyLeonie Anstey

LEAP INTO LEARNING - Weekly

WEDNESDAY - 9:30am -12:00pm

- 1:00pm - 3.30pm

THURSDAY - 9:30am -12:00pm

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Student of the WeekStudent of the WeekStudent of the WeekStudent of the Week

Dolphin Group AwardsDolphin Group AwardsDolphin Group AwardsDolphin Group Awards

00A Hayden M. His efforts & great work in our Jolly Phonics Sessions.

00B Oliver F. Always asking for assistance when needed.

00C Laci G. For staying on task.

Harvey S. For staying on task to learn and improve.

1A Callum C. Improved homework and reading routine.

1B Lexi S. Always being willing to help others.

23A Caleb H. Trying really hard to finish all his work.

23B Max C. Completing all tasks quickly and quietly.

23C Billie M. Always giving 100% to her work.

45B Ryley E. For completing your project work to a high

standard.

56A Jessie S. For the excellent presentation of her adaptation

project.

56B Caleb W. For his outstanding work towards his adaptation

project. Great Work.

Reading AwardsReading AwardsReading AwardsReading Awards

FROM THE SLCFROM THE SLCFROM THE SLCFROM THE SLC The Senior Learning Centre

Students will be attending the

Wonthaggi Secondary School

production Peter Pan on

Friday, 15th August. We will be

leaving school at 11.30

and returning at 2.30.

Did you know there was a huge Snow Ball Fight at School this week ?

ACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM Active After School has begun and will run for 7 weeks. Monday nights is Judo and Wednesday nights is Dancing – both in the gym.

It is great to see a few new faces – remember it’s FREE and FUN, with afternoon tea supplied!

Wednesdays Dance is full but there are still a few places remaining in the Monday Judo. If you would like

to register your child please complete a new Registration. Forms are available at the office. Please note

that once sessions are full we do still take names for a waiting list.

Also, please remember that you must be committed to attending every session of the 7 week program for

the full 1 hour. Any students that cannot commit will be removed from the program.

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MUSIC NEWSMUSIC NEWSMUSIC NEWSMUSIC NEWS

Students from every year level have now committed three songs in other languages to memory! This is an

incredible achievement, and one which we aim to continue building on. (Languages so far are Zulu, Italian

and Spanish).

This week we also focused on learning instrumental parts for our Italian song, memorizing notes on

keyboard, glockenspiel and boom whackers.

Thanks once again, to Celina Roberts for sharing information about Denmark and teaching another grade

Incy Wincy Spider in Danish. We are yet to commit this one to memory!

Ruth Chambers

Music Teacher

PARENTS AND FRIENDSPARENTS AND FRIENDSPARENTS AND FRIENDSPARENTS AND FRIENDS Shopping Tour Saturday 9th August

Ten shops have been locked in and a pub lunch and raffle ticket are included with entry. We leave at 6.00

am and will arrive back around 8:00 the later arrival time is due to another shop being added to our tour

itinerary.

Bottled water will be available to buy on the day as well as a snack packs for $6 each which contains a piece of fruit, muffin, snack size chocolate bar, packet of chips or rice crackers. Striped shopping bags to store all your bargain buys in on the bus will also be available to purchase. Remember to wear comfortable shoes! Let’s stand out from the crowd! Wear something colourful in your hair on the day such as headband, clips, fascinator etc.

Free Fruit Tuesday

Free Fruit Tuesday runs every week. The kids really look forward to these fruit platters so we are grateful for

any donations towards this great program to keep it running. If you are able to help out in any way time or

donation wise, simply contact the office on 5672 1600.

School Read-A-Thon

Parents and Friends have organised a Read-a-thon fundraising event for the school. It will run from August

11th to the 25th during this time your child reads as much as they can and all of your sponsors money must be

collected by August 25th. This is a great way for your child to spend more time reading as well as helping

raise money for the school.

Movie Night: Planes 2

Parents and Friends are planning a movie night for the last day of Term 3 Friday September 19th. The movie

feature will be Planes 2. More details to come.

Parents and Friends