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FOR YOUR DIARY

MARCH

MONDAY13th • PUBLIC HOLIDAY LABOUR DAY LONG WEEKEND.

TUESDAY 14th-FRIDAY 17th • Grade 5 Wilsons

Promontory Camp.

TUESDAY 21st • Parents and Friends AGM

- Annual General Meeting

in the Staffroom at

9:15am.

• World Harmony Day.

Dress in Orange - Gold

Coin Donation.

WEDNESDAY 22nd • Book Club Orders are due

back.

TUESDAY 28th • School Council AGM -

Annual General Meeting

at 6:30pm in the Senior

Learning Centre.

WEDNESDAY 29th

• Assembly - Easter Raffle

Draw.

FRIDAY 31st • LAST DAY TERM1 2:30pm

Dismissal.

APRIL

TUESDAY 18th • TERM 2 COMMENCES at

8:50am.

FRIDAY 21st • HOUSE ATHLETICS -

Wonthaggi Primary

School.

FIRDAY 28th

• District Athletics—

Wonthaggi Secondary

College

Number 6 9th March, 2017

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WONTHAGGI PRIMARY SCHOOL ● Phone: (03) 5672 1600 ● Acting Principal: Mr Mark Chandler ● Email: wonthaggi.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au ● Website: www.wonthaggips.vic.gov.au ● Billson street (PMB 101) Wonthaggi, 3995

● Find us on Facebook

From the Principal Seesaw

During the course of the next week or so parents will receive an invite from

your child’s teacher requesting you to join an online platform, Seesaw.

Your invite will include unique login details. This online platform can be

accessed via your mobile phone and/or tablet through the Seesaw app

(free of charge) and will be used by students and staff to showcase some

of your child's learning. A picture of your child in action or of their learning

will continue our efforts to develop relationships and make connections

with the community, both of which are key elements of our school values.

Significantly, the pictures can also be used by parents to promote

discussion and thereby improve your child’s oral language. Oral language

plays a significant part in your child’s learning as it can provide a deeper

insight into their thoughts and strategies and also aligns with our belief that

for a child to be able to write and read about a topic, they need to be

able to talk about it. The following prompts can be used by parents to

frame your chat about the picture.

• What were you learning?

• When did you do this? • What makes you proud about this? • Were there some tricky parts to learning this (learning pit)?

As we begin our journey with using Seesaw we look forward to furthering

our endeavours to create a meaningful learning partnership between

child, parent and school.

Grade 5 Wilsons Promontory Camp We wish our Grade 5 students all the very best for their camp next week.

The students are provided with a unique opportunity to enjoy the many

wonders of the ‘Prom’. They are also immersed in the camp themes of

perseverance, resilience and relationships, which will shape the students

approach to learning and life at W.P.S.

Bass Coast Trail Fun Run Festival A big Thankyou to the parents and staff that were up and about early last

Sunday morning to assist with the registration of the competitors. A huge

effort and the willingness to help a well entrenched community event

reflected our efforts uphold the school values of Community, Relationships

and Belonging.

Quote of the week ‘What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know… It’s what we do

know that isn't so’ - Stronger Smarter,

Mark Chandler

Acting Principal

Our School Core Values: R

ESPECT R

ELATIONSHIPS B

ELONGING C

OMMUNITY G

ROWTH MINDSET

Breakfast Club Each Friday from 8.30am

in the Art Room.

Gluten Free Toast

and Cereal are available

SCHOOL PHOTOS Wednesday 3rd May

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12A Paris C. Making others feel welcome.

12B Billie P. Showing kindness and respect to her classmates.

12C Julian L. For showing persistence in improving his handwriting.

12D Hayley C. For displaying a positive attitude.

34A Campbell B. Having his reader diary open before the bell.

34B Phoebe L. For being a kind, caring and respectful class member who has worked hard to develop her resilience this term.

34C Nathan W. For showing resilience and courage when working with calendars.

56A Jack H. For being a great bucket filler in the classroom.

56D Emily S. For being a kind and considerate class member who always seeks to do her best.

56E Jacob M. For the enthusiasm and effort he’s putting into his persuasive writing piece.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Parents and Friends House Sport Wrist bands We are holding our first fundraiser for 2017. We are selling House Sport Wristbands for Somer-

set, McCracken and Abercrombie. They can be purchased at the school office for $2.00.

Easter Raffle It’s that time of year again when we are holding our EASTER RAFFLE! A book of tickets has been

attached to this week’s newsletter. Tickets are 50c each or 3 for $1.00. Prizes are as follows; • The class prizes. Each child who brings in a donation of chocolate to their class teacher,

will go into the class draw to win a class prize.

• The student who sells the most tickets and raises the most

money will win a prize. • The major raffles will be drawn at assembly on Wednesday

29th March.

Donations of Easter eggs should be handed in to your child's

classroom teacher so that they can mark them to go into the

class draw.

Basket Donations

If anyone has baskets or gift boxes/bags that they are not using

anymore, we would really appreciate them to help us bundle up

prizes. Please leave any donations at the office.

Parents & Friends

Book Club Book Club Orders are due back

no later than Wednesday 22nd March.

More information about the

Scholastic Book Club LOOP for

parents is on the back page of

the newsletter

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CSEF - Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund The CSEF is an annual payment to the school to be used towards camps, sports and/or excursion expenses for the benefit of

the eligible student.

• Primary school student rate: $125.00 per year (per student for individual student only)

• Secondary school student rate: $225.00 per year (per student for individual student only)

The CSEF is paid directly to your child’s school and will be allocated by the school towards camps, sports and/or excursion

costs for your child.

An application form is available from the school office and applications close on 30th June 2017. To be eligible you must hold a concession card which is successfully validated with Centrelink on the first day of either term

one (30th January2017) or term two (18th April, 2017).

2017 Premier’s Ac�ve Families Challenge The Premier’s Active Families Challenge is again running in 2017. It aims to promote the importance of physical activity

for all Victorians. The Challenge will run for the month of April and is a family focussed program that encourages all

Victorians to do 30 minutes of physical activity a day for 30 days. For more information and to join

visit www.activeapril.vic.gov.au/schools

IT’S FREE and registered participants receive 10 YMCA entry passes (which can be used at Wonthaggi), 15% off at Sportsmart and a 2 for 1 ticket offer to SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium.

IN SPORT Division Swimming Last Friday 5 Wonthaggi Primary School students represented the

South Coast District at the Korumburra 50m pool. Congratulations to

all who took part and a big well done to Ella S (3rd in breaststroke)

and Zac M (1st in freestyle and 2nd in backstroke). Also,

congratulations to Zac M, Aiden H, Jarvis H and Max C on their 2nd

placing in the 11 boys 50m freestyle relay. Our fabulous 5 will now

venture to Sale to take on the best swimmers in

Gippsland. Congratulations and good luck!

Wetsuits and flippers

Our school greatly appreciates any wetsuit and flipper donations that

can assist the students in our Water Safety Program. If you have any

wetsuits or flippers at home that are no longer of use, please consider

donating them to our school.

Water Safety Days Last week, students in Grades One – 6 undertook beach awareness

days as part of our Water Safety Program (Prep students also took

part in land based activities but not in the water).

The aim of the program is to promote water confidence, safety and

swimming skills for our students. It is vital considering our proximity to

the beach.

Grade Prep – Grade 2 had their day at the beach on Friday 3rd

March at Inverloch Jetty and took part in snorkelling and survival

swimming in the fast moving currents. The students remained calm in

all activities ensuring an enjoyable and worthwhile day was had by

all.

Grade 3/4 went to Cape Paterson on Tuesday 28th February with

beautiful conditions making it enjoyable for all. The students took part

in snorkelling, survival swimming with PFD’s, boarding activities and a

land based game.

Grade 5/6 went to Inverloch Surf Beach on Monday 27th February.

The warm weather, full tide and consistent swell was a

perfect learning environment for our students who took part in surfing

and also safe swimming practices between the beach flags. Most

students returned to the water in the afternoon to gain more

experience from the water.

A big thank you to the Wonthaggi Life Saving Club, Wonthaggi

Secondary College and to our fantastic parents for their help. Without

their assistance we could not offer our students such an important

program.

Will Rankin

Sports Teacher

From the Music Room… It has been great to work with so many

enthusiastic students over the first term. We

have been exploring chords using ukuleles

and reading musical notes using recorders.

The junior school students have been working

with chants and nursery rhymes and are now

exploring clapping games. It has been

fantastic to see such a great demand for

Billson Street Singers and we have to run two

groups because of such large numbers.

Students are taking time from their lunch to

come in and practise ukulele or to sing with

the Billson Street group. Thank you to all

grades who have been so willing to assist with

leading Song of the Week at assembly. It can

be a nervous time for students performing in

front of a large audience. Finally the Library

and Music Room spaces are working really

well and both rooms are being used regularly

by all grades.

Feel free to come in and check it out!

Marc Ibrhaim

Music/ Prep Teacher

HARMONY DAY Dress in Orange On Friday 24th March our school will

participate in Harmony Day along side

hundreds of schools across the country. The

idea is to celebrate diversity.

For a gold coin donation, students can come

dressed in orange, which represents the

acceptance of other cultures, or they can

dress up in a cultural costume. This is an SRC

(Student Representative Council) initiative.

Andrew Inglis

Grade 3/4 Teacher