REMINDERS School Council Meeting - Tuesday, July 22nd, 7.00pm

Grounds Committee Meeting - Tuesday, July 22nd, 6.30pm Winter Sport - Friday, July 18th,V’s Numurkah at Nathalia

Lightning Premiership - Friday, August 1st, Cobram

Parents’ Club Meeting - Tuesday, August 12th, 9.30am

July 17th, 2014

‘Learning for Life”

www.nathaliaps.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 03 58662677

Principal: Vicki McManus

Holders of Nathalia’s educational history since 1878

Dear Families and School Community,

I hope you all had a very enjoyable holiday. The weather was certainly very unpleasant and I know I

couldn’t get the gardening done that I wanted to.

Unfortunately Ms McManus has had her sick leave extended for another month. We send her our

best wishes and hope she is fit and well enough to return then.

This term will be a very busy term. The grade 5 and 6s have the lightning premiership on the 1st

August and parent teacher interviews, the school concert and athletic sports will be at the end of the term.

Parent Opinion Surveys.

This year’s parent opinion surveys have arrived. A random list of parent names is computer

generated to send these surveys to. As stated in previous newsletters these surveys are very important and

the data from these are used for school reviews and future planning for the school. To have a true reflection

of parents’ opinions we need a 100% return of these surveys. If you are lucky enough to receive a survey

please ensure you take the time to complete it and return it to school as your opinion is valued and it

represents the whole school community. In past years we have had less than 70% return and without a

100% return it may not provide the correct information.

Religious Education Permission Forms.

There have been changes made to the regulations on how religious education is to be provided in

schools. The students in grades 1/2/3 were given new permission forms that needed to be fill in and

returned by the end of last term. We are still waiting on a number of forms to be returned. Please return

them by Monday 21st July so that we can begin this term’s program.

School Council.

There is a school council meeting next week. The main agenda items will be the Priority Review and

reviewing some of our policies.

Lost property.

Please ensure all jumpers are named as there are a lot of unnamed jumpers in lost property at the

moment. Iron on name tags are available at the school office.

B ookclub

Issue 5 has been distributed to the

children.

Please note the closing date for

collection of orders will be next

Thursday the 25th of July.

Shelley Hermelin

Karen King-Jones

Page 2 Nathalia Primary School

L ost Property

As we commence this term, there is an

overflowing box of unclaimed articles of clothing.

Please take time to check your child’s uniform

supplies. If there are articles missing please check

out our lost property box at the school office.

C anteen Price Changes

Could parents please take note of the pricing

changes to the canteen price list.

A New copy has been included on Page 3 of

this Newsletter and copies are available from the

school office.

S chool Council Meeting

- Tuesday, July 22nd at 7.00pm

The Grounds Committee will also be meeting next

Tuesday 22nd July at 6.30pm in the school staff

room.

The agenda is: - Outdoor Learning Area, Raffle &

Working Bee

T he Arts Term 3.

This term all grades will be working on creating

3 dimensional art forms. Foundation children will

learn paper skills such as curling, fringing, rolling

and will use them as decorative features on their

work. Grade 1/2/3 children will also be using 3 D

paper effects to create their pieces and will learn

about the work of artist Louise Nevelson. In grade

4/5/6 children will be looking at the art of Van

Gogh and the works of a variety of

sculptural artists.

During music we will be doing lots of rhythm

work but our main focus will be on preparing and

rehearsing items for our school concert in

September.

Karen King-Jones.

GOLD: Adam

SILVER: Josh, Derryn, Vanessa & Kyle

BRONZE: Kyle, Zoe, Tom, Cassie,

Cameron, Elgin, Jack, Ewan, Tianey, Siahra.

A ctive After School Program

This program will be run for 7 weeks again

this term commencing on Monday, July 28th and

Wednesday, July 30th and will run through to

Monday, September 8th and Wednesday,

September 10th.

The sessions will run for 7 weeks from

3.20pm through to 4.45pm and students will be

provided with a free after school snack.

All students are eligible to attend. Forms

have been sent home this week.

The activity on Mondays will be Table

Tennis and the Wednesdays activity will be Cricket.

Aaron Johnson

Coordinator.

F ootball Clinic

Next Tuesday (22/7) the grade 4/5/6

students will attend an AFL clinic at the Nathalia

Recreation Reserve. This session will commence

at 10:30 until 12:00 am and be run by visiting AFL

players from the Melbourne Football Club. St.

Francis and Katunga Primary Schools will also be

participating in a range of fun games and

activities.

L ions Public Speaking

On Wednesday 23rd July the Lions Public

Speaking competition will be held at the Senior

Citizens Rooms in Nathalia commencing at

7.00pm. Students are required to be there by

6.45pm.

We have 6 students representing Nathalia

Primary School from grades 4/5/6, they are

Madelon Lindsay, Annie Holt, Archie Congues,

Cooper Bloodworth, Darcy Backway and Cody

Power. They will present a short speech on the

topics of ‘Make a Toast to someone in the

community’ and ‘advertise a tourist destination in

Australia’. They will also give an impromptu speech

on a topic given to them on the night.

NATHALIA PRIMARY SCHOOL

CANTEEN PRICE LIST

Term 3 – 2014

ROLLS DRINKS

Ham or Chicken Gourmet Salad Roll 6.00 Orange or Apple Juice (300ml) 2.50

Salad Roll (salad only) 5.00 Oak Milk - chocolate, strawberry, Iced Coffee 2.00

Salad & Chicken Roll 5.50 Nippy’s Milk (375ml) 2.50

Salad & Ham Roll 5.50 - Chocolate, Honeycomb, Strawberry, Iced Coffee

Ham & Cheese Roll 4.00

Chicken & Cheese Roll 4.00 Fruit Drink Boxes (250ml) 1.50

Cheese & Vegemite Roll 4.00

Chicken Roll 3.50

Ham Roll 3.50

Cheese Roll 3.50

(Relish, Gherkin Spread, Pickles & Mustard optional)

Salad includes – lettuce, carrot, cheese,

beetroot and mayo. DESSERTS

Yoghurt Berry Crunch 3.00

WRAPS (Yoghurt, Muesli & Fruit puree)

Chicken with salad 5.50 Frozen Yoghurt tubs 2.50

Ham with salad 5.50 Calippo –(Frozen Fruit Juice) 1.00

Salad only 5.00 Moosie - Frozen flavoured milk 1.50

-Chocolate or strawberry

SALAD BOX – 5.50 Jelly Cups 1.50

Chicken or Ham with salad

Salad only 5.00 Muffin Cake 1.50

HOT FOOD

Gourmet Schnitzel Burger 6.00

Chicken Schnitzel Burger 4.00

(crumbed Chicken, lettuce and mayo)

Chicken Schnitzel & Gravy Roll 4.00

Warm Chicken Wrap 4.00

Toasted Chicken & Cheese Wrap 4.00

Toasted Ham & Cheese Wrap 4.00

Cheeseburger 4.00

Chicken meat & Gravy Roll 4.00

Hamburger (with lettuce and mayo) 4.00

Lasagne 4.00

Toasted Focaccia - Ham Cheese & Tomato 4.50

Chicken Cheese & Tomato

Pie - Bakery (with sauce) 4.00

Pastie 4.00

Snack Pie (¾ size) 3.00

Sausage Roll – Bakery (with sauce) 3.00 The above menu complies with the

Dim Sims (steamed with soy sauce) 1.00 Australian School Canteen Association

Toasted Ham OR Cheese Sandwich 3.00

Toasted Ham and Cheese Sandwich 3.50

TO MAKE AN ORDER: Please write your name,

Grade

and order

in the middle

of a brown paper bag and

place money inside.

Thank you,

Lee-Anne Graham

2014 SCHOOL CALENDAR EVENTS

School Leaders - 2014

Keep This Date Free :

School Fair

Friday, November 14th

1 .30pm - 6.00pm

JULY

17th - State Cross Country

18th - 5/6 Winter Sport

- Nathalia V ’ s Numurkah

22nd - AFL Football Clinic

- School Council Meeting

23rd - Lions Public Speaking

AUGUST

1st - Lightning Premiership ( Cobram )

8th - Regional Football/Netball/ Soccer/

Teeball C/Ships

15th - Koori Culture Ungraded Day

19th- School Council meeting

- Parents ’ Club meeting

20th - Cyber Safety Presentation

SEPTEMBER

5th - SRC - Footy Colours Day

8th - Division Golf Championship

11th - School Concert

16th - School Council meeting

- Parents ’ Club Meeting

19th - School Athletic Sports

- Term Three concludes

OCTOBER

6th - Term Four commences

10th - Inter-school Athletic Sports

13th - Division Athletics Carnival

( S hepparton )

17th - Region Athletic Championship

( S hepparton )

21st - School Council Meeting

- Parents ’ Club Meeting

23rd - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 11.00am )

27th - State Athletics Championships

30th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 11.00am )

NOVEMBER

4th - Melbourne Cup Day

6th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 12.30pm )

7th- Region Basketball & Softball

( S hepp )

11th - Remembrance Day

13th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 1.30pm )

17th - Region Golf Championships

( B enalla )

18th - School Council meeting

- Parents ’ Club meeting

20th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 1.30pm )

27th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 9.15am - 1.30pm )

DECEMBER

4th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 9.15am - 2.20pm )

9th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 8.50am - 3.20pm )

16th - School Council Meeting

- Parents ’ Club Meeting

19th- Term Four concludes

TBA - Grade Six Graduation

- Water Safety Program

- Pool Day

- Infant Camp & Activity Day

January 2015 - Term One commences

January 28th - Staff

January 29th - Students