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Junior School

Money Matters Jackson has $1.05 in his mon-eybox. He has an equal number of 20 cent, 10 cent and 5 cent coins. How may coins does Jackson have in his moneybox?

Middle School

Delicious BiscuitsDelicious BiscuitsDelicious BiscuitsDelicious Biscuits Emily bakes 100 biscuits for the school fete. She decides to vary the decorations on the biscuits. She tops every third biscuit with a nut, ices every fourth and places a cherry on every fifth. How many biscuits have all three decorations?

Senior School

Jelly BeansJelly BeansJelly BeansJelly Beans At the party Jade ate less than four jelly beans. Nicole ate twice as many jelly beans as Jade. Kahlee had twice as many as Nicole. Chris had two more than Kahlee. Chris ate ten jelly beans. How many jelly beans were eaten at the party?

Maths Problem of the Week

Maths Problem of the Week - Term 2, Week 10 Name:………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Grade:…………………………………….

Solution:

Junior School: Sam needs 12

people to be able to count the

toes.

Middle School: Arlene will be paid 128

cents ($1.28 ) for the eighth tree. She will receive 255 cents ($2.55) altogether.

Senior School: There will be 6 pieces with icing on one side, 12 pieces with icing on two sides and 8 pieces with icing on 3 sides.

Maths problem of the week - Solutions for last week!

FOR YOUR DIARY

JUNE

THURSDAY 16th

• School Council Sub-

Committee Meetings

- Major Events - 2:30pm.

- Buildings and Grounds-

3:45pm.

- Finance - 4:15pm.

• Marimba workshops.

MONDAY 13th—FRIDAY 17th

• ICAS TESTING—WRITING

TUESDAY 21st

• Division Netball at Inverloch

Recreation Reserve.

• Parent–Teacher discussions.

WEDNESDAY 22nd

• NO ASSEMBLY

THURSDAY 23rd

• School Council Meeting

6:30pm in the Senior

Learning Centre.

FRIDAY 24th

• NO BREAKFAST CLUB.

• Final Assembly for Term 2 @

2:00pm. Dismissal at

2:30pm.

JULY

MONDAY 11th

• School returns

8:50am first bell for 9:00am

start.

AUGUST

TUESDAY 23rd

• Leap Into Learning Begins

every Tuesday and

Wednesday.

WEDNESDAY 24th-FRIDAY 26th

• Grade 3/4 Phillip Island

Adventure Resort Camp.

Number 19 16th June, 2016

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

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From the Principal ‘Being Organised’ has been the student focus in Term Two. While we know that

there are many ways to be organised, it’s a great opportunity to talk to your children

about the importance of looking after their belongings. With the assistance of Chloe and Luke at assembly yesterday, I

highlighted the mountain of JUMPERS and other items in the lost property room.

We pick up MANY jumpers from the yard each day. You can help your child by reminding them if they take their jumper off,

it’s their responsibility is to ‘put it away’, (either in their bag or close to their classroom door). Ensuring that

your child’s clothing is labelled assists them to recognise their own belongings. Please visit the lost property room to locate your missing items and ensure that all students have warm jumpers as we head

into the wintery months ahead.

You may have noticed a number of temporary fences that have

been erected around our beautiful, old brick building! The fences are the first stage in inspecting and repairing the lintels (concrete above doorways and windows). It’s an exciting time seeing works

occurring and improvements happening to our learning spaces. With the end in mind, we are asking everyone to be patient during

the works. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience.

Over the next week, each teacher will have one day out of their classroom to fully plan for term three. Teachers work very hard on

these days and timetabling is reorganized for the week to ensure high quality programing continues.

All teachers have been working tirelessly composing Semester One Reports that capture your children's learning and next goals. I am currently in the process of reading all the reports and I am extremely

pleased with the learning progress of our children. I do encourage all families to make an appointment for next Tuesday to collect your

child’s report and to have a learning discussion with your child’s teacher. If you are unable to attend the discussions, your child’s report will be sent home with them on Wednesday. As always, if you

would like to speak to your child’s teacher an appointment can be made through the office.

Kind RegardsKind RegardsKind RegardsKind Regards

Leonie AnsteyLeonie AnsteyLeonie AnsteyLeonie Anstey

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WE ARE NOW TAKING ENROLMENTS FOR 2017

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READING AWARDS

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

00A Layla S. For her fantastic writing and eagerness to learn.

00B Corey R. For working really hard when practicing writing tricky words.

12A Daniel S. Continued, reliable organisation of his reader diary.

12B Camryn M. For her great enthusiasm when participating in vocabulary building.

12C Nathan M. Reaching his writing goal.

12D Kai M. Having a go at new tasks.

34B Cooper S. Improving his organisational skills in the classroom.

34C Max C. For working hard on his organisation skills.

34D Seth R. Excellent home reading routine.

56A Tahlya B.

Rebekah P.

Doing a great job of presenting her RnR to the class.

For her awesome enthusiasm and excellent attitude towards learning.

56B Catherine M. Making positive steps towards her personal learning.

56C Kalani S. For her terrific attitude towards all work tasks.

KIDS MINI MUDDA 2016 Hey kids, the Major Events

Committee are organising another

KIDZ MINI MUDDA in 2016. It will be

held on Saturday, 29th October

on the school oval. There will be

lots of prizes, food, obstacles, mud

and even a t-shirt design

competition.

Online registrations are now open

for the 2016 Mini Mudda Event. Go

to our school webpage and follow

the link to be one of the first 100

registered to receive a Free Event

T-shirt

Major Events Committee

BOOK FAIR

A Huge Thank You to everyone who

supported our Book Fair last week!

The Library now has $650 worth of

new books for your children to

enjoy.

Katrina

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PARENTS AND FRIENDS Annual Pie Drive Connells Bakery have the pie orders. These will be delivered frozen to each classroom from 3.00pm on Thursday the 23rd

June, just before the end of Term. Thank you to all who have supported the fundraiser.

Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser We will be selling sausages and drinks on Sunday 3rd July at Bunnings from 9:00am to 4:00pm, so make sure you tell your

friends and family to pop down and help us raise money for our swimming pool grand stand. If you wish to help us on

the day simply come along and lend a hand. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your support.

Parents and Friends

BREAKFAST CLUB The Breakfast Club continues to thrive, serving a light breakfast to about 100 children each Friday morning of term. We

are most grateful to Connells Bakery who provide all the bread which makes such delicious toast. And there is good

news – from Term 3 we will be expanding the Club to 2 mornings per week!

We are fortunate to have received government support and they will provide much of the food (not the bread) lowering our costs so we can go to 2 days. We will resume on Friday 15th July, and for the rest of the term we will serve

breakfast on both Tuesdays and Fridays. Breakfast will now include tinned fruit and hot baked beans.

We are also moving! Breakfast will now be served in the Senior Learning Centre instead of the Art Room.

The club is run by volunteers from the local churches. We would love some extra help now we’re going to two days/

week, so if any parent may be willing to help please contact Ross Stanford on 0402 343124.

PLEASE NOTE – There will be no breakfast offered on the last day of this term, Friday 24th June.

MUSIC NEWS Providing students with links to other curriculum areas, through the Music Program, is a constant

curriculum aim. This week, as part of class time, we looked at Alison Lester’s book ‘Magic Beach’

as a way of providing picture evidence of places in our current song ‘Wind and Rain.’ Looking

at pictures of ‘wild horses’ (a reference to the shape of waves), the beach in summer and winter

(‘southwest sky, streaked with grey’) has helped students form links between song lyrics and

images. We have enjoyed playing chords with our song, this week making chords on wooden

xylophone and glockenspiel.

Making Music, Making Marimbas program – 4M

Today (Thursday) 3 /4 A and B, along with each of the 5/6 classes enjoyed workshop sessions

with Ian Chambers. We learnt marimba parts and added to our knowledge of how to play chords

on these giant, fun instruments. We also added percussion parts using a variety of instruments.

Thank you to Ian for his expertise and teaching in this area. The rest of the school will enjoy a day of

workshops next term.

Ruth Chambers

Music Teacher

IN SPORT Division Netball

Division Netball will be played on Tuesday 21st June at Inverloch Recreation Reserve. We have 2 teams representing our

school.

Girls team will play Leongatha PS at 10.00am

Mixed team will play Inverloch PS at 11.00am

Both teams have worked exceptionally hard throughout this term to develop the team work, skills and tactics which

enabled them to play a very solid brand of netball. This could not have happened without the help from coaches

Wendy Allen, Simone Britt and Rach Fraser.

District Soccer

On Friday 3rd June, Wonthaggi Primary School took part in the South Coast District Soccer Competition held at Rec #1

and #2 Wonthaggi (boys) and Wonthaggi Primary School (girls). The student behaviour was outstanding and they

embraced the ‘have a go’ motto of the day.

Due to another team withdrawing from the competition at late notice, we were able to enter 2 girls teams. This

enabled 26 enthusiastic girls to take part when normally only 11 get to play. One of our girls teams was the overall

winner on that day. However, as a number of these players are involved in the upcoming netball competition, a

decision has been made to allow Cowes PS to take part in the next stage of soccer competition.

Thank you to parents and friends of our school for their support throughout the day.

Will Rankin

PE teacher