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Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 6, Week 6, Term 1, 2017 1

Responsibility Acceptance Respect Honesty Cooper-

ation Resilience

Office: 50245345

Postal Address: P.O. Box 716, Irymple South 3498

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.irymplesouthps.vic.edu.au

January 30th, 2015

Communicating with Teachers

We value open lines of communication between

home and school. If you have any issues, concerns

or queries about your child, please do not hesitate

to contact his/her teacher. Feel free to pop in and

make a time to discuss any matter. Staff are able to

make appointments before and after school at

anytime throughout the year to discuss any

concerns or issues that you have. Alternatively you

can contact your child’s teacher via email.

School Council Elections

The School Council election process has now

commenced for 2017. Nominations are called for

parent and staff positions for the 2017 school year.

We have 2 parent positions and 1 staff positions to

be filled. Self nomination forms are available from

me, Robyn. Nominations will close on Friday 17th

March. Please consider the opportunity to be

involved in our school community in a significant

role.

School Council

The next meeting of the School Council will be on

Wednesday 29th March at 6:00pm in the Staffroom.

Cross Country Change of Date

The annual Cross Country run will be on WEDNESDAY

3rd MAY. The run will be followed by a Walkathon

that all families and students can participate in.

Interschool Swimming

On Friday 3rd March, James Bell and

Liam Rielley competed at the

Mildura Interschool Swimming Sports

at Mildura Waves.

James came 5th in Freestyle and 4th

in Breaststroke.

Liam competed in the Backstroke

event. Both boys enjoyed the

competition and did their very best.

Swimming

The Irymple Swimming Club are holding their annual

Primary School Swim Meet at the Irymple Pool on

Thursday 17th March at 5.30pm. If any students are

interested in participating more information can be

found on their website. You enter online at

www.irympleswimmingclub.com.au

Lunch Orders

All lunch orders must be put in the baskets at school

and NOT dropped off at the shop. Only items on the

school lunch order list are to be ordered. This will

ensure that all students receive the appropriate

lunch.

Responsibility Acceptance Respect

Honesty Cooperation Resilience

Issue 6, Week 6, Term 1 March 10th, 2017

NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Robyn Brooks

Night Amongst the Vines

Our major fundraiser for the year is almost here! The collaborative artworks are well underway

and we have lots of auction items rolling in.

Tickets are ready and can be picked up from the front office from Friday March 10th. These can

be collected as a table group or individually.

All payments were to be finalised today.


Second hand Uniform

We are setting up a facility to Buy, Swap or Sell

preloved uniforms. Thanks to Melissa Chadwick for

proposing this idea. If you are interested in helping to

set this up could you please contact the office. If you

are happy to donate some preloved uniforms to get

the ball rolling, you can bring these in to the office.

Worm Food

The Grade 3 students are looking after the worm

farms this year. A worm food station is set up outside

rooms 14 and 15. All school families can donate

food. Worms are great recyclers but they are a little

fussy, no citrus, onion, bread, dairy or meat. Thanks.

Walk to School, Healthy Breakfast, Nude Food Day

and Farmer’s Market

On Thursday 30th March we will be holding a

‘Healthy Eating Day’. The day will commence with

walking to school, followed by a healthy breakfast.

We are encouraging all students to bring a healthy

snack and lunch with no packaging. We will then

hold our Farmer’s Market at the end of the day. We

would love some donations on the day of fresh

produce: fruit, vegetables, herbs and plants.

Gardening Group

We are looking for volunteers to join our Gardening

group on Thursdays from 1:00 to 2:15pm. If there are

any parents or grandparents interested in helping to

plant, weed, develop new garden areas and work

with our students, please contact the office and

leave your name and number.

Camps Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF) 2017

The Victorian Government will be providing a CSEF

payment to all eligible families to assist with the costs

of school trips, camps and sporting activities. Please

contact the office to get an application form. The

School will need to sight and copy the concession

card to ensure that the parent’s name and

Centrelink Reference Number (CRN) matches the

Centrelink database. Applications close 23rd June.

Further information can be found later in the

newsletter.

JSC Report

In Week 5 the Junior School Council held their very

first meeting as a group. Each of the grades were

asked to hold a class meeting in the week prior to

identify one idea that they believe would help the

school be a better place. The Grade 6 students then

met on the following day to collate all the ideas.

Our Grade 6 students will be doing all the fundraising

in 2017 as part of their involvement with Leaders of

Evolution and building a stronger community. We

look forward to combining the ideas from the Junior

School Council and Leaders of Evolution throughout

2017.

RI

RI classes will commence on Monday 20th March. Di

Eagle will hold classes after school (3:15pm - 4:00pm)

on Monday afternoons. There is an expression of

interest form in this week’s newsletter. Please fill in the

form and return as soon as possible.

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PADDLE POP FUNDRAISER As part of a Leaders of

Evolution community project

four girls Indi, Mercesdez, Ava

and Caitlin will be coordinating

a paddle pop Thursday which

will raise money for new

basketball backboards, rings

and nets. We have decided to

offer three paddle pop flavours

which are Rainbow, Chocolate

and Banana. We will be selling

Paddle Pops for $1 each. This

will happen on Thursday the

23rd of March.

Orders must be in by Tuesday

the 21st of March.

An order form is at the back of

the newsletter

BUDDY BENCH

We are planning on building a buddy bench in

the yard. This will improve our school yard

because students that have no one to play with

can go to it. People that pass the buddy bench

and see someone on there can go and play with

them or find someone for them to play with. This is

going to be done by having a school fundraiser.

We have planned to have teachers slide into a

freezing pool. Students get to vote on what

teacher they want to see go down. To vote

students can bring money (every dollar is a vote).

The top three teachers that get the most votes

will have to go down the slide into the freezing

pool. Voting will be happening on the 27th, 28th,

29th and the 30th of March. The top three

teachers will slide down in to the water and ice

pool on the last day of Term 1, which is the 31st of

March.

From Sienna, Maddie and Dayna

NUDE FOOD

On Thursday March

30th we will be

having a Nude Food

Day.

Please bring a

healthy snack and

lunch with no

packaging.

We are trying to

reduce the amount

of rubbish around

the school and we

are encouraging

everyone to make

healthy choices.

Tessa, Indi &

Chantelle


Dayna

I wanted to become environmental

captain because I am very passionate

about the environment, I am

approachable, and I am a good listener,

and I think that they are very important

qualities to have when representing the

students of Irymple South Primary School

for 2017. Students can approach me, and

I can listen to what they want, and with

my passion and ideas can help make that

happen.

Being the environmental captain for 2017

means that I can share my passion for

animals and show I am not afraid to get

my hands dirty. As a Captain, I can

represent the students at our meetings by

contributing their Ideas and my own.

I look forward to learning from teachers

and other students on ways that we can

help our Environment and most

importantly how our school can

contribute to making our world a happier

and more sustainable place to live.

I have a passion for the environment and

animals. I love to help people, I love to

work as a team and I love to teach other

students about the environment so they

can help to have a clean school/home

town.

Jack

Being an Environmental Captain for ISPS in

2017 is a great achievement for me. I

wanted to be able to make a positive

impact in our environment as well as the

other students at our school.

I would like to work collaboratively with

other Captains and Environmental leaders

on different projects to try and reduce our

carbon footprint, reduce waste and I

would like to see the wetlands opened at

our school. I would also like all students to

be aware of the impact we all have on

our environment.

I am developing my leadership skills in this

role. I have the courage to lead a group,

encourage them to share their ideas and

learn from the different ways we

approach tasks.


Harry & Owen

Prep C Frankie & Alex

Prep M

Riccardo & Sienna

Prep D

Mason & Biagio

1T Mollie & Archer

1F

Eadie & Maddison

2W Dawson & Lars

2J

Zoe & Abby

2R

Lily & Charlie

3C

Tom & Sam

3T

Gabriella & Kiara

4V Rose & Grace

4R

Max & Eva

5G

Monique & Harry

5H

Tessa & Sam

6A

Jordan & Isabella

6S

CAPTAINS Dayna & Jack


STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Prep C

Flynn Capp Prep M

Hunter Brand Prep D

Evie Piscioneri 1T

Lucas Giugno 1F

Mia Woolfrey 2W

Jarome Alexander 2J

Eva Whitworth 2R

Chase Russell

3T

Sofia Tabacco 3C

Courtney Jack 4R

Eliza Sheahan 4V

William Lay 5G

Tarliah Taylor 5H

Natalie Tabacco 6S

Will Gilding 6A

Joseph Zaccone

Art

Zoe Williams Dance

Declan Belsham Drama

Jaxon Barone PE

Cooper Jones Principal

Jarome Alexander

Indi Cashin

Grade 3 & 4 Inquiry On Friday, Willy Hannah visited the Grade 3 and 4 students as part of their Inquiry. He

spoke to the students about the indigenous community and showed and explained

about the artefacts that he brought along. The students had lots of interesting

questions for Willy and enjoyed learning about all the artefacts on show.

Willy showed us how aboriginal people hunted food with spears and

boomerangs. He also showed us how they found turtle eggs using boomerangs

and sticks. I had a go at playing the didgeridoo but it didn’t sound like it

should. It helped me with my inquiry because we have been learning about how

aboriginal people lived before the First Fleet arrived in Australia in 1788.

Matt Gilding, 4R

ART

with Mrs Lord Lego Art has been very popular! Students

are loving drawing and creating patterns

with the Lego. Students have collaborated

to create some wonderful group pieces.


CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION

Yes, I would like my child/children to receive Catholic Religious Instruction this year 2017.

Child’s Name ________________________________ Grade__________



Signature _______________________________ Date ___________

Please return this expression of interest as soon as possible. Classes will take place on Mondays

from 3:45pm to 4:00pm with Mrs Di Eagle. Lessons commence Monday 20th March

EASTER RAFFLE We are asking all families to donate an item to make up our prizes. Donations could

include Easter eggs, rabbits, Bunny Ears etc, it doesn’t have to be an Easter egg but

anything that you think would be appropriate for an Easter Raffle prize.

Each class will have its own raffle draw

Please place donations in the clearly marked tubs in the office foyer. Each class has

a tub for their donations and we need as many donations as possible for each tub.

All donations no matter how big or small will be gratefully received.

We are also asking our families to sell our Raffle tickets. Tickets are $1.00 each or $10 per book.

Books are being handed out with this week’s newsletter.

Extra books will be available at the front office.

All proceeds from the raffle will be going towards the renovation of the school kitchen.

The baskets will need to be wrapped ready for distribution on Thursday 30th March. Please put this date in

your calendar if you are able to help.

Please return tickets and money to the office by Tuesday 28th March

The raffle will be drawn on the last day of term, Friday 31st March

Interschool Cricket

On Wednesday, our boys cricket team played 3 games at the Aero Ovals, Mildura. The boys played

extremely well, winning 2 out of the 3 games. Great sportsmanship was shown and the games were

played in great spirit. Best bowler for the day was Dusty with 6 wickets. Best batter for the day was Cooper

with 27 runs. Best fielder goes to Max who took 2 catches and had a run out.

Results :

Game 1

ISPS def NP2

Nichols Point 2

10 for 11

Dusty 3/0

Jack K 3/1

Eddie 2/0

Irymple South

2 for 62

Liam R 14 ret. no

Cooper 7no

Game 2

ISPS def IPS

Irymple

9 for 50

Cooper 2/2

Dusty 2/4

Max 2 catches

Irymple South

1 for 59

Cooper 15no

Brayden 7no

Game 3

ISPS defeated by NP1

Nichols Point 1

1 for 71

Dusty 1/6

Irymple South

10 for 64

Liam R 7no

Jack B - 5

Max - 5

Cooper - 5

Liam B - 5


CALENDAR 2017

Happy Birthday

MARCH

Joshua Burgess (6th)

Seth Papadopoulos (6th)

Kerryn Corponi (7th)

Ava Zadow (9th)

Joshua Austin (10th)

Mia Mayne (10th)

Penni Williams (11th)

Cameron Hensgen (12th)

Summer Tschirpig (12th)

Upcoming Events

ANZAC Day Ceremony- Monday 24th April

Cross Country - Wednesday 3rd May

Walkathon - Thursday 4th May

NAPLAN - Tuesday 9th to Thursday 11th May

Athletics Sports - Tuesday 25th July

Concert - Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th

September

We

ek

MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN

MA

RC

H

7

13 LABOUR

DAY

14 15 16 17 18 19

8

20 21 22 23 24 ‘Night

Amongst the

Vines’

25 26

9

27 28

Easter Raffle

closes

29

School

Council

Meeting

30 Walk to

School,

Healthy

Breakfast,

Nude Food

day,

Farmer’s

Market

31

Easter Raffle

drawn

End of Term

1

1 2

AP

RIL

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14

Good Friday

15 16 Easter

Sunday

1

17

Easter

Monday

18

Term 2 Starts

19 20 21 22 23

2

24 ANZAC

Day

Ceremony

25 ANZAC

DAY

26 27 28 29 30

3

1 2 3 Cross

Country &

Walkathon

4 5 6 7

4

8 9

NAPLAN

10

NAPLAN

11

NAPLAN

12 13 14

Mother’s

Day

5

15 16 17 18 19 20 21


Thursday 23rd March

Paddle Pops Only $1 each!

Name: ____________________________

Grade: ____________

Flavour: Rainbow Chocolate Banana

Paddle Pop Fundraiser

As part of a Leaders of Evolution community project four girls Indi,

Mercesdez, Ava and Caitlin will be coordinating a paddle pop Thursday

which will raise money for new basketball backboards, rings and nets. We

have decided to offer three paddle pop flavours which are Rainbow,

Chocolate and Banana. We will be selling Paddle Pops for $1 each.

This will happen on Thursday the 23rd of March.

Orders must be in by Tuesday the 21st of March.

Thursday 23rd March


Name: ____________________________

Grade: ____________


Thursday 23rd March


Name: ____________________________

Grade: ____________


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