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SLETTER END OF TERM

The end of term is fast approaching—I can not believe we are nearly half way through the year. Next week will be a bit busy with the Foundation Evening on Monday evening. At this stage we have had a large number of enquiries and enrolments to date. We will be encouraging all enrolments to be completed by first week in August so we can provide the best possible transition program between Early years and the foundation year for 2015.

REPORTING TO PARENTS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT—PARENT TEACHER DISCUSSIONS, STUDENT REPORTS AND LEARNING PORTFOLIOS Parents will be receiving student reports and student learning portfolios next Tuesday. The student learning portfolio houses samples of work and tasks students have completed to provide parents with evidence of student learning and concrete samples of work to contextualise the formal student reports. The portfolio has a celebration of learning page. We encourage families to have a share time and celebrate your child/s achievements. There is an opportunity for parents and friends to share a comment within the portfolio. Thankyou to those parents who have returned Parent Teacher Discussion Forms. A Confirmation of parent times was attached to last week’s newsletter. If you have not returned your form, teachers will be communicating with families to ensure all parents/carers have formal opportunity to speak to them about the achievements of your child/ren. Parents Note- STUDENT PORTFLIOS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO THE PARENT TEACHER DISCUSSIONS PLEASE. SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING The next School Council meeting will be held on Tuesday 24th June at 1.30pm at the school.

SCHOOL COMMUNITY SUPPORT Warragul Swap Meet is the major fundraiser for Nilma Primary School. The Parents Club will be catering at the Warragul Swap Meet at the Warragul Showgrounds on Sunday 29th June for fundraising purposes. On the menu will be Sausages, Hot Dogs, Egg & Bacon Sandwiches, Tea & Coffee, Soft Drinks and Juice. All help is greatly appreciated. We would like all families to support the day—by being available for a couple of hours—return the form on page 5 of this newsletter by next Wednesday please. Thanks to the list of parents who have returned the form and have been allocated a time.

SCHOOL VALUES’ STICKER COMPETITION Over the next week we will be encouraging students to take part in designing our new School Values REAL Stickers. Our core values of Respect and Responsibility, Environment, Achievement and Learning will be the basis of development and review of our Student Learning and Well being programs at Nilma. Students will have the opportunity to draw a picture to reflect one of the values—students will choose 4 pictures to be printed in the centre of our new school sticker awards. We will be revisiting and using these values throughout our school. Happy Drawing kids—Mum or Dad may give you some ideas to capture your thinking! I will be collecting the drawings early next week. Students will look at all displays and choose 4 pictures that represent these values.

Have a REAL go kids! WINTER SPORT The last Winter Sport session will be held this Friday 20th June. Please note that the Ten Pin Bowling will be closed this Friday, so children participating in this activity will now be doing Minor Games. Students do not need to bring $6 for this activity.

Principal

Ms Annette Sutherland

Business Manager Mrs Rachel Hammond

School Council President

Mrs Nicki Kimm

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Principal Notes .. 1 Student Learning .. 2 Calendar .. 4 School Happenings ..5

Bloomfield Road, Nilma 3821 Telephone: (03)56232963 Email: nilma.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.nilmaps.vic.edu.au

NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Principal Notes

LAST DAY OF TERM 2

FRIDAY 27TH JUNE 1.15PM FINISH

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R.E.A.L STUDENTS@NILMA Student of the Week

Recognitions Homegroup 1/F Red

Jessie McCabe For being a great learner, by

working hard when handwriting your letters and using all the skills

you have learnt when reading. Well done Jessie.

Homegroup 3/2/1/ Green

Ty Ward For being a fantastic learner by

always listening in class and being on task. Great Job Ty.

Homegroup 5/4/3 Blue

Kirsty Wooster For making a great effort in all areas of your learning and always being prepared to “have a go”. Thanks for the smile mate!

Homegroup 6/5 Yellow

Lachlan Crook Demonstrating superb

sportsmanship in both class and interschool games, no matter the

outcome. Top stuff!

STUDENT LEARNING @ NILMA

Happy Birthday

Jaycobb Archer

Lachlan Axford

L.A.U.G.H Program Learning Activities Under Guidance of Home

NIGHTLY READING 50 nights

Blake Hanmer Sine Salt

Lane Ward

75 Nights Jade Mammolito

Beth Axford Jaycobb Archer Tahlia Witney

100nights Megan Griggs Jessie McCabe Oliver Turner

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HOMEGROUP HAPPENINGS!

On the 17th of June we went to

Yarrgon Rec. Reserve to play

interschool footy. The first

game we played Drouin. We

tried hard but didn’t get there.

We got very dirty. Yay! The

second game we got smashed

by Warragul North. They are a good

team.

By James, Lachy A and Angus.

The highlight of my trip to Melbourne was

Sky Deck and the Aquatics Centre. I

thought that the Sky Deck was beautiful,

amazing even! You could see all the lights

and in the elevator it felt like my ears were

going to blow up we were going so fast. At

the Swim Centre it was brilliant too. I loved

the wave pool it was so much fun.

By Megan Griggs

As I waited for the train I said a final bye to mum and the

little boys. Then Michael said, “ Train!” and Mr Williams

told us to go to our teachers to get our cards. When he said

to get on the train Charlotte and I misunderstood what he

said so we had to wait until last!!! Bye the time we got to

Melbourne I was half asleep. First we caught a tram and

went to Imax. We went on a really big elevator and

watched “Under the Sea”! To be continued……..!

Carolyn Dungey

We went on the Eureka Sky Deck at night. It felt like I was

flying. I was a bit scared and that was on our first night! On

the second night went swimming and went to the MCG. I

touched Roughhead’s locker. He is from Hawthorn and he

is my favourite player. We also went to Imax and saw

“Under the Sea”. By Kiandra

Reading and writing numbers down in words can be tricky! This week the students in the

Red classroom have worked very hard to become number word masters!

Foundation students have been working on their numbers 1-10 and 1-20 when reading

and writing number words. Grade 1 students have been working on their numbers to 100!

They got to choose a lucky dip number from a box and write it down in words using a number word chart. They

all did so well and we had lots of fun doing a class matching game!

Home Group - 1F -

Ruby Red

Japanese

In Japanese we sang a song.

The song was about counting

to ten. I can count to 10 in

Japanese.By Rieley

In Japanese we play a game

outside. We were learning about counting

to ten. By Jack

I love Japanese. It is fun because we can

learn more words in Japanese. We are

learning to count to ten. We sing a song

about counting to ten. By Nataly

We play a game of rock paper scissor in

Japanese. It was good fun. I can count to

ten in Japanese. I like our Japanese

Teacher. By Ty

Home Group - 65 -

Lemon Yellow

Home Group - 543 -

Aqua Blue

Home Group - 321 -

Emerald Green

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NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL CALENDAR

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JUNE 2014

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Foundation 2015

Information

Evening 7.00pm

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Student Reports

distributed

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Tennis

Hot Lunches

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MARC Van

Parent/Teacher

Discussions

AASC

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Last Day Term 2

1.15pm finish

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sa Su

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Start Term 3

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21 22 23 THRASS 24

Parents 2.30pm

MARC Van

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JULY 2014

NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENTS CLUB FUNDRAISER

WARRAGUL SWAP MEET CATERING SUNDAY 29TH JUNE 2014 PARENT HELP NEEDED!! More hands make Light work!

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sa Su

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MARC Van

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MARC Van

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AUGUST 2014

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WARRAGUL SWAP MEET CATERING SUNDAY 29TH JUNE 2014

The Parents Club will be catering at the Warragul Swap Meet at the Warragul Showgrounds on Sunday 29th June for fundraising purposes. On the menu will be Sausages, Hot Dogs, Egg & Bacon Sandwiches, Tea & Coffee, Soft Drinks and Juice Boxes.

SWAP MEET ROSTER IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO COME IN AT THESE TIMES PLEASE SPEAK TO

NICKI KIMM Ms Sutherland will be approaching all families if we have shortages on helpers.

PARENT CLUB

6am – 7.30am

KIMM CHESTERFIELD SMYTHE

7.30am – 9am

AXFORD

9am – 10.30am

BROWN (Jo)

BOTT/WITNEY

10.30am – 12pm

12pm – 1.30pm

NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL

PARENTS CLUB FUNDRAISER

WARRAGUL SWAP MEET CATERING

(All families please return)

The _______________________________ family will be available to

help on Sunday 29th June 2014 at the Warragul Swap Meet.

6am – 7.30am 7.30am – 9am 9am - 10.30am

10.30am -12pm 12pm – 1.30pm Any of these times

Many hands make light work!

PLEASE RETURN TO SCHOOL BY

MONDAY 23RD JUNE.

Ms Sutherland will ask parents if we have shortages on parent helpers.

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Well done to Holly Farnham, Shelby McGrath and Tahlia Whitney, who combined with Darnum PS students, to put in a solid effort competing against Buln Buln PS in the netball on Wednesday the 11th. Unfortunately the girls went down 5-19. A huge thank you to Danielle Blackney for coaching the girls.

Congratulations to Jack McGrath, Angus Mulconry, Harrison Perry, Lachlan Axford, James Dungey, Lachlan Crook and Patrick Smythe, who combined with Darnum PS students, to compete against Buln Buln PS in

the football on the same day. The boys had a great win 35-15. The combined footy team, with the inclusion of Shelley Brown and Shakira Kimm, then represented our sport district on Tuesday the 17th at the West Gippsland Division Round Robin in Yarragon. The team put in a great effort but unfortunately

both Drouin and Warragul North PS teams were too strong. A huge thank you Leanne and Norm Perry for transporting and coaching the students.

Well done to all students involved for having a terrific sporting experience!

PARENT INFORMATION SESSION Teaching of Handwriting Reading And Spelling Strategies

(THRASS)

INFORMATION SESSION FOR PARENTS

Learn how to help your child with language

Expression of interest form

Complete slip below and return to the office by Friday 27th June.

Name of parent:________________________________________

THRASS SESSION 1 - Thursday 24th JULY 2.00pm—3.30pm

THRASS SESSION 2 - Thursday 24th JULY 3.30pm—5.00pm

What days would suit?___________________________________

What times would suit?___________________________________

Signed by parent: _______________________________________

Date: ___________________________

PARENT CLUB PIE DRIVE

Thank you to all the families that supported the Pie Drive. We sold close to $1400 worth of pies! The pies will be deliv-ered to school from 12pm on Tuesday 24th June and will be available for collection after 2pm. Please note that they will not be refrigerated so it is advised to collect them as soon as possible. A huge thank you also goes to Natalie Axford for coordinating the Pie Drive. Thank you Natalie! The money raised from this fundraiser will go towards the swimming pro-gram.

HOT LUNCHES Thank you to Kelly Chesterfield who has been coordinating the Hot Lunches for this term. The last Hot Lunch for this term will be: Cheeseburgers for $2.50 each. For catering purposes, please have all orders in by Monday.

SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

On Tuesday the 24th of June Nilma Primary School is having its first fundraiser for 2014. All students can wear free dress for a gold coin donation, with all proceeds going to The Royal Children’s Hospital.

There will also be a talent show on the day. You can register for your short act at Recess on Friday. Teachers are

encouraged to perform! Judges will be Kylie Griggs, Blake Witney Ms Sutherland and Mr Williams.

WGRSSA-Football & Netball