Dorset Primary School Diary Dates

Friday 21st June: Reports to be sent home

Art Show 6pm - 8pm Saturday 22nd June: Art Show 10am - 2pm Monday 24th June: Parent Teacher Conferences All grades. 6-9pm Tuesday 25th June: Parent Teacher Conferences Grades Prep, 1 and 2. 1-6pm Wednesday 26th June: Parent Teacher Conferences Grades 3 and 4. 1-6pm Thursday 27th June: Parent Teacher Conferences Grades 5 and 6. 1-6pm Friday 28th June: Disco

Last Day of Term 2, early dismissal 2.30pm Monday 15th July: Term 3 Commences, 9.00am 26th August to 2nd September: School Steel Challenge Wednesday 11th September: School Production Thursday 12th September: School Production

Date: Thursday 20th June 2013

Issue No: 18

NOTICES SENT HOME

Notice Sent Home Recipient Date

Parent Teacher Conferences Whole School 6th June

Disco Whole School 17th June

Drink Bottle Order Form Whole School 19th June

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Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden News

Students have been planting banana plants, aerating and

creating compost, filling and planting out raised boxes,

transplanting strawberries and potatoes, and harvesting peas,

herbs, lettuce, spinach and broccoli. The chooks are laying

more eggs more frequently. Drainage digging will begin next

week in the bluestone garden beds and retaining walls. There

will be a garden stall at the art show so we hope to see

everyone there.

Thank you Anna

Please keep your recipe's for our SAKG cookbook coming in. The recipe box is located outside the general office.

School Disco

Friday 28th June

Friday 28th June

Last Day of Term 2

Early dismissal

2.30pm Friday 21st J

une

School reports sent

home

Birthdays

Student of the Week

Jolie Nguyen Flynn Smith Hudson White Nina Bielenberg Jorja Gasparis Jay Fidler Indianna Page Ferguson Mollie McGregor Jazmine Pittaway Harry De Koning Noah West Anna Zachar Liam Wilson Tyson Simcocks Alex Painter Hayley Jacquet Aisha Kanyua Shaneyl Parker-Hawdon

Maggie Butcher Matthew Geddes Aiden Higgins Ani Seviua Darren Newton Kyle MacCartney Dominik Ferencz Ben Machray T’Leigha Walker Kevin Nguyen Sandra Cai Kylah Riddell Keegan O’Donnell Luke Chaplin Josh Kirwan Isaac Spruit Hannah Tesselaar

OSHC NEWS

Greetings from the Dorset OSHC!

We have been having an awesome time this week with our clay modeling, sculptures, face painting and masks! Next term, we look forward to doing some awesome science activities like working with magnets and building mechanical toys for the program!!

We are still looking for donations for our craft activities, so if you have any flannelette shirts, windcheaters, large plastic ice cream containers or anything you might consider “arty”, we’d love to accept your donations! :)

We have Holiday Club over the holidays which will be awesome fun! We’ll be going to the movies, having a football day, science day and even a trip to the party factory! For more information, please log onto www.campaustralia.com.au/holidayclubs

And finally, on June 28, which is the last day of school, we will be having OSHC start at 2:30pm, and throwing a party night to celebrate the holidays, so it’d be great to see you all there!!

If you have any questions, please feel free to come in and visit us in the OSHC room or call our mobile on 0417 566 915

Have an awesome weekend! - Chris, Kane and Nat.

Chaplain’s Chat

“Class wake up call”

I read with interest the article Herald Sun

June 14th, page 11 “Class wake up call” by Ashley

Ryan discussing issues of children turning up to

school chronically tired. I personally have met with

students who state they sit up very late watching TV,

iphones, ipods, ipads this added to midweek outings

tax the developing brain. The article states that ‘schools

are calling on experts to counsel parents.’

When a student turns up for school perhaps in some

cases late due to sleeping in, their ability to concentrate

is diminished dramatically. The teacher tries to set the

agenda of what the class will be doing for the day,

however the student appears to simply not engage at all

due to lack of sleep.

In other cases the child is simply too tired and the

parent allows the child to stay home, thus missing out

on not only learning opportunities but also socialising

with his/ her friends.

HOW MUCH REST/SLEEP DO KIDS NEED

Pre school (3-5yrs) 11-13 Hours

Primary school (5-12 yrs) 9-11 Hours

Teenagers (12-18yrs ) 8.5-9.5 Hours

Source: Sleep Health Foundation (hours/day)

Further reading reference

Melbourne Children’s Sleep Centre Monash Children’s

Hospital

www.monashchildrens.org.au/children

www.sleephealthfoundation.org.au

Behavioural Sleep Problems School Age Children

In closing what are your child/s sleeping habits ?

Are they getting into poor habits already.

Let’s look after our children’s health and wellbeing to

ensure they can learn and achieve the best educational

outcomes.

Take Care

John Vander-Velde (Mr Vann)

Angelika Chaplin Shashank Nag Ambekar Reuben MacCartney Chantelle Jenkins Phoebe Paulin Tahlia Rowe Patryk Swannell Joshua Kirwan Cameron Whitehead Scarlett Harrison Dean Mitchell Hayley Thompson Jada Yandall Macey Postill Lachlan Hewitt Jade Easton Kyle MacCartney Jade Majic

Nathaniel Trottman Brian Mackie Riley Sanders Samantha Triangolo Mollie McGregor Jarrod Rennison Cameron Helleren Shayden Varon Olivia Nash Timothy Morman Brayden Franken Aiden Higgins Emma Conroy Elley Steenhuizen Maggie Butcher Lachlan Shurbart Stuart Klaussner

ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS

LAST CHANCE!!!!

Your 2012-13 Entertainment book has now expired!

If you haven't bought your 2013-14 book yet we still have some available,

but only until the end of term. There is a display book in the office

foyer for your convenience. Simply browse to see what offers are

available this year!

Ordering is easy. Please use the form available at the office or go to the

website

www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/1894560

Thank you, Pauline Keogh

Secondary Transition News Update

This week’s tip:

Promote independence in your child’s daily life. Encourage

them to independently complete their homework and hand it

on time and start to focus on improving their general

organisational skills.

Regards, Sarah Tilley – Transition Co-ordinator

Choco lates

Thank you to all families who have already returned

money/unsold chocolates. We still have boxes of

chocolates available. Anyone who would like a second

box of chocolates to sell, or have any queries please call

9725 5038 or speak to Cynthia Helleren.

ALL CHOCOLATES SELL FOR $1.00 each

1 Box = 50 chocolates = $50

The raffle will be drawn early next week.

Sustainable Solutions Group

NUDE LUNCHES

From term 3, we will be encouraging children to bring rubbish free lunches to school or ‘nude food’ every Wednesday. All grades will be promoting reducing the amount of waste we produce and celebrating our successes.

Here are some ideas to reduce packaging: *Put food in plastic containers instead of glad wrap. *Fruit/vegetables are healthy alternatives and scraps are composted. *Buy a large packet of snacks and place a few in a container each day *Cubes of cheese and a few biscuits, replacing dips in packets *Drinks in reusable bottles (Water is recommended) *Buy a large pot of yoghurt and place a little into a container each day.

CROSS COUNTRY FINALS

Last week the four students who qualified at the

District Cross country went on to compete in the

divisional finals. At these finals Fraser Sheridan

( 11 yr boys – finished 14th) , Jing Rong (12/13 yr

boys – finished 25th ), Soraya McLean (10 yr girls –

finished 9th) and Thomas Sheridan (11 yr boys –

finished 1st ). These were extremely good results

considering the high level of this competition.

Soraya and Thomas qualified to compete in the

regional finals. These were held on Tuesday.

Soraya came 45th in her race. Thomas came 4th in

his race and qualified to compete in the State

Championships.

We wish Thomas luck and success in this up-coming

competition.

Football Southwood

Soccer Fred Geale Oval

Boys & Girls softball Dorset

Volleyball Dorset

Bat tennis Dorset

Girls & Mixed Netball Tintern

INTER SCHOOL SPORT

Last Friday no inter school games were played.

This Friday Dorset plays against Tintern /

Southwood.

Games and venues –

Dear Parents, Term 2 is almost over and lots of great events have occurred at our school. This will be the last newsletter for this term so keep safe and enjoy your holidays!! Art Show This Friday night 6pm to 8pm and Saturday 10am to 2pm the fabulous Dorset Art Show will take place. The children along with Kirsten Haworth (our resident artist) have been working very hard on completing amazing pieces of artwork. Please come along and support this event and enjoy some delicious home made food provided by Mr Jacobs and the SAKG staff. Head Lice As school is experiencing a bit of a lice problem a qualified nurse will be visiting the school. This is a routine examination and the nurse will notify parents if there is a confirmed case of head lice. All confidentiality and privacy is adhered to during the nurse’s visit. Disco Friday the last day of term will be disco day! It is important that children dress in their disco gear but please keep in mind practical footwear and no strappy tops. School Production Term 3 is going to revolve around our school production. It is such a wonderful experience for the children and really allows them to learn and grow on a different level. If you can help in any way please contact Mrs Ray or Madame. Nude Food As of term 3 every Wednesday will be nude food lunch day. It is important the parents support this to enable children to learn about how to preserve and care for our environment. Try to involve them in packing and sorting their lunch on these days. It could be a family challenge and have all involved!! Planning Days This week the teachers have been involved in planning days. Listening in as I have been, the teachers are planning some comprehensive and detailed programs for next term. I’m really looking forward to Market Day for the grade 5/6’s. Next term already sounds very busy and productive. Keep safe these holidays! Enjoy and ensure the children are rested enough to tackle the busy term. Kind Regards, Palma Coppa Assistant Principal