EVERY pupil is important EVERY staff member is an asset EVERY parent is a partner

From the Principal BABY NEWS We are very pleased to announce that Mrs Burns had her baby yesterday morning. She and her husband Matt welcomed a new son – Spencer Francis Burns, weighing in at a healthy 4.04kg. We all look forward to meeting Spencer soon and send our best wishes to Mrs Burns and her husband. SCHOOL COUNCIL ELECTIONS Congratulations to Emma Kennedy and Nicole Korosa who will join Andrew Dakin, Kirsty Taranto, Emily Conklin and Greg Miller as parent representatives on School council. Due to a resignation there is a 12 month position vacant. Any parents interest-ed in this position should register their interest with the Mrs Edwards. The DET representatives on School council are Ann Ricardo, Emma Harris, Craig Lieft-ing, Kim Worrell and Leanne Edwards (Executive Officer). STUDENT VOICE LIVE The grade 6 student leaders have been working hard to produce ‘The Student Voice Live’ page which is new to the newsletter this year. Please let us know what you think of the Student Voice page and if there is anything else you would like to see includ-ed. SCHOOL BBQ and POOL NIGHT A beautiful afternoon certainly made for a perfect evening by the pool last Thurs-day. Thank you to all of the families who attended our annual event – we hope you enjoyed the BBQ and Sno Cones! Thank you also to the staff who gave up their time to be a part of the event. DISTRICT SWIMMING Tuesday’s weather was perfect for the swimming sports held at Cowes. The Bass Val-ley squad performed admirably with some excellent results and several students moving through to the Division competition this Friday. Thank you to the parents who made a great cheer squad and to Miss Worrell, Mr McCormick and Kylie Lansdown who looked after students on the day. See inside for more pictures. PREP STUDENTS We would like to thank the parents and guardians of prep students for bringing them along for their English interviews over the past four Wednesdays. It was much ap-preciated. Please remember that prep students now attend school for the full week from next Monday. Could all families please check school uniforms for names as we have some missing labelled clothes and we also have a lot of lost property turning up that is not named! We can get items back to owners if we know who it belongs to!!

Leanne Edwards Principal Quote of the week

DATES TO REMEMBER

MARCH

1st—School Council Meeting(current members)

2nd—5/6 campers return 13th—Whole School Assembly 2.50pm 20th—Parent/Teacher Interviews 22nd—School Council Meeting(new members)

26th—Kaboom Kid Sport—$7 p/student

27th—End of Term Assembly 29th—Last Day Term 1—2.30 finish 30th—Good Friday

APRIL 9th—First Day Term 2

If you haven't already done so, don't forget to

regularly check our school website;

www.5195bvps.global2.vic.edu.au

Bass Valley Primary School implements the Child Safe Standards to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all students at the school

and promote an organisational culture that manages the risk of child abuse and neglect.

For more information on our standards check out the school website.

NUMBER: 05 DATE: 1st March 2018

BASS VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL + Phone (03)56780208 + Pr incipal: Mrs Leanne Edwards

Email: bass.valley.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.bassvalleyps.vic.edu.au/

70 Corinella Rd, Corinella 3984

Bass Valley Primary School

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Some of our District Swimming team that competed at Cowes on Tuesday. Those students who will be going through to the next level are Becky Heffer in Breaststroke and Tabatha Heffer in Backstroke with Riley Eden an emergency in Freestyle. Other students who performed well but just miss out on going through are: Ava Hakim, Alana Dakin, Angus Rosenow, Aleyah Fleming, Skylah Fleming, Alli Jaskula, Seth Wolfe, Mathew Dakin, Trent Cartmel and Christian Matser. Well done to all the team for your good sportsmanship.

Birthdays at Bass Valley : Students celebrating their birthdays this week are:

Angel O’Hehir, Ella Connor, Ella Masinovic, Justin Braumann-Hall & Isabelle Colpoys

We hope you all have great birthdays

CANTEEN Duty Roster: 8th March—Kayte Stringer & Emma Kennedy 15th March—Nicole Korosa & Deb Oliver

ATTENDANCE

Every Day Counts: Congratulations to students and parents

who have maintained excellent attendance so far this term. Celebrate your birthday at school- bring a cake if you wish, receive your birthday certificate and have a special day at school with your friends!

KABOOM KID SPORT IS COMING!

This is a Commonwealth Games themed tabloid sports day.

There will be an Opening Ceremony, Olympic flame, medal

tallies during activities and presentation of Gold, Silver and

Bronze medals. This will run on Monday 26th March from

11.30—1.30 for all students. The cost of this event will be

$7 per student (the original cost was $9 and St Vincents de

Paul have generously agreed to subsidise all students $2

each). The $7 payment can be sent along to school at your

earliest convenience or taken out of CSEF funds if you have

them available.

CHANGES OF INFORMATION If any contact details or circumstances change for your child/children, please inform the office immediately.

COMMUNICATION ● Newsletter – distributed every Thursday to the eldest in the family ● Facebook – Regular postings and photos of what’s going on in the school – newsletters are also posted here ● SeeSaw – This is a free app that you can download on to your phone or device. You will receive a log on to your child’s grade See Saw. Teachers will post information and photos each week of activities within the classroom ● Phone- Please ring if you need any information or wish to make an appointment with a teacher, Principal or Assistant Principal.

BENDIGO BANK APPLICATIONS

If any Prep students or students new to the school wish to

open Bendigo Bank accounts, we have application packs in

the office. All new accounts get a credit of $20 and new

prep students receive a story book as well.

COLES SPORTS FOR SCHOOLS

We are collecting these tokens now so tell your

family and friends to collect them too and drop

them into the collection box in the school foyer.

The more tokens we collect the more sports

equipment we will be able to get for the school.

GRADE 5/6 CAMP NEWS Here are some pictures of the first two hiking groups today on the Lilly Pilly loop track from Tidal River. Apparently the weather is windy but not that cool.

LEARNING CONFERENCE (STUDENT/PARENT/TEACHER INTERVIEWS) This year students will attend the interviews with parents to empower students to take greater responsibility and ownership of their learning. The interviews will be held on Tuesday 20th March in the afternoon/evening. To book these interviews, you need to go through the Compass portal. You need to login to the Compass App to do this. Please contact the office if you need assistance with this. This will go live for you to do so on Friday 9th March. SEESAW CHALLENGE The prep grades have now taken the lead in the chal-lenge to have all parents in the grade signed up for the free SeeSaw app. Remember there is a free icy pole for the whole grade who wins the challenge! So how is your grade going? PV 17/19, PG 16/18, 1H 16/21, 1/2L 19/23, 2H 18/22, 3/4D 12/22, 3/4M 13/23, 4/5M 13/19, 5/6W 17/23 and 5/6R 13/24 We have parents comment that See Saw is a great conversation starter with their children. When asking ‘What did you do today?’ and getting the reply ‘Nothing’, parents can say ‘ I saw today you were doing …….how did that go, tell me more about it’.

Our boys and girls U12/13 relay teams

COMMUNITY NEWS

Bass Valley had some unique and interesting entries in the Art Competition. Go along to the festival and check them out. Congratulations to our students who entered this competition, your work was awesome.

CORINELLA KARATE CLUB Corinella Hall

Monday 6.30pm

All Levels—All Ages Contact Jessica for more info on 0408 989 559

Wonthaggi Uncle Bob’s Club Inc.

We will be running a Good Friday Appeal collection day on Friday 30th March 2018 at the CFA Headquarters

in White Road Wonthaggi. The collection will begin at 9am.

Last year over $30383 was raised. We appreciate all the support we

receive for this event. For further information contact John Duscher on 0488 026 435

GRANTVILLE PHARMACY 2/1524 Bass Hwy, Grantville

Ph: 5678 8635 Fax: 8080 0768 Email: grantvillepharmacy@hotmail.com

Free Blood Pressure Testing

Free home delivery service to local areas

NDSS—Diabetes program

Webster packing

Crutches hire, Scripts on file

Gifts and a full range of pharmacy products Hours: Mon—Fri 9am—5.30pm Sat: 9am—5pm

Now open Sundays 10am—5pm

Simply Sinful Cupcakes! -cupcakes -cakes for all occasions

-catering

Find us on face book Www.facebook.com.au/

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or call Emily on 0448886349

AGAR AMUSEMENTS

Jumping Castles (Princess Castle with slide, SpiderMan,

Octopus )

Go-Karts,Bungee, Mini Golf

Parties, Fetes, All Occasions

Phone Jo & John—56780832 Mobile—0425837979

www.agaramusements.com

GRANTVILLE MEDICAL CENTRE 2/1524 Bass Highway

Telephone: 5678 8029

Mon.Tue.Thur.Fri 9am—4.30pm (Closed over lunch period)

Wed. 9am—1pm Dr. George Mariajoseph MBBS FRACGP All pensioners, Health Care Card Holders

and children u/16 will be bulk billed.

GRANTVILLE PH: 56788113

Open every day 10.30am—8pm

Till 8.30pm Friday & Saturday

‘The best chicken in town’

As well as dinners, veggies, burgers, seafood, coffee and lots more

MINI EXCAVATION

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1 meter wide tight access

1 meter mud bucket, 450mm &

250mm trenching buckets

Stump removal, blackberry’s dug

out, spoon drains, laser levelling

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Mick—0402 977 164

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Tegan Reid - 0404 883 783

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