Term 3 Week 10 Wednesday September 18th 2013

143 Bailey St Grovedale 3216 Tel: 5243 3902 Fax: 5243 0823 www.grovedaleps.vic.edu.au - grovedale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS END OF TERM 3: It really is amazing just how fast Term 3 has flown. The children have worked hard in their learning and achieved so much this term. Some of the highlights of term 3: Prep to Year 2 gymnastics. Year 3 to Year 6 Athletics carnival at Landy Field. Crazy Hair Day which saw over $496 raised for the Oncology Dept at Geelong Hospital. Our hugely successful Family Science Night. Our Year 4 students learnt how to ride a bike safely. Our promotional DVD has been filmed and produced. This will be available to view in Term 4. Our year 5/6 students visited IMAX in Melbourne. Our Book Fair and parade during Book Week. We farewelled Judith Cartwright, a teacher who had been at our school for 31 years. A hugely successful GroundForce Day which revitalised our school grounds, thanks to the Kardinia Church. In classrooms the children have learnt about “What is our place in Space.” This has been a highly engaging Science inquiry. WOW what a busy term!!! A reminder that we finish this Friday the 20th September at 2:30pm. FOOTY COLOURS DAY: We will be having a Footy Colours Day this Friday to celebrate the end of the term. The day will start with a whole school assembly in the morning. Please do come along in your footy colours and join in the celebrations. Mr Waldron has organised some great activities with the teachers for the day. There will be NO assembly in the afternoon and children will be dismissed from their classrooms. BBQ IN OUR FRONT FOYER: We have a fabulous new BBQ in our front foyer which Mr Jim Sheedy won for our school. Jim has a child in Prep L, Sarah Allwood. Jim attended the recent fathers day night at Bunnings Waurn Ponds and was the lucky winner of some tools for himself as well as a beautiful BBQ for our school. We are just so lucky!!!! Jim also kindly assembled the BBQ for us this week. A huge thank you Jim and to Bunnings!!! STAFFING TERM 4: Miss Deanne Lierich is taking Long Service Leave at the beginning of Term 4 to continue to care for her very sick partner. Mrs Julie Reeve has been filling in this term but unfortunately is unable to continue in Term 4. Ms Anna Risbey will be coming in for the 7 weeks that Dee will be on leave. I apologise for this change in staffing but it is unavoidable. Mrs Katie Baltetsch will be attending the Woorabinda Camp with a number of our Year 4 & 5 children in the first week of term 4. Mrs Baltetsch will then be taking the second week of term 4 off on long service leave. Mrs Angela Stephens will be her replacement during these 2 weeks. Mrs Kate Saunders will also be taking the first week of term 4 off on long service leave. A replacement is being found at the moment. HATS: Please remember that children are required to wear an appropriate sun hat whilst outside during term 4. HAPPY HOLIDAYS: I hope that everyone has a safe and happy holiday break over the next two weeks. We finish at 2:30 this Friday and return for term 4 on Monday the 7th of October. Please keep an eye on our school and ensure that it also is kept safe. Thank you all.

COMING EVENTS

FORMS / PAYMENT DUE BACK

Camp Wyuna Final payment due Tuesday 22 Oct / $60.00

Fables & Frolics Thursday 10th October / $5.00

Anytime IGA dockets - to be placed in box in office.

‘A Path to Success’

November

Mon 11th and Tues 12th

Grade 3/4 Camp Wyuna

Friday 22nd SCHOOL FAIR

September

Thursday 19th Big Bike Ride—Grade 4

Friday 20th Footy Colours Day Last day of term—dismissal 2.30pm

October

Monday 7th First Day of Term 4

Tuesday 16th Italian Incursion

Monday 21st Sub Committee Meetings

Monday 21st School Council Meeting

Monday 21st AASC program commences—Softball

Tuesday 22nd AASC program commences– Cheerleading

Wednesday 23rd Geelong Cup—No School

Thursday 24th Pupil Free Day

Footy Colours Day this Friday Don’t forget to wear your favour-ite footy clothes and join in our parade at 9.10am. Football activities will be held throughout the day!!

(no football boots please)

Please note…. There will be no lunch orders tomorrow or during the first week of term 4. Lunch orders will commence again on Tuesday October 15th. Thank you

UNIFORMS NEW UNIFORMS Deal directly with Coastal Uniforms. Phone: 5255 4897 Ann-Marie will visit Grovedale Primary School again on:

Thursday October 10th

Order forms may be picked up from the school office.

SECOND HAND UNIFORMS

Visit Sally & Kelli in the Sick Bay on

Tuesday afternoons only from 3:00-3:20pm SCHOOL KILTS Our kilt supplier is Geelong Uniforms 164 Malop Street Geelong. Phone: 5224 2229

Alisa Arnup For being an excellent student who completes all tasks to a high standard in a quiet efficient manner. Ebony Armstrong For writing an excellent first paragraph in her explanation. Kasey Bubb For having such success in addition, by learning both the extended and traditional method. Lucas Waldron For working hard on his Koala Lou story. Indee O’Neil For working hard on her Koala Lou story. Morghan Crouch For challenging himself with maths this week. Memphis Barsic McDonald For writing a great explanation this week. Kynan Manning For his positive attitude towards his writing tasks this week! Well done. Taleisha Grace For working beautifully on our unit on Bike Safety. Solomon Khokar For always having a cheerful, positive and happy disposition in our classroom. Lex DiCristoforo For trying really hard to achieve his writing goal. Seth Emond For the big improvements he has made in his handwriting. Jude Curtis For reading with fluency and expression. Riley Hutchins For creating an excellent pictograph. Hayden Southey For being a happy, co-operative and hardworking member of our class. Hayden Southey For his beautiful manners and great attention in Italian. Bravo! Jaspa Nott For being such a team inspiring player at Hoop Time Basketball. Montana Holdsworth For writing an extremely clever rhyming invitation.

PARENTS AND FRIENDS NEWS CHOCOLATE DRIVE So far we have raised $2623.00 from the chocolate drive. We are still waiting for a few late payments be-fore we can provide the final figure. TERM 4 We will be very busy at the beginning of term 4 getting ready for our School Fair on the 22nd November. Holidays are often a good time to have a tidy and clean up. We are looking for donations of clean second hand toys and books for two of our stalls at the fair. You might also find some gifts that you have been given that you have never used or will never use like toilet-ries, electrical goods, crockery and the list goes on. We can recycle these on the silent auction table. We will be gratefully accepting donations from the first week back in term 4.

We hope that all of our fabulous families have a happy and safe holiday.

Community Notices

Geelong Marlins Water Polo Come and Try day Sunday 22nd September 12.30pm to 2.30pm Geelong College Recreation Centre, Talbot Street, Newtown For more information please call Junior Coordina-tors John and Julie O’Callaghan on 0418 343 132 or 0415 514 418

School uniform As term 3 draws to an end, we provide a friendly reminder to parents to please check their children’s school clothing to ensure that they have their own items. With jumpers often coming off during the day, it is easy for these items to get mixed up. Please also take the opportunity to check our lost property table to pick up any misplaced items of clothing.

TWILIGHT FAIR 2013TWILIGHT FAIR 2013 Fair News We are very pleased and excited to have Imogen Brough performing at the fair this year. Thanks Imogen for your support. We are still looking for donations of various items and next term will also start collecting items for trash & treasure and book stalls. If you have any of the following items, we would be grateful of your donation. * books * magazines * trash & treasure * lucky dip prizes * auction/raffle prizes Thank you for your support Stalls have been allocated to grades with a contact person for each stall. If you can help with items for stalls, working on a stall on the night, preparing food etc, please speak to Gab Lewis or the contact person for the stall as below: Preps Cake stall, Lucky dip Nicole Reid, Steph Farrar Grades 1/2 Trash and treasure, Hot food Claire Hauenstein, Cindy Van Dort, Gab Lewis Grades 3/4 Books / plants, BBQ Lee Novak, Lyn Raeck Grades 5/6 Fairy Floss / snow cones / popcorn, crazy hair / face paint, balloons / frogs in ponds Kelli Caldow, Isabel Coomber

Market stalls Thank you to everyone who has booked a market stall so far. If you know of anyone who would like to book a stall, please contact the office for a registration form. Indoor sites are $35.00 and outdoor sites $20.00, with a raffle dona-tion. If you need any information, please contact Karen Wilson 1/2W. All money raised goes towards playground upgrades for our school!

With thanks We would like to thank the following people, organisations and businesses who have made donations: Imogen Brough Geelong Veterinary Hospital Quicksilver B&L Entertainment Mattel Peaches Fruit Shop Brumby’s Stepping Stones to Fitness Safeway St Albans Road Takeaway Bakers Delight South Barwon Cricket Club Touch Up Guys Grovedale Cub/Scouts Timbertruss Ready Cut Vegies CFA Campbell’s Cash and Carry Goodlife Health Club Kmart Geelong Aquatic Centre The Fairies

Crazy Hair Day Update

Suzie Knevitt would love to thank Mrs Sheridan, Miss Lierich and the (junior) school committee for organising this year’s Crazy Hair Day to help assist her with her recent head shave & to raise money for the Oncology Ward at the Geelong Hospital. The day, which was held on August 2nd, was a huge success with a total of $496 raised! Suzie is very grateful for this wonderful donation and also to all the kids , families and teachers supporting her during this exciting and bold deed. Also, a special thanks to Mr. Waldron for getting into the act of shaving his head on the day—making it fun and entertaining for all the kids to see. Suzie is very excited and pleased to announce that an overall ‘grand total’ of $3,896.00 was raised from her head shave!! Suzie and the Oncology Ward are absolutely thrilled and very grateful for this amazing amount donated by her many family and friends during this event. This donation will greatly assist with providing new facilities and services as well as care & support for all the staff, specialists & and those living with cancer in the future. Thank you all once again—it is very appreciated. Suzie, Mitch and Chloe Knevitt.

With school holidays quickly approaching you may be stuck for ideas for keeping children entertained.

Why not have some fun with your kids in the kitchen these school holidays and try these great easy

lamingtons!

This recipe is nut free

Ingredients

1 bought Victoria sponge cake

1/3 cup of raspberry jam

2 cups of icing sugar

1/4 cup of coco powder

3 cups of desiccated or shredded coconut

Method

1. Cut each half of the sponge cake in half hori-

zontally. Spread the jam on two of the halves and top with the remaining halves.

2. Cut each sponge into 8 pieces.

3. Sift the icing sugar and cocoa powder into a bowl. Add enough warm water to form a runny icing.

4. Place the coconut into a large mixing bowl.

5. Dip each cake portion in the icing to coat each side. This can be a messy

business, call in the kids and keep your hands nice and clean!

6. Roll each piece of cake in the coconut and place on a wire rack for 30

minutes to dry.

Helpful Hints

If you can’t find Victoria sponge a slab sponge is fine to make squares or rectan-

gles.

Its easier to coat the lamingtons if the icing is runny. If you wanted a thicker icing

spread the icing on with a knife– this can be slightly more time consuming.

Student Wellbeing

Please come in and

see me if you have

any concerns.

Megan Hay-Smith

Social Worker Monday 8:45-4:30

Tuesday 8:15-4:15