The PURPOSE of Plenty Parklands Primary School is -

to educate children as lifelong learners to shape a better Australia.

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: May 19 2016 Issue 14

Principal’s Message

Principal - Claire McInerney Assistant Principals - Julie Nixon and Alison Devereux

Business Manager - Kristina Elvey 48 Blossom Park Drive, Mill Park, 3082 Phone: 9404 4311, Fax: 9404 4702

E-Mail: plenty.parklands.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.plentyparklands-ps.vic.edu.au

Calendar of Events

Week 6 EDUCATION WEEK

Friday 20/5

Education Week dress up and kite flying day

Week 7

Monday 23/5

Report writing day—student do not attend school

Wednesday 25/5

B.D.S.S.A.—Cross Country Carnival

Thursday 26/5

9.30am-2.45pm year 3 excursion to Melbourne Aquarium

Week 8

Wednesday 1/6

Divisional Cross Country

Thursday 2/6

9.15am-10.15am School Tour

Week 9

Wednesday 8/6

2pm-3pm School Tour

Friday 10/6

9am-3.30pm Year 4 Science Works excursion

2017 PREP ENROLMENTS ARE NOW

BEING TAKEN

If you are a member of our school community and

have a child commencing Prep in 2017, please come

to the school office to collect an enrolment pack.

At last night’s Education Week Open Night, it was ‘all hands on deck’ to create a kite that will fly. Parents and kids were engrossed in the task, resulting in many varieties of shapes, sizes and ‘flight readiness’. Some even

had elegant decorations. The higher up the school, the more complex were the kites in some cases. One family was working on their third kite for the evening! After last night, I doubt there’s any sticky tape left in classrooms. Thanks to our parents for showing such a keen interest in your child’s education and bringing them to school after hours. Thanks also to Ms McKay and the CBD for their lovely and heartfelt performance.

Thanks also to the committee who planned our celebrations and to all staff for being here late and for being so welcoming to our community, particularly at this busy ‘report writing‘ time of the year. Reminder that Friday is the kite flying day, so keep your fingers crossed for some wind. It is also a casual clothes day . See Education Week flyer on page 7.

Principal’s message cont….

Plenty Parklands Press

Date: May 19 2016 Issue 14 PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE CONTINUED Chesterfield Farm was a great hit with our preps last week; off they went in their gumboots and jackets to ‘see the animals’. See, touch, hear, feed and smell the animals, is more like it. I thought it might be nice to ‘hear’ from one of our preps, Jennifer, in her own writing who wrote her piece about the farm and then presented it at this week’s assembly. “Hi, my name is Jennifer and I am going to tell you about the farm, it was fun. I lent to milk a cow. I fed the animls. The trackor was fun. The veggie pach was nice. The bus was cool. The baby anumls were so cute. The farm was fun. I made a new friend on the Bus.” Great job Jennifer and I know the learning has continued as I just visited some prep rooms and guess what they were reading and talking about? Yes, the farm. IMPORTANT change of dates. Last week I asked you to put some important dates in your diary, now I need you to change them to a week earlier. Now the date to put in your diary is Wednesday July 13. Please join us in the morning at 9:00 until 9:50 or if you prefer or if you are working, at 7:00 unit 8:00 pm. This is an invitation to join the School Council and some of our student leaders to review our systems view of PPPS. We will be led by Michael King from Quality Learning Australia to look at our Purpose Statement, our Vision Statements and our Values. You will have the chance to review these and give your opinion about whether they are still relevant or need updating. This is a real opportunity for everyone to have a say in the future of our school. Parenting, the hardest job. Michael Grose has a few ideas that could help. Do you find it frustrating when your children won’t cooperate with you? A simple request to pack up toys and wash hands before dinner is ignored. Or your reminder to set the table or do homework is answered with procrastination, argument or complaint. It can be difficult to know how to respond when kids will only do things on their terms. Here are three tips to help you avoid frustration and get cooperation from your kids Don’t threaten, bribe or do deals! Getting kids to cooperate is tricky. One method doesn’t necessarily fit all kids so as a parent or teacher it helps to have a broad repertoire of responses to draw on when kids are less than perfect or you want more cooperative behaviour. Here are three good discipline habits to develop: 1. Avoid the first impulse so you don’t overreact A good rule of thumb is to stop yourself from reacting when children misbehave. As much of children’s poor behaviour is purposeful, in that it keeps parents busy with them or is designed to let parents know that in fact you can make a child do anything they want to do, your impulsive reactions reinforce the behaviour. At times stopping and doing nothing is better than saying something you regret later on or can’t follow through with. 2. Move toward them to be noticed Moving into children’s space to deliver a message is usually more effective than issuing an order across a lounge room when you are competing with a screen for attention. It does require effort but the results in terms of getting cooperation is generally worth it. 3. Use a consequence to teach Not all children respond positively to consequences. Very sensitive children can take consequences personally so use them sparingly with more sensitive. Sometimes a change in the tone of your voice is enough for these children. But generally reasonable consequences that have a relationship to children’s misdemeanours and that are respectfully delivered are effective in teaching children to behave responsively. The trick is to deliver them like a neutral cop – cool, calm and with not too many words. Thanks again for your contribution to learning this week by your participation in our Open Night, Claire McInerney, Principal

Thanks to Steve, father of Cooper in 5-6, and a musician himself, who

invited his friend, Paul Laine to visit and sing and play guitar for our year

5’s. As a professional musician from Canada, Paul said he feels incredibly

lucky to have been able to do something he loves; singing, composing

and performing, and make a lifelong career at the same time. It was a

terrific opportunity to ask questions of someone who began his

professional career as a solo artist, then was the singer of Danger Danger

out of New York for eleven years, then fronted his own band, Shugaazer.

Paul now has a band, "Darkhorse", whose album Let It Ride was released

April 29, 2014. Paul has a fabulous voice, but was unassuming and

relaxed with the kids. Having now met Paul I can see why he is known as,

“the nice guy of rock ‘n’ roll”.

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Date: May 19 2016 Issue 14

Insects and Minibeasts by 1-23 Insects have a thorax, abdomen and head—Cetin Insects have 6 legs—Adam E They can have hundreds of eyes—Adam K Insects have antennae to smell—Jada Ants can drown in the rain—Zara If a bee stings you, the bee will die—Andrew Woodcutter ants can cut little trees down—Olivia G Insects and minibeasts are different because insects have 6 legs—Katija Insects can use their antennae to pick things up—Zane Ants can climb trees—Zack Insects can have wings—Travis Ladybirds have 3 body parts even though they look small—Charlotte Spiders spin webs—Michael Some spiders can blend in—Coby Red back and whitetail spiders are poisonous—Olivia C Ants pick up crumbs that you drop on the floor—Lana Some spiders are dangerous—Noah A female preying mantis has little wings and cannot fly and a male has big wings and can fly—Charlee Spiders can climb trees—Sami Ladybugs have three different colours—Ayla Earthworms breathe through their skin—Irene Ants carry food on their back—Amylia Earthworms don’t have legs—Grace

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A huge thank you to all of the wonderful volunteers who assisted us on our road ride; Lorna McCarthy and Jo Parissi from the Victorian Police Force, Jake Matthews from Bicycle Network, Simone, Runjuna and Stephanie – our parent helpers, Hugh, Dylan and Dion – our RMIT riders and Alicia, Jamie, Connor, Rami, Bec and Christian – our RMIT street corner assistants. We certainly could not have completed our road ride without all of your help. THANK YOU!

Also thank you to Ms Van Vliet for teaching the outdoor Bike Ed lessons and to Mr Matheson for taking Mrs Gatt’s PE classes. Thank you to Ms DeCata and Mr Lowes for taking the fun activities back at school, while the other groups were riding. Finally, thank you to all of our parents and students for getting their bikes and helmets ready and to school for all of the Bike Education activities. Keep riding your bike safely.

Mrs. Julie Gatt. Bike Ed coordinator

The Year 4 Great Mill Park Road Ride

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THE PLENTY PARKLANDS TIMES

Bike Education in 4-31 is a grand success!

Year 4-31 have been learning about riding our bikes and how to be safe on them. We sent our best investigators out to document the action during the year 4 bike education ride day. By the looks of 4-31’s comments, it was a great success! Mathangi: “It is great for exercise and we get to learn new bike riding skills.” Jaycob: “Bike Ed is educational fun!” Liam: “It’s fun learning new things.” Eva: “Riding is good for your health.” Isabel and Mikayla: “Bike Ed is fun and educational!” Alannah, Ishani and Victoria: “Fun, exciting and we enjoy riding” Hannah: “It’s fun, exciting + awesome!” Alex D: “It’s so good to finally ride on the roads.” “THUMBS UP FOR BIKE ED!”

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MUSIC NOTES WOW! What a lot of fun and an enormous mess! At Audition 3 of PPPS Has Talent last Friday, there were eggs and flour and lipstick and bananas adding a lot of laughs to one act. Thanks to the following year 6 students who helped for PPPS Has Talent and did a wonderful job cleaning up afterwards…Mr Peel might be out of a job soon! Comperes: Laura 6-7, Saira 6-2 Judges: Alexandra 6-8, Stephanie 6-8, Kavindu 6-2, Dhakota 6-8, Olivia 6-8, Leah 6-2, Xavier 6-2 P.A.: Nikita 6-1, Rebeccah 6-1 Organizers: Aaron 6-2, Ryan 6-2, Mark Audition 4 Friday 20th May

1. Chanel, Noelle, Joanne, 5-5, 5-4 Warrior 2. Suwedha 3-18 Song: Anything is possible 3. Bimash 2-26 Stick Balancing 4. Rose, Eliza, Vaniay 2-28 Story of my Life 5. Alexander, Jaycob 4-31. Magic tricks 6. Amelia 2-28 Dance/Acrobatics “Firework” 7. Judd, Zac, 3-20 Comedy : ‘Clown Wars’ 8. Scarlett and Zara 2-28 Habanara on guitar

EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA!!!! NB: Tuesday 24th May 1. Aaliyah, Claudia, Ella L. 3-17 ‘Work By Fifth Harmony’

2. Amylia 1-23… Lipstick on your collar 3. Aroha 6-8 Classical Indian dance 4. Nicholas 3-17 Soccer 5 . Sara 1-15 6. Maahirah 6, Iman 4-32, Karate Kids 7. Sarah B. 6-7 Across the Sea 8. Jessica, Maddy, Rawa 5-6, 5-4

You think you can dance? With Plenty Parklands you can! One of the many exciting events happening next term is the Prep to year 4 dance program. The

whole program is conducted by professional dance teacher, David Skinner to enrich the

Performing Arts curriculum.

It is hoped that all Prep to Year 4 students will participate in the program regardless of their

past experience or involvement in Dance. David will include some of the ‘old favorites’ as well as

introducing some new routines to today’s music.

The program will culminate with our School Family Dance on Thursday 25 August where students will

get the chance to show off their style in a demonstration dance. There will also be many

opportunities for families to dance and join in the fun on the night of the dance concert. Start planning your table groups now. A

ticket flyer will be sent home next term.

School Council

U N I V E R S I T Y S T U D E N T T E A C H E R S / W O R K E X P E R I E N C E S T U D E N T S

PPPS has forged close links with a number of Universities to help train the next generation of teachers, known as Pre Service Teachers (PST). We also benefit from the RMIT physical education program with first year PE teachers each year and the year 2 students are involved with Science PSTs from RMIT. To become a primary school teacher you are required to complete a four year university degree. The practical component of the course requires a PST to spend a certain number of days in schools gaining ‘hands on’ experience and being directly mentored by an experienced teacher. You may have noticed new faces around the school or perhaps your child has talked about having ‘another teacher’ in their room. Already this year we have had PST’s from RMIT, Swinburne and LaTrobe in various home groups across the school. We also take a number of work experience students from local state secondary schools at various times through the year. We are very fortunate at PPPS that so many of our wonderful teaching staff are willing to take an active role in mentoring the next generation of teachers. Julie Nixon Coordinator of Program

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Introducing the ICT Team Hi everyone, my name is Kerrie Shelden and this is my fifth year teaching eLearning across all year levels. Before this I was a classroom teacher and have taught from years 2 to 6. I have been at PPPS since 2000. How quickly time flies! I am the coordinator of ICT and work with our two technicians to purchase new equipment and maintain our existing devices. Outside of school, my interests include barrack-ing for Essendon in the AFL and Melbourne Storm in the NRL. I also enjoy reading, listening to music, travelling and watching movies. I have a new addition to my fami-ly, a rescue dog named Blossom, who provides me with countless hours of enter-tainment and laughs. Hi my name is Stephen Dovile. I am the Specialist Technician at PPPS and I do my best to keep all the computers running at the school on Mondays and Wednesdays. I also work at Dallas Brooks Community Primary, Hume Valley School and Sher-bourne Primary. I have been in the Technical Support to Schools Program for 9 years. If I was able increase the day’s length to 48 hours I think I would be able to finish all the jobs at PPPS. Hi, my name is Luc Labigang. I’m the local technician at PPPS on Tuesdays and

Thursday. I’m also working at four other schools for the rest of the week. In my free

time, I like to educate myself further in various fields, most notably physics. I contribute to community supported video game

development, work on personal software projects and when I find the time, I dabble in music composition as well. I also coach

soccer 3 nights/days a week, as a change from all that sitting in front of a computer, and a means to get some exercise.

EDUCATION WEEK at PPPS —Let’s Go Fly a Kite! IT’S EDUCATION WEEK!

Education week is a state wide celebration of learning. So far it has been a wonderful week here at PPPS. Education Week was launched with a fantastic Assembly Performance on Monday and each morning we are entering our

classrooms to the song “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” Kites are everywhere and the students are so excited! Thank you so much to anyone who donated materials.

We hope you all took the opportunity to watch the fabulous CBD perform on Tuesday and then ventured to the classrooms to create kites and explore technology.

Students are now busy finishing off their kites so they can fly them on Friday (hopefully it will be windy).

Please remember

DRESS UP AND KITE FLYING DAY TOMORROW—FRIDAY 20TH MAY Students can dress up as something to do with Technology (computer, solar panel, robot, scientist, kite OR they can dress up in

the colours of their kite). On this day students will join together to share their kites and show off their dress ups (wind permitting).

If you would like any more information please check out the Education Week website for more information. The website address is below.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/Pages/edweek.aspx It has been a fantastic week so far!

The Education Week Committee

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LOST PROPERTY ROSTER

Fri 20/5 Navi Bath

Fri 27/5 Kelly Sprague

FIRST AID LINEN ROSTER

Fri 20/5 Jincy Roymon Joy

Fri 27/5 Svetlana Aforozis

6-8 Zoe 6-7 Isabella 6-2 Isabella 6-1 Belinda

5-6 Athan 5-5 Kody 5-4 Noelle 5-3 Kyla

4-32 Jack 4-31 Paschal 4-30 Samantha 4-29 Alana

3-20 Yasin 3-19 Nicholas 3-18 Jack 3-17 Jayden

2-28 Elle 2-27 Zahli 2-26 Alex 2-25 Eren

2-24 Milla 1-23 Jada 1-22 Vania 1-21 Lucas

1-16 Oliver 1-15 Dion

STUDENT OF THE WEEK The following students were presented on Monday May 16

P-13 Marcus 1-16 Isabelle

1-21 Deacon 2-25 Eva

4-29 Sineli 5-4 Elayna

ANTI LITTER AWARDS: Congratulations to the following students

for receiving an anti litter award.

ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE ROSTER

Term 2 May 23 No performance— Report Writing Day May 30 5-3 June 6 P-9 June 13 No assembly— Queen’s Birthday June 20 2-26 Term 3 July 11 No performance July 18 5-5 July 25 P-11 August 1 1-16 August 8 P-13 August 15 3-20 August 22 2-28 August 29 1-21 September 5 4-32 September 12 No assembly—3 way Conferences Term 4 October 3 No performance October 10 P-10 October 17 1-15 October 24 5-4 October 31 No assembly—Report writing day November 7 3-17 November 14 2-25 November 21 1-22 November 28 P-12 December 5 4-31 December 12 Year 6 performance

ROOM OF THE WEEK

4-31

HOUSE POINTS 16/5/16

1st Green Grasshoppers 2nd Blue Bandicoots 3rd Gold Goannas 4th Red Rosellas

LIBRARY DONATION Thank you to Lana (P12) and Jack (3-18) for their donation of Books to our library. All donations are gladly accepted.

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Date: May 19 2016 Issue 14 YEARS 5/6 SPORT PROGRAM 2016

5/6 SPORT PROGRAM 2016 Last week’s results round : 4

Bushrangers Vs Mill Park P.S.

Football– Bushrangers 56 points to Mill Park 62 points

Soccer– Bushrangers 14 goals to Mill Park ’s 0 goals

Bat Tennis– Bushrangers 22 games to Mill Park 52 games

Netball A– Bushrangers 20 goals to Mill Park 4 goals

Netball B– Bushrangers 2 goals to Mill Park17 goals Interschool Sport Program - Round 5 Friday May 20th All games to commence by 9.30am. First named school is the home team and PPPS home grounds are - Bat Tennis and Netball. Football is at Kelynack Reserve (across the road) and Soccer is at RMIT (synthetic pitch-McKimmies Rd). PPPS Redbacks Vs St Luke’s St Damian’s Vs Bushrangers For away games this week: Bat Tennis, Netball and Soccer are at St Damian ’s. Football is at Yulong Reserve (Bundoora Football Club, Plenty Road, Bundoora).

Intraschool Sport Program: students to board the bus by 9.10am, to travel to Epping Leisure Centre. Games to commence by 9.30am and conclude by 11am. BDSSA CROSS-COUNTRY 2016

This year on Wednesday May 25th the annual district cross-country will be held at Bundoora Park from 9.30am-

12.30pm. There will be approximately 60 students representing PPPS. The squad has been handed a permission note. If you

have any questions relating to this event please ring the school and ask for Mrs Gatt on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday on

9404-4311.

National Walk Safely to School Day— use the Active Paths to walk safely to school on Friday

Now in its 17th year, National Walk Safely to School Day (WSTSD) is an annual event when all Primary School children will be encouraged to walk and commute safely to school. It is a Community Event seeking to promote Road Safety, Health, Public Transport and the Environment.

All information can found at: walk.com.au

The event will be held throughout Australia on Friday 20 May 2016

The objectives of WSTSD are:

To encourage parents and carers to walk to school with primary school age children and reinforce safe

pedestrian behaviour.

To promote the health benefits of walking and help create regular walking habits at an early age.

To ensure that children up to 10 years old hold an adult's hand when crossing the road.

To help children develop the vital road-crossing skills they will need as they become mature

pedestrians.

To reduce the car dependency habits that are being created at an early age and which will be difficult to change as children

become adults.

To promote the use of Public Transport.

To reduce the level of air pollution created by motor vehicles.

To reduce the level of traffic congestion.

To assist governments of all levels a short 2 minute survey link is provided below to a national survey to help build insights into how children are currently getting to school and how they would actually like to get to school. Link to survey is as follows: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WSTSD2016 Physical Education & Sports Coordinator - Sebastian Scanu

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Opening Hours: 7.00-8.45am and 3.30-6.00pm For bookings/cancellations call Kristine on 9404 4516

BUDDY BEAR KINDNESS WEEK

This week in OSHC we have been discussing children’s safety. From time to time we need to have discussions with the children about their safety at OSHC. So far this has included having emergency evacuation, fire drills, lockdown practices and discussions about dealing with challenging behaviour from their peers and ‘stranger danger’ with our Buddy Bear Leadership program this also helps children to feel safe while at OSHC. Next week we will be asking children to perform a random act of kindness and we will record them in our reflection journal. Some of the fun activities we are offering will be: soccer, football, skipping, houla hoops. Indoor board games, stained glass art, beading and stencil art. For bookings go to campaustralia.com.au If your child is not attending the program on the day or if they are away from school, it is important to give us a call on the OSHC direct number: 9404 4516 and leave a message so staff are aware of the child’s absence. Thanks Camp Australia Team