The Highlights Hamlyn Banks Primary School Phone: 5278 3100

2-24 Chaucer Street Fax: 5272 1030

Hamlyn Heights 3215 Email: hamlyn.banks.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.hbps.vic.edu.au

Newsletter No. 22 July 29th, 2015

From Daniel’s desk

To the School Community

It is an exciting week this week for our Prep students who are celebrating 100 Days of school today. This annual event is definitely one of my favourites as it celebrates and highlights how amazing children are! From their tentative beginnings as students in our system the preps at Hamlyn Banks have already developed it successful members of our school community. Visiting their classrooms is always a pleasure due to seeing the students confidently and competently Reading, Writing and using numbers and displaying a marked improvement from the beginning of the year.

I sincerely thank the parents for sending the children to Hamlyn Banks, each child’s individuality is appreciated and celebrated wholeheartedly by the staff at our school. I congratulate the Prep Team, Ms Upton, Ms Fisher and Mrs Sharp for their teamwork and dedication in making the first 100 days a success!

Parent Opinion Survey

Parent Opinion Surveys have been distributed to 70 families ( from a randomly generated list) to gather data about the parent opinion of Hamlyn Banks PS. I would like to thank the parents who have already returned their surveys and ask that the remaining surveys be returned ASAP. The data collected contributes to creating patterns connected to student and staff data that is also collected and enables our school to make considered decisions about the future.

School Uniform Update

The School Development Committee have been contributing to discussions about our school uniform suppliers and the needs of the community. We are nearing the end of this process and will be formally creating a partnership with a uniform provider that will begin at the start of term 4 this year. Further information will be provided post the August School Council meeting. You will be able to purchase uniform with our Logo from A+ Uniforms in Belmont and the shop on Vines road up until this time but from term 4 onwards both of these shops will not be able to sell items that contain our logo.

This arrangement will not prevent parents from buying items such as pants, shorts, skorts etc, from other places but we will be encouraging purchases from our new supplier who will be announced in the coming weeks.

Kelly Sports

Kelly Sports continue to provide an excellent program afterschool on Monday and Tuesday for those looking for an afterschool activity for their children Please grab a flyer from the office or go to the Kelly Sports website for further information.

Enrolments

A reminder that enrolments are still being taken for 2016 – we currently have over 50 preps with planning currently set at 60 preps. Given we are close to the 60 mark it is important that all siblings are enrolled ASAP and if friends or family members are considering enrolling that they do so as a matter of urgency to avoid a situation where we may not be able to accommodate their enrolment.

Enjoy the rest of the week, see you at assembly!

Daniel Vella

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EVENTS

CALENDAR

JUL 29 100 days of Prep

AUG 3 District Aths

5 Music Festival

Year 1 & Band

7 School Develop.

Meeting 3.20pm

14 Clonard

Production Yr 6/5

18 School Council

24-28 Book Week

24 Special lunch day

26 Author Visit

27 Book week

Parade

28 Lightning Prem

31 Western Heights

Experience Yr 5

SEP 10/11/12 School

Spectacular

15 School Council

15 Div. Athletics

18 Last day of term

OCT 5 Term 4

16 Prep-2 Aths

19 Special lunch

20 School Council

21 Geelong Cup

Holiday

22 Year 1 Dinner

23 Grade 6 photos

NOTES SENT THIS WEEK:

Grade 6/5 Clonard Production

note

SCHOOL NEWS

FIRST AID LAUNDRY

ROSTER

Volunteers are needed once a week to wash the First

Aid room linen. There is a Roster up in the

Corridor near the Sick Bay door or ask at the office.

Writing by 1W

Grade 1W have been learning about reading, making and recording time. We have also started learning about how time goes by! We enjoy making ‘Top Tips’ to help us remember the important things about time. We really enjoy using #top tips as a way to remember things. Here are some of our #top tips about time.

We will be sharing what we have learnt about time this

Friday at assembly.

School Development

School Development Meeting

Friday August 7th 3.20pm.

The focus will be on the school

fair.

Special thanks to Meg & Mikayla

F nana for

delivering lots of

dominoes to the school. These

will be helpful in our Maths

program.

School Canteen

The school canteen will be available for lunch orders Wednesday & Fri-days. Over counter sales will be available

these days as well. Menu’s are available either on the School Web page or

outside the canteen. The next special lunch order date is set for Monday August 24th.

Artist of the Week: Tyla Conroy 1W

STAR OF THE WEEK Grade 0PF: Cody T

For awesome drawings to match his writing. Well done!

Grade 0PS: Jack C For working hard to become a focused listener.

Grade 0PU:Tyson H For always showing all of our school values and for being a mature member of our class. Well done!

Grade 1B:Raani D For her persistence in writing and being a friendly

classmate! Grade 1D: Nathan L

For showing great confidence matching analogue with

digital time.

Grade 1W: Jayla T For great focus in writing!

Grade 2D: Sophie V For being such a genuine and helpful class mate.

Grade 2L: Jake S For understanding and recognising the features of 3D

shapes. Grade 2M: Eden H

For showing a clear understanding of flip, slide & turn.

Grade 43C: Miranda M For working hard on her writing & writing stories at

home too! Grade 43D: Jacinta L

For working really hard on understanding how to do division problem.

Grade 43J: Cody B For great work working with Division. Great job!

Grade 43M: Ava T For her great work and strategies at solving division

problems. Grade 43S: George P

For writing a fantastic Cinquain poem.

Grade 65D: Bella T For focused work on challenging tasks in Mathematics.

Grade 65G: Lochie C For persisting with his Maths and excelling as the

lesson progressed. Grade 65M: Brielle S

For her responsibility and independent work in class. Grade 65U: Olivia S

For her excellent teamwork in Division group work. Sports Star: Brunswick S

For her awesome performance in girls football! You go girl!!!

Maths Star: Harrison G For his great problem solving skills in all areas and for

sharing his love of mathematics! Before School Care: Yu-Ru T

For patiently teaching a friend how to fold a paper

aeroplane. Well done Yu-Ru!

After School Care: Alasdair T

For always doing his homework without any fuss. Well

done!

PUTTING THE BOUNCE INTO TRANSITION

The Barwon Adolescent Task Force is excited to deliver an event to support parents and their children who are nearing the all-important transition into Secondary education. This presentation, for parents/carers and their children, is de-signed to celebrate all things emerging adolescence, moving into secondary school and being connected to community brings. The aim is that students, and parents/carers walk away with a few more tools in their tool boxes that equip them for the years to come, with the ability to learn from their mistakes and the capacity to try again. The presentation will be held on Wednesday 5th August 2015 from 7:00pm - 8:30 pm. The presentation will be hosted at Western Heights College, MY Red building, which is situation on Vines Rd, Hamlyn Heights A light supper will be provided on the night. Any interested families are encouraged to register their attend-ance with Batforce. Please contact Leigh Bartlett on 52214339 or email leigh@batforce.org.au.

Hamlyn Banks Primary OSHC phone: 0452 247 747

Coordinator: Mel Head Office Ph : 1300 105 343

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PH 5278 4064

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Hi everyone,

Wow last week was full on! The toffee was a huge success, the children were

really excited to try it and really loved it, with a lot of recipes going home. Our

turtles that we made are really cute and on display in the arts centre. We didn't

get time to complete the felt bookmarks so we have held them over for another

time later in the term. We finished off a busy week by watching the movie "Paper

Planes". As you know we have been making a heap of these at the moment and

thought the movie might be a good tie in. Thanks Oliver for the suggestion!

Don't forget we are I the process of writing a service philosophy, if you would like

to provide some feedback or some suggestions for items you would like to put in it

please feel free to pop in and see Jess and I or write it down and hand it into the

office.

This week will be another busy week. We will be cooking pretzels high should be

great fun. We also have a really cool art and craft activity for this week where we

will be drawing 3D hands using only lines. I can't wait for his one!

With the weather seemingly on the improve it is a good time to remember that it is

really important to have all of your children's clothing labelled. The more we run

around the more they want to take off their jumpers and we always end up having

some left over at the end of the night in the mad rusty get home. I try my hardest

to get them returned to their rightful owner but it is hard when there is no name.

Our star of the week this week is Alasdair T for always doing his homework with-

out any fuss. Well done!

Thanks for your time, Mel, Karen, Julie and Phil.

Hi Everybody!

This week we are announcing Buddy Leaders for term 3. Emma, Ella, Molly,

Chloe, Gemma and Talia have all nominated themselves for the job and have

worked hard to represent the Buddy Leader values. Aarliyah will be a "second in

command" which means she will be ready to help out the Buddy Leaders

whenever they need it. We will continue to have these children help run our daily

group games as part of their leadership responsibilities. I also want to thank all of

last terms leaders and remind all the children that there will be another

opportunity next term if they would like to nominate themselves for the role. I am

excited to see how they rise to the challenge of making ASC an inviting place for

everyone.

Fundraising preparation is in full swing with plans for a colouring competition,

paper plane competition and art and craft stall in the works. If you are would like

to contribute, we would love some materials for art and craft and we are also

sourcing prizes for our competitions. Any items can be brought to the performing

arts room before 9am or after 3.15pm. We would greatly appreciate any and all

contributions!

Our Star of the Week award goes to Yu-Ru T for patiently teaching a friend how

to fold a paper aeroplane. Well done Yu-Ru!

Enjoy the rest of your week! Jess (BSC Coordinator) and Suzanne

Age groups include;

Milo in2cricket Under 11 Under 13 Under 15 And under 17

Fri August 21st 5-7pm Sun August 23rd 10:30-12:30 Sun August 30th 10:30–12:30

$100 for your 1st child, $80 for 2nd and $70 for 3rd child. Milo in2cricket $75

At the St Peters Clubrooms, Norwood St Herne Hill Ph. 0429828785

St Peters Cricket Club

Registration Day

The 2015/16 cricket season is fast ap-

proaching and the St Peters cricket club

invites all junior members and their families

as well as welcoming new participants to

come along to the junior

registration days.