19th March, 2021

www.poowongcs.vic.edu.au poowong.cs@education.vic.gov.au (03) 5659 2356

THE POOWONG PRATTLE

What’s on this Term TERM ONE

22/3 Gr 5 Peer Mediation

24/3 Gr 6 Peer Mediation

26/3

Division Sports

Free Dress—Easter Donation Day

31/3 House Athletics

1/4 End of Term 1

2.30pm Finish

2/4 Public Holiday—No School

TERM TWO

19/4 Curriculum Day-No Students

22/4 State Swimming—MSAC

29/4 District Athletics—Leongatha

12/5 School Council

26-28/5 Gr 5/6 Sovereign Hill Camp

27/5 Division Cross Country—

Stony Creek

3/6 Regional Cross Country—

Lardner Park

9/6 School Council

14/6 Public Holiday—No School

25/6 End of Term 2

2.30pm Finish

TERM THREE

14/7 School Council

15/7 State Cross Country

4/8-6/8 Gr 3/4 Camp

11/8 School Council

3/9 District Basketball—

Korumburra

8/9 School Council

10/9 Division Athletics

17/9 End of Term

2.30pm Finish

A Message From Mrs McKenzie Swimming Results Congratulations to Pallas for competing in the Girls Under 10 Regional Swim-ming Championships at Sale last Thursday 11th. Pallas, although a little nervous, started well, maintained her composure swimming her own race and then pulled ahead at the end to come 1st in 50m Freestyle in a time of 39.71 seconds. Later in the day she swam a solid race in Butterfly placing 3rd with a time of 53.16 seconds. Both swims being personal bests for her. This now gives Pallas the opportunity to compete in the State Championships in Melbourne at MSAC in the Girls Under 10 Freestyle. Well Done, Pallas! School Council We would like to congratulate Andrew Holman as our new School Council President, Michael Ken-dall continuing as Vice President and taking on Policies, Kylie Perrin-Walton continuing as Secre-tary, Shelley Churchill continuing as Treasurer, new to the council we have Natalie Cole taking on Fundraising, Jane Adams taking on Building & Grounds, Deb Watson taking on Grants. We say goodbye and would like to extend a huge thank you to Royce Nieuwerth, Tim Richards & Kylie Wilson for their time and effort spent over the last couple of years working tirelessly on many pro-jects across our school. Royce has made a big impact over the past few years as President and we would like to thank him for all the additional work he has been apart of in this role. Gr 6 Student Leadership Announcements We will be announcing our student leadership at next week’s school assembly (26/3) at 3pm. This will include School Captains, SRC, House Captains and Art Captain. Free Dress Day Next Friday, 26th March, we will be holding a Free Dress Day to raise money for the Good Friday Appeal. Students can EITHER bring an item to contribute to the Easter Raffle OR a gold coin dona-tion for the Good Friday Appeal. A reminder that closed shoes should be worn for safety reasons and hats will still be needed during outside play times. Help Needed We have a shade sail over the large playground that needs to be removed for us to send to be fixed. If you have the time (and the ladders to get to the heights needed to remove the damaged shade sail, we really need your help. As the shade sail is currently hanging over the playground, this is restricting the use of this area. If you can help over the weekend, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch with the office on (03) 5659 2356. PCS Athletics Day is Coming Up! We are excited to announce that our annual Athletics Sports Carnival will be happening on 31/3 (the last week of the term). Parents are encouraged to come along and cheer the kids along. Bring a chair, a picnic rug and enjoy the fun of the day. Unfortunately we have not been able to secure a coffee van this year, so bring a packed lunch and a thermos. Can’t wait to see you there– pop it in your family calendar. Students wear their house colours on the day. Working Bee Next Friday afternoon (26/3) prior to assembly, we will be having a working bee at school. Come along and help from 2pm. Jobs to be completed include re-attaching fence palings along Gardner Lane (3-4 have come off)- this job will need some cordless drills. We will also be weeding garden beds and trimming back bushes, so gardening tools will be helpful. We also need to fix the roost-ing box on the chicken coop (need hammer and nails). Trimming of branches also needs to be done (some small chainsaws would be helpful). If you can help for an hour, that would be amaz-ing. Have a great weekend, Cate.

Happy Birthday to the following students who celebrated birthdays over the last fortnight!

Natasha, Adriana, Huxley, Locklan, Joel & Phoebe

School Council Parent Members: Andrew Holman 0407 863 997 ( Pres.), Michael Kendall 5659 0203 (V.Pres), Kylie Perrin-Walton 0431 325 500 (Sec.),

Shelley Churchill 0407 847 198 (Treas.), Jane Adams 0400 203 901 , Natalie Cole 0422 584 444, Deb Watson 0402 314 323.

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Poowong NetSetGo

2021 Poowong Netball Club is looking for expressions of

interest for players and parent helper for 2021 NetSetGo. We are registered for term two but are

flexible about which day we run the program at this stage. If you are interested, please contact De-

sirae Hancock on 0409 350 521.

For more information on NetSetGo, visit: https://vic.netball.com.au/suncorp-netsetgo

Willow, Jett, Benson, Nate, Jason, Brodie, Jackson &

Lincoln

Teacher Award—Mrs Wassenberg