20th June, 2019

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THE POOWONG PRATTLE

School Council Parent Members: Royce Nieuwerth 5659 2140 ( Pres.), Michael Kendall 5659 0203 (V.Pres.), Karyn Hill 0407 822 186 (Sec.),

Melanie Wallace 0400 036 619 (Treas.), Jane Adams 0400 203 901, Bronwyn Kivits 0466 576 526, Kylie Wilson 0409 514 117, Tim Richards 5678 3377.

What’s on this Term

June

21/6 Chocolate forms due

24/6 AFL Visitors - Grades 3-6

26/6 Footy 11’s Grand Final— 2pm

28/6 End of Term 2—2.30pm Finish

A Message From Mrs McKenzie Book Fair

Thank you to all involved in the book fair last week. We made over $2000 in sales!!! These sales

have given the school more than $800 in books for our classroom libraries. We have chosen a

range of new books that the children will be able to access for their independent reading book

boxes. Thank you for your support.

Chocolate Forms

Don’t forget to return your Chocolate preference forms. These are due tomorrow so please get

them to the office first thing in the morning. Any families who do not return a form will receive a

box of chocolates to sell, chosen by the organisers. If you would prefer not to receive a box,

speak now or forever hold your peace!!

Footy News

Wrong football club! We have three RICHMOND AFL Football players attending school Monday

24th June for a motivational leadership talk with the Grade 3,4,5 & 6’s. This is something we will

look at continuing for future years. Apologies for those North Melbourne supporters- maybe

next time.

Regional Cross Country– Results

Abby, Rhylee & Tylen competed at Lardner Park last week and were highly competitive in their

races, over huge distances. Running with the remanent smells remaining from the jousting

event, the children ran through mud and in cold conditions. We would like to congratulate all

three students on a brilliant effort and personal bests, even Tylen, who raced after a bought of

Chicken Pox! A sensational result for Abby, who made it through to the state level and will com-

pete after the holidays in Bundoora.

Lightening Premiership– Grade 5 and 6—Results

A huge effort for all of our Grade 5 and 6 students who competed in netball and soccer last Friday

at Mary McKillop in Leongatha. We won one game in the mixed netball against Loch PS and

came close in all of our other games, in all the different competitions. A fun day was had by all.

A big thank you to Katelyn, who worked an extra day to umpire netball, and who helped us lo-

cate some Velcro bibs for the netball dresses at the last minute! A massive thank you to the Poo-

wong Netball Club for loaning us the bibs– you are amazing! Thank you! Results are on page 3.

Singing Concert

What fantastic performances we saw at yesterday’s lunch time singing concert, hosted by our

singing teacher Britt Lewis. The performances showcased the development in singing skills by

our students, but also showed their performance skills as well! I was thoroughly moved by each

of the numbers– well done kids!! Photos on page 3.

Work Experience Student

Thank you to Caspian, who has spent this week helping Ms Hallyburton with the Grade ones. We

hope you have gained knowledge on teaching and that this experience helps you decided what

your future holds!

Footy 11’s Grand Final

Next Wednesday 26th we have our Footy 11’s Grand Final at 2pm on the school oval. Following

the grand final we have the Teachers & Parents VS Grade 5/6 match (NOT TO BE MISSED) If

you’re a parent and wish to play please contact the school. More information on page 6.

End of term finish 2.30pm

A reminder that NEXT Friday is the last day of term 2. Reports will go home with students on

this day. As usual, we will have assembly to finish off the term. This will start at 2pm in the shed.

We hope to see you there!

CURRICULUM DAY– Friday July 26th– Week 2 of next term!! Have a wonderful weekend,

Cate

Happy Birthday to the following students who celebrated birthdays

the last two weeks!

Keira, Jacobus, Layla, Sophie & Matthew

The Year Ahead

Term 3

21/7 Working Bee 10am-2pm

26/7 Curriculum Day—No School

2/8 Choir Trip

7/8 Grade 5 Incursion—Phillip Island

20/8 Book Week Dress Up Parade—9.15am

21-

23/8

Grade 5/6 Marysville Camp

29/8 KCS visit Grade 6—2.45pm

5/9 Grade 5 Excursion - Phillip Island

12/9 Grade 2 Sleepover

13/9 Division Athletics—Casey

18-19-

20/9

Grade 6 - Transition Week

20/9 Last Day of Term 3—2.30pm Finish

Term 4

13/10 Working Bee 2pm-4pm

15/10 Regional Athletics—Newborough

16/10 SCHOOL MUSICAL –Time TBC

5/11 Melbourne Cup Day —Public Holiday

11/11 Remembrance Day

16/11 School Photos—See page 3

1/12 Working Bee 10am-2pm

4/12 Grade 5 Incursion — Phillip Island

6/12 Grade 3-6 Water Safety Day

6/12 SGCB—Carols

10/12 Grade 6 Graduation

10/12 Transition Day & Grade 6 Orientation

13/12 Grade P-2 Water Safety Day

20/12 Last Day Term 4 —2.30pm Finish

Brought to you by the Primary Maths Specialists!

A great way to get kids more involved is to read children’s books with mathematical themes.

Keep an eye out at your local library or in your book club catalogue.

This week we have chosen: ‘The Snail and the whale’ By J. Donaldson 2007

SUGGESTED ACTIVITES

The following are some activities that you can do with your children. Some are general and some relate to specific aspects of the mathematics

curriculum. Each week we will change activity examples, this week we will look at:

MONEY

For obvious reasons, children can learn about money at home. This can include:

Calculating money amounts and different ways to use coins and notes to present particular

amounts—e.g. “Show me $2.50”, “How much do I have in my hand?”

Calculating which of two different size items is the better buy and discussing strategies.

Giving change, particularly change from $1 or $10.

Asking how much change they would expect to get.

Congratulations

Student

Award

Recipients:

Classroom

Awards:

Issy, Jess, Jason,

Alfie, Jemma,

Jett, Kurt &

Dakota

This week we have chosen: ‘Ten Little Fingers, Ten Little Toes’ By M. Fox 2008

Playground

Awards:

Hayley &

Gabrielle

Regional Cross Country:

Abby, Rhylee & Tylen

Classroom

Awards:

Sierra, Sam &

Kyran

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Lightening Premiership Results

A fantastic day was had by everyone, lots of cooperation, great sportsmanship and teamwork. Well Done to all!

Mixed Netball

1st game vs Loch we won 8-2, exciting and awesome effort by everyone.

2nd game vs Korumburra - were taller, more skilled and faster and we lost 11-0.

3rd game vs Mirboo North - was another strong team. we were a bit outplayed in the first half and made a big comeback in the second half. We lost 11-5.

Big playing performances by Henri in Goals and by Troy, Sam and Jordon in Defense.

Special mentions for their great improvement overall go to Taslyn, Henri and Christian.

Girls Netball

Best on for the day was Amber, acknowledged by the umpires as well. Natalie got the most versatile player - attaching, defending and skilled with all positions she played. We played wonderfully with Nyora and made a great team together. We played to have fun and improve our skills. We’d love to keep on practicing and playing together in the future.

1st game vs St Laurence we lost 5-23.

2nd game vs Leongatha we lost 17-2.

3rd game vs Inverloch/Kongwak was really close and we lost 5-2.

Soccer

We played really well, great skill were showcased with Colby excelling on the day, Jack from Nyora was also a stand out player.

Jett, Chase, Ryder & Kohen were all phenomenal players who made the switch from footy really well. Lots of kids hadn’t played soccer be-fore and made themselves and the school very proud.

1st game vs St Laurence we lost in a close game 4-3. Goal scorers Colby 2 and Zinnia 1.

2nd game vs Korumburra another close game we lost 3-2. Goals scored by our Nyora team mate Jack 1 and Jett scored 1 too.

3rd game vs Mirboo North we lost 0-2.

A brilliant day of sporting excellence and sensational personal bests. Thank you to Katelyn for umpiring Netball and Mr Burnie, Mrs Lacanaria, Mrs Wassenberg and Mr Hill for helping organize and coaching our teams on the day.

Singing Concert Photos

POOWONG CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL

5 Gardner Lane Phone: 03 5659 2356

POOWONG, 3988 Mobile: 0448 592 356

Victoria ABN: 33 226 568 545

Email. poowong.cs@edumail.vic.gov.au

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you know Poowong Consolidated School is a Respectful Relationships school. Respectful Relationships supports schools and early childhood settings to promote and model respect, positive attitudes and be-haviours. It teaches our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence.

So far, in the last 18 months, our students have been enjoying learning and practising skills through les-sons taught using the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) teaching and learning materi-als. Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships is a curriculum resource developed by the University of Melbourne and provided by the Department of Education and Training to help schools to develop stu-dents’ social-emotional and positive relationships skills. The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) learning materials cover eight topics of social-emotional learning across all levels of primary and secondary education. So far this year we have been teaching the first five topics and our students have been learning and building their skills in emotional literacy, personal strengths, positive coping skills, prob-lem-solving and stress management.

Shortly we will be starting topics 7 and 8 in Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships, Gender Identity and Positive Gender Relationships. In these topics we:-

Learn about key issues relating to human rights and the importance of respect within relationships as well challenging gender stereotypes that can be rigid and limiting.

Develop the skills needed to solve problems, set boundaries within relationships, and play an active role within the prevention of gender-based violence.

Develop peer support and help-seeking skills that can be applied in response to situations involving gender-based violence in family, peer, community and/or on-line relationships.

Teaching and learning about respectful relationships helps our school to build a culture of respect and this contributes to a positive climate for learning. The Victorian Curriculum Prep to Year 10 provides the basis for teaching and learning about respectful relationships. The Victorian Curriculum F-10 identifies the knowledge, skills and understandings for students to be able to engage in respectful relationships.

The importance of teaching Respectful Relationships education was highlighted in the evidence and find-ings of the Royal Commission into Family Violence, which recommended that respectful relationships edu-cation be covered in the curriculum in Victorian schools. Respectful relationships education focuses on building and promoting gender equity in relationships and challenging of gender stereotypes.

Schools are also required to implement and adhere to the Child Safe Standards: teaching respectful relationships education supports our school to meet the requirements of Child Safe Standard 7: Standard 7: Strategies to pro-mote child participation and empowerment

Child Safe Standard 7 requires schools to develop strategies to deliver appropriate education about:

standards of behaviour for students attending the school

healthy and respectful relationships (including sexuality education)

resilience

child abuse awareness and prevention

We will continue to include information in our School Newsletter, in assemblies etc about what you can do at home to reinforce the learning and further develop your child’s skills in these important areas.

We have included a summary of each of the topic areas of the Respectful Relationships program on the following page for your reference. Resources and learning sequences are available for viewing at https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/pages/respectfulrelationships.aspx

Yours sincerely,

Cate McKenzie

The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) learning materials cover eight topics of social and emotional learning and positive relationships across all levels of primary and secondary education.

TOPIC 1: EMOTIONAL LITERACY

Emotional literacy can be defined as the ability to understand ourselves and other people. It includes the abil-ity to understand, express and manage our own emotions, build empathy, and to respond appropriately to the emotions of others. Building a large vocabulary for emotions helps to increase emotional literacy and build self-awareness and empathy for others.

TOPIC 2: PERSONAL STRENGTHS

Children and young people need a vocabulary to help them recognise and understand strengths and positive qualities in themselves and others. This topic provides learning activities to build this vocabulary and to use it when discussing personal, social and ethical challenges. Research in the field of positive psychology emphasis-es the importance of identifying and using individual strengths. Social and emotional learning programs which use strength based approaches promote student wellbeing, positive behaviour and academic achieve-ment.

TOPIC 3: POSITIVE COPING

Learning activities in this topic provide opportunities for students to identify and discuss different types of cop-ing strategies. When children and young people develop a language around coping, they are more likely to be able to understand and deliberately utilise a range of productive coping strategies and diminish their use of unproductive coping strategies. Students learn to extend their repertoire of coping strategies and benefit from critically reflecting on their own choices and being exposed to alternative options. Activities introduce stu-dents to the concept of self-talk and practice using positive self-talk to approach and manage challenging situ-ations. Positive self-talk is a key strategy for coping with negative thoughts, emotions and events. It is associat-ed with greater persistence in the face of challenge, and can be learnt or strengthened through practice.

TOPIC 4: PROBLEM SOLVING

Problem-solving skills are an important part of the coping repertoire. The program provides a number of learn-ing activities to develop students’ problem-solving skills. The activities in the program assist students to develop their critical and creative thinking skills, and to apply them to scenarios exploring personal, social and ethical dilemmas.

TOPIC 5: STRESS MANAGEMENT

Children and young people experience a range of personal, social and work-related stressors in their everyday lives. Activities within this topic have an explicit focus on teaching positive approaches to stress management. Assisting students to recognise their personal signs and symptoms of stress, and to develop strategies that will help them to deal with stress effectively, will help students cope with future challenges. The activities focus on the ways in which self-calming strategies can be used to manage stressful situations.

TOPIC 6: HELP-SEEKING

Learning activities in this topic area are designed to help students discuss the importance of seeking help and providing peer support when dealing with problems that are too big to solve alone. This helps to normalise and destigmatise help-seeking behaviour. Scenario-based activities help students identify situations in which help should be sought, identify trusted sources of help, and practice seeking help from peers and adults.

TOPIC 7: GENDER AND IDENTITY

Learning activities within this topic assist students to challenge stereotypes and critique the influence of gen-der norms on attitudes and behaviour. They learn about key issues relating to human rights and gender iden-tity, and focus on the importance of respect within relationships. The activities promote respect for diversity and difference.

TOPIC 8: POSITIVE GENDER RELATIONS

Learning activities within this topic focus on building an understanding of the effects of gender-based violence and focus on the standards associated with respectful relationships. Students develop the skills needed to solve problems, set boundaries within relationships, and play an active role within the prevention of gender-based violence. They develop peer support and help-seeking skills that can be applied in response to situations involving gender-based violence in family, peer, community or on-line relationships.

Source: Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships: Introduction

Footy 11’s Update and Finals Fever

After 12 games, hundreds of kicks, oodles of marks and many, many spectacular flashes of team play we

are into the Final’s Season.

Sitting on top of the ladder, undefeated for the sea-son and going straight into the Grand Final next Wednesday, the Mountain View Wild Cats have been

a formidable force to be reckoned with.

We are greatly awaiting the outcome of 2nd

Semi Fi-nal between the Ranceby Roos and the Hallora Hotdogs. The winning team going into Monday’s Pre-

liminary Final against the Athlone All Stars.

Our Goal Kicker Leader board has been hotly contest-

ed and we have 20 students kicking goals and over 50 goals amassed for the season so far. Sensational

players and team effort.

The Grand Final will start at 2pm on Wednesday June 26

th – all welcome to attend. Followed by a Grade 5/6

Footy Team vs Teachers and Parent Team. So time to harken back to those good old footy memories, strap on the runners and come and have a good heart run and play against the senior kids and enjoy a bit of a fun match with lots of laughs, skills and probably our

fair share of footy prowess being unleashed.

Here’s hoping we see you next Wednesday to sup-port the kids and to take part in the following fun

match.