Toora Primary School Newsletter Supplement No: 6 - 23/4/2015

Prep /1 CLASS NEWS

MOTHERS DAY

Raffle Tickets will go home tomorrow for our special "Mothers

Day" Raffle generously donated by Marina Jackson.

Pamper Nutrimetics Gift Box:

Consisting of...Apricot Kernel oil Body Crème, Foaming Bath

Oil, Apricot Oil Bath Soap, Fragrance Soap, Bright & Beautiful

Serum (Anti-age Skincare), Go Firmly Serum, Vitamin C

Capsules.

A beautiful Gift Box for one lucky Mum or Special person to

win.

We also have our Mothers Day Stall to be held on Friday 8th May - don't forget your donations. The box in the Admin area is filling up nicely.

PRINCIPAL: David Tyler Phone: 56862 283 Fax: 5686 2451 Email: toora.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: tooraps.vic.edu.au

COMING UP: APRIL 29th CANTEEN Lunches commence 28th Australian Ballet - Whole School Excursion MAY 13th KidsMatter “Getting Started” Program 15th Toora Primary Cross Country Event 21st School Photos 22nd Principal Conference - Melbourne TO BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL: School Fees ($150 per student) Australian Ballet Permission forms

Term 2 Canteen Volunteers If you are available to help out on Canteen Day please indicate below which Wednesday (s) you’re available. Canteen

Manager Kelly Packham will confirm day with you once all names are in.

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Wed. 27th May

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CANTEEN COMMENCES NEXT WEDNESDAY 29th April 2015 Canteen Menu will go home with all students tomorrow. Lunch orders are to be in by 9:00 am Wednesday mornings with money. Sticky Beaks Lunch Wallets are available from the office at $5 ea or students can place orders & money in a brown paper bag.

This week our sound focus has been on Ii: In the Igloo, i,i,i. We will also look at the diagraph of ‘sh’. In show and tell our topic of the week is ‘your family’. For writing we will begin looking at narratives and continue to work in punctuation. In maths we will continue working on counting patterns, addition and subtraction and we will begin making groups the beginning of understanding multiplication.

2, 3, 4 CLASS NEWS

As part of the Seachange Festival the grade 2/3/4’s visited Alison Lester’s Gallery in Fish Creek. Last Thursday we went to Alison Lester my favourite part was the water painting. By Cooper Last Thursday, the grade 2/3/4 went to see Alison Lester. My favourite part was the animated movie we watched called ‘Thing’ that Alison had made. She is a movie maker as well as an author and illustrator! By Reghan

I don’t really like art but Alison Lester makes that totally different!

She has an amazing imagination and is a great leader. By Scarlet

Alison Lester was born in 1952, and she is an award winner for

Children’s book author. My favourite Alison Lester book is ‘Are We

There Yet.’ By Jodie

I liked the dog called Smokey who was sitting in the fireplace reading books! By Django At Alison Lester’s workshop we got to do a quiz where we found answers by walking around her workshop gallery. By Maddison We learnt how to paint with water colours, and we made postcards that had an autumn theme. By Chelsea

In class, we all worked together to create our own version of

Alison’s Clive Easts Alligators, series of picture books.

2, 3, 4 CLASS NEWS

Grade 6 LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

On Tuesday 21st April, our Year 6 Leaders; Lexi,

Riley, Kaleb, Lachlan, Callum and Kurtis attended the

GRIP Leadership Conference in Korumburra.

The GRIP Student Leadership Conference is unique

in that it concentrates specifically on training student

leaders for their role as SCHOOL LEADERS. The

style, topics, and content of the conference all focus

on what the students can do RIGHT NOW.

The GRIP goal is that our student leaders would

leave the conference with a clear vision, a solid

understanding and dozens of ideas for their time as a

leader.