Wednesday 29 November 2017

Forbes St, Warrandyte

9844 3537 Fax 9844 1616

warrandyte.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

www.warrandyteps.vic.edu.au

School Calendar

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER

9.30-12.30 2018 Foundation Orientation

THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER

Coralie’s Retirement Function 6.30-8pm

FRIDAY 8 DECEMBER

Curriculum Day-No Students At School

WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER

Carols 7.30pm

THURSDAY 14 DECEMBER

Bushband performing-Warrandyte Senior Citizens

SATURDAY 16 DECEMBER

Warrandyte Community Carols

SSS Telecast on Channel 7 @ 7pm

TUESDAY 19 DECEMBER

Reports & Portfolios Coming Home

THURSDAY 21 DECEMBER

Year 6 Graduation

FRIDAY 22 DECEMBER

Final assembly (farewell to Grade 6 students) 1pm

School Finishes at 1.30pm

OUR SCHOOL VALUES

Creativity

Achievement

Respect

Encouragement

Congratulations to Ms Kia Waqanivalu and Ms

Jayde Cairns who will join the Warrandyte

Primary School staff in 2018. We look forward

to welcoming them to the school later in the

term when they will spend some time with their

new class.

Literacy Leadership Workshop

Last Tuesday, Rick, Katie and myself attended

a Literacy Leaders Workshop held at

Heidelberg. A key Education State target is to

lift literacy levels by 25 per cent over the next

five to ten years. This course focused on

equipping school leaders and teachers with the

necessary knowledge and skills to meet these

targets.

Leading Literacy focussed on literacy and

leadership. The leadership component built the

capabilities and dispositions required to lead

school improvement that results in improved

student outcomes. The literacy content and

pedagogical knowledge component reinforced

the key capabilities to successfully address the

excellence in teaching and learning FISO

(Framework for Improving Student Outcomes)

priority area. In 2018, every school must have a

literacy goal in their Annual Implementation

Plan.

Warrandyte Primary School’s

Weekly Newsletter

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During our curriculum day next week, we will share with staff our future literacy vision for the school.

Year 2 Camp Experience Day

Last Thursday, our Year 2 students attended a whole day camping experience at Healesville. Students

spent the day at the camp and participated in a range of outdoor adventure activities. The students are

to be commended on their attitude and dedication shown towards the activities and I was most

impressed by their perseverance in completing the challenging tasks. Thank you to Jo and Gill for

organising the camp, Yvette and Kellee for assisting on the day.

2018 Student Leadership Roles

Our 2018 School Captains, who were nominated and voted for by staff, will be announced at

Assembly in the coming weeks.

Our House and Vice Captains, as too Social Service Captains, will be announced at the final Assembly

on Friday 22 December.

Our House and Vice Captains are voted for by their house peers. Social Service Captains are selected

by Year 5 teachers and the Leadership Team.

Congratulations to

Jarrah (5/6M) who was presented with his ICAS English competition medal (achieving a

perfect score) on Monday afternoon at a special ceremony at the Melbourne Convention

Centre

All students who received their black belt, orange belt and Grand Master awards at our special

Japanese assembly – outstanding achievement

Thought for the Week

Your level of success is determined by your level of discipline and perseverance

Craig Crouch Principal

SRC Committee

Hi everyone,

The SRC Committee are setting up a ‘Wishing

Tree’ at the school office. We would like you to

donate toys that are worth re-giving. The toys

will be donated to the Salvation Army. We are

hoping that everyone is willing to donate

something. We are requesting that all toys are

wrapped and placed under the tree. Wrapped

toys can be placed under the tree from Friday

1st December.

Thank you for your support,

Aimee and Angelina

School Council News

"Coralie Souvatzis Retirement Celebration”

All past and present Warrandyte Primary

School families are invited to celebrate the 30

years Coralie has been involved with our

school.

Thursday 7 December, 2017. 6:30-8:00pm.

Please RSVP to the school office for catering

purposes. 9844 3537

CAROLYN

FOWPS Report

The 3 events coming up are the student art

fundraiser, Christmas hamper raffle and the

Christmas Carols evening.

Christmas Carols Wednesday 13 December

– get there early for refreshments and photo

booth!

We will be selling Warrandyte Berry Farm

berries with cream and ice cream from 6:45pm

and will have a raffle on the night. Due to

popular demand we will set up the ‘photo

booth’ again for your WPS Christmas photo

for a gold coin donation before the show.

Make sure you get your picture between

6:30pm and 7:15pm as it will be packed up

before the carols start.

We are asking for volunteers to help prepare

the strawberries on the afternoon of the

13th and to help serve on the night. If you can

let Fiona or Meg know if you are available

(and when) that would be great.

Christmas Raffle

Donations of non-perishable items are

wanted to make a hamper for the end of year

raffle. If you would like to make a small

contribution, items can be brought to the

school office before Monday 11 December.

Meg Bailey – Co-Coordinator

meg.kneebone@gmail.com 0406 949 491

Fiona Young – Co-Coordinator

fiona.jon@gmail.com 0437 697 429

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Hiragana Blackbelts = Persistence and

Resilience

Hiragana Blackbelts = Persistence and

Resilience

Congratulations to all students who increased

their Hiragana Blackbelt scores during the 4

week Hiragana Challenge this term. Many

students achieved different colour belts which

are attached to their Japanese workbooks, but a

record number of students this year also

achieved their Hiragana Orange Belts (Preps)

and Blackbelts (Grades 1 – 6), and they

received decorated blackbelts at our Japanese

Assembly on Monday. Mastering the reading

and writing of another script language writing

system is a difficult task, even for adults. But

with sheer persistence, a lot of practice and the

resilience to keep trying even when they didn’t

quite make it (often coming to the Japanese

room at lunchtimes for extra practice), the

following students have conquered the first 46

Hiragana writing characters and should be

justifiably proud of their achievement:

Preps – Orange Belts (able to read the first 15

characters)

Summer, Luca, Sonia, Tom & Darcy.

Grade 1/2 Blackbelts (able to read all 46 basic

characters)

1/2G - Sadie, Holly, Bridie, Sienna, Evie &

Gemma.

1/2J Cate, Reve, Samuel, Kaori, Joe, Ava,

Hunter, Jesse & Mitchell.

Grade 3-6 Blackbelts (able to read and write all

46 basic characters)

3/4J - Charlie, Max, Ella, Cameron, Jarrah,

Jacob & Owen.

3/4KS - Bel, Farrah, Trixie, Lenny & Maggie.

3/4C - Henry & Tessa.

5/6S - Holly, Grace & Lilly K.

5/6M - Aimee, Lily D & Sive.

5/6R - Charlotte, Scout, Angelina, Eden, Jake

& Cassie,

In addition, many students decided to push on

further than the 46 basic characters, and attempt

to conquer writing the full 107 Hiragana

set. This is a really amazing effort. This year’s

recipients of the Hiragana Masters Awards are:

Sive, Aimee, Lily D, Angelina, Eden, Scout,

Jake, Lilly K, Grace, Holly B, Jacob, Max, Ella,

Jarrah P, Trixie, Farrah, Bel, Cameron & Owen.

Minasan, omedetou gozaimashita. (Everyone,

congratulations).

Sensei (Tracey)

Warrandyte Community Carols

Don’t forget, if your child would like to sing

with Kevin O’Mara on stage at the Community

Carols at Stiggants Reserve, on Saturday

December 16th, he or she is welcome to do so.

Kevin is performing two songs with some of the

School Bushband instrumental players

accompanying him. He would like children

from the school to join him on stage to sing the

second song, ‘Warrandyte Christmas’. The

performance will begin around 8.00 – 8.15pm.

There will be practices at school with the

children who will be participating. The first

practice is THIS FRIDAY DECEMBER 1ST at

3.10pm.

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Sport News

Sport Uniforms

There are still a number of students who have

not returned uniforms from interschool sport in

term 2 and students having not returned singlets

from the District Basketball round robin. Please

return this week, these uniforms are needed for

sport photos.

Lost Property

As we are approaching the end of the year it

would be a good idea to come and check lost

property. Also with the warmer weather

students are not likely to miss tops and jackets.

Before & After Care News

CURRICULUM DAY FRIDAY 8

DECEMBER

Don’t forget the ‘Mexican Day’ on curriculum

day, Friday 8 December.

It will be a day of nachos, tacos & other

Mexican activities. This day is going ahead and

bookings close Tuesday 5 December.

Thank you to everyone paying their accounts so

promptly!

This coming week we will start our Christmas

program, be prepared for a barrage of

creativity!

CORALIE

Coralie’s Big WPS Retirement Party

Sick Bay Laundry

Sarah Duff is the lucky mum this week. She is

entitled to come up and change the linen and

return it next week all fresh for us.

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