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Warranwood

Primary School www.warranwood.vic.edu.au

Term 2, Week 10

Thursday 18 June, 2015

PRINCIPAL REPORT JAPANESE DAY Thank you to everyone for their support once again of our Japa-nese Day. Thanks to Tanya Barlow for organising the event, which she did with lots of assistance from Aya sensei, staff, par-ents, students and many others connected to our school com-munity. It was a joyous day thanks to the great attitude of our students! UNIFORM We are coming up to the final 6 months of the changeover period for our new school uniform. From the begin-ning of 2016 students will no longer be allowed to wear the old school uniform. As a result we will no longer be selling the old uniform as of the beginning of next term. The final sales days for the old uniform will be tomorrow and next week. See Jill for some bargains – but please remember they can only be worn until the end of 2015. We are aware of some people’s concerns regarding winter uniform – we are waiting on a sample of a long sleeved top to arrive. A sensible option on cold days is the old-fashioned singlet! Those students who are over-dressed at the beginning of the day tend to peel off the warm things once they get to school and run around or are busy in their classrooms. Active children don’t need lots of layers! THE EDUCATION STATE The Victorian Government is currently consulting with the community through two papers. One is about what ‘The Education State’ might look like and the other is a paper about the school system. We will be conducting a forum for our community on Monday 21 July. The consultation papers were emailed to everyone with the newsletter notifica-tion today or are available at http://educationstate.education.vic.gov.au/ We will send out an invitation shortly. MIDDLE SCHOOL MOVIE NIGHT The excitement is building. The movie is ready to roll! It is going to be so much fun!

WHAT’S ON? June 18 Let’s Go To The Movies 3/4 Movie Night 22 Parent Teacher Interviews 3.45 to 8.30pm 23 Parent Teacher Interviews 3.45 to 5.45pm 24 Minions Movie—PA Fundraiser 26 Last day of Term 2—2.30pm finish July 13 Curriculum Day DON’T FORGET!! 14 Term 3 Commences

India C PS Jarryd A PR Ellia W PR Amelia D PS Alice M PS Leila C 1/2P Spencer A 1/2P Ryan H 1/2J Evelyn C 1/2M Liam R 1/2M Levi P 1/2C

Hayden M 1/2C Eliza B 3/4D Ben A 3/4A Ella M 3/4A Michael S 3/4A Phoenix P 3/4A Cooper de P 3/4S Liam J 3/4S Sam O 5/6T Blake O 5/6A Hayden S 5/6A

Principal Awards

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REPORTS Your child’s report will be available on Compass tomorrow. If you have forgotten your login/password please contact Brigid at the office – most people are using Compass for attendance reporting, so there should be very few people in that situation. If you don’t understand anything that is in the report, please ask!! Don’t forget parent/student/ teacher interviews on Monday and Tuesday! Students are expected to attend and be part of the conversation – it is about them after all! TRIVIA NIGHT Thanks to Michelle Hudson and team for organising last Saturday’s Trivia Night. Great to see so many people there. Also great that we were able to organise two staff tables, although it was unfairly balanced – I wasn’t on the winning table!

SCHOOL COUNCIL Your School Council meets regularly to discuss school programs and policy. We have a number of sub-committees that are integral to the functioning and management of the school. Each of these sub-committees is open to school parents to come along and be part of! Promotions – looks at ways to improve the profile of the school in our community. Education – provides information for our community around mainly curriculum based issues. Develops policies around most school functions. Sustainability – responsibility for grounds development. Finance – ensures school finances are being expended correctly. Canteen – canteen management. PA/Spring Fair – parent based group doing wonderful work to support school programs and social activity. Assistants Principal’s Report Planning Week The teachers have been preparing units of work for term 3. Thanks to all staff for their hard work while the stu-dents have had the treat of all their specialists in one day. The units are as follows: Prep – Living, Non-Living and Once Living Junior – Weather Middle – Aboriginal Studies and the First Fleet Senior – Out of this World Parent/Teacher/ Student Interviews I hope all families have secured their interview times for Monday or Tuesday. We would like students to come along and participate in the development of learning goals for the second semester. If you feel there are some issues you would like to discuss, you are welcome to send your child out of the room towards the end. Cybersafety We all know that the use of social media is growing in our student population. This can present some challeng-ing issues for parenting in these times. We run a number of programs within the school to support students. In addition to these we have organised Martine Oglethorpe to present to parents on Tuesday July 28th, 7.30pm. Martine is a cybersafety consultant, speaker on ‘Parenting in the Modern World’, family counsellor and blogger. The school will be funding the night so that parents have the opportunity to be supported in their roles in our modern times. Please keep the night free and an attendance slip will come home in the first week of next term. Sue Dean Assistant Principal

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MIDDLE SCHOOL WELLBEING PROGRAM 2 weeks ago we had the boys’ session on Winning and Losing and Dealing with Failure. We talked about... What’s NOT Helpful Needing to win at all costs Comparing yourself to others – everyone is different with strengths and weaknesses Giving up

What’s Helpful Congratulating yourself on what you did well

Reflecting on what you could do better next time

Practising skills to improve for next time

Using Positive Self-Talk after a loss or fail

Seeing the blessing or learning in what seems to be a failure or loss or something negative i.e. gaining an inju-

ry, so then changing focus onto a new skill and developing even more success…all because you failed.

Last week was an intro to Resilience. Learnings were – What is Resilience? What might life ‘throw’ at us that we will need to be Resilient to? What does Resilience LOOK and SOUND like? How do you we become Resilient? We need to develop Personal Powers such as Confidence, Assertiveness, Empathy, Self-Regulation etc. One easy and useful tool that the kids can use immediately is a Visualisation. They put their Shield of Resilience up over their chest and imagine that the adversity is bouncing of their shield and not penetrating it. This protects and strengthens their Personal Powers. **We made it very clear that it is normal and healthy to have feelings and these will still be felt and expressed, however Resilience allows you to manage those feelings and not get stuck. Mia Sartori

Sports News

Warranwood had 4 students compete in the regional cross country run last Tuesday. The Rregion event is huge with both primary and secondary students running throughout the day. Both Emily P and Sophie S ran in fields of about 90 students and Emily finished a creditable 38th and Sophie in the 60s. Rhys H and Cooper D ran in the last event of the day and after 16 earlier events they got a ‘wet, muddy’ track. Rhys and Cooper both earned well deserved medals for their runs with Cooper 2nd and Rhys 3rd. Well done to the 4 runners.

Senior School sport fixture for this week...

Winter Sport. Round 8. Warranwood Primary School V Antonia Park Primary School

ROD NEAL Sports Teacher

Sport Venue

AFL Football WPS

Softball Boys APPS

Softball Girls APPS

Netball A WPS

Netball B WPS

Netball C APPS

Soccer WPS

Volleystars APPS

Tennis APPS

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JAPANESE CORNER JAPANESE DAY! What an amazing day we had last Thursday. We had perfect weather for our Japanese Day activities and performances. Students took part in a busy day full of fun! There was cooking, brush painting, origami, sport, story telling, ink dyeing, goldfish scooping, headband making and more! We ended the day with a whole school performance and best-dressed parade. Thank you to the parents for their creative efforts in costume design and to Aya Sensei who helped us create a very memorable community event! Tanya Barlow Japanese Teacher

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Canteen News Sushi Day was a great success with 580 sushi rolls ordered A BIG thank-you to my volunteers for their help on this day;

Bec Parry, Kate Braunthal, Sue Budge, Blair Pennell, Kelly Spiden andKim Tunnecliff.

Your help was very much appreciated!!

$5- Meal Deals – available till end of Term 2

~ Meal Deal 1~ Hot Dog with YOUR choice of BIG M Chocolate or Strawberry Milk

and a Choc Chip Muffin ~ Meal Deal 2~

Sausage Roll or Meat Pie with YOUR choice of BIG M Chocolate or Strawberry Milk and a Choc Chip Muffin

~ Meal Deal 3~ Hawaiian or Margarita Pizza with YOUR Choice of Drink

and a Choc Chip Muffin ~ Meal Deal 4~

Two Homemade Ham and Cheese Mini Quiches with YOUR choice of Drink and a Choc Chip Muffin

REMINDERS

Tomato Sauce sachets are 0.15c each. Please ensure you add this when ordering.

Students are also able to come to the canteen at recess and ask for something from their lunch order for snack.

Thanks to those parents who have offered to volunteer in 2015. Volunteer hours are: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 11am to 2.30pm, Friday 10am to 2.30 pm

If you are a new volunteer please come 15 mins prior for an induction.

If you are unable to attend canteen on the day you are rostered please contact me in advance on 0419 387 370.

Warm regards

Megan Parker Canteen Roster, Term 2 and 3, 2015

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 2 2015

Date Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

Thursday, 18 June 2015 Katie Bronstring Lydia Aretis Karen Prinson

Friday, 19 June 2015 Megan Dumbrell Georgie Gowling Nicki Stevens

Monday, 22 June 2015 Andrea Haywood

Tuesday, 23 June 2015 Suzanne Budge

Wednesday, 24 June 2015 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 25 June 2015 Di Jelinek

Friday, 26 June 2015 Nicki Stevens Volunteer required Andrew Gersh

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 3 2015

Date Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

Monday, 13 July 2015 Curriculum day

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Wednesday, 15 July 2015 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 16 July 2015 Nicki Stevens

Friday, 17 July 2015 Sam Ireland Liz McGinley Heather Jones

Monday, 20 July 2015 Sue Budge

Tuesday, 21 July 2015 Melissa O'Connor Maggie Slane

Wednesday, 22 July 2015 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 23 July 2015 Di Jelinek

Friday, 24 July 2015 Sarah Mitsalis Nicole Thorpe Luisa Pentland

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