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Yard Supervision: 8:50am-9:00am 3:15pm-3:30pm

Yard Opens 8:30am, Closes 3:30pm

Wednesday 18th

June, 2013

No. 17

From the School Leaders

Out of School Hours Care Program Phone Number

9314 9358

Monday 23 June Semester 1 Reports and Student Learning Portfolios to be sent home Tuesday 24 June Parent Teacher Interviews for Prep-Grade 2 Wednesday 25 June Parent Teacher Interviews for Grade 3-Grade 6 Thursday 26 June Free Dress Day Cold Coin Donation Friday 27 June Sausage Sizzle Friday 27 June Last Day Term 2 1:15pm Assembly 1:30pm Dismissal

Phone: 9314 7054 Fax: 9314 9302 e-mail: wembley.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au website: www.wembleyps.vic.edu.au

Hollywood Trivia Night 2014 The red carpet was rolled out, the lights were dazzling, the paparazzi were out in force and many Holly-wood celebrities converged on Yarra-ville for a memorable evening last Saturday. Grace Kelly, Marilyn Mon-roe, Cat Woman, Carmen Miranda, Darth Vader, the famous Pink Ladies, zombies, several of the guys from the Hangover and many other colorful characters, were all in attendance. A big thank-you goes to The Mask (aka Rusty Berther) who provided the movie trivia for the night as well as conducting the auction and raffle segments. The evening proved to be a huge success, raising a record amount of fundraising dollars for the school. This will be put towards the new verandas to be erected outside the Year 4 classrooms and shade cloths for the two sandpits. Organi-zation for the entire function is at-tributed to Rebecca Courtnay who has worked consistently and without any fuss over the past months. Re-becca and her team sourced auction and raffle prizes, decorated the hall before the event, organized the bar and cleaned the hall meticulously after the event! Thank you to all of our sponsors on the night. A compre-hensive list of sponsors is included in this newsletter and parents are asked to support our sponsors in recogni-tion of their generous donations.

Year 5/6 Gala Winter Sports Day

Our Years 5 & 6 students headed off for their interschool sports day on Monday. Wembley fielded teams in netball, soccer, volleyball, football and hockey. Several of the teams

were successful on the day and will be going on to the District level in a few weeks. Congratulations to all our sports teams who represented Wem-bley on this day and the teachers who had trained over the term.

Parent-Teacher Interviews Parent-teacher interviews will be held next week to discuss the pro-gress of students over Semester One. Student Learning Portfolios and Re-ports will be sent home Monday next week. The Prep –Year 2 students will have their interviews on Tuesday 24 June between 1.00-7.00pm and Years 3-6 interviews will be held on Wednesday 25 June 1.00-7.00pm. In-terviews for 4C-Brad Morin and 6A-Melanie Barger will be held in Term 3. Some teachers have opened up in-terview times for their second night. Interviews must be booked on the School Interviews website and the event code for this session is A8QZ3. Parents are able to request inter-views to be booked via the office if they do not have access to a com-puter.

Wedding Bells

Congratulations to Brad Morin (4C) and his fiancé Kirsten, who are to be married next week in Boston, USA. Brad will be taking leave from Friday of this week to travel to his parent‟s home, where the ceremony will be held. On behalf of the entire school community, best wishes are ex-pressed to Brad and Kirsten for a happy and memorable wedding day.

Anaphylaxis Alert It has been brought to our attention that stu-dents have been bringing nuts and nut products to school recently. As we have a number of stu-dents at Wembley who are anaphylactic and severely allergic to various types of nuts we ask all parents to be mindful and supportive when sending food to school. Any contact with nuts or products containing nuts may have life threatening consequences on these students. Your support with this is greatly appreciated.

Free Dress Day The Junior School Council has organized a „Free Dress Day‟ for Thursday, next week. They will be deciding who they will be raising funds for at their meeting this week. Reminders will be given at assemblies and Junior School Council-lors will be coming around to classes to remind students next week.

Sausage Sizzle

A Sausage Sizzle will be held at school on the last Friday of the term to support Mason Wray, Year 6, who has been selected to travel to Ja-pan and participate in an international baseball competition. All sausages need to be pre-ordered so that quantities can be determined before the day. Order forms for the Sausage Sizzle will be sent home today, Wednesday and must be returned to school by Tuesday of next week. Mason‟s parents and a group of helpers will be preparing the sausage sizzle next week. Parents are reminded that the canteen will not be open on this last day of school.

Planning For Term 2 This week and next week, teachers have been busy planning the curriculum for next term. They have been working collaboratively with their teams to plan the teaching and learning programs. Students attend Specialists classes whilst the teachers engage in the planning ses-sions.

End of Term 2

Friday 27 June will be the last day of Term 2 and students will be dismissed after assembly at 1.30pm. The Out of School Hours Care Pro-gram will be operating in this day.

TRIVIA NIGHT Many thanks to everyone who came along to the Wembley Primary School “Hollywood Trivia Night”. It was a fabulous evening of trivia, laugh-ter and dancing and one that will no doubt be remembered for a long time to come (or not re-membered at all, as the case may be!). Such an evening would not be possible without the exceptional talents of our very own Rusty Be-ther. He always does a legendary job and this year was no exception. Sadly, Rusty will not be “our very own” for much longer but we promise to start a petition to bring him back for the Trivia Night next year. And if that doesn‟t work there are always bribes. Leave it with us! We‟d also like to thank Treasury Wines for kindly donating much of the alcohol for the evening. They were beautiful wines that proved very popular and contributed in a large part to the great fundraising profits of the night. Many thank again to Treasury Wines for their amazing gener-osity. A huge thank you also goes out to the many won-derful sponsors who contributed items, gift vouchers and services for our raffle and auction. The donations really were incredible. We have attached a poster below with their business logos and ask that you kindly support them where you can as they have generously supported us. Finally, if you would like to see photos of the fun, color and mayhem on the night, please visit the notice board nearest the office. Photos will be on display and are available for purchase courtesy of our red carpet photographer Felicity. They make a great memento of a wonderful eve-ning and may help jog the memory of those for whom it‟s all a little fuzzy! Rebecca Courtnay

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Sports Snippets 2014

Regional Cross Country

Congratulations to the children who competed in the Regional Cross Country last Thursday at Brimbank Park. All of the children ran well and gave their best efforts. Cassie, Charli, Ivy, Hud-son, Kate, James, Mason, Seth, Tommy, Isabella had not competed in Regionals before so well done on getting to this high level of competition. Bayley, Aiden and Brooklyn had competed at Regionals last year, well done on achieving this high standard again. Congratulations to Bayley Camillo on coming 7th place on the day. Bayley will now compete in the State Cross Country competition early Term Three. We would all like to wish Bayley the best of luck for this event. Thanks again to Deirdra Cooney for all of her hard work with training the team.

District Athletics Day

A reminder the District Aths day is fast approaching.It will be held at Newprt Athletics Track on Friday 22 August. The children who have made the team will receive a note early Term three. I will announce the team and captains by the end of the term. The teams will be placed on the hall door, so make sure you check to see if you have made itJ

Josh Giddey

Congratulations to Josh Giddey on making it into the Victorian State Team for AFL. There were many boys who tried out for the team, so be chosen as an emergency is an amazing achieve-ment. We wish you all of the best with your football Josh.

Josh Giddey & Samuel Metcalfe

Congratulations to Josh Giddey and Samuel Metcalfe on making it to the last 64 boys in State Basketball. Again this is truly a great effort to make it this far with so many boys trying out for the team. We are very lucky to have such talented children. Good luck for the rest of the try-outs in the holidays.

Kelleigh Evans and Matt Symmons PE Co-ordinators

PA Rola El Hage-for always showing effort, being a helpful student and being kind to every-one!

PB Lily Monkhouse-for explaining the life cycle of a broad bean using a flow chart.

PC Hamish Prussner-for showing persistence and putting in effort with his reading!

PD Grace Wooley-for working hard at identifying letters of the alphabet.

PE Edward Ooi-for cooperating with his peers during group activities.

1A Leontine O‟Brien-for her fabulous use of expression during Readers Theatre.

1B Dion Toro-for working hard to use his notes to help him summarise information about gi-raffes to include in his Animal Report.

1C Tobie Chapman-for an improved attitude to learning, particularly in independent reading!

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2A Elly Rose Mercieca-for a fabulous improvement in attitude & effort.

2B Sophie Caruso-for your fabulous and insightful additions to our classroom discussions.

2C Nicola Schultz-for her persistence during Mathematics.

2D Avina Hoang-for completing all work and more efficiently.

2E Lucas Maticevski-for his effort and enthusiasm in learning about the human body and his outstanding explanation text on the respiratory system! Joshua Cuolahan-for his constant effort in Maths and presenting his work as pictures, num-bers and words. Blake Gleeson-for the fabulous effort he puts into all work tasks and his positive attitude towards learning.

3A Esme Prested-for being a fantastic role model and always putting in her best efforts.

3B Isaac Carelse-for improved efforts to invite others to contribute and thank his peers during Cooperative Learning.

3C Sienna Grima-for her increased efforts towards completing her homework.

3/4A Ethan Formosa-for demonstrating a high level of effort and hard work in his concept home-work.

4A Isabella Maticevski-for her effort in improving her handwriting, with fantastic results!

4B Katie Ardonis-for always having a friendly helpful and positive attitude to everything. Well done!

4C Hudson Schultz-for a never say quit attitude at athletics. Sarah Luc-We wish you all the best in your new school. You will be missed.

5A Denzel Abdou-for successfully applying a set of rules in order to summarise a text.

5B Connor Britten-for making interesting contributions to class discussions.

5C Rina-Jade Cooper-for her positive attitude and persistence in her work.

6A Jermaine McGhie-for a fantastic effort when drafting and editing your movie review. Great work!

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Yarraville Family Dental Clinic

During the JUNE school holidays the Yarraville Family Dental Clinic 116 Gamon Street, Yarra-ville is offering free check-ups to all school-aged children in the Yarraville/Seddon area. Most treatment is covered at no-out-of-pocket cost if you qualify for the Child Dental Benefits Schedule. Appointments are available between Monday 30 June and Friday 11 July inclusive. Inquiries: 8354-7618.

Book Launch with Leigh Hobbs

Wednesday June 25th at 4pm at the Sun Theatre

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Children need to bring paper and pencils! Free event. All welcome.

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Remember when you believed in anything and everything?

Researchers from the University of Western Aus-tralia are investigating children‟s ability to de-tect and avoid potentially harmful social interac-tions, such as being easily fooled or tricked into doing something. We are looking to see how this develops in children, and when children outgrow this vulnerability. We are looking for parents of Kindergarten – Year 6 children across Australia to complete an online survey (15 – 20 minutes). Participants will go into a draw to win one of 10 $50 gift certifi-cates to Coles/Myers. To participate go to:

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MSJ 2015 Limited places are available for 2015.Further information can be found at our web-site www.msj.vic.edu.au or by contacting the College Registrar at regis-trar@msj.vic.edu.au.

MSJ Open Mornings - 9.30am – 10.30am (Thursday) 29th May, 19th June, 31st July, 28th August, 11th September, 13th November 2014 MSJ Open Day 2014 Sunday 12th October, 11am – 2pm