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May 24 2017 Newsletter No: 14

Term 2

Today we were lucky enough to have a visit

from the Yellow Group Kinder

children.

We read a story, did some craft and

enjoyed eating our snack together.

From the Classroom - Room 6

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Handouts

Dates to Remember

Receipts (some students)

OSHC Statement (OSHC Families)

Movie fundraiser flyer (1 per family)

Pie Drive fundraiser order form (1 per family)

Assembly Performance This week’s performance will be by Room 5 (Mrs. Brown’s)

Next week’s performance will be by Room 8 (Miss. Manson’s)

May

Friday May 26 Curriculum Day - no school or kinder for students

Wednesday May 31 School Optometrist visit No. 2

Year 4 camp commences

June

Friday June 2 Year 4 camp concludes

Wednesday June 7 Pizza order forms sent home

Monday June 12 Queens Birthday Public Holiday - no school

Wednesday June 14 Pizza orders due

Monday June 19 Pizza Day

Wednesday June 21 PFA Meeting - 7.00pm in school staffroom

Monday June 26 Responsible Pet education day - Kinder Blue & Yellow group only

Tuesday June 27 Student/Parent/Teacher interviews (more details close to date)

Friday June 30 Last Day Term 2 - School finishes at 1:30pm

July

Monday July 17 Term 3 Commences


Curriculum Day THIS FRIDAY – Friday 26 May This Friday 26 May is a curriculum day at Miners Rest Primary School. Please ensure no students arrive ready for classes this Friday. Staff will undertake learning pertaining to English.

Assembly Thursday – 2:45 (Blue Hall) Special assembly this Thursday (tomorrow) at the usual time in the usual place, due to Friday Curriculum Day!!

FlexiBuzz Tips Thank you to our wonderful community for transitioning across to FlexiBuzz in previous weeks. Some helpful tips are below, and address some of the minor issues some school community members have experienced. 1. When you register to set up FlexiBuzz, ensure you use the same email as used on

your child’s enrolment form to access information/push notification 2. If both parents/carers wish to access information/push notification and reports

etc, even for families experiencing separation, the office requires an email for both parents/carers – this is due to the FlexiBuzz App being required to “talk” to the secure software provided by DET

3. If you’re not receiving notifications, ensure you tick all the groups relating to your child/ren as well as “Whole School”; and

4. Please use the absence tab to inform us of student absence or late/early arrivals, not the “chat” tab.

If you experience any difficulties, please contact the School Office for support.

Read, Read, Read…! Please actively encourage your child/ren to read every day. We are very fortunate at school to have:

Well-resourced classrooms for home-reading (please encourage daily)

An extremely well-equipped and resourced school library, overseen by amazing volunteers. It’s accessed/timetabled weekly for students as well as available during lunch-times for use; and

The City of Ballarat mobile library, free of charge, to access 12mths of the year for borrowing and use, each Monday afternoon from 2:30-4:30pm.

Did You Know? Korean Exchange This year we are anxiously awaiting confirmation and details related to our 2017 exchange, in which we will again host approx. 20 Korean students from our Sister School in Busan, South Korea. It is a truly wonderful life-experience for families with students of any age, which can be verified by the 2015 participants, who were all brave enough to host two students (or staff) each. The exchange is most likely to take place in August, so please advise our office staff if you interested in hosting – all costs are covered. Note: I already have a handful of families who have notified me of their willingness to host, thank-you!

Across the Principals Desk - Dale Power

Get to know our wonderful staff…

This week I am introducing Bek Buckley & Kirsty Johnston.

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Question Staff Response

Name Bek Buckley

Room 17

Year Level 5/6

Home Town Ballarat

Education Studying Dip. Of Early Childhood Education and Care Certificate 3 and 4 in Education Support

Previous Schools Nil

Family Husband Ken, Chloe and Mackenzie. 2 Dogs Nelly & Koko

Interests / Hobbies / Sports / Passions

Camping with family & friends Reading, walking and cooking

3 Tips in Education 1. Mistakes we all can make, it’s how we learn from them that makes the difference

2. Learning is all about having fun 3. Celebrate all achievements regardless of how big

or small

Question Staff Response

Name Kirsty Johnston

Room Rooms 12

Year Level 1/2

Home Town Wagga Wagga

Family Nic and Banjo

Interests / Hobbies / Sports / Passions

Watching movies, listening to and playing music

3 Tips in Education 1. Always take risks 2. Think first, act second

3. Don’t worry about anyone else, your learning is your learning

Joke Q: What do you call an alligator in a vest? A: An ‘Investigator’!

Other Swans are the best footy team!


Joke of the Week: Claire Rm1

Riddle / Conundrum

30 cows in a field, 28 chickens, how many didn’t?

(Answer after ‘Dale’s Dribble’)

Dale’s Dribble:

Another wonderful family event last Thursday evening was extremely well supported by our families.

Thanks to Mrs Hay for working with Relationships Australia to provide a great community evening of activities.

Thanks to Miners Rest Lions for the great BBQ. It was great to see the photo booth and disco well supported too! We hope you all enjoyed a great evening.

We look forward to Assembly where our award recipients will be presented.

Riddle/Conundrum Answer: 10! (Read it, 20 ate chickens – therefore 10 didn’t eat chickens)

Across the Principals Desk - Dale Power

Literacy and Numeracy Parent Information Sessions

We are planning on conducting a literacy and a numeracy information session for parents later in the term. They will primarily be aimed at parents of younger students

and parents who have not attended in previous years.

To facilitate our organisation and to assess the viability of the sessions, we are asking parents to indicate if they would be interested to attend and times that would be most

convenient for the majority. Please respond through Flexibuzz or by calling into the office by Friday June 2nd.

Proposed session times are:

Wednesday Evening 6-7pm

Wednesday Morning 9-10am

Wednesday afternoon 2.20-3.20pm

Please indicate:

1. Your name, your student/s name and their Year level

2. Most convenient time, morning, afternoon or evening.

3. Any questions or topics in that you would particularly like included in the sessions. For example….How is subtraction taught in Yr4? Why are the books my child brings home for reading really easy?

School News


Kindergarten News

The following Kindergarten Policies up for review are:

Enrolment and Orientation Policy

Fees Policy

Comments are welcome. The policy folder is located in the foyer.

Key Dates Committee Meeting—25/5 @ 2 in Blue Room

Staff Conference Day—Child Free Day Fri—26th May.

Fire Station Excursion —

Red Group—Thursday 1st June

Blue and Yellow Groups—Friday 2nd June

Responsible Pet Program—

Red Group—15th June

Yellow and Blue Group—26th June

Last week the children in Red Group celebrated Special Person’s Day and invited their special people to spend some time with them at kinder. It was great to have so many Mums, Dads, Grandparents and other significant people in the children’s lives come to kinder. The children helped to make Jam Drop Biscuits for their special people and shared them at morning tea time. All of the special people were invited to complete a painting with the children and participate in the different learning experiences at kinder. The children seemed so proud to be able to show off their kinder. Thanks to everyone who joined us. We hope you enjoyed coming to kinder as much as we loved having you here!

School and Kindergarten PFA Meeting We would like to invite all parents to come along, partake in morning tea, meet some new friends and share your ideas at the next PFA Meeting on Wednesday 21st June, 7pm in the staffroom.

Friday Lunch Roster

Cookbook – Ballarat Farmers Market, Saturday 27th May, 9am-1pm We have been given the opportunity to sell our awesome cookbook at the Ballarat Farmers Market, Lake Wendouree. If you are able to help out, even for ½ hour, please leave your details at the office.

Pie Drive Order forms have been sent home today. Delivery is Thursday 29th June, available for collection from the shed from 3pm. Helpers for packing the orders on Thursday 29/6 at 1:30pm are: Erin Palmbas, Brooke Howie, Claire Wallis and Lucinda Taylor.

Movie Fundraiser – Despicable Me 3 Looking for a fun way to start the winter school holidays? Why not take the whole family to the movies and raise funds for your school and kindergarten at the same time!

What: Despicable Me 3

When: Sunday 2nd July

Time: 2pm

Where: Regent Cinemas Ballarat

Tickets: $15 per person, available via order form or school office

Second Hand Uniform Shop

Please see the following timetable for when the shop is open and who is helping. The shop opens from 2:45pm.

DATE 11.30am 12.30pm

26th May No Lunches

2nd June Cathryn Harris Alicia Wilson

Leah Tolliday 9th June Lana King Kylie Fawcett

Michelle Lafranchi 16th June Narelle Beer Justine Caldow

Kristy Paizis 23rd June Rebecca Jones Erin Brennan

Joy Wright

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Date Volunteer Volunteer

Thursday 25th May Erin Palmbas Bec Matthews

Friday 2nd June Stacey Madden Andrea Watkins

Thursday 8th June Danielle Robinson Kylie Fawcett

Friday 16th June Amelia Singline

Thursday 22nd June Bec Matthews Kylie Fawcett


Ben M For caring for others (Mrs Riddoch)

Keely M For always doing her personal best (Mrs Brown)

Holly W For using fantastic spelling strategies! (Kyra)

Rahni D For always putting in a big effort with your classroom work (Mr Gilbert)

Lacey S For using mental strategies for subtraction (Mrs Johnston)

Miller M For his excellent exposition writing (Claire S)

Sam A For a great effort with his home reading! (Miss Bigmore)

Gemma M For modelling excellent subtraction strategies! (Louie)

Brodie B For outstanding handwriting! (Louie)

Darcy B For working hard and making good learning choices (Emily)

Finn T For approaching his work with a positive attitude (Mr Mitchell)

Aimee D For wonderful presentation of her work

Liam A For personal best in Korean (Miss Lee)

Tyler P For earning the title of the Year 5/6 Masterchef (Mrs Cosgriff)

Aimee D For earning the title of the Year 5/6 Masterchef (Mrs Cosgriff)

Tom M For earning the title of the Year 3/4 Masterchef (Mrs Cosgriff)

Jett R For earning the title of the Year 3/4 Masterchef (Mrs Cosgriff)

Klay R For winning the Foundation Sportsmanship award! (Miss Frew)

Zach M For winning the Year 1/2 Sportsmanship award! (Miss Frew)

Connor S For winning the Year 3/4 Sportsmanship award! (Miss Frew)

Lucas P For winning the Year 5/6 Sportsmanship award! (Miss Frew)

Tyler F For an outstanding job of reading his words in Multi Lit. 4 levels in a row!!! (Julia)

Stars of the Week


Stars of the Week

Book club The next issue of Book Club will be sent home this week.

Orders are due by 16th June.

A reminder that from this issue onwards, all orders need to be placed online via the Scholastic LOOP. If you have any questions, or need help to

set up LOOP for your children, please see Mrs. Brown.

As an added incentive to use LOOP, Scholastic are offering a special offer. If you order a minimum of $10 for three Book Club Issues in a row, you

may be eligible for a Bonus Book on your third order, and every consecutive Book Club order after that for the rest of the school year!

School News


Cross country 2017

Well done to all students who represented Miners Rest PS at the division cross country last Friday. All students should be very proud as they all did a fantastic job.

Congratulations and good luck to Harry, Cobi, Archie, James, Logan and Rohan who qualified for the regional cross country championships which will be held in Warrnambool on Monday June 5th.

Futsal

Well done to all teams who participated in the Ballarat Futsal Primary School Titles last Thursday. All teams were very successful and made finals at the completion of their

rounds. Congratulations to the 5/6 girls team for winning the grand final!

A big thankyou you to Karne and Christine for coaching on the day and to all the supports who came along to support on the day.

Sports News


OSHC News

OSHC Outside of hours school care: before school care, after school care,

after kinder care, vacation care and curriculum care.

What have we been up to?

Construction ————> Decoration ———————> Eruption

The Wednesday afternoon children have been working extremely hard the last three weeks, building, decorating and erupting their volcanoes! Bi carb and vinegar reactions varied and took some good timing to get the perfect lava eruption.

The kinder children were feeling the music this week with

the musical playground at school being the highlight.

Some budding musicians.

July School Holidays

Keep an eye out in the next few weeks for the upcoming schedule for the school holiday program. With much interest and success with the last holiday program we are hoping to make it even more exciting with an assortment of excursions and incursions.

OSHC Safety Door

Strongly encouraging parents to attain the pin to the door and actively use it of a morning and afternoon.

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