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Principal Cindi Bruechert

President Darren Flett

Vice President Janelle Kelly

Finance Committee Convenor Clare Thurman

Minute Secretary Deb Burke

Members Verona Beasley Kerry Eldridge Kylie Morrison Tim Murphy Anne Olsen Nic Hargreaves Julie Ladd Christina Spence

Community Members Deminda McMaster

9 Uxbridge Street, Strathfieldsaye, 3551 Phone : (03) 5439 5207 Email : [email protected] Website : www.strathps.vic.edu.au

Principal’s Report Attitudes to School survey

Yesterday the grade 4, 5 and 6 students completed the Student Attitude to School survey. This survey is important because it

gives the students another opportunity to voice their views on our school including areas of practice that require improvement

and opportunities to celebrate what we are doing well. We look forward to the results so that we can continue to develop more

opportunities to meet the needs of our students.

Education Week

Quality education plays a central role in our society and Education Week provides a reminder of the importance of life-long

learning at all ages. As part of our celebrations last week, we opened the doors to our school community. Our Grandparents

and Special Friends afternoon on Friday also provided a lovely opportunity for students to share their classroom learning with

some of the special people in their life. Photos of this event can be found can be seen further within the newsletter.

Trivia Night On Friday 21st June, we will be holding our annual Trivia Night. It would be great if you could add this date to your diary, get a team of friends together and come along ready to enjoy a great, fun filled evening! Registrations are available online or via the school office. 2019 Twilight Fair After taking on board lots of feedback from parents, staff and community members and presenting this information to School Council, our Twilight Fair committee is very pleased to announce that we have now locked in a date for our 2019 Twilight Fair. This year our fair will be held on Friday 11th October. Please keep an eye out for the regular updates from our Twilight Fair Committee throughout the coming year. Cold Days Ahead As we have all noticed, the mornings have been getting colder. While some of our students still choose to come dressed in shorts, please encourage your child to put a jumper in their bag. As your winter uniform is being organised for the season, please ensure that it is all clearly named so that it can be returned if it ends up in the lost property bin. There is nothing more annoying than losing a brand new jumper! Just a reminder that sports leggings and club hoodies are not part of our school uniform. Come and Have Your Say Day

You may have noticed our gate greeters in the mornings trying to help everyone to start the day in a positive frame of mind.

This week our Be You Student Wellbeing Team ran our first ‘Come and Have Your Say’ day for the year. Students were

encouraged to come to the Community Room to share their opinions about one of our values, respect, what it looks like at our

school, what we are doing well and where we could improve. The discussion was led by members of the Be You team and the

students who attended had some fabulous suggestions for the future. One of these was to hold a special day where students

could rotate through activities that represent each of our school values. How great is student voice!

Community Garden Members of the Community Garden Committee have been meeting over the past few weeks to get this exciting project off the ground. Set out next to the Community Room, there are a number of apple crates that will be turned into wicking boxes over the weekend. On Sunday morning there will be a working bee starting at 8:00 am to help get all of the basics established. Thank you to Rebecca Lancaster who is leading the team as well as the group of dedicated parents and community members who have helped develop the project to this point. If you are able to loan some assistance on Sunday, please let Rebecca know ([email protected]) as there will also be a bbq to help maintain energy.

Team China Raffle Winners

Congratulations to the following raffle winners!. 1st - Lily Pithie - $100 Body Shop Hamper

2nd - Jonie Trinidad - $50 Strathfieldsaye BP Voucher 3rd - Kristin Iles - $50 Strathfieldsaye Post Office Voucher 4th - Louise Head - $40 Ukelele donated by Muso's Stuff

5th - Michelle DiCamillo - $30 Edwards Voucher 6th - The McCookes - Hair Products from Salon Inspired Strathfieldsaye

7th - Clayton McMaster - $10 Strathfieldsaye Bakery Voucher 8th - Tom Greenacre - $10 Strathfieldsaye Bakery Voucher

Thank you to all those organisations that donated prizes and those who purchased tickets. A total of $376 was raised which will support the Team China Program.

Queen’s Birthday – Public Holiday A reminder that Monday June 10th is a public holiday. There will be no school on this day. Kind Regards, Julie Ladd - Acting Principal

CALENDAR OF EVENTS TERM 2 & 3

TERM 2 MAY

Week 6 June 2nd Community Garden Working Bee commences at 8am with BBQ

Week 7 June 4th District Cross Country

June 6th Parents & Friends Meeting 2:30pm

Week 8 June 10th Queens Birthday Public Holiday - No School

Week 9 June 21st School Trivia Night

Week 10 June 28th Last day of Term 2 - 2:30pm dismissal

TERM 3 JULY

Week 1 July 15th Curriculum Day — No School

July 16th Term 3 Commences

Week 2 July 26th Student Learning Interviews - Students only attend school during their allotted interview time

Period Start Finish

Term 2 Tuesday, 23rd April 2019 Friday, 28 June 2019

School Holidays Saturday, 29 June 2019 Sunday 14 July 2019

Term 3 Monday, 15 July 2019 Friday, 20 September 2019

School Holidays Saturday, 21 September 2019 Sunday, 6 October 2019

Term 4 Monday, 7 October 2019 Friday, 20 December 2019

School Holidays Saturday, 21 December 2019 Tuesday, 28 January 2020

2019 Victorian School Term Dates

Important Payment Reminders

Prep 2020 - Enrolment All parents who intend to enrol their child in Foundation at Strathfieldsaye Primary School in 2020, need to collect an Enrolment Pack from the school office. The pack includes information pertinent to SPS including the official school enrolment form. The enrolment form, a copy of your child’s birth certificate, immunisation record and permissions booklet must all be returned to school before the enrolment can be processed. Family Statements We are currently sending out Family Statements by email. Families who opted for a Payment Plan will also receive a hard copy today, via the classroom. As we are now working towards completing our end of financial year requirements, we kindly ask that any outstanding amounts be paid in full before June 22nd, 2019. If you require assistance with payments, or have any queries regarding your account, please feel free to contact the office. CSEF Funding If you believe you maybe eligible for the Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) and have not yet submitted your 2019 application, please contact the office. The CSEF is an annual payment of $125.00 to the school to be used towards Camps, Sports and/or Excursion expenses for the benefit of eligible students. APPLICATONS CLOSE AT THE END OF TERM 2 Criteria: To be eligible for the funding, a parent or legal guardian of a student must: On the first day of Term 1, OR; On the first day of Term 2 be an eligible beneficiary within the meaning of the State Concessions Act 2014, that is, be a

holder of Veterans Affairs Gold Card or be an eligible Centrelink Health Care Card (HCC) or Pensioner Concession Card (PCC) holder, OR

Be a temporary foster parent, and submit an application to the school by the due date CSEF Prep Uniform Package Funding In the coming days, Prep families who are eligible for CSEF will receive documentation for CSEF Prep Uniform Package Funding. APPLICATONS CLOSE END OF TERM 3. Extra forms are available from the office, if required.

Woolworths Earn & Learn Strathfieldsaye l Primary School are once again participating in Woolworths Earn & Learn promotion. When shopping at Woolworths please collect the Earn and Learn Stickers and bring them to school. The school is able to redeem the stickers for valuable books, maths and science equipment. The promotion begins May 1st nd ends June 25th.

EVENT AMOUNT DATE DUE

Wakakirri Performance $20.00 30/5/19

District Cross Country TBC 3/6/19

District Cross Country On Wednesday 50 students from school enjoyed competing in the Division Cross Country competition, held at the Bendigo Race Course. In near perfect conditions, students relished the opportunity to compete at a higher level with many students producing personal best times. We commend participants on their efforts and the way in which they represented our school at this event. The students who have made their way through to the following event are: Joel Riordan (8/9 Boys) Molly Jones (8/9 Girls) Harrison Whitfield (11 Boys) Emma Benetti (11 Girls) Maggie Morrison (11 Girls) Mary Hartup (12/13 Girls) Details: Tuesday 4th June 2019 Lord Nelson Park, St. Arnaud Timetable of events: 1.30 pm 12/13 yrs Primary Girls 1.50 pm 12/13 yrs Primary Boys 2.10 pm 11 yrs Girls 2.30 pm 11 yrs Boys 2.50 pm 9/10 yrs Girls 3.05 pm 9/10 yrs Boys

District Athletic Sports

Congratulations to all students who competed in the District Athletics on

Tuesday. The District Sports involved four schools – Kennington PS, White

Hills PS, Girton and Strathfieldsaye PS. The competition was strong but

our students rose to the occasion with some great results. The level of

sportsmanship was high amongst all students involved. Thank you to the

teachers and parents who helped to support our students at this event. We

now look forward to the next level of competition, where a number of our

students have qualified to represent our school at the Division Athletics

Championships on Monday September 16th at the

Bendigo Athletics Centre.

In other news….. The girls and boys school soccer teams have been selected and are currently training in preparation for competition For those grade 5 and 6 students wishing to try out for the school football team please place your name on

Mr Curnow’s door. Netball selection training for grade 5 and 6 has commenced with teams been formalised over the next 2 weeks.

The rehearsals for Wakakirri are now well under way and the students are having a great time working on their dance

routines. Tickets will be directly available from the Ulumbarra Theatre from early July.

Our principal Cindi along with 3 students from Strathfieldaye Primary School headed off last week to China with 50 other students from surroundling schools in Bendigo to commence their adventure on the Team China 2019 Tour. Check out their blog to see what else they get up to on their trip! http:teamchina.global2.vic.edu.au or visit the schools Instagram page at

Catch up on all the exciting things happening at school by following our

Instagram page @Strathps

This weeks article from Parenting Ideas is titled ‘Helping Children Make and Keep friends’ This is attached as a PDF to the newsletter .

For further information please visit https://www.parentingideas.com.au/schools/

Education Week - Special Persons & Grandparents Visit It was great to see many grandparents and special friends join our students to celebrate

Education Week. Students were able to discuss and show their guests samples of their work and classrooms.

Join us at our next meeting Thursday June 6th at 2:30pm

Up and coming fundraising events—place the dates in your calendar!

EVENT DATE

Pie Drive August 9th

Scholastic Book Fair August 23rd-30th

Fathers Day Stall August 28th-30th

Have you noticed that things are taking shape in the community garden space? Michael and Dave took the old seats down and removed the garden edging next to the Community

Room. Thanks to Blue Shovel Earthmoving who volunteered their valuable time to excavate the space,

ready to set up our garden boxes. Bendigo Council have donated compost and soil to the school. The compost is made from Greater

Bendigo’s organic household waste. We have purchased 5 additional garden boxes, so we now have 8 ready to set up as wicking box-

es and get planting! Room 13 and 14 have been learning about the best way to make their own compost and have

started using the compost tumbler. Over the next few months we hope to be composting through-out the school.

Our Community Garden working bee will be on Sunday 2nd June at 8am onwards. Everyone is welcome and if you can help for an hour or two it would be greatly appreciated. We plan on making our wicking boxes. If you would like to see how to make a wicking box, take a look at the video link below. Making Wicking Boxes https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/building-a-wickingbed/9435452

These class awards are to recognise students who are demonstrating skills based on our School Values or our Learner Profile and will be presented at the school assembly on Friday May 31st at 2:35pm

Class Student Reason

2 Aurie B Amelia M

For her amazing efforts when sounding out words in her writing. For her amazing efforts when sounding out words in her writing.

3 Finn L Adelle T

For leading his classmates to make positive choices through showing all four of our CORE values daily. For consistently showing a positive attitude towards following instructions and completing tasks in a timely manner.

4 William B Ryley O

For trying hard to write more in writing time. Using the description bubble to help construct his sentences. Great work Will. For using the description bubble to add detail to his writing about his moving toy. Great work Ryley, keep up the amazing writing.

5 Phoenix M Harper C

For showing a positive attitude in the classroom and working towards his personal goals. For improving his listening skills and working hard on his writing skills.

6 Adaysha G Olivia P

For confidently solving addition problems and sharing strategies with the class. For confidently solving addition problems and sharing strategies with the class.

7 Parker J Brylee C

For making great choices to help with his learning. For displaying our school values of caring and resilience in the classroom.

8 Harper M Heath V

For always doing great writing with lots of details. For making great improvements with his reading and writing.

9 Wesley N Lila K

For consistently displaying all school values within our classroom. For showing persistence with some tricky maths.

10 Bethany R Alice B

For working hard learning her spelling words and using them in her writing. For beautiful fluent, expressive reading with great comprehension.

11 Lucas G Bailee K

For excellent work in Maths on addition and subtraction strategies. For working really well in Maths on addition and subtraction strategies.

13 Nicholas H Jonie T

For great achievements at the District Athletics Carnival. For writing a wonderfully persuasive text.

14 Oakley W Alex K

For displaying a positive attitude and excellent work ethic in Maths. For his excellent attitude and application towards the achievement of his reading goals.

15 Lily M Samuel R

For constantly striving for excellent in all classroom endeavours. For his fabulous determination and resilience during NAPLAN.

16 Blake S Jye M

For brilliant class work, attitude and behaviour. For enthusiasm and persistence when his finishing tasks.

17 Sam R Annabelle W

For being organised and creative with his poetry writing. For writing wonderful rhyming poetry.

18 Lucas S James L

For always displaying our CORE Value of Excellence in the classroom. For displaying our CORE Value of Excellence when learning in the classroom.

22 Erin W Jaida B

For putting in her very best efforts all the time. For having great work ethics and working hard each day.

23 Archie Preston R

For working hard to research his chosen topic and to use this information to create a plan for his historical recount. For working hard during maths to improve his knowledge of time.

24 Clara H Lachlan D

For showing diligence and persistence when completing her maths pre and post-tests. Fantastic results Clara. For showing diligence and persistence when completing his maths pre and post-tests. Fantastic results Lachie.

25 Jennifer C Hunter B

For demonstrating a kind and caring attitude towards teachers and her fellow students. For putting in a huge effort during last week's BIG Write.

26 Jack S Fletch W

For always pushing himself further to achieve best results, particularly in maths. For always putting his best effort into whatever he does, even when the task is challenging.

27 Mieke L Charli M

For working hard to improve her writing. For always trying her best and working to a high standard.

28 Chloe M Nic B

For showing resilience, optimism and a good sense of humour in the classroom over the last week. For showing resilience and optimism following his injury, and for offering to set up the whiteboard every single day.

Art Lucas S For being a positive influence in the class. Always helping others and trying his best.

Library Sanneke P Evoleht C

For following instructions and helping others in library. For following instructions and being helpful in the library.

LOTE Saige M Lily P

For consistently striving for excellence in learning Chinese. For consistently striving for excellence in learning Chinese.

Music Elodie W For always coming to music with a smile and trying her best

Physical Education

Emme P For displaying leadership in PE.

BREAKFAST CLUB Did you know we offer a Breakfast Club on

Friday mornings from 8.30am. This Club is co-ordinated by our chaplain Sarah and a team

of volunteers.

Every Friday there will be cheese toasties, fruit and milk on offer, so feel free to drop in.

All food has been kindly donated by Strath Village Bakers

Delight and Strathfieldsaye IGA.

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Fresh fruit is available for all students at recess on either Thursday or Friday and is available from the

tables around the Canteen area.

Special

Religious Instruction

Lunch Time Club Join Mrs Hallows

on Friday between 11.15am -11.45pm in the Community room. Permission forms available from the office.

LOST PROPERTY Please remember to check the Lost Property drawer in the office for any lost items.

School hats must be worn by all children during lunch and

recess. Please label hats clearly. New hats can be

purchased from the office for $10

Scholastic Book Club Scholastic Book Club Issue 4

Closing 12/6/2019

VOLUNTEER CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 2 DAY & DATE 9.00-11:30m

Fri May 31st Alex Leech, Jacqui Flett, Michelle McAuley

Wed Jun 5th Kate Hietbrink

Thu Jun 6th Michelle Hicks

Fri Jun 7th Jacqui Flett, Kylie Morrison—HELP NEEDED

Wed Jun 12th Tina Rogister

Thu Jun 13th Danyelle Hunter

Fri Jun 14th Michelle Mc Auley, Helena Trinadad, Donna Forte

The school Canteen operates from Wednesday to Friday between 11-12pm and 2-2:30pm Lunch wallets are available from the school office for $8 Volunteers are always welcome to help collate the orders and prepare the lunches. If you are willing to assist between 9-11:30am on either Wednesday, Thursday or Friday please contact Marcella our Canteen Manager on 0409795170.

Special Lunch Day - Friday June 21st Hot Dog $3.50 or

Chicken Nuggets 5 for $3

Orders must be received by 9.00 am on Wednesday 19th June NO LATE ORDERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

ON THIS DAY ONLY SNACKS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT LUNCH TIME AND RECESS

GLUTEN AND DAIRY STUDENTS The Canteen now sells GLUTEN and DAIRY FREE

Sausage Rolls @ $3.00 each

Recess and Lunchtime Snacks Not to be included on lunch orders

Available for purchase from the canteen

Canteen Menu

Strathfieldsaye Junior Netball Strathfieldsaye Primary School

Rebecca 0412114547 Commencing Term 3

Call for more information

Looking for some cricketing action over the winter period?.

For anyone aged 7-9 yrs of age you are invited along to Bendigo Major League Indoor Sports on Tuesday night from 4:15pm to 5:30pm for some great cricketing action whilst indoors Starts: Tuesday 18th June until 27th August. $12 per session. Weekly or Fortnightly you may wish to be a part, either way we would love to see you there. Hosted by members of Strathfieldsaye Cricket Club, this program is being made available for anyone in the Bendigo region.

We want to help provide activity & development to all young children who may be interested.For further details or bookings please email or call through to either Brent

Yates 0434730711 [email protected] or Troy @ Major League Indoor Sports 54471077 [email protected]