What’s on this Term February 19th Grade 6 Peer Mediation 20th Grade 5 Peer Mediation 21st School Photos 23rd District Swimming. Prep Photos March 2nd Division Swimming 12th Labour Day Holiday 15th Regional Swimming 16th School Athletics Carnival 29th Last Day of Term (2:30pm finish) Friday 16th, February, 2018 www.poowongcs.vic.edu.au [email protected] 0448 592 356 5659 2356 THE POOWONG PRATTLE School Council Parent Members: Geoff Warriner ( Pres.) 5659 9132, Karyn Hill (Sec.) 5659 2309 , Melanie Wallace (Treas.) 0400 036 619, Kelli Olsen 5659 7228, , Brad Mc Intosh 5659 7244, Royce Nieuwerth 5659 2140, Michael Kendall 5659 0203, Caroline Wilson 0405 574 048 , Brock Churchill 0419 018 670 Happy Birthday to the following students who had birthdays this week: Charlotte Hancock! A Message From Mrs McKenzie What a huge start to the year we have had!! Our swimming program has now finished, with yesterday’s Swimming Carnival for the Grade 3-6s. A huge thank you goes out to Desirae and Moose, our Auswim teachers, who lead the program this year. These two wonderful people do not get paid for the privilege of getting into the pool each day and running the program. Our school is very much appreciative of their willingness to do this! A huge thank you also to all the parents who got in to the pool to assist with the sessions, walked down with grades and helped out in many and varied ways at the pool. What a way to start her teaching career for Miss Enbom! She certainly rose to the challenge with such a baptism of fire! Well done, Holly! Karmai Swimming Trials Unfortunately, due to inability to find a date between all the participating schools, we will be unable to run a Karmai Swimming Trial this year. The three schools will sit down, using the race times and will form the teams. Notices will go out on Monday to those chosen to participate as part of the Karmai team in the Division Swimming being held on Friday next week (Grade 6s will get this information before leaving at the end of the day as they are at Peer Mediation Training). Whilst this is not ideal, we will endeavour to make this the fairest possible representation across the schools. Athletics Carnival We will be holding our Athletics Carnival on Friday 16 th March. We would love you to all come along and support the kids, so pencil this date into your diary! Have a wonderful weekend, Cate Student of the Week Awards Congratulations to the Grade 3s for receiving their first Grade award for the year! Well done kids. Keep up the fantastic work! Congratulations to last week’s Student of the Week Award recipients: Christian, Meg, Holli, Colby, Kaylee, Kurt and Matthew. We are very impressed with your persis- tence and great attitude to learning! Leaders for 2018 Congratulations to our newly elected captains: Flinders Strzelecki Bass McMillan Art and Environment Olivia and Jack Tiarna and Jacob B Justine and Harry Alexis and Saffy Jaylise and Zane