1 ‘Striving for Excellence’ Open since 1887 Principal -Kevin Warne Assistant Principal – Allyson Dixon School Council President – Matthew Postill Telephone - (03) 57931288 Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au Email - [email protected]. au Alamein Road Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662 Postal: Military P.O. ABN: - 74134967962 Term 1 Issue 9 April 2 nd , 2014 Friday 4 th April Last Day of Term 1 1:10pm Assembly 1:30pm Dismissal Tuesday 22 nd April First Day of Term 2 Friday 25 th April ANZAC Day Public Holiday Dawn Service (Choir to Sing) Inside this Issue: DSTA Message/Birthdays 2 ANZAC Day Commemorations 2 Positive Behaviour Awards 2 Handy Reading Hints 2 1/2 R Diary Writing 3 Assembly Reading 3 Student Awards of the Week 4 SRC Minutes/Adopt a Granny Day 4 Teaching/Learning Focus Week 10 5 Zumba at PPS 6 Community Events 7-8 ***Sunday Nights - a great night to check for Head Lice. *** Crazy Hair Day On Friday the 4 th of April (last day of Term 1) the SRC will be running a Crazy Hair Day to help raise money for people with blood cancer. The SRC encourages everyone to be creative and come to school with a crazy hairstyle. There will be prizes awarded for the craziest hair on the day. A morning parade at 9am will take place at the front of the school. All families are welcome. Ms. Lewis is also going to shave her head to raise money! It will be an out of uniform day and gold coin donations will go towards the Leukaemia Foundation World’s Greatest Shave. ***Have you heard your child read today? We encourage all students to practise their reading at home about 5 nights per week. Therefore, by now, most students should have read at least between 40-45 nights. Well done if you have kept up! Friday 4 th April is the last day of the term. All students will be dismissed from school at 1:30 p.m. The students will only require a morning play lunch as they can have their lunch once they are home that day. We will finish off the term with a 1:10 p.m. assembly which all parents are invited to attend. We have some awards to hand out, some presentations and some performances for assembly. Please come along. It will be an Out of Uniform Day on this day as it is always on the last day of term. We wish all of our families a safe, enjoyable and restful break and we look forward to seeing everyone return to school on Tuesday 22 nd of April for the start of Term 2. Happy Easter!
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‘Striving for Excellence’
Open since 1887
Principal -Kevin Warne
Assistant Principal – Allyson Dixon
School Council President – Matthew Postill
Telephone - (03) 57931288
Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au
‘On the weekend, I stayed home. I had lollies, Jett had fun.
I had fun too. Mum did too.’ Tallen Miller
‘I had a wonderful weekend. I went to the park. I watched
a horse show.’ Chantelle Benson
‘I had a great weekend.yesterday. I went to a christening. I
saw Maddy and Zac. Then I went to a cafe and then I got
some ice-cream!’ James Thwaites
‘On the weekend we went to watch dad play football. We
played with Alexis at her home.’ Chloe Hogan
‘On the weekend it was my mum’s birthday. She was 37.’
Zahra Kelly
‘I had a good weekend. Last week I went to the skate park.
I had a lot of fun. On Sunday I went to the horse races. I
had fun.’ Jackson Spinaze
‘On the weekend I saw my baby cousin called Rocko and
my Aunty. After that we had fish and chips. It was the best
time in my life.’ William Andersen
‘On Sunday I went to my dad’s friend’s house. I watched
my sister play minecraft with my brother’s friend. That
was Eric. Finally I had to go home.’ Hayden Freeman
‘On the weekend I stayed at my home. I had popcorn and I
watched a movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.’
Aaron Bennett.
Did you hear Tessa
Thompson read at
assembly this week? We
did! She did a wonderful
job reading her story,
‘Picasso, the Green Tree
Frog’. By the way, the Frog
lived happily ever after.
Come along and see who
reads next term. P
uckapunyal/Tallarook Junior Football
‘On the weekend my family helped me clean up my house.
My home looks like a normal house.’ Matthew Munn
‘On the weekend I went to my Nan’s house for a
sleepover. While Tim and I were there we played mine
craft.’ Alex Potts
‘On the weekend I went to nan’s and pop’s house. Me and
my cousin made blings.’ Shaneequah Bridges
‘On the weekend I had a swim in our pool and mum found
a dead frog. It was funny because it had its mouth open.
When we hopped out we had an ice-cream. It was
raspberry and vanilla and it was fun.’ Tessa Thompson
‘On the weekend I got a new texta packet for my
minecraft and it had animals.’ Jesse Carter
‘On the weekend I had some peace and quiet because
normally my sister is noisy. Natalie and I did a colouring
of an Easter egg and started a fairy home. On Friday I
went to Adam’s Pool Party. Lake, Blake, Cooper, Max,
Harry, Emma and Sara went.’ Pippy Mallett
‘On Friday I went to Ballarat Lodge and stayed 2 nights.
The next night our fire alarm went off. At the start no-one
knew why it went off. Dad rang the hotel owner. They
said it is playing up because it was pouring with rain. But
they called 000 for the firemen. They came in the blink of
an eye.’ Emily Watson
Aaron Bennett thought that his class
did well with their diary writing!
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Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth
and satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing
schools, beginning school for the first time and even
returning for another school year can be daunting for
students and parents. It is great to see parents eager to
support their children at this time and be an integral part
of their education. If you have any concerns, or just feel
like a chat about school and your child, please find me!
SWAPP Select Program
I have information about the ADF partners career
assistance program if anyone is interested.
NEW UNIFORM
We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive
that includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some
parents have been waiting on this to arrive.
Best wishes for the week.
Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide
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Congratulations to the following students who
were ‘Students of the Week’ for last week.
Winners – Landon Scott, Lake Robertson, James
Thwaites, Will Hastie, Ashby Murphy, Nikolas
Van Jaarsveldt, Dominic Plessey and Eden Free.
These students were selected because they were
modelling ‘Confidence’. This week teachers are
looking for students who are modelling
‘Enthusiasm.’
Congratulations to the following students
who were ‘Authors of the Week’ for last
week. Winners – Koby Leak, Declan Reyne,
Tessa Thompson, Henry Billen, Renae
Pennycook, Lochlan Worden, Skye Saunders
and Mitchell Carrick. These students were
selected because they showed great skills as an
author.
3/4 B in Room 13 won
the Yard Duty
Competition Trophy. Somaiya Harriden and
Rhys Billen are both very
happy to show off the
winning trophy for their
classroom this week!
Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and
satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,
beginning school for the first time and even returning for
another school year can be daunting for students and parents.
It is great to see parents eager to support their children at this
time and be an integral part of their education. If you have any
concerns, or just feel like a chat about school and your child,
please find me!
SWAPP Select Program
I have information about the ADF partners career assistance
program if anyone is interested.
NEW UNIFORM
We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that
includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents
have been waiting on this to arrive.
Best wishes for the week.
Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide
5/6 P in Room 1B won
the Senior School
Times Tables Trophy. Daniel Allen and Mackai
Harriden were both very
delighted to showcase the
winning trophy this week!
3/4 A in Room 11 won
the Middle School
Times Tables Trophy. Naomi Pennycook and
Saskia Truter are very
happy to look after the
winning trophy for their
classroom!
Congratulations to
Isabela Eastman and
Shaneequah Bridges who each received
‘Recycling Cans’
Awards this week.
Every little bit counts!
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Each week in the newsletter, we will give families a summary of the Teaching/Learning Focus for the week.
That can help families by: being aware of what classrooms are covering; with discussion topics at the dinner table when
discussing school (eg. ‘How are you going with addition in Numeracy this week?’); helping their children study at home,
etc. Parents have indicated that this information would be very useful. We also ask families to be aware that schools are
very busy places and events can be unpredictable at times. We therefore must remain flexible. That means, we can plan to
cover certain topics at particular times and have to change them according to arising needs.
Junior School – Preps/Foundation Rooms 3 & 6 Literacy: We will continue to develop early writing skills with a focus on pencil grip, capital letters and full stops. We
will be focusing on the letter ‘Qq’ and the sound it makes.
Numeracy: We will practise counting to 20 by 1s. We are still exploring 2D and 3D shapes.
Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 8 & 9 Literacy: We will be revising basic writing skills including correct pencil grip, correct letter formation and the
construction of sentences. Letter focus is the letter ‘Qq’. We are focusing on capital letters, full stops and questions.
Numeracy: We will practise our addition and subtraction work. We continue our work also on fluency tasks. We have
been exploring 2D and 3D shapes.
Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 8, 9 & 10 Literacy: We will continue to revise our writing skills including correct pencil grip, correct letter formation, use of dotted
thirds and the construction of sentences. We have also been continuing to focus on questions and nouns.
Numeracy: We will continue to practise addition and subtraction as well as counting patterns forwards and backwards by
1s, forwards by 2s, 5s and 10s. We continue our work also on fluency tasks and exploring 2D and 3D shapes.
Middle School - Years 3/4 Rooms 10, 11 & 13 Literacy: During writing sessions we will work on persuasive texts. We will also revise all topics covered in Term 1.
Numeracy: We will continue to revise the four processes, place value, fractions, tables and skip counting.
Senior School - Years 5/6 Rooms 1A&1B Literacy: During writing sessions we will focus on persuasive texts. We will also revise all topics covered in Term 1.
In reading we will continue to focus on fluency and expression while also identifying key words and phrases during
note taking.
Numeracy: We will continue work on place value (including decimals), processes and estimation. Another focus will
be work relating to Cartesian planes. Tables facts will be practised throughout the week.
Zumba AT PPS Students in F O’C, F/1 O’M, 1/2R, 1/2 I and 2/3B were very lucky this week as Mrs Fry came in and gave us all a Zumba lesson. We did some great stretches, learnt some new dance moves and then finished our session with some lovely cool down actions.
It was lovely to see all of the smiling faces at the end of the sessions. Thank you Mrs Fry!
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Tallarook Playgroup's wonderful holiday show is on again
this Easter holidays and as always, is sure to be a wonderful holiday activity, aimed at toddlers to grade six. This holiday show is by the Pinnacle Puppet Theatre and is titled The Three Little Pigs - with a twist. Tickets are $10 for children over one year old - Adults are free. There will be activities and fairy bread provided for the little ones and slices, tea and coffee will be available to purchase also. Please contact Clare on 0409142110 if you have any questions.
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Cyber safety information session
DCO Puckapunyal
Come along to a free cyber safety information session, presented by Nola Marino MP.
Ms Marino is a Member of the Federal Parliamentary Committee on Cyber Safety and will be presenting fresh from a three day conference on the subject.
Topics to be discussed include:
Your mobile phone and its security weaknesses
Your digital footprint and privacy
How to protect yourself and your family from cyber crimes
Social media hazards
How to spot scams
When: Wednesday 9 April from 6.30 pm to 8 pm
Where: The Pitman-Coffey Centre, Puckapunyal Primary School