TOORA PRIMARY SCHOOL 17-2017.pdf · Floating, shining, calming Light, rock By Mackenzie Dog Ugly rejected Pooping shedding panting Pets animals four legs Patting loving sleeping Cute

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TOORA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Issue Thursday 15th August, 2017

2017 CALENDAR BELL TIMES 9:00am School starts 11:00am - 11:20 Recess 12:20pm—1:00pm Lunch 2:00pm—2:15pm Recess 3:20pm Dismissal AUGUST 07-25th Parent Opinion Survey Online 18th School Assembly 3:00pm 19th Working Bee at the Tanners home 21st Junior School Visit Kindergarten 10:00am 22nd Year 6 Students visiting Aged Care, Foster

23rd Book Week dress up day and parade 24-25th Mrs Walker at Admin Conference 25th Last day to complete Parent Survey 25th School Assembly 3:00pm 30th Mr Haustorfer at Finance PD Traralgon SEPTEMBER 01st School Assembly 3:00pm 07th Kindergarten visit to School 10:00am 08th School Assembly 3:00pm 11th Division Athletics at Wonthaggi SC 13th Mr Haustorfer at Finance PD Traralgon 14th Finance Committee Mtg 3:30pm 15th School Assembly 3:00pm 18th School Council Meeting 4:30pm 19th Kindergarten visit to School 10:00am 22nd Last day of Term 3 2:20pm dismissal OCTOBER 09th School resumes for Term 4 NOVEMBER 6th Curriculum Day PUPIL Free 7th Melbourne Cup Public Holiday 15-17th Wilsons Prom Camp Yrs 3-6

School Mobile Number: 0475 605 437

Be Safe, Be Fair, Think, Learn & Care

PRINCIPAL NEWS The last fortnight, like the first three weeks of term, have been very busy and I got a bit of a shock when I sat down to write this and realised that this weekend is the mid point of Term 3. Here’s a snapshot of some of the more exciting and interesting things that we’ve been up at Toora in the past couple of weeks: Swimming Kerry, Emma, Shannon, Deb and I spent Tuesday working with Kathy from Kemp Aquatics in preparation for our upcoming swimming program. Kerry (a qualified swim instructor) organised this day for us to refresh our skills and learn some new teaching tips and strategies. Kerry and I will now sit down to map out the program – more information will be in the newsletter before the end of term. Student Voice Students have a very unique and interesting take on teaching, school and education, and it is really important that we take that into account. This last fortnight I have been working with the students to get their perspective on Toora Primary School and how we can make improvements in the classroom, in the yard and in the program. This has been really productive and insightful work which has resulted in a some great ideas, and has already resulted in the oval being available for students to use again during lunch breaks. Book Fair and Book Week Dress Up Day The Book Fair is well underway in the library and which the students are all very excited about. As always, there is a wide variety of books to suit readers of all ability levels and interests along with some great activity books and novelty items. The book fair will be open each day before and after school until next Wednesday, 23rd August and is open to all members of the community. Please feel free to spread the word! We will culminate the end of the Book Fair next Wednesday with a Book Week dress up and parade. I still haven’t got my costume sorted so if anyone has any ideas of what they’d like to see me dressed up as please let me know! And just one reminder to finish off: Parent Opinion Survey Information was sent out last week in regards to the Parent Opinion Survey, if you haven’t already done so could you please take a moment and fill it in – thanks! Have a great weekend. Mr H.

PARENT OPINION SURVEY The survey link has been sent by letter to all families. Please take the time to complete the survey.

PREP 2018 INFORMATION: Our Kindergarten to Prep transition program is well underway with visits from the kinder to school and vice versa. School information sessions will take place in Term 4 for Kindergarten students - when Enrolment Packs etc will be distributed. If you know of families who are interested in the school, at any grade level, please encourage them to phone the school on 56862 283 to arrange an individual tour or pop into the school to collect a 2018 enrolment form and to leave their contact details.

Term 3 Kindergarten/School Transition Dates:

Monday 21/8,10am - School Kids to Kinder Thursday 7/9, 10am - Kinder Kids to School Tuesday 19/9, 10am - Kinder kids to School

BOOK CHARACTER PARADE We will be celebrating Book Week with a Book Character Parade on Wednesday 23rd August. This is always a fun and memorable time for the

students (and parents and staff) so please feel free to meet us in the Project Space at 9:00am. Students are asked to arrive at school dressed as a book character and bring the book along. Some helpful hints for costumes:

Your favourite book character of all time Google Book Character Parade costumes Go through your bookshelves for ideas Class stories and novels Find a costume at home then find the book Involve the whole family in generating ideas

HEAD LICE ARE BACK In the past week there have been several reports, by parents, to the school of the prevalence of head lice. We urge all parents to be proactive in regularly checking and where necessary, treating their children’s hair. We also ask that parents notify the school office, so that a generic note can be sent home with students from the same grade.

The school will be conducting a whole school inspection within the next few weeks to try to eradicate this problem. If your child is found to have lice or eggs during the check, we will make a phone call home and you will be required to collect your child and treat accordingly. For those parents unsure of what to look for, or how to treat head lice, information is available from the school office.

Do you know of any pre-school aged children who

are thinking of coming to Toora PS in 2018.? Get them to pop in and meet Luke and see what an awesome school we have here!

P12 Classroom News This week I have commenced my 3 week block of teaching (14/08 – 01/9) and have really enjoyed being in the classroom each day. This is a brief snapshot of what we have been learning about, exploring and investigating so far this week - Writing – the students are continuing their study of poetry. On Monday they were given a poem entitled “Raindrops, Raindrops” to fit in with both our long a sound for show and tell and the science unit (weather) we will begin on Friday. Students are enjoying performing the poem in class and are in the process of creating their own “Raindrops” poem. Integrated Studies – Students are focusing on the past and the present and will be investigating everything from family history to comparing the ways that people used to live (with a main focus on toys and transport). This week they have been working on their family trees. Mathematics – we have been focusing on fact families and number patterns.

Group work – Maths investigation Fact families Wanted – does anyone have any spare cardboard boxes, such as shoe boxes that we could use for our time capsules? If so could you please bring in to the school, thanks to those children who have already brought some in. Finally, we would like to welcome back Mrs Gilbertson, we can’t wait to hear all of your fabulous holiday stories! - Ms. Haughie

Next week our sound focus is on long e sound as in ee, ea, y, ie and ey combinations. Examples - seed, meal, bunny, piece, donkey. Start thinking about Show and Tell ideas!

Sun

Bright Hot

Lighting, shining, sparkling

star shining in the sky

Shining, glowing, sparkling

Dark White

Moon

By Cheyenne Callander

Dog

Energetic, fluffy

Inspiring, running, amazing

Pets, breeds, sizes, colours

Sleeping, eating, playing

Gentle, small

Cat

By Sunday

Squirtle

Cold blue

Watering playing water gunning

“I choose you”

Evolving sleeping flame throwing

Hot orange

Chandarme

By

Cats

Soft cute

Sleeping meowing purring

They are good pets at home

running Woofing annoying

Funny Cuddly

Dog

By Ella

sun

Bright, hot

Boiling, melting, burning

Sphere, space, day, night

Floating, shining, calming

Light, rock

By Mackenzie

Dog

Ugly rejected

Pooping shedding panting

Pets animals four legs

Patting loving sleeping

Cute fuzzy

Cat

By Django

3-6 Classroom News A diamante poem is a poem that makes the shape of a diamond. The poem can be used in two ways, either comparing and contrasting two different subjects, or naming synonyms at the beginning of the poem and then antonyms for the second half for a subject .

Monsters

Creepy, sinister

Hiding, lurking, stalking

Vampires, werewolves, mummies and

zombies

Chasing, pouncing, eating

Hungry, scary

Creatures

By MACKENZIE

Sun,

Bright, sunny

Laughing, playing, making

Orbiting earth in space,

whispering, resting, sleeping

Quiet, dark

Moon

By MADDY

Math

Boring helpful

Writing Finding Summing

School makes you do it

Measuring Dividing Taping

Measurement

Dark

Lonely Dull

Spooking scaring starry

It is scary at night

Creeping jumping crying

Blood Death Daring

Vampire

Lunch

Sandwich snacks

Crunching snacking exploring

Eating a small important meal

Eating Feasting Drinking

Plate Sit Down

Dinner

By SCARLET

Sun

Hot, bright

Burning, warming, blinding

Space, sphere, universe, atmos-

phere

Showing, spinning, floating

Cold, dark

Moon

By Sunday

Rebels

Explore play

Shooting biding hiding

Lot of x-wings and y-wings

Slicing jumping attacking

Jedi clones

Republic

By Jayden

Space

Dark Darker

Darkening Startling Amazing

Cold Black Solar System

Freezing Jumping Spinning

Cool Rocky

Planets

By Ella

Cat

Soft fluffy

Meowing scratching purring

Puppy fluffy scratching Dog

Farting burping naming

Naughty stinky dog

By MYUNAH

School

Learn work

Learning working playing

Fun learn happy life

Relaxing sleeping eating

Family happy

Home

By OLIVIA

Mr H

Fun tall

Walking sitting shuffling

Is a warm blooded animal

Sitting walking laying

Silly excited

Dog

Fire

Hot bright

Boling glowing scorching

Fire kills Ice water kills fire

Freezing cooling numbing

Frozen water

Ice

By ROSE

3-6 Classroom News A diamante poem is a poem that makes the shape of a diamond. The poem can be used in two ways, either comparing and contrasting two different subjects, or naming synonyms at the beginning of the poem and

then antonyms for the second half for a subject .

Cat

Fluffy Cut

Loving Hunting Scratching

Cats and dogs are pets

Woofing digging loving

Adorable caring

Dog

Friend

Nice, funny

caring , laughing, amazing

Can or can’t rely on

Frightening, hurting,

scarring, Horrible, mean

Enemy

By Mackenzie

Sun

Hot bright

Boiling heating sunning

Our solar system is really big

Freezing hovering boiling

Cold dark

Moon

By Brodie

KRAIG

CRAZY CLOSE-RANGED

RAGING KILLING SCREAMING

NINJA,PSYCHO,BOY,BLADES

EXPLODING KNIFING SNIPING

FAST SNEAKY

Zero

By Chea

Hot

Steam burnt

Steaming burning boiling

Weather is sometimes cold

and sometimes hot

Sparkling freezing shining

Icey snowy

Cold

By Cheyenne

Book Fair set-up - thank you to Anna and Tara for the setting up

and helping out.