608-610 Wallington Road Wallington 3222 Ph: 5250 1841 Fax: 5250 1459 Email: [email protected] Website: www.wallington-ps.vic.edu.au WALLINGTON Primary School NEWSLETTER Principal: Glen Lauder School Council President: Kellie Tobin PRINCIPAL NEWS Term 1 Calendar Events Fri 6 Mar First Aid Education Incursion P-6 Parents & Friends Meeting 9 am Paddock Mon 9 Mar Labour Day Holiday Tue 10 Mar Yr 6 Parent Info Rotary Wed 11 Mar Yr 3-6 Kaleidoscope Excursion Division Swimming @ Kardinia Fri 13 Mar Ride2school Day Tue 17 Mar India Day (Bollywood Dancing Incursion) Wed 18 Mar NO CANTEEN LUNCH ORDERS Fri 20 Mar Yr 6 Leaders Fundraising Day activities Family Dance Night @ Club Italia Tue 24 Mar Yr 5/6 Space & Science Centre Excursion Wed 25 Mar Bravehearts Incursion P-2 Thu 26 Mar Easter Morning Tea Fri 27 Mar End of Term 1 Dismissal @ 2.30 pm Tue 14 Apr Start of Term 2 Calendar of events can be viewed on the school website. Go to: http://www.wallington-ps.vic.edu.au/mevents 5th March 2020 Strawberry Fair Thanks Well the Strawberry Fair has been run and won! The hard work; the many hours of preparation; and the sense of purpose has made the fair a great success. It is a special community that can pull together successfully an event like the Strawberry Fair and is a testament to the great parents and com- munity we have! Thank you to everyone who contributed prior to and on the day of the fair. A special thank you to the organising committee who have been meet- ing regularly since July 2019 and to our co-ordinators: SITE MANAGER -Shaun Altmann AUCTION- Cristelle Gilmour CATERING- Stacey Lincoln COMMUNICATIONS- Cat Miller ENTERTAINMENT- Paul & Lyndall Watson JAM PRODUCTION- Kate Fenwick & Katie Buckley LUCKY DIP & SHOW BAGS- Lisa Dyson MARKET STALL HOLDERS- Jen Absalom PRODUCE- Kat Stamelos & Sarah-Jane Cranna PROMOTIONAL SIGNS- Amber Todd SITE TUB PREPARATION- Rina Morgan & Kellie Burbridge SOCIAL MEDIA/MEDIA & PR- Elisha Holt-Canny & Amy Boland VOLUNTEER ROSTERS- Danielle Wilks EVENT MC- Paul Watson Thanks also to the team of people who supported our organising committee members. I would also like to thank the dedicated staff of Wallington PS for their contributions in the lead up to the fair and on the day. We are still tallying the final profit but it will be a successful year and I will announce the total once all the bills have been received. Our final meeting will be held on Tuesday 17 th March at 6pm in the staffroom. If you were a supervisor for an area please make sure you provide feedback on your area to help us improve for 2021. School Council Nominations Results We thank individual members of our community for nominat- ing for the recently advertised vacant positions on our School Council. The number of nominations have matched the number of advertised vacancies so we are not required to conduct an election. I would like to welcome aboard Daniel Peyton (new member), Catherine Kjaerstad (continuing) and Glenn Smethurst (continuing). It is also most appropriate to thank our ‘retiring’ Council member and former President Kellie Tobin for her efforts to support school policy, monitoring, planning and improvement actions. Prep 2020 Enrolments We have begun taking enrolments for Prep for next year – both from siblings of current students and from new families to Wallington. If you have a child currently attending 4 year old kindergarten and are looking to enrol them for Prep 2020, please complete the enrolment forms which are available from the General Office. Labour Day Long Weekend The school will be closed on Monday 9th March for this public holiday and classes will resume Tuesday 10th March at 9 am. Do our children know what Labour Day is all about? Labour Day is an annual public holiday that celebrates the eight hour working day, a victory for workers in the mid-late 19th century. The argument for the eight-hour day was based on the need for each person to have eight hours labour, eight hours recreation and eight hours rest. Contd Pg 2 ..