NEWSLETTER NO.27 THURSDAY, 5 TH SEPTEMBER, 2013 WEBSITE ADDRESS is burwoodhps.vic.edu.au/ TUESDAY 10 TH SEPTEMBER SCHOOL PRODUCTION WEDNESDAY 11 TH SEPTEMBER REAL LIFE ADVENTURES THURSDAY 12 TH SEPTEMBER SCHOOL PRODUCTION FIRE BRIGADE VISIT - PREPS FRIDAY 13 TH SEPTEMBER SUMMER SPORT – LEVEL FOUR TUES,WED,THURS 17-19 TH SEPT NUNAWADING CRICKET CLINICS THURSDAY 19 TH SEPTEMBER SAUSAGE SIZZLE SUPER HEROES DAY (SRC FUNDRAISER) FRIDAY 20 TH SEPTEMBER END OF TERM THREE – 2.30PM DISMISSAL MONDAY 7 TH OCTOBER TERM FOUR COMMENCES FRIDAY 11 TH OCTOBER SUMMER SPORT MONDAY 14 TH OCTOBER SCHOOL COUNCIL TUESDAY 15 TH OCTOBER ROAD SAFETY MAGIC SHOW – LEVEL TWO THURSDAY 17 TH OCTOBER ART SHOW 5.30-8.00P.M. SUNDAY 20 TH OCTOBER WHITEHORSE FESTIVAL CIVIC CENTRE MONDAY TO WEDNESDAY 21 ST TO 23 RD OCTOBER LEVEL THREE CAMP THURSDAY 24 TH OCTOBER PARENT INFORMATION NIGHT - KINDERGARTEN FRIDAY & TUESDAY 25 TH & 29 TH OCTOBER DOVE PUPPETS - KINDERGARTEN TUESDAY 5 TH NOVEMBER MELBOURNE CUP DAY – PUBLIC HOLIDAY TUESDAY 12 TH NOVEMBER PREP 2014 INFORMATION NIGHT FROM THE PRINCIPAL … Esther Wood BRAINSTORM STUDIOS ONE WEEK TO GO! I hope you are as excited about seeing your child perform as we all are. I have been able to have a “sneak preview” and I know you will not be disappointed . The combined efforts of staff and parents (and of course the students) will be realised next week as the students “strut their stuff” on stage. The script is amazing, the songs wonderful, the costumes magnificent and the students perform like veterans of the stage. Mrs Whiteoak is to be congratulated on presenting a school performance of such a high standard and one that every student participates in. A reminder that our school performance is an integral part of the school’s curriculum and it is expected all students will attend on both nights. Tuesday 10 th September is the first night of our school production and Thursday 12 th is the second night. A WONDERFUL NIGHT IS IN STORE FOR YOU ALL!
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NEWSLETTER NO.27 THURSDAY, 5TH
SEPTEMBER, 2013
WEBSITE ADDRESS is burwoodhps.vic.edu.au/
TUESDAY 10TH
SEPTEMBER SCHOOL PRODUCTION
WEDNESDAY 11TH
SEPTEMBER REAL LIFE ADVENTURES
THURSDAY 12TH
SEPTEMBER SCHOOL PRODUCTION
FIRE BRIGADE VISIT - PREPS
FRIDAY 13TH
SEPTEMBER SUMMER SPORT – LEVEL FOUR
TUES,WED,THURS 17-19TH
SEPT NUNAWADING CRICKET CLINICS
THURSDAY 19TH
SEPTEMBER SAUSAGE SIZZLE
SUPER HEROES DAY (SRC FUNDRAISER)
FRIDAY 20TH
SEPTEMBER END OF TERM THREE – 2.30PM DISMISSAL
MONDAY 7TH
OCTOBER TERM FOUR COMMENCES
FRIDAY 11TH
OCTOBER SUMMER SPORT
MONDAY 14TH
OCTOBER SCHOOL COUNCIL
TUESDAY 15TH
OCTOBER ROAD SAFETY MAGIC SHOW – LEVEL TWO
THURSDAY 17TH
OCTOBER ART SHOW 5.30-8.00P.M.
SUNDAY 20TH
OCTOBER WHITEHORSE FESTIVAL CIVIC CENTRE
MONDAY TO
WEDNESDAY
21ST
TO 23RD
OCTOBER
LEVEL THREE CAMP
THURSDAY 24TH
OCTOBER PARENT INFORMATION NIGHT -
KINDERGARTEN
FRIDAY &
TUESDAY
25TH
& 29TH
OCTOBER
DOVE PUPPETS - KINDERGARTEN
TUESDAY 5TH
NOVEMBER MELBOURNE CUP DAY – PUBLIC HOLIDAY
TUESDAY 12TH
NOVEMBER PREP 2014 INFORMATION NIGHT
FROM THE PRINCIPAL … Esther Wood
BRAINSTORM STUDIOS
ONE WEEK TO GO!
I hope you are as excited about seeing your child
perform as we all are. I have been able to have a
“sneak preview” and I know you will not be
disappointed . The combined efforts of staff and
parents (and of course the students) will be
realised next week as the students “strut their
stuff” on stage. The script is amazing, the songs
wonderful, the costumes magnificent and the
students perform like veterans of the stage.
Mrs Whiteoak is to be congratulated on
presenting a school performance of such a high
standard and one that every student
participates in.
A reminder that our school performance is an
integral part of the school’s curriculum and it is
expected all students will attend on both nights.
Tuesday 10th
September is the first night of our
school production and Thursday 12th
is the second
night.
A WONDERFUL NIGHT IS IN STORE FOR
YOU ALL!
FEDERAL ELECTION 7TH
SEPTEMBER
This Saturday our school is a
polling booth area. In order to
ensure the safety of our
community members, the staff
car park will be locked. At the
last election there were a few
situations that caused concern to
us as some people jostled for
parking spaces as well as allowing young children
to be walking between cars…a danger in itself.
I would recommend that you try to vote as early as
you can. A barbeque will be in action from
8.30am and I thank all of those parents who have
volunteered their time to cook and serve.
NO HAT, NO PLAY
It is school hat time again.
As of Monday 2nd
September, all students are
required to wear hats outside during recess and
lunchtime. Any student without a
school hat, will need to sit in the
designated area. If you know your
child has lost his/her hat now is the
time to purchase one. Please make sure
your child’s hat is clearly named!
Please ensure your child wears the appropriate
school hat.
2013 WRITING COMPETITION RESULTS
DISTINCTION (top 10%)
Holly Pratt Grade 6
CREDIT (top 30%)
JunYao Lim Grade 4
Ritvik Sharma Grade 4
Yasmyne Chung Grade 6
Prep M- Sami McConville - for her outstanding
effort in diary writing this week. Keep up the great
work!
Prep W- Karcya Coulson- for a big improvement
with her writing. Keep up the great work!
Grade 1/2A- Tori Watanabe - for writing a good
story about her trip to Candy World.
Grade 1/2E- Whole Class - for their constant
enthusiasm and outstanding performance in every
production rehearsal.
Grade 1/2T- Antonia Samaras - for excellent
narrative writing about a mini-beast. Well done!
Grade 1/2WM- Cindy Leung – for a fantastic
drawing of your mini-beast enclosure. Fantastic
effort!
Grade 3/4A- Maxx Coulter - for respecting the
rights of others and showing kindness to all.
Sensational!
Grade 3/4G- Tony Wang – for excellent work in
all areas of Mathematics. Well done!
Grade 3/4J- Isagani Veloira – for completing an
interesting and confident off the cuff speech. Well
done!
Grade 3/4P- Cienna Riley - for a great
improvement in her handwriting. Keep it up!
Grade 5/6 A- Kateland Young – for always
committing herself to all class activities and her
willingness to lend a helping hand. You rock!
Grade 5/6L- Jessica Cheong –for putting time
and effort into practising her song and actions for
production.
Grade 5/6M- Jack Hamilton - for his brilliant
and descriptive news report on our class novel
“Rowan of Rin”. Awesome work!
Grade 5/6H- Matthew Choi – for great
participation and sportsmanship at softball. Well
done!
HOMECRAFTS – Chloe Findlay 3/4P – for
doing a fabulous job when she was in Duty Group.
Chloe was super organised and in control when
doing all those dishes!
VISUAL ARTS- Bobby Duffin – for his focus
and independent working while creating Tim
Burton characters in Art. Well done!
Jasmine Kim – her focussed
planning and excellent designs for her Tim Burton
project. Well done!
FAILURE IS A GOOD TEACHER
Uninterrupted success is less satisfying than
success intertwined with failure. That is not rocket
science. A study at the University of Colorado
Denver Business School concludes that success
may be sweeter, but failure is the better teacher.
We have a tendency to ignore failure or try not to
focus on it. Vital lessons for the future are
overlooked in the rush to put a brave face on
disappointment.
How many students feel downcast because they
fare worse than their friends in tests and exams?
They have been so brainwashed into thinking of
education as a race where one must clear every
fence, that they are unable to put their results into
context.
Most well-known successful people have either
come up the hard way or had to overcome periods
of chronic self-doubt, where the whole world
seemed to be against them Winston Churchill was
absolutely miserable at school. J.K.Rowling
received a mountain of rejection slips before
finding a publisher for the Harry Potter novels.
There are hundreds of examples of people who
learned from their failures, bounced back and
found success.
I love the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin “I didn’t
fail the test. I just found one hundred ways to do it
wrong.
And this one is fantastic by Robert Schuller
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure…it just
means you haven’t succeeded yet.
We should all keep this in mind!
NUNAWADING CRICKET CLUB
Thanks to Mr Robert Nash, Nunawading
Cricket Club will conduct cricket clinics at
school on 17th
, 18th
and 19th
September during the
Physical Education sessions. It is wonderful to see
local sporting clubs give so generously of their
time to provide the opportunity for students to
learn new sport skills.
Maybe we have a future Test cricketer in the
making
MEASLES
We have been alerted that there have been
reported cases of measles in students at local
schools.
CLASS FORMATION
The process for student placement for 2014 will
commence in a few weeks as staffing becomes
clearer. We aim to have well-balanced classes of
students that take into account each student’s
social, emotional and academic development and
friendship groups.
Class compositions are based on Level groupings
(Level One – Prep; Level Two – Grades One and
two; Level Three – Grades Three and Four and
Level Four – Grades Five and Six.)
We endeavour to make optimum use of prior
knowledge teachers, parents and others have of
each student prior to class placement.
This is a lengthy process and entails much
discussion and sharing of information between
staff.
If there is any information you consider
important for the school to be aware of, please
put it in writing and return to me before
Monday 7th
October, 2013.
Consideration beyond this date will
not be considered.
WEBSITE NEWS
Remember to check the website for news, photos
and updates, especially the “What’s on” section on