Congratulations to Thank you to Special Thanks to Bus Travel Walking School Bus—Friday 20th May ‘Friday Lunchies’ is happening this Friday. Order forms were due at school today, however an order form returned first thing tomor- row morning is not too late! This Monday, all classroom teachers will be participating in a Pro- fessional Development Day, where they will look at how col- laborative teams use assessment to transform student learning. This will be the third session in a series of four. This supplements our school focus of building collaborative teams and working to- gether to improve learning outcomes for all our students. On this day, your child will have a replacement teacher. Mrs Alison Abbott will be Acting Principal in my absence. WORKING BEE this Saturday the 3 rd of June from 9-12pm. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Many hands make light work! The eldest child in Grade 3/4 will have received a letter regarding Payment Options for Camp Rumbug held in November of this year. Grade 5/6 Students will receive permission notes for their Term 2 Cluster Day to be held at Thorpdale Primary School. The focus of this day will be Digital Technologies. Students will travel via bus during school hours and there is no charge for this excursion. This compliments the Integrated Curriculum that the students have been working on throughout Term 2. Yesterday Grade 6 students received Enrolment Details Update Forms. Please complete and return to the school office. Willow Grove School and Community Newsletter DATES FOR 2017 1st June—West Gippsland Mobile Library 2nd June—Friday Lunchies 2nd June —Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids Robotics Incursion @ 1:45pm 5th June—Classroom Teachers attending PD—CRT’s employed 6th June—Gr 5/6 Cluster Day 12th June—Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday 14th June—Parent Assoc. Mtg 15th June—West Gippsland Mo- bile Library 15th-16th June—Regional Princi- pal’s Conference 16th June—Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids Robotics Incursion @ 1:45pm 19th June—Gr P-2 Planning Day 19th June—Brendan at Ellinbank Primary School 20th June—Building & Grounds Meeting—7pm 20th June—School Council Meet- ing—7:30pm 21st June—Division Winter Sport 30th June—Last Day Term 2 BEYOND TERM 2 21st September—School Concert 22nd—24th November—Gr 3/4 Camp Rumbug 27th Nov—1st Dec Whole School Swimming Program 14th December—School Presen- tation Night 20th—21st December—Gr 6 Graduation Camp MON TUE WED THU FRI 29 Simone at STEM PD 30 31 Brekky Club Lunch Order Day MARC Van 01 Brekky Club West Gippsland Mobile Library 02 Brekky Club Friday Lunchies Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids Incursion @ 1:45pm 05 Classroom Teach- ers at PD—CRT Replacements Employed 06 Gr 5/6 Cluster Day at Thorpdale PS 07 Brekky Club Lunch Order Day 08 Brekky Club 09 Brekky Club June 2017 Find us at— www.willowgroveps.vic.edu.au TERM DATES 2017 Term 1 30th Jan (teachers start) to 31st March Term 2 18th April to 30th June Term 3 17th July to 22nd Sept Term 4 9th Oct to 22nd Dec Like us on Reminders SUPERVISED HOURS: 8.45AM—3.30PM Notices Sent Home VOL 17 : ISSUE 15 31ST MAY 2017
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Congratulations to
Thank you to Special Thanks to
Bus Travel Walking School Bus—Friday 20th May
‘Friday Lunchies’ is happening this Friday. Order forms were due at school today, however an order form returned first thing tomor-row morning is not too late!
This Monday, all classroom teachers will be participating in a Pro-fessional Development Day, where they will look at how col-laborative teams use assessment to transform student learning. This will be the third session in a series of four. This supplements our school focus of building collaborative teams and working to-gether to improve learning outcomes for all our students. On this day, your child will have a replacement teacher. Mrs Alison Abbott will be Acting Principal in my absence.
WORKING BEE this Saturday the 3rd
of June from 9-12pm. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Many hands make light work!
The eldest child in Grade 3/4 will have received a letter regarding Payment Options for Camp Rumbug held in November of this year.
Grade 5/6 Students will receive permission notes for their Term 2 Cluster Day to be held at Thorpdale Primary School. The focus of this day will be Digital Technologies. Students will travel via bus during school hours and there is no charge for this excursion. This compliments the Integrated Curriculum that the students have been working on throughout Term 2.
Yesterday Grade 6 students received Enrolment Details Update Forms. Please complete and return to the school office.
Willow Grove School and
Community Newsletter 1 9 T H A P R I L 2 0 1 7 V O L 1 7 : I S S U E 0 9
DATES FOR 2017
1st June—West Gippsland Mobile
Library
2nd June—Friday Lunchies
2nd June —Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids
Robotics Incursion @ 1:45pm
5th June—Classroom Teachers
attending PD—CRT’s employed
6th June—Gr 5/6 Cluster Day
12th June—Queen’s Birthday
Public Holiday
14th June—Parent Assoc. Mtg
15th June—West Gippsland Mo-
bile Library
15th-16th June—Regional Princi-
pal’s Conference
16th June—Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids
Robotics Incursion @ 1:45pm
19th June—Gr P-2 Planning Day
19th June—Brendan at Ellinbank
Primary School
20th June—Building & Grounds
Meeting—7pm
20th June—School Council Meet-
ing—7:30pm
21st June—Division Winter Sport
30th June—Last Day Term 2
BEYOND TERM 2
21st September—School Concert
22nd—24th November—Gr 3/4
Camp Rumbug
27th Nov—1st Dec Whole School
Swimming Program
14th December—School Presen-
tation Night
20th—21st December—Gr 6
Graduation Camp
MON TUE WED THU FRI
29 Simone at STEM PD
30
31 Brekky Club Lunch Order Day MARC Van
01 Brekky Club West Gippsland Mobile Library
02 Brekky Club Friday Lunchies Gr 5/6 Bricks 4 Kids Incursion @ 1:45pm
05 Classroom Teach-ers at PD—CRT Replacements Employed
06 Gr 5/6 Cluster Day at Thorpdale PS
07 Brekky Club Lunch Order Day
08 Brekky Club
09 Brekky Club
June 2017
Find us at—www.willowgroveps.vic.edu.au
TERM DATES 2017
Term 1 30th Jan (teachers start) to 31st March
Term 2 18th April to 30th June
Term 3 17th July to 22nd Sept
Term 4 9th Oct to 22nd Dec
Like us on
Reminders
SUPERVISED HOURS: 8.45AM—3.30PM
Notices Sent Home
VOL 17 : ISSUE 15 31ST MAY 2017
School Office Hours—Terms 3 & 4
Congratulations
News from Ann
School Working Bee—Saturday
NAPLAN
Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.
Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.
Can you help?
News from Ann
Winter
Student Achievements
P A G E 2
W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
Last week, I had the (unexpected) pleasure attending the Grade 5/6 camp to Phillip Island from Tuesday to Friday. It was an exciting week filled with a mixture of adventure and tourist activities. Our students have been busy preparing camp reports, which will appear in next week’s newsletter . I was extremely proud of how the students, families and most importantly all of our staff conducted themselves throughout the entire week. Our values of ‘Respect’ and ‘Teamwork’ certainly shone through and were demonstrated by all members of our school community on many different occasions. We were caring and empathetic towards each other and certainly flexible and adaptable, willing to help each other out when needed. I would also like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all of our staff who took on dif-ferent roles in my absence. It proved we truly are a school community with committed staff who support each other to provide the best social, emotional and academic outcomes for our students regardless of the circumstances. Working BEE – This Saturday the 3
rd of June
Our Building and Grounds committee have scheduled a school working bee for this Satur-day, the 3
rd of June from 9 am – 12.00 pm. As a small community school, we are extreme-
ly grateful for the help and support we receive from our parent community, to ensure that our buildings and grounds continue to be safe and presented in pristine condition. If you are available and willing to come along and help out, we would love to see you there. On the next page, there is a list of jobs and possible materials that we will need to com-plete the job. School Council are also mindful that not all parents can make the working bee but would be willing to help out at another time. That is completely fine and the reason why we have included the ‘wish’ list of jobs that have identified as needing to be done. You are more than welcome to come and complete any job, just let someone at school know it has been done. Take care and all the best for the rest of the week. Brendan Dawson
Thank-you to Michelle who came to the rescue last week and ventured off to Phillip Island on short notice. We would be lost without her! Thanks also to Mr Blythman and the students for how they conducted themselves across each of the four days. It was a pleasure to accompany them.
Thank-you to the parents who transported students to Cross Country last week. We appreciate the support you provide in allowing your children the opportunity to experience these events. Congratulations to all competitors.
Principal’s Report
School Office Hours—Terms 3 & 4
Congratulations
News from Ann
School Working Bee—Saturday
NAPLAN
Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.
Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.
Can you help?
News from Ann
Winter
Student Achievements
P A G E 3
W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
There are several items on our ‘to do’ list. If you can help with any of them on the day, it will be greatly appreciated. Just tick the job off as it is completed. We hang a
master copy on the door between the student toilets.
If you are unable to come on Saturday morning, you may wish to complete a job outside of the Working Bee timeframe.
Many hands make light work and we appreciate all of the support we receive from
our school community.
Many thanks.
WORKING BEE 2017—JOBS WISH LIST
JOBS MATERIALS NEEDED
Fix bridge in playground bolts and screws, extra chain, wood plank
Clean out sheds. Trailers to take rubbish and unwanted mate-rials to tip. The school has two hard waste vouchers in the office.
Guerney / pressure wash out the sports shed and clean out drain near sports shed
Guerney / pressure wash the entrances and doors to all school buildings to remove dirt and bird poo (especially from sheds).
Pressure washer/s
Hang Eagle / Hawk (or similar) near shed to de-ter birds from coming back.
Clean out cleaner’s room Caution: room is alarmed
Repair all loose boards on picnic tables /seats around school.
Bolts
Replace cement sheet on steps of old building Cement sheet (supplied)
Take out / remove pole in playground closest to bus walking path
Tools
Clean out gutters from all buildings and then Blower vac and sweep paths around school buildings
Ladders
Blower vac / broom
Change damaged carpet squares in classroom Carpet squares, carpet glue(?)
Hang fire extinguishers in school Drill and wall brackets / hangers
Gardening / Weeding Pruning
Paint yellow lines on steps of building Yellow spray paint (supplied)
Paint all hand rails around the school Black outdoor paint (supplied)
P.E. Award
W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
Playground Award
Grade 5/6 Students
For displaying all of our school values consistently
on camp.
Student
of the Week
Ashley P
Claire S
SPECIALIST
AWARD
Lilly B
for P.E.
AR
T
P.E
LOTE
STUDENT ACHIEVERS
Parent Association News
Congratulations
News from Ann
School Working Bee—Saturday
NAPLAN
Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.
Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.
Can you help?
News from Ann
St
P A G E 5
W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
Win-
Hello Everyone, I am enjoying my new role as the MARC Library teacher across the 8 Tarago MARC schools and look forward to spending a day with the students and staff at Willow Grove each fortnight. This term we are looking at Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, reading both hardcopy books, as well as digital versions on the iPad. Some of the stories we have read so far are, The Frog Who Wouldn’t Laugh, and White Clay and the Giant Kangaroos, both by Cecilia Egan, and the digital animated text Ngurrara by Tyson Mowarin. After listening to a story the children complete a creative art activity and spend time in the MARC van looking for books they may like to borrow. This week all students are completing an entry for Reading Australia’s nationwide colour-ing competition for National Reconciliation Week. The picture is from the book Mad Mag-pie, written and illustrated by Gregg Dreise. The entries chosen as the best in each grade will be uploaded to the competition. Kind regards, Helen Collins
MARC Library Van News
Graduation Ceremony—Mr Woodroffe
Last Thursday Mr Justin
Woodroffe attended his
Graduation Ceremony at
Federation University
Churchill.
Justin completed his Mas-
ters of Primary Teaching
on 7th February 2017, and
this ceremony marks the
end of two years hard
work.
The Staff and Students of
Willow Grove Primary
School would like to con-
gratulate Justin on this
achievement, and wish
him a successful and re-
warding teaching career.
Parent Association News
Congratulations
News from Ann
School Working Bee—Saturday
NAPLAN
Parents play a major role in assisting and supporting their child to ac-quire strong literacy skills. Literacy learning started when your child was born. Parents play a vital role as their children’s first literacy teachers. Consider all the things that children learn before school as they mix with others, observe what others do and try to do the same things. Much of this learning happens naturally and within a social context. Oral lan-guage is the foundation of learning to read to write. Encourage your chil-dren to talk about and express their feelings and ideas. Provide experi-ences that expand their concepts and vocabulary. Children do not al-ways needs loads of money spent on them. Varied family outings, games inside and out, just pottering around with you as do jobs will ex-pand their notion of the world. They will bring their knowledge and under-standing of the world to their reading and writing. Literacy learning is a social experience because it depends on demon-strations from, collaboration with, and continuous feedback and re-sponse from, other people, it happens, at home and at school, when chil-dren are surrounded by people who listen, talk, think, read and write. Children need to see the purposes for reading and writing.
Here are some ideas for you to support your child develop literacy skills over the year levels. Share experiences (a picnic, camping, gardening, cooking, farming) which are then talked about at home Share books (especially stories) and talk about them with more experi-enced readers Have plenty of books to handle and read See print all around them Have models of how people read and write Have opportunities to read and write Know that people expect them to read and write Are given choices about what they read and write Feel free to ‘have a go ‘ at reading and writing (including spelling) Are able to talk about their reading and writing Experience feelings of success Feel responsible for their own reading and writing Have confidence in their own ability Understand what reading, writing and learning can do for them We need to work together, parents and teachers, to develop a part-nership which will support our literacy learners and to ensure a life- long learning. As adults we know that literacy provides the keys to life.
Can you help?
News from Ann
Student Achievements
P A G E 6
W I L L O W G R O V E S C H O O L A N D C O M M U N I T Y N E W S L E T T E R
Win-
ROSTER
WEDNESDAY 7th June Nicole W.
WEDNESDAY 14th June Linda V.
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