6th August 2014 The Puggle Post’ - Wandong Primary School
Transcript of 6th August 2014 The Puggle Post’ - Wandong Primary School
6th August 2014
OUR SCHOOL VISION: Encouraging all members of the school community to work together
to create a positive and motivating environment, allowing all students to maximise their educational
opportunities in an ever changing world.
PARENT
PAYMENTS
RECEIVED
182 families at
WPS.
123 Completed
payments
= 70%
Have you
recently
asked your
child/ren......
“What
did you
learn
today?”
Rail Street, PO Box 402, Wandong 3758
P: 5787 1232
F: 5787 1821
www.wandongps.vic.edu.au
Principal: Rhonda Cole
‘The Puggle Post’
Congratulations to our ”Students of the Week.”
Foundation B: Kobee Mann (Consistently using great decoding strategies
whilst reading this week)
Foundation H: Kane Lemmar (Consistently using descriptive words in his writing)
Foundation K: Taylah Fitzgerald (Segmenting and blending words effectively
during her reading)
1/2 G: Matilda Prewett (Being a friendly and caring member of her grade)
1/2 H: William Bellman (Consistently trying his hardest with his reading)
1/2 Z: Isaak Harrison (Doing his best when singing songs for Special Friends Day)
3/4 A: Corey Gibbons (Working hard on his Haiku poems)
3/4 B: Zaiden Campbell (Excellent poetry writing)
3/4 C: Alisha Frendo (Being a caring and responsible member of her class)
5/6 A: Grace Hannemann (Consistently doing her best)
5/6 B: Ben Jewell (Working hard on his term goal)
5/6 C: Jarek O’Neill (Doing his best to divide fractions)
Reminder
CURRICULUM DAY THIS FRIDAY 8th AUGUST
No students required at school.
A Message from the Assistant Principal….
It’s been another big week at Wandong Primary School with particular focus on preparations for Special
Friends’ Day and the upcoming Wakakirri performance.
Special Friends’ Day
Special Friends Day is tomorrow and there’s a buzz around the place with some very excited students.
Special Friends’ Day is a wonderful opportunity for students to invite a special friend to watch a
spectacular music performance and share in their learning. After the students perform, they will head
back to their class to make a special gift for their special friend to remember the day. Good luck to
everyone involved.
Tree Planting Day
What a wonderful day it was today. The weather was spectacular which gave us awesome conditions for
planting. Our newly designed garden bed was planted out with a series of native shrubs and bushes.
Foundation to grade two students had the opportunity to design tree guards and these look fantastic.
The 3/4s and 5/6s also planted behind the blue bin and in the grade six area and they also mulched the
new garden bed. Huge thanks to Bret for organizing the rocks for the new garden bed and for organizing
the plants. Thank you also to all the parents who volunteered and helped to plant a plant with their
child. It was a great day. Check out all the photos.
Curriculum Day – This Friday
On Friday we are having a curriculum day. There will be no school for students on Friday. Although
students aren’t at school, staff will be hard at work and engaged in professional learning and training.
Enjoy the long weekend.
Have a great week,
Anthony Potesta
Congratulations to our
Mathletics Certificate Winners !
Congratulations to Corbin Mundy,
Erin-Skye Libardi, Chantel Kennett,
Jeremy Nastevski, Jethro Caelli,
Emmeline Nastevski, Natalie Hannemann and
Joshua Drury on the presentation of a their
Mathletics certificates.
These certificates are awarded upon completion of
certain tasks/levels in Mathletics and many of the
students were presented with multiple gold, silver
and bronze certificates.
Great effort & keep up the good work !!!
Wakakirri is a dance competition where each
school tells a story. Students from Foundation
to year 6 are participating in our performance.
Wandong’s story this year is about standing up
to bullies. We chose to perform our version of
the popular fairy tale, Cinderella. Everyone is
getting really excited with the performance day
getting closer.
The 18th August is not that far away.
We have been practising for the past two terms. Everyone has been working really hard on our
dances, costumes, props and make up. All of the teachers and students are very excited about
our performance. The dance has been getting so good. Everyone is in time with the music, doing
the right steps at the right time and in our final song, the big smiles are fantastic! Who would
have thought the dance would be so good!
By Kira Roberts, Shelby Reeves and Jennifer Cocks
CLUSTER STUDENT
LEADERSHIP
On Thursday, our grade six leadership
team headed up to Broadford Primary
School for their next Cluster Leadership
Day. They completed fun team building
games as they further developed their
friendship s with school leaders from other
nearby schools. Spaghettie and
marshmallow towers were a hoot!
What’s gone home this week?
The following notices were sent
home this week:
Whole school -
Selected Families: NIL
Selected Students: NIL
Individual grade levels -
Foundation: NIL
One/Two: NIL
Three/Four: NIL
Five/Six:
- 2014 Winter Sports cancellation information
All notices are uploaded to the school website.
Spare copies of notices are in the school foyer
in the grade level trays.
Posture Police award
Congratulations to Kirra Wright, Abigail Hume,
Ina Baggio and Shani McLeish.
These students were selected by their peers for
displaying the correct posture in class.
Other nominated students were: Rohnen Boschen,
Tyler Dennehy, Grace Hannemann and
Morgan Smith .
Congratulations on your nomination.
ICY POLES
AND
ICE CREAMS
There will be NO
icy poles or ice creams
available for sale this
Thursday 7th August due to
our Special Friends’ Day
Performance.
SCHOOL BANKING CO-ORDINATOR
After many successful years, Robyn Mumberson, our current school banking
co-ordinator is retiring. We thank her for her many years of dedicated service.
This means we are now on the look-out for a new school banking co-ordinator.
Volunteers must have a financial background, money handling skills and
confidentially is a must.
Should you possess the above skills and can spare an hour a week, please contact
the office so we can provide further information on what the position entails.
WOW! ….WHAT’S ON @WANDONG
AUGUST
Thursday 7th August Special Friends’ Day (Gr F-2)
Friday 8th August CURRICULUM DAY - No students required at school
Monday 11th August School Council Meeting
Parent Opinion Survey due back
Tuesday 12th August 2015 School tour - 9:30-10:30am
COOKIE TUESDAY—bring your $3.00 to the hall at
10:45 to get a yummy cookie!
Foundation 2015 Storytime - 2:30-3:30pm
Wednesday 13th August Tony’s Pie order forms to be sent out
Thursday 14th August ThinkLinks (12:30 to 1:30)
Friday 15th August Early Assembly Start—2.45pm sharp
Monday 18th August Wakakirri Performance
Tuesday 19th August Parents & Friends Association meeting
(9.:15 am in the staffroom)
Wednesday 27th August 2015 Foundation Storytime— 9:30-10.30am
Thursday 14th August ThinkLinks (12:30 to 1:30)
SEPTEMBER
Monday 1st September Tony’s Pie orders due back
Wednesday 3rd September Father’s Day Stall
Thursday 4th September 2014 District Athletics Championship
Friday 5th September 2nd Father’s Day Stall (1.30-2.30 in the hall)
Wednesday 10th September Tony’s Pies delivery
Thursday 11th September ThinkLinks (12.30 to 1.30)
Cluster Student Leadership
Saturday 13th September 2015 Foundation BBQ
Wednesday 17th— Friday 19th September Grade 3/4 Camp
WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL
SUPER READER’S CLUB:
Congratulations on 50 nights reading:
Katlan Cook, Mathew Robinson, Ella Harris,
Ella O’Brien, Ellie Brown, Nadia Barbour,
Jake Frendo, Noah Hazeldine,
Matthew Delaney, Jack Johnson-Breheny
and Patrick Allsop.
Congratulations on 100 nights reading:
Zenith Pongrac, Sarah Dwyer, Lucas Vicary,
Kaitlin O’Neill, Hugh Drofenik,
Noah Tolevski, and Isabella Douglas.
Congratulations on 150 nights reading:
Bayden Sage, Kira Roberts, Zara Marks,
Riley Roberts, Ina Baggio, Austin Tennant,
Georgia Shingles, Hayley Mumberson,
Lawrence Baggio, Shelby Reeves,
Shani McLeish and Jeremy Nastevski.
Arkell (Red House) Wins!
Congratulations to Arkell (Red House) for wining last
week’s house points competition.
Red House Captain Kim Coad & Red House Vice Captain
Sean Duffy are proudly holding the winner’s trophy.
CHANGE TO OFFICE PROCEDURE
At the moment, the office is producing a written receipt and
then an A4 sized receipt. There have been many families
that have requested the A4 sheet not to be sent home. If
you still require this large receipt, please contact the office .
PARENT AND EMERGENCY
CONTACT DETAILS
In an emergency we require current
contact details for all students.
Please contact the office to update your
details if they have changed recently.
DON’T FORGET YOUR COOKIE MONEY !
Next Tuesday 12th August will be our
first COOKIE TUESDAY so don’t
forget to bring $3.00 to school.
Cookies will be sold in the hall by
our SRC Representatives from
10:45am onwards.
Cookies available are ANZAC, Love
Chocolate, Ice Cream and Smartie.
In Grade 3/4 C this term, we have all transformed into little poets. So far, we have been learning the
format and layout for Acrostic and Haiku poems. Although we are all following the same format for our
poems, we have chosen to write about
topics that we are personally interested in!
We have begun to form a collection of all
our published pieces, and really look
forward to creating a personal poetry book
of all our hard work later in the term.
We will continue to explore different types
of poetry and use our knowledge of the
writing process to plan, draft, edit and
publish our writing in creative ways.
Dianella Visit
On Monday we completed our first visit for our Intergenerational Program. Over the past three years,
our grade five students have visited residents at Dianella Hostel in Kilmore. We spend around one hour
with the residents, sharing stories and talking about school in the present and past. This is a great
opportunity for our students to represent the school and for students to further develop their
communication skills.
Our first group this year had a great time conversing with the residents. Each student made a loom
band braceletnd some of the residents even helped out. We all then enjoyed morning tea together before
we headed back to school.
All grade five students will visit either later this term or in term four. In November we will host resi-
dents from the village at our school for a delicious afternoon tea.
A huge thank you to Wandong Bus & Coach for kindly donating the bus for our trip.
Welfare & Wellbeing @ Wandong PS
Having true friends is more important
than being in a “popular” group.
Our SEL (Social & Emotional Learning) focus is….. Edition #4 Term 3
Sometimes, children really want to be part of a popular group. When they get to know the children in that group, they often find that they don’t like them very much. Just being in a specific group of children doesn’t make you happy; having friends who care about you and treat you well does. With this idea in mind, think about your true friends. Do they like you? Do they accept you? Do they admire you? The answer to these questions is probably yes. As long as you have true friends, it doesn’t matter whether your group is considered to be popular or not!
Final Thought…
.Family meeting discussion
question:
What qualities
do you look
for in a friend?
Having true friends is more important
than being in a “popular” group.