Dear Parents, It is a week of celebrations amongst our Armadale Community and I as a Principal have much to be proud of. On Sunday I attended the Duldig Studio Open Day in Malvern where I was able to witness six of our very creative Year 6 students awarded certificates for their fabulous clay sculpture work that were showcased at the Duldig Studio. Millie Bennetts; Tilly Campbell; Eliza Motion; Lucien Catrice; and Milla Burgemeestre were all awarded Certificates of Commendation for their fabulous sculptures which you can see in the photo below.

Spencer Stoupas was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for his prehistoric sculpture which was judged to be outstanding on its artistic and creative merits. I congratulate all of our students on their wonderful work and am very grateful to our Art teacher, Lucy Gorman, who continues to nurture all of the children and has forged a strong relationship with the Duldig Studio.

Excellence in Writing You may be aware that over the last two years the school has had a focus on improving our writing program which has

been part of our Strategic Plan. Our teachers and our students have both had professional learning in writing this year and this learning has delivered results in both external and internal assessments. I am thrilled to share with you that in a recent external competition; Write4fun, five of our Year 6 students were awarded “Excellence in writing” certificates. Their writing was judged to be of such a high standard that their entries were placed in the top 4% of over 12,000 entries. The following five students will have their stories published in the “Text Generation” book. On behalf of the whole community I congratulate the following students and can’t wait to read their stories in the book: Yasmin Feile Will Purdie Millicent Bennetts Carla Gee Olivia Martin Congratulations Miss Stephanie McIlroy on her forthcoming marriage on Saturday 15th November 3/4M have been brimming with excitement for a short while but this will be supercharged today as they farewell their much loved Miss Mac as she makes the final preparations for her wedding on Saturday. Most of the children will be attending the wedding ceremony and it should be very special for them as well. Steph has been flooded with questions about her dress; her makeup; her cake and I know that we all can’t wait to see the beautiful photos. Steph will be taking just a few days of personal leave and her class will be looked after by Mary Rodder. On behalf of the whole Armadale community we extend our heartiest congratulations to Steph and her partner, Claire Eden and wish them a lifetime of love, good health and happiness together. continued over page ...

ARMADALE PRIMARY SCHOOL Newsletter No. 36 13 November 2014

Address: Densham Road, Armadale 3143

School Office Phone: 03 9822 7003 School Fax: 03 9824 8954

Website: www.armadaleps.vic.edu.au Email: armadale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

OOSHC Office: 03 9822 4912 OOSHC Email: ooshc@hotmail.com

This Week’s Events

Friday 14 November

Icypoles $1

PFA Meeting in staffroom

2.30pm

Wednesday 19 November

Year 5&6 McClelland Art

Gallery excursion

Thursday 20 November

Prep Marvellous Magnets

incursion

Friday 21 November

Junior School House Sports

9.45am-11.45am

Family Fun night 5.00-7.30pm

Coming Events

Friday 28 November

Prep / Year 1&2 swimming

commences

Saturday 29 November

Election Day Cake Stall & BBQ

Thursday 4 December

Prep excursion to NGV

Friday 5 December

Year 6 Ultimate Frisbee gala

day

Click here to go to our school

website calendar for more details

on coming events

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This Week’s Awards

Visual Artist:

Allison Coe

Visual Art Class:

1 /2E

Performing Artists of the Week:

Charlie Sorell

Charlotte Graham &

Olivia Gladwell-Bolte

Charlie Motion

Lucia Tabbagh

Mark Allen-Lyons

Performing Art Classes:

1/2K

3/4C

3/4W

1/2P

You Can Do It! Awards:

Talna Svenson Prep S

Jaxsen Farah 1/2A

Jeong-Hyun Choi 1/2E

Stefan Rajchevika 3/4 J

Will Atwell 3/4 J

Tom Coath 3/4M

Thomas Walters 3/4M

Alessandro Maciel Pizzorno Bazzo

3/4S

Noah Holuigue 3/4S

Sebastian Pegler 3/4W

Luke Vickery 3/4W

Anais Herbaux 6N

Jaxon Doelling 6Z

Tayla Ravnholt 6Z

The lice are back – do they ever go? A few parents have mentioned that lice have returned and I ask all parents if they can be vigilant in the recommended treatment of lice. It may help too, if girls with shoulder length hair can ensure that this is always tied back in some way. Thank you for your co-operation with this matter. Whole School Transition and Prep Transition sessions All of the students will be participating in our second session of whole school transition this afternoon. This session will focus on the students getting to know new people in their 2015 level/grade and finding out from the teacher at that level what are some of the expectations. There has been a great deal of positive feedback since the first session started and I know the children are excited to go up to the next year level. I look forward to welcoming all 2015 Preps and their parents to our first transition session on Friday afternoon. It is an incredibly emotional time for parents as they realise that their child is now of school age and beginning their educational journey. We often have some tears at these sessions, but the children cope really well.

Michael O’Brien’s visit to Armadale Primary School We were very excited to have Michael O’Brien, Member for Malvern and our State Treasurer visit our school yesterday morning. Michael spent some time at Assembly speaking to the students about Government and his role, he assisted with the YCDI awards and spent some time with the highly engaging Prep students. A photographer was on hand from the Stonnington Leader so look out for next week’s newspaper in hard copy or online. Family Fun Night: Friday 21st November Make sure you have this date in the diary as this will be a fabulous night for the Armadale community. The gates will open at 5.00pm and there will be a range of activities, food and fun for the whole family. Gold coin donation at the gate! Look at Mish’s PFA section for more specific details and fingers crossed that the weather gods will be kind. Have a wonderful week.

Rochelle Cukier

Principal

Election Day Cake Stall The Election Day cake stall is fast approaching! Please start thinking about any baked goodies you can donate. Your information package will be going home with your eldest APS student in the week commencing the 24th November and it will have all the information and handy tips you need to get baking. If you have any time to spare on the Saturday 29th Election Day and you can help on the stall , please contact Michelle Moffat on 0419 601 788. Thank you so much ,it’s a big fundraiser opportunity for our school. Michelle Moffat Cake Stall Co-ordinator

Library News

Remembrance Day: One Minute’s Silence (David Metzenthen) and Jack’s Bugle (Krista Bell) have been added to the library which are both great resources that capture the importance of Remembrance Day. After School Borrowing and Library Club: Both of these occur every Thursday. Library Club for students at recess and Afterschool borrowing for everyone in the school community from 3:30-4:00pm. Time to check: Under the bed, in the toybox, in the cupboard, on the bookshelf, and anywhere a book can be for overdue Armadale Primary books to be returned. The last term always passes quickly and now is a good chance to see if your child has any of our books lying around. Happy reading, Brett Leyshan Leyshan.brett.f@edumail.vic.gov.au

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Thank you Tonga Once again I would like to express my great appreciation to Tonga Kelly (Jett’s dad) for helping the school out in such a valuable way. Our prep storage shed had the roof collapse a couple of weeks ago and Tonga has come to rescue to repair and reinstate it, making sure that the prep equipment stays safe and dry. Thank you so much Tonga.

Malcolm Dow

Assistant Principal

Assistant Principal Walk to School Month Thank you and congratulations to all of the students who participated in Walk to School Month in October. I have entered all the data collected and our results were: Number of students participating 321 = 86% of the total student population, and we had a total of 3836 walks for the month. This was a great effort, and I will be issuing certificates to all the students who participated in the program during October. We may be in the running for some prizes from Vic Health and I will keep you informed if I hear anything. Nude Food Logos Our fabulous Visual Arts teacher Lucy Gorman has been working with a number of our students to produce a new logo to display our 100% Nude Food status. This is something we can then use in a range of stationery and documents to give that status more impact. There were so many great designs it will be very hard to choose. I will seek assistance from some experts and when we have chosen we will present the winning design at assembly and print it in the Newsletter. National Recycling Week During the ICT sessions this week we have been focusing on National Recycling Week. The children have explored a range of online resources to further develop their understanding of the recycling process and the importance of minimising our resource use. Gardening Group I have included a couple of photos of the Senior Gardening Group to show what we

have been up to. We have been weeding the vegetable beds in preparation for the summer vegie crop, and trimming and watering plants in the habitat garden.

The photo above shows the flowering tea trees in the Habitat Garden, which are proving to be very attractive to a range of insects and birds, an indication that our Habitat Garden is working as it was intended.

Riding and Scooting to School

It is very encouraging to see so many students riding and skating to school, as well as walking of course after our big Walk to School Month promotion during October. The photos here show the number of bikes and scooters that are coming to school. It is great that we now have so many racks to accommodate them all. It is also great to see a few staff bikes appearing on the staff racks, it’s nice to see them getting good use too.

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Swimming times & dates: 1/2K & 1/2D 9.30-10.00am

Prep P & Prep S 10.10-10.50am

Prep C 10.50-11.30am

1/2A & 1/2E 11.30-12.10pm

1/2P 12.10-12.50pm

The children will be leaving

school 30 minutes before the

start time of their lesson. Click

here for all the details or see

page 6.

Dates: Friday 28 November,

Monday 1, Tuesday 2,

Wednesday 3, Friday 5, Monday

8, Tuesday 9, Thursday 11 and

Friday 12 December

Performing Arts

Performing Arts classes are abuzz with excitement and energy. Peter Pan may have ended, but the performing certainly hasn’t! We’ve been working hard to finish off all our performances from throughout the year. We will be performing these at our Showcase Concerts that will be taking place before the end of term. There are separate concerts for Prep, Year 1/2, Year 3/4, Year 5 and Year 6. All are welcome! Dates and times will be finalised in the next few days. Please keep your eye out in the next newsletter if you would like to come have a peek at our PA work from 2014. Performer of the Week Awards: Charlie Sorell for being such a creative and energetic spirit. You bring such a passion for the Performing Arts! Charlotte Graham and Olivia Gladwell-Bolte for the grace, thoughtfulness and pure talent that you brought to the role of Wendy in Peter Pan. Charlie Motion for always being such a hard-working, fun and energetic member of the Performing Arts classroom. Lucia Tabbagh for her expressiveness, vigour and vibrancy in Performing Arts.

Mark Allen-Lyons for his commitment to bringing excellence to all his roles in Performing Arts. You are a dynamic, expressive and engaging performer. Performing Arts Class of the Week Awards: 1/2K for how hard you consistently work in Performing Arts. Your dedication is admirable! 3/4C for always working so hard to prepare and polish your performances. You absolutely rock your dance! You should be very proud of all your hard work. 3/4W for the consistency that you bring to your Performing Arts lessons. You always listen well, you always work hard, and you always have fun! Great job! 1/2P for working so hard to finish your Magic Cup play! You are working together incredibly well as a team. We all can’t wait to see it! 3/4S for your passion, perseverance, playfulness and panache. Lisa Vollugi Performing Arts Co-ordinator

Wesley Mission suggested

donation items:

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Northcote

The 5 Keys of YCDI! Education

Our core purpose is the

development of young people’s

social and emotional capabilities,

including:

Confidence

(academic, social)

Persistence

Organisation

Getting Along, and

Resilience.

Central to the development of

these 5 Key Foundations is

instilling in young people 12

Habits of the Mind, including:

Accepting Myself

Taking Risks

Being Independent

I Can Do It

Giving Effort

Working Tough

Setting Goals

Planning My Time

Being Tolerant of Others

Thinking First

Playing by the Rules, and

Social Responsibility

Talna Svenson Prep S For having a go at tricky words in her writing and thinking about the sounds letters make. Keep it up Talna!

Jaxsen Farah 1/2A For being resilient when unexpected events occur and for successfully preparing to be a year 3 student next year.

Jeong-Hyun Choi 1/2E For her increasing confidence in the classroom and for being a truly quiet achiever.

Stefan Rajchevika 3/4 J For working really hard in Mathematics, showing improvement in your thinking and problem solving skills. Great work, Stefan.

Will Atwell 3/4 J For your positive approach to school everyday, always willing to help out and support your class mates. Thank you, Will.

Tom Coath 3/4M For continuing to grow in confidence in the classroom. The passion that you have for some topics is wonderful! Keep it up Tom!

Thomas Walters 3/4M For confidently sharing his own Maths card game with 3/4M, listening to feedback and taking this onboard to better himself. Wonderful work Thomas!

Alessandro Maciel Pizzorno Bazzo 3/4S

For the fabulous display of empathy you demonstrated on Remembrance Day, Alessandro. Thank you.

Noah Holuigue 3/4S For initiating a minute of silence to remember all of the animals who also served us during war. You're a caring soul, Noah.

Sebastian Pegler 3/4W For learning his times tables and confidently completing the 50’s Club times tables challenge. A fantastic effort Sebastian!

Luke Vickery 3/4W For continuing to grow in confidence when completing subtraction equations with regrouping. Keep it up Luke!

Anais Herbaux 6N For a wonderfully interesting and well presented piece of writing about her life as an alphabet.

Jaxon Doelling 6Z For his kindness and consideration towards other students in the class Well done Jaxon!

Tayla Ravnholt 6Z For her perseverance and positive attitude to her maths work. Keep up the good work Tayla!

You Can Do It! Awards

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Sports News

All children from Prep and Year 1 & 2 will be involved in the Junior School House Sports

to be held at Orrong Romanis Reserve (Melways ref 58 J6) next Friday 21 November.

The sports will be commence at approximately 9.45am and finish at 11.45am. Children

will rotate through a number of different fun sport activities with the emphasis on

participation, fun and working together as a team.

All children will need:

play lunch in separate named bag/container

a plastic named water bottle

lunch will be eaten back at school

children are asked to wear at least one article of clothing in their house colour eg

t-shirt, ribbon, socks, shorts

Densham - blue

Munro - green

Rose - red

Northcote - yellow

it is most important that all children wear their school sunhat, be sunsmart and

wear suitable footwear.

Parents, family and friends are welcome to come along, and join in the fun.

We also require parents to walk with children to the park. If you can assist please speak

with your class teacher.

We look forward to a fun day.

Swimming Lessons

Don’t forget swimming lessons for Prep and Year 1 & 2 will commence on Friday 28th

November (9 lessons in total).

Detailed notices were handed out to the children today and a copy is on page 6 of

today’s newsletter.

Peter Cracknell

Sports Co-ordinator

Junior School House Sports

Friday 21 November 9.45 - 11.45am

Prep C, Prep P, Prep S &

Year 1&2 - 1/2A, 1/2D, 1/2E, 1/2K, 1/2P

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Visual Arts News Visual Artist of the Week:

Martha Officer 1/2A For the outstanding effort she made when making her fabric flower. She used fabric markers to draw shapes and used raffia to weave through the fabric. Visual Art Class of the Week: 1/2A For the excellent effort they made with their fabric marker and raffia designs. This was a challenging activity! 2014 Clay for Kids Sculpture Exhibition

A big thank you to everyone who attended.

Congratulations Spencer Stoupas who won the Certificate of Excellence for his Dragon sculpture.

He was up against students at Sacre Coeur and South Yarra. A great achievement Spencer! Well done to the other students that had their work featured at the exhibition; Millie Bennetts 6Z, Tilly Cambpell 6N, Eliza Motion 6N, Lucien Catrice 6Z and Milla Burgemeestre 6Z. Please take a look at Stonnington’s website for more photos of the event.

Thank you kindly to Diana Motion for the photos she took on the day. Year 5 and 6 Excursion to McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery All 5 and 6 students must be at school at 8:45am on Wednesday the 19th November. We will be heading to the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery for a whole day excursion as part of the Visual Arts program. No parent help is required for this excursion. We look forward to informing you about the excursion in next week’s newsletter. Prep Incursion - Wood Workshop by Craftpower On Thursday 20th November all Prep classes will be enjoying a 1hr and 30min workshop in the art room. Craftpower will be coming to take the workshop and students will be making a Magnetic Theatre. See some of the wonderful pieces they create in next week’s newsletter. Art Smocks Can be purchased from the uniform shop (PSW) in Kew: PSW 12 Strathalbyn Street, East Kew, 3102 Alternatively if you can find a smock elsewhere just make sure the material is similar to a rain jacket and the smock has long sleeves. Riot Art and Craft in Malvern sell these too: Riot Art and Craft 109 Glenferrie Rd, Malvern, 3144 Lucy Gorman Visual Arts Co-ordinator

Spencer with Stonnington Mayor

Cr Adrian Stubbs and his award

Student Banking

Congratulations to

the following students

who have qualified for a Silver

Dollarmites Certificate for

making 20 deposits this year:

Birinderjit Singh

Matilda Goodall

Kosta Theodoropoulos

Well done!

Alison Crone School Banking Co-ordinator

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Parents and Friends for Armadale

(PFA)

Hi everyone, I thought Halloween was just a few weeks ago but I must be mistaken for it seems Christmas is now upon us. The city is full of Festivus cheer with baubles and wreathes and all things red and green hanging from corporate offices and retailers alike but, alas and alak, it seems these tidings of good cheer do not extend to kindness in the home even with a “Santa might be watching” whisper in the ear. Neither have my pleas to start writing a letter to Santa come to any fruition, nor have my intentions to bake fruit cake …but I digress. Let’s all digress from Christmas for a moment and have FUN! Yes, the Family Fun Night is next week so get your bounce on, your plastic cups and blanket and camp chairs and get onto the new turf! The Sushi Stall will be bigger and better than ever with seafood salads now available as share plates, the BBQ will be sizzling as always and the hub of the party. Wine will be sold by the bottle from the ice bucket at $15 per drop and we’d like to run out all stock so bring a small sip and perhaps buy one for friends too. Once sold out, we’re out. Similarly with our bucket of beer (mostly lights but you can forage for a quality import at bargain prices). Icy Poles sold from the kitchen at 7pm ensures a smooth exit so come and see us, all your friends and let the kids bounce the night away on the castle while you catch up. We ask a gold coin donation on entrance to cover the cost of all things bounce and cash at reasonable prices for all food – look out for the flyer in bags next week and of course last minute tiqbiz reminder. We will also be asking for volunteers on the evening for supervision and stall helpers – always fun so please don’t be shy. Here are some more dates for end of year fun: Icy Pole Friday – What’s not to

love? $1 for a lickity good treat!

Family Fun Night – Friday 21 November – 5.00-7.30pm. Oops, yep, that’s locked in, just need to collect the coinage

Election Day Cake Stall and BBQ – Saturday 29 November – all day…until sold out that is…

Family Fun Night – Friday 21 November from 5.00-7.30pm It’s $3.00 hand rolls $3.00 rice paper rolls $10.00 seafood salad plate $3.00 sausage A tipple? Cheep cheep cheep like a birdie as are the Icy Treats! More to come! Easy, Peasy, Tomato Sauce Squeezy! Let your kids do the math for you with CASH! and help our lovely Mat Sweetlove out with using real money in his plea last year at info. night because not only is he funny but his maths will make us money! And specially for the prep parents, don’t forget the Prep Art Auction. The little prep elves have been creating their gorgeous class masterpieces which are currently at the framers getting ready for auction. Going... going.... gone.

Election Day Cake Stall and BBQ – Saturday 29 November Caramelised onions in the slow cooker? Done and sorted. Baker, Relisher, or Slicer? Just wait for the call to action. Stay tuned, we will be asking for volunteers to help on stalls during the day. Great break from the kids as they swing and weave on the dome and monkey bars with friends.

Fun Run update – Final monies yet to come in for tally Please check the kitchen bench for any further sponsorship monies. Nicki is so proud that we’re at the 70% response rate after her call to action. She’d like to personally thank everyone who has taken the time to check, sort and return monies after the due date. Keep it coming please. She also can’t wait to draw the raffle at next week’s assembly. While some classes cannot attend every child who is drawn will receive their prize if in attendance or not.

Tomorrow at 2.30pm in the staff room is our second to last PFA meeting for this year. Pam Johnston is coming, are you? We’d love to see some more new faces at the table.

Exciting Things Happen At Armadale Primary

Mish McGrory 0412 554 434 and Brigid Warwick 0412 128 164 Email: mish@mcgroryonline.com brigid@warwick.com.au PFA Co-Presidents

Prep &Year 1/2 Bulletins

Please click on the following

links to read this week’s news

from your child’s classroom:

Prep bulletin

Year 1/2 bulletin

Click on this link to go to the

bulletin page or go to the

Students tab on the website and

then your child’s class for all the

latest news.

We still need

you to put your

hand up...

You can do it

for PFA!

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