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Special Events Next Week

Mon.30th May to June 3rd

National Reconciliation Week

Monday 30th May

Pupil Free Day—Report Writing

Day

Tuesday 31st May

Book Club Orders & Money Due

STUDENT LEADERS

Asha Gray & Logan Monro

Thank you for your work as Student Leaders.

Our School Values

Respect-having regard for self, others

and the environment

Inclusion-sense of belonging

Integrity-being honest and fair

Responsibility-being responsible for your actions & words

Personal Best-striving for excellence

In Term 2 our focus is on Respect.

Echuca West Primary School

Personal Best at the West echucawestps.vic.edu.au.

(03) 54822263

Newsletter No. 15 Friday 27th May 2016

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Pupil Free Day – Monday 30th May Please note that Monday 30th May is a pupil free day for report writing.

New School Update As mentioned in my report last month, $11 million from the 2016/17 Victorian Budget

has been allocated towards the new Echuca Education Precinct; ensuring students from

Echuca South Primary School, Echuca West Primary School and Echuca Special School

have the modern spaces they need to learn. The details of Stage 1 have now been

announced and are as follows:

Shared Administration & Library Building

Primary School to the North of the site

All grounds and car parking to the North of the site If funds permit works in this stage will also include, part or all of:

Shared Gym and Ancillary Rooms

Courtyard, including the Sensory Courtyard

Works which will be included in the future (Stage 2), include:

Specialist School & Manual Activities Building to the South of the site

Portables to Primary & Specialist School

All grounds and car parking to the South of the site

Works separate to DET funding which will occur as funds are allocated, include:

Early Learning Centre.

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Grade Prep A— Akyra Zeven It is great to see you trying so hard to listen to what others are saying, Akyra. Well done for

trying hard to write neatly in your book and I really like the way you are trying to wait your turn to talk. Keep working hard.

Grade 1B— Ben Martin Ben, it is great to see you more focused in the classroom and applying yourself to your written work.

I am also proud of the way you have challenged yourself in maths this week to use a range of strategies to hit our target

numbers with addition and subtraction. Keep it up.

Grade 2C— Tanner Kerber You are a considerate member of the classroom. I have really enjoyed

hearing your encouragement towards other students and your positive comments around the

classroom this week. You have been working hard and it is great to see your enthusiasm towards

learning everyday. Keep it up! Well done Tanner.

Tarni Chalmers For the hard work you have been putting into both your writing and your maths this

week. You have been trying your personal best during maths and you are engaged in your learning .

It’s great to see your sea creature book on Tiger sharks is beginning to come together and it is looking fantastic. Keep it up!

Well done Tarni.

Grade 3D— Jett Fleming Your attitude towards learning in the past few weeks has been exceptional! You provide your best

effort to every set task, whether it is in maths or literacy. Your playground and classroom behaviour has been excellent, and

you have shown respect to all members of the Grade 3 and 4 classrooms.

Grade 4E— Emma Judd for the care and attention you give to everything you do at school. I am really proud of the way you

give everything you do your best effort. You are really focused and you put lots of thought into your work. I particularly liked

the way you worked with your buddy when writing your Dreamtime story. Well done Emma!

Grade 5F— Will Kervin It’s been noticeable the way you have been applying yourself in your learning making the right choices

and working to a high standard. You are a great friend to all and a well respected member of the Grade 5 classroom. You are

setting a terrific example to the rest of the class Will. Keep up the excellent work, well done.

Grade 6G— Asha Gray Asha works hard at all times and is often helping out other classmates. She shows a great level of

integrity at all times. She is a fantastic role model for others. Well done Asha!

Sean Tuckerman He is a hard working member of the Grade 6 Classroom. I really like your sense of humour and positive

attitude. You have worked really hard this week and persevered working out the mean, mode and median in maths. Well

done.

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARD

CLASS OF THE WEEK

This week’s Class of the Week is Grade Six : for being fantastic leaders in the playground and setting a

good example for everyone else to follow.

MY SCHOOL TOO

Braydyn Taylor for making a good choice out in the yard when there was a disagreement.

Logan Blachford for respectfully getting a student to make a good choice about their behaviour.

Asha Gray and Eden McInnes for taking leadership to direct students to a different game when

they realised some students were getting targeted in a game.

Freddy Kenna for inviting a student to sit next to him at lunchtime when they had no one to sit with. Well done Fred!!

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SCIENTIST OF THE WEEK

Jarryd Taylor for demonstrating a very positive attitude towards his science work, completing all set

work to a pleasing standard and working cooperatively with his group during science investigations. Im-

pressive work Jarryd.

GARDEN GURU OF THE WEEK

Faith Scott for saving the garden from a caterpillar invasion and providing an offsite

habitat that any caterpillar would be happy to live in. Thank you Faith.

INDONESIAN & MUSIC STAR OF THE WEEK

Tomy Tobias for ALWAYS doing his best and being able to answer questions in Indonesian. Well

done, from Mrs Devlin.

SPORTS STAR OF THE WEEK

Lila Rix Every week you arrive at our P.E. lesson with enthusiasm and a big smile. You are always

ready to try new things and you give it your best shot week in and week out. This week in particular,

you demonstrated great skill in throwing and catching and you were such an encouraging team

member during our tunnel ball races. Well done Lila!

Jarryd Taylor I was most impressed with the way you executed the fitness and strength exercises and

the enthusiasm you demonstrated towards improving your own fitness. You also showed that you’re

a real team player, demonstrating great sportsmanship in crab soccer. Well done Jarryd!

Sporting Schools Program in Term 2 Our Sporting Schools Program has begun and will run until

the end of term. We are running sessions between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on Wednesdays.

This term the activity is Soccer.

Wednesday 1st June—Soccer—Session 4

Children who are interested can pick up an enrolment form from the office. Children will be

given a snack straight after school. Please make sure that you pick your child up at 4.30pm.

School policy requires students to be picked up at the front of the school after finishing the

Sporting Schools Program.

SPORTING SCHOOLS PROGRAM—Soccer

SECOND HAND UNIFORM FOR SALE

We have some Long Sleeve polo tops (no logo) for sale for $5. Sizes and colours listed below:

Size 6 8 10 12 14

White 3 0 3 3 2

Navy 0 0 0 3 4

If you would like to purchase some please see Clare or Vikki in the office.

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FUNDRAISING—PIE DRIVE & 5 CENT COIN DRIVE

We are running another yummy Pie Drive, with some delicious pies available again from Moama Bakery. If

you would like to order some pies please send your order (which has gone home today with the students)

and money back to school by Tuesday 14th June. Pies will be delivered to school on

Wednesday 22nd June. Just in time for the cooler holiday weather.

ECHUCA WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL BALL—SAVE THE DATE

On Saturday 8th October we are holding an Echuca West Primary

School Ball. Please remember to SAVE THE DATE for a fantastic

night of food, drink and dancing. The venue is “The Cargo Shed”

at the Port of Echuca and the entertainment for the night is the

wonderful band “The T J Show”. More details to come.

Please keep bringing in your unwanted 5 cent coins. Remember the class who earns the most get a pizza

lunch as their reward.

BOOK CLUB

Please have orders and money back at school no later than Tuesday 31st May. Thanks.

BIRTHDAYS IN THE SCHOOL THIS WEEK

There are no birthdays in the school this week.

REMINDERS

Lunch Orders are Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Lost Property Box is in the Undercover area.

Student Banking Day is Thursday.

ADVERTISING SPACE

If you would like to sponsor our newsletter and advertise your business in this space we would love to hear from you. This will cost $20 each week to include your business card or logo in our weekly newsletter. If you are interested please contact the school on 54822263.

FUTURE DATES

Wednesday 8th June

School Council Meeting 7.00p.m.

Friday 10th June

Interschool Sports—Round 2

Monday 13th June

Queen’s Birthday Public holiday

Tuesday 14th June

Pie Drive Orders and Money due

TERM DATES FOR 2016.

Term 2—Monday 11th April to Friday 24th June

Term 3—Monday 11th July to Friday 16th September

Term 4—Monday 3rd October to Tuesday 20th December

FUTURE DATES

Wednesday 15th June

Whole School Photo orders due

Grade 3/4 Excursion to Melb. Museum & NGV

Friday 17th June

Interschool Sports—Round 3

Tuesday 21st June

Boys Footy Day

Wednesday 22nd June

Pie Orders delivered to school

Friday 24th June

Last Day Term 2—dismissal 2.10p.m.

Monday 11th July

Start of Term 3

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GRADE REPORTS

Grade Prep A: We have been doing lots of testing and assessing this week in preparation for report writing. It has been wonderful to track how much progress each Prep has made. They have achieved so much and are soaking up their learning like little sponges. So keep hearing your child read each night, revise the sounds and do lots of counting because we get better with practice, practice, practice. The Preps have been learning about teen numbers, ordinal number and oral addition stories. We saw how money was made in the Royal Australian Mint and explored the features of Australian coins by crayon rubbing. We tore very small pieces of tissue paper to mosaic our seahorses and then pasted them onto a crayon resist background. These are displayed on our classroom window and like all their Art work, they are awesome. Enjoy your extra long weekend.

Grade 1B & 2C: Grade 1 & 2 have been enjoying Seahorse’s Wild Ride by Steve Parish this week. Our comprehension focus has been retelling fiction books using the 5 finger retell method. This is a great strategy that our students can practice at home with their nightly reading too. We have been learning how to order words alphabetically and we are becoming very good with using our Kung Fu punctuation skills to add missing punctuation to writing samples. Our non-fiction sea creature texts are almost finished and we are looking forward to sharing these with our classmates. All our students have done a fantastic job with their researching, planning and publishing skills. In Maths, we are continuing with daily practice of place value, skip counting and extending our strategies and ability to add and subtract numbers. Remember that Monday 30th May is a report writing day for teachers, so we hope that you all enjoy the extra-long

weekend. See you next week, the Fabulous First Graders and Terrific Twos.

Grade 3D & 4E: What a week for Grade 3 and 4. In Reading this week, we brought

our focus back to ‘Writers Purpose’ in differing text types and also tried to model our

‘audience awareness’ topic around each purpose. We focused on separating what text

types tried to entertain, inform or persuade us and identify similar factors between the

texts. In writing the students in both grades have been continuing to work on their own

‘Dreamtime stories’ and it is pleasing to see some of the excellent ideas and creations

coming out of their writing. In Maths we have moved on to symmetry and have been

exploring ways in which we can see/make symmetry using ICT and other methods. We

also began to notice and discuss the types of symmetry that we could see within the

classroom. With Mr. Cole sidelined for the first two days of the week, Mrs Mathers and

Mr. Jones filled the void and cannot be thanked enough for their work during those

days. Well done Grade 3 and 4, another excellent week down!

Grade 5F & 6G: Wow, week 7 already, what an enjoyable week it has been. In Literacy, stu-

dents have continued learning about debating. On Tuesday, we had a Grade 5 vs Grade 6

class debate. We had magnificent arguments from all teams. Students spoke in a clear and

confident manner and always kept the audience engaged. Mr Taberner and Mrs Irving had

many tough decisions to make. In Maths, students have been learning about statistics, prob-

ability and angles and have enjoyed the range of hands on activities. Students continue to

work hard on their Erosion, Corrosion and Explosion unit. We have students conducting role

plays, constructing posters, completing newspaper reports and much more. We wish all stu-

dents participating in the Interschool sports the best of luck today.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

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Learn to Swim

School Holiday Intensive

Program

Monday 27th June to Friday 1st

July 2016

Echuca War Memorial Aquatic Centre

Cost: $67.50

Age: 4 years and above

The Program: 30 minute sessions each day

for 5 days

Enrolments close: Wednesday,

22nd June 2016

All Teachers are AUSTSWIM qualified