From the Principal!

Condolences It is with sadness that we farewell Gina Putland this week. Gina, Rob and Shay have been a part of the Peranbin family for some years, and whilst Shay has moved on to a new school we send our sincere condolences to the family on Gina’s passing. School Council At our meeting last week School Council approved the 2019 Budget along with the Complaints and Fundraising Policies. I also tabled the 2019 Annual Implementation Plan. These documents will be available on the website www.peranbinpc.vic.edu.au . In addition, we discussed how the new Student Engagement and Wellbeing policy and whole college approach will be developed. This is a major piece of work which will take time to get right. All students, families and school councillors will have the opportunity to have a say about wellbeing at Peranbin. To this end I am starting with the students and working with them when I visit each campus. It is vital that we “hit the mark” with our wellbeing and engagement at Peranbin. I thank you all for your patience as we grow a positive culture across all campuses.

District Swimming Well done to everyone who participated and thank you to the families who supported all of our students at the pool on Wednesday. It is really important to cheer our kids on when we are at interschool events as it shows that Peranbin is a cohesive team!

Enjoy your weekend,

Angela

PERANBIN PRESS

The Newsletter of Peranbin Primary College We are four campuses working together:

Baddaginnie/Swanpool, Strathbogie & Violet Town

Principal: Angela Holleran E: Peranbin.pc@edumail.vic.gov.au Friday 22nd February 2019

CONTACT US School Mobile: 0437 226 693

Violet Town Campus 5798 1431 Strathbogie Campus 5790 5250

Baddaginnie Campus 5763 2233 Swanpool Campus 5768 2392

House Captain nominee speeches with Ms. Barrett

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Upcoming Events/ Important Dates

Mon. 25th Feb Health & PE sessions with Mrs Weeks – runners please

Tues. 26th Feb MACC Van – Art – with Mrs Moore

Wed. 27th Feb NO PREPS

Thur. 28th Feb Campus meeting – Swanpool – 3:30pm

Fri. 1st Mar PPC Swimming Sports – Baddaginnie bus day

Mon. 4th Mar Health & PE sessions with Mrs Weeks – runners please

Wed 6th Mar NO PREPS

Fri. 8th Mar MARC Van – Library – with Mrs Davies

Mon. 11th Mar Labour Day PUBLIC HOLIDAY

BADDAGINNIE/SWANPOOL NEWS Baddaginnie Campus Swanpool Campus Clarendon St., Baddaginnie Midland Highway Swanpool 3670 3673

Ph. 03 57632233 Ph. 03 57682392

Campus Manager: Kate Hand

We swam, we shivered, we sweated, we played, laughed and sang and all survived 3 full school days in a row! Next week it will be 4 full days and then the much anticipated SWIMMING SPORTS. Please note that due to the sports on next Friday, we will swap campuses on Thursday afternoon. This means any students travelling from Benalla or Swanpool campus for the sports by bus must be on time for a BADDAGINNIE bus day (morning and afternoon). Swimming Sports Travel Thanks to everyone who sent back their travel plans for next Friday. We will have a smaller bus booked based on the information we received – if you can no longer drive to/from Violet Town pool on the day, we need to know ASAP to ensure everyone who needs a seat, has one. Campus Meeting – SWANPOOL – Thursday 28st Feb, 3:30pm Our first meeting for the year … Agenda: 1. Previous minutes. 2. Business arising. 3. Standing items. 4. Finance 5. OH&S. 6. Maintenance. 7. Fundraising 2019. 8. Other business.

CAMPUS ROTATION Wk 5: Mon 25th–Thu 28th Feb Swanpool Campus

FRI 1st Mar = BADDA DAY

Wk 6: Mon 4th – Fri 8th Mar Baddaginnie Campus

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Jaxon “El Capitano”

McCarthy, turns 12 on 28th February.

Wishing you a super day.

On Sale Friday 50c

This week the student group decided on their nominated charity to receive the profits from Zooper Dooper sales. All profits will go to Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA).

CHANGES TO BUS TRAVEL

It is the responsibility of parents to communicate IN ADVANCE to changes to bus travel plans.

The bus MUST leave each morning by 8:30am – delays in children getting on/arriving mean the

learning for the other students is negatively impacted.

If you wish for your child to travel by bus please be sure to communicate any changes to pick up /

drop off to Kate or Dianne. If it is on the morning of travel, Pauline MUST be informed.

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Bus Captains We held our bus captain elections yesterday, with 7 students eligible nominating themselves. This year students in year 4-6 could run EXCEPT if they held another captain role at school. Well done to everyone who prepared and spoke so well yesterday. There were many carefully considered thoughts on what they felt was expected of them as a bus captain as well as giving some examples of safety rules and expectations of responsible travel. Congratulations to Isobel and Liam on their appointment to the role. District Swimming Competition Toby, Liam and Arthur represented PPC at the Euroa District sports mid-week. Here are their thoughts on the day: Toby – When I started I was pretty nervous because there were so many people there that were older than me. When Miss Weeks told me I was probably versing 13 year olds, I got pretty excited about that. When I got there and saw some of the older kids swimming I thought they must have rocket boosters because they were going so fast. Liam – it was really, really fun and challenging because everyone, except for Toby, came last. Some of the swimmers there were so fast, almost like Olympic fast. I had many emotions – worried, scared, excited and happy. Especially excitement, after swimming my races. I was almost bouncing off the walls. Arthur – I felt very nervous before my two events – freestyle and relay – and during the races I thought about getting to the end as fast as I could. Post race I was relieved it was over but disappointed I didn’t place. Junior Class At a glance -This week we focused on the letter Cc – what sound it makes, and things that start with C. Our big book this week was “Who will be my Mother? We wrote an Autobiography about our life so far, and also made a crafty ‘Autobiography of our Heart, and people and things that we love were parts of them. Spelling homework went home, and Year 1 and 2 had a spelling and dictation test on the Friday. Next week spelling homework, and spelling test will be on the Thursday due to the swimming sports on the Friday. Have a good weekend, Dianne Senior Class Another bit of a sorting out week for us as we were able to start our first official week of spelling. We paced ourselves across 3 days to make sure we all heard and were able to ask clarifying questions about the process of introducing new words each week, the word to syllable to sound steps and how to apply these to writing these correctly. Weekly spelling homework will come back into effect after swimming sports. Homework: 5 out of 7 nights a week – please sign off in homework folder; spelling – nightly tasks with test on THURSDAY due to swimming sports. Have a great weekend, Dianne, Pauline, Princess, Barb and Kate

Wear your team’s colours

next Friday (parents too )

Red:

Josh, Aemi, Liam, Danielle, Cailin

Blue:

Riley, Amber, Logan

Yellow:

Arthur, Toby, Jaxon, Dusty, Isobel,

Natalia, Sarah

Green: Sathya, Jayvedh,

Wesley, Max

BUS CAPTAIN SPEECHES

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Thursday 28th February Parent Information evening

Friday 1st March Swimming Sports

Friday 8th March Circus Fun day Violet Town Campus

STRATHBOGIE NEWS Strathbogie Campus, Main St, Strathbogie 3666

Ph. 03 57905250

Campus Manager: Amy Foy

Week 4 done and so are our swimming lessons! The change over of management at the Violet Town pool and the occasionally cooler weather has made our swimming program something of a challenge this year. We thank all the students and their parents for their support during these chopping and changing days – teachers are often just as unhappy with change as students. A big thank you to Kim, our wonderful bus driver, for getting us safely there and back each time!

A reminder that next week is our School Swimming Sports day. Students are encouraged to wear their house colours (Green, Red, Yellow and Blue) but please no coloured hair dye or face paint- zinc is okay. Streamers and banners in your house colours would be great. Speak to Ms. Ringin, Ms. Foy or Ms. Barratt about poster paper if you are stuck for poster paper.

The whole school met up on Monday at the Violet Town campus to vote for House Captains. Congratulations to Bianca who was elected Red House captain and Angus who was elected Green House captain.

Bit of a “Heads Up” – we have had a report of head lice in the school. Head lice are an irritating but normal part of school life and funnily enough, the cleaner the hair, the more the lice love it! Please check your child/ren’s hair and treat accordingly. It is also a good time to remind students with long hair to tie it back and not share hairbrushes.

Next week is the Parent Information Night, Thursday 28th February, in the hall at 5pm. If you have not already returned your survey, please do so by Monday. This will help us give you the information you want, rather than repeating information you’ve already had.

Our Junior Class has started their Spelling homework this week. Please check to ensure your child is bringing their work home on a Monday, ready to return on Friday.

Cleaning Mon - Farrell Tue - Delahey Wed – Lester Thur – Dealy

Fri – Swimming Sports

Group work

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VIOLET TOWN NEWS Violet Town Campus Box 9 Violet Town 3699

Ph. 03 57981431

Campus Manager: Angela Holleran College Operations and Business Manager: Pat Cherry

Welcome BBQ at Violet Town Swimming Pool 27th February at 5.30pm

Please bring a salad or sweet to share. Also drinks for your children.

Sausages and bread will be supplied, all welcome!

Swimming Sports will now be March 1st Violet Town Pool starting

10am. Hope the weather is good!

Pan Cake Tuesday 5th March at 10am - gold coin donation thank you.

March 9th Market 8.00 – 10.30 Ashley Horoba 10.30 – 12.30 Harvey Family

John Dunn will be again offering music lessons free of charge at the VT campus

on Tuesday lunchtimes starting Tuesday 26th of

Feb.

Junior Violet Town

Class Dojo

We use this fantastic program to record reward points for

our kids work and behaviour. We also send out messages

and reminders.

The kids will soon be sharing photos and videos of their

work with you which is so exciting for them!

Foundation Kids

Please send your child’s Book Bag and Reader Diary along

every day. For each night the kids read with an adult they

get a Class Dojo point.

Remember, reading time is most effective when it’s

relaxed and around 5 minutes a night.

You will have noticed your child has bought home Gold

words. These words are for them to learn each night to

help them build up a bank of common words to help them

read. Again, short and often is the best approach and

making a game of it is even better.

February 27th is the final Wednesday for Foundation kids

to be away.

Remember the welcome BBQ is that night too and I hope

to be able to catch up with you to chat about your little

one’s first weeks at school.

Have a great weekend

Anne

Coby and Sophie at Scooter Club at recess on Thursday

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By Alice Thornhill

What happened

This week in the Senior Class we started to use our writer’s note books. We had to picture ourselves as a sea animal and write a story based on it. In Maths we learnt about place value. I like place value. We also learnt

about collective nouns like a quiver of arrows or a mob of kangaroos.

Student shout out

Breea for doing such a lovely job with the little kids

Reminders

Dylan’s birthday next Tuesday

Welcome BBQ Wednesday 27th of February

Swimming Carnival Friday 1st march

Unusual fact

The collective noun for spiders is a Wesley of spiders

Quote: reading can seriously damage your ignorance

Ruby, Abi, Parker and Maddison using their Writer’s Notebooks

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February Birthdays

Harry Tom 16th

Yatra Harvey 18th

Wesley Shea 21st

Dan Dealy 23rd

Dylan Erskine 26th

Jaxon McCarthy 28th

March Birthdays

Matea King 1st

Liam Walker 9th

Ariel Margrie 19th

Riley Hupe 20th

Hazel Sutherland 20th

Bridget Rowe 25th

Alina Lester 29th

Beautiful paper lanterns made by the Bogie kids. See

them lit up in all their glory at the Euroa Hawkers

market this Saturday. Lantern parade at 8pm

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