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.

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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

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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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