ECHUCA WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL 2016

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1 ECHUCA WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL 2016

2 Echuca West Primary School Personal Best at the West echucawestps.vic.edu.au. (03) Special Events Next Week Monday 29th August Cake Stall-3p.m. Wednesday 31st August Breakfast Club 8.15a.m. Grade 3/4 at Special School with buddies Thursday 1st September Father s Day Breakfast 7.30a.m. Sporting Schools Golf Session 5 STUDENT LEADERS Newsletter No. 25 Friday 26th August 2016 PRINCIPAL S REPORT Book Week Each year, schools and public libraries across Australia spend a week celebrating books and Australian authors and illustrators. It is a wonderful week where students read books, share their own published books, vote for their favourite short listed books, dress up as characters from books and swap books they have brought from home. I would like to thank Mrs Bourke for coordinating the Book Week activities at our school. Once again, the highlight of the week was the annual parade on Monday morning with the students proudly displaying their costumes and announcing to everyone who they were dressed up as and what book they were in. Photos of the parade will be published in next week s newsletter. I hope this week has helped instil in your children a love of reading. Interschool Athletic Sports Congratulations to all of the students who competed in the Interschool Athletic Sports this week, especially the Grade 3 students who were participating in their first carnival. Eight primary schools were involved in the carnival and the overall trophy (based on the average number of points per student) in the senior school section (11 & 12/13 Year Old Age Groups) was won by our school for the second year in a row. Students participating in the middle school section (9 & 10 Year Old Age Groups) came fifth. We also had 6 students who finished 1 st or 2 nd in their respective age groups and they will now get the opportunity to compete at zone level in Bendigo on Monday 12 th September. The students are: 9/10 Year Olds: Cora Wilson 2 nd 1500m Kiarrah Johnson 1 st High Jump Alice Davidson & Max Childs 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 11 Year Olds: Alicia Callander- 2 nd Shot Put Dakota Monigatti 2 nd 200m Sprint 12/13 Year Olds: Alice Davidson 2 nd Triple Jump Father s Day Breakfast Kirsty Nichol- 2 nd Shot Put Next Thursday, we are holding our annual Father s Day/Special Friend Breakfast. This event has become a fantastic tradition at the school and I hope to see everyone there at 7:30am. It would also be great to see every dad find the time to read their child s Book Week book before the leave. Personal Best-striving for excellence In Term 3 our focus is on Responsibility. 2

3 STAR OF THE WEEK AWARD Grade Prep A Brodie Spedding What a great costume you had on for Book Week Brodie. You were an excellent Woody cowboy from Toy Story. I was also very impressed with your Book Week book. You put a lot of effort into your story and illustrations. You are also trying more challenging readers to read in the morning and you are doing a great job. Well done. Grade 1B Taylor Clarke Taylor, it has been great to see you give 110% to your writing this week. I was so proud of all the detail you added to your Book Week parade report. It was informative and very interesting to read. Your handwriting has improved too. Keep up your great writing efforts. You are this week s STAR! Grade 2C Emma Kervin -You have been working extra hard to challenge yourself during maths. It has been great to see your enthusiasm and persistence with all problem solving activities that you are faced with. Well done Emma. Grade 3D Mia Mills Firebrace I am proud of the way you had a go at all athletic events at your first interschool competition. You got out there and really gave it a go! You also stood out by taking on an extra buddy during our Book Week sharing time, as their buddy was away. It showed great leadership and responsibility. Well done Mia, keep up the fantastic work! Grade 5F Jamie Stone - You are a fantastic friend and a very well respected member of the Grade 5 classroom. You always show our 5 school values to the highest possible standard. Jamie you set a terrific example with our class behaviour and your positive attitude towards learning. Keep up the excellent work, well done. Grade 6G Bianca Norris for her positive attitude and the effort she put into Interschool Athletics on Wednesday. You really pushed yourself to achieve your personal best. I loved the increased confidence you showed throughout the day. Excellent job Bianca! MY SCHOOL TOO Jake Underwood and Jacob Collins for intervening and preventing an argument from escalating. CLASS OF THE WEEK This week s Class of the Week is Grade Prep : For raising so much money for our 5 cent drive fundraiser, doing their very best at their first athletics carnival and looking fantastic at their first book week parade. Well done Preps. ECHUCA WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL SPRING BALL The Echuca West Primary School Spring Ball is fast approaching and is on Saturday 8th October from 7pm until midnight. We have tickets for sale for $65 in the school office. There will be a major raffle drawn on the night, lucky door prizes and more. 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. Don t forget to purchase your tickets as the ball is on the first Saturday of Term 4. SPORTING SCHOOLS TERM 3 Sporting Schools Program in Term 3 GOLF. Our Sporting Schools Program has commenced. We are running sessions between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on Thursdays. Thursday 1st September Golf-Session 5 Thursday 8th September-Golf Session 6 Interested children can get 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. 3

4 Father s Day Breakfast Thursday 1 st September at 7.30a.m. FATHER S DAY BREAKFAST & RAFFLE Our annual Father s Day breakfast is on again this year. It will be held on Thursday 1 st September at 7.30am in our undercover area. This has been a very popular family activity for fathers, grandfathers or special friends and their children. A yummy hot breakfast of bacon, eggs, juice, tea and coffee will be available. Come along and enjoy a breakfast at school with your children and read their Book Week book. If you are able to donate any goods for the Father s Day Breakfast please complete donation slip in home school journals and return to school. Also please fill in numbers attending slip for catering purposes. The cost for the breakfast will be $5.00 for adults and $1.00 for children. Just pay on the day. Don t forget to mark it on your calendar. Father s Day Raffle. We are also running a Father s Day Raffle that will be drawn at the breakfast on Thursday 1st September. Raffle books have gone home with the eldest child in each family. Please return sold or unsold tickets before Thursday 1st September. BIRTHDAYS IN THE SCHOOL THIS WEEK We would like to wish a happy birthday to Will Millen who is celebrating his birthday this week. We hope he has a great day. 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 FUTURE DATES Monday 5th September Grade 6 Transition day at Echuca College Wednesday 7th September ipad Information Evening 7.00p.m. Thursday 8th September Sporting Schools Golf Session 6 Monday 12th September Bendigo Athletics Wednesday 14th September TERM DATES FOR Term 3 Monday 11th July to Friday 16th September Term 4 Monday 3rd October to Tuesday 20th December Thursday 15th September Sporting Schools Golf Session 7 last session Friday 16th September Last Day Term p.m. dismissal Monday 3rd October Term 4 begins Monday 3rd Friday 7th October Grade 3/4 Swimming Program Monday 3rd Friday 14th October Prep/1/2 Swimming Program Saturday 8th October Echuca West Primary School Ball 7pm-12pm Wednesday 12th October Grade 5/6 Excursion to Bendigo Prep/1/2 Echuca Excursion School Council 7pm 4

5 GRADE REPORTS Grade Prep A: What a fantastic day we had at the Athletics Sports last Thursday. Thank you for coming along and cheering on your child. They all did an awesome job for their first sports day. A special thank you to Alanna s mum for marshalling the Preps to their event all day. Book Week was also a great day although we were short on numbers due to the awful coughs and colds that have been striking the Preps down. They enjoyed the Book Week parade and spending the day in their terrific costumes. The Book Swap today was great fun and the Preps enjoyed their new book. Father s Day Breakfast is next Thursday so we hope to see you all there ready for the bacon and eggs. In Maths we have covered modelling addition and subtraction, skip counting and friends of ten with playing cards. We had a great lesson on Chance using spinners, heads and tails and dice. We had a yummy pizza lunch on Wednesday to celebrate our 5cent win. Thank you to Fred s mum for organising and delivering our pizzas. Next week we have Jayne Wallace in our room. She is a First year teaching student from La Trobe Bendigo. Enjoy your weekend. Grade 1B & 2C: This week we were all very excited to come dressed as different characters for Book Week! It was fantastic to see everyone get dressed up and get into the spirit of Book Week. We enjoyed showing off our magnificent costumes during the parade and sharing our own Book Week stories with parents. Grade One and Two enjoyed sharing their Book Week books with their buddies and writing kind messages on the back of their certificates to celebrate their success. During Maths Grade Two have moved into division and are beginning to learn strategies to help them become champion dividers and Grade One have been working on subtraction using number lines and counting backwards and forwards. It was fantastic to see the book swap in action today and see everyone enjoying their new books. Just a reminder that next week we are having our Father s Day breakfast at 7:30am on Thursday. Have a great weekend everybody. Grade 3D & 4E: Hi everyone, week 7 is done and dusted and what a big week it was! Book Week started on Monday and saw all the students come dressed as some of their favourite characters for the annual Book Week parade. It was fantastic to see the enthusiasm and effort that each child showed on the day. We were also finally able to display and share our book week work that has been building for the past 5 weeks and each student was able to share with their friends, buddies, and parents. On Tuesday the Grade 3 s experienced their first interschool athletics carnival and every Grade 3/4 student should be proud of their behaviour, effort and determination. On Wednesday we visited the Echuca Library for a Book Week activity based around the shortlisted book Mr Huff, with the students once again showing great respect and behaviour outside of the classroom. In Maths we have moved onto the topic of mass and we began to correctly measure items around the classroom. Another action packed week is completed. Keep it up Grade 3/4! Grade 5F & 6G: Wow! What a jammed packed week we have had. Monday was a fabulous day to kick off Book Week, everyone came dressed up as a book character. The amount of effort that was put into the costumes was fantastic and all students looked fantastic! We also got the opportunity to read each other s Book Week stories. In the afternoon we got together with our buddies and read our books together. It was fabulous to see the students encouraging others and giving compliments to their buddy. On Wednesday our 11/12 year olds participated in the Interschool athletics. A fantastic day was had by all and we were very impressed with the behaviour and sportsmanship all our students demonstrated. It was a bonus that all our hard work payed off and we left as overall champions! Today we had a successful book swap to end our fabulous Book Week. We hope everyone has a restful weekend and see you all back next week for a week full of learning. 5

6 COMMUNITY NEWS ECHUCA LIBRARY INFORMATION. MOAMA CRICKET CLUB - Junior Registration Day Moama Cricket Club invites all existing and interested players to its Registration Day for Milo Cricket, U12 s, U14 s and U16 s players. Date: Wednesday 7 th September 2016 Time: 4.30 pm 5:30 pm Venue: Moama Cricket Club (Moama Recreation Reserve, Perricoota Rd, Moama) Contacts: Barry Moyle = or by leamoyle@bigpond.com.au Megan Fawcett = OR by fawcettpm@bigpond.com Family History Month Online Genealogy Resources Talk Come along and find out the websites that will assist you with your Family History Research Sunday 28th August, 2.30pm at Echuca Library, 310 Hare Street Echuca Bookings on or at Free event, All Welcome. 6