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Bus Travel Walking School Bus—Friday 20th May

Tomorrow is our August instalment of our ‘Lunchies,’ with tasty warm pizza on the menu. Please note there will be no lunch orders on Friday, 10th August.

Parents who have not yet logged onto Compass – if you need any help logging onto Compass then please contact the office. The best days to contact the office are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Parent Opinion Survey – please check your emails and or SMS for in-structions on completing our 2018 Parent Opinion Survey. So far, we have had 18 parent survey responses completed out of 57. It is our goal for all parents to have their say! The survey is open until the 26th of Au-gust. . One survey can be completed per family. Please do not share the survey link and only complete the survey once.

2019 Enrolments – we are encouraging all families who are intending to enrol their children at WGPS in 2019 to return their enrolment pack to the school office by the 31st of August. Enrolment Packs can be picked up from the school office or the Willow Grove Kindergarten.

We are now using Compass to communicate and notify families if their child has received sick bay treatment and to send out of uniform remind-ers. Please support our policy be sending your child in school uniform. When your child has Physical Education (Wednesdays in 2018) they are permitted to wear any coloured runners, on all other days we require them to have black shoes, including trimmings, laces and soles.

August is Attendance Challenge Month –All students who have a 100% attendance record during the month of August, will participate in a special BBQ lunch. Let’s make every day count in August!

School Accounts containing the Essential Learning Items fees have been sent home to families. If you are experiencing financial difficulties, please contact the office for assistance. Our Parent Payment Policy can also be viewed on our website at http://www.willowgroveps.vic.edu.au/policies/

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TERM 3 2018

9th August—Thursday Lunchies

16th August—Fundraising Com-

mittee Meeting—7pm Duck Inn

20th—22nd August—Gr 3/4

Camp to Sovereign Hill

21st August—Building & Grounds

Meeting—7pm

21st August—School Council

Meeting—7:30pm

23rd August—Melbourne Muse-

um Excursion—Grades P-2

31st August—Prep 2019 Enrol-

ment Forms Due

31st August—Fathers’ Day Stall

31st August—Division Summer

Sports—Selected Students

4th September—Division Athlet-

ics—Selected Students

DATES BEYOND TERM 3

29th Oct—2nd Nov—Gr 5/6

Camp to Woorabinda

13th December—Presentation

Night

19th—20th December—Grade 6

Graduation Camp

MON TUE WED THU FRI

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07 MARC Van

08 Brekky Club

09

Brekky Club Lunchies Mobile Library

10 Brekky Club NO LUNCH OR-DERS

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14 MARC Van

15 Brekky Club

16

Brekky Club Fundraising Com-mittee Meeting—Duck Inn—7pm

17 Brekky Club Lunch Orders

August 2018

Find us at—www.willowgroveps.vic.edu.au

TERM DATES 2018

Term 1 29th Jan (teachers start) to 29th March

Term 2 16th April to 29th June

Term 3 16th July to 21st Sept

Term 4 8th Oct to 21st Dec

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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

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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

Student Absence Letters have been sent home to families. It is Department of Education and Training policy for parents to provide a written explanation of their child’s absence from school. This can be done by entering an attendance note in Compass.

One parent per student should have received an email and SMS instructions on how to complete our annual Parent Opinion Survey. Please take the time to complete the survey before Sunday the 26

th of August. We take action on your feedback and it

helps to celebrate the great things about our school and make the good things even better.

Thank you to the Tanjil Valley Landcare Group for organising a great Tree Planting Event last Friday. Together with the communi-ty, our students helped to plant 600 trees for the local Blue Rock Walking Track. This has turned into an annual event and one that our senior students look forward to as part of their curriculum. Photos of the day are included lat-er in this newsletter.

Thank you to the Fundraising Sub-Committee for organising tomorrow ’s Lunchies.

Thank you to Clinton Morello (Big Show) who very kindly donated his footy tipping win-nings of $37.80 back to the school. Well done Clinton! These funds will be put towards our Grade 6 Graduation Camp.

Thank you to Kate Mether, Students and Staff for organising a wonderful morning tea to celebrate Principals’ Day on Monday. Mr Dawson was spoiled with delicious food, and was presented with a surprise gift of a painted tree with the leaves created from student fin-gerprints. Shown on the left is a picture of Mr Dawson with his creative and thoughtful gift.

Notices Sent Home

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 School Sports Competition—AFL and Netball—revised date

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P A G E 4

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

National Tree Planting Day at Willow Grove

ROSTER

FRIDAY 10th August

NO LUNCHES

FRIDAY 17th August

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