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Newsletter: Term 4 No.2

13th October 2016

PRINCIPAL’S WINDOW PARENTING SUPPORT

Welcome to today’s new look newsletter. This week sees the intro-

duction of ‘Parenting Ideas Insights’ (located at the back of the newsletter) from Mi-

chael Grose (Masters of Educational Studies & author of nine parenting books). I

hope these weekly articles support students, staff and parents to work together to

bring about positive change in our school community. Our first ‘Parenting Support’

article is called ‘Mind Their Language’. This article is very timely as it reinforces our

efforts at school to encourage children to communicate appropriately. Michael offers

some clear advice and helpful tips. If you would like to discuss any parts of this article

please come and see me. Alternatively if this article sparks significant interest and/or

concern I am happy to lead a ‘Parent Forum’ on this topic in Term 4.

UPDATES

Ex Libris, ‘Winds of Change’ story writing Competition. Congratulations to the follow-

ing students: Seth Beardsley 2nd Prize, Bridget Carbury 3rd Prize, Phoebe Reaburn High-

ly Commended and Abigail Langley Highly Commended. Well done to these young

authors!

Thank you to the ‘Spring Music Festival Event Organisers’ for our invitation to last Fri-

day’s ‘Students’ Concert’. Much appreciated!

Congratulations and thanks to our school choir and their leader, Lynda Beekhof, for

their wonderful performance at the Spring Festival opening concert and The “Pied

Piper of Hamelin”. Great feedback!

Thank you to all of the students and teachers who attended the Ballarat, Sovereign Hill

Camp. It was a great success!

Best wishes to all of our Year 3 and Year 4 students who are currently on school camp

at the ‘Grampians Retreat’, Dunkeld.

Please ensure your child is wearing correct uniform. Remember broad brimmed hats

are compulsory this term. See me with any concerns.

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

This week’s ‘Principal’s Award’ goes to: Bailey Else ‘For being an outstanding I.T. specialist and patiently helping

Mr Chapman’

Quote of the Week ‘A good person attracts good people and

knows how to keep them as friends’. Johann von Goethe

Remember my door is always open!

Regards, Mark

Important Dates

12, 13 & 14 OCTOBER

YEAR 3/4 GRAMPIANS

RETREAT CAMP

FRIDAY 14TH OCTOBER

REGIONAL ATHLETICS

CHAMPIONSHIPS

SUNDAY 16TH OCTOBER

VICTORIAN SCHOOLS

STATE CYCLING CHAMPI-

ONSHIPS, BENDIGO

WEDNESDAY 26TH OCT.

SCHOOL COUNCIL

MEETING

SATURDAY 5TH NOV.

PORT FAIRY SHOW

TUESDAY 8TH NOVEMBER

T-20 CRICKET FOR YR.5/6

FRIDAY 18TH NOVEMBER

SCHOOLS TRIATHLON

CHALLENGE YRS 3-6

YEAR 2 SLEEPOVER

WEDNESDAY 30TH NOV.

—THURSDAY 1ST DEC.

FRIDAY 2ND DECEMBER

CURRICULUM DAY

TUESDAY 6TH DECEMBER

UNIFORM SHOP

3—4pm.

THURSDAY 15TH DEC.

YEAR 6 GRADUATION

LUNCHEON & AWARDS

NIGHT

FRIDAY 16th DECEMBER

Last Day of Formal

Classes for Students

0/1C — Harrison Lu

For fantastic visualising when reading Fantastic Mr Fox, and the poem The Koala.

Well done Harrison!

0/1W— Lucas Harper

For working wonderfully in everything this week and being a delight to have in the classroom.

Well done Lucas!

1/2D— Mykayla Grande

For great place value work in Maths.

1/2A— Annabel Dargan

For trying her personal best and challenging herself in her learning. Well done, Annabel.

3/4M, 3/4D, 3/4H

Away on camp—more awards for teachers?

5/6M— Billy Dempsey

Great involvement and participation during school camp.

5/6D— Maddie Green

For her delightful and hardworking attitude to all aspects of her schooling.

5/6T— Jasper Nugent

For confidence and creative manner when performing in front of his peers

(pantomime act).

PFCS Wellbeing Award

Billy Dempsey

Physical Education

Swimming classes are underway and everyone seems to be having a great time in the pool. This week we have representatives heading to the Regional Athletics Champi-onships in Ballarat on Friday; Isla Tweedly, Amber Ferguson, Cory Dalton and Marcus Matuschka. We wish them all the very best, a great achievement to progress that far, well done to you all.

Our fabulous Cycling team head to the Victorian Road Cycling Championships in Bendigo on Sunday; Jackson Hughes, Jono Taynton, Jacob Taynton, Mana Hauraki, Jack Lee and Angus Hogan. Good luck to you all, lets hope the road dries up a bit, ride well! Years 3 – 6 don’t forget to enter the Schools Triathlon Challenge entries are filling up fast, you can enter as a team or an individual; www.stc.org.au.

DVD ORDER FORM FOR OCEANIA PRODUCTION

We are now taking orders for DVD’s of our school production from the

end of last term. These will be available shortly at a cost of $15.00 each.

This DVD will include the Video and candid photo’s, and would make a

wonderful Christmas gift for family members , especially if they were not

able to attend on the night.

Child’s Name ……………………………………………………… Class …………………….

No. of DVD’s ……………… Payment Enclosed - $ ……………..

Fresh Fruit Friday Roster

In Reading this week we are learning about using visualising to improve our understanding of what we are

reading. This involves using our prior knowledge to make pictures in our mind. In Maths we are finishing up

our work on counting strategies and looking at place value. In Writing we are learning about writing re-

counts. These text types are used to retell an event that has happened.

1/2’s—Swimming is going very well and students are excited to share the new and improved skills they are

learning. Don’t forget the prep, one , two activity is at the end of November and the year 2 sleepover will

be a Wednesday night! In Reading we are learning the comprehension strategy of “visualising”. We

have been listening to stories, poems and music to make pictures so that we can remember the story. In

Writing we are writing recounts which involve past tense words and time/sequence words, e.g. first, after

that, then, lastly. In Maths we are learning how to make, draw, record and talk about place value. The

position of a number makes a difference to the number size, e.g. the numbers 86 and 28 both have an 8

in them but one is 8 tens or 80 and the other is 8 ones. Lots of games and making with unifix consolidate

this learning. In Spelling we are continuing with our phonics learning. This week is the long “u” sounds, e.g.

uniform, unicorn, unifix.

3/4’s—are currently in the Grampians, enjoying their camp. We look forward to hearing their stories.

All 5/6 students are enjoying reflecting on our recent Sovereign Hill Camp. We are presently completing

summaries of each of our experiences and preparing to publish them with supporting photographs and

illustrations to display. Please take note of the fact that all 5/6 students swim on Wednesdays and cooking

times have changed to even weeks; Tuesday-5/6T Wednesday 5/6D and Thursday 5/6M.

Orders can be placed at the office up until 9am on the day at a cost of

$5 per child, which includes a piece of fruit at snack time and a

delicious home made meal, with a treat at lunchtime.

Next week’s Café menu is

Tuesday — Pesto Pasta

Wednesday — Sausage Rolls

Thursday — Mexican Bean & Corn Burritos

October 14th Roz Langley Amanda Dixon

October 21st Jess Clift Amy Gibson

October 28th Roz Langley HELP NEEDED

Numeracy Tip:

Here’s a numeracy tip on providing experiences dealing with money.

Playing Shop

Collect food and grocery items and label them with prices written on sticky notes or prices cut

out of shopping catalogues.

Talk about how we pay for items using notes and coins

Make paper money or use play money to buy and sell goods from the shop

Order the food items by height (tallest to the shortest) or by cost (least expensive to most ex-

pensive).

Introduce kitchen scales to the shop to weigh some foods such as a box of tea bags or a bag

of rice and order items by weight.

Admin. News

Please ensure when visiting the school to always sign in at the office, and collect the appropri-

ate badge to wear while on the school grounds, sign out upon finishing and return the badge.

When your child is absent please notify us through Skoolbag, email or telephone call.

SKOOLBAG— download this app for PFCS and stay tuned to alerts and events happening within

the school.

Finance News

SurfGrom payment of $60 is now due, (for year 6’s only).

Details and costings of the Year 2 Sleepover, and Year 1 Dinner and Prep afternoon tea

will come out shortly.

The CSEF Dairy Assistance payment of $375 per student is currently available to all dairy

farmers. Applications close 18th November.

Literacy Tip:

Read every day to your child, from prep to year six. Read picture story books or novels

and be animated so your children have fun listening. Hang loose, be loud, laugh a lot

and make listening to stories joyful!

O.S.H.C. News

The children are playing Cat and Mouse with the use of the parachute.

This activity encourages the children to observe the parachute for the body shape of the per-

son who is the mouse underneath. The cat (person) on top of parachute has to tag the mouse.

The children have to work together as a team to move the parachute up and down to disguise

the mouse.

… Bev Holcombe

PORT FAIRY SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL & PIED PIPER : Leading Onto Better Things

What a wonderful performance last Friday evening for the opening of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival opening! The

stadium was transformed into a theatre for the premiere of a new work “Palapitj-ngu, Kaloyn-I”; an interpretation of the

Six Seasons of the Warrnambool area. It was written by a young Gunditjmara man Corey Theatre and featured the voic-

es of Archie Roach and a combined school children’s choir from Consolidated and St Pats. The biggest challenge for the

children was the learning of aboriginal words and singing then them in the beautiful melodies written for them. Parents

who were able to attend said they had no idea that the music would be so moving and it was amazing to have their chil-

dren involved.

On Sunday afternoon, those of you who were able to see the Victorian Opera production of the Pied Piper of Hamelin

were also entertained by a very fine performance. Many people have stopped us in the street or contacted the school to

say how much they enjoyed it and how impressed they were with the obvious commitment and involvement of the chil-

dren from both the schools. Victorian Opera Artistic Director and composer of the “Pied Piper” Richard Mills was also

very impressed, finding our performance of the show very moving with the obvious connection of the both children’s

and adult choruses to the community. It was especially moving for everyone taking part to present it in their own com-

munity to family and friends.

The choirs have been working on this project for the past 3 months and a big thank you to Mrs Antonia Balmer from St

Pats and all the parents who encouraged and supported their children. There was a lot of support provided by Victorian

Opera with materials and workshops to make this production a great success. It is only the first of their regional Victori-

an tour with other regional centres also taking part; Warragul, Wodonga, Mildura, Shepparton and Bendigo. It was a

fantastic opportunity for children to see what Victorian Opera do and give them a taste of professional staging of an

opera. Now that Victorian Opera have seen what we can do here in Port Fairy, they are very keen to continue a relation-

ship with us through the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival to foster more music-making and community involvement.

Comments from children included;

RIANNA; “On Sunday, we worked with the Victoria Opera. It was amazing.”

ISLA; “My experience of the 2016 Pied Piper; all the characters were very nice and it was very enjoyable to be a part

of this production.”

SAM: “I enjoyed seeing Mrs Brittle’s lolly cart and Mrs Sprigg’s cart.”

LAURA; “I think that Miss Mayor was really good at the way she pretended to be a mean person.”

ISABELLA; “I loved when the Town Crier proposed to Beatrice Brittle then Beatrice gave him a eucalyptus lolly!”

TALEAH: “I really enjoyed everything plus I loved the live music. It was clever how Simon was on the TV at the back

conducting. I really liked the whole show. AMAZING!”: