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DATES TO REMEMBER Wed 14th Aug -Yr.3/4 Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Exc

Thu 15th Aug -School Athletics

Fri 16th Aug -Down Hill Skiing Yrs. 5 & 6

-Hot Lunch

Sun 18th Aug -Parent Opinion Survey closes

Fri 23rd Aug -Down Hill Skiing Yrs. 5 & 6

Mon 26th Aug -Arts Festival Yr. F, 3/4 & 5/6

Thu 29th Aug -Arts Festival Yr.1/2

-Cultural Performance – Shekere Beats

Fri 30th Aug -Skiing Back up day

Thu 5th Sep -District Athletics

-ICAS Science Test

Fri 6th Sep -Melbourne Chamber Orchestra workshop

Tue 10th Sep -ICAS Writing test

Thu 12th Sep -ICAS Spelling test

Tue 17th Sep -ICAS English Test

Wed 18th Sep -Book Week Dress Up Day

Thu 19th Sep -ICAS Mathematics test

Fri 20th Sep -Last day Term 3 -2.30pm finish

Mon 7th Oct -First Day Term 4

There is plenty happening at the school this week. On

Wednesday the Yr. 3/4 students, along with their teachers and

a few parent volunteers, will travel to Melbourne to see the

theatre production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. On

Thursday it is our House Athletics day and on Friday the Yr. 5/6

students have their first downhill skiing day – weather

permitting.

I’d like to thank the parents who volunteer their time to help

out on these days. It is almost impossible to have special days

like these without parent support. I would also like to thank our

staff who organise special events, usually in their own time,

along with their regular teaching duties.

Michael Edwards,

Principal

Principal’s News

Artwork of the Week Super Stars by 1/2 R & 1/2 PS!

Issue 24 12/08/2019 Yackandandah Primary School 39 High Street

Yackandandah 3749

Ph: 02 6027 1431

Email: yackandandah.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.yackaps.vic.edu.au

We Show Respect We are Fair We are Learners

Assembly Helpers

Nina Edwards & Darcy Frank

14th August – Aidan Wall 14th August – Hayley McIntosh

16th August – Ella Joy

Hot Lunch

Friday 16th August

Cheesy Quesadillas (wraps with beans,

spinach, cheese and salsa)

Year 5/6 students skiing

Cost is $3.50 and orders need to be received at school

by 3.30pm Wednesday, at the latest.

Helpers for this week

Clare Kellaway, Jane Shepherd, Chris Tracy &

Kiera Maybury

Parent Opinion Survey

The closing date for the online Parent Opinion Survey has been extended to Sunday 18 August 2019. Parents who received an email inviting them to participate in the survey have until 11:59PM Sunday 18 August 2019 to complete it. If you were one of the lucky families please consider participating as we value your input. Lions Club Public Speaking Competition

Well done to Tom McKenzie-McHarg, Zoe Stamp, Lachy

O’Brien, Lachi O’Sullivan, Ivy Edwards, Irena Purnell, Ollie

Boddenberg and Chelsea Dawson-Leitch who represented our

school with stellar speeches at the Junior Lions Club Speaking

Competition on Wednesday 7th August.

Congratulations to Zoe Stamp who won the Year 5/6 category,

and to Ivy Edwards and Lachy O’Brien who won equal 1st in the

Year 3/4 category.

Year 3/4 Charlie & The Chocolate Factory excursion Students in Years 3 & 4 will be travelling to Melbourne on Wednesday to see the stage show of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. Students need to be at school at 7am and will arrive back at Yack at approximately 8.30pm. They will need to brink a day pack with their morning tea, lunch and a drink bottle. On the way home we will be stopping at the Wallan Road Stop for dinner. Please send $10 in a clearly labelled envelope with your child's name on it tomorrow if you have not already done so. This is to be handed to the classroom teacher and will be kept safe until the day of our trip. We will keep a checklist to ensure that all students have money to buy their dinner. Colouring books and reading books are welcome on the bus during travel, but no other items or digital devices permitted. OSHC Thank you to all the families who support and use our OSHC program. Bookings are very high with a lot of days being full on occasions. Monday afternoons are extremely busy and at the moment this session is fully booked with permanent bookings so we are unable to take any casual bookings for a Monday afternoon until further notice.

School News

Year 3-4 ‘Eggsperiments’

As part of our Science study of forces, Year 3-4 students

completed 3 egg experiments last week:

1. Will Humpty Dumpty Crack? – result: 4 half egg shells could carry at least 1990gr of canned food without cracking!

2. Egg Drop – result: 5 egg casualties but the remaining 25 egg test dummies survived the balcony drop test. Observation: Bubble wrap, newspapers and socks are excellent ‘shock taking’ materials. Parachutes require more testing.

3. Unbreakable Egg – result: 4 egg casualties mainly due to deviating from the procedure or using limp straws. Observation: No matter which way the straw egg contraption landed it did not break the egg.

Learning:

Most eggs survived being dropped from a height of 2 metres

if we built the protection contraption correctly so the force

(of gravity) travelled up the contraption materials (stiffened

straws) and past the egg.

Science this week was very ‘eggciting!’

Next week will be experimenting with buoyancy.

Disco Helpers Needed

Calling all Pizza Experts!

The Junior School would love your help if you can do any of the following for our disco on the evening of Wednesday September 18th:

Make pizza dough

Prepare pizzas

Prepare the Pizza Oven

Cook the pizzas

Serve the pizzas

Handle money for pizzas Please contact Lauren if you think you may be able to help: roberts.lauren.j@edumail.vic.gov.au

Calling all Party People Decorators The Junior School would love your help if you can do any of the following for our disco on the evening of Wednesday September 18th:

Make decorations

Display decorations

Help set up / pack up Please contact Lauren if you think you may be able to help: roberts.lauren.j@edumail.vic.gov.au

School News

School Uniforms – Soft Shell Jackets I will be putting in an order for soft shell jackets next week if there is enough interest. If you would like to order one please let Sandra know. 5/6 Skiing

Unfortunately, our planned Cross Country ski trip had to be

postponed last Friday due to blizzard conditions. While this is

disappointing, the safety of the students and the enjoyment of

the day are our main concerns. The backup day will be Friday

30th August, providing the next two downhill ski days go

ahead.

Our ski days require much work and communication with Resort Management, ski hire venues and the bus company (as well as families from two schools). A decision to go ahead or not is made at around 2pm on the day prior to allow for communication with our partners. This decision is informed by reports from the Bureau of Meteorology, Vic Emergency, DET and contacts on Falls Creek. Previous experience has taught us that winds above 30kmph make for a challenging day for first time skiers, and pushing ahead on these days has turned some kids off skiing for good. On occasion, we have also postponed a trip late in the evening after receiving an updated weather warning. If this is the case, an email would be sent out as soon as the decision is made. We aim to maximise the participation in and enjoyment of our ski program and take pleasure in the success our students achieve on these trips. Fingers crossed that the weather stays good for this Friday.

School Athletic Sports Thanks to those parents and carers who have offered to help out at this week’s athletics carnival at Les O’Brien Athletics Precinct, Albury. The parent helper timetable is included in the newsletter, though there are a number of parents not listed who have offered help but will be ‘floating’ on the day. You can see which age groups still need assistance. We also need an official timer to help with all of the running events. This is an important task, so if you can help with this or with one of the age groups please let Sandra or Brendan know. The following is a repeat of what was in the last newsletter, but important nonetheless.

- Student groupings are based on age (not year level), which is the age they have turned or will be turning by December 31, 2019. Children aged 5 or 6 are counted as one age group. This is the same for children aged 9 or 10 and 12 or 13.

- Students in 9/10, 11, and 12/13 age groups are eligible to qualify for District level competition, based on their performance at the House Athletics.

- There will be no senior relays on the day – relay teams for District Athletics will be selected from running events at the House Athletics. Qualifying for the 800m will be held back at school.

- All students should wear their ‘house’ colours, along with suitable footwear. Please make sure children are dressed suitably for the weather – at this time of year it can be anything from cold and damp, through to warm and sunny.

- There is no canteen available, so students need to bring enough food and drink to last the day.

- Buses will be leaving school at 9am.

If you haven’t yet returned the permission form please do so tomorrow.

EVENT TIMETABLE – ATHLETICS SPORTS 2019 9.45 All competitors sit in their age groups and listen to “welcome”, ready to move to first events

TIME HIGH HURDLES SHOT LONG DISTANCE DISCUS TRIPLE SPRINT

10.00 11 Girls &

Boys

12/13 Girls & Boys

5/6 Girls Soft-shot

5/6 Boys 7 Girls &

Boys 120m

8 Girls & Boys

Vortex 9/10 Girls

9/10 Boys 100m

10.30 9/10 Boys 11 Girls &

Boys 12/13 Girls & Boys 3kg

5/6 Girls 5/6 Boys

120m

7 Girls & Boys

Vortex

8 Girls & Boys

(break)

9/10 Girls 100m

11.00 9/10 Girls 9/10 Boys 11 Girls & Boys 2kg

12/13 Girls & Boys

5/6 Girls 120m

5/6 Boys Vortex

7 Girls & Boys

(break)

8 Girls & Boys 75m

11.30

8 Girls & Boys

9/10 Girls 9/10 Boys

2kg 11 Girls &

Boys

12/13 Girls & Boys 200m

5/6 Girls Vortex

5/6 Boys (break)

7 Girls & Boys 75m

12.00 7 Girls &

Boys

8 Girls & Boys

Relays

9/10 Girls 2kg

9/10 Boys 11 Girls &

Boys 200m

12/13 Girls &

Boys 750g

5/6 Girls (break)

5/6 Boys 60m

12.30 5/6 Boys (Break)

7 Girls & Boys

Relays

8 Girls & Boys

Soft-shot 9/10 Girls

9/10 Boys 200m

11 Girls & Boys 750g

12/13 Girls & Boys

5/6 Girls 60m

1.00 5/6 Girls (Break)

5/6 Boys Relays

7 Girls & Boys Soft-

shot

8 Girls & Boys

9/10 Girls 200m

9/10 Boys 500g

11 Girls & Boys

12/13 Girls & Boys 100m

1.30 12/13 Girls & Boys

5/6 Girls Relays

5/6 Boys Soft-shot

7 Girls & Boys

8 Girls & Boys 200m

9/10 Girls 500g

9/10 Boys 11 Girls &

Boys 100m

2.00 All events finished

2.15 Clean up, assembly and present trophy to winning house. Thank volunteers!

2.30 Back on buses. Students leaving with a parent must see classroom teacher so all students are accounted for.

Please note: Running events will start in the following order: Sprint, Distance, Hurdles. Distance and hurdles may be 15 to 20 minutes later than advertised time.

PARENT HELPER TIMETABLE – ATHLETICS SPORTS 2019

AGE GROUP 9.45am – 12.00noon 12.00noon – 2.15pm

5/6 YR BOYS Jamie Dowsley, Vanessa Paige, Kiera Maybury Jane Shepherd

5/6 YR GIRLS Sarah Bebbington

7 YR GIRLS & BOYS Natasha Schultz, Edith Nicholls Emma Grech, Zac James Hillier

Denita James Hillier, Sarah McAlister Matt Charles-Jones

8 YR GIRLS & BOYS Craig Brinsdon, Natalie Riley Jacqui Schmidt, Suzanne McIntosh

9/10 YR BOYS Denita James Hillier Zac James Hillier

9/10 YR GIRLS Sarah McAlister Sinead Mahoney, Matt Lane

11 YR GIRLS & BOYS Mel Quick Craig Brinsdon, Bronwyn Nolan, Jo Beer

12/13 YR GIRLS & BOYS

Brendan will be at the track from 8am onwards, and would also love any assistance before 9am, especially to help set up the hurdles which take the most time to prepare. Please let Sandra or myself know if you are able to help.

Achievement Awards

Lachi O’Sullivan for displaying a great enthusiasm for all learning. Remy Lane for always making a sincere effort and working hard in class. Shaynia Clausen for excellent team work during science experiments. Nyssa Overall for excellent team work during science experiments. Will Rooney for using different ways of thinking to solve algebraic equations. Will Enright for writing clever and entertaining stories with improved punctuation. Magnus McGregor for successfully up levelling his writing to include great characterisations. Raff Gargiulo for being an active learner during guided reading sessions. Maddie Prentice for confidently making and sharing corrections in maths. Katherine Somerville for always showing enthusiasm during class activities. Peter Kellaway for showing a high level of interest and enthusiasm with our ‘Lots of Lollies’ maths activity. Lenny Graham for always being a reliable class member who is able to work independently. Spencer Dowsley for always displaying effective listening during class discussions. Matilda Ridgeway for showing fantastic focus and concentration during task time. Alex Beatty for demonstrating excellent organisation and focus during our Big Write. Charlie Killen for practising for the Arts Festival with lots of enthusiasm. Alfie Lebner for try8ing so hard to write on the correct lines in his writing book. Jim Kelley for a huge improvement with his handwriting this week. Ben Hardisty for being very organised with his class news and showing improved confidence. Harrison Walsh for putting together and presenting a well prepared and interesting slide show about his family holiday, Taya Waller for putting 100% effort into all activities while also being supportive of others.

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