Term 4 2016 No. 37 Friday, 2nd

December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”

Daylesford Primary School Newsletter Vincent Street (P O Box 20) Daylesford, 3460 Ph: (03) 5348 2480 Fax: (03) 5348 3958 Website http://www.daylesps.vic.edu.au

� “SEMPER MELIORA” (Always better things)

Current Focus

Celebrate Community

PREP ENROLMENTS FOPREP ENROLMENTS FOPREP ENROLMENTS FOPREP ENROLMENTS FOR 2017R 2017R 2017R 2017

BY APPOINTMENT ONLYBY APPOINTMENT ONLYBY APPOINTMENT ONLYBY APPOINTMENT ONLY

HELP WANTED We are looking for parents/friends of DPS who

would be happy to FILM the 5/6 presentation night on the 8th of December.

Once it is filmed, it would be great have it EDITED and DISTRIBUTED eg put into dropbox,

onto discs or onto usbs. If you think you can help in any step of this

process, please leave a message for Suzanne at

the office on 53 48 2480.

LIBRARY

PLEASE NOTE: ALL BOOKS WERE DUE BACK LAST FRIDAY, 25th NOVEMBER.

Fine letters will be posted out next week, borrowing will be suspended in 2017 unless items

are returned or paid for. No classes or students in the Library

from Mon 28th November. Thank you, Gill Pearce

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Miss K’s family group invite you to be a good citizen thinking about others and our environment. We are collecting DVD’s, computer games and consoles that are no longer being used. They will be sent to the Women and Children’s Hospital for children to use. Please make sure donations are in good condition and G or PG rated. A box for the donations is in 1J. Thank you and remember to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Be Respectful, Be a Responsible Learner, Be Honest and Trustworthy Be Caring and Compassionate, Be a Good Citizen

DIARY DATES

DECEMBER Mon 5

th – Fri 16

th P-2 Swimming Program

Tues 6

th Yr 7 Orientation Day DSC

Transition Day Prep-Grade 5

Wed 7th

Parent Volunteers Morning Tea Gym 11am

Thurs 8th

Grade 5/6 Presentation Evening Town Hall starts: 7pm Sharp

Friday 9th

Last day for Canteen

Mon 12th

Grade 6 Celebration Dinner DPS Gym Tues 13

th Special Assembly-Presentation

of Cultural awards, House & Specialist captains, & Farewells

Friday 16th

Whole School BBQ at Lunchtime (1.40pm). Friends & families Open Invitation to recognise

Mr Burke. 2.20pm Assemble in Gym for Speeches & Choir performance

Monday 19th

Final day of Term 4. 3.20 finish. SEPTEMBER

ASSEMBLY 9.00am every Tuesday in the Gym

Term Dates 2016 Term 4 3rd

October – 19th

December

Office Hours : 8.30am to 4.00pm

Students’ School Banking Day : Fridays

Term Dates 2017 Term 1 30

th Jan – 31

st March

Mon.30th

Staff return, Tues 31

st P-2 testing by

appointment Weds. 1

st Feb Grade 3-6 start and

P-2 testing continues. Thurs. 2

nd Feb Prep – 2 start.

Term 2 18

th April – 30

th June

Term 3 17th

July – 22nd

Sep Term 4 9

th October – 22

nd December.

Term 4 2016 No. 37 Friday, 2nd

December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Parent Newsletter – Week 9 Term 4

Daylesford Art Show

Work in school grounds –thank you Barry Phypers

Be a Good Citizen

Overdue Library Books

Parent Volunteer Breakfast invitation

Student Leadership Process

Congratulations to all the students whose art work was on

display at the Daylesford Show over the weekend. Well done

and thanks go to Nicole Wassell our amazing art teacher

who supported this event. Thanks also go to Evan-Mae,

Sandra, Kerry & Mathew Forbes who assisted with the

event.

Barry Phypers has again assisted the school by completing

some works in the school grounds. Barry has most recently

rebuilt some steps on one of our entrances, this is on the

back of shifting sand and preparing the cricket pitches on the

oval. Thank you Barry your time is very much appreciated.

Thanks also to Sebastian who assisted his grandfather over

the weekend.

‘Be a Good Citizen’ is one of our school values. At assembly

this week I called on everyone within our school community

to consider how they could be a good citizen over the

coming weeks. The school is modelling this in a number of

ways, for example we are giving Christmas gifts to

Daylesford Family Services next week in assembly. I asked

everyone to think about how they could do something for

someone else, without the expectation of reward or

recognition.

Can I reinforce the message that Library Books are now due!

We are extremely fortunate to have such a wonderful

resource in the school, our library. But to maintain the

library resource requires a team effort from all members of

our school community. Please identify if your child has any

overdue books and if so please make it a priority to return

them to school on Monday.

If you have volunteered your time within the school at any

point throughout this year, please consider yourself invited

to our Volunteer’s morning tea next Wednesday 7th

December at 11.00 in our gym. It will be our small way of

saying thanks for your contribution to our beautiful school.

I had the pleasure of interviewing ten grade 5 students who

were shortlisted for the 2017 School Captain position this

week. The students presented so well, the school is indeed

spoilt for choice. It was a very difficult decision. The 2017

School Captains will be announced at the Presentation

Evening next week.

I also had the pleasure of listening to the House & Specialist

Captain speeches this week. Again the students who

nominated did a terrific job. I am so proud of them to have

the courage to nominate. I am also very pleased by the

strong culture of student leadership within the school. This

can certainly be attributed to the current student leaders

and their excellent modelling throughout 2016. I say a BIG

thank you to our School Captains, House Captains and

Specialist Captains, a job well done.

Peter Burke

Uniform support for Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) recipients commencing Year 7 in 2017 Students who receive support from the Camps, Sports and

Excursions Fund and who will start Year 7 next year are eligible for a Uniform Pack from State Schools’ Relief. Please contact the Secondary school that you child will be attending

as they need to apply on behalf of parents.

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Term 4 2016 No. 37 Friday, 2nd

December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”

Kitchen Garden Olympics 2016

On Wednesday, November 23rd

the Kitchen garden Olympics were held. The second last event was the wheelbarrow relay. Here are the rules: you must weave the barrow through a line of cones in front of you. Careful you don’t knock your cones over! In the relay blue group came 4

th and

white group 1st.

The third event was blind fold taste testing. You have a blind fold on and the treasures gave you a herb or vegetable and you would guess what it was. The Kitchen garden Olympics is one of the best days of grade three! by Matthew Forbes, 3C

On Wednesday, November 23

rd our class were going to

do our Kitchen Garden Olympics. For our second activity we did the blind folded taste test, and then we had to taste all the different foods. All of them were green foods from the garden. Another activity was ‘Catch a Bug’. We had to try and catch the most bugs (which were on the sheet) in 8 minutes! Our group only caught 2 worms and 1 snail. Our first activity was a hunt to find as many utensils (which were on the sheet) when we only had the clues. Our next activity was the garden wordsearch. We found 13 words in total. Our last activity was trying to find the longest weed root. Lastly we had two races. We had the wheel barrow race first. Our group came first in that race. Lastly we had the potato and fork race and we came a draw with blue group! by Erin Childs 3C

PARENT/CARER VOLUNTEERS

TERM 4 2016

FRIDAY SICK BAY WASHING

BANKING

2nd Dec. Melissa Patane June Cooper

9th Dec. Dianne Rouse Shelley Sandow

16th Dec. Christine Gilligan June Cooper

Monday 19th Last Day of Term 3.20pm finish

CANTEEN DUTY Fri 2

nd Dec Shelley Sandow, Karen Walker

Weds 7th

Dec Sherralle Thomas

Thurs 8th

Dec Fiona Torrance

Fri 9th

Dec Leah Schuter, Stephanie Barron

Last Day for Canteen is Friday 9th December

CANTEEN - HELP ALWAYS NEEDED Please contact our Canteen Manager, Bev Adkins, on

5348 1839 or 0423 357 191 if you can assist. Thank you

HEALTHY FOOD TIP Homemade muffins can be a great option for the lunchbox or for an after school snack. It is so easy to add some extra fruit or veggies not only for the vitamins and minerals but also for extra fiber which is important to help keep us fuller for longer. This week’s Mini Muesli Muffins fall into the AMBER category of the traffic light system and therefore are a suitable option for the lunchbox! If anyone has any healthy recipes they would like to share in the Daylesford Primary School newsletter please forward them onto rheannono@hhs.vic.gov.au We would love to hear from you!

MINI MUESLI MUFFINS

Makes: 24 mini muffins Ingredients

• 1½ cups (130g) untoasted muesli

• 1 cup (150g) wholemeal self-raising flour, sifted

• ½ cup (115g) sugar

• 1 large green apple, grated

• 2 medium carrots, grated

• ½ cup (80g) sultanas

• ½ cup (75g) pecans or other nuts, chopped*

• 2 eggs, beaten

• ⅓ cup oil (80mL), canola or light olive

• 1 cup (250mL) milk, reduced fat Method 1. Preheat oven to 190°C. 2. Place muesli, sifted flour, sugar, apple, carrots, sultanas and nuts* into a bowl. Mix together. 3. Combine eggs, oil and milk in a separate bowl. 4. Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients and mix gently until just combined. 5. Spoon mixture into 24 mini muffin cases or place in 2 x 12-hole non-stick mini muffin trays. 6. Bake mini muffins for 30 minutes. Tips

• Mini muffin trays are a great investment for the canteen. Small sized patty cake cases or friand tins are also suitable.

• You can replace the pecans, sultanas and muesli with other varieties of dried fruit, nuts or wholegrain cereals these foods if you don’t have these specific types on hand. Category: Select Carefully (amber) Rheannon Owen, Health Promotion Officer

STUDENT / COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

DAYLESFORD JUNIOR TENNIS STARTED SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER

To find out more about the junior tennis programs and to keep up to date with starting times and other tennis news please

visit our website www.daylesfordtennis.com

Term 4 2016 No. 37 Friday, 2nd

December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”

Mirror MirrorMirror MirrorMirror MirrorMirror Mirror Dance and Drama showcase by children and adults of Inside Out Dance Theatre Be inspired by the joy of movement performed by over 100 local children! A magical show! Saturday 10 December, 7pm Daylesford Town Hall Tickets at door, Enquiries: 0417 592 522, www.insideoutdancetheatre.com.au

New Years Eve Parade and New Years Eve Parade and New Years Eve Parade and New Years Eve Parade and

Gala for 2017Gala for 2017Gala for 2017Gala for 2017

Dear Students and families You are invited to take part in this years parade. Decorate your pushbike and ride down Vincent

Street

There are prizes for the best boy and girl. It’s loads of fun and every kid should be in a

parade once in their lives.

Families are invited to create a float, either walking or on a vehicle.

Loads of prizes and the best float takes home $500

All enquiries to Cath or Anne on

cathy_d_cat@hotmail.com or anne@anneestewart.com.au

Watch out for posters around town for more

information