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31 Herriot St, Heathcote, Vic, 3523 Heathcote PS

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Issue No. 34 26th November 2018

29th November Year 1-2 Sleepover, Pick up from 12 noon the following day

29th November Foundation Information Session 9.15 –11.15am, Meeting Room

5th December ‘Carnivale’ Day

7th December Assembly; Grade 1-2

Open Water Safety Excursion—Years 3-6, Lake Eppalock

10th & 12th

December

Learning Interviews; Years F-2, Gallery

11th December Transition Day—Students will spend time in their 2019 classes. Foundation 2019 and

other classes in new rooms until 12.30.

Year 6 students at secondary school

13th & 14th Learning Interviews; Years 3-6, Gallery

17th—21st

December

Swimming Program

20th December Graduation , 5pm Afternoon Tea, 5.30pm start

21st December Last Day of Term 4, No Assembly, Early Dismissal at 2.00pm

IMPORTANT DATES

Dear Parents/Carers,

What a wonderful Science based day we had last Thursday. Our day started with Dave setting up a number of

experiments students had worked with over the year. Students were able to explain the activity they were

involved in developing with other year levels. Every class had the opportunity to visit the Gallery and participate in

a range of activities. It was great to see a few parents come along to see what their child/ren had been doing. This

sort of event does not just happen, a great deal of preparation, setting up and cleaning up goes into making it a

success. A very big thank you to Dave for the enormous amount of work Dave did in his own time to enable us to

have access to these activities. If you see Dave around, please say thank you!

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The Discovery Centre travelled out to Heathcote to run a range of activities with schools, the kindergarten and

our Heathcote community. The wet weather meant we couldn’t walk down, thank you to Benalla Bus Lines for

being available for us to book their services on the day. Students loved the activities and enjoyed trying different

things. As usual the behaviour of our students was excellent, and feedback about their positive behaviour is

always a great thing to hear.

Speeding Cars on Herriot Street

We have noticed many cars travelling at speed along Herriot Street during drop off and pick up times. We have

communicated this to the local Police. Between 8.00am - 9.30am, 2.30 – 4.00pm the speed limit on Herriot

Street outside the school is signposted at 40kilometres an hour. For the safety of our students, families and

community members can you please make sure you are observing the speed limit on the signposted section of

Herriot Street. We appreciate your anticipated support.

Open Water Learning Experience - Friday 7th December, 10.00am– 12.00

Our Year 3-6 students will participate in an open water learning session with Life Saving Victoria at Randall ’s

Cove Swimming area, Lake Eppalock. We have been very lucky to have been included in this activity. Life Saving

Victoria recommends wearing closed toed shoes during this session due to the potential for sharp debris,

shells and rocks common to this area. Students will be transported by bus to and from the venue. A consent

form will be sent out prior to student’s attendance.

Learning Interviews

Learning Interviews are coming up mid December. A letter will be sent home soon with times available for you to

book in. Communication Books and Reports will be available just prior to you going into your interview. They will

be held in the Gallery. The feedback from interviews at midyear was extremely positive, we look forward to

sharing with you the positive growth of your child and what aspects of their learning they still need to work on

for next year. Reports will not be sent home with children, they will be available at interview. The sharing of

information about your child is very important. Please check the dates on the newsletter calendar and mark that

day in your diary.

Enjoy the week ahead.

Kate Ballantyne

THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS

Abby O’Neill

Shalena Rowe

Head Lice

We have had several incidents of head lice reported to the school. We ask that you be extra vigilant and

regularly and thoroughly check your child's hair.

If we all work as a team on this we will achieve the best results for our

students.

If your child has long hair we ask that they wear it tied back when they are

attending school.

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TEAM-WORK

Alexis Knight

RESPECT

Brodi Kirkpatrick

LEARNING

Nicholas Clarke

Ella Eiseman

Sheldon Perl

RESPONSIBILITY

Seth Francis

CIVICS AND CITIZENSHIP AWARDS

Bronze Level

Nicholas Clarke

Tommy Wan

Nate McNally

Isaac Miller

Bronze Level

Isaac Miller

Seth Francis

Abby O’Neill

Brayden Walsh

Bronze Level

Bronze Level

Conroy Miller

Mikayla Rooks

Abby O’Neill

75 Nights

Cody Simpson

125 Nights

Charlotte Anderson

150 Nights

Alex Ager-Wicks

Luke Anderson

Sahire Cardwell

Haylee Neilsen-Bertoni

250 Nights

Tylie Schroeder

Jemma Walsh

Madison Cooper

Silver Level

Silver Level

Alize Pearce

Silver Level

Silver Level

Charlotte Anderson

Rhiannon Brown

275 Nights

Tyler Kirkpatrick

Wesley Knight

Jessica Toifl

Jackie Evans

Audrey McFadzean

200 Nights

Sienna Waldron

Rhiannon Brown

175 Nights

Laykin Francis

Natalie Organ

300 Nights

Nathaniel Russell

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Science Fair Thursday 22nd November

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Science Fair Thursday 22nd November

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Foundation at The Science Expo

Last Thursday, the Foundation students attended a Science Expo at the

reserve. The expo was held by people visiting from The Discovery

Centre and involved a variety of activities related to science.

Throughout the hour and a half session, the students got to interact

with Bee Bots. The Bee Bots allowed the students to learn about

direction, problem solving and sequencing with all the children having

lots of fun playing with them. Another activity involved the students

pulling apart and fixing walkie talkies and computer keyboards. The

students engaged in some role play, with a lot of them using the walkie

talkies to tell their parents that they were at the expo having loads of

fun. Other activities the students participated in was computer

programming, coding a robot and creating binary necklaces using the

first letter of their name. All of the Foundation students had a blast

attending the expo!