23rd March 2017PRINCIPAL’S REPORTPUPIL FREE DAY THIS FRIDAY MARCH 24th

Staff are joining with Port Fairy Consolidated School teachers for a Numeracy Professional Development Day.

PORT FAIRY FOLK FESTIVAL Our PFA and parents had a busy weekend at the Folk Festival cooking pancakes with some great results. We would like to thank everyone who cut up strawberries, prepared the trailer, purchased produce, did a shift and gave up their valuable time over the weekend. This is a major fundraiser and community event for the school. The money raised from all our Pancake events goes directly into supporting every child’s education here at Woolsthorpe PS. We would not have the low school fee costs we do, the many extra resources and be able to provide the wonderful opportunities and programs we do without our PFA fundraising.

HOUSE SPORTS - ATHLETICS Our school House Sports last week along with our Welcome BBQ was a great school community event. Many thanks to all the staff, students and parents for their work and help on the day, our Trademark values of Respect, Excellence, Care and Teamwork were on full display for everyone to see. Thank you to our wonderful PFA and parents who cooked the BBQ, served food, assisted with events, cleaned up. It is what makes our school so special, the way parents and staff work together in order to run programs for all students like our house sports. Our student leaders showed by example just what you can achieve if you give your all. During the day all students applied themselves in all events and tried their very best. Our House Sports is a unique tradition and part of our school culture. The day is run partly by our student leaders, who do a great job of training students during term 1. Special mention to Mrs Cumming and

all the staff for their efforts and excellent organisation while Mr Miller is on leave

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MARCH FRI 24th PUPIL FREE DAY MON 27th Parent/Teacher Conf. Week TUE 28th School Council AGM FRI 31st Last Day Term 1 PFA Pancake Lunch FREE FUN DRESS DAY

APRIL TUE 18th TERM 2 BEGINS MON 24th School ANZAC Ceremony TUE 25th ANZAC DAY Holiday

MAY THU 4th May Race Day Holiday MON 8th NAPLAN Week FRI 19th Walk to School/Healthy Breakfast

R E S P E C T E X C E L L E N C E T E A M W O R KC A R E

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

MRS AUSTEN Mrs Austen will be on long service leave next term for the first 2 and a bit weeks, returning on May 3rd. A letter has gone home to Mrs Austen’s class. Mrs Louden will be teaching the Prep/1 during this time.

MR MILLER Mr Miller will continue carers leave during term 2 while Charlotte continues her recovery from open heart surgery. Charlotte has faced many challenges since she was born on November 26th, spending much of this time in ICU at the Royal Children’s Hospital. Ben has informed us that her recovery is still a day by day process and things are positive going forward. Our full support is with Ben, Emma and their family during this time.

On the last day of term, we are holding a FREE FUN DRESS day for the Miller Family, where we are asking families to donate a gold coin or support the GoFundMe site set up for the Family. Details are here: https://www.gofundme.com/support-for-charlotte

Ben and family wish to pass on their thanks for everyone’s support.

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES NEXT WEEK Appointments are now final and times will be coming home with students. Thanks everyone for being prompt and returning your forms.

LAST DAY OF TERM FRIDAY MARCH 31st The PFA cooking pancakes for lunch on the last day of term. If you can help out, please let us know. School finishes at 2.30pm.

ANZAC DAY CEREMONY Next term, week 2 we will be holding an ANZAC Day ceremony at school on Monday April 24. This ceremony is run by students. We invite all local community members and parents to come along and be part of the ceremony at 10.30am.

Our student leaders and staff will also be laying a wreath at the ANZAC day ceremony in Warrnambool on Tuesday, April 25th. We will march as a school on the day and we invite all families to join us. Further details to come next term.

HAPPY EASTER I hope everyone has a Happy Easter with family and friends. See you all back next term refreshed and ready for more fun and learning.

Simon Perry

Principal

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R E S P E C T E X C E L L E N C E T E A M W O R K C A R E

On the last day of term our PFA are providing a Pancake lunch for all students, they will be served with fruit salad & Ice cream.

PFA PARENTS & FRIENDS

ASSOCIATION

PFA PANCAKE ROSTER

KOROIT IRISH FESTIVAL

DATE TEAMSATURDAY 29th April

KOROIT IRISHFESTIVALSHIFT 1

8 am - 12 noon

VacantTEAM LEADER/

TRAILER*Vehicle must be out

of street by 9am

Cath Woodard

Katie Thornley

Seona Poynton

KOROIT IRISHFESTIVALSHIFT 2

12 pm - 4 pm

Danielle GladmanTEAM LEADER/

TRAILER

Suzi Ireland

Tory Robinson

Tracey Madden

S P O R T Sday

AGE GROUP CHAMPIONS 5-6 Year Olds Olivia Johnson & Nathan O’Keefe 7 Year Olds Olivia Cuzens & Shia O’Donnell 8 Year Olds Fleur Mahoney & Chaz Toki 9 Year Olds Kyanne Chesshire & Charlie Khourdajian 10 Year Olds Tiara Barrett & Alexander Bell 11 Years Olds Hayley Nicolson & Jakobi Davidson 12-13 Year Olds Breanna Taylor & Dakota Davidson

house winnerUnion

A C H I E M E N T SV E

jake mckenna-negre 25th MARCH

harry poynton 2nd April

Take a look at our Twitter feed - @woolsthorpeps

Don’t forget to check out all the class pages - great photos and a wonderful “look” at your child’s

school day!

Woolsthorpe PS 1/2 @wpsboyd Mar 8 Today is dog day afternoon! Oscar and Sam are showing us Chewy (Chewbacca).

student

Jack competed in the 800 meters at the Little Athletics State Championships last

Saturday and managed to get a Personal Best - knocking more than a

second of his best time.

Jack Van Oosten

C o n g ra t u la t i o n s

MrsC Grade 3/4 2017 @MrsLJCumming Mar 10 Adjective Monsters #looksverysimilar

Woolsthorpe PS 1/2 @wpsboyd 2h

2 hours agoMore

Mia explaining the characteristics of her insect.

We love seeing photos of our

students success outside the school - please send details

in and we’ll pop them in this space!

FUN FREE DRESS DAY NEXT FRIDAY

Last Day Of Term Dress up, in something fun…

Have Fun! Gold Coin Donation For The Miller Family

GO FUND ME

HERITAGE

APPLE TREES FRESHLY GRAFTED IN AUGUST

$15 EACH OR $14 FOR MULTIPLE ORDERS. $1 DISCOUNT FOR ORDERS PRIOR TO APRIL 26TH

WOOLSTHORPE PRIMARY SCHOOL 12 MANIFOLD ST, WOOLSTHORPE VIC 3276

For the last 10 years as a fundraiser for our Ground Force Team and Kitchen Garden Program, we have sold over 500 heritage apple trees to satisfied customers. Trees are grafted onto MM111-a drought and wooly aphid resistant rootstock- that in good conditions grows to be 3-4 metres tall. (By summer pruning you can produce a much smaller tree with the same characteristics.) To help with planning, early orders are appreciated as we have to place our order in early April to guarantee rootstock supply.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: ANTON BOYD @ 55692241 OR

wpsboyd@gmail.com

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Keepthisdatefree: Monday 24th April, WarrnamboolCollegeOpenNightAnEducationworthhaving….

5.30 - 7.00 Come and Try classes7.00 – 7.30 Formal Information session in the hall7.30 - 9.00 Tours of the College

Warrnambool College Grafton Road Warrnambool 3280 www.wblcoll.vic.edu.au Ph: 5564 4444

We will have a BBQ available from 5.30 – 6.30 for your convenience.

UponarrivalmeetusintheCollegeHallwherewewillhaveaWelcomepackandinformationavailableWeinvitefamiliestocreatetheOpenNightexperiencemostappropriatetoyouandyourchild.Weareofferingavarietyofoptionsonthenight:classes,toursandpresentations.Youcanattendforaslittleoraslongasyouneedandcompleteeventsinanyorder.Wehopethisassistsyoutomakethemostinformedchoiceforyouandyourchild.

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CARAMUT AND DISTRICT GARDEN

CLUB April is a good month to plant spring flowering bulbs. Many bulbs do well planted in containers, hyacinths being a favourite.

Choose a large pot, fill two thirds with a good quality potting mix. Place bulbs on the surface so they do not touch each other and press lightly into the mix. Cover the bulbs with more potting mix level to the rim and firm down by watering. Place the pot in a cool position away from direct sun. When the leaves appear after about 2 months, the pot should be placed in a sunny spot for about 6 hrs of sunlight. When flowering, the pot can be brought inside for short periods to enjoy the flowers. Keep the soil moist in the pot but not too wet otherwise the bulbs will rot. Plant the bulbs out in the garden for next season.

Perennials that have become very dense, can be dug out, and divided replanting the strongest growing stems from the outside of the clump.

Plant container grown shrubs, trees, climbers, citrus and natives. Many annual flowers can be planted now. In the vegie garden, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, onion, silver beet, parsley, peas and broad beans can be planted now.

Competition Winners were

Bloom: 1st Lorraine Schefferle, 2nd Myra Bish. The special competition of 3 geraniums/pelargoniums was won by Brenda Uebergang 1st and Aileen Fowler 2nd

.Produce: 1st Lorraine Schefferle 2nd Rhoda Mirtschin

Our next meeting on Tuesday April 11th at 10 am will be held at “The Union” Woolsthorpe.

The special competition for the month is a flowering tree or shrub.

Enjoy your Garden

Visitors are welcome.