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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

Acting School Council President - Anne Trevena

Telephone - (03) 57931288

Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Email - puckapunyal.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Alamein Road

Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662

Postal: Military P.O.

ABN: - 74134967962

Term 1 Issue 8

March 21st 2018

Inside this Issue: Birthdays/DSTA Message 2

Nice Uniforms, Year 6! 2

Last day of Term 1 2

School Canteen Lunches 3

Assembly Reading 3

Student Awards of the Week 4

Teaching/Learning Focus 5

Anzac Day Commemorations 5

Before School Sport 5

Indo Lingo 6

School Working Bee 7

Years 5/6 Cooking 8

Mitchell Shire Advertising 9

***Have you heard your child read today? We encourage all students to

practise their reading at home about 5 nights per week. Therefore, by now,

most students should have read at least between 35-40 nights. Well done if

you have kept up!

***We can all work together to

rid the community of any chance

of Head Lice. Let’s check our

heads once per week!***

The Defence Chaplains have invited all of our students to attend a traditional

excursion to the Puckapunyal Chapel to celebrate Easter. The excursion will

take place on Wednesday 28th March (next week).

Proposed Activities at the Chapel:

-Tour of the chapel

-Informing students about chapel services, eg. holy communions, baptisms,

weddings, etc.

-Singing

-Bible reading about Easter

-Story Book about Easter

-Easter Egg Hunt

A permission slip has already been sent home.

Thursday 22nd March

Years 5/6 Grand Prix Excursion

Saturday

24th March

School Working Bee

Wednesday

28th March

Whole School Pucka

Chapel Visit (Easter)

Thursday 29th March

Last Day of Term 1

Monday

16th April

Day 1

of Term 2

When: Saturday 24th March (this Saturday)

Time: 8am onwards (finish at lunchtime)

Please see page 7 for details

Morning Tea provided and Children are welcome to attend!

Good luck to our Year 5/6 students who will be attending the

Australian Grand Prix excursion to Melbourne tomorrow. They

will engage in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths)

activities and see drivers and racing up close.

Students will need to be at school at 7.30am sharp to catch an early

bus. We will return to school at approximately 4.30pm. Good luck

everyone!

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Happy Birthday to Lily

Tippett, Logan Malik and

Jacob Herring who are all

having their birthdays this

week. On behalf of the

Puckapunyal Primary School

Community, we wish them all

a very Happy Birthday!

Easter Raffle fundraiser: What a

wonderfully generous community we

have; donating prizes and purchasing/

selling tickets! This is one of our

major fundraisers and we appreciate

your support. Keep them coming!!

Sports for Schools: We have 14,990 vouchers! This

promotion finishes early in April, so make sure we

have all your vouchers. Thanks so much!!

Healthy lunch tip: Veggies! Experts tell us that we

should be eating two pieces of fruit and five serves of

veggies daily. This can be challenging, but eating

some of those serves at lunchtime and throughout the

day certainly makes this easier. Here are a few

suggestions.

Raw vegetables, including bean sprouts, beans,

broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, mushrooms,

snow peas, tomatoes etc. Perhaps have your child try

cucumber – it is amazing how many children love this.

Salads: using leftover rice or pasta, boiled egg, canned

corn and your choice of vegetables. Use whatever

flavourings your child enjoys (a little soy sauce,

mayonnaise, nacho sauce, even BBQ or tomato sauce).

Vegetables are also great in or with dips, and can be

included in cakes, muffins and scones.

Have a terrific week!

Sue Ranger, DSTA.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD UPDATE

Keep up the positive behaviour everyone!! We

will have a term 1 house winner next week! CURRENT SCORES Bradman - 596 points

Melba - 556 points

Chisholm - 530 points

Hume – 465 points

**REMINDER- Pucka News is a growing interest in the school and our community. You can

see each episode live at our school assemblies at 9am on Monday mornings. Everyone is

encouraged to come along and watch each episode. If you are unable to attend, you can follow

Pucka News by watching each episode on our Facebook page. **

Our Year 6 Jackets and School Shirts have

arrived!

The students are very excited now that they can

wear their special jackets and shirts for 2018!

Our school captains, Harry Fletcher and Abbey

Kendell make great uniform models!

Thursday 29th March is the last day of the term. All

students will be dismissed from school at 1:30 p.m. The

students will only require a morning play lunch as they can

have their lunch once they are home that day. We will

finish off the term with a 1:10 p.m. assembly which all

parents are invited to attend. We have some awards to hand

out, some presentations and some performances for

assembly. Please come along.

It will be an Out of Uniform Day on this day as it always

is on the last day of term.

There will not be any afternoon school buses available

for our children on the last day of term. Good luck to all

students and their families during the term break!

* The first day of Term 2 is Monday 16th

April, 2018.*

Ride2School and school breakfast!: THIS

Friday (23rd March) is National Ride2School day.

If you can, come to school in an active manner;

walking or cycling. If you live “off base”, perhaps

see if you can be dropped off a couple of blocks

from the school for some early morning exercise.

Then at 8.30am, enjoy eggs on toast cooked by our

chef, Mr. Warne. Please contact the office if you

have any allergy concerns and we can work

together to provide an alternative. Then to finish

off, at 9am all families are invited to join us for a

walk around the school.

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The School Canteen is open for Lunch Orders this

Friday. Each and every Friday students can order

lunches from the school canteen. The menu will be

different each week. Please ensure that a paper bag

comes with the order. Please indicate on the lunch bag

if the money is in another sibling’s bag

This week the menu is - Ham & Pineapple Pizza - $2.50 each

250ml Chocolate or Strawberry milk - $2

Apple/Orange Juice Popper - $1.50

No charge for tomato sauce

At assembly this week Caring was announced as our School Value of the week. That means teachers are

looking for students who are demonstrating ‘Caring’ to be eligible for the Student of the Week award.

We encourage parents to talk to their students about our values throughout the year.

What is Caring? Year 5 student, Blake Cooper read out the meaning of Caring. Well done, Blake!

‘Caring is paying attention to the things that matter to you. You can care for yourself, for other people, for pets or

for special things. When you care for something you treat it with respect and concern.’

***Reminder – the SCHOOL BUS STOP is not

a car park or a drop off zone. Please do not park

there. Let’s keep everyone safe!***

Did you hear Zara

Marini read her opinion

piece about ‘Why I like

Vegemite and Butter’ at

assembly this week? We

did! She was amazing!

Come along and see who

reads next week.

Every Day Counts!

Please don’t forget – going

to school every day is the

single most important part of

your child’s education.

Students learn new things at

school every day. Missing

school puts them behind. We

all want our students to get a

great education. The building

blocks for a great education

begin with students coming

to school each and every

day.

Each week at assembly, SRC representatives remind

our students of a few important school rules. This

week, SRC representatives, Rohanna Murphy,

Jonathan Duna and Yarah Tennant-Andrew

reminded our students of a few rules to follow when

you see the chickens in the school yard:

- Do not chase them

- Do not pick them up

- Do not throw things at them

- Make sure you cover your food if it is outside

as they are very cheeky and will eat it

Please discuss these rules with your children to help

ensure that they understand.

Rory Kennedy and Ned

Kendell again, would like to

strongly remind us about saving

those Coles ‘Sports for Schools’

dockets!

Thank you to the parents who attended the Family

Chat Group after assembly on Monday. It gave

parents and staff the opportunity to talk openly about

many direct and indirect community topics.

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Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Students of the Week’ for last week. Winners –

Braiden Hodges, Harmony Cameron, Lily Bain,

Lachlan Donnelly, Zoe Landel, Jewell Hatfield,

Dimitri Corocher, Evie Birks, Josh Jamieson, Jack

Easom and Ella Padman. These students were selected

because they were modelling Kindness. This week

teachers are also looking for students who are modelling

Caring.

Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Authors of the Week’ for last week. Winners –

Cohen Hill, Leo Kellaway, Emilia Pippin, Olivia

Armstrong, Oliver Crichton, Samara Wildin, Brielle

Eldredge, Eli Greenwood, Charlotte Young, Finlay

Koch and Rohanna Murphy. The students were

selected because they showed great skills as an author.

FO’M in Room 8 won the

Yard Duty

Competition. Dominic Stephens enjoyed

collecting the winning trophy

for his classroom this week!

Congratulations to Evie Bennett, Fraser

Padman, Ethan Sage and Chayce Mackie

who won the raffle prizes for ‘Positive

Behaviour’ this week!

5/6 H in Room 1 won

the Middle School

Times Tables

Trophy. Jack Lindner

and Jack Kennedy are both

delighted to look after their

winning trophy this week!

3/4 D in Room 11 won

the Senior School

Times Tables

Trophy. Melrose Pambai and May

Kelly will look after the

winning trophy this week!

Congratulations to

Charlee Whitling who

received a ‘Recycling

Cans’ Award this week!

Every little bit counts!

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Each week in the newsletter, we will give families a summary of the Teaching/Learning Focus for the week.

That can help families by: being aware of what classrooms are covering; with discussion topics at the dinner table when

discussing school (eg. ‘How are you going with addition in Numeracy this week?’); helping their children study at home,

etc. Parents have indicated that this information would be very useful. We also ask families to be aware that schools are

very busy places and events can be unpredictable at times. We therefore must remain flexible. That means, we can plan to

cover certain topics at particular times and have to change them according to arising needs.

Junior School – Preps/Foundation Rooms 6, 8 & 10 Literacy: We are looking at the letters ‘e and b’. We are learning the difference between a letter and a word. We are also

looking at capital letters and full stops.

Numeracy: We are learning about the numbers 7 and 8. We are looking at 2D shapes.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 4 & 10 Literacy: .We are revising the letters e and b. We are looking at recounts and nouns.

Numeracy: We are continuing to look at simple addition and learning how to tally.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 3, 4 & 9 Literacy: We are revising the letters ‘e and b’. We are focusing on common and proper nouns. We are continuing to work

on persuasive writing.

Numeracy: We are working on addition and subtraction skills. We are continuing to practise skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and

10’s and learning how to tally.

Middle School Years 3/4 Rooms 9, 11, 12 & 13 Literacy: Over the next two weeks we will be focusing on persuasive writing and the VCOP components.

Numeracy: We will also be working on the four processes, as well as chance data in Numeracy.

Senior School Years 5/6 Rooms 1&2 Literacy: Over the next two weeks we will be focusing on persuasive writing and the VCOP components.

Numeracy: We will also be working on the four processes and fractions, as well as chance and probability in Numeracy.

Anzac Day is on Wednesday the 25th of April

(during 2nd week of Term 2). We hope that all families

enjoy the day. On Tuesday 24th April, at a special 9am

morning assembly, we will have a commemoration to

pay respect to the ANZACs. Some of our senior

students will be conducting the commemoration. There

will also be performances from our school choir. We

encourage students to bring wreaths to school and any

child in cubs, scouts, guides, etc, can wear their

uniforms for the commemoration. All parents are

welcome to attend our commemoration. It will be held

in the school’s PC Centre.

As in previous years, our school choir will also be

attending the dawn service at Memorial Park on

ANZAC Day. We will be performing 2 songs at 5:45

a.m. We would encourage all school community

members to attend the service.

At both ANZAC commemorations, our school captains

will be laying wreaths on behalf of the school.

Ms O’Connor has begun choir rehearsals for the Dawn

Service.

The Years 2-6 students in the choir have been

practising during some lunch eating times.

As with last year, we have again applied for a

Term 2 Sporting Schools Grant from the Federal

Government. If we are successful we will again

have an opportunity for students to participate in

some Before School Sport.

We are looking at offering basketball, cycling and

tennis. Please stay tuned!

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Students are focusing of perasaan (feelings) this week

in Indonesian.

FOC & FOM Language the students will hear/use this week:

Selamat pagi = Good morning

Siapa ada? = Who's here?

Ada = Here

Siapa tidak ada? = Who's not here?

Tidak ada = Not here

Berapa murid? = How many students?

Ada __ murid. = There are __ students.

Apa kabar? = How are you?

Baik-baik saja = Well

Biasa saja = So so

Kurang baik = Not good

Nama saya ... = My name is ...

Nama = Name

Tanggal = Date

Sampai jumpa = See you later

F/1R, 1/2C, 1/2I & 2/3M Will use above language and ...

Selamat siang = Good day

Kurang baik = Not good

Senang = Happy

Sedih = Sad

Marah = Mad

Siapa nama kamu? = What's your name?

3/4D, 3/4I & 3/4P Will use above language and ...

Siapa nama Bu? = What's your name ma'am?

Siapa nama Pak? = What's your name sir?

marah = mad Saya marah. = I'm mad.

senang = happy Saya senang. = I'm happy.

terkejut = surprise Saya terkejut = I'm surprised.

sedih = sad Saya sedih. = I'm sad.

malu = shy Saya malu. = I'm shy.

bingung = confused Saya bingung. = I'm confused.

mengantuk = sleepy Saya mengantuk. = I'm sleepy.

pintar = smart Saya pintar. = I'm smart.

iri = jealous Saya iri. = I'm jealous.

takut = afraid Saya takut. = I'm afraid.

kenyang = full. Saya kenyang. = I'm full.

bijaksana = thoughtful Saya bijaksana. = I'm thoughtful.

5/6D & 5/6H Will use above language and ...

Baik = Good

Bagus = Great

Lapar = Hungry Haus = Thirsty

Panas = Hot

Dingin = Cold Sakit = Sick

Siapa namamu? = What's your name?

Siapa nama Ibu? = What's your name ma'am?

Siapa nama Bapak? = What's your name sir?

Saya merasa marah. = I feel mad.

Saya merasa senang. = I feel happy.

Saya merasa terkejut = I feel surprise.

Saya merasa sedih. = I feel sad.

Saya merasa malu. = I feel shy.

Saya merasa bingung. = I feel confused.

Saya merasa mengantuk. = I feel sleepy.

Saya merasa pintar. = I feel smart/clever.

Saya merasa iri. = I feel envious/jealous.

Saya merasa takut. = I feel scared/afraid.

Saya merasa kenyang. = I feel satisfied/full.

Saya merasa bijaksana. = I feel wise/thoughtful.

‘Knowledge is power. Information is

liberating. Education is the premise of

progress, in every society, in every family.’

Quote by Kofi Annan

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On Saturday 24th March (changed date), we have organised a School Working Bee. We have many outside

jobs that need doing around the school and need the help from our school community. The Working Bee will begin from

8:00 a.m. and continue throughout the day.

The Working Bee is an opportunity for families to help. Without your help these improvements will not be able to go

ahead in 2018. Over the last few years we have had fantastic support during our working bees. Jobs are listed below.

Please mark the day on your calendar!

Job No 1.

What Needs Doing? Old play equipment needs checking/fixing.

Tools Needed. Hammers, spanners, etc.

Job No 2.

What Needs Doing? Whippersnip some areas.

Tools Needed. Whippersnippers (school will supply 2 stroke petrol)

Job No 3.

What Needs Doing? Old trees need pruning.

Tools Needed. Chainsaws, handsaws.

Job No 4.

What Needs Doing? Asphalt and ground gutters swept and cleared.

Tools Needed. Brooms, rakes, wheelbarrows.

Job No 5.

What Needs Doing? School roof and amphitheatre roof gutters

need clearing.

Tools Needed. Ladders.

Job No 6.

What Needs Doing? Garden Beds need weeding.

Tools Needed. Gloves, wheelbarrows and energy.

ETC, ETC, ETC, ETC!

Please return the attendance slip below to indicate that you can come and what job you would like to help with. Please

help. We will also organise a morning tea for all helpers on the day! The more people there, the better the chance to be

completely finished before lunchtime. Even if you can only attend for an hour or so please do. Do not hesitate to contact

the school if you have any questions.

Job No 7.

What Needs Doing? Clean Air Conditioner

filters.

Tools Needed. n/a

Job No 8.

What Needs Doing? Spread softfill for play

areas.

Tools Needed. Shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows.

Job No 9.

What Needs Doing? Clean and insect spray emu

and kangaroo ornaments.

Tools Needed. 3 month insect surface spray.

Job No 10.

What Needs Doing? Veranda deck front boards

need painting.

Tools Needed. Paint brushes (school to provide

paint).

Working Bee Attendance Slip Yes, I/we can attend the Working Bee on Saturday 24h March, 2018.

Name - __________________________________________ I would like to help with Job No ____.

Tools I can bring

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I really liked the cooking last Friday. I was the leader of my group, which was Bella, Sam and Lachie O. It was

mostly very fun, but sometimes there were things that were NOT fun, like when I opened the packet and it spilled

all over me. It was some kind of powder that was supposed to be sour cream and chives, but it smelled absolutely

HORRIBLE! I definitely needed to wash my shirt that night. Anyway, I loved the rest of it. It took a while to cut

and peel all of the potatoes, and then mix the gross powder with some milk. It was fun to do all that, and my team

was cooperative. The only really bad thing was getting the powder everywhere. After lunch, we got to taste

everybody’s recipes. I liked the three cheese potato bake the very best, but I liked them all. Just not the eggplant

very much. Overall, cooking on Friday was really, really fun.

Rohanna Murphy 5/6 D

Last Friday (16th of March 2018) our class did a cooking lesson with some potatoes and eggplants that we had

grown in the veggie garden. We all were sorted into groups. We all made something. The people in my group were

Harry E, Jack E, Mackenzy and Aiden G. The things we made were a three cheese potato bake, sour cream and

chives potato bake, a garlic potato wedge and some eggplant. After lunch we ate our food. I wasn’t fond of the

eggplant, but I loved the three cheese potato bake.

Harry Fletcher 5/6 H

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