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Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 15, Week 6, Term 2, 2015 1

Office: 50245345

Postal Address: P.O. Box 716, Irymple South 3498

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.irymplesouthps.vic.edu.au

NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Robyn Brooks Learning Conferences

Thank you to all the families that have

attended and will attend the Learning

Conferences this week. We have had some

very positive feedback about these

conferences. It has been wonderful to see

students, parents and teachers discussing and

sharing the learning that has been happening

so far this year. If you were unable to make the

Learning Conferences, please contact your

child’s teacher to make a time to share their

learning.

Reports

Teachers are in the midst of testing and

moderating student’s work to enable them to

provide an accurate picture of your child’s

progress against the Australian VELS levels. Your

child will receive their report on the last

Thursday of term, Thursday 25th June. Cross Country

Congratulations to all the

students who competed in the

Interschool Cross Country

event on Monday. Will

Mitchem won the 9/10 boys

race with a record breaking

time of 7m and 14 secs!

Complete results can be

found further on in the

newsletter. Secondary College Excursions

Today our Grade 6 students attended a

‘Secondary Excursion’. The students visited Red

Cliffs Secondary, Irymple Secondary or Chaffey

Secondary College for a two hour visit. We

hope that they enjoyed this experience.

Walk to School, Breakfast and Healthy Lunch

and Farmer’s Market

Our next ‘Walk to School Day’ will be on

Wednesday 24th June. We will meet in Karadoc

Avenue and walk along the green belt to

school. All students, parents, family members

and even dogs are invited to walk to school.

When we get to school we will be providing

breakfast.

On this day the students are encouraged to

have a healthy and rubbish free lunch.

Our Farmer’s Market will be held after school.

We require people to help with the breakfast,

transport for school bags and donations for the

Farmer’s Market. If you are able to assist please

contact the school. Junior School Council Dress Up Day

On Friday June 27th the Junior School Council

are holding a dress up day. The theme for the

day is to ‘dress up as a future you’. Would you

like to be a scientist? Join the police force?

Become an explorer? The options are

endless. Please remind your children that the

day is about having fun and being creative, it

doesn’t really have to be your child’s future

dream!!! The Junior School Council have been

meeting nearly every Wednesday and a whole

school vote determined this theme for our dress

up day. We are looking to purchase some big

yard games (big Connect 4, big Jenga, big

Snakes ‘n’ Ladders) and some table tennis

tables for our yard, so a gold coin donation

would be appreciated. Labelling

As part of the Department of Education and

Early Childhood Development’s Health and

Safety Management Plan, new labelling will be

installed at our school.

The labels remind people to contact school

reception prior to undertaking any works at the

school, to ensure they have up-to-date

information from the school’s asbestos register.

Issue 15, Week 6, Term 2

Responsibility Acceptance Respect Honesty Cooperation Resilience

May 21st, 2015


Asbestos - which was used extensively in

building materials in the past but is now

banned - is considered safe unless damaged

or in poor condition.

The new labels form part of a comprehensive

program to ensure Victorian government

schools remain safe.

Children’s safety is our number one priority.

That is why we are taking this extra step as a

precaution. School Council Meeting

The next meeting of the School Council will be

on Wednesday 27th May at 6:30pm. Athletic Sports

Our Athletic Sports will be held on Tuesday 4th

August. Uniform

The weather has been cooler recently and

students need to dress appropriately. Please

make sure that your child wears correct

uniform to school each day, this includes

jumpers. Penni spent a couple of hours sorting

out the lost property box and table last week.

All named items of clothing were returned to

their owners. Remember to name ALL items of

clothing. Prep 2016 Enrolments

If you have a child who will be starting Prep in

2016 we are now accepting enrolments.

Please contact the office to arrange a tour of

the school. Enrolment packs are available at

the office. Facebook

Our ‘likes’ on our Facebook page continue to

grow. Facebook is another way that you can

find out what is happening at school. Photo Fundraiser

Over the weekend families had their photos

taken. Our school will receive a percentage of

the sales of these photos. Thanks to Steph

Flentjar for the coordination of this fundraiser. Garden Seats

We have purchased a number of garden seats

from Bunnings. These have been placed

around the school for the use of students and

parents.

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1F’s Vegie Garden

This term in Inquiry we have been learning about

veggie gardens and how vegetables grow. We have

been busy shovelling dirt into our garden bed,

planting plants and keeping them well watered. We

fertilise our plants with our rich worm juice from our

worm farm (where our worms have been extremely busy on a daily basis). The

students have loved being outdoors, getting their hands dirty and having the

responsibility of looking after the outdoor area.

In our vegie garden we have:

broccoli

cauliflower

cabbage

peas

You may even like to plant some seasonal

vegetables at home. Some vegies in season are:

beans

cauliflower

garlic

broccoli

carrot

kale

cabbage

peas

onions

leeks

silverbeet

rocket


Last Friday students from Irymple Secondary

College came and taught the students the finer

points of football, soccer and netball. Thanks to

Gregor Allan and the ISC students. Students in 1F

had a great time!

‘The people from Irymple are learning how to be a

sport teacher. They came to teach us sport. They

taught us soccer, footy and netball. We learnt to

work together.’ Amelia

‘It is interesting when they taught us netball and

soccer. It was fun because we got to learn how to

play it properly.’ Jones

‘The boys taught us how to kick the footy properly. I

was really hard!’ Harper

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Prep R

Eva Whitworth

Chase Russell Prep P

Maddison Horsfall 1T

Liam Smith

Lottie Adams 1F

Lily Collins 2J

Kayden Hynes 2D

Thomas Sleep

3C

Cooper Milsom 3D

Akira Szeto 4V

Lilly Snell 4/5C

Skye Kempton 5/6G

Angus Cooper

Angus Droffelaar 5/6S

Ella Burford

SCIENCE

Lily Bruhn ART

Zoe Howard P.E.

Shane Krul HOUSE CAPTAINS

Angus Cooper PRINCIPAL

Monique Rowett

Kane Woolfrey

P.E. with Mrs Bronson Over the last few weeks in Physical Education and in Health we have

continued to focus on fitness and in particular students improving their

own individual fitness. Students from Prep and Year 1 have been using a

pre-set fitness circuit as part of their regular PE session. Year 2 students

have looked at what fitness activities they do and where they can find

different sporting activities within the Sunraysia region. The Year 3

students have been looking at what activities they do during their day

and classifying them as active or not active. While the Year 4, 5 & 6

students are starting to have a go at designing, creating and leading

their own fitness circuits. Some of the components of fitness involved in

the circuits include; agility, speed, flexibility, local muscular endurance,

coordination, power, strength, balance and cardiovascular endurance.

The Year 3 to 6 classes have also been focusing on developing the ball

handling skills involved in the winter sports of football, soccer, netball and

rugby.

The Year 2 students have been extending their Fundamental Motor Skills

of kicking, throwing and catching and incorporating these skills into

game situations.

The Prep and Year 1 students have been working on the locomotion skills

of dodging and leaping and have also been introduced to tracking,

trapping and catching balls of various sizes, shapes and hardness.

Preps and Grade 1s have participated in Health sessions where we have

looked at identifying the parts of the body.

HAPPY

BIRTHDAY

MAY

Morgan Barnes (18th)

Mikael Ale (19th)

Ned Bottams (19th)

Dusty Geister (20th)

Natalie Clark (21st)

CHICKS

The Grade 2s have

been incubating eggs.

This week the chicks

started hatching.

Updates will be posted

on Facebook.


CALENDAR 2015

We

ek

MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN

MA

Y

7

25 26 27 School

Council

Meeting

28 29 Mrs

Giddings

last day

30 31

JU

NE

8

1 2 Regional

Cross

Country

3

5/6 Winter

Sports Day

4 5 6 7

9

8 Queen’s

Birthday

Public

Holiday

9 10

5/6 Winter

Sports Day

11 12 13 14

10 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

11

22 Grandparents

Day

23 24 Walk to

school,

Breakfast,

Healthy

Lunch and

Farmer’s

Market

25 26 JSC Dress

Up Day

End Of Term

2

27 28

29 30 1 2 3 4 5

JU

LY

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1 13 Start of

Term 3

14 15 16 17 18 19

2 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

3 27 28 29 30 31 1 2

AU

GU

ST

4 3 4 Athletics

Sports

5 6 7 8 9

5 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

6 17 18

CONCERT

19

CONCERT

20 21 22 23

7 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

8 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

SEPTE

MB

ER

9

7 8 9 Grade 4

Camp

10 11 12 13

“Boot-ique”

Sale

10 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

11 21 22 23 24 25 End of

Term 3

26 27


CONCERT 2015 Firstly, a little bit of concert information for our new families. We have our school concert every

second year. This year there will be two night performances on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday

19th of August at the Mildura Arts Centre. We will also have a full dress rehearsal on Tuesday 18th

at the Arts Centre. Each child will be in at least 2 items, which means they will require two

costumes. Tickets will be on sale closer to the date.

I would like to congratulate the grade 5/6 students who auditioned for concert acting roles. Mr

Smith, Mrs Vadlja and I were blown away last Tuesday, as 28 students auditioned for 9 roles. All

students showed great confidence and dedication in committing to the process. I’m yet to

meet with Karen Wilcock to see if there are any more roles that could be given to some of the

other students that auditioned. These roles could include being dance leaders for the infants.

Huge congratulations to the following grade 5/6 students for the roles they were given:

Mckensie Wade: Main character

Ruby Cashin: Main character’s friend

Lainie Black: Main character’s friend

Shari Brown: Main character’s friend

Maria Petrolo: Main character’s Mum

Bethany Hartwig: Narrator

Zali Doolan: Narrator

Chris D’Amico: Narrator

Tommy McGlashan: Extra speaking role

Students will begin rehearsals for our school concert in week 9 and will continue right up until the

concert in week 6 of Term 2. Karen Willcock will be working with the students to teach them their

class items. We are very excited to have her leading our concert again this year.

I would like to start planning each class’ costumes, so I will need 2 parent helpers for each class.

If you think you could help with this please read below, fill out the form and bring it back to Mrs

Milne or the office. In the last week of this term I’d like to meet with the class costume

coordinators.

Costume coordinators- I am looking for two costume coordinators for each classroom. This is

not a scary position, however it may require some of the following tasks- labelling and

checking off costumes for your class, planning/organising any costume working bees,

and helping me with any purchases for your class. You do not have to know how to sew!

If you think you are able to help, please fill in the form below and return it to Mrs Milne or

the office.

Hanging racks- We will also need a hanging rack for each classroom’s costumes, if you have

one at home that you are happy to loan us please let us know.

CONCERT COSTUME COORDINATOR

I would love to be a Concert Costume Coordinator!

Class: _________________ Child’s Name: _________________________

Name:______________________________ Phone number: ______________________


Interschool Cross Country On Monday 18th 29 Irymple South students competed in the Sunraysia Cross Country Championships at

the Aerodrome Ovals. Students competed in 9/10 year old boys and girls (2 kilometres), 11 year old boys

and girls (3 kilometres) and 12+ year old boys and girls (3 kilometres). ALL students preformed extremely

well representing their school not only with their running ability but also with their good sportsmanship and

behaviour. Every student who competed for our school completed the event.

We had some outstanding performances on the day with ten of our students in the top ten place getters

for their race. These students will progress onto the Loddon Mallee Regional Cross Country Championships

in St Arnaud on Tuesday 2nd June 2014. Well done to Oskar Faulkhead, Keenan Wade, Bailey Aderson,

Samuel Hayes, Bethany Hartwig, Lily Neagle, Will Mitchem, Patrick McWilliams, Meg Neagle and Eva Black

on your outstanding individual efforts.

This year we also placed very highly in the age group school team events. 9/10 year old boys and girls

team came third, 11 year old girls team came second and 12+ boys team came first in the school team

event for their age group.

Will Mitchem was our highest placed student winning his age group event. He also broke the record for

the 9/10 boys cross country race with a time of 7mins 14 sec beating the previous record holder by 17

seconds.

Other results from the day are as follow:

9/10 year old girls

Team – 3rd

Meg Neagle 6th

Eva Black 9th

Morgan Vadlja 21st

Olivia Tassone 25th

Ava Zadow 27th

11 year old girls

Team – 2nd

Bethany Hartwig 2nd

Lily Neagle 5th

Georgia Symes 19th

Mia Andronescu 22nd

Maddison Smart 23rd

12 year old girls

Julia Sherry 13th

Sophie Driscoll 26th

Ruby Cashin 27th

Shari Brown 34th

Mckensie Wade 35th

9/10 year old boys

Team – 3rd

Will Mitchem 1st

Declan Belsham 12th

Chace Garraway 15th

Jack Barker 19th

Joseph Zaccone 21st

11 year old boys

Patrick McWilliams 7th

Angus Droffelaar 22nd

Cooper Dalton 29th

Lachlan Adolph 40th

12 year old boys

Team – 1st

Oskar Faulkhead 2nd

Keenan Wade 5th

Bailey Anderson 6th

Samuel Hayes 8th

Cy Romeo 14th


Calling all business owners or craft makers etc

This year we are hosting a "BOOT-IQUE" Market and we would

like to invite you to be involved. Our community event will be

held on the School Grounds in Irymple South on Sunday 13th

September from 9:00am until 1:00pm and will include an old

fashioned Car Boot Sale, market stalls, kids entertainment, food and beverages.

We invite individuals and businesses to sell products at this event. We would like to offer

you the first option to secure a market stall site. We have limited space therefore our

policy will be; "First In, Best Dressed"

If you would like to take up this opportunity please consider the following;

A standard site will cost $20.00 and will be secured with the payment

All vendors will be responsible for their own site including all equipment, lighting,

power leads, marquees, tables, chairs, cash floats, food handler’s certificates,

gloves, etc.

No two vendors are permitted to sell the same product - products must be defined

in your expression of interest

Please email or phone your expression of interest to the below contact person/s no later

than Thursday 28th May. After this date we will be opening stalls up to the general

public.

The contact person/s for our market stalls are:

Name: Toni Bottams Name: Sarah Watts

Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Phone: 0427 246 441 Phone: 0487 200 964

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