Term 3 – Week 5 14th August 2018

Phone: (03) 5427 0330

Fax: (03) 5427 0720

Email: hesket.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Acting Co- Principals: Glenda Miller and Nick Williamson

Bank details: BSB 063-806 Account No: 10023792 Account

Name: Hesket Primary School Official Account

Newsletter

Dear Parents/Caregivers

From the Office—For quite some time the Eftpos machine at school has been non-operational. Due to rising costs and ongoing phone line issues, the service will not be available in the future.

Payments to school can be made by cash, EFTt using internet banking to the account BSB 063-806 A/c 10023792, or by Bpay using the personal-ised numbers on family statements.

For any financial queries please speak to Jeanette who is in the office on Tuesdays.

Mother Goose—thank you to those people who have been attending the Mother Goose program on Friday afternoons. We have a number of different events coming up on Fridays, including the Book Fair and Dress Up Day next Friday. With this in mind we have decided that this Friday, 17th August will be the final Mother Goose Session for this term. In No-vember, we will commence our ‘Step into Prep’ program, and this pro-gram will incorporate some of the activities from Mother Goose. More details regarding the ‘Step into Prep’ program will be in following news-letters.

This year we are planning a number of activi-ties during Book Week. Each day we will have activities based on a selected shortlisted book and during the week we will read another of the shortlisted books to the children in the form of a serial. On Friday, 24th August, we will have a Book Fair, where families will be able to purchase books for their children. Al-so on Friday 24th August we will have a Book Week Dress Up Day /Footy Colours Day. On this day we will also have a special lunch.

Hats On - A reminder that from Monday September 3, it is school policy

that broad brim or bucket hats are worn outside. We will remind all stu-

dents that it is time to have hats on again.

Diary Dates

Every Day: Don’t forget Hesket

PS is a NUT AWARE School

August

17th : Subway

20th: School Council

23rd: Hesket skippers at Kyneton

Senior citizens.

24th: Book Week Dress Up Day

or Footy Colours Day

Hot Dog Lunch

29th—31st: Grade 3-4 Camp

31st: Subway

September

20th: School Production

21st : Term 3 concludes

Term Dates 2018

Term 1 – 29th Jan – 29th Mar

Term 2 – 16th Apr– 29th June

Term 3 – 16th July – 21st Sep

Term 4 – 8th Oct– 21st Dec

Hesket students are respectful. Hesket students are responsible. Hesket students achieve their best.

Attendance—as per Department of Education Guidelines, from the beginning of this term all Victorian govern-

ment schools must contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the same day of an unexplained student ab-

sence. This requirement supports student safety and wellbeing. Schools need to know when and why a child is

absent, and parents/carers need to know if their child is not at school. Prompt communication also promotes dai-

ly school attendance. We will communicate via SMS, where permission has been granted.

Kind Regards

Glenda Miller

Acting Principal

Costume Preparation

The following are the costume items that will be required for each of the acts. If you are unable to provide the

items as outlined below please let us know as soon as possible. Please bring in the costumes as soon as possible

so staff can know how many extra pieces they need to find or make.

Foundation / Grade 1

1960’s – Chubby Checker ‘Let’s Twist’

Boys – white t-shirt and jeans

Girls – white t-shirt (skirts and ribbons provided)

1980’s – Michael Jackson ‘Beat it’ (Whole School)

Boys-same white t-shirt and jeans, black jacket or leather look jacket or denim jacket, cap

Girls- same white t-shirt and jeans, black jacket or leather look jacket or denim jacket, cap

1990’s Wiggles

Boys- black pants/tracksuit pants. (Yellow, blue or purple top for Wiggles Song will be provided.)

Girls– black pants/tracksuit pants. (Yellow, blue or purple top for Wiggles Song will be provided.)

Grades 2-4

1970’s – Bee Gees – ‘Night Fever’

Boys – Flared jeans, white long sleeved shirt, gold chain and sunglasses

Girls – head bands, long knee high boots (Disco dress provided).

1980’s - Michael Jackson ‘Beat it’ (Whole School)

Boys-same white t-shirt and jeans, black jacket or leather look jacket or denim jacket, cap

Girls- same white t-shirt and jeans, black jacket or leather look jacket or denim jacket, cap

Hesket students are respectful. Hesket students are responsible. Hesket students achieve their best

Tickets on Sale

from

Wednesday 29th August

Hesket students are respectful. Hesket students are responsible. Hesket students achieve their best

Students of the Week

F—1: Congratulations Sam for working so hard and writing a procedural text on ‘How to Make Pancakes’.

Grade 2-4 : Our student of the week is Pheonix for focussing on her reading.

From Mr Williamson’s Class—The reading strategies we are focusing on for this week are rereading, confirming

and cross checking. In writing the students will be finishing their portfolio work for procedural writing and they

will begin persuasive writing later in the week. The spelling focus this week is the graph ‘e’ making the sound ‘e’

as in bed.

Students have done a fantastic job learning their times tables and are confident with recalling 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s.

This week students will begin to learn about two dimensional and three dimensional shapes.

Students have been hard at work practising for the school concert and the skipping demonstration.

Reminders

School camp medical form and itinerary went home last week and is due back by Wednesday 15th August.

Skipping permission form is due back on Friday 17th August.

From Mrs Manitta’s Class: The students had another enjoyable week. In Writing, we wrote and followed a pro-

cedural text on ‘How to Make Pancakes’. The students used an action verb at the beginning of their steps. (Pour,

mix, stir). They watched and assisted Deb making the pancakes. Of course all students enjoyed the end result.

Deb’s Delicious Pancakes

Ingredients:

1 cup of self-raising flour

1 cup of buttermilk (the secret ingredient)

1 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp melted butter

Maple syrup

For Reading and Phonics, we focused on the blend sl. (slip, slime). We of course had to make fluffy slime to

demonstrate the sl blend!

Fluffy Slime

Ingredients:

PVA glue

Shaving cream (the foam kind, not the gel or cream kind)

Borax solution (1 cup warm water with 1 teaspoon borax, mixed until clear)

Eye contact solution (optional but recom-mended)

Food colouring (optional)

Essential oils (optional)

Over the next few weeks we will be looking at homophones - words that are pronounced the same but have

different meanings. (their, there) (to, two, too)

Students continue to read every day and focus on their individual reading goal. Each day we practise our spelling

words for 15mins with a spelling test at the end of each week.

Method:

Pour one cup of flour, one cup of buttermilk, 1 tablespoon of sugar

and 1 tablespoon of melted butter into a bowl

Stir ingredients

Heat a large non-stick frying pan

Pour and cook 2 pancakes for 3-4 mins until bubble appear on the

Method:

Squeeze one bottle of white glue into a medium bowl

Stir in ½ cup to 1 cup of shaving foam, depending on how

fluffy you want your slime to be

Add food colouring to colour desired and stir

Mix in a few squrts of eye contact solution (this makes it less

sticky

Hesket students are respectful. Hesket students are responsible. Hesket students achieve their best

In Numeracy, students focused on 3D shapes and locating them in their environment.

Cylinder – batteries

Pyramid – pyramids in Egypt

Sphere – ball

Cone – traffic cone

Rectangular prism – tissue box

Cube – dice

The students explored and classified 3D shapes by their features. (curved surfaces, faces, edges, corners). They drew a pic-

ture using a number of cubes, cones, spheres and cylinders.

For Integrated Studies, students were given a cut and paste activity and sorted their rubbish items into the correct bin.

(rubbish, compost, green, recycle)p

Musical Notes/Class reminders

Thank you Jack for providing the oranges for our fruit bowl. There are many students who don’t have fruit or forget. Fruit is

important for our health and it also gives our brains a boost for the next lesson!

Please assist your children with the learning of their spelling words and listening to your child read every night. Congratula-

tions to those that write in the reading log every night.

Once you have your items and clothing for the musical, please place this in a bag

with your child’s name in preparation for dress rehearsals.