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Newsletter Drouin West Primary School
'Nurture, Enrich, Inspire, Succeed'
Issue 14/14 Hours of supervision: 8.45am—3:45pm 28th May, 2014
Mondays Lunch orders and Student Banking
Thursday May 29th Selected students to attend the Cross Country at Chairo. Apologies for the incorrect date in last weeks newsletter
Tuesday June 3rd Head Lice Training. 9am in the staffroom. Please see the acting principal’s notes for further information.
Wednesday June 4th Fundraising meeting at 2:15pm
Thursday June 5th Selected students to attend the winter sports in Yarragon
Friday June 6th C.F.A. parent information session. 2:30pm in the multi-purpose room.
Monday June 9th Queen’s Birthday public holiday
Wednesday June 11th Soup Day fundraiser—order forms will be out next week.
Wednesday June 18th Prospective Preps for 2015 information session 2pm Preparation meeting for 2015 Fair at 1pm multi-purpose room
Friday June 27th Last day of term 2. Students dismissed at 2:30pm
Parent handbooks are available online or as a hard copy from the office
IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS TO REMEMBER:
PAWS for reading program
Well done!!!! 5/6A, 3/4A and the 1/2’s for
continuing to read. You have added 6320 minutes to
the total. That provides 316 extra books.
The school total has now provided 3046 books to
children who will enjoy the opportunity to read a
book..
Students are welcome to write a book review for the
newsletter of their favourite book.
Cats Dogs
Grade Minutes of
Reading
Minutes of
Reading
Totals
5/6A 6218 16733 22951
5/6B 7474 3844 11318
3/4A 6078 13156 19234
3/4B 3218 919 4137
1/2A & B 1354 1932 3286
Totals 24342 36584 60926
P.O. Box 176 Phone: 03 56 251971 535 Main Neerim Road
Drouin 3818 Fax: 03 56 252175 Drouin West 3818
Email: [email protected]
From The Acting Principal’s Office
been worse? Do you know what to do in these
situations? If not, now is a good time to think,
prepare and plan.
Come along to the CFA information session and get
some advice and have your questions answered. See
you at the school, on Friday June 6, 2.30 – 3pm.
Drouin West Rural Fire Brigade
Cross Country
Best of luck to all of the runners in the cross country
competition at Chairo Christian School tomorrow. I
know that all the students will try 100% and
represent Drouin West with pride.
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School
Students with Disability Our school is participating in the Nationally Consistent
Collection of Data on School Students with Disability
(Data Collection). This Data Collection is taking place
in government, Catholic and Independent schools across
Australia, and will provide valuable information about
supports required for a broad group of students. This
will enable Australian and State governments to better
target support and resources in schools. This in turn will
help schools give students with disability the support
they need.
The Data Collection is not limited to students with
diagnosed disabilities. It uses a very broad definition of
disability, taken from the Disability Discrimination Act
1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005,
which describe a broad range of health and learning
conditions for which schools are required to provide
‘reasonable adjustments’ to support students to
participate on the same basis as other students.
The Data Collection will take place during Terms 2 and
3. No personal or identifying information about any
student will be included; however, if you decide you do
not wish information about your child to be included in
the Data Collection, you can opt-out by signing and
returning the opt-out consent form.
More information about the Data Collection is available
on the Department of Education and Early Childhood
Development website at:
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/parents/needs/
Pages/nccd.aspx
or you could contact the Acting Principal if you have
any further questions.
Leaves! Leaves! Leaves!
As the Season of Winter draws
closer, each day the leaves
around the school continue to
pile up. Families are
encouraged to take bags of
leaves from the front gate to use
in compost bins. We will
happily refill these bags during
this term. There are plenty of
leaves for everyone!
Super Science
Last night, teachers from Warragul and
Longwarry Primary School, joined
staff from Drouin West in a
collaborative professional
development session titled ‘In Search
of Super Science,’ as part of the
Science Specialist Initiative.
The night was a wonderful opportunity for teachers to
learn about the three science strands: Physical Science,
Biological and Chemical Science and Earth and Space.
Members from the CSIRO were also in attendance and
this was the first of many exciting upcoming events for
teachers and students at Drouin West Primary School.
A big thank-you to Danielle Rendall for her hard work
in organising this fabulous evening.
Head Lice Training
Drouin West is very excited to announce free head lice
training for any interested families.
The session will be presented by approved trainers from
the Baw Baw Shire Council and will last for
approximately 45 minutes.
This training will cover topics such as the life cycle of
head lice, how head lice spread, effective methods for
treating and checking head lice, as well as discussion
about chemical resistance.
This is a wonderful opportunity for parents to find out
about head lice and how to check and treat them
effectively.
Also if any parents are interested in assisting the school
to do head lice checks, participation in this course is
necessary.
The session will take place at 9am on Tuesday the 3rd of
June. Participants are asked to sign in at the office. Look
forward to seeing you all there!
CFA Visit
The Drouin West Rural Fire Brigade have offered their
services to come and talk to parents of Drouin West Primary
School about fire safety and bush fire preparedness.
The session is at 2:30pm in the multi-purpose room on
Friday the 6th of June. Assembly will follow at 3pm.
Fire safety - are you prepared? We live in an area of high risk from bushfires and
winter is a perfect time to plan how you will survive this
summer. You're invited to attend a briefing from the
local Drouin West Rural Fire Brigade about fire
preparedness and safety on Friday afternoon June 6
before assembly.
Have you got a plan on what to do on days of extreme
fire danger or a code red day? What happens if it's a
school day? This past summer was the busiest one for
the local CFA since Black Saturday. There was a fast
grass fires close to the school on February 9th, luckily a
Sunday but what would your plan have been if it had
Prep/1A Cooper Belsham
Prep/1B Sienna Meharry
1/2A Keegan Jeffrey Molan
1/2B Dakota Roden
3/4A Hollie Walker
3/4B Bailey Dalzell
5/6A Emily Allan
5/6B Alex Foreman
Super ‘B’ Award Winners Super ‘B’ award winners for week 5, term 2:
Extra curriculum opportunities. Parents can contact individual musical teachers to arrange private lessons.
Drum & Guitar Lessons— Peter Brown. Thursday afternoons. Phone: 0437 595 490 or email: [email protected]
Piano Lessons– Karen Thomson. Mondays 11am onwards Phone: 0356 299 268
Singing Lessons— Helen Brown Tuesdays 9.15am. Phone: 0408 595 490 or email: [email protected]
Student Banking
Our next prize redemption day will be
on Monday June 2nd.
If you have 10 tokens please send a note
in your banking book nominating the
term 2 prize you would like to collect.
Prizes can be viewed at the office.
Happy
Birthday !!!!!! Happy birthday to the following students who celebrate their special day during the week of Monday 26th May to Sunday, 1st June.
Tyler Winduss 3/4B, Brooke de Riter 5/6B, Jasmine Zelley 3/4A, Samuel Impey 1/2B and Shaun
Custance 5/6B
Don’t forget to come to the office and collect a birthday sticker.
PE/SPORT NEWS Division Cross Country
Tomorrow, 20 children from Drouin West Primary School will travel to Chairo Christian School Drouin
Campus to compete in the Division Cross Country. The 9/10 year olds will run 2kms and the 11 year olds &
12/13 year olds will run 3kms. All spectators are welcome to attend and cheer for the children. Please
remember to take warm clothes and a change of shoes and socks because it could be wet and muddy! Best of
luck to everyone who is running.
Winter School Sports
The date for the District Winter School Sports is Thursday 5th June. Drouin West Primary School will send one Football team
and two Netball teams. The competition is being held at Dowton Park in Yarragon with games commencing at 10am and
concluding at 2pm. Children will travel from school by bus and need to return permission forms and payment to the office as
soon as possible. Please wear school (sports) uniform and take warm clothes, lunch, snacks and your water bottle.
Parents are encouraged to go along on the day and support and watch. Any offers to help coach and prepare teams still
welcome. Some children have elected to play Hockey and will go straight through to the Division competition on Tuesday
17th June.
Good luck to everyone competing and remember that good communication and team work will make the day more fun and
successful! Jane Strickland—PE teacher
Beautiful Bug Mosaics for our Maths Garden Last Wednesday during our open morning, our Prep/1 classes enjoyed an art
session in which they created mosaic bugs for our Maths Garden. The bugs
will decorate the number line in the garden and will be placed in groups with
corresponding numbers to help students to recognise values. The other classes
will also have a chance to create mosaics for the garden in the near future. We
would like to thank the parents that got involved on the day and were able to
offer time to work with the students during the session: Julie Thom-
as, Carolyn McIntyre and Sharon Archibald.
Jasmin Baker—Art teacher
Chaplain’s News A couple of weeks ago some of our parents in our school community attended a CASSE
Information night which helped us understand the role of CASSE in our school.
CASSE is an effective and preventative Peaceful Schools Program aiming to create a supportive
and safe environment in our school. It promotes empathy, inclusion and kindness across the
school community.
Thanks to our students Hollie Walker, Holly Anderson, Josh Mills and Tahlia Pemberton for
sharing about their involvement in the program. The students were very brave talking in front of
so many adults.
One of the strengths of the night I think was the networking that has occurred with parents since the evening. I have
been privileged to be part of some of those conversations. We all want our kids to be kept safe at school and we want
them to know what to do when things go wrong.
Kasey Bayne is the coordinator of the program at our school and I would like to say thanks to Kasey for organizing an
informative night which has generated a lot of healthy discussion since.
If ever you are concerned that your child is struggling with a confronting or hurtful issue at school, then please let us
know. We are here to work with you, to get problems sorted.
If you are concerned that the issue has been going on for some time the CASSE team gave us some information you
may find helpful in finding out
When to really worry:
If you child has become withdrawn from friends/family
If your child is having trouble sleeping or staying in bed
If your child is eating more or less
If your child’s standard of work has dropped and teachers are concerned
If your child seems reluctant to go to school for favourite sports/activities
If your child seems depressed or miserable or cranky
If your child is hurting themselves or involved in risky behaviour
If you notice that school books or uniform are lost or damaged
If you feel concerned then please see your GP ASAP for a referral to counselling.
Please come and talk to us, if you are not sure. We really do want to help.
Take care!
Wendy Ronalds School Chaplain (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Friday)
Acknowledgement: National School Chaplaincy and Student Welfare Program have been funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
CASSE Parent Night
What a fantastic start to education week with the CASSE Parent Night, which was
held on Monday 19th May.
The night was a huge success with a great turn out from many interested parents.
The session began with
CASSE student members
Tahlia, Josh, Hollie and Holly speaking about their experiences
in CASSE over the years and how CASSE has helped them to
be more confident and to become a role model upstander to
their peers.
CASSE Facilitators, Ineke and Therese gave a very informative and engaging presentation about how to assist your
child if they are having bullying issues and gave helpful tips and steps to work through the process.
The most beneficial part of the night was parents having the opportunity to talk to others about problems their children
might be having and to see that they are not alone and have a support network available to them.
A huge thank you goes to the following parents, grandparents and guests who made the effort to attend on
Monday night; Petra Whitmore, Cally Walker, Julie Thomas, Alissa Mounsey, Kerry Nicholl, Donna
Mills, Kerri Anderson, Shantel Morsink, Katie Pemberton, Lori McMillan, Rhiannon Trimble, Vivienne
and Jemimah Hall, Karen Kensley and Wendy Ronalds.
Kasey Bayne—CASSE Co-ordinator