TATURA PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Phone: 5824 1684 Fax: 5824 1898 Before/After School Care: 9758 6744 (After the Bell)

Email: tatura.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.taturaps.vic.edu.au

November 2nd 2016 Term 4, Week 5

Sustainability tip of the

week

To use less paper, make sure you use both sides. Draw pictures or write stories on the blank sides of paper.

PRINCIPAL’S PIECE TWO MORE SLEEPS!!! Each class has prepared their stall for Friday– we had a great report from each class at assembly on Monday. Thanks to the parents for their support and donations. See the list of stalls later in the newsletter. Essential items and Excursion/Incursion costs have been set for 2017 School Council has approved the contributions that parents will be asked to pay for their child(ren) in 2017. The essential educational items total $150 and the excursion/incursion/swimming costs total $185 per child for the year. I encourage families to discuss a payment plan with me if this will help. Payments can start in 2016 if you wish. More detail will follow with arrangements for your child to collect some of their essential items late in January. Remembrance Day At 11am on 11th November, we will remember our fallen soldiers and all those who have fought for our country. Our school will lay a wreath at the memorial park in Tatura. I would like our students to contribute to the occasion by bringing a flower from their garden to add to the wreath. Please send your child with a bloom on Thursday 10th November. Encourage them to choose something colourful or some green foliage. We discourage picking from neighbour’s or the school’s garden! Pupil Free Days Our Pupil Free Days this term are on Wednesday 9th November and Monday 21st November. If you require care for your children on these days, contact After The Bell for details on 9758 6744.

MONEY FOR FETE Many of the stalls at the fete will require small change from 50cents upwards. Please try and bring 50cent coins, gold coins and smaller denomination notes where possible! Tabloid Sports Last Friday everyone enjoyed the tabloid sports. Students had fun taking part in a variety of activities. We wish to thank the students from Mooroopna Secondary College who were there all day to help run each activity.

Susanne Gill, Principal

SICKBAY DUTY

This Week: Kim Taylor Next Week: Alana Cope Please collect laundry from the office on Friday afternoon

FRIDAY FRUIT ROSTER

Sponsored by

This Week 5 Friday 4 November

Alison Dellar & Marni Stevens

Next Week 6- Friday 11th November

Amanda Ross & Alana Cope

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU CHECK THE

PARENT ROSTER AND IF UNABLE TO ATTEND

PLEASE LET THE OFFICE STAFF KNOW SO THAT

WE CAN ORGANISE A REPLACEMENT HELPER.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

PA Ashly Rizzo For working quietly, being a good listener and taking her time to produce neat artwork. Well done. 1/2A Cheryl Nguyen Cheryl has been working hard on her reading and writing and is showing lots of improvement. 1/2 B Sophia Li For being an organised learner who always gives her best effort! 1/2C Olivia Attoni For your great enthusiasm on Tabloid Sports Day and for saying the day was ‘perfect’. 3/4A Zee Thompson For an outstanding story about a mobile phone! So funny and clever. 3/4C Makayde Sharp For her fantastic enthusiasm when working out subtraction equations with borrowing! Keep upthe great work! 5/6A Astyn Coonerty Astyn reads from a wide range of books and uses great WOW words in her writing. Great work Astyn. ART Xavier King For fantastic confidence when sewing his buddy bear.

HOUSE POINTS

Ist Batman 25 points 2nd Henty 22 points 3rd Mitchell 18 points 4th Sturt 14 points

SCHOOL FETE

BOOK & JEWELLERY STALL

Would you like to donate any books that you no longer need? Please bring them into the school office for us to sell at the fete. Do you have some jewellery that you don’t wear anymore or is just the wrong colour? There is sure to be somebody else who will love it.

PARENTS & FRIENDS

Parents & Friends will be holding a

‘cake stall’ at the school fete. It

would be appreciated if each family could bake

something for the stall. A plate and ingredient

label was sent home with each family last week.

INCURSIONS & EXCURSIONS HAPPENING SOON

‘Cinderella’, F-2students $10 Art incursion, all students $10 For families who have not paid their excursion levy, payment will be required in order for your child to participate. Please make payment to the school office.

OUTSTANDING LEVIES

As the end of the school year is fast approaching, it would be appreciated if all outstanding levies could be paid.

2017 GRADE 6 POLO SHIRTS Forms for the ordering of 2017 grade 6 polo shirts went

home two weeks ago. A reminder that orders and payment

are

required to be returned no later than 18 November. Samples

of the shirts are available for students to ‘try on for size’ at the

office. Please note: this is the only opportunity to purchase

the shirts as we are only able to place a single order with the

2017 LARP2017 LARP2017 LARP

(LEISURE AND RECREATION PROGRAM) We propose to run our Leisure and Recreation Program (LARP) for Grades 3-6 during November/December. As always we will need lots of Parents to assist with the various activities such as tennis, badminton, table tennis, cooking, fishing/yabbying, board games/computer, bocce, lawn bowls, scrapbooking, basketball, golf and athletics. Due to the State Governments initiative all volunteers must have a Working with Children police check. These are free and forms are availa-ble online. As in the past, this program can only run with substantial assistance from parents. To date we

have too few helpers and will be unable to continue the program unless we have some more vol-

unteers. If you can assist with this program, which will run on 3 Fridays being 25th November, 2

nd

& 9th December, between 2.00pm-3.30pm, (we will have an altered lunch time on these days),

please fill in the form below and return to me in Room 18.

Thank you Doug Miller LARP Coordinator

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L.A.R.P. ASSISTANCE FORM

November 25th, December 2nd

& December 9th from (2.00pm-3.30pm). We will have an altered

lunch time on these days.

Name:___________________________________

Name and Grade of eldest child at T.P.S._________________________

The activity I can assist/organise is _____________________________

I already have a Working With Children Police check: YES/NO (please circle)

MARVELLOUS MATHS

We have been learning all about subtraction this term! We have been

doing equations horizontally, vertically AND worded problems! We are

becoming very good at our ‘borrowing’ as well!

LITERACY

Our theme is the very interesting Solar System! We have been

writing informative explanations about the Sun, the Moon and comets such as Halley’s Comet.

We have also spent the last week writing some exciting

recounts about our 3/4 camp!

CLASS TALKS This term our class talks are our only homework. ALL students

should now be well under way in their research of their chosen topic

about the Solar System! We expect students to be

practising their talks at home to an audience during week 6 (Nov

7th) so that they are ready to present in week 7 (Nov 14th). We are very excited to hear

about all the interesting topics that students have chosen!

News from the Middle

Section!

CAMP

What a fantastic camp we had at Candlebark Farm! A special thank you to Matt Bowles, Ms Ritchie and Ms Andrews for giving up their time

to come and help us!

chair o plane fairy floss showbags Lorraine lea linen

snake handler bbq lucky dip Plasterific

lions train camp oven old fashioned lollies Hooked by Prue

jumping castle pasta stall mystery jars Scentsy

SES cold drinks minute to win it Sally la gamba-kids clothes

fire brigade coffee and

cake shooting ping pong

balls Do terra oils and hypnobirthing

activities in the park

zooper doopers

honey/strawberry stall

Jamberry nails

henna painting dutch pan-

cakes origami Tupperware

art gallery toffee

apples coke lift toss Papercrafts

books and jew-ellery cake stall

choc a block

FRUIT & VEGIES! lolly jar

cup cake decorating AND MORE……….

Come and join in the FUN!!!

2017 FETE SPONSORS

THANK YOU ALSO TO:

McGuire College—Henna Painting

Dhurringile Prison—fire wood

CFA & SES

GC Nuts & Confectionary

Deb Vincitorio—Envy Jewellery

Plasterific—raffle prize

Lions Club

Paul Newman; Kim Mann; Kirsty Richardson; Glenn Walker

WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

5 31 1 NOV

Melbourne Cup

Day-Public

Holiday

2 3 4 Regional Basketball

FETE 5pm onwards

6 7 8

F-2 Cinderella at

Westside

9

Pupil-free Day

10 Grade 5/6 yachting

11 Prep transition 9.30-10.30am

7 14 15 16 17 18 Prep transition 9.30-10.30am

8 21

Pupil-free Day

22 23 24 25 Prep transition 9.30-10.30am LARP 3-6

9 28

F-6 Transition

Art Incursion

29

Art Incursion

30

Art Incursion

Foundation 2017

Information Night

1 DEC 2 LARP 3-6

10 5

F-6 Transition

6

Orientation Day

7 8 9 LARP 3-6

11 12

Tatura Pool

Concert

13

Tatura Pool

14

School reports sent home

15 Grade 6 Graduation

16 F-5 Transition

12 19 20

Last day of term

TERM FOUR 2016

SWIMMING LESSONS AT TATURA SWIMMING POOL

Swimming lessons held at Tatura Swimming Pool after school. For enquiries, ring Gillian on 0421 317 046.