29th

March 2012

Issue No. 9

Clayton South Primary School School Phone: 61 3 9558 0599

539 Clayton Road Fax: 61 3 9551 8125

CLAYTON SOUTH VIC 3169 Email: clayton.south.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Last week of Term 2! Wow, where did the term

go? We hope everyone has a happy and safe

holiday. Roads are busy over the Easter break, be

careful and we look forward to seeing you happy

and well on Monday April 16th.

Portfolios This week students have brought home a

portfolio with samples and assessments of some

of their work this term. Please read the

explanation that is in each portfolio and we would

appreciate you writing a comment about the

portfolio on the small slip of paper that is at the

end of the work. This needs to be returned with

the portfolio tomorrow, before the holidays

start. We are sorry if you have had only one or

two nights to look at your child’s work and we will

endeavour to get them home earlier next term.

We hope this is another step towards

communicating with our school community about

what we do at Clayton South.

UPCOMING EVENTS: Fri 30 Mar: Tennis grades 3-6 Fri 30 Mar: Last day of term 1. School finishes at 2:30pm Mon 16 Apr: First day of term 2. School starts at 9:00am sharp! Thur 19 Apr: Interschool Sport finals Fri 20 Apr: Step into Prep 2:30-3:30pm Wed 25 Apr: ANZAC DAY HOLIDAY Thurs 3 May: ISS Away vs. St Elizabeth Fri 4 May: Step into Prep 2:30-3:30pm Thurs 10 May: ISS – Home vs. Mt Hira Tue 15 May: School Council Fri 18 May: Step into Prep 2:30-3:30pm Thurs 24 May: District Cross Country

A HUGE THANKYOU!!!

We would like to say a special thank you to the

Hoac family for their continued support at

Clayton South PS. Angela Hoac’s brother Thai Do

has generously donated computers from his

workplace at Fujitsu for use in our school. The

Preps and Grade 3/4’s will welcome newer and

faster classroom computers and our technician

will be busy in the coming weeks setting these up.

We would also like to thank our fantastic,

hardworking PFA who have done a fabulous job

this week with a special hamburger lunch as well

as preparing baskets for our Easter Raffle today.

We were fortunate to have a number of Easter

eggs donated from the Sisters at St Peter’s

Church in Clayton for our raffle as well as bread

being donated from Delbake in Oakleigh for our

hamburgers.

We would like to thank everyone for their

continued support at Clayton South.

Visitor in Grade 3/4. Recently students in Grades 3 and 4 were lucky

enough to have a special visit from Kyle Vander

Kuyp. Kyle is a two time Olympian and Australia’s

fastest sprint hurdler in history.

UNDER THE GAZEBO

He now has a variety of roles working as a

mentor to other athletes with Jump Start to

London 2012, a member of the Australian Sports

Commission board and an Indigenous

Ambassador. Nyssa Wescombe one of our pre-

service teachers organized the visit and I am

sure the students have appreciated her efforts

this term. Well done.

Head lice

I understand how frustrating it is for parents

who continually have to treat their children for

headlice. We need to all work towards

eradicating these creatures and the only way we

can do this is by all checking our children’s hair

this holiday and ensuring if there are any live

lice that we apply treatment. KP40 is the most

effective of the products available from the

chemist.

If you are unsure if your child has lice the best

way to check is to spread conditioner on your

child’s hair, quite thickly, and then use a nit

comb to comb the hair. This not only removes

live lice but also removes the eggs. Sometimes

parents may not be aware that the conditioning

and combing needs to be done every couple of

days to ensure all eggs are removed or else the

cycle starts again.

If your child has live lice the KP40 needs to be

reapplied after 2 weeks as well as doing the

conditioning treatment and combing.

If everyone checks at the start of the holidays,

in the middle and at the end we should be able

to rid our school of the problem.

School Photos If anyone is having a problem ordering their

child’s school photos can you see me on Friday so

we can see if we can sort it out before the

holidays.

Should you wish to call Aussie Photos yourself

please call on this toll free number:-

1800 700 044

Thanks

Lynne Foster

On Friday the 23/3/2012 Kyle Vander Kuyp came to our school because the 3/4s are working on indigenous people. He told us how the past was and how he lived. He lived healthy to stay fit, and to run fast when he competes at the Olympic Games. He said to us that he doesn’t know all his cousins/relatives. He is one of many famous indigenous people. He said he was proud that he is indigenous. The best thing of all is that he gave most of the people his signature. When he was a hurdler he has to stay fit, he didn’t eat McDonalds, but when he had retired he said to his friend can you take a picture of my abs before we go to McDonalds in case I lose it. He attended specific training camps. He still has spears and boomerangs to catch food but he said he won’t throw a spear or a boomerang in Clayton. He didn’t tell us if he paints. By: Jim 3/4B.

Kyle Vander Kuyp’s visit On Friday the 23rd of March 2012, an aboriginal athlete called Kyle Vander Kuyp came to see the 3/4s to talk about being an aboriginal and also being an Olympic athlete. We asked lots of questions and we all got his autograph. The Tribes he was from was Woroni North Coast (NSW) and Yuni – South Coast. I learnt that aboriginals had a powder called ochre. They mixed it with water then that was their paint. They could put their paint in their mouth then they put their hand on the stones, then they spat out the ochre and that’s how they got their hand print. They did not use paint we use now. The paint we use now we can’t put in our mouth. It was interesting listening to Kyle.

Hana Hammoud 3/4B

PHOTOS WITH KYLE VANDER

KUYP AND SOME VERY INTERESTED

CHILDREN

On the excursion to Birrarung

Marr, we went to Federation Square

to look at indigenous art. I thought

that was fantastic. We went to the

old aboriginal playground and it

was better than I expected. We saw

the Rainbow Serpent, the rock

carvings, the spears and shields, the

aboriginal flag and the billabongs

in the Queen Victoria gardens. The

part I liked best was everything!!!

By Aanas

BIRRARUNG MARR

This is a rock carving of a dreamtime bird. It

feels like the magnificent bird is real because it

is flying and it looks like it’s going to come out

of the rock! I think it’s an eagle because it has a

big tail, large wings and a sharp beak. I enjoyed

the excursion seeing all the beautiful rock

carvings. I went to Federation Square where I saw

all the aboriginal paintings. I liked the

aboriginal paintings because they did lots of

animals, weapons, plants and lots more. I was really happy to go on our excursion to Birrarung

Marr.

By Antony

Birrarung Marr On the trip to Birrarung Marr we saw the

aboriginal flag. I enjoyed looking at the flag

because the colours mean things black means

the aboriginal people of Australia, yellow

means the sun and the giver of life and red

means the red earth and the red ochre. At

Federation Square we went to the art gallery

we saw aboriginal dot paintings that

aboriginal people have made over the years.

I enjoyed going to Birrarung Marr because I

learned a lot about the things that Aboriginals

do and I would love to go again. By Asli

Birrarung Marr

When we went to Birrarung Marr we saw a

campfire that Aboriginals used for

cooking food, they also kept warm from it.

We also saw some rock carvings and a

rainbow serpent. The rock carvings

inspired me because of how the aboriginals

made them and I also liked the patterns on

the rainbow serpent. We also went to see a

billabong there was mermaid statue and I

saw some beautiful plants.

I absolutely loved the excursion because I

learned some knowledge about aboriginal

life and I saw lots of statues, rock

carvings and at Federation Square I loved

all the Aboriginal artwork.

By Saanvi

Big Green Schools Conference Last week the eco design team took part in the Big Green Schools Conference at Carrum Primary School. They

listened to both our local MP Mark Dreyfus and Young Environmentalist of the Year Arron Wood speak about

the future of our environment and what youth can do to address current issues. They also participated in hands-

on workshops and brainstorming sessions that proved to be very popular. Here are some comments from the

boys who attended:

On Friday I went to Carrum Primary School. We talked about ways to save the planet by using solar power. They

have lots of environmentally friendly ways at their school. They have wetlands (which Qiannan went to) with

yabbies, bugs and big dragonfly nymphs. I went to their garden farm. They have chickens with names like Disco

Joe and a goat called Cuddles. They also have an avery with amazing types of birds like a blue red necked Indian

parrot. Rory

On Friday I went to Carrum Primary School. We talked about the Big Green Festival. I did the art workshop and

made mosaics. It was a fun day and we brainstormed with the high school students about the environment and

how to make our school more eco-friendly. Tolga

The eco design team went to Carrum Primary School from 9am to 3pm. We did some brainstorming, activities to

help the environment and listened to people who were there to help us learn. Romulo

On Friday I went to Carrum Primary School.

We talked about being green, had morning tea and lunch.

The most fun thing I did was going to the wetlands and I found some bugs.

Qiannan

A big thank you to Kylie Jones-Wilson for driving the boys to and from the event

EARTH HOUR

This Saturday night (31st March) at

8.30pm is Earth Hour. At this time

people around the world are asked to

switch off their lights to send a

message to world leaders about climate

change. Students in years 5 and 6 have

been learning about how Earth Hour

started in Sydney five years ago and is

now a worldwide event. They have

also been discussing ways that they

could plan their own Earth Hour.

Here is a rap that Jiyad from 5/6B has

written:

JIYAD’S EARTH HOUR RAP!!!

This is Earth Hour Day when you close the lights

Don’t worry, don’t worry it won’t give you a fright

60 minutes that is no lie

Even ask the world leaders they will tell you why

This is the environment you should care

Well if you don’t it’s not fair

Well you should care, you know why?

After that the environment will die

People from all over the world

Paris, Bollywood even Hollywood

Tokyo, London even Madrid

At 8.30 it gets dark indeed

Open the candles and have fun

60 minutes then it’s done!

Yo! Yo!

To find out more information about Earth Hour visit

www.earthhour.org

UPCOMING

BIRTHDAYS!!

Khang Nguyen on 31st March

Amor Jasika on 2nd April

Amir Diyab on 6th April

Marmarin Karimi on 7th April

David Tian on 8th April

Anshu Sharma on 13th April

Jendi Fayle on 17th April

Amjad Aljameel on 17th April

Isabella Seitanidis on 19th

April

HAPPY

BIRTHDAY!!!