1st November 2017

OUR SCHOOL VISION: “Wandong Primary School … Making a difference by developing confident, independent

and resilient learners who strive for personal excellence.”

‘The Puggle Post’

“We make a

difference.”

www.wandongps.vic.edu.au

Reminders

Thursday 2nd November - 2018 Foundation Transition Session Three Friday 3rd November - Foundation Camp to Bounce Inc

Friday 3rd November - Grade 6 Graduation permission and payment due back today Wednesday 8th November - Think Links Multi Age Program (2:00pm to 3:30pm)

2017 World Teachers’ Day

Thank you to all our wonderful teachers at WPS

Front Row:

Rhonda Cole, Jessica Woods, Rosie Morgan, Stephanie Pollock, Rebecca Hocking, Livia Stahlavsky,

Lauren McIlvain and Bree Chisholm

Second Row:

Hannah Giacomini, Natasha Satler, Bradley Moedt, Rachael Williamson, Owen Macer, Jessye Blakis,

Natalie Vilchez, Julie Smith, Sharna Hemsley and Dave Warren

Third Row:

Cal Fearn, Robyn Beer, Marianne Quinton, Tess Kingsford, Kaitlyn Hall, Fiona Jacobs and Kira Green

Absent:

Jacque Rowe, Cornelia Scott and Peter Burton

A Message from the Principal Team

Dear Families

Fete Result: We are delighted to announce that our school fete has raised $7,040. This is an amazing result and we thank

everyone for their contribution. This money will be targeted towards the shade sail over the F-2 playground, being added to the

profit raised by PAFA in 2016. We are currently preparing a submission to the Wallan branch of the Bendigo Bank to see if we can

attract some additional funding for this project, as our planned fundraising from PAFA has been lower than we had hoped for in

2017. Also a late thank to Sharon Delaney and Duana Sharp who donated their time to face paint at the fete and also the students

who busked at the fete as the money raised from both of these events has been added to fete fundraising.

World Teachers’ Day: On Friday, we celebrated World Teachers’ Day at school assembly. We are extremely fortunate to have a

group of highly dedicated staff who go above and beyond for our students each and every day. Those staff at school on Friday

received a World Teachers’ Day certificate, a badge and a sticker from their classroom SRC representatives. Staff who were off

attending training courses will receive a certificate, sticker and badge on Monday. Thanks to Mr Fearn for your wonderful

certificate work! Two lovely platters of cakes were delivered to school by one of our mums Janine McKay on Friday morning as a

sign of her appreciation for the work our staff do. This was such a nice surprise and the treats were very much appreciated. As a

staff, we held a full staff morning tea on Monday to celebrate our amazing teaching staff. We are very fortunate!

Working Bee: The numbers were very small, but gee could they work! A huge thank you to AJ Russell, Amanda Russell,

Liam Russell, Pauline Bittles, Jacinta Robinson, Mathew Robinson, Colin Donohue, Elma O’Sullivan-Greene, Bret Stebbing,

Owen Macer, Gayani Ruwanpura, Yvette Curlis, Chris Tolevski and Chantal Tolevski who assisted us to complete the following

tasks:

Refill our sandpit

Fix the broken wire around our basketball court

Whipper snipper behind the portable classrooms on both blocks

Clean the block – trimming dangerous branches, collecting building rubbish,

raking broken branches and bark and popping it all onto three piles

Around 6:00 p.m. we then enjoyed a yummy sausage sizzle – thank you Amanda and Ros for cooking this as we were all pooped!

Our student helpers Mathew Robinson, Abby Miller, Liam Russell, Charli Russell, Noah Tolevski, Levi Tolevski and Hollie Tolevski

certainly enjoyed being the first students to play in the nice fresh sand just before we headed home.

Thank you, Wandong CFA: On Saturday, our Wandong CFA burnt off the piles of rubbish

we had created at the working bee. This was the last weekend for burn offs and we

sincerely thank them for assisting us to complete the clean-up of the block. We will now get

Michael, our mowing man, to come and give it a good mow before we have an “excursion to

the block”.

Woolworths Earn and Learn points: On Friday, we completed our order for our Earn and Learn points. Altogether we had

21,357 points to spend. A huge thank you to the families and community members that provided us with Woolworths tokens.

After discussion with our English and Mathematics coordinators, we have selected the following items which will arrive sometime

in term one:

English resources:

Two boxes of 20 purple levelled readers (levels …. to ….), two boxes of 20 silver levelled readers (levels …. to ….),

two boxes of 20 gold levelled readers (levels …. to ….) and magnetic handwriting class charts for teachers to use to

demonstrate and model writing

Mathematics resources:

Two boxes on 1000 unifix blocks, tub of spot dice and tub of decimal dice

Library:

Two large floor mats which feature games such as hopscotch and checkers

Sandplay:

Assorted scoop spades

Student leadership Day: On Monday, our grade six student leaders attended their final cluster student leadership day, joining student leaders from other local schools to listen to some amazing leaders in their fields. Over the course of the year, our students have visited four other schools and worked with our School Student Support Officer, Sharon Blackwell, to further develop and refine their leadership skills. They were once again amazing ambassadors for our school and enjoyed listening to Gary O’Brien (President of the Wallan Basketball Club), Broadford Secondary College students discussing their Anti-Bullying Program, Chris Brockwell (Wallan CFA) and Jane Marks (Vic Police Youth Resource Officer for the area).

A Message from the Principal Team…. (continued)

Kiss and Drop location: After lengthy discussions about Kiss and Drop at School Council last week, , we have decided to leave it

in Rail Street for the time being.

Melbourne Cup Weekend: School is on this Monday: A reminder to families that our school will be open this coming Monday

for business as usual.

Just a heads up – Oaks Day Dress up: Yes, it’s that time again when we all dress up like we are going to the races! On Thursday

of next week, we will hold our Oakes Day Dress up. Come as a lady or gent, a horse or a bookie. A fun parade will be held at

9:00 a.m. on the basketball court.

Parent information for grades for 2018: A reminder that this is due in writing to Mrs Cole by Friday 17th November. No late

information will be considered as we are on a very tight timeline.

Have a great week – Rhonda Cole

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL

SUPER READER’S CLUB:

Congratulations on 100 nights reading:

Lexie Mapperson.

Congratulations on 150 nights reading:

Millah Crawford and Madi Martyn-Jones.

Congratulations on 150 nights reading:

Byron Wright, Zehra Osman, Lilly Ricci and Amy Elliot

Congratulations

KIRRA

WRIGHT

on competing in the

State Athletics Finals on Monday

and placing 2nd in the 100, 200

and long jump.

WOW What an awesome achievement!

Mathematics and Specialist Subject Certificate Winners

Mathematics Award - Ainsley Rimmer

(Supporting her group to use a range of strategies in their Numeracy Fluency tasks)

Art Award - Chelsee Stuart

(Challenging herself to achieve her best in the presentation of her artwork)

ICAS Certificate Recipients

This year the school again participated in the International Competitions and Assessments

for Schools (ICAS). These are skills based tests where students are encouraged to

participate and measure their achievements in areas such as Spelling, Writing, English

and/or Mathematics. Congratulations to Mitchell, Natalie , Skylar and Aurora who are

pictured with their a mixture of ICAS certificates for Credit, Merit & Participation.

Premiers Reading Challenge

An annual event at Wandong Primary School is the Premiers Reading Challenge.

Congratulations to Nate, Reef, Jax, Madi, Tayla, Chloe, Brock, Skylar and Emmeline

who are pictured with their participation certificates

Write 4 Fun Certificate Winners

This year some of our students competed in the Write 4 Fun competition.

Congratulations to Hayley, Reuben, Jaedon, Caitlin, Joshua, Tyler, Kyle,

Brodan, Charli, Charlie, Peaches and Chloe who are pictured

with their participation certificates

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

Wallan & Kilmore Community Bank® branches

SEL Stars of the Week Award Congratulations to

Foundation - Kailee Harris, Indiana Brundell and Matilda Fitzgerald.

Grade 1/2 - Jonah Hazeldine and Lily Devitt.

Grade 3/4 - Alyssa Riddell and Diesel Vella.

Grade 5/6 - Thomas Downey, Imogen Maher and Lucas Bartolo.

These students were selected by their peers for identifying the weekly SEL focus in class.

Camp Helpers Grade 1 / 2 and 5 / 6 Camp Helpers

It is with much excitement that we can now announce our camp helpers for the upcoming Grade 1 / 2 and 5 / 6 Camps.

Grade 1 / 2 – Anthony C, Chris M, Glenn S and Chris F

Grade 5 / 6 – Amanda A and Ross H

We welcome them on board and look forward to having them as part of the 2017 Camping Program. Thank you to all those that put their hand up to help – we unfortunately cannot take you all.

WOW! … WHAT’S ON & WHAT’S DUE @WANDONG

NOVEMBER

Thursday 2nd 2018 Foundation Transition Session Three

Friday 3rd Foundation Camp to Bounce Inc

Grade 6 Graduation permission and payment due back today

Tuesday 7th Mellbourne Cup Day public holiday (no students required at school)

Wednesday 8th Think Links Multi Age Program (2:00pm to 3:30pm)

Thursday 9th 2018 Foundation Transition Session Four Oaks Day Dress Up day

Friday 10th Kilmore Men’s Shed Resilience Group excursion permission due back today

Monday 13th to Friday 17th

Grade 3-6 Term Four Swimming Program Kilmore Leisure Centre

Tuesday 14th PAFA Meeting (9:15am in the staffroom) Kilmore Men’s Shed Resilience Group excursion

Wednesday 15th Think Links Multi Age Program (2:00pm to 3:00pm)

Thursday 16th 2018 Foundation Transition Session Five

Thursday 16th to Friday 17th

Grade 1/2 Camp Campaspe Downs PGL Kyneton

Monday 20th to Friday 24th

Foundation - Grade 2 Term Four Swimming Program Kilmore Leisure Centre

Monday 20th School Council Meeting (6:00pm start in the staffroom)

Tuesday 21st Grade 6 Transition Program session

Friday 24th Grade 5/6 Bike Ed Trail Ride

2018 WPS Team Shirt orders and payments due back today

Monday 27th to Wednesday 29th

Grade 5/6 Surf Camp Anglesea

Tuesday 28th Grade 6 Transition Program

Thursday 30th PAFA Hot Dog day (Foundation to Grade 2)

What’s gone home recently?

The following notices were sent home between

Thursday 26th October & Wednesday 1st November:

Whole school: Nil

Selected Families: Nil

Selected Students:

Kilmore Men’s Shed Resilience Group excursion permission form

Individual grade levels: Nil

Foundation:

Last minute Foundation Bounce camp information

One/Two: Nil

Three/Four:

Excursion to the Royal Botanical Gardens permission & payment form

Five/Six: Nil

Spare copies of notices are in the school foyer in the grade level trays.

PARENT

PAYMENTS

RECEIVED

280 families at WPS.

180 Completed

payments

= 65 %

Have you

recently

asked your

child/ren.....

“What

did you

learn

today?”