26th February 2016 - Spotswood Primary School
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26th February 2016 - Spotswood Primary School
‘Where everybody is somebody’ Term 1 Week 5 Friday 26th February 2016 Dear Families, Learning This week at Spotswood we met one of our new school mascots, Osamu the Owl. Osamu represents our value of learning and yesterday our year 5/6 students taught a mini lesson in each class about this value as they introduced Osamu to the students. You can read all about it further in the newsletter. Next week we will meet our safety mascot! Japan Day!! Don’t forget that Tuesday is Japan Day at Spotswood Primary next week! We hope you can join us for a special parade on Tuesday morning just after 9:00am. Our Japanese visitors will be dressing up in traditional Japanese dress and we encourage all of our students to come dressed with ‘a taste of Japan’. This could be a karate outfit, something made of Japanese fabric, a white T-Shirt with a red circle representing the flag, Hello Kitty, anything you may have that is Japanese in flavour. Bush Dance Friday 18th March, 6:00pm – 8:30pm We have had a great response so far to our Bush Dance, we hope lots of families are able to join us for a great social event. We have included the note again in the newsletter this week with all the information. Swimming Today 18 students from Year 3-6 are attending the District Swimming Carnival at VU Footscray pool. We look forward to hearing how they go! Follow along with us! If you are interested in a glimpse into our Art Room, Mrs Asp has started an Instagram account and you can follow along at spotswood.art and see some of the things happening. We also have a school twitter account now @spottypstweets if you’d like to follow some of our school tweets. Return form for SMS Messages for parents Return RSVP for Prep Information Night (current Prep families) Return RSVP for Bush Dance / Family Night Complete and return Hockey Tournament note and $15.00 (Hockey Team) Complete and return School Nursing Program questionnaire (Preps) Pay 2016 Books & Resources Levy Pay Term 1 Guitar fees …continued on next page Spotswood Primary School To Do Notes / Forms / Reminders Pay Term 1 Keyboard fees Ph: 9391 1323 www.spotswoodps.vic.edu.au Message from the Principal…continued Teddy Bears’ Picnic My 50 year old teddy came along to the Preps and Buddies Teddy Bears’ Picnic this week. After playing a few games of ‘Bear Hug Tiggy’ and reading a story together, we all shared our lunch together with our bears. The 5/6 students brought their teddies along too and I must say, I think they were even more excited than the preps! Our preps will be here full time next week ! School Council Thank you to parents and staff for their interest in School Council, we have filled all of our positions and I would like to welcome back some returning School Councillors as well as some new faces for this year. 2016 School Council members Parents: Brad McColl Lucy Francis Garry Drougas David Murphy Lucy Lines Nathalie Jugovic Mark Wityk Jo Bandy-Renkin Tony Schibeci Staff: Jackie Green Ben Anstey Chris Lamb Tianne Ball Assembly Well done to 3/4H on your assembly item this week. The Preps and children in Grade 1/2T will be presenting an item at assembly on Monday. Class Captains On Monday at assembly I will be presenting our class captains with their badges. Our class captains are: Prep B Oliver Gale & Scarlett Linares Prep T Nate Attwood & Emily Pergl-Tormai 1/2T Mindl Smith & Harper Weldehagen 1/2B Desi Hardie & Jessica Blakemore …continued on next page Spotswood Primary School Ph: 9391 1323 www.spotswoodps.vic.edu.au Message from the Principal…continued 1/2H Finn Renkin & Caterina Miller 1/2SC Amelia Frazer & Jayvier Virk 3/4E Charlotte Kerr & Kellan Lester-Hosking 3/4L Kei Weldhagen & Shauna Clarke 3/4H Ella Tucker & Flynn Murphy 5/6R Luka Tyndale-Biscoe & Georgie Meager House Captains and eLearning Leaders Congratulations to our student leaders in Year 6 who were presented with their badges on Monday. Jackie Green Principal Spotswood Primary School Ph: 9391 1323 www.spotswoodps.vic.edu.au Lessons by 5/6R “Hi! I’m Osamu Owl.” This week all the 5/6 students taught the Prep-4’s about Osamu the Owl. Osamu the Owl is the new school mascot for the school value of learning. Osamu means discipline and study in Japanese. Three 5/6’s went to each class and did different activities with each class. In grade 3/4 we asked the students what the word learning means to them. We used the website Tagxedo to make a handprint with all of their ideas. We found teaching the grade 3/4’s a bit challenging but pretty fun at the same time. By Charlie Boulton and Nik Savic What’s New on our Community Notice Board Reuse it Baby! Market this Sunday Spotswood Auskick Barnstoneworth United Junior Football Club Newport Lakes Primary School Twilight Fete Girls Wanted for Soccer with Yarraville Glory FC FC Williamstown Junior Registration Single Parents Active Kids Free Family Fun Day Spotty Calendar Monday 29th February Preps commence 5 days per week Tuesday 1st March Japan Day Wednesday 2nd March Tackers Active Schools Sailing Program Week 3 (5/6R) Monday 7th March Parent Information Night for current Prep parents Wednesday 9th March Tackers Active Schools Sailing Program Week 4 (5/6R) Friday 18th March Bush Dance / Family Night (6pm-8.30pm) Thursday 24th March Last Day of Term 1 (2.30pm dismissal) Run for the Kids Igor Jugovic (Luka and Kaya’s Dad) has registered a Spotswood Primary School team for this year’s Run for the Kids event to be held on Sunday 20th March. A team from Spotswood Primary has been involved in this great cause for the Royal Children’s Hospital each year for the past 6 years. If you would like to join the Spotswood team go to http://www.runforthekids.com.au/entrants/ and click on ‘Enter Now’, choose your distance and click ‘Select’, then click on ‘Join a Team’. Search for ‘SPSRunners’ and add yourself and your family members using the password ‘spotswood’. Children are invited to enter as well as their parents and extended family. All proceeds go to the RCH. * more details to follow Spotswood Primary School Ph: 9391 1323 www.spotswoodps.vic.edu.au Student Awards Congratulations to the following students who received ‘Student of the Week’ awards at assembly on Monday: Prep B Prep T 1/2B 1/2H 1/2SC 1/2T 3/4E 3/4H 3/4L 5/6R Lily A – showing excellent initiative and organisation during independent work time and when packing up! Joshua S – showing excellent independent reading skills by sitting quietly and focusing on his book. Keep it up! Wilhemina – her creative and imaginative story about a flying giraffe Holly – an imaginative and hilarious story, created from her writers notebook. Great writing! Keep it up! Marcus – your superb effort in skip counting by 10’s starting at different numbers! Harper – striving to do his best and taking risks with his learning Charlotte – enthusiastically contributing to class discussions Wes – always listening and being ready to learn in all sessions Amelie M – being a lovely girl with a fantastic attitude towards school Dash – being an all-round good guy all the time. He always demonstrates respect, responsibility and happiness Jessie – being confident and ‘setting sail’ at the yacht club last Wednesday! Happy Birthday Happy Birthday to: Will Lost! A bunch of keys have been lost at the school. If you find them could you please hand them in at the office. They have a beaded key ring on them as well as a remote control for a garage door. Thank you! Spotswood Primary School Ph: 9391 1323 www.spotswoodps.vic.edu.au OSHClub News Before School / After School Care Program Program Update Hello everyone! This week we have been exploring the theme of Pirates and Mermaids. The children have made some wonderful Pirate-y creations! This week’s Oshclub super-star award goes to Oscar for his amazing Science ideas and leadership initiative. CONGRATULATIONS! EXCITING NEWS! THIS THURSDAY!! Phoenix and Taj’s Origami lessons!! Next Week’s Activities Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Squirrel and Before Nature colour Autumn window Autumn Autumn leaves sun acorn Autumn sheets scenes scarecrow craft catcher Care craft Activities After Care Activities Autumn pinwheel LILYS SCIENCE ORIGAMI COOKING WEDNESDAY: CLUB: Cranes CLUB: Autumn Cloud in a jar and bears scones Autumn leaves garland Parent Information OSHC program phone: 0423 728 739 OSHClub Head Office: 03 85649000 Coordinator: Michelle Antoniou Assistants: Danielle, Mary, Ronisha and Antiha All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is Free!! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via your online account. For on the day bookings please contact the Coordinator direct at the program. Spotswood Primary School Ph: 9391 1323 www.spotswoodps.vic.edu.au Week 2 of Sailing – 5/6R Spotswood Primary School Ph: 9391 1323 www.spotswoodps.vic.edu.au Bush Dance and Family Night Friday 18th March 6:00pm - 8:30pm (The Bush Dance will start at 6.30pm) Families are all invited to come and join in our Bush Dance and picnic dinner. This is a great chance to all get together as a community to welcome our new families to Spotswood Primary and catch up with each other. Bring: Chairs, tables, rug and all of your own food and drinks Where: Basketball Court Live Music: The Terry Cole Trio will be playing and calling the dances Don’t worry if you don’t know how to Bush Dance, it’s very easy to learn on the go and our students will be experts having attended a workshop at school in the week leading up to Friday night. So come along and do-si-do your partner, it should be a lot of fun. There will be a donation bucket to assist with the cost, suggested amount is $10 per family. RSVP To assist us with setting up, please indicate if you are planning to attend. .......................................................................................................................................... Bush Dance and Family Night Friday 18th March Family:______________________________________________ No. of adults: __________________ No. of children:_________________________ Spotswood Primary School Ph: 9391 1323 www.spotswoodps.vic.edu.au