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Warranwood

Primary School www.warranwood.vic.edu.au

Term 4, Week 5

Thursday 6th November, 2014

WHAT’S ON?

November 6 Big Day in - Junior School iPad Information night 2015 Foundation Orientation 7 Madagascar DVD order Kurburoo Kinder visit to Senior School 12 Sundaes on a Wednesday for $2 17 Foundation Production 18 Foundation Production 24 Parents Assoc meeting 27 Keyboard concert @ lunchtime 28 2015 Foundation Orientation

Principal ROSEMARY FALZON FAREWELL Our long standing, and now recently retired, canteen manager Rosemary Falzon is back in the country and rev-elling in her retirement. We will be formally farewelling Rosemary at the morning assembly on Monday 17 No-vember. This will allow students to be part of the farewell, and of course any parents who would like to attend! A quick and highly dubious calculation would suggest that Rosemary was responsible for making well over 50,000 lunches in the time she was working in the canteen school! That commitment is definitely worth celebrating!

FREE DENTAL SERVICE Later in the newsletter you will find a flyer for Dental Health Services Victoria service in Ringwood. If you are in receipt of the Family Tax Benefit A or similar government payments any 2-17 year old child is eligible for free dental treatment. You can access the service at the Ringwood office (call 9259 4900). We are also in the pro-cess of organising the DHSV Dental Van to visit the school early in 2015.

LONG WEEKEND The Melbourne Cup weekend is always a good mid-term break, especially when Christmas is rushing towards us. Next week will see us half way through the term! There are of course many things happening before the end of the year. Fun, but tiring for all!

ANOTHER REMINDER - SEMESTER 2 REPORTS ONLINE!! As part of our transition to the COMPASS online system, we will be using a new reporting system this semester. This report will be available online and NOT printed off for each family. The process will allow families to print or share the reports with other family members. Similarly to the move to online newsletters the online reports is a sustainable practice in place in many schools (most of those families with secondary students will be familiar with such a system). As well as the environmental benefits, reduction in paper and printing costs, there will be many hours of work saved for our office staff and teachers. The reports will follow a similar, but hopefully im-proved format to previous reports.

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Assistant Principal Parenting Students Transitioning from Year 6 Attached in the newsletter are details of a transition seminar for parents of year 6 students. Have a look and see if this might interest you. Curriculum Day On Monday staff spent the morning working on building our School Strategic Plan. We had some very meaning-ful discussions around how to improve student learning outcomes and we look forward to putting these together in our plan. Reporting Week Next week is reporting week. Classes will have their specialists on one day and staff in that area will work on their reporting. The schedule is as follows: Monday – Middle School Tuesday – Foundation Wednesday – Senior School Thursday – Junior School Friday – Specialists Mia Next week Mia will be attending camp with Croydon Hills PS. Our sharing arrangement is fantastic because it means Mia can attend all camps for both schools. We hope she has a great time at Coonawarra and we look forward to seeing her the following week. Brady Brady is a very special individual. In spite of facing his own challenges he shows great empathy for others. Brady donated his birthday presents to the Royal Children’s Hospital. He noticed on one of his treatment visits that the board games were a bit scarce for patients. Brady has organised ‘Brady’s Great RCH Board Game Challenge’. He plans to collect as many new board games as he can in the next few weeks and donate them to the hospital. He will be speaking at next week’s assembly and encourages any family who would like to donate a new (due to health regulations) board game to drop it off at the office.

Parentline

Parenting is not always easy. From time to time, all families can benefit from extra support.

Parentline is a Department service which began in 1998. It provides information, support, and referral services to parents from 8am to midnight seven days a week.

Whether you’re struggling with everyday tasks, or simply wish to discuss parenting ideas, Parentline is a valuable source of counselling and assistance.

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The qualified and experienced social workers and psychologists who staff the service answer approximately 13,000 calls per year from parents from all backgrounds looking for support and advice. They will work with you to better understand your relationships and personal situations to help you to develop strategies which are tailored to your individual needs. Parenting is challenging, but Parentline can help you to develop positive coping strategies, allowing you more freedom to enjoy your time with your children.

You can ring Parentline on 13 22 89.

Sue

PARENTS ASSOCIATION REPORT

School Fun Run! Once again thank you to everyone who participated, came to support and has done fundraising for the School Fun Run! It was a great day had by all, and please see attached for some fun photos from the day! Just a reminder that ALL forms and collected money for the school fun run MUST be handed in by 12

th November to be able claim your prizes!!!!

Cooking Companion We can’t wait to read what the MasterChefs of Warranwood are able to create! Please submit your recipe as soon as possible. Election Day BBQ (29th November) By now you would have received the note asking for volunteers to man Warranwood BBQ's for the Election Day BBQ. Fundraising BBQ's do require community support so if you can spare some time on Election Day please let your class rep know! Christmas Disco We promised it would be back by popular demand, and it is! Save the date of 12

th December for the School Disco, more

information will follow but there will be dinner, drink and icy pole provided. We will also be selling show bags, which were a hit at last years disco!

Saturday 29th November - Election Day BBQ

Friday 5th December - Twilight Market

Friday 12th December - Christmas Disco

Sports News The SSV athletic program culminated with the State Athletics Championship last week. Rhys H ran in the 100m and 200m events. He finished out of the placing but ran a PB in the 100m. Congratulations Rhys. Senior school students competed in the District T20 Blast last Friday and our 7 teams really did have a blast, conduct-ed themselves brilliantly and learnt more about team sports and cricket. Our top boy team finished second overall. The Junior School will continue the fun activities presented in their regular Junior Athletics on Wednesdays with a PE ele-ment included in the Big Day In being held today / tonight. I can’t wait! Rod Neal

PRESENTATION TIME!!!!!! N.S.W. University ENGLISH TEST Over the past few months students at Warranwood have been participating and competing in many competitions. We have had science, computer skills and spelling challenges taking place across both Middle and Senior Schools. To acknowledge the excellent performances and achievements of our students all awards from Merit to Distinction will be presented to the students at assembly this week, Monday 10

th November to acknowledge these great efforts.

We have returned only the scoring information sheet for those who have received awards and the certificate will be presented at assembly. All other participation certificates and information sheets have been returned to students to take home. Please feel free to come along and take a happy snap of the presentation to your loved one. Well done everyone. Shane Harrop Wellbeing and Enrichment Coordinator

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Canteen News

Canteen is now open for over the counter sales on a Wednesday, there are no lunch or-

ders available on this day.

A reminder, Tomato Sauce now comes in a squeezable sachet at a cost of 15c per sachet.

We continue to offer Meal Deals in the canteen until the end of Term 4

~ Meal Deal 1~ Hot Dog with a BIG M Chocolate or Strawberry milk

and a Homemade Choc Chip Mini Muffin $5.00

~ Meal Deal 2~

MINI Steamed Dim Sims 4 per serve (soy sauce on request)

with a BIG M Chocolate or Strawberry milk and a Homemade Choc Chip Mini Muffin

$3.50 If you are unable to attend canteen on the day you are rostered please contact me in advance. On 0419 387 370.

Canteen Roster, Term 4, 2014

Regards

Megan Parker

Sundaes on a Wednesday Next Wednesday, 12th November the student school leaders will be selling sundaes at the Canteen for $2

Friday, 7 November Robyn Abicair Megan Deayton Jenny Brown

Monday, 10 November Kate Braunthal Bec Parry

Tuesday, 11 November Sonia Greaves

Wednesday, 12 November Canteen Closed

Thursday, 13 November Luisa Pentland

Friday, 14 November Connie Panagiotopoulos Jody Oakley Cara Mooney

Shauna McIntosh

Monday, 17 November Sylda Jones

Tuesday, 18 November Jacqui Coia Matoula Gatsoulis

Wednesday, 19 November Canteen Closed

Thursday, 20 November Joanne Hales

Friday, 21 November Leigh Church Lisa Marshall Kerrin Naismith

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Community

Announcements…..

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Be a part of our team

In 2015

New Players Welcome

Registration Day

Wednesday 26th

November

Contact Chris Leahy 0412 816 353

www.nrjfc.com.au

Junior Club Rooms

North Ringwood Reserve

Wonga Road, North Ringwood