Around Antonio

Principal

Karen Patten

Assistant Principal

Jan MacDonald

Assistant Principal

Annette Hayes

631-639 Whitehorse Rd

Mitcham 3132

Ph 9874 4371

Fax 9873 5505

E-mail address : antonio.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Web Site : www.antoniops.vic.edu.au

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27 June 2013 Issue 20

Friday

28 June

Last day of Term 2

2.30pm finish

Monday

15 July

First day of Term 3

Monday

29 July

School Council

Wednesday

31 July

ICAS English

Tuesday

13 August

ICAS Maths

Thursday

15 August

Prep Transition

1.30-3pm

Thursday

22 August

Prep Transition

1.30-3pm

Thursday

29 August

Prep Transition

1.30-3pm

Aussie of the week

Congratulations to everyone celebrating a

birthday this week.

Dear Antonio Park Families,

School Performances

Well done to our aerobics teams who competed in the

State Championships last Saturday. All students

‘shined’ on stage and it was great to see them having

fun!

The Trouble Makers, Sensational Seven, Dazzling

Daisies, Dazzling Stars, Dazzling Dolphins and

Sparkling Tigers competed in the morning and did

really well. In the afternoon, the Rock Breakers,

Diamonds, Little Diamonds, Girl Rockers, Dazzling

Dolphins, Mischief Makers, Start Struck, Little Tackers

and Party Rockers competed in their different divisions.

Four of our teams, Start Struck, Little Tackers, Party

Rockers and Mischief Makers will be competing at the

National Championships at the Gold Coast in August.

Well done! Congratulations to coordinator, Natalie

Mackay and coaches Lauren Croxford, Stacey Gamble,

Courtney Camm, Jana Densem Alec Baroni and

Christine Ewan who give their own time to training ses-

sions, to the students who train so hard and to our

parents who support the program. It is through the

dedication of the students, coaches and parents that

the APPS aerobic program continues to flourish. See

inside this week’s newsletter for photos and places for

all of our teams...an amazing feat.

Staff Leave

Mrs Mac and I will be taking Long Service Leave at the

beginning of next term. I will be taking the first three

weeks and Mrs Mac will be taking two weeks from

Wednesday 24th July returning on Monday. During my

leave Mrs Mac or Mrs Hayes will be Acting Principal.

Holidays

It’s hard to believe another term has come to an end.

Students, teachers and education support staff are to

be congratulated on a wonderful term! We thank our

parents for all their support over the term with the many

ways they have helped in the school.

I would like to wish staff and students a safe, happy

and relaxing holiday...recharging those batteries ready

for another wonderful term of learning and experiences.

Next term will see us getting ready for our school

production. The Prep to Year 4 students performing

song and dance to the Disney theme and the Level 4

students will be performing a childrens version of A

Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)

A Kidsummer Nights Dream. Tickets will be available

on line. There will be more information about purchas-

ing tickets coming out early next term.

Karen Patten

Friday 28th June is

The last day of term.

2.30pm finish.

Assistant Principals

It has been a wonderful and busy last week of Term in Level 2. We have finished learning about mapping and location and are working with place value of numbers. It would be fantastic if the students could practise reading large numbers at home. We are finishing our information reports this week. There will be some writing pieces up on display in the hallway of the main building at the end of this week! Please take some time to have a look at all the wonderful work. Keep bringing in the swimming forms. The small green and white enve-lope needs to be signed and the orange medical form needs to be filled out on both sides.

Parent/Student/Teacher conferences were held on Tuesday this week and it was great to see all the students sharing the wonderful work they have completed this semester with their parents. Have a relaxing and safe holidays everyone! Level 2 Team

What’s Happening In Level 1?

What’s Happening In Level 2?

Congratulations to Level 1 students on completing your second semester at school. Your enthusiasm, hard work and positive attitudes towards school and learning is outstanding. All Level 1 teachers are extremely proud of how independent you all have become and the pride you are taking in your achievements. We are looking forward to next term and watching you develop and further enhance your knowledge and skills. We would once again like to thank all of the parent helpers and PMP helpers for this term. The support is fantastic and we are looking for-ward to seeing you next term. Thank you to all the parents who attended the Parent/Student/Teacher conference. It was fantastic to meet with you and discuss your child’s progress and to allow your child to present to you all their hard work

they have been doing at school and to celebrate their achievements. Level 1 students have thoroughly enjoyed learning about safety this term. Students were highly engaged and keen participants in all safety incur-sions. Next semester we will be learning about ‘’Health” and what we need to do to keep ourselves fit and healthy in our active lifestyles. Our students will be celebrating 100 days at school on Monday 29th July. On this day we come to school dressed up in something to do with the number 100. For example as a 100W light globe, a 100 year old person, 100kph speed sign. Use the holidays to plan and prepare your child's costume! We also have a lunch party to celebrate on this day and a note will go home early in Term 3 giving you more details about this. Have a safe, relaxing and enjoyable holiday! Level 1 Team.

It was wonderful to see so many parents at school this week, sharing their child’s achievements with their teacher. The conferences are a great way

to discuss goals for the future with everyone at the discussion. Enjoy browsing through the Student Portfolio with your family over the

holidays. Library A big thank you: to Margit for helping us every Monday in the library…cataloguing, mending, tidying etc…it has been fantastic…and to Leanne

for covering all our beautiful books ready for us to share…wonderful! EARN AND LEARN Thank you to everyone who has been collecting the Woolworth’s Earn &

Learn stickers! The competition has ended and we have lots to count! Lauren E would like all stickers in by tomorrow, as she will be sending in our collection…we hope to win some great resources for our school.

Thank you to Lauren for organising this event! Have a great relaxing time with family and friends! Annette & Jan

(these are our chairs waiting for us!)

School Photos

Advancedlife Photography have advised that school photos will be sent home the first or

second week of term 3.

What’s Happening In Level 3?

It was lovely meeting up with parents and students to discuss your child’s progress and their school life experiences. Congratulations to all of our level 3 students who spoke confidently and showed great enthusiasm and pride when sharing their work and achievements. We have been focusing on time throughout maths sessions and it has been great to see students wearing an analogue watch to school and ensuring our sessions are running to schedule. It would be great if parents could continue this learning at home and throughout the holidays, ask your child to tell you the time, can they say it a different way? How many minutes until their favourite t.v show? How long do they sleep for? How long does it take them to get ready, seconds, minutes, hours? What time do they go to bed, what is this in 24hr time? It would be wonderful to see more analogue watches being worn to support your child’s learning. Take a peep at our sensational Inquiry unit pictures. The students were asked to create a package that preserves, contains, attracts, informs, is con-venient and protects a product. They were required to plan, design and present an imaginary package, showing their understanding of the unit. They presented their package to a class member for a peer assessment. Fantastic work Level 3 students. Thanks for a fabulous semester and have a relaxing holiday. Level 3 Team

What’s Happening In Level 4?

How time goes by fast! It is hard to believe that we are at the end of the term. We have certainly been busy and had a great time together! Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences Our student lead Parent/Student/Teacher Discussions this week were enjoyable and informative. Thank you to those of you who were able to attend and participate in the celebration of your child’s achievements. Level 4 Sport This Friday is our Pyjama and Crazy Hair Day, students are expected to wear their sports uniforms to school and change into their pyjamas after sport. We will be playing against Donvale Christian College in the morning be-tween 9.00 and 11.00 am. The following teams are playing at home: Vol-

leyball, Bat Tennis, Netball(C)& Football. These teams are playing away: Netball (girls & mixed), Softball (both teams), and Soccer. Wishing you a safe and relaxing holiday. See you next term! Level 4 Team

Office News

Please be aware that cash payments

cannot be accepted at the office on the

last day of term

28th June.

School will finish at 2.30 on this day.

Mathletics ERRIC 17 th June Semester One Junior School Council

National

Semester One Environmental Leaders

ANTONIO PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL AEROBICS WILDCARD AND PREMIERSHIP STATE FINAL

GEELONG—SATURDAY 22ND JUNE

A huge thank you to our wonderful coaches, parents, teachers and

community members who came to Geelong and cheered our sensa-

tional students along! It was a brilliant day and our success was

certainly measured by the smiles and hugs that were seen on the

day!

Congratulations to all teams and we are extremely excited to an-

nounce our best ever results, with 4 teams receiving a

place into the National Championships in Queensland in mid

August!

Amazing effort APPS students you were brilliant performers.

Mischief Makers– 2nd Place

Little Tackers - 2nd Place Starstruck - 1st Place

Party Rockers - 3rd Place

National

National

National National

Rock Breakers - 6th Place

The Little Diamonds - 4th Place

Diamonds - 5th Place

Girl Rockers - 2nd Place

State Premiership

Dazzling Dolphins – 7TH Place

Dazzling Daisies – 4th Place Sparkling Tigers – 3rd Place

Dazzling Stars – 2nd Place

Dazzling Dolphins – 1st Place

Sensational Seven - 3rd Place

Wildcard Competition

Trouble Makers - 7th Place

EDUCATION MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE

E.M.A. Eligible parents may apply for an education maintenance allowance at the school their children attend. To be eligible for the second instalment a parent must hold a current Centrelink Pensioner Concession or Health Care Benefit

Card, or a Veterans Affairs (TPI) pensioner card, or be a foster parent as at the first day of Term 3, (July 15, 2013). If your family is eligible and did not complete an application in Semester 1, please collect an application form from the office,

complete and return by Friday, August 2.

COMMUNITY NOTICES (Please check the Community Noticeboard for further details)

Heatherdale Pre School is celebrating its 60th Birthday with a ‘High Tea’ on Saturday 13th July 2-4pm. Please RSVP to Sarah by 24th

June at heatherdale60th@gmail.com

Sunday Funday at Stairway Church, July14, 12.00-3.30pm. Activities include: snow area, devonshire tea, jumping castles, BBQ, animal

farm, food stalls and much more. 171 Rooks Rd Vermont.

Steam Trains for kids at Maldon Station, 13th &14th July. Ph 5470 6658 for more information.

Louise Multicultural Community Centre Kids School Holiday Program is running a Fun Fitness Workshop on Wednesday 10th July, 12.30-2.30 at Fitness Worx, 2/1 Monomeeth Dve MItcham. Suitable for 4-14 year olds and free coffee for parents. RSVP to

ckung@aanet.com.au

School Holiday Tennis Clinics for juniors and adults of all ability levels. 1st to 3rd July at Parkwood Tennis Club. Enquiries and book-

ings to Sue on 9876 3266 or 0437 199 603.

Camp Australia:

We are now in our last week of term! Holidays are just around the corner, we are still taking

bookings please check our website www.campaustralia.com.au or call 1300 105 343 to make your

booking. For further information you can call us on 0412 545 042 or speak to one of our friendly

staff. We are also opened at 2.30pm on Friday 28th as school finishes early. We have lots of fun

activities for our last day of school! Stay warm everyone and see you soon.

Canteen

There will be no canteen on the last day of term, 28th June.

School will finish at 2.30 on this day.

The second hand uniform shop will

be open on Monday 15th July

in the foyer of the hall.

3pm—4pm

Aussie of the Week Awards

1LF Will S For always giving 100% in all tasks. You have such an excellent attitude towards learning. Keep it up. 1EA Stella K For doing kind things for her classmates. It brightens our day. 1SG Ashleigh D For your growing confidence and willingness to have a go when writing. Well done and keep up the

great work. 2BC Hudson G For his continuing effort in all literacy tasks. You have grown so much over the term. 2CC James P For being a responsible and independent member of 2CC! It is great to see you working hard and

achieving your best! 2CE Heidi T For your amazing information report on the Berlin wall. Congratulations! 2CN Lauren F For her excellent Information Report about her ‘fancy’ house. Great work Lauren. 2JS Adrian H For confidently sharing his information report on his ‘awesome’ family with his grade. 2LE Kyan A For improving his effort towards learning tasks. It is great to see you working harder and trying your

best. Keep it up! 2SP Samarra W For being a happy and helpful member of 2SP. We will miss you Samarra! Good luck at your new

school! 3AB Malachie D For continually striving to achieve your personal best! Well done! 3BR Mitchell C For being a responsible and independent worker. Keep up the hard work! 3DH Taliah P For always putting in her best to all learning tasks and doing so with a can do attitude. Keep up the

great work Taliah! 3JD 3JD For a great first half of the year. Have a lovely week. See you next term. 3NM Dion C For your amazing clock work, fantastic time facts and sensational skills reading time. 3RM Alannah O For being a confident and resilient learner. No challenge is too big or small for you Alannah. I am so

impressed with the way you approach your school work. 4CH Dom R For his Information Reports on the Tasmanian Devil and Marc Murphy. Well done! For being a cooper-

ative and conscientious member of the grade. 4KD Alex G For your Information Report about The First Fleet. Your research skills were very detailed and your

presentation was outstanding. 4KT Jess J For striving hard to increase your mathematics knowledge-an impressive effort, keep it up! 4RF Shae H For stepping out of your comfort zone and sharing your beautiful voice with the school community. You

did a fabulous job Shae-well done! 4MN Matilda B For being a self motivated and independent learner! I love that you’re not afraid to ask questions and

are always trying to be the best that you can be! Keep it up! Library 2BC For borrowing the most books for Level 2 this term. Great reading! PE Leroy S For always being safe and supportive of your classmates. Great work!