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CAMPUS PRINCIPAL HEATHER LEARY Term 4 Week 8 of 10

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Fri 13 Dec Whole School Assembly - Clarke

Campus 9.30am

Wed 18 Dec Christmas Fun Day @ Waller

Th 19 Dec Final campus assembly 2pm

Fri 20 Dec End of Term 1.00pm

Salvation Army Christmas Appeal

Waller Campus is very happy to be supporting

the Salvation Army with the Christmas Appeal.

This means that we are encouraging families to

go and buy a present for someone who is not as

fortunate as themselves.

Please don’t wrap the present as then the elves

can work out the right present for the right child.

We appreciate your help with this.

Christmas Fun Day at WallerChristmas Fun Day at WallerChristmas Fun Day at Waller

On Wednesday 18 December we are having a

party with all of our friends at Waller Campus to

celebrate Christmas. Dress up in something

festive with tinsel, reindeer antlers or santa hat.

We are selling a ‘snag in bread’ for $1 and a

slushie for 50c. The DJ is getting ready with

some groovy music for a disco and the day is all

about fun fun fun!

Parent’s wanting to help out and have a fun day

please see Yonnie.

Benalla P-12 College

Waller St Campus Highlights

Tyrese with one of THREE buckets of

Broad Beans harvested.. Good job Tyrese!

We won! Benalla Health The students from Grade 1/2 at Waller campus Benalla P-12 college participated in an art work competition for Be-

nalla Health. They made small posters about their per-sonal links to services by Benalla Health such as visiting

emergency, having an X-ray or needing a doctor.

These pieces of art work were used to decorate their ‘Quality of Care Annual Report’. Benalla Health with the

CEO, Andrew and Beverley came to school and presented our school with a check for $300.

Our Students of the Week

25 November2013

2 December 2013

Swimming Program - P-2

The swimming program was a huge success!

It’s always fun when children squeal, laugh and

are obviously having lots of fun while learning at

the same time!

Thank you to Jessica Noonan and all the staff

who helped in the water - it makes a huge differ-

ence to the program.

GREAT OPPORTUNITY

Student Scholarships 2013-14

Students in Year 4-12 are invited to apply for student

scholarship administered by the Department.

The scholarships open on Monday 18 November 2013

and range in value from $350 to $2000.

Scholarships are also offered to VCE students who in-

tend to enter a teacher training course after completing

their VCE.

Applicants will be required to submit their 2013 end-of-

year results, which must be verified by their principals.

Many of the scholarships identify financial needs as an

eligibility criterion. Parents/guardians receiving the Ed-

ucation Maintenance Allowance or families receiving

Centrelink payments meet this criterion.

Applications are open on line and must be lodged by 31

January 2014.

Thank you!

A special little thank you to Saskia Gargan,

Arlia & Torah Heeps mum for always collat-

ing the Scholastic BookClub for us.

Sass co-ordinates this without a word and

delivers the books wrapped and ready to

distribute to you. Thanks Sass for making a

difference to our school.

Also to Eric (Alia and Torah’s Dad) for all the

mulch for our garden. It has been perfect to

keep our plants as hydrated as possible.

Thank you!

Uniform Shop 2013

We wish to advise that the Uniform Shop operat-ing from the Faithfull Street Campus Hall will be open the following days and times in January:

Thursday 16th January 10am – 5pm

Friday 17th January 10am – 5pm

Saturday 18th January 10am – 4pm

For those wanting to pre-order for collection on these days please phone, fax or email your order to the details above. A freight service is available for those who want to avoid the crowds. Please

note charges apply.

Benalla P-12 College Yearbook

Order 2013

We have sent home an order form for these wonderful

books. The forms must be returned by Monday 9 De-

cember.

Thank you

Hamish, Kayleigh, Bailey, Cameron, Amelia, Matt,

Sienna and Lillian.

Also all of Ms Brown’s 1/2 class, Miss Challman’s 1/2

class and Mrs Weaires Group 1 of swimming

Midian, Will, Coby, Montell, Mathilda and Jakayla.

Bradley and Lillian

After School Care

Dear families,

Please find attached the program for 11 days of Vacation Care during January 2014. Once again we have a fun packed program with a variety of excursions, arts and crafts and visiting specialists.

We are looking forwarded to the Wheelchair Education program, where children can learn about living with a disa-bility and experience wheelchair skills. Our trip to the Kialla Strawberry Farm will allow children to learn about

growing strawberries and they will have the opportunity to pick a punnet each at the farm and be treated to straw-

berry ice-cream. We will travel to Shepparton Aquamoves pool two twice during the holidays, however as an alter-native on the second week, a group will also be also be attending the Benalla Pool on the same day.

Please ensure that your child is dressed in Sun Smart clothing and is provided with a cold drink and healthy snacks and lunch for each day. Cut up fresh fruit and vegies are always great in the lunchbox with fresh salad sandwich-

es.

Accounts have recently been posted to all families up to the end of November. These need to be fully paid prior to a booking being taken for the January holidays.

If you have any queries, please contact the After School Care staff or email Anne on [email protected]

OSHCS Administration

Benalla P-12 College

5762 2600

Olympic Support for our

Swimmers This coming Saturday Benalla Swimming Club is holding its

annual Long Course competition at the Benalla Sports and

Aquatic Centre. The outdoor 50m pool will be up and going

thanks to the hard work of the centre and council staff. Swim-

mers from Benalla, surrounding districts and Melbourne will

gather to compete for medals, and seek qualifying times for

the State Country Championships in January.

Swimmers will have the privilege of having 2 time Olympian

Belinda Hocking attend the meet, and will hopefully be treat-

ed to a demonstration swim and skills clinic. Belinda will also

present some of the medals, and provide some popular auto-

graphs. Belinda originally swum with the Benalla Swimming

club, and has since represented Australia in 2 Olympics, and

three world championships, winning a Silver medal in the re-

cent 2013 World Championships in Barcelona in the 200m

Backstroke.

Come along and support the local swimmers at this meet,

who have been training hard and preparing for a great Sum-

mer. You can grab a sausage from the BBQ, and cheer our

young swimmers on. The swimmers warm up from 12 noon

and the meet kicks off at 1pm. Any enquiries about swim club,

please call Richard Mailer 0429177044.

Benalla Library has a summer of fun

activities planned.

Please book by phoning 57622069

Wednesday 8th January at 2.00pm. “Games & Mys-terious Newspaper Craft” Wednesday 15th January at 3.00pm. “Red & the Bookworm Family” Puppet Show Wednesday 22nd January at 3.00pm. “Let’s be a detective” Fun craft and activities .

Waller Street Campus

JANUARY 2014 VACATION CARE 8.30am to 6.00pm

Please find below details of the 11 day, January Vacation Care Program. We will be running the pro-gram at Waller Street Campus in the Multi Purpose Room, with a special activity on each day. The program includes some excursions where we will travel on a hired bus with driver.

The cost of the program will be based on $38.00 per day. Additional charges apply for some special days, as indicated below. Please note that the cost for activities will be charged to the parent account at the end of the program and needs to be paid in full on receipt of the account.

All families are eligible to claim some level of Child Care Benefit (CCB) which reduces the $38.00 fee, depending on the number of dependents and combined income of your family.

Please ensure you have completed a Current enrolment form, which requires new procedures for Child Care Benefit. Non cancellations will be charged at the full rate.

BOOKINGS by phoning the

school :

5762 2600

or the mobile on:

0407 715 660 email: hanra-han.anne.e@

edumail.vic.gov.au

Monday 13th Jan

SANDPIT CITY

Make a grand city in the sand with roads, tunnels

and water.

Wear old clothes.

Bring lunch, snacks,

and cold drink

No extra cost

Tuesday 14th Jan

KIALLA STRAWBERRY FARM & SHEPPARTON

AQUAMOVES

Travel by bus to visit the farm to pick and eat

strawberries and enjoy ice-cream.

Leave 9.15am

Bring bathers, towel, lunch, snacks and cold

drink

$13 per child

Wednesday 15th Jan

WOODWORK DAY

Enjoy a day of sawing, nailing and gluing wood to create your wooden

masterpiece.


and cold drink

No extra cost

Thursday 16th Jan

BPACC MOVIES

Travel by bus to BPACC to watch a G Rated Mov-

ie.

Enjoy popcorn and

soft drink/water

Movie to be advised.


and cold drink

$13 per child

Friday 17th Sep

BEADING AND SCOOBIES

Learn the craft of Scoobies to make

bookmarks and key rings.

Make fancy jewel-lery with beads


and cold drink

No extra cost

Monday 20th Jan

WET WATER DAY AND SUMMER FOOD

TREATS

Wear clothes ready to get wet. Sun top required please. Have fun with

water games and enjoy cold treats.


and cold drink

No extra cost

Tuesday 21st Jan

BPACC MOVIES

Travel by bus to BPACC to watch a G Rated

Movie.

Enjoy popcorn and

soft drink/water

Movie to be advised.


and cold drink

$13 per child

Wednesday 22nd Jan

WHEELCHAIR EDUCA-TION

Travel bus to Avon Cam-pus to learn how people live with a disability. We will have a set of wheel-chairs to play games and learn wheelchair skills.


and cold drink

$2 per child

Thursday 23rd Jan

SHEPPARTON

TEN PIN BOWLING AND AQUAMOVES

Enjoy a games of bowling then head to Aquamoves for fun in

the pool.

Bring bathers, towel, lunch, snacks and

cold drink.

Leave 9.15am

$13 per child

(Children may also ac-cess the Avon program to attend the Benalla Pool on this day $5)

Friday 24th Jan

VISITING STORY TELLER AND MASK

MAKING

Andrew has been a story teller for more

than 20 years.

He will also makes masks with the

children on the day.

http://andrewmckenna

storyteller.com/


and cold drink

$2 per child

Monday 27th Jan

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Tuesday 28th Jan

CRAFT, TECHNOLOGY AND SANDPIT DAY

Wednesday 29th Jan

CHILDREN RESUME SCHOOL

Thursday 30th Jan


Friday 31st Jan


VACATION CARE – BOOKINGS TAKEN NOW

Please find attached to this week’s newsletter the program for January 2014 Vacation Care at Waller St.

Bookings are now being taken for the program. 30 places only are available on each day.

Please note standard charges will occur for any cancellations less than 24 hours before;

If you would like your child/children to attend, please complete the following booking form and return to the office by Friday

20th December 2014.

Bookings will only be accepted from families who have up to date payments on their accounts for previous care.

Childs / Children’s Name ___________________________________________________________



Please tick Please tick

Mon 13th Jan Sandpit City

No charge

Mon 20th Jan Wet Water Day

No charge

Tue 14th Jan Kialla Strawberry Farm and Sheppar-

ton Aquamoves $13

Tues 21st Jan BPACC Movies $13

Wed 15th Jan Woodwork Day

Wed 22nd Jan Wheelchair Educa-tion

$2

Thur 16th Jan BPACC Movies $13 Thur 23rd Jan Shepparton Ten Pin Bowling & Aq-

uamoves

$13

or Benalla Pool $5

Fri 17th Jan Beading and Scoobies

No charge

Fri 24th Jan Visiting Storyteller and mask making

$2

Tues 28th Jan Craft, technology

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