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RESPECT OPTIMISM COMMITMENT COMPASSION HONESTY

6th November 2013

Term 4, Issue 5 A reminder that the school newsletter can always be accessed from our website at

www.buninyongps.vic.edu.au

DATES TO REMEMBER

School Assemblies 15 November P-2 Assembly

22 November 3-6 Assembly

8 November SHOW DAY—NO SCHOOL

12 November Lunchtime Live Rehearsals

13 November Prep Swimming

14th November Grade 4 Camp Mount Helen Kinder Visit 9.30—11.00am

15th November Grade 4 Camp 5/6 Kanga Cricket

18th November Grade 2 Swimming



21st November Grade 2 Swimming

22nd November Grade 2 Swimming SCHOOL FETE

26th November Buninyong Kinder Visit 9.15 - 11.00am



SCHOOL FETE

Our fete is to be held from 5-8pm on Friday November 22

nd, which now is just a few weeks away. Planning is

coming together nicely and the event is shaping up to be an entertaining evening for the whole family.

The proceeds from this fete will be used to continue with improvements to buildings and grounds at the school. In particular, we are hoping to install a projector system in our gym to accompany the sound system that is already in place. This will have many uses, but largely will be used for presentations at assemblies.

There will be no need to prepare dinner on fete night, as there will be a range of food on offer including baked potatoes, hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages, and corn on the cob.

There will be plenty to entertain the kids with a Christmas craft station, face painting, jumping castles, Farmer Darryl’s Farmyard, a handball competition, lucky dips, busking, the dunk tank, Muldoon’s Casino, the strong man hammer swing, cake decorating and a coin toss.

Adults who come along might be more interested in picking up a bargain at the Goods and Service Auction, Wood Raffle or one of the Japanese, art, cake or plant stalls, checking out the Writing Exhibition….or just enjoying a good coffee.

Over the coming few weeks we will have plenty in the newsletter promoting the various stalls and activities that you can expect to see at the fete.

SHOW DAY

JUST A REMINDER THAT THIS FRIDAY THE 8TH IS SHOW DAY.

THERE IS NO SCHOOL


Treat yourself to a delicious hotdog

at the school fete. 5KG & 5JB will be

selling hotdogs with cheese, mustard and

tomato or BBQ sauce. YUM!!!


ORGANISING CLASSES FOR 2014

It is the time of the year when we are about to get busy organising students into classes for next year. If there are significant issues we need to be aware of when allocating your child to a class, please make sure they have been made known to Bernie or Sue by Friday, November 15th. Teachers are meeting soon after to begin sorting children into classes. It is not our intention to provide parents with the opportunity to select a teacher of choice. We have developed a very strong teaching team and parents can be confident the needs of their child will be met by any member of our team. Developing well-balanced classes can be made difficult if there are large numbers of requests – as such, it is important that placement requests be founded on significant reasons and not related to specific teachers. We try to accommodate parent requests with regard to student placements, but you will understand this is not always possible.

Amazing Buninyong Child

Our winners for this week are:

PEB Armani Anderson

PNP Abigail Kent & Toby Taylor

PRS Rowie Donald & Riley Murdoch

PNS Harry Frequin

1CA Riley White & Maddy Coffey

1JG Cooper Rogers & Isabel Hoffman

1JC Dominic Simmonds & Inez Demirceviren

2NJ Eloise Rosewarne

3HA Maddison White & Joshua Mattison

3SD Sam Smith

3PW Hannah Spielvogel

4JT Will Coats

5JB Tansey Pond

5KG Kasey Vincent

5BH Sam Pope

5SO Ben O’Beirne

6SM Mikayla Shirley & Joseph Matthews

RB SCOT

Rhys Smith

Brendan Walker

Always helpful in the Library (helping Mrs Cassell). And around the school at

Scotsburn.


SCOTSBURN NEWS

PREP TO 3 SLEEPOVER Students from prep to three enjoyed their sleepover last Friday night at Scotsburn. A shared dinner, activities and sing-along was followed by a movie before bedtime. After breakfast on Saturday, parents arrived to pick up their children. Thank you to all staff and parents who helped, for looking after everyone so well.

QUANTUM VICTORIA Students from grades 3-6 travelled to Quantum Victoria, a Science/ICT centre in Melbourne last Tuesday. They really enjoyed the program on minibeasts and were able to bring back two stick insects for our class. The students also enjoyed the finals of the year 8 carbon combustible car models races at the centre. We were also able to see a formula 1 racing car which was on display.

PARENT MEETING-9AM WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30TH Minutes from our meeting have been distributed to all parents.

Grade 4-6 Testing

On Thursday 7th November grade 4-6 students

will meet at Buninyong at 9am to do testing in

the computer lab. Students will return to

Scotsburn at 11am by bus.

FETE A craft meeting to make things for the fete will

be held at Scotsburn at 10am on Friday 15th

November. Your help with this would be

appreciated.

Forward notice

All Scotsburn students will participate in a

swimming program at Ballarat University from

Monday 2nd

December- 6th December. Cost

approx. $44.00 each student.

Dates to remember: November 5

th

Prep to 2 sports at Buninyong.

November 7th

Grade 4-6 testing at Buninyong. Return to Buninyong 11am

November 8th

SHOW DAY HOLIDAY

November 15th

Parent craft morning Scotsburn 10 am


STATE ATHLETICS On Monday 28th of October 7 students represented the Buninyong Primary School at the State Athletic championships in Melbourne.

Well done to Emily Richardson (High Jump), Mia Lepair (1500m), Nick Lawrence (Triple Jump & Relay), Matthew Schaper (Relay), Eoghan Somers (Relay), Ben O’Bierne (Relay) and Hunter Donald (Discus).

Once again Well done on a super effort, Mr O’Kelly

Grade 3/4 Tuesday Night netball

Well done to the girls who have been playing Pat Darroch Tuesday Night School Competition. They started this competition at the end of July and have shown great commitment competing each week. Special thanks to Bev Eason for being the Team Manager and Assistant Coach. Thank you to the parents for ensuring the girls were there on time each week and cheering them on along the sidelines. Also thank you Jenny Bomitali and Beth Higgins for coaching and training the girls weekly. Pictured below: Lily, Remmi, Molly, Paige, Scarlett, Aysha and Rylie. Abs. Emilie. Also thank you to Thomas, Kaitlyn and Blaise for helping out with numbers during the season.

SCHOOL START DATES 2014

As of last year schools have started on different days, depending on how many of their 4 pupil free days are taken before the children return. For us, grades 1-6 students will commence school in 2014 on Thursday, January 30

th. Preps will

commence on Monday, February 3rd

.

Prep - 2 sports day

A wonderful day for all the prep - 2 children for their sports day. Below are some photos of the day.


A soft breeze ruffles the feathers o

f a bird in the

trees. The sm

ell of sea salt w

afts through the air

like the smell of fre

shly baked bread waftin

g

through the kitchen.

By Tam Petrov, 3SD

I found a new plant in the garden which looked like a lemon

plant but the fruit was glowing red! By Aysha Brown, 3SD

The gate loomed over me, it was

big and old with cobwebs all over

it, but the question was what was

on the other side?

By Oliver Marshall, 3SD

The gate loomed over me, it was an iron gate with a bright green vine climbing up the iron, black gate. By Pirie Wakefield, 3SD

I feel a shudder as the rocky

landscape behind me starts to

crumble. The monster smashed

through the door with its rock

hard fists. Luke, 3PW

I could hear the troll screeching behind me. I

could also hear the faint sound of leaves

crunching. Paige and Miranda were screaming.

Scarlett, 3PW

We slam through some very old rusty farm gates. As soon

as I pulled Sarah up off the ground it was time to jump off

anyway. It didn’t look like it was going to stop anytime

soon. Charlotte, 3PW

On the wall there was a glowing shadow coming from the

torch Charlotte was holding. As it got closer and closer the

shadow got bigger and bigger. When Charlotte and I were

sitting we heard footsteps come echoing from further down

the cave. Sarah, 3PW

I’m writing about my Mum. She saves lives. She will

even save a stranger. My Mum will do anything to

stop you getting hurt. She is the best hero ever.

She’s even better than Superman.

Corey, 3HA

It was a stormy winter night, there was thunder

and pouring rain. Sam heard a noise outside the

door.

Josh, 3HA

Four miles away from a village was a house. Out

the back of the house was a garden. In the garden

was a lot of pretty flowers, vegetables and fruit.

The garden had brick walls for the veggie patch and

a grey bird bath and two bird houses.

Rachel, 3HA


CANTEEN

Day/Date 9:00-11:00 11:30-2:00

NOVEMBER Wednesday 6

Andrea Jones Paula Rigby 9-10 Jayson Gribble

Andrea Haddad Help needed at 11:30 12 Julie Jeffery

Monday 11 Cheryl Scibilia Lisa Meade

Maree Best Judy Cheswick

Wednesday 13 Tracy McGregor Rod Jeffery Help needed from 9:30

Jane Walsh Kathryn O’Beirne Help needed from noon

Monday 18 Julie Jeffery Claire Molesworth

Ann Marie Seare

Help needed from 12:30

Do you have a free day now that Uni. classes are winding down? Please, if you can spare 1-2 hours give me a text or ring! I never have enough help due to changing schedules. The children really love to see family in the canteen. Thanks, Tara 0417 540 095, 5341 3799 hm

“Environment Warrior” Award These students have won this weeks green Canteen voucher worth $5 just by recycling plastic bottles to the canteen!

Congratulations to: Toby Taylor Prep NP, Eli Spielvogel 1CA, Amie Goodson 2MM, Ambrose Forsyth 2JO

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