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Deer Park North Primary School Newsletter Learning for Life Edition 21 20 December 2018
Term 4
Friday 21 December
Last Day of Term 4
Dismissal 1:15pm
2019 Tuesday 29 January
Teachers start
Wednesday 30 January
Curriculum Day
Thursday 31 January
Year 1 - 6 students start
Friday 1 February
Foundation Students start school
2019 School Terms Term 1
January 29(Teachers) - April 5
Term 2
April 23 - June 28
Term 3
July 15 - September 20
Term 4
October 7 - December 20
Student Playground
Supervision The school offers yard supervision from
8.45am & after school until 3.30pm.
Children are invited to attend
Breakfast Club between 8:30am and
8:50am.
Let’s Read! - Every day at 8:50am in all
classrooms.
Parents Wel- come!
General Office Contact Details
Dear Parents and Friends,
Thank you to our parents, carers and friends for sharing in our end of year celebrations over the past week or so. Our Year 6 students graduated at a ceremony held on December 6. On be-half of the DPNPS community, I congratulate them on the completion of their primary years of schooling and wish them every success in the future. The Christmas Concert was held yesterday in the school gymnasium. It was
fantastic to have so many families and friends come along and enjoy the performances! Congrat-ulations to the lucky ticket holders in our raffle draw! Thank you to those who donated gifts for the Christmas hampers and our wonderful parent helpers who assisted in putting the hampers together. The end of the school year usually means some staffing changes. As the 2018 school year draws to an end, we bid farewell to the following staff members: Andrea Hill and Dianne Herrmann. We extend our sincere gratitude to each of them for their valued contribution to the life of the school and acknowledge the difference they have made to the lives of children with whom they have worked and supported. We wish them every success in the future. Siobhan McMahan and Carly Lehane have been successful in gaining positions for 2019 and we wish them all the very best. Next year we will have 19 classes. The structure includes Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 classes with five Year 3/4 classes and five Year 5/6 classes. Today students visited their 2019 classroom and met their 2019 classroom teacher. Please keep the 2019 class and teacher information in a safe place for the start of next year. We will welcome some new staff members to DPN in 2019. Ms Maddi Cust will join the Year 5/6 team with three new staff joining the Year 3/4 team - Mr Tom Turnbull, Mr Gary Laffy and Ms Michelle Bartlett. Ms Priscilla Patterson will be teaching Auslan and Ms Valerie Tsifidis will be the specialist Performing Arts teacher, a new program for our school. We look forward to having them join our staff at DPN. Congratulations to all DPN students on their efforts and achievements throughout the year and thank you to our hard working and dedicated team of teachers and support staff. On behalf of the School Council and staff, I would like to sincerely thank our school community for the wonderful support received throughout 2018.
Wishing everyone a safe & happy Christmas, New Year and holiday period. Kind regards,
Liz Balharrie
Be… Respectful Your Best Empathetic Resilient
Principal - Liz Balharrie Assistant Principals - Teresa Woods & Lynne Ord-Oraniuk
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Address: 18 - 36 Mawson Avenue, Deer Park, 3023 Phone: 93634600 Fax: 93636243
Email: [email protected] Web: www.deerparknthps.vic.edu.au
In partnership with our school community, it is our mission to map practical and ambitious learning paths for each child through consistency of purpose, policy and practice.
Calendar of Events Message from the Principal
Deer Park North Primary School Newsletter
In partnership with our school community, it is our mission to map practical and ambitious learning paths for each child through consistency of purpose, policy and practice.
Team 5/6 Newsletter Item In the 5/6 team the students have been working on poems this term in our writing sessions. They have been focusing on writing poems with line breaks, repetition, the mood, adding music and sound. Students also experimented with writing poems about everyday items, which they brought to life. Mrs Acklom
The Creep! by Hilal SEA
Looking through the GLASS Up in the CLOUDS
Hidden in the SHADOWS Lies beneath the DOOR
Hidden from FEAR
Birds in Spring by Harman SEA
In the spring of the year when the time is right, The migrating birds all take flight, When the ice and snow melts into the ground, The beautiful birds are northern bound. The breezy days finally grow long, Green grass starts to cover the lawn, You can hear the songbirds as you wake, listen to the chorus they can all make. Woodpecker drum in the spring of the year, Letting you know that they are here, Geese and ducks might take their flight, You can hear owls hoot at night. Celebrating the arrival of the birds and spring, Enjoy the many colours that they bring, When you see more cardinals and robins so red, You know that spring time is just ahead.
The Dead! by Hilal SEA
Come out at NIGHT, To seek them that FIND,
You hear them CRY, From beneath the NIGHT
Best Friends by Ella SEA
Best friends SOUNDS like a dance party Best friends LOOK like two dogs playing with a ball
Best friends TASTE like two fresh donuts Best friends FEEL like a swim on a hot day Best friends SMELL like a Christmas dinner
Best friends are friends you keep FOREVER!!!!
BULLYING by Taliah SEA
Bullying plays with your emotions Bullying is hurtful Bullying is sad Bullying is dangerous Bullying is not nice Bullying is painful Bullying is unnecessary Bullying is unacceptable Bullying is NOT on Bullying is the worst thing of all Bullying can cause anxiety Bullying can lead to depression
Victory Royal Sounds like my favourite music playing Feels like a nice summery hot day and ice-cream melting on your hands Tastes like a big fresh baked cake and candy with every flavour Looks like millions of dollars falling down on me Smells like McDonalds that has the perfect amount of everything! by Sienna
Student Learning Conferences
On Tuesday the 3/4s held their end of year Student Learning Conferences. The students were so excited to share their learning this semester with a family member, teacher or a buddy from Senior School. On behalf of all 3/4 students and teachers we would like to thank everyone who came along to the Student Learning Conferences and shared in our celebration of student learning.
3/4 News What’s been happening in 3/4? For writing, the Year 3/4 students have been learning how to adapt fairytales. We have learnt how you can change the character, setting, the actual main events that happen or a character’s motivations. We have also learnt ways to improve writing such as adding dialogue, and describing actions so the reader can get a good mental movie of what is happening. Here is the beginning of Bethlehem’s writing that enables the reader to form a fantastic mental movie of what is happening: Once upon a time, there lived a rather ugly but extremely kind girl named Quynh. Every afternoon she would adore watching the famous and one and only Latasi on his Youtube channel, while eating buttered popcorn and slurping on a pumpkin spiced latte from Starbucks. Her cruel father Bawi, tried to persuade her, “Quynh! Just stop watching him. It’s not like he’ll actually fall for a hideous beast like you”, while trying to brush her thick forest like hair. “He might one day,” she mumbled while chomping down on her crispy crumpet drizzled with honey…………
Deer Park North Primary School Newsletter
In partnership with our school community, it is our mission to map practical and ambitious learning paths for each child through consistency of purpose, policy and practice.
2019 Deer Park North Primary School
Calendar
Hi everyone, we have printed a limited number of these 2019 Calendars which have been painted and created by some of our students. If you’d like to purchase one, please see our staff at the office. They are for sale, for $5 dollars each. Thankyou
Inquiry Celebration It has been a very busy term with our inquiry learning. This semester our students have inquired into a range of areas including decision making/conflict, emotions, design, living things and environmental sciences. All of our students have had the opportunity to listen to experts and develop their critical thinking skills to extend and gain new
knowledge. Thank you to all of our parents and community experts who have helped. Thank you to all of our wonderful teachers who have planned such amazing lessons. Looking forward to even more exciting investigations next year!
Award Recipients!
Deer Park North Primary School Newsletter
In partnership with our school community, it is our mission to map practical and ambitious learning paths for each child through consistency of purpose, policy and practice.
Scholarships for VUSC 2019 Alessandrea
Leadership Kyra Elena
Art Alessandrea Tien
Sport Ngun Jimmy Academic Anahit Jackie