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Issue No 10 3/04/2019

ELLY NEWS

In this issue:

Principal’s Report

Parents & Friends

Info

School Diary

April 5th—EPS

Cross Country

April 5th—Last day

Term 1— 2:30 finish

April 23rd—First

day Term 2—9am

start

April 25th—ANZAC

Day Public Holiday

2019 Term Dates Term 1: 29/01-5/04

Term 2: 23/04-28/06

Term 3: 15/07-20/09

Term 4: 07/10-20/12

www.ellliminyt.vic.edu.au 135 Slater Street, Elliminyt Vic 3250 PO BOX 359 Colac 3250 Phone: 5231 5208 Fax: 52321943

Cross Country Our annual Cross Country event is being held THIS FRIDAY, 5th of April, between 9:15am and 11am. All students will be involved in this event, with Years 3-6 students running a proper course around and outside our school, and the Prep to Year 2 students participating in a modified run within the school. We encourage parents to come along and support our kids on that day. This is also the final day of Term 1! Lunch, with normal lunch orders, will occur at 12:30pm, with early dismissal at 2:30pm.

Schools ANZAC Day Ceremony Each year, the Colac area schools hold a combined schools ANZAC Day service at Memorial Square. This is quickly becoming a valued tradition by our schools and is a nice way to remind our kids of the importance of ANZAC Day. This is occurring on Wednesday 24th of April this year at 11am, which is the second day back in Term 2. The students will be bussed from school to the square and back, supervised by teaching staff. Parents are welcome to attend the service at the square, but students must remain with the school group. There is no cost for this event. Our School Captains, Sienna and Connie will be laying a wreath on our behalf both on this day, as well as at the ANZAC Day service on the 25th. P&F Easter Raffle Well done to the Parents and Friends group on yet another great fundraiser for our school. $1160 was raised thanks to the many generous donations from our school community—thank you to those who so generously donated. There were many winners from inside our community, which was great! Well

done to the winners! If you haven’t already, prizes can be collected from the Administration Office. End of term arrangements Please note that students will be dismissed at 2:30pm this Friday. Please make arrangements to collect students early on this day. Buses will run as per their normal routine, just an hour earlier. We wish everyone a very happy Easter and hope you enjoy a restful break. We’re looking forward to welcoming students back on TUESDAY 23rd of April at 9am.

Angela Hall Principal

1st prize Jack Fitzgerald 10th prize Stewart Wade 19th prize Owen Hooton

2nd prize Bronwyn Burden 11th prize Emelya Milverton 20th prize Scarlett Whitehead

3rd prize Simone Hayes 12th prize Angus Drever 21st prize Riley McNaughton

4th prize Harry Ingram 13th prize Mitchell Hall 22nd prize K&N Dowie

5th prize Tyler Suares 14th prize Mason Murray 23rd prize Joyce Ackerley

6th prize Hayden Blake 15th prize Ethan Smith 24th prize Joyce Ackerley

7th prize Jill Madden 16th prize Margaret Mott 26th prize Alex Menzies

8th prize Scarlett Whitehead 17th prize Saxon Woods 27th prize Owen Hooton

9th prize Austin Daniels 18th prize Rachel Walker

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Room 1 Finley P for working neatly and attentively when working independently and for being a great team member. Nayte H-H for his excellent contributions in class and for applying himself to do his personal best work. Well done. Room 2 Charlie G and Scarlett W for their sensational effort learning their sight words. Congratulations! Room 3 Ellen S & Levi G for their continued growth and confidence in swimming lessons. Well done! Charlotte A for helping a classmate and making sure they understood what to do. Room 4 Harlie F for her excellent application in Writing and Maths tasks. Room 5 Bentleigh K for trying really hard to do his personal best writing. Well done. Room 6 Mia P for her positive and enthusiastic approach to all areas of her learning. Room 7 Tahni-Lee C-G for putting 110% effort into everything she does! Room 8 All of Room 8 for a fantastic Term 1. I have had an amazing time getting to know all of your outgoing personalities and individual character traits. Room 9 James W for a positive attitude to learning and willingness to accept feedback. Room 10 Angus D for demonstrating improved maturity, control and resilience when faced with setbacks and challenges. Nalani B for always being a helpful, trustworthy, honest and hardworking member of Room 10. Keep up the effort Nalani! Indonesian Isla M for her great work last week in Indonesian. Sport Parker T for her leadership and teamwork.

This week Principal’s Award goes to Chloe B for making excellent choices, being a great role model and doing the right thing, even when no-one is watching.

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Issue No 10 3/04/2019

CORRESPONDENCE REMINDERS

NIL Canteen— Friday 5th April, 2019

Morning Supervisor:

Deb Reynolds 9:00am: Alisha Bergman, Melanie Drayton,

Nicole McKechnie

Afternoon Supervisor 10.30am:

Nita Carson

11:30pm: Marlene Farnes, Kirsty Cuthbertson

INDO CORNER

COLOURS in Indonesian – MERAH - RED MERAH MUDA - PINK BIRU - BLUE HIJAU - GREEN KUNING - YELLOW COKLAT - BROWN JINGGA - ORANGE HITAM - BLACK PUTIH – WHITE

Pak Gray (Indonesian teacher)

PARENTS & FRIENDS NEWS Each year P&F put on a Mothers Day stall at school for the children to buy mum a well deserved present. The stall will be held on Friday May 10th. We ask that each family provide a donation towards the stall - 10 items per family so that each class has an opportunity to purchase. Prior to the stall P&F will put together the donations and have them set out for the kids to do their shopping. We suggest each child brings $5 approximately to buy mum a gift and a paper bag to sneak the gift home ready for Sunday 12th. We ask that donations be at the office by Tuesday May 7th please. Suggestions for donations include: Baked goods, plants, succulents, candles, chocolates, nail polish, mugs, tea/coffee, pen, notepads, jewellery, potpourri sachet etc. E.g. you might buy 10x notepads and someone else 10x pens and P&F will bundle into a little gift. Donations can be bought or homemade. Any questions please ask. Thankyou for the support - the kids love it!

Thanks, Parents & Friends Committee

SRC NEWS The SRC will be selling $1 icy poles during lunch this Thursday and during recess this Friday. All money raised will go towards helping fund a Senior Indonesian excursion to CERES in Brunswick. At CERES the students will be part of award-winning cultural programs to discover traditional and contemporary celebrations, customs and traditions.

GAMING Keep Calm and Continue

Parenting Workshop

On Thursday 4 April at 7pm in the Jubilee Centre, Trinity College, in partnership with The Alannah & Madeline Foundation and the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation are offering a free workshop for parents. Learn about how modern gaming works, the games your kids are playing, the positives and negatives of gaming and how to talk to your child if you are concerned about their gaming habits.

The workshop will delve into some common gimmicks in popular games and the associated risks.

To book tickets for this free workshop, please visit the below link-

https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=485243&fbclid=IwAR3p_P39o3UsDvKDkL-5uGJihyX1yNK87xYCs0OUu8yLuEKE-Me8_A_suwaw

ANZAC DAY BADGES FOR SALE

We have a range of ANZAC Day items for sale at the school office: Badges range from between $1.00-$5.00, wrist bands $3, key rings and luggage tags $4 each and pens $5.00. SRC students will be going around classrooms selling these during the week ahead or students can purchase items from the school office.

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Casual Clothes Day

Thursday 4th April (2

nd last day of term)

Gold Coin donation

Money raised will go to the

Children’s Cancer Foundation

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Classroom Connection

Term One is pretty much done and dusted. Well done to all of the students who represented EPS at

the Division Athletics on Tuesday. Good luck to all students for this Friday’s School Cross Country. Al-

so, a big thankyou to Woolworths who have donated 400 icy poles to help fund a senior excursion to

CERES in Melbourne. The icy poles will once again be for sale this Thursday and Friday.

Preps During Reading, initial and ending sounds in words have been the learning focus. Students have really

enjoyed some fun and engaging Easter activities this week. Continuing to consolidate on recognising, or-

dering and writing numbers to 10 in Maths has kept the little ones busy. Well done to all the Prep stu-

dents on an incredible first term at Elliminyt Primary School. J

Years 1 & 2 Students have been learning about being an ‘Upstander’ if they see someone being mean to someone

else. Students have been enthusiastic during ‘Readers Theatre’ applying new and known strategies to

their reading. Learning the importance of place value and representing ones, tens, hundreds and thou-

sands in a number has been the key learning focus in Maths. During Writing, students have been work-

ing extremely hard planning, drafting and publishing creative narratives.

Years 3 & 4 During Mathematics, students are learning about money and applying this knowledge to real life situa-

tions. This includes purchasing items online from Woolworths to plan for a party. All 3/4 students have

been working tirelessly to plan, draft and publish a persuasive writing piece of their choice. Throughout

Integrated Studies, students have been researching and increasing their knowledge of different cultures

to create a poster. Being an ‘Upstander’ not a ‘Bystander’ has also been a key focus the past few weeks.

Years 5 & 6 During Integrated Studies, the big kids have been creating posters that demonstrate their understanding

of either a ‘Religion’ or ‘Culture’. These will be presented to their peers before the conclusion of the

week. Trying to persuade a person to come and live in Australia has been the focus in Writing sessions.

Further developing and refining reading strategies and applying these to a range of texts has been evi-

dent in the senior classrooms. In Numeracy, students have been working extremely hard to increase

their knowledge of multiplication facts and processes, triangular and square numbers and mental maths

problems.

Enjoy the holidays!

Thankyou,

Jarrad Cook

Leading Teacher

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