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PRINCIPAL’S BLOG
Dear Parents and Friends,
Billy Cart Derby What a night!! Great weather as well!!!! No broken bones or blood and fun was had by all. This is a truly iconic school event for Ferny Creek. A huge thanks to Rhian Jessop and all the parents who coordinated the event! Thank you to Doug McKay, Michael Patterson and Ian Sykes and their team – the set up was again brilliant! Thanks also to our clean up people.
I would also like to thank our teachers and support staff who stayed for part or all of the event. It is above and beyond the call of duty! The children love seeing you there.
Most importantly it was a fantastic social event. It was terrific to see so many foundation, year one and year two students with such wonderfully decorated bikes and scooters. The ‘racers’ certainly had
THURSDAY 3rd March 2016
FERNY CREEK PRIMARY SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
DATES TO REMEMBER
Term 1
4th March – Special Assembly with
Jim Asimakopoulos
8th March – School House Sports
11th March – School and House Captains
Badge Presentation
14th March – Labour Day Holiday
15th March – Responsible Pet Ownership
for Foundation - Grade 2
15th-18th March – Grade 5/6 Camp
19th March – Bush Dance
21st March – Easter Raffle tickets due in
24th March – Easter Parade and drawing
of Easter Raffle
24th March – End of Term 1
(early 2.30pm dismissal)
“Together we make a Difference!”
Images by Cathy Ronalds
FERNY CREEK PRIMARY
SCHOOL
Phone: 9755 1522 Fax: 9755 2493,
School Road, Ferny Creek,
Victoria 3786
Web:
www.fernycreekps.vic.edu.au
Email:
Banking Details
Account: Ferny Creek Primary School Bank: CBA
BSB: 063 414
Acc Number: 10022451
Office Hours Monday - Friday
8.30am - 4pm
Principal: Matthew Coyle
Business Manager: Jill Heathcote
School Council President: Kate Whyman
Promotion & PR: Rhian Jessop
Education, Policy & Planning:
Matthew Coyle
a wonderful time and I’m sure there are a lot of Dads suffering tight hamstrings this week after so much pushing down and pulling up. Thanks to Detective Sergeant Craig West for again providing his time to radar gun the kids as they thundered down the track!
Japan Visit On Tuesday 15th March we are being visited by five students from our sister school in Mito, Japan. This is the same week our Year 5 and 6 students go to camp. The visitors are made up of three Grade 3, one grade 4 and one grade 5 students. We had 8 families offer to billet, but with all the visitors being girls we have billeted with families who have girls in grades 3 and 4. We are all getting very excited as this is our first time we have hosted.
We are also well down the planning stage for our Year 5/6 exchange for two weeks to Mito in June. We have 9 students attending – Elska, Imogen P, Bridget, Taylor, Eva, Luke, Jeremy, Robbie and Patrick, all from Years 5 and 6.
School Council 2016 Thank you and congratulations to Liam Smith, Tracey McGregor and Vanessa Roberts for returning unopposed to School Council. A special welcome to Jenny Royle to her first term on School Council. We still have three one year vacancies to cover for parents who have resigned or their students have finished Grade 6. Please think about helping out your school for 2016 by joining School Council. You will need to attend monthly School Council meetings and join one of the Council’s committees – Finance, Buildings and Grounds, Education Policy and Planning, Fundraising or Promotions. These generally meet monthly at a time that suits the team. Please let me know if interested!!!!
Minimum Absence = Maximum Learning Opportunity Some absences are impossible to avoid. Genuine illness, bereavement, etc. are examples of the acceptable reasons for a child being absent. However, every time a child is late for school or absent from school the child‘s learning progress is disrupted. Most teaching is sequential—what is taught and learned today is the foundation that enables the children to understand and master what is taught tomorrow. It is usually harder for a child to catch up on work missed, than to master it when it is being taught in class. To avoid disadvantaging your student parents should minimise absences by:
Arranging doctor and dentist appointments out of school hours where possible
Develop in your child the habit of being on time to school each day by making sure they get there on time - no excuses
Ensuring that personal shopping trips for your child occur out of school hours
Not allowing children to remain at home for minor / frivolous reasons
Arrange for birthday celebrations, etc., to occur out of school hours
Please remember to provide a written explanation of any absences to your child’s teacher when they return to school. There is also an absence form on our new Tiqbiz.
School Uniform It is very pleasing to see our children in school uniform. Our school mantra ‘together we make a difference’ is all about teamwork and achieving together. I would like to thank all parents for making the effort to ensure our compulsory uniform policy is followed. Jewellery (except Studs and sleepers) is not permitted.
School Crossing: Diane Garsed
Uniform Shop: Tuesday 8:50 - 9:30am
Lease Robinson
Library: Beth Byrne
Buildings & Grounds: Michael Paterson
School Banking: Tuesday
Lease Robinson
Costume Hire: Sarah Jennings
OSHCare 4 KIDS
Head Office: 9758 6744
P.O. Box 7082
Upper Ferntree Gully
Vic 3156
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.oshcare4kids.com.au
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Foyer Traffic Lots of children (and parents) are still using the school foyer as a walk through to the classrooms. Please remember that children can only come into the foyer before school to deliver something to the office or to put their lunch order in the box. After school is the same (minus the lunch order). Please encourage your children to exit the building by the appropriate doors and use the pathway to exit the school.
After School Monitoring of Students Many children are still crossing the road and playing under the trees (one or two even climbing them) until their parents arrive. Please instruct them to wait behind the school fence until you arrive. They may then cross the road. This area is not under supervision and to have students playing so close to a car park is fraught with danger!
Jim Asimakopoulos - Citizen of the Year Tomorrow is another very special assembly. Jim sponsors our Citizen of the Year Award. This is to go to a Current Year 6 student who is not a School Captain and has shown over their years at the school, especially their Year 5 year, a fantastic attitude to their classmates, their teachers and their school. We will also hear from Ryan Jewell, our recipient last year. I’m sure it will be a thrill for our new Year 6 students to hear from Ryan again.
Next week will be our presentation assembly for our school’s Student Leaders. James Merlino will again be our special guest.
Have great weekend and see you all next week, Matthew
Last year, we ran a very successful clothing recycling drive. Through this drive, you are invited to bring in any unwanted clothes, shoes, handbags, linen or soft toys. These are reused/donated to developing countries. As and additional incentive, our school earns 25 cents for every kilo collected. It also gives you the opportunity to actually have a ‘clean out’!
We will be running this drive twice this year – one at the end of this term (bags will be sent home with your child for filling over the Easter break) and another early in Term 4. Each child will be given a bag to bring home but we also accept additional bag-loads using just ordinary bin bags (if you wanted to start collecting now.)
Bags will be collected at the school during the first two weeks of Term 2.
Coming home today is information about Stuck On
You labels. When you are due to order some new
Name labels for your child, please consider using
Stuck on You. If you use the Ferny Creek code, the
school gets commission at the end of year. This is
an ongoing fundraiser/commission so as long as you
use the FCPS code, we will continue to get
commission from any sales indefinitely.
“STARS OF THE WEEK”
Foundation
Jodie/Kristy
Foundation
Rhian
1/2 Anna
1/2 Brian
3/4 Cheryl
3/4 Lynda
4/5 Samantha
5/6 Adam
5/6 Coby/Kelly
Ella P: For showing the Foundation students her baby chicks and explaining the ‘ch’ sound.
Thanks Ella.
Gemma G: For great sounding out of her words when writing. Great job Gemma.
Olive D: For always trying her best and using our classroom practices all the time. Well
done Olive.
Leo M: For such a fantastic start to your school life. Thank you for using your looking eyes
and listening ears.
Due to Anna’s absence there will be no stars of the week for 1/2A.
Liam J: For settling into good work habits, by being organised and focussed in class.
Chloe K: For displaying excellent work habits, by listening well to instructions and then
applying herself to the task.
Finn O’S: For always being considerate and respectful and using his initiative to assist in
any way in the classroom.
Ashley J: For making a concerted effort in all areas and showing improved work habits.
Ellie R: For being a responsible leader in the classroom and always being respectful of
others.
Nicholas B: For his amazing focus in class and always completing tasks to a high
standard.
Mason C: For sharing his brilliant vocab sentence with the class, using the word
‘treacherous’. Excellent job!
Emma H: For sharing and using fantastic sentence starters in her persuasive writing. Well
done!
Leuwin R-D: For the wonderful knowledge you have demonstrated in each of the
mathematical concepts we have covered this year.
Bridget H: For the respectful way you conduct yourself both in the classroom and school
yard and the great level of pride you take in everything you do.
Eva G: For taking the initiative to build a hologram projector for her iPad. You also found
and explored an app to do this with. Well done Eva!
Miles B: For being a sensible and active participant in our spelling mini-lesson. Well done
Miles.
Riding to
School Bus
Guide
Leave Sassy Village Green 8.00am
Hilton Road 8.15am
Horse Paddock 8.25am
Laubes Lane 8.35am
Top of School Road 8.40am
*Please note that times are
approximate and may vary
considerably.
Adam and Doug
FRID
AY
The "Tomato
Farm Run"
is on! Saucing Tomatoes are in abundance
right now! These little red rippers are organic and come farm
direct from Koo Wee Rup. Available in 10kg bulk boxes. Buy
for yourself or team up with some friends to share! Produce is
ripe and may have some blemishes - just perfect for making
passata, chutney or tomato sauce!
Orders are now open and will close 12noon on Saturday.
Delivery will be to your nominated hub on Friday 11th March
(afternoon).
Thanks to our local supporters, pick up locations will be
offered at The Patch Store, Menzies Creek Primary School,
Coonara Community House and Ferny Creek Primary School.
To order, jump on to the Farm Foodstore online shop at
https://openfoodnetwork.org.au/farm-foodstore/shop
Boxes are $30 each
Credit Card payment is available at the time of online
checkout
Deliveries will be in the afternoon
What’s On Next Week?
Monday 7th Tuesday 8th Wednesday 9th Thursday 10th Friday 11th
Create some fantastic images as you use leaves to print your patterns onto paper! You'll be amazed.
Join us today to make and decorate your
own Autumn tree by simply using dots!
Book in now and join us today for our super
fun Autumn theme scavenger hunt!
Today we will be creating some
beautiful Autumn inspired nature
pictures. Explore high and low!
Maebh and Abby having a great time together playing with the kinetic sand!
Summer worked very
hard to create her delicious fruit rocket! It
looks yummy!
Violet made a lovely sun catcher with some pom poms on it that create a cheerful face!
Oliver opened and ran a candy store! He was a fantastic salesman! Congratulations to Ashley, Finley and Charlotte! You all were fantastic junior leaders
FEEDBACK
We welcome any feedback or suggestion of things that
your children are interested in so that we can develop the
program to meet the needs of you and your children.
ENROLMENT AND BOOKINGS
We always welcome new faces to Before and After Care! 2016 Enrolments can be completed online or by
downloading a paper version, or you can pick one up at the OSHCare room. Should you need any assistance with the online process, feel free to come and see us and will
be happy to help you out with the process.
CONTACTS
Booking/Cancelation: [email protected]
OSHC: 0428 258 940 Karli – Program Leader
Cooking Club
On Friday we’ll be making fruity jungle juice!
Yum yum.
Joke of the Week
March/April Vacation Care Bookings are now available online for this Program, or maybe one nearby. Go to www.afterthebell.com.au
Reminder
Keep remembering to bring your hat to before and after school care during term 1 so we can have lots of sun-safe fun in the sun!