Gladesville Primary School

Newsletter Monday 18th September 2017 Our Mission:

Empower the leader within each individual

SEPTEMBER Monday 18th to 22nd

Whole School Swimming

Friday 22nd

Last day of Term 3

Early dismissal 2.30pm

OCTOBER Monday 9th

Term 4 starts

Thursday 12th

Jump Rope for Heart

Friday 13th

PJ Day

Wednesday 18th

The Leader In Me Parent

Information Session 4

Thursday 26th

Come to school dressed

as a Teacher day

House Names

It is with great excitement that we announce the new names for our

House Groups at Gladesville Primary School. After much discussion

this year between students and staff, the final category from which to

choose house names from was Australian children’s authors. This

category reflects the emphasis that the school places on the importance

of reading in the development of each student at Gladesville. Last

week, the Student Lighthouse Group discussed the shortlisted authors

and came to their final decision. Thank you to Aimee, Ebony, Koda,

Cameron, Miss A and Kathy Sutton for working through the final part of

this decision making process. More information is on the following

pages but here are the names of our new houses!

Base House: Named after Graeme Base

Rodda House: Named after Emily Rodda

Fox House: Named after Mem Fox

Lester House: Named after Allison Lester

Holidays

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our families a safe and

happy Term 3 break. It has been a very busy term with lots of learning

and fun. Enjoy your time with your beautiful families.

Until next term,

Nicki Wood - Principal

A few messages from the Principal’s desk. . .

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

BE PROACTIVE I BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND I PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST I THINK WIN - WIN

SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD I SYNERGIZE I SHARPEN THE SAW

House Names

Our new Gladesville Primary School House names are:

BASE – Blue House Named in honour of Graeme Base, author of Animalia, The

Eleventh Hour, Little Elephants, Uno’s Garden and The Waterhole

RODDA – Green House Named in honour of Emily Rodda, author of Deltora

Quest, Bungawitta, Rowan of Rin and The Shop at Hoppers Bend

FOX – Red House Named in honour of Mem Fox, author of Possum

Magic, Where is the Green Sheep? and Koala Lou

LESTER – Yellow House Named in honour of Allison Lester,

author of Are We There Yet?, My Farm, Imagine and Running

With Horses

Parent Opinion Survey The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted with a sample of randomly selected parents at each school. It is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of parents’ perception of school climate, student engagement and relationships with parent communities. Our school will be using the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies. I would like to thank the parents who took the time to complete the 2017 survey. Our focus areas for 2017 were to improve the percentile rankings of the following:

School pride and confidence to 25% We achieved 74%

student motivation and support to 25%. We achieved 72% positive response.

school connectedness to 25%. We achieved 80%positive response.

As you can see, the overall results indicate high growth and improvement in all areas of the parent opinions which aligns with the high growth and improvement in this year’s student attitudes to school

survey results. School council will further discuss these results and areas of focus for the 2018 Annual

Implementation Plan at this week’s meeting.

Trivia Night What a successful night it was! Who would have guessed that our community

would love making and flying paper airplanes so much! We have had fantastic

feedback so far and would love to hear any of your thoughts about future Trivia

Nights too. Please email Hollie in the office with any suggestions –

Gladesville.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

The night raised a total profit of $2,255.00!!! This profit will go towards iPads for each class.

A special THANK YOU to everyone involved and who attended this wonderful night!!

Indonesian Language Students in grade F-3 have been learning about word order in Indonesian and listened to

a Balinese story called ‘Three Little Fishes’. There was much discussion about the fish

needing to synergise and work together to solve a problem.

Students in grade 4-6 have also been learning about word order and sentence structure including writing

their own information about an animal and making an animal mask to go with it.

In all Indonesian lessons students are encouraged to make proactive choices and be in charge of their

own learning. A weekly certificate is handed out to a student exhibiting these behaviours. Over the last

two weeks the following students have received an award during Indonesian lessons for making proactive

choices:

5/6: Sarah & Charlotte C 4/5: Skye & Kynan

2/3: Zoren & Mia 1/2: Hyacinth & Felix

F: Byllie & Maddison S

Selamat liburan.

Woolworths Earn & Learn 2017

PJ Day – Friday 13th October STUDENT LIGHTHOUSE TEAM - Students and staff are invited to come to school

in their PJs. Students will need to ensure that they wear their normal school shoes

for playing outside but will be able to wear slippers inside. Student are asked to bring in a $2 coin for this

day. Money raised will go towards our Kids Hope Mentor programs.

Footy Colours Day

A HUGE THANK YOU to all of our wonderful parent helpers. The day

was a huge success with a total of $293.00 profit to go towards iPads for each class. We couldn’t do this

without your support.

OSHC VAC – Term 3 Holidays

Visual Arts JUNIOR SCHOOL

Over the last few weeks, we have been focussing on the final habit, Habit 7; Sharpen the

Saw. This habit is one of continuous improvement in both the personal and interpersonal

spheres of influence and focuses on fine tuning skills learnt. In the junior school we have been sharpening

our fine motor skills, working with watercolours students have been intricately painting a small piece of

art.

SENIOR SCHOOL

Students in the senior school have also had the opportunity to exercise Habit 7; Sharpen the Saw. We

have been using watercolour, textas and fine liners to hone our fine motor skills working to understand

that often less is more and practice makes perfect. Our fine motor skills have also been utilised to produce

the materials we will need to create our term 4 collaborative piece where you will see Habit 6 (Synergise)

really shine…stay tuned.

Science Since the last newsletter, germination of seeds is going strong at Gladesville! In each

of the classrooms there has been the beginnings of vegetable seedlings sprouting.

Mr. Gurr’s challenge is to keep them watered and look after over the coming end of term holidays. The

vegetable garden began some rejuvenation work with the Foundation students in the lead up to planting

next term.

The grass heads have strands of “hair” up to 14 centimetres long. Students are excited to take them

home for the holidays and some are so proactive that they are keen to give them haircuts and even style

their grass head with gel and bands. Students are encouraged not to plant the grass in the garden but

if allowed somewhere in the home lawn when they are ready to.

Using their grass heads students have recorded their observations of grass growth using cross section

diagrams following set out procedures. Beginning with the end in mind students had to consider use

of space on a page to best present their cross section diagrams to include the drawing, a key and a

border. It was pleasing to see so many students drawing with the grass heads in front of them, some with

rulers taking measurements.

Our computer microscope was brought to life in preparation for next term’s science. Cells will be

investigated and some students had the opportunity to look at onion cells, the head of ant and the feather

of a peacock under 200x magnification on the classroom electronic white board.

Congratulations to all students on a great effort in Science this term and I look forward to the harvest of

vegetables next term and exploring the hidden world of cells in term 4.

Mr Gurr

Term 4 Yoga Yoga will be held each Wednesday commencing 18th October. The enrichment program

will run for 6 weeks and provides fun, ‘bite-sized’ exercises that they can try at home to

help each family member unwind and connect with each other. The program focusses on mindfulness,

positive psychology and FUN! Please remember to return your forms and that payment is due back

before the end of Term 3.

Athletics

On Tuesday evening 3 of our students attended an exciting event at the Yarra ranges Athletics club.

The afternoon was for the foundation -Yr 2 students to trial Athletics.

Physical Education

Term 4 will bring lots of exciting new activities for the students. We will focus on striking and fielding

games, net games and invasion games. Our Jump Off will be held the first Thursday back and the Year

5/6 will have a Community Sports Day, where they will play various activities against the other 6 schools

in the district.

Over the holidays, encourage your child to keep active. A bike ride, play in the park or a visit to the

swimming pool to polish off the skills that are being taught this week are just a few ideas.

Jump Rope for Heart – CHANGE OF DATE

Due to inclement weather last week, we have decided to postpone the Jump Rope for Heart Jump Off. The date has new been changed to week 1, Term 4 Thursday 12th October.

As we postponed the Jump Off for Heart today, the Y1,2 and 3 students have been working on their communication and listening skills in PE. These activities involved clear verbal communication, listening ears on and trust. They did a great job and all worked well together. Well done

Year 6 Commemorative polos/hoodies

A notice was sent home last week to all Grade 5 students regarding the commemorative Grade 6 Hoodie

and/or polo’s for 2018. As this is done through an external company orders must be submitted by

TUESDAY 31st OCTOBER 2017. This is the only opportunity to order the commemorative uniform

and no orders will be accepted after this date. It is vital that all orders and payment are returned on

time for your child/ren to not miss out and to get the maximum wear out of the hoodies and/or polos.

Please remember: The commemorative uniform can only be ordered online via the website below.

www.fcw.com.au/leavers-gr-6-yr-12-online-stores

Snacks Canteen Roster continued for the rest of 2017

Please note: Students are not to share food or buy food for anyone else.

There is a limit of 1 of each drink/chips per child.

Thank you to our parent volunteers!

Please see the next fortnight’s roster below.

Student Birthdays

7 Habits Parent Information Sessions

Day Date Parent Helper

Tuesday 19th September Andrea B

Thursday 21st September Melanie M

Tuesday 10th October Andrea B

Thursday 12th October Sara M

September

18th Ryan

19th Lachlan

21st Hyacinth

23rd Nash

23rd Mia

28th Kaycee

30th Maddi

October

1st Malokai

7th Tiana

9th Laylah

16th Ryder

20th Joe

20th Jackson

Week ending 8th September

00A Peter Habit 2: Peter successfully made o’clock and half past times on our play

dough clocks.

12A Felix Li Habit 4: For thinking win-win with his partner when taking part in a

naughts and crosses activity.

23A Louis Habit 2: For his engagement and eagerness to learn new skills

and willingness to use these to improve his outcomes

45A - -

56A Aleisha For working with her team mates amazingly at Hoop Time, despite being

on court for the entirety of all 5 games.

Physical

Education Whole Class 1/2

Habit 6: Class 1/2 have worked very well together and synergized in their

lessons. Keep up the good work!

Week ending 15th September

00A Evie Habit 2: Evie independently wrote numbers from 1 to 100. Great

counting, Evie!

12A Nash Habit: For his proactive approach to taking risks and learning new things.

23A Maddi Habit 1: For always taking a positive approach to learning and doing her

personal best at all times.

45A Kynan Habit 1: You have been so helpful as I have been settling in as your

teacher. I have really appreciated your helping hands. Keep it up!

56A Cameron For his great work on his camp recount. Well done Cameron, you worked

hard and were proactive, creating a great piece of writing

Physical

Education Riley P

Habit 4: Riley has demonstrated great team work and fantastic

sportsmanship during his PE lessons.

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