GORMANDALE & DISTRICT PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER Principal: Tamara Halket Email: gormandale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Web Site: www.gormandale.vic.edu.au

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Tuesday 4th June 2019

Dear Families, Welcome to Winter! This change in season has made itself very obvious for us, with the cold, rain and even snow, coming at us in full force! You may have noticed some drying fans around the school to address some roof leaks, with repairs coming soon. It is timely to remind all families that wearing long pants and warm jackets is encouraged, as we try to ensure children have time to play outside unless the rain is heavy. It is also important to keep our germs to ourselves… taking one day off school with a cold, or other illness can prevent it from spreading through the school, or taking longer to recover from. Please keep children home if they are unwell, as one day off is far better than many miserable days at school. This week is set to be a busy week, with lots of our teachers in and out across the week. All teachers have been planning consistently for classes, to ensure that learning is maintained at a high standard. If you are needing to contact a teacher on a day they are unavailable, please write a note or send an email so that nothing is missed. In exciting news, our Sign-In/Sign-Out Kiosk is ready to go and will be in use from this week! All families will be given a code to use with the Kiosk. Codes can be changed to a number you will remember and if you would like any help with this, please see Michelle in the office.

Lastly, the children and I have been re-visiting some of our STEM learning challenges from earlier in the year. We are finding that challenges that were very difficult last term, have become far more manageable now. The only thing that has changed is the mindset of the children taking on the challenge! It is fantastic to see children taking risks, making mistakes, trying again, and working for their success. The children have been very proud of their improved efforts!

Have a great week, and happy learning!

Tamara Halket Principal

Things to remember this week……..

Hot Chocolate this THURSDAY (at recess)—$1

TUCKER NIGHT

The organisers of Tucker Night have kindly offered a $20

voucher for a future Tucker Night to the school. These

vouchers will be randomly drawn from a list of families and will be spread over the next 6 months.

These vouchers are for food only.

This week’s family is

the SCOTT Family

A word from our School Captains

Everyone don’t forget that there are apples out the front of the grade 4/5/6 room. Don’t forget there is Auskick down at the Gormandale

Recreation Reserve—it is not too late to sign up. On Friday the 7th June Emma and Gemma are holding a dress up as a farmer for farm animal day. There will be a gold coin donation

to get a compost bin. School Captains

Emma & Jack

Parents and Students don’t forget that every

Monday and Tuesday there is Breakfast Club on.

On Monday we have cereal and fruit run by Emma,

Gemma and Jack.

On Tuesday there are baked beans run by Kerry

and Grace.

Also, on Wednesdays there is milk for kids to drink.

On Friday there are fruit cups.

Hot Chocolates Hot-Chocolates will be sold for a

dollar on Thursdays from now until summer.

Hot-Chocolates will also come with the option of having marshmallows.

School fundraiser Mitchell Tomlinson

HELP WANTED—LIBRARY

We are still getting our Library set up. If you have any time or know of anyone who may have time on a Monday or

Tuesday to assist Tricia in finishing setting up the Library we would love to hear from you. The tasks would be mainly sorting books into alphabetic order, putting

away books or covering books after they have been processed.

Please see either Tamara or Tricia if you can help.

SCHOOL LUNCHES Tuesday NAME :…………………………………GRADE…………...

Amount ITEM COST

BIG M 250 ML

$2.00 CHOC STRAW

PRIMA $1.00

WATER .50c

HOT DOG $2.80 HAWAIIAN PIZZA $2.00

CHICKEN NUGGETS 5 PER SERVE

$2.30

Party Sausage Roll $ .50

PIE $3.00

PARTY PIE $ .50c

DIM SIMS 1 per serve $ .70c

BEEF CHICKEN

CUP OF NOODLES $2.00

BEEF CHICKEN

Gluten free CUP OF NOODLES

$2.00

Corn on cob (mini) $ .50c

Pop Corn (plain) $ .30c

SCHOOL LUNCHES Tuesday NAME :…………………………………GRADE…………...

Amount ITEM COST

BIG M 250 ML

$2.00 CHOC STRAW

PRIMA $1.00

WATER .50c

HOT DOG $2.80 HAWAIIAN PIZZA $2.00

CHICKEN NUGGETS 5 PER SERVE

$2.30

Party Sausage Roll $ .50

PIE $3.00

PARTY PIE $ .50c

DIM SIMS 1 per serve $ .70c

BEEF CHICKEN

CUP OF NOODLES $2.00

BEEF CHICKEN

Gluten free CUP OF NOODLES

$2.00

Corn on cob (mini) $ .50c

Pop Corn (plain) $ .30c

WEEK 31.5.2019

NAME BEING FOR

Jak S Being a great participant in Maths games

Ebony Great work in Subtraction

Noah Great work in Subtraction

Tom Oscar Aimee

Zed Shanequa

Flossy

Coupa

2019 TERM 2 DATES TO REMEMBER

June Monday 10th Queens Birthday NO SCHOOL

Monday 17th School Council Meeting 6.30

Tuesday 18th Werribee Zoo Excursion

Thursday 20th Parents Club meeting 11.15am

Friday 28th Last Day of Term 2 Early dismissal 1.30pm

Gormandale & District Primary School Parent’s Club Report

Thanks to those who have come forward to help with the Canteen, we are still looking for helpers so if you can spare some time please let us know. Raffle tickets have now gone out for our Ultimate Shed Package and are also available for purchase at the Shop. If you would like more tickets to sell come in and see Michelle or Tricia in the office. It’s great to see the community getting behind our raffle! Special Lunch Order Day for this term be on Wednesday, 26 June with Roast Meat Rolls on the menu. Our next Parents Club meeting will be held on Thursday 20 June in the staff room at 11.15am. Hope to see some new faces at our next meeting. Thanks Ellen Sykes

pot belly stove &

firewood raffle

Drawn 28th june

DATE PREP 9am - 9.30am (PC MEMBER)

PREP 9am - 9.30am PREP 9am - 9.30am SERVICE 12.30pm-1.00pm

28 May Fiona Musgrove Ellen Sykes Peta Thexton Dorrie Sullivan

4 June Ellen Sykes Alyshia Reggardo Kerry Scott Ellen Sykes

11 June Ellen Sykes Kerry Scott Bec

18 June Ellen Sykes Alyshia Reggardo Bec

25 June Ellen Sykes Kerry Scott Bec

DATE PREP 9am - 9.30am (PC MEMBER)

PREP 9am - 9.30am PREP 9am - 9.30am SERVICE 12.30pm-1.00pm

23 July Alyshia Reggardo

30 July Alyshia Reggardo

6 August Alyshia Reggardo

13 August Alyshia Reggardo

20 August Alyshia Reggardo

27 August Alyshia Reggardo

3 September Alyshia Reggardo

10 September Alyshia Reggardo