HAZELWOOD NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 2382

121 Church Road, Hazelwood North. 3840 Phone: (03) 5166 1267 Mobile: 0407 505 569

Fax: (03) 5166 1669 ABN: 28 632 191 311

Email: hazelwood.north.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: http://www.haznthps.vic.edu.au

Thursday 31st August 2017

Term 3 – Newsletter 27 WEDNESDAY’S SCHOOL BANKING

Wednesday 26th July to

Tuesday 19th September

Monday 4th September

Tuesday 5th September

Tuesday 5th September

Friday 8th September

Friday 8th September

Monday 11th September

Monday 11th September

Friday 15th September

Thursday 21st September

Friday 22nd September

Friday 22nd September

Monday 9th October

Wednesday 11th -13th October

Thursday 26th October

Monday 6th November

Tuesday 7th November

WEDNESDAY’S SCHOOL BANKING

Earn and Learn Program

Meet & Greet Day for 2018 New Preps

Division Athletics (selected students)

Pie Order and money due in

Assembly- Civic & Citizenship Awards

Subway Lunch

School Closure Day- Student free Day

School Council Meeting

Special Lunch Day

Grade 2 Sleepover

Term 3 finishes @ 1.30pm

No Lunch last day of school

Term 4 – First day of school

Grade 3/4 Phillip Island Camp

School Concert Performance

Lowanna College Newborough

Pupil Free Day

Melbourne Cup Day – No school

2017 SCHOOL CAMPS: Years 3/4 Phillip Island Camp Wednesday 11th October to 13th October

Cost $270 by Monday 11th September

PRINCIPAL COMMENTS: PAUL JORGENSEN

Congratulations to the HNPS boys’ basketball team for their great effort at the Latrobe Valley Division competition today. All the boys enjoyed their games and were very supportive of each other during the games. Overall HNPS finished 2nd.

They had a narrow win against St Kieran’s winning 25 to 24 in the first game. Suffering from early nerves, they were behind early in the first game but they were able to settle and come away with the win. The second game was close early against Grey St. Traralgon and after a few injuries, Grey St. were able to set up a commanding lead. Although HNPS were able to fight

back they went down 42 to 26. The third game against Morwell park was a fun game as some children from both teams knew each other. The HNPS team were also trying to give everyone a chance to score for the team so were very supportive of each other. HNPS eventually ran out winners 36 to 17.

Another reminder that all children must be wearing hats at all times when outside at school. If a child does not have a hat they will have to play in the undercover area.

WOOLWOOOORRRRTTTTHS EAAAARRRRN & LEARN PROGRAAAAM is continuing and Hazelwood North Primary School is participating. If we receive enough stickers we

could earn for our school some amazing equipment just by shopping at Woolworths

from Wednesday 26th July until Tuesday19th September.

KEEP THE STICKERS

COMING! MORE THE

BETTER!

Preview for Foundation/Ones

Next week in Maths we will be covering the topics of;

• Number • mass • money

At home you could practise identifying, ordering and counting coins.

In Reading we will be looking at the reading strategy making

inferences, beginning and ending sounds and rereading to make

sure what we read makes sense. Please make sure your child is

bringing their reader to school on a daily basis so they can change their reader. We

also encourage parents to be listening to their child read on a regular basis.

In Inquiry we will be starting to make our simple machines.

• Please make sure your child has a hat at school. Miss Waite has a number of hats in her classroom with no owners!

• Miss Waite’s grade has take home spelling words to practise. Testing is on Friday.

• Miss Waite and Miss Stockdale are currently completing reading and maths testing. Over the next few weeks, at times both grades will be working

together.

We had great fun during our Book week activities. Below are some pictures of our

fun day.

Book Week Activities Day

Read Every Day.

Last Friday we celebrated Book Week and Read

Every Day starting with grade parades in the

Hall at 9.00am followed by a rotation of special

activities after recess. As the photos show there

were many famous book characters present in

our Hall that morning!

After recess all students participated in three of

the six activities organised by our Book Week presenters Riley A, Connor C,

Hunter, Riley M, Ashton, Archer, Hugh, Jada, Zoe, Melina (standing in for Zoe on

the day), Shanae, Olivia P, Ashlee and Jayla. Our presenters had spent much of

their lunch and recess time during the last few weeks designing, planning and

organising an activity based upon the theme of their chosen book. Their

enthusiasm and leadership shone through in the activities encouraging everyone

to enjoy the day!

2/3 Preview

Next week in Mathematics we will be revisiting angles, multiplication and

problem solving. Students have been developing their ability to deepening their

understanding of mathematical concepts through dialogue – that is talking.

Effective dialogue is not simply telling others what you think about something, but

explaining what you think and giving reasons why you think a certain way. This

also means you need to understand what the question is, think about what it is

asking you, choose a strategy to approach the question and check your answer

carefully to see if you got it right. A way that you can help your child develop their

thinking and problem solving skills is to ask them about the question and to show

or create evidence to support their point of view. Here is a question you can use to

practise: Robbie's teacher bought red and white paint for a class art project. She

spent $51.00 on red paint and $17.00 on white paint. How much did the paint cost

altogether? How much change did Robbie get from $100? In Writing next week students will be exploring procedural

texts. A fun way to practise this is to ask your child to

write instructions of how to put on a jumper, then you can

follow the instructions exactly! The use of verbs

(action/doing words) and adverbs (words that tell you how

the verb is done) are a key to procedural texts. For

example, softly cracking open an egg is quite different to smashing open an egg.

In Reading we will be focussing on the Café strategies of using word parts to

determine the meaning of words as well as using dictionaries, thesauruses and

glossaries to expand our vocabularies. For example, you can determine the

meaning of words like unlikely by breaking them into parts. Likely means there is a

chance of something happening and the prefix un means “not”. When combined,

you have the meaning of not likely. Encourage your child to try this with new and

unfamiliar words and to list as many words with similar word parts to see if they

can notice any patterns.

In Inquiry on Friday this week, we have started creating designs of toys or games

that we can make as part of our simple machines unit. Next week we will hopefully

be making our toys or games and students may be asked to source some materials

from home. We may also benefit from some hands on assistance on Friday with

putting together our toys and games so please let us know if you are available from

9am – 11am Friday morning. If you are, please make sure that your Working with

Children Check is up to date and that the office has a copy prior to the day.

Once again, have a safe weekend and enjoy any warmer weather as we head into

spring!

Mark Atherton, Kelly Alexander and Natalie Jones.

4/5/6 Duncan & Simmons Preview

Maths

In Mathematics we will be reviewing topics covered this term: We will continue to focus on fractions and time. We will also be converting television program viewing times into fractions.

With your child, continue to practise converting fractions to decimals and percentages and reducing fractions using the greatest common factor.

4/8 = 2/4 = 1/2 = 0.5 = 50%

3/12 = 2/6 =1/3 = 0.3 = 30%

Students can log onto:

Follow the tutorials then complete examples from the site.

https://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_reduce.html

Language

Our focus in Writing will be Commas and Information Reports. Students must read at least four times a week. Please monitor your child’s reading. If this is not happening, make a time to ensure your child reads. Most students have added their new spelling words on SeeSaw. Please help your child learn their words. If your child has not uploaded their words, encourage them to do so at home or please message their teacher so this can be rectified at school.

Inquiry

Students have completed their flow charts and model designs. They have commenced constructing their models. Have your child organise their building materials in preparation for next week.

Morwell Junior Cricket Registration Day

Tuesday September 5 - 4.30pm at Keegan St Oval (next to Morwell Football

Ground)

Cost $30 for the season

All Equipment, Shirt & Hat Supplied

All Junior teams train on Tuesdays 4.30-6pm

Girls Only Cricket Team!

U12s play Monday evenings, U14s Wednesday Evenings, U16s Friday Evenings

(information for 4-8 year olds to come in October with Milo Cricket)

Play Cricket under lights with Zing Bails! Be Famous and have your name on our

new Electronic Scoreboard!

Contact Mark Smith 0438 870 790 or at mdsmith72@bigpond.com

On the web at http://morwellcc.vic.cricket.com.au/ or search Morwell Cricket Club

on Facebook

Term 3 Fundraising

Money raised from fundraising this year will go toward the purchasing of the STEM equipment.

PIE DRIVE Thanks for those that have returned orders. Just a reminder order and money due in Tuesday 5th

September.

FATHERS DAY STALL Thanks to everyone for this day. Profit from stall was great $522.

LUNCH Wow! a whopping 81 Hot Dogs and 88 Dim Sims were cooked for this day. A profit of $420 we made

for this fundraiser.

Thanks to all those that helped us in this event.

BUNNINGS BBQ - Sunday 17th September

We have the opportunity of being involved in the Bunnings BBQ this year. We would love your help

on the day, a roster will be organised and prior cutting onions picking up bread and sausages. If you

feel you could help out with any of this please leave or name at office or contact any of us.

LITTLE JOB FOR SOMEONE Thanks to you we recently purchased some skirts (12) as part of district sports uniforms. These need

to be labelled with iron on labels, if anyone has some time to do this for us that would be

appreciated. Please contact myself or Francesca

RAFFLE for PRODUCTION and END of YEAR We are looking for raffle donations for these two events. If you are able to assist that would be

appreciated.

Don’t forget to mention our school when you are shopping at the below businesses as a % of all

purchases come back to school.

BAKERS DELIGHT, Stockland Plaza

Traralgon

We thank these businesses for their support.

If you have any queries or suggestions for Fundraiser please don’t

hesitate to contact me 0412855933or bronwyn@wideband.net.au .

Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lyn Ahrens Licensed by MTI Australasia All Performance materials provided by Hal

Leonard Australia

Hazelwood North Primary School students are busy rehearsing for

our whole school production of

“SEUSSICAL”“SEUSSICAL”“SEUSSICAL”“SEUSSICAL”

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DRESS REHEARSAL MATINEE PERFORMANCE 12.30PM DRESS REHEARSAL MATINEE PERFORMANCE 12.30PM DRESS REHEARSAL MATINEE PERFORMANCE 12.30PM DRESS REHEARSAL MATINEE PERFORMANCE 12.30PM

EVENING PERFORMANCE 6.30PMEVENING PERFORMANCE 6.30PMEVENING PERFORMANCE 6.30PMEVENING PERFORMANCE 6.30PM

LOWANNA COLLEGE AUDITORIUM, NEWBOROUGHLOWANNA COLLEGE AUDITORIUM, NEWBOROUGHLOWANNA COLLEGE AUDITORIUM, NEWBOROUGHLOWANNA COLLEGE AUDITORIUM, NEWBOROUGH

Notes regarding costume information and requirements have been sent

home this week. For all costume enquiries, please contact Mrs Szkwarek.

Please keep an eye out in upcoming newsletters for further information about Seussical.

We look forward to presenting a colourful and entertaining performance!

Laura Maiolo and Janelle Szkwarek