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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

School Council President - Anne Trevena

Telephone - (03) 57931288

Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Email - puckapunyal.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Alamein Road

Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662

Postal: Military P.O.

ABN: - 74134967962

Term 3 Issue 7

August 30th 2017

Thursday 31st

August - Friday 1st

September

Years 3-6 House Athletics

Carnival

Tuesday 5th September

Year 1 Latestay

Thursday

7th September

Foundation Latestay

Friday

8th September

Year 2 Melbourne Museum

Excursion and Sleepover

Monday 11th September

Years 3-6 District Athletics carnival

Tuesday

12th September

School Council Meeting

Inside this Issue:

Happy Birthday 2

DSTA Message 2

School Hats 2

School Value/Rule Reminders 3

Canteen Lunches 3

Policy Help 3

National Literacy and Numeracy Week 3

Awards of the Week 4

Indo Lingo 5

Teaching/Learning Focus 6

Pucka Stars 6

The Prince Boofhead Syndrome

(Psychologist article) 7-8

Latestays/Yr 2 Excursion 9

School Concert Items 10

Positive Parenting Telephone Service 11

Legal Information Evening at Pucka PS 12

The Years 3-6 House Athletics Carnival is on this week! It will take place over 2

days:

Day 1 – Field events on Thursday 31st August at school. The 9 and 10 yrs children

will begin at 11:25 a.m. and finish at 1:05 p.m., while the 11 and 12/13 yrs children

will begin at 1:50 p.m. and finish 3:30 p.m. All children will have an earlier lunch at

1:05 p.m. and will be dismissed from school at normal time at 3:30 p.m.

Day 2 – Track events (plus Triple Jump) on Friday 1st September at the No7 Oval

near Frontline. The children will be walking from school at 12:45 p.m. to begin at

1:00 p.m. All children will have their lunch before they go and will be dismissed at

the No. 7 oval at 3:30 p.m. Because the children will be leaving the school grounds

for this day, they will need to return the permission slip that came home last week.

The aim of the 2 days is for all students to participate and have a go. We will also be

selecting students to represent our school at the Seymour District Carnival to be held

on Monday 11th September. The District event only involves Years 3-6 students.

They will be selected according to their efforts, placings and techniques performed

at our school carnival. For example, we cannot send someone to District for shot put

if their technique isn’t officially ‘legal’, even if they throw the furthest.

In each event students can tally points for their House teams. Just competing will

score points for their House team. It is imperative for their teams that all students

have a go. Parents are also welcome to come along and cheer loudly! Children have

been encouraged to wear their house colours - red, blue, green or yellow.

Good luck, Athletes!

On behalf of the school

community, we wish all of our

dads a very Happy Fathers’

Day for Sunday. We hope that

Sunday is a very restful day for

all dads. Come on mums and

kids, let’s spoil our dads!

eg. breakfast in bed, nice

presents, etc.

**REMINDER- Pucka News is a growing interest in the school and our community. You can

see each episode live at our school assemblies at 9am on Monday mornings. Everyone is

encouraged to come along and watch each episode. If you are unable to attend, you can follow

Pucka News by watching each episode on our Facebook page. **

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***Have you heard your child read today? We

encourage all students to practise their reading at home

about 5 nights per week. Therefore, by now, most

students should have read at least between 135-140

nights. Well done if you have kept up!

Happy Birthday to

Jackson Dendle, Malakai

Casey, Jack McGechan,

Chayce Mackie, Clancy

Easom, Olivia Armstrong

and Wade Hansen who are

all celebrating their birthdays

this week. On behalf of the

Puckapunyal Primary School

Community, we wish them all

a very Happy Birthday!

A stall for fathers, grandads, uncles, neighbours or

friends: This Friday we will be having a stall for our

students to buy gifts for their dad, grandad, uncle,

neighbour or friend. There will be a $1, $2, $3, $4, $5

and $10 stall with wonderful gifts on sale. Participation

in this, of course is voluntary. If you have any suitable

items for the stall we would also be very grateful. Please

note, no nut products, lighters etc. Thank you for your

support.

Earn and learn: Thanks so much to our wonderful

school community for collecting the Woolworths Earn

and learn stickers. Keep it up as each one goes towards

some quality resources that benefit all our students. We

currently have collected over 6600 stickers.

Enjoy your week!!

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

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POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD

UPDATE There are a lot of tickets being handed out for

positive behaviour and that is great to see!!

Could we have our first house reach 1000 tickets

in a term? Keep up the great work everyone!

SCORES

Chisholm - 511 points

Melba - 473 points

Bradman - 443 points

Hume - 305 points

Starting Friday - Just a reminder that from

September 1st, all students must have a hat for

their play times or any time they are outside in the

school grounds. We are a SUNSMART School

and the school policy states that ‘no hat, no play’.

The hat must be a school hat (navy blue, wide

brimmed with school logo). School hats are

available for purchase through the school and cost

$12.

Jazmin Ramsbotham and Greyson Cannon agree that we

need to collect as many Earn and Learn stickers as possible!

On the last day of Term 3, we will have our AFL

Footy ‘Dress Up Day’. Traditionally, we have

always enjoyed our day where all students come to

school dressed in the colours of their favourite footy

team. Go the Mighty Pies!!

On Wednesday 15th November, 2017 we invite families to come to the Puckapunyal Primary

School Family Fun Day! This is an invitation to all parents of pre-school and primary school children

and other members of the community. It is going to be a great day! We ask defence members (who are our parents)

to try to get some time from work to attend. The day will begin at 1:00p.m. More information later in the year.

**Don’t forget, we have planned a 4 Day Bike

Ride meeting for teachers and parents to attend to

discuss our plans and how families can help. Please

come along if you want to attend or help in any way.

When: Today at 4pm

Where: School Staffroom

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Teachers are looking for students who are demonstrating ‘Reliability’ to be eligible for the Student of the Week

award. We encourage parents to talk to their students about our values throughout the year.

What is Reliability? At assembly this week, Year 6 student Ashby Murphy read out the meaning of Reliability.

‘Reliability means that others can depend on you and count on you to do your best to keep commitments. If your

family relies on you to feed the family pets then they are always fed without anyone having to remind you to do it.

Reliability means that you really care about doing what you said you would do.’

The School Canteen is open for Lunch Orders this

Friday. Each and every Friday students can order lunches

from the school canteen. The menu will be different each

week. Please ensure that a paper bag comes with the order.

Please indicate on the lunch bag if the money is in another

sibling’s bag (please see Term 3 menu in a recent

newsletter).

This week the menu is - Pizza Supreme or Ham and Pineapple $2.50

Chocolate/Strawberry Milk $2.00 each

Apple/Orange Juice Popper $1.50 each

No charge for tomato sauce

Each week at assembly, SRC representatives remind our

students of a few important school rules. This week,

SRC representatives, Dimitri Corocher and Milli Miller,

reminded our students of the following school rules to follow

when borrowing sports equipment from the sports shed:

-Return all of your items when you’re finished.

-Don’t play with any equipment at the front of the school.

-Treat all equipment with respect.

-Don’t leave your borrowed equipment unattended.

Please discuss these rules with your children to help ensure that

they understand.

***We can all work together to rid

the community of Head Lice. Let’s

check our heads once per week!***

**Please help if you can – Throughout each year we review

various school policies. If you would like to contribute to

reviewing our school policies please come to school to join

staff and school councillors at a policy review meeting. Our 2

planned meetings for Term 3 are – Monday 4th September

(First Aid Policy) and Monday 11th September (Medication

Policy). All meetings will be in the staffroom from 4pm.

Please come if you can spare the time.**

National Literacy and Numeracy week

is next week!. That week, it is a very busy week

at Puckapunyal PS. However, we would also like

to invite all families to attend a few events. Please

see below.

Monday 4th September – School

Assembly/Classroom Reading

9:00am-10:00am: Families are invited to attend

assembly to sing the national anthem, watch students

perform, receive awards and enjoy the beginning of

the school week. Immediately after assembly, families

are invited to visit classrooms to listen to some

children read.

Tuesday 5th September – Literacy (Writing) focus

10:00am-11:00am: Families are invited to attend our

VCOP sessions in each of the classrooms.

11:30am-12:30pm: Families are invited to attend our

Big Write sessions in each of the classrooms.

**Please come along and see what teachers and

students do during these sessions.**

**Please come along and enjoy the experiences.**

Also during that week:

Tuesday 5th September – Year 1 Latestay

Thursday 7th September – Foundation Latestay

Friday 8th September – Year 2 Melbourne Museum

Excursiuon and Stayover

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Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Students of the Week’ for last week.

Winners – Olivia, James Ciszewski, Kirrah Horton,

Memphis Campbell, Charlie Gilmour, Brielle Eldredge,

Dakota Miller, Harry Fletcher and Jasmine Jamieson.

These students were selected because they were modelling

Confidence. This week teachers are looking for students

who are modelling Reliability.

Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Authors of the Week’ for last week.

Winners – Eli St. Leone, Muhammad Shah, Brodie

Robinson, Bailey Armstrong, Nic Houghton,

Charlotte Van Dorssen, Lilly Fleming, Joe Gilmour

and Dani Corocher.The students were selected because

they showed great skills as an author.

Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,

beginning school for the first time and even returning for another

school year can be daunting for students and parents. It is great to see

parents eager to support their children at this time and be an integral

part of their education. If you have any concerns, or just feel like a

chat about school and your child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance program

if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that includes

shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents have been waiting

on this to arrive.

Best wishes for the week.

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,

beginning school for the first time and even returning for another

school year can be daunting for students and parents. It is great

to see parents eager to support their children at this time and be

an integral part of their education. If you have any concerns, or

just feel like a chat about school and your child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents have

been waiting on this to arrive.

Best wishes for the week.

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

3/4 M in Room 9 won

the Yard Duty

Competition. Riley

Gilmour and Henry Billen

enjoyed collecting the

winning trophy for their

classroom this week!

Congratulations to Clancy Easom, Olivia, Thais

Ornsby and Skye Lucas who won the raffle prizes

for ‘Positive Behaviour’ this week!

3/4 M in Room 9 won

the Middle School

Times Tables

Trophy. Melhoney

Pambai and Savannah

Bradford are both delighted

to look after the winning

trophy this week!

5/6 D in Room 2 won

the Senior School

Times Tables

Trophy. Dimitee Taylor

and Dani Corocher will

look after the winning

trophy this week!

Congratulations, Maddi

Matangi who did an

excellent job reading her

letter writing at assembly this

week! Great job, Maddi. I

wonder who will read at

assembly next week?

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Years F/1/2/3 Rooms 6, 8, 3, 4 & 10: FO, 1/2C and 2/3H students will focus on skuter (scooter) and warna

(colour) this week. The students will participate in a skuter (scooter) and sepeda (bike) survey; if the weather is

good, they'll check out how many skuter and sepeda are in the bike racks at school.

F/1O and 1/2I students will focus on mobil (car) and warna (colour) this week. The students will participate in a

mobil (car) survey and make a mini car book.

Junior lessons start with a greeting, ask how they are feeling, mark the roll, and count how many students are

present; all in Indonesian of course! Vocab they'll hear/use this week is:

Selamat pagi = Good morning

Selamat siang = Good day

Apa kabar? = How are you? Baik-baik saja = Well Biasa saja = So so Kurang baik = Not good

Siapa ada = Who's here? Ada = Here

Siapa tidak ada? = Who's not here? Tidak ada = Not here

Berapa murid ada? = How student's are here? Ada __ murid. = There are __ students here.

Berapa skuter dan sepeda? = How many scooters and bikes? Ada __ skuter dan __ sepeda. = There are __ scooters and

__ bikes.

Saya naik skuter ___. = I go by ___ scooter.

hitam = black biru = blue kuning = yellow abu-abu = grey putih = white merah = red coklat = brown hijau = green

merah muda = pink jingga = orange ungu = purple

satu = 1 sebelas = 11 21 dua puluh satu

dua = 2 dua belas = 12 22 dua puluh dua

tiga = 3 tiga belas = 13 23 dua puluh tiga

empat = 4 empat belas = 14 24 dua puluh empat

lima = 5 lima belas = 15

enam = 6 enam belas = 16

tujuh = 7 tujuh belas = 17

delapan = 8 delapan belas = 18

sembilan = 9 sembilan belas = 19

sepuluh = 10 dua puluh = 20

Sampai jumpa = See you later

Years 3/4/5/6 Rooms 9, 11, 1 & 2: 3/4M and 5/6I students will participate in a survey transportasi (transportation

survey). They will ask each other how they get to school in Indonesian.

3/4H and 5/6D students will learn hari-hari minggu (days of the week) this week and commence a transport

project in Indonesian. Senior lessons start with a greeting, ask how they are feeling, mark the roll and then have

one murid luar biasa (special student) answer questions about themselves which their peers ask, all in Indonesian

of course! Vocab they'll hear/use this week is:

Selamat pagi = Good morning Selamat Siang = Good day Selamat sore = Good afternoon

Apa kabar? = How are you? Saya merasa ... = I feel ... Saya ... = I'm ...

baik = good senang = happy sedih = sad bagus = great lapar = hungry haus = thirsty panas = hot dingin = cold sakit =

sick

Siapa ada? = Who's here? Ada = Here

Siapa tidak ada? = Who's absent? = Tidak ada = Absent

Siapa nama kamu? = What's your name? Nama saya ___. = My name's ___.

Berapa umur kamu? = What's your age? Umur saya ___ tahun. = I'm ___ years old.

Kamu tinggal di mana? = Where do you live? Saya tinggal di ___. = I live in ___.

Kamu di kelas berapa? = What grade are you in? Saya di kelas ___. = I'm in grade ___.

Kamu bersekolah di mana? = What school do you go to? Saya bersekolah di ___. = I do to school at ___.

Warna apa favorit kamu? = What's your favourite colour? Warna favorit saya ___. = My favourite colour is ___.

Kamu punya binatang apa? = What pet do you have? Saya punya ___. = I have a ___. Saya mau ___. = I want a ___.

Siapa ada di keluarga kamu? = Who's in your family? Di keluarga saya ada ___. = In my family there is ___.

Kamu suka apa? = What do you like? Saya suka ___. = I like ___.

Kamu suka makan di mana? = Where do you like to eat? Saya suka makan di ___. = I like to eat at ___.

Naik apa ke sekolah? = How do you get to school? Saya naik ___ ke sekolah. = I go by ___ to school.

Saya naik mobil ke sekolah. = I go by car to school. Saya naik sepeda ke sekolah. = I go by bike to school.

Saya naik skuter ke sekolah. = I go by scooter to school. Saya naik bis ke sekolah. = I go by bus to school.

Saya berjalan kaki ke sekolah. = I walk to school mobil = car

sepeda = bike skuter = scooter

bis = bus berjalan kaki = walk Sampai jumpa = See you later

Salam (Regards) Bu Hooper (Mrs Hooper)

Guru Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian

teacher)

Every day is a great day to be

at school, particularly when

you’re here at Puckapunyal

Primary School!

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Each week in the newsletter, we will give families a summary of the Teaching/Learning Focus for the week.

That can help families by: being aware of what classrooms are covering; with discussion topics at the dinner table

when discussing school (eg. ‘How are you going with addition in Numeracy this week?’); helping their children study at

home, etc. Parents have indicated that this information would be very useful. We also ask families to be aware that

schools are very busy places and events can be unpredictable at times. We therefore must remain flexible. That means,

we can plan to cover certain topics at particular times and have to change them according to arising needs.

Junior School – Preps/Foundation Rooms 6 & 8 Literacy: We are learning all about the letters J and K. We are working hard on spaces between our words and writing

good sentences. We are continuing to practise Kung Fu punctuation.

Numeracy: We are revising all numbers from 1-17 and learning about halves (fractions). We are creating displays of

data using lists, tables and picture graphs.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 4 & 8

Literacy: We are revising the letters J and K. We are revising hyphens, brackets and compound words.

Numeracy: We are learning about fractions (halves and quarters) and creating graphs.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 3, 4 & 10 Literacy: We are revising hyphens, brackets and compound words. We are writing narratives and learning about

colons.

Numeracy: We are Recognising and interpret common use of halves, quarters and eighths of shapes and collections.

Middle School Years 3/4 Rooms 9, 10 & 11 Literacy: We will be focusing on invitations and letter writing, as well as the VCOP components.

Numeracy: We will also be working on the four processes as well as chance experiments in Numeracy.

Senior School Years 5/6 Rooms 1 & 2 Literacy: We will be focusing on narratives, letter writing and the VCOP components.

Numeracy: We will be working on processes, mean, mode, median and tree diagrams for problem solving.

Congratulations,

Gemma Koch

who did a great job

playing keyboard

at assembly this

week! She was

terrific!

Congratulation,

Bradley

Kitchin who

did some

wonderful

letter writing

this week!

Great job!

Tia Dowdell, Noah Newby and LoganMalik are all proud

because they have all improved their spelling recently. They have

all moved up to a higher spelling level. Well done, kids!

Congratulations,

George Stock who

has improved his

handwriting since the

start of the year. Well

done, George, keep up

the great work!

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The Prince Boofhead Syndrome by Michael Carr-Gregg (Australian

Psychologist)

A FEW years ago I was standing outside my son’s school, when a four-wheel-drive pulled up and woman got out,

clutching a folder.

She stood a few metres away from me, pulled out a mobile and tapped out a text message. A few moments later a short,

skinny boy in school uniform ran up to her. “Hello Simon, here it is, darling,” the woman said, proffering the folder to the

boy.

The schoolboy, not more than 13 years of age, took one look at the folder and said loudly, “That’s the wrong one, you

stupid cow! I needed my maths folder! Now I’m up s**t creek and it’s all your fault.”

The woman looked close to tears as she stuttered, “But Simon, I thought you said bring me the English folder. I did tell

you to check your bag before you got in the car. I had to cancel an appointment to get this to you.”

Simon regarded his mother with an expression of utter contempt and said, “You are just hopeless”. No word of thanks, he

simply turned on his heels and walked away.

Up until this point, she had not even noticed that I was standing there, but now she realised that this rather unpleasant

exchange had transpired in front of an audience of one — me. I still don’t know if she knew I was a child and adolescent

psychologist, but she looked mortified and said to me apologetically, “It’s fine, really, he’s been under a lot of stress

lately.” She then returned to her SUV and drove off.

Now, as much as my day to day work brings me in touch with some pretty tricky situations and I have met some pretty

challenging young people in my time, I can think of no circumstance under which it would be acceptable for any child to

speak to an adult like that, let alone one’s loving mother.

So, what are the lessons to be learnt from this?

In the first instance, Simon’s mother should never have cancelled her appointment, in essence rewarding her son’s

forgetful behaviour. This is classic helicopter-gunship/lawnmower/snowplough parenting paradigm — swooping into

rescue a child from his own indolence or laziness or forgetfulness.

We know Year 7s can be a bit scatterbrained, but the way they learn not to be is to have natural consequences for poor

choices. Forget the book, face the consequences at school.

Second, Simon should never have been allowed to speak to his mother in such a disrespectful way. One of Dr Phil’s

favourite sayings is that “we teach people how to treat us” and Simon’s behaviour is not surprising given that his rudeness

has probably been tolerated, if not throughout his childhood, certainly in early adolescence.

In our new book, The Prince Boofhead Syndrome, Elly Robinson and I argue that the trouble with boys like Simon is that

he has been brought up to see the world as one giant, personalised, all-singing, all-dancing, 24/7 catering service —

exclusively for him.

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These boys have never been challenged when they refuse to take out the garbage bins, pick up the dog poo or stack the

dishwasher; in essence to contribute to the running of the family.

When I wrote The Princess Bitchface Syndrome in 2006, this type of disrespectful behaviour seemed more common

among a small sub section of teenage girls that I worked with, but it now seems to have spilt over to boys.

And while they are not as verbal or vitriolic as their sisters, they are physically stronger and can be terrifying in their

anger, especially when it is directed towards their parents, as it so often is.

Too many of today’s parents exhaust themselves trying to make their son’s lives easy by doing things that he can do for

himself, leaping in to fix his problems, handing him every single opportunity on a plate, and being his full-time

cheerleader.

All of these are the ingredients required for a self-absorbed, lazy, entitled, spoiled brat — aka Prince Boofhead.

The child-centred parenting movement has swung too far in the opposite direction. We have become too terrified to say

no, to set limits and enforce consequences in case we damage our children’s self-esteem.

We seem to have turned away from the focus of raising civilised, polite, well-mannered boys and instead have gone to

worship at the altar of “happiness”.

We are oblivious to the fact that by not allowing our children to learn from their own stuff-ups and develop resilience and

self-respect, we are creating rudderless, disconnected, bitter and resentful boys who feel they can treat their parents (and

other authority figures, like the police) in precisely the way Simon treated his mother.

The Prince Boofhead Syndrome is the new book about teen boys by Michael Carr-Gregg and Elly Robinson

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“When students

improve their

attendance rates, they

improve their academic

prospects and chances

of graduating.”

Our Year 2 students have an exciting Excursion and Stayover (camp) coming up. On Friday 8th

September the students and attending staff will catch a bus to Melbourne and enjoy a fabulous morning tea in the

Carlton Gardens. The highlight of the day will be the tour of the Melbourne Museum. We will travel back to school via

bus and take part in the exciting stayover at school. For tea they will have a BBQ where they will have sausages in

bread, an ice-cream, biscuits and a drink. After tea the children will walk around the school with their torches, listening

and looking for animals and discussing the night sky. They are all excited about sleeping at school! It should be a great

experience! A Permission slip will come home soon.

Yours sincerely, Year 2 Teachers

To enhance our Camping Program and to encourage student independence, children in Foundation and Year 1 will

participate in a late stay at school.

The Year 1 late stay will be held on Tuesday 5th September. Immediately after school they will attend the

Late stay from 3:30pm until 7:30pm.

The Foundation late stay will be held on Thursday 7th September from 3:30pm until 7:30pm.

The children will be given afternoon tea, consisting of biscuits and a drink. They will then play some games on the oval

and the asphalt, and participate in an environmental activity. A BBQ tea will be served consisting of sausages in bread,

an ice-cream, an apple and a drink. After tea they will walk around the school grounds to listen and look for animals

and discuss the night sky. The students will need to bring a torch and a rug or sleeping bag. The children can be

collected at 7:30pm. The cost of the late stays will be $5 per child.

A Permission note will come home soon.

Yours sincerely, Foundation/Year 1 Teachers

‘Today is a great day to learn something new.’

Author unknown

Defence Bank would like to offer to all school age children the opportunity to open their own savings account. They will receive a free piggy bank and a deposit of $10 towards their savings account. This is only available until the end of August 2017. Please contact Cheryl, Lara & Anja for further information: 03 5793 7000

***We are looking foir someone to be our Book Club

Coordinator in 2018. Are you interested? Please call in

the office if you would like to help.***

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***NB - While there will be several individual acts organised before the day, below are the items each classroom

will be performing at the school concert.***

Where: Puckapunyal Area Theatre

When: Wednesday 20th September, 2017

Time: 2pm Start

All Families are Welcome!

School Concert Items

FOC – A Night at the Movies (Song and Dance)

F/10 – Dinosaur Stomp (Action Song)

1/2I – Crazy Community Poem (Poetry)

1/2C – Tadpole Blues (Song)

2/3H – Teacher Medley (Song and Dance)

3/4M - School of Rock (Dance)

3/4H – Can’t Stop the Feeling (Song and Dance)

5/6D – Dance / Gymnastics (Dance)

5/6I – Pucka Primary Poem (Poetry)

Choir – How Far I’ll Go & National Anthem (Songs)

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Positive Parenting Telephone Service

This program is offered to parents, grandparents caring for their grandchildren & carers of children aged 2 – 10 years

Our free ten week program aims to assist you to:

*Develop a stronger and more positive relationship with your child/children *Encourage behaviour you want to see in your children *Manage everyday behaviour problems *Set rules & limits *Teach new skills

This program is completed via a workbook or online modules which are supported by weekly phone calls with a trained parent educator. All of this can be done from the comfort of your own home at a time that suits you.

Interested? For more information please phone

1800 880 660

ENROLMENTS TAKEN ALL YEAR ROUND

Enrol now and make a positive start last a lifetime

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LEGAL INFORMATION EVENING

AT PUCKAPUNYAL PS

Lajita Allan-Agnew of TBA Law will be giving a

presentation on Family Law with a focus

on property splits, Binding Financial Agreements

and parenting matters.

We want you to be educated about your rights

and empower you with knowledge, removing the myths

and fears around the legal aspects of Family Law.

Join Lajita on Monday, 11 September at 5pm at Puckapunyal PS

for an interactive presentation that will include an opportunity

to air your concerns and have your questions answered.

TBA Law has offices in Seymour, Nagambie, Wallan

and Melbourne

Phone: 1300 043 103

Email: admin@tbalaw.com.au