Tinternvale Primary School Tintalk

Issue 24 August 6th 2015

Tinternvale Primary School Tintern Avenue, Ringwood East 3135. P.O. Box 179 Bayswater 3153

Phone: 9720 1215 Fax: 9720 8923 E-mail: tinternvale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au www.tinternvaleps.vic.edu.au

Principal's Comment

Assembly tomorrow at 9:00am followed by a cuppa with Kerrie and Jo.

ICAS Science certificates presented at Assembly tomorrow.

Senior Choir performing at Assembly tomorrow.

Reports Feedback for Parents

After assembly tomorrow, Jo and I will be running a session to allow parents to give us feedback on the new reporting format. It will be informal, but we really would like to know if improvements are needed. Staff have identified some changes that need to be made so now we would like to hear from parents. We will only take about 15 minutes of your time.

Athletics

It seems we picked the only day this week without rain, hail or snow for our house athletics carnival! Thank you to all the students for being on their best behaviour (as they always do) and to the staff and the many parent helpers who braved the freezing conditions. Special thanks to Simon Datson for his awesome organisation.

Hands on Learning

Our first session of Hands on Learning takes place tomorrow afternoon. We will have almost 50 very excited pre-schoolers in attendance, who will work with our specialist teachers over the 4 weeks of the program. If you are aware of any pre-school children who would like to attend, please have them contact the office.

Fete

Our Fete is our major fundraiser for the year. We all need to pull together as a school community to ensure it is a huge success. Many people in our school community are already working very hard to make sure this happens. Funds raised from our Fete will go towards renovations of the Library and Art buildings. Also on the wish list is internal painting and new pin boards for our upstairs building. We can only do these things if we fund raise. Any assistance, big or small, is welcome.

Next week at a glance

Mon

Tues ICAS Maths

Wed L1 & 2 Athletics Day

Oxfam Festival

Thurs

Fri Assembly 9:00am Senior Choir

Cuppa with Kerrie & Jo

Hands on Learning

Asian Cultural Day On the 29th of July 2015, Heathmont College organised an Asian Cultural day for the neighbouring primary schools. More than 100 students and the Indonesian and Japanese Language teachers from Marlborough PS, Heathmont East PS, Tinternvale PS, Great Ryrie PS and Bayswater North PS participated in the whole day event at Heathmont College. Students were involved in four cultural sessions, namely batik and mask making, the Angklung and the Japanese martial art, Aikido. These sessions were run by teachers from the participating schools assisted by the Year 7 & 8 Heathmont College Indonesian students. We were also very fortunate to have Daniel Brooks and his team from the Australia Indonesia Youth Association to help with the Angklung sessions.

Flying Woks catered lunch on site; they prepared Indonesian fried rice and Japanese teriyaki salad. After lunch, participants gathered together for speeches and presentations that went live via Skype link-up with Heathmont SC Indonesian sister school in Jogjakarta. Students presented an Angklung ‘Topi Saya Bundar’ song watched by the audience here and also by the Indonesian school students.

As always our students demonstrated exceptional behaviour and joined in the activities enthusiastically. Thanks to Mr Addison and Mrs Begbie for attending with the students.

Hands on Learning begins tomorrow, 7th August!! For 4 year-old pre-schoolers.

Help your child get ready for school. This exciting program has been designed to develop the essentials of school readiness while having fun! Hands on Learning is a 4 week program held on Friday afternoons, beginning August 7th to August 28th, 2015. This program will be held in the afternoons 2:30pm– 3:15pm. For bookings and enquiries, please telephone the school. This program is available to all pre-schoolers. In Term 4, Tinternvale offers an Orientation Program for 2016 Prep Students.

Please take care

I have had a case of Hand, Foot and Mouth reported to me. The child is not at school but may have come into contact with others. Just letting you all know that it may be around.

Enrolments for 2016

If you have a child who is coming to school next year, please come into the office and collect an enrolment form. We have to lodge our proposed numbers with Department of Education and Training (DET) in early August, so the sooner we have an idea of our Prep numbers for next year, the better the prediction we can make. If you can’t get into the office, please call and our lovely office girls will mail one to you.

Kerrie

Student of the week 31/072015

1A Kaito T

1B Angus C

2A Lucas R

2B Abby S

2C Corey S

2C Damien F

2D Josh K

3A Jamie S-S

3B Bayley G

3C Riley G

4A Ben C

4B Eleanor S-E

4C Mitchell T

Fete Donations

This term we will commence the collection of Fete donations. As organising everything that comes into school is a huge job for our staff and volunteers, we will be asking for certain things at certain times throughout the term. This week we would love

Tea cups & Tea pots

Please bring your donations to the office.

House Athletics

Congratulations to everyone on a fantastic day Tuesday! All our students did an amazing job despite the cool conditions, competing strongly and fairly for their houses and producing some excellent results along the way. The support you showed for each other and your houses was fantastic! A huge THANK YOU must go to all of our great staff and parents for supporting the day so well and running the events so efficiently and smoothly. The day would not have been such a success without your input and hard work. Thank you. Our winning house will be announced at assembly tomorrow and the district team will be selected by next week. Good Luck!

Simon Datson

TPS Shopping Tour We can confirm the shopping tour will go ahead. Get in quick to secure your seat on the bus!!

Saturday 10th October

The cost will be determined by the number coming but will be expected to be approximately $50 a seat. For this you get a seat on the bus (to and from school), lunch with a glass of wine, and entry to all outlets and shops, some of which are not open to the public. The destinations will be finalised closer to the date. Secure your seat with a $10.00 deposit paid at the office. All wel-come — bring a friend along for a great day of social fun and of course some great bargains.

Level 2 Fairy Garden

A group of Level 2 students are building a Fairy/Goblin Garden to help improve our wonderful school grounds and are looking for donations for materials. Items they are in need of are:

Blue and green coloured glass wishing stones.

River stones and polished stones.

Mosaic glass pieces.

Small silver tin watering cans.

Ceramic mushrooms.

Brightly coloured outdoor paint.

Clear weather proof lacquer.

If you able to donate any of these items or anything you may have at home that would suit our garden please bring it to Beth in 2C. Any donations would be greatly appreciated.

Wet Weather Spare Uniform With this wet weather we are running out of spare clothes for children getting muddy in the yard. Please pack a change of clothes for your child in case of slip ups. If your child has previously borrowed uniform please wash and return it to school for the next muddy child.

Woolworths Earn & Learn is Back. Start collecting stickers NOW! For every $10 spent you get 1 sticker. Fill in your sticker sheets available from the office and drop them in the collection box in the foyer. Tinternvale Primary School also has collection boxes at Woolworths Eastland and Arndale Shopping Centre.

Marimba Fundraiser

On Friday 21st August we will be having a day to dress musically! Come in your favourite band tee-shirt or dress up as your favourite star. We will be raising money to purchase materials so that we can make our very own Marimba. Wear your musical clothes and bring a gold coin donation.

Father’s Day Stall

The 2015 Father’s Day Stall will be held on Thursday 3rd of September.

Prices are $2.00 or $5.00 each (mostly $5.00)

Please bring along a plastic bag for the gift.

Father’s Day Gift Wrapping Helpers

Father’s Day Gift wrapping helpers needed. If can help out, even for a short amount of time, please meet in the staffroom at 9:00am on Monday August 31st. Plastic bags needed.

August 2015 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

1 2

3 4 L3 & 4 House Athletics Proclamation Park

5 Fire Brigade L4 2:30pm

6 JSC Skipping Fun

lunchtime activity

7 Assembly Senior Choir to perform ICAS Certificates

Cuppa with Kerrie & Jo

Hands on Learning

8 9

10 11 ICAS Maths

12 L1 & 2 Athletics Day

Oxfam Festival

13 14 Assembly

Cuppa with Kerrie & Jo

Hands on Learning

15 16

17 Finance Meeting 9:00am

18 19 B & G Meeting 6:30pm

P & F Meeting 7:00pm

20 L2 Zoo excursion

21 Assembly

Cuppa with Kerrie & Jo

Music Dress Up Day

Hands on Learning

22 23

24 L1 & 2 Swimming

L3 Royal Botanic Gardens

School Council Meeting

25 L1 & 2 Swimming

Fete Meeting 7:00pm

26 L1 & 2 Swimming

27 L1 & 2 Swimming

Book Fair

28 Assembly Junior Choir to perform

Cuppa with Kerrie & Jo

Book Fair

Hands on Learning

29 30

31 L1 & @ Swimming

Book Fair

Maths Challenge

Prep—2 3—6

Maths Challenge answers for last week

Prep-Level 2 Athletics Carnival, Wednesday 12th August

Calling all Parents

On Wednesday 12th August we are having our P-2 Athletics Days at school. Events will run from 9:30am to about 1:00pm. There will be a short opening ceremony followed by the students rotating around a range of running, jumping and throwing events. As always the event will finish with house relays.

We will need some assistance on the day to help the House Captains at the events, so if you are able to assist, please return the slip on the notice or let Mr Datson know.

We want this event to be full of colour, so students need to come dressed in appropriate house colours on the day.

Thank you and GOOD LUCK!