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SLETTER STUDENT REPORTS

Following a number of discussions by staff and at School Council level, we have decided to modify the end of year student reports. When you access your childs report on Sentral, you will see that the majority of the information with regards to your childs progress at school is in the portfolio section. We believe that this is the most appropriate way to show you how your child has progressed as an individual. You will see comments from their teachers and from themselves in this section. Teachers will also provide comments on your childs learning habits and behaviours. If you have had difficulty using the internet to view your childs reports, we will be offering the schools computers to parents. Please be on the lookout for this in the school calendar. YEAR 2 SLEEPOVER Year 2 students will be having a sleepover at school TONIGHT Thursday 17th November. Students will finish school at 3.15pm as usual, but will return at 6pm for the fun to begin! Students will need to bring with them a sleeping bag, pyjamas, toothbrush and casual clothes to wear on Friday. A BBQ tea will be provided to all students on Thursday night. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to all Yr 2 students tomorrow. REMEMBRANCE DAY Thank you to our students, Charlotte Brown, Mitch Chesterfield & Kiandra Polglaze who represented Nilma PS at the Remembrance Day Service last Friday. Mr Frost accompanied students to and from the Warragul Cenotaph. A service was also conducted at school coordinated by the Year 6 leaders. SUMMIT CAMP The Year 6 students will be attending the Mt Worth Cluster Transition Day at the Summit Camp next Friday 25th November. Parents are to take students to the Summit Camp at Trafalgar East at 9.00am and pick up from the camp at 7.30pm. Children must bring lunch, snack and drinks for the day. An evening meal will be provided. Students must also bring bathers, towel, hat and a change of clothes. Mrs McMahon will be at the camp from 8.30am.

‘TRADIE FOR A DAY’ EXCURSION All Year 6 students will be attending the ‘Tradie for a Day’ excursion on Wednesday 23rd November. Students will be traveling to and from the Baw Baw Skills Centre by school bus. This excursion will allow Year 6 students to see a range of training programs and facilities available to them in the future. Students will rotate through activity studies, such as carpentry, plumbing, automotive, agriculture and other programs. Students are to bring lunch, snack and drinks for the day. All children must wear correct uniform including a hat. DATES FOR 2017 All staff will resume on Monday 30th January 2017. Students in Years 1-6 will resume on Wednesday 1st February. Foundation students will start on Thursday 2nd February. FOUNDATION ORIENTATION DAYS We currently have 9 Foundation students enrolled in 2017. Our next Foundation Orientation days will be: Wednesday 23rd November 9.00am-11.30am Wednesday 30th November 9.00am-1.00pm

Tuesday 6th December 9.00am-3.15pm. SPORTING SCHOOLS PROGRAM Nilma PS has received funding this Term for the Sporting Schools Program. All students will be attending this program, which will be ‘swimming’ at the newly opened Warragul Leisure Centre. The dates for the swimming program will be Tuesday 29th November and Friday 2nd December. Permission forms and more details will be sent out next week.

BOOKCLUB Attached to the newsletter are Bookclub orders. All forms and payment are due in by next Thursday 24th November. This is the last Book Club for 2017. Late orders cannot be accepted.

LOST PROPERTY Kaleb Majcherzak has misplaced his new Size 6 ’named’ school jacket. Could parents please check to make sure your child has not taken it home by mistake. If found, please call into the office.

Acting Principal

Mr Ian Frost

Business Manager

Mrs Rachel Hammond

School Council

President Mrs Natalie Axford

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Principal Notes ..1 Student Learning ..2 Homegroup Happenings …..3 Calendar ….5

Bloomfield Road, Nilma 3821 Telephone: (03)56232963 Email: nilma.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.nilmaps.vic.edu.au

NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Principal Notes

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R.E.A.L STUDENTS@NILMA Learner of the Week

Recognitions

Homegroup 1/F Red Harrison Kinsey

For challenging yourself within your reading and working really

hard. You have persisted and achieved your reading goals this

year. Keep it up Harrison.

Homegroup 2/1 Green Taleah Hammond

For the determination you have to grow in all areas of your learning.

It is wonderful to see you striving to achieve your best.

Homegroup 4/3 Blue

Homegroup 6/5/4 Yellow Daniel Axford

For you incredible work during whole school writing. You have shown real dedication to your

learning, as well as a hidden talent as a poet!

STUDENT LEARNING @ NILMA

L.A.U.G.H Program Learning Activities Under Guidance of Home

NIGHTLY READING

75 Nights Bailey Dent Aiden Olsson

125 Nights Elizabeth Dalrymple

150 Nights Dylan Bradshaw

175 Nights Kurtis Giblin Blake Sammutt

200 Nights Blake Stone Lewis Devlin Oliver Turner

Meg Devlin

225 Nights Mitch Chesterfield

250 Nights Cohen Cogo

PLAYGROUND

AWARDS

Winners

Daniel Axford

Mitchell Gilmore

Mitch Chesterfield

Ashton Kimm

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HOMEGROUP HAPPENINGS!

Last week, students learned about

Kennings poems. See if you can decipher

what each poem’s subject matter is…

Tick tocker

Minute flicker

Second quicker

Hour longer

By Meg

10 wheeler

Heavy hauler

Gear changer

Road hogger

Over sizer

By Aiden

Pork maker

Bacon hater

Christmas feaster

Four legger

Pinky oinker

By BJ

Physical Science

This term students have been learning

about the way objects move and how

their size, shape and material affects

this. Students have undertaken activi-

ties to increase their understandings of push

and pull forces. Student have commenced a mini pro-

ject based on movement, engineering and gears.

Home Group - 6/5/4 -

Lemon Yellow

Physical Science

Students have been constructing

moving objects and exploring how

gears move.

Home Group - 2/1 -

Emerald Green

Home Group - 1/F -

Ruby Red

The Old Oak Tree

Home Group - 4/3 -

Aqua Blue

Leg squatter

Splashing water

Empty paper

Toilet plopper

By Daniel

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The whole school BBQ and Year 6 Graduation will be held at Nilma PS on Thursday 15th December, starting at 6.00pm. For catering purposes, please return the attendance slip below. This will support the Parent & Friends Club in providing enough food for everyone. The BBQ is free, however drinks will be sold for $1.00 each.

We will also require some helpers on the night, to help with the BBQ, selling raffle tickets, setting up, selling drinks and packing up. If you are able to help, please return the reply slip below.

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End of Year Family BBQ– Year 6 Graduation

Please return forms back to the office by Monday 12th December 2016.

Family Name:____________________________________________________________________

I can/cannot help out at the BBQ on Thursday 15th December 2016. (please circle)

For catering purposes, how many people will be attending:_______________________________

WHOLE SCHOOL BBQ/GRADUATION

CHAPLAINS’ CHAT

Hi All. At the beginning of the year I challenged parents to make sure they are not playing ‘emotional lotto’ with your children. I chuckled the other day when a teenager said of his family that ‘ Burping, Bellowing and Belligerence’ was the mantra that best describes his family, saying he knew nothing different. I didn’t chuckle for long because guess what he was going to see the counsellor about? Yep! Bullying, bellowing and beating kids up. Anger Management courses can’t undo a foundation of that magnitude easily but the story does remind us that what we model at home is so important because this becomes the ‘kids’ foundation for life. On reflection I wondered if a far better mantra or ‘catch call might be; ‘Be safe, be fair, think, learn and care’ (5 fingers– 5 words) as a reasonable basis for all teaching from the home. Its not hard to learn for all members of the family and when you need to discipline – raise your eyebrows to get attention and simply point quietly to the ‘finger’ they should focus on and keep holding it there until the first step of discipline (reminding them to change focus and self regulate) has registered. I trust that this year as you have played indoor board games together you have modelled’ how to be a good loser as well as a good winner (not too much swaggering), how to give voice to your ‘feelings’ without accusing the other and how to manage differences fairly and with safety. Enjoy the journey with your child/ren and remember we can’t go back and have another go, so it’s worth giving the process some deep thought. Anne Prime

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NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL CALENDAR

Staff Resume– Monday 30th January 2017 Students Resume (Yr1-6)—Wed 1st February 2017

Foundation Students Start– Thurs 2nd February 2017

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sa Su

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Meeting

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Breakfast Club Student Banking

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Yr 2 Sleepover

Extra Transition Year 6 to WRC.

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21 Breakfast Club

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Breakfast Club Foundation Orientation 9-11.30am

Student Banking

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MARC Van

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Yr 6 Summit

Camp

Cookie Dough Delivery

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28 School Closure

Curriculum Day

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Breakfast Club Foundation Orientation

9-1pm

NOVEMBER 2016

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sa Su

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5 Breakfast Club

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Statewide

Orientation Day

7 Student Banking

Breakfast Club

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12 Breakfast Club

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Breakfast Club 15

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19 YR 6 Graduation

Dinner

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Last Day Term.

Early finish

1.00pm

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DECEMBER 2016