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SCHOOL COUNCILLORS: President: Matt Lucas, Richelle Warton, Danielle Veitch, Barbara Beck, Natasha Thompson, Susan Hampshire,

Natasha Williamson, Jemma Harper, Shelby Papadopoulos, Julie Menzies, Jill Newcombe. Jess Wood, Karisa

Walker.

PRINCIPAL: Shelby Papadopoulos Mob: 0407 041 133 (Emergency Only)

Dear Parents, Students and Staff

Remembrance Day: On Monday our grade 3-6 students joined other schools and the Colac community for the

Colac Remembrance Day service hosted by the RSL at Memorial Square. Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day as it's also known, marks the very day that World War One ended in 1918. We hold a one-minute silence at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month to remember those who have died in any conflict. Some of our students represented our school as part of the Colac combined schools choir singing the Australian National Anthem, The New Zealand National Anthem and the Last Anzac, and our School Captains Lilli and Dakota laid a wreath on behalf of our school during the service. Our students are to be congratulated on their attitude and willingness to learn as part of this shared opportunity with the community. We thank the Colac RSL for our inclusion in this ceremony. Prep 2020: Our 2020 Prep students had their

first transition session this week, joining us for

an hour on Monday morning. The children had

the opportunity to meet their peers, become

involved with play based activities and spend

some time with our staff. During this time, some

nervous parents joined us for a coffee and some

slice whilst having the opportunity to see how

the children adapted to independently joining

the classroom. All of the students did a great job

with many making new friends, trying new things

and enjoying the experience of “big school”. We

will welcome our 2020 preps back on November

26th between 2pm-3pm and then will meet with

their families, Colac P.S buddies and staff on

November 28th at 6pm for our welcome BBQ

and information evening. Current Grade 5

students will be required to attend the BBQ in

their role as ‘buddies’.

Compass: After much consideration with staff and School Council Colac Primary is introducing the Compass School ICT Management system. Compass will replace all other digital communication platforms.

We will not be using Skoolbag or SeeSaw in 2020. All notifications, reports, letters and information will be available via the Compass platform. All parents and guardians will be supplied with unique log-in information and a parent information booklet in the coming weeks. Staff have begun using Compass to mark rolls and are familiarising themselves with the platform. We are also using Compass Kiosk at the front desk to sign in our students (lateness or early leavers) and visitors. Please note that

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if your child/ren has a current, court ordered access restriction that has been provided to the school the child/ren will need to be signed out manually by a staff member. All parents and guardians will need to utilise Compass to access Semester Reports which will be available later this term to families. Once information is received please begin to familiarise yourself with the login process and feel free to start using the absence notification as soon as you are comfortable. In 2020 Compass will be used for absence notification, replacing the Skoolbag app and the current process of the school phoning if a child is absent without notification. Instead of school initiated phone calls, in 2020 families will receive a notification of an unexplained absence via Compass. This is compliant with the current DET Policy on same day absence notification. Please contact the office if you have any questions about Compass. Reporting: Following the semester one reports, parents, guardians and staff were provided an opportunity to provide feedback on the reporting of student results. This feedback was collated and is informing the preparing of reports for semester 2. The main areas of focus are improved consistency in reporting, the inclusion of areas for student improvement and clear accessible language for families that reflect student individual achievements. Reporting on student outcomes has been a focus of the media recently and it is hoped that our response, utilising your feedback helps to make the reports more user friendly and timely for students. Colac Primary will continue to report using progression points and a 5-point achievement scale as required by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. Student reports will be available on Compass towards the end of term. Kind regards

Shelby Papadopoulos, Principal

BUY ONE! DONATE ONE!

We are holding a Book Fair next Tuesday 19th

November through to Friday 22nd November

to help stock our Classroom Libraries with

quality books the children want to read. A flyer

was sent home with last week’s newsletter.

Scholastic have generously allowed us to have

a BUY ONE! DONATE ONE! Sale. Each book

that you, your child or family buys, the exact

same one will be donated to the classroom of

your child! The Book Fair will be held in the

stadium on the following times:

Tuesday to Friday 3.20pm-3.45pm

Wednesday to Friday 8.30am-8.50am

Extra session at Friday lunchtime for students

PARENT CLUB MEETING

Planning for events and fundraising for 2020 is

happening on Monday, 25th November at 7pm,

at McDonalds Colac. This is the perfect

opportunity to come along, meet some new

faces and have your say on what you’d like to

see happen next year! All welcome, casual

meeting.

SWIMMING

Swimming: All year 3/6’s swim on Fridays –

until 13th December (excluding Friday 6th

December).

Swimming Bags: Bags are bottle green with an

adjustable draw cord and are made of

waterproof polyester. They have a printed name

patch on the back to write your child’s name and

sell for $6.50.

UNIFORM

Secondhand Kilt For Sale: Size 12 - $35 cash

only.

CANTEEN DUTY TOMORROW

Friday 15th November

11am-12.30pm 12.30pm-2pm

Nikita Shields Jade Elborough

Gina Larson Jemma Harper

CALENDAR Nov 15th Swimming-yrs 3/6

Nov 18th Yr 6 iPad info evening-CSC 7pm

Nov 19-22nd Book Fair

Nov 20th Indigenous cultural performance

Nov 21st Grade 6 Taster session at CSC

Nov 22nd Yr 3/6 swimming

Nov 25th Parents Club meeting-7pm at

McDonalds

Nov 28th Grade 6 Taster session at CSC

Nov 28th 2020 preps & buddies BBQ - 6pm

Nov 29th Prep/2 Excursion

Dec 10th Statewide Orientation day

Dec 12th Grade 6 Graduation night

Dec 17th Whole School concert

Dec 18th Class end of year celebrations

& Colac’s Got Talent

Dec 18th Last day of classes

THE VALUES WINNER FOR LAST WEEK

WAS JOSH FROM ROOM 2

CONGRATULATIONS

JOSH RECEIVES A SPECIAL PEN FOR

DISPLAYING OUR SCHOOL VALUES

VALUE FOR THIS WEEK IS

COURAGE

A part of COURAGE is

THANKFULNESS. Thankfulness

is being grateful for what you

have. It is appreciating the little

things in life.

LOST

Bella Lloyd has misplaced two labelled school

jumpers – Size 12 in the last month. Year 5

students, please check you are wearing the

correct jumper.

FOR SALE We have 4 TV wall mounts for sale for $20 each, please come to the office.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

ROOM 1 HARPER

ROOM 2 CHEYENNE

ROOM 3 LEVI

ROOM 5 MIA

ROOM 6 ZAVIER

ROOM 7 CHLOE

ROOM 8 RUBIE

ROOM 9 KIERA

ROOM 10 BANJO

ROOM 11 IMETH

PE RM 2 & HARPER FROM RM 1

LIBRARY TAHLIA

LIBRARY NEWS WITH MRS BRIFFA

Thank you to Room 10 for contributing to our

Remembrance Day Library display!

Grade 3 & 4 have been using the two picture

fiction texts “ Imagine You Are a Tiger” and “The

Desert” to trace food chains. Students have had

the opportunity to create their own illustrations

of creatures that are linked in a food chain.

“Tropical Terry” has been one of a string of

books in Prep to Grade 2 classes that consider

the importance of self - acceptance. Terry the

fish in his effort to stand out like the tropical fish

makes himself a spectacular tail. It soon

attracts the attention of a huge greedy eel! With

the advice of his true friends Terry sheds his tail

and does what he does best! He hides himself

from the predator so well that all the tropical fish

want to copy him and learn the art of

camouflage themselves!

Thank you to the Library team for their help this

term. Mrs Jean Newcombe is currently covering

new books, so borrowers keep a look out for

these on the shelves!

Mrs Briffa

GARDEN NEWS WITH MRS ROSEVEAR

Gardening news

This week we

made signs for the vegetable garden, collected

compost, picked leaves for the chickens,

searched for insects and ate lots and lots of

fresh broad beans.

Landcare garden The last of the plants have now been planted

into the Indigenous garden. The area is still

very wet but most plants have started to put on

growth.

Fun recycling facts !

The energy saved by recycling one plastic bottle will power your computer for 25minutes.

Recycling one aluminium can saves enough power to run your TV for 3 hours.

The average family home uses 6 trees worth of paper every year.

An adult fleece jacket is made from 25 two litre plastic bottles.

A one litre milk carton can be recycled into 5 pieces of paper.

Recycling glass saves 75% of the energy need to create new glass from raw materials

COLAC SHOW RESULTS WITH MRS

MCGUANE

Congratulations to the following prize winners

for their poster entries in this year’s Colac Show

1st Ryley Mc

2nd Ella D and Cheyenne B

3rd Seth D

MR T’S SPORTS REPORT

Lunchtime Basketball

On Monday we had our basketball Grand Final.

It was a very tightly contested game with a good

crowd in to watch. The pressure was on from

the start where the defence made it hard for

both teams to score. Millah, Diesel along with

Isaiah and Rubie continued to run and dribble

trying to get their younger team mates involved.

In the end, the shooting accuracy, along with

the height and reach of Maddox proved too

good for the Clippers winning 26 – 21.

Presentations will be made at assembly

tomorrow.

In the end it was great to see all players

involved have a go and see some

improvement. Initially I was thinking of just

having Grade 3 to 6, but with a lot of our Grade

2 students playing outside of school it was great

to see them come in and try their hardest with

and against their bigger school mates.

Grand Final Teams

Millah D ©

Maddox

Diesel

Stella

Klyde

26 - 21

Isaiah ©

Meah C

Jordan

Tully

Nicole

Rubie

Greater Western Golf

Last Tuesday we had Ella L, Ella C, Takira and

Darcy representing the school in the Greater

Western Golf championship at the Curlewis

Golf Club. From all reports from the players the

weather held out and they didn’t get too wet. On

a modified 9 hole course, all players tried

exceptionally hard and did quite well. Scores

from the day were Takira with 71, Ella C 79, Ella

L 82 and Darcy had 55. I’m not sure of the

winning girls score, but the winning boy had a

score of 39!! A huge thankyou to the parents for

taking these students on the day, it is very much

appreciated.