93 Macs Street

PO Box 110

Creswick Vic 3363

Phone: (03) 5345 2012

Fax: (03) 5345 1224

Email: creswick.north.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.creswicknorthps.vic.gov.au

No. 1. Term 1. 9th February 2017

NEWSLETTER

Dates to Remember

Feb 15-16th Fishcare Program - Yr 3/5/6

15th School Council - 6.30pm

20th Assembly - 3.10pm

23rd Newsletter

Mar 6th Assembly - 3.10pm

9th Newsletter

13th Labour Day Holiday-No School

14th Foundation Students begin

Full Week

15th School Council AGM

17th Cross Country-Little Bendigo

20th Assembly - 3.10pm

23rd Newsletter

31st Last Day Term 1-2pm Finish

Principal: Darren Mooney

Business Manager: Zelma Brugger

Office Hours - Zelma

Tuesday 8.30am - 12.30p.m.

Wednesday 8.30am - 4.30p.m

Thursday 8.30am - 4.30p.m.

2017’s New Foundation Students Back Row: Luca, Hollie, Nash, Maple, Garth

Front Row: Bodhi, Brodie, Shantell, Chelsea

ENROLMENTS 2018

If you have decided that your child/ren will be attending Creswick North Primary School or you know of

anyone intending to and have not officially enrolled them, please see Zelma or Darren to obtain an

enrolment form.

Creswick North Primary School - Quality Education In A Caring Environment

Principal’s Report On behalf of the Creswick North Primary School community I would like to

extend a warm welcome to our new Foundation students and their families. We

hope you enjoy your educational journey and thank you for entrusting your

children to us. Also, welcome back to our existing students and families. By all

accounts children were well and truly ready to get back to school. Personally, it

is certainly nice to be back at Creswick North and I am looking forward to what

promises to be a very busy and productive school year.

We welcome Mrs Baulch to the senior school. She has teamed up with Mrs

McLennan taking our senior grade for 2017. I will be taking the specialist

program throughout the year beginning with PE and Art in Term 1. Please note

assemblies will take place fortnightly every second Monday afternoon at 3.10pm.

It was great to see so many attend our first assembly this week!

Please remember to contact the office regarding illness and student absences on

the day, preferably in the morning so we know where and why children are away.

Under new guidelines from the Department of Education only legitimate illnesses

will be accepted, therefore after three unexplained absences the department

wants to know why? A simple phone call explaining the absence is all that is

required.

Finally, I am currently obtaining quotes for several maintenance projects around

the school. These include painting the entrance hallway and installing cabinetry

along one side for display purposes, installing new blinds and painting in Mrs

Kirby’s room with new blinds in Multipurpose Room also. I also propose to give

the vegie garden more structure by erecting a fence around its perimeter and

new pathways to and from the storage shed and cubby. This along with our new

shade sail over the playground and new bike racks for both junior and senior

grades will undoubtedly spruce up the look of our great school. If anyone would

like to assist in the planning of the garden, please come in and have a chat.

Have a great week!

Principal

Darren Mooney

Foundation, Year 1/2 Welcome back!

Foundation, Years 1 & 2 students are off to a flying start in 2017.

READING QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Foundation, Year 1/2 Dear Parents,

Thank you for your support with our Take Home Reading Program. It

was wonderful to see the faces of the students when they received

their Take Home Books. I hope you enjoy sharing reading each night

with your child.

Some suggestions for a great start to reading are:-

Look through the entire book first with your child, discussing the

‘storyline’ first.

Remember to say ‘Check the picture’ before you

start to ‘read’ with your child.

Look for the letter that their name begins with.

Talk about how you must point to a word when you

say it.

Make it a gentle, happy experience.

We want children to always LOVE reading.

Each Foundation students has been allocated a Buddy from Grade 6

with 2 Grade 5’s to make up the numbers. We look forward to the

Foundation students forming a very positive relationship with their

Buddy.

Next week Foundation students will be doing some of the following-:

Letter of the Week: Cc

Number of the week: 2 Two

Show and Tell -

This will be Friday Afternoon.

More information to follow.

We will begin our new Unit of “Kindness”- next week

Year 3/5/6 Welcome back!

Year 3/5/6 have settled back in, starting the year off well. It’s been

great to hear all their stories from the holidays, and the fun they had.

G r a d e 3 / 5 / 6 h a v e b e e n

w o r k i n g o n t h e i r M a t h s

Investigation this past week.

Grade 3’s doing

Birthday investigations and 5/6 exploring numbers

from 100’s to 100,000’s. They have been using differ-

ent methods and materials to create their numbers

out of wooden blocks and their classmates, whilst

having lots of fun.

Our new chook monitors, Ruby and Jordy are

doing a fabulous job looking after our chickens.

Their jobs include feeding them wheat, giving them water and letting

them walk around. Betty was enjoying her dirt bath today!

Birthdays Happy Birthday to Connor, Amelia & Emmy

CONVEYANCE

ALLOWANCE

A conveyance allowance

is available from the

Department of Education and Training for

students who reside more than 4.8km by

the shortest practicable route from the

nearest school.

Please see Zelma during office hours for a

Conveyance Allowance form. Please

complete and return by 27th February.

Foundation Students

Rest Day As from Thursday 2nd

February, 2017 Foundation students

will attend school from 9.00a.m. to

3.30p.m. on Monday, Tuesday,

Thursday and Friday. Wednesday is

a rest day. As from Monday, 13th

March students will then start full

week (5 days a week)

SUN SMART Creswick North Primary

School is a registered

Sun Smart school. It is

school policy that hats must be worn

when children, parents and staff are

undertaking outdoor activities in

Terms 1 and 4. If children do not

have a hat at school, they will be

restricted in participating in outdoor

activities. This means, NO HAT -

NO PLAY! Parents are asked to

remind children of this requirement

and make sure they bring a hat to

school each day.

Camp, Sport & Excursion Fund -

CSEF CSEF is a payment of $125 per Student,

provided by the Victorian Government to

assist eligible families to cover the costs of

School excursions, Camps & Sport

activities.

The payment is made to the school .

To be eligible for the

payment families must

hold a current Concession

card or a Foster parent/

Care giver.

Library

Library is

every

Wednesday.

Students will borrow

library books and change

them each Wednesday.

Students must have a

Library Bag to help us

look after our Library

books and keep them

protected.

Any students with

overdue books are asked

to return them pronto!

Second-Hand Uniforms

We have set out our Second-Hand uniforms and will be selling them for $2.00 a piece. We will be in the staffroom on Wednesday

mornings from 9.00 - 9.30am. Any queries please see Miranda Chalmers

School Banking has started again.

This year join the Dollarmites in a futuristic world as they find their way to the Savings Hover Park. Make 10 School Banking

Deposits to redeem one of the awesome Future Savers Re-wards.

Our School Banking day is Tuesday’s

Happy Saving Everyone!

LUNCH ORDERS

Lunch Orders are available every

Thursday and Friday from Flemo’s Mixed Business

You order and pay at Flemo’s and it is then delivered to

the school for the students.

Please make a wise choice and order healthy food!!

PANCAKE

TUESDAY

28TH FEBRUARY

Students are invited to

partake of some delicious

pancakes.

If there are any parents that would like

to help out on this day, please let the

teachers know.

NO CHARGE

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COUNTRY

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