AXEDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL

“Excellence Through Endeavour”

High Street, Axedale 3551

Ph. (03) 5439 7232 Fax. (03) 5439 7575

Principal – Corrina Hartland

Email: axedale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

RESPECT, PERSONAL BEST, RESILIENCE, COOPERATION

NEWSLETTER No. 39 November 28th 2019

Important dates:

Nov 29th Preparation for Puberty Gr 5/6

29th 2020 Parent Payment forms due

29th 2019 Family account payments due

29th Out of Uniform Day – Gold coin

donation

Dec 4th Music Night – 6pm

5th Kinder Transition 2.15pm

6th Thank You Helpers - Morning Tea

6th Prep Dinner - $5

8th Axedale Community Carols

SCHOOL VALUES AWARDS

Hudson – For organising the iPads every Friday for

our ICT session and always approaching the task in a

responsible and diligent manner.

Clementine – For demonstrating the school values

of respect and co-operation. Clementine is able to

work well with others and use her great manners

when speaking to other children and teachers.

Russell – For doing his personal best with his Colour

Fun Run Recount and his Mini beast Research

Project. Both are coming along really well. Keep it

up, Russell!

Steffi – For being a positive and friendly class

member. Steffi is always seen to have a smile on her

face and being the best version of herself at all times.

Tait – For being a tremendous friend and classmate to others. Tait is always willing to assist others showing

excellent cooperation skills.

Amelia – For collaborating with her buddy to create a detailed plan for their board game design. She

demonstrated her positive leadership through her active listening and encouragement.

CLASSROOM ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Brock – For always trying to do his personal

best and happily talking about his work with the

class during Share Time. He is starting to set

goals that will help him improve.

Caleb – For displaying beautiful penmanship

and working hard to improve his reading and

writing. Caleb has been able to share his

knowledge of mini beasts with the class and is

developing his reading pace and fluency.

Nash – For showing leadership, direction and

confidence when practicing the class songs for

the end of year concert. Well done, Nash!

Luke – For his hard work and dedication towards his passion project. Luke has been

gathering information outside of school hours and taking great care to produce the

best possible presentation.

Hugh – For working independently to complete writing pieces for various

competitions and his Term 4 Digital Portfolio.

Lainey – For demonstrating her personal best to achieve 95% and significant growth

in her measurement post-test.

HOUSE TROPHY

Congratulations to McIvor, winners of this week’s

House Award.

GOLDEN BRUSH

Congratulations to Grade 1/2 on winning the Golden

Brush awarded for this week.

25 NIGHTS OF READING

Congratulations to Baxter and Charlotte who have

completed 25 nights of reading this term.

MAGIC and OXFORD WORDS

Congratulations to our students who have achieved a Magic or

Oxford Word Reading Certificate this week.

Congratulations to Hudson and Lauren for being able to read all 400

Magic and Oxford words.

INDONESIAN AWARD

Congratulations to Oscar, Cooper, Clementine, Peyton

& Killeen who all received Indonesian awards at

assembly on Monday.

2020 WHOLE SCHOOL ORGANISATION

We continue to work through the many processes required to confirm our staffing for 2020. We recently

advertised 2 classroom teacher positions. After a rigorous and merit based process we would like to announce

that Ben Fiegert and Demi Hall were the successful applicants and will be joining us in 2020. As a

consequence, Sam Muscatello and Rylie Gloury will not be working with us next year. We appreciate the

work completed by Sam and Rylie and will acknowledge their work at Axedale PS in coming weeks.

We would also like to acknowledge the work completed by Lynley Jordan. With the change in numbers for

2020, we will be running 5 classrooms next year. Again, we will acknowledge Lynley’s work in the coming

weeks.

Michelle Caldwell will be returning to work on a part time basis. We continue to work through the process

required to confirm her role and days in which she will be working.

We are required to advertise our Music, Art and Indonesian positions. These positions have been advertised,

with the process completed by the end of the year. Lydia will again joins us for one day per week in 2020.

Further details will be provided in the coming weeks regarding classroom structures and teacher allocation to

specific grades.

OUT OF UNIFORM DAY – FRIDAY 29th NOVEMBER

Tomorrow, Friday 29th November we will be holding an out

of uniform day to raise money for the fire affected areas of

Australia. You may have heard this spoken about on

Bendigo’s Hit FM radio station. Students are encouraged to

wear casual clothes and bring along a gold coin donation.

Thanks for your support.

THANK YOU MORNING TEA

We are hosting a Morning Tea to say thank you to all of the

school and wider community people who have helped us out

this year. As an expression of our thanks, parents are invited

to come along and enjoy a cuppa and a bite to eat. Please

come along on Friday 6th December, from 11.15am, we are

looking forward to seeing you.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT

We will be holding our End of Year Concert in the Axedale

Hall. This year the concert will be on Wednesday 18th December, will begin at 6.45pm and will run for

approximately one and a half hours. Each grade will perform a number of items and we will also present our

end of year awards. Families are invited to share a picnic tea in the park prior to the start of the concert.

LIBRARY BOOKS

Students are asked to return any school library books so Deb can complete her end of year audit. Students and

parents are asked to check at home and return any books. Thanks for your help with this.

MARC VAN BOOKS

Mrs Gentry is super impressed with the students at Axedale PS! Of all the schools she visits, we have the

smallest number of books still borrowed. We only have 5 books out to our students and I know these will be

returned over the coming days.

MUSIC NIGHT

Next Wednesday 4th December we are hosting our end of year Music Performance Night. Throughout the

year, many students have taken the chance to learn and develop new musical skills, our aim is to provide an

opportunity for students to share their skills as part of the performance. All of our students are at different

stages of their musical journey. Some performances will be individual and some will be group performances.

All school choir, school rock band, Jo Woodward guitarists, Lou McGregor singers, David Dewar drummers

and Rachel Mav Keyboarders will be required on the night. If you are unable to attend please let the school

know.

Families whose children are involved are encouraged to come along and enjoy the show. While we will be

endeavouring to keep the show moving, please be mindful that there will be a lot to get through.

We are aiming to hold the performance outside with a 6.00pm start and an approx. 7.30 pm finish. Families

may wish to come a little earlier and bring a picnic tea. Some table and chairs will be available but families

are encouraged to BYO deck chair.

KINDER TRANSITION

After the code red weather alert last week, today we had the first of three transition visits for our 2020 Prep

students. Today they worked in the room with our 2019 Prep/1 grade and completed some getting to know

you activities.

Some of our Grade 5 students also established buddy relationships with our new Preps that will flow on into

2020.

PREP DINNER

Our Prep Dinner is on next Friday 6th December. Preps will stay at school from 3.30 and will enjoy some after

school activities before enjoying a meal together and a little bit of DVD time. Pick up is 7.00pm. Ms Saunders,

Mrs T and Mr C will be here on the night. Please return the permission form ASAP.

CHRISTMAS HAMPER

Yes it is that time of year again. We are asking families to contribute a non-perishable item to

our Christmas Hampers. It would be good to see lots of Christmas themed and holiday items.

Tickets for the raffle are attached to today’s newsletter.

GRADE 6 GRADUATION DINNER

Thank you to all Grade 6 families for their prompt payment of tickets for our graduation dinner.

We are looking forward to celebrating this milestone together on Tuesday 17th December.

2020 PARENT PAYMENT FORMS

Please take the time to look through this information that was sent home a few weeks ago and fill out your

preferred option and return to school by tomorrow, Friday 29th November. Thanks for your assistance with

this. Please note book packs are ordered for all students from our supplier to ensure value for money and

consistency with supplies.

The Book Pack collection day will be Wednesday 22nd January from 9.30am – 2pm.

FAMILY ACCOUNTS

Families who are still to pay for 2019 expenses are asked to settle these accounts by the end of November to

allow the school to plan for 2020. Accounts have been issued for those families who have outstanding

amounts. Please see Katrina in the office if you have any queries.

PARENT WORKSHOP

On Orientation Day, our Student Well-Being

Worker Ricky Cawley is hosting a ‘Starting School’

session for parents of incoming Prep students. The

session, to be held at the Tavern from 9.45am –

11.45am, will be run by CentaCare Family Services

and will focus on feelings around the transition to

school, common concerns parents have about their

child starting school and practical ideas for how to

make the transition easier.

Following the session, parents are encouraged to

attend the 2020 Prep Information session at the

school from 12.00 – 12.20pm, followed by a BBQ

lunch.

THANKS TO HEATHCOTE NETBALL

Thank you to the Heathcote Netball club and Jan

Mannes for the generous donation of netballs.

TERM DATES 2020

Term 1: 22nd Book Pack pick up day

28th January (Teachers resume)

29th January (Students) to 27th

March

Term 2: 14th April (Tuesday) to 26th June

Term 3: 13th July to 18th September

Term 4: 5th October to 18h December

SCHOOL COLOUR FUN RUN

Prizes have been ordered for students who are eligible.

Thank you to all our wonderful families and fantastic community for their support, we are looking forward to

seeing what our final fundraising total is.

Thank you also to Bendigo Hire who donated the toilet for our Colour Fun Run and contributed to making the

day so successful.

STUDENT BANKING

Our school banking day is Tuesday. Interested students can apply online, at any Commonwealth Bank branch,

over the phone, or via a paper-based application available from the office.

SCHOOL APP

The majority of our families have now signed up for our school app and are finding it is a

great way of staying in touch with easy access to newsletters, receiving calendar updates

direct to your phone and entering absence notes. It is also the way we send our alerts and

reminders.

To download the app just visit the App Store for iPhones or Google Play for Android’s.

Search for Updat-ed and from the menu select our school. We’ll receive your registration

request and will need to approve you before your app is up and running.

FRUIT DUTY

Fruit will be provided during lunch and afternoon recess each Friday. Thanks to our volunteers for preparing

the fruit.

Friday 29th November – Susie McGrath & Tara Coffin

Friday 6th December – Jodie Black & Tara Coffin

BREAKFAST CLUB

Breakfast Club is run on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. All students are welcome to come along and

share breakfast with some of their school mates from 8.30-8.50am.

Our Student Well Being Worker Ricky Cawley runs this most beneficial program.

Tuesday 3rd December - Ricky

Thursday 5th December – Ricky

Tuesday 10th December – Liz H

Thursday 12th December - Hannelie

MICHAEL GROSS PARENTING RESOURCES

Our school is a member of Parenting Ideas. Visit www.parentingideas.com.au

This week’s attached article is “Eating well for good mental health”

Corrina Hartland

Principal

FORMS TO BE RETURNED OR ORGANISED AT SCHOOL

CHOIR BENDIGO CAROLS INTENTION FORM – Form to be returned ASAP.

2020 PARENT PAYMENT FORMS – Forms to be returned by Friday 29th November

CLASSROOMS

BAT TENNIS

Thanks to all the players and umpires for participating in a

cooperative manner. Well done Amelia, Matthew, Paddy and Daniel

for organising.

Results:

Boys Doubles

Lincoln & Deakin dft Paddy & Daniel 2 – 1

Girls Singles

Emily B dft Lainey 2 – 1

MOBILE PHONE RECYCLING

Axedale Primary School is a keen supporter of Zoos Victoria mobile phone recycling complain.

They're calling you aims to raise awareness of the threats gorillas face from mining while raising money to

support primate conservation and divert phones from landfill.

All smart phones, mobile phones, tablets and accessories such as chargers in ANY condition are accepted.

To protect data, it is recommended to conduct a factory reset before donating your phone.

Let's support endangered species programs and donate any phones that are hanging around your house.....they

are full of heavy metals that can be recycled!! The phone collection tub is located across from the school office

on the sports memorabilia display area.

Thanks

Lydia Fehring, Environmental Science Teacher

PARENTS, VOLUNTEERS & FRIENDS As is customary, there will be a BBQ lunch on Orientation Day – December 10th. From 12.30pm

students will be able to have a sausage in bread. Families may wish to send other food on the day.

Parents of 2020 Prep students are encouraged to come along and meet with staff and parents in

attendance. PVF is looking of a couple of volunteers to help with cooking the BBQ. Help is required

from approx. 11.30 – 1.00pm.

Christmas Raffle – we will again be conducting a Christmas Raffle – to be drawn at the end of year

concert on Wednesday 18th December. Families are asked to donate an item to go towards a number

of hampers that will be made up. Raffle tickets for hampers have been sent home with the newsletter

today. Tickets and Hamper items are required by Friday December 13th.

ATHLETE’S FOOT SCHOOL REWARD PROGRAM

Please support this fundraising program. For every pair of shoes

purchased from the Bendigo Store $5 is donated back to the school. This applies to the whole family

across the full range of shoes.

COMMUNITY