Issue No: 31 16th November 2017

THE DORSET EDITION INSPIRE ACHIEVE SUCCEED

From the Principal’s Desk Rescorla Avenue, Croydon 3136 phone: 9725 5038 www.dorsetps.vic.edu.au dorset.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Diary Dates November 13th - 17th - Foundation and Gr 1 Swimming 20th - Big Child Care Meet & Greet 7:30am and 9:30am 24th - Boomtec 7:00pm - 9:30pm - Year 1 Fun Night 29th - School Council

December 8th - Jump Rope for Heart 12th - Year 6 Orientation Day into Year 7 18th - Christmas Concert 19th - Year 6 Graduation 21st - Last Day of Term 4; 1:30pm Dismissal 22nd - Curriculum Day

Remembrance Day This November Australia commemorates the 99th anniversary of Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day previously known as Armistice Day, is dedicated to honouring those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts. Officially it is observed at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. On Friday the 10th at 10:59am the schools across Victoria paused for minute silence to reflect, followed by a rendition of the Last Post. A touching tribute to all men and women that have been involved in conflict. Grant Wilkinson

Swimming

The Foundation and Grade 1 Swimming program took place this week: It was well timed considering the weather. The first few days the children took their time getting ready and dressing afterwards but by the end of the week they were exceptional. The Foundation took such a delight being in the water and really seemed to enjoy the experience. As I mentioned before the progress they make by the end of the week is amazing. Pleasing results that assist our children in staying safe around water.

Uniform Just a reminder that school uniform is to be worn at all times. If your child is going to be out of uniform please send a note. I know at this time of year children start growing out of items but it is important to continue to represent our school. If you have any concerns regarding the uniform please see me.

2018 Leaders

This week, the Year 5 students have been applying for a range of leadership positions for 2018. The School Captain and Sports Captain speeches were conducted on

Tuesday 14th November, with a high number of students demonstrating the traits and qualities they would display as leaders of Dorset Primary School. Speeches were of a very high standard, with over 50 participants campaigning for the four positions, providing students with several candidates to select as the future Captains of our school. Voting was completed by the students with the successful candidates as followed: 2018 School Captain

Jolie Nguyen Flynn Smith

2018 Sports Captain Desy Kutasara Fabian Mueller

On Wednesday 15th November, the House Captain roles would be decided through speeches. After much deliberation several worthy candidates applying for each of the houses, the results were as followed: Green House: Audrey Mueller Rahil Shah Gold House: Hunter Bendall Matilda Graham Red House: Gerby Dianon Jessie Arbuckle Blue House: Vanda Amin Moayyed Jamezon Pape There are several other leadership positions available to students this year, with the Office Manager, Chicken Captain and Chicken Monitors also being appointed. In 2018 all other positions will be finalised. A description of the responsibilities for each role will be sent out for aspiring leaders to review and apply for. Best of luck to the candidates. 5/6 Team.

Warm Weather

As the weather heats up please ensure that the children have a water bottle at school. If it is too hot during the day I will call a hot day timetable to try and keep them cooler. Regards Palma Coppa Principal

School Council Members meet once a month. This meeting follows the committee meetings which commence at 6:45pm on the same night. Please email any items that you would like discussed at the upcoming school council meeting to: dorsetpsschoolcouncil@dorsetps.vic.edu.au

Notices sent home Recipient Updated Asthma Forms - Selected Students Graduation Tickets - Gr 6 Year 6 Jacket 2018 - Gr 5 Year 1 Fun Night - Gr 1

School Council Members meet once a month. This meeting follows the committee meetings which commence at 6:45pm on the same night. Please email any items that you would like discussed at the upcoming school council meeting to: dorsetpsschoolcouncil@dorsetps.vic.edu.au

CHAPLAIN’S CHAT WITH DAVE

Kenya Kids Update You will remember, I went to Kenya during the last Christmas holidays. It has been nearly a year since then, so I thought I’d give you an update. After returning home from spending a week in a Maasai Village and a week in a city orphanage and a few days on Safari, I returned with stories to tell. You may have heard me tell the story of young Angelo – a boy rescued by my Maasai friend, Joseph. Angelo is at school and doing very well. His teacher says he is very bright! Final term last year, you donated hundreds of Kilo’s of clothing to go to the kids in Kenya. I took 30kg with me and the rest went to an op-shop in NNSW that is run by Education Care Projects Kenya – the people I went to Africa with. Every dollar raised at their op-shop goes straight to the kids. All this year, there has been a donation box at school. As the boxes are filled, they are delivered free-of-charge by a generous removalist company from Melbourne to Mullumbimby. Every pair of pants, shirt, shoes and everything else you have kindly donated go from my room to the op-shop and raise money for our friends in Kenya. On October 28th I ran a concert at my church called Kids4Kids. Children from around Melbourne sang and played instruments. During the program, a donation was taken from the audience. They gave over $1500! Many people signed up for the newsletter and chose sponsor children. Tomorrow, I am taking five full boxes to the removalists to send to the op-shop. Every box raises more than $100 for the kids in Kenya! Just this morning another bag of treasures was given to me by a generous parent. It went straight in the box! If you have anything needing to go to an op-shop, please put in in the box in my office and I’ll send it to the Kenya Kids Op-Shop. Keep changing the world, Dave

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Zac O’Donnell Caitlyn Kelly Jessica Mang Noah Piez Cailyn Newton Brittany Harris Elizabeth Mung

SECOND HAND UNIFORMS Out the front of the office we have a clothes rack of

second hand uniforms.

Dresses $10.00

Bags $5.00

All other items $2.00

Thank you to Cassandra for cleaning out our second

hand uniform and folding up all the winter stock neatly

to make the area look much more professional and a lot

easier for our parents to look through.

Nadia Kaivan Jaiya Kutasara

Kendra Prothero Mackenzie Grant

Livi Derham Maddison Clarke

Ainslie Heriot

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY The focus for all grade levels this term has been coding. Foundation to Year Two have used Scratch Jnr on the iPad. Years Three and Four have also used Scratch Jnr. Years Three to Six have used Scratch offline on their laptops. Both the app and program look similar. They have similar sprites (characters) and both use coding blocks to create a script. Scratch Jnr allows the students to select from an existing background and sprite or they can paint their own. This encourages creativity and is a very popular feature with the children. There are six types of coding blocks, control, motion, speech/sound, appearance, repetition and end scenes. The students develop a script using these blocks depending on what they want their sprites to do. All grade levels had a task to complete over four weeks. The variety of animations produced was terrific. Scratch 2 or 1.4 is a program on the laptops which is more complex than Scratch Jnr. Once again students can select existing backgrounds and sprites or create their own. Years Three to Six can access the internet or their own Pictures folder as well. The variety of coding blocks is much wider and students can make their own variables if necessary. The scripts in Scratch are certainly more complicated and require the students to tinker to achieve a desired goal. Many students have worked through tutorials and set tasks to develop their knowledge of how to use this program. The final task was to create a simple computer game. Once again amazing animations have been produced reflecting each student’s imagination and knowledge. Coding has been an exciting and educational experience for everyone!

BIRTHDAYS Jensen North

Caitlin Sharp Zarah Davies

Ayla Mckenzie Taj Hurrell

Juliet Tetlow Noah Frogley Nic Clavant Emily Stokes

SAKG NEWS

Mosaic and Poppies Collaborations can bring wonderful results. This past week has seen the culmination of two projects in the garden. Our new mosaic is a collaboration between art and gardening. Installed over Cup Weekend, you can see our sparkly green mosaics on the posts of the grape arbour. Originally designed to enhance our poppy installation, the mosaic will be a permanent feature and will be extended up in the months to come. Many thanks to Mel Rowe for sourcing the beautiful tiles and kindly coming in on Sunday to install our creation. Many thanks to Carolyn Prothero for her generous creation of 60 beautiful handmade poppies. Installed over the arbour and placed in our garden bed they were the focus for a moment of reflection in the garden today. The moment was photographed by the Maroondah Leader so do look out for it in your issue. See you in the garden, Jane Humphrys.

School Council Members meet once a month. This meeting follows the committee meetings which commence at 6:45pm on the same night. Please email any items that you would like discussed at the upcoming school council meeting to: dorsetpsschoolcouncil@dorsetps.vic.edu.au

SAKG MENU: - Spaghetti with

olive pesto - Spiced Pita Chips - Bush Tomato Dip

- Broadbean & Warrigal Green

Salad

This weeks SAKG Menu:

PROFESSOR MATHS ‘ PROBLEMS TO PONDER!’ Due Monday, 27th of November Jumpy Jacks (Foundation) Ben wanted to tile his bathroom floor. He lays the tiles out. There are 4 rows with 5 tiles in each row. How many tiles are their in total? Dorset Dazzlers (G1/2) Emily was renovating her bathroom. Her bathroom is also a square shape 3 metres by 5 metres. The tiles are square and measure 1m by 1m. How many tiles will she need? You can draw this if you like. Next level Geniuses (G3/4) Joe is extending his bathroom. It was a 6 metre by 5 metre room. Then he needs to tile the floor. He is using large rectangle tiles. They measure 1.5 metre by 2 metres. How many tiles will Joe need? You can draw this if you like. Any Day Einsteins (G5/6) Darren was renovating his bathroom. His bathroom is a square shape 6 metres by 6 metres. The tiles are square and measure 50 cm by 25 cm. How many tiles will he need? You can draw this if you like.

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We have just opened our Café at 123 Main Street, Croydon and we would love to meet the

school community!

If you show this menu or tell us you saw our menu in the Dorset Primary School newsletter

we will offer you a 20% discount!

Hope to see you all there :)