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ISSUE NO. 7 29th May 2017

Dear School Community,

MAINTENANCE WORK IN BACK CAR PARK AND BASKETBALL COURT

The maintenance work in the back car park has now been completed and I’d like to

thank all our families for their patience with the disruption this work has caused. The two

buildings in the car park have now been connected to the storm water system.

The basketball posts and backboards needed to be replaced because of safety concerns.

This has been a much longer process than we had anticipated but the end is now in sight.

All the preparation work has been completed and we are hopeful that the new posts and

backboards will be in place before the end of this week.

ATTITUDES TO SCHOOL SURVEY Years 4 - 6 Beginning this week, our Grade 4-6 students will be completing the Annual Attitudes to Schooling Survey. This survey provides valuable information to assist us with our future planning. It gives students the chance to share what they are happy with and areas for improvement. This is the first year the survey has been expanded to include grade 4s. Students will complete the online survey during class time at some time over the next 3 weeks. We will share the results with you once they become available later in the year. SCHOOL DROP OFF AND EARLY PICK UP Please make sure your child gets to school on time by 8:55am. Children who arrive late must collect a ‘late pass’ from the office and be marked as present on the office computer system before going to their classroom. It is very disruptive for students and teachers when children arrive late. We ask that parents ensure their children are at school at least 5 minutes before school starts each day. On most school days, the first lesson of the day is reading instruction. If your child is always late to school they are continually missing some of the most important educational opportunities. SCHOOL GATES Parents are reminded the school gates are locked at 9:15am and unlocked at 3:15pm. The school gates are locked each day to ensure the safety of the children in our care. We try our best to ensure these times are adhered to. We ask parents to please be patient if we are a few minutes late in unlocking the gates in the afternoon.

Timeline

2017

MONDAY

29th May

Hotdog lunch day

TUESDAY

30th May

Homework Club

3.30-4.30pm

THURSDAY

1st June

Santina’s lunch or-der day

WEDNESDAY

7th June

School Council 5:00pm

MONDAY

12th June

Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday—No school

THURSDAY

22nd June

Parent/Teacher Inter-views

FRIDAY

30th June

Last day of Term 2. School finishes at 2:30pm

Co-operation Excellence Honesty Respect Responsibility

PLAYGROUP—FAREWELL AND WELCOME BACK Tomorrow we say good bye to Fiona Miller who has been our fabulous Playgroup

Coordinator for almost 2 years. Fiona has become a much loved member of our TPS

community and will be sorely missed. Fiona is moving to Tasmania, with her partner

Michael, to begin the next phase in her life. We wish Fiona all the best for the future.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Mrs Barbara Sacco back to TPS. Barbara will be

taking on the role of Playgroup Coordinator as of next week. Many of our families will

remember Barbara as our long serving prep teacher who retired from teaching last year.

Winter Sports Results - Friday 19th May

Thomastown PS V Kingsbury PS

Netball A: 11 to 8

Netball B: 9 to 5

T - Ball: 17 to 44

Soccer: 11 to 0

Football: Goal Points 77 Goals Points 20

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Value Stars for week ending : 19th May 2017

Prep V - Zara Prep 1/D - Ishaaq, Aseel & Hussain 1/2C - Hussain

1/2W - Arad 2/3M - Abu Bakr 2/3C - Mobina

3/4Y - Crystal 4/5G - Haseeb 5/6K - Tahlia

5/6T - Lara Language School - ART -

LIBRARY- PE -

Value Stars for week ending : 26th May 2017

Prep V - Lilly Prep 1/D - Zainab 1/2C -

1/2W - Tim 2/3M - Mohamad D 2/3C - Huda

3/4Y - 4/5G - 5/6K - Manpreet

5/6T - Jessica Language School - ART -

LIBRARY- PE -

Winter Sports Results - Friday 26th May

Thomastown PS V William Ruthven

Netball A: 11 to 13

Netball B: 5 to 5

T - Ball: 18 to 41

Soccer: 6 to 0

Football: 1 Goal 3 Points 9 12 Goals 8 Points 80

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P.E. ReportP.E. ReportP.E. ReportP.E. Report Monday

22nd May 2017

Excellence in P.E. Award

The scores for last week’s PE lessons were given by our

visiting AFL coaches.

The winner of last week’s Excellence in PE Award was:

2/3M!

Congratulations 2/3M. Well done!

Inter-School Sport: Thomastown PS v

Kingsbury It was fabulous to see all teams working together and

continuing to display great sportsmanship. I am

particularly proud of the football team for working

co-operatively and showing solid support for one

another on the field.

Please note that the results from Friday’s games can

also be found on display on the doors near the library

leading to the BER building.

Next week: Thomastown v William Ruthven (Home

game!)

District Cross Country: Wednesday

17th May 2017 Congratulations to our Cross Country Team who won our

District Cross Country for the 3rd year in a row!

Well done! Great to see that all your hard work paid

off!

We have about 11 children who have qualified for the

next level – Division. Once the names have been

confirmed, I will let you know. Training will need to

continue for these athletes!

Division Cross Country will be held on Wednesday, 14th June at Bundoora Park, with Regionals being held on the

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Excellence in P.E. Award Due to Education Week last week, no points

were allocated. Points allo-

cation for the Excellence in PE award will

resume this week.

Inter-School Sport: Thomastown

PS v William Ruthven Once again, all our students performed well and worked

co-operatively in ISS. All teachers reported great

sportsmanship by our players, which is great to hear.

Congratulations to everyone for trying their best and

for being such wonderful representatives of TPS.

Next week: Our Lady of the Way (Away game)

Since Our Lady of the Way does not field an AFL

football team, only Tee-Ball; Soccer and Netball teams

will be travelling on the bus this week.

District Cross Country: Wednesday

14th June 2017 Division Cross Country will be held on Wednesday, 14th

June at Bundoora Park, with Regionals being held on the

Wednesday, 21st of June – also at Bundoora Park.

Training will continue on Mondays (and Tuesdays where

possible) starting at 1:30. Children are asked to refrain

from eating their lunch until after our training session.

Homework Club Homework sessions at school for students in grades 4,5 and 6 run every

Tuesday from 3.30 - 4.30pm.

Children are able to stay at school and work in their classrooms on homework or

unfinished assignments. Teachers will be available to help your children.

Students will be able to use classroom resources, including computers, but only for schoolwork.

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Learning Support Teacher – Sue Lauder

Are there some things about the school that you don’t understand?

Would you like some hints on how to help your child with reading, wri�ng, maths etc.?

Mrs Sue Lauder is our Learning Support Teacher. She is at the school most Tuesdays.

Her job is to help you help your children learn.

If you would like to talk with Sue just complete and return the form below for an appointment or have a chat if you

see her on Tuesdays walking around before school.

Interpreters are available.

__________________________________________________________________________________________

Parent’s Name: __________________________ _____ Contact Number ______________________

Child’s name: _________________________________ Grade: ____

Preferred �me for an appointment. (Please Circle)

9.00 10.00 11.30 12.30

Interpreter required Yes No Language required: _______________________

Santina’s Lunch Orders Don’t forget that lunch orders are available from Santina’s Cakes every Thursday. Price lists are

available from the school office.

Orders must be placed in a brown paper bag with your child’s name, grade and food selection

clearly

written on the bag. Please place the correct money in the bag . Orders are collected by Santina’s

staff at 9:15am each Thursday morning.

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Year 7 LEAP - 2018 (Learning & Enhanced Achievement Class)

Testing round 2 is scheduled for

Student Leadership Report

Lunch Time Activities On Wednesday the 24th of May, the lunch time activity was held on the cricket pitch. As

it was the first week, we played cricket. It was a very surprising game. I was so pleased

to see 15 people attend this activity. We broke them into two teams: Grade 1 and 3 and

Grade 2 and 4. The scores were more surprising than what I thought.

The scores were: Grade 1/3’s 6 runs and Grade 2/4’s 5 runs. The winners were Zahra 1/2C,

Abdulmalik 2/3M, Dion 1/2C, Yasmin 1/2C, Jackson 2/3C, Bella 3/4Y and Bond 1/2W.

On behalf of the S.L.S.T. I would like to thank Miss Henning and Mrs Di Palma for supporting this

activity.

Next week’s activity will be soccer!

EDUCATION WEEK

HELP URGENTLY NEEDED We urgently need volunteers to keep our canteen open for lunchtime sales.

Children love to see someone from their family helping at school and it is also a way of

meeting other parents.

If you could possibly help weekly, fortnightly or monthly, please

contact Anne at the office on 9465 2225.

The Food Justice Truck will be in the Thomastown PS car park on

Tuesday 6th June 12:30pm - 4:30pm

Enter via Stewart Street