Thursday 4th June 2015 The guiding principle for Port Fairy Consolidated School is to provide a high quality education for all

students and an opportunity for all students to grow to their full potential – creatively, socially, physically and intellectually.

Our children are our future and we are honoured to be a partner in a child’s journey through life.

Tuesday – Chicken Noodle Soup

Thursday – Pizza Scroll

Principal’s Award – Serina Doyle

For making a terrific start at our school and putting great effort into her learning. 00C – Martha Hawkins

For doing her Personal Best this week when writing about our Star of the Week.

Well done Martha.

00W – Jerry Dixon

For his excellent manners and always looking after other people.

1/2D – Riley Leske-King

For great writing of Procedural Texts.

1/2A – Kirra Beardsley

For using excellent strategies when reading and rereading when what she is reading does

not make sense.

1/2T – Jessica Artis

For her fantastic calendar work during Numeracy, well done Jessica! 3/4B – Georgia Love-Davies

For always working hard and trying her best in every area of her school work. Well done

Georgia

3/4H – Kasey Hocking

For the thoughtfulness and consideration toward her classmates.

4/5M – Maddie Lee

Being thoughtful and considering the welfare of others.

5/6D – Jack Charnley

Taking his voracious reading to amazing levels!

5/6D - Aliyah-Leigh Bogaers

For great progress in procedural writing.

5/6M - Lillee Gibb

For great progress in procedural writing.

A SAFE SCHOOL - I HAVE A RIGHT TO A SAFE SCHOOL AND A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP KEEP IT SAFE

If you are a Concession Card Holder, you may be eligible for the Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund

(an entitlement of $125 per student). Please collect an Application Form from the office.

Applications close 26th June 2015.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROJECT

As you may know we are currently working with Deakin University on a ‘Mathematical Reasoning

Research Project’. The project is a follow-up study of “Primary school teachers’ and students’

perceptions and understanding of mathematical reasoning”, and is under the direction of Dr Sandra

Herbert. We first participated in this study in 2012-2013. In the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics

includes reasoning as one of the proficiencies that students are expected to learn and develop

throughout the primary and secondary years of schooling but it is often a neglected aspect of planning

and implementation. The aim of this project is to further investigate teachers’ knowledge of reasoning

and its relationship to learning mathematics and other mathematics proficiencies, their approach to

planning and teaching reasoning and how their knowledge develops through participation in

collaborative planning, teaching and reflection of a mathematics lesson. For this study we have

targeted our Year1/2 Department and our Year 5/6 Department. The team of teacher participants from

our school will meet to plan at least one lesson with a mathematics reasoning learning objective, with

input from Dr Herbert. Each teacher will then teach the lesson and one peer teacher from the team will

observe this lesson to gather observations of children’s reasoning and teacher actions that promote

reasoning. Once again we thank Dr Herbert and Deakin University for including us in this project.

STUDENT LEADERS’ PROJECT UPDATE

Just a quick update regarding the ‘Student Leaders’ Beach Erosion Action Project’ at South Beach! So

far our student leaders have:

Identified beach erosion at Pea Soup

Practiced some beach monitoring at East Beach

Joined the Port Fairy Coastal Group as junior members

The next steps include:

Research and then suggest a good engineering erosion prevention solution at South Beach

Project manage the identified ‘South Beach Erosion Engineering Project”

Monitor, review and feedback after project completion

Perhaps set up a monitoring post at south beach

On the evening of Wednesday, July 22, the student leaders will present their project at a celebration in

Warrnambool. Many thanks to Ebony Perrin for her support of this program.

ROTARY CLUB OF PORT FAIRY SHOWCASE EVENING

Last Monday, June 1, all of our Year 6 public speaking team and our senior choir members performed for the Port Fairy Rotary Club. This event once again provided a great opportunity to showcase the many talents of our students to the local community. Thank you to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program for supplying the meal and the Rotary Club of Port Fairy for their ongoing support of the young people in Port Fairy. SCHOOL DISCO

Don’t forget we will be hosting a ‘School Disco’ on Friday, June 12, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, in the

school hall. The cost will be $5 per child (this includes fresh fruit, a bag of potato chips a lolly and a

bottle of water). All children must be signed in and out by an adult. There will be NO pass outs. There is

NO dress theme. All children are encouraged to pay their $5 to the office before the event. Dion from

Directwear will be the DJ. It would be great to see as many of our students there as possible!

CROSS COUNTRY

Thanks to all of the students who represented our school in the Divisional Cross Country, last Friday in

Warrnambool. Some sterling performances in trying conditions, many hills and windy wet conditions!

Congratulations to Max Green who has progressed to the Regional Championships! Thank you once

again to Deanne Elliot for her coordination of the Moyne District and to the parents for their ongoing

support.

MOVIE FUNDRAISER

Next Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7 our school will be hosting a movie fundraiser at the

Reardon Theatre in Port Fairy. See details on the Skoolbag App and with today’s newsletter. Please

support if you are able to.

NIGHT MARKET

Please note once again, as part of the Port Fairy ‘Winter Weekends’ program our school will be

hosting a ‘Night Market’, this coming Sunday, June 7, from 4pm – 8pm. Thanks to Dominique Quirke

and her band of helpers for their great work with this event! Please come along! Also anyone who

can help set-up, I will meet you at the school at 1pm on Sunday.

PUPIL FREE DAY Please remember that Friday, June 26, will be a pupil free day. On this day the teachers will be available for ‘Parent Teacher Interviews’. REPORTING ON STUDENT PROGRESS 2015

This year our reporting on student progress will once again be three fold.

Student Written Reports. Issued to all students on Monday, June 22

Traditional Parent/Teacher Conferences. At this event parents/carers will have the

opportunity to spend time with the classroom teachers to discuss student progress and

student written reports. To be held on Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26 (pupil free)

Student Led Conferences. At this event each student will have the opportunity to present to

their parents/carers with regard to what has been happening at school this year. These

conferences will take about 15 minutes and they will take place in classrooms. These will be

held on Tuesday, July 28 and Wednesday, July 29 (4pm – 7pm)

We would appreciate your attendance at these reporting opportunities. Interview bookings currently open. DRESS UP DAY

Please remember our student leaders’ ‘Annual Dress up Day’, on Friday, June 19. The theme is ‘I want

to be….’ We encourage all students to dress up on this day as somebody or something they would

like to be when they get older. There will also be a sausage sizzle on this day. Mark your calendars.

FAMILY NUMERACY PROBLEM

Don’t forget to ‘have a go’ at our weekly ‘Numeracy Problem’ in today’s newsletter. Congratulations

to Bailey Else for his successful entry last week!

BUS TRAVELLER AWARD

Each week we recognise our best bus travellers with a weekly award. This award is nominated by Mr

Matt Hoey and it is given to those students who contribute to the safety, comfort and well-being of

their fellow passengers. Congratulations to Riley Edwards who received this award at last Monday’s

assembly. Well done Riley!

HEALTHY LUNCH AWARD

Each week we recognise a student with good food for lunch that is packed in a way that reduces our

rubbish. Each of these students receives a free lunch from our school café as a prize. The winner for

this week, as announced at Monday’s assembly, was Ivy Morton. Congratulations Ivy!

PLEASE REMEMBER

‘We aim for every child to be the best that they can be – without exception!’

‘MY DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN’

Regards, Mark

Homeroom Happenings

Prep’s - This week in Numeracy we have been working on identifying the highest

number in a collection of 2 numbers. In Literacy we have been learning the letter J

and practicing our new reading strategy of Cross Checking- does it sound right,

does it look right and does it make sense.

1/2’s - In Reading we are learning how to find and use interesting words. In

Writing we are learning how to write different procedural texts (instructions,

experiments, recipes), and in Maths we are learning about arrays which are

multiplication and extended addition.

3/4’s - 3/4 B say thanks to Miss Nelmes for the past 3 weeks. This week the 3/4’s

have begun to explore multiplication in Maths. We have continued with our

procedural texts in writing and discovering more interesting verbs we can use.

4/5M – In 4/5 we have been looking for verbs and new and interesting words.

‘Obsequious’ and ‘mendacity’ are very interesting words. We have been

investigating Victoria and looking for towns beginning with each letter of the

alphabet. We have enjoyed our maths lessons on reasoning and this has linked well

with our work on arrays.

5/6’s - In Reading the students have been working on the comprehension strategy

of using text features in non-fiction books. This has been linked with our inquiry unit

based on geography. In Writing, the 5/6’s have been looking at numerous

procedural texts. In Mathematics the 5/6’s have been working on their reasoning

skills. These sets of lessons have been in partnership with Deakin University studies in

mathematics.

The Prevention of Childhood Obesity within the Great South Coast study is an exciting study that is being conducted on Tuesday next week (09/06/15)

by Deakin University.

All Grade 2, 4 and 6 students have been invited to participate. This study will

examine influences on healthy weight and related behaviours (physical activity,

sedentary behaviour, diet quality and quality of life) among children and adolescents

across the Great South Coast region of Victoria.

Please return the OPT-OUT consent form should you and or your child decide NOT TO participate. If

you have any further queries please don’t hesitate to contact Mr Twycross.

Physical Education Well done to all of the students who represented our school at the Combined Portland

Warrnambool Hamilton Division Cross Country Championships held in Warrnambool last Friday. It was a tougher course this year at the Friendlies. Our students represented our school proudly in the winter conditions. They were up against runners from across the South West and many bet their personal times. Well done everyone and a huge thank you to the great parent support we had on the day.

Congratulations to Max Green who came 5th in his age group and qualified to compete at the Regional Championships in Warrnambool on the 12th June. All the best Max!

.. Ms Deanne Elliott

Upcoming

Events

Sunday 7th June

Night Market 4-8pm.

Friday June 12th

Regional Cross Country

School Disco

6.30 – 8.30pm

Tuesday 16th June

Finance Meeting

Wednesday 17th June

School Council

Thursday 18th June

2016 Prep. Information

Evening @ 7pm.

Thursday 18th June

Winter Sports @

Gardens Oval.

Friday 19th June

Annual dress up day

Monday 22nd June

Student Reports issued.

Thursday 25th June

(after school) and

Friday 26th June (all

day) - Parent Teacher

Interviews.

Friday 26th June

Pupil Free Day

Melbourne Urban Camp

26th – 28th August.

Year ¾ Dunkeld Camp

14, 15 & 16th October

Year 2 Sleepover

26TH November

Fresh Fruit Friday Tomorrow’s helpers are:

Kym Huggins & Debra Inns

Café Lunches for next week are: Tuesday – Chicken Noodle Soup

Thursday – Pizza Scroll

Orders can be placed at the office up until 9am on the day at a cost of $5 per child, which includes a piece of fruit at

snack time and a delicious home made meal, with a treat at lunchtime.

School Photos Please come and have a look at the group photos on display in

the office. Photos of Ambassadors, House Captains, Bus

Captains and Choir can be ordered from the office, at a cost

of $20 each.

Port Fairy POP-corn ZOO

This Friday at lunch the green team will be selling popcorn and raising money endangered for the creature of your grades choice. Each grade has voted for their favorite animals and the popcorn you buy will be donated to your grades zoo creature.

Bring along gold coins and come to the café this Friday to see who’s who in the Port Fairy Zoo.

Popcorn $1 & Loom bands for Wildlife $1 - $3 (posters and bookmarks too)

Snow Leopards are a critically endangered animal.

Long Sleeve Polo’s

We are seeking expressions of interest for long sleeve polo shirts. These may be available but

only if the minimum number of orders is received. If you are interested, please register your

name and quantities at the office. Approximate cost $28.

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Show & Tell .... with Emily Clarke

The best advice I ever received was.. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

The most important things I take into the classroom everyday are.. A smile and good

manners.

One of my most memorable moments in my teaching career is.. Seeing Preps come to

school for the very first time. I love seeing their excitement and joy at finally starting school!

If I had a magic wand I would.. Make it easier and quicker to travel to different countries

around the world.

The most important lesson I have been taught by a student is.. To appreciate all the little

things in life.

As you know, we made the top 40 schools in Victoria with our 2014 Naplan results – latest information

now indicates that our school was one of the top eight performing schools in Victoria (see above

article from “The Educator” magazine).

Congratulations, and thank you to our dedicated staff and all our students!

… Mark Chapman

Parents & Friends Page

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SCHOOL COMMUNITY EVENTS

DATE EVENT COORDINATOR/S

February Sport Day at Brauerander Park

Jill Gibson

March (Tuesday before Folkie)

Roast Beef/Falafel Rolls/Family Concert

Connellan Family

March (Long Weekend) Bed & Breakfast Nicola McCartie/Sally Anderson

May (Education Week) Big Breakfast/Walk to School

Judi Fitzgerald

June (Long Weekend) Movie at Port Fairy Cinema

Ebony Perrin & Lisa Payne

June (Long Weekend) Night Market Dom Quirke

TBC (Saturday/Term 3) Bunnings Barbecue Jaqui King

November (First Saturday) Port Fairy Show Chelsea Fox & Hamish Ebery

December (First Saturday Christmas Bazaar Homeroom Reps

Please also remember our newsletter is emailed out each week – if

you are not already receiving yours electronically, please let Jenni

or Ronda know of your email address.

Latest news –

We are preparing soup for the night market in the school

kitchen on Saturday at 10am – and serving the soup at the night

market on Sunday - any help with either of these would be greatly

appreciated.

Movie screenings at Reardon Theatre – The SpongeBob Movie –

Sponge Out Of Water – Saturday at 5pm and Sunday at 130pm.

Night market Sunday 7th

June, from 4 – 8pm in the school courtyard.

Set up helpers required on site from 1pm Sunday.

Yes you read it correctly – the CWA in Victoria is growing at the rate of two new members per day. The CWA of Victoria was formed in 1928 for ALL women, with the main purpose beig “through community service to improve conditions more especially as they affect the welfare of women and children”. On joining this vibrant association, you are given opportunities to earn new skills in creative arts, photography, public speaking, performing arts, tot ackle social issues, be proactive on issues affecting our agricultural and environmental sectors and most importantly of all to be a part of a very large friendship group. The Port Fairy branch is meeting on Wednesday 10th June at 7.30pm in the Community Services Centre meeting room. Come along to learn how to crochet a red remembrance poppy and a granny square.

ALL WELCOME! Bring a friend and supper to share.

Enquiries ph Janette O’Keefe - 0427677121