No 1, 4 February 2010

THEME: Initiative

FOCUS: You can problem solve to find different

ways to achieve your goals

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Ward Street Warrnambool.

Phone 5562 4100. Fax 5561 1841 Edition 33 November 1 , 2012 http://weps.global2.vic.edu.au

Garden Party Spring Fair

There is a meeting tomorrow, Friday Nov 2 in the

Staff room starting at 9:15am.

All welcome to attend.

We are still after donations of soft drink cans and

600ml bottles of water for the fair.

Please deliver to the office.

Just over 2 weeks until the fair on

Sunday November 18th

10:00am-2:00pm

Tues Nov 6th JSC Dress up day. First initial of your name.

Gold coin donation

Thurs Nov 8th Junior Sports Day. 9:00-1:00pm. Prep-2

Fri Nov 9th Grade 1/2 swimming

Mon Nov 12th Prep excursion to East Safeway

Tues Nov 13th Kanga Cricket Reid oval

Fri Nov 16th Grade 1/2 swimming

Sun Nov 18th Garden Party Spring Fair 10am-2pm

Wed Nov 21st Prep picnic for 2013 preps/families

Fri Nov 23rd Grade 1/2 swimming

Wed Nov 28th Year 6 Melb camp

Fri Nov 30th Grade 1/2 swimming

Wed Dec 5th Prep picnic for 2013 preps/families

Fri Dec 7th Grade 1/2 swimming

Tues Dec 11th Orientation day year 7 & Prep

Tues Dec 18th Year 6 Graduation

Thurs Dec 20th Last day for students Prep-Year

5 Dismissal 3:30pm.

Wedding Bells

The year 1/2’s threw a pre

wedding party at school

for Katie Anderson before

her wedding to Matt this

weekend . We wish you and

Matt a beautiful day and

all the best for the future.

More photos inside

Dear Parents and Carers,

Congratulations to the WEPS students for their tremendous efforts with the Warrnambool Show entries. Both the Chess and the Visual Art dis-plays provided our community with fine examples of our student’s art work and the opportunity to meet some of our tremendous students.

WEPS staff are beginning to organise Home Groups for 2013. This is a very detailed process which involves much thought and time. Requests for your child's 2013 placement in relation to their peers, will need to be in writing to the Principal and handed into the office by next Friday Novem-ber 9th. All requests will be given due consideration, however there is no guarantee that requests can be fulfilled.

2013 ENROLMENTS If your child/children will not be attending WEPS in 2013, please contact the office as soon as possible. Accurate enrolment information assists us greatly in organising the Home Groups and in fine tuning the budgets and expenditure.

ICT and NETBOOKS -. A huge thank you to the families who have sup-ported the Year 4,5 and 6 Netbook program this year. The staff are great-ly appreciative of the support from the WEPS School Council and the WEPS School community in the contributions made over the past year to upgrade and increase the access to current ICT equipment across the school. In 2013 we will continue the process and hopefully fulfil our aim of having one to one devices for students in years 4, 5 and 6 from the begin-ning of the year and increased access to a variety of ICT devices across the school. Further information relating to the Netbook program will be forwarded to families in the near future.

YEAR 6 NETBOOKS – The WEPS technicians will be requesting the return of year 6 Netbooks in early December to reformat them ready for either use at a DEECD secondary school or with an alternative operating system if they are going to be used for home use.

INDUSTRIAL ACTION – All staff will be undertaking further Work Bans over the next three weeks, which involves the reduction of one, one hour meeting per week.

THE WEPS TEAM IN UNIFORM Students are expected to be in full summer school uniform for term 4, including their school hat. There are samples of the uniforms in the office and all items are available at WEPS, except for the summer dresses which are navy and white check and available at Target, K Mart and Best for Less. Please see the office if you require extra uniforms and there are also some second hand items available

Tomorrow we farewell a marvellous teacher and person. Alex Mason- Alex is expecting her first baby very shortly and we wish her the very best as she begins a new challenge in life, MOTHER HOOD! Alex has been a tremendous Home Group Teacher and in recent times her work teaching everyone in the field of ICT has been greatly appreciated.

Thank you to the 1 /2 team for their organisation of the year 2 camp in Port Fairy. There were many happy faces as they headed off on their first REAL SCHOOL CAMP this morning!

Good luck to Katie Anderson for her wedding day Saturday. Lindy

The Link http://weps.global2.vic.edu.au

Congratulations Baylin McColl, Taylah Gray, Amarli Frankel, Stella Bridgewater, Keisha Shaw, Lucas Shears, Emily Ward, Hayden Kane and Zacc Dwyer on being chosen as Aussie of the month.

Katie’s Pre Wedding Pics

For the past two weeks the Junior School Councils have put on a disco. Last week on Wednesday we

had the Prep and the 1/2 disco. We had lollies for the prizes. There were some great dancers. Yes-

terday it was the 3-6 disco. There also was some great dancers. I hope everyone enjoyed it.

Thankyou to Ms Kelly and the Junior School Council for organising it. By Alish Stokie.

The Link http://weps.global2.vic.edu.au

This year’s Junior Athletics Sports Day has been planned for Thursday November 8th commencing

at 9:45am with the relays and concluding at 1:15pm. The sports will be held on the Jones Oval and

the Warrnambool East school grounds. All children will run in 1 relay then participate in a rotation

of 10 different activities. All parents and friends are very welcome to attend and to cheer of the

children. If you have any queries please contact your class teacher for further information.

Centro Warrnambool has organised a promotion which involves local school children and

their artistic endeavours. They are producing a centre Christmas card which will be

distributed to the centre’s main trade area in late November.

Local school children from four age categories will be invited to participate in a design and

colouring competition. The winning entry for each age group will share the front page of the

centre’s Christmas card.

A prize of $100 will be given to each winner together with a prize of $200 for their school.

Participating age groups are: Under 5 years, 5-7 Years, 8-10 Years, 11-12 Years.

Drawing competition concludes on Friday November 9th 2012.

Winner of the drawing competition will be announced on November 14th 2012.

The winners will be contacted by phone on Thursday November 15th.

The winning schools will also be notified on this date.

A limited number of entry forms are available

from the school office.

Congratulations Baylin McColl, Taylah Gray, Amarli Frankel, Stella Bridgewater, Keisha Shaw, Lucas Shears, Emily Ward, Hayden Kane and Zacc Dwyer on being chosen as Aussie of the month.

On Tuesday November 6th the Junior School Council are having a dress up day! You must come to

school dressed up as someone or something starting with the first letter of your first name. For

example: Michael would dress up as Mickey Mouse. Remember it’s a gold coin donation.

Last week students from WEPS entered artwork in the local Warrnambool Show. These works were

displayed for the duration of the show in the Arts Pavillion. Over 300 students from WEPS were

represented, with some talented students winning certificates. Ms Finnigan and

Mr Woonton would like to congratulate all students who entered their wonderful

work.

Both the 3/4N &L Great Wall of Dairy and the Prep farm animals looked great on

the front stage of the pavilion, both winning commendation ribbons. Great work!!!

The following students won individual certificates:

1st: Millie Quarrell, Kayla Jewell, Jade Bell, Starsha Kane, Buster King, Schkaya

Smith and Emily Nesbitt

2nd: Jorden Hiensch, Natasha Quarrell, Monique English.

Highly Commended: Kayla Shears, Rhiannon Kirby, Emily Ward and Shannon Haebich.

To see all these original works of art come to the WEPS Spring Fair.

The Link

Zoe Edwards Courtney Earls Riley Ford

Olive Adams Makiera Jenkins Alex Annett

Minapre McDonald Connor Pimblett Stella Bridgewater

Georgia Huffer

Student Banking The total banked this week was $18.20.

Room 2 had the most deposits with 2.

Caught Doing Something Good Isabella Remine won this award for holding the door open for a teacher to pass.

Well done Isabella.