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Upcoming Events For Term 3, 2014

Yard Supervision: 8:50am-9:00am 3:15pm-3:30pm

Yard Opens 8:30am, Closes 3:30pm

Wednesday 6th

August, 2013

No. 22

From the School Leaders

Out of School Hours Care Program Phone Number

9314 9358

Tuesday 12 August ICAS Math's test Grades 2-6, 3.20 to 4.20pm Wembley Major Raffle Books Sent home Week 5 Week 6 Mr. K at school all week Monday 18th—Friday 22nd August Bookweek Monday 18th Bookweek Parade 9-10am Friday 22nd August District Athletics Week 9 Mr K at school all week Wembley Major Raffle Books due back to school Monday 8th September Week 9 Thursday 11th September Art Show Opening Friday 12th September Art Show open until 6pm Saturday 13th September Art Show closing at 2pm Wembley Major Raffle drawn at 1.15pm, Friday 19th of Sept at the End of Term 3 Assembly Week 10

Phone: 9314 7054 Fax: 9314 9302 e-mail: wembley.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au website: www.wembleyps.vic.edu.au

Health and Safety Management Plan As part of the Department of Educa-tion and Early Childhood‟s Health and Safety Management Plan new labeling will be installed at Wembley Primary School. The labels remind people to contact the school office prior to undertaking any works at the school, to ensure they have up-to-date information from the school‟s asbestos register. Asbestos, which was used extensively in building materials in the past but is now banned, is considered safe unless damaged or in poor condition. There was an Asbestos Materials As-sessment undertaken at Wembley Primary School earlier this year. As a result of the survey, a register of as-bestos materials has been developed, in accordance with the requirements of the relevant Regulations, Codes of Practice and Guidance Notes. Please be reassured, that whilst as-bestos was identified in two of the school buildings, the school is a safe environment for students and staff. The new labels form part of a com-prehensive program to ensure Victo-rian government schools remain safe. This is a precautionary step and the safety of all children is a priority of ours. If you have any questions please con-tact Terry Lawless on 9314 7054.

100 Days At School Prep students and teachers cele-brated 100 hundred days at school on Friday. Buddy activities, games and parties added to the fun for the day. We congratulate the Preps for their great achievements and growth dur-ing Semester 1.

Book Week 2014 Book Week will be celebrated at Wembley this term in the week be-ginning Monday 18 August. There will be a Book Character Parade, Author visits, Decorated Doorways and cele-brations around the announcement of the Children‟s Book of the Year awards. Further information is in-cluded in this newsletter.

Roll Up, Roll Up for the Circus at Wembley!

Preparations for the Art Show, which is planned for Week 9, Thursday 11 September, are well underway. All classes have been working on their individual pieces during their weekly art lessons and the audience will be treated with a feast of acrobats, clowns, high wire walkers, animal tamers to view on the night.

Footy Day-Special Lunch The canteen has planned a special Footy Lunch for Thursday 4 Septem-ber to coincide with the first semi-final of AFL. Special lunch order forms are included in this week‟s newsletter and additional forms are available from the office. All special lunches can be pre-ordered and order forms with correct money should be placed in the lunch basket and sent directly to the can-teen (not via the office please). It will not be a free dress day however children may wear footy scarves, beanies and jumpers if they choose.

Out of School Hours Care Program New Enrolment Policy

School Council passed the new Out of School Hours Care Enrolment Policy

at the recent meeting. An information session to discuss the new policy will be held in the Jim Kinniburgh building on next Thursday 14 August at 5.30pm-6.00pm. A copy of the WPS Out of School Hours Care Enrolment Policy is included in this week‟s newsletter for your information. All parents are invited and encouraged to at-tend this meeting and every effort will be made to answer any questions that you may have in regards to the new policy.

BOOK WEEK (18th August – 22nd August)

LITERACY AND NUMERACY WEEK BOOK WEEK PARADE

During Book Week, all students from Prep to Grade 6 will be invited to participate in a Dress-Up Day/Parade on Monday 18th Aug 9.00am-10.am. Students will be asked to dress up as their favourite book character or dress to the book week theme: „Connect to Reading‟. Par-ents are welcome to attend the parade and we hope that many of you will be able to attend.

DECORATE A DOORWAY Classes will also decorate a doorway in the theme of their chosen story. You will be invited to come in and view their decorated doorways, which will be displayed from Monday 18th Au-gust until 30th August.

VISITING AUTHOR On Monday 19th August during Book Week we have Andy Griffiths, well-known author visiting our school to speak to our students about their writing craft and inspirations for their writing. This will involve all classes from Prep-Year Two. The week following Book Week will be Literacy and Numeracy Week (25th August – 31st August). Numeracy competitions will also be held throughout the week including a „Can you guess the jelly bean?‟ competition. Thank you Whole School Events Committee

Coming Term 4-Wembley Comedy Night Parents are advised to mark their calendars and set aside the evening of Friday 7 November for the Wembley Comedy Night. This function will be held at the Yarraville Club and it will be hosted by Rusty Berther. Rusty promises a night of laughs with local, well known comedians. More information will be available in the com-ing weeks.

Wembley goes hungry for the40 Hour Famine!

Dear Parents/Guardians and Students. On the 15th to the 17th of August I will be par-ticipating in the 40 Hour Famine, and other stu-dents will be as well. The 40 Hour Famine is a fundraiser for kids living in poverty overseas. By giving up food (or something else), you raise money for these people. We are trying to raise funds for this amazing cause, and I hope all of you will be able to do-nate to our school, or even join the Wembley Team, which is on the website. You can join by going to www.40hourfamine.com.au and scrolling to the search bar and typing in “Wembley”. The first search result is our team. You don‟t have to give up eating; there is a whole range of different ways to fundraise, such as: Furniture, Electricity/Electronics, Talking and much more (There is a list on the website). I will be going around to each of the classrooms on the Friday, the 15th of August, to collect donations. I hope you can donate or participate for this great cause! Indiana Rickard Smith, 6B School Captain/Junior School Councillor

K team Publishers The K team Publishers are a group of parent vol-unteers who help Mr K and Mrs Katz to publish the many fabulous books produced by your chil-dren and their classes. We also help out with other book related tasks for the literacy pro-grams. The group meets regularly on a Friday morning from 9-11 down in the grade 6 building at the back. During weeks when Mr K is sharing his expertise with Wembley (such as this week) we try to do a full day on the Friday to manage the amazing number of books. We are always seeking anyone interested in helping out our lit-tle team. If you are interested in helping out or learning how to publish a book, please contact Mrs Katz or Catherine Bain on 0418 529 579 or turn up one Friday morning! Thanks

WAG (Wembley Action Group) News:

2014 Wembley Major Raffle to Nusa Dua, Bali. The WAG group have been busy putting together this year‟s Major Raffle. A raffle book will be coming home to all families via the eldest child in the next few days. Each raffle book has 20 tickets @ $2 per ticket. Our major prize is a very desirable trip to Bali for 8 nights, in two rooms. There are many booking combinations available and all the booking details will be on the Wembley PS website under Fundraising soon. It is an excellent prize, loads of value, and it will be very easy to sell the tickets. Please honour the efforts of the WAG parents, and your school, by selling all of one raffle book and return it to school before Monday, Sept 8th. (please feel free to sell more if you wish and extra tickets are available from the front office) Each week there will a draw from all raffle books sold complete and returned to school. Good luck everyone!

Fathers Day Stall The Mothers Day Stall went smoothly with the children loving the opportunity to shop independently. We have heard that Mums were happy with their gifts too!! Now it‟s Dads turn. There will be a slight change to the Fathers Day Stall hours. Junior Primary will be on Thursday, Sept 4th and Upper Primary will be on Friday, Sept 5th. Both sessions will be between recess and lunch. Friday after lunch will be open to anyone who missed out or would like to „go again‟

PA Sabrina Michael-for her detailed retell of Cinderella and her improved effort in handwrit-ing.

PB Sonny Holden-for his focus and effort during recent writing tasks.

PC Charlotte Clegg-for her thoughtful and caring nature.

PD Hannah Haroun-for great effort and attention to detail when creating her circus art.

PE Samuel Lim-for improved effort when completing tasks in all areas of his school work.

1A Luke Purkiss-for including great „voice‟ in his poetry about the circus.

1B Dion Toro-for confidently sharing how he used arrays to solve multiplication problems.

1C Jamie Blaszczyk-for using interesting verbs when writing his art show poetry.

1D Oliver Martin-for always showing the school values and persisting with his writing.

2A Eimear Lavery-for writing a fabulous persuasive piece about NOT doing homework.

2B Angelica Schroeders-for a fabulous lead in your circus poetry.

2C Daniel Pieterz-for writing a detailed and concise retell. Well done!

2D Teagan Beaney-for increased effort in all her work.

2E Caitlin Brennan-for her enthusiasm and accuracy when using geomats to draw 3D shapes. Xavier McLean-for his consistent effort across all curriculum areas and for writing an en-gaging and convincing persuasive letter.

3A Mia Westmore-Conley-for showing persistence when using the GRID method to multiply. Well done.

3B Mimi Lellyet-for overall improved efforts in class, especially with her handwriting, keep it up!

3C Angeline Evmorfias-for showing great persistence in Maths when learning to use the GRID method.

3/4A Flynn Edwards-for having a positive attitude for learning and always giving his best.

4A Liam Charge-for taking responsibility for his learning & putting in his best effort in all ar-eas.

4B Helena Dermentzoglu-for using excellent description to paint a picture of her narrative setting. Arian Miftari-for his growing confidence and persistence in using multiplication.

4C Ryan Walker-for perseverance in finishing high quality written work.

5A Mikayla Baskharon-for putting in great effort into drafting her interpretation of a wordless picture book.

5B Costa Karamitos-for demonstrating persistence when solving a challenging Maths problem.

5C Xavier Rivera-for displaying effort during the drafting of our wordless picture story book.

6A Maddie Allan-for working so hard to improve her reading comprehension! Huge improve-ment! Well done!

6B

6C Alyssa Stuart-for great effort towards learning and being an awesome team member!! Lachlan Green-for 100% effort towards all learning tasks this week! Keep it up!

WEMBLEY BASKETBALL CLUB For information please visit our website: www.wembleybasketball.com.au

WEMBLEY NETBALL CLUB All enquiries to email: wembleynetball@gmail.com

Williamstown Musical Theatre Presents:

Disney's Peter Pan Junior, August 8th – 17th

Two Wembley students, Luey Kemp-Mykyta (Grade 6, 2013) and Tom Umseher (Grade 6 2014) are per-forming in Williamstown Musical Theatre‟s Production of Disney‟s Pe-ter Pan Junior. Luey is playing “Smee” and Tom is playing “Michael Darling”. All Performers are aged between 8 -18 in this very enter-taining and high quality production suitable for the whole family. Based on the Disney film and J.M. Barrie‟s enchanting play, Disney‟s Peter Pan JR. is a modern version of the timeless tale about a boy who wouldn‟t grow up with no flying re-quired! The score includes new ar-rangements of classic Disney songs. Tickets are still available but selling fast, so please book soon at www.wmtc.org.au

Expressions of interest Lotus is going to hold a free 1 hour kids self defence seminar in the next couple of weeks on either a Tuesday afternoon/night or Saturday Morn-ing. Anyone interested in this free seminar should contact Graham ASAP to secure a place 0417 306 823.

WEMBLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL FOOTBALL DAY LUNCH

DATE: Thursday 4th September 2014 .

RETURN FORM AND MONEY TO CANTEEN BY Wednesday 20th August 2014

STUDENT NAME:………………………………………………………..

CLASS:……………………………………………………………………

PLEASE TICK YOUR PERFERRED LUNCH OPTION

LUNCH 1

PIE (Sauce Yes/No)

And

250ml Milk (Chocolate or Strawberry) 5.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------————————————————————————————————

LUNCH 2

Hot Dog (Sauce Yes/No)

AND

250ml Milk (Chocolate or Strawberry) 5.00

Halal Meal Available Please tick

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PLEASE RETURN LUNCH FORMS AND MONEY TO CANTEEN BY Wednesday 20th August 2014

For every lunch order received, Jude Fina Foods will donate 40 cents back to your school =========================================================================================

WEMBLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL FOOTBALL DAY LUNCH

DATE: Thursday 4th September 2014 .

RETURN FORM AND MONEY TO CANTEEN BY Wednesday 20th August 2014

STUDENT NAME:………………………………………………………..

CLASS:……………………………………………………………………

PLEASE TICK YOUR PERFERRED LUNCH OPTION

LUNCH 1

PIE (Sauce Yes/No)

And

250ml Milk (Chocolate or Strawberry) 5.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------————————————————————————————————

LUNCH 2

Hot Dog (Sauce Yes/No)

AND

250ml Milk (Chocolate or Strawberry) 5.00