Newsletter 24th August 2017

Mon 28 Aug to Fri 8 Sept

Grade Prep Swimming Program

Fri 25 Aug

PFA Afternoon Tea 2.30pm

Thu 31 Aug

Fathers Day Stall

Fathers Day Card Making Night 6.00pm to 7.00pm

Tue 5 Sept

St John First Aid Incursion

Grade 6 Interschool Sports

Fri 8 Sept

Grade 6 Interschool Sports

Wed 13 Sept

Grade 1 Animal Land Farm Excursion

Fri 15 Sept

Grade 6 Interschool Sports

Sat 16 Sept

THPS PFA Music & Disco Bingo 7.00pm to 10.00pm

Dates to Remember

40-50 Loddon Drive, Taylors Hill Telephone 9361 4900

PO Box 3665 Caroline Springs 3023 taylors.hill.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

visit our website at : www.taylorshillps.vic.edu.au

Learning, Integrity, Honesty, Personal Best, Positive Relationships

What’s Due ?

Animal Land Farm ~ Money Due Tomorrow

Music & Disco Bingo ~ Money & RSVP Due

Fri 8 Sept

Grade 6 Graduation Bear & Ball ~ Money

Due Thu 12 Oct

Dear Taylors Hill Community,

This term we have had two well-attended extra-curricular activities including

celebrating Book Week and Science Week over the past two weeks.

Family Science Night

At our Science night, we had over 600 people come and participate in a range of

different science activities, which were organised by our wonderful team of

specialist teachers. Our dedicated classroom teachers and student helpers led

each of the activities on the night. Events like this take a lot of planning and

preparation, but all of that is worthwhile when we could see our students (and their parents!) being excited and inquisitive about science. Through our Science

program we are developing students' skills in problem solving, analysis,

synthesizing, information gathering and research, which are all valuable skills for

our students to have. I would also like to thank the many parents who came along

to support their children and provided us with encouraging comments about the

night.

Book Week

This week we are celebrating Book Week at THPS. It was great to see the staff and students get involved in our

dress up day as well as all students entering the THPS Picture Story Book Competition. Writing for a purpose

gives writing a whole new perspective. Imagine if you were asked to write for 20 minutes with no guidelines as

to the topic, who was going to read it, or what you had to do with it when it was finished. This may remind

you of your school days when you had to write an essay for assessment and had it handed back to you with a

mark out of ten based on how neat the handwriting was and how many spelling mistakes you made!

At THPS our main focus in the teaching of writing is on being able to express our ideas and being able to

share them with others. Children are shown a variety of writing styles from narratives (stories and retells),

procedural (recipes or instructions), greetings (cards or letters), lists, invitations, posters and explanations.

After having a particular style of writing modelled for them, they move into individual writing time where they

decide the purpose and audience for their own writing. They experiment with writing materials, with words

and sounds, and with the language. Some pieces of work are published and used in the classroom as reading

material. In many classrooms the shelves are full of student publications. It is important for writers to have a

purpose for their writing, so you may see many student produced signs or lists hanging in the classrooms.

I would like to invite parents and family members to take a walk around the school and see how much

student writing is on display. Come into our Learning Centre and read some of the books the students have

written as well as walk around the school and view the door displays in each classroom celebrating some of

our favourite books.

Danielle Stella

Taylors Hill Primary School Parents & Friends Association invite you to a

Come along and enjoy a tea/coffee and cake. Enjoy a chat with other parents.

When:

Where:

A Second Hand Uniform Sale will be on for donated items.

If you would like to sell uniform for your own profit, you are welcome to come along and sell your own uniform yourself.

2017 Parent Opinion Survey This year, a sample of parents have been randomly selected and invited to participate. Results will be used to inform and direct our future school planning and improvement.

Thank you to the parents who have completed the survey.

A reminder to those who have not yet completed the survey. We have extended the time by one week, the Survey portal will be open until the Sunday 3rd September.

The survey is conducted online by ORIMA Research and should take around 15 minutes to complete.

The survey will be open until Sunday 3rd September 2017.

The survey can be completed using any device connected to the internet (even a mobile phone).

Should you require access to a device to complete the survey, please let the school office know.

Thank you for taking the time to participate, your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Congratulations to our Students of the Week

Prep A Omar

Prep B Safal

Prep C Dallas

Prep D Arnav

Prep E Jovana

Prep F Xavier

1A Novak

1B Chloe

1C Alexis

1D Sophia

1E Luka

2A Chloe

2B Liana

2C Mehdi

2D Kassidy

2E Tianna

3A Ela

3B Declan

3C Marko

3D All of 3D

3E Abuk

4A Alex

4B All of 4B

4C Billy

4D Chris

4E Lachlan

5A Xavier

5B Zaid

5C Jacob

5D Sean

6A Ayman

6B Jesse

6C Daniel

6D Onegegu

Science 3-6 Rasjeevan 4B

The Arts P-2 Emilia Prep C

The Arts 3-6 Zoe 4D

PE P-2 Lual 1A

PE 3-6 Jesse 3B

Italian Asraa 1E

Learning Centre Alex 1C

Prep A Koray

Prep B Liam

Prep C Lucas

Prep D Brody

Prep E Riley

Prep F Ayan

1A Erica

1B Krish

1C Holly

1D Chloe

1E Aydin

2A Harley

2B Nikolas

2C Isabelle

2D Salina

2E James

3A Dom

3B Kirily

3C Tess

3D Chelsea

3E Sienna

4A Rehama

4B Honey

4C Mya

4D Ethan

4E Isabella

5A Ashvin

5B Maybel

5C Aleks

5D Chloe

6A Tiana

6B Brady

6C Jennifer

6D Atalia

Science 3-6 Bailey 5A

The Arts P-2 Samara 1C

The Arts 3-6 Raymond 3B

PE P-2 Maya Prep B

PE 3-6 Phillip 5B

Italian Tayyaba Prep A

Learning Centre Noah 4D

Learning For Life Deacon 3E

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