Principal: Mr Stephen Crossley Ph. 55232218 Fax. 55217839

PO Box 317 Portland Vic 3305 portland.bay.sch@edumail.vic.gov.au www.portlandbayschool.vic.edu.au

School Council President: Deb Robinson 0428 995 987

Date: Thursday 21st July 2016 Issue 22

COMING EVENTS

TERM 2 2016 Friday 22nd July

Next Week Monday 25th July

Tuesday 26th July

Wednesday 27th July

Thursday 28th July

Friday 29th July

Important Dates to Remember Monday 8th August

School Finance Meeting 1pm

Group 5 - Leave for Camp at Blackwoods

Tuesday 9th August

Group 3 - Leave for Camp at Blackwoods

School Council Meeting 7pm

Friday 12th August

Group 5 & 3 - Return from Camp

Monday 12th September

School Finance Meeting 1pm

Tuesday 13th September

School Council Meeting 7pm

From the Principal’s desk

Congratulations to all the cross-country runners who represented the

school and the district at the State Schools Cross Country

championships in Melbourne last week.

All the students did very well with Brady coming 5th overall which

was a terrific result. The students also had a very good article and

photo in the Portland Observer and looked very professional in

their cross country windcheaters.

Thanks to Casey and Susan for doing a good job in organising this

event. Also a big thank-you to the Glenelg Shire and the Portland

Junior Sport fund who helped the students participate.

Minister Merlino

The Minister of Education, the Rt Hon James Merlino, will again be

visiting Portland Bay School next Wednesday and will be meeting

with staff and students and looking over the progress of planning for

the new school.

The school council president, Debra Robinson, and I will meet with

the minister to discuss the school plans.

Welcome

Welcome to Tara Hulonce the new Principal at Bundarra PS.

The Portland Bay School looks forward to working with Tara and the

Bundarra PS on our mutual interests and maintaining the bond

between our two schools. There was a very nice feature article in

this week’s Portland Observer welcoming Tara to the district.

Parent Opinion Survey

The new parent opinion survey will be sent home in the next few

days. I encourage all families to complete the survey as it provides

the school with valuable feedback on what you think about the work

we do with your children. All surveys are completely anonymous

and everyone who returns a survey is included in the draw for a

voucher for dinner at the Portland RSL.

Caught being good

Very well done to our Caught being good winners at last week’s

assembly. Damon Miller, Jaxson Keillor, Bart Rowley,

Akaysha Morrison, Noah Reed and Kyle Quinton.

Keep up the good work!

Enjoy your weekend …………….Steve Crossley, Principal.

Stars of the Week “Caught Being Good”

Well Done and congratulations to

Damon Miller, Jaxson Keillor,

Bart Rowley, Akaysha Morrison,

Noah Reed and Kyle Quinton for

Caught being Good last week both in school or on the buses.

Amazing effort everyone.

Next weeks focus is “learning to be a Respectful” and our ongoing focus

“Caught Being Good on the Buses”

At our whole school assembly,

we draw the “Caught Being Good”

raffle. Throughout the week, staff give

students a raffle ticket for

displaying positive behaviour either

in their classroom, on the buses

(including to and from school) , on the

playground or in any school events

such as excursions, outings

or community access.

Happy Birthday & best wishes to the following

student who celebrated her birthday this week.

Kate Carter - 26th July

We hope you have a great day.

Connor's pet

cockatiel

called

Pepper.

Peter also

showed his

class.

We love

having

family pets

visit our school, thank you.

Our Students are participating in

TAFE courses throughout the year.

Jamie and Lachlan are busy in

the workshop and classroom

gaining engineering

experience.

Above - Olympic Club has

done amazing things when

doing research into the

Olympics. Edible gold

medals and relay torches

look really cool :)

Cold weather is

here , PE is all set

up for indoor

activities.

Jaxson and James

working hard on our new

rowing machines.

Go boys !

Community

Announcements :

Words on Wellbeing - Sue Cowie

George, Kuku Yalanji & Dorothea

Dorothea Mackellar wrote a poem entitled My Country. She also made the comment in her lifetime that equated

serenity with either the bush or the sea. For wellbeing, our souls need nourishment; our minds need rest and our

bodies need to feel the earth beneath our feet. George said this too through his stories.

Nothing enhances the special needs of our

children better than exposure to our amazing

environment: the tranquility of the foreshore,

Nun’s Beach, the Great South West Walk or

just a sighting of a whale, dolphin or a fat seal.

So when in Cairns last weekend, our guide

George, a Kuku Yalanji elder of the Daintree,

held us spellbound, with stories of his country.

It was then, I thought of our children at the Bay

and how special story-telling becomes to pass

on a legacy.

These stories of the Dreamtime are not written

down, as with Dorothy Mackellar’s poems, but

are equally important.

You cannot help but be refreshed and renewed. I was privileged to see this rainforest that Attenborough visited.

It is the oldest in the world and can you believe, in the 80’s, logging occurred? Thankfully it remains now as a

heritage-listed place of spiritual and natural beauty where tree-climbing kangaroos abound; rainforest dragons,

pre-historic dinosaur salt water crocodiles and Cassowary’s inhabit.

George reminded me that wellbeing is sourced through the land. Dorothea knew that.

Group 5 visited Heywood

District Secondary College

on Tuesday to participate in

Deakin University’s Display

of

“Visual

Reality

Glasses”

and information session.

“The glasses were really cool”

Alisha “You actually felt like

you were flying around and

moving but you were still in

your seats.” Susan