FROM THE PRINCIPAL

REMINDERS Winter Sport - Friday, May 31st - NPS V’s St Francis (am)

Visiting Performance - Wednesday, June 5th

3/4 Camp - June 5th, 6th & & 7th

Public Holiday - Queens Birthday - Monday, June 10th

Parents’ Club Meeting - Tuesday, June 18th , 9.30am

School Council Meeting - Tuesday, June 18th, 7.00pm

May 30th , 2013

‘Learning for Life”

www.nathalips.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 03 58662677

Principal: Vicki McManus

Holders of Nathalia’s educational history since 1878

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

for the week ending

24.05.2013

P/W Josh Dohnt

1/2B Tash Morgan

1/2H Tom Dohnt

3K Kaya Stone

4/5S Evie Hawks

5/6J Teagan Peterson

CONGRATULATIONS

Dear Families,

Education Week

What an amazing job all our teachers and students do

on a daily and weekly basis!

Last week was Education week and the “Pop Up

Classrooms” were amazing.

A huge thank you to Mrs King-Jones with her choir who

also spent time serenading locals at IGA. The students in our

choir are fantastic and clearly the practice and enjoyment they

have shows through with the quality of performance.

Serenading through the aisles of the supermarket was

definitely another highlight for locals shopping last Friday

afternoon.

Grade 3/4 Camp - Billabong Ranch

Next week is the grade 3 & 4 Camp, this will be at

Billabong Ranch in Echuca and is a 3 day camp. Any student

not attending the camp is still required to attend school.

Billabong provides a huge variety of outdoor activities

for our students and is a great opportunity for them to develop

many independent skills and strengthen social connections.

Reconciliation Week

This week is Reconciliation week and we began the

week with Markiah Wise giving a “Welcome to Country” at

Assembly. He did a fantastic job and it was great to have

some of our local heritage reflected in the assembly. Some of

our classes will also be attending the Heritage Centre this

week as a part of the activities, as well, each class will be

participating in a number of programs that reflect

Reconciliation week. It is also worth popping into the office

and taking a look at the ‘Patterned Feet’ student paintings

reflecting Aboriginal art techniques and style.

R econciliation Week – 4/5 S & 3K

As part of reconciliation week

grades 4/5 S and 3K will be attending an

indigenous art exhibition at the Barmah

Heritage Centre tomorrow. The children

in these grades have been doing a unit of

work based on indigenous art in the art

room and so will be adding to their

learning in this area. If your child is in

one of these grades it would be

appreciated if they had no lunch orders

tomorrow as they will be having an early

lunch.

Karen King-Jones

Page 2 Nathalia Primary School

STAR OF THE WEEK

For the week ending

24.05.2013

Holly Chalker

Congratulations “Your ability to focus on reading your book and

progressing straight into your book review was brilliant.

So impressed Holly! ”.

Congratulations to:-

First Certificate - Kyle Morgan

Gold - Shannon Jeffries

Silver - Daniel Baksh and Tom Dohnt

S chool Newsletters

From the beginning of Term 3

we will no longer distribute paper copies of the Newsletter to all

parents.

The Newsletter has

previously been available on our

website all year.

We are requesting that all

parents and family now access

this site on a weekly basis to keep

up to date with all school news.

Webs i te Address : h t tp ://

www.nathaliaps.vic.edu.au/

Could any families who are

unable to access this site

please contact the school

office to arrange a paper copy.

W ood Raffle

As mentioned in last weeks

n e w s l e t t e r t h e G r o u n d s

Committee are running a wood

raffle. Each family has received,

with this newsletter, 1 book of 10

tickets to sell. If you are able to

sell more tickets please collect an

additional book from the school

office.

We will also be selling

tickets outside IGA on Thursday

13th, Friday 14th and Saturday

15th of June, between the hours

of 9.00am and 1.00pm. If you are

able to support this raffle by

manning the table for an hour or

two, on any of these days, please

contact the school office.

Thank you for your

support.

Vicki McManus,

Principal

W oolworths Earn & Learn

When you shop at

Woolworths, we are asking you to

collect stickers from the checkout

operator and place them on

sticker cards, Once completed

the cards can be placed in the

collection box located in the

school office area.

The more points we

accumulate the more resources

we are able to acquire for the

school learning areas.

The program will close on

Monday, July 1st.

Cody Power & Toby Hansford

Our representatives in the Regional

Cross Country at Broadford on

Wednesday, June 19th.

We wish the good luck !

V isiting Arts Performance

Next Wednesday, June 5th, the children will be attending

a visiting arts performance of Sleeping Beauty. We will be

joining a number of smaller schools and look forward to a

great show.

Families who have not as yet paid the All Up Fee will

need to send along $7.00 for their child to attend the

performance.

Karen King-Jones.

W inter Sports Report

Football

Last Friday, the grade 5/6 students played football against St Josephs in Numurkah. Unfortunately we lost by 9 goals. The

score was 9.6 to 2.1. Jye kicked 1 goal and Clay kicked 1 goal. We all played well, had fun and had a go. Many of our

players had never played a game of football before! St Joseph’s is mostly made up of Grade 6 students who had all played

football before. Gavin Goodie got an encouragement award playing his first game of football for Nathalia Primary School.

Next game we play we need to work on our talk and our tackling skills, but we all had fun!

- Shannon Young & Matthew Slattery.

Netball

On the 24/5/13 Nathalia Primary School had two groups of girls play a game of netball. We played St. Joseph's in

Numurkah. Most of the girls were nervous because it was there first time playing a game of netball, but we all played well

and we all had fun. The division 1 players were all of the grade 6s and Maddy who was brought up from division 2

because we didn't have Olivia at school that day. In division 2 the players were all the grade 5s and Jorja, who came to

play with us from Waaia. Unfortunately both of the teams lost the score for div1 was 5 to 31, and we don't know the score

for the division 2 team. Even though we lost we still had a lot of fun. Two people were given an award for having good

sportsmanship for their first game of netball, those people were Amy Modlic and Annie Holt. Next time we hope to be more

organised and we hope to practice more shooting skills.

- Shae Dorrity and Jodi Williams .

E ducation Week – “Popup Classrooms” - 5/6J The air was fresh but the sun made it a bit

warm. We all sat on the cold metal seats with the sun glaring in our eyes, as the beautiful trees blowing cold air make a fingers cold and our writing become slower. There were lots of things to see and hear; like the motors on cars and the smell of petrol dripping from them. The Autumn trees that have yellow, orange and brown leaves swishing though the air every time a gush of wind blows. A Bendigo Bank sign with yellow, red and white writing. I can smell the hot chips from Al's Café with a big sign on the top of it saying ‘café’ and cars parked out the front. Some look dinted and shabby. The smell of the chips melts in my mouth. We learnt about describing words and adjectives so we went down the street to see what we could discover. An adjective is a describing word for example fat, pretty, ugly, funny. When you describe something you say everything about it. When we were walking back to school the slight fresh breeze on our faces was making it very cold. When we got back to school I thought about the many things I saw. The popup classroom was very fun and I enjoyed it a lot. - By Teagan Peterson The walk today was as quick as a minute. Nathalia’s Rotunda was where the class grade 5/6J set the small but efficient pop up class room. What we did was describe Nathalia using adjectives. The seats were hard and brutally cold, the ground we had was not any better, but a great inspiration to write with adjectives. The books we carried were light but slippery, we had to be careful crossing the road. Cars were zooming and branches were falling all we need is an adult to keep us all safe. We practiced adjectives to learn, we used the area around us as material. There were buildings, cars, trees everything we need to describe. Here I will describe a car for you. The flashing rims and bright paint makes that more than recognisable, the flame decals and hoodless top, it's fast, it's a sports car. It's not hard to write with adjectives, all you have to do is express what the item you are describing is, because you talk using adjectives every day . – by Gavin Goodie.

E ducation Week - “Popup Classrooms” - 1/2H

Sensory Poems

I saw cats.

I felt a leaf.

We can taste pies from the

bakery.

I can hear cars splashing

in the puddles.

I smelt the bakery.

I see the butcher.

Maddison Williams

We can touch the air.

We can hear the rain.

We can smell the air.

We can see the trees.

We can taste the rain.

Daniel Baksh

Look at the truck.

I see a sweeper.

I taste the ice-cream.

I smell sausages at the butchers.

I hear the roar of the car.

I can touch the rails of our “Pop Up classroom.”

Andrew Boorer-Dalton & Emmalou.

We can see hay bales.

We can hear trucks.

We can touch trees.

We can taste lollies.

We can smell leaves

Joel Schram

School Leaders 2013

MAY

31st - Winter Sport - NPS V ’ s St Francis

( 9.30 am start )

JUNE

5th - Visiting Performance - Sleeping Beauty

5th, 6th & 7th -3/4 Camp - Billabong Ranch

10th - Queens Birthday Holiday

14th - Winter Sport - NPS V ’ s Katunga

18th - School Council Meeting

- Parents ’ Club Meeting

19th - Region Cross Country

21st - Winter Sport - NPS V ’ s Strathmerton

28th - Term Two concludes

JULY

15th - Term Three commences

17th - Staff Professional Development Day

- Pupil Free Day

18th - State Cross Country

16th- Parents ’ Club Meeting

26th - Winter Sport - Numurkah V’ s NPS

- Division Football/ Netball/ Soccer /

Teeball C/Ships

29th - Visiting Performance - Barber of Seville

AUGUST

2nd - Lightning Premiership ( Numurkah )

9th - Regional Football/Netball/ Soccer/Teeball

C/Ships

11th - Visiting Science Show

20th - School Council meeting

- Parents ’ Club meeting

SEPTEMBER

9th - Division Golf C/ship ( Shepp )

12th- School Concert

17th - School Council meeting

- Parents ’ Club Meeting

20th - Term Three concludes

TBA - Athletic Sports

OCTOBER

7th - Term Four commences

11th - Interschool Athletic Sports

14th - Division Athletics Carnival

15th - Parents ’ Club Meeting

18th - Region Athletic Championship

( S hepp )

28th - State Athletics

NOVEMBER

1st - Region Basketball & Softball (Shepp )

5th - Melbourne Cup Day

18th - Regional Golf ( Benalla )

19th - School Council meeting

- Parents ’ Club meeting

DECEMBER

TBA - School Council Meeting

TBA- Parents ’ Club Meeting

20th- Term Four concludes

TBA - Grade Six Graduation

- Water Safety Program

- Pool Day

- Infant Camp

January 2014

January 28th -Term One commences

2013 SCHOOL CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Nathalia Community Centre

Friday, June 14th

5years to 12 years from 6.30pm till 8.00pm

$5.00 entry Food & Drinks on Sale.