December 21st 2017

Haddon Primary School Making a

difference Principal: Maryanne Moody

Phone: 5342 4487

Website www.haddonps.vic.edu.au

Student Supervision commences at 8.50 and finishes at 3.45.

Our year six graduation was an exciting evening and all their speeches demonstrated their enthusiasm and pride in our school. We say farewell to them and wish each and every student success in their secondary school and hope to hear great things about them in the future.

I would like to congratulate and thank both Jack and Danica, our school captains, for their efforts and leadership throughout 2017. Both Jack and Danica have led the student community with integrity and pride.

Our Year Six Award winners are:

Academic Dux : Josie Nelson

Sport : Wylie Anderson

Arts: Kody Emmerson

ICT: Will Seddon

Community Service: Kaylee Spiteri and Seth Fuhrmeister

GPS Community Award: Jorja Bennet

The 2017 year has been hectic and successful. Our students have worked extremely hard to achieve their goals and their results reflect this. Our dedicated staff work tirelessly and are no doubt looking forward to a well-earned break.

We will all be back next year and look forward to Kirsty Payton and Claire Constable joining us. It is always a great privilege to lead our school and I would like to thank all those families who have supported our endeavours, without your assistance, our job would be much harder. In addition I would like to thank our teachers and support staff as without their hard work we would fail to thrive.

I would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and prosperous New Year and we look forward to seeing you back here with us in 2018.

Our teachers for 2018 are:

Prep 1 – Brad Karslake, Louise kirk, Ainslee McDougall and Claire Constable

Grade 2 & 3 – Melissa McIntosh and Cameron Carter

Grade 3 & 4 – Crystal Chappell and Jenny Farquhar

Grade 5 & 6 – Tom Watson and Kirsty Payton

Music & Science - Francis Carter, L.O.T.E. – Danielle George, Health and P.E. – Dee Beseler and Mandy Hipke and Art – Sam Benn.

We are able to offer an excellent range of specialist programs again in 2018.

Students will be dismissed at 3.30 on Thursday 21st of December.

Principal’s Report

RESPECT . EFFORT . POSITIVE ATTITUDE.

Camps, Sports & Excursion Funding

Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund (CSEF)

application forms for 2018 are now

available from the office. The payment

amount is $125 per child per year. To be

eligible families must be holders of a

Health Care card, Pensioner Card, Veterans

Affairs Gold Card or be a temporary foster

parent. Please complete your form and

return to the office together with a copy of

your card as soon as possible.

Christmas Party fun…

Movie …sausage sizzle, icy poles, biscuit decorating, water

melon and a jumping castle! What fun we had.

Thank you for a fantastic year. Wishing everyone a very

safe and happy holiday. See you all in 2018!

School bags, Library bags & School Hats are now available from the

school office for purchase.

*School Bags $43.00 each *Library / Reader Bags $11.00 each

*Hats $12.00 each

Overdue library books

Could all parents please endeavour to look for any over due library books you might

still have. These can be returned in our first week back to school.

Chess Tournament 2017. Congratulations to our

2017 Chess Champion Denzel, runner up Dylan and

third place Jack. Also to Rose, the best overall girl

competitor. Everyone displayed outstanding chess

etiquette and good sportsmanship. Thank you to Mr

Rob Bailey for his expertise and organisation of the

day.

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Principal’s Awards

Community Service Awards

School bags, Library bags & School Hats are now available from the

school office for purchase.

*School Bags $43.00 each *Library / Reader Bags $11.00 each

*Hats $12.00 each

School Wide Positive Behaviour for 2017

This year we have been acknowledging the respectful behaviour of our students and the

acceptance and compliance in following the school rules by awarding students with

Excellent Behaviour certificates at the end of each month.

For those students who have generally demonstrated respectful behaviour in both the

classroom and the playground for the whole year will be awarded an OUTSTANDING

BEHAVIOUR AWARD for 2017!

Well done to all students who received one of these, it is something to feel very proud

of!

Please have a look for these going home today….

Haddon Junior Cricket Club

The Haddon JCC is having an amazing season! Hamish, Noah, Denzel, Oliver,

Tex, Harley, Dusty, Will & Bailey (& others from Woady Yaloak Ross Creek

Campus) are playing together for the first time this season. They have been

demonstrating great sportsmanship to their team mates and to the opposi-

tion. They have done incredibly well and are in the grand final tonight! Good

luck!

Swimming Instruction 2018

Swimming instruction sessions have been booked for term one, 2018, for all classes from Prep-6 at the Ballarat Aquatic Centre.

Two grades will go to swimming each day commencing in week 2, February 5.

The sessions will run for 40-45mins with a ratio of 1 instructor to 6 students. The sessions will commence at 2:00pm and

conclude at 2:45.

The cost of the sessions and travel will be approximately $85per student for six sessions (we are still waiting on costs from the

Aquatic Centre). Student information forms will be sent home shortly (extras available on website) and need to be returned at

the start of the school year. Please send a note to the class teacher if you are taking your child home from the pool on the

swimming day.

Full payment must be received by the commencement of the first session. Students who have not paid will remain at school and

be placed in other classrooms.