graham dux prize winners for 2019 diary...

Daylesford, Drummond & Yandoit Primary Schools Vincent Street (PO Box 20) Daylesford 3460 Ph: (03) 5348 2480 Fax: (03) 5348 3958 Website http://www.daylesps.vic.edu.au “SEMPER MELIORA” (Always better things)

Term 4 2019 No:38 Wednesday 18th December Current Focus ‘Celebrate Community (Being a Good Citizen)’

We are Respectful, We are Responsible Learners, We are Honest and Trustworthy, We are Caring and Compassionate, We are Good Citizens

We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. We are proud to acknowledge Dja Dja Wurrung as the Traditional Owners of this Country.

LIBRARY – Reminder! All books are due back, please return tomorrow. Any students that still have books out in their name will not be able to borrow in 2020 until item/s returned or paid for. (Shelves have been checked for these items) Thanks, Gill Pearce (Librarian)

SCHOOL TOURSSCHOOL TOURSSCHOOL TOURSSCHOOL TOURS for prospective parents

ARE HELD EVERY FRIDAY 10-11AM PHONE 5348 2480 TO BOOK

WE ARE A RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIP SCHOOL

KIDS HELPLINE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: 1800 551 800

HEADSPACE FOR TEENS: 1800 650 890

Sometimes talking about what has been happening in your life can

bring up concerns, where you may need to seek extra support

Graham DUX Prize winners for 2019

Congratulations to Dru 5/6T and Matthew 5/6S

School Captains for 2020

Congratulations to Amelia 5/6S and Tate 5/6T

House Captains 2020

Sutton Alwyne 5/6P Cruz 5/6T Wyuna Tilly 5/6S Tyler 5/6T Corinella Layla 5/6P Hayden 5/6T Tipperary Maddie 5/6S Leo 5/6S

Specialist Captains for 2020

LOTE Charlie 5/6T Tom 5/6S PERFORMING ARTS Sophia 5/6T Isabelle 5/6P VISUAL ARTS Tamara 5/6P Matt 5/6T ICT Bianca 5/6S Tyler 5/6T ENVIRONMENT Wren 5/6T Oliver 5/6S

Bus Captains for 2020

Bus1 Gemma 5/6P Albert 5/6P Bus 2 Max 5/6P Noah 5/6S Bus 3 Beau 5/6P Neve 5/6T

DIARY DATES

DECEMBER

Thurs 19th Finish Term 4 at 3.20pm

Fri 20th Office closes at 2.30pm

JANUARY Thurs 30th FIRST DAY FOR ALL GRADES

ASSEMBLY 9.00am every Tuesday in the Gym

MINI BREAKFAST held in the Gym

every Thursday at 8.30am

Office Hours: 8.30am to 4.00pm Students’ School Banking Day: Fridays

2020 TERM DATES

Term 1: 28th January to 27th March (Students start at school Thursday 30th Jan) Term 2: 14th April to 26th June Term 3: 13th July to 18th September Term 4: 5th October to 18th December


PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

The Last Report for 2019

Firstly let me wish everyone one a safe and happy

break and a great time spent with friends and family.

We wish those students and families who are leaving

DDrYPS all the very best for their future endeavours.

For those in our community who will be back in 2020

we look forward to taking the next step in the journey.

It would be absolutely remiss to not thank the people

that makes up our community.

Firstly to our School Councillors who have worked so

well together on some at times challenging issues. The

great thing has been that we have managed to have

good discussions, respectfully conducted, that have

brought about good outcomes. Some of the really good

actions have been

• setting up a very strong and robust sub-

committee structure so that we can maximise

input

• working through over twenty policies in

preparation for our year of review

• getting set up for or completing a whole raft of

facilities projects across the three schools

including installation of air conditioning in the

P-2 classes, refurbishment of the Art Room at

Yandoit and roof repairs and carpentry at

Drummond

• working really hard and succeeding to raise

funds to maintain our magnificent kitchen

garden

A very special thank you to Michael and Annette who

served as School Council Presidents for the first

semester prior to the amalgamation in July. Also a

shout out to Russell who was Daylesford PS President

in Semester 1 and President of the amalgamated

council in Semester 2.

To our parent community, thank you for supporting

our students and teachers so admirably. Your help

allows us to do things we couldn’t otherwise do and

provides our kids with a great range of opportunities.

I’d also like to thank you for feedback and

conversations throughout the year that have helped

give me a better understanding of our communities.

To our teachers, office and ES staff who have worked

really hard in 2019 I would also dip my lid. Our aim has

been to set up really strong structures for teaching and

learning and wellbeing. I think we have done this and

having read all of the student’s reports, I can say that it

has had considerable effect. Next year we will be very

well placed to expand the whole notion of Student

Agency which will be very exciting.

Finally and most importantly thank you to the students

at our schools. They have never failed to impress and

amaze with their effort, enthusiasm and verve.

Well played to all and happy New Year!!!!!!

Brett Millott

Principal

ACADEMIC AWARDS 2019

Graham Dux Awards Dru 5/6T Matthew 5/6S

J Richards Award Rani 5/6S E E Leggo Award Matthew 5/6S Terry Brooker Award Lily 5/6T Murray Stewart Jessica 5/6P Sports Awards Logan 5/6P Stella Armstrong Miki 5/6S Art Awards Arlo 5/6T LOTE Italian Award Heidi 5/6P Principals Awards Nayomi 5/6T Sophia 5/6P Shire of Hepburn Erin 5/6S Citizenship Award DSC Scholarships Stanley 5/6S Dru 5/6T Ellah 5/6T

Congratulations to all the recipients of the Academic Awards for this year

CULTURAL AWARDS 2019

Gr

Choir Performing

Arts

LOTE VISUAL

ARTS

3 Lakshmi

3/4K

Zuri

3/4C

Paula

3/4C

Juliet

3/4K

4 Sophie

3/4C

Lucas

3/4C

Mimi

3/4W

Matilda

3/4W

5 Isabelle

5/6P

Leo

5/6S

Layla

5/6P

Layla

5/6P


2020 House Captains

2020 Performing Arts, Lote & Visual Arts Captains

2020 Environment & ICT Captains

2020 Bus Captains

Stella & Amber-Linguascope Champions

GENIUS HOUR Students in Year 5 & 6 are investigating something they are passionate about as part of our Genius Hour Program. These long-term projects are student driven. Students are researching, creating and then presenting their new knowledge.

Hi my name is Miki and for my genius hour project I made a photography website. I love to take photos of nature and my friends. Some things that I found difficult were moving pages around, fixing bugs and importing photos. To make my website I used a template from wix.com. It gave me all of the tools that I needed to start my website. If you want to visit my website the address is: https://mikipics.wixsite.com/mysite My name is Leo, and my genius hour is about trivia. I am doing a PowerPoint with hyperlinks, so when it’s all put together, it will be an in-depth quiz with various topics, mainly about famous books and movies. There will be five questions for each topic, each varying in difficulty. So far I’ve set up the template, and done one of the quizzes. One of the hardest things in my genius hour was probably sticking to the idea. I knew that if I finished this it would pay off, but I got a bit bored doing the same thing over and over again. But I got past that and I’ve kept on going. Overall, I have had a lot of fun doing this project, and I hope others can have fun doing it. For my genius hour I am making a show called ‘The Big Dumb’. The first episode will be released on the 18th of December. This show is starring: Leo, Amelia, Sam, Tom, Noah and Bianca (Me) The hardest part of the show was definitely figuring out what the names of the characters would be and who we were going to have in the show. The best part was being able to film with people and having a good laugh. Stanley, 5/6S For my first genius hour I was building a Popsicle stick house it was really good I made it with hot glue but then I got bored of making a Popsicle stick so I had a break I couldn’t come up with anything for the next couple of weeks. Then my teacher suggested to do a book review I made one on “Tomorrow When the War Began.” Then I didn’t like the idea of that. So then I went onto helping other people with their genius hour. What I’ve learnt is sometimes it’s hard to come up with an idea.


Some snaps from Gr5/6 Presentation Night!

FUNDRAISING

As part of our fundraising efforts, we are taking part in the above raffle. We are asking for volunteers to help sell tickets during the term break. Thank you to those who have already helped. Please contact Colin Priest on 53487674 / 0447487674 or [email protected] if you can help in any way.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

TERM 1 2020 PARENT VOLUNTEERS

FRIDAY SICK BAY WASHING

BANKING

7th Feb Krystal Phypers June Cooper

14th Feb Narelle Groehout Jo Steiner

21st Feb Melanie Fraser Melanie Comelli

Daylesford Primary School Accreditation

STUDENT / COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

NYE Parade and Gala-31st Dec 2019 Just wanting to remind everyone about the New Year’s Eve Parade -This year we are hoping that lots of families will come to Vincent Street to celebrate the night from 6 pm onwards. We will be having fun activities, food and entertainment for all the family. So make a night of it and celebrate the New Year as only Daylesford knows how!

Kids don’t forget that there is a section in the parade for the best decorated bike so get out the glitter and get decorating! There are fabulous prizes to be won.

Parents we are also looking for volunteers to help out in the street for a couple of hours before the parade. There is a lot to do in the 6-8pm time slot so if you have some

time we would love your help.

Floats and bikes for the parade will start to assemble in Duke St. from 7.00pm onwards and

the parade heads off at 8 pm.

We hope you can attend this fun community event

With thanks for your anticipated support, if you would like to contact us about this event please call Catherine Davies 0434353149, Regards NYE committee

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