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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

Assistant Principal - Allyson Dixon

School Council President – Anne Trevena

Telephone - (03) 57931288

Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Email - [email protected]

Alamein Road

Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662

Postal: Military P.O.

ABN: - 74134967962

Term 3 Issue 4

August 5th

2015

Monday 10th August

3 Day Bike Training Begins (Yrs 5-6)

Tuesday

11th August

School Council

Meeting

Thursday

13th August

Team Triathlon

Thursday 20th August

Parent Forum Team Biathlon

Monday 31st August –

Sunday 6th September

Literacy and

Numeracy Week

Thursday-Friday

3rd-4th September

Years 3-6 House

Athletics Carnival

Tuesday 8th September

Year 1 Latestay

Tuesday

8th September

School Council

Meeting

Wednesday

9th September

District Athletics

Thursday 10th September

Foundation Latestay

Website Address -

http//www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Inside this Issue: School Canteen 2

Going or Staying 2

DSTA Report/Happy Birthday 2

Well Done, Paige! 3

Internet Information 3

Parent Opinion Surveys 3

Assembly Reading 3

Value of the Week/Rule Reminders 3

Student Awards of the Week 4

Look at What is Happening Around the

School – Years 5/6 5

Literacy and Numeracy Week 6

Indo Lingo 7

Teaching/Learning – Week 4 Term 3 7

1/2 I – Aussie Kids Rock It 8

What is Happening at the

Neighbourhood Centre 9

***Sunday Nights - a great

night to check for Head

Lice. ***

Total at the end of week

three: 2700 stickers.

We are doing very well with our Earn and Learn sticker collection. A huge

thankyou to everyone who is contributing to our collection. Neighbours and

relatives may also be happy to collect for us – they may just need to be asked!

Let’s keep those stickers coming in – either in the collection box labelled

Puckapunyal Primary School at Woolworths in Seymour or in the collection

box in the school foyer. Alternatively you can complete a sticker sheet

(available in the school foyer or in week one’s newsletter).

Thank you so much for supporting our school.

Many of our Years 5/6 students have expressed interest in attending the 3 Day

Bike Ride this year. The event will also involve Seymour College and Avenel

Primary School. The 3 Day event will take place from Wednesday 28th October –

Friday 30th October, 2015. The Bike Ride involves 80-100 or so students who ride

160kms or so over 3 days. Therefore, it is an event that requires strong commitment

by the students who are involved.

Training for the ride will need to begin next week. Each week, students will need to

participate in 2 training sessions at school and then follow up with another private

session as well. That is, 3 training sessions per week, for at least 10 weeks. We

encourage all participants to begin 12 weeks ahead so that the Bike Ride is a

positive, rewarding experience.

Currently we are organising staff to take training sessions during the week. These

sessions will be held at lunchtime and after school.

For children to participate they need to have a ‘Bike Excellence Award Certificate’

achieved through passing the school’s Bike Education Course recently. Students will

need to bring their bikes and helmets on the allocated training days. They are also

expected to keep a record of their training and collect parent or teacher signatures to

verify their workload. Good luck kids!

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***Have you heard your child read today? We

encourage all students to practise their reading at

home about 5 nights per week. Therefore, by now,

most students should have read at least between 115-

120 nights. Well done if you have kept up! ***

Happy Birthday to Jett Miller, Tallen

Miller and Jake Haywood who are all having

their birthdays this week.

On behalf of the Puckapunyal Primary School

Community, we wish them all a very Happy

Birthday!

Used Uniform: We still require tracksuit pants,

jocks, knickers and socks in sizes 6 and 8 to

replace wet clothing when students get wet.

Thank you for the donations already received.

Healthy Lunch tips: Here are some ideas for

lunch that don’t include the word ‘sandwich’.

Some variety can help keep children (and

adults!) interested in and enjoying healthy food.

-Boiled eggs

-Salmon rissoles, lean beef rissoles, kebabs,

chicken strips

-Zucchini/vegetable slice

-Home-made pizza

-Left-over vegetables and meat from dinner.

Some children love to eat these cold!

-Rice/pasta mixes

Fathers’ Day: We will be having a stall for our

students to buy gifts for their dads, grandads,

uncles or neighbours. If you have any suitable

items for the stall we would be very grateful.

Please note no nut products, lighters etc. Thank

you. Enjoy your week.

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR

REWARD UPDATE Bradman is only just in front, with all

three houses not far behind. Keep up the

positive behaviour everyone! CURRENT SCORES

Bradman: 347 points

Melba: 341 points

Hume: 333 points

Chisholm: 313 points

The School Canteen is open for Lunch Orders this Friday.

Each and every Friday students can order lunches from the

school canteen. The menu will be different each week. Please

ensure that a paper bag comes with the order. Please indicate on

the lunch bag if the money is in another sibling’s bag.

This week the menu is - Pizza Supreme or Ham and Pineapple $2.50 each

Chocolate/Strawberry Milk $2.00 each

Apple/Orange Juice Popper $1.50 each

JJ’s $1.00 each

No charge for tomato sauce

With many families leaving at the end of the year, it is

imperative that we know the movements of our families. To

employ teachers and organise classrooms we need accurate

information to determine how many students will be at

Pucka in 2016. If you are aware of your plans for next year

and know whether your child/ren will or will not be

attending PPS for the year 2016, please fill in this form and

return to the school a.s.a.p.

2016 - NEXT YEAR

Family Name:

_________________________________________________

Given Names of Children:

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

Circle and complete one section:

a. The above mentioned children will be at Puckapunyal

Primary School in 2016

b. Our family is moving to

________________________________ (destination)

Their last day of school at Puckapunyal PS is

____/____/15

c. It is yet uncertain as to where we will be living in 2016.

Congratulations to Jason Pennycook, Isaac

Bennett, Ryan Connie-Carbery and

Lachlan O’Connor-Hudson who each won

the ‘Positive Behaviour’ Raffle Prize at

assembly this week.

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At assembly this week Reliability was announced as our School Value of the week. That means teachers are looking

for students who are demonstrating ‘Reliability’ to be eligible for the Student of the Week award. We encourage

parents to talk to their students about our values throughout the year.

What is Reliability? Year 5 student, Lochie Worden read out the meaning of Reliability. Our Assembly MC, Liam

Irwin also asked students at assembly about Reliability. The students with great answers received a prize. Well done kids!

‘Reliability means that others can depend on you and count on you to do your best to keep commitments. If your family

relies on you to feed the family pets then they are always fed without anyone having to remind you to do it.

Reliability means that you really care about doing what you said you would do.’

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Each week at assembly, SRC representatives remind

our students of a few important school rules. This week, SRC representatives, Jamie Clark and

Bryce Williams reminded our students of the

following rules:

Puddles are for ducks, not children.

Do not enter a classroom unless a teacher is there.

Good manners cost nothing – they are free, use

them all the time!

Water tanks and garden areas are not for playing in.

Please discuss these rules with your children to help

ensure that they understand.

Did you hear Nannah

Taylor read part of her

narrative writing at assembly

this week? We did! She did a

great job! Come along and

see who reads next week.

On Thursday 20th August at 10am in the PC Centre we

will give parents an opportunity to help us look at some

School Uniform options. We are not aiming to change the

colours of our school uniform, but look at some modern

options for shirt designs. Please come along and give us

your views. All parents are welcome.

INTERNET INFORMATION: A computer that is connected to the Internet allows you to turn your

home, community centre, local library, or school into a place of unlimited information and communication. The

Internet can help your family:

-Find educational resources, including up-to-the minute news, copies of important documents and photos, and

collections of research information on topics ranging from weather conditions to population statistics.

-Get help with homework through online encyclopaedias and other reference materials and access to experts.

-Increase reading skills by providing access to interesting materials and suggestions for additional reading.

-Improve technology and information skills necessary to find and use information, solve problems,

communicate with others, and meet a growing demand for these skills in the workplace.

-Connect with places around the world to exchange mail with electronic pen pals and learn about other cultures

and traditions.

-Locate parenting information and swap ideas with other families.

-Learn and have fun together by sharing interesting and enjoyable experiences.

Year 4 student, Paige Paul sang

at assembly on Monday. She

sang a Justice Crew song – ‘Que

Sera’. She did a terrific job! We

are very proud!

Just a reminder – Parent Opinion Surveys need to be

completed and returned to school by Friday, 7th

August 2015. Please be assured that all responses

are totally confidential.

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Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,

beginning school for the first time and even returning for another

school year can be daunting for students and parents. It is great

to see parents eager to support their children at this time and be

an integral part of their education. If you have any concerns, or

just feel like a chat about school and your child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents

have been waiting on this to arrive.

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Congratulations to the following students who

were ‘Students of the Week’ for last week.

Winners – Emma Kenny, Lucy Sullivan, Clodagh

McCarthy, Chloe Hogan, Nik Van Jaarsveldt, Dani

Corocher, Tristan Murphy and Leah Farr. These

students were selected because they were modelling

‘Compassion’. This week teachers are looking for

students who are modelling ‘Reliability.’

Congratulations to the following students

who were ‘Authors of the Week’ for last

week. Winners – Skylar Leak, Hugh Skipper,

Landon Scott, Olivia Scotman, Ashby Murphy,

Nannah Taylor, Lincoln Bazel and Emma

Harbert. These students were selected because

they showed great skills as an author.

5/6 P in Room 1B won

the Yard Duty

Competition. Shae Robertson was very

happy to take the trophy this

week.

Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,

beginning school for the first time and even returning for

another school year can be daunting for students and parents.

It is great to see parents eager to support their children at this

time and be an integral part of their education. If you have

any concerns, or just feel like a chat about school and your

child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents

have been waiting on this to arrive.

Best wishes for the week.


5/6 I in Room 1A won the

Senior School Times

Tables Trophy. Aiden Mackay and Mackai

Harriden were delighted that

their classroom won the

winning trophy this week!

3/4 A in Room 11 won the

Middle School Times

Tables Trophy. Jackson Birmingham was

very happy that his classroom

won the winning trophy again

this week!

Congratulations to all of the

above students who received

the ‘Bike Education’ Awards

this week. Happy riding!

Congratulations

Olivia Scotman who

received the

‘Recycling Cans’

Award this week.

Every little bit counts!

Congratulations Reilly

Adams, Charlie Mackay

and Carter Grant who

each received a ‘Making a

Difference’ Award this

week. Well done, boys!

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Look at what is happening AROUND

OUR SCHOOL

Photographs and writing by Year 5/6 students Dominic, Lochlan and Cherie

Canteen

The school canteen has been open for the past two terms serving lunches to our school. We

would like to thank the volunteers who work in the canteen, and make our lunches. The usual

food that they make for us at the canteen consists of: hotdogs, sausage rolls or party pies,

chicken nuggets & wedges and pizza. We can also order a variety of drinks. Canteen helpers, we

want you to know that you are all awesome and we would like to say thank you for this delicious

food. You make us all very happy.

5/6 Buddies

For the past couple of terms we have had buddies with the Prep O’Meara’s class, and the other

5/6 class has Mr. Itter’s grade as buddies. But, sadly we only have buddies once a fortnight.

We’re always happy to see our buddies . We hear our buddies read and sometimes we do

activities together on the IPads. They are great readers. Here are some pictures we took during

buddies.

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National Literacy and Numeracy Week

31st

August- 6th

September

National Literacy and Numeracy week is coming up during the first week in September and we have a few events planned to help celebrate! Monday - Literacy focus 9-9:30am: Special guest readers at assembly - we have invited some parents to bring along their favourite book and share it with everyone as part of our regular 9am assembly.

9:30-10am: Parents and family members are encouraged to come into the classrooms to do some shared reading with students. BYO favourite books, comics, magazines- digital or paperback! Wednesday- Numeracy focus 2:30-3:30pm: Parents and family members are encouraged to come along and join in a range of numeracy activities that will be set up in classrooms.

All families are welcome!

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Each week in the newsletter, we will give families a summary of the Teaching/Learning Focus for the week.

That can help families by: being aware of what classrooms are covering; with discussion topics at the dinner table when

discussing school (eg. ‘How are you going with addition in Numeracy this week?’); helping their children study at home,

etc. Parents have indicated that this information would be very useful. We also ask families to be aware that schools are

very busy places and events can be unpredictable at times. We therefore must remain flexible. That means, we can plan to

cover certain topics at particular times and have to change them according to arising needs.

Junior School – Preps/Foundation Rooms 3 & 6

Literacy: We are continuing to develop early writing skills with a focus on sounding out and using the golden and red

words in our writing. We are learning about the letter d. We are using basic punctuation.

Numeracy: We are revising 1 - 16, number stories and location words.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 8 & 9

Literacy: We are focusing on verbs and adjectives (doing words). We are focusing on blends.

Numeracy: We are continuing to add and subtract by counting on and counting back on number lines. We are

consolidating skip counting to gain fluency in 2s, 5s and 10s. We are investigating tools to measure weather. We are also

using calculators.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 8 & 9

Literacy: We are practising writing more detailed sentences (conjunctions). We are starting to look at narratives.

Numeracy: We are looking at the connection between addition and subtraction. We are revising quarter and half past on

clocks and relating to fractions. We are also using calculators.

Middle School – Years 3/4 Rooms 10 & 11

Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will work on Narratives. We will also focus on Synonyms.

Numeracy: We will focus on recognising and modelling numbers up to 10 000 and equivalent number sentences.

Another focus will be measuring angles. Tables facts will be practised throughout the week.

Senior School – Years 5/6 Rooms 1A & 1B Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will continue to focus on Narratives. We will also focus on

abbreviations. In reading we will be focusing on fluency and expression.

Numeracy: We will continue with work on the four processes, the order of operations, place value, number patterns and

fractions. Another focus will be work relating to 3D shapes. Tables facts will be practised throughout the week.

Foundation-Year 2 - Children will be looking at seasons this week and learning the song Kepala Bahu

Lutut Kaki (Heads Shoulders Knees Feet).

musim dingin (winter) musim semi (spring)

musim panas (summer) musim gugur (autumn)

Lagu - Kepala Bahu Lutut Kaki (Song - Heads Shoulders Knees Feet) Kepala bahu lutut kaki, (Heads shoulders knees feet,)

lutut kaki, lutut kaki. (knees, feet, knees, feet.) Kepala bahu lutut kaki, (Heads shoulders knees feet,)

tepuk tangan bersama (clap hands together)

Grades 3-4 Grades 3-4 children will focus on colours.

merah (red) biru (blue)

kuning (yellow)

hijau (green) jingga (orange)

ungu (purple) abu-abu (grey)

merah-muda (pink)

hitam (black) putih (white)

coklat (brown)

Salam (Regards)

Bu Hooper (Mrs Hooper)

Guru Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian teacher)

Don’t forget kids, we need

you at school everyday!

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AUSSIE KIDS ROCK IT It was so funny we laughed and laughed (Chloe)

When we saw the big kids rock! (Blake)

Dino Drummer wasn’t there (Tallen)

And CJ got a shock (Tess)

We started with some funky blues (Olivia)

From the good ol’ USA (Charlie)

The blues were really cool (Joel)

They could have played all day (Elizabeth)

The country music sounded weird (Adam)

As Dino Drummer just sat (Tyson)

It made us think of the wild west (Liesl)

As Rusty wore his country hat (Abby)

Heavy metal was really loud (Zion)

It really rocked! (Ethan)

Dino drummed really fast (Gracie)

We had our ears blocked! (Aaron)

Awesome hip hop was the best (Jy)

Dino’s glasses were funny (Hamish)

And so was his baseball cap (Zakk)

And a necklace made of money (Charlotte)

Dino wouldn’t stop drumming (Tess)

He said ‘Sorry’ many times (Mr. Itter)

A more than amazing time we had (Tallen)

With lots of rappy rhymes (Tess)

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What is happening at the Neighbourhood Centre Wednesday 5

th and 19

th August – Puckapunyal Youth Club 5-6.30pm. A fortnightly meeting for young

adults to come together and plan activities and events in the local area. Free pizza!!!

Friday 7th

August – A monthly morning tea for families experiencing parenting challenges or who have

children with extra needs. This week we have a visiting Occupational therapist to answer any questions and

provide suggestions if asked. We do this on a day the centre is closed to provide a more private relaxed area for

people to attend. Children welcome.

Lego Club – every Monday 3.45-5pm. This term we have been mixing our free play with learning about

simple machines through lego engineering. Cost is $4 and afternoon tea is included.

Commencing 31st August the neighbourhood centre will be providing the opportunity for further education

through Chase Skills. We are running the Cert III in Business/Cert III in Accounts Administration, Cert IV in

Hospitality and Cert IV in Work Health and Safety. These courses will be run two days a week, 9.30-2.30 for 6

weeks with a break for school holidays. There may be some places made available for child care at the OCCC

Little Footsteps. For further information please call Karen Sullivan 0448494815 or register your interest with

Deb at the Neighbourhood Centre [email protected]

Over the next few weeks, once per week, Sue Crebbin from Nexus Primary Health, will be visiting

1/2 C in Room 8. Her aim is to help our students with their social skills through ‘Sunshine Circles’

which is a part of ‘Theraplay.’

She is currently working with some of our families, introducing Theraplay in the home. We can see

the benefit of some of her work with our students in the classroom.

Sunshine Circles in our classroom will:

Improve group functioning and individual learning

Build positive relationships and classroom communities

Teach healthy values, cooperation and social skills

Bring fun and joy into the classroom

Engage hard to reach kids

Improve self-regulation

Enhance both self-esteem and empathy for others

This program is designed for teachers, social workers, early childhood specialists and other

professionals who are in the position to support classroom teachers.

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