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SCIENCE PRESENTATION EVENING Thank you to all the families who attended the Science evening last night. It was a terrific opportunity for students to share and celebrate their learning. Students proudly shared their Biological Science projects from Term 3. NUDE FOOD DAY Congratulations to Isobella & Matilda for their successful application for the grant ‘Nude Food Day’. A special assembly was held today in recognition of their efforts and commitment to healthy eating and waste reduction. A detailed proposal was submitted, with posters designed and displayed to promote the day. Nude Food meaning NO WRAPPERS on your food. Isobella and Matilda also organised activities and certificates for students with 0 wrappers in their lunchbox. It was fantastic to see students healthy lunchboxes and their NUDE Food. A fabulous result that both girls should be proud of. Jacqueline Murray attended a special assembly to award Nilma Primary School with the Nude Food grant and to view our other sustainability initiatives.

Sally Sustainability Scarecrow Receives an Award! Splendid styling set Sally Sustainability Scarecrow up for success! Awarded third place for the Lions Club of Drouin Scarecrow Competition at the Gippsland Garden & Home Expo, held on the weekend. Sally’s skirt was decorated with patches of students creative art work. Thank you to Kathy Grass & Leanne Hodge for their organisation and time. 2018 DIARY SPONSORS Planning ahead for 2018 we would like to extend an invitation to our School Community for Sponsors. Please contact the Office you are interested in being a 2018 Nilma Primary School Diary Sponsor.

THANKS TO OUR DIARY SPONSOR

Acting Principal Mrs Amanda Buckler Business Manager Mrs Belinda Smythe School Council President Mrs Nicki Kimm

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Principal Notes ..1 Student Awards ..2 Curriculum Corner ..4 School Organisation ..5 Calendar ..7

Bloomfield Road, Nilma 3821 Telephone: (03)56232963 Email: nilma.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.nilmaps.vic.edu.au

NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Principal Notes

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R.E.A.L STUDENTS @ NILMA Learner of the Week

Recognitions

Homegroup 1/F Red James Taylor

For your fantastic work during our whole school numeracy activities this week. You

have been working hard to solve different addition and subtraction word

problems. You have been displaying your thinking on your ‘think board’ and

persisting when it gets challenging. Well done James!

Homegroup 2 Green Ashlee Cooke

For the way you have handled yourself managing your learning and when confronted with challenging social situations. You have demonstrated

persistence and resilience.

Homegroup 4/3 Blue Taleah Hammond

For the positive effort you make with all areas of your learning. It is great to see you always prepared to do your best.

Thank you for being willing to help and support other students in their learning.

Homegroup 6/5/4 Yellow Bailey- Jack Christoph

For the positive attitude you have each day and your dedication to trying your

best and sharing your success. It is wonderful to see you taking pride in your

efforts and contributing to our class learning. Keep it up, BJ!

L.A.U.G.H Program Learning Activities Under

Guidance of Home NIGHTLY READING

25 Nights Bailey Stephens

50 Nights Mia Wood 75 Nights

Levi Farmer 100 Nights

Zavier Allsopp Harrison Jones Teylah Lott 125 Nights

Savannah Salsbury-Challons 150 Nights

Jasmine Cane Savannah Farmer 175 Nights

Jasmine Cane Meg Devlin Claire-Rose Simon 200 Nights

Alice-Ann Simon 250 Nights

Cohen Cogo William Cane

PLAYGROUND AWARDS

Winners Ty Kindermann

Caleb Brown

Kaleb Majcherzak

Natasha Salsbury– Challons

STUDENT LEARNING @ NILMA

Kaleb Majcherzak

Kael Deane

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HOMEGROUP HAPPENINGS!

The current Whole School Literacy focus is on Transactional Texts. This includes letters, postcards, emails, invitations, text messages, greeting cards and posters. We are working on a mini-project of transactional texts, starting by planning a birthday party at an exciting venue!

Some of the chosen venues include: Jump and Climb, Jump Crazy, 3 Brothers and an Oven, Village Cinemas, Adventure Park Geelong, and many more!

If you have any samples of transactional texts that your child can bring to school, it would be greatly appreciated so as to share common properties and build our understanding of these texts.

Wednesday night was our whole school

science presentation night. Last term students learning focus for science was biological science. Students in the Ruby Red homegroup incubated and hatched chickens, learning about what they needed to survive and what features they had to help them live in their environments. Students recorded the growth of the chickens and interesting notes into their ‘chick diary’ and

displayed their understandings of a chicks life cycle and recorded their favourite things about the chicks. Students were excited to share their learning and to talk about everything they learned during science last term. A huge thanks to Nikki Kimm for providing us with the incubators to hatch our chickens. Thanks to all the parents that came along and shared in their students learning.

Home Group - 6/5/4 -

Lemon Yellow

On Wednesday we held a Science Presentation Evening where students had the opportunity to share their

Biological Science projects with family and friends. It was lovely for students to celebrate their learning about incubating, hatching and caring for baby

chicks.

Home Group - 2 -

Emerald Green

Home Group - 1/F -

Ruby Red

Last Tuesday Louise from the RACV visited our class to talk about road safety.

When you get in a car,

truck or van you must

put your seat belt on and

tell the driver that it is

on. Blake

When you are crossing the road look carefully both ways before you step onto the road. You should not text when you are driving. Deklan

You shouldn’t do anything to distract the driver while they are driving. Jessie

There are blind spots where the driver can’t see when

they look into the mirrors. Olivia

You need to be careful when you walk behind a car because it might be reversing and the driver might not see you. Anthony

You need to be 12 years old to sit in the front seat and over 145cm high because the airbags could hit you in the face. Charlotte

Home Group - 4/3 -

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CURRICULUM CORNER

SWIMMING In Term 4 our swimming program will commence for 5 sessions in November. The dates are - 14th, 17th, 21st, 24th and 28th (Tuesdays and Fridays). The cost for the program will be $40 per student. The cost for this program has been heavily subsidised by the Parent Club, through the Pie Drive, Mothers & Fathers Day stalls and the Movie Night fundraisers. Parents are able to start making payments towards this program. Please speak to the Office staff for more information. Students will be transported to the Warragul Leisure Centre on these days by a combination of bus and car travel. Students will need to be picked up at the Warragul Leisure Centre at the completion of the day - 3.15pm. It is expected that all students will participate in the swimming lessons. Please speak to the Office for more information.

Please ensure that permission forms and money are returned to aid us with the organisation of such activities.

Nilma Primary School will be hosting our annual Scholastic Book Fair starting next Monday 23rd and run through till the following Monday 30th October. Students and parents will be able to browse the Book Fair before school - 8.45am - 9am and after school - 3.15pm - 3.30pm. This is a great opportunity for families to purchase quality books. Please note that it is a cash only stall and will be held in the Art room. The school receives commission on books sold, with money raised from the Book Fair goes towards purchasing new library books for our students to enjoy. Students will have the opportunity to look at the books and write down a wish list. So come along and check out the fabulous range of books on offer. The fair will be coordinated by Mr Williams with the assistance of the senior students.

FIRST AID IN SCHOOLS CLUSTER DAY Students from Ellinbank Primary School will join with Nilma Primary School on Friday 27th October for a cluster day for the ‘First Aid in Schools Program’. Students will be grouped in year levels and participate in 45 minute sessions with a presenter from St Johns Victoria.

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SCHOOL ORGANISATION YEAR 4/3 CAMP—FOREST EDGE Students in Year 4/3 will participate in the Forest Edge camp on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd November 2017. Students will attend the camp with students from the Mt Worth Cluster schools - Darnum, Ellinbank and Bona Vista. Staff attending will be Kerry Williams and Annette Sutherland. Another staff member will also be attending and will be confirmed closer to the camp. The full cost of the camp is $130, with full payment due by Friday 27th October. Please speak to the Office staff for more information in regards to payments. Yesterday students were given further information about the camp - behaviour and medical forms. These are to be returned by Monday 23rd October. The drop off and pick up point will be at Burke St Park in Warragul. Students are to be at the park by 9am on the Thursday and will return at approx. 2.45pm on the Friday. Please notify the Office as soon as possible in regards to dietary requirements so we can communicate this with the camp. If parents require any information about the camp then please speak to the Office staff or teachers that are attending. FAMILY STATEMENTS Family statements were sent home last week. We would appreciate payment of outstanding monies by the end of November. Payments can be made by cash, cheque or bank deposit/direct debit. Please speak to the Office staff for more information or concerns.

YEAR 2 SLEEPOVER The Year 2 sleepover will be held on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th November. Students will go home as usual on Thursday afternoon and then return to school at 6pm for the fun to begin! A BBQ tea will be provided, along with a yummy dessert! Students will also be provided with breakfast and lunch on Friday. Students will need to bring with them a sleeping bag, pillow, mattress, pyjamas, toothbrush and casual clothes to wear on Friday. Permission forms were attached to last weeks newsletter. The cost for the sleepover is $15 per student, which covers the cost of the meals (BBQ Tea, Dessert, Breakfast and Lunch). Miss Matarczyk will be coordinating the sleepover along with Mr Williams and Mrs Hodge. LUNCH ORDERS Lunch orders will be available Friday the 27th October, 3rd & 10th November, 1st, 8th & 15th of December. Please not there will be no lunch orders on the 17th & 24th of November due to our swimming program and adjusted lunch times as a result. A revised menu will be available from the 30th of October. Keep an eye out for it in our next newsletter. Are you able to help? We are looking for parents to volunteer to pick up and drop of the lunch orders on the Fridays listed above. Please see the form requesting volunteers below. Complete and return the form at your earliest convenience.

HOT LUNCH FRIDAY ROSTER

DATE MORNING

Pack Recess orders into bags and place in class tubs (approx. 30 mins)

LUNCH Collect orders from Logan’s Breakfast & Lunch Bar at

12.45pm, deliver to school & distribute (approx. 30 mins)

27th October

3rd November

10th November

1st December

8th December

15th December

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Learning friendship skills is the basis of emotional

intelligence. Emotional intelligence is highly

predictive of success in work and relationships in

adult life.

Ideally children use school as a way to broaden

their relationships, and this sets them up for being

able to work with and relate to a variety of people

during their adult years.

However, becoming reliant on only a few friends

has its dangers. Most people connect and

reconnect with friends as they move through their

lives.

Learning to cope with the ebb and flow of human

relationships while remaining true to yourself gives

people confidence and courage. At times, we all

need to have the confidence to endure setbacks in

friendships and the courage to be ourselves.

Information sourced from: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/programs/bullystoppers/afbeingleftout.pdf

‘Helping your kids help themselves’ is difficult and we can feel like we’re knocking our heads against a brick wall when it comes to own children.

Sometimes it’s an age/expectation thing that’s the problem. Can a 5 year old with long curly hair manage to keep it tidy and knot free? Or is it a realistic expectation of a parent to say of their 4 year old “I’ve shown him/her time and time again how to clean those teeth – I’m not doing it anymore! If his teeth fall out it’s not my fault and if her hair gets knotty it’s because she won’t let me brush it. I don’t care, I’m sick of yelling, I’ve done my bit, she can look scruffy. They’ll learn!”

The difficulty of being the adult is that we can no longer become childish, indignant and petulant. We have to ease and encourage the children to do things they don’t like doing. Most of us can do something we don’t like doing for just 5 minutes. It’s the same for the children.

A quick tip in these cases might be an electronic timer (microwave, stove) or even an egg timer. When your child struggles to start or do something because they don’t like the task – ask them to do it for just 5 minutes – set the timer – and then when the buzzer sounds they must stop immediately.

You may find that you need to do the same thing with them and clean your teeth together or get them to brush your hair in turn. Then they can enjoy five minutes of something they want to do and again the buzzer sounds and the activity stops.

You could turn it into a game with three different tasks – each time increasing the time by a few minutes. Be realistic though and persevere, making the time of ‘reward’ good fun and before you know it you’ll all be winners.

“…when your child is struggling to start or do something because they don’t like the task – ask them to do it for just 5 minutes.”

STUDENT HEALTH & WELLBEING

CHAPLAIN’S CHAT

How parents can help children develop friendship skills

Parents can: Encourage friendships outside school. Model having a range of friends and how to

meet new people. Increase social activities for the family with a

range of people. Keep in touch with extended family members. Encourage the idea of being friends with an

array of people rather than just being close to a few people.

Consider going through a list of your child’s classmates with them and identifying the differ-ent types of friends. If someone is rejecting or ostracising them, you can explain that there is no point trying to push friendship upon people who are rejecting it. Tell your child that some-times you need to take a break—when you back off from people, they can move towards you. Try to help identify a few more people to play with and become better friends with.

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NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL CALENDAR

Issue 32– 19/10/2017

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sa Su

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Book Fair Breakfast Club

School Council 6:30-8:30pm

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Book Fair WRC Parent

Information Evening

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Book Fair Breakfast Club

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Book Fair MARC VAN

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Book Fair First Aid in

Schools Cluster

Day

School Banking

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30

Book Fair Breakfast Club

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OCTOBER 2017

NOVEMBER 2017 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sa Su

1

Breakfast Club

2

Year 4/3 Camp

3

School Banking

Year 4/3 Camp

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6

Curriculum Day

NO STUDENTS

AT SCHOOL

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MELBOURNE

CUP PUBLIC

HOLIDAY

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Breakfast Club

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Year 2 Sleepover Foundation Transition

9am - 11am MARC VAN

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School Banking

11 12

13

Breakfast Club

14

SWIMMING

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Breakfast Club

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SWIMMING (no lunch orders)

School Banking

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20

Breakfast Club

21

SWIMMING

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Foundation Transition

9am-11.30am

Breakfast Club

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MARC VAN

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SWIMMING

(no lunch orders)

School Banking

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27

Breakfast Club

School Council 6:30-8:30pm

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SWIMMING

29 Foundation

Transition 9am -1pm

Breakfast Club

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sa Su

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School Banking 2 3

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Yr 6 Summit Camp Breakfast Club

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WRC Parent Orientation

Evening

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Yr 6

Tradie for a Day Breakfast Club

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MARC VAN

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School Banking

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11

Breakfast Club

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State-wide

Transition Day

13

Breakfast Club

14

Yr6 Graduation & School BBQ

15

School Banking

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18

Breakfast Club

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Breakfast Club

21

Year 6 Dinner

22 Last Day of Term

1.15pm Finish

DECEMBER 2017

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SCHOOL COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION

Parents can now access Sentral’s Parent Portal via an app on a smartphone or tablet! Download the app onto your device and follow the instructions to log on. Access keys are attached to the newsletter for families to log on. If you have any questions please contact the school. This is a great way to keep up to date with your child’s education and school information.

Parents can also access information and be informed of school happenings via Team App. Download the app onto your device and sign up to Nilma Primary School. News, events and documents will be advertised on the app, allowing the school and community to communicate and interact.

TEAM APP

SENTRAL APP