We are a small, friendly and focused on achievement within its RICH Values. Showcasing the school buildings. Youre invited to see for

yourself.

Monday, May 18th - Assembly + Cross Country - assembly will be from 9-9.30. After assembly grandparents,

visitors, parents and community members are invited to watch our House Cross Country with all grade levels involved.

Tuesday 19th May

8am Running Club for parents, students & teachers!

8.15am Breakfast Club in the School Kitchen everyone welcome!!

Thursday 21st May - 8am Running Club for parents & students

8.15am Breakfast Club in the School Kitchen everyone welcome!!

Friday 22nd May - CELEBRATION OPEN DAY

9am - Parents, friends and grandparents are

welcome to visit Learning Areas

Autumn Theme Day Grade One + Two

12.45- Prep Information and Tour

1.30 Invitation to BBQ Lunch for School Community

DISCO

Prep-2 2.30 - 3pm

Year 3-6 3 - 3.45pm

TOOTGAROOK TELEGRAPH Weekly newsletter of

TOOTGAROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL Website: www.tootps.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 5985 2864

Email Address: tootgarook.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Issue 13 14th May, 2015

CALENDAR

EDUCATION WEEK 18TH 22ND MAY (see flyer for more information) Thursday 21st May Prep Gr 2 Seawinds Excursion

Monday Morning Assemblies will be held in the Multi Purpose Room during Winter

After Assembly LOST PROPERTY will be laid out on the Basketball Court

please feel free to take any items of clothing your child might

require any items left will be taken to the Op Shop.

BOUNCE BACK is a Classroom Resiliency Program actively implemented at TPS. The program contains resource materials and strategies to teach young people the personal skills that underpin

resiliency, that is, the capacity to bounceback after encountering problems, difficulties and down times. Have you heard your child talking about the five step rule? I thought I would take the opportunity this week to discuss what the five step rule is at school and how it supports student wellbeing. Firstly, we encourage all students to use the five step rule when experiencing any problems in the playground at recesses and lunchtimes. In skilling students to use the five step rule, we are essentially empowering

them to be positively assertive when interacting with their peers. When a student is involved in a situation where they do not want a particular behaviour to continue from another student, the first step is to ignore the behaviour. If it continues the second step is to move away. The third step is to simply say Stop it, I dont like it when ... We normally find that when a student verbalises this third step, thereby making the other student aware that the behaviour is causing a problem, then this behaviour in most cases ceases. If by chance an unwanted behaviour continues, during the fourth step the student is then encouraged to say Stop it, I dont like it, or I will need to tell the teacher. When using the fourth step, a student is again highlighting the unwanted behaviour, but also explaining that a teacher will be needed if the behaviour continues. If an unwanted behaviour continues after a student has verbalised step 3 and 4, then the student lets the other student know that they are getting the yard duty teacher to help sort out the problem. In encouraging students to use the five step rule, we find that they are equipped to deal with most minor infractions in the playground. We also find that they become more confident at articulating their feelings and have a greater sense of empowerment within their peer group. If you get a chance at home, it would be great if you could discuss the five step rule as strategy which can be used at school and possibly modified to use in other contexts.

Student of the Week Students will be presented with certificates at Monday morning assembly.

Prep B Mrs Bos Tahlia Thompson Tahlia is a pleasure to teach due to her genuine interest in learning and enthusiasm for all school activities. Prep R Mrs Read - Abby Dickson for working so hard on learning your common words at home, well done! 1H Mrs Hughes Tarkyn Silvester for his fabulous writing and understanding of multiplication. You are challenging yourself - keep it up!

1P Miss Perkins Suleiman Wiggett- What a fantastic worker you are becoming Suleiman! You try your best at all tasks and you are beginning to gain more confidence with classroom activities. You are kind to others and always have a smile on your face. The Resilience you have shown in the last couple of Months has been incredible! Well Done! 2B Mrs Baird Mia Karolidis for great Integrity in Literacy. Mia completed 22 Action Verb statements when a minimum of 5 had been requested. Well done. We adore your enthusiasm! 2J - Mrs Johnstone Tiahna Wyhoon for great reading achievements. Tiahna is practising all levels of comprehension and developing reading aloud skills. Well done!

3A Miss Arnold 3A to all the students in our grade for concentrating and trying their hardest throughout the three days of Naplan testing. Well done to you all. 3W Ms Walton - 3W to all the students in our grade for concentrating and trying their hardest throughout the three days of Naplan testing. Well done to you all. 4S Miss Staley + Miss McGhee Noah Davies - Congratulations Noah on being a responsible and reliable computer monitor. You do your job without being reminded and always make sure the computers are locked up at the end of the day! Well done Noah! 5Q Miss Quintin Dieter Heylbut your Naplan Persuasive Writing was outstanding you truly convinced me to play a game of football with the Rosebud Football Club. Congratulations Dieter! 6W Miss Withers - Geordan Duncan - For being a great role model to others and taking on the responsibility of Sports Monitor with pride. Geordan shows integrity in all her work. Well done- Keep up the great work. Art / Craft Miss Davey Leah Bailey-Veith 1H for listening carefully during instruction time and working hard to finish her artwork in the given time. Well done Leah! Great improvement. P.E Mr Kitchen Jack Sterling for helping and encouraging all students in his class and showing great leadership ability. Keep up the great work Jack! Music - Mrs Young Chloe Pearce 3A for preparing a poster about the singer Shakira to go with the song you shared with your grade. It was really informative and we learnt a lot because of your efforts at home! Thank You and well done!

Term Two in the Prep Classroom

This term in the Prep area we will continue to focus on the correct formation of letters as well as number from 0-10. We will also continue our Alphabet Study by focusing on a letter sound each week, thank you to the children who have bought in items from home to share on our alphabet table.

The children will explore numbers in the teens through songs and games and have started to develop an understanding of place value through the use of

tens frames and MAB blocks. In our Unit of Inquiry we are learning about the concept of Sustainability with the big idea that in our environment we experience

cyclic change.

We all enjoyed our nature walk recently where we collected Autumn leaves from our local area to use in the classroom during maths and literacy experiences. Our excursion to Seawinds will provide the opportunity for the children to explore more Autumn trees, as well as consolidate their understanding of the use of numbers and letters in the environment on signs and maps.

This term we have also introduced weekly show and tell sessions with a focus on our weekly letter, thank you to the families who have helped their children prepare their show and tell each week, this is a great way to develop your childs speaking and listening skills and the children look forward to these sessions each day.

Attention all Catholic Children in Grade 4 and up!

Classes for Catholic children for the Sacrament of First Holy Communion begin on

Thursday 21st May at 3.45pm in St Joseph's School. This is a correction to the last

notice as we have changed the day and the dates.

Classes will then continue on the following dates:

Thursday 28th May 3.45 - 4.45pm

Thursday 4th June 3.45 - 4.45pm

Thursday 11th June 3.45 - 4.45pm.

To receive the Sacrament children MUST ATTEND ALL CLASSES.

The new Sporting Schools Program

(replacing Active After School) commences next week:

Tuesday 3.30-4.45pm

Baseball / Softball (six places still available)

Wednesday 8.00am 8.45am Boot Camp For Kids

(six places still available)

Please call at the school office if you would

like your child to be a part of either activity.