Newsletter Drouin West Primary School

'Nurture, Enrich, Inspire, Achieve'

Issue 35/19 Hours of supervision: 8.45am—3:45pm 28th November 2019

P.O. Box 176 Phone: 03 56 251971 535 Main Neerim Road Drouin 3818 Email: drouin.west.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Drouin West 3818

Extra Curriculum Activities Activities that are available to students during lunch time.

Mondays Lego Club P-6 in the Multi Purpose Room

Tuesdays Fun & Games in the Library

Wednesdays Honey Pot Shop in the Multi- Purpose room

Thursdays Selected sports - Mrs Proctor

Fridays Choir

IMPORTANT DATES EVENTS TO REMEMBER

Mondays Student Banking and Lunch orders—order through Flexi App

Fridays Assembly will be held at 3:00pm in the Multi Purpose room. Parents/guardians/carers and interested community members are most welcome to attend.

Monday 9th December Last day for lunch orders for 2019

Tuesday 10th December Orientation Day. Students in grade 6 will visit their chosen secondary college and students new to Drouin West for 2020 will visit our school. Parents will need to transport their child to the college and also pick them up from the college at the end of the day. Transition session for new students starting in 2020. 9am until 1:30pm. Picnic Sports 11:30am to 1:30pm

Wednesday 11th December Thankyou Morning Tea 11am in the Multi-purpose room

Thursday 12th December Christmas Concert - 7pm start

Friday 13th December Second transition day for students attending Drouin Secondary College

Monday 16th December Graduation Dinner - 6:45pm

Tuesday 17th December Back up date for Christmas Concert if raining on 12th December - 7pm start

Thursday 19th December Class Parties

Friday 20th December Last day of term 4. Students dismissed at 1:30pm.

Thursday 30th January First day of school for all students

Sports News Picnic Sports The picnic sports will be held on Tuesday 10th of December from 11.30-1.20. This year’s grade 5 students will be running the events. Children may wear comfortable clothes. Some activities involve a little bit of water so clothes that you don’t mind get-ting wet would be great. Remember shoulders need to be covered and school hats are to be worn. On this day the whole school will sit outside to eat their lunch. So come along and join in activities such as sack races, water relay, rock paper scissors, poi-son ball to name a few. Then share lunch with your children. Swimming Trials A note about swimming trials for the 2020 school team has been handed out to the eldest child in grades 2-6. Please read it, fill it in and send it back to school if your child is interested in trying out for the team. If you didn’t get the letter please ask for one at the office. Regards Marion Proctor

From The Principal’s Office

Well what a great couple of weeks it has been. We have noticed the grade 6 students really getting ready and excited about their next step in their school

journey. They still have their graduation and orientation days to attend. It is a great time to reflect on how much they have grown over this very important road to adulthood. A reminder that all student have their orientation day on the 10th of December where we move up the next year level until lunch, we will having our annual picnic sports in the middle part of the day too. THANK YOU MORNING TEA As well as the children reflect the end of a year brings about reflections for adults also. This is time of the year when Drouin West Primary school staff reflect on the importance and value of community. For us this is a positive and grateful reflection. At Drouin West Primary School we are so fortunate to have so many amazing supports with our parents and guardians. Within our school we have people who assist us with fundraising, mother’s day and father’s day stalls, hot dog day, footy fun day, reading, book covering, gardening, sewing, and those who take roles on the school council. To acknowledge the work that all of our support workers do we would like to send an open invitation to all of our supports to join us in a morning tea, in the multi-purpose room at 11 am on Wednesday the 11th of December. Please drop by and allow us to say thank you for all that you do for us. STUDENT LEADERSHIP We have also had students working really hard to show off their skills. Great class work we have noticed includes work in; debating, persuasive writing, poetry writing, community programs and children progressing greatly in their reading levels. It is so important to note that even towards the end of a very long term we still have so much learning going on. You may have also noticed a bit on singing going on at home getting us all ready for the great end

of year concert, which is sure to be a fun night for everyone. Looking forward to 2020 it is so exciting to see and plan for new developments around our school. One thing that you will notice is a change of our student leadership program in 2020. The Student Representative Council has been working hard to put together the new student leadership structure for 2020. This structure is outlined below. Mrs. Wainwright has been around to all of the grade 3, 4 and 5 students to inform them of what is available for student leadership roles in 2020. She has also gone over the application process and criteria. If students are interested in these opportunities they can see they job descriptions in the Leadership booklets places in each classroom or they can attend a special briefing on Monday the 2nd of December, in Miss Westall’s room, to gain any further details about applying. Applications are to be hand written and are due to the office by Friday the 6th of December. All positions are yearly positions School Captains X4 House Captains x2 per house Environmental Captains X2 Library Captains X2 Technology Captains X2 SRC Captains X2 Communications Captains X2 BREAKFAST CLUB Department of Education have offered us to have a sponsored Breakfast Club. This will provide the opportunity for our students to have some brekky together. This will be open to all students, we will have it for 3 mornings a week and it will in the current Science room. Days will be confirmed by the end of the year. We are so excited to have this, it will be from 8.30am. If you are interested in helping with this, please let us know. Have a great rest of the week, take care Kelly Halliday & Kerrie Wainwright.

Happy Birthday !!!!!!

Happy Birthday to the following students who celebrate their special day during the week: Monday 25th November to Sunday 1st December 2019

Erynn 2/3A, Remi Prep/1A, Brayden 5/6B, Isabelle 2/3A, Charli Prep/1A and Tanner 4/5A

PINE CONES Mrs Heath is looking for pine cones for an upcoming Christmas art task. If you have any or know where some are, she would love for you to bring them in. Drop off at front office or the art room.

Thank you!

Our Chaplain

Hello everyone! Hope you are going ok and the year hasn’t got too crazy for you yet! I just wanted to let you know that I will be away on Long Service Leave for the next 3 weeks. But will be back for the last week of term. My daughter and I, along with 2 other Mums and their daughters are heading off an adventure to Papua New Guinea. We will be flying to Lae and then boarding a medical ship for 2 weeks. We will be providing Primary Health Care and assistance with dental and ophthalmology. We are going along as general volunteers and assisting the medical volunteers carry out the health work in remote villages and on board the ship. We are not really sure what to expect. We believe we will be walking through thick mud to get to villages and need plenty of deet to protect ourselves from the mossies that carry malaria and we are taking a box of sea sickness tablets! However, it’s one of those opportunities that we didn’t want to pass up. Spending precious time together as a mother and daughter, with our friends and helping those who don’t have access to the same level of medical care we have in Australia. I look forward to seeing everyone again in the last week of term. In the meantime if you have any concerns then please let your child’s teacher know or one of our senior staff members. We know that research says that parents and staff working together provide the very best outcome for our children.

Take care! Wendy Ronalds

If you have any questions please contact me at the school on a Tuesday or Thursday or email me on ronalds.wendy.j@edumail.vic .gov.au I do check emails regularly.

Acknowledgement: National School Chaplaincy and Student Welfare Program have been funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.