Red Cliffs Primary School

NEWSLETTER Wednesday 26th November 2014

Week 8 Term 4

IMPORTANT DATES

Prep Practice—Monday 1st December —9.00—1.00

Home Page Address - http://www.redcliffsps.vic.edu.au

EMAIL: red.cliffs.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Phone: 5024 1044

Fax: 5024 2020

Principal’s Report: Jacaranda Village:

Last Thursday morning grade

3/4 staff and students were

thrilled to host a visit from

some elders from Jacaranda

Village.

The elders decided they wanted

to visit our school as a thank

you to our grade 3/4 students

for regularly visiting Jacaranda

Village this year.

Our visitors listened to the

students sing a number of

songs before they sang a song

for the students.

The elders had a tour of the

school before enjoying a lovely

morning tea.

Well done kids!

School Concert:

The Red Cliffs Primary School

End-of-Year Concert will be

held on Monday 15th Decem-

ber at Barclay Square.

Our concert will begin at

around 7.00pm with formal

announcements including the

presentation of Rotary

Encouragement Awards to two

grade 5 students, the

announcement of the 2015

School and House Captains

and Junior School Council

President

There will be a free barbecue

tea (sausages & hamburgers in

bread) available from

approximately 5.45pm

BYO salad and drinks.

Reminders:

Parents and students are asked

to note the following important

dates.

Tuesday 9th—December

Grade 5 Leadership Speeches

Year 6 Transition Day One

Wednesday 10th -December

Year 6 Transition Day Two

School Council Meeting

Monday 15th—December

School Concert at Barclay Sq.

Tuesday 16th-December

Grade 6 Graduation Dinner

Wednesday 17th-December

Grade 6 v Staff Softball game

Thursday 18th-December

School Swimming Sports

Friday 19th-December

Aussie Of The Month:

Congratulations to Janaya

Sheahan, Red Cliffs Primary

School’s Aussie of the Month for

November.

Janaya has been a great Calder

House Captain. She is very

helpful to all students and has

been a fantastic leader with the

infant students practicing their

dance for the concert.

She is always bright, friendly and

cheerful. Well done Janaya!

Beer Cup:

Last Thursday grade 5/6

students travelled to Irymple

Primary School to play cricket

and netball with the aim of

securing the “Beer Cup”

Trophy.

Our students were sensational.

The boys won the cricket match

decisively while the girls just lost

the netball-meaning that the

“Beer Cup” remains at Irymple

Primary.

NB: The trophy is called the

“Beer Cup” because there is

another Mr Beer at Irymple P.S...

Have a great week!

Rod Beer

Principal

Stars of the Week

This Week’s Birthdays……

No Birthdays this week.

This Week In Science:

Prep & Prep/1 G: “Taking Care of our Earth”

Our water, soil, rocks and minerals are precious

resources.

1/2 K & 2V: “Water Pollution” What is

happening to our river?

Grade 3/4: “Rocks and Minerals”- Types of

rocks, minerals we get from them and products

made from them.

Grade 5/6: “Our Atmosphere” What is it made

of and what characteristics does each layer

possess.

Mrs Vallender-Science

Parent Club News; Christmas Raffle

Parents Club are looking

for donations of

non-perishable items for

their Christmas hamper

raffles. Items can be left in

the office at any time.

Parents Club are supplying

all staff with lunch on

Thursday 4th of December.

Any parents able to supply

a salad or sweet, please let

Phillipa or Karen, know.

Parents are needed to help

with the serving of the

meal and assisting on yard

duty.

VICSWIM Summer

Kidz: Learn to Swim. Enrol now

for summer.

$25 for 5 sessions.

For more information visit

www.vicswim.com.au

Liam

Collins

PrepH

Confidence

Great work in

Integrated

Studies.

Brocklyn

Munro

P/1G

Persistence

Fantastic effort

to work out

tricky maths.

Vada

Tree

1/2K

Persistence

Hearing sounds

in words when

spelling.

Jy

Austin

2V

Confidence

Great work in

maths adding

and

subtracting.

Jessica

Wyld

3/4D

Resilience

Always

cheerful and

Positive.

Darius

Taruia

3/4L

Confidence

Being a

confident

leader during

dance practise.

Liam

Heath

5/6A

Confidence

Awesome

work!

David

Harris

5/6W

Confidence

Outstanding

work in class.

Great Behaviour in the Yard:

Congratulations to Art Faulkhead (Prep), Olivia

Doolan (Gr. 5) and Jemmika Douglas (Gr. 3)for

their Great Behaviour in the Yard this week. Enjoy

those free Great Australian Ice Creams kids.

Sunsmart—Myths About

Sun Protection:

2—People with olive skin are not at risk of skin cancer. FALSE

People with olive skin can get skin cancer too. Re-gardless of skin type, expo-sure to UV radiation from the sun and other artificial sources, such as solariums, can cause skin to be per-manently damaged. Peo-ple with skin types that are less likely to burn can still receive enough UV exposure to risk develop-ing skin cancer. Generally when skin cancers do occur, they are detected at a later, more dangerous stage. Care still needs to be taken in the sun.

RED CLIFFS PRIMARY SCHOOL 2014 CONCERT COSTUMES

All students must provide some element of their costume. Selected grades

will be provided with additional parts of the costume.

NB: All students who wear costumes supplied by Karen must return them to their teachers at the end of the

concert.

All girls who wear tops supplied by Karen MUST wear a singlet under the clothes they wear to the concert

for ease of changing into costume during the evening, and then out of costume at the end of the concert.

Grade Song Bring your Own Supplied

Prep

Have You Ever

Own bright casual outfit e.g. Shorts

and a bright T shirt Sneakers.

Girl’s hair in pony tail.

Nil

Prep/1G

Rockin’ Robin

Own shorts, ¾ pants or jeans. Sneak-

ers. Girls singlet top (any colour) .

Girl’s hair in pony tail.

Red T-Shirts

1/2K

You Are a Pirate

Dress as a Pirate. Black trackie pants

or trousers, White t shirt (can be

supplied if needed) Sneakers.

Added extras: eye patch, vest, pirate

hat etc.

Red Belt

2V

Monster Mash

Own Halloween type costume (e.g.

monster, witch, skeleton etc.) OR old

or OP Shop clothes cut up to look like

zombie. Sneakers

Nil

3/4L

Thriller

Black trackie pants, pants or leggings.

Black tshirt. Sneakers.

Girl’s hair in pony tail

Boys: Black

Vest

Girls: Spider

Top or white

vest

3/4D

Car wash

Shorts, any colour. Sneakers

Girls: black or coloured singlet.

Girl’s hair in pony tail

Boys: T Shirt

with motif

Girls: Sequin

top

5/6W

Party Rock

Boys: Black Pants or Trackies or den-

im jeans. Plain Black or White tshirt.

Sneakers

Girls: Black Pants or Trackies or

denim jeans or Black Leggings. Any

colour singlet. Sneakers. Hair in Pony-

tail

Boys: Coloured

tie

Girls: Pink top

5/6A

Bad

Boys: Black Pants or Trackies or den-

im jeans. Plain Black T shirt. Sneakers

Girls: Black Pants or Trackies or

denim jeans or Black Leggings. Plain

black Tshirt. Sneakers. Hair in Pony-

tail

Boys: Silver

head band

Girls: Padded

vest

Elders—Eileen Strachan, Katelyn Smith, Poppy Hudson,

Gladys Mathisen, (Michelle—staff), Gwen Poustie, and

Eileen Tiller singing to our students.

Students in grade 3/4 entertaining their

visitors.

Elder—Eileen Tiller and Staff member —Gaye

Witney— chatting to our students.

Eileen Strachan -95 years old - touring our

school.

Elder—Gwen Poustie chatting with Ava, Katrina,

Jasmine and Molly.

JACARANDA VILLAGE ELDERS’ VISIT

THURSDAY 20TH NOVEMBER

George, Darius and Nate leading the choir...