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SCHOOL PRODUCTION SUCCESS Last night, our whole school was involved in our school production ‘ SUPER KIDS’ at Drouin Secondary College Auditorium. What a magnificent production of REAL Super Kids! The staff are so proud of the achievements of all students. While spending several months practicing and rehearsing, at times posed a little challenge to students – this experience has enabled students to deal with work closely as a team, understand commitment, develop persistence and concentration to achieve the outcome of building confidence and a positive sense of achievement. Well deserved too! Thanks to all the parents for supporting the production and encouraging children to have a go, do their best and build their personal and interpersonal skills. Thanks to staff for working over the past few months, guiding students to work towards producing both

personal bests and team efforts!

HOMEGROUPS Learning Programs for 2014 In our flexible learning areas we will be working in home groups and smaller working groups for Literacy and Numeracy. The home groups (HG) for 2014. Miss Emily Matarczyk- HG 6/5, Mr Kerry Williams - HG 5/4/3 Miss Monica Berkelmans - HG 3/2/1 and Miss Kathryn Closter - HG 1/F. This year we will be renaming our home groups by new names related to our REAL values and REAL Kids @ Nilma. We will be asking children to create ideas for the naming of our groups. This change will support our school philosophy of catering for individual learning needs and what is best for students. This will further extend our focus on learning and the success of our whole school literacy and numeracy program from this year.

REPORTING TO PARENTS ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS—STUDENT REPORTS Student reports will be completed and sent out at the end of year with student portfolios in the last week of school – Wednesday 17th December 2013.

MARC VAN – book returns A final pick up of overdue books will be on Tuesday 10th December. A $10 fee will be issued for each lost book, so start searching if you haven’t already returned your book/s. Let’s see if we can get all books back in by next week.

STATE WIDE ORIENTATION including Foundation students for 2014. Next Tuesday 10th December is the Statewide Orientation Day. Students from kindergarten will be in attendance all day and our year 6 students will be attending their secondary school. Children will spend the day in their new home group. We will also have our whole school buddy session – to build new relationships across the school.

PREMIER READERS CHALLENGE Parents are invited to assembly—9.00am Monday 11th December for the presentation of the ‘Premier Reading Challenge’ Certificates—65 students will receive a certificate.

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Ms Annette Sutherland

Business Manager Mrs Rachel Hammond

School Council President

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Principal Notes ..1 Student Learning ..2 Home group Happenings ..3 Calendar .11

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NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL

School Notes

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

Recognitions

Homegroup 1 / Prep

The whole class! For working so hard when

practicing for your ‘Super Kids’ performance. And a fantastic

performance on the night! Well done!!

Homegroup 3/2

Joel For your fantastic contribution to

the school musical in our class chorus. You were absolutely fantastic and sounded great!

Great job Joel Homegroup 4

Kael Mason For making a fantastic effort in our Super Kids production. It has

also been great to see you concentrating hard on your

learning to achieve your best. Keep up the great effort!

Homegroup 6/5

Year 6/5 For the fantastic effort you put

into Superkids. You should all be proud of the hard work you have

put into it.

STUDENT LEARNING @ NILMA

Happy Birthday No birthdays this week!

R.E.A.L STUDENTS @ NILMA L.A.U.G.H

NIGHTLY READING Recognition Certificates

25 nights Piper Bundle

175 Nights

Tahlia Witney Zavier Allsopp

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HOMEGROUP HAPPENINGS!

School Production The school production was awesome. We got

to speak loud on the microphones and sing.

My favourite part was getting the banana

peel out and Patrick slipping on it. I was

trying not to pass out when I was singing. I

was sad at the end of the night because

Superkids is finished. By Dominick

I was a bit nervous at the school production. I was playing

Dulcet the music teacher. My costume was based on Mr

Cottrell our old music teacher. On stage I felt like I was

going to muck up my lines. It was awesome to perform in

front of the audience. I think in high school I would like

to be in their school production. By Cooper

I was a Prep in the school production. I was a bit nervous

at the start. I was scared I was going to forget my lines on

stage but when I said them in front of the audience, it felt

good. At the end of the night I was very tired. By James

I was Louise and Nigel had a crush on her. I ignored him.

It felt scary to perform in front of the audience. My

family thought it was a funny school production. I was

scared to do my lines. Back stage it was really busy with

all the students. By Mckayla

6/5

Yesterday the 5th of December we had our

whole school production called Super Kids. It

was about Super Kids saving the school from

school bullies. I got really tired practicing for

the production but it was fun on the night. I

was nervous before we went on stage. Every

time I looked at my family I would nearly laugh

because my sister would be either recording me

or taking pictures. Andrew Burdett

On the 5/12/13 we had our production called Super

Kids .We sang Let`s Hear it for Vegemite, Kids’ Lament,

Nigel and Finale. My Mum, Dad and Grandpa came. The

grade 6/5’s had the main parts. Patrick and Harrison were

ninjas in the Japanese scene. In the Japanese scene the

bullies came in late. Patrick was Captain Vegemite and

Harrison was the Wholemeal Kid. The production started at

7pm and ended at 8.15pm. Aaron Cooper

On Thursday the 5th of December, Nilma Primary School

went to the Drouin Secondary College to have the school

production, Super Kids. I can’t remember when we first

started rehearsing because we’ve done it so much, but last

night we did it for real! I thought it went really quick but it

was still fun. Our grade were the Vegemite Kids. The

songs we sang were Let’s Hear it for Vegemite, Kid’s

Lament, Nigel and the Finale. Anthony Scott

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School Production Well done 3/2 on your amazing work in the

school production chorus. You all did a great

job remembering all the words and actions.

I'm very proud of you all, great work! Miss C

I loved that everyone came to the school

production and that my friends were in the

chorus with me. My family came. We sang

school bullies, there’s a place for dreamers and the

finale. Ashton

Last night we had our school production. I really enjoyed

singing a place for dreamers and that was also my dads

favourite song. We sang school bullies we mucked up a bit

and got really embarrassed. Carolyn

Last night we did our school musical. When we went on stage I got a bit of stage fright because I got scared about going on. The second time we went on I was less scared. The third time I wasn't that scared. I enjoyed it. Brianna

Yesterday was the school concert. I liked singing school bullies. I liked playing naughts and crosses with Daniel while we were waiting to go on stage. Lane We coloured in colouring sheets when we were waiting to go on stage. We went on stage to do two songs. It was fun. Teagan

Yesterday we practised our school production and while I

was waiting to go on stage I did some colourings. I drew

Miss Closter some pictures. It was exciting to be on stage.

Meg

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School Production!

Well done to the grade 1/P ! All

your hard work and practice resulted in a memorable performance! This is what a few

of the kids have to say...

I sang in the microphone by myself and I sang beautifully! My pants fell down and it was very funny. Chloe.

My mum said I did a great job. I loved being on stage– I thought it was going to

be scary, but it wasn’t. Matilda

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Last night we had the School Production called ‘Superkids’. We had spent all day at the

auditorium practising the play with costumes and music. It was hard work. It was finally

the night. Students got to the auditorium around 6.30pm and got into costume. Some

students were feeling scared that they might forget their lines and others because they

had to sing in front of a lot of people.

Before the first scene everyone was really nervous. Patrick and Harrison had to look like

nerds when they went out in the first scene. It was really funny. Back stage was really

dark with lots of students around trying to be quiet. When I went out on stage I was

shaking a lot especially when I picked up the microphone.

The production went smooth and awesome. It was great production and all the students

did a fantastic job. Some people mucked up their lines but they made it work. Everyone

sang their songs really well. A lot of people were shaking and had a lot of nervous

adrenalin but they all went out there and had a go. It went really quick and before you

knew it we were all out eating beautiful food.

By Harrison and Dominick.

SUPER KIDS PRODUCTION!!!

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YEAR 6 SUMMIT CAMP

The year six students went to a day camp called Summit Camp and they all had fun. The schools were Nilma, Bona Vista and Darnum. We all met new friends and at the end we got to have dinner there. We had to talk about ‘GAS’, G stands for Give it a go, A stands for Ability and S stands for Support. There was a high wire. It was really fun and we had to go with a partner. We had to high five our partner on the high wire. Then we sat down, then laid down on the wire and then stood up and your team would pull you down. It was scary being up high and believing the harness and your team member wouldn’t let you fall down. There was a flying fox and we had to go in trees and over water it was really fast. The teachers had to catch you at the end. We had to go over this log with a mud pit underneath. There was a wombat hole and it was really dark, long and muddy. We were all dirty. We had a competition between the two teams called the ‘Monster Course’. We raced and we had to hold tyres or hold hands we were not allowed to let go but the teams let go. The day was fun and we were challenged throughout the day. There were many activities that put us out of our comfort zone but we felt proud overcoming the challenges. By Mckayla and Jack H.

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Hi there! On Thursday the 5th of December we all had the school

production, the year 6/5’s were a bit

nervous but they all did a great job.

Thank you to the teachers, especially Ms

Sutherland for conducting us down the

front. Thank you to the parents for

coming and supporting your kids. ‘Super

Kids’ was so fun. The students were really

patient and they were excited. The

Teachers were really great helping out with the play, Thank You. By Ryan

and Mckayla.

Reading Eggs Awards Zaic Farmer Zavier Allsopp Olivia Addison Ty Ward

Keep up the fantastic effort!!

STUDENT LEADERS’ CORNER

STUDENT AWARDS

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SCHOOL HAPPENINGS

COMMUNITY NEWS

School Jobs There are a few jobs that need doing around the school if any parents have any spare time to complete them. Please see Annette if you are able to do any of the following;

Weeding the front garden beds

Prune Roses

Clean out around the sandpit

Paint plinth boards on building

Wash front school sign

Clean around new tanks

Sweeping paths

Pruning trees around the oval

Paint Brown Hut

Put some hooks up

Clean drinking taps

Clean walls at entry points

Signs need to be made up

LIBRARY BOOKS

There will not be any library

borrowing after December 9th.

Please have all Nilma PS library

books returned by then as we will

need to do a stocktake.

Thanks, Mrs Vagg.

NEERIM SOUTH

RECREATION RESERVE

School Council

The final school council meeting for 2013 will be

held on Tuesday 10th December at

6pm in the staffroom. Tea provided.

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2013 CHRISTMAS RAFFLE

Attached to the Newsletter are Raffle Tickets for our Christmas Raffle which will be drawn on 17th December at the End of Year BBQ/Year 6 Graduation. If you require

more books they are available from the office. Parents can leave donations towards the Raffle at the office before Monday 16th December. There are a number of prizes; Hampers, Vouchers, Puffing Billy Railway Family Pass, Books and lots more! A more detailed prize list will be available closer to the draw. Please

support our last fundraiser for the year by selling all those tickets!

END OF YEAR BBQ/GRADUATION EVENING—Tuesday 17th December 2014

It’s that time of the year again when we hold our annual End of Year BBQ/Year 6 Graduation. More details about the night will be in the newsletter closer to the date. We will also require some helpers on the night, to help with the BBQ, selling raffle tickets, setting up, selling drinks and packing up. If you are able to help on the night please let Belinda know, or return the reply slip below.

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End of Year BBQ/Year 6 Graduation

Family Name:____________________________________________________________________ I can/cannot help out at the BBQ on Tuesday 17th Dec (please circle) For catering purposes, how many people attending:_________________________

PARENT CLUB

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NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL CALENDAR

Foundation Students begin school on Wednesday 29th January 2014

School Rodeo Fundraiser—1st Feb 2014 This may be the only MAJOR fundraiser for the year. We will require every family to support in some way.

Remember—many hands make light work !!!

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