TERM 4 ISSUE 40 NEWSLETTER 19th December 2019

TERM FOUR COMING UP DEC Friday 20th Last Day - Early Dismissal 1.30pm

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Fish Creek and District Primary School Telephone: (03) 5683 2271 Urgent Calls 0488 005 502

Email: fish. creek. ps@edumail. vic. gov. au Website: http://www. fishyps. vic. edu. au/ Facebook:Fish-Creek-and-District-Primary-School/498044540284215

I would like to start out by welcoming two new teachers to our school community, Claire Ellis and Jaclyn Smith. Claire will be working in the grade 5/6 area and comes to us with a lot of teaching experience, she has worked in remote Indigenous communities as well as spending the last 3 years working at St Pauls Anglican Grammar school in Warragul. Jaclyn is just starting her teaching career, having graduated from university. She already has lots of experience at schools, being an educational support teacher all the way through university. I would also like to acknowledge the work of Miss Kiarna and Mr LePage, who have done a wonderful job at our school over the past few years. It has been an absolute pleasure working with both of you and you will both be greatly missed by the school community. We wish you all the best in your future endeavours. To our departing grade 6 students I wish you the best of luck next year in Secondary College. It was wonderful to celebrate your achievements last Thursday night at your graduation. You have been a fantastic group and I am sure that a bright future awaits all of you. While we shut down for a month over Christmas, we will be up and running again on Wednesday the 29th of January when our students return for the 2020 school year. Just one final reminder if you are going away on this holiday break, please drive carefully and stay safe. I would like to wish students, parents, staff and all involved in our Fish Creek community a safe and happy Christmas. It has been a very busy but wonderful year at Fish Creek. Just a reminder that school finishes at 1:30 tomorrow. Cheers Dale

Christmas Carols The Fish Creek Community Christmas Carols will be at the Fish Creek Union Church on Sunday December 22nd at 6pm. For further information please contact Susan on 0429 936 325 or Nadia 0437 802 780.

Summer Holiday Programs Kidz Klub

Kidz Klub is completely free and is aimed at primary school aged children. Kidz Klub 2020 will be held at the Sandy Point Community Centre from Monday 6 to Friday 10 January, 9:30am-12:30pm. Parents are free to leave their children with us, or to stay and have a cuppa while the children enjoy the activities. A family trivia night with a free dinner is planned for Friday evening of the same week – 6:00pm-8:00pm. All are welcome to join the fun. Check out our Kids Klub Facebook page at www.facebook.comKIDZKLUBatSandyPoint or visit our web-site at www.sandypointkidzklub.org for more details. You can also contact us via email at kksandypoint@gmail.com or phone (03) 5940 0926.

Wilsons Promontory National Park Monday 23rd December 2019 to Friday 24th January 2020 Highlights this summer include opportunities to:

Learn from scientists and their research into the flora and fauna at the Prom

Explore the diverse native plants at the Prom and create your own sun dyed beach bag

Uncover the underwater world of mini beasts that make Tidal River their home- using microscopes

Discover the food, medicine and materials used by Indigenous people Explore Granite boulders and learn about the Geology of the Prom Bookings open 9am on Friday 20th December (and every Friday before each week) and can now be made online For further information and bookings visit: http://wilsons-promontory-national-park.eventbrite.com.

Grade Structure Now that we have our staffing complete I can happily announce our grade structure with their aligned teacher. Prep/one: Kerri Smith One/two: Jaclyn Smith Two: Shelley Sririska Three/four: Nick Mollison Four/five: Barry Farrell (3 days), Peta Hamlett (2 days) Five/Six: Claire Ellis

Mangahigh Rockstar Challenge

We were very fortunate to have 4 senior school students win awards for the Mangahigh Rockstar Challenge! All students took part in the challenge which allows them to practice and master a variety of Math concepts. Congratulations to 3rd Place: Owen, 2nd Place: Anouar & Alistair 1st Place: Liam! Well done.

Christmas Lunch On Monday we had our whole school Christmas Lunch. We honestly don’t know how our Parents and Friends group have done it, but they managed to cater a whole school Christmas lunch for 132 people. The food was simply amazing, all the students loved every bit of it. If things couldn’t get better after having a great meal and fabulous dessert, we were treated to a visit from Santa on the football oval. A massive thank you to our Parents and Friends for organising the lunch, they have done a tremendous job not just with this function, but all year raising money to make the school a better place for our students. At the conclusion of our Christmas Lunch we quickly transformed the football rooms, packing away all the tables and chairs for our final assembly for the year to present our school awards. All award winners were very deserving and we would also like to thank all the people and community groups that donated the awards. The award winners were as followed:

Rotary award for excellence donated by Foster Rotary was won by Tom Vuillermin

Kindness award donated by Pam Seuren was won by Maya Hayward-Bannister

Principals award donated by Mr Banks was won by Lily-Ann Bright

S.T.E.M. award donated by South Gippsland Radiology was won by Tom Taylor

Anne Bright Art award donated by Rick Bright was won by Gretta Paul

Leadership award donated by South Gippsland Shire was won by Josh Gale

Lance Moon award for most improved donated by the Moon family was won by Grace Wilson

Today our Grade 6 students also received a parting gift of a dictionary from our Parents and Friends group, to help them with their future studies and a tree donated from Bunnings in Wonthaggi to symbolise their transition into secondary college.

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