Term 1 Thursday 22nd February 2018

Flowerdale Primary School

3377 Whittlesea– Yea Rd, Flowerdale, Vic 3717

Ph: 5780 1264 Fax: 5780 2064

Email: flowerdale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

http://www.flowerdaleps.vic.edu.au

February Amber

March Anna

Compassion . Bouncing Back . Respect . Personal Best . Teamwork

FEBRUARY

22nd Swimming Lessons

Rotary Dinner

23rd Assembly 9am

4-6 Kayaking

28th No Foundation

students

MARCH

1st Swimming Lessons

2nd Assembly 9am

6th Swimming

Carnival at

Healesville

8th Swimming Lessons

16th Family BBQ 5-7pm

20th School Council AGM

26th SCHOOL PHOTOS

Dear parents and carers, It is week two of the swimming program and our students are doing an amazing job. With such small groups the students get a lot of partner or individual assistance and are making good progress. Children are required to wear caps and goggles in the pool and any child with head lice is not permitted in the pool for health reasons. The dreaded head lice are around again and students need to be treated to remove any lice, nits or eggs before returning to school. It is important to comb through your child’s hair carefully on a regular basis to check for any infestation. Regular combing with conditioner is very helpful. Tomorrow the Year 4 & 6 students are participating in Kayaking at Lilydale Lake. Please have your child at school by 8.10am if they are participating. Thank you to Maree Lund and Terry Pollet for assisting with the driving. The Parents and Friends’ Group held their Annual general Meeting on Tuesday morning. Congratulations to Lareesa Brennan who will be our President, Claire Davidson has been appointed as Secretary and Hayley Harper is our Treasurer. It was great to have some new members attend the meeting and contribute ideas for activities for 2018.

Breakfast club will be held each fortnight on Wednesdays

Contributions fro the Easter Raffle can be placed in a box in the front

office. Toys, games, chocolates much appreciated.

Rotary Dinner tonight/ next Dinner April 19 (helpers needed/see

Sandra)

Easter bonnet making and a parade will take place in the last two days

of term. SCHOOL COUNCIL As advertised there are three positions vacant on the School Council. I received only two nominations by the due date, February 20th , so Lareesa Brennan and Demmi Kerr are duly elected as two of our new School Councillors for 2018/19. Congratulations on your appointment! We still need one more member on the School Council. The role requires attendance at 8 meetings per year only. If you would like to know more about the role please pop in to see me. The School Council AGM will be held on Tuesday March 20th at 6.00pm followed by a Council meeting. -Sandra Horwood

www.flowerdaleps.vic.edu.au

OUR SCHOOL VALUE FOCUS THIS FORTNIGHT IS

BOUNCING BACK ‘The ability to recover from adversity. To be resilient’

Kayaking – 4-6

Swimming Carnival– All students

Chaplaincy permission form– All students

A fun and relaxed day of pool fun with other Primary Schools at Healesville Pool

on the 6th of March

Relaxed races and fun events. Parents/guardians welcome!

WHAT WE BOUGHT WITH OUR EARN AND LEARN POINTS FROM

2017!

The education department now requires schools to contact parents/guardians on the actual day of an absence if the school has not been previously notified. So if your child is away from school and the school has not be notified in person, by phone call, note or Flexibuzz, then you will receive a friendly phone call asking about your child. We’re not that scary– we promise!

If the office is unattended, please place any notes or money into the

mail slot below the front desk.

We would like to congratulate Mark

Simpson on earning his motorbike licence!

Congratulations also go to James Simpson

who has been competing in motorbike

racing for years and has been so successful

he has now moved into racing in

professional races!

Well done boys!

FOUNDATION– GRADE 2

Keira-Rose for Personal Best Harley for Bouncing Back

Kaylee for Respect

GRADE 3-6

Mark for Compassion Jake S for Compassion Olivia for Personal Best

EXCELLENCE IN MUSIC

Keira-Rose

PRINCIPALS’ AWARD

Ruby & James

SCHOOL AWARDS

Week 2 & 3 2018

What is your favourite colour? Blue

What is your favourite food? Any dessert

Favourite AFL football team? Brisbane Lions

Favourite movie? Mamma Mia

Who is in your family? My husband Peter and 3 daughters, Kaitlin

(21), Michaella (20) and Rachel (16).

Pets? Chooks, fish, sheep and budgies

Hobbies? Cooking, travelling and reading (when I get time!)

What’s something that most people don’t know about you?

I really love to run!

JACQUELINE CULLUM

PE & Indonesian Teacher

Every 2nd Wednesday morning in the PFA Room.

Fruit, cereal, juice and

porridge available.

Special breakfast days to come!

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COMPETITION ENTRY FORM (place in box outside Ms Davis’ room)

Name: ________________________________

The Jelly Bean was in: ______________________________________

I found Pumpernickel: __________________________________________

CLUE:

Soft sitting

Hello travellers! You were right, I had visited Canada last time! But can you guess this weeks destination? Here are some clues to help you: 1. The RMS Titanic was actually built in this country. 2. The longest place name in this country is Muckanaghederdauhaulia. 3. 88% of the population are Catholic. 4. This country is snake free. 5. According to their birthday traditions, people hold the birthday child upside down and

bump the head slightly on the floor. The bumps correspond to the age of the child. It is believed that this tradition brings good luck.

6. This country is known throughout the world for its vast amount of castles. It’s history is dotted with wars and violence, so castles were built to protect families from invaders.

Research in books and the internet and when you think you know the answer write it down with your name and place it in the Jelly Bean basket. A name will be pulled out to win a prize at assembly! Best of luck!

Signing off!

I really like hitting the ball hard in tennis!-

Ruby

I like when we play games when you have to run and collect the tennis balls as well as when

we have to try and bounce the tennis balls on our racquets.– Kayla

I really like Melissa, our tennis coach. She’s much friendlier than my other coach!- Jack

I enjoy hitting the tennis balls over the net when we play matches– Anna

I love getting to learn new things and the tennis games are really fun and enjoyable!- Ashlee

Hai Semua, This week the students began their tennis lessons with Melissa (tennis coach from Broadford). The students worked really well in their lesson and were very enthusiastic about their lesson. Both classes were taught how to do a volley and did activities on that. It was great to see all students participate in all the activities and have a go and enjoy their time. If any students do tennis lessons or have a racquet at home they are more than welcome to bring it along each Monday to use in their PE lesson. Did you know that the Indonesian flag is Red and White? Merah dan Putih. This week P-2 students had fun making the Indonesian flag. They practised saying their name in Indonesian- nama saya…. Years 3-6 were introduced to Gestures on Instructions- using actions as you speak. After watching a clip on Gestures and practicing, they then made posters. Some examples were- sit, read, listen, good morning, good bye, quiet and asking to go to the toilet. Look out for the posters in the class illustrating the gesture. Terima Kasih, (Thank you) Samapi Jumpa, (Until next time/see you later) -Bu Cullum

Kaylee, Oscar, Yaacoub and Joey showing off their

Indonesian flags.

It has been incredible to see all the happy faces returning to school for 2018! It has been an excellent start to the year! The students have returned to school with happiness and positivity and this is showing through their work. The 3-6 room is a pleasure to be in, the grade is working well together and has been enjoying the new learning space. The students are constantly demonstrating our school values of Bouncing Back, Compassion, Respect, Personal Best and Teamwork, in the yard and in the classroom. Welcome back and keep up the good work Year 3-6! -Mrs Zala

What did Annie spy this week? Why Pumpernickel and his parrot friends sitting on top of our sunflowers and bending them over to eat every last seed out of them! We hope they enjoyed their tasty meal because our sunflowers are no more now!

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

19 20 MACC (Art) 21 Brekky Club

No Foundation

Students

22

Swimming

Lessons

ROTARY

DINNER

23 Bluelight Disco

@ Kinglake

24 25

26 27 28

No Foundation

Students

1 MARCH

Swimming

Lessons

2 MARC

(Library)

3 4

5 6

SWIMMING

CARNIVAL

FUN DAY

7 Brekky Club 8

Swimming

Lessons

NEXT

NEWSLETTER

9 10 11

12 LABOUR DAY

Public Holiday

13 14 15

Swimming

Lessons

16 MARC

FAMILY BBQ

EVENING

17 18

FEBRUARY/MARCH 2018 Stick on your fridge!

Flowerdale Primary School