2017 Ath Sports Newsletter

East Geelong Athletic Sports Carnival

On Thursday we had our Athletic Sports day. Well done to all our students who tried their best. The

following students achieved the following places

Tabby 1st - 800 m, 1st - 200 m, 1st - 100 m, 1st - hurdles, 2nd - high jump, 2nd - Discus

Jaykeb 1st - 800 m, 1st - High jump, 3rd - discus, 3rd - hurdles, 3rd - relay

Makayla 2nd - 200 m, 3rd - 800 m

Baylee 2nd - 8oo m, 3rd - 100 m

Destiny 2nd - 100 m

Lana 2nd - high jump

Jesse 3rd - 800m, 3rd - relay

Jai 3rd - relay

Isaiah 3rd - relay

www.newcombparkps@vic.edu.au Term 3—Week 8— 07 September 2017

Respect Responsibility Resilience

Important Dates:

Thursday 14 September Beauty & the Beast, whole school excursion Thursday, 21 September The Resilience Project 7.00pm sharp Parents /Carers Friday 22 September Footy Colours Day Special Lunch Last Day of Term Monday 09 October First Day of Term 4

Principal’s Message

Hi Everyone,

With only two weeks of this term left we still have so many things to look forward to – please keep the info

handy so that you know what’s happening. I hope that you all have sent back the Semper Dentist forms as

this is a wonderful service provided to our school.

The Resilience Project is going to be an amazing project for us to be involved in – please come along to

the parent session on Thursday, 21st September – the flyer went home yesterday. It’s so important that we

all look after our mental health and this is a powerful way to learn more about it to support our young

children who are our future.

Respectful Relationships is another program that our school will become involved in – three staff are

being introduced to the program this afternoon – we are partnered with other schools to support us and

then for us to support our students and community.

Our students and staff can’t wait to go to our whole school excursion – Beauty and the Beast at GPAC. It

should be a wonderful experience with the orchestra, lighting and costumes etc - let alone the acting and

singing! Mrs Hargreaves certainly has a few butterflies too – not only hoping her Prep/ ones love the

performance but her son is the BEAST!!

Our new Occupational Therapist students from Deakin commence next week – they work so well with

our students helping them to improve letter formation, pencil grip, core strength, sitting positions for writing

and a lot more! We love their expertise in this area.

The painting of some parts of the school will continue during the holidays. The plan for the rebuild of the

BER is on the way!! It is very frustrating waiting for this to happen and I thank everyone for their patience –

I must say mine is running out! But we continue to make some progress. I think it’s a credit to all staff and

students to continue to be happy in the rooms that they are in with so much incredible teaching and

learning happening across the school.

Jaren is our STE[A]M go to man – Science, Technology,[Arts] Engineering and Maths. Years 4/5/6 have

built the robotics ready to be programmed and used by all of our students. Students absolutely LOVE

these sessions and can’t wait for more times working with Jaren who, may I add LOVES his technology

and also working within the classrooms with the teacher, ES and kids. Technology is going really well.

Congratulations to our basketball teams – they played so well in the competition against other schools.

The practise every day has really supported them to be a terrific team who try really hard and they have all

improved their skills. Thanks to Sommer for training everyone – it’s been a great recess and lunchtime

activity and will continue to be I’m sure.

It’s great that we have all of our Aides outside during recess and lunch – there’s so much for our students

to do and our Aides support them all to have some fun playing.

Footy day colours are on the last day of the term – there will also be a special lunch [thanks P&F] that

everyone can order – more info soon. The raffle of the VERY LARGE Tobleone will be over the next two

weeks – the draw will be on the last day of the term – good luck everyone.

Our Therapy puppy - Milli is such a hit – you should see the children with her – so gentle and yes – they

ALL want her!

Have a great week everyone,

Julie

MEET MILLI

Meet Milli, Mrs Linic’s beautiful puppy who has

settled in beautifully to life at school. All of

the students absolutely love her, she is being

trained as a therapy dog, but at the moment

she is enjoying just being a much love little

puppy.

Woolworths Earn & Learn 2017

Dear Parents,

This year we are participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through this program we

will be able to get new educational resources for our school/early learning centre – and all we

need you to do is shop for your groceries at Woolworths.

From Wednesday 26th July to Tuesday 19th September or while stock lasts, we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn

Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10 spent (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift

cards). Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and when it’s com-

plete, the Sticker Sheet can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school or at your local Woolworths.

At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots

of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some fantastic fun supplies for

Arts & Craft, Sport and for our library. If you’d like to know more visit woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn

Extend After School Care at

Newcomb Park Primary School

The children have been playing a fun-filled

shop game. As we were in a different room

we took the opportunity and did treasure

hunts and a scavenger hunt. The children

have also played games outside including

football, hide and seek, downball and more.

We also did some Father’s Day preparations

and activities.

See you next week!

Pertricia Quarrell, Team Leader

What’s on next week?

Monday 11 September:

Clay Sculptures

Tuesday 12 September:

Spaghetti

Wednesday 13 September:

Making Cookies

Thursday 14 September:

Dress Up Dance Party

Friday 15 September:

Marshmallow Tower

PARENT PORTAL: extend.com.au

Students had a great time representing the school at the

interschool basketball on Wednesday, well done.

The boys won two of their three games the girls weren’t

as successful but well done for participating. Brilliant.

INTERSCHOOL BASKETBALL

P:1H Braxton

1:2W Mia

2:3L Bella

4:5N Ryder

5:6E Enrique

RESPONSIBILITY

P:1H Rahaf

2:3L Ava

4:5N Bailey

5:6E Reagan