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Warranwood

Primary School www.warranwood.vic.edu.au

1 Wellington Park Drive

Warranwood Vic 3134

Phone: 9876 6066

Fax: 9876 6122 warranwood.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Term 1, Week 7 Thursday, 30 May, 2013

WHAT’S ON? May Fri 31 Interschool Sport v’s Good Shepherd LPS

June Tue 04 SC Building & Grounds Sustainability Meeting 7:30pm Thu 06 Senior School Yr 5/6 Excursion Melb Gaol & Court House Fri 07 Curriculum Day NO SCHOOL Mon 10 Queen’s Birthday Holiday NO SCHOOL Tue 11 Divisional Cross Country Wed 12 School Council Promotions meeting 8:00am Fri 14 School Council Finance meeting 8:15am Fri 14 Interschool Sport v’s Antonio Park PS Sat 15 Trivia Night “Splash of Red” 7-11pm Tue 18 School Council meeting 7:30pm Tue 25 School Council Education meeting 7:30pm

July Thu 18 State Cross Country Mon 29 Middle School Year 3/4 Toy Story Production The Mahon Theatre, Aquinas College 6:30pm Show 1 Cast 1 - 8:30pm Show 2 Cast 2

Principal Awards

Indi C, Zoe V - PrepDC Hayley B - PrepRD Tahlia S - 1/2AM

Aiden B, Maya V - 1/2O Tijana G, Emma F - 1/2VP Dylan O, Brodie R - 3/4AT

Jack B, Beth M, Amelia O - 3/4BF Corey C - 3/4EF

Principal Report

CYBERSAFETY I have outsourced some of my report today!! Yesterday our school was fortunate enough to enjoy engaging and professional presentations by Kerry from the Australian Com-munication and Media Authority (ACMA) around being cyber smart. Kerry spent time in the afternoon with our senior school students and then with staff after school. Last night I attended, with many other parents, to hear her tips and advice for keeping our families safe on-line and off-line...and about what she had learnt from the conversations with students that afternoon. A great holistic approach! She certainly raised my awareness of what I could do as a parent to better protect our boys as they begin their journey and enter the big online world – I went home and diligently checked the pri-vacy settings on our computers and other electronic devices and started a chat with the boys over breakfast about what cyber safety means. It's one of many conversations no doubt!

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I know that many others couldn’t get there but I urge you to spend some to time exploring the cyber smart website below and think about how you will tackle some of these issues yourselves. Happy googling. Also, see www.cybersmart.gov.au/ Shannon Newman, on behalf of the education committee

UNIFORM 2014 Thank you to those people who have given us feedback already. We met with another supplier today and some of the feedback was very useful. Last chance this week!! Please see the proposed uniform on our website and send feedback to me via the school email warranwood.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

FOOTY CARDS Kids’ games come and go, sometimes they stay for ages and sometimes they are very short term fashion. Re-cently we have had the return of girls playing elastics, but that seems to have come and gone. When swap cards have their turn, via football, pokemon, yugioh etc we sometimes are confronted with difficult issues. Sometimes it happens when they play “flicks” to see who gets closest to the wall. Usually problems arise when unfair trading practices come into play, which basically involves some of the older boys using standover tactics. Because it is almost impossible to monitor in the yard, we sometimes need to ban the swapping, selling etc of cards, which is what I have done this week. There was a really interesting exchange on Facebook this week about the issue, and I have spoken to many parents through the week. I also received the following from Elise about her Year 3/4 class. My kids and I had a really good conversation about this today – they all thought it was a fair decision particularly as they have seen countless examples of unfair swaps/stealing of cards/hurt feelings etc over the past few weeks. We then used these examples to highlight the role of the bystander & what they can do when they see something that doesn't seem right.

SPRING FAIR A new aspect of this year’s Spring Fair will be introduced next week. It is the Penfolds Grange Lucky Draw. A limited number of tickets will be sold up until the fair. On the fair day we will draw 25 tickets. Each of those ticket holders will get to pick one of 25 mystery bottle prizes. One of those bottles will be a 2007 Penfolds Grange Her-mitage. What a great idea!! (Don’t forget to visit the Spring Fair Facebook page).

SLUSHEE MACHINE We have purchased a new slushee machine! The main use will of course be for our Spring Fair, but it will get its first outing at our Splash of Red Trivia Night. And hope-fully some Slushee Days when the weather improves!

WALK TO SCHOOL DAY What a great community response! See the report to find out why!!

TRIVIA

Speaking of community events, we are looking forward to the Splash of Red Trivia Night. Get a table to-gether!!

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Assistant Principal Report Reporting Week This week our students have enjoyed a whole day of specialists while teachers spend time on moderation and writing reports. The reports will come home to families on Friday June 21.

Cybersafety Thank you to all those who attended our cybersafety presentation by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) last night. I was unfortunately ill and couldn’t attend but I have already had great reports about the night. At the back of the newsletter are some cybersafety tips for under 13s from a site called ‘Project 13’. Have a look at the tips and talk to your children.

Sue

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Office News The Scholastic book orders are at the office for collection. A reminder also that the current Scholastic book order forms are due back at the office by Friday 14th June.

Trish and Mandi

Sports News Winter Sport - Round 5 - WPS V Good Shepherd LPS

Friday May 30

District Cross Country A beautiful crisp morning greeted the runners last Tuesday morning as our school set off for the District Cross Country event. Some students were running for the first time and some had been regular team members and were now run-ning for the last time in Year 6. Great determination was displayed by those who finished in the top 10 and qualified for the division event and by those who finished further in the placings. Every student earned points for the school and once the scores were tallied Warranwood finished a very creditable 3

rd overall.

The following students compete in 2 week’s time: Will P (1

st), Emma W (2

nd), Jack S (2

nd), Liam B (5

th), Nick H (6

th), Charlotte L (10

th). Unluckily we had 3 students finish

11th in their events, 2 12ths and a 13

th, all just outside of the division competition qualification.

A great effort by everyone. Thank you to the many parents who supported the runners. Hannah T was our only student who made Regional trials in individual sports. She attended the soccer trial but on this occasion was cut from the Team Vic system. Congratulations for getting this far.

Rod Neal

Warranwood Primary School

Golf Park The school's newest attraction will be opening on June 3rd! The W.P.S Golf Park has been under construction for the past 2 weeks now. It is located near the Staff Car Park/3/4 playground. This 9 hole mini golf park has been created by a team of Grade 3/4 students led by Xavier H, as a way of enjoying another school yard activity during the school year.

We hope to see you there, Xavier H

Sport Venue

Netball A Warranwood PS

Netball B Warranwood PS

Netball C Warranwood PS

Softball Boys Warranwood PS

Softball Girls Warranwood PS

Volleyball Good Shepherd LPS

Bat Tennis Good Shepherd LPS

Football Good Shepherd LPS

Soccer Good Shepherd LPS

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Walk Safely to School Day! Thanks to everyone who participated in our annual Walk Safely to

School Day. We had a total of 355 students who either walked,

rode or skated their way to school – on one of the coldest

Melbourne mornings of the year!

A big thank you to our Greenologists who helped run the sign-in

sheets and gave out congratulatory stickers.

Remember: When walking to school, always choose a safe place to cross

(such as a supervised school crossing) and Stop! Look!

Listen! Think! every time you cross the road.

Elise Fasnacht, Vicky Papadakis and the Greenology Team

Canteen News A reminder that Canteen is closed for lunch orders on Wednesdays. Canteen will not be open for over the counter sales during Term 2. HOT CHOCOLATE $1.00, HOT CHOCOLATE WITH MARSHMALLOW $1.20. Canteen has a supply of Cadbury Drinking Chocolate. To use up this stock we will be offering Hot Chocolates for sale on a number of advertised days in Terms 2 and 3. We will again sell Hot Chocolates next MONDAY JUNE 3rd and TUESDAY JUNE 4th. A plain Hot Chocolate will cost $1.00, with marshmallow added $1.20. Hot Chocolates WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE ON ADVERTISED DAYS. Milos will continue to be on offer every Canteen day. SUSHI DAY - Canteen is having another Sushi Day TUESDAY JUNE 25th. Order forms for this day were distribut-ed earlier this week and will need to be returned to school by Friday June 21st. The normal canteen menu will also be available and over the counter sales will operate as usual. I will need some extra helpers between 11am and 1pm on this day. If you are able to assist, please call me during canteen hours or after hours on one of the num-bers listed below. Thank you. SALT & VINEGAR POPCORN - Back in stock, $1.20 per packet.

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STRAWBERRY BIG M’s - are back in stock. FROZEN YOGHURT - I have been unable to obtain stock of frozen yoghurt. I have not received an answer as to whether this item is in the process of being discontinued. I will keep you updated. BBQ SAKATAS - We are no longer stocking BBQ Sakatas. They were not selling well enough to warrant keep-ing them on our menu. Please delete this item from your canteen menus. Thank you. ROSTER FOR THE NEXT 3 WEEKS :- May 2013 Fri 31 Jennifer Davis, Trish Grant, Kelly Canavan June 2013 Mon 03 Kate Braunthal, Michelle Caruna Tue 04 Vanessa Allsop, Deb Sandilands Wed 05 CANTEEN CLOSED Thu 06 Kim Durose, Judith Trigt, Angela Wade Fri 07 CURRICULUM DAY Mon 10 QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY Tue 11 Jacqui Coia, Matoula Gatsoulis Wed 12 CANTEEN CLOSED Thu 13 Jelena Kristic, Helen Sapardanis Fri 14 Nicole Stokes, Erin Voyer, Mon 17 Robyn Abicair, Jo Aikman Tue 18 Wendy Harrison, Wed 19 CANTEEN CLOSED Thu 20 Kelly Canavan, Kath Margetts Fri 21 Carly Milne, Lisa Owen, Angela Williams Canteen Vacancies If you are unable to attend canteen duty on the day you are rostered, please contact me during canteen hours or after hours on 9876 1288 or mobile 0413 370 898. Thank you.

Rosemary

PARENTS ASSOCIATION REPORT Hello mums and dads, I have a bit to chat about this week. Firstly the next Parents Association meeting is

Wednesday 5th of June at 9.15am, we would love your contribution, so hope to see you there.

There are still a few Entertainment Books that need to be returned, if you could hand them back to the

office as soon as possible that would be great. Thank you.

Tables are selling quickly for the Trivia Night on Saturday 15th of June. Some exciting news is that we

have a Slushy Machine for the night. Combinations of the slushies still need to be confirmed, but I can

guarantee they will be delicious! If you have any suggestions please just have a chat with me. I have some

more trivia questions for you:

1. Who had an 80's hit with the song 'I'm Too Sexy'?

2. What was the original name of Mickey Mouse?

3. If you add the two numbers on the opposite sides of a dice together, what total do you

always get?

4. How many hearts does an octopus have?

5. Who's treasure was buried in Treasure Island?

For more details for the Trivia Night please see the flyer below.

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Finally, keep an eye out for the flyer that will be coming home with all the details for Opening Night of

Monsters University at Reading Cinemas on Thursday 20th June. The approximate screening time will be

6.30pm. Tickets are $15 for Adults and $11 for Children. Flyer is attached.

Answers for the trivia questions: 1. Right Said Fred, 2.Mortimer Mouse, 3. 7, 4.Three, 5. Captain Flints

Thanks everyone,

Georgie

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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