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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 4 Thursday, 09 May, 2013

WHAT’S ON? May Fri 10 Interschool Sport v’s Kalinda PS Wed 15 Promotions Meeting 8:00am Fri 17 Finance Committee meeting 8:15am Fri 17 Interschool Sport v’s Croydon Hill PS Sun 19 Taiko performance- Japan Festival Box Hill Mon-Fri 20-31 Middle school Yr 3/4 Swimming Program Tues 21 School Council meeting 7:30pm Fri 24 Interschool Sport v’s Donvale Christian College Tue 28 District Cross Country Wed 29 ACMA Cyber Safety for Parents 7pm (Senior building) Wed 29 Education meeting 7:30pm Fri 31 Interschool Sport v’s Good Shepherd LPS

June Fri 07 Curriculum Day NO SCHOOL Mon 10 Labour Day NO SCHOOL Sat 15 Trivia Night “Splash of Red” 7-11pm

Principal Awards

Maddie G, Jacksyn F - PrepDC James H - 3/4AD Emma L - 3/4AT

India R, Olivia J, Connor M - 3/4BF Laura M - 3/4EF

Emily S, Darcy P - 5/6RP

Principal Report

OPEN DAY – INFORMATION NIGHT On Tuesday we had our annual Open Day followed by Information Night for Prep 2014. It was great to see many new fam-ilies looking at our school. As part this day our School Captains spoke to all at the Information Night and took some tours around the school in the morning. I was so proud of their confidence and the way they promoted our school. I know that many, of not all, of our Senior School students would have been confident and capable of stepping up to such tasks.

PREP ENROLMENT 2014 Parents with children to enrol for Prep in 2014 are encouraged to do this as soon as possible! Enrolment forms are availa-ble from the office! Please encourage friends and neighbours with kindergarten children to enrol at Warranwood PS and if they haven’t already to come along for a tour.

SPRING FAIR Today every family will receive the first Spring Fair newsletter. Tania Anderson,

who has also set up the Spring Fair Facebook page has done an outstanding job on our first newsletter! Please read it caerfully and if you can support the Fair in any way, or know someone else who would benefit from sponsorship of the Fair, please conact the Fair committee.

It is great to report that we have our first Gold Sponsor for the Fair. ENERLITE (a school family company) provides stat of the art energy-saving LED lights. Enerlite are in the process of replacing all school lights (including fluoro tubes), a process that will save the school thousands of dollars in energy bills each year.

Congratulations to Camryn of 5/6SH for her winning entry. Her logo design will feature on all Spring Fair 2013 advertising and material.

NAPLAN Our Year 3 and 5 students will be completing the NAPLAN tests next week. Parents will receive an information brochure today. While NAPLAN is a one-off snapshot test, as opposed to the ongoing testing our teachers do, the results are useful to parents and the school in determining our future focuses. Our School Strategic Plan is impacted on by these results. Past NAPLAN results and school-comparisons can be found on the MySchool website: www.myschool.edu.au

CANTEEN Please remember that there are no school

lunch orders on Wednesdays.

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SWIMMING PROGRAM This week the Health Department released a warning to parents of students who attend swim lessons about the Cryptospiridium outbreak. With our upcoming Middle School swimming program parents will have good reason to be concerned. We contacted the Corydon Leisure Centre and we have been assured that there have been no cases reported connected with the pool and that the pool is “superchlorinated” and tested every 4 hours. If you have further concerns please contact me or the pool directly.

CONFERENCE TIME Both Brigid and Trish are away at the annual Business Manager’s conference today and tomorrow. Next Thursday and Friday Sue Dean and I will be attending the Maroondah/Whitehorse Network Principal confer-ence. Should you need to speak to anyone during this time please don’t hesitate to contact the office and your concern will be directed appropriately. Shane Harrop will be acting Principal during this time.

CURRICULUM DAY Our next Curriculum Day will be Friday 7 June. Monday 10 June is the Queen’s Birthday public holiday so we thought this a good opportunity for a long weekend for some of our families.

2013 Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge.

It’s time to register! We are now registering students to participate in this year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge. This year we are starting later due to industrial action which has now been lifted. Once again the challenge includes all Primary School levels. Year 3-6 children are challenged to read 15 books and Prep-2 children are challenged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books from the Challenge lists. Prep-2 children can read independently or experience books – this includes shared reading or being read to and can involve parents, teachers, siblings, student buddies or classmates. Certificates signed by the Premier will be awarded to celebrate the achievements of all students who success-fully complete the Reading Challenge. Names of students will be also published in a special supplement in The Sunday Age in Term 4. If your child /children would like to enter the Victorian Premier’s Reading Challenge please print and fill out the permission form included in this week’s Connect and return it as soon as possible to your child’s classroom teacher. Once consent forms have been returned your child/children will then be registered and given their individual user name and password. They will also be given a student instruction sheet to help them get start-ed. When your child has read a book he/she can begin recording their reading online and watch their own indicator grow as they get closer to their target!

Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life Did you know that reading to young children every day has enormous benefits for their brain development, thinking skills and language? Young children who are read to regularly also do better at school according to a study conducted by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and funded by the De-partment of Education and Early Childhood Development. To find out more, see:

The Age - Proof of benefits of reading to children

Research Publications

For more information and this year’s booklist visit www.education.vic.gov.au/prc

Yvonne Reid and Ann Mangan

2013 Challenge Co-ordinators

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Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge 2013 Consent Form

Dear parent/guardian Students have a chance to take part in the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge (Challenge) in 2013. Details of the Challenge in 2013 are available at www.education.vic.gov.au/prc. There will not be any payment involved.

SECTION 1: Consent of a parent/guardian to authorise student entry and to authorise awarding of certificates of achievement for students who meet the Challenge in 2013

Please tick only one of the boxes below.

I consent to my child entering the Challenge and authorise their name on a completion cer-tificate (Certificate of Achievement).

I do not give consent for my child to enter the Challenge in 2013.

Signed: -------------------------------- (Parent/guardian) --------------------------------- (print name) Date: -------------------------------- Signed by Student........................................... Student name (Print Full Name).................................................... Class........................................... Age in years as at 1 February 2013 .............................................. Student’s Certificate Name: (Only required if different from name given above) SECTION 2: Optional- Consent to publish child’s name in Achievers Honour Roll in the Age Newspaper

Please tick only one of the boxes below.

I consent to publication of my child’s name in the Achievers Honour Roll in the Age Newspaper.

I do not give consent for my child’s name to be published

I understand that if I wish to withdraw this consent to publication it will be my responsibility to inform the Reading Challenge Coordinator at my child’s school on or before 10 September 2013. Signed: -------------------------------- (Parent/guardian) --------------------------------- (print name) Date: --------------------------------

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Sports News Winter Sport - Round 2 - WPS V Kalinda PS

Friday May 10

Japanese News

Japanese at home for Middle & Senior School! You may have heard that students in Yr 3-6 have been using an app in Japanese called Zondle. Zondle is a games-based learning website that allows me to create games to support my classes learning needs. I have created various quiz questions for students to complete on my chosen topics that can be played in a selection of casual games. I am also able to monitor student results to my quizzes and their progress. Each student has a simple log in that allows them to play online or on a mobile device. Zondle provides a protected interface, totally under the control of the teach-er. Yr3-6 students can download the Zondle app for free or visit the website and enjoy using their Japanese at home.

TAIKO news! Congratulations to all our terrific drummers who performed on Open Day this week. They did a great job under difficult weather conditions. Our Yr5 group had their very first public performance and put in a terrific effort! It was good to see their enthusiasm and hear such confident drumming sounds. The Yr 6s will perform again on Sunday May 19th at the Japan Festival- Box Hill Town Hall. This is an exciting festival that runs all day and offers delicious Japanese food, craft stalls, entertainment and much more. Our Warrior Daiko will perform at 10.45am

Tanya Barlow

Sport Venue

Netball A Kalinda PS

Netball B Kalinda PS

Netball C Kalinda PS

Softball Boys Warranwood PS

Softball Girls Warranwood PS

Volleyball Warranwood PS

Bat Tennis Warranwood PS

Football Quambee Reserve

Soccer Kalinda PS

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PARENTS ASSOCIATION REPORT

What a fantastic night we had last Friday at the Croydon Sports Centre for the Mother/Son

night. It was great seeing so many mums running around playing games with their sons. I

loved watching the grade 5/6 mums being so competitive with their boys I’m not sure who

wanted to win more! A big thank you to Tanya and her Mum and Dad for helping out on the

night, it was greatly appreciated. We only had one collision, which I think wasn’t too bad. The

pizzas were yummy and the cold drinks went down a treat. Check out the photo below.

Thanks to everyone who participated, there was lots of laughs.

Last Friday the Entertainment books went out to families, I hope you have had a chance to

have a look through them and decide whether you would like to purchase one or not. If you

would like one please fill in the form that was attached with cash or your credit card details

and put them in your children’s pouches or hand them into the office. If you decide it isn’t

something you would like to purchase could you please hand the books back to the office. If

you have any questions please either contact myself or Trish in the office. Many thanks.

Put the date in your diary and start organising a table…..

The WARRANWOOD TRIVIA NIGHT will be held on Saturday 15th June 2013, 7pm till

11pm. Don’t forget to wear a ‘Splash of Red’ on the night to add some colour!

So to get you scratching the ol’ grey matter we have included a few tricky questions …

see how many you can answer.

Q: With reference to mobile phone networks, what does 3G stand for?

Q: In the 2009 film 'The Hangover' which Las Vegas hotel did the bachelor party stay

at?

Q: Who had an 80s hit with the song entitled '99 Red Balloons'?

Q: What is the softest mineral in the world?

Q: Do camels store water in their humps?

Cost of tickets is $20 per person. BYO nibbles and drinks. Tables of 10, so gather your

friends, family, neighbours and join in with what is going to be a guaranteed night of laughter

and entertainment! Be quick as this is going to book up fast and we don’t want any ‘red’ faces

who have missed out…

For more information see the attached flyer below..

The answers are: 1. 3rd generation, 2. Caesar’s Palace, 3. Nena, 4. Talc, 5. No they consist of

fat.

Thanks everyone,

Georgie

Warranwood “Splash of Red” Trivia Night!!!!!

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Canteen News A reminder that Canteen is closed for lunch orders on Wednesdays. Canteen will not be open for over the coun-ter sales during Term 2. ROSTER FOR THE NEXT 3 WEEKS :- May 2013 Fri 10 Tanya Ellard, Sam Ireland, Liz McGinley Mon 13 Kate Bevins, Peta Pennell Tue 14 Jenni Carey, Sonia Greaves Wed 15 CANTEEN CLOSED Thu 16 Fri 17 Shauna McIntosh, Cara Mooney, Connie Panagiotopoulos Mon 20 Tue 21 Jane Fletcher, Andrew Gersh Wed 22 CANTEEN CLOSED Thu 23 Shona Booth, Mandy Dunlop Fri 24 Fiona Hall, Lydia Orfanidis, Julie Turnbull Mon 27 Belinda Humphreys, Jo Hunter, Joanne Kinnane Tue 28 Jenny Curtis, Mel Farmilo Wed 29 CANTEEN CLOSED Thu 30 Fri 31 Jennifer Davis, Trish Grant 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

Australian Communications and Media Authority

Presentation CYBER SAFETY FOR PARENTS

7pm Wednesday 29th May

Senior School Building

Please come along and learn some valuable skills to help

your family be safe on the internet.

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COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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