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Warranwood Primary School

www.warranwood.vic.edu.au

Principal’s Report STAFF CARPARK CONCERNS Please remember that the staff carpark area is for staff, disabled parking and visitors only. We ask parents to re-frain from parking in the spaces at drop off and pick up times as it encourages students to walk through the parked cars and at times they run out from between and don’t look for approaching cars. This makes it a very un-safe practise and increases the chances of a terrible accident occurring. We look forward to your support in man-aging this situation. Curriculum Days- STUDENT FREE DAYS- Friday 23rd March and Tuesday 24th April This Friday 23rd of March the Warranwood teachers will be working alongside the staff from Croydon PS to en-gage in professional learning about teaching mathematics. The workshop will present staff with best practice ap-proaches and knowledge about numeration and computation skills. Staff will engage in practical activities that will focus on the development of maths concepts and processes and importantly the sequences of development that best produce student understanding. As mentioned two weeks ago we will be holding our last Student Free Curriculum Day on Tuesday 24th of April in Term 2. This will allow our entire staff to work with the Positive Education Institute in Building Positive Education Teaching Practices. The implementation of this framework will extend and enrich the work previously completed with the Resilience Project and will be far broader in its assimilation to teacher/ student/parent and community relationships and support positive mental health cultural practices and importantly resilient learning habits. At Monday’s assembly our House Captains performed a mini play to highlight the importance of students taking risks with their learning and especially in asking questions to clarify. I was really proud to see them zero in on the role class peers play in creating the type of learning culture we want here at Warranwood. Body language, active listening with supportive and accepting gestures and actions are essential in building positive risk takers and great learners. Please discuss with your child how they can take positive risks with their learning and how they can encourage others to become positive risk takers with their learning too. GARDEN CLUB Our garden club will meet next week on Wednesday 28th March 9-11. Come along and meet some other keen gardeners and make a difference to our school gardens.

Term 1, Week 8 Thursday 22nd March 2018

WHAT’S ON? March 23 Curriculum Day 23 Fathering Project Games Night 5.30pm 26 Year 3/4 Swimming 27 Grandparent’s Day—Prep 27 Hot Cross Bun Day 28 Easter Hat Day 29th End of Term 1—2.30 Finish April 16 Term 2 Begins 20 Prep Fun Night 24 Curriculum Day 30-4/5 Grade 1/2 Swimming

PRINCIPAL AWARD WINNERS Prep Zac C, Lucy P, Campbell F, Harvey P, Skye J, Nikita S Year 1/2 Jobe M, Xavier R, Thannicha P Year 5/6 Tom M

Compass Reminders

Author’s Chair this week Lucas B & Ruby H

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Warranwood Fathering Project - League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Fathering Project - Sport and Games Night Dads, Grandpas, Uncles, Cousins, Kids and Key Male Friends come on down to the oval tomorrow on Friday 23 March (Yes, that’s the Curriculum Day!) from 5.30 - 7.00pm for an evening of fun sports and games! Represent your house and maybe even have a chance to play Kids v Dads! Stick around for a BBQ at 6.30pm - $5 for two sausages and a drink. Please return the form in today’s newsletter to the office on Friday morning, or let Scott know you ’re coming and if you’d like a sausage and drink be sure to email Scotty on therealscottcopeman@gmail.com no later than Thursday night. Hope to see you there! Shane Harrop Principal

Assistant Principal Report 3/4 Swimming Congratulations to staff and students for a terrific week of swimming. Our 3/4 students have been swimming each day this week (and next Monday) to develop their swimming skills at Croydon’s Aquahub. Being able to swim is an essential life-saving skill and these sessions aim to improve students’ confidence in the water as well as develop specific swimming strokes and life-saving techniques when in the water. Of course de-veloping organisational skills and working together with different groups of peers is also a valuable part of these swim- ming ses-sions.

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Easter Hat Day

On Wednesday 28th of March, the SRC will be hosting an Easter Hat Day. Students are encouraged to make a creative Easter Hat and bring a gold coin donation. All money raised will be donated to the Royal Children’s Hospital and a cheque will be pre-sented at the Good Friday Appeal.

Planning Week Our teaching teams have been working collectively to plan exciting units of work in all curriculum areas for Term 2. On these days the students visit their specialist classes in one day rather than across the week to facilitate time for each team to work together to provide a rich and engaging curriculum for their students.

Check Mate BBQ Congratulations to the Chess Club on a successful sausage sizzle which was held to raise money to buy equip- ment and enter stu-dents into interschool compe-titions. We look forward to hearing all about your upcoming suc- cesses!

Farewell to Sanaz

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PE/SPORT NEWS, 2018

Inter-school Sporting competition

** Next game is on Friday 29 March vs Bayswater Nth PS

At WPS:

Basketball Girls (Ashleigh) Last week: 25 to 10 Basketball Open (Chris & Megan D) Last week: Open 37 to

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Cricket Open (Natasha) Last week 2/126 to 3/62 & Girls (Jacinta) Last week: 6/135 to 6/95

Sofcrosse (Andrew) Last week: 6- 5

At Bayswater Nth PS:

T Ball Girls (Vicky & Syd) Last week Open 15 to 14 Last week: Girls 20 to 8

Volleybounce (Anne) Last week: 3 sets to 0

Hot Shots Tennis (Lydia & Sarah M) Last week: 207 to 165

Regional Swimming Carnival at Aquanation, Friday 16 March:

Tom M won his first heat in the 10 yo backstroke and matched his PB with a 44sec swim. His further heats

were competitive but the winning margins increased and Tom had to be satisfied with 6th. Well done, Tom!

Sporting Schools Grant- Volleyball. Years 5/6

The volleyball tournament continues on Thursday at lunchtime. The scores from the first round were:

Andrew Tonkin PE Teacher

KUNG FU'S 61 pts vs LEFT OVERS 6 points

PORGS 23 points VS THE FILTY FROGS 17 points

THE BOBS 19 points VS THE FLUFF BALLS 13 points

DOTS 28 points VS THE SCHOZEMES 27 points

THE RAMS 16 points VS WARRANWOOD 17 points

GUCCI GANG 13 points VS Strikers 16 points

K.R.O.G 13 points VS ANOMONU$ 14 points

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2018 Canteen News & Roster

Canteen is having a Hot X Bun Day on Tuesday 27th

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Checkout some of our homemade goodies that we have on our canteen menu, all made fresh in the canteen.

Homemade Homemade Tuna & Homemade Homemade Crunchy Pot Choc Chip Ham & cheese Mayo Burgers Zucchini Dippers Muffins Quiche Sushi Slice with Hommus Roll-ups Warm Regards, Megan Parker

Canteen Roster, Term 1, 2018

Date Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

Thursday, 22 March 2018 Nicole Bijlsma Mel Farmilo

Friday, 23 March 2018 Curriculum Day

Monday, 26 March 2018 Sylda Jones Tash Obrien

27/3/2018 HOT X Bun Day Dee Halls Sylda Jones Jenny Brown

Cheryl Butler Heather Blaxland Kellie Spiden

Wednesday, 28 March 2018 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 29 March 2018 Lydia Aretis Melinda Peatling

Friday, 30 March 2018 Good Friday

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 2 2018

Date Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

Monday, 16 April 2018 Sylda Jones

Tuesday, 17 April 2018 Dee Halls

Wednesday, 18 April 2018 Canteen Closed

Thursday, 19 April 2018 Monique Chappel Volunteer Required

Friday, 20 April 2018 Nicki Stevens Suzanne Budge Cheryl Butler

Monday, 23 April 2018 Sylda Jones

Tuesday, 24 April 2018 Curriculum Day

Wednesday, 25 April 2018 Anzac Day

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Community Notices

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COMMUNITY DONATIONS If you shop at either of these Stores, then mention our School as they support us with donations. For Ritchie's IGA you need to complete a registration and nominate Warranwood Primary; Ritchie's then donate a percentage of sales to the School. For Rebel Sports, soon to merge with Amart, just mention Warranwood Primary and they also donate a percentage of sales to the School

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