NEWSLETTER NO.24 THURSDAY, 15TH

AUGUST, 2013

WEBSITE ADDRESS is burwoodhps.vic.edu.au/

THURSDAY 15TH

& 16TH

AUGUST

MOBILE FARM – KINDERGARTEN FOUR AND

THREE YEAR OLD GROUPS

TUESDAY 20TH

AUGUST GRANDPARENTS VISIT KINDERGARTEN

FRIDAY 23RD

AUGUST SUMMER SPORT – LEVEL FOUR

BOOK WEEK – LEIGH HOBBS VISITS

MONDAY 26TH

AUGUST ROTARY PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION

WEDNESDAY 28TH

AUGUST FATHERS DAY EVENING – FOUR-YEAR OLDS

SCHOOL COUNCIL SUB-COMMITTEE

MEETINGS

FRIDAY 30TH

AUGUST SUMMER SPORT – LEVEL FOUR

SATURDAY 31ST

AUGUST MORNING TEA – SPECIAL PERSONS – THREE-

YEAR OLD KINDERGARTEN

MONDAY 2ND

SEPTEMBER SCHOOL COUNCIL

WEDNESDAY 4TH

SEPTEMBER DRESS REHEARSAL – ALL DAY

TUESDAY 10TH

SEPTEMBER SCHOOL PRODUCTION

THURSDAY 12TH

SEPTEMBER SCHOOL PRODUCTION

FIRE BRIGADE VISIT - PREPS

FRIDAY 13TH

SEPTEMBER SUMMER SPORT – LEVEL FOUR

FRIDAY 20TH

SEPTEMBER END OF TERM THREE – 2.30PM DISMISSAL

MONDAY 7TH

OCTOBER TERM FOUR COMMENCES

FRIDAY 11TH

OCTOBER SUMMER SPORT

MONDAY TO

WEDNESDAY

21ST

TO 23RD

OCTOBER

LEVEL THREE CAMP

FRIDAY &

TUESDAY

25TH

& 29TH

OCTOBER

DOVE PUPPETS - KINDERGARTEN

TUESDAY 5TH

NOVEMBER MELBOURNE CUP DAY – PUBLIC HOLIDAY

FROM THE PRINCIPAL … Esther Wood

BRAINSTORM STUDIOS

FOUR WEEKS TO GO!

Ticket sales are well underway. If you do not have

a ticket order form you can obtain one from the

office. Don’t miss out!

Students will need to be collected by an adult or a

designated person after the performance.

Work on sets, props and costumes is near

completion. Make-up requirements for performers

are being finalised, tickets are being sold,

photographs organised, rosters for ushers

compiled, technical management (light and sound)

planned, programmes prepared and other

organisational details well underway.

PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT YOUR

CHILD IN THIS PERFORMANCE!

COLLECTION OF STUDENTS AFTER

SCHOOL

The school grounds are supervised by staff until

3.45pm. All students must be collected by this

time.

There are many occasions when there is no-one in

the office, so parents should not assume that their

child/children will be supervised.

Please ensure that your child is collected at the

appointed time.

If parents are unable to pick their children up by

this time we have an After School Care Program

which they should attend.

PREP 2014 ENROLMENTS AND STUDENT

NUMBERS

It is that time of year when schools are preparing

for the following year and student numbers are

critical to the school’s staffing structure.

If you are aware of any families who may live

near you and have not enrolled, would you please

advise them of this timeline.

If your child will not be attending Burwood

Heights Primary School next year would you

please advise us of this?

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

NO HAT, NO PLAY

Coming up shortly is school hat time again.

From Monday 2nd

September, all

students are required to wear hats

outside during recess and lunchtime.

Any student without a school hat, will

need to sit in the designated area. If

you know your child has lost his/her

hat now is the time to purchase one. Please make

sure your child’s hat is clearly named!

Prep M- Gemma Webber - for a wonderful

effort in everything she does. You are a star!

Prep W- Magot Deng - for helping classmates in

Science and being a caring friend.

Grade 1/2A- Yikai Yao - for settling in well to

his new classroom and making new friends.

Grade 1/2E- Momoria Gringi - for her

enthusiastic and wonderful performance during

every production practice.

Grade 1/2T- Rayna Sharma – for excellent diary

writing this week. Well done!

Grade 1/2WM- Alistair Lau – for a colourful

and creative red back spider. Super effort!

Grade 3/4A- Jacinta Karipidis – for her

outstanding effort during production practice.

Sensational!

Grade 3/4G- Jerome Atkinson – for working

really well in Literacy and with Mrs Cooper.

Grade 3/4J- Paige Davidson – for being such an

excellent school community member and taking

part in so many school events and activities!

Grade 3/4P- Amelia Rutherford-Lemon – for

sharing her insightful ideas during a class

discussion about, ‘The Rabbits and how they

changed the land’. Well done!

Grade 5/6 A- Yasmyne Chung - for consistently

demonstrating outstanding abilities in mental

calculations during games in number groups.

Grade 5/6H- Monica Magot –for dedication and

success in all areas of school.

Grade 5/6L- Zachary Willett – for working

extremely hard on his maths about direction. Well

done!

Grade 5/6M- Benyamin Mousavian – for trying

his best in all areas of school life. Thanks for the

wonderful effort champ!

HOMECRAFTS – Tegan Griffiths 5/6A –for

being a cheery, capable and always reliable team

member. There is nothing Tegan will not do!

VISUAL ARTS- Kyle Richards – for his

articulate and insightful art quote. Great work!

GARDEN VIEWS Hello, last week I shared how observation can

discern three parts to plants and three parts to the

human body, how limbs move, leaves live in rhythm

and how roots tend to be still. ( legs, chest and head.)

As a gardener handy man, a person

whose task requires him to use his limbs, I

spend my days in movement, big

movements like digging and small fine

finger movements like thinning carrot

seedlings. When I get home I want to sit still

and be like a carrot, a balance to my day.

Modern food is more like the root kingdom, its

vitality has been cooked away. White sugar and its

replacements are in essence minerals, a word that

means little rocks. This food stimulates the head.

Green leaves tend be absent from most western diets

and protein a derivation of seed from animals and

plants feeds the muscles. Our diet makes us want to

move not sit still.

Trouble is, especially for children,

most limb activities in the West have

been replaced by machines, they move,

we don't. We watch movement on telly

and computer with our still bodies, we sit in a car

immobile looking at a moving scene, we no longer

wash clothes by hand, make bread by hand, clean

floors by hand, knit wool into garments, use sewing

machines etc etc. Useful and artistic movement is

disappearing from our world.

Kids, as growing beings, though are

like butterflies, they love to move and can

feel easily frustrated and unable to give

attention. Sadly many of the games such as

skipping, hopscotch, ring dances etc have also

disappeared. Craft too has disappeared, an outlet for

fine finger movement. Learning too can be devoid of

imaginative movement.

To me the left male brain, dominant in our

culture, is more like the root, it examines bits and

pieces as it very slowly searches in the darkness under

the earth. Up above in the light, able to have

overviews, is the fruit queendom. This view of reality

has by and large been displaced by left brain

functioning. Ideally both aspects of our

brain should function…whole plant

whole brain! Movement serves to build

neural (nerve) pathways across the brain.

Side effects accompany left brain thinking as a

rule because the right hemisphere is not consulted.

This leads to corrective modalities, activities like “

brain gym and educational kinesiology”. Should you

ever want to participate in great public lectures offered

by the world’s movers and shakers for free, consider

googling the “TED talks or RSA Animate”, but please

do wiggle your toes while watching.

Here's hoping that you have many moving

experiences.

Cheers Peter Le Ray

HEAD LICE

Instances of head lice being present have been

reported. I do ask all parents to be vigilant in

checking their child’s hair and taking appropriate

course of action to prevent the spread of these

pesky critters.

Don’t wait until your child is obviously scratching

his/her head. Check before this.

If you require any assistance with this matter

please contact the office.

KINDERGARTEN EXTENSION

It is planned that an access road to the

kindergarten work-site will be established in the

next week. This is dependent on favourable

weather conditions. Two panels of the “old” fence

on Mahoneys Road will be removed and a gate

established to allow easy and safe access. The

concrete foundations will be completed and it will

be no time until we see the building commence.

WEBSITE NEWS

Remember to check the website for news photos

and updates, especially the “What’s on” section on

the home page.

www.burwoodhps.vic.edu.au

FROM THE OFFICE

PAYMENTS: When sending along

money with your child please make

sure it is in a labelled envelope or

bag with their name, class, amount

and what the payment is for.

NOTICES: A ticket notice for the production

“Brainstorm Studios” was sent home on Friday. If

you have not received one or you have been away

you can obtain one from the school office or print it

off from the school website, you will find in under

Parent Information - notices.

ATTENDANCE: If your child is absent for any

reason, please send a note to school on their return.

Strathdon Community Art Show

On Friday 9th of August the Strathdon Community

Centre held its 10th annual art exhibition and fund

raising event displaying the work of student artists

from schools in the local area. The organisers of the

exhibition had gathered a vast array of art works, of

which seventy five pieces were from Burwood

Heights Primary School. The art work exhibited was

of a very high standard and of varied techniques

including painting, drawing, printing, textiles and

collage. Our students did extremely well with prizes

awarded in the Year Five/Six category to Lachlan

and Yuying for their relief prints depicting the

Melbourne CBD. Towa and Bobby were awarded

prizes in the Year Three/Four category for their John

Brack inspired prints of ‘5pm Collins Street’.

Congratulations to the winning students and to all

students who participated in the event. It was great to

see so many of our students and their families attend the art exhibition.

Artists about Whitehorse—Bobby & Towa at

the Strathdon Art Show

FUNDRAISING NEWS

1. Chocolate Drive – please return your

order form for chocolates by Monday

19th August to Mrs Fahey’s letterbox

(next to the office). Expected delivery

date for the

chocolates is Friday

23rd

August – this

will be confirmed

next week.

2. Election Day – As

the school is a

polling booth,

Election Day

presents us with a

wonderful

opportunity to raise funds from

outside the school. As such, we will

be holding a SAUSAGE SIZLLE on

Saturday September 7th

. If you are

available to help, please fill your

name in on the roster at the back of

this newsletter and return the roster to

Mrs Fahey. We will also be BAKING

CHOC-CHIP COOKIES on Friday 6th

September in the school kitchen – all

helpers welcome, so please set the

morning aside. If you are unable to

help, but would like to support us

please consider donating any of the

following:- white sugar

butter

self raising flour

SMALL choc chips

(homebrand from

Woolworths are ideal).

Any donations can be handed to Mrs

Fahey.

Thank you for your support!

Classroom Co-ordinators

STUDENT BANKING NEWS

Banking day is WEDNESDAY

New School Banking Reward Item Available

As part of the 2013 School Banking Rewards

Program students can now also redeem 10 silver

coloured Dollarmites tokens for a Dollarmites

Calculator.

Students can now choose from:

Dollarmites moneybox

Wallet

Handball

Knuckles Game

Torch

Calculator

The School Banking program is designed to

encourage individual savings behaviour and to help

children achieve their saving goals. For this reason

pooling of tokens is not allowed.

NEW BANKERS ALWAYS WELCOME.

Come into the school office to collect a pack and get started or contact your local Commonwealth Bank and provide the details they require and you can open an account for your child and they can begin school banking immediately.

FOR SALE If you or anyone you know is interested in good

condition baby furniture for a low cost Description: Bulk lot of baby furniture. All solid timber

Boori Baby cradle with mattress. (Walnut colour rrp

$499. For cradle only)

Baby Bunting cot with mattress.

Baby Bunting chest of draws with removable

changing table (see photos)

Baby Bunting book shelf with draws

Please note that assorted sheet sets and blankets for

cradle and cot will be included in pick up

All in great condition. Pick up only. Payment on

pick up in Burwood East area.

Please call Toni Ph: 0404 092 781

Boori Baby cradle with mattress. (Walnut colour rrp

$499. Cradle only)

Baby Bunting cot with mattress.

Baby Bunting chest of draws with removable

changing table

Baby Bunting book shelf

with draws

Grade Prep, 1-2 Maths Puzzle

Name: Class:

Put your answer in the box in the office from MONDAY

Grade 3-6 Maths Puzzle

Chocolate Puzzle There were 100 chocolates in a box. The box was passed

down along a row of people.

The first person took one chocolate. Each person down the

row took more chocolates than the person before, until the

box was empty.

What is the largest number of people that could have been

in the row? Answer:______________

Name: Class:

Put your answer in the box in the office from MONDAY

OSHClub News

After School Care Program

Program Update 15.08. 2013

Hi Everyone!

I can't believe that we're already halfway through the term, it's gone super quick! This

week the children have been doing a few activities together as a group including decorating

biscuits on Monday. They had a lot of fun during this activity and I thought I would show you some

pictures of their fantastic sugary creations.

Have a great week!

OSHC TEAM

Next Week's Activities

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

ACTIVITIES Hoop Racing

AASC – Hurricane

AASC - Mixed Pickle

(Game)

Underwater Volcano

(Science)

ACTIVITIES

Melt and Mix Shortbread

Coffee Fossils Craft Stick Box Metamorphic

Pancakes Puffy Fish Craft

Parent Information

OSHC program phone: 0423 225 807

Coordinator: LINDSAY

Assistants: JACKSON, ANTHONY, BELINDA, POOJA, ALEX.

OSHClub Head Office: 03 85649000

All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is Free!! Please create an

account online at www.oshclub.com.au all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via

your online account. For on the day bookings please contact the Coordinator direct at the

program.