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P.O. Box 11, Eaglehawk 3556

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Email: [email protected]

Web Address: www. ehnps.vic.edu.au

Volume 23 5th August 2021

Whipstick Whispers Principal: Craig Burnett

Assistant Principal: Helen Forrest

Eaglehawk North Primary School

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Every Week

Friday Playgroup 9.00am - 10.45am

Walk to School

School Assembly 9.10am

NOT HAPPENING UNTIL

FURTHER NOTICE

Awaiting on confirmation of

new dates for postponed

events.

Calendar

Principal’s Awards

Congratulations to this week’s award winners. I look forward to our presentations on Friday at assembly. Please feel welcome in joining us.

Prep Craig/Polglase Kade Colville

Prep Hommelhoff Noah Robson

Grade 1/2 Price Chaz Boyd

Grade 1/2 Grant Peter Lyons

Grade 1/2 Bulluss Myles Dobbin

Grade 1/2 Marsh Kiara Gill-Symons

Grade 3/4 Palmer Jack Perryman

Grade 3/4 Rayner Lucas Matthews

Grade 3/4 Madden Matilda Martin

Grade 3/4 Brown

Grade 3/4 Ross Charlotte Vela

Grade 5/6 Daly Thomas Fox

Ryan Riding

Grade 5/6 Watt Zac Farrow

Grade 5/6 Wolfe Olivia Richardson

Grade 5/6 Birch Chase Woodhatch

Grade 5/6 Epworth Jack Parker Principal Column

New Playground

Our new playground is almost completed and I know that all of Prep-Year 2 children are looking forward to being able to get on to the site and start playing on it. As part of the playground, a flying fox has been added to the Year 3-6 playground at the rear of the tennis courts. All of those children are looking forward to playing on that piece of equipment as well. Helen has photos of the playground in her column in the newsletter.

Football Carnival

A number of our Year 6 Boys were able to participate in the District Football Carnival yesterday. The event was held at Kennington Primary School, and judging by the amount of mud they brought back with them, they had a fantastic time. Thanks to Will Daly and John Morton for looking after the boys on the day.

School Council Members

President: Rebekah Perryman

Vice President:

Ben Rowbottom

Treasurer: Claire Stewart

Secretary: Helen Forrest

Craig Burnett

Christina Tibbett

Emma Choo

Kellie Farrow

Nicole Taylor

Leanne Boston

Liz Davis

Shirley Symons

Community Member

Laurie Whyte

Council members can be

contacted via the office.


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Assistant Principal Column

Planning For 2022

We are commencing our planning for 2022 and we have a number of new families expressing interest in enrolling at Eaglehawk North. If you have an enrolment for next year, can you please pick up an enrolment pack and return it to the school as soon as possible.

COVID19 Restrictions

We are hoping to see an easing of Covid-19 some time soon. As soon as the Department sends us its expectations of schools, we will let you know what the protocols will be.

My Good Read

My Good Read this week is the book ‘Mallee Sky’. Mallee Sky is an extremely timely and beautiful picture book about the effects of drought and climate change in the Mallee.

The first people of the land call the Mallee "Nowie". It means sunset country. When the sun goes down the red heat of the day bleeds into the sky and sets it on fire. Drought and rain - life under a Mallee Sky. This poetic text by emerging author Jodi Toering is beautifully accompanied by lush oil paintings by fine artist and illustrator Tannya Harricks. Mallee Sky is suitable for children in Years 3-6.

Craig Burnett

Principal

SCHOOL WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOURS

The focus for our SWPBS program this term is: RESPECT FOR LEARNING.

What does this mean?

We do everything we can to help ourselves be good learners.

Why is this important?

We want to be able to learn new things.

The L for learning is the yellow letter in our acronym SOLE.

BELLA RANDELLO is this week’s winner. She takes out the award for:

Following instructions the first time and every time with her learning.


You can be involved in SWPBS in many ways at home as a family by teaching behaviour expectations and

reinforcing ENPS SWPBS strategies. For example:

· Teach your child what behaviour you want to see

· Verbally acknowledge and recognise when they meet the expected behaviour

· Respond consistently and with meaningful consequences when problem behaviour occurs- tips

Mr McNaughton has recently mounted our Values Award boards in the Multi

-Purpose Room. Each student who wins an overall award has their certificate

with their picture on it placed on the boards. They look great under our

whole school Values signage.

GREAT WORK

I have just looked at the July figures for our fantastic students who have

attended 90-100% of school days. Two classes had 20 students out of their 23

class enrolments who attended every day. This is great news considering the

weather and current conditions.

WELL WORTH THE WAIT!

It is nearly twelve months since I applied for the grant to have our old timber

playground replaced. The success of our application was announced in November last year. The funds for

the project became available once quotes were accepted. We then could book dates with ‘Adventure +’.

So, it is quite a process, but we are certainly very happy with the result.

Playground - Before

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Playground – During

Playground – After

Helen Forrest

Assistant Principal

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Football Carnival

Wednesday 4th August 2021

It was a grim looking forecast going into the week, rain for most parts of the day. The previous weeks’ worth of rain was still sitting on the oval. This didn’t dull the spirits of the Eaglehawk North PS Football team who got to school early Wednesday morning ready to leave to Kennington PS. We found a dry spot

next to Quarry Hill and got ourselves organised. Our first game was against St Libs who donned the Richmond sash. We played well but came away with a draw. The games were played on smaller ovals with 16 players on the field. Two 10 minute halves was all the boys had to defeat the opposition. The

boys were quite muddy after the first 10 minutes of play. Ominous clouds loomed above for our second game of the day, which was against Specimen Hill PS. Coached by Mr Daniel Francis, Specimen Hill

couldn’t score in the first half and we looked comfortable. The second half was a dominating performance by Speci and we lost the game by 2 goals. We won our next two games, one against Marong and the other against Quarry Hill in the rain. Max Liddy, Cohen Barker, ‘Dobby’ and Harley Van Der Hoeven filled in

for Quarry Hill to give them some much needed support. Overall the boys had a lot of fun and were extremely well behaved. A big thank you to Kellie Farrow who took the ENPS football jumpers home to

wash, which was definitely a huge job! Thanks Kel!


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Fundraising News & Parents’ and Friends’

Term 3:

Friday 3rd

September – Father’s Day Stall

We are seeking donations for our 50 cent and $1 tables. If you could please

contact the office and we will be happy to collect from Drive Thru or

Franklin Street entrance.

Colour Explosion School Fun

Run

CHANGE OF DATE

Friday 10th

September

Information and booklets

will be handed out today.

Change of date is due to our junior school attending the swimming

program.

Beanie & Scarves still available!!!

Thank you for supporting the Fundraising Committee and Parents and Friends Committee

Kellie Farrow, Leanne Boston, Nicole Taylor & Christina Tibbet


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ALL ABILITIES NETBALL

PLAYERS WANTED

The Eaglehawk North Sports Club Inc. are looking for players to join their

Golden City Netball Association Twilight Season for 2021. Season starting

Wednesday 6th October.

GRADE 3 & Under 11’s

The following age groups are for FEMALE players.

You do not need to have played netball before.

For Information contact: Kellie Farrow 0477 527 639 after 5pm or Email:

[email protected]

Facebook: Eaglehawk North Sports Group

mailto:[email protected]


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