28th June 2018

What’s On…... JUNE 29th End of term assembly 9.30am 29th Term 2 ends. School finishes at 2.30pm

THE OFFICE WILL CLOSE AT

3PM ON THIS DAY. JULY 16th Term 3 begins 26th Year 1 Science Dome Incursion 26th Andrew Fuller Incursion 5/6 and Parents Night 31st ICAS –Testing– English AUGUST 8th Book Week Incursion 9th Book Week Incursion 10th Curriculum Day. No children to attend on this day. 14th ICAS Testing— Mathematics 20th-24th Book Week-’Find Your Treasure’ 27th-29th Year 3 Camp- Phillip Island 31st Father’s Day Stall SEPTEMBER 5th ART SHOW 5th Sport & Graduation Photos 7th SDSSA Basketball 13th Whole School Music Incursion—Adam Hall & The Velvet Players 14th Year 2 Sleepover 17th-21st Year 5 Camp- Weekaway 21st PJ Day 21st Term 3 ends. School finishes at 2.30pm.

Dear Parents, SOCCER ROUND ROBIN Congratulations to our Year six soccer teams who competed in the Syndal District Schools Sports Association Soccer round robin last week. The girl’s team came third and the boy’s team came first and then went on to win the grand final. It was a very exciting day for all, with Pinewood students displaying great team work and encouragement of each other’s efforts.

BRINGING MATHEMATICS TO LIFE Bringing Mathematics to life is the purpose behind the Year 5 Mathematics Expo. The Expo was an opportunity for students to create a game or activity to engage visiting students in years 3-6 and our parent community. The students worked collaboratively in a team to write a proposal, write a procedure and plan/design their activity.

Congratulations to the Year 5's on their hard work and teamwork in preparing for the event.

Thank you to the many parents and grandparents who came along and joined in the fun.

Principal’s Message

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RESPECT SELF CONFIDENCE INTEGRITY RESPONSIBILITY OPTIMISM

LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHILDREN Parents and teachers share the legal responsibility for children. When children are at school, the school takes on the responsibility of parents. In recent times, a focus on Child Safe policies and practices as well as community concern has highlighted this legal issue. We need to know exactly where our children are and who is responsible for them at all times. With this in mind, new policies have been instigated across Victoria.

From the beginning of Term 3, 2018, all Victorian government schools are required to contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the same day of an unexplained student absence. Our school uses a COMPASS generated text to contact parents/carers as soon as practical on the day on an unexplained student absence.

You can now reply via the COMPASS link within the text message with a brief reason for your child’s absence- please see information below for the process of response.

SCHOOL TERM ENDS The school term ends at 2.30pm on Friday June 29th (tomorrow). Children are to be collected at this time. The school will close at 3pm.

There will be a final term assembly for the whole school at 9.30 am on Friday June 29th to celebrate the term achievements.

Our school re-opens for Term 3 at 9.00am on Monday 16th July.

I wish everyone a safe and relaxing end of term break.

Karen Jenkin Principal

TERM DATES

Term 3 2018

Monday, 16th July – Friday, 21st September 2018

Term 4 2018

Monday, 8th October – Friday, 21st December 2018

Term 1 2019 Years 1-6 Wednesday, 30th January - Friday, 5th April

2019

Prep Thursday, 31st February—Friday, 5th April 2019

Term 2 2019

Tuesday, 23rd April 2019—Friday, 23rd June 2019

Term 3 2019

Monday, 15th July 2019—Friday, 20th September 2019

Term 4 2019

Monday, 7th October 2019—Friday, 20th December 2019

HEALTHY,

AFFORDABLE LUNCHES

DELIVERED FRESH TO PINEWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL

AVAILABLE MONDAY TO FRIDAY (Unavailable Tuesday)

Our Menu offers either a 2 or 3 Course Lunch with 15 choices available for each

course each day!

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE www.classroomcuisine.com.au

Orders are received by our customer friendly

website until 8.30am the day the lunch is required.

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RESPECT SELF CONFIDENCE INTEGRITY RESPONSIBILITY OPTIMISM

ART SHOW TALENT COMPETITION

Entries are open for all students to submit a piece of artwork created at home related to the following themes:

GLOBAL PEACE OR FRIENDSHIP/ SOCIAL HARMONY OR WORLD ART – art representing an aspect of a country or nation

The entry can be made with any type of art material and can include: DRAWING / PAINTING / COLLAGE / EMBELLISHMENTS OR ANY OTHER MATERIALS

All entries are to be SUITABLY MOUNTED ON STURDY BACKING PAPER

And include: The student’s name and grade on the back of the artwork

The winning entries will be displayed at the WORLD ART EXPO ON WEDNESDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER Each winning entry will receive a voucher for CAM ART, our sponsor and local wholesaler.

Please submit entries to the ARTROOM by Monday 27th August

We look forward to viewing your entries, Francine Combes and Susan Tate - Art Teachers

Casual Dress day this FRIDAY 29th June

Gold coin donation per child – New Parent club piggy bank boxes will be ready in the morning tub.

Thankyou & Happy Holidays

This week we launched our Cookie Dough Fundraiser – selling tubs of yummy Cookie Dough to raise funds for Pinewood Primary. If you would like to take part there are some fun prizes up for grabs, so please sell to relatives, neigh-bours, friends and work colleagues over the Winter Holidays!

Orders are due back Monday 23rd July by 9am Delivery is scheduled for Tuesday 7th August. Order forms are available at the office. You can also pay online and just return your order form to us. For full details see the flyer and order form that will go home at the end of term.

SECOND HAND UNIFORM The Pinewood Community has shown a lot of interest in having a second hand uniform store. Due to the huge amount of time this requires, storage, planning, etc., we have opt-ed to try a FACEBOOK page where the Parents & Families of Pinewood are welcome to post photos of their items for sale. Everyone is welcome to join, please check the page out for more details.

Search - Pinewood Primary School Uniform Buy/swap/sell

PARENTS CLUB

RESPECT SELF CONFIDENCE INTEGRITY RESPONSIBILITY OPTIMISM

Andrew Fuller is a Clinical Psychologist who has developed the resilience of over 193,000 young people and works in over 600 communities nationally.

Andrew is the author of Unlocking Your Child’s Genius (now available in ten languages); Tricky Teens, LIFE: A GUIDE, TRICKY KIDS (Finch), TRICKY PEOPLE, RAISING REAL PEOPLE (ACER), FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING (ACER), WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER and BEATING BULLIES.

Andrew has also co-authored a series of programs for the pro-motion of resilience and emotional intelligence used in over 3500 schools in Britain and Australia called THE HEART MAS-TERS.

He is a Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

RAISING RESILIENT KIDS Resilience and emotional intelligence are essential life skills that set kids up for happy great lives. Developing resilience is the most powerful way to protect kids from drugs, violence and misery. Topics covered will include:

The active ingredients of resilience and how parents and

grandparents can develop it in young people

How parents can develop these in their children

Friendship skills

Parenting tricky kids

Creating happy, confident and empowered young people

Building self-esteem and dealing with set backs

The essential conversations to have with your boy or girl

Come and have a great evening!

DATE & TIME : THURSDAY 26 JULY @ 7.00 PM

VENUE: PINEWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL HALL, MT WAVERLEY

How to create a

great relationship

with your teen …

w ithout going crazy!

Tricky Teens

Tricky Kids

Unlocking Your Child’s Genius

How to discover

and encourage

your child’s

natural talents

ANDREW FULLER