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5 Harriet Street TOORA, 3962 Ph: (03) 5686 2283 / Mob: 0475 605 437 Email: toora.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.tooraps.vic.edu.au 13th March 2020

PRINICPAL NEWS Pear Party Congratulations to the students who participated in the music performance at the Pear Party last Sunday. It was fantastic to see you all up on stage showing off the wonderful music skills we have been learning in Musical Futures workshops and weekly music sessions with Mr Whittle. Fingers crossed Gardening Australia include some of their footage of the performance soon. Thank you to Mr Whittle for his work putting this performance together.

3-6 Cluster Athletics Congratulations to all of our Grade 3-6 students who attended our Cluster Athletics at Foster Secondary College this week. It was great to see all kids giving the events the best effort and competing in the right spirit. Congratulations to the following students who have qualified for the District Athletics on Wednesday 25th March: 9/10 girls - Jade - shot put 11 girls - Sarita - high jump, shot put, discus 12/13 girls - Myunah - triple jump, 800m, shot put, high jump, long jump, discus, hurdles, 200m, 100m Olivia - triple jump, long jump, discus 9/10 boys - Tom - shot put, Levi - shot put, high jump

Camp Survey Last week I posted the following News Feed item on Compass: When we first ran our Mt Baw Baw camp 2 years ago, I made the commitment to run a snow camp every second year to provide students the opportunity to consolidate and further their ski skills. This year is meant to be a snow camp year, however I've had a couple students comment that they're not that interested in it. Can you please have a chat to your child/ren and complete this short (1question!) Survey Monkey so I can gauge the overall interest. Thanks! Today is the last day to have input. If you want to have input and haven't done so already, please log in to COMPASS and follow the link to the Survey Monkey. School Council Annual General Meeting Thank you to all of our School Council members for their tremendous effort working on behalf of our school community, maintaining a watchful eye on the finances, policy development and educational programs at the school. School Council nominations have been received and we look forward to welcoming the new Councillors to our AGM on Monday . School Council Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 16th March at the School at 5:00pm Haven’t got a COMPASS Account? Pop into the school Admin Mon, Tues or Thursday and Di will assist with set-up, log-ins or how to use the Compass App. The Compass app can be installed on any Smart phone Android/Iphone and on tablets/ipads. Compass is the primary means of communicating important information to our families, reporting to families on student data and an easy means of recording your child's absence. Parent Payment Policy Toora Primary School Council has passed the School policy in line with the Department of Education’s guidelines. The policy includes a number of payment options to support parents to access the materials and services associated with their child's education. The school-level parent payment policy is available on the school website. If you have any queries or wish to discuss your circumstances and payment options available to you, please contact the school to make an appointment. The 2020 Parent payment has been set at $150 per student and is payable now.

The District Athletics will be held at Foster Secondary College on Wednesday 25th March. Further

information will be distributed when I receive it.

Toora Primary School No:2253

Our School VALUES are: Be Safe, Be Fair, Think, Learn & Care

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

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Labour Day PUBLIC Holiday

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Breakfast Club MARC Library

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3-6 Athletics

Sports at

Foster

12 Pie Warmer Lunch

Swimming

REGIONAL — Swimming

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Student Lunch Orders

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Assembly 3:00pm

School Council

AGM 5:00pm

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Breakfast Club MARC Library

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Swimming

Pie Warmer Lunch

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Musical Futures

Assembly 3:00pm

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EASTER RAFFLE

drawn at

Assembly

24 Breakfast Club — bacon & eggs MARC Library Responsible Pet Ownership Program

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District Aths

at Foster

Secondary

College

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Whole School

Excursion to Arts

Centre Melbourne

Departing Toora

7:30am

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Student Lunch Orders

Swimming

LAST DAY TERM 1 early dismissal

2 :20pm

March 2020 POP ME ON YOUR

FRIDGE

“I didn’t want any Grannies to explode. I just wanted a paper round.”

Charlie and the War Against the Grannies bursts on to the stage in a rampaging

musical comedy for children aged 5 and up! Written by and starring Alan Brough (Spicks and Specks), this world premiere production comes to life with

shadow puppetry, live music and three really stinky farts. All 12-year old Charlie Duncan wanted was a simple paper round. What he uncovers is a league of evil

grannies plotting to set up a ‘Granny State’, where everyone will be forced to wear brown cardigans, go to bed early and there will be NO CHILDREN! The stakes are high and it’s up to Charlie and his best friend Hils to go to

war with the fiendish grannies and stop them taking over the world. Can Charlie and Hils save the day? Find out when this hilarious production full of warmth, friendship and

ridiculousness lands on stage these autumn school holidays.

WHOLE SCHOOL EXCURSION THURSDAY 26TH MARCH Melbourne Arts Centre

Live performance: Charlie and the War Against the Grannies

Student Leadership Conference Today all Grade 5/6 students attended a Student Leadership Workshop in

Inverloch, which has been organised by the South Gippsland Assistant Principals Network. The day included presentations from guest speakers

and participating in activities with students from schools right across South Gippsland. This is a fantastic opportunity for our students, as most other

schools only send their school captains/vice captains.

Congratulations to all of our students receiving awards over the past fortnight. Aussie of the Month - Levi

Reading awards: Ryan, Olivia, Alexis, Ella and Zahara. Principals award: Lola

Student of the week: Alexis, Myunah, Lara

Tickets are attached to this newsletter - Tickets & money are due back to school on Monday 23rd March Donations for hamper are to be deposited in the box in the school Admin foyer

TOORA PRIMARY SCHOOL COLOUR RUN

Junior School News In March we welcomed our 12 Prep

students to full time school (for the month of February the Preps have enjoyed their Wednesdays as a rest day)

All students have settled into the school year well and

are quickly learning school and classrooms rules and our school values

It has been wonderful to have Education Support staff

member Deb Clavarino in the room with us.

There has been lots of learning happening over this exciting start to the year. Students have been learning

about height and size, number's and animals.

Don’t forget to ask your child what they learnt today and encourage meaningful conversation.