A reminder that there is no

supervision in the school

Our Book Fair opens this Sunday (21st) from

11am—2pm.

Also open Monday to Friday between 8.15—

8.50am. 1.30—2.30pm and 3.35—4pm.

Be sure to drop in to the Library and have a look

at the amazing collection of books and gifts.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT -

School Production progressing well.

Preparations for the school’s 2017 School Production “Oceania’ are progressing very well. This week cast selection has taken place and steady progress is being made with props and costumes. Please make sure you have pencilled the evening of Thursday 15th September in your diary for the performance of ‘Oceania’ at the Basketball stadium.

Literacy Information Evening for Parents

Parents wishing to attend the upcoming Literacy Information evening at school on 1st September are asked to return the reply slip by Friday next week, 26th August. A reminder that child care is available on the evening.

PJ Day

Last week’s PJ Day fundraiser, organised by our school’s House Captains, was a great success with over $280 being raised for the Pyjama Angels Foundation. Well done to our House Captains and all children for their participation.

Naplan Reports

The Naplan Reports for those children in Year 3 and 5 who participated in the Naplan Testing in Term 2 have arrived at school. The class teachers will be sending the reports home today. If you wish to discuss your child’s report with his / her teacher please contact your child’s teacher to arrange a catch up.

BFG Movie Screening

The school is hosting the screening of The BFG at Port Fairy Theatre on Sunday 28th August. As this is also Women’s Weekend in Port Fairy the Fundraising Committee is looking for some dads to help out at the theatre. If you can assist please let Jenni or Ronda in the office know and your contact details will be passed on the Adele Brown.

Early Arrivals at School.

In the newsletter we regularly comment on the need for children to be ‘on-time’ for school. By that we mean getting to school around 8:45 to 8:50 am. This gives children time to catch up with their friends and be ready to start class when the bell rings at 9 am. This term, however, we have noticed that quite a few children are arriving very early for school, some as early as 8 am. Teachers are not on duty for supervision before 8:50 am and our Before School Program only supervises children who are booked in with Bev. Please aim to drop off your children around 8:45 am. and discourage your children from coming to school extra early.

Condolences to the Middenway family.

People with a long connection with Port Fairy Consolidated School will be saddened to hear that John Middenway, a past teacher of our school, passed away on Monday. Both John and his wife, Joy, taught here in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. John then went on to be principal of Timboon Primary School. On a personal note, John was my grade 6 teacher here in 1968. Our condolences to Joy, their daughter Kaye, and family.

Neil Sproal (Acting Principal)

Reminders:

Visitors Book

A reminder that we now have revised Visitor processes in place at school. All visitors are required to ‘sign in’ at the office, wear a visitor badge during visits, ‘sign out’ and return the badge to the office at the end of their visit.

Literacy Information Evening for Parents

As indicated in last week’s newsletter, the Literacy Information evening for parents is now scheduled for Thursday 1st Sep-tember, from 7pm to 8:30 pm. The guest speaker will be Cathy Sproal, a literacy consultant based in Melbourne who assist schools to develop their literacy programs. Cathy specialises in providing professional development to teachers in relation to the Fountas and Pinnel Program which is part of the Literacy Program at our school. If you would like to attend this evening please complete the Reply Slip in the newsletter. Child care will be available on the night.

Literacy Information Evening for Parents - Reply Slip

Child’s Class_____________________________

Names for name tags _________________________________________________________________________

Wish to attend the Literacy Evening on Thursday 1st September

I will require child care : YES / NO

(If ‘Yes’ please indicated children’s names: ____________________________________________ )

Signed_________________________________________________________________

Important Dates

MONDAY 22ND AUGUST

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

WEEK

FRIDAY 26TH AUGUST

eWaste Collection Day

All items to be left in the

Hall Foyer by 9am.

SUNDAY 28TH AUGUST

PFCS MOVIE FUND-

RAISER—

THURSDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER

Literacy Information

Night

THURSDAY 15TH SEPT.

“OCEANIA” SCHOOL

PRODUCTION

OCTOBER 5TH, 6TH & 7TH

YEAR5/6 SOVEREIGN HILL

CAMP

FRIDAY 7TH OCTOBER

SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL

OPENING—

PERFORMANCE BY

SENIOR CHOIR

SUNDAY 9TH OCTOBER

PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

PRODUCTION

12, 13 & 14 OCTOBER

YEAR 3/4 GRAMPIANS

RETREAT CAMP

YEAR 2 SLEEPOVER

WEDNESDAY 30TH NOV.

—THURSDAY 1ST DEC.

FRIDAY 2ND DECEMBER

CURRICULUM DAY

PFCS Wellbeing Award

Ben Stevens

0/1C— Ella-May Hunter-Fitzpatrick

For working hard in reading at school and at home. Well

done Ella-May !

0/1W— Max Dance

For making great choices and being a kind and willing

helper in class.

1/2D— Lauchlan Edwards

For being a caring and compassionate friend to students in

our class who need extra help.

1/2A— Chloe Adams

For amazing persistence during the Olympics.

3/4D— Charlie Bartlett

For his outstanding efforts and willingness to participate in

class.

3/4M— Angus McPherson

Showing absolute enthusiasm during his parent conference

and sharing all tasks with pride, showing that he puts effort

into his learning.

3/4H— Riley Leske-King

For taking a considerate and motivated approach to her

learning.

5/6D – Jack Cooper

For his helpful and friendly attitude, well done Jack!

5/6M - Maddie Lee

For her determination and focus to do her personal best in

all situations.

5/6T— Kyle Greene

For his responsible manner when dealing with a difficult

situation, well done Kyle!

Fresh Fruit Friday Roster August 19th Julia Adams Roz Langley

August 26th Jessica Clift Amy Gibson

September 2nd Debra Inns Toni Arnold

September 9th Amanda Dixon Roz Langley

September 16th Amanda Dixon HELP NEEDED

Orders can be placed at the office up until 9am on the day at a

cost of $5 per child, which includes a piece of fruit at snack time

and a delicious home made meal, with a treat at lunchtime.

This week’s Café menu is

Tuesday — Pizza Scrolls

Wednesday — Vegetable Risotto

Thursday — Bean & Corn Burritos

Prep/1’s— In Reading this week Prep/1’s are continuing to learn about how word tools such as dictionaries, thesaurus-es, glossaries, maps etc. can be used to expand our vocabulary. In Maths we are beginning to learn about the concept of line symmetry. A shape has line symmetry if it is a mirror image either side of a centre (mirror) line. In Writing we are continuing our work with information reports. We are slowly getting ready for the school concert.

1/2’s— Students are enjoying learning about the Rio Olympics and doing a variety of reading, writing and maths activi-

ties. In Reading we are finding how to use different word tools for reading. We are using maps, an atlas, GPS and

Google as tools for finding information about all things “Olympic”. In Writing we are writing information reports about

our gold medallists. In Maths we are learning how to make, draw, record and talk about ordinal number and graphing

Olympic results. In Spelling we are continuing with our phonics learning. The vowel sounds are very tricky, especially

that many letter combinations that can make one sound. This week is the short and long “o”.

3/4’s—We ran like Usain Bolt, jumped like Javier Sotomayor and Mike Powell and measured everything we did. We have been trying to relate our work to the Olympics! In Reading we have been summarising and this has helped us in our Writing with information reports. We have been able to present our work as posters, iMovies, Coding and Stop Mo-tion. We went and watched Seussical and some of us went to Ballarat to race our bikes. Notes are coming home for camp in October and we need them back for numbers as soon as possible.

5/6’s— Good luck to all competitors at 'Hoop Time' on Friday, a big thank you to Ms Green for getting our teams organ-ised! We had a great Olympic event last Friday with lots of fun and challenging activities. In Writing we are learning how to write a letter for our Sovereign Hill visit. In Numeracy we are completing data analysis of Olympic sports. In Reading we are continuing our work on clarifying and summarising.

Physical Education

The Olympic spirit was in full force last Friday, with our Olympic morning a great success and a lot of fun. There was a short opening ceremony with country march passes, torch run, athlete and officials’ oath taking. Children then moved through ten different Olympic themed activities including; Equestrian, Gymnastics, Swimming, Fencing, Hockey, Trap Shooting, Athletics, Soccer, Rugby 7’s and Basketball. The change of activities was signalled by “I go to Rio –Peter Allan” playing over the loud speakers (Thankyou Milo!) there were some very good Rumba moves developing by the end of the day! The day concluded with everyone gathering on the basketball court to form the giant Olympic rings. Thankyou to all the classroom teachers for managing the quick changes between activities and for your enthusiasm. A huge thankyou to my Olympic Volunteers, Maddie Green, Tenae Mounsey, Maddie Lee, Ascha Peterson, Lexie Finnigan and Jedd Finnigan for the early start on Friday to help with set up, great job team!

The 5/6’s then heard from three time Olympian Judy Pollock about her Athletics career and exciting Olympic stories. They also got to see her Bronze medal and world record plaques!

Some great news from Basketball Victoria our winning Hoop Time, Future Stars team “Panthers” have qualified for the Region-al Championships in Werribee on the 5th of October, a wonderful effort. Parents of those children in the team will need to ar-range their own transport to the event.

We had a team of riders represent PFCS at the Victorian Schools Greater Western Cycling Championships in Ballarat yesterday. Great riding by all those that took part. Jonathan Taynton 2nd place in U11, Angus Hogan 1st Novice U11, Jack Lee 3rd Novice U11. Mana Hauraki and Jacob Taynton also rode very well in the U13 Novice and Racing grades, well done to you all! A huge thankyou to Ronnie Hollingsworth and other parents that attended for assisting the children and supporting them. Good luck to those that progress to the State Championships on the 16th October.

Good luck to the 5/6 Hoop Time competitors for Friday. We have 8 teams participating and I’m sure it will be a fun and exciting day.

Brooke Green, Physical Education

eWaste Collection Day eWaste Collection Day Friday 26th AugustFriday 26th August

Items can be left at the School Items can be left at the School

Hall Hall prior to 9am, prior to 9am,

or beforehand by arrange-or beforehand by arrange-ment.ment.

Camps, Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF) - Dairy Assistance

As part of the Victorian Government’s dairy assistance package the Camps, Sport and

excursions Fund (CSEF) is being extended to students currently enrolled in government

and non-government schools whose parents own, share-farm or lease a dairy farm

business; or those people whose primary occupation is working on a dairy farm.

If you think you may be eligible, please collect an application form from the office.

Senior Choir and Pied Piper Opera Reminder to all choir members to bring back notes regarding the following: 1. Master class with Victorian Opera 6pm till 7.30pm Tuesday 30 August 2. Extra clas-ses with Mrs B during holidays 3. Commitment to opening night Port Fairy Spring Music Festival Friday 7 October and 4. Opera performance 3:30pm Sunday 9 October Please check the notes that went home Monday and Tuesday for more details. Also any choir parents wanting tickets: please contact the school or Marg Broers di-rect on 0417 014671. Adults $20, children $10.

Scouts Victoria Raffle We are participating in the Scouts Victoria Raffle this year again. For every $2 ticket sold, $1.50 goes straight to our school. We won’t be sending these out with the children, instead if you want to help out by selling a book or two please pick them up from office. All books need to be returned by Wed August 24th. Thanks for your help!

Before and After School Care

Fergus is creating a character from bionicles. This activity encourages the children to problem solve as there are several types of connectors that they can use to join pieces together. Not an easy task as a lot of thought is required to work out which connector is the right piece for their character.

Bev Holcombe

BFG—Movie Fundraiser

PFCS are conducting a movie fundraiser on 28th August. As this is the

Women’s Weekend, we are asking for dads to help out at the Theatre,

selling tickets and treats etc.

Please contact Jenni or Ronda at the office, and leave your name if you can help out for an

hour or so on this day.

Uniform Sale

We do have a couple of pieces from our 2016 Year 6 tops available for sale—now at half price!

Polo Shirt—size 16, small adult & medium adult. NOW AT $20!

Rugby Top—size 14, size 16, small adult & medium adult. NOW AT $30!

AND IF ANYONE NEEDS AN ADULT SIZE GOOD QUALITY WATERPROOF JACKET, I HAVE TWO

AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT $25 — bargain! (Size 18 and Size 20)

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

Now on in the Library.

Open on Sunday from 11 — 2pm.

Then every day next week between

8.15 and 8.50am.

1.30 and 2.30pm.

3.30 and 4pm.

Fantastic selection of books for all ages,

an excellent opportunity for birthday presents etc.

There is also a wonderful assortment of small gifts/treats

available for sale, all at very reasonable prices.