Anzac Day Commemorations · Anzac Day Commemorations Term 1 Issue 9 March 28th 2018 Thursday 29th...

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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

Acting School Council President - Anne Trevena

Telephone - (03) 57931288

Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Email - [email protected]

Alamein Road

Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662

Postal: Military P.O.

ABN: - 74134967962

Term 1 Issue 9

March 28th 2018

Thursday

29th March

Last Day

of Term 1

Monday

16th April

Day 1

of Term 2

Tuesday 24th April

School ANZAC Day

Commemoration

Wednesday

25th April

ANZAC Day

Public Holiday

Wednesday 25th April

ANZAC Day

Choir to sing at

Dawn Service

Thursday 26th April

Adopt a Granny Day

F OC, FR and F OM

Friday

27th April

Pucka Fire Brigade

Visit

3M, 3/4I and 3/4P

Tuesday

1st May

School Council Meeting

5pm

Friday 4th May

Visiting Artist – Rhonda Tallnash (author)

Inside this Issue: Birthdays/DSTA Message 2

Anzac Day Commemorations 2

School Working Bee Thanks 2

Adopt a Granny Day 3

Easter Jokes 3

Student Awards of the Week 4

Teaching/Learning Focus 5

Fire Safety for Years 1/2 5

Indo Lingo 6

Grand Prix Excursion 7-8

Before School Sport 9-10

Term 2 Canteen Menu 11

***Have you heard your child read today? We encourage all students to

practise their reading at home about 5 nights per week. Therefore, by now,

most students should have read at least between 40-45 nights. Well done if

you have kept up!

***We can all work together to

rid the community of any chance

of Head Lice. Let’s check our

heads once per week!***

Thursday 29th March (tomorrow) is the last day of the term. All students

will be dismissed from school at 1:30 p.m. The students will only require a

morning play lunch as they can have their lunch once they are home that day.

We will finish off the term with a 1:10 p.m. assembly which all parents are

invited to attend. We have some awards to hand out, some presentations and

some performances for assembly. Please come along.

It will be an Out of Uniform Day on this day as it always is on the last day of

term.

There will not be any afternoon school buses available for our children on the

last day of term. Good luck to all students and their families during the term

break!

* The first day of Term 2 is Monday 16th April, 2018.*

We wish all of our families a safe, enjoyable and restful break and we look

forward to seeing everyone return to school on Monday 16th of April for the

start of Term 2. Happy Easter!

Please return all tickets to the

office by tomorrow morning at

the latest. Thank you to families

who have donated prizes and/or

bought tickets. The raffle will be

drawn at Thursday’s afternoon’s

assembly (tomorrow).

Good luck everyone!

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Happy Birthday to Braiden Hodges, Chloe

Klemm, Lucy Sullivan, Izabella Meiselbach, Kieran

Gibbons, Muhammad Shah, Lilah Blaxland, Owen

Brown, Flynn Mackie, Eva Naunton, Rohanna

Murphy, Dante Capes, Jake Eastwood and Daniel

Tuohill who are all having their birthdays this week or

over the holidays. On behalf of the Puckapunyal Primary

School Community, we wish them all a very Happy

Birthday!

Easter Raffle fundraiser: Thanks to everyone who has

supported this fundraiser. If you haven’t already done

so, please hand in tickets, money and any donations by

9am tomorrow. Winners drawn at assembly tomorrow

– good luck!

Sports for Schools: We have 17510 vouchers! This

promotion finishes on April 3rd, so make sure we have

all your vouchers early next term. Thanks so much!!

Healthy breakfast!: Eat breakfast! Breakfast is vitally

important to start the day well. It gets the metabolism

going and helps prevent a slump in concentration during

the late morning hours. Studies also show that those

who eat a healthy breakfast eat less junk food later in

the day and have a lower intake of saturated fat and a

higher intake of essential nutrients and dietary fibre for

the whole day. So let’s make sure that all our students

have eaten breakfast before they come to school. They

will all benefit from it.

Enjoy the holidays everyone! Stay safe, rest up and

have a great time!

Have a terrific break! Sue Ranger, DSTA.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD UPDATE

Bradman is our positive behaviour winner this

term! Well done! Bradman members along

with top ticket earners enjoyed some hot chips

yesterday! CURRENT SCORES

Bradman - 641 points

Melba - 621 points

Chisholm - 580 points

Hume – 520 points

**REMINDER- Pucka News is a growing interest in the school and our community. You can

see each episode live at our school assemblies at 9am on Monday mornings. Everyone is

encouraged to come along and watch each episode. If you are unable to attend, you can follow

Pucka News by watching each episode on our Facebook page. **

No Lunch Orders this week due to the early finish. Canteen lunch orders for students will begin again on

Friday 27th April (second week of Term 2). The menu for Term 2 is attached to the back of this newsletter.

Anzac Day is on Wednesday the 25th of April

(during 2nd week of Term 2). We hope that all families

enjoy the day. On Tuesday 24th April, at a special 9am

morning assembly, we will have a commemoration to

pay respect to the ANZACs. Some of our senior

students will be conducting the commemoration. There

will also be performances from our school choir. We

encourage students to bring wreaths to school and any

child in cubs, scouts, guides, etc, can wear their

uniforms for the commemoration. All parents are

welcome to attend our commemoration. It will be held

in the school’s PC Centre.

Our school choir will also be attending a Puckapunyal

Dawn service at the School of Armour (in front of the

tank museum) on ANZAC Day. We will be performing

2 songs at 5:45 a.m. We would encourage all school

community members to attend the service.

At both ANZAC commemorations, our school captains

will be laying wreaths on behalf of the school.

Ms O’Connor has begun choir rehearsals for the Dawn

Service.

The Years 2-6 students in the choir have been

practising during some lunch eating times.

Thank you to all of the wonderful families and staff who

attended the School Working Bee on the weekend.

We were able to get many necessary jobs completed!

We are always grateful for the help!

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At assembly this week Resilience was announced as our School Value of the week. That means teachers

are looking for students who are demonstrating ‘Resilience’ to be eligible for the Student of the Week

award. We encourage parents to talk to their students about our values throughout the year.

What is Resilience? Year 5 student, Tessa Thompson read out the meaning of Resilience. Well done,

Tessa!

‘Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. Being resilient is when we bounce back from

disappointments, work through challenges and overcome obstacles.’

Every Day Counts! Please don’t forget –

going to school every day is the single

most important part of your child’s

education. Students learn new things at

school every day. Missing school puts

them behind. We all want our students to

get a great education. The building

blocks for a great education begin with

students coming to school each and every

day.

Rory Kennedy and Ned

Kendell once again, would

like to strongly remind us

about saving those Coles

‘Sports for Schools’ dockets!

Each week at assembly, SRC representatives remind our

students of a few important school rules. This week, SRC

representatives, Dakota McBride and Matilda Turner

reminded our students of the ‘Ga Ga’ rules:

- There must always be an umpire. The umpire’s

decision must be obeyed without any arguments.

- Only the grades that have been timetabled on for the

week can play Ga ga.

- You can only hit the ball once, unless there are only

two players in the court.

- Only when there are two players left can the other

players lean over and tap the ball.

- No ‘grabs.’

- Always be honest.

On Thursday 26th April our FO’M, FO’C and FR

students will be involved in the ‘Adopt a

Granny’ Day program. For many years Di

Grant has been visiting our school bringing some

grandparents from Seymour. The idea has been to

run some fun activities involving a particular year

level of Pucka kids. This is because many of their

grandparents do not live nearby. It has been a fun

tradition and it’s the turn for Rooms 6, 8 and some

10 kids this year! From 9am until lunchtime the

visitors will be involved with our students. Any of

our grandparents who would like to attend the day

can also come and join in with the kids.

Thanks, Di!

Easter Jokes to Crack You Up! Q. What do you get if you pour hot water down a rabbit hole?

A. Hot cross bunnies!

Q. What do you call a rabbit with fleas?

A. Bugs Bunny!

Q. Why shouldn’t you tell an Easter egg a joke?

A. It might crack up!

Q. How did the soggy Easter Bunny dry himself?

A. With a hare-dryer!

Q. Why did the Easter Bunny cross the road?

A. Because the chicken had his Easter eggs!

Q. How did the Easter Bunny rate the Easter parade?

A. He said it was eggs-cellent!

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Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Students of the Week’ for last week. Winners – Tilly

McGechan, Isabelle Bock, Zoe Becks, Lachlan

McMaster, Memphis Campbell, Milli Miller, Kirrah

Horton, Jake Quinn, Isabella Young, Aiden Gibbons

and Izabella Meiselbach. These students were selected

because they were modelling Caring. This week teachers

are also looking for students who are modelling

Resilience.

Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Authors of the Week’ for last week. Winners –

Madden Young, Brayden Tippett, Claire McGhie,

Ryan Lindner, Grace Panchoo, Evie Clarke, Lilly

Mackay, Aysa Crawley, Benny McCarthy, Brendon

Young and Jarrah Younger. The students were

selected because they showed great skills as an author.

5/6 H in Room 1 won the

Yard Duty Competition. Jack Lindner and Blake Cooper

enjoyed collecting the winning

trophy for their classroom this

week!

Congratulations to Bailey Armstrong,

Jordan Swan, Savanah Naunton and Nic

who won the raffle prizes for ‘Positive

Behaviour’ this week!

5/6 H in Room 1 won

the Middle School

Times Tables

Trophy. Mackenzy

Morgan and Saskia

Greenwood are both

delighted to look after their

winning trophy this week!

3/4 P in Room 13 won

the Senior School

Times Tables

Trophy. Olivia Scotman and

Brielle Eldredge will look

after the winning trophy

this week!

Did you hear Katherine

Tuohill read at assembly

this week? We did! She was

great! Come along and see

who reads next time.

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Each week in the newsletter, we will give families a summary of the Teaching/Learning Focus for the week.

That can help families by: being aware of what classrooms are covering; with discussion topics at the dinner table when

discussing school (eg. ‘How are you going with addition in Numeracy this week?’); helping their children study at home,

etc. Parents have indicated that this information would be very useful. We also ask families to be aware that schools are

very busy places and events can be unpredictable at times. We therefore must remain flexible. That means, we can plan to

cover certain topics at particular times and have to change them according to arising needs.

Junior School – Preps/Foundation Rooms 6, 8 & 10 Literacy: We are looking at the letters ‘e and b’. We are learning the difference between a letter and a word. We are also

looking at capital letters and full stops.

Numeracy: We are learning about the numbers 7 and 8. We are looking at 2D shapes.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 4 & 10 Literacy: .We are revising the letters e and b. We are looking at recounts and nouns.

Numeracy: We are continuing to look at simple addition and learning how to tally.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 3, 4 & 9 Literacy: We are revising the letters ‘e and b’. We are focusing on common and proper nouns. We are continuing to work

on persuasive writing.

Numeracy: We are working on addition and subtraction skills. We are continuing to practise skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and

10’s and learning how to tally.

Middle School Years 3/4 Rooms 9, 11, 12 & 13 Literacy: This week we will be focusing on persuasive writing and the VCOP components.

Numeracy: We will also be working on the four processes, as well as chance and data in Numeracy.

Senior School Years 5/6 Rooms 1&2 Literacy: This week we will be focusing on persuasive writing and the VCOP components.

Numeracy: We will also be working on the four processes and fractions, as well as chance and probability in Numeracy.

Today the Pucka firemen visited our school. They taught us to get down

low and go, go, go. Then they told us to cut the door with the cutter. Then

they showed us the rear of the firetruck. They had 2 firetrucks and then they

showed us the hose. By Bailey Armstrong 1/2I

Today we saw the fire brigade and the firemen taught us about fire danger.

They squirted the hose. They had a fire suit. They had a helmet.

By Evie Clarke 1/2I

Today the Pucka firemen visited our school. They had fire suits, helmets

and breathing masks. I liked the fire danger board and the fire blanket.

By Harvey Birks 1/2I

Today the Pucka firemen visited our school. They showed us 2 firetrucks

and a suit and a hose and a helmet and a fire danger board and a breathing

mask. They had fire lights too. They didn’t show us the fire blanket when

they squirted the hose and we didn’t get to hear the fire sound.

By Savannah Zaloumis 1/2I

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Students in year 5 and 6 will focus on perasaan

(feelings) this week in Indonesian.

The junior students will learn an Easter song;

Sepuluh Kelinci Paskah (Ten Easter Rabbits) and

associated counting game this week in Indonesian.

FOC & FOM Language the students will hear/use this week:

Selamat pagi = Good morning

Siapa ada? = Who's here? Ada = Here

Siapa tidak ada? = Who's not here? Tidak ada = Not here

Berapa murid? = How many students?

Ada __ murid. = There are __ students.

Apa kabar? = How are you?

Baik-baik saja = Well Biasa saja = So so

Kurang baik = Not good

Nama saya ... = My name is ...

Nama = Name

Tanggal = Date

Sampai jumpa = See you later

F/1R, 1/2C, 1/2I & 2/3M Will use above language and ...

Selamat siang = Good day

Kurang baik = Not good Senang = Happy

Sedih = Sad Marah = Mad

Siapa nama kamu? = What's your name?

5/6D & 5/6H Will use above language and ...

baik = good bagus = great lapar = hungry haus = thirsty

panas = hot dingin = cold sakit = sick

marah = mad senang = happy terkejut = surprised

sedih = sad malu = shy bingung = confused

mengantuk = sleepy pintar = smart iri = jealous

takut = afraid kenyang = full bijaksana = thoughtful

Siapa namamu? = What's your name? Siapa nama Ibu?

= What's your name ma'am? Siapa nama Bapak? =

What's your name sir?

Saya merasa marah. = I feel mad.

Saya merasa senang. = I feel happy.

Saya merasa terkejut = I feel surprise.

Saya merasa sedih. = I feel sad.

Saya merasa malu. = I feel shy.

Saya merasa bingung. = I feel confused.

Saya merasa mengantuk. = I feel sleepy.

Saya merasa pintar. = I feel smart/clever.

Saya merasa iri. = I feel envious/jealous.

Saya merasa takut. = I feel scared/afraid.

Saya merasa kenyang. = I feel satisfied/full.

Saya merasa bijaksana. = I feel wise/thoughtful.

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Our Year 5/6 students enjoyed their excursion to the Australian Grand Prix last week. What did a

couple of them think?

On Thursday we went to the Grand Prix. We travelled there on a bus and I was really late...oops. When we

got to Melbourne we had to walk about 2km to get to the track. I was in Mrs Hartland group. At the Grand

Prix we saw a lot of cars. We took a photo with a Ferrari and I was laying rite in front of it. We also saw

parkour people, they were amazing! They did flips, jumps and all sorts of other cool things. I got a toy plane

and I play with every day. It can actually fly in the sky it’s fun to play with.

By Chase Riegel 5/6H

On the 22nd of March the two grade 5/6 classes, (5/6 H and 5/6 D) went to The Grand Prix. We were split

into groups, and I was in Mrs A-W’s group. When we got there we had to get our bags checked, then we

started to split up into our groups in my group was Cally, Mackenzy, Saskia, Jasmine, Bella, Henry, Zac,

Brendon, Aaron and me. For the Grand Prix I decorated my own ear muffs to wear when it got loud.

After a while, we were waiting for the mobile circus to start, but they weren’t ready. So we went to go see

the stuntmen preform. They were really cool, one of the stuntmen competed in last year's Ninja Warrior. I

wish we could bring a camera, so I could take a selfie with him. When we were walking back to the bus Mrs

Hartland noticed that she was missing her WEDDING RING, so we all started to look for it. Mr Warne

said whoever finds the ring gets 10 raffle tickets, nobody found the ring. Then Mr Warne said whoever finds

the ring gets 100 raffle tickets, but still nobody found it so everyone went back to the bus. But not Cally,

Mrs Hartland and I, we stayed back to look in more places it could be.

But…we couldn’t find it. So we went back to the bus too. The day was great beside Mrs Hartland losing her

wedding ring.

By Tess Thompson 5/6 H

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Dear Parents,

Recently, the Puckapunyal Primary School applied for a Term 2 Sporting Schools Grant from the

Federal Government. We were successful and will soon receive the grant.

That means, in Term 2 the Puckapunyal Primary School is offering an opportunity for students to

participate in some Before School Sport.

To apply for the grant we had to choose different sports to be the themes of the sessions – for Term 2 the

sports are:

Tuesdays - Basketball at school for Foundation to Year 6 students.

Wednesdays - Cycling at school (using Sanananda Rd) for Years 3-6 students. This activity is a great

opportunity for students who want to enter the Team Triathlon in early August or practise their bike

riding skills for the Bike Education Program in Term 2.

Thursdays - Tennis at school for Foundation to Year 6 students.

Beginning Week 2 of Term 2. Any student in the year levels that match the activity can attend. There is no cost. Class teachers and

other staff will be there to meet the students, supervise them and give them an opportunity to participate.

Please see the timetable on page 10. To participate in any of the sessions, we must have a return slip

before the date of the intended session. Families can pick and choose optimal dates. Return slips will be

available at the front of the school office and on our school website. Please do not hesitate to contact the

school for any more information.

Yours sincerely,

Kevin Warne

Principal

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Basketball Dates Triathlon (Cycling)

Dates

Golf and Bat

Tennis/Tennis Dates

Week 2 Tuesday 24th April ANZAC Day Thursday 26th April

Week 3 Tuesday 1st May Wednesday 2nd May Thursday 3rd May

Week 4 Tuesday 8th May Wednesday 9th May Thursday 10th May

Week 5 Tuesday 15th May Wednesday 16th May Thursday 17th May

Week 6 Tuesday 22nd May Wednesday 23rd May Thursday 24th May

Week 7 Tuesday 29th May Wednesday 30th May Thursday 31st May

Week 8 Tuesday 5th June Wednesday 6th June Thursday 7th June


Week 10 Tuesday 19th June Thursday 20th June Thursday 21st June


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Family Name Student Given Name Room No

_____________________ ______________________ ______________

I give permission for my child to participate in the Before School Sport Sessions with the Puckapunyal

Primary School. In case of accident or illness, I authorise the teacher in charge of the activity to consent,

where it is impractical to communicate with me on _____________________or ____________________ to

my child receiving such medical or surgical treatment as may be deemed necessary.

Signature of Parent or Guardian:......................................................................………………

Full Parent or Guardian Name in Block Letters:.................................................................................

Dates:

Tues

24/4

Thurs

26/4

Tues

1/5

Wed

2/5

Thurs

3/5

Tues

8/5

Wed

9/5

Thurs

10/5

Tues

15/5

Wed

16/5

Thurs

17/5

Tues

22/5

Wed

23/5

Thurs

24/5

Tues

29/5

Wed

30/5

Thurs

31/5

Tues

5/6

Wed

6/6

Thurs

7/6

Tues

12/6

Wed

13/6

Thurs

14/6

Tues

19/6

Wed

20/6

Thurs

21/6

Tues

26/6

Wed

27/6

Thurs

28/6

**Please tick the

box of the intended

dates**

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Date Menu Item Price

27th April Hot dogs

Chocolate or Strawberry Milk

Apple or Orange Juice

$3.00

$2.00

$1.50

4th May 4 Chicken Nuggets

& a serve of wedges



$3.00

$2.00

$1.50

11th May Party Pies / Sausage Rolls


Apple or Orange juice

$1.00 Each or 3 for $2.50

$2.00

$1.50

18th May Pizza Supreme or Ham & Pineapple



$2.50

$2.00

$1.50

25th May Hot dogs



$3.00

$2.00

$1.50

1st June No Canteen Report Writing day.

No students at school.

8th June

4 Chicken Nuggets

& a serve of wedges



$3.00

$2.00

$1.50

15th June Party Pies / Sausage Rolls



$1.00 Each or 3 for $2.50 $2.00 $1.50

22nd June Pizza Supreme or Ham & Pineapple


Apple or Orange juice

$2.50

$2.00

$1.50

Lunch Order Bags are 20c

Sauce is free!

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