AXEDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL

“Excellence Through Endeavour”

High Street, Axedale 3551

Ph. (03) 5439 7232 Fax. (03) 5439 7575

Principal – Lex Johnstone

Email: axedale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

NEWSLETTER No. 30 September 13th 2018

Important dates:

Sept 14th Footy Colours & Hot Dog Lunch

17th/18th Dental Checks

18-21st Grade 5/6 Camp

20th Pie Orders Delivered 3pm

21st Hot Lunch Day P-4

21st Last Day of Term 3 – 2.30pm

dismissal

Oct. 8th First Day of Term 4

11th Finance Committee 3.45pm

13-14th Family Photo Fundraiser

16th School Council 6.30pm

17th Free Dental Checks

18th Free Dental Checks

19th Athletic Sports

SCHOOL VALUES AWARDS

Harry W – For being kind and respectful to

everyone at school.

Harry E – For working hard to always show his

personal best, resilience, respect and co-operation

in and out of the classroom.

Kaiya - For settling well into school life at

Axedale and treating her classmates and teachers

with respect and kindness.

Callum – For giving his personal best in all tasks

he undertakes and always looking to assist others.

CLASSROOM ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Max – For reading instructions very carefully and

asking questions if he is unsure of what to do when

completing his worksheets.

Lachie – For ensuring that all work he produces in

class is to the best of his ability and completed in the

given time.

Riley – For being a productive and enthusiastic

member of the class during learning activities and

making significant improvements to his classroom

behaviour.

Della – For working hard to improve her spelling with very pleasing results.

GOLDEN BRUSH Well done to Grade 2/3

HOUSE TROPHY

Well done to McIvor for winning our House Point Trophy this

week.

READING AWARDS

Well done to our P/1/2/3 students who have achieved another

level of word recognition this week. Great work!

25 NIGHT READING AWARDS

Well done to Harry, Zac, Henry, Oscar, Mitchell, Lincoln and LJ who have completed 25 nights of reading

so far this term.

BSE BAND VISIT

Last week we had a visit from some very talented musicians from BSE. The Yr. 8 & 9 students had only

been learning for two years but were amazing with some of their skills and creativity. We hope that the visit

has sparked an interest for our many students who are currently learning to play drums, guitar, keyboard and

to sing.

GRADE 3/4 CAMP

This week our Grade 3/4’s have been

on camp in Queenscliff. Blessed with

perfect weather, they made the most of

their environment with rock pool

investigations, canoeing, bike riding,

beach paddling, sandcastle

championships, lots of time in the

ga-ga pit, pizza cooking, beach walks

and time at the top of the Queenscliff

Lookout Tower and the Point Lonsdale

Lighthouse.

Well done to the students for their

efforts at camp, thanks to parents for

their support and to our staff who

attended camp.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

VALE - GILBERT COCHRANE

On behalf of the school community, I would like to pass on our sincere condolences to the Cochrane and

Jubb families on the sad passing our local friend and past parent Gilbert Cochrane.

To Gilbert’s wife Tess, mum Lynette, and children and step children Johnny, Ella, Ronan, Nita, Lily,

Zachary, Magnus and Abbey our thoughts are with you during this sad time. While a parent at our school,

Gilbert was always involved in school maintenance, mowing, building and working bees.

Gaye Saunders represented Axedale PS at Gilbert’s funeral last Monday.

GRADE 5/6 CAMP MEDICAL FORMS

A last reminder for

Permission forms

DOXA forms

Sleeping bag and a pillow case – DOXA have moved our accommodation to their Elizabeth St.

venue near Melbourne Central. Because of the change, students will now need a sleeping bag and a

pillow case

HOT LUNCH DAYS

Due to our hot dog lunch day tomorrow for footy colours day there will be no hot food available from the

shop. We will be having a hot lunch day next Friday 21st September for grades Prep-4.

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VOTING CLOSES NEXT MONDAY – have your family and friends voted for Axedale?

NETBALL COURT ROOF - PICK MY

PROJECT

As well as sourcing grant funding and local

financial support for our Netball Court Roof

Project, we have also nominated this proposal

as part of the ‘Pick My Project’ Victorian

Government funding initiative. Pick My Project

is a Victorian first community grants initiative,

with $30 million available to fund local projects. Come up with a

project idea, vote for your favourites, and make your community

an even better place to live.

The State Government received over 2500 project ideas from

across Victoria and now it’s time to get ready to vote – voting

opens at 9am on Monday 13 August 2018 and closes at 5pm on

Monday 17 September 2018.

You’ll need to register for a Pick My Project account and select the local community you wish to vote in.

You’ll be shown projects in our local community from which you’ll be able to vote for your three favourites.

Please vote for our project Axedale Primary School Netball/Basketball Court Roof & Surface Upgrade

https://pickmyproject.vic.gov.au/

GOLF DAY - TO SUPPORT THE AXEDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL AND PRE-SCHOOL

On Sunday 21st October the bi-annual Axedale Primary School and Pre-School Golf Day will be held at

Axedale Golf Course. The proceeds from this major fundraising event are shared between the Axedale

Primary School and the Axedale Pre-School. Hit-off will be from 12 noon, with BBQ available from

11.00am

We are sending home some information about how you can help on the day as well as an entry form for

people wishing to play golf today.

CRAZY HAIR DAY

Thanks to all of our students for supporting Crazy Hair Day. We were able to raise $183.05 for Cystic

Fibrosis.

2019 PREP ENROLMENTS

If you know of any families who are yet to enrol their child for Prep in 2019 can you please encourage them

to return their forms ASAP for planning purposes.

FINANCE COMMITTEE

Thank you to Sonya Browne who has volunteered to go on our Finance Sub –Committee of School Council.

REGIONAL ATHLETICS SPORTS

Senior students have been trying out recently to qualify for the Regional Athletic Sports. The Sports will be

held on Monday 17th September at the Flora Hill Athletics Track. We will be taking a group of

approximately 20 students to compete in both individual events and age group relays.

Good luck to all our participants.

NATURAL LEARNERS – TERM 3 HOLIDAY PROGRAM:

Are you looking for a school holiday program that engages, inspires and supports your children to be active

citizens with a voice and hand in how their day unfolds? Where they are empowered to challenge

themselves and each other in healthy, meaningful ways and gain new skills for life? Yet still loads of fun...

Added bonus, no need for their digital device quota for the day to be wasted, whilst in our environment /

care. As they are too busy socialising and being hands on Natural Learners to even want it...

Don't delay if this sounds like a good fit for your family as our numbers are deliberately limited for

maximum opportunity to get out & about exploring.

See flyer in the community section and on our school website.

AXEDALE PIRATE DAY

Pirate Party Organisers are asking for school families to donate any large boxes they might have, to help go

towards the construction of the pirate ship.

People are welcome to call Sonya Browne - 0438 904 611- to arrange drop off or pick up. Please see the

flyer at the end of the newsletter.

DENTAL CHECKS

Bendigo Health will again be offering free dental checks for students in Term Four. On October 17th & 18th,

Bendigo Health Care Dental Nurses will be at school to conduct these free checks.

Paperwork to sign up is attached to the newsletter today.

STUDENT ABSENCES

We ask that you notify the school as soon as possible on the day of absence using our school app (this is the

preferred method as it provides us with documentation), email or phoning the school.

Parents who have not notified the school will receive an automated SMS message when your child is marked

absent on the electronic roll without explanation. This will occur before 10am each day. Thank you for your

assistance with this new process.

Details on how to download the App are below.

SCHOOL APP

If you haven’t already signed up to our school app we ask that you take the time to

download it.

The majority of our families have now signed up for our school app and are finding it is a

great way of staying in touch with easy access to newsletters, receiving calendar updates

direct to your phone and entering absence notes. It is also the way we send our alerts and reminders.

To download the app just visit the App Store for iPhones or Google Play for Android’s.

Search for Updat-ed and from the menu select our school. We’ll receive your registration

request and will need to approve you before your app is up and running.

FRESH FRUIT FRIDAY

The Fresh Fruit Friday Program continues this term. Fruit will be provided during lunch and afternoon

recess each Friday.

Friday 14th September – Susie McGrath & Samantha Condon

Friday 21st September – Tara Coffin & HELP NEEDED

BREAKFAST CLUB

Thank you to our volunteers, a new roster for Term 3 has been sent home.

Tuesday 18th September – Kellie S & Sam G

Thursday 20th September – NO BREAKFAST CLUB

MICHAEL GROSS PARENTING RESOURCES

Our school is a member of Parenting

Ideas. Visit

www.parentingideas.com.au

This free webinar is on tonight on

“Managing video games and the next

digital craze”. Parents who have

participated in these webinars in the past

have found them to be very beneficial.

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Q: Why did the banana go to the doctor? A: Because it wasn’t peeling well.

The person who invented fairy bread recently retired. Apparently hundreds and thousands turned up to their

farewell ceremony!!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Strive for progress – not perfection.

Lex Johnstone

Principal

FORMS TO BE RETURNED OR ORGANISED AT SCHOOL

GRADE 5/6 CAMP FORMS – Permission and DOXA forms due ASAP.

CLASSROOMS

PREP/1

Next Thursday 20th September Prep/1 will be having a games day where they will need to bring along a

board game, card game etc to share with us. They will need to know the rules of the game and how to play it

with their friends. Mrs E will also be sharing her childhood games played in the Netherlands.

PARENTS VOLUNTEERS &

FRIENDS

FAMILY PHOTO FUNDRAISER

We are holding the family photo fundraiser again

this year. A flyer was attached to the newsletter

last week. Please note a $50 non-refundable

booking fee is payable on booking.

COMMUNITY NEWS

KINDER ENROLMENT FORMS

We have enrolment forms for 2019 Kinder and

Pre-Kinder available at the school office.