No 10

ELIZABETH DRIVE, SUNBURY 3429

PHONE 9740 8666

www.sunburywestps.vic.edu.au 26th June 2017

Dear Parents, Staff and Children,

Regional Cross Country

Well done to Angel Vujasinovic who competed in the Regional Cross Country Finals on

Wednesday. With around 60 competitors in his 11 year old event, Angel is not exactly sure

where he placed, but it was in the top 25. Congratulations Angel on this excellent achievement.

Parent / Teacher Interviews

Our parent / teacher interviews commence this evening. We are looking forward to the

opportunity to meet with families to discuss children’s progress across all areas of their

learning. If you haven’t already done so, please log in to Compass to book an appointment time.

Our interviews run from 3.45 - 6.oopm on Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th and until 7.00pm on

Wednesday 28th June.

Year 5 /6 Camp

Please see inside this newsletter for a sneak peek at all the action during our Year 5 /6 Camp.

I had the privilege of staying overnight on Wednesday. I cannot speak more highly of our

students and the manner in which they conducted themselves. Exposed to many new

experiences, the children participated enthusiastically, taking risks and challenging themselves

to have a go. Thankyou to our staff, Mandy Langman, Sharon Moore, Daniel Gregory, Ben

Payton and Melissa Baba for their hard work in preparation for and during the camp. It is an

enormous responsibility and their commitment to providing our students with this wonderful

opportunity is to be commended. A huge thankyou also to our parent helpers; David Vaughan,

Steven Lee, Paul Spencer and Robyn O’Donovan. Without the support of parents, we wouldn’t

be able to offer these programs. Their wonderful contributions to the supervision and care of

the students is greatly appreciated.

We look forward to hearing more about the camp in our first newsletter next term.

Welcome to Complete Kids

We are looking forward to our new partnership with Complete Kids as our Out of School Hours

Care provider. The company comes highly recommended and we are optimistic that our

children will enjoy a quality program. We are happy to announce also that Heidi Lens, our

current OSHClub Coordinator has been offered a position with the company to ensure

continuity of care.

Inga Wilson

Principal

A reminder to all our families that we finish at 2.30pm on

Friday 30th June. Term 3 begins on Monday 17th July

TIMELINE

Term 2

26th - 28th June

Parent Teacher

Interviews

26th 3.45pm - 6.00pm

27th 3.45pm - 6.00pm

28th 3.45pm - 7.00pm

30th June

Last Day of Term 2

2.30pm dismissal

Term 3

17th July

First Day of Term 3

26th July

Wakakirri Performance

at the Clocktower

Centre

Mindfulness

Grade 5/6

24th & 31st July

7th August

31st August

Prep Werribee Zoo

Excursion

Enjoy

your

holidays

Notices that have gone home….

Term 2

Prep Werribee Zoo Excursoin

Wakakirri Bus & Dinner Notice

Prep CD Matias Avila & James Larton

Prep DA Rusell Penus & Freya Cucanic

1/2 B Resky Saputra & Sierra Goddard

1/2 S Grace Basham & Charlotte Cullinan

1/2 T Zayne Gadsden & Cara Pamintuan

3/4B Issy D, Hayley H, Mikayla W & Anita Z

3/4N Ashlee Cavanagh & Jessica Wilson

3/4T Cymorah Vakalahi & Maddy Wright

5/6 G Brandon Jorgensen & Jaxon Dowal

5/6L Valentina Bernal Uribe & Jake Conduit

5/6M

P.E.

Music

Japanese Max Steele

Art

STUDENT OF THE WEEK TERM 1 2017 Monday 19 June

JUNE Events

The Great Sunbury Gnome Hunt - Information was sent

home last week. Passports must be ordered and paid for by

this Wednesday 28th June. FOSW meetings will be on a Monday afternoon at 2pm from

next term beginning July 17th AUGUST Events

Disco Bingo - Saturday 19th August - Information will be

sent home this week.

FOSW TEAM

2018 PREP ENROLMENTS

Enrolments for the Year 2018 are now being taken.

Enrolment forms can be collected from the office. If

you have already picked up an enrolment form please

return it to the office. A.S.A.P.

When enrolling please provide:

Proof of Age – e.g. Birth Certificate and Immunisation Certificate (This can be obtained from the

Medicare Website)

Please note: If you know of any potential enrolments, please ask families to contact the school as soon as

possible.

COMPASS

Compass bookings for Parent Teacher

Interviews are still open.

There are still a large number of parents who have not yet logged

onto the Compass Portal at all. Please be advised that as this is

our main communication tool you may be missing out on very

important information about your child. If you require your log in

details please contact the office 9740 8666.

Click the link below to go to the Compass Portal.

https://sunburywestps-vic.compass.education

Prep CD Ellen Sparrey & Ksenia Vujasinovic

Prep DA Tom Azzopardi & James Butler

1/2 B Chloe Hatcher & Jamie Cavanagh

1/2 S Julian Cucanic & Noah May

1/2 T Ashlen Francis & Jeya Reeks

3/4B Bailey Pierce & Tane Webster

3/4N Alexander Jacobs & Dekoda Powell

3/4T Megan Van Berlo & Jordan Hermelin

5/6 G Whole Grade

5/6L Whole Grade

5/6M Mitchell O, Sophie M & Grace A

P.E. Prep DA & Prep CD

Music 1/2B, 1/2S & 1/2T

Japanese Ashlen Francis

Art Maddison Jolly & Emily Watts

STUDENT OF THE WEEK TERM 1 2017 Monday 26 June

FOSW NEWS

School Council Report-Term 2 This term has seen School Council begin work on a number of projects which are briefly outlined below:

Education sub-committee

Has commenced a review of the SWPS Code of Conduct and are in the early developmental stages to create a new community code of conduct. This will most likely roll out later this year. In addition, we will also be reviewing the SWPS student engagement and wellbeing policies along-side the SWPS Values. We would greatly appreciate parental input into this process so please monitor the school newsletter for further information.

Environmental sub-committee

Has commenced the Artists walk which will involve all classes designing a painting to be put onto their panel in the artists walk just outside the Art Room windows. There are also plans to have Welcome tree in the Grade 1/2 covered play area and to extend the Friendship Garden.

Thank you to the Grade 6 students who assisted with the 2018 Prep Information sessions. Lastly many thanks to our wonderful FOSW team, led by Kristie Hermelin and Briony Van Berlo, for putting together the fantastic Mothers Day Stall and Mothers Day Breakfast in May. The FOSW team work very hard to provide the best for SWPS students and we very lucky to have them.

If you are interested in assisting the FOSW team this year or knowing more about the work School Council is doing then please contact the School office.

Congratulations to all students for their achievements this term and I hope everyone has a good break over the holidays.

Regards

James King

President-SWPS School Council

Silver Coin Scramble Congratulations to the overall winners of the Siler Coin Scramble Grade 5/6L with a total of $215.45.

The total amount raised by all classes was $733.65.

Thank you to everyone who participated!

Don’t forget to purchase your Gnome Passport if you would like to join in the Great Sunbury Gnome Hunt during the holidays!

News from the 1/2’s

Our 1/2’s have been working extremely hard over the last term to learn all different dances during our 1/2 sport time.

The favourite was the ‘Cha Cha Slide’ and the kids were energetic, happy and smiling every time Mrs Taylor popped it on the speaker.

We decided a flash mob at assembly would be a great way to showcase our achievements and just how funky we are!

Thank you to all the parents who came along today to watch their little superstars in action.

Stay tuned for another dance session soon.

Miss Barnes, Miss Skinner and Mrs Taylor

Parent Teacher Interview Bookings

Bookings for interviews are still open.

Winter Sport

On Friday the 9th of June all the grade 5/6s went down to Boardman

Reserve to participate in winter sports. Ella and I played netball and we were

in the all girls team.

The first game we played was against Kismet, the girls played amazing and

we won.

The second game was against Sunbury Heights, we played awesome again

and won that game too.

The third game was against Killara, this was the toughest game but we still dominated and won.

The fourth game we played was against St Anne's, we played a great game and won again.

The fifth game was against Sunbury Primary this was also a tough game but we played our hardest

and won.

The sixth game was against OLMC we smashed it and won again.

The seventh game was against Diggers Rest, we played exceptionally well and won again.

Our last game was against Goonawarra, everyone was nervous but we still put our best effort in and

won!

After our games we found out that we won the Small Schools competition and we’re going on to the

next level of zone because we were undefeated.

We would like to say a big thank you to all the parents for supporting us through the day and to Mrs

Davies for umpiring and helping us out. Thank you to Mr Payton for organizing this special day and

making it happen and to all the netballers for putting a big effort into every game and playing amazing

and lastly a massive thank you to Ms Moore for coaching us and supporting us through the day and

helping us practice to get this far.

By Renee Marriott Ella Young

On Friday the 9th of June the 5/6s went down to the soccer pitch at Boardman Reserve. Overall we

played eight matches and they each went for ten minutes. The Captains were Erik and I (Eddy) and

personally I think that the whole team played really well, and they tried their best even though we

didn't score a goal. I'm still happy about our effort and our defence because we only lost by one goal.

We drew five matches and lost three which is a great result for our team. I'd like to

give a big thanks to Mrs Langman for organising the day and training our team.

By Eddy Larton

Sunbury West at the Sunbury

College Film Festival

The grade 5/6 students got an opportunity to make a short film to show

at Reading Cinemas Sunbury for the Sunbury College Film Festival. For

those who wanted to make a film they had to make a storyboard as their

plan. A couple days after we were told about this the two media studies

teachers (Ms.Abbott & Ms.Tweedie) and a couple of students came to

our school. They were provided with a group to help make our movies.

To qualify for the competition we had to airdrop our films to Ms.Tweedie

so she could see who they wanted as the finalists. We soon found out if

we were a finalist or not. Luckily enough, mine and Bianca’s film got to

be a finalist. On the 30th of May most of the people who got to be

shown on the big screen at Reading Cinemas (including the people who

didn't get to be a finalist) were there. We watched all the films including

the Sunbury College films. There were three judges. One of them had

helped make Iron Man2.They had lots of donuts there and drinks.

The winners were:

Holly Falzon, Cam Hildebrand, Indya Hildebrand, Tyler Baba and Tianna Atwell The Famous Three Best Film & Audience Favourite

Bianca Muleta and Maddison Jolly

Academy

Best Technical Skills

Jake Conduit, Hayden Wright and Branden Jorgensen

The Blue Umbrella Best Story

Thanks to Ms Moore Mr Gregory and Mrs Langman for coming along on the night. It was a fantastic experience!

By Maddison Jolly 5/6 L

Community News

Each week as we receive Community News items we will be adding them to the newsletter as a separate attachment. If you would like to read the community news please click here.

A sneak peak at Grade 5/6 Camp

Next term we will have a report and many more photos of all the fun had at the

Grade 5/6 Anglesea Recreation Camp