HEIGHTS HYPE

21st May 2015 Newsletter 8

Our school’s Open Day was a wonderful event. This week, being Education Week, our school invited our families; mums, dads and grandparents to visit our classrooms in action and join in celebrating excellence at our school. I was thrilled to see many visitors attend in the morning and spend time helping the children with their learning activities and being involved in their lessons. I enjoyed chatting with some of our guests over morning tea and discovered that some families were visiting from Western Australia, which was most impressive. After morning tea our choirs sang a mixture of upbeat and sentimental songs ranging from our Anzac Day, this year’s school production and some regular favourites. The afternoon was of particular fun, with all children participating in a Mathematics Scavenger Hunt around the school. This was a great challenge and I was impressed by the mathematical knowledge the children demonstrated to solve the clues of the quiz. For future years, we will plan our Open Days during Education Week to become a significant annual event for our school community, in which our families join with teachers and students to celebrate excellence in all facets of education at FHPS.

Book Fair- Last Day today for sales [Thursday 21st May] I thank Jan Gallagher for all of her hard work in setting up the Book Fair this week for our children which provides a wonderful opportunity for families to view quality literature and reading material for purchase. All grades visited the Book Fair on Monday and took home their ‘wish list’ for parents to also view. As well as families being able to buy quality reading material from the Book Fair, all proceeds the school receives from sales, enables additional reading resources to be purchased for all students in the school to enjoy. If families are still wishing to purchase books, please do so today as the book fair closes promptly at 3.45pm

Walk to School Day– Friday 22nd May Tomorrow we encourage families to ‘Walk to School’ to support this annual event nationwide. Our school promotes health and wellbeing and by being an active traveller to and from school, children not only benefit from the exercise, but more importantly, parents can actively teach children about how to safely commute to school each day. Here is a link to the website for further information. http://www.walk.com.au/WSTSD/

Yr 5/6 Sovereign Hill Trip- Monday 25th May

Our Yr 5/6 students will travel to Sovereign Hill this coming Monday to consolidate their understanding of the ‘Gold Rush’, the unit of inquiry being studied this term. As it is a long trip, the children have an early start to the day. Children need to be at school no later than 7.45am as the bus leaves promptly at 8am. The expected arrival time back at FHPS will be 4.30pm. This will be a wonderful excursion for the children, who will gain a ‘first hand’ educational experience from this program.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Fri 22nd May District Cross Country

Mon 25th May 5/6 Sovereign Hill Excursion

8.00am Departure

Fri 29th May 5/6 Winter Sport—round 3

Thurs 4th June Division Cross Country

Fri 5th June 5/6 Winter Sport—round 4

Mon 8th June QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

PREP 2016 FAMILY ENROLMENTS

If you have a child due to start prep next year please collect

an enrolment form from our front office as soon as possible.

Zoe B

Robert T

Samuel R

Lily A

Sophie B

Destiny S

Riley B

Kian S

Café Reading On Tuesday our teaching staff completed their first day of learning about a reading program that will be implemented throughout the school in the coming weeks. The children will soon start to share their understanding of the program will parents as they begin to incorporate the key elements of the program into their daily literacy learning. The initial focus will be on children’s sustained reading on a range of texts to continually practice comprehension, accuracy and fluency. Children will be expected to borrow more books to read each day and over the school week. Research proves that children get better at reading by practising their reading. Hence the importance of promoting reading, both at school and in the home. Parents can help beginning readers by discussing the story with the children and reading to children. As children become more capable, the reading can be shared and independent readers are encouraged to discuss the book with parents as they independently practice

each night.

Lazy Town On Monday our Prep to Year 2 students were involved in the Lazy Town Incursion. Lazy Town is a global sensation children's program that engages and inspires children to be healthy and active. As you will see from the photos below, the students had a great time.

Kind Regards, Cheryl Clark, Principal

Orders due:

WEDNESDAY 27th

May

HUNGRY HEIGHTS HEALTHY BITES—CANTEEN NEWS:

Friday 29th May Special Lunch:

Steamed Dim Sim (1) With Fried Rice.

Plus

Nudie Juice Plus

Yoghurt with Fruit $6.50

Thank you, Linda Eames Canteen Manager

Message from the Assistant Principal Congratulations to all the Year 3 and 5 students and teachers for making it through NAPLAN testing. All the students worked well and I am confident they did the best they could on the day. Last Wednesday night all staff attended a Professional Development Session with Nadia Walker an Educational Consultant. All staff enjoyed working with Nadia and found it a valuable experience. We developed our math's mission statements and looked at the structure of a math's lesson to get the best learning out of our students. All math's lessons will be broken into :

1. number fluency,

2. launch (explicit teaching of topic) ,

3. discover (students exploring and on task) and

4. summarise (explain and elaborate).

We want all our students: to experience success in mathematics, to be able to use multiple strategies, to have an inquiry mind, to make connections with math's in the real world, to be risk takers, to be able to demonstrate and explain understandings, to be persistent, to be willing to have a go, to have a strong number sense.

We are looking forward to working with Nadia more in the future.

Jodi Craig Acting Assistant Principal

CITIZENSHIP AWARDS: Congratulations to the following students who received a Success Award for the weeks:

SCHOOL NEWS:

MOTHER’S DAY STALL The FOH team raised $1,123.70 from the Mother’s Day Stall. A fantastic

effort! Thank you to the hardworking volunteers who helped with this fundraiser. We hope that all the mums,

grandmothers and special ladies in our student’s lives appreciated their gifts.

RITCHIES COMMUNITY BENEFITS – We received $94.34 in May from the Ritchies Community

Benefits program. Thank you to our many community supporters of this program. If you would like a

Ritchies Community Benefits card which supports our school, please see Krystal in the office. This card also

allows you to access discounts on many products sold at Ritchies IGA stores.

8th May

PHR: Shane J

PS: Marley B

1B: Olivia D

1K: Ebony A

2H: Jayden P

2S: Sienna D

3/4H: Damon L

3/4M: Bryce R

3/4R: Ashanti B

5/6B: Destiny S

5/6K: Robbie W

5/6M: Wylie F

15th May

PHR: Logan K

PS: Darcy C

1B: Cooper B

1K: Ry B

2H: Layla G

2S: Braith S

3/4H: Kyah M

3/4M: Thomas-Jack W

3/4R: Christopher P

5/6B: Al D

5/6K: Caleb D

5/6M: Mira S

ENVIRONMENT AWARD

Congratulations to Vasi C, Milla C, Hermione M, Beth J-C, Miss McIntosh, Ethan B & Flynn M

who received awards for “Being terrific, happy and friendly”, “Keeping The Yard Clean” and

“Caring for others” !

UNIFORM SHOP NEWS:

Grand Sale – Bootleg Pants

We currently have 10 size 14 bootleg pants which will be on sale for only $5.00 – normally $22. Once these are sold we

will not be ordering more stock. First in best dressed.

Please see new price list attached to this newsletter as some prices have changed.

Thank you,

Maria Ryan

This term has been a busy time in the

Here are some of the highlights so far:

NAPLAN

Our year 5 students have successfully completed their NAPLAN testing for this year.

We were so impressed by the way they worked during this time, showing great

concentration and ability to stay focused. All students approached this years test with

a great positive attitude and we are very proud of their efforts. Well done!

INTERSCHOOL SPORTS

This term we have begun our interschool sports competition with our first round

being held at Woodleigh Junior Campus. Our students had the opportunity to compete

in Aussie Rules, soccer and netball. We had great results with a win in soccer, but the

standout effort came from the way our students represented themselves and the

school. There was a great display of sportsmanship and teamwork by all participants

and we couldn’t have been happier with the way our students performed. Training

sessions are being held weekly to help improve our skills with home and away games

held on Fridays. Thank you to Mr. Hampton for the organization and running of this!

INQUIRY UNIT This term we are exploring the Gold Rush as our unit of inquiry. The students have

been working independently and in small groups to research our key questions. They

have gained knowledge of important dates and events, tools used during this time, the

lifestyle of the miners and how this period of time helped to shape the state of Victoria.

Students have been given a project that will be completed over the coming weeks and

will have a great opportunity to further their knowledge on our excursion to Sovereign

Hill on Monday!

DANCE Our resident dancers Miss McIntosh and Mrs. Kroenert have launched our lunch time

Dance Club each Wednesday in the Senior Homestead. With a combined 30 years of

experience both teaching and performing, the students will be provided with a great

opportunity to learn skill and technique whilst having fun with these two teachers. The

student participation has been fantastic so far and students will have the chance to

perform their routines throughout the year for the school.

The children have been looking closely at Italy and the major cities. One city

that they have focussed on has been Venice. We have explored many of the

regions of Italy and unpacked the language to describe the landscape. Here is our

snapshot into Venice and the contrast to our city of Melbourne.

The children have been exploring their use of language to describe the scenes that they have encountered on

their journey through Italy.

Years 1 and 2 collaboratively created their descriptions with the teacher, after exploring the nouns

and adjectives of the scenes they saw.

Here are a few of the vivid and imaginative descriptions:

1B – In Sicily the buildings are squashed together. Around the buildings are steep, rocky

mountains and dangerous cliffs.

1K – In Rome there are many broken buildings. There are also humungous stone

statues, pretty fountains and strong, curved bridges.

2H – In Venice there are banana-shaped boats. People travel in these boats because there

are not many roads. These boats are called Gondolas.

2S – In Florence the land has tall, leafy trees and green, overlapping hills. The bright

sun helps to grow yummy olives.

In Liguria the never ending lush land scape grows into the big castle like a house formed into the mountain. The mountains fall into the rocky hills and the crystal

blue water surrounds the rock walls of Liguria. The grey, twisted road crawls

around the steep beautiful cliffs. ~ NOAH 5/6 B ~

As the sun descends, the beautiful pink and purple colours create a clear and vibrant sunset in Venice. The old buildings and majestic towers stand guard by the

shimmering blue sea. The strong gate protects the pear shaped boats from being

stolen and being used to get to Venice. The few green trees that you can see look beautiful against the pastel coloured sky.

~ Vani 5/6 M ~

In Liguria sunbathing people lay on the yellow sand. In the bright blue water, red,

round buoys bob in the gentle waves. Humungous mountains cover the sky. Small

blue boats lay in the bright blue water. ~ Anthony 3/4 H ~

Surrounded by the forest green trees is a cramped city sitting next to the still and

ghostly ocean. Sitting in the water is a deserted boat floating to shore with jagged

cliffs surrounding it. The sunset slowly gleams on the crowded city as night transforms into morning.

~ Samuel 5/6 B ~

In Rome the bright sunset shines beautifully over the water. Amazing, rich buildings are surrounded by old statues and the streets are covered with green mould.

~ Liam J. 3/4 M ~

In Venice there is an old, rustic arched shaped bridge hovering over green, calm

murky water in which two long black majestic like gondolas float past. People are dressed in thin summer clothes watching the long black gondolas flowing down and

under the Rialto Bridge.

~ Kaden 5/6 B ~

The humble region of Piedmont is guarded by two beautiful, old rock statues.

Beyond the luscious, calm, blue water are an assorted range of old, brick houses cramped below the wavy, blue hillside, surrounded with tall, leafy, green trees.

~ Beth 5/6 K ~

ICT

With ICT (Information and Communication Technology) an ever expanding and changing world, we need to ensure we are keeping well-informed. Our main priority is to not only teach our students how to use and create with technology, but also to stay safe when engaging online. Frankston Heights has registered to become an eSmart School. This entails completing several modules, through various stages to gain our accreditation. We are excited to not only bring more technology and skills to our students, but also to ensure they are well equipped with life-long skills to maintain safety and respect online. Each newsletter will include some cyber-safety tips to help you, as parents and carers, to be aware of what’s happening online and how to monitor and keep your children safe. We all ensure they are safe in the physical world, discussing topics like ‘Stranger Danger’ however we need to be just vigilant with the online world. Please read the attached brochure and discuss some of the topics with your child. Below is a glossary of terms so you can be up with the lingo!

Cyber-Safety – means the safe use of the Internet and ICT equipment/devices, including mobile phones.

Cyber-bullying – means bullying which uses technology as a means of victimizing others. It is the use of an Internet service or mobile technology (such as email, chat rooms, instant messaging, web pages, SMS, gaming sites) with the intention of harming another person.

Inappropriate material – means material that deals with matters such as sex, cruelty, discrimination or violence in such a manner that is likely to risk student safety physically or emotionally, or is incompatible with the school environment.

Social Media - means social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, My Space), video and

photo sharing web sites (e.g. Flickr, YouTube), blogs, including corporate blogs and personal

blogs, micro-blogs (e.g. Twitter), forums, discussion boards and groups (e.g. Google groups,

Whirlpool), wikis (e.g. Wikipedia), podcasts, video conferences and web conferences, e-mail

and instant messaging.

Ashlee Scott ICT Leader

Friday 19th

June

Ticket Includes:

Entry

DJ

Party Games

2 Slices of Pizza

ECI CHASE BMX PRESENTS FRANKSTON BMX CLUB’S

COME &TRY DAY SPONSORED BY

CASEY CYCLES

Wednesday May 20th

5pm – 6pm Come on down to Frankston BMX club located on Old

Wells road Seaford (next to the motor cross track)and

have a go on the track. Meet our coaches and learn

some new skills. All ages are welcome, please wear long

sleeves and long pants. Full face helmet and gloves will

be provided. If you don’t own a bike, we will have

loaner bikes available. For all inquiries - Leanne 0400109930

or Clint 0422219517