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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

School Council President - Anne Trevena

Telephone - (03) 57931288 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Email - [email protected]. au

Alamein Road

Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662

Postal: Military P.O.

ABN: - 74134967962

Term 3 Issue 4

August 3rd

2016

Tuesday

9th August

Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 9th August

School Council Meeting

Wednesday 10th –

Friday 12th August

Years 5/6

Phillip Island Camp

Thursday

18th August

Team Triathlon

Wednesday 24th –

Friday 26th August

Years 3/4

Ballarat Camp

Tuesday

30th August

Year 1 Latestay

Tuesday 30th –

Wednesday 31st

August

Years 3-6 House Athletics

Carnival

Website Address -

http//www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Inside this Issue:

DSTA Message/Canteen 2

Birthdays 2

Going or Staying? 2

Parent Opinion Surveys 2

School Value/Rule Reminders 3

Internet Information 3

Student Awards of the Week 4

Teaching and Learning Focus 5

Learning with IPads 6

What’s Happening Around Our

School?

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Euroa SC Invitation 8

Puckalympics Lunchtime

timetable

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Years 5/6 Bike Ride Itinerary 10

***We can all work together

to rid the community of

Head Lice. Let’s check our

heads once per week!***

Many of our Years 5/6 students have expressed interest in attending the Years 5/6

Bike Ride this year – The Great Victorian Rail Trail. The ride will be a 4 Day

Bike Ride this year (extra day) so we can fit in other outdoor adventure activities

along the way as well. The 4 Day event will take place from Tuesday 25th October –

Friday 28th October, 2016. We aim to involve 20-25 students from Years 5/6. We

will ride approximately 180km. Therefore, it is an event that requires a strong

commitment by the students who are involved.

Training for the ride will need to begin next week. Each week, students will need to

participate in 2 training sessions at school and then follow up with another private

session as well. That is, 3 training sessions per week, for at least 10 weeks. We

encourage all participants to begin 12 weeks ahead so that the Bike Ride is a

positive, rewarding experience.

Currently we are organising staff to take training sessions during the week. These

sessions will be held at lunchtime and after school.

For children to participate they need to have a ‘Bike Excellence Award Certificate’

achieved through passing the school’s Bike Education Course recently. Students will

need to bring their bikes and helmets on the allocated training days. They are also

expected to keep a record of their training and collect parent or teacher signatures to

verify their workload. Good luck kids! Please see the possible itinerary on page 10.

During the month of August the Olympics

are being held in Rio. To celebrate the

Olympics, the Puckapunyal Primary

School is holding our own Puckalympic

Games on the 9th September 2016.

The Opening Ceremony for the

Puckalympics was held at Monday’s

assembly this week. Each flag bearer

proudly carried the flag of their adopted

country. Well done flag bearers. All

students now have an adopted country

that they will be representing.

Each day there are lunchtime activities for

students to achieve points for their

country leading up to the big day. Good

luck, kids! See the lunchtime timetable on

page 9.

http://www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

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Happy Birthday to Tallen Miller,

Jett Miller and Gemma Koch who are

all having birthdays this week.

On behalf of the Puckapunyal Primary

School Community, we wish them all

a very Happy Birthday!

Concert items: Remember that you can audition

to be a part of our school concert. All students

are involved in their class act, but students can

audition to perform in an additional act by

themselves or with their friends. Of course if any

music is required, it needs to be appropriate for a

primary school concert. See me if you are

interested or would like to find out more.

A stall for fathers, grandads, uncles,

neighbours or friends: In early September we

will be having a stall for our students to buy gifts

for their dad, grandad, uncle, neighbour or friend.

If you have any suitable items for the stall we

would be very grateful. Please note no nut

products, lighters etc. Thank you for your

support. Enjoy your week.

Sue Ranger, DSTA.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD UPDATE

The tussle between Bradman and Melba

continues! Well done to all those students

receiving a ticket for positive behaviour.

You help make Pucka Primary a terrific

school! CURRENT SCORES

Melba- 222 points

Bradman-221 points

Hume- 192 points

Chisholm- 149 points

***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 125-130 nights. Well

done if you have kept up! ***

The School Canteen is open for Lunch Orders this

Friday. Each and every Friday students can order lunches

from the school canteen. The menu will be different each

week. Please ensure that a paper bag comes with the order.

Please indicate on the lunch bag if the money is in another

sibling’s bag (please see Term 3 menu and tips in a previous

newsletter).

This week the menu is - Part Pies/Sausage Rolle $1.00 each or 3 for $2.50 Chocolate/Strawberry Milk $2.00 each

Apple/Orange Juice Popper $1.50 each

No charge for tomato sauce

With many families leaving at the end of the year, it is

imperative that we know the movements of our families. To

employ teachers and organise classrooms we need accurate

information to determine how many students will be at

Pucka in 2017. If you are aware of your plans for next year

and know whether your child/ren will or will not be

attending PPS for the year 2017, please fill in this form and

return to the school a.s.a.p.

2017 - NEXT YEAR

Family Name:

_________________________________________________

Given Names of Children:

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

Circle and complete one section:

a. The above mentioned children will be at Puckapunyal

Primary School in 2017

b. Our family is moving to

________________________________ (destination)

Their last day of school at Puckapunyal PS is

____/____/16

c. It is yet uncertain as to where we will be living in 2017.

Just a reminder – Parent Opinion Surveys

need to be completed and returned to school

by Friday, 5th

August 2016. Please be

assured that all responses are totally

confidential.

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

for students who are demonstrating ‘Reliability’ 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 Reliability? Year 6 student, Libby Brown read out the meaning of Reliability.

‘Reliability means that others can depend on you and count on you to do your best to keep commitments. If your family

relies on you to feed the family pets then they are always fed without anyone having to remind you to do it.

Reliability means that you really care about doing what you said you would do.’

Each week at assembly, SRC representatives remind

our students of a few important school rules. This week, SRC representatives, Paige Cooper and

Lily Mackay reminded our students of the following

rules:

Move quietly through the corridor.

Play equipment is not a place to play chasey.

Play safely on the equipment.

Shelter shed and amphitheatre seats are for sitting

on, not jumping on.

Please discuss these rules with your children to help

ensure that they understand. Thank you to Renae Pennycook, Natasha Lak and Finlay

Koch for educating us about Brazil, Spain and Ghana at

assembly this week. They did a great job!

INTERNET INFORMATION: A computer that is connected to the Internet allows you to turn your home,

community centre, local library, or school into a place of unlimited information and communication. The

Internet can help your family:

-Find educational resources, including up-to-the minute news, copies of important documents and photos, and

collections of research information on topics ranging from weather conditions to population statistics.

-Get help with homework through online encyclopaedias and other reference materials and access to experts.

-Increase reading skills by providing access to interesting materials and suggestions for additional reading.

-Improve technology and information skills necessary to find and use information, solve problems,

communicate with others, and meet a growing demand for these skills in the workplace.

-Connect with places around the world to exchange mail with electronic pen pals and learn about other cultures

and traditions.

-Locate parenting information and swap ideas with other families.

-Learn and have fun together by sharing interesting and enjoyable

experiences.

Chili Stock and Jett Miller

were delighted to take part in

carrying the Puckalympic

Torch to light the cauldron on

Monday at our Opening

Ceremony. Well done, boys!

Don’t forget, as part of the lead up to the Puckalympics, the ‘Flag Bearers’ for

each country are going to present at each Term 3 assembly. They will present some

information about their country’s history in the Olympic Games. See below the time

table for these presentations.

Week 5

Monday 8/8

Nigeria (Nannah Taylor) & Argentina (Dani Corocher)

Week 6

Monday 15/8

Belgium (Cooper Dickinson), Ecuador (Amy Franks) & Hungary

(Jack Kennedy)

Week 7

Monday 22/8

Portugal (Rohanna Murphy), Algeria (Kate Cleland) & Austria

(Abigail Major)

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Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing

schools, beginning school for the first time and even

returning for another school year can be daunting for

students and parents. It is great to see parents eager to

support their children at this time and be an integral part of

their education. If you have any concerns, or just feel like a

chat about school and your child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents

have been waiting on this to arrive.

Best wishes for the week.

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

Congratulations to the following students who were

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

Indigo Hogan, Chayce Mackie, Caleb Holloway,

Paige Cooper, Riley Gilmour, Clodagh

McCarthy, Kian George and Reilly Adams. These

students were selected because they were modelling

‘Compassion’. This week teachers are looking for

students who are modelling ‘Reliability’.

Congratulations to the following students who

were ‘Authors of the Week’ for last week.

Winners – Silas Quintana, Afi Rizalmi, Lake

Robertson, Dallas Ridl, Tessa Thompson, Max

Chetcuti, Dani Corocher and Emilie O’Keeffe. These students were selected because they

showed great skills as an author.

1/2 I in Room 3 won the

Yard Duty Comp. Sophie Van Der Waal enjoyed

collecting the winning trophy this

week!

Congratulations to Jake

Tanis, Emily Watson, Beth

Ludlow and Dakota Miller

for winning the raffle prizes

for ‘Positive

Behaviour’ this week!

Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,

beginning school for the first time and even returning for another

school year can be daunting for students and parents. It is great

to see parents eager to support their children at this time and be

an integral part of their education. If you have any concerns, or

just feel like a chat about school and your child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents have

been waiting on this to arrive.

Best wishes for the week.

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

3/4 A in Room 11 won

the Middle School

Times Tables Trophy. Will Anderson was very

happy that his classroom won

the winning trophy again this

week!

4/5/6 P in Room 2 won

the Senior School

Times Tables Trophy. Trinity Boyd and Abigail

Major were delighted to

collect the winning trophy

this week!

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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 is 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 that 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 Literacy: We are continuing to practise our home reading and Golden Words every night, covering the letter ‘i’ and

looking at other vowels. We are continuing to practise using capital letters and full-stops in our writing and talking about

WOW words.

Numeracy: We are continuing to count forwards and backwards and revising all numbers from 1 to 13 and learning

about 14. We are making models of addition by putting groups together and counting the set.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 4 & 8 Literacy: We are learning about verb endings like –ed and -ing and how to use them in sentences to make our writing

more interesting. We are also investigating the letter ‘I’.

Numeracy: We are practising skip counting and counting forwards and backwards using calculators to assist. We are

looking at chance using such objects as dice, spinners and cards.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 3 & 4 Literacy: We are consolidating using capital letters, full stops, commas and exclamation marks. We are also looking at

conjunctions (connectives in BIG WRITE). We are enjoying practising Kung Fu punctuation, using WOW words in our

writing and thinking of interesting openers.

Numeracy: We are adding and subtracting one and two digit numbers by counting on and back using calculators to

assist/check. We are looking at chance using such objects as dice, spinners and cards.

Middle School Years 3/4 Rooms 10 & 11 Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will work on narratives. We are now focusing on all four

VCOP components. In reading we are working on reading strategies.

Numeracy: We will continue to focus on place value and the four processes. Another continued focus will be angles.

Times tables will be practised throughout the week.

Senior School Years 4/5/6 Rooms 1 & 2 Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will focus on the VCOP components and narratives. In

reading we will be focusing on reading strategies.

Numeracy: We will continue to focus on tree diagrams, as well as volume and revision of the four processes. Times

tables will be practised throughout the week.

As part of the Sports Grant we received to

run Before School Sport, Tennis Australia has

given us some great resources! We received 30

child sized tennis racquets, 30 child sized

tennis balls, 4 portable nets and court marking

tape to use around the school. Lilly Mackay,

Owen Brown, Savannah Bradford and

Lachlan Balmer were happy to showcase our

goodies!

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Term 3 Learning with iPads

Learning with iPads sessions will be

held on the following dates covering

the following topics. Feel free to come

along. See you there.

Week 5 8th August How to be Cyber

Safe

Week 7 22nd August Coding

Week 9 5th September Creative Book

Builder

Learning with iPads

Dear Parents,

On the dates above at 5pm there will be iPad learning sessions for parents and

others who would like to improve their knowledge and understanding around

iPads.

This is the time for all the questions you might have about iPads, iPad lists,

Minecraft, Edmodo and other apps or issues you might have.

Expression of interest:

I ____________________ would be interested in the iPad learning session held on the

______________ (insert date).

L

L

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Look at what is happening AROUND

OUR SCHOOL

Photographs and writing by Year 6 students Naomi and Jamie

Yr 6 Transition Day at Seymour College

Sport

The first activity we did was sport. We played lots of different games with Mr Garner the PE teacher.

One of the games we played was a game where there were 2 teams and the 2 teams had to try and get

the ball to rebound off the rebound net at their end. If they got the ball to bounce without someone

catching it, then that was a point for that team. Another game we played was chain tiggy. Chain tiggy is

where 1 person starts off being ‘it’ and then when they tag someone that person has to make a chain

with the tagger. It went on and on until there was 1 person left. Tristan was the winner for that game.

Art In our Art session, we had a talk about leadership and secondary school and then we got to create a

monster. We talked about the different features and we got to draw and create one of our own.

Science The last activity we did was science. We did two different things and they were: using paddle pop

sticks, textas, paper, water and methylated spirits and the second one was using glow sticks and

different temperatures of water. For the first activity we were each given a paddle pop stick with paper

stuck to it and then we got given some textas and we had to pick one or two colours and draw a line on

the paper, then put it in a glass beaker of water or methylated spirits to see what would happen. The

second activity was where we used the glow sticks and there were different temperatures of water. One

person from each group got a glow stick from the hot water, then room temperature and ice from the

glass beaker. Then we had to crack them and see which one glowed the most.

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Puckalympics Lunchtime Timetable Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1

st August

Max & Brooklyn

Jump Rope Relay

2nd

August

Kian, Finlay & Abigail

Shuttle Sprint

3rd

August

Jack A & Lochie

Valleyball Game

4th August

Nannah, Dani & Amy

3-Cone Triathlon

5th August

Jessica, Eamon &

Sophia

Hoop it Up

8th August

Jack K, Natasha &

Renae

Zic-Zag Dribble

9th August

PUPIL FREE DAY

10th August

Cooper, Rohanna &

Kate

Basketball Shoot out

11th August

Clodagh & Tobias

Kick it Off

12 August

Jessica, Eamon &

Sophia

Balloon Tap Relay

15th August


Birdie Tap Relay

16th August

Jack K, Natasha &

Renae

ARMY Relay

17th August

Cooper, Rohanna &

Kate

Limbo Fun

18th August

Clodagh & Tobias

Hospital Tag

19th August

Nannah, Dani & Amy

Netball Passing relay

22nd

August

Jack K, Natasha &

Renae

Volley and Move

23rd

August

Cooper, Rohanna &

Kate

Hot Spot Shot

24th August

Nannah, Dani & Amy

Soccer Dribble

25th August

Jack A & Lochie

Hockey Dribble

26th August

Max & Brooklyn

Football Relay

29th August

Max & Brooklyn

Bean Bag Relay

30th August


Over, Under Relay

31st August

Jack A & Lochie

Sponge Relay

1st September

Nannah, Dani & Amy

Hurdle Run

2nd

September

Clodagh & Tobias

Olympic Chalk Design

5th

September

Jessica, Eamon &

Sophia

Jump the Water Hurdle

6th

September

Jack K, Natasha &

Renae

Javilin Throw

7th

September

Clodagh & Tobias

Baton Relay

8th

September

Max & Brooklyn

Water Relay

9th

September


Ball Relay

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Possible Itinerary

Tuesday

25/10/16 8:30 am - Arrive at Puckapunyal PS

9:00 am - Depart Puckapunyal PS via bus and trailers with bikes

10:30 am - Arrive at the Mansfield end of the Great Victorian Rail Trail (have morning tea)

11:00 am - Depart Mansfield and ride along the rail trail until we reach Bonnie Doon

12:15pm - Arrive at Bonnie Doon for lunch and outdoor education activities (fishing and

hiking)

2:30 pm - Depart Bonnie Doon until we reach Merton

3:30 pm - Arrive at Merton Park Racecourse to set up camp

(cnr of Maroondah Hwy and Euroa-Mansfield Rd)

6:30 pm - Dinner (BBQ and bush cooking) Wednesday

26/10/16 7:00 am - Breakfast and pack up camp

8:00 am - Depart Merton Park Racecourse

9:15 am - Arrive at Yarck Recreational Reserve for morning tea

9:45 am - Depart Yarck

11:15 am - Arrive at Alexandra Secondary College for lunch (lunch provided by Alexandra

Secondary College) and Outdoor Recreational Activities (Rogaining with secondary aged

students)

1:00 pm - Depart Alexandra and ride along the rail trail until we

reach Molesworth

2:45 pm - Arrive at Molesworth Caravan Park to set up camp

(4352 Goulburn Valley Hwy, Molesworth)

4:00 pm - Outdoor Education Activities - Fishing

6:30 pm - Dinner (BBQ and bush cooking)

8:00pm - Night Hike Thursday


10:00 am - Depart Molesworth and ride along the rail trail until we reach Yea

11:00 am - Arrive at Yea PS to leave bikes and gear and have morning tea

11:45 am - Walk to Yea Wetlands for Environmental activities

12.00 noon - Environmental Activities (session 1)

1:00 pm - Lunch at the Wetlands

1:30 pm - Environmental Activities (session 2)

3:00 pm - Arrive at Yea PS to set up camp

(23 Station St, Yea)

4:30 pm - Yea Town Discovery Walk

6:30 pm - Dinner (dinner provided by Yea Primary School) Friday


9:00 am - Sport activities with Yea PS (with primary aged students)

10:00 am - Depart Yea and ride along the rail trail until we reach Kerrisdale

11:00 am - Arrive at Kerrisdale for morning snack

11:30 am - Depart Kerrisdale until we reach Trawool

12:00 noon - Arrive at Trawool for lunch

(Fish and Chip lunch provided by Puckapunyal

Primary School)

1:00 pm - Leave Trawool and ride along the rail trail until we

reach Tallarook

2:00 pm - Arrive at Tallarook and finish the ride

2:15pm - Students are collected by their families at Tallarook

Day 1

Riding Distance

= 37km

Day 3

Riding Distance

= 17km

Day 4

Riding Distance

= 40km

Total Riding

Distance – 158km

Day 2

Riding Distance

= 64km

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