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elmore.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Term two, Week 3

Friday 5th May, 2017

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Dear Parents and Caregivers,

It was lovely to see so many mums and other

special friends at the Elmore Health and

Wellbeing community celebration at the Elmore

Hall yesterday. Everyone seemed to have a

lovely time participating in the activities. Thank

you to Elmore IGA for supplying delicious fruit!

Students participated in the Cluster Cross

Country on Monday afternoon at the Elmore

Events Centre. There were some outstanding efforts made by several students.

Everyone gave their best and had a great time.

On Tuesday, Student Representative Council members interviewed Travis at the

bakery to find out as much information as they could about how to make the

perfect Hedgehog in preparation for our competition on the weekend. We found

out lots of interesting information, for example, Travis has used caramel in his

recipe before and his favourite colour is red. We also taste-tested the

hedgehog at the bakery to make sure he really did know what he’s doing, and it

turns out, it was delicious!

I know lots of people will be entering the competition on Saturday! I’ll be

looking forward to seeing you all here, ready to go by 11:00am. Remember, it’s

only $2.00 to enter and you can just turn up on the

day.

Enjoy your weekend,

Michelle Griffiths

Principal.

griffiths.michelle.j@edumail.vic.gov.au

@elmoreprimary

Reminder—The Great Elmore

Hedgehog Bake-Off is on THIS

SATURDAY at 11:00am

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Quote of the week: “I realised that when you look at your mother you are looking at the purest ;ove you will ever know.” Mitch Albom

Stephany West For the amazing leadership and

resilience she demonstrated at the

Cross Country.

Literacy Award

Harper Fourie for your

fantastic persuasive writing on

‘favourite foods’. Your

sentence structure and use of

up levelled vocabulary within your writing was excellent!

Numeracy Award

Tom Drust and Hamish Worme, you

both worked exceptionally well

together this week on your chal-

lenge, showing me different ways to

work out problems and learning new

strategies to work out difficult ones.

Silly picture of the week:

Date Family

April 15th McDonald / Boswell

family

April 29th Henry-Ward family

May 13th Broadhurst family

May 27th Frawley family

June 11th West family

June 24th Richardson family

July 15th Volunteer

required please

July 29th Taylor family

Date Family

August 12th Giffin/Stewart

September 9th Connally family

October 7th Messfeldt family

October 21st Connell family

November 4th Johns/Ashwell

November 18th Simmie family

December 2nd Ciise family

December 16th Worme family

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Wise Owl News

This week students have been developing their

understanding of writing persuasively using the topics of favourite food and greatest super power. Students have really demonstrated

their enjoyment for writing about these topics. Some great examples have included, the most delicious family lasagne as the best food

ever and mind reading as the greatest super power available. Students will be continuing to explore emotive language and

conjunctions (joining words) within this topic in order to develop their persuasive writing further.

During numeracy this week students have been working on telling the time to the nearest minute and increasing their understanding

of using a range of strategies, allowing them to solve worded math problems. This will support many students in the coming weeks

during assessments.

Our school participated in the Cluster Cross Country this week with all our students showing fantastic resilience and sportsmanship.

Some students competed a course for the first time, with others running long distances without stopping. We were all very proud of

our students for their participation on the day. Well done to all our wonderful participants!

We also had our annual Mother’s Day event at the Town Hall. Students collaborated with OLSH students to create some wonderful

‘crafty’ gifts to present to someone special in their lives. This was again a fantastic opportunity for our students to show their

appreciation through a really meaningful exercise.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Sam

Tiddalicks News

Firstly, I just wanted to congratulate all of the students on their efforts at the cluster cross country. You all showed resilience and

determination to do your absolute best and I couldn’t be more proud. Watching you cheer each other on (and also other students from

other schools) made me incredibly proud to be part of such a wonderful community. Congratulations on all your efforts! You should all

be very proud of yourselves!

Our SMART spelling focus has been the graph /y/ that makes the ‘e’ sound as in pony. The preps have been learning l/g/b/d and it has

been tricky. We will continue to work on these next week. If anyone is free from 9:00-9:15 I would really love some volunteer readers

to read with some of my students.

The Premiers’ Reading challenge is well and truly happening! If you have read a book please add it onto the list or write it down and

give it to me. I am more than happy to enter ALL of the books you have been reading! We read so much at EPS and I think the premiers

reading challenge is an excellent way of documenting this.

In numeracy, we have been looking at number problems in different forms. We worked through an old NAPLAN test to see what

strategies we could use to work through the questions (I was very impressed by the problem solving skills we used to work out some of

these tricky questions). We have also been leaning about coins, specifically the similarities and differences between them. We have

also been learning the proper mathematical terms for money (currency). I’m excited to unpack this further over the next week.

Mrs Cowan (our art teacher) was good to us this week and brought along a guest artist, Kaye Poulton from Maroopna. She is a

professional potter and spent some time with both classes teaching them skills. Our work will be fired and returned to school next

week. I’m looking forward to seeing the final results.

Enjoy your well-earned rest and I’ll see you all on Mon-

day.

Jess Premiers’ Reading Challenge

Keep reading and tracking your books! Ms T

will enter them for you if you need help

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The Great Elmore Hedgehog

Bake-Off Competition Anyone can enter.

We have some very special celebrity Judges too—Nathan and Travis from the Elmore Bakery. They are total

experts, so they’ll know how to pick the winner!

We interviewed them this week to get to the bottom of what a great Hedgehog Slice should look, smell and taste

like.

When we researched it, we found lots of different ideas, like putting marshmallows or clinkers in, icing the top,

using coconut or 100s and 1000s on top and even one of them had cherry ripe slice under the chocolate layer!

First Prize is a $20.00 voucher for Elmore Bakery and a very special ‘chef’s gift pack’, including great cook books

and other cooking related items. We will share a picture next week.

Ms Telford and Ms Griffiths are both convinced they will win. We’ll see about that!

Start cooking everyone!

SRC interviewing

Travis at the Elmore

Bakery

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Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Week 4

NAPLAN

week

8

Elmore Library

visit

9

Sunset Over Elmore

workshop

10

Guitar

11

Music, Indonesian,

Library

12

Speech therapy

students working at

EPS

Sunset Over Elmore

workshop

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Moth-

ers’

Day

Week 5 15

Sunset Over

Elmore work-

shop

16 17

Guitar

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School Council 7:00pm

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Cluster Winter Sports

Day

Speech therapy

students working at

EPS

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Week 6

Educa-

tion

Week

22

Elmore Library

visit

23 24

Guitar

Walk Safely to School

Day

Open morning

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Music, Indonesian,

Library

26

Speech therapy

students working at

EPS

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Week 7 29 30 31

Guitar

1 JUNE

Art, Music, Indonesian,

Library

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Cluster Science Day

at EPS

Speech therapy

students working at

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Week 8 5

Elmore Library

visit

6 7

Guitar

8

Music, Indonesian,

Library

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Speech therapy

students working at

EPS

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Week 9 12

Queen’s Birthday

Public Holiday

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Student Free Day—

Report Writing

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Guitar

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Art, Music, Indonesian,

Library

School Council 7:00pm

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Week

10

19

Elmore Library

visit

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Early Learners Infor-

mation session at

Kinder

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Guitar

22

Music, Indonesian,

Library

23 24 25

Week

11

26 27 28

Guitar

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Art, Music, Indonesian,

Library

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Last Day Term 2—

2:30pm finish

1 JULY 2

Term 2 Calendar 2017

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Ingredients

2 packets of plain biscuits - Marie or similar

250g of butter

3 tablespoons of cocoa

4 tablespoons of shredded coconut

1 tin of condensed milk

200g of milk chocolate

Instructions

1. Line a 18 x 28cm slice tin with baking paper, make sure you leave plenty of paper hanging over

the edges.

2. Place the biscuits into a large bowl and using the end of a rolling pin break them up until you have

a combination of fine crumbs and larger pieces. Set the bowl with the biscuits in it to the side.

3. In a small saucepan add the condensed milk, and butter (cut into cubes) and cook over a low heat

until the butter has melted and the ingredients have combined.

4. Pour the melted ingredients into the bowl with the crushed biscuits and add the cocoa and shred-

ded coconut. Stir all of the ingredients together using a large metal spoon.

5. Pour the mixture into the prepared slice tin and using the back of a spoon flatten the surface.

6. Break the milk chocolate into squares and place it in a microwave safe bowl. Cook for 30 second

spurts until it has melted.

7. Pour the melted chocolate over the top of the slice and place the tray into the fridge for 2 hours or

until set.

8. Cut the chilled slice into pieces and enjoy

The BEST Hedgehog Slice Recipe!

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INGREDIENTS

125 g butter 2/3 cup caster sugar 2 tbs golden syrup 197 1/2 g sweetened condensed

milk 250 g milk arrowroot biscuits

crushed

Topping

200 g milk chocolate 165 g copha

METHOD

STEP 1 Combine butter, sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan and melt. Add the sweetened condensed milk and bring to boil.

STEP 2 Combine with crushed biscuits and press into a slice tin. STEP 3 Topping: Melt the copha and chocolate together, being careful to not

burn the mixture. STEP 4 Pour over slice. STEP 5 Refrigerate or freeze.

Caramel Hedgehog Slice

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Ingredients

250g of plain biscuits - Marie or similar

2 x 200g packs of Tim Tam Biscuits

200g of butter

3 tbsp of cocoa

4 tbsp of dessicated coconut

1 x 395g tin of condensed milk

200g of milk chocolate

Instructions

1. Line a 20cm x 20cm square cake tin (which has high

sides) with baking paper. Make sure you leave plenty of

baking paper hanging over the edges to help you remove the

Tim Tam Hedgehog Slice once it has set.

2. Roughly chop SIX of the Tim Tams into large pieces and

set aside.

3. Place the plain biscuits into a food processor and blitz until they have just broken up, then add the

remaining whole Tim Tams (approximately 1 ½ packs) and blitz for 5 seconds or until they have

broken into large chunks - alternatively you can simply crush the plain biscuits with a rolling pin and

roughly chop the Tim Tams with a large knife.

4. Place the crushed biscuits into a large bowl and set aside.

5. Pour the condensed milk into a small saucepan and add the butter and cocoa. Cook over a low heat

stirring occasionally until the butter has melted and combined with the other ingredients.

6. Pour the melted ingredients into the bowl with the crushed biscuits and add the coconut. Working

quickly, use a large metal spoon to mix the ingredients together.

7. Pour the mixture into your prepared tin and flatten the surface with the back of a spoon.

8. Break the milk chocolate into squares and place it into a microwave safe bowl. Cook in the

microwave on high for 30 second spurts (mixing in between) until it's just melted. Pour over the top of

the slice and sprinkle the Tim Tams you set aside earlier over the top. Place the Tim Tam Hedgehog

Slice into the fridge for 6 hours (preferably overnight) to set before cutting into squares.

Tim Tam Hedgehog Slice

We are very excited to be working with Maureen Chiswell in the coming weeks on the Sunset Over Elmore Community

project!

Maureen will be running workshops in the school during school time. I have included the dates and times below because if

you’re free and would like to come in and help out or participate, please get involved!

We are very excited to be involved in this project.

Dates:

Tuesday 9th May 12:00pm & Monday 15th may 12:00pm. More dates will be shared as they become known.