March 16th

Term 1, Week 8

Corona Virus Update

The Department of Education and Training has directed schools to postpone or

cancel school camps and excursions, including sporting events from Tuesday 17th

of March until further notice. The Moyne Athletics scheduled for this Thursday and the Regional Swimming

Competition, this Friday, will be postponed.

Everyone arriving into Australia from overseas from midnight (15th March) will be

required to self-isolate for 14 days. This obviously includes students and staff who

may be returning from overseas excursions or other travel.

Importantly, it also includes parents and carers and any other relatives or friends

of your students who are returning from overseas travel. As they are required to

self-isolate, they must not visit the school to pick up children or for any other rea-

son.

No government school is currently closed or in the process of being closed. You

will be informed directly if there is any prospect that your school will be closed, ei-

ther as a stand-alone school closure or as part of a local or area-based closure.

You will then be provided with detailed advice, a step-by-step guide and com-

munication resources to support you through that process.

The Commonwealth Government has announced that mass gatherings of more

than 500 people are now prohibited. It does apply to any school event that in-

volves attendance by community members who are not students or staff (where

staff includes support staff) and where total attendance will exceed 500. This in-

cludes school assemblies and sporting events. At this stage we will run our school assembly with students and staff only.

It does not include parent-teacher events unless you expect there to be more

than 500 people including community members to be present at any one time. I am unsure at this stage whether the parent teacher interviews will take

place. I will keep you posted when I receive further information.

New Reports

The first of our 6 weekly reporting cycles is finishing and you will receive a report of

your child’s progress by the end of this week.

Your child will receive a score for their attitude and effort as well as an academic

score for Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, Numeracy, Art, Science and PE.

We will upload our guiding documents on Xuno for you to refer to when reading

your child/ren’s report. Included will be the Attitude and Effort rubric, Achieve-

ment indictor chart and Semester 1 Assessment guide.

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

WK 8

16/3 17/3

18/3 19/3

20/3

WK 9

23/3

Whole School

Photos Day

Parent

Teacher

Interviews

24/3

Parent

Teacher

Interviews

25/3

School Council

Meeting (AGM)

Parent

Teacher

Interviews

26/3 27/3

LAST DAY

OF TERM 1

TERM 1 :

TERM 2 : MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

WK 1

13/4

Easter

Monday

14/4

FIRST DAY OF

TERM 2

15/4 16/4

17/4

WK 2

20/4 21/4 22/4 23/4 24/4

WK 3

27/4 28/4 29/4 30/4 1/5

WK 4

4/5 5/5 6/5 7/5 8/5

Whole

School

Cross

Country

Please note these awards will be presented on Friday’s assembly,

beginning at 2:55pm

0/1V - Harrison Stenhouse

for leading by example as our star of the week by producing excellent star

of the week writing and showing others how to act appropriately at

school. Thank you, Harrison.

0/1W - Mairead Baxter

For setting a great example for her classmates by listening attentively and

always giving her best effort. Well done Mairead!

1/2A - Polly Newton

For showing a Love of Learning and always trying her personal best and

approaching everything she does with a smile.

1/2D - Jack Johnson

For trying his personal best in all tasks and approaching challenges with a

positive mindset.

3/4M - Zaine McKenzie

For his perseverance during Writing sessions, keep working hard Zaine,

I am proud of your effort!

3/4T - Lane McDougall

For his love of learning. You regularly seek clarification and constructive

feedback to improve your learning, well done!

4/5H - Banjo Brewer

For his love of learning and for being such a helpful class member!

5/6S - Charlotte Condon

For her diligent, positive approach to her work. You are a kind, caring

person and a positive class member. Great effort.

5/6D - Jack Langley

For showing terrific determination and perseverance throughout his heats

at the Divisional School Swimming Championships.

5/6D - Ethan Hill

For not giving up and pushing all the way to the end at the Division

Swimming School Championships.

Foundation - 2 : The end of term is fast approaching and we are looking forward to another

week of learning. We all enjoyed our Folk Festival activities. Thank you to all

the parents who made our B&B fundraiser such a success and left our

classrooms ready for us. Parent Teacher Interview times can now be

booked via XUNO. As Mrs Tanner has mentioned in the Newsletter and at

the Parent Information Forums our school reports are changing this year

and our cycle 1 reports will go home on Friday. Reports will be uploaded to

XUNO. School photo notes went home last week - Please return them

before photo day.

Grade 3 - 6 : This Thursday we have students representing our school at the Moyne

Athletics and we also have students representing P.F.C.S at the divisional

swimming on Friday. We wish all competitors a great event. In Reading, all

3-6 students are learning how to accurately recall facts and details.

In Writing, students are continuing their work on persuading the reader.

In Numeracy, students are investigating money calculations. A reminder

that parent teacher interviews are taking place in Week 9, please book

your appointment through Xuno.

Congratulations to our Divisional Swimming team for Fridays performances. We fielded a

large team of 17 swimmers and five of our PFCS students qualified for the Regional

Championships this Friday in Horsham. Chloe Adams- Freestyle, Butterfly and Backstroke,

Lexie Dwyer -Freestyle and Breastroke, Indih Reeve- Butterfly, Eliza Ross -Freestyle and

Lucas Harper- Freestyle. Many of our swimmers smashed their personal bests and there

was certainly some enthusiastic cheering and lots of smiles on the day. Character

strengths were definitely well utilised; team work, resilience and perseverance to name a

few, well done team, I’m so proud of you all!! A huge thankyou to Jaqui King for assisting

with trainings and being available for extra sessions on a Wednesday as well. Our parent

support crew, you were amazing!! Thank you so much for all your help on the day, time

keeping, marshalling, crowd control, pack up, transport and of course cheering!

Unfortunately Regional Championships and the District Athletics have been cancelled.

Brooke Green

Physical Education Coordinator

Term 1 - 2020 :

SPECIAL DIETARY : You will notice that the meals have been allocated

according to diet preference. Please check the food offered especially if you

are putting in a term order, as we cannot accommodate all diet needs on all

meals. CAFÉ EXTRAS : If you would like to have an extra serve on any day

just add $2 to your order and let us know ( for example writing on an envelope

that you are having an extra serve). Please make sure that you LABEL YOUR

LUNCH ORDERS so that the office knows who it belongs to and for when you

want café. Eg On an envelope / plastic bag with the childs/children's names,

class/classes and the date they would like café ( eg Friday 28/6/19 )

Welcome to our exciting new café menu served over 2 days

this term on Thursday and Friday. The café program is a part of

our kitchen garden program and as part of our sustainability waste-free

lunch program. Our meals are freshly prepared in our café each day. We

provide wholesome versions of the student’s favourites. We love

home-cooked food that is created from fresh wholesome ingredients, is

sourced locally, supports local business and celebrates seasonal foods.

Week Thursday Friday NO CAFE NO CAFE

4 18/2

Pizza (V, DF) NO CAFÉ- sports

5 25/2

Crispy chicken salad wrap (DF, V) Egg and bacon muffin

6 3/3

Baked potatoes (GF, V, DF) NO CAFÉ FOLKIE weekend

7 10/3

Ham and salad wraps (DF, V) Nachos (V)

8 17/3

Toasted sandwiches (DF, V) Spaghetti Bolognese (V)

9 24/3

Mac and cheese pasta (GF, V) Soft taco (V)

We have put a roster out for Term One at the school office.

We need at least two helpers each Friday.

The more the merrier! The more people there is the quicker and

easy it is!

We ask that parents that are volunteering to sign in at the school office and if they have

a working with children card to present it. It is set up in the Rise Room.

Friday 20th March Andrew Sofia Emily

SECOND HAND UNIFORM SHOP

Open dates/times for Term 1 :

Friday 27th March 2:30 - 3pm

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE It is a DET requirement that if your child is sick or absent, that you notify the

school as soon as possible on the day of the absence.

From the beginning of term two, each morning our office staff will be

making contact with parents/guardians seeking a reason for any

unexplained absences

It would greatly assist us if parents/guardians could make contact with the

school when your children is unwell or not going to be able to attend.

Either email directly to port.fairy.cs@edumail.vic.gov.au, phone on 55681051

or send a message to the teacher through XUNO.

SCHOOL COUNCIL

We have now received four nominations for our four parent category

vacancies and our two staff category vacancies on school council, so an

election is not necessary.

Congratulations to:

Staff Category :

Deborah Dowell & Cynthia McLaren

Parent Category:

Ed Thomas, Ashlee Wilkie, Cassie Brown & Adrian Hallam