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DATES TO REMEMBER:

2016

Monday June 13th Queen’s Birthday– Public Holiday Wednesday 15th June Drouin South Primary Prep Information Evening at 7:00pm Sunday 19th June Working Bee– 9am-12pm Friday June 24th Last Day of Term 2:15pm Finish Busses will run 1 hour earlier

Student of the Week

No. 17 June 10th 2016 www.drouinsouth.vic.edu.au

Congratulations to: Jackson, Tyler,

Kalvin, Riley, Jayden, Lauren, Dakota, Zoe & Sian!

Student of the Week

Upstander of the Week

Important Reminders

Grade 5/6B Class Page

What’s Been Happening in O.S.H.C

Success for Sam

Book Review by Cadence

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Principal’s Report

Dear Parents

School Support Staff

In this edition of the Drouin South PS newsletter I wish to acknowledge a hardworking team of

people at our school who do a great job supporting our most vulnerable students. This team is our Education (Integration) Support Staff and includes: Marisa Brown, Glenys Pentland, Jenny Eacott, Casey Middleton and Denise Palmer. These staff members work with individuals to support them in

their learning and with social development. Their work involves a lot of patience and flexibility as they are working with students who may have learning and social difficulties. They also contribute to a large range of other functions around the school including after school bus supervision,

Kidsmatter, Environment Club, Out of Hours School Care, playground duties, library upkeep, small group intervention and individual intervention programs such as “Bridges” and many more. I wish to thank them for their commitment and I am sure that you will all agree they do a wonderful job

for our students. Prep Information Evening for 2017

Our 2017 Prep Information evening will be held next Wednesday 15th June at 7.00pm in the Junior Learning Area. This is an opportunity for parents of 2017 Prep students to meet with our current Prep teachers and myself to hear about what to expect in a child’s first year at Drouin South PS.

Please spread the word if you know of any parents that may be interested in attending. Facebook

Effective communication with our families is something that we strive hard to achieve at Drouin South PS however in the busy lives we lead messages can often go astray! In an attempt to keep improving in this area we have set up a Drouin South Primary School Facebook page that we will

use to post messages on frequently. We urge all parents with Facebook accounts to “LIKE“ our page so that we can keep you informed of up and coming events and news. We will not be posting photos in which student faces are shown however we will try to make the page informative and

engaging. Please feel free to make comments on the posts, we just ask that you be positive and respectful as this is a great way of promoting our school in the wider community.

Mulch / Working Bee We have been generously donated a 9m3 load of mulch that we would love to have delivered prior to our working bee on June 19th. It is currently being stored by Allison Kruizinga at Koo Wee Rup

and will need to be collected. If you have a large trailer or truck and would be happy to make a trip or two, please contact the school to let us know and we’ll put Allison in touch with you. Please set aside some time on Sunday 19th June to come along to our working bee. We are

currently compiling a list of jobs for the morning and will finish with a sausage sizzle lunch. Please return the slip below if you are able to attend and help out!

Michael Smith—Principal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Working Bee (Please complete and return to the school office by Thursday 16th June)

I/WE will be attending the Working Bee on Sunday 19th March between 9.00am and 12.00pm

I/WE will be happy to stay for the sausage sizzle lunch

Name/s: _______________________________________________________ No. Attending ____________

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.Upstander of the Week

Congratulations to: Holly, Makayla and Tarsha

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Teaching and learning comes with many different challenges. Here in 5/6B we understand that learning is a lifelong endeavour, but does not need to be

something that is depressing! We have lots of fun with our learning and although there are serious learning times, the enjoyable stuff helps us to remain engaged and \

understand that there are lessons involved that will help us in the future. Below are a handful of the activities that we really love!

In 5/6B we enjoy our class reward which is chips and

a movie. To get our reward we have to earn 50 class

points by being respectful during assembly, or hav-

ing every one back on time from play times, or when

we are asked to be quiet and everyone is quiet

straight away, we will get a class point. There are a

few other ways to earn them too. It teaches us to be

respectful and to act as a team.

By Brad, Kyle and Jackson

Cooking!

BBBB (Behaviour Bank Balance Book) is where we get fake

money in a fake account from doing good deeds.

What we do Money

Back on time (B.O.T) 30c

Mistake on board (M.O.B) 50c

Home reading 10c

There are also many other ways to earn money.

After the whole week of getting money, on Friday we can buy prizes from

the prize boxes. There are $2 $4 $6 $8 $10 $15 and $20 prizes. This

teaches us to save and count money and to be well behaved and

to just be AWESOME! By Willow and Holly

Hi I’m Piper. In 5/6B we enjoy doing Challenge

Ladder. Challenge Ladder is a maths game. You

have to choose a person to challenge and Mr.

Phillips chooses an equation for the two people

to answer. Every week it’s a different operation.

Whoever answered the equation first gets to

swap places with the other person, however if

the person who got challenged wins they don’t

swap, but the person who challenged moves

over and it’s the next persons go. This game

teaches people to answer equations quicker.

Also it helps with your resilience if you lose.

Class Sport!

On Mondays the whole class goes out to the tennis courts or

the hall at 2:15pm to play games like Battle Ball or Capture the

Flag. Battle ball is the same as Dodge Ball but you need to

knock the wickets down. Capture the Flag is when you have to

run into the enemy’s base and try to get in the circle without

them tagging you. Someone off your team has to get into the

enemy’s base and you have to throw the ball to them and they

have to get back on to your side. We do sport to get fit and

healthy. Kurtis & Jay

5/6B, also known as 5/6 brilliant, does cooking every

term. In Term 1 we made some very yummy

pancakes with some yum toppings. They were cream,

strawberries, maple syrup, sugar, lemon, blueberries,

sprinkles, butter, strawberry jam and the pancakes! The

cooking sessions help us to learn to cook, to

follow a recipe, to learn maths by measuring and we get to

eat food. By Iesha & Rachael

Speedy Maths Speedy maths is a great way for kids to learn their times tables, addition, etc. You get 6:00mins to complete 100 problems. Ff you get 100 you get to go to challenging and get rewards. If you don’t pass, that’s ok it just means you need to practise more. If you get an improvement the next time you do it then that is awesome! It helps us get faster at answering equations of each operation (x, ÷, - +). By Keahrna

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Find the magnet is a game we play in 5/6B. To play we have to look for the magnet and

when we find it we go sit down in our seat, but don’t tell anyone or give it away. When we

look for it you don’t need to open or move or touch to see it. This game

teaches us persistence, resilience and honesty. It is always amusing to watch the last

person looking around for the magnet but they can’t see it. Don’t find it last. (Oakley) By Ainsley & Ella

In 5/6 B I enjoy doing PMP with the p/1/2s. With PMP we only get to do it every three weeks on a Friday. We do this because there are two other 5/6 grades. Every third Friday before lunch

we choose a partner in our grade that we haven’t been with before and then we are assigned an activity like: skipping,

dribbling a basketball, shooting, relay with a baton and so on and so forth. Then when lunch finishes we got and set up either on the basketball courts or the oval. Then we collect the group

of p/1/2s. When we hear the whistle we rotate and get another group of p/1/2s. PMP helps us with confidence.

By Tayla In 5/6B this year Mr Phillips puts a mistake on

the whiteboard and when we come into the

classroom our class has an hour to find it. Once

you find it you write it down on a piece of paper

and don’t show anyone. After an hour Mr

Phillips comes around and checks if you have

found the mistake, if you have found the mistake

you get 50 cents to buy rewards on Fridays. If

you have found a mistake that Mr Phillips didn’t

know was there you get extra money. Sometimes

it is very easy to find the mistake and sometimes

it is very challenging to find the mistake. Mr

Phillips puts a mistake on the board so we can

notice mistakes in our learning.

By William & Jacob

In 5/6B we enjoy playing

maths games. Greedy Pig

is one such game. It is

where you never know

when it’s going to land on

a 1 because the number 1

is the number you get out

on. Eloise is the current

champ on 157. We enjoy

Greedy Pig because it

helps us with our addition

and getting to know them

quickly.

BY ELOISE AND LOLA

F.O.O.F.T stands for Finish Off Or Free Time.

Every Friday afternoon if you have fin-

ished off all of your work for the week then

you get one hour of free time. If you haven’t

finished your work then you have to do it in

this time, for example your homework. Some

of the things people do during free time are

free time on the computers, connect four,

board games and holding stick insects. By

Chris and Joe.

F.O.O.F. T.

Reading a photo is a reading

activity where you choose from a

pile of photos or images and you

write about it. You begin by

brainstorming words that the

photo makes you think of; you

‘read’ it. You then need to write an

interesting paragraph using the

brainstorm of words as a guide.

Reading a photo helps you

understand images and helps you

to make predictions.

Oakley

Skunk is a maths game that we play in

56/B. We all like to play it. At the

moment I am the current champ; my

score is 243. This is how you play: the

teacher rolls 2 dice and at the first roll

if there’s a 1 it doesn’t count because

a 1 gets you out and you can’t go out

on the first go. There are 5 rounds. 1

for each letter in the word SKUNK.

When the teacher rolls a 1 we move to

the next round. Whoever gets the

highest score wins. This game helps

you to improve your addition. See you

later folks! By Larissa

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Last Friday Sam represented the school as an individual competitor at the Balcombe

Grammar Interschool Equathlon. The Equathlon involved Sam swimming 50m, running 2km and doing a SHOWJUMPING round. Sam finished the Equathlon in 4th place. On Saturday Sam also competed at another interschool event, this time at the Assumption

College Showjumping Competition where Sam placed 5th. Terrific effort Sam!

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Title: Wonder Dogs Author: Ben Holt

This book is a really good book. It’s about

extraordinary dogs who are very brave in every way. I

recommend this book for grade 3s and up.

Report By: Cadence