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Graham Street, Port Melbourne 3207

Tel: 96461001 Fax: 96453537

email: port.melbourne.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Newsletter No. 26 August 18th

2016

President’s Report President’s Report President’s Report President’s Report

St John’s Ambulance at School

On Monday, St John’s Ambulance trained their one millionth school student in CPR, with the honour being shared by twelve of our own students. Champion Olympic swimmer Susie O’Neill presented our students with special medallions to celebrate the occasion, and our students demonstrated their skills under the watchful eye of our local MP Martin Foley.

Our New Reading Recovery Teacher Students (and staff and parents) were pleasantly surprised when Delta Goodrem spent a day at school this week, on the set of House Husbands where she is cast as a Reading Recovery teacher. A number of selfies were taken with her! The school will receive in excess of $25,000 this year from House Husbands, with much of this money being used to support well-being initiatives in the school. House Husbands will be on site for three more days this year: Friday 26th August, Wednesday 31st August and Thursday 1st September. Please be aware that you may need to park a little further away than usual at drop-off and pick-up times on those days. Working Bee This Sunday Our Buildings and Grounds Committee is looking for as many volunteers as possible to help out between 9am and 2pm this Sunday on a range of maintenance tasks at the school including painting the Hall walls. We have a range of important jobs to suit all levels of experience and fitness and would love to see you

and your family (even if you can only be there for an hour). Our Working Bees are family friendly community events that add to the great conditions for the school to learn and grow. Every contribution, no matter how big, or how small, is greatly appreciated and the Working Bee is finished off with a family BBQ at school. So don’t leave it up to someone else to do – logon to www.pmpsworkingbeeterm3.eventbrite.com to donate your time. Full details of the tasks are attached to this Newsletter.

Annette Maloney

Term 3Term 3Term 3Term 3 DatesDatesDatesDates

Aug 8-19 ....... Prep Swimming (MSAC) Aug 23 .......... School Council 6.30pm ..................... Hooptime Year 5-6 Aug 24 ......... Prep 2017 Info Night 6.30pm Aug 26 .......... Hooptime Year 3-4 Aug 30 & 31 School Production Aug 31-Sep 2 Year 5 Camp at Waratah Beach Sept 3 ............ Dads Footy Carnival Sept 5-7......... Year 4 Camp Rawson Village Sept 7-9......... Year 3 Camp Rawson Village Sept 16 .......... Term ends (1.30pm)

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Year 4 Production: DreamNation With two weeks to go until our Year 4 students perform in this year’s school production, DREAMNATION – A Day at the Museum, you need to buy your tickets now so that you don’t miss out! Tickets are available at www.Trybooking.com/MGEX There is a choice of two evening performances, Tuesday 30th August and Wednesday 31st August. All Year 4 students are involved so

make sure you are there and invite relatives, friends and neighbours to come along too!

Literacy/Numeracy Week Next week, Port Melbourne Primary School will be holding a joint celebration of both Book Week and Literacy and Numeracy Week. There will be a range of activities for the whole school and year levels to participate in, as well as activities for families to complete at home. Catch – a- Reader Reading is a lifelong activity, people of all ages read! ‘Catch-a-Reader’ gets students to draw pictures or take photos of people they ‘catch’ reading. We would love for you to take photos of your children and family reading and send them in. Catch - an – Idea ‘Catch-an-Idea’ is your chance to catch a maths moment! Whether you’re indoors or outside, looking at patterns or playing sports, in the kitchen or in outer space; maths helps make sense of the world! Students or parents can photograph a mathematics moment, caption it and share it (digitally or as a poster around the school). For example, take a photo of someone measuring ingredients, tiling a roof or a football player kicking a goal. Maths is everywhere! Please send photos of children having a maths moment. These will go on display in the school. Whole School Dress Up Day on Monday! On Monday, children may come to school dressed as their favourite story book character from a picture book, fairy tale or novel. 9.00-9.30- Read aloud with Parents: Parents and students share their favourite book with one another. Please bring along your favourite book and sit down and have a read with your child, who can also share their favourite story with you. 9:30 – 10 Costume parade, weather permitting. If it is sunny, we will try and have a costume parade with the grades at 9:30. Prep – Year 2 in the Hall and Years 3-6 on the basketball court.

Our Own Olympian

Congratulations to Annabelle Smith on winning bronze in the three metre springboard synchronised diving. Annabelle worked with many of our Year 1-6 students in our school

swimming program in term 2 and will be bring her medal to school when she returns from Rio.

Athletics Sports Forty-five of our students represented us at the District Athletics Sports yesterday. All of our students performed to their very best and many of them are through to the next round of competition. Placings are based on times and not positions in the various heats. The official results are not through yet but according to our unofficial results, our winners were: 10YO Girls Relay (Payton Frost, Maggie Roberts, Stella Kirkham and Sienna Farrell) 11YO Girls Relay (Cameron Millias, Zoe Chrimes, Isabel Bacon and Natalia Axias) 11YO Boys Relay (Wieste Cocu, Aljaz De Gleria Cade, Lachlan Voss and Atticus Cornwall) 10YO Girls 200m Siena Farrell 10YO Girls Triple Jump Sienna Farrell 11YO Boys 1500 Harry Johnson 11YO Boys Triple Jump Lachie Voss 11YO Girls Hurdles Eva Levashova 12/13YO Girls Hurdles Bianca McManus 12/13YO Boys Triple Jump Louis Coreless Our second place getters (unofficially) are: 10YO Boys Relay (Ben Kuklych, Finn Wright, Ryan Kamieniarz and Kris Abdul-Rahman) 12/13YO Girls Relay (Olivia Box, Amelia Kogler, Bianca McManus and Anindo Minifie) 10YO Girls Long Jump Alyssa Binyazar 10YO Girls Shot Put Maddie Brown 10YO Boys 800 Ryan Kamien 10YO Boys 100m Ben Kuklych 10YO Boys 200 Ben Kuklych 11YO Boys Hurdles Brendan Sergi 11YO Girls 100m Natalia Axias 11YO Boys 800 Harry Johnson 12/13YO Girls High Jump Bianca McManus 12/13YO Girls Long Jump Bianca McManus 12/13YO Girls 100m Amelia Kogler 12/13YO Girls 200m Olivia Box 12/13YO Girls 800 Amelia Kogler 12/13YO Boys 100m Louis Coreless Once the results are confirmed, we will run a training session for those students proceeding to the Beachside Athletic Carnival to be held at Duncon McKinnon Reserve on Tuesday 30th

August. The relays will be the first events so most of our students will be back at school (or at the production dress rehearsal) by 11am. Hooptime Helpers Wanted Our Senior Hooptime is now on August 23rd at MSAC (not Aug 24 as previously advised). If you can help out on August 23rd or 26th at our Hooptime Gala Days at MSAC, please let me know. We urgently require additional coaches. Maths Talent Quest Successes!

This is the first time in many years that our students have entered the annual Maths Talent Quest. Our students submitted some very high quality entries, and Abby Lang and Emily Morgan (both of Year 5) have had their combined entry, on “Enrolment Patterns at Port Melbourne PS”, ranked in the top five in its class in the state! Their entry has now been entered in the national judging. We will acknowledge all our Maths Talent Quest entrants at our whole school assembly next week. Assembly Roster Assemblies are held on Friday afternoons commencing at about 3pm and finishing at 3.20pm. August 19 Junior School (led by Prep CD) August 26 Whole School Sept 2 Senior School (led by 3CD) Sept 9 Junior School (led by 1EF) Sept 16 Whole School (1pm)

Premiers’ Reading Challenge There are only 3 weeks left until the end of the Challenge! It closes on 9th September. Make sure that you are reading and recording your books.

Bringing Home the Cup - September 3rd

Over forty of our dads are in serious training for the big Dads footy carnival at Murphy Reserve on Saturday 3rd September. We will be winning back the Cup that currently sits in the principal’s office at St Kilda Park PS. There will be a range of activities for everyone commencing at noon, with our dads in action in TWO matches between 1.30pm and 5pm. After the games, there will be some live entertainment and refreshments will be served until late in the evening. There will be a special surprise for the children at about 7.30pm.

With no AFL games that day, the Dads Footy is the main game in town on September 3rd. Make sure that your family is there to support our dads win back the Cup! A Future Golf Champ?

Hamish Farquharson in 3B has recently returned from Pinehurst in North Carolina USA where he was representing Australia at the USKids World Junior Golf Championships. Hamish played extremely well and finished 12th out of 140 kids in his age group. He was the best placed Australian at the tournament across all age groups. Hamish and his proud Dad also managed to come second in the parent/child event as well. Hamish has now qualified for next year’s event and has already begun training and is looking forward to returning to Pinehurst next year.

Weekly Staff Profiles This week, we feature two of our Teaching Assistants, Mirella Basile and Lorraine King.

Mirella worked at the “old” Albert Park Secondary College and after it closed spent time working as a tutor. She had wanted to work at Port Melbourne Primary School and, when the opportunity arose eight years ago, she was delighted. Mirella enjoys working at PMPS with the students. When not at work she likes to play the guitar, do yoga and go to the gym. Lorraine trained as an Occupational Therapist and worked as an OT for many years in both

Melbourne and London. While raising two daughters, she worked as the Administrator of a ChildCare Centre and Practice Manager at an orthodontist. Lorraine became a classroom volunteer here before we convinced her to apply for a Teacher Aide position, and she has worked in that role here since 2011. Outside school, Lorraine’s passions/interests include her family, travel, making cards, involvement in her local church and gardening.

Peter Martin

Lagoon House Lagoon House Lagoon House Lagoon House

In 1803 a man name Charles Grimes was first to find and notice the Sandridge Lagoon. The large saltwater lagoon took over and dominated Sandridge over 27 acres and was 10 feet deep. During this time, the Lagoon was the most recognised feature of Sandridge. It had a number of bridges and was a popular venue for boating and fishing. In 1849 and 1863 the Lagoon flooded because of sewage that was washed into the sea. In 1877, ratepayers in Port Melbourne wanted a boat harbour instead of the lagoon but didn't want to pay for it. We are proud captains of Lagoon and recognise the importance of why our house is famously named after the Sandridge Lagoon.

Anastasia & Samson: Lagoon House Captains

Parents & FriendsParents & FriendsParents & FriendsParents & Friends

Sushi Day Thanks

Once again a huge thanks to the mums that came in and helped pack the sushi last Friday. As with all events, we couldn't run Sushi Day without volunteers, so thank you.

Dads Footy Carnival - Saturday 3 September The PFA is assisting the Dads Footy committee with the Dads Footy Carnival. It will be a fabulous day with 10 schools involved with activities commencing around noon, the first games kicking off at 1.30pm and presentations after the last games just after 5pm. There will be a variety of entertainment for kids, music, and a number of food and beverage stalls. We are asking the school community to get involved and volunteer at one of the stalls. Shifts will be only 1 hour long to ensure no one misses

too much footy. The link below will be emailed out for you to put your names down. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-J-jKe0JexKbtdWv8AgGRerrCJ1-CnhwJxf65z6aReg

Fathers Day Stall - Tuesday 30th August Our annual Fathers Day Stall is only ten days away; gifts will be $6 and children are free to buy more then one gift. Any children involved in the school production will have an opportunity to visit the stall before they head to the theatre for dress rehearsal.

Next Meetings Our next meeting dates are Tuesday 13th September and Tuesday 11th October. We will confirm times and location closer to the date. The focus for these meetings will be the School Fete, which is being held on Sunday 27th November. We welcome all parents to come along and join in. There is no pressure to take on a role, but there is always the opportunity to help if you are keen.

Bre McGrath: 0411 228 921

Jenni Barton: 0400 381 107 Email: PMPSparentsandfriends@gmail.com

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Docklands Education Forum Educational provision in Docklands will be discussed on Wednesday 31st August from 6-8pm at the Docklands Library, Level 2 community room, jointly convened by Melbourne City Council and Places Victoria At this meeting, Peter Graham, Acting Executive Director from the Resources Strategy Division, Department of Education and Training, will be attending and discussing education provision for Docklands and CBD students.