Term 4 Week 11 Wednesday 17th December2014

143 Bailey St Grovedale 3216 Tel: 5243 3902 Fax: 5243 0823 www.grovedaleps.vic.edu.au grovedale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS

SPECIAL LUNCH: Due to the special lunch order this Thursday 18th December there will be no normal lunch orders available. Thank you Sandra for organising the special lunch. $1.00 from every lunch order will go to the school. Lunch orders will resume again from the first day of term Thursday January 29th 2015. Use the same summer order form that you have been using this term. Lunch orders will again be available each Tuesday and Thursday.

THANK YOU: All our staff would like to say a big thank you to all the parents, friends and grandparents for all your help and time over the year, it was very much appreciated. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, safe and happy holidays.

EARLY FINISH A reminder that we will be finishing at 1:30-pm this Friday. We will be having our assembly at 9:15am followed by the Christmas Raffle draw.

Last week we had a special visit from the Community Liaison Police, Andrew King. Two of our very lucky students got to get into the police car, sound the sirens and talk with Senior Constable King. They LOVED it. Kathy Wesolowski Principal

COMING EVENTS

FORMS / PAYMENT DUE BACK

IGA Dockets Anytime

Christmas Raffle Tickets 17th December

‘A Path to Success’

UNIFORMS NEW UNIFORMS Deal directly with Coastal Uniforms. Phone: 5255 4897 Order forms may be picked up from the school office. SECOND HAND UNIFORMS

Visit Sally & Kelli in the Sick Bay on Tuesday afternoons only from 3:00pm-3:20pm SCHOOL KILTS Geelong Uniforms 164 Malop Street Geelong. Phone: 5224 2229

December 2014

Thursday 18th Grade 5/6 Adventure Park

Thursday 18th Special Lunch Order Day

Thursday 18th 9:00am Parents & Friends wrapping prizes & sorting raffle tickets

Friday 19th Last Day 1:30pm Finish

Tuesday 27th Book pick up day 9:00am-12:00pm

Thursday 29th Back to School/Prep students first day 9:00am

January 2015 CHRISTMAS RAFFLE: End of year raffle, dozens of great prizes. Please ensure your raffle book is returned back school whether you have sold tickets or not.

STUDENT AWARDS! Madison Lugg For giving 100% to her learning this week! Leanne Shrimpton For working well in Reading this week! Jemma Di Cristoforo For always being a kind and happy classmate. Cooper Blackley For working hard on his DREAM HOUSE in maths. Zac Barton For doing a wonderful job running our 3/4B sport activity! Christian Barsic-McDonald For being a wonderful helper in 3/4B this week! Abbye Smith For always smiling and having a go. Jye Walters For being very kind and sharing ‘Harry’ with us! Mitch Thompson For the great care he took when publishing his writing. Tane Berends For being polite and friendly to others. Carlie McCrohan For being respectful to others. Riley Hill For working hard to improve his writing. Mitchell Knevitt For working hard to achieve his best learning outcomes. David Khokhar For always being organised and for working so well independently!! Abby Mueller For being such a wonderful member of 5/6L!

PARENTS AND FRIENDS NEWS

Christmas Raffle Thank you for all the donations, we have lots of wonderful prizes that will be raffled this Friday morning. Thank you also to families for selling tickets. We have had a fantastic year of fundraising and would like to thank all committee members for their hard work. To all families who have supported fundraisers and local businesses who continued to support our school with fundraising we thank you. Thank you also to all teachers for their support of Parents and Friends. If you are interested in joining the committee next year we will be holding an AGM early in the year at which time office bearers will be elected. Even if you are not interested in being on the committee, we welcome as many parents as possible to be involved. Have a great Christmas and see you next year. Thank you Gab Lewis

EDUCATION MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE (EMA) NO LONGER PROVIDED This is a reminder that there will be no EMA from the Government in 2015. We understand that this will affect quite a percent-age of families at this school. For 2015 the materials charge has been kept at $210 per student per year. With this in mind you may wish to set up a Payment Plan for 2015. This can be set up now, at the beginning of 2015 when you pick up your book packs or any time throughout the year when making payments may be more difficult, for example camp pay-ments. We can work out a fortnightly, monthly or term option. Payments may still be made by cash, cheque or EFTPOS. You can also pay by EFTPOS over the phone if needs be.

GROVEDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL ARE WINNERS!!! As part of our whole school participation in ‘Walk to School Month’ we have received $500 in prize money. This money will be used to further develop our Health and Wellbeing Programs. This year we have begun our journey in developing and adopting a whole school way of thinking and working in order to make our school the best possible place to learn, work and play. By participating in the Achievement Program we will be supported by the ‘Healthy Geelong Together’ Network in developing healthier environments and be formally recognised for promoting health and wellbeing. This Program involves meeting benchmarks in 8 areas of health and well-being. We have met the state wide benchmark for ‘SunSmart’ gaining “Advanced standing in this area and are working towards the Physical Activity benchmarks this year and will gradually work on action plans to meet the benchmarks for the remaining areas. Next year we will be looking at ‘Active Travel’ by investi-gating and identifying safe and routes for students to travel to school. Thank you to all the students and parents for your support and participation in ‘Walk to School’ days and making it such a success. Kerry Reid.

Student Wellbeing

Lets forget about the Christmas cake that requires an entire trolley full of ingredients. This 3 ingredients wonder cake will be much kinder not only to your stress levels but your budget!

Prep Time: 5 Mins plus overnight to soak. Cook Time: 2 and 1/2 hours. Ingredients: 1kg of dried fruit including glazed cherries 3 cups of chocolate milk 2 cups of self raising flour. Method: 1.Place dried fruit in a bowl and cover with chocolate milk. Cover bowl with glade wrap and place in the fridge over night. 2. Preheat oven to 160 degrees (fan forced). Line a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper and set aside. Sift self raising flour over the fruit mix and stir until all is combined. 3. Pour mixture into cake tin and bake for 2 and 1/2 hours. Quick tip: Check the oven each hour to make sure that the top isn't burning. If you think it will burn then make a car-touche (ring of baking paper) and place on top of the cake. Cook until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Please come in and

see me if you have

any concerns.

Megan Hay-Smith

Social Worker

Monday and Tuesdays.

Fortnightly Wednesday

LEARN TO SWIM Holiday intensive program lessons are provided over five back-to-back days by qualified Swim and Survive instructors. WEEK 1: 5-9 January, WEEK 2: 12-16 Janu-ary, WEEK 3: 19-23 January. 5 days $63.50 and Con-cession $51.00. Contact Leisurelink 5243 9595 or www.ssl.geelongaustralia.com.au.

CITY OF GREATER GEELONG REGIONAL PARENTING SERVICE Term 1, 2015 regional parenting program, various locations around Geelong. Cost: Gold coin donation up to $20.00. Program Age Rang Toddler Series 18mths – 2 ½ yrs Positive Parenting Program 2-5 yr Tuning Into Kids 4-8yrs Bringing Up Great Kids 5-12yrs Parenting Young Adolescents 10-13yrs Parenting Your Teenager 13-18yrs Grandparenting 1st Time Around Unborn – 18mths Dates and times will follow in the New Year. For more information please contact 5272 4817.

Vic Beach Geelong is currently running a soccer competition for

Grade 4, 5’s and 6’s that is on every Wednesday night between 4:15pm and 6:30pm. For parents/guardians requesting more infor-mation, please contact info@geelongvicbeach.com.au or call 52224400.

SAVER PLUS CHECK THIS OUT!

You may be eligible. This is a fantastic offer. Join Saver Plus and match your savings dollar for dollar, up to $500, for educational costs. Flyers with further information are available from the school office or contact Amanda Vernon the Saver Plus worker at Bethany on 5278 8122.

REQUEST FOR LARGER SIZE UNIFORMS FOR OUR SECOND HAND SHOP If you have uniforms you are no longer in need of we are happy to accept them for our shop. We are always in desperate need of larger sizes in all items of uniform. The uniform shop no longer sells items on behalf of families, however if you would like to advertise your uniforms or bags for sale you may do so in the school newsletter.

Overview of Estimated Costs for Each Grade Level for 2015 Please find below a general list of costs involved throughout the school year for students at this school. This is an approximate overview and is not necessarily definitive of costs for the school year. All Year Levels: The Materials Charge has been kept at $210.00 per student per year. This charge covers all student requisites for the year. There are no extra booklist requirements. The Materials Charge is to be paid at the start of the school year on receipt of the Student Requisites pack or pro rata for students enrolling through the year. A Payment Plan may be put in place prior to this. Year Level Breakdown:

Other costs throughout the year include: Fundraising (Chocolate Drive, Entertainment Books, Charity Fundraising etc) School Uniforms (there is a separate uniform list) Grade Six Uniform Dates: Book Pick Up day Tuesday January 27 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Grade 5/6 Camp Wednesday May 6 to Friday May 8 2015 Swimming Program August (Term 3 ) Grade 3/4 Camp Monday September 14 to Tuesday September 15 Please note: Payments made on book pick up day may be made by cash, cheque or Eftpos.

Year Level Excursions/

Activities

Swimming

Program

(Alternate

years)

Camp

Materials

Charge

Year Total

Grade Prep $40.00 100.00 $8.00 $210.00 $358.00

Grade One $40.00 100.00 $8.00 $210.00 $358.00

Grade Two $40.00 100.00 $10.00 $210.00 $360.00

Grade Three $50.00 100.00 $140.00 $210.00 $500.00

Grade Four $50.00 100.00 $140.00 $210.00 $500.00

Grade Five $60.00 $250.00 $210.00 $520.00

Grade Six $70.00 $250.00 $210.00 $530.00