Term 4 Week 4 26 October 2016

143 Bailey St Grovedale 3216 Tel: 5243 3902 Fax: 5243 0823

‘A Path to Success’

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS TRIVIA NIGHT: The trivia night was extremely successful with nearly $3000 being raised. A fun time was had by all and I would like to thank the organising committee for doing a fabulous job of seeking out items for the silent auction and prizes for the night. You are a wonderful and committed group of people that just work so hard to benefit all the children in the school. It would be lovely to see more parents being willing to help the Parents and Friends committee in the various events that they organise throughout the year. Please come and see us at the front office if you are able to help in any way and we can pass your details on to the committee to contact you. PREP-2 SWIMMING: The swimming program has been very successful. The chil-dren are loving going to the pool and are enjoying the im-portant skill of learning to swim. Thank you to the parents that are able to help children at the pool. I know that the teachers are trying to teach the children some independence with getting dressed, however this takes some time. STAFF CARPARK: Just a reminder to parents that the staff car park is for STAFF only. It can be a very dangerous and busy place at times and children should not be there. We do have it clearly marked on the front fence. We ask that NO children are in the car park at any time. Thank you all for your co-operation in this matter. WORLD TEACHER’S DAY THIS FRIDAY: This Friday we celebrate World Teacher’s Day. It is a day that we acknowledge the wonderful job that the teachers do each and every day for your children. It would be lovely if you could ask your children to acknowledge the great job that their teacher does on Friday. SISTER SCHOOL VISIT AND PRINCIPAL FORUM IN CHINA: I have been very fortunate to have been invited to the Jiangsu Province Principal Forum and to visit our sister school in Lian-yungang in China to further build our relationship. I will be attending from the 5th of November until the 13th of Novem-ber, which means I will be absent from the school for a peri-od of one week. The Forum is designed to promote and es-tablish relationships, collaboration and partnerships between Jiangsu Province and international education communities. This is a great opportunity to meet with other principals from around the world and talk with them about their sister school relationships and their education systems. Have a wonderful week. Kathy Wesolowski Principal

COMING EVENTS

FORMS / PAYMENT DUE BACK

Wed 30th Nov Gr 5/6 Camp deposit due $90

Fri 2nd Dec Prep/One BBQ due $8

Fri 2nd Dec Grade 2 Sleepover due $10

NOVEMBER 2016

Tues 8th—Wed 9th Nov Grade 3/4 Camp

Wed 9th Nov Prep Orientation Session 2,

9.15-10.45am

Thurs 10th Nov Whole School Transition 9.15-10am

Wed 16th Nov Market Day

Mon 21st Nov Prep Orientation Session 3,

9.15-10.45am

Plus Whole School Transition

Tues 22nd Nov Grade 5/6 Blue Light Disco

Tues 29th Nov Italian Day

DECEMBER 2016

Tues 6th Dec Prep Orientation Session 4,

9.30am-12 noon

Plus Whole School Transition

Mon 5th Dec Helper’s Thank You Morning Tea

Fri 9th Dec Grade 2 Sleepover

Prep/One BBQ

Wed 14th Dec Grade 6 Graduation at Skilled Stadium

Tues 20th Dec Last day of Term 4

STUDENT AWARDS

Duncan 34M For working hard in money maths this week. Immie 34M For being a great role model in 34M. Lynette 34W For writing and attention grabbing starter for her narrative. Darby 34W For making pleasing progress with his spelling words. Jack 56S For being a focused learner in all learning tasks. Harry 56L For his outstanding comprehension of unseen texts.

PARENTS AND FRIENDS FUNDRAISING NEWS

We had a really great night at our Trivia night on Saturday night and made a profit of $2970!!! The OLC was a great venue for the night, attended by 54 parents, friends and staff. There was plenty of singing, dancing and lots of laughs!! The winning table for the night was the staff table! Well done staff, our kids are in great hands!! Thankyou to everyone who attended and to the Parents and Friends Committee for another suc-cessful fundraiser. Thanks also to all of the Businesses who donated items or vouchers for our silent auction. We really appreciate the support. Please have a look at all of the business logos attached. We now just have the Christmas Raffle to organise so stay tuned for more info on that. Have a great week. Gab Lewis

Extend OSHC at Grovedale Primary School Last week at After School Care we had a lot of fun creating different types of senso-ry tubs with sand, water and other materi-als. Our Cloud Dough mixture was enjoyed by the students who used it to make lots of different creations. Pokemon was a big theme this week with students using different techniques such as tracing, drawing and paper fold-ing to produce Pokemon pictures and bookmarks. Alishea, Team Leader What’s on next week? Celebrate Halloween all week with some spooky activities at After School Care! Mon 31st October: Zombie Puppets & Spider crafts Tues 1st November: Skeleton Painting Wed 2nd November: Bubbling Witches Brew Thurs 3rd November: Halloween Mini Games Fri 4th November: Monster Hands LET’S RAISE 100 BLOOD DONATIONS! Extend is coming together as a community with a goal to raise 100 blood donations by the end of October this year. To en-courage everyone to get on board, Extend Director Stevenson will complete one of three possible dares if we reach 100 blood donations! Visit darrensdare.com to watch our launch video and see further information. Extend encourages all families to make an appointment TODAY! Visit darrensdare.com for further info. Parent Portal: extend.com.au

NEW UNIFORMS:

Deal directly with Coastal Uniforms.

Phone: 5255 4897

Ann-Maree will be at the school next Thursday 3rd November

at 8.45am– 9am.

SECOND HAND UNIFORMS: Visit Sally & Kelli in the Sick Bay

on Tuesday afternoons only from 3:00pm-3:20pm

SCHOOL KILTS: Please note:

Our kilt supplier is PSW located at 164 Malop St, Geelong

just down from Officeworks. Please contact PSW on 9768

0383 to check availability. Alternatively, you can order

online at www.psw.com.au.

SECOND HAND UNIFORM SHOP & LOST PROPERTY After many years, Kelli Caldow and Sally Hobbs will no long-er be running the second hand uniform shop and lost prop-erty. They will be finishing at the end of this year. We take this opportunity to thank them for their years of time and effort happily put into running the shop and wish them all the best for the future. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! If you have 30 minutes to spare each Tuesday afternoon from 3-3.30pm and would be interested in taking on this role next year, please come and speak to the office or have a chat to Kelli or Sally.

LOST

A student has lost a pair of pur-

ple prescription glasses at

school. If found, please hand

them into the office as soon as

possible. Thank you.

JUMPERS JUMPERS JUMPERS

We have a huge amount of school jumpers in our

lost property section in front of the staff room.

Please check your child has their jumper and if you

think you may have lost one, come and check the

lost property.

All items will be removed by the end of the year.

Thank you!