DATES TO

REMEMBER

School Dates :

Afrobeat Incursion Queenscliff Primary

School 1st June 2018

RACV Road rules and bike safety

Incursion 8th June 2018

Jump Rope for

Heart ‘Jump Off’ Incursion

12th June 2018

QUEENSCLIFF PRIMARY SCHOOL

‘Learning for the Future‘

The Swan Bay Flyer

28th May 2018

QUEENSCLIFF PS

SCHOOL COUNCILLORS

2018

Richard Buckingham

(DET, Executive)

Melissa Fitzgerald (DET)

Cameron Brown (DET)

Mark Lang

Penny Gough-Harper

Alex Giannuzzi

Noelle Roob

Matthew Davis

Rebecca Petit-Bramwell

Sharon Hanson

(Community Member)

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear families, Queenscliff Primary School has been abuzz with activities over the past two weeks. Our building works are well underway with our school now being officially asbestos free – all eave panels re-moved, replaced and painted. The administration office, sickbay and conference room are due for completion within the next two weeks and our basketball courts, handball courts and painting will continue throughout the next month. Last Thursday, saw a great crowd attend our Biggest Morning Tea. We again surpassed our previous year’s donation tally of $1300.00 and raised $1712.10. It was great that our kitchen/garden pro-gram was utilised in the build up to the morning tea and equally as impressive that our students were able to display a teaser for our Wizard of Oz production by singing ‘Somewhere Over the Rain-bow’. Last Wednesday, it was wonderful to have our enrolled 2019 prep students and their families attend our first official transition session. The kinder students settled in very well and enthusiastical-ly participated in workshops with Mrs Fitzgerald and Megan. It was also a great opportunity for our new families to see the programs we have in place and chat with our current students. A reminder that transition sessions this year are reserved only for enrolled students for 2019. If you know of anyone who is considering Queenscliff Primary School for prep next year and are not yet enrolled to please do so at their earliest convenience. This Friday, we are looking forward to our whole school Afro Beat drumming incursion as part of our performing arts program. Last time we had Afro Beat visit our school we had 13 students across years P-5. This year they will be spending more time at our school, working with the whole group and individual classes. Next week, I will be attending a mandatory region wide principal conference in Melbourne for two days. During this time, whilst I will be available for all urgent matters, Melissa will be acting principal and Mr Lenny Clarke will be taking our year P/1 class. In additional staffing news, you may have no-ticed that Megan Fullard has had a slight change of roles on some days. Whilst Meagan is substan-tively employed at QPS as an Education Support Assistant, she is also a qualified and VIT registered primary school teacher and has begun teaching grades at or school when required. Enjoy your week folks. Richard Buckingham Principal

www.queenscliffps.vic.edu.au

queenscliff.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

(03) 5258 1696

Banking Changes

Bank details:

Queenscliff Primary School have recently changed our bank account from Commonwealth Bank to Queenscliff Bendigo Bank. The main

reason behind this is supporting our local bank branch, who were very supportive of us last year through our grant from the Queenscliff,

Point Lonsdale Community Enterprise (QPLCE). Our new bank details are:

Account Name: Queenscliff Primary School

Account: 160709861

BSB: 633-000

Eftpos is now available We now have eftpos available at the office. Thank you for your patience while we have been having this facility installed. School Office Hours are: Monday, Thursday and Friday 8am to 4pm

Wednesday 8.30am to 4.30pm

School Crossing

With the additional work vehicles parking around the school, please remember not to park on the school crossing during school drop off

and pick up times.

Lost Property

The lost property basket is starting to overflow, please check with the Helene if you are missing any items. The basket of lost property is

located in the kitchen.

Request from the Art Department With Term 2 underway, new ideas are springing from the Art Room. Outside the Art Room door each day, the school Magpie family and other birds delight us with their company and carolling. They mentioned one day, that they would love a drink and perhaps a splash in some fresh water, so we thought a birdbath, colourfully mosaiced by the children would be in order to keep our feathered friends happy. To do this, we need tiles and old pieces of ceramics; cups, saucers, plates etc, and this is where we need your help. Magpies especially, being a gregarious bunch, love colour, as we do, so the more colour the better. If you can assist by donating any old or spare tiles or china, that will greatly help in getting our idea underway. Of course, it doesn’t matter if they are broken or chipped because they are soon going to feel the crunch of the hammer anyway. All mosaic donations will be greatly appreciated and can be brought straight to the Art Room. Many thanks, Kate Parton.

The Biggest Morning Tea

Thank you to all the families for their generosity and kind donation of all the wonderful food that they brought for our Biggest Morning

Tea. The serving plates and containers have all been washed and are on the kitchen bench for you to collect.

Afrobeat Incursion Friday 1st June 2018

A reminder that the permission slips for the Afrobeat incursion are due to be returned Thursday 31/5/18. The incursion note is on your

Skool Bag App.

Grade P/1

Hi to all of our Prep/1 families, We have been very lucky to have George Ivanoff join us for the Literary festival activities at our school. George was very impressed with the amount of interest and questions our students had about his books and the writing process. Students have been working very hard in our literacy activities this week to read fluently and also to create books of our own. We have also been learning about nouns and adjectives. This week has seen the first of our transition sessions with the 2019 Preps coming to school for some mini tabloid games and a sausage sizzle to welcome them to our school. We have also had our famous Biggest Morning Tea. Thank you to all the families for bringing some delicious treats for us to share and also to all of our guests for their generous donations. Students should be commended for their amazing behaviour and hospitality shown to all of our guests. Have a great weekend!! Mrs. Fitzgerald

Grade 2/3

Hello everyone,

Well done to all the grade 3s for completing the NAPLAN tests. We are so proud of all the hard work and effort from all stude nts during this time.

After the visit from a very talented author last week, grade 2/3P have started writing and illustrating their own classroom p icture storybook. The book is coming along well and will be published in the next few weeks for parents to come and read. Thanks to all the students for singing, ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’ for the Biggest Morning Tea. The performance sounded amazing and demon-strates the commitment, professionalism and talent of the students from our school. We hope you all have a great weekend! From 2/3P

Grade 4-6

Hi All, This past fortnight the students in 4-6B have enjoyed participating in many exciting activities. Four of our students (Gulliver, Jed, Keira and Mitch) joined St Leonard’s Primary school as a joint effort to represent both schools at the Bellarine District Lightning Premiership competition. Gulliver, Jed and Mitch played AFL and Keira played Netball. By all accounts, it was a fun and chal-lenging day, the boys football team placed 4th overall, at this stage we are unsure of the overall placing for the girls netball team. On Friday 18th May we celebrated the Queenscliff Literary Festival by welcoming author, George Ivanoff (Popular author of the ‘You Choose’ book series) to discuss life as an author and conduct literacy workshops. George was a loud and animated character, who captured student’s imaginations, leaving many of them filled with ideas for their own writing. On the morning of the Biggest Morning Tea, we received some exciting news that Georgia was awarded winner of the Queenscliff Literary Festival’s Portrait Competition. Georgia is a well-deserving winner of the competition, we will have her portrait displayed at QPS once we receive it back from the festival coordinators. I’m sure all present for our contribution to Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea will agree it was a successful day. I would like to personally thank the students of 4-6B for their well-mannered participation during the event and help with clean-up afterward. Every student is already looking for-ward to the 2019 Biggest Morning Tea.

Enjoy your weekend, Cameron Brown.