Creswick Primary School—Catering for the needs of students in the pursuit of excellence

CALENDAR

Monday 19th June Parents’ Club Meeting 9.00am Wednesday 21st June School Council 6.30pm Thursday 22nd June Responsible Pet Ownership Junior Unit Friday 23rd June Last Day of Canteen for Term 2 Blue Light Disco 6pm - 8pm Tuesday 27th June St John’s Ambulance whole school Friday 30th June Last Day of Term 2 1.30pm finish Monday 17th July First Day of Term 3

NO Breakfast Club OR Canteen in the last week of term 2

SCHOOL NEWSLETTER No. 9 Term 2 15th June 2017

Phone: 03 5345 2044 Fax: 03 5345 8031

Email: creswick.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

www.creswickps.vic.edu.au

Assembly 3.00pm

Item this week

4/5C

Next week item 3/4B

Grade 5/6W Ada For excellent use of descriptive and emotive language in her writing. Well done!

Grade 5/6H Alysian For her ongoing creativity in both oral written works and regularly enhancing class discussions with her deep insights.

Grade 4/5 C Nethra For a fantastic and creative recount of her senior camp experience.

Grade 3/4B Hamish For showing Resilience and perseverance during camp. Well done on your fantastic attitude!

Grade 3/4 H Pascall For her helpfulness and positive attitude for the entire camp. One happy camper!

Grade 2D Lily May For a terrific effort with her Big Write procedure ‘How to make a rainbow cake’. Lily included lots of different openers and used neat hand writing.

Grade 1/2W Jasmyn For doing a great job subtracting ‘Friends of 10’ facts quickly this week. Well done!

Foundation/1R Charlie For his continued focus during learning time, always finishing tasks to a high standard.

Foundation K Bernard For his improvement in following our Classroom Agreement. Well done! Library Jalissa Being a fantastic celebrity reader in our library lesson. Well done. Nate Being a fantastic celebrity reader in our library lesson. Well done.

Extra-Curricular Sporting Schools - AFL This term each class has had four sessions of AFL coaching. The children learnt ball skills, played cooperative games and were involved in physical activity. Thank you to Patrick and Tom our ‘coaches’ who displayed a great deal of

enthusiasm, knowledge and understanding. As a school we wish both coaches all the best with their personal futures.

Congratulations to the Netball Team Last Friday, the school netball team competed against many other schools in the Regional Netball Championships at Llanberris Netball Centre, Ballarat. The team did a great job and managed to win the ‘Mixed’ competition. Thank you to Katelyn Sutton for managing the team and to the many parents involved in transportation.

From the Principal’s Desk

Book Fair The ‘Book Fair’ not only encouraged a great deal of enthusiasm around books and reading last week, but the children also received visits from ‘Clifford the dog’ to further encourage all students to keep reading each night.

Student Reports

Over the past couple of weeks, staff have been collating data to write the mid-year student reports.

As the Principal, I get to see all of the reports and really enjoy reading about the learning journey that each student is on.

The reports highlight where each student is ‘at’ and also what the next level of learning is.

The teachers include some of the strategies they will be using to maximise learning and list some things that parents can do at home. The Junior Unit have included some of the strategies they use to decode unknown words when reading:

Stretchy Snake – Stretch the sounds out – str – et - ch

Lips the fish – Get your lips ready to make the sound

Skippy the kangaroo – leave the unknown word out and read to the end of the sentence to help identify it

Chunky Monkey – Look for the chunks that you know – eg – some – one = someone

As a school there will be Parent/Teacher/Student interviews in early August where further discussions on im-proving learning will occur.

Blue Light Disco Volunteers Required

We are seeking volunteers for the evening who have a Working With Children Check.

If you are able to help, please contact Lucy on 0427 115 769 or complete and

return the form sent home last week and return to school by Monday 19th June

Bunnings BBQ

Saturday 1st July

A request for helpers went out last

week, if you are able to help,

please complete and return the

form as soon as possible.

Creswick Theatre Company Presents

Where’s Jack Bean?

Where: Creswick Courthouse Theatre, Raglan St Creswick When: 11.00am & 2.00pm July 11,12,13 Adult cabaret night 8.00pm July 14 Cost: Matinee all tickets $8.00 / Cabaret $15 For more information Phone 0458 516 275 or check our Facebook page

School Photos

Photographs of the following groups can be viewed at the office. They are $18 each, orders and payment

must be made by MONDAY 26th JUNE 2017. Groups include: School Captains *Student Leaders Grade 6 *Super Cyber Safety Squad Casual Grade 6 *After School Netball House Captains *Quicksmart Junior School Council *Playground Mentor

BREAKFAST CLUB Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8.20AM

Next week we will be cooking some delicious warm baked bean jaffles and cheese toasties. There will be no breakfast club during the last week of school. 27th & 29th June. 1kg boxes of Vita Brits and bags of muesli for sale for $2 each at the office. All money goes towards the Breakfast Club.

Creswick Primary School and

Creswick and District Community Bank would like to present

Blue Light Disco

Friday 23rd June

6.00 - 8.00pm

Entry $5.00 includes a drink

PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDS ONLY

Fully supervised by parents who have Working With Children credentials as

well as the Boys In Blue.

Fancy Dress ________

Prizes throughout the night ________

Canteen open for purchase of snacks, $1.00 Lucky dips and $5.00 show

bags ______

Fully supervised

Where:

Creswick Primary School MPB

Napier Street Creswick

Free Dental Appointments @ Hepburn Health Services

Hepburn Health Service, is offering Dental appointments at the Creswick Community Health Centre: The service is FREE for all Primary School children.

The service covers examinations, fillings, fissures seals, brushing and diet education, cleaning, x-rays, extractions.

All appointments are at the Dental Clinic located at the Creswick Community Health Centre.

Please phone for an appointment or for further information on: – PH: 5321 6580

Enrolments for 2018

If you have a sibling coming to school next year, please come to the office and pick up an enrolment pack.

We can also take you on a tour of our school! Please contact us on 5345 2044 if you would like an

information pack or to book a tour.

JUNIOR UNIT HELP

The Junior Unit is seeking donations of recycled items such as plastic containers

(margarine, bottles,

yoghurt, ice cream etc), plastic lids, foam, foil items

etc.

These items will be used for science lessons.

We are also after buttons!

Please drop items into 2D.

If you can help us it would

be appreciated. Thank you