The West Oak Newsletter of Colac West Primary School

“The Smaller City School”

Assembly House Captains and School Captains

March 1st 2018 Volume 1 Issue 5

______________________ Inside this Issue- Page 1… 1. Principal Report 2. Leadership 3. Compass 4. House Captains 5. Breakfast Club

Page 2…

6. Tabloid Sports 7. Yr 6 NEWS 8. P/1 NEWS 9. 4/5 NEWS 10. Victorian Premiers’ Reading

Challenge 11. House Athletics

REMINDER NO SCHOOL MONDAY 12TH MARCH LABOUR DAY HOLIDAY Colac West Primary School (03) 5231 2479 PO Box 268, Colac, Victoria 3250 email: colac.west.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

website: www.colacwest.vic.edu.au

Principal report:

LEADERSHIP Last Friday our 2018 School Captains and House Captains were presented their badges by Mr. Simon Dewar, Principal of Colac Secondary College. I am so proud of all of the students who nominated for leadership positions. All of them indicated they would be happy to support whoever was successful. They all demonstrated passion and pride in their school and were keen to lead wherever they could. I look forward to working more closely with our student leadership team on building the profile of student voice and leadership across the school. I have asked the school captains to write a regular piece in our newsletter for you to enjoy.

COMPASS - Have you logged on yet?

Do you need help? Please let us know. In the near future we will be putting our weekly planners up on compass so you know what your child is learning and focusing on in their class.

SCHOOL SPORTS HOUSE CAPTAINS DENNIS HOUSE –

Jacob / Olivia

ROBERTSON HOUSE –

Emily / Taylah

CALVERT HOUSE-

Kelyn / Tamika

AUSTIN HOUSE–

Neelufa / Zane

BREAKFAST CLUB DONATIONS WANTED

We run a breakfast club every Tuesday and Thursday morning and often serve a third to half of the students. We are in need of the following items on a regular basis if you could help out with donations we would gladly appreciate it. Vegemite, Honey, Bread, Milo, Butter

Thanks in advance of any donations.

SCHOOL CAPTAINS Savanna & Elias

TABLOID SPORTS On the 14th March, the students and staff will be participating in the annual Tabloid Sports Day. The theme of this event will be the Commonwealth Games. The day will begin at 9.10 and the students will be split into 8 MULTI AGE groups. Each group will be assigned a country: 1: Canada 2: Jamaica 3: Kenya 4: South Africa 5: Australia 6: India 7: Fiji 8: Malaysia

It all begins with an opening ceremony, which includes the students walking a lap, saluting the crowd in their country colours.

Each country anthem is played during this.

Senior school leaders are FLAG BEARERS who march at the front with their flag high in the air.

The atmosphere builds!!

Senior Students are selected to read the Olympic OATH

The Olympic flame will be run to its final resting place (front of stage)

Country chanting will take place (1st medals of the day)

The games will be declared open

A live medal tally brings a more competitive element to the day.

Points will be given away throughout the event for Effort, Team Spirit, Energy and most importantly Team Work.

At the conclusion there will be three countries who will receive Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals

Of course it will be a thrilling finish due to creative scoring throughout the day.

Parents, friends and family are more than welcome to come and be part of the Commonwealth Games cheer squad! We will have more information about groups, countries and colours next week so stay tuned.

Yr 6 NEWS We have had another productive week in the grade 6 room. Congratulations to our School Captains for 2018, Savanna and Elias and House Captains, Zane, Neelufa, Kelyn, Taylah, Emily, Tamika, Jacob and Olivia. Leadership is a role we respect and embrace at Colac West Primary School and the whole grade 6 class are demonstrating great leadership skills this year. In Writing this week, we are been looking at the lost art of letter writing. We are very lucky to be pen pals with an Aboriginal school just near Alice Springs and are just about to send our first letters to them. This is a great opportunity for the students to learn about different places in Australia, different cultures and the art of letter writing. My class have been working brilliantly and I am so proud of their achievements so far this year.

P/1 NEWS We have been very busy, productive learner this week in Prep/1. The students have been busy learning the process and strategies of our new SMART Spelling program. Each week the students are introduced to a word of the week and a sentence of the week. Over the 5 days, the students learn the meaning of the word and are explicitly taught the sounds and letters of each word. This week our word was ‘cat’ and our sentence was ‘The cat sat on the mat’. The students have had fun creating their own cat on a mat. With great enthusiasm and success, the students have been attempting to successfully write our sentence of the week independently.

4/5 NEWS This week the year 4/5 class have been working hard writing narratives! Creating characters and setting the scene for our stories to take place. Some fantastic stories have been created and we all understand narratives much better now!

Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Colac West Primary School is excited to be participating. The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 7 September 2018. Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books. All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier. To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc

HOUSE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL Next Wednesday the 7th March, Colac West Primary School will be holding its annual Athletics Carnival. All of the students have been practising various activities in PE in the lead up to the Carnival. Please remind your students to dress in their house colours as it is a great way to create atmosphere. We ask that the students bring their usual playlunch and lunch snacks as there will not be a BBQ on the day. The events will begin at approximately 9 am and continue throughout the day, stopping for breaks at the usual recess and lunch times. Presentation of awards will be held on Friday 9th March at the school Assembly. Please come along and support your students in their events.

SCHOOL COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR 2018

PRINCIPAL: Mandy Smith 52312479 PRESIDENT:

Mandy Smith Sarah Gray

Katrina Hammond Dianne Moore Yasna Russell Daniel Borenstein Shana Edwards Kirsten Pietsch Toni Egan Andrew Cox

Date NEXT MEETING:

WEDNESDAY 21ST MARCH.

AGM at 7pm /

GENERAL MEETING 7.30pm

RHYME TIME FOR PRE-SCHOOLERS If you know of anyone with a child of preschool age, please urge them to come along! Every Thursday in the Library at 9:00. Come and join in the fun!

COLES SPORTS FOR SCHOOLS The program starts on 7 February 2018, and that’s when you’ll be able to start collecting Cole’s sports for Schools vouchers from all Coles stores. We have a collection box at school and also the store to drop in your vouchers.

PARENTS’ CLUB Committee for 2018 President: Sharon Jacques Secretary: Prue Borenstein Treasurer: Connie Wilson Canteen: Peta Maunder School Council Rep. Connie Wilson

NEXT PARENTS’ CLUB MEETING WILL BE:

COMING EVENTS

FRIDAY 2nd MARCH NO ASSEMBLY

WEDNESDAY 7TH MARCH HOUSE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL FRIDAY 9TH MARCH ASSEMBLY MONDAY 12TH MARCH LABOUR DAY HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY 14TH MARCH (Tabloid Sports) COMMONWEALTH GAMES THURSDAY 15thMARCH

PARENT/TEACHER INTERVIEW

1:00PM-4:30PM

SATURDAY 17th MARCH

KANA PARADE

WEDNESDAY 21ST MARCH

SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING

AGM 7PM / GENERAL 7.30PM

THURSDAY 29TH MARCH

LAST DAY OF TERM 1

FRIDAY 30TH MARCH

GOOD FRIDAY- No School

MONDAY 16TH APRIL

START TERM 2

WEDNESDAY 25TH APRIL

ANZAC DAY HOLIDAY

REMINDER PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS (Send back your time slip).

THURSDAY 15th MARCH

CANTEEN 2ND MARCH

SHIFTS 9.30AM – 10.30AM

PETA MAUNDER NICOLE GILL

12.45 PM-2PM KIM TUCKER

MARGARET STEWART

9TH MARCH SHIFTS

9.30AM – 10.30AM ELISE BAUDINETTE

JULIE CASTLES 12.45 PM-2PM

SHANA EDWARDS PETA MAUNDER

HELPERS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR CANTEEN

WE ARE ASKING HELPERS TO DO

CANTEEN.

WE ARE STRUGGLING WITH THE

AFTERNOON SHIFT. IF YOU COULD

POSSSIBLY HELP OUT WITH THIS IT

WOULD BE VERY MUCH

APPRECIATED.

CANTEEN NEWS As of this week we will have: HOT CROSS BUNS FOR SALE Choc Chip / Fruit 80c.

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