No 5 ELIZABETH DRIVE, SUNBURY 3429

PHONE 9740 8666 24 June 2019

Dear Parents, Staff and Children,

Farewell Ms Moore

Sadly, at the end of this week we farewell Ms Moore, who will be leaving Sunbury West to take

up a position at another school next term. Ms Moore has been an integral part of the Sunbury

West team for 21 years, having taught most year levels here, as well as Physical Education. Ms

Moore is an extremely hard working teacher and as we know, has a relentless passion for

Numeracy. Ms Moore invests deeply in the students she teaches, ensuring positive outcomes

for all. We thank Ms Moore for being a wonderful teacher, colleague and friend at Sunbury

West and wish her every happiness and success as she embarks on a new journey at her new

school.

Story Dogs

Thankyou to our JSC for hosting the launch of our Story Dogs program in the Year 2 area. We

are thrilled to welcome Loki and Jade to our school as we work in partnership to promote

reading and nurture a love of literature. We were pleased to raise $218 to support the Story

Dogs organisation.

A particularly fun theme for our dress up day, it was great to see so many fantastic and creative

costumes. We look forward to our article in The Leader newspaper.

Thankyou also to Allison for the meal deal day to further support the event.

Chocolate Drive

Our Chocolate Drive is the next event on our FOSW calendar with chocolates going home this

Wednesday. Families will have the opportunity to sell these over the holidays with the drive

concluding on the 19th July.

New Uniform

School Council has now approved our new uniform for 2020. Whilst it is important to maintain

the integrity of the Sunbury West tradition, we feel that it is time to go with a more

contemporary look. Our revised colours will be red, white and black, hopefully making the

purchase of some of the core items like pants and shorts more accessible to families.

We intend to roll out the new uniform to our 2020 Preps, with all other families to opt in over a

period of time which will be confirmed by Council.

Winter Sports

Well done to all our Year 5 /6 students who participated in the Winter Sports Interschool

Competition. Competing in Football, Soccer and Netball, the teams enjoyed varying degrees of

success with everyone experiencing a win on the day. Our students represented our school

with pride and from all reports had a great day.

Wishing all our families the best during the Term 2 vacation period. We look forward to seeing

everyone back at school on the 15th July.

Inga Wilson

Principal

TIMELINE

Term 2

27th June

Housemates Picnic—

Lunch orders available

for family members

28th June

Last Day of Term 2 -

Students will be

dismissed at 2.30pm

15th July

1st Day of Term 3

26th July

Final Balance of Grade

5/6 Camp Due

31st July

Curriculum Day

5th - 7th August

Yr 5/6 Camp

Last day of

Term 2 is

this Friday,

28th June.

Students

will be

dismissed

at 2.30pm

Prep DA Noah King & Chase Janetzki

Prep LS Destiny De Bono & Nathan Sheldrick

1/2B Abby Grimes & Marlie Paine

1/2M Reuben Valeliano & Mason Hermelin

3/4O Sila Patrice

3/4T Serenity De Bono

4/5P Eliot Lee

5/6L Harper-Jane Steele & Calvin Wallis

Japanese Bryce Perry & Justin McConnell

STUDENT OF THE WEEK TERM 2 2019 Monday 3rd June

STUDENT OF THE WEEK TERM 2 2019 Monday 17th June

Prep DA Madison Delia & Stella Payne

Prep LS Harsheen Kaur & Daniel Reynolds

1/2B Tom Azzopardi & Matias Avila

1/2D Whole Grade

1/2M Raymond Yates & Zoe Watt

3/4O Nellie Davis

3/4T Benji Jacobs

4/5P Ashlen Francis

5/6L Kayla Glover & Victoria Larton

56P Amber Harrison & Daniel Sheldrick

Art 5/6P

Japanese Jordan Hermelin

FOSW News

STUDENT OF THE WEEK TERM 2 2019 Monday 24th June

Prep DA Emilia farrugia & Winter Knispel

Prep LS River Cvetkovic & Phoebe Bryant

1/2B Flynn Payton & Madeleine Said

1/2D Ruby Champion & Ned martin

1/2M Whole Class

3/4O Cooper Martin & Charlie Pantano

3/4T Lara Jollie

4/5P Whole Class

Art 5/6L & /6P

Term 2 Events

Great Sunbury Gnome Hunt -

orders and payment are due by

Wednesday 26th June. Passports

will be distributed on Thursday

27th June.

Chocolate Drive - Boxes of

chocolates Will be sent home with

the eldest child in the family this

week for you to have fun selling

them over the holidays. For those families that

have chosen to make a donation instead - you

can now do so through Qkr!, cash or eft at the

office. Any money collected and /or unsold

chocolates should

be returned to the

office by Friday

19th July.

Disco Bingo - Saturday 24th August $30pp, full

details to come soon.

A reminder with the cold weather that we still

have scarves available in our school colours for

$5.00each. These can be purchased at the

Main Office.

Our Prep students have been very busy...

The Preps have been learning how to be safe this term and what to do when we need help.

We saw what a fire fighter looks like with all their equipment on. I wonder who this is?

Hannah pretended to put out a fire.

Katie came and showed us how to be safe on a plane.

At the fire station we learnt to get down low and go, go, go.

Preps at the fire station.

Our Prep students have been very busy continued...

.

We practised putting on aeroplane

seatbelts

When the RACV came we practised

being safe crossing the road.

This is how tall we have to be to sit in

the front seat.

Grade 1/2

Grade 1/2 Sunbury Hop On Hop Off Bus Excursion

The Grade 1/2s have been learning about what a wonderful place Sunbury is to live.

They went on a Hop On, Hop Off Bus tour around Sunbury last Friday. The children

learnt so much about the town they live in and had fun along the way.

Last Friday we went to Emu Bottom. We got to see

George’s house. We got to see all the stuff that the

blacksmith made. We got to have some photos too.

By Ned

We went on a bus. They had a wagon at Emu Bottom.

We saw George’s house. At Emu Bottom we saw

George’s shed where he cut the sheep.

By Mia Jane

On Friday we went on our Hop On Hop Off bus. First we went to Emu Bottom. In

1835 George Evans came here. He built

his house in 1836. He had six children.

By Ruby

Hop On Hop Off Bus

On Friday 21st June we went on an ex-

cursion. Firstly we went to Emu Bot-

tom. It was made out of bluestone. Next

we went to the Old Sunbury Courthouse. We had a play at the Old Sunbury Court-

house. Josh was the judge, Summer was Miss Mary Johnson, James had a black

bushy beard. Ben looked like a policeman. Anastasia was Mr Brown. Thirdly we

We are looking at the old wagon at Emu Bottom.

We are eating our lunch in the sun at Galaxyland.

went to the old gaol. It was freezing. If I was in there I would be freezing – even

cold. Fourthly we went to the new and shiny police station. After that we went to

the Nook to have our snack and have a little play. We left and went to the Village

Green and saw the water fountain and the Clarke family cannon.

By Connor

Our Excursion

First we went to Emu Bottom. I saw the blacksmith’s bellows. I saw George’s house. I

saw the play. James was the prisoner who had the big bushy beard. He was funny. I

saw the soldiers who died in the war. We went to Galaxyland because we had to eat

our lunch.

By Eddie

On Friday the 21st June we went to the Old Sunbury Courthouse. We had a play. It

was fun. But we first went to Emu Bottom. I

saw a wagon and the shearer’s shed. Next we

went to the old gaol. It was cold and it was

made out of bluestone.

By Felicity

Here we are inside the old Courthouse.

This is the shearing shed at Emu Bottom.

Year 3/4’s

Sand Pit Investigations

3/4T has been busily measuring and designing in the last few weeks, investigating whether a sandpit would fit in the undercover area near the Office building.

First we had to measure the undercover area. We were finding the perimeter measurements. We made our own measuring tapes and then we worked together to find out the length of each wall.

We recorded our thinking and then compared our measurements with each other.

We are now developing sandpit designs that might be suitable for the undercover area.

By 3/4T

Year 3/4’s 3/4 Location Unit

In 3/4, we are currently learning about location in Mathematics. Last week, 3/4O

went out into the playground and made a set of directions using all of the language

we brainstormed as a class. For example, some directions included words such as:

above, next to, underneath, behind and forward, just to name a few! They then had

to direct their classmates around the playground, following their list of instructions.

3/4O

Year 5/ 6

Year 5/ 6

Year 5/ 6

Winter Sports- Netball Girls Team

On Friday the 13th of June the 5\6s had winter sports. They had a choice of netball, soccer or footy. Today we will be talking about the girls netball team. We played 7 minute halves but big schools played 10 minute halves.

The first team we played was Diggers Rest, in the first half we scored 6 goals and they got 1 then in the second half we got 5 and they got 2 so in the first round it was 11 to 3 and we won.

The next round we sadly lost to Heights with a score of 2 to 13. It was quite hard because most people were taller than our whole team. It was sad that we had lost the round against Heights.

Next we were versing Goonawarra they were also really tall. First we were winning with a score of 6-5 but then they caught up and we ended up losing from 10-16.

Next was Our Lady of Mount Carmel most of them were taller but I guess we just have a really small team. In the first half we scored 4-6 we were winning but then we lost from 9-7. We all

had a great time and we wish we could go and do it again.

By Harper, Jasmine and Emily

Winter Sports Mixed Netball Team

What a fantastic day Oscar and I had at winter sports, we surprisingly won 2 of 4 games in the boys mixed team.

The players on our team played different positions such as centre, goal attack, wing attack, goal defence, wing defence, goalkeeper and goal shooter. Our team was Oscar, Bailey, Issy, Charlotte, Tahlia, Mikayla, Ashlee, Olivia and Kayla. The game times were 7 minute halves for small schools and 10 minute halves for big schools.

In the finals for the boys mixed teams it was Diggers Rest vs Killara. Killara won by 17 points- 3-20.

When we all got back the teachers let us play board games and go to all the grade 5/6 rooms - there were music in one room Jenga in another room and UNO in the other.

It was a great day for everyone.

By Bailey and Oscar

CHILDSAFE

The Child Safe Standards are set out to create safe places for children to fully and actively partici-

pate in the life of the community benefiting everyone. Sunbury West Primary School will ensure

that the children in its care are protected to the best of its ability and in line with their duty of care

and the compulsory child safe standards. Our Childsafe policies and procedures can be found on

our website http://sunburywestps.vic.edu.au/

HOUSEMATES of Sunbury West invite

Parents & Carers to our

HOUSEMATES PICNIC! Housemates is where all the students from Prep to Year Six get together in their Houses. The younger students are assigned an older “Housemate” and participate in various games and activities led by their House Captains. These sessions are always a lot of noisy fun!!

We would love you to join in the fun this term, and you can then join your child and share lunch eating time with the housemates. You are welcome to bring along your lunch (NO NUT PRODUCTS please) or order a lunch order! and bring along your picnic rug or chair.

HOUSEMATES will take place on

THURSDAY 27th JUNE @ 11.30am and

will finish at 1pm.

Looking forward to seeing you there! Boeing – Gym

Concorde – HUB

Hercules – LIBRARY

Douglas – PLC room (office building corridor)

(if the weather is inclement we will just have an indoor picnic!)

Notices that have gone home….

Term 2

Year 5/6 Camp Total $330 - Balance of Camp is due on Friday 26th July (you can make payments

at any time during the holidays using Qkr!)

Year 3/4 Camp Notice will be handed out at Parent Teacher Interviews this week. Total cost of the

camp is $295 with a non-refundable deposit of $50 due by Friday 9th August.

Community News

Each week as we receive Community News items we will be adding them to the newsletter as a separate attachment. If you would like to read the community news please click here.

2020 ENROLMENTS

We are now in the process of planning for 2020.

Enrolments for the Year 2020 are now being taken. Enrolment forms

can be collected from the office. If you have already picked up an enrol-

ment form please return it to the office. A.S.A.P.

When enrolling please provide:

Proof of Age – e.g. Birth Certificate and Immunisation Certificate

(This can be obtained from the Medicare Website)

Please note: If you know of any potential enrolments, please ask families to

contact the school as soon as possible so we can accurately plan for next year.

Also to assist in our planning for 2020, if your children will not be returning to Sunbury West

Salesian College Survey

It is an exciting time at Salesian College.

As educators, we are undertaking the important task of reflecting on how the College contributes to our local and global

community, and finding out what our community wants and expects of us going into the future.

We are now turning our thoughts to future of the College and have commenced the journey to develop a new Master Plan,

‘Towards 2030’.

To gain a better insight into community expectations, all members of your school community to participate in a short 15

minute anonymous survey.

The survey is designed to collect data that will inform strategic directions to determine a Master Plan that will see the College transform by exploring new trends, innovations and research that could potentially alter the educational experience

for our students in the decade ahead.

Whilst 2030 may seem like a distant future, it is necessary to start planning now for the predicted changes to student

enrolment, staffing levels, direction of learning and teaching and community expectations.

To access the survey, please click here. This survey will be open until Friday 12 July 2019.

Thank you for your participation. Your feedback is vital to development of a new phase of education in our community.