Dates to Remember

16th February Badge Presentation for

School and House Captains

20th February Parent to Teacher Feedback

Sessions

26th February Scholastic Book Club Orders Due

1st March World of Maths

payment and forms due

2nd March Announcement of FCPS

Citizen of the Year

4th March Billy Cart Derby

5th March World of Maths incursion

6th – 8th March Grade 3/4 Camp

12th March Labour Day Holiday

13th – 16th March Grade 5/6 Camp

24th March Bush Dance

NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS Deadline by Wednesday 11am

Email - ferny.creek.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

If you would like to receive the Newsletter every week via email then

go to the website to subscribe to online newsletter.

PRINCIPALS BLOG

Dear Parents and Friends,

Acting Principal for the remainder of the Term We would like to Welcome Anne (Annie) Smart as our new Acting Principal for the remainder of this Term.

I will introduce Annie at our assembly on Friday and she will officially start next Monday. Please introduce yourself when you see her and make her feel welcome.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me during my time as Acting Principal.

Special Guest James Merlino will be attending our assembly on Friday 16th February to talk to us and present our 2018 student leaders with their badges. Congratulations to our new House Captains who were announced at school yesterday.

Parent To Teacher Conferences We are holding our Parent to Teacher conferences next Tuesday 20th February. There is great value in having parent to teacher information exchange sessions as the more information we gather about your children at the start of the year the quicker we can cater for their individual needs. This is attended only if you feel you need to talk to your child’s teacher about any issues that will, or may impact on their learning this year. Sign-up sheets are now in the foyer. Our new Foundation students do not need to attend this session as you have already given our teachers detailed feedback.

School Council Election Nominations opened on Monday for the 2018 School Council. There are four parent and three staff vacancies for this next two year period. Parents whose two year period is up, may of course nominate or be nominated again. There is an information notice posted in the office foyer. Please ask Jill for the forms you need if you wish to nominate a person or nominate yourself. There will also be nominations called for one Department position on School Council.

Monday 12th Feb Call for nominations – Please see the office for a nomination form.

Monday 19th Feb Close of nominations. Wednesday 21st Feb Candidates posted outside office. Monday 26th Feb Ballot Papers available if an election is necessary. Monday 5th March Close of Ballot.

Newsletter

Thursday 15th February 2018 TOGETHER WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Tuesday 6th March Declaration of poll. Tuesday 20th March First new Council meeting.

Reminder A reminder that bikes, scooters, skateboards and hover boards are not to be ridden in the school grounds between 8.30am and 4pm.

Picnic It was such a pity that we had to cancel the picnic yesterday. Everyone was looking forward to it but the weather was just too severe. We are unsure as to whether we will reschedule at the moment.

Thanks, Cheryl.

Student Leadership 2018 We have once again finished the exciting task of selecting student leaders to take on the roles and responsibilities of House Captains. Along with our School Captains (Aurora Edge and Lachlan Bosch) these students will make up our core group of student leaders in 2018.

Students from grades five and six each had the opportunity to select four male and four female students that they would like to see become successful in obtaining the role of House Captain. Teaching staff were also given the same opportunity to vote, with the student votes accounting for 75% of the votes and teacher votes accounting for the remaining 25% of the votes.

This year we really were spoilt with the calibre of potential candidates!!! While that is a wonderful reflection of the high quality of this year’s grade six cohort, it does mean that we will have some very worthy students missing out on one of the core student leadership roles.

It is with great pleasure though that I would like to officially congratulate the successful candidates who will be taking on the role of House Captains in 2018.

Aria Bryant Blair Wilson Anna Hughson Finn Hansom Danielle Robinson Liam Bradford Jordan Robinson Lucas Williams

I look forward to working closely with these students throughout the year and supporting them throughout their leadership journey in 2018.

Adam Crotty Student Leadership Coordinator

Phone: 9755 1522

Fax: 9755 2493 School Road, Ferny Creek,

Victoria 3786

Web: www.fernycreekps.vic.edu.au

Email: ferny.creek.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Banking Details Account: Ferny Creek Primary School

Bank: CBA

BSB: 063 414

Account Number: 10022451

Office Hours Monday – Friday 8.30am - 4pm

Principal: Matthew Coyle

coyle.matthew.j@edumail.vic.gov.au

Business Manager: Jill Heathcote

ferny.creek.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

School Council President: Liam Smith

Promotion & PR: Rhian Jessop

ferny.creek.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Education, Policy & Planning: Matthew Coyle

coyle.matthew.j@edumail.vic.gov.au

School Crossing: Diane Garsed

Uniform Shop: Monday 8:50 - 9:30am

Karra Rhodes

Library: Beth Byrne

Buildings & Grounds: Michael Paterson

mpaterson@probuild.com.au

School Banking: Tuesday

Kirrily Whatman

Costume Hire: Sarah Jennings

After the Bell: Head Office: 9758 6744

P.O. Box 7082 Ferntree Gully Vic 3156

Email: admin@afterthebell.com.au Website: www.afterthebell.com.au

Grade 1/2 Hawthorn Footy Clinic

Buildings & Grounds The buildings and grounds committee meet monthly to discuss essential maintenance around the school and grounds - we also try and undertake at least one major upgrade project each year. We also conduct regular working bees - usually one a term, where attendance is essential if you would like your child to get a mark above a D plus (only joking Daniel Andrews put a stop to that initiative!!)

We are always looking for new members to join the committee and also people who maybe don't want to necessarily be involved in the committee but are willing to independently complete regular tasks around the school (eg, putting sand back into sand pits, general weeding and pruning etc- some of these tasks may only take 1/2 hour a week, but make a huge difference to how the school presents - in the past parents have completed these tasks by arriving 1/2 hour prior to pick up time.

Whilst we understand it is short notice, our next meeting is this coming Thursday, tonight at 7.30pm in the staff room - please feel welcome to come along or submit ideas of how you feel the school environment can be improved. If you can't make it, that's ok, but please consider us for the future and know that we're always here to listen to any ideas that you may have.

The school lost two stalwarts of the building and grounds team at the end of last term in Andrew Wolstencroft and Ian Payne, whose children graduated. Andrew was a member of building and grounds committee for several years and brought vast experience in landscaping to the team - he was responsible for the re levelling and reseeding of the oval and the installation of the cricket wicket amongst many other projects which involved Bobcats and excavators, whilst Ian was always on hand and willing to undertake any metalwork/welding project that the school required and was always to be seen at each working bee at the top of a ladder (sssh, don't tell the oh and s people, cleaning out the gutters) both will be sorely missed.

Best wishes, Michael and the Building and Grounds Team

Japanese

Summer

Festival Sunday 25th February

From 11.30am

at Federation Square

Toshi will be at the

shop called “Kazari”.

Hope to see you

there!

The Friendship Chair As part of our valued start Program the Grade 1/2’s wrote about The Friendship Chair and its purpose.

The Friendship Chair by Liam 1/2B People that have no friends or have no one to play with should go to the friendship chair. It’s got fingerprints all over it. It’s a chair that you sit on when you’re feeling lonely. Then someone might come and play with you.

The Friendship Chair by Jam 1/2B At Ferny Creek we have a Friendship chair outside our classroom. It’s for people who don’t have any friends to play with. It has flags on it and it’s very colourful so you can see it. The flags are the colours of the houses.

Working with

Children’s

Check

We encourage and

welcome parent helpers

at Ferny Creek. To work

with the children you

need a ‘Working with

Children’s Check’. There

is no charge for this. To

receive this please go

onto the website

www.workingwithchildren

.vic.gov.au

CSEF If you have a valid

health/concession

card, you may be

eligible for

Government

assistance in the form

of Camps Sport &

Excursions fund.

Please complete the

form attached and

return to the office.

If you received CSEF

in 2017 there is no

need to re-apply.

The Ranges, Girls Under 12 DR,

Basketball Team are looking to recruit!!

Due to a recent incident, we have lost 2 of our star players to broken arms!!! Contact Mel Peters on 0409667125, if you are keen on playing! You can join us either for the next 6 weeks or longer if wanting to join our team! We have 10 weeks left in this summer season! Jump on the website for more info. www.rangesbasketball.com.au

Leon R: For making a great start to the year, and setting a good example to others with his behaviour and work habits. Amalia O: For completing a fantastic poster about our school values – well done Amalia, beautiful work! Olive D: For huge improvements in her reading. Well done Olive! Archie G: For focusing on making good choices to improve his learning! Keep it up Archie. James D: For being a reliable and responsible member of our class. Thanks for your outstanding effort James! Chloe K: For being a helpful and polite member of our class. Your willingness to share your knowledge is much appreciated Chloe! Liam J: For working well with others and taking on new responsibilities in the classroom. Keep up the great effort! Jonah K: For making a great start to 3/4. You are doing an excellent job of of following instructions and completing tasks! Ashley T: For the Awesome Artistic Aptitude you have demonstrated throughout the Valued Start Program. Your tee-shirt and the body you created for our Class Poster were OUTSTANDING. Well done!! Beren C: For your exceptional piece of Exciting Writing. You crafted an entertaining and original piece of writing and delivered it to the grade in an animated fashion. Well done!! Ally J: For the fantastic weird and wonderful trick she showed the grade. It was certainly the trick that got the best reaction. Well done Ally! Todd P: For a great start to the year. Todd is getting started on work straight away and trying his best to stay on track. Well done Todd! There are no stars this week due to Kelly’s absence.

Stars of the Week

Creative Artist Award

Tom F

Grade 3/4S

Performing Arts Student of the Week

Senna R

Grade 3/4S

日本語がんばった賞

Beatrix E

Grade 1/2L JAPA

NESE

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwijs9K0q6HZAhVIipQKHX4TBHMQjRx6BAgAEAY&url=https://www.coles.com.au/sfs&psig=AOvVaw1H84UDez3gauTfPIgE5PJe&ust=1518557936220063