Term 4 2016 No. 39 Friday, 16th December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”
Daylesford Primary School Newsletter Vincent Street (P O Box 20) Daylesford, 3460 Ph: (03) 5348 2480 Fax: (03) 5348 3958 Website http://www.daylesps.vic.edu.au
� “SEMPER MELIORA” (Always better things)
PARENT VOLUNTEERS Term 1 2017
FRIDAY SICK BAY WASHING
BANKING
10th
Feb Karyn McColl Shelley Sandow
17th
Feb Kathryn Earley June Cooper
CANTEEN DUTY Weds 8
th Feb
Thurs 9th Feb
Fri 10th Feb Sandow, Lesley Thompson
Weds 15th Feb -
Thurs 16th Suzanne Newman
Fri 17th
Graham DUX Award Winners
for 2016
Congratulations to Keyla Walker and Asher Waldon
School Captains for 2017
Congratulations to Ruby Hurst and James Childs
House Captains 2017
Sutton - Aleesha Walker Jed Resuggan Wyuna - Perri Eaton Jake Murphy Corinella - Jasmine Gruar Tyson Scoble Tipperary - Nikita Vendy Michael Armstrong
Specialist Captains for 2017
LOTE Sienna Milton Freya Taylor Performing Arts Josephine Edwards Asha Loft Visual Arts Paige Torrance Eve Britten ICT Francesca Khoury
Be Respectful, Be a Responsible Learner, Be Honest and Trustworthy Be Caring and Compassionate, Be a Good Citizen
DIARY DATES
DECEMBER
Monday 19th
Final day of Term 4. 3.20 finish.
SEPTEMBER
ASSEMBLY 9.00am every Tuesday in the Gym
Office Hours : 8.30am to 4.00pm
Students’ School Banking Day : Fridays
Term Dates 2017 Term 1 30
th Jan – 31
st March
Mon.30th
Staff return, Tues 31
st P-2 testing by appointment
Weds. 1st
Feb Grade 3-6 start and P-2 testing continues.
Thurs. 2nd
Feb Prep – 2 start.
Term 2 18th
April – 30th
June Term 3 17
th July – 22
nd September
Term 4 9th
October – 22nd
December
Term 4 2016 No. 39 Friday, 16th December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
Week 11 Term 4 Final Newsletter report
• Grade 6 Graduation
• Grade 6 Dinner
• Highly successful year
• Ivor Bowen Cultural Awards
• 2017 School Captains
• 2017 House Captains
• 2017 Specialist Captains
• 2017 classroom teachers
• Newsletter and website
• Farewells, final assembly and farewell BBQ
What an amazing night last Thursday night. Congratulations
to Suzanne Hobson, her expertise enabled the grade 5/6
students to shine on stage with a terrific performance of
‘Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’. The academic and
excellence awards were presented (refer to list on page 3)
and the 2017 School Captains were announced. Thank you
to Claire Clifton our School Council President for her kind
words and best wishes for me as I move into retirement.
Thank you to Sophie and Tim for the terrific photos.
The Grade 6 Dinner was a fitting way to farewell the grade 6
students and I thank them for being such terrific role models
across the school throughout 2016. Thank you to the grade 6
Dinner Committee for all their work behind the scenes to
make the night a great success for our grade 6 students.
Wow, what a year! Wonderful success stories across the
school in so many ways. From Prep to Grade 6. The slide
presentation presented at assembly illustrated this very well.
Congratulations to all students, staff and parents/carers for
an excellent year.
The Cultural Awards were presented at assembly this week
(see list page 3). Congratulations to all the students who
were recognised. Thank you to Sam Bowen for presenting
the awards. Thank you to David Dawson from Overwrought
for his sponsorship and the beautiful trophies.
The 2017 School/ House, ICT & Specialist Captains were
introduced to the school at assembly (see front page). I
would like to acknowledge all the 2016 captains for their
work this year, a job well done. Of particular note can I say
thank you and congratulations to the two school captains,
Keylah and Lewin who have done a mighty job throughout
2016.
The classroom teacher’s list has also been included in this
edition of the newsletter on page three, our final newsletter.
It is important to note that despite a number of composite
classes, priority is given to individual learning needs and
therefore this will have no impact on learning. In fact we are
very fortunate to be able to offer 13 grades (which has
resulted in a number of composite classes) as this structure
keeps student numbers down in classes across the school.
I would like to acknowledge Marilyn, and Leonie and Deanne
who have produced the newsletter every week, throughout
the year. They allocate considerable time to this role to
ensure that a high quality is maintained. Thank you Marilyn,
Deanne and Leonie. I would also like to acknowledge Ross
Richard for his work on maintaining our school website and
for posting my Principal Report every week. This is an
excellent means of communication for our parents. Thank
you Ross.
Farewell and thanks to Mr Garner who is relocating across to
Ballarat. Dave has been a very valuable member of staff over
the past three years. In his role of Assistant Principal he has
supported student engagement & wellbeing and grown our
understandings in curriculum and data analysis. His has led
the school as the Acting Principal whilst I have been on leave
and has touched many other elements across the school,
including supporting Drummond Primary School. For all that
and more we say thank you Dave and all the very best in
your new position.
As you know, I too will be finishing at the end of the year. It
has been an absolute honour to lead Daylesford Primary
School and Annexes over the past 10 years. I consider it a
privilege to be associated with education for the past 41
years. I have enjoyed working within seven different schools,
teaching for 29 years and in Principal class for the past 12
years. I would like to think I have made a difference in the
lives of a number of students and in turn their families and
our community. I would like to say thank you to the
Daylesford, Yandoit & Drummond communities for your
support during my time as Principal. The partnership
between, staff, parents and the greater community has most
certainly resulted in very positive outcomes for our students.
I am very proud of what I have achieved over the past ten
years, but this was only possible because of the united and
team effort of all the staff, School Council and parents. To all
of you I say a very huge and sincere thank you and wish the
school and the members of this amazing community all the
very best for the future.
Finally, thank you to the staff and parents who organised a
wonderful send off and farewell at our assembly and
farewell BBQ. I very much appreciate the parents who have
come forward and passed on their thanks and best wishes.
Very humbling, thank you!
Have a lovely holiday, Merry Christmas and all the very best
for the New Year.
Peter Burke
Principal
THANK YOU We'd love to say a big thank you to all those
people and businesses in the community who donated or discounted items for this week's
BBQ. Brent Streat at Spa Centre Meats, Bendigo Bank, Tonnas, Baker's Delight, Leanne and Adam Purtell at Home Hardware.
Term 4 2016 No. 39 Friday, 16th December, 2016 Current Focus “Celebrate community (Be a good citizen)”
ACADEMIC AWARDS 2016
Graham Dux Awards Keylah Walker Asher Waldon J Richards Award Ahlia Pfleiderer E E Leggo Award Lewin Judd Terry Brooker Award Harry Strawhorn Murray Stewart Sports Awards
Mackenzie Downing Sebastian Streat
Stella Armstrong Awards Performing Arts Demi Henderson Visual Arts Marissa Fisher LOTE Italian Award Mila Arias-Parker Principals Awards Ebony Treacy Jack Elliott Shire of Hepburn Citizenship Award
Aoife O’Neill DSC Bursary Awards Eero Partonen
Nikkola Wallace William Crooks
Congratulations to all the recipients of the Academic Awards for this year
2017 TEACHING STRUCTURE Prep 0FF * Jendy Fry
Prep 0FS * Melissa Stevens
Grade 1 1TW Jenni Thompson(Mon,Tues & Fri) Emma Wells(Wed, Thurs)
Grade 1/2 1/2K Kerry Carman
Grade 1/2 1/2F Lillian Fry - McBean
Grade 2/3 2/3C Gill Carron (T-Fri), Emma Wells (Monday)
Grade 3/4 3/4A Amy Kinnear (M, T, Th, F), Francis Comber (Wed T1)
Grade 3/4 3/4W Kim Wrigley
Grade 3/4 3/4K Andrew Kiellerup
Grade 5 05P Alex Parsons(M-Thur), Francis Comber (Fri)
Grade 5 05S Nicola Stephens (Tu-Fri)/ Francis Comber (Mon)
Grade 6 6KB Karen Brothers
Grade 6 06P Alex Playsted
* Please Note: As from 2017 the EducationDepartment has changed the name of the first year of Primary School from Prep to Foundation. Therefore Jendy’s grade will be 0 (year level), F (Foundation) and F (Fry) and Liss Stevens will be 0 (year level) F (Foundation) and S for Stevens.
CULTURAL AWARDS 2016
Gr Performing
Arts
Choir LOTE VISUAL
ARTS
3 Dru
Dickenson-
Bray
Rani
Comber
Daisy
Gruar
Ellah
Carpenter
4 Evie Douglas Indigo
Toner-
McLachlan
Scout
Kinnear
Eliza
Strawhorn
5 Giselle
Karibian
Alyssa
Douglas-
Dewhirst
Sienna
Milton
Eve Britten
Congratulations to all the recipients of the Cultural Awards for this year
Mr Garner officially opening our Bush Tucker Garden.
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