Term 3 Week 8 2 September 2015 143 Bailey St Grovedale 3216 Tel: 5243 3902 Fax: 5243 0823 FORMS / PAYMENT DUE BACK Fri 4 September Scholasc book club issue #6 Tues 8 September Woolworths Earn & Learn Wed 16 September CSEF Applicaons close ‘A Path to Success’ SEPTEMBER 2015 Thurs 3 Sept Italian Day Fri 4 Sept Odd Shoe Day—Gold coin donaon Fri 4 Sept Father’s Day giſts 11.30am Sat 5 Sept Bunnings BBQ Mon 14 & Tues 15 Grade 3/4 Camp Tues 15 Sept Geelong North Division Athlecs Wed 16 Sept Parent’s & Friends Fair Meeng 9am Wed 16 Sept Grade 6 Graduaon Photos 10am Fri 18 Sept End of term—2.30pm finish OCTOBER 2015 PRINCIPAL’S NEWS Bunnings BBQ: As menoned in previous newsleers we are having a BBQ at Bunnings this Saturday the 5th of September, This is a fabulous day as it is the day before Fathers Day. We raise close to $3000 on the day which will go a very long way in purchasing resources for your child's educaon and the environment they learn in. District Athlecs: We had quite a number of our students who went par- cularly well at our district athlecs. This means that these students will now go into the Division Athlecs later this month. This is a fabulous accomplishment and I wish them all the very best at the next level. No doubt we will hear how they went aſter the event. Good luck and enjoy!! Italian Day TOMORROW: We will be celebrang Italian in our school tomorrow. We are asking that the children dress in Italian style or colours for the day. Senora Falcone has been busily or- ganising a variety of acvies that the children and teachers will be doing over the day. We hope that you are able to pop in and see what the students are doing. It should be a wonderful day with lots of fun things hap- pening. Just Get Acve Program: We have been trialling this program across the school for part of this year and all teachers have found it to be worthwhile and beneficial for the students. It consists of 5 elements in the fitness modules. They are: Engage (Mind & Body warm up); Energise (Cardio Aerobic); Em- power (Strength); Resilience (Flexibility) and Focus (Mindfulness). There is a cost to this program and we unfortunately did not factor this cost into our budget for this year. Therefore I am asking if ALL parents can contribute $2 for the remainder of this year. A note will be coming home next week asking for this contribuon. Next year we will factor this cost into our materials charge at the beginning of the year. This is a worth- while program and one that the children enjoy each and every day. Thank you for your understanding and support for this program. Tracy Doherty on Leave: Tracy Doherty our assistant principal will be on long service leave for the last two weeks of term. I sincerely hope that she enjoys her leave and her well deserved break. I will look forward to hearing about her travels when she returns next term. Mon 5th Oct Curriculum Day—no school Tues 6th Oct Back to school—Term 4 Wed 21st Oct Geelong Cup Day—no school COMING EVENTS Curriculum Day– Monday 5th of October. At our last school council meeng our next Curriculum Day for 2015 was approved. We will be having the first day of Term 4 as our fourth and last Curriculum Day. Teachers will be looking at the curriculum and doing an audit of the areas that they have taught so far this year. They will also start planning for 2016. Please make sure that you put this date in your diaries. Have a great week! Kathy Wesolowski Principal LUNCH ORDERS THURSDAY Our special lunch orders for Italian Day tomorrow, Thurs- day, have now closed. Please note: There will be NO nor- mal lunch orders tomorrow. If your child has not ordered a special lunch, please make sure you provide lunch for them.
Bunnings BBQ: As mentioned in previous newsletters we are having a BBQ at Bunnings this Saturday the 5th of September, This is a fabulous day as it is the day before Fathers Day. We raise close to $3000 on the day which will go a very long way in purchasing resources for your child's education and the environment they learn in. District Athletics: We had quite a number of our students who went par-ticularly well at our district athletics. This means that these students will now go into the Division Athletics later this month. This is a fabulous accomplishment and I wish them all the very best at the next level. No doubt we will hear how they went after the event. Good luck and enjoy!! Italian Day TOMORROW: We will be celebrating Italian in our school tomorrow. We are asking that the children dress in Italian style or colours for the day. Senora Falcone has been busily or-ganising a variety of activities that the children and teachers will be doing over the day. We hope that you are able to pop in and see what the students are doing. It should be a wonderful day with lots of fun things hap-pening. Just Get Active Program: We have been trialling this program across the school for part of this year and all teachers have found it to be worthwhile and beneficial for the students. It consists of 5 elements in the fitness modules. They are: Engage (Mind & Body warm up); Energise (Cardio Aerobic); Em-power (Strength); Resilience (Flexibility) and Focus (Mindfulness). There is a cost to this program and we unfortunately did not factor this cost into our budget for this year. Therefore I am asking if ALL parents can contribute $2 for the remainder of this year. A note will be coming home next week asking for this contribution. Next year we will factor this cost into our materials charge at the beginning of the year. This is a worth-while program and one that the children enjoy each and every day. Thank you for your understanding and support for this program. Tracy Doherty on Leave: Tracy Doherty our assistant principal will be on long service leave for the last two weeks of term. I sincerely hope that she enjoys her leave and her well deserved break. I will look forward to hearing about her travels when she returns next term.
Mon 5th Oct Curriculum Day—no school
Tues 6th Oct Back to school—Term 4
Wed 21st Oct Geelong Cup Day—no school
COMING EVENTS
Curriculum Day– Monday 5th of October. At our last school council meeting our next Curriculum Day for 2015 was approved. We will be having the first day of Term 4 as our fourth and last Curriculum Day. Teachers will be looking at the curriculum and doing an audit of the areas that they have taught so far this year. They will also start planning for 2016. Please make sure that you put this date in your diaries. Have a great week! Kathy Wesolowski Principal
LUNCH ORDERS THURSDAY
Our special lunch orders for Italian Day tomorrow, Thurs-
day, have now closed. Please note: There will be NO nor-
mal lunch orders tomorrow. If your child has not ordered
a special lunch, please make sure you provide lunch for
Erin Smyth For her improved confidence in herself as a learner. Well done Erin!
Macenzie Baker For using interesting words in his writing.
Brianna Taylor For the great work she has done to achieve her reading goals.
Katia Sansom For concentrating really hard to practise writing high frequency words.
Jack Tregenza For always remembering his manners when he enters the classroom.
Maddi Kennedy For being a caring and respectful member of our class.
Daisy Wilson For being a responsible and polite person.
Emily O’Neil For being honest and responsible.
Emily Raeck For using her reading strategies for problem solving in maths.
Leah Murray For doing a great job at identifying the main ideas in texts.
Sam Leddin For working hard to order the running time data in maths.
Abby Mueller For her efforts to improve her learning outcomes in all areas.
Aspen McGovern For always being a positive, hardworking and thoughtful member of our class.
Thomas Robinson For being a terrific mathematician by explaining his thinking.
Adam Sharp For being a responsible learner by always working towards his learning goals.
Alex Zimnyckyj-Kay For a detailed drawing of locations in our area and their purpose.
Charli Freeth For writing interesting clues for her “Where am I?”
NEW UNIFORMS
Deal directly with Coastal Uniforms. Ann-Maree will be at the school next Thursday 10th September from
8.40 am to 9.00 am. Phone: 5255 4897—Order forms may be picked up from the school office.
SECOND HAND UNIFORMS
Visit Sally & Kelli in the Sick Bay on Tuesday afternoons only from 3:00pm-3:20pm
JSC Term 3 Fundraiser ODD SHOE DAY
Friday 4th September
= 'Buy a Bale’ =
Aussie Helpers Drought Relief
Help raise money for Queensland farmers going through drought. BRING A GOLD COIN AND WEAR AN ODD PAIR OF SHOES FOR THE DAY, JOIN IN ON
THE FUN AND HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
LEGACY BADGE WEEK
Geelong Legacy Club Inc. is a volunteer organisation dedicated to assisting the widows and children
of deceased ex-service personnel. Each year, during the first week of September, Legacy conducts a
Badge Appeal to raise funds to help provide the care and assistance currently provided to around
1400 widows, six school children and some disabled adults in the Geelong area.
For many years we have been assisting Legacy by selling Legacy Badges within the School communi-
ty. Our Grade 5/6 students will go around the classes each day over the next week so that children
have the opportunity of buying badges and supporting Legacy Week. Items may also be bought from the front office.
Badges $2. Wristbands $2. Pens $3. Thank you for your support.
PARENTS & FRIENDS FUNDRAISING
Bunnings BBQ, Waurn Ponds Saturday 5th September, 8am-5pm Thank you to the 24 families who have offered to help at the Bun-nings BBQ this Saturday. It's a fun day that raises a lot of money from outside of our school community so fingers crossed for nice weather and lots of customers! Father's Day Gifts Father's Day gifts will be chosen and sent home with students this Friday 4th September. Happy Father's Day to all GPS Dad's, Grandad's and significant oth-ers. Twilight Fair - Friday 6th November, 4-8pm. Our Fair is fast approaching and we are working hard to organise everything! Please let me know if you can help in any way for the Fair. Next meeting- 9am Wed 16th September, all welcome. Enjoy your week. Gab Lewis
HATS
We are a sunsmart school. Hats need to be
worn from 1st September to the end of April. Please
make sure your child is wearing a wide brimmed hat
from this date, otherwise they will only be able to play
in areas of shade. We have some small hats available
at the office at a cost of $12 and will be getting more
medium and large sizes in.
CAMPS, SPORTS AND
EXCURSIONS FUND (CSEF)
Do you have a Centrelink Bene-
fits Card or are you a Foster Par-
ent? Please come in and fill out
a CSEF Application Form. This
provides $125 for your child to-
wards Camps, Excursions and
Sports. Applications close
Wednesday 16 September.
LIBRARY
We have lots of fabulous new books
in the library that the children will
be very keen to read. If anyone is
able to spare some time to help cover them, it
would be very much appreciated. Please see
Mrs Doherty or the office. Thank you!
HUNGER FOR KNOWLEDGE GEELONG FOODBANK
AND THRIFT SHOP— Now Open!
37 Essington Street, Grovedale (just around the corner
from the school)
Open Wednesday/Thursday/Friday from 9am-4pm and
Saturday 9am-1pm. Come in for bargains galore!
Free and low cost food and grocery items are available.
DONATING UNIFORMS
If anyone is able to donate uniform to the school for us to
use as spares it would be greatly appreciated!! We are in
need of larger sizes in jumpers, track pants and polo tops.
Thank you!!
IGA DOCKETS
Please keep sending in those IGA dockets. We receive a commission of 1% on the total
of all our dockets. Ask family and friends to keep collecting—it is surprising how much
they add up, even the smallest dockets count. So far this year we have received $889.52
from Grovedale East IGA and we thank them for their continued support.
It’s Toucan time again!!
The Geelong Food Relief Centre has been providing free food to those in need for 24 years. Work-
ing together with welfare agencies, last year we saw 11,000 families referred to GFRC for support.
Each individual donation makes its way on to a family’s table. This could be a family in your street.
Some of the most requested items are cereal, crackers, cake mix, powdered milk, pasta/sauce side
dishes, flour, sugar, foil, cling-wrap, garbage bags, toothbrushes and paste.
There is a Toucan Appeal box in the foyer so if you are able to contribute to this Appeal it would be very much appreciated.
Geelong Food Relief are also seeking suggestions via Facebook for a poster for their appeal for 2016.
BOOK FAIR
The Scholastic Book Fair for 2015 was once again a successful fundraiser for our school. Lots of excited students visited the library during the week and bought a lovely book or special keepsake. It has been great to see children so happy to read and share their sto-ries. Special thanks to all the wonderful par-ent helpers from the Blackley, Benson, Da-vis, Hauenstein, Kay, Marendaz, Sharp, Wil-son, Harvey, McLaren, Hutchison and
Doherty families who gave up their time each morning and afternoon to help out at the Fair. We sold $3591 of books and made a to-tal profit of $718.20 and we also received $100 worth of new books which we were able to select for our school library. Look out for ‘The Very Noisy Bear’, ‘The Day the Cray-ons Came Home’ and ’65 Storey Treehouse’ as well as lots of other titles on the ‘New Book’ stand now! Thanks for your support. Tracy Doherty.
ITALIAN DAY
Tomorrow we are celebrating ‘Italian Day’ as part of the Italian program at Grovedale PS.
All students from Prep to Year 6 will participate in some fun activities.
Students can become involved by:
Wearing one or all of the Italian flag colours on the day, which are GREEN, WHITE and
RED.
There will be lots of fun activities in which students can participate and learn about Italy
and its culture throughout the day.
Some of the activities with be pasta threading, constructing a colosseum, Michelangelo
