Issue 13 17th May 2012 Seabrook Primary School 83-105 Point Cook Rd, SEABROOK 3028 Phone: 9395 1758 Fax: 9395 1761 Website: www.seabrook.vic.edu.au Newsletter Sue & Staff From the Principal Dear Parents, WORKING BEE Our first working bee was a great success. Thanks heaps to the mums, dads, kids and staff who lent a hand on Saturday morning. A significant amount of planting was done in our courtyard garden beds, which was well watered in on Sunday! We will begin a campaign of „Please keep off the garden beds‟ in order to give these plants the best chance of success. From here on everyone will be encouraged to keep off the beds so our plants can flourish and the tree roots can continue to develop undisturbed. Thanks to our parents who also labored to remove dead trees and other growth, clean out gutters, remove concrete debris, remove cobwebs, weeding, erect light fencing and even cleaning the kitchen and bathroom in the admin building. The children did a great job removing large rocks, weeding and watering the new plants. Thanks to all the families who donated their grounds levy that will be put towards our next garden project. We hope to run another working bee a little later in the year. Pictures of some of the workers on Page 2. Thanks to the following families who signed in on the day: Garth, Eloise, Olivia, Terri-anne Dowling Mandy Miller Wendy Treloar Helen, Marcus, Adam Frost Roslind Seet, Anne-Sera, Anne Dyanna Jayatilake Moustapha Barry Wendy, Lachlan, Jonathon, Thorpe Ann O‟Connor Jenny Tay, Erika Lai, Titus, Siang Yeong Mark, Mia Elkington Nicole, Abby, Shane, Zac Chappell Peter Kent Niranjan, Samadhi, Nimashi Arachchi Rosemary, Tyler, Tiffany Robinson Ben, Pamela, Jessica Stone Kate, Strong, Joseph Cincotta, Jake Peddler Sadir, Deen Mohammed Karen, Brady, David Cook Jenny Cassar And thanks to the Seabrook Grounds and Buildings committee members Andrew McFarlane, Paul Lowes, Triston Boothroyd, Graham Smith Steven Carden. BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL YARD SUPERVISION Parents are free to drop their children off at school between 8.30 and 8.50 as our yard will be super- vised each morning from 8.30. We hope this will provide a little less congestion in the parent car park. Staff are fully aware of the transport difficulties in the mornings but ask that children are here in time to begin the school day. Most of the instructions and procedures for the day are covered in the first 10 minutes of the morning. Many children are missing these due to their late arrival. Thanks for your cooperation. MOTHER’S DAY I hope everyone had a happy time on Mother‟s Day and thanks again to our wonderful parents who organized the gifts and stall last week. The work of our parents and friends group is highly valued in arranging special events for parents and children through out the year. 3 WAY STUDENT CONFERENCES These will be conducted from mid-morning to early evening on Thursday June 28. Please note there will be no school for the children on this day but it is an expectation that each child will be at school at the designated time for their 3 – way conference. OSH Club will have some places available on this day. Conference times will be offered in the near future. WALK-A-THON We announced last month that the walk-a-thon last term raised $5,635 which will be put towards our up-coming grounds work. Here are the grades from each year level who raised the most money - OMM, 1RE, 2KS, 3KM, 4KW, 5RM & 6DT The fundraising committee will award the grade prizes shortly. Thanks for your support. g u DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY Well done to our 34 students who represented the school on Friday at the District Cross Country Sports at Queen of Peace /100 Steps. We had some excellent results on the day, with Grace Goldsworthy and Cale Du Plessis winning their respective races. Read all the result details on page 4 and congratulations to everyone. Grace Goldsworthy (11yr girls) Cale Du Plessis (11yr boys)
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Issue 13
17th May 2012
Seabrook Primary School 83-105 Point Cook Rd, SEABROOK 3028
WORKING BEE Our first working bee was a great success. Thanks heaps to the mums, dads, kids and staff who lent a hand on Saturday morning. A significant amount of planting was done in our courtyard garden beds, which was well watered in on Sunday! We will begin a campaign of „Please keep off the garden beds‟ in order to give these plants the best chance of success. From here on everyone will be encouraged to keep off the beds so our plants can flourish and the tree roots can continue to develop undisturbed. Thanks to our parents who also labored to remove dead trees and other growth, clean out gutters, remove concrete debris, remove cobwebs, weeding, erect light fencing and even cleaning the kitchen and bathroom in the admin building.
The children did a great job removing large rocks, weeding and watering the new plants. Thanks to all the families who donated their grounds levy that will be put towards our next garden project. We hope to run another working bee a little later in the year. Pictures of some of the workers on Page 2.
Thanks to the following families who signed in on the day: Garth, Eloise, Olivia, Terri-anne Dowling Mandy Miller Wendy Treloar Helen, Marcus, Adam Frost Roslind Seet, Anne-Sera, Anne Dyanna Jayatilake Moustapha Barry Wendy, Lachlan, Jonathon, Thorpe Ann O‟Connor Jenny Tay, Erika Lai, Titus, Siang Yeong Mark, Mia Elkington Nicole, Abby, Shane, Zac Chappell Peter Kent Niranjan, Samadhi, Nimashi Arachchi Rosemary, Tyler, Tiffany Robinson Ben, Pamela, Jessica Stone Kate, Strong, Joseph Cincotta, Jake Peddler Sadir, Deen Mohammed Karen, Brady, David Cook Jenny Cassar
And thanks to the Seabrook Grounds and Buildings committee members Andrew McFarlane, Paul Lowes, Triston Boothroyd, Graham Smith Steven Carden.
BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL YARD SUPERVISION Parents are free to drop their children off at school between 8.30 and 8.50 as our yard will be super-vised each morning from 8.30. We hope this will provide a little less congestion in the parent car park.
Staff are fully aware of the transport difficulties in the mornings but ask that children are here in time to begin the school day. Most of the instructions and procedures for the day are covered in the first 10 minutes of the morning. Many children are missing these due to their late arrival. Thanks for your cooperation.
MOTHER’S DAY I hope everyone had a happy time on Mother‟s Day and thanks again to our wonderful parents who organized the gifts and stall last week. The work of our parents and friends group is highly valued in arranging special events for parents and children through out the year.
3 WAY STUDENT CONFERENCES These will be conducted from mid-morning to early evening on Thursday June 28. Please note there will be no school for the children on this day but it is an expectation that each child will be at school at the designated time for their 3 – way conference. OSH Club will have some places available on this day. Conference times will be offered in the near future.
WALK-A-THON We announced last month that the walk-a-thon last term raised $5,635 which will be put towards our up-coming grounds work. Here are the grades from each year level who raised the most money -
OMM, 1RE, 2KS, 3KM, 4KW, 5RM & 6DT
The fundraising committee will award the grade prizes shortly. Thanks for your support.
INVITATION - COFFEE MORNING - FRIDAY 4TH MAY 9.00 AM in the school Meeting Room next to the Library
It would be great to hear your ideas about how you would like to use the time. I look forward to meeting you then. If people are unable to attend on Friday morning, please feel free to leave any suggestions you
may have in my pigeon hole in the staff room. Janet Greenwood - Community Support Worker
DISTRICT CROSS
COUNTRY
Well done to our 34 students who represented the school on Friday
at the District Cross
Country Sports at Queen of Peace
/100 Steps.
We had some excellent results
on the day, with
Grace Goldsworthy and
Cale Du Plessis winning their
respective races.
Read all the result details on
page 4 and congratulations to
everyone.
Grace Goldsworthy (11yr girls)
Cale Du Plessis (11yr boys)
Fun at the Working Bee!
Junior Learning Community News
Senior Learning Community News
In the Garden
The children in PREP S have been investigating the “connection”
between plants, the sun and water through our inquiry focused
on The Garden. We have also been inquiring into the
“connection” between plants and the creatures that live in our
gardens.
This week we planted a variety of lettuces and some flowers in
the raised garden beds in the courtyard. The children learnt
about the correct planting techniques and determined that our
plants require both sun and water to grow.
They have been interested to see that birds and insects have
been seen around the garden beds. This is reinforcing the
concept of “connection” as they now understand that the birds
and insects need the plants for food and shelter.
We are hoping that the birds and insects leave enough lettuces
for us to harvest.
WEEKLY MATHEMATICS
COLUMN
DOING MATHS TOGETHER AT HOME
Children need lots of experiences in making, counting, drawing and talking about numbers. Make connections for your child by explaining how numbers and counting are a part of every-day life. There are lots of activities you can do at home using everyday items to help explore maths with your child. FOCUS: Counting PREP
Count the food items as
they are placed in the trolley or unpacked at home.
Count the steps to the letter
box, front door, clothes line.
Count days on a calendar.
ONE & TWO
Identify the counting
patterns on letterboxes.
Newspaper numbers -
Provide your child with a range of magazines and catalogues. Ask them to cut out all the numbers they can find and paste them in order from smallest to largest on a piece of paper.
THREE, FOUR, FIVE & SIX
Compare the cost of two of
the same products across different stores using different catalogues. Find the difference between the two items.
What are the cheapest and
most expensive items in your catalogue? What is the difference in price?
Select an item or items
from the catalogue an calculate the change given from $20 and/or $50.
Select an item or items
from the catalogue. Calculate what the cost would be if it was on sale for 50%.
More maths
coming your way!
The children of 4KW have brought in artefacts that relate to our inquiry 'Indigenous communities have different perspectives of historical events'. The students have been very committed to taking action to find these artefacts, and are knowledgeable when sharing them with their peers.
SPORTS NEWS DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY
Well done to our 34 students who represented the school on Friday at the District Cross Country Sports at Queen of Peace/100 Steps. We had some excellent results on the day, with Grace Goldsworthy (11yr girls) and Cale Du Plessis (11yr boys) winning their respective races. Brady Cook (12yr boys) came 3
rd and Shayla Curry Hughes
(10yr girls) came 4th. These four students have all progressed through
to the Regional Cross Country on June 20th.
Well done to the rest of our team and here are their results: 10yr Girls: Abby Chappell (8
th) Jade Pedler (16
th) Lorita Seifeddine (19
th)
Sally Bratby (21st) Tamara James (40
th)
11yr Girls: Jacinta Savic & Taylor Burke (equal 13
Sajjad Alobaidi( 24th) Jack Archer (29th) Cody Evans (33
rd)
11yr Boys: Henry Devan (equal 7
th), Noah Shaw (15
th), Tyson Amos (17
th), Keenan Green (25
th), Mahmoud El Houli (37
th)
12yr Boys: Cooper Buttigieg (7
th), George Tzanidis (28
th), Jordan Themelkos (29
th), Noah Meletis (31
st)
DISTRICT SPORTS TRIALS Over the last couple of weeks we have had a number of students trial in football, soccer, netball and basketball at District level. This is the first step for making the state primary school team in each of these sports. Well done to Aaron Searle and Chelsea Shields Harris, who have made it past both District and Divisional level and now will go to the Regional trial. Jess Curry Hughes also made it past the District level to the Divisional trial, as did Rory Kalnins and Brandon Fumic with soccer and Rory, Brady Cook and Matthew Micevski in football. Well done to all those students and to Aaron and Chelsea at their next trial.
WALK TO SCHOOL SAFELY DAY- FRIDAY 18TH MAY Friday is Walk Safely to work day. Why is it good to Walk to school?
It‟s fun - you can meet friends and see things you might miss in a car. It‟s good for the environment. If you don‟t use the car all the time to come to school, you are saving the environment from Greenhouse Gas Emissions. It‟s a healthier option and gives you some good exercise. We need at least 30 minutes of exercise a day. If you can walk all the way from home, or some of the way on Friday that would be great. You can organise to walk with some friends or neighbours that go to the school, which will be fun to do. If you can‟t walk, maybe you could scoot or ride as well, as they are both healthy options too. GRADE 2 SWIMMING The Grade 2 Swimming program has been going very well by all reports. Student, parent and teacher feedback has been very positive over the first few sessions, with smaller group sizes, a better quality program and instructors, no general public access, and closer to the school. We look forward to making this a permanent arrangement in the future. In the next couple of weeks will have some reports from students about what they have been learning and their reflections about the program. We will also be sending home notes soon for the Grade 1 students, who will commence their program late this term or at the start of term 3.
SCHOOL BANKING
SCHOOL BANKING EVERY WEDNESDAY - BANKING FOR ALL STUDENTS Great effort from the 145 Student’s who banked last week.
You can now place your order for the Booklight
The School Banking program is designed to encourage individual savings behaviour and to help children achieve their savings goals. For this reason pooling of tokens is not allowed.
Well done to the following Student‟s who have received their Bronze Certificate for making 10 deposits:-
Samson Farley, Andreas Weickhardt, Sebastian Weickhardt, Emma Baldacchino, Aishi Bhatia,
Vishwa Kannanpriya, Dian Lim, George Pandazopoulos, Harry Lidyard & Hayden Lawlor.
Who will be the new Dollarmite? As part of the Commonwealth Bank‟s centenary celebrations we want to find Australia‟s best School Banking Saver! Between 16 April and 30 June 2012, we are running a fun and exciting School Banking competition with the winning child being transformed into their very own Dollarmite character. Being part of the competition is easy. A student simply needs to make 5 deposits at school during the competition period and then provide us with their best savings tip at www.commbank.com.au/beadollarmite
The winning school/class will receive 25 IPads and a $1500 excursion!
The winning student, as well as being ‘Dollarmized’, they will receive an annual movie pass for their family.
There also 50 runner up prize packs that include iPads, excursions, movie tickets and thousands of Dollarmites consolation prizes for the students.
It’s not too late to join the competition – simply open a Youth Saver account at any Commonwealth Branch and bring your wallet to school on banking day to be in with a chance to WIN!!
Thank you for supporting our school fundraising efforts and teaching your child how to save. Saving regularly is an important habit to get into, whether you‟re saving a little or a lot. Keep up the great work and remember to bring in your deposit book each Wednesday.
Seabrook School Banking Volunteers
CLEANING LADY REQUIRED
Friday mornings preferred but negotiable. General cleaning with a little ironing.
Please call Sally
strictly after 4pm
on 0431 311 572
CANTEEN NEWS
As the Canteen Easter Colouring-in Contest was so popular with the children, we have decided to have another one in celebration of the Queen‟s Birthday in June. There will be prizes to be won and special food on the day. We will let you know more details in the next couple of Newsletters.
City West Taekwondo offers students the opportunity to learn a martial art for life. With time proven program designed for ages 5 to adults, City West Taekwondo is a community club that not only provides mental and physical stimulation, but also encourages and promotes confidence through member participation in demonstrations and competitions from club level, through to International and Olympic level.
Bookings for term 2 are now being taken.
Phone: 9748 8833 or 0431 761 958
Playgroup at Seabrook Community Centre 15 Truganina Ave, Seabrook 3028 www.seabrookplaygroup.org.au
Seabrook Playgroup has group and individual places available.
Our Playgroup welcomes all children
from birth to school age accompanied by a parent or carer.
