City Education, Country Style From the Principal’s desk….. Issue No 32 18/10/2017 ELLY NEWS In this issue: Principal’s Report Parents & Friends News Colac Show News School Diary Walktober—Walk to school for the month of October 20th October—Year 5/6 Bike Ed Big Ride 27th October —Prep to 4 Activity Day 3rd November—Prep Swimming Commences 7th November— Melbourne Cup Public Holiday 7th December—School Christmas Concert Yard Supervision times: 8:45am-9:00am 3:30pm—3:45pm—Bus duty 2017 Term Dates Term 4: 9/10—22/12 2018 Term Dates Term 1: 30/1—29/3 Term 2: 14/7—29/6 Term 3: 16/6-21/09 www.ellliminyt.vic.edu.au 135 Slater Street, Elliminyt Vic 3250 PO BOX 359 Colac 3250 Phone: 5231 5208 Fax: 52321943 [email protected]Welcome! Last week we welcomed Angus D to our school. Angus is joining the team in 3/4G. We welcome Angus and his family to our fabulous school community and hope they enjoy their time at EPS. Walktober We are halfway through ‘Walktober’ for this year and have enjoyed seeing lots of students walking or cycling to school each day. Thank goodness for the sunshine of late that makes it a much easier task in the morning! Keep up the great work everyone! We have been provided with some lovely incentive prizes by Colac Otway Shire to help raise motivation levels. Birregurra Festival On the weekend our dedicated P&F group held a BBQ over both days of the Birregurra Festival. The supplies for the BBQ were COMPLETELY DONATED! We are very grateful for the generous donation of sausages, bread, hamburgers and coleslaw from our local Woolworths store, as well as the drinks, sauce, serviettes and trays from our generous school community. All these donations meant that the total takings were profit for our school—a preliminary total of $2000!! What an amazing effort—well done and thank you to those parents—Julie Walters (organizer), Hayley Dewar, Damion & Belinda Rocka, Ben & Jordana Swanson, Sam Gaffney, Ally Groves, Marg Phillips, Sara Furney, Deb Holland, Elaine Walters, Nerissa Lovric, Sam Heaton-Harris, Karly Shaw, Rachel Langdon, Kelly Backhouse, Heidi Van Es, Carolyn Milverton, Danielle Dean and Linda Clegg—along with all their merry little EPS student helpers! Sun Smart and hats Term 4 is a ‘Sun Smart’ term which means ALL students must wear broad brimmed hats at both recess and lunch breaks. Without hats, they must remain in undercover areas and cannot join their friends playing in the sun. Hats are available for purchase at the office and please ensure all hats are named so they can be returned to their owner when ‘misplaced’. Emergency Management As part of our Emergency Management plan, we are enabling SMS notifications. This will be a generic message that indicates there has been the need to evacuate school buildings, the need to lockdown buildings, or other threat to student safety. The messages will only be sent AFTER the incident has occurred as during the emergency our primary concern is the safety and wellbeing of our students and staff, not communicating with parents. Tomorrow, Thursday 19th of October, we will run a ’test’ message. As this system is automated, it relies on updated mobile numbers being entered into our system. This test will give us the opportunity to see how many parents receive this message. So I ask that everyone please indicate in your child’s diary, or by email to the school address [email protected], or a hand written note or phone call, to let us know if you received the emergency test SMS. If you don’t receive it, please also indicate in your correspondence the relevant mobile number so we can update our records. If you have any questions or concerns coming from this, please don’t hesitate to contact me at school. Emergency Management is a very important process and we take student safety very seriously. Angela Hall Principal
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City Education, Country Style
From the Principal’s desk…..
Issue No 32 18/10/2017
ELLY NEWS
In this issue:
Principal’s Report
Parents & Friends News
Colac Show News
School Diary
Walktober—Walk to school for the month of October
20th October—Year 5/6 Bike Ed Big Ride
27th October —Prep to 4 Activity Day
3rd November—Prep Swimming Commences
7th November—Melbourne Cup Public Holiday
7th December—School Christmas Concert
Yard Supervision times:
8:45am-9:00am
3:30pm—3:45pm—Bus duty
2017 Term Dates Term 4: 9/10—22/12 2018 Term Dates Term 1: 30/1—29/3 Term 2: 14/7—29/6 Term 3: 16/6-21/09
Welcome! Last week we welcomed Angus D to our school. Angus is joining the team in 3/4G. We welcome Angus and his family to our fabulous school community and hope they enjoy their time at EPS.
Walktober We are halfway through ‘Walktober’ for this year and have enjoyed seeing lots of students walking or cycling to school each day. Thank goodness for the sunshine of late that makes it a much easier task in the morning! Keep up the great work everyone! We have been provided with some lovely incentive prizes by Colac Otway Shire to help raise motivation levels.
Birregurra Festival On the weekend our dedicated P&F group held a BBQ over both days of the Birregurra Festival. The supplies for the BBQ were COMPLETELY DONATED! We are very grateful for the generous donation of sausages, bread, hamburgers and coleslaw from our local Woolworths store, as well as the drinks, sauce, serviettes and trays from our generous school community. All these donations meant that the total takings were profit for our school—a preliminary total of $2000!! What an amazing effort—well done and thank you to those parents—Julie Walters (organizer), Hayley Dewar, Damion & Belinda Rocka, Ben & Jordana Swanson, Sam Gaffney, Ally Groves, Marg Phillips, Sara Furney, Deb Holland, Elaine Walters, Nerissa Lovric, Sam Heaton-Harris, Karly Shaw, Rachel Langdon, Kelly Backhouse, Heidi Van Es, Carolyn Milverton, Danielle Dean and Linda Clegg—along with all their merry little EPS student helpers!
Sun Smart and hats Term 4 is a ‘Sun Smart’ term which means ALL students must wear broad brimmed hats at both recess and lunch breaks. Without hats, they must remain in undercover areas and cannot join their friends playing in the sun. Hats are available for purchase at the office and please ensure all hats are named so they can be returned to their owner when ‘misplaced’.
Emergency Management As part of our Emergency Management plan, we are enabling SMS notifications. This will be a generic message that indicates there has been the need to evacuate school buildings, the need to lockdown buildings, or other threat to student safety. The messages will only be sent AFTER the incident has occurred as during the emergency our primary concern is the safety and wellbeing of our students and staff, not communicating with parents. Tomorrow, Thursday 19th of October, we will run a ’test’ message. As this system is automated, it relies on updated mobile numbers being entered into our system. This test will give us the opportunity to see how many parents receive this message. So I ask that everyone please indicate in your child’s diary, or by email to the school address [email protected], or a hand written note or phone call, to let us know if you received the emergency test SMS. If you don’t receive it, please also indicate in your correspondence the relevant mobile number so we can update our records. If you have any questions or concerns coming from this, please don’t hesitate to contact me at school. Emergency Management is a very important process and we take student safety very seriously.
Angela Hall Principal
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STUDENT AWARDS
Prep R Baxter D for always putting in 100% on all tasks and being a very happy and
friendly team member.
Prep S Levi G for working hard to achieve his personal learning goal. Well done Levi!
1/2G Harlen G for kicking off Term 4 with a very positive attitude!
1/2M Oliver K for making good choices in class, listening and completing tasks in a
timely manner.
1/2T Tyler F for always giving his personal best in maths, and doing great work with
place value.
3B Mark P for his awesome effort in Bike Ed so far and his help setting up and
packing up over the week.
3/4G Madi B for consistently displaying our school values, in particular for showing
compassion and kindness towards others.
4/5C Noah S for helping Mr Brady get the bikes out of the shed ready for Bike Ed,
without having to be asked by a teacher. Well done Noah for being
responsible and displaying fantastic initiative.
5T Grade 5T for demonstrating our EPS values while working with Mrs O’Shea last
week! Well done!
Art Kaylah R for improving her listening skills and growing as an artist. You’re doing
an amazing job Kaylah!
PRINCIPAL’S AWARD Principal’s Award goes to Kiahna M for demonstrating
ALL of our school values and being an excellent role
Prep-Year 4 Activity Day Permission Note—Students in Year Prep, 2, 3 and 4 only
WALK TO SCHOOL Walk to School this October and kick-start your child’s active habits for life. Vichealth’s Walk to School month encourages primary school children to walk, ride, scoot to and from school throughout October, to help them get the 60 minutes of physical activity they need each day. Walking to and from school can also give you more time to connect and chat with your kids, and the opportunity to meet up with the other local families along the way. Parents and carers are encouraged to discuss safe routes to school and talk about road rules, safe crossing points, stranger danger, etc in the lead up to Walk to School. For further information please visit www.walktoschool.vic.gov.au
BOOKCLUB Book club order forms were sent home last week. Orders can be placed in the box in the office. If you are paying by cheque please make it payable to ‘Scholastic’. If you wish to order books without your child’s knowledge please mark this request very clearly on the order form. You will be personally contacted when the orders arrive so that you can collect the books from the office. Orders for this issue are due back on Thursday 26th October. We will be having another BOOK FAIR on Wednesday 29th November, where you buy one book and get your second book free. This will be a good opportunity for you to start your Christmas shopping or perhaps you could donate a book to our school library. Thanks, Marg Phillips
UNIFORM ORDERS If you wish to place an order for uniforms please
fill in the order form attached to the newsletter and
return it along with your payment by no later than
next Tuesday 24th October.
COLAC SHOW INFORMATION If any children have taken home artwork that they
intended to put in the Colac Show it need to be
returned to school ASAP.
Thanks,
Caroline McCallum
THANK YOU Marg would like to say a big thank you to all the wonderful
families that have been busy covering the new books for our
library.
PARENT & FRIENDS NEWS
Wow, what a weekend we had at The Birregurra Festival. Beautiful weather, a wonderful festival and plenty of people enjoying the sun-
shine. Our stall was set up and ready for a great weekend. Then all too soon it was over and the big clean up began.
Thank you to all the amazing volunteers that manned the stall over the weekend, you were all awesome, and I hope you all enjoyed your-
selves.
To all the very generous parents, who couldn't be there but donated items, you all did a wonderful job too, as we didn't need to purchase
anything extra, except for the onions and a gas bottle refill. You all should be extremely proud of yourselves, because with this combined effort, the fundraiser was a huge success.
There is a couple of people we need to say a special thank you to, the first being Woolworths Colac who so, so, generously donated all the
sausages, hamburgers, bread, and coleslaw. This donation truly overwhelmed me.
The second very special thank you goes to one of our amazing teachers, Sarah
Handscomb, who approached the P and F with a great idea, that maybe we could hold a fundraiser in her courtyard. On behalf of our entire school community I would
like to say "Thank you Sarah" for giving us this amazing opportunity!!
