Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence Every Tuesday and Friday 8.30 a.m. - 8.55 a.m. Library Open for borrowing and returning books and quiet reading Every Wednesday 9.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Playgroup Every Friday 8.00 a.m. - 8.20 a.m. Breakfast Program FROM THE PRINCIPAL Thursday March 9th 2017 CALIFORNIA GULLY PRIMARY SCHOOL P.O. Box 88 California Gully 3556 Phone: 5446-8393 Fax: 5446-3115 Email: [email protected]Calendar Monday March 13th Labour Day Public Holiday Saturday March 18th Eaglehawk Dahlia & Arts pro- cession Monday March 20th School Council Annu- al General Meeting School Council Meet- ing Friday March 24th Curriculum Day Wednesday March 29th Parent-teacher Interviews Foundation Students Thursday March 30th School Fair Friday March 31st Last day of Term 1 STUDENT LEADERSHIP - PHOENIX FM Last Friday two students from our Junior School Council leadership group, Sam and Shelby visited the Phoenix FM radio station. Sam and Shelby had the opportunity to talk about what it is like to be in a leadership role and what they liked most about California Gully Primary School. Both boys spoke exceptionally well and were very positive about school life. I am sure there would have been a few nerves leading up to the radio interview but to the boys credit they prepared well and it showed. MISSION At California Gully Primary School we educate students to be lifelong learners and well informed and productive community members who are well prepared to become active, engaged and responsible citizens of the local and global com- munity. The Bell Topper Volume 35 No. 6 IMPORTANT REMINDER Labour Day Public Holiday - Monday March 13th Eaglehawk Dahlia & Arts Procession - Saturday March 18th School Council Annual General Meeting - Monday March 20th Curriculum Day (No Students required at school) - Fri- day March 24th Parent– Teacher Interviews for Foundation Students - Wednesday March 29th From the Principal 1 From the Principal 2 Calendar 3 Parents & Friends 3 Walk & Ride to School 4 Students of the Week 5 Healthy Living 6 Outside School Hours Care 8 Playgroup 8 Inside this Issue
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Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
Every Tuesday and Friday 8.30 a.m. - 8.55 a.m. Library Open for borrowing and returning books and quiet reading
Every Wednesday 9.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m. Playgroup
Every Friday 8.00 a.m. - 8.20 a.m. Breakfast Program
Thank you to all families who support the Parents’ & Friends of California Gully Primary
School.
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
March 13th - March 17th
Labour Day Public Holiday
School Banking Day - Bendigo Bank
Learning Club Begins
Parents’ Club Break-fast Program
Breakfast Program
School Banking Day - Common-
wealth Bank
March 20th - March 24th
School Council Annual General Meeting & Gen-
eral Meeting
School Banking Day - Bendigo Bank
Learning Club
Parents’ Club Break-fast Program
Curriculum Day - No Students re-quired at school
March 27th - March 31st
School Banking Day - Bendigo Bank
Learning Club
Parents’ Club Break-fast Program
Parent-Teacher Interviews Founda-
tion Students
School Fair Breakfast Program
School Banking Day - Common-
wealth Bank
April 17th—April 21st
Easter Monday Public Holiday
School Banking Day - Bendigo Bank
Learning Club
Parents’ Club Break-fast Program
Breakfast Program
School Banking Day - Common-
wealth Bank
CSEF (Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund) Applications are now open for families who are Health Care Card holders to apply for the funding - forms are available from the school office, When completing your application please bring a long your current Health Care Card, this is needed for the application to be accepted.
Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
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California Gully Walk and Ride to School – March 8, 2017
Can we improve our walking and riding numbers?
It is good to see children walking and riding to school. It would be great if we could en-courage more of our students to walk or ride to school. Remember that you can walk part way to school as well if you live too far from school to walk the whole way.
Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
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Congratulations to the following students on being named Student of The Week
for their positive attitude to school and social values.
Friday March 3rd
Prep Peacock-Hinton: Bohdi H. - For listening carefully and putting in his best effort. Georgia L. - For confidently contributing to class discussions. Great water information. 1 Trezise: Blake T. - For working hard with his counting. Keira T. - For demonstrating kindness towards others. 2/3 Reilly-Carroll: Jackson H. - For always showing readiness to learn and respect to others. Maykaila J.-N. - For fantastic attention and effort in guided reading. 4 Ennor: Bailey B. - For using the correct structure and language features in his entertaining narrative. Daniel V. - For using the correct structure and language features in his entertaining narrative. 5/6 Windridge: Isobel G. - For working well in Maths on rounding and place value. Richard P. - For working well in Maths on rounding and place value.
The Good Friday Appeal is a unique fundraising activity that brings together people from all parts of the commu-nity in a very special way. The common goal is to raise money for The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, and to ensure that all children with life threatening illnesses receive the best possible medical and clinical care.
It all started in 1931 when groups of journalists from the Herald & Weekly Times organised a sporting carnival in aid of charity, the Children’s Hospital being a recipient of the funds. In 1942, Sir Keith Murdoch as Managing Director and Editor the “The Herald” agreed that “The Herald” and radio station 3DB should broadcast an all day Appeal on Good Friday. In 1957, Channel 7 joined the Appeal and began the first daylong telethon, which is now held at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome.
School’s have been involved in the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal through the distribution of Appeal envelopes (attached to last weeks newsletter). Here at California Gully Primary School we are proud to continue supporting the Appeal; many of us know or will know of a child who has had to spend time in the Royal Children’s Hospital.
If you would like to show your support for this worthwhile charity, you can do so by returning the donation enve-lope by Wednesday March 22nd. Donation envelopes can be left with Nicole in the school office.
Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
GREAT TIPS FOR HEALTHY KIDS TIP 13. HEALTHY MESSAGES HAVE TO BE REINFORCED Although you serve a s good role model to your kids by eating well and being physically active, they will sometimes spend time with other people, such as grandparents, aunts and uncles, or other carers. It is important tat you let these people know that you want your kids to get some physical activity and to eat nutritious foods., Sometimes relatives and others can have the best intentions for kids, but they think that it won’t hurt if kids eat lollies and indulge in fizzy soft drinks, for example. Their attitude is that ‘it’s a treat for the kids’.
What you can do NOW When family and other people are taking care of your kids: Let them know what you prefer the kids to eat. Tell the carers that you value their time with your kids and that
you’d like the heathy messages you give at home to be rein-forced by them.
Good Idea!
When others are looking after your child, reinforce your message by packing a bottle of water together with a few healthy snacks, such as carrot sticks with hummus dip, a reduced –fat cheese and cucumber sandwich, or pieces of fruit.
Top Tip
Adults can learn from their kids too. Encourage your child to spread the word out-side your home on healthy food and healthy fun.
Take fresh wholegrain bread or rolls, lean
meat and a variety of salad items, e.g.
lettuce, tomato, cucumber or boiled eggs
to make up nutritious salads. Many parks
provide barbeque facilities so take
advantage of this by bringing along some
home-made hamburgers or sausages or
perhaps tofu and vegetable kebabs.
Combine these with a cold pasta or po-
tato salad and enjoy a fun Aussie outdoor
get-together.
TIP: Make sure you
take an insulated
container and ice pack
to keep foods cool
and safe.
TAKE A PICNIC TO A PARK,
GARDEN OR TO THE BEACH!!
This time of year provides a fantastic opportunity to visit one or many of the
parks, gardens, beaches or other open spaces around your local area. Get
family and friends together, pack up a picnic and step out of the house to explore
some of the beautiful Australian scenery that we live in. Plan to leave the car at home and
walk or cycle to your local open space to fill your body with fresh air.
Potato-Apple Salad 3 medium peeled potatoes (boiled & cut into
3cm blocks)
1 large apple (peeled & cut into 1cm blocks)
1/2 cup chopped celery
4 spring onions finely chopped
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 cup low fat natural yoghurt
1/4 cup low fat mayonnaise
2 tbsp fresh chopped dill
Combine potatoes, celery, spring onions and
apple together and toss with lemon juice. Mix
yoghurt, mayonnaise and chopped dill together
and fold into potato mixture. Chill until ready to
Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
PLAYGROUP Let’s get together and build on friendships.
Wednesdays 9.30 a.m. - 11.30 p.m.
in the Outside School Hours Care room. Please bring along a piece of fruit to share. We follow the healthy eating guidelines and encourage the SunSmart messages that are taught to the students at school, to provide a great foundation for future students. Session dates and activities: March 15th 2017 To Be Confirmed For information of what events are coming up in playgroup please visit the school website Playgroup page.
Join us on Facebook: www.facebook/calgullyplaygroup1
Available for all parents of California Gully Primary School Affordable Childcare in a safe and secure environment Providing interesting activities for all children Permanent/Casual Bookings available Emergency bookings always available
Mrs. Paton
EGGS FOR SALE
Our girls are busy laying lots of eggs, $2.50 a dozen. See Wendy in the grade 4 room.
Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
Thanks to Empowering Eaglehawk, The Eaglehawk Football Club and the Peter Krenz Leisure Centre/YMCA we have a community breakfast program for all families (parents are more than welcome to attend) and staff of California Gully. The community breakfast pro-gram will continue tomorrow, Friday March 10th at 8 a.m. (please note that we will stop serving breakfast at 8.20a.m. any children who arrive after 8.20 a.m. will miss out). Sharing in breakfast together , what a great way for our school community to start to start the day!
HEAD LICE Back to school for another year and unfortunately this often means the start of the head lice season too. We see an in-crease in the number of head lice cases in the February to March period, particularly amongst school aged children. Head lice are extremely contagious. Early treatment is recommended to kill head lice and their eggs and to lim-it school and family contamination. 95% of lice are transmitted through close head to head con-tact and by sharing objects such as hats, hair brushes, head bands, pillows and towels. Ensure that you and your household is protected from head lice this season by taking the necessary preventative steps to keep head lice away; Below are 4 crucial steps to keep your school head lice free:
Avoid sharing clothing, especially hats, ribbons, head
bands and helmets
Discourage children from playing with each other's hair
Don't share brushes, combs, towels and pillows
Keep long hair plaited or firmly tied back to prevent con-
tact from other kids The above tips will help limit the outbreak of head lice at your school.
Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
WANT TO GET RID OF YOUR PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS??? Do you have lots of plastic grocery bags taking up valuable storage space in your home? A member of our school community is collecting plastic grocery bags to make sleeping mats for the homeless. If you have excess plastic grocery bags (I’m sure many of us do) they can be brought to the school office for collection to make more sleeping mats. Not only are we providing a soft place for a homeless person to sleep—we are also recycling those unwanted plastic grocery bags!!
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen at California Gully Primary School
Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
MacDonald's Nursery will be supporting the Garden Releaf program in 2017, with the day set for Sunday March the 19th. Focusing on the benefits of plants and gardens to enrich our lives. The aim is to encourage people to get out into their garden and get planting – or take someone to a garden to just enjoy. As it is also National Blueberry day on the same day, MacDonald’s Nursery are giving Schools a chance to win a Blueberry in a large Terracotta pot along with a $100.00 nursery voucher. We are registered for this competition and encourage parents, grandparents and family friends of our students to shop at MacDonald’s Nursery between the 18th and the 26th of March. Then drop their receipt into the box. The school with the greatest percentage of receipts to student ratio wins. We regularly purchase seedlings for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Gar-den at MacDonald’s Nursery so we encourage all families to support this business who support California Gully Primary School.
Don’t forget to check out the school’s website www.californiagullyps.vic.edu.au
School Assembly starts at 8.55 a.m. Please be on time! To report an absence through the school website you can use this link Report an Absence
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Dahlia and Arts Procession 2017
- Preparations are underway. A number of very busy adults are working diligently on our props. -We will be organising costumes this week. If you child is participating in the school procession entry please see An-
nette Thursday after school or Friday between 2.15 to 3.15 - We need clowns costumes, jester hats, large feathers. Please bring these to school this week. - Donations of pastel coloured paper lanterns: available at ‘cheap shops for $2-$3. - Hessian bags to make sand bags. - Silver tinsel to hang down (a silver tinsel skirt would do). -Old boots or shoes (six pairs) to spray paint for grade 3-6 boys. -We need large white cardboard (85cm x 85cm) Ad-vertising board/corflute would be ideal. -We still require a couple of small stools. -We will require a few parents help decorate the truck and also to walk alongside the truck. Please see Annette Peacock or Kathryn Hinton if you are able to help with preparations, donations or have an item to loan.
For the fair to succeed we need all families to get involved. Starting with donations for the showbags — these take some time to put together so all donations are needed now!
All classes are contributing to the school fair. Your child’s class-room teacher will let you know what they need in a separate note in a couple of weeks..
