The PURPOSE of Plenty Parklands Primary School is to educate children as

lifelong learners to shape a better Australia.

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Date: May 28, 2015 Issue 15

Principal’s Message

Principal - Claire McInerney Assistant Principals - Julie Nixon and Alison Devereux

Business Manager - Kristina Elvey 48 Blossom Park Drive, Mill Park, 3082 Phone: 9404 4311, Fax: 9404 4702

E-Mail: plenty.parklands.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.plentyparklands-ps.vic.edu.au

Thank you to all our visitors who braved the wet conditions to help us celebrate our learning during Education Week. As you can see it wasn’t hard to find smiles, looks of pride and in some cases, a lot of concentration. Whether you enjoyed the choir, band

and dance group (CBD), visited

classrooms around the school and/or

listened to our budding musicians at

the guitar recital we hope you enjoyed

yourself and got some idea of

the sort of learning happening

at PPPS on a daily basis.

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Festival of Flight was the theme, up, up and away was the idea; however we enjoyed varying degrees of success at our final on Friday afternoon. Regardless of the length travelled we learnt about flight and enjoyed the whole process of drafting, constructing and trialling our models.

Alexandria from 3:18 decided to cut her hair and donate it to make wigs for people

with cancer. The hairdresser will post it to Pantene as they are accepting a minimum of 20

cm pony tails until the 8th June. Alexandria has been growing her hair her whole life but felt

so strongly about wanting to help she took this big step. What a great example of the

school’s, and obviously the family’s, values; thanks Alexandria for showing us all how to

‘make a difference’.

With some inspiration from Alexandria to keep us going, we have a staff team participating in the MS Walk this Sunday. If you can support us to make a difference, please feel free to follow this link. https://register.mswalk.org.au/ Then click on the Melbourne event, then the Find Participant/Team link and then search for PPPS and you will find us. Next week we will include a team photo, probably best taken before the event rather than after. Many thanks in anticipation.

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE CONTINUED

If a child forgets to bring their lunch, jacket, hat etc., and the parent/carer brings it to the school office after 9am, the follow-ing process has been put in place so that there is as little dis-ruption as possible.

Make sure your child’s name and home group is clear-ly marked on the item.

When the item arrives at the school, an email is sent to the relevant teacher. Each teacher checks their email, if possible, at morning recess and lunchtime before going to the staffroom or doing yard duty. If this process has hiccups eg. casual relief teachers (CRTs), the office will ensure the item gets to the child.

We are unable to guarantee a child will get their play lunch in time, but we can guarantee they will get their lunch.

PARENTS LEAVING THEIR CHILD’S BELONGINGS AT THE OFFICE

2016 PREP ENROLMENTS

Do you have a child commencing Prep in 2016? If yes, enrolment packs are now available from the school office. Please

collect packs as soon as possible.

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Date: May 28, 2015 Issue 15 PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE CONTINUED

Thanks for your tolerance and patience with the work at the front of the school. Wet weather here and on a previous job interstate has delayed the progress by a couple of days, however the workers are back with us and say the they will be finished their part by Friday. Then we move onto the rest of the paving and some landscaping. We have also reviewed access through the gate from the prep area and have now included a widening of the gate and some additional concreting to the job. As you can see I have applied the adage, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’. To this week’s message; enjoy. Claire McInerney Principal

Thanks Calendar of Eventsfor your support

Term 2

Week 8

Monday 1/6

Chat with Principal and Tour of School for 2016 Prep enrolments

Wednesday 3/6

2-3pm Year 1 Grandparents Day

Week 9

Monday 8/6

Queen’s Birthday—Public holiday—no students to attend school

Wednesday 10/6

6.30-7.30pm Year 2 Science Night

Thursday 11/6

2-3.30pm Year 1 Olden Days games afternoon

Week 10 PLANNING WEEK

Monday 15/6

Years 2 and 3 planning

Tuesday 16/6

Years 1 and 4 planning

Wednesday 17/6

Specialist team planning

Year 4 Scienceworks excursion

7-8.15pm Year 6 Debate evening

Thursday 18/6

Years 5 and 6 planning

Friday 19/6

Prep team planning

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Check that no taps are dripping. If they are, get them fixed to save water and energy. Hot water uses a large amount of energy to heat.

Help your plants stay nourished by using mulch. This will help stop the water from evaporating.

SUSTAINABILITY TIPS

Money can be sent to school every school day and is to be given to the classroom

teacher by your child. Money is to be sent in a sealed envelope clearly labelled with your child ’s name, homegroup, payment

description (ie. excursions, uniforms) and the amount of money enclosed. It would be appreciated if the correct amount was

enclosed. EFTPOS payments may be made at the school office.

MONEY SENT TO SCHOOL

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A Frog goes out in rainy weather And sometimes takes an um-ber-ella It’s skin you see is just like leather And so it likes the cold, wet weather.

If I was a fish I know I would wish To come to the shore And sun myself more I’d not want to stay, Just maybe a day, Then off to the sea, The right place for me.

As you see a crab go by, You really have to wonder why, It travels sideways all the time, And never in a simple line.

A tortoise wears his home on top. If you surprise him, in he’ll pop. In with head and arms and toes - To hide away from all his foes.

Pelicans have enormous wings, To help them do fantastic things, They soar quite high, then glide to land, Coming in gently, near the sand.

Giraffes can see just everywhere. They reach up high into the air. With long thin legs and long necks too, They sleep while standing—yes, it’s true.

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YEAR 4-31 Paper plane fun! During Education Week, year 4-31 designed their own paper planes in preparation for work-

ing with their prep buddies. We even held our own class paper plane competition, Riley Lawtey won with his plane travelling the furthest.

We then used our paper plane making skills to work together with the preps for the Festival of Flight competition. Year 4-31 loved working with the preps, as you can see below!

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UNIVERSITY STUDENT TEACHERS / WORK EXPERIENCE STUDENTS PPPS has forged close links with a number of Universities to help train the next generation of teachers, known as Pre Service Teachers (PST). We also benefit from the RMIT physical education program with first year PE teachers each year. To become a primary school teacher you are required to complete a four year university course. The practical component of the course requires a PST to spend a certain number of days in schools gaining ‘hands on’ experience and being directly mentored by an experienced teacher. You may have noticed new faces around the school or perhaps your child has talked about having ‘another teacher’ in their room. Already this year we have had PST’s from RMIT, Swinburne and LaTrobe in various home groups across the school. We also take a number of work experience students from local state secondary schools at various times through the year. We are very fortunate at PPPS that so many of our wonderful teaching staff are willing to take an active role in mentoring the next generation of teachers.

Hi everyone, my name is Kerrie Shelden and this is my fourth year teaching eLearning and Media across all year levels. Before this I was a classroom teacher and have taught from years 2 to 6. I have been at PPPS since 2000. How quickly time flies! I am the coordinator of ICT and work with our two technicians to purchase new equipment and maintain our existing devices. Outside of school, my interests include barracking for Essendon in the AFL and Melbourne Storm in the NRL. I also enjoy reading, listening to music, travelling and watching movies.

Hi my name is Stephen Dovile. I am the Specialist Technician at PPPS and I do my best to keep all the computers running at the school on Mondays and Wednesdays. I also work at Dallas Brooks Community Primary, Hume Valley School and Sherbourne Primary. I have been in the Technical Support to Schools Program for 9 years. If I was able increase the day’s length to 48 hours I think I would be able to finish all the jobs at PPPS.

Hi, my name is Luc Labigang. I’m the local technician at PPPS three days a week and have been for the last three and

a half years. I’m also working at Lalor Primary and William Ruthven Primary the other 2 days of the week. In my free

time, I like to educate myself further in various fields, most notably physics. I contribute to community supported

video game development, work on personal software projects and when I find the time, dabble in music

composition and art projects as well. I’m also assisting Mr Scanu in coaching the girls and boys soccer teams, having

many years of experience playing indoor and outdoor soccer

INTRODUCING THE I.C.T. TEAM

Last week’s results round 4:

Falcons Vs Falcons (St Francis of Assisi) Football– Bushrangers 20 points to Falcons 50 points Soccer– Bushrangers 4 goals to Falcons 5 goals Bat Tennis– Bushrangers 54 games to Falcons 7 games Netball A– Bushrangers 7 goals to Falcons 9 goals Netball B– Bushrangers 24 goals to falcons 1 goal Interschool Sport Program - Round 5 Friday May 29th All games to commence by 9.30am. First named school is the home team and PPPS home grounds are - Bat Tennis and Netball. Football is at Kelynack Reserve (across the road) and Soccer is at RMIT (synthetic pitch-McKimmies Rd). PPPS Bushrangers Vs St Damian’s PPPS Redbacks have a BYE (no game this week) Intraschool Sport Program: students to board the bus by 9.10am, to travel to Epping Leisure Centre. Games to commence by 9.30am and conclude by 11am.

Physical Education & Sports Coordinator - Sebastian Scanu

YEARS 5/6 SPORT PROGRAM 2015

Have you changed your address, home telephone number, work telephone number, mobile telephone number, custody restrictions or medical details? If so, please keep the office informed of ANY changes to details relevant to your child/ren attending our school. It is vital that these records are kept up to date so we can reach you in case of an emergency. We need to make sure your child receives the best care we can offer.

STUDENT PERSONAL DETAILS

Did you know that you can make school related payments anywhere and at any time of day or night that suits you?

Did you know that you can now also complete your child’s

permission form if required at the same you make your payment? *

Qkr! by MasterCard makes this possible

(payment can be made using your MasterCard or Visa).

If you don’t already have Qkr installed, simply download the Qkr! by MasterCard App for free from Apple’s app store for iPhones (iPads should also download the iPhone app) or from Google Play for An-

droid phones and tablets. On the Qkr app tap the magnifying glass on the home screen and type PLENTYPPS. Why not download it today and take a look at our school on Qkr! and

start making your school payments on Qkr!

* If you are already a registered Qkr user please be sure to check that you are using the latest version of the Qkr app (3.5.256 Android or 3.9.4.135 Apple) so that you are able to access new features.

All feedback to the school office is very welcome.

To save money, name ALL your child’s/children’s clothing with both given and family names. If property is lost, first check your child’s classroom (or specialist class they may have attended) then look in the Lost Property basket outside the courtyard entrance to the Administration Block and then the Lost Property cupboard in the disabled bathroom in the Administration block. This cupboard is accessible before 9.00am and after 3.30pm. A parent volunteer sorts through the items at the end of each week and those items that are named are returned via their teacher’s pigeon hole. Any uncollected items of clothing will be donated to a charity at the end of the term.

LOST PROPERTY

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DIAMOND CREEK NETBALL CLUB A 9 week modified netball skills program for 5-9 year olds. Learn the basic skills of netball. The

club offer two courses (you ae welcome to do both at no extra cost) Mondays after school or Saturday

mornings. Starts: Monday 13 July & Saturday 18 July Where: Diamond Creek Netball Complex.

For further enquiries call Kaye Ralph 9718 2393 / 0428898393 denetball@gmail.com Www.diamondcreeknetball.com.au

LOST PROPERTY ROSTER

Fri 29/5 Kelly Sprague

Fri 5/6 Kim Crawford

FIRST AID LINEN ROSTER Fri 29/5 Svetlana Aforozis

Fri 5/6 Margaret Brown Bryan

P-14 Indi P-13 Coby P-12 Robert

P-11 Stephanie P-10 Andreas P-9 Tiana

PREP STUDENT OF THE WEEK The following students will be presented on Monday June 1st

6-8 Aneree 6-7 Jamie-Lee 6-2 Kristian 6-1 Deviria

5-6 Tiana 5-5 Geordie 5-4 James 5-3 Chloe

4-32 Samir 4-31 Georgia 4-30 Dimitri 4-29 Alisha

3-20 Patrick 3-19 Marcus 3-18 Dean 3-17 Olivia

2-28 Judd 2-27 Christopher 2-26 Christina 2-25 Abigail

2-24 Georgia 1-23 Jasmyn 1-22 Eren 1-21 Mimi

1-16 Yuvraj 1-15 Ayman

STUDENT OF THE WEEK The following students were presented on Monday May 25

ROOM OF THE WEEK AWARD: P-10

P-12 Viola 1-21 Elle

1-15 Ahilan 1-23 Riel

3-18 Dean 5-3 Jamie

ANTI LITTER AWARDS: Congratulations to the following students

for receiving an anti litter award.

HOUSE POINTS 23/03/15

1st Blue Bandicoots 2nd Red Rosellas / Gold Goannas 4th Green Grasshoppers

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ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE ROSTER Term 2 June 1 5-6 June 8 Public Holiday June 15 P-11 June 22 1-23 June 22 1-23

Opening hours: 7.00-8.45am and 3.30-6.00pm For bookings/cancellation call Kristine on 9404 4516

Changing Seasons: Winter

Monday: our favourite seasons Tuesday: Buddy Bear activities Wednesday: winter collages Thursday: UNO challenge Friday: Indoor/outdoor free play Star of the week is Adam G for his beautiful manners OSHC news: With the colder weather upon us, everyone has been enjoying playing card games like UNO. It’s become a favourite activity in before and after school care. We are now discussing Camp Australia’s Buddy Bear program. It is a program that aims to create buddies amongst the year levels and makes children aware of how to be resistant to bullying. Your feedback is always important to us, please share with us your opinions and suggestions so we can constantly improve our service.

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