PRINCIPAL’S PIECE

ANZAC Day A reminder that Tatura Primary School will be marching at the ANZAC Day parade on Monday 25th April. Students who would like to join the

March are to assemble at Victory Hall at 10:20am. Note that full school uniform is to be worn. Please register at the office tomorrow or Friday if you plan to meet Mrs Gill on Monday morning. School Council Last night the new School Council met and discussed many aspects of our school community. The Environment Committee are keen to set up a working bee during the month of May to complete some tasks around the school. Watch out for details in upcoming newsletters. The Council has endorsed our 2016-2019 Strategic Plan and the 2015 Annual Report to the School Community. Pru Fraser gave an informative update on the Sustainability program that she and the Envirokids are managing. The two fundraising groups are ably led by Sharon and Yvonne. They are planning a meeting to discuss whole school fundraising and look at developing a clear plan for parental and community support in this respect. Councillors also took part in an activity whereby they considered what they want our current Foundation students to be like, know, understand, think about…… in seven years’ time. This will be when they proudly walk across the stage and graduate from TPS. Some of the responses included: a strong sense of social justice, well-mannered, proud, resilient, happy, open-minded, respectful and considerate of others, future focused (family and environment) and competent in key educational areas. Interestingly, JSC students went through the same activity yesterday and their answers were very similar. Fun Run Thanks to everyone involved in making the Fun Run such a success. Congratulations to our winners and all participants that made it across the finishing line. Our generous sponsors were amazing and we thank you all. See report attached. Milk Shake Day Ensure that you drop your orders off at the office by Friday this week. No late orders will be able to be accepted. Farewell to Kody Kody McNeil will be taking leave from today for the imminent and exciting arrival of her next child. We wish Kody and her

family all the best and can’t wait to hear their news in a few weeks. Mother’s Day Raffle Raffle tickets have been attached to this week’s newsletter and are due back at school by Wednesday May 4th please. Mother’s Day Stall Don’t forget that Mother’s Day is fast approaching. Students are reminded to bring up to $10 to buy special gifts for their Mums and a bag to hide their special surprises. Transition info to Grade 6 Students in Grade 6 should have received their Secondary College Information booklet this week. Please note the dates for school info nights and tours. Camps The junior section camps are just around the corner. Please remember to return all forms and money by the due dates. Everyone is looking forward to this special part of our camps program. Parent Teacher Interviews Teachers are looking forward to discussing your child’s progress so far this year at our interviews tomorrow. Remember to be punctual as the time slots are ten minutes each and interviews won’t be able to be extended. Cross Country Run Students in Grades 3 to 6 will compete in our cross-country this Friday, 22nd April. They will be running for their House. It’s been great to see everyone practising for this event. Oral Language information This free information session will be held here at Tatura Primary School on Monday May 9th at 9:30. See the attached information sheet. All parents of young children are encouraged to attend. School Photos Students need to be on time and in full school uniform. Order online as per attached information sheet or return envelopes to school.

Susanne Gill PRINCIPAL

TATURA PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Phone: 5824 1684 Fax: 5824 1898 Before School Care: 0417 554 094 (BSC cancellations only)

Email: tatura.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.taturaps.vic.edu.au

April 20th, 2016 Term 2, Week 2

STUDENT OF THE

WEEK PA Alex Downie For the terrific progress you have

made with your coloured words.

Keep up the great work Alex!

1/2A Molly Stevens For a brilliant effort when writing

a description of a stegosaurus.

Also for always being a kind and

responsible classmate.

3/4B Cassidy Parker For writing an extremely

entertaining narrative based on

Jack and the Bean Stalk; so many

WOW words! Keep it up Cassidy!

5/6B Jensen Parker A creative written piece for his

“Big Write” with lots of WOW

words and great use of VCOP.

5/6C Zahra Alrahmawi For using her VCOP skills to

uplevel and create an excellent

introduction for her narrative.

OFFICE HOURS: 8:30AM - 4:00PM

With the sniffly season upon

us, we ask that you please

send a box of tissues to

school with each student

in Term 2 to share with their

classmates.

SICKBAY DUTY

This Week: Jacqui Walker Next Week: Kathryn Raleigh

FREE FRUIT

FRIDAY PARENT ROSTER

Sponsored by

This Week - Friday April 22nd

Amanda Ross & Alana Cope

Next Week - Friday April 29th

Jolene Bowles, Tarja Pena & Lisa Denham

PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOU CHECK THE PARENT

ROSTER AND IF UNABLE TO ATTEND PLEASE LET THE

OFFICE STAFF KNOW SO THAT WE CAN ORGANISE A

REPLACEMENT HELPER.

Please collect laundry from the office on Friday afternoons.

LEVIES

The second instalment of levies is due by the end of Term 2.

A reminder that our swimming program will commence in Week 6 of Term 2 this year followed by

Robotics in Week 8 and levies will need to be paid in order for your child to participate.

{Grade 3/4 Request}

Grade 3/4 classes are in need of

cardboard boxes.

Tissue boxes, cereal boxes, snack food

boxes etc.

If you have any at home that you would like to

part with please sent them into school - they

would be greatly appreciated.

MATHS

This term in maths we have been learning about fractions and time. The students have been

doing activities such as ordering fractions onto a number line as well as cutting and pasting to find equivalent fractions. We have also made our own clocks using paper plates. This week we are adding

another paper plate to our clocks to learn about the 5 minute time intervals.

CLASS TALKS

In the lead up to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games the middle section has chosen a

South American theme for our class talks. The students have already begun some research during ICT. Their topic can be

chosen from:

An animal

A habitat

A landmark/icon

A country/capital city

WRITING This term the middle section

have begun learning about the structure of narrative

writing. We have been listening to childhood stories

such as Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Billy Goats Gruff

and changing these stories up to create our

narratives. Our Big Write topic for this week was based on Goldilocks and the Three

Bears.

HOMEWORK REMINDER!

We have started our reading and spelling homework again for Term Two.

It is important that your child is reading three nights a week and practising their

spelling words.

CROSS COUNTRY PRACTICE!

Over the past two weeks we have been practicing our running in preparation for our School Cross Country. It has been great to see the students

giving their best effort and improving with each practise. Our School Cross Country is on this Friday the 22nd at 12pm. If you can come along to cheer

on our runners that would be fantastic!

News from the Middle

Section!

The start of the 5km race! A big thank you to our major sponsor Murray

Dairy Australia. We created a new event this

year that they sponsored. In the lead up to the

event, Murray Dairy held lots of fundraising

events which they then donated this money to

our school. We thank them for fundraising

$300. On Sunday they manned the BBQ &

made milkshakes and this money was also

given to Tatura PS.

10 km Race

Male: Jarrod Minogue 36.09min

Female: Anna Turnball

5km Race

Male: Zave Talbot 18.15min

Female: Nadine Edwards 23.56min

1st Family: Peter & Rory Urquhart

2nd Family: Sarah & Jenny Wilson

3rd Family: Ian & Lydia Moorhouse

3km Race

Boy: Marcus Perry 11.22min

Girl: Olivia Stevens 12.11min

5km Team Event won by Ag Vic with 23 points!

Ag Vic also fundraised $149.50

3 x Sportsmans Warehouse vouchers:

1 donated by Sportsmans Warehouse

1 donated by Willy’s Water (Paul & Jayne Newman)

1 donated by Mulcahy Nelson Livestock

$25 Meat voucher donated by Thomas’s Family

Butcher in Tatura

4 Village Movie tickets donated by Mulcahy Nelson

Livestock

1 Family Membership donated by Tatura Football &

Netball Club

Lenne’s Orchards supplied apples for the runners to

enjoy after their race.

A big thank you to Tatura Football Club & Tatura

SES who provided volunteers to help marshall out

on the course. Thank you to all parents, students

and past students and families who came down to

school to volunteer or run or walk in our fun run.

Without this support we would not have been able

to run this successful day!

The start of the 3km race!

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

WINTER TENNIS SQUAD The 2016 winter tournament and training squad is for players wishing to keep playing tennis during the off season. There will be monthly tournaments and training sessions conducted from May to September. The squad is open to all children aged from 8 through to 17 years of age. Anybody interested - please call David on 0427 004 457. AUSKICK The Tatura & District Auskick Centre will be again coming together at Tatura Park on Friday evenings at 5.30pm to play Grid Games. After the success of last season we are looking to again improve this program. This season we are looking at running games for Under 6s, Under 8s and Under 10s. Students from Kinder to Grade 4 are encouraged to participate. The great thing about playing in Tatura is that we play under the great lights of Tatura Park and the Tatura Netball Association runs at the same venue, this makes it a great family night. The Shepparton Junior Football League is running an Under 10s Saturday morning competition this season, but we will still cater for Under 10s at Tatura also. The first session will be on Friday 15th April at 5.30pm. We are planning a meeting during the school holidays to ensure we are set for the season ahead as we would like to get team managers and umpires ready earlier. Please join the Facebook group Tatura & District Auskick for regular updates. Registrations are now open at www.aflauskick.com.au.

RODNEY NEIGHBOURHOOD STEINER KINDERGARTEN Autumn Family Fair - Sunday 1st May 2016 from 10am-2pm. Steiner inspired craft, cake and produce stall, café, barbeque - including vegetarian options, live music and entertainment, children’s craft, games and activities, enchanted cave, face painting & a Maypole celebrating Autumn. BUNNINGS MOTHER’S DAY WORKSHOP Thursday 5th May 5:30-7:30pm Join us for a great night of fun! • Make a gift for mum • D.I.Y. workshops • Light refreshments • Free gift wrapping Bookings recommended for more information or to book speak to a team member in store or go to www.bunnings.com.au and locate your nearest store.

ROBYN SMITH NETBALL CAMP Robyn Smith is once again conducting her Netball Camps in the June/July school holidays at the Shepparton Sports Stadium. The camp runs for two days on Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th June 2016, and will provide young play-ers with opportunity to enhance their Netball skills. Registration forms can be down loaded from the Robyn Smith Netball Camps web page www.robynsmithnetballcamps.com. There is also infor-mation on the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Netballcamp. TATURA BADMINTON ASSOCIATION are looking for players! Children and adults of all ages. Friday's at 7.45pm At the stadium at Howley oval. Contact Benny DeLeeuw (03)5854 8321

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