Responsibility Acceptance Respect Honesty Cooperation Resilience November 12th, 2015 Issue 35, Week 6, Term 4 NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL Irymple South PS Carnival FRIDAY 13th NOVEMBER 6:00pm 9.00pm Enjoy our various stalls, BBQ tea, ice cream, drinks To help with purchases, we have a coupon stall where you can purchase pre paid coupons to use at most of the stalls. There are various stalls accepting the pre purchased coupons; Face Painting, Photo Booth, Popcorn & Fairy Floss, Christmas crafts, Colour Your Nails, Karaoke and Guitar band hero, Show bags, Lucky Numbers (all others will accept cash) Please remember to bring your own cutlery, plates, chairs and picnic rugs. A HUGE thank you to the following wonderful people that helped tonight happen- Janet, Connie, Sarah, Bec, Ali, Lea, Toba, Nicole, Karen, Steph, Megan, Eryn Office: 50245345 Postal Address: P.O. Box 716, Irymple South 3498 Email: irymple.south.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Web: www.irymplesouthps.vic.edu.au Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 35, Week 6, Term 4, 2015 1
Farewell and Good Luck Mrs Lucy Dreyer will be commencing maternity leave tomorrow to prepare for the birth of her baby. Lucy has been teaching at Irymple South for four years and we appreciate all the time and effort that she has put in to educating the students in her classes. We wish Lucy, and her husband Tim, all the best for the arrival of their bundle of joy. Lucy and Tim will be returning to England next year, so we would like to take this opportunity to say farewell to Mrs Dreyer. We will all miss you! Mrs Aleisha Milne will be teaching 2D for the remainder of the year. Congratulations Next weekend Miss Sarah Gladman will be getting married! She is marrying Will Callow and we wish them all the very best for their marriage together. Sarah will return as Ms Gladman the following week. Camps Program All students participate in a graduated Camps program, from The Preps excursion day and tea at school to the Grade 5/6 camp to Roses Gap. Next week the Preps, Grade 3s and Grade 5/6s have their camps. Camps require a lot of organising and overnight camps require staff to spend time away from home. I would like to thank all the staff who are involved. Grade 1 Excursion and Tea All the Grade 1s excitedly boarded the bus this morning for their excursion. The students will be going to Bunnings, Woodsies, Jaycee Park, Park for Play and Ten Pin Bowling. We look forward to hearing about how they enjoyed their excursion and tea. Prep 2016 Next Tuesday, 17th November, will be the first Prep 2016. We look forward to seeing our new students at 9:30am. Please meet in the current Prep rooms. Celebrating our Asian Focus On the week commencing, Monday November 30 th our school will be celebrating the Chinese language and cultural learning that has been undertaken in our Prep-6 classes. On Monday November 30 th, our Grades 3-6 students will participate in their Chinese learning through Skype, whilst our Grades Prep-2 students will collaborate with their Chinese learning partners on Friday December 4 th. We are formally inviting all parents or special friends to come and be involved in the interactive learning. This will be a great opportunity to see how students are involved in some balanced learning through 21 st century development. Monday 12:15pm 5/6S and 5/6G Monday 12:45pm 4/5C and 4V Monday 2:30pm 3C and 3D Friday 11:30am Prep P and Prep R Friday 12:10pm 1T and 1F Friday 12:45pm 2D and 2J T20 Blast Cricket Last Friday the Year 3 and 4 students participated in the T20 Blast competition at the Aerodrome ovals. All students showed great teamwork and sportsmanship. Thanks to all the parents who helped coach and umpire the teams. Grade 6 Graduation At the end of the year we will be once again celebrating another successful year of Grade 6 Irymple South students. During our Graduation we have a number of awards that are won by students. Over many years we have had many kind contributions and are again looking for donations. Any parents that would like to contribute towards an award please see Mr. Milsom by Friday 20th November. Grade 6 Dinner and Disco The Grade 6 students will have their end of year dinner and disco on Tuesday 8th December. School Hours Many students are arriving at school very early. The school grounds are not supervised until 8:30am. Classrooms are not open until then either. If you need to drop your child off early please come and see us to make arrangements. Puberty Education Last week the Grade 6 students participated in a Puberty Education session with Denise Pragt. The students learnt a lot about their bodies and how they are changing and will change during puberty. School Council The next meeting of School Council is next Wednesday 18th November at 6:00pm in the Staff Room. Wanted We require a Playstation 3 Sing Star microphone for use at the Carnival tomorrow night. If you have one could you please contact Natalee Johnson on 0408538356. Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 35, Week 6, Term 4, 2015 2
Classroom Technology Our school s focus has been on providing quality teaching and learning and ensuring best results for all students. Netbooks have been used extensively in Grades 3-6 for several years now and two classroom sets of ipads are shared amongst classes in the school. Our teachers have engaged in extensive professional learning using international research and experts based in Melbourne. This professional learning has supported our teachers to understand how to use technology to support the teaching and learning. There are many outstanding educational opportunities now available. Technology is not used at all times during the day and it will not replace all aspects of the great teaching that currently takes place. It will be used strategically to support students learning and to engage our students in the world in which they live. Irymple South currently provides a range of technology resources to assist in providing engaging learning opportunities for students and teachers. Some of these technologies include: Interactive whiteboard/televisions in all classrooms Computer lab Class sets of netbooks Class sets of ipads Digital reading devices Bring Your Own ipad in 2016 Thank you to the many families who have returned their expression of interest regarding the BYOD program in 2016. After extensive professional reading the staff at ISPS, supported by the School Council will be introducing the BYOD model as an option for parents, based on Apple ipad in 2016. This will not be compulsory and technology will be available for student use if you do not support this program next year. We are currently negotiating with JB Hifi to establish an Irymple South portal where Apple ipads will be available to buy, lease or flexi rent, at competitive prices. More information about this portal should be available very soon. This offer will include options for insurance and apples care and protective cases. If your child already has an ipad then you are welcome to use these devices, except the older models of ipad 1 & 2. Policies are being developed around the use of ipad and other technologies and will encompass possible scenarios which will be distributed to all students and all families. As we are currently doing we will do our utmost to ensure our students use the technology appropriately and are safe online. Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 35, Week 6, Term 4, 2015 3
Grade Two Excursion Last Thursday, we had our excursion and sleepover at school. We went on a paddle steamer, visited the Rio Vista house and the Mildura Homestead to learn about Mildura s local history. We then went to the House of Bounce. When we got back to school we played some games, had dinner, went on a treasure hunt and had a disco before changing into our PJs and getting into our beds. It was very exciting sleeping at school! We all had a wonderful time although we were very tired on Friday! Gabby; My favourite part of the excursion was the disco at school. I felt very excited because there was very loud music! Georgia; My favourite part of the excursion was House of Bounce because it was really fun. There was a lot of jumping involved! I liked the foam pit best of all. Piper; My favourite part of the Grade Two excursion was when we went on the PS Melbourne Paddle steamer. I was so thrilled when I got to see how the engine works and when we got to have a turn steering the wheel! Rueban; My favourite part of the sleepover was getting into my PJs and watching a movie. I was very proud of myself for being brave. Nikala; My favourite part of the grade two sleepover was when we went on the paddle steamer. I liked the view because you could see lots of things. I also liked taking photos of the paddle steamer and around the paddle steamer because I could look back at them and remember that time. Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 35, Week 6, Term 4, 2015 4
Prep R Conor Barker Eliza Sheahan Prep P Harper Black 1T Amelia Petrolo 1F Tara Rielley 2J Rueban Shirnack Grace Zaccone 2D Ned Bottams Cooper Topp STUDENTS OF THE WEEK 3C Tarliah Taylor Will Kennedy 3D Eddie Andronescu Reba Hynam 4V Brayden McGregor 4/5C Mercesdez Jones 5/6G Emma Hogan 5/6S Chloe Waylen PERFORMING ARTS Luca Burford ART Archie Thompson PE Mikael Ale Francis Boulton PRIDE Maddi Micale Jameson Adams HOUSE CAPTAINS Jack Barker SCHOOL CAPTAINS Metisse Bennett PRINCIPAL Lars Castleman Shane Krul NOVEMBER James Bell (9th) Nikala Gray (10th) Darcie Peters (12th) HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ollie Cooper (13th) Monique Rowett (15th) Massimo Tabacco (15th) Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 35, Week 6, Term 4, 2015 5
Week NOVEMBER DECEMBER CALENDAR 2015 7 8 9 MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 16 17 *Grade 5 & 6 Camp *Prep 2016 18 19 23 24 25 Prep 2016 30 Celebrating our Asian focus Art Exhibition 1 2 Prep 2016 *Grade 3 Camp *Prep Excursion and Tea 20 21 22 26 27 28 29 3 4 5 6 Irymple Carols by Candlelight 10 7 RI Christmas Breakup. 8 *Prep 2016 *Grade 6 *Grade 6 Dinner & Disco 9 Grade 6 10 11 12 13 11 14 Grade 6 Graduation & Family Celebration Dinner 15 16 17 18 End of Term 4 19 20 FIRST EUCHARIST 2016 In a recent meeting of the Sacramental Team it was decided that we would celebrate First Eucharist in Grade 4 and Confirmation in either Grade 5 or 6 (yet to be decided). This decision is based upon our desire to make the reception of these Sacraments more pastorally effective. The outline of the Eucharist Program for 2016 will be available in the very near future; however, it would be good for parents to know in advance that they will be expected to attend Faith Formation Evenings in the first week of March 2016. Fr. Michael Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 35, Week 6, Term 4, 2015 6