Responsibility Acceptance Respect Honesty Cooperation Resilience June 26th, 2014 Issue 20, Week 10, Term NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL-Robyn Brooks Reports Reports have been sent home today. Each child will receive their report in a green plastic folder. Please take the time to read the report with your child and look at their work samples with them. The report will provide you with a summary of what your child has achieved so far this year. The report will contain; The dot page which shows where your child is in relation to the AusVels standards A reflection from the teacher and your child on their learning Comments about programs that have been covered this semester Samples of Reading, Writing and Maths Fees School Fees were due last term. This year we are holding a Free Fee Draw. If you have paid all your families fees before the end of second term (tomorrow) you will go in a draw to get ONE child s fees returned to you. This is a great incentive as you could save $200! We have EFTPOS facilities at the office for fee payments. Cinema Night Last Thursday night a number of people from CASUAL DRESS DAY Tomorrow the Junior School Council will be holding a casual dress day to raise money for Ronald McDonald House. A GOLD COIN donation is required to dress in casual dress tomorrow. After recess the Grade 6s have organised a variety of indoor activities for all students to enjoy. The students will be placed into multi-age groups for these activities. END OF TERM 2 Tomorrow is the final day of school for Term 2. It has been yet another busy term with Interschool Sport, Cross Country, the Autumn Harvest Festival, Mother s Day Stall, Learning Conferences and the Anzac Day Ceremony. Students will be dismissed early tomorrow at 2:15pm. Bus travellers will be dismissed at 2:10pm. We hope that you have a safe and enjoyable holiday break. Term 3 commences on Monday 14th July. the ISPS community viewed the film Blended followed by a supper at the Mildura Club. It was a great night and we raised $3000 which will go towards the shade sails for the playground areas. Staffing We have a number of staffing changes for the beginning of Term 3. We welcome Mrs Kerri Retallick to our staff. Kerri is employed as an Education Support officer. We hope that she enjoys being part of our school community. Miss Katelyn Thompson is away for two weeks and Mrs Nadine McWilliams is teaching 1T. Miss Sarah Gladman is away for two weeks and Mrs Aleisha Milne is teaching 2G. Miss Lauren O Connor is away for three weeks and Mrs Stacey McDermott and Mrs Renee Giddings will be teaching 5/6O. School Pie Drive Help raise money for our school by selling pies from MINTERS bakery. An order form is attached to this week s newsletter. Collect orders from family and friends, if you need an extra order form please ask at the office. Money and orders need to be returned to 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 20, Week 10, Term 2, 2014 1
SCIENCE with Mrs Warn Students of the Week school by Tuesday 29th July. The pies will be delivered to the school on Thursday 7th August. HAPPY SELLING! If anyone is available on either the 29th July or the 7th August to help with orders please call Toni Bottams on 0427246441 Athletic Sports Our Athletic Sports will be held on Wednesday 6th August. Students have started training for the events that they will participate in during their PE sessions. Rugby On Tuesday both our Boys and girls rugby teams braved the cold wintery weather down at the Aero ovals in the Sunraysia Interschool Finals. The boys were competing against Mildura, Ranfurly and St Pauls, whilst the girls were playing Mildura South and St Pauls. Both of our teams made the grand finals, being undefeated in the pool matches. In the boys grand final we played the strong Mildura Primary. Our boys got off to a great start scoring first and had the scores level at half time. Mildura primary came out after the break and used their larger bodies to score a few more times defeating us 20-8. The girls played Mildura South in the Final. Using a lot of run and evasion they were able to get through the defences of Mildura South to score a number of times to eventually win 12-4. The girls are now the Sunraysia Grade 5/6 Girls Tag Champions and have qualified to participate in the State finals in November. During the presentation ceremony they announced best players for the day in all age groups. We had Mckensie Wade named player of the day for the girls. We also had Tyson Giles named as player of the day for the boys. Prep R Charlie Puleio Prep P Ashley Harwood 1T Rueban Shirnack 1M Grace Zaccone 2J Sebastian Morello 2G Maya McGregor 3D Lachlan Adolph Ethan Bruton 3C Jack Collins 4/5V Lainie Black 4/5C Jesse Orsini 5/6O Jack Chiswell 5/6S Logan Mazza Art Lachie Allan Performing Arts Rydge Herbert P.E. Jessica Bertoli House Captains Angus Cooper Principal Archie Thompson Harper Milsom Force and Movement During Science, students in 4/5C, 4/5V, 5/6O and 5/6S used their knowledge of what an Information Poster might look like and what it should include and applied this to designing an information report about Sir Isaac Newton and his 3 Laws of Motion. Students could present it either as a word document, power-point presentation or use an A3 poster page to present their work. Students then shared their work with their classmates. Students in 2J, 2G, 3D and 3C continued their investigating and exploration of how the transfer of energy works. They used dominoes this week to demonstrate this energy transfer. Students in 1T and 1M this week made paper helicopters to show how gravity and air pressure work on a falling object. Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 20, Week 10, Term 2, 2014 2
IDIOMS An IDIOM is a phrase that means something different from the meaning of the words written. Idioms are a type of figurative language. In 4/5C we have been looking at idioms and unpacking what they mean. We chose an idiom and drew what the actual words meant and what the idiom was saying. We really enjoyed investigating idioms and will use them in our writing to make it more interesting. 4/5C Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 20, Week 10, Term 2, 2014 3
Happy Birthday Week JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER CALENDAR 2014 MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN 1 14 TERM 3 15 16 17 18 19 20 2 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 3 4 28 29 30 School Council 4 5 6 Athletic Sports 31 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 9 10 Grade 4 Camp 11 12 13 14 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 JUNE Jack Thompson (25th) Kieran Burrows (27th) Harrison Lavery (27th) Nell Banks-Purcell (28th) Jordan Szeto (29th Sunraysia Hockey Association is looking for new players in Under 9s, Under 11s, Under 13s, Under 15 Boys & Under 16 Girls, Senior Men and Women. Training and Games are held at the hockey field off 11 th Street. For more information please speak to Sunraysia Hockey Association President Andrew Carrigan on 0417072559. Irymple South Primary School Newsletter - Issue 20, Week 10, Term 2, 2014 4
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