St Patrick's Primary School, Phone: (03) 5859 0371 Fax: (03) 5859 0631 Email: [email protected] Strength & Kindliness

St. Patrick’s will provide a child safe environment where all children have the right to be treated with respect and will be protected from harm.

Principal’s Message

And so we draw to the close of another term…This is the last newsletter for Term 3, 2019.

I hope that these school holidays allow you an opportunity to spend time with your children and hopefully enjoy some improved weather.

Thank you to all families for their support and contributions to our community over this last term.

th We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 7 October for the first day of Term 4.

Have a great break.

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Start searching for your Hats!

A reminder to parents and students.

Hats must be worn during outdoor play. This starts the first day back in Term 4.

No hat, no play!

Here are some tips for all of us in preparation for the warmer weather.

1. Slip on sun protective clothing 2. 2. Slop on SPF 30 or higher sunscreen 3. 3. Slap on a wide brimmed hat 4. 4. Seek shade 5. 5. Slide on some wrap-around sunglasses

Swimming Program Swimming at the Pool is always a fabulous way to finish off a busy term. The students all seem excited about the change in routine for our final week of term. Most are looking forward to their lessons, some are definitely worried about being challenged and out of their comfort zone, but we know from experience that all return back to school each day happy and exhausted.

A reminder that our bus leaves at 8.50am each morning. Students need to come with their bathers under their school uniforms, ready to go in the morning and we will get changed at the pool before returning to school by 12.30pm. A big thanks to Tom Pyke and Kieran Brennan for being the male supervisors during this week.

Friday Feeds will swap to Thursday Tucker Time next week as our final school day on Friday finishes up with students dismissed at 1.30pm.

Important School Procedures for absences and late comers… Thank you and well done to our parents and care givers for making a big effort to contact the school if your child is absent. There has been a big improvement in this communication between home and school . W e know that the students are keen to be at school 100% of the time, or to let us know why they are away via a note, phone call, email, text or Facebook message. Their motivation is possibly because they have been learning about the connection between strong attendance and achievement and may also be fuelled by the desire to be the first class to get to the target of 100% , allowing them to be the first to enjoy the reward of hot chips with the class. Str ength & Kindliness

Another important procedure is one that rests solely with the parents and caregivers. If your child is late to school, an adult is required to come to the front office and sign the student in. Students are not permitted to just come to school late on their own. They must be signed in by an adult. We thank you for your co-operation with this. It is an important way that we can keep the children safe and know where everyone is at all times.

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Thank You

We are the grateful recipients of $500 sponsorship from the Moama RSL Club.

We have purchased some new equipment to make Paddy’s Playgroup even better! (If that is possible?)

Next term Emma will be introducing the children to activities designed to develop the motor skills of these little people. Our program will include activities that are from the Perceptual Motor Program (PMP). This is a movement-based program which helps younger students improve their eye/hand and eye/foot coordination, fitness, balance, locomotion and eye-tracking skills. Emma will be needing parents to help her with these activities!

Thank You to all families for your support of the coin line fundraiser to support our local Lions Club to raise funds for Childhood Cancer. We made a coin line that totalled $257 and was in the shape of the gold ribbon that is the international awareness symbol for Childhood Cancer . Well done everyone. It is the support for little things like this that make our school so great.

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Thank you so much….

We welcomed Jenny from the Tongala and District Bendigo Bank to our assembly on Monday. Jenny presented our school with a big cheque, valued to $5000. We are using this money to add basketball rings to each end of our newly resurfaced court. We are hopeful that these basketball rings will be installed in the holidays which will make it very exciting for the students to come back to school in Term 4. We are extremely grateful to the Tongala and District Bendigo Community Bank Branch for their support.

Small gathering on Friday afternoon… Is anyone coming along without their children to our catch-up in the Cill Dara at 5.30pm?

FUN RUN – 0CTOBER 10 TH AT 10:00AM Thank you Shannon Ryan for organising this fundraiser for St Patrick’s. Forms will go home next week.

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Bendigo Bank Monthly Award

Dakoda Fitzpatrick – for her happy and positive attitude towards school and helping others

Bendigo Bank – Weekly Awards Shila Cleveland – who is always happy and nice to everyone Hayley Wickham – for never giving up with her schoolwork (absent)

Class Awards

Ewan Ryan-working towards his reading goal Tamara Brennan-showing great leadership and help Willow Young-for always showing enthusiasm Tessa Stokes-for doing her homework while in hospital Eve Ryan- for always being enthusiastic about her learning James Wallace- for caring about his leaning

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READING AWARDS 50 nights-Georgia Fitzallen, Charlie Dicker, Taylor Heald 75 nights – Lucindah Stagg 100 nights – Harmony Caspar, Logan D’Urso, Tamara Brennan, Henry Millar, Marcus Keirl 150 nights – Kane Pyke, Lucas Pyke

PBIS AWARDS

Max Caspar – being good in library Ruby Heald – great singing when we were practising Marcus Keirl – reading every night and morning

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Grade 4/5/6 English We are learning about the structure and the rules of poetry. It’s a beautiful way of showing emotion in a different way of writing. We have learnt that there are many different ways to write a poem. Four of the grade 6 girls have been picking out a poem to recite at the Fauna Park Bush Poetry competition.

Maths We are working our way through our Fast 50s to improve our times tables. We are learning about money using Banqer and Prodigy. We get given Banqer money for doing our homework, bringing in our reading diaries and for getting awards. We use this money to learn about banking.

Inquiry We are learning about the Amazon rainforest. We have learnt about the animals of the rainforest and the impact that deforestation is having on them. We are also researching the massive fires that are currently burning in the rainforest.

Religion We just finished our unit on the Circle of Life. We made memory boxes about a special person or thing that is no longer in our life. We also wrote poems based on Ecclesiastes about a time in our life that we experienced sadness.

Sport We are learning Frisbee footy. We have new Frisbees to use which is cool. It’s a team game where you need to use strategies and work as a team. We are also learning about Euro Ball which is similar to Frisbee Footy but we use a low inflation ball.

PADDY’S PLAYGROUP

This week we had our last Paddy's Playgroup session for term 3. As our story for the last few weeks has been the Gingerbread Man, we decorated some very yummy gingerbread people which were quickly gobbled up after a quick group photo. Thank you to all of the families who have filled our Wednesday mornings with fun and laughter. We look forward to kicking off playgroup for term 4 on Wednesday 9th October.

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F/1 Class The junior class had a great time exploring the buildings in our town for our geography unit. Tongala Street Art welcomed us and helped us learn about our town through murals and stories. Following this we used our ozobots to take a trip around our town, using coding to stop at different shops and places. Next week we are going to work on building the shops in our town using crafts. Watch this space!

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Birthdays! Happy Birthday to

Jordyn Flasza-24 th September

Hayley Wickham – 5th October

By Toby Parsons

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KYVALLEY TENNIS CLUB

Junior Registration Nights When: Thursday 12 th and 19 th September, 2019. Time: 5-6pm

Hot Shots We will again be offering Hot Shots to preschool and school age children. Children as young as 3 years can participate, up to around 12 years of age. When: Thursday nights commencing 17th October, 2019. Cost: $20 per child for 6 week program. Time: to be confirmed

School Holiday Junior Coaching 2 day clinic Local professional tennis coach David Starling will be running a two day clinic in the September school holidays. Dates: Thursday 3rd and Friday 4 th October, 2019. Cost: $55 for the 2 days Time : 9.30-11.30am (5-10 yrs.) and 11.30-1.30pm (Over 10 yrs). NB. Age groups and times subject to change depending on the age and number of participants booked in.

Pick My Project - Synthetic Court Upgrade – Grand Opening Date: Sunday 13 th October Time: 11am

Fast4 Family Twilight Social Tennis Dates: Friday 25 th October, 15 th and 29 th November, 2019. Time: 6.30pm

For further information contact Melissa Williams on 0412 822 029 / [email protected]

www.facebook.com/kyvalleytennisclub/

FREE DENTAL TREATMENT Are you…….. • aged between 2-17 years for at least one day of the calendar year, and • receiving (or your family, partner, guardian or carer receiving) Family Tax Benefit Part A or other eligible government payments for at least one day of the calendar year, and • eligible for Medicare? Then you may be eligible for the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CDBS) which provides eligible children with benefits for basic dental services, capped at $1000 over two consecutive calendar years. Carolynne Coutts-Smith (Dental Therapist), of Allan St Dental Rooms 88 Allan St, Kyabram Ph: 5852 2553 are currently delivering bulk-billing services through Medicare to provide dental treatment under the CDBS. If you have had a letter from Medicare this year, or would like to check online to see if you are eligible for this scheme, call us to make an appointment on 5852 2553 . Don’t forget to mention the CDBS when making your appointment and to bring your Medicare card with you – no upfront payment required . We look forward to seeing you.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

SEPTEMBER

13 th P/1 Billabong Ranch

16-20 th Whole school swimming – Shepparton

20 th End Term 3 – Dismiss at 1:30pm

OCTOBER

7th Term 4 commences

10 th FUN RUN -10:00am

11 th Mass at St. Augustine’s Kyabram –Whole School

23 rd ARENA THEATRE – FINAL PERFORMANCE

24 th Beesheeba Day

31 st Confirmation St Augustine’s Kyabram

NOVEMBER

4TH PUPIL FREE (Report writing)

5th PUPIL FREE ( Cup)

7th P/1/2 – Tabloid Sports Kyabram

DECEMBER

9th PUPIL FREE (2020 Planning)

16 th Grade 6 Luncheon

18 th END OF YEAR MASS AND GRADUATION -6:00pm

Final day for students