We Wish All Our Graduates the Very Best in Their Future Studies and Endeavours

20th June, 2017

CHESS CLUB FROM THE NURSE There will be a make-up lesson this Friday, 23rd June at lunchtime for all students in the Chess Club. This is to CHICKEN POX cover the missed lesson due to the recent curriculum day. There have been more cases of Chicken Pox reported in the school. An infected person is contagious for 1-2 days (possibly 5 days) before the onset of the rash and remains 2016 YEAR 6 REUNION infectious until the blisters form scabs (usually around day five of the illness). If your child develops a rash please see 2016 YEAR 6 REUNION your GP. Children with Chicken pox must be excluded from Last Thursday the Year 6 Graduating school until the sores have completely crusted over. class of 2016 attended their reunion at Serpell Primary School. Excitement and Mary Zito energy filled the room and it was School Nurse wonderful to hear all the stories and progress everyone has made at Secondary School. All the students were ND presented with their Alumni badge and were reunited with 2 HAND UNIFORMS their Teachers and friends. The 2016 School Captains did an amazing job speaking in front of their peers and were 2ND HAND UNIFORM SALE very grateful for the wonderful memories Serpell Primary Thank you to those families that have donated their 2nd had created for them. hand uniforms. We have received some excellent quality uniforms and have enough stock to run a sale.

The sale will be held on Thursday 22nd June at 9am in the canteen foyer. There are items in all sizes with large quantities of Size 12 and over. Prices will be as follows: -Shorts & T-shirts $2 -Dresses & Kea Jackets $10 -Everything else $5

CASH ONLY BYO Bags

If you are attending, please consider staying an extra 30 minutes to help us re-fold and pack up at the end.

Don’t forget you can also buy/sell on the Facebook page We wish all our graduates the very best in their future “Serpell Primary Pre-owned Uniform Shop”. You will need studies and endeavours. to request to join the group. Once approved, you can post your items for sale. Costa Kotsiras PARENT’S ASSOCIATION NEWS NEXT PA MEETING

Our monthly meeting will be held this Friday 23 June at We are delighted to announce that collectively we 1.30pm in the Staff Room. Please joins us for a mixture of exceeded our target for the biggest fundraising event on the serious planning as well as some light hearted socialising! year. A profit of $10,000 was made through this year’s School Raffle! This equates to more than 400 raffle books being sold. ROTARY SPEECH CONTEST Our huge gratitude to Raylyn Christou, who was the driving force for this project and without whom this great 2017 Templestowe Rotary Speech Contest result wouldn’t have been achieved. On Wednesday night, 14th June, Templestowe Rotary Club Thank you and well done to all those families and kids who held the 5th Annual Speech Contest for Year 5 and 6 did so well to sell so many tickets! These are the official students in the Templestowe area, held at St Charles prize winners: Borromeo Primary School. Charan Sukumar from Year 6 and Darcy Mitchell from Year 5 were selected to represent 1st Prize – Jenny Li – Ticket 04798 Serpell. Rotary members, sponsor representatives, the 2nd Prize – Andrea Ng – Ticket 07441 Mayor of Manningham, teachers and parents attended the 3rd Prize – Mary Thompson – Ticket 10642 evening, along with contest judges from Toastmasters 4th Prize – Spyropoulos Family – Ticket 11977 International Clubs. The 12 contestants from local Primary 5th Prize – Noseda Family – Ticket 09414 Schools all gave speeches of a very high standard on a variety of topics. Darcy and Charan both presented very Booksellers Prize – Eugene Goh – 5KB confident speeches on the topic, “It’s OK to Be Different”. Both the boys had created very engaging speeches with Yvette Kwei, PA President thoughtful content and presented extremely capably. The [email protected] audience really enjoyed their speeches. At the end of the evening, Serpell not only won the contest, with the CLASS REPS Toastmasters judges awarding Darcy Mitchell first place, but Charan Sukumar took out second place as well! The As the term draws to an end, could all Class Reps do their school will be presented with the perpetual trophy at best to ensure that something has been organised for your assembly soon. Congratulations to Darcy and Charan! We class catch ups. It’s a great opportunity for the families to are extremely proud of both of you. Well done on your get together with their class at least once a term. Please dedicated preparation and rehearsal and thanks to the contact Melissa Tung (Class Rep coordinator) should you parents for their assistance with the boys’ participation require any ideas or assistance. also. Thanks to sponsor, Bendigo Bank, for the $300, $200 and $50 vouchers presented to the boys. NEW ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS 2017/2018

If you would like to purchase a new membership for this year you can do so by:

1. going to the school office, pay directly and receive your book immediately; 2. returning your Entertainment Book form with payment details and a new book will be sent home with your child; 3. if you prefer a digital copy, order online quoting the reference number on the form www.entbook.com.au/187k512

Proceeds from all book sales will go towards our Kerri Bartlett fundraising efforts. SENIOR SCHOOL SPORT DIARY

Round: 7 Date: 15/6/17 Wed 21 Jun Aust. Maths Competition entries close today st 1 Stream SERPELL TEMP PARK Fri 23 Jun Make-up lesson for chess club – Football 20 75 12.30 Yr 5 Building Hot Shots 50 17 Fri 23 Jun PA meeting – 1:30pm in the staff Teeball 19 7 room Soccer 6 2 Fri 30 Jun Last day of Term – 2:30pm Netball A 9 32 finish Netball B 6 15 AUSTRALIAN MATHS COMPETITION 2nd Stream SERPELL MILGATE Football 35 14 Australian Mathematics Competition A reminder that entries for the Australian Mathematics Hot Shots 54 21 Competition (AMC) close TOMORROW, Wednesday 21 st Teeball 28 21 June, 2017. Soccer 3 2 Please ensure prompt return of the entry form and payment Netball A 8 13 to avoid disappointment. Netball B 17 3 Regrettably late entries cannot be accepted. Niyati Robson, Jeremy Tottenham and Nicole Armocida DIVISIONAL CROSS COUNTRY Competition Co-ordinators

MANNINGHAM /MAROONDAH DIVISIONAL CROSS COU TOURNAMENT OF THE MINDS NTRY Tournament of Minds

Last Tuesday afternoon, 13 students participated at the Divi This term fourteen Year 5 and 6 students have begun sional Cross Country Carnival, held at Yarra Glen Racecour working towards the Tournament of Minds Regional se. In fields of 50-60 participants, we competed against Mar competition for 2017. oondah Division for coveted places at the Eastern Region fi nals being held today, the 20th June. The children have be This competition involves a great deal of dedication, hard en training hard, running about 10kms at school every week work and enthusiasm from the students and allows them to since the start of the term. Well done to all the children, reg build their profiles as learners, thinkers, collaborators and ardless of whether they have made it to the next level or not. leaders. Our students are working with long term Be proud of your achievements thus far and your efforts to challenges that involve planning and creating, as well as get there. Three children will run next week - Sienna Rowe training for a Spontaneous Challenge to be completed on U10 (2nd); Olivia May U10 (3rd) and Anita Birchall U11 (10t the performance day. h). Remaining places are as follows - The regional competition is undertaken by approximately Samuel Niemes (15th); Miranda Chu (17th); Julian Ene (28t 500 teams across Victoria and Serpell is proud to have two h); William Morrison (29th); Ry Cantwell (31st); Logan Cox exceptional teams working towards this challenge. (32nd); Adam Halabi (38th); Olivia Kwei (41st); Lia Nikolouz akis (41st); Anthony Himing (43rd). Check out the ToM blog to learn more about Tournament of Recognition must also go to Ayan Mohammad, Montana Ba Minds. You will find sample challenges, brain training links sile, Yee Yuan Lim and Matthew Sabiston who qualified as and general information for the tournament! emergencies. Even though they were not called upon to run, they still trained hard with the others all term. http://tomatserpell.global2.vic.edu.au/ Thank you also to the parents who came in support and als o assisted with transport. Niyati Robson (Tournament of Minds Coordinator) Lola Hughes Rebecca Koth, Jack Kinder and Nicole Armocida Coach (Team Facilitators) BEFORE & AFTER SCHOOL CARE SERPELL BASKETBALL

Wow only two weeks of school until the holidays are upon BASKETBALL RESULTS WEEK ENDING 17th JUNE us. This week we are continuing our art program of shapes, SEMI FINALS maths and colours, the children have been enjoying U 11 Girls Sunrays 11 Milgate Stars 10 creating the different art. U 9 Boys Spurs 10 OLOP Pirates 12 Scorpions 18 Milgate Monsters 28 Winter weather is with us, we are heading out side to play games on the basketball court and when weather permits, Spartans 28 Donvale Destroyers 25 we head to the oval as well. The children have been having fun with soccer, footy, two square and four square U 11 Boys Coyotes 15 OOLP Panther 16 and down ball, plus much more. U 9 Boys Cubs 12 Beverly Hills Bandits 1

Inside there has been dodgeball, skittles, group circle MID WEEK COMPETITION games, some fun running games, dress ups, card games Grade 3 / Sabers 22 Templestowe Valley Lucas and so much more. 4 20 School holiday club bookings are now open. There are so many fun and exciting activities. We will be heading to the movies to see the Despicable 3 movie and creating fun SERPELL NETBALL items to take home. There will be sports games, art/craft, quiet activities, imagination activities, science and cooking. Saturday 17th June Each day will have many activities on hand. Please log on to the Camp Australia website to see what is happening each day. Don't forget to book! The Jets played in the semi-final on Saturday and had a good win so will be For all your account needs please log on playing in the grand final next Saturday. to www.campaustalia.com.au and use the parent portal. We wish them all the best. The Meteors played their final game and finished on top of the ladder in A special thank you to all the parents who are getting in their section, after a draw with the second placed team. touch with us that their child is not attending on the day. It The Comets have shown great progress this season and makes getting the program activities easier to start. had a lot of fun, and we congratulate them on their sportsmanship. Thanks to all the coaches for their efforts For the parents with bookings on the day please call or text on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The players and families us that your child is attending before the program starts so appreciate your contribution. Finally, thanks to all the we can maintain the appropriate ratio for educators to parents for their support. The final training for this term is children. on Tuesday and then training will resume in Term 3 on the 18th of July. Have a great week, Jets defeated Eltham Giants 20 – 10 Christine, David and educators Meteors drew with Warrandyte 10 - 10 0424 454 961 Comets lost to Deep Creek 0 - 6