PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.3067

TERM 4 NO. 39 9th December 2013

Victoria Street, Tallygaroopna Phone 03 58298264 Fax 03 58298244 [email protected] Website - http://www.tally-ps-3067.vic.edu.au/ Mobile 0403625625 / 0411960164 Facebook Page – Click here SCHOOL VALUES – RESPECT, HONESTY & INCLUSION

News from the Principal’s Desk Hi everyone, A morning tea will be held on Thursday, 30th Last week was an eventful one with some great extra curricula January 2014 to welcome new and existing families activities taking place. On Tuesday, the Grade 2/3/4 students were lucky to get some good weather and participate in the T20 into the new school year. This will be held in the new Cricket Tournament at . Both girls and boys teams school kitchen straight after assembly from about did a great job in the heat and I was extremely proud of the girls, 9.15am to 10am. Could families bring a plate to whom many had never played cricket before. To win their final share if possible and tea and coffee will be provided. game of the day was a great achievement. The boys, under the guidance of Andrea Walker, were very competitive all day and were able to knock off Guthrie St. PS in the final, winning by a THE LAST PLAYGROUP FOR THE YEAR WILL BE single run. What a game and what an effort by all of our kids. HELD ON THURSDAY 19th DECEMBER. WE LOOK Special thanks to all the parents who assisted with transport and FORWARD TO THIS GROUP CONTINUING IN 2014. came along to support the children on the day. Our End of Year excursion to Echuca was a success despite the unpredictable weather and many photos are in this edition of the A Brochure and Enrolment Form went home for newsletter. It is always great to see all of the families attend this After School Care for all children last week. This day and interact with their kids and I look forward to another big must be filled in by all families before being excursion in December next year. I welcome any feedback in relation to this. enrolled in this program before the school Tomorrow is our Orientation Day and I wish all of the Grade 6’s holidays. These 2 documents can be a rewarding day at Wanganui Secondary College. Our new downloaded from our school website - here Preps will be at our school for the whole day also and I look forward to seeing them start to build relationships with the other children at our school. Our final excursion for the year is at GRADE 6 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS MUST Aquamoves on Thursday as well – please return permission BE HANDED TO MR BRODIE BY FRIDAY. forms before this day. Last week all individual children received an Enrolment form for After School Care (OSH) and it is imperative that all families fill these in for each child. This will enable all children in the school to be part of the program if needed. This is a requirement SCHOOL STARTS IN 2014 before all families book a casual or permanent place – no children can participate in this care unless this is filled in. Finally, school reports go out on Monday in sealed envelopes TH and staff are available for an informal interview if needed. Feel THURSDAY 30 JANUARY FOR free to contact the office if needed to organise a day and time. Have a great week everyone. Karen will be at the office until ALL STUDENTS FROM Thursday as always if any matters need addressing. I will be away on Friday at a Principals Meeting unfortunately. FOUNDATION YEARS (PREP)

David Brodie (Teaching Principal) TO GRADE 6. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. SCIENTISTS OF THE WEEK – Teagan / Connor Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013 School Facebook Likes – 51 and growing

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Photos of the Week – End of Year Excursion (Echuca)

TALLYGAROOPNA PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIDES ITSELF ON BEING A COMMUNITY SCHOOL

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Photos of the Week – End of Year Excursion (Echuca) – and some more!!!

ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR THE END OF YEAR EXCURSION FOR 2014 WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THIS IS PLANNED FOR THURSDAY 4th DECEMBER.

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Photos of the Week – Grade 2/3/4 Cricket Tournament

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BIRTHDAY’S AT TALLYGAROOPNA PS – great work Mums!!

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION – LAST SESSION

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SCC is looking for junior riders! Come & try track cycling for children aged 7 years & over. The club conducts trainings & try days on Mondays 4.30pm-6pm at the Velodrome in Packham St, Shepparton, with racing on Wednesday evenings for all to watch & participate when ready. Junior members are able to have a go at cycling with minimal expense, first year membership is FREE, and we provide the bikes, helmet & gloves for new members. For more info contact Edward at [email protected] or come down on Monday night for a go!

LAST YEAR FAMILIES MADE A DONATION TOWARDS THIS CAMPAIGN OF ANY AMOUNT THEY THOUGHT WAS APPROPRIATE AND THE STUDENTS DID A JOB AT HOME IN RELATION TO THIS. WE WILL IMPLEMENT THIS AGAIN AND THEN MRS HABERFIELD WILL PURCHASE SOME NEW TOYS FOR THIS CAMPAIGN.

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STUDENTS OF THE WEEK – Term 4 / Week 9

All students received a certificate and also a free icy pole voucher to use this term.

Foundation / Grade 1 Terrific Turtle’s Jade Klein for her leadership skills that she shows in the classroom and the playground. Jade is great at helping other students in her grade. Great work Jade.

Grade 2/3/4 Freaky Frogs Liv Burgess for the kindness and care she always shows to her classmates and for the persistence she shows in completing her work. Well done Liv!

Grade 5/6 Mad Monkeys Harri Ring for the way that he has assisted with Playgroup this year and for the conscious effort he is showing with finishing the year on a good note.

Values Vault Winners for Week 9 are Taylah Groves, Cohan Hall and Tom Haberfield.

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1. Grade 6 Scholarship Applications – DUE FRIDAY Spade Computers has kindly offered a Scholarship for a Grade 6 student to the value of $500. All students are encouraged to submit an application which will need to be given to Mr Brodie by Friday 13th December. The Scholarship will be awarded to the student on Tuesday 17th December at the Christmas Concert / Graduation Night and presented by David Steigenberger from Spade Computers. A lot of consideration has been made in regard to making this process fair for everyone, but to make it meaningful only one award will be given. Staff at school will have the hard task of selecting the recipient of this scholarship and Spade Computers will be involved in the decision process as well. We hope this partnership may continue for years to come.

The application should be between 250 and 500 words and typed up. The application should be completed at home and students will need to follow the guidelines below:

Application: 1. Comment on your time at Tallygaroopna Primary School. 2. Comment on what have been your highlights at Tallygaroopna Primary School. 3. Comment on what makes Tallygaroopna Primary School unique. 4. Comment on how you have demonstrated behaviour and a work ethic that reflects our school values of Respect, Honesty and Inclusion.

All grade 6 students received a formal letter in relation to this.

2. Class Structures for 2014 Next year again promises to be a very exciting one at Tallygaroopna Primary School. We anticipate starting the year with 47 students, with the aim of building on this for the future. We will continue to provide well-structured and resourced literacy and numeracy blocks along with a variety of specialist subjects as well. Art, Library, LOTE (Italian), Science, Information Technology and Physical Education will continue to be implemented.

Next year, we will be still keeping our 3 grades and I will continue teaching in a Full Time capacity.

Prep / Grade 1 – Mrs Wallace (12 students – 7/5) Science – taught by all class teachers Grade 2/3/4 – Mrs Haberfield (21 students – 11/8/2) Bounce Back – taught by all class teachers Grade 5/6 – Mr Brodie (14 students – 10/4) Information Technology – Mr Brodie / Mrs Haberfield School Business Manager – Mrs Armstrong Physical Education – Mr Brodie / Mrs Wallace

We hope Library will continue to be held on a Thursday, with Art also on a Friday – to be confimred. These days will alternate each week.

3. School Reports As stated previously, school reports will be distributed in sealed envelopes next Monday. If parents would like some more feedback about individual student performance at school feel free to contact class teachers to arrange an informal meeting once reports are distributed to families. Teachers spend a lot of valuable time putting these together so please take the time to read these before the school year ends. Remember that these reports can be placed in the green report folders which every student at school should have. The report cards have:  a chart with an A-E rating, showing your child's current progress against the expected state-wide standard as well as the progress they have made since the previous year  a chart showing your child‘s level of effort and class behaviour  details about attendance  easy to understand comments from teachers outlining what your child knows and can do, any areas in which your child needs to be given further help or extended, and how this will be done  suggestions for how you can help at home

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4. End of Year Excursion A huge thank you to the many families who attended the Echuca excursion and helped with supervision. This was an enjoyable day considering the fluctuating weather. Consultation will take place early next year in regard to the 2014 excursion, but at this stage we hope to perhaps do something different. Feel free to give the staff any feedback in regard to the day and we will take this on board when we begin planning next year.

5. Shirt Signing – Grade 6 Only Grade 6 students will have an opportunity to sign some of their school shirts if they have written permission by their parents. This will need to be handed into Mr Brodie. This will occur on the last day of school in the morning and all shirts to be signed should be placed in a plastic bag. The last day of the year is a Causal Day so no school uniforms will be required on this day. Please take into consideration if you would like to use these uniforms into the future. The day gives students the chance to take away a souvenir from their time at Primary School – not compulsory.

6. Grade 5/6 Class Grade 5/6 students have decided to participate in Kris Kringle for Christmas. These will be handed out to students on the last day of school – Friday 20th December. Details are below:  Presents can be things you have at home, which you don’t use but are wrapped and not opened. The other choice is to buy something.  Minimum limit of about $10. You can spend more if you wish – personal choice.  Try and get something suitable for the person you have drawn – Mr Brodie has details about this.  Who you draw out should remain secret to add a little bit of fun.  You can tell them if you like when they receive their present.  You can add your own flavour to this – poem, photos, stories, funny moments  To make if fun as well – you can over the next couple of weeks give them little treats (small lollies, toys, treats). You will need to be sneaky and clever with this.

Our Final Spelling and Tables Test was held today. The Big Spelling Test will be held on Wednesday 11th December. There will be no homework and tests for the last week of school. Home Reading is still strongly encouraged. Next week we will have our Class Party on Thursday 19th of December (a movie will be included – either G or PG) and Grade 6’s will have an opportunity to sign shirts for souvenirs on the Friday – last day of school.

7. 2014 Preps During the month of February, students in Preps will not attend school on Wednesdays. The first full week will begin in the week starting Monday 3rd March. All students will be required to attend school on Thursday 30th January.

8. Senior Playground Last week at assembly, we discussed safe play on the school playgrounds. During the last few weeks, some children have been playing inappropriately on both the senior and junior playgrounds so this was discussed at length. As a result, to ensure everyone is safe at school students from Prep – Year 2 will not be allowed to use the yellow slide, platform, climbing wall and red curled entry to the platform. They are strongly encouraged to use the Junior Playground area which is next to the cubby house. This is in line with the Guidelines for School Playgrounds so could this be reinforced at home please. We are in the process of getting some signage in regard to this as well.

Guidelines for School Playgrounds - 3.5 Height of fall The ‘height of fall’ is the greatest distance between a part of the equipment to which a child has reasonably foreseeable access and the playing surface of equipment beneath. This should not exceed 2.5 metres. It is appropriate to reduce the distance, particularly when younger children may be involved. A separate play area for students in Prep to Year 2 may be desirable where a maximum fall height of 1.5m is considered preferable.

9. Orientation Day On Tuesday 10th December, it is the State-wide Orientation Day. Students will be in their new grades for 2014 for the whole day – including new Preps for 2014. Good luck to our current Grade 6 students who will attend Wanganui Park SC for the whole day and utilise the bus for transport as well.

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Bev Montgomery, our Uniform Coordinator will be at school on Orientation Day, 10th December to help our 2014 Prep student parents with uniforms. An order will be put through after this day so if anyone wishes to order uniforms could they please place an order before this date.

10. Bus Service for 2014 I am currently in the process of organizing the new bus route for the start of 2014. This takes some time to organize and I will be contacting families over the holiday period to inform them of specific times and drop off and pick up points. Currently, I have the following students wishing to use the bus for the beginning of 2014. Unfortunately, we are unable to get a larger bus for next year, so I will be discussing this issue with some families this week because there are only 21 available seats on our school bus.

Kyle Montgomery Mikayla Church Nicolas Church Matthew Church Bill Klein Dan Klein Jade Klein Harvey Walker Eloise Walker Lilly Walker – New Prep Liv Burgess Daniel Collins Leah Collins Zoe Collins Josh Collins – New Prep Lachie Mawson – New Prep Kelsie Dempster Ryan Voss Brooke Voss Beau Voss – New Prep Zane Brown Brittany Meyland Jake Buckland

If any of this information is incorrect, could you contact me ASAP so that the bus run can be finalized and organized without any problems. Mr Brodie

11. Outside School Hours Care At our last School Council meeting, it was decided that we would implement Outside Hours School Care next year. We are still in the planning stages at present, but we are looking at supporting families from 3.30pm until 6pm from Wednesday until Friday for the 2014 school year. This announcement is a fantastic one for our school and we hope that it will be a success next year and hopefully financially viable for years to come. If anyone can help out in any way with this program feel free to contact David Brodie at school.

We have made formal Provider and Service Approval Applications and we are now awaiting a formal interview in regard to the program.

ENROLMENT FORMS MUST BE RETURNED FOR EACH STUDENT BEFORE THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM AFTER SCHOOL HOURS – WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

12. Term Dates - 2014 These dates have now been confirmed at School Council. Please keep these in a handy spot as you may wish to book your family holidays during the school holidays. All staff at Tallygaroopna PS will be involved in First Aid Training on Tuesday 28th January and the following day all staff will be involved in a Planning Day for the start of the School Year. As a result, all students will start on the Thursday.

Term 1 – January 28th until 4th April (all students from F-6 to start on Thursday 30th January) Term 2 – 22nd April until 27th June Term 3 – 14th July until 19th September Term 4 – 6th October until 19th December

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13. Cluster Swimming Day – change of venue The final Cluster Day will be held on the Aquamoves Pool on Thursday 12th of December. Permission forms went home last week and must be returned before the day. The cost for the day is $5 which covers entry to the pool and the bus. As always, excursions are a privilege not a right to attend and behaviour and attendance will be closely monitored before the event. We will leave school at 9.30am and should return back to school by 2.30pm. The kiosk will also be open for the students throughout the day so some extra money can be brought along if needed.

14. AASC Program Our Active After School Program concludes tomorrow – Touch Footy. On behalf of the school community, I would like to acknowledge Andrea Walker for her assistance throughout the whole year as our program supervisor and for Jill McFarlane and Gillian O’Brien for assisting when needed. Your support is really appreciated and without this, fun and enjoyable programs would not be able to be implemented. We look forward to parental support again next year.

Last week’s participation award was handed out to Jordan – free icy pole. A reminder that school hats are always required during this after school program. The program for 2014 has been finalised: Term 1 – Monday (Soccer), Tuesday (Tennis) Term 2 – Monday (Taekwondo), Tuesday (Dance)

15. New Enrolments - 2014 Enrolment Packages can be collected from the school office and an informal tour of the school can be requested if needed. Feel free to contact Mr Brodie any time.

Keyboard and Guitar Lessons for 2014 Cliff Doorncamp will be conducting both guitar and keyboard lessons at the school in 2014. Lessons are held each Monday with individual lessons lasting 20 minutes. The cost of the lessons is $16 per session (payable at time of lesson). For more information, please contact Cliff on 5828 6395 or 0474 769 963. Please return form below to the school office to express your interest. Name ………………… Grade ……………………. Parent’s Signature ………………………… Phone …………………………….

Guitar Keyboard

Congratulations to Jordan O’Brien and Good Luck! Jordan is running at the Victorian Little Athletics State Relay Championships on Saturday 14th Dec. at Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park.

Events – Under 11 Boys 4 X 200 M Under 9-11 Boys 800 M Medley.

Teams from this region qualified at the North-East Region Relay Championships held on Sunday 1st Dec. in Shepp.

Second-hand Uniforms If anyone has any small sized uniforms that they no longer require could you please send them along to school. Thank you Bev Montgomery (Uniform Coordinator)

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There are a lot of unnamed items in lost property, particularly small sized windcheaters, etc – could parents please check this box asap.

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END OF YEAR CHRISTMAS CONCERT / GRADUATION NIGHT

TALLYGAROOPNA PRIMARY SCHOOL

We have scheduled this night for Tuesday 17th December beginning at 6.20pm with tea if families wish. This will be a very informal night with some Christmas Carols at 7pm and presentations to Grade 6 students at 7.15pm followed by Powerpoint presentations at 7.30pm. A BBQ will be provided (sausages / hamburgers) on the night – families will need to bring their own salad to share and drinks if they wish. Santa will be arriving on the night at about 7.45pm and we are hoping to invite new children and families who will be at our school next year. Families should have received a small note about the night last week in a sealed envelope.

For Catering Purposes could the following be filled in and returned to the office before Friday 13th December.

Our family………………….will be coming to the Family BBQ night before the Christmas Concert / Graduation Night on Tuesday 17th December. We will need to be catered for ……. people.

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NORTHERNERS CRICKET DRAW – UNDER 12’S 20/20 GAME WILL BE HELD AT TALLY PS ON FRID 20TH DEC AFTER SCHOOL STARTING AT 4.30PM.

Round 4

Fri 6 Dec, 13 Dec(4:30 PM) Pine Lodge v Red Congupna PS

Fri 6 Dec, 13 Dec(4:30 PM) Toolamba v

Fri 6 Dec, 13 Dec(5:00 PM) Renegades v Katandra St Josephs Numurkah

Sat 7 Dec, 14 Dec(8:30 AM) Numurkah Scorchers v Northerners Numurkah Youth Club

Sat 7 Dec, 14 Dec(8:30 AM) BYE v Karramomus Gold

Round 5

Fri 17 Jan, 24 Jan(4:30 PM) Pine Lodge v Mooroopna Congupna PS

Fri 17 Jan, 24 Jan(4:30 PM) Northerners v Karramomus Gold Tallygaroopna Prim...

Fri 17 Jan, 24 Jan(4:30 PM) Toolamba v Numurkah Renegades Kialla West

Sat 18 Jan, 25 Jan(8:30 AM) Karramomus Red v Numurkah Scorchers Wilmott Rd Primary...

Sat 18 Jan, 25 Jan(8:30 AM) Katandra v BYE

Round 6

Fri 31 Jan, 7 Feb(4:30 PM) Karramomus Gold v Karramomus Red Wilmott Rd Primary...

Fri 31 Jan, 7 Feb(4:30 PM) Katandra v Toolamba Katandra

Fri 31 Jan, 7 Feb(4:45 PM) Numurkah Renegades v Pine Lodge St Josephs Numurkah

Sat 1 Feb, 8 Feb(8:30 AM) Numurkah Scorchers v Mooroopna Numurkah Youth Club

Sat 1 Feb, 8 Feb(8:30 AM) BYE v Northerners

Round 7

Fri 14 Feb4:30 PM, Sat 15 Feb8:30 AM Mooroopna v Karramomus Gold Leon Heath Oval

Fri 14 Feb4:30 PM, Sun 16 Feb8:30 AM Numurkah Scorchers v Numurkah Renegades Numurkah Youth Club

Sat 15 Feb, Sun 16 Feb(8:30 AM) Karramomus Red v Northerners Wilmott Rd Primary...

Sat 15 Feb, Sun 16 Feb(8:30 AM) Toolamba v BYE

Sat 15 Feb4:30 PM, Sun 16 Feb8:30 AM Pine Lodge v Katandra Congupna PS

SEMI FINALS

Sun 23 Feb(8:30 AM) TBD v TBD

Sun 23 Feb(8:30 AM) TBD v TBD

FINAL

Sun 2 Mar(8:30 AM) TBD v TBD

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TALLYGAROOPNA PRIMARY SCHOOL – TERM 4 / 2014 T1 CALENDAR

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

2 AASC 3 Water Safety 4 End of Year 5 Report 6 27 28 29 OSHC 30 OSHC 31 AASC - Golf –Touch Footy Day – G. 5/6 Excursion Writing Teachers Teachers Planning Students Start T20 Cricket – pupil free – First Aid Day F-6 Playgroup

3 4 OSHC - TBC 5 OSHC - TBC 6 OSHC - TBC 7 Library 9 Orientation 10 11 Cluster Day – 12 Art 13 Day – statewide Aquamoves AASC –Touch Footy

AASC Starts 10 AASC 11 OSHC - TBC 12 OSHC - TBC 13 OSHC - TBC 14 Soccer Tennis Meet Teachers Night / Bounce Reports 16 End of Year 17 18 Playgroup 19 20 Back Launch Home Xmas Concert / Munch N Graduation Crunch - Pizza Dismissal – 2.25 AASC 17 AASC 18 OSHC - TBC 19 OSHC - TBC 20 OSHC - TBC 21 Soccer Tennis School Council / Cluster Finance 1 Aquamoves Day Cricket – 20th

AASC 24 AASC 25 OSHC - TBC 26 OSHC - TBC 27 OSHC - TBC 28 Soccer Tennis SCHOOL HOLIDAYS School Photos

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