Nanneella Estate Primary School
Newsletter—Term 3 Week 8— 5th September 2019
Stary, Stary Night Conditions for our star gazing were exceptionally good, with magnificent clear skies, without a cloud to be seen. We were very fortunate that Coming Events 2019 many planets, stars and globular clusters were easily located by the presenters from the Bendigo Astronomical club. September
Friday 6th The evening began with a welcome to the large crowd from Hannah, Morning Tea—Robyn Grubb Luke and Bella, our grade 6 leaders. There was a short video All families please provide a presentation featuring some local photos of various stars and planets cake, slice, biscuits or a and then the large crowd braved the cool conditions to seek out the savoury plate for morning stars using the very powerful telescopes. tea please.
A fire pit provided some warmth and marshmellow toasting Friday 20th opportunities, and the supper provided was greatly appreciated by all in Footy/Netball Day attendance. The evening was generously sponsored by Nanneella LAST DAY OF TERM 3 Community Incorporated and a cheque for $250 was presented to the Early Dismissal from grade 6’s by NCI president Brett Gledhill. The school greatly School—2.20pm appreciates their support, and the support of the school families and wider community in making the evening a great success. Many thanks October too, to Mrs McQuillan and other staff who organised the event. It was a Monday 7th great example of “A School and Community Together”. First Day Term 4 Further information about star-gazing and telescopes is available from bdas.net November
Monday 4th Pupil Free Day
Tuesday 5th Melbourne Cup Day
Monday 11th—Friday 15th Grade 5/6 Canberra Camp
Robyn’s Morning Tea It’s on tomorrow at 10.00am in The Bigroom. The morning tea is to show our appreciation to Robyn Grubb, our gorgeous Solving the Jigsaw facilitator, who has worked with our school community for the past 20 years. It would be greatly appreciated if all families could provide a cake, slice, biscuits or a savoury plate. We look forward to seeing you there to Student Attendance acknowledge Robyn’s contribution to our school. Last Week —91%% Year to Date—94%
SCHOOL VALUES: Getting Along, Respect, Resilience, Organisation, We do our best Science Day Community News All our students travelled to Elmore Primary School yesterday to join students from across the cluster in a day filled with science related OUR SUPPORTERS activities. The children all had the opportunity to participate in a IN 2019 wide range of science experiments and activities, including the physics of bottle flipping; making kaleidoscopes; making ‘bouncy Nanneella Community Inc. balls’ and looking at the size of, and distance between the planets in Nanneella Store 5484 5370 our solar system. Our students participated very well in all the Bunnings Echuca activities, got along with all the other children and did their best Apex Club Echuca/Moama throughout the day.
Rochester Sportspower
Bendigo Bank Rochester
Lions Club Rochester
Rochester RSL
Shire of Campaspe
St Vinnies Rochester Centre for Non Violence
School Hours
School begins for children at 8:50am and concludes at 3:20pm. Staff are on yard duty from 8:35am in the morning and until 3:35pm in the afternoon to
supervise the students. Children should arrive at school after 8:35am and depart from school by
3:35pm. Parents should contact the school to discuss R.S.C. alternative arrangements on a one-off basis. Our Grade 5 and 6 students travelled to Rochester Secondary College on Tuesday for a familiarisation visit. They joined students from Healthy Eating Elmore Primary, OLSH and Colbinabbin Primary for some typical high school lessons in English and LOTE—Indonesian. This was another Our school encourages healthy valuable experience for our grade 6’s who will be off to secondary eating at recess and lunch college next year and was a taste of high school for our grade 5 time. Fresh food is always students. We appreciate RSC’s efforts in organising the event for our better than processed foods. students. Fruit is a great snack option. It’s an ideal nude food. School Details 159 Bennett Road, Nanneella 3561 Ph: (03) 5484 5395 Principal: Ian Denson Web: www.nanneella-estate-ps.vic.edu.au Email: [email protected] 2 Like us on facebook Cluster Athletics Sports
It was a busy day at Elmore Primary yesterday as the cluster took the opportunity to run the relay events that did not take place last Friday during our Cluster Athletics Sports Day. Hannah, Luke, Bella and Charlotte represented our school in the 5/6 relay, and Isabella, Indi, Cooper and Ebony ran in the Grade 3/4 relay. All our students did their very best, they did not give up and kept on trying throughout both days of the event. Well done. Star Gazing Students and Staff of Nanneella Estate Primary School would like to invite our school community, past and present to
Robyn’s Morning tea.
Friday the 6th of September 10.00-11.00am
Our morning tea is to show our appreciation to Robyn Grubb, our wonderful Solving the Jigsaw facilitator, who has worked with our school community for the past 20 years. R.S.V.P. 30.8.19 Ph. Nanneella Estate Primary School :54 845 395 Email: [email protected] Or click attend on the Nanneella Estate Facebook page.