No 1, 4 February 2010 Ward Street Warrnambool. Edition 16, June 8 , 2012 Phone 5562 4100. Fax 5561 1841 http://www.weps.vic.edu.au THEME: Resilience FOCUS: Habit of Reliability Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you to all families for their cooperation yes- Warrnambool East P.S. Outside School Hours Care terday. Teachers do not undertake industrial ac- (OSHC) Expression of Interest Survey tion unless they have real concerns related to working conditions and it is those conditions that Would an OSHC Service in the WEPS neighbor- hood benefit you and your family? ultimately impact on the children they teach. Dear Warrnambool East Primary School parent/ BSW Regional Director Visit – Next Wednesday carer, from 1.30-2.30 pm the Regional Director Mr Grant Would you like the convenience of a before and after Rau will be visiting WEPS. Mr Rau will meet with school care service on site at your school? the Student Leaders and the Leadership Team to Camp Australia in conjunction with Warrnambool discuss WEPS’ achievements and challenges. East Primary School is currently conducting a survey Next Tuesday all WEPS families will receive a let- to determine the level of interest in offering an OSHC ter detailing the effects of recent federal and service on the school campus during the school state government changes to financial support to terms. We would like to encourage all parents to complete this brief survey to help us determine your schools and to eligible families, to assist with the needs. The survey will take approximately 5 minutes costs of schooling. In summary families eligible of your time and will need to be completed by Mon- for Education Maintenance Allowance will not be day June 25th. If you don't have the internet at home receiving money at the beginning of the school you may obtain a hardcopy from the school office. year to assist in start up expenses- PLEASE READ https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY AND TAKE warranmbooleastprimaryschool ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES PRO- To find out more information about our FUN, QUAL- VIDED BY WEPS TO ENSURE YOU HAVE THE ITY, ENGAGING and SAFE OSHC programs, please visit our website at www.campaustralia.com.au FUNDS AVAILABLE AT WEPS WHEN YOUR Thank you for your participation in this survey. CHILD NEEDS THEM. WEPS Out Of School Hours Care Survey- An Lindy Sharp increasing number of families have queried whether WEPS operates or would consider oper- ating an Out of School Hours Care Service. Camps No School Monday June 11th Australia together with WEPS are conducting a survey to gauge interest in Camps Australia oper- Queens Birthday Public Holiday ating an OSHC service at WEPS. The survey is to be completed by June 25th and the link and infor- mation is attached. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Netball Competitions – A very special thank you to Monday June 11th Queens Birthday Public Holiday. all the staff who gave up their lunchtimes over the Tuesday June 12 South Kinder visit with Nadine past month to coach, train, umpire and encourage Wednesday June 13 South Kinder visit with Nadine Wednesday June 13Aussie footy Parent/Teachers our netballers in the year 5/6 and the year 3 /4 Wednesday June 13th Warrnambool City (Interschool). netball competitions. Football/Netball. Next Monday is the Queen’s Birthday Public Holi- Friday June 15 Soft Drink day. Cans $1.50 day and I wish you all a safe and happy weekend. Year 1/2 Walkathon. Lindy Friday June 29th End of term 2. 2:30 dismissal. The Link Chess Champs By Chaplain Janet Our proud school welcomes the Chess Squad at assemble this Friday. Twenty children were se- lected from our wonderful Chess Club to repre- sent us at the Interschool Regional Chess Tour- nament last week at Emmanuel College. Our two teams played brilliantly against senior students winning over sixty games from them BUT the best part for me was they played hard but fairly. “Good sportsmanship, excellent attitudes and good knowledge” was quoted by the organis- ers from Melbourne’s Chess Kids. They are now eligible to send a team of our top five players to the State Finals at Monash University later in the year. Congratulations! A special thankyou to Donna Koik , Jane McDonald, Louise Morton, Da- mien Bourke and Kathryn Cameron. Coles Sports For Schools Coles has launched their 2012 Sports for Schools program and once again we are excited to an- nounce that we have registered again. From your support last year we received an enormous amount of equipment which the students enjoy using and the staff really appreciated the extra equipment. By collecting these vouchers you can again assist us to choose more of this much needed sports equipment for our school. Last year we collected 95,000 vouchers which was an enormous response. Lets hope we can do the same or even go better this year. Vouchers will be available in all Coles stores from Wednesday 13th June through to 14 August and we ask that you get involved to help collect vouchers for our school again this year We would love all the school community, family and friends to get behind this and get WEPS some new sports equipment. If you spend $10 or more at any Coles store, can you please collect the vouchers when you pay at the register and place the vouchers in the box at the main office at WEPS. (We don’t need your receipts just the vouchers.) Thank you for your support. The Link Netball- Lunchtime Challenge - Years 3/4 The class challenge at lunchtimes over the past week has created some terrific fun for our 3/4 stu- dents. There was plenty of discussion among the teachers about just who would triumph. Some teachers were caught taking their grade for secret practises. Our grand final was played last Tues- day and it was great to watch the standard of netball played. Congratulations to 4K who won the Year 4 challenge and 3K who won the year 3s. Many thanks to the teachers who gave up their lunch- times to coach or umpire these games. Also thanks to the House captains for assisting with setting up, scoring and timing each day. Aussie Football Allen Parrotte Dear Parents, Aussie Footy finishes next week. The WEPS team will participate in a lightning pre- miership next Wednesday at the Friendlies. The team has played with lots of skill and determina- tion. A special thanks to Wil Flemming who has helped with organisation. Thanks to Sue Rooke for providing the oranges every week and to the Jubb family for the donation of water bottles. After the lightning premiership the team will return to school to take on a teachers/parents team. The game will start at around 2:45pm. it will be played on the little oval. All parents are welcome to attend and participate. The Link Esther Trewin Mikayla Darby Travis Balfour-Mark Alish Stokie Kasey-Lee Asbury Daniel Hough Billy Brewer Alicia Greig Student Banking The total banked this week was $127.15. There were 25 deposits and Prep C had the most with 5. Science News This week in science we looked at objects under microscopes. I looked at a leaf it looked huge under it. We had to draw what we thought it would look like to the normal eye, but it looked completely different. The leaf looked like a big green thing with lots of rain drops when under the microscope. By Chelsea Patel This is my purple flower under Ms Finnigan’s digital microscope. (60x magnification) Today in science my class learnt how to look at different things under a microscope. I looked at a purple flower under a microscope, it looked really big and had lots of micro- organisms on it . Miss Finnagan had her own microscope that we looked through and took a picture of what we put under it. Kayla Jewell 5/6 A .