1939 Murray Valley Highway «NAME» LAKE CHARM 3581 Phone : 03 5457 9244 Fax : 03 5457 9450 Email : [email protected] A.B.N. 615 824 513 73 Principal : Morgen Alexander Acting Principal : Jeff Millard Educating today’s Minds for Tomorrow’s Challenges www.lakecharmps.vic.edu.au Wednesday 9th September 2015 Week 9/10 Dates to Remember Term 3 July 13th to September 18th 2015 September 2015 15th Lion’s Club Public Speaking Dinner @ Mystic Park Hotel 16th Regional Athletics 17th Indonesian Cultural Day 18th Last Day of Term 3 – Footy Match and Footy Lunch Healthy October 2015 5th Term 4 Starts 17th Trivia Night - $15.00 per person tables of 10. To book call school: 03 5457 9244 Principal’s Message Athletics - On Friday Scott, Jack and Bree competed in the Zone Athletics. Congratulations to all of them for this great effort. Scott and Bree were successful in their events and will now be competing in the Regional Athletics on the 16th of September. Scott completed his 800m in 2min 53 sec which is rather fast. Bree will be competing in the 800metres and Long Jump, and Scott will be competing in the 800m, 200m and Relay. Scott and Bree possibly will also be competing in the 1500m. Indonesian Cultural Day - On Thursday the 17th of September (next week), Preps to Grade 4 from Kerang Primary School will be joining us for an Indonesian Cultural Day at Lake Charm Primary. Healthy October - During the month of October Lake Charm Primary will be promoting Health through daily morning walks (or runs) and healthy eating. On the 23rd of October Lake Charm will combine with Quambatook Group School for A Walk To School Activity organised through Vic Health and the Gannawarra Shire. At school our students will be investigating healthy eating. Students and teachers will be creating healthy lunches and everyone will be encouraged to consume lots of fruit and vegetables. Fruity Fridays will be back! Lost Property - Please ensure your children’s school uniforms, including hats, have their names on them. This makes the job of returning lost or discarded property much easier. Footy Day - On Friday the 18th we will have the annual Lake Charm Footy Day. Mr. M and Mr. Sait have been training hard for this event (and I look forward to carrying the oranges). The footy tipping has reached its conclusion. The winners to be presented with their trophies next Friday at the Footy Day. Mr.M and Mr. Sait were very excited this weekend because for what probably was the only time this year, both our teams won. It’s been a long suffering season for some!!!!! Lunch Orders - Rod at the Lake Charm Store will be offering a range of Lunch Orders for Term 4. There will be lunch orders available on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The menu will include: Salad & Roast Chicken Mini Beef Pies & Salad Fish & Chips Quiche (Mini Leek, Sage & Bacon) Sandwiches – Ham & Cheese; Chicken, Lettuce & Mayo. Fruit Salad – Yummy Yummy! Mini Juices Costings still to come and the process for ordering will be similar to earlier in the year. Philmac Grant – Mr. Sait has applied for a grant through The Philmac Project 2015. In order to be up for judging our application requires significant ‘votes’. It would be much appreciated if anyone had a spare moment to go to: http://philmacproject.com.au/entry/9507264 or search for ‘The Philmac Project 2015’, go to Entries, Victoria and find our school’s entry for voting. Please share this around to up our chances! Thank you. Lion’s Dinner - All students who participated in the Junior Public Speaking Competition earlier in the term are invited to attend the Lake Charm Mystic Park Lion’s Club meeting on Tuesday the 15th of September from 7-7.30pm at The Mystic Park Hotel. Students who attend will be given a free meal and anyone else accompanying, meals are at bistro prices. Please let Jeff or James know if you’ll be going along as the Lion’s Club needs numbers by Friday the 11th September. School Camps – November will be a busy month at Lake Charm Primary. We are heading off on a Whole School Camp with Quambatook Group School and Ultima Primary School to the DOXA School Camp in Melbourne from the 9th – 11th of November. We also have 3 students heading off on Somer’s Camp from the 3rd – 11th November. Finally the Grade 6 boys will be heading to Canberra from the 23rd – 27th November. On Monday I received unofficial confirmation that I will be continuing on as Acting Principal for term 4. I look forward to continuing to work with staff, students and parents at the wonderful Lake Charm Primary School. Jeff Millard & James Sait FUNDRAISING Earn & Learn Stickers – Woolies Don’t forget to ask at the checkout for your stickers. Future Events We will be holding a Trivia night on 17th October, start organising your tables of 10 now. Cost will be $15.00 per person, loads of prizes and fun on the night. These nights are a lot of fun as well as raising much needed funds for our school. Pop-up Market will be held on 29th November. Online Newsletter In Term 4 we would like to trial emailing the newsletter to as many families as possible instead of families receiving a hardcopy. We hope this will reduce the monetary cost of the newsletter but also reduce our environmental footprint at school, something we strive hard for. If the school doesn’t already have your families email, could you please speak to Jeff or James or email [email protected] Web Site www.lakecharmps.vic.edu.au Have you had a look at the new website yet? The site contains policies, newsletters, fundraising information and other interesting items. Student Voice A big Happy Birthday to Taylah who celebrated her birthday on Friday and Ryan who celebrated his birthday on Monday! Student Award – Congratulations to Jacob Burrows who took out the Student Award this week for his determination and enthusiasm whilst designing and building his building in Art. Great work Jacob! Wednesdays Term 3 Hot Chocolate! 50 cents per cup Dictionaries - The dictionary is a book full of all different words. The dictionary is used for helping you find out what all the different words are. If you do not know a word the dictionary can help you. It will tell you what the word means and will give you a definition, or it will give you the word and another word like it. The dictionary can help many kids. Even your parents will use the dictionary, because they don’t know a word. When you look at a dictionary you will think that there are lots of words. The latest dictionary has 1,888 pages, so have a think how many words does it have altogether! I use the dictionary to find out what a word means, and if I don’t know what the word even is. That is why the dictionary is very useful. You can use it in many different ways. So I should see more students using a dictionary when you don’t know a word. So dictionaries are AMAZING!!! By Bree Cordina. Koalas - Koalas are cute and cuddly. They live in trees with their family .They eat gumnuts and gum leaves. They are always in the trees and only go onto the ground to get water and to move to other trees to find new leaves. They live with their mother until they are old enough to look after themselves. They are Australian animals. When it is cold they sleep all day and night. In Summer they are asleep most of the time and they shed some of their fur. They will only attack if you hurt them and if you do not hurt them you will be all right, and if you are careful you can hold them. My opinions: The zoo keepers in Dubbo let me hold a mother koala and it fell asleep on me. It was soft and cuddly. It felt happy and safe. By Tegan Cuthbert. Steam Engines - Steam was at the beginning of nearly everything we use today. Trains to cars to trucks all started off as inventions powered by steam. These days only enthusiasts keep working steam models. Steam models are expensive to run and are high maintenance. Steam engines require lots of parts to be bought and kept in working order. Mamod is a popular brand in England and Australia because they have a wide range of models from stationary engines to traction engines and steam trucks. Stationary engines are models that run on your bench and can also run pieces of mini machinery like grinders, presses and drills, which are really cool to watch, but there are also a lot of other items that the engine can run off a single crankshaft. There are also traction engines and steam trucks which can run on the ground and push themselves about on the floor. If you want them to they can also run like stationary engines and power the workshop tools. There are also a lot of forums which are dedicated to discussing and helping with ideas and projects that you are working on and they can be a great help. By Jack Whorwood. COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS Semester 4 Art Classes with Caroline Ellis Swan Hill Neighbourhood House After School Kids Classes Tuesdays 3:45 to 4:45pm Thursday 5:20 to 6:20pm Adult Classes at Neighbourhood House Tuesdays 1pm to 3pm Bookings Essential Mystic Park Gallery Art Classes After School Kids Classes Friday 5pm to 6pm Adult Classes at Mystic Park Wednesdays 1:30 to 3:30pm Contact Caroline on 0408 500 451 www.carolineellisart.com Red Cliffs Musical Society’s latest production is the iconic My Fair Lady.