Nanneella Estate Primary School Newsletter—Term 4 Week 3— 24th October 2019 Join us for a Walk or Run Each morning our students have been running around the school on our running track in preparation for our Community Coming Events 2019 Kilometre Challenge. Community members are most welcome to join us for a lap or two, starting at 8.50am October each morning for a 10 minute walk. November Monday 4th Pupil Free Day Tuesday 5th Melbourne Cup Day Wednesday 6th Walk to School Day Thanks Anna Monday 11th Pet Education Program Mrs Kemp has done a fabulous job filling in on Mondays and Grades Prep—4 Wednesdays whilst Mrs McQuillan has been on leave. We Monday 11th—Friday 15th appreciate her working these extra Grade 5/6 Canberra Camp days to ensure our classroom programs continue seamlessly whilst Mrs Friday 22nd McQuillan was away. Mrs McQuillan will Cluster Summer Sports return next week. December 2—11 Somers Camp School Council At last nights meeting school council approved the Grade 5/6 Camp to Canberra and the 5/6 Camp to Somers, a pupil free day and 3 policies which were up for review. Also tabled at the meeting were a new Child Safety Policy and a new Child Safe: Code of Conduct Policy. Both these policies apply to all staff, volunteers, contractors and any other member of the school community. A copy of these policies is provided to each family for feedback or comment before our next school council meeting to be held on November 27th. The Flu All families are advised that a student at school has a confirmed case of Influenza B. Parents who have any Student Attendance concerns should contact their preferred health Last Week—92% practitioner for advice. Year to Date—94% SCHOOL VALUES: Getting Along, Respect, Resilience, Organisation, We do our best Supper Please Ron will be speaking at the Nanneella Hall tomorrow night. As OUR SUPPORTERS expected tickets for this event sold out very quickly. IN 2019 School families have been asked to supply supper (slices, biscuits and sandwiches) for the event. In this way we can support Nanneella Community Inc. Nanneella Community Incorporated, who are great supporters of our Nanneella Store 5484 5370 school. Bunnings Echuca Pupil Free Day Apex Club Echuca/Moama Rochester Sportspower School Council has approved Monday 4th November as a Pupil Free Day. Students are not required to Bendigo Bank Rochester attend school on this day. Lions Club Rochester Rotary Club Rochester Tennis Prizes Rochester RSL Following our successful Tennis Coaching Shire of Campaspe program ‘Milo’ attended last week’s assem- St Vinnies Rochester bly to present two tennis shirts to two lucky winners whose names were drawn from a hat. Congratulations Callum and Bella. School Hours Nicholls School begins for children at 8:50am and concludes Our grade 5/6 students will soon be heading off to Canberra where at 3:20pm. we may get to see our local member of parliament, Damian Drum Staff are on yard duty MP, who represents our electorate of Nicholls. from 8:35am in the morning and until 3:35pm The Nicholls electorate was named in honour of Sir Doug Nicholls and in the afternoon to Lady Gladys Nicholls in recognition of their significant contribution in supervise the students. advocating for Aboriginal rights and welfare. Both Sir Doug and Lady Children should arrive at Nicholls were born in Cummeragunga near Barmah. Sir Doug also school after 8:35am and played football for Tongala and became Governor of South Australia depart from school by in 1976 amongst his many other achievements. 3:35pm. Parents should contact the school to discuss alternative arrangements on a one-off basis. Healthy Eating Our school encourages healthy eating at recess and lunch time. Fresh food is always better than processed foods. 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] Like us on facebook 2 Trick of the week Charlotte, Gabby and Bella put ‘Patrick the Western Rosella’ in a tree and persuaded Mr Denson to take a photo to show the teachers, who all thought the rosella was real! “Patrick” Absences from School We would like to remind parents to please advise the school when their child is away, as it is a DET audit requirement that we are aware of all students movements during the school day. Absence notifications can be in person or via a note, email, text or phone call. 3 3 .