Wyndham Park Primary School IMPORTANT DATES: Issue 10, 2021 DATE EVENT Monday—Friday Friday 25th June, 2021 Last day of Term 2. Early finish 2:30pm 8:30am—4:00pm Monday 12th July, 2021 TERM 1 Commences Wednesday 14th July, 2021 Soccer Championship (Selected 5/6 Team only) Monday 26th July, 2021 Foundation 100 Days of School Celebration 9741 4549 Friday 6th August 2021 Camp Payments MUST be finalised Wednesday 18th August- Friday 20th August 3 /4 Doxa Camp Monday 6th September-Friday 10th September 5/6 Canberra Camp Wyndham.park.ps@ education.vic.gov.au Our lost and found is overflowing. If your child has lost any items, please check at the office. Please CLEARLY LABEL all items of your child’s uniform to enable us to quickly return any lost items to them. Monday 8:30 – 10am Thursday 2:00 – 3:30pm DENTAL VISITS TERM 3 It’s not too late. If you would like to have your child seen by the Dental Van please return the consent form in the first week of term 3. Spare copies are available from the office. Term 2 Week 10 1/2 Learning Community 3/4 Learning Community During week 9 and 10 of this term, the 3/4 learning community have been busy learning about lots of interesting and important things in the areas of literacy, numeracy, inquiry and SWPBS. In reading, students have learnt about questioning; i.e., open and closed questions and improving comprehension by asking questions before, during and after reading. In writing, students have learnt to write explanation texts and improve their knowledge of spelling patterns. In maths, students have learnt to apply their understanding of the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to solve worded problems. In inquiry, students have delved deeper into the essential question ‘What are the scientific principles that underpin change?’ by conducting experiments related to forces and friction. Lastly, in SWPBS, students have consolidated their understanding of mindfulness, the school matrix and character strengths. Please discuss these areas of learning with your child. Also, please make the time to listen to your child read every night to help reinforce their learning. Write the name of the book your child read on the relevant date, and sign to show that they have read to you. It is important that the bring their diary to school every day. Performing Arts with Mr Adam Foundation Learning Community During inquiry and developmental play this term the foundation students have been building and creating a Reminder variety of things! The 26th of July 2021 is our 100 days of school celebration for foundation students. We are super excited and would love for all students to come dressed up as though they are 100 years old. We have a fun day planned with an opportunity for parents and carers in the afternoon to join us. Foundation Learning Community National Young Leaders Day Panicking a lot, thinking he wasn’t gonna be able to have a safe landing, gladly he did. Just under 2 weeks later he took off and started his journey around the world on his 54-day journey. He almost got shot down in Cairo, Egypt and almost got arrested in Sri Lanka. Just under 2 months of flying he completed his journey and touched down safely in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. His most important lesson is that you can do whatever you put your mind to and that On Monday the 24th of May, all 14 of Wyndham Park Primary School we’re all capable of doing anything! Student Leaders went to the Melbourne Convention Centre supervised by Ms Louise Holley and Ms KB. It was honestly a day to remember, with Jordan Lewis: Jordan Lewis born in 1986, former Hawks and Demons AFL player. hundreds of dollars taken out of our school for us to attend, days before In 2019, not long ago, retiring after 14 years of AFL. At the age of 19 he began our 7-Day Covid-19 Lockdown. We met some inspirational speakers such as his career and was announced Hawthorn's first-year best player in 2005. In his Lachie Smart who is the youngest person to ever fly around the world solo, time at Hawthorn before moving to Melbourne Demons he played 264 games Jordan Lewis who got drafted to Hawthorn Football Club in 2005 then got and scored 145 goals in his 11 years there. His 2 years at Melbourne he sent across to Melbourne Football Club in 2017 retiring in 2019, Josh Pyke a played 55 games and got 16 goals. Soon retiring and now a commentator at Musician and Songwriter since 2000 to this day, Jimmy Rees or Jimmy FOX FOOTY and SEN, as an expert commentator. My lesson from him is don’t Giggle starring on the show Giggle and Hoot and lucky last Michelle Young pass up opportunities that come in your path of life. I got this from when he Deputy Commissioner of Victoria Fire Rescue. spoke about when his coach in 2016 contacted him and told him to take a different route from the Hawks and that’s when he switched to the Demons the Lachie Smart: Lachie Smart. The world’s youngest solo flyer to travel around following year! the whole world at just the age of 18. When he was 16, he got the idea of flying around the world, so he spent a whole year trying to get a single Josh Pyke: Josh Pyke has to be in my opinion the most Interesting. Josh Pyke is a sponsor and hundreds of calls to people all around the world just for him to Songwriter and Musician, but his story really inspires me. His career of music get half a million dollars to be able to fly. 365 days of non-stop calls just for really hit off in 2000 and has been for the past 2 decades. He’s had mistakes no response. He thought about giving up, but his dad told him to try and failure but it’s never stopped his passion for song writing. Born in 1977, another year, and in that time, he got 25 sponsors which paid the 500k growing up in Sydney, the capital of New South Wales. I guess growing up with fund. He did a test flight around Australia but when he got to Tasmania on a good childhood but who knows? His first show he expected 500+ people to the north coast he flew into storms which almost made him crash. attend but his expectations didn’t meet reality. Only 25 people showed up, including his family and friends, but there was 1 special person in the audience. National Young Leaders Day little ones his big one came shortly after for ABC3, well ABC Me now as the youngsters will know it as, and he starred as Jimmy Giggle on ‘Giggle and Hoots’. But his most inspiring quotes were, do things your way, be you and be yourself and unique. Michelle Young: Since 1995, Michelle Young has been a firefighter with the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Department. Michelle was one of the first female urban firefighters in Queensland. Her career has won multiple awards: she is the first female firefighter of all levels and is now Assistant Commissioner for the Far North, covering an area of 269,000 square kilometres. During her 26 years of service, Michelle has served in a variety of roles in various We don’t have her name for privacy reasons, but this lady showed up to fields, including operations, training, community safety, and business Josh’s first gig in Sydney and when he was selling his CD’s she bought one management, and was responsible for large-scale incidents, including wildfires and she was friends with someone at a record dealing place. She showed and hurricanes. Michelle is the former Vice President of the Australian him it and he got contacted by the record company and went to many Association for Women and Fire Protection and an international organization for interviews and became successful. My most valuable lessons learnt from women on fire. She is committed to attracting, promoting and developing women him is that it takes a team of people to make things work efficiently, we can in the fire and emergency services industry. Michelle is a qualified mediator with recover, always try your hardest, the show must go on after a mistake, a graduate certificate in public safety business administration and a graduate mistakes turn into perfection and falling short is not failure! diploma in executive leadership (police and emergency services) and strategic leadership. She is currently pursuing an executive master's degree in public Jimmy Rees: Well known as Jimmy Giggle. Born in 1987 his career started in business administration. She had a lot of amazing stories to share from when she 2009 on the show Giggle and Hoot a part of most of our childhoods. His had to get a carpet snake out from behind a lady’s fridge to when she fought off dream was always to be on television since he was a little boy, after years the New South Wales Bushfires in early 2020. Despite her experiences she is so and years of dreaming it came true. During this time he had a lot of strong. Valuable lesson from her is that whatever you do you’re capable of and to auditions and he had to save them onto CD’s which would have been a pain always value what you do because you never know you might save hundreds of to do with all the ones he had to do.