SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 15th October, 2014 Issue 31 Pleasant Street, Ballarat, Victoria, 3350 Telephone: (03) 5332 2598 Email: pleasant.ps.ballarat@edumail.vic.gov.au Diary FROM THE PRINCIPAL Planning 2015 - Reminder This year we are experiencing very high levels of interest in our school across a number of grade levels. To assist with our planning and to support the families on our waiting lists, we ask that any families who are thinking that they will not be here next year to please let the office know as soon as possible. School Reports Survey Reminder We are encouraging all families to participate in our ‘School Reports’ survey. What would you really like to see on your child’s report? What would you like to change in regards to our current report format? This is your opportunity to help us to redesign our reports for students for 2015. We would really appreciate your feedback. You can access the survey at: www.surveymonkey.com/s/ S3ZMYC2 The survey has been open for the week and we would really like some more parent responses. We will then collate the results and start the work of planning next year’s student reports. Run Ballarat All the very best to all of the runners in our community who have signed up for the Run Ballarat event that is on this Sunday! There is still time to sign up if you are keen. More information in this newsletter. Karen Biggelaar Principal Wednesday 15th October Christmas Fest Meeting 7.30pm On Friday the 31st of October, it is Health & PE Day. There will be lots of exciting activities including a bigger and better Walkathon around Lake Wendouree. It’s time to start thinking about sponsorship. More information will be coming out soon! Book Club Friday 17th October Regional Athletics Wednesday 22nd October Tour De Cure School Council - 7.30pm Monday 27th October Grades 3/4 Camp State Athletics Friday 31st October Health & PE Day Walkathon Sunday 2nd November Working Bee A reminder to all parents to check your children’s hair regularly for head lice and eggs and treat if necessary. A Christmas Fest meeting will be held tonight in the meeting room at 7.30pm. All welcome!! Any help is greatly appreciated. Principal’s Award 0MK Mackenzie For her marvellous holiday writing this week. Mackenzie is writing more and more and listening hard to hear the different sounds in words every time we sit down to write. Great job! 0MK Charlie 0TK Edgian 1LJ Sam 1RC Vienna For being a super hard working, cheerful and helpful Explorer: always ready to stop what she is doing to help others. The Explorers are so lucky to have Vienna in the class. Thank you! 2DM Thomas For absolutely brilliant home reading. 217 nights already throughout the year. What a star!! 2DR Indianna 3/4C M Isabelle For working twice as hard and doing twice as much work, which has really impressed her two teachers. For writing a fantastic recount of her holidays and settling in well for the start of our last term. Well done, keep up the great work! For a brilliant start to the term. Millie's confidence during learning tasks has been fantastic and she has enjoyed sharing her understandings during class discussion and reflection. Great work, Millie! 3/4LD Millie For his fabulous typing in the computer room. Charlie is creating a fabulous fairy tale about the Three Little Pigs. For working hard to learn the words in his book box and remembering them when he is reading. Great Work! For working extremely hard on his writing! Well done on including lots of detail, super neat handwriting, and lots of capital letters and full stops! Sam should be very proud of how far he has come, keep up the hard work! 3/4LO Zane For having a fantastic first week at Pleasant Street Primary School. Zane has worked hard in class and made a big effort to make new friends. Zane's a bright and happy addition to the Lions! Well done, Zane! 3/4SA Imogen For starting the term off beautifully. Imogen is focused during sessions, her work is presented with care and it's great to see her hand popping up during class discussions to share her ideas. Keep up the fabulous work!! 5DM Bryce 5DM Jack 5SE Ned For a brilliant start to Term 4. Bryce is becoming more organised and taking more responsibility, finishing his work on time. Keep it up! For fabulously entertaining language in his leadership narrative. Great to see Jack extending himself. For actively participating by sharing his creative thinking skills for the benefit of his peers, during our problem solving activity on mean, median, mode and range! 6JM Jed For starting Term 4 off with a bang! Jed's work ethic in class this past week has demonstrated that he has resilience. Keep putting your best foot forward and this will be a smashing term. 6TP Lucas For his amazing maths project. Lucas has presented some fantastic house plans and a detailed new housing estate. I think we have a future Civil Engineer or Architect here in Lucas. Japanese student of the week おめでとうございます Isabella Berberich 6JM Isabella has been working increasingly hard in Japanese class and as a result she is improving every lesson. Isabella has made a great effort at learning her new vocabulary and grammar. The sickbay is out of socks. If you have any spare, clean socks you’d like to donate, please bring them to the office. Thank you. HATS, HATS, HATS Don’t forget, during term 4 hats must be worn! We have a no hat, no play policy. Hats can be purchased from the office for $8 each. Tour de Cure Victorian Country Tour JSC NEWS Ballarat to Bendigo Icy Poles “BE FIT, BE HEALTHY, BE HAPPY!” Each Thursday in Term 4 JSC members will be selling icy poles at lunchtime for 50cents. Pleasant Street Primary School joins Tour de Cure in the fight against cancer and learns how we can help prevent cancer. ‘Sweets Stall’ The sweets stall was a huge, sweet, success! The children were so thrilled to come and buy some treats. The generosity of the parents at Pleasant Street was amazing. We are thrilled to announce that we have raised around $620!!! This money will be shared between The Ballarat Foundation and our school. We hope to purchase some outdoor furniture for the art room in the near future. If you donated food we hope you received a thank you note. We were handing them out as people dropped food to the art room. My apologies if you didn't receive one personally. Thank you from the JSC & Melissa Tour de Cure is a cycling foundation committed to finding a cure for cancer. Through the collaborative fundraising efforts of their team, corporate partners and the Australian community, Tour de Cure has raised $14million since 2007 to help fund 166 vital cancer research, support and prevention projects for men, women and children. Tour de Cure has already shared their ‘BE FIT, BE HEALTHY, BE HAPPY!” cancer awareness message with over 45,000 children in the past 3 years and would like to share their message with the students, teachers and parents of our school. On Wednesday October the 22nd, students and parents will have the opportunity to meet some of the Tour de Cure team, be introduced to the character Flipman as well as learn how we can help prevent cancer. With the statistic that “at least 1 IN 3 cancer cases can be prevented”* this is a valuable message and we are proud to be involved. www.tourdecure.com.au Please visit the website to make a donation if you can or send along a gold coin on Wednesday 22nd October. The family statements were sent home last week. You may have noticed that the iPad Service Fee has been added on to your account. This is the term 4 fee and prompt payment would be appreciated. If you haven't already returned your payment, please complete the form below and return it with your payment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------IDIVIDUAL OR FAMILY ACCOUNT…………………………………….. NAME OF CHILD/REN ………………………………………………….. YEAR LEVEL/S ………………………….. CONTACT NO…………………………….. PAYMENT METHOD Cash Cheque Credit Card (UNABLE TO ACCEPT BPAY OR PREPAY FOR THIS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Credit Card Authorisation Please debit my credit card for $ Print Name Signature □Bankcard □MasterCard □VISA Expiry Date / Thank You 2014 Christmas Fest Sponsors PLATINUM SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS Hightech Printing Bedggoods KIA Lake Health Group Cressaid Logic Power FM Lake View Hotel Smart Parts Mulcahy & Co Sovereign Financial Smartpix The Courier Blackwell Concreting It’s not too late to become a sponsor and show your support for this important school fundraising event! To find out more about the sponsorship packages available visit www.christmasfestballarat.com.au or contact Sarah Marriott via email l_s_marriott@bigpond.com or phone 0437 071 206 by no later than Thursday the 16th October. SCHOOL CONCERT DVD – 2014 If you and your family would like a copy of the 2014 School Concert DVD to treasure in years to come, please fill out this order form and return it to the office by : Friday October 24th, 2014 Cost : $15.00 each -------------------------------------------------------------------------- School concert dvd – 2014 Student Name : _______________________________ Grade : __________ I have enclosed : $____________ for _______ (Qty) School Concert DVD’s. CHRISTMAS FEST 2014 We need donations of travel vouchers, new toys, Wine, sporting equipment etc. Last year we made close to $8000 combined on the Raffle and Spinning Wheel. This can only happen through the generosity of businesses and families donating services and items. Please contact the school office or Nicole Sutton on 0467 590 222 if you are able to donate or know of someone who would like to donate. Thank you in advance for your kind donations.