Cranbourne East Primary School No 5518 SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Phone: 5990 0400 Fax: 5990 0499 Email: cranbourne.east.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.cranbourneeastps.vic.edu.au Address: 2 Bowyer Avenue, Cranbourne East 3977 13th November 2014 Issue 34 FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK Hi Everyone On Tuesday Mrs Jones and our school captains, Ishell and Steven, accompanied me to the Clydesdale Square in Cranbourne to participate in the Remembrance Day Service. On behalf of the school community both captains, along with members of the public and many other schools, laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Remembrance. Back at school at 11:00am the entire school paused for one minute’s silence to commemorate Remembrance Day and the Pledge of Remembrance read over public address system. Red poppies are often worn on Remembrance Day and at school many students in all home groups wore red poppies for Remembrance Day 2014. Yesterday Mr Beach (Performing Arts specialist) and Mrs Kosach (Assistant Principal) along with Amy Hanks took fifty eight members of the school choir to perform at the Kmart store in Bayside Shopping Centre in Frankston. The choir performed to a very high standard and received much applause from the public in attendance. Mr Beach informed me this was the best performance by far and the students are to be commended for their outstanding performance. Video clips and photos will appear on the website and the weekly assembly. Today the second of five new relocatable classrooms arrived on site. To assist with the relocation of the largest, cranes arrived on site much to the amazement of our students who thoroughly enjoyed viewing the crane maneuvering the sections into place. The school is well into the 2015 school year planning cycle. I ask parents whose children will be leaving the school to contact the office and if parents have yet to enroll their children into the school, or know of a neighbour or friend who have children yet to enroll to also contact the office. Our school enrolments are increasing at a rapid rate which impacts on the recruitment of staff and procurement of classrooms. Thank you for your support with this matter. A reminder for all students to wear approved school hats while walking to and from school, during recess, lunch and during any period of instruction or recreation while outside. The harmful effects of the sun can never be underestimated. Camp Australia’s before and after school care is open every day before and after school. Come join us for some fun activities including art and craft, sport, and construction. We're open from 7:00am until school commences and from 3:15pm until 6:00pm at night. Holiday Club is now available for bookings. We'll be running a holiday club from January 5th until the start of term, within the hours of 7:00am until 6:00pm. There are a lot of fun activities planned, so please contact us for a flier of planned activities and more information on our excursions, visits and other fun activities. Call 0413411834 or visit www.campaustralia.com.au . This is a great item of news too good not to share with the school community. Tracey Ferris, one of our members of the Year 6 teaching team recently participated in the Pan Pacific Masters Calisthenics competitions. Tracey was just a tad excited as she informed me of her gold, silver and bronze medal achievement. Congratulations to Tracey and thank you for sharing your medals. Remember to read with your child every evening and ensure your child arrives at school on time each day to commence their learning. Congratulations to Mrs Tara Stubbs who recently gave birth to a baby boy, Spencer Patrick. Both Tara and Spencer are well. The school will be adding a photo of Spencer to our ‘baby photo wall’ in the staff room. Chad (Year 1B) and Shenelle (Year 3B) recently entered into a colouring completion to celebrate the launch of the Recycling Calendar and National Recycling Week. Both Chad and Shell achieved success and were invited to an afternoon tea of celebration with City of Casey Mayor Mick Moyland and representatives from VISY. Kind regards Garry & Staff From the Welfare Officer Adopt a Family for Christmas A whole school community appeal Many people take a big family lunch or dinner on Christmas day for granted. However there are many people who can’t afford to have either of these, so this is where the community of Cranbourne East Primary School can assist. The idea of this program is to make a donation of collected non-perishable groceries in the form of hampers, to local families in need this Christmas. With the assistance of the local Salvation Army and Bunnings we would like to help families in the community. Each Learning Neighbourhood will have a basket assigned to a family. Children are asked to place their donation in the basket. The children will decorate the basket prior to it being collected and delivered to the families. We are requesting that our school community donate NON PERISHABLE food items between now and 9th December to contribute to the Christmas basket. Ideally goods for the basket could be used for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. So when you do your weekly shopping, start adding an extras can of tinned food, a box of cereal, bag of sweets etc., and put it aside for the basket. In no time our community will have contributed to supplying enough food to make a struggling families Christmas meals possible. The baskets will be collected from our school and distributed by the Salvation Army. *Please ensure that food items use-by date is current for Christmas time and weeks after* THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT Mrs Kathy Jones Assistant Principal 2015 BOOKLIST ORDERS Don’t forget to place your online booklist orders before December 19th 2014. Orders placed after this date will incur a late delivery fee. Reminder: There is no EMA in 2015. If you are experiencing financial hardship contact the office prior to the end of the school year to make payment arrangements. If online orders are not placed, or you have not made payment arrangements with the school, your child will not receive a book pack. Mathletics News Over the past two weeks, a total of 161 bronze Mathletics certificates have been achieved and 22 silver certificates. Congratulations to Imaya in Year 1 and Gungeet in Year 4 for achieving a gold certificate. House Points This week: Ruffy Hudson Lyall Donnelly Term Total: 804 927 909 943 Ruffy Hudson Lyall Donnelly 1327 1401 1403 1370 Junior Sports News Last Thursday the Junior School (Prep-2) participated in the Junior Athletics Carnival. The weather held out on the day, making it an enjoyable set of outdoor events for all that attended. It was wonderful to see so many students representing their House teams and attempting each and every activity. We would also like to acknowledge all of the parents and siblings that came along and thank them for offering their support throughout the course of the day, earning additional House Points to add to the final scores. Well done to the winning Houses from each session: Prep Grade 1 Grade 2 Carnival: Carnival: Carnival: 1st – Donnelly (261) 2nd – Hudson (248) 3rd – Lyall/Ruffy (220) 1st – Lyall (709) 2nd – Hudson (665) 3rd – Donnelly (635) 4th – Ruffy (622) 1st - Ruffy (920) 2nd - Donnelly (901) 3rd - Hudson (851) 4th - Lyall (818) LIBRARY News It’s that time of the year when ALL overdue books need to be found and returned to the library. Student’s that have overdue books will be regularly issued with a notice stating the book title and when the book was due to be returned. Please search and return these books as soon as possible. From the 1st of December any students that still have overdue books may be issued with a $10.00 replacement fee. Shining Star Awards for 10th-14th November 2014 Year Prep Shining Star Student Tyreece H Talia B Abel Chase V Solenn C Award For being a helpful member of our learning space. For her wonderful manners and making good choices in our learning space. For a fantastic start at Cranbourne East PS. Welcome aboard! For her wonderful manners. Year Year 3 Shining Star Student Sienna B For fantastic listening and contributing. Adithya P For excellent participation during capacity rotations. For consistently displaying great enthusiasm in her learning. For helping another learner during our ICT lesson. Tahlia B For showing a happy and enthusiastic attitude at all times. Rosenel M Ishaanbir P For an enthusiastic attitude to his learning. Amelia C Dhruvi P For confidently presenting her Show & Tell to the class. Vishrutha R Jada C For confidently presenting her Learning Portfolio to Mrs Whiteley. For his outstanding effort during the athletics carnival For being an awesome Mini-Me! Kiralea K For improved confidence in participating in classroom activities and interacting with her peers. For showing how she worked out addition and subtraction problems in her homework. For her fantastic 100 word story. Nicholas A For excellent editing on his Big Write. Puritia M For his great persuasive arguments during our writing sessions. For giving 100% at everything she does. For an excellent start at Cranbourne East Primary School. For a fantastic effort during Maths! Year 1 Cooper W Mohammad A Peter M Sam H Eliza C Kynan D Senitha B Year 2 Europa T Jeremy A Delylah L Blake F Ryan T For working hard to carefully sound out words during writing. For demonstrating resilience during the Junior Athletics Carnival. For having a great start at Cranbourne East Primary School. For putting in 110%! in junior school athletics and running 13 laps scoring lots of points for Ruffy. Excellent effort Kynan! For a fantastic effort during athletics, especially during the hurdles activity! For being an enthusiastic participant during the junior school athletics and being the Frisbee throw champion. Well done! For writing a terrific narrative. Writing a fantastic recount about her favorite birthday party! For being an enthusiastic participant in the Junior Athletics and earning lots of points for Hudson. For his enthusiasm and fantastic effort in his reading. Jennifer P Sishir S Year 5 Sigappi R Alexandria T For always demonstrating the 5R’s and being a cheerful class member. Trey R For an improvement in his nightly reading. Keep up the good effort! For making strong choices when listening to instructions in class and when completing his tasks. Well done! Joshua S Bryce T Year 6 For her effort during poetry writing. Nyariek Y Paige L Year 4 Award Aziz A Swekshya S Leah F Max A-H Kseniya V For demonstrating resilience in the classroom. For a great start to his schooling at CEPS. For a great start to her schooling at CEPS. For always trying her best in all curriculum areas. For a great effort on Year Six camp, in particular during duty group. For settling in well to her new school. Shining Star Awards for 10th-14th November 2014 Year Shining Star Student Award Year Shining Star Student Award PE Mr Carey Zac S 6H Mrs Simmonds Heidi B 3D For quick thinking and being helpful. PE Ms Willenberg Peter M 1D For showing fantastic listening and leadership skills during the 'Create A Game' process in Phys Ed. For being always being a fantastic sport during P.E. sessions. Well done! Mrs Price Albin M 3R For being responsible and respectful by collecting rubbish within the school grounds without being asked. Well done! Performing Arts CEPS Choir Mrs Warren Emma C 2A Well done Emma for being well organised. You consistently have your books ready for work and follow all instructions. Visual Arts Mackayla R 4T Jack W 2A Congratulations to all the children who sang in the choir at K-Mart Frankston on Wednesday. Your efforts, the way you sounded and your appearance was outstanding. For great sewing of her possum. Mrs Harding Ms Adams Akshjit S 5P Noor E Prep L For sharing a special day with Mrs Harding. For building positive relationships at playtime. Ms Naismith Ms Hudson Naveesha W 6X Heidi B 3D For working hard on finishing your computer game in ICT. Well done. For being helpful during library sessions and for her persevering with her maths tasks. Well done! For showing wonderful initiative, and having a go at everything. English as an additional language Mia F Prep E For a fantastic effort in completing all work tasks. For showing her confidence with using the Auslan signs for food. Ms Rento Liam H 4B For giving everything a go and striving to progress with all of his classwork, great effort, keep it up! Science Literacy Support ICT Mr Ross ICT Ms Richardson Joel M 4P Hayden M Chloe P Jonah W Prep H,M,L Lia G 4P Auslan Railize G 1E For cooperative teamwork when building gear trains to make trees move. For improved focus during literacy support session. For their excellent presentation on online assembly. IMPORTANT DATES TERM 4 th Friday 14 November Tuesday 18th November Wednesday 19th November Thursday 20th November Friday 21st November Friday 21st November Monday 24th November Tuesday 25th November Wednesday 26th November Saturday 29th November Monday 1st – Friday 5th December Monday 1st December Thursday 4th December Tuesday 9th December Wednesday 10th December Thursday 11th December Friday 12th December Wednesday 17th December Friday 19th December Year 1 Market Fresh Visit Payment Due Year 5 Beach Water Safety Program Evacuation & Lockdown rehearsal Final Book Club Due Year 6 Beach Water Safety Program School Council Meeting 7pm Western Australia Education Department delegation visit to school 2015 Prep Transition Year 3 Cultural Celebrations Payment Due Year 3 Cultural Celebrations Billy Slater Shield Boys & Girls Rugby State Final Year 1 Market Fresh Visit State Election Day Sausage Sizzle Fundraiser at School Gym (voting booth) Book Fair 2015 Prep Information Night 7pm in the Theatre Christmas Carol Day Concerts 2015 Prep/Year 7 Orientation Day 2015 SRC Elections School Council Meeting 7pm Parent Helpers Morning Tea 11:00am Year 6 Graduation Last Day of Canteen Semester Reports published online (Compass) Class Parties SRC Free Dress Fundraiser Last Day Assembly 9:30-10:30am School Dismissal 2:30pm