Term 3 Week 6 2017

Principal: Russel Cowan 1 Dicker St, Gordon, 3345

Ph: 5368 9223 Fax: 5368 9451

Email: gordon.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au www.gordonps.vic.edu.au

August 24th

From the Principal’s Desk…. Responsibility

As one of our core values, we endeavor to develop this in our students. At Gordon PS students are responsible for their actions and are praised and held accountable for these actions. As parents we have a significant role to play in developing and encouraging responsibility in our children. Here are 4 tips.

1) Reinforce independent, responsible behavior specifically and immediately.

We all know that our kids get more attention for negative behavior than for positive. Reinforcing positive behavior not only rewards kids, it also helps them learn what they can do in a similar situation to earn that reinforcement again.

2) Ignore low level inappropriate behavior and allow logical, natural consequences to occur.

Most of kids’ inappropriate behaviors are mildly to moderately inappropriate—think whining, procrastinating, forgetting, complaining and so on. The best response to these kinds of behavior is no response. With this, logical consequences happen. For example, siblings who fight and argue are left to work it out amongst themselves. The child who chooses not to complete their homework (or project) is confronted by her teacher.

3) Tell them once and allow them to respond. Follow through with the appropriate consequence.

We have all heard people say, “I had to tell my child 5 times”. State your request once and allow your child to respond. Expect them to make some irresponsible choices. It’s part of the learning process. When they do, follow up with appropriate consequences, and then move on.

4) Respond appropriately to your child.

An effective parent systematically provides appropriate consequences to their child’s behavior. For example, when you see good behavior, reinforce it with a positive response. When your child misbehaves, briefly ignore the behavior or apply a logical consequence.

Soccer

Well done to the 50 students who participated in the Ballarat Futsal Championships. The students were fantastic on and off the court. We had a few teams make the grand final and most made the qualifying finals. Thankyou to Michelle for assisting us with the coaching on both days. Thank you to Mrs Stasse for her all of her assistance on Tuesday. Also a big thankyou to Ms Lulu for investing so much time into our students to get them to the competition.

Sickness

Thankyou to the community for your patience of late. Staff have proven they are human by catching the dreaded bugs going around all schools at present. This has caused some inconvenience to classes as it is very difficult to find replacement teachers at the moment as they are all booked. Thank you for your patience, this season will soon pass.

Father’s Day Stall

Next Thursday, 31st August, we will be holding a Father’s Day stall where students will be able to purchase a gift for their father, grandfather or other special person. Notes will be going home with more details later in the week.

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Term 3 Week 6 2017

Attention Parents of Grade 5 Students

If you are looking to send your child to a private school in 2019 you need to contact your chosen school(s) for an enrolment pack and a tour.

Literacy and Numeracy Week

We are going to have some great lunch time activities to celebrate Literacy and Numeracy Week from 4th – 8th September. Monday we will be having a special spelling contest and some maths quizzes in the library, join in for your chance to win some prizes! Wednesday we will have the Great Book Swap! A separate note will come out regarding this. Bring along your favourite book to share on Friday for ‘Read for Australia’ day. Create a ‘Book Review’ for your favourite book, and complete the Maths Challenge for more chances to win. More details to come.

Thankyou

Thankyou to the Tenerreza family for their generous donation of time. The front lawns were mown on the weekend and they look fantastic!

Indonesian for a day

The students had a great day learning dance, music and many other cultural aspects of life in Indonesia. Thankyou to Ms Jones for her organisation of the day.

Art and Sport Day

The JSC have organised a great day of sport and art for Friday. Students are asked to wear their house colours on the day. Please note that these need to be appropriate for both Sport and Art (messy). Our JSC do a wonderful job and we look forward to Friday’s event.

Happy Birthday

We would like to wish Happy Birthday to Jackson J

and Riley H and to any members of our community

who are celebrating their special day.

Have a great weekend,

Russel Cowan

Principal

Maths Problem For The Week

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All dates were correct at the time of going to print however they may be subject to change.

August 2017 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

21

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23

24 25

Sports and Art

Day (House

Colours)

26 27

28

Assembly

29 30 31

Father’s Day

Stall

Bookclub Due

September 2017 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

1 2 3

4

Spelling Bee

Dress Up Day

Sovereign Hill

Grade 2

5

Parent Teacher

Interviews

6

Book Swap

7 8

SSV Athletics

Bring along

favourite book

9 10

11

Assembly

Canberra

Camp

12

Canberra

Camp

13

Canberra

Camp

14

School

Council

15 16 17

18 19

Baker’s Delight

Lunch

20 21 22

Last Day

Term 3

23 24

October 2017 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

9

First Day

Term 4

Assembly

10 11 12 13 14 15

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Indonesian for a Day

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Shaving

Cream

Maths Prep

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Futsal Grade 3 and 4

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Futsal Grade 5 and 6