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AXEDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL
“Excellence Through Endeavour”
High Street, Axedale 3551
Ph. (03) 5439 7232 Fax. (03) 5439 7575
Principal – Corrina Hartland
Email: [email protected]
RESPECT, PERSONAL BEST, RESILIENCE, COOPERATION
NEWSLETTER No. 10 March 28th 2019
Important dates:
Mar.
April
29th Palmer’s Gymnastics Session P-6
2nd MARC Van
3rd Grade 6 ANZAC Service Melbourne
4th Grades Prep – 4. Heathcote
Community Day
5th End of term – 2.30pm dismissal
April 23rd First day of Term 2
25th ANZAC Day Public Holiday
SCHOOL VALUES AWARDS
Harry W – For being a friend to everyone and always including
others.
Drew – For being a hard-working, kind and cooperative member of
the class who always displays all of the Axedale Primary School
values.
Kaiya – For being a kind, cooperative and respectful classmate and
doing her personal best in her spelling, achieving great results.
Abigail – For always showing resilience and
respect in class. Abigail is always there for her
peers and shows qualities o f a great friend.
Grace – For giving her personal best and showing
tremendous improvement in reading analogue
clocks.
Kristah – For showing determination and resilience
when learning how to solve extended multiplication
problems.
CLASSROOM ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS Irie – For making use of colour in her work and making her
sheets bright and colourful.
Clementine – For participating actively in her guided reading
group and helping other students in her group in comprehension
activities.
Annie – For continuously doing her Personal Best in the
classroom, correctly using full stops, capital letters and
exclamation points in her writing.
Will – For making a dramatic change in his approach to
learning. Will is focusing on his personal best and this is shown
through his success in the classroom.
Emily J – For achieving 100% on the Addition Maths Test last
week.
Abi S – For using humour and creativity in her
quick write narrative and for her willingness to
share this with the class.
HOUSE TROPHY
Congratulations to McIvor, winners of this
week’s House Award.
MAGIC WORDS
Congratulations to our students who have achieved
a Magic Word Reading Certificate this week.
25 NIGHTS OF
READING
Congratulations to
Charlotte E, Emily J,
Darcy B, Sadie,
Danielle, Paddy, Leah,
Keira, Nash, Harry E,
Darcy S, Mitchell &
Logan for receiving their
25 nights of reading
certificate.
GYMNASTICS
Tomorrow is our last Palmer’s Gymnastics session for this year. I have really enjoyed seeing the development
of skills over the last four weeks. A big thank you to Emma and her staff for providing a fantastic program.
GOOD BYE MRS E
Last Friday we thanked Edith Theuns for all of her work in our Prep / Grade One classrooms. Mrs E joined us
last year and worked with Ms Saunders and the Prep class. This year she continued to work with Ms Saunders,
helping the Prep / Grade One class. Mrs E made the hard decision to accept a position that was offered, away
from education. We wish her all the best in her new job and look forward to catching up with her again in the
future.
MONEY FOUND
There was an amount of money found in the car park area on Wednesday after school. If you believe it is
yours please see Corrina.
A.S.P.I.R.E LEADERSHIP DAY
On Wednesday 27th of March our Grade 5/6 students attend the A.S.P.I.R.E Leadership Day at the Bendigo
Stadium. Students met eight Olympians along with a number of local athletes. They participated in a variety
of sporting activities, with a focus on being active, healthy and developing leadership skills that can be used
during sporting activities.
ANZAC DAY
Axedale Our Town Our Future will be holding an ANZAC Day Ceremony at the Axedale Park. Our School
Choir will be performing on the day. An information note for choir members will be sent home next week
with details.
Our School Captains will lay a wreath on behalf of our school.
ANZAC DAY – SCHOOLS CEREMONY
Each year, Legacy Victoria conduct a School’s ANZAC Day Ceremony at the Shrine of Remembrance. This
ceremony will be conducted next Wednesday 3rd April. Our Grade 6 students will attend the ceremony.
HEATHCOTE COMMUNITY FUN DAY
Our Prep – Grade 4 students have been invited to a Heathcote Community Schools Day on Thursday 4th April,
being held at Barrack Reserve, Heathcote. Students will participate in a range of fun sporting activities,
cultural education and awareness activities and will have the opportunity to attend information sessions on
being healthy and active. Students will catch a bus to Barrack Reserve, leaving school at around 9.15 and
returning at approximately 2.45. Students will need their hat, drink bottle and their lunchbox. Parents are
invited to come and have a look at the many activities and displays offered throughout the day.
FOSTERVILLE MINE OPEN DAY Thank you to everyone who volunteered at the Fosterville Mine. It was impressive to see everyone working
together to keep up with the high demand for the BBQ. We greatly appreciate the support of Fosterville Mine,
Axedale Events Committee and our parent and friend volunteers. SCHOOL COUNCIL
At the Annual General Meeting for School Council on Tuesday night, I had much pleasure in presenting our
Annual Report for 2018. In the Annual Report we were able to report on a range of student and school data,
and make comparison with state averages and ‘like schools’. Like schools are schools of similar size, similar
rurality and similar socio-economic profile.
Areas covered include Student Achievement, Student Engagement & Student Well Being. Data is drawn
from parent, student & staff surveys, as well as NAPLAN results & teacher judgements from Student
Reports.
A copy of the Annual Report is available at the Office to browse through if required. I would be happy to
make some time for a detailed look through if anyone would like that.
Also at the AGM, Office Bearers for 2019 were elected and are as follows:-
President Anna Johnson
Vice President Fiona Bradshaw
Treasurer Lisa Evans
Minute Secretary Steve Christensen
A big thank you Helen Lennon and Lara Bathurst for their commitment to School Council over the last few
years.
DRAGON MILE 2019
This wonderful event is happening again on Easter Sunday (21st April)
Prep – Gr. 4 students can enter the ‘Mini Mile’ (800 metres) and Grade 5/6 students the full ‘Dragon Mile’
(1.6km).
See Mr C for an entry form. Entries need to be signed and money ($10) enclosed in an envelope and
returned to Mr C no later than Wednesday 3rd April.
Please see Mr C if you have any questions and get involved in this wonderful event!
STUDENT BANKING
Our school banking day is Tuesday. Interested students can apply online, at any Commonwealth Bank branch,
over the phone, or via a paper-based application available from the office.
SCHOOL APP
If you haven’t already signed up to our school app we ask that you take the time to download it.
The majority of our families have now signed up for our school app and are finding it is a great way of staying
in touch with easy access to newsletters, receiving calendar updates direct to your phone and
entering absence notes. It is also the way we send our alerts and reminders.
To download the app just visit the App Store for iPhones or Google Play for Android’s.
Search for Updat-ed and from the menu select our school. We’ll receive your registration
request and will need to approve you before your app is up and running.
FRUIT DUTY
The Fresh Fruit Friday Program will continue this year.
Friday 29th March – Tara Coffin & Lizz Shelton
Friday 5th April – Jodie Black & Tanya Czuczman
A roster for next Term will be sent home next week.
BREAKFAST CLUB
Breakfast Club is run on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. All students are welcome to come along and
share breakfast with some of their school mates from 8.30-8.50am.
Our Student Well Being Worker Ricky Cawley runs this most beneficial program.
Tuesday 2nd April – Liz Harrington
Thursday 4th April – Samantha Gilbertson
Thanks to our helpers this Term a roster will be sent home for Term 2 soon.
MICHAEL GROSS PARENTING RESOURCES
Our school is a member of Parenting Ideas. Visit www.parentingideas.com.au
This week’s attached article is “Moving beyond asking, “Balancing extra-curricular activities for flourishing
kids”
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Q: What did one kitchen knife say to the other kitchen knife?
A: You’re looking sharp today
Thank you Olivia for this week’s joke!!
Corrina Hartland
Principal
FORMS TO BE RETURNED OR ORGANISED AT SCHOOL
HOT CROSS BUNS ORDER – Orders will be delivered on Thursday 4th April.
EASTER RAFFLE TICKETS – Tickets due back by Friday 5th April.
BLANKET PERMISSION FORMS – Please return the PG rated movie permission form ASAP.
CLASSROOMS
MOBILE PHONE RECYCLING
Axedale Primary School is a keen supporter of Zoos Victoria mobile
phone recycling complain.
They're calling you aims to raise awareness of the threats gorillas face
from mining while raising money to support primate conservation and
divert phones from landfill.
All smart phones, mobile phones, tablets and accessories such as
chargers in ANY condition are accepted.
To protect data, it is recommended to conduct a factory reset before
donating your phone.
Let's support endangered species programs and donate any phones that
are hanging around your house..... they are full of heavy metals that can
be recycled!! The phone collection tub is located across from the school
office on the sports memorabilia display area.
Thanks
Lydia Fehring
Environmental Science Teacher
PARENTS, VOLUNTEERS & FRIENDS
EASTER RAFFLE
Tickets are $1 each. Families are asked to provide a small Easter item
for our Easter Raffle to be drawn at the end of term. Donations can be
left at the Office. The raffle will be drawn on the last day of term.
HOT CROSS BUN FUNDRAISER
Thank you to those families who ordered hot cross buns. They will be delivered to school next Thursday 4th
April.
ATHLETES FOOT A reminder to mention Axedale Primary School when purchasing from the Athletes Foot. They will
donate $5 for every pair of shoes purchased. We recently received a cheque for $310, in recognition
of our 2018/2017 purchases.
TRIVIA NIGHT
The PVF committee are looking for volunteers to be involved on the Trivia Night sub-committee. If you are
interested in helping out with this event please contact the school and we will put you in touch with one of
the members. Thanks for your support.
NATURAL LEARNERS – SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM
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