IMPORTANT DATES COMING UP

November 5th – Melbourne Cub Public Holiday 6th – School Library Bus 8th – Raffle Ticket books to be returned 9th – Set up for Annual Fete & Clearing Sale 10th – Annual Fete & Clearing Sale 13th – Transition 9.30-11.30am; School Council Meeting – 6.00pm 15th – Gr 1-2 Excursion to Melbourne and Sleepover

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Hello for this week! One of my great lasting impressions and memory of your school revolves around the community spirit and events that in many ways typify the benefits and good fortune of living in a closely connected rural community such as Avenel. Over the last week, two stand out events in many ways were symbolic of that school and community spirit namely The Bike Hike and The Gala Dinner. And with barely time to catch breath we will be hosting a much anticipated Avenel event, The Fete & Clearing Sale the weekend after Cup Day. My hat off to everyone who pitches in and their community spirit to make these Avenel feature events work! Gala Dinner Success I had the great pleasure of attending one of Avenel’s great events last Friday evening. Our school and kindergarten community spent a most convivial evening at the Gala Dinner at Fowles Winery. Many thanks to our dedicated P&F and the Kindergarten Committee for such a special evening; many thanks also to Matt & Lou Fowles and the many sponsors listed below for their support of this event. It certainly was a great night to support education in our community! Thanks you to the following for donating the door prizes – Avenel Meats, Brave Goose Vineyards, Joy John Wine, Bank Street Pizza, Avenel Pharmacy and Laura & Scott Jeffery. Bike Hike The Bike Hike is one of our great annual events for our students and for the connection between students, teachers and parents of local schools. The Bike Hike now offers Grade 5 & 6 students from Seymour College, Nagambie Primary School, St Joseph’s Primary School and Avenel Primary School the rewarding challenge of three days of bike riding from Bonnie Doon to Tallarook and camping out along the way. Such an event requires heaps of additional, voluntary planning and organisation by staff and volunteers and support from our school’s parents – many thanks to everyone who was involved! And most of all, congratulations to all of our riders, student and adult, for their involvement, training and resilience throughout! Fete & Clearing sale Another huge event, and important fund-raiser and community event is the annual Fete & Clearing sale. As they say many hands make light work, so if you haven’t found time to get around to putting your name down to help out, it would really be great if you can.

Next Week!!!! School is open next Monday for students and staff. Tuesday is a Public Holiday. I certainly understand that many industries and parents take the Monday as a Leave Day to enjoy a Long weekend and this will affect family plans so also understand if students are away for family reasons. Can we just ask that you notify us through Compass before-hand so that we can faithfully exercise our duty of care on student whereabouts? The school bus will be running on Monday. Somers Camp Best wishes to our students, Larni, Ella Jade, Micah and Brendan who will be attending Somers Camp from next Tuesday. I think that’s all from me for this week! Safe journeys for those heading away on the Cup extended weekend. Very best wishes Graham

OTHER THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW …. CONGRATULATIONS – to Sarah and Travis on the safe arrival of Georgia Louise last Sunday. 7lb 3oz’s. GRADE 6 VALEDICTORY DINNER COORDINATORS(S) - One of the great features of our school culture is our Valedictory Dinner which has been running for over 25 years. Each year our Grade 5 parents cater for our outgoing Grade 6 students, providing them with a festive end to their primary school years. A special feature of the event is that our Grade 5 students act as the wait-staff on the night. At this point in our planning,

we are seeking volunteers amongst our Grade 5 parents to co-ordinate the event. If you are interested in being involved in the planning of this great event, please leave your name with our office. HEAD LICE – We have had reports of our ‘unwanted’ school pets lurking around in hair at present. Please check your child’s hair and treat if necessary to that we can keep these unwanted guests at bay. Thank you. GASTRO – We have had several cases of gastro reported. We remind parents that students must be kept home from school for a minimum of 48 hours after diarrhea or vomiting stops.

PARENTS & FRIENDS NEWS

Thank you to those who have volunteered their time over the Fete and Clearing Sale weekend. To ensure that this great, major fundraising event is a successful one, we need assistance from all the primary school community. Even if you can commit just a little time to assist on the day, it would be greatly appreciated so please complete the signup sheet at the end of this newsletter and return it to the office. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

The 1st prize for the Fete raffle is a camping swag, an esky plus a $100 Avenel Meats voucher, - total value $700.00. Second Prize is an “Experience Avenel” package valued at approx. $250.00. Please make every effort to sell your book of tickets. More ticket books are available from the office if you require them. Our hampers for the raffle are looking very depleted at the moment!!! Any donations from the community for our Fete Raffle Prizes would

be appreciated. This year we have 3 hampers a Pamper Hamper, Outdoor

Hamper and Family Hamper. Remember your imagination is the only limitation when it comes to thinking of what you can donate.

IN GOOD CONDITION FOR

FETE DAY. PLEASE LEAVE ITEMS AT SCHOOL

BY THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER.

(No clothes thank you)

AROUND THE ROOMS To – Griffin Boote, James Davies, Will Nicholson and Nat Miniken

STUDENT OF THE WEEK – Ruby Hart - for her increased confidence when contributing to class discussions.

Aspa King - for her ability to focus and work in a sustained manner to complete her independent learning tasks. Ned Butler - for applying strategies to determine the meaning of new vocabulary. Willow Harper - for her use of auditory devices when writing an original poem. Georgia Taresch - for her incredible will and determination throughout the Bike Hike, amazing work getting up those hills Georgia! Ebony Harper - for her positive attitude in the face of difficult tasks. Awesome Eb! Jonah Kesckes - for his independent mathematical problem solving and logically explaining his thinking. Casey McQueen - for his honest reflection on his skills and his ability to set a mathematic fluency task. SCHOOL GOLF COMPETITION – Congratulations to Lindsay and Campbell Smith, Flynn O’Brien and Hudson Black who competed at the Golf Victoria Primary School district golf tournament at Broadford last week. All four have made it through to the Victorian regional final at Heathcote next month. Lindsay Smith played well all day to come 2nd, followed by Campbell Smith finishing 5th, with Flynn O'Brien and Hudson Black not far behind. Great job by all the boys!! Good golfing at Heathcote. CONGRATULATIONS to Ryan Ezard who represented Avenel Primary School in hurdles at State Athletics last Friday.

Sink or Float? Gr 1-2 students making predictions as to whether a piece of clay molded into different shapes would sink or float. If it sank, then they had to remodel it into a different shape to see what the outcome was until they got it to actually float.

AVENEL PRIMARY SCHOOL – CALENDAR OF EVENTS

MONTH

DATE

EVENT

November Tuesday 5th Melbourne Cub Public Holiday

Wednesday 6th School Library Bus

Saturday 9th Set up for Avenel Fete & Clearing Sale

Sunday 10th Avenel Fete & Clearing Sale

Wednesday 13th Transition Day 9.30-11.30am School Council Meeting – 6.00pm

Friday 15th Gr 1-2 sleepover and excursion

18th – 22nd Gr 3-4 Camp

21st – 23rd Energy Breakthrough

Wednesday 20th School Library Bus

Thursday 28th Cahill Cup Tennis Challenge - Nagambie

December Wednesday 4th School Library Bus – returns only

Tuesday 10th State Wide Transition Day 9.00am-3.20pm

Wednesday 11th School Council Meeting – 6.00pm

Thursday 12th Gr 6 Valedictory Dinner

Tuesday 17th Gr 3-6 Triathlon

Wednesday 18th School Library Bus – returns only End of Year Concert

Friday 20th Last day Term 4

COMMUNITY CORNER

AVENEL GOLF CLUB

TWILIGHT GOLF

Come and join us on a Friday evening for 9 or 6 holes of golf - $5.00

No handicap necessary Tee off from 5.00pm

AVENEL MARKET SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER IN CONJUCTION WITH THE AVENEL PRIMARY SCHOOL

ANNUAL FETE & CLEARING SALE.

All our usual stall holders will be present selling their array of goods including wine,

plants, produce, fruit and vegetables, crafts, oils and creams, and much, much more.

Hope to see you there.

EUROA CINEMA 1st – IT Chapter 2 2nd/3rd – Ride like a Girl 8Tth/9th – The White Crow 9th/10th – The Goldfinch 16th/17th – Hustlers 22nd – The Least of These – The Graham Staines Story 23rd/24th – Amazing Grace

Tickets $10 – Preschool children free. Ice-creams,

popcorn etc available from the Kiosk. Screening times: 8.00pm Friday; 8.00pm Saturday and 4.00pm Sunday.

TABILK JUNIOR FOOTBALL/NETBALL CLUB ATTENTION ALL COACHES

Club are seeking coaches for the following positions:

Under 11 Netball Under 13 Netball Under 15 Netball Under 10 Football Under 12 Football Under 14 Football

Applications close 4th November 2019 Please forward all applications to

tabilk.jfnc@outlook.com Any further information please contact, President Jack Smyth on 0417 363 664

Or Secretary Kobey Ashcroft 0418 887 781

AVENEL(Vic) RSL SUB-BRANCH “ Avenel (Vic) RSL gearing up to commemorate the unveiling

of WW1 monument “ Avenel RSL is seeking interest from families who have Avenel (Victoria) District born ancestors enlisted in WW1, serving and retired defense personnel , and members of general pubic that wish to attend the Avenel RSL ANZAC DAY event on 25 April 2020. The 2020 year marks the 100th year since the WW1 monument was unveiled. To commemorate this event, a guest speaker will attend with a presentation about Brigadier-General John Robinson Royston and his command and leadership of the Australian ‘diggers’ during WW1. Anyone who would like to share relevant stories or has WW1 memorabilia/photographs they would be prepared to have photographed for display at the event , or wishes to know more are asked to contact Joyce WHITE Ph 03 57962398. AVENEL FETE & CLEARING SALE

Items for the Clearing Sale can be booked with the School Office on 5796 2264 (school hours) now.

FETE VOLUNTEER SIGN UP First in, first pick! Return your form to the office a soon as possible.

Name: ………………………………………………………………… Contact Ph No. …………………………………………………….

STALL Preferred Shift Details

9.00am – 12.15pm

Ticket Booth Deb Dean Selling ticket for the fete zone. Jackie Tubecki

Popcorn, Fairy Floss, Show Bags & Lucky Dips

Kate Schneider Run popcorn machine & selling stall goods Sandy Ezard

Georgia Bolton (10-12)

Drinks, Icy Poles Mel Harper Mel Harper Serve drinks, icy poles

Jo Nash Jo Nash

Jumping Castle Fiona Gowers Collect tickets

Narelle Thompson

Raffle Tickets Grace Kenworthy Grace Kenworthy Selling raffle ticket on the day

Bric-A-Brac/Book Stall/Plants

Kristy Harding Kristy Harding Selling stall items

Anita O’Sullivan Anita O’Sullivan

Oak Tree Café/cake stall Kate Steers, Lou Banks Kate Steers Food handling/ Selling cakes Emma Aldridge Lou Banks

Edwina Bull, Nina Day

BBQ

Hour 1 2 3 4

7.00am-10.00am Sam Steers Katrina Jamison Dan Butler

10.00am-12.00pm

Andy Rankin Rachel Muggleton Dick Rankin, Grant Taresch

Suzie Taresch

12.00pm-2.00pm Graham McAllister Matt Brown Gus Leunig

CLEARING SALE VOLUNTEER SIGN UP

Saturday

Task Number of People Required Who

Unloading goods and arranging lots 6 people to work in shifts over the day.

Victor Nash, Steve Harding, Scott Golightly, Nick Muggleton

Logging and labelling of lots Tegan Sidebottom Paige Turner Mel Harper

Vendor Registration officer (confirming Terms and Conditions are signed and licence recorded)

1 person Mel Harper, Jo Nash

Security Staff to provide overnight site security.

3 People

Sunday

Office Staff: 1 supervisor and 3 clerks; 1 extra between 11am and 2pm

Tegan Sidebottom, Amanda Allison, Paige Turner, Anne Fulton

Clearing Sale roles: (i) scribe (ii)spotter (iii) runner

Steve Harding, Victor Nash

Gate Security: (checking receipts for the removal of goods)

2 (replaced in shifts over the day)

Site Clean Up All hands on deck!