Special Events Next Week

Monday 12th June

Public Holiday—Queen’s Birthday

Tuesday 13th June

Pupil Free Day—School Wide Positive

Behaviours PD

Wednesday 14th June

School Council

Friday 16th June

Pie Orders and Money due at School

Grade 5/6 Interschool Sports with

South—Round 3

STUDENT LEADERS

Kiara Mills & Noah Mundie

Thank you for your work as Student Leaders.

Our School Values

Respect-having regard for self, others

and the environment

Inclusion-sense of belonging

Integrity-being honest and fair

Responsibility-being responsible for your actions & words

Personal Best-striving for excellence

In Term 2 our focus is on Respect.

Echuca West Primary School

Personal Best at the West echucawestps.vic.edu.au.

(03) 5482 2263

Newsletter No. 16 Friday 9th June 2017

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Student reports will be sent home on Thursday 29th June with students in a sealed

envelope. Please take the time to read over these reports and do not hesitate to

contact the school if you have any questions. This year our school will be reporting to

the Victorian Curriculum introduced by the Victorian government. The purpose of this

new curriculum is to ensure that Victorian students are better equipped to deal with

our changing world.

The new Victorian Curriculum aims to give students the skills they need for work and

life: literacy, numeracy, scientific knowledge and skills, resilience, respectful

relationships, the use of digital technologies and the capacity for critical and creative

thinking and expression.

More information about the Victorian Curriculum can be found at the following

website address:

http://victoriancurriculum.vcaa.vic.edu.au/

This year, student reports will be presented in a new format because we have changed

to a new software program. The new format is easy to read and understand but if you

need anything clarified, please talk to your child’s classroom teacher.

Parent-teacher Interviews

Parent-teacher interviews will be conducted from Monday 24th July to Thursday 27th

July. Classroom teachers are organising their own interview times and booking forms

will be sent home at the start of Term 3. We have changed the timing of interviews to

make them more productive and focused on future learning goals Attending

interviews helps to strengthen the home–school partnership and it is an important

way of showing your child that you are interested in their learning. It also gives you

the opportunity to seek further feedback on your child’s progress or discuss any

concerns.

Sporting Achievements

Congratulations to Dakota Monigatti and Dael Buntine who competed in the Regional

Cross Country Championships at St. Arnaud on Tuesday. Dakota finished 39th and Dael

finished 41st.

Congratulations also to our Division 4 Mixed Netball Team who won their division last

Friday at the Zone Netball Competition. The team members were Jed Buntine, Archie

Childs, Roxi Clarke, Kiarrah Johnson, Emma Judd, Tegan Lenne & Jake Underwood.

Monday 12th June and Tuesday 13th June

Monday the 12th June is the Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday. School will not open on this day.

Tuesday the 13th June is a pupil free day. Our staff will be working with the staff from Echuca South Primary School and

Echuca Specialist School to learn about a program called School Wide Positive Behaviour Support.

I hope you all enjoy this extra long weekend.

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARD

Grade Prep/1—Georgia Wiltshire—Georgia, it is so lovely to have you back with us again at Echuca West. You have settled so quickly back in amongst all your old friends and now already, you have made many new friends too. I am so proud of how hard you work. You are a conscientious student, who really applies herself to everything we do every day. How lucky are we to have your big smile in our classroom? Keep up your terrific efforts, you are our STAR OF THE WEEK!

Chloe Rossiter—Welcome to Echuca West Chloe! I have been so proud of how quickly you have settled and adjusted to life

in our classroom and at our school. I love being greeted by your big smile every morning. You really do make our classroom

a brighter place. We are lucky to have you here with us. Congratulations on being this week’s STAR!

Grade 2B—Loxley Hudson—Your bubbly personality and your enthusiasm towards your learning every single day is terrific

to see. You persist with every task that you are faced with and you never give up. You are a very focused worker and you

give everything 100%. Keep up the great work. Well done Loxley.

Grade 3C— Nikita O’Connell—It has been great to see you making positive choices during class time and in the yard. You are always looking to be involved in class discussion and have given our On Demand testing a red hot crack. You should be proud of your first attempt at public speaking as you spoke beautifully. Well done Nikita, Keep up the hard work.

Nikita Green—Nikita, it has been fantastic to see your work ethic in class this week. You have really

knuckled down during our On Demand testing and shown a remarkable improvement in your scores.

You should be very proud and it shows the results of what hard work can achieve over Semester 1.

Well done Nikita.

Tegan Stone—Your positive and friendly attitude is a treat to have in our classroom. You always come to school with a smile

on your face. It was great to see the effort you put into your inquiry assignment, as your poster turned out a treat. Keep up

the positive work in the classroom. Well done Tegan, keep up the hard work.

Grade 4D— Shaun Darlacey—It is good to see the positive way you approach reading. Although it hasn’t always been easy,

you have made consistent effort with your reading this term. Now you are starting to see the results as you find you can

read more challenging texts. One goal has been to improve fluency which involved recording your reading rate each day.

This week you achieved your best score ever! Congratulations Shaun! You should feel very proud of the progress you have

made. Well done and keep up the good work.

Grade 5E—Archie Childs,

A is for Athlete—giving it a red hot go at the Netball Tournament!

R is for Resilient—getting on with the job despite the challenges!

C is for Confidence—a trait you are showing more and more!

H is for Hardworking—always trying your best with the task at hand!

I is for Impressive—for your standout work in our Inquiry Unit!

E is for Excellence—for what you are achieving in our classroom!

Grade 6F— Alicia Callander—You practice our school values everyday. In class you are always on task and display integrity

and respect. You have been a wonderful help to me over the past few weeks. I appreciate it very much. Thank you.

FUNDRAISING—PIE DRIVE

We are running another yummy Pie Drive, with some delicious pies available again from

Moama Bakery. If you would like to order some pies please send your order (which went

home this week) and money back to school by next Friday 16th June. Pies will be delivered

to school on Friday 23rd June. Just in time for the cooler holiday weather.

CLASS OF THE WEEK

This week’s Class of the Week is Grade Two : For improving their strategies to resolve disputes

in a respectful manner.

BIRTHDAYS IN THE SCHOOL THIS WEEK

We would like to wish a happy birthday to Mrs Chandler, Olivia McKay, Chloe Rossiter, Brodie Spedding, Emma Judd and Dakota Monigatti who are celebrating their birthdays this week. We hope they have a great day.

REMINDERS

Lunch Orders are Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Lost Property Box is in the Undercover area.

Student Banking Day is Thursday.

ADVERTISING SPACE

If you would like to sponsor our newsletter and advertise your business in this space we would love to hear from you. This will cost $20 each week to include your business card or logo in our weekly newsletter. If you are interested please contact the school on 54822263.

TERM DATES FOR 2017.

Term 2: 18 April to 30 June

Term 3: 17 July to 22 September

Term 4: 9 October to 22 December

FUTURE DATES

Friday 23rd June

Pies delivered to school

Grade 5/6 Interschool Sports with South—Round 4

Wednesday 28th June

Grade 5/6 Campaspe Boys Football Carnival

Thursday 29th June

Reports go home

Friday 30th June

Last Day Term 2—Dismissal 2.10p.m.

Monday 17th July

First Day Term 3

FUTURE DATES

Thursday 20th July

State Cross Country—Melbourne

Friday 21st July

Grade 5/6 Interschool Sports with South—Round 5

Monday 24th July-Thursday27th July

Parent Teacher Interviews

Wednesday 26th July

Campaspe Girls Footy Day

Friday 28th July

Grade 5/6 Interschool Sports with South—Round 6

Friday 4th August

Athletics—South/West

GRADE REPORTS

Grade Prep 1A & 2B: It seems the week has flown by very quickly after having last Monday off. We have been on safari with zebras this week, learning many new and interesting facts about them. Our favourite thought was that they do actually indeed look like keys on a piano with their black and white stripes. There is lots of interesting animal writing occurring across the community. Preps are becoming much more confident with writing their own simple animal sentences and listening carefully for sounds to write words themselves. Year 1 started to write a Zippy the Zebra adventure, while Year 2 wrote about making a new animal discovery. In Maths Prep/One have been continuing with subtraction and discussing lots of different strategies that can be used to solve problems. Year 2 have been doing addition with carrying. We also spent some time exploring mass and using the balance scales in our classrooms. Remember there is no school next Monday and Tuesday, so enjoy your extra long weekend and we look forward to seeing everyone back again next Wednesday!

Grade 3C & 4D: This week in Grade 3 and 4 our public speaking skills were put to the test. All students have been developing their speeches over the past 3 weeks and finally reached the week of presentation. For the Grade 3’s this was their first crack at competing in a speech competition. All students really shone in the classroom and most

put nerves aside to show promise as future leaders of the school. Each one should be proud of their efforts. The winner will go onto the Lion’s Club annual speaking competition in the coming weeks. We wish them luck. This week we have also completed our On Demand testing in the aim to identify improvement areas of the children over Semester 1. All students are commended on the work and persistence they put in to our testing, with results showing positive outcomes. In Maths, this week Grade 3 have focused on the area of mass, measuring items around the classroom. Grade 4 have focused on finding equivalent fractions and beginning to add and subtract fractions when they had even or different denominators. Finally, our Inquiry projects are completed and are up for display in the old Prep Room. Students have done an excellent job at creating these

projects and have shown real class in execution. Well done Grade 3 and 4. If you would like to visit in the morning or afternoon early next week, projects will be up for viewing and you are more than welcome. Another action packed week down. Three to go.

Grade 5E : This short week as been fantastic! This week in Grade Five, we have been busy! In Reading and Writing, we have been learning all about different themes in a text like Honesty, Adventure, Family and Magic and there are so many more we cannot even count them all! In Grade 5/6 we have been doing Earn and Learn, which has been extremely fun!!! Last but not least, Inter School sports are on again today and we have handball, which went very well 2 weeks ago, and we also have netball and softball. I HOPE WE ALL GET A WIN *** BUT IT’S ALL ABOUT FUN ***

From the two awesome people Saraiah and Emma

Grade 6F: We have had a very busy week this week. We had a great time at the Netball tournament with our Division 4 mixed team winning the competition. In Earn and Learn we finally got paid and got 2 jelly beans. Today we have Round 2 of Interschool Sport. Good Luck everyone!

By Noah

COMMUNITY NEWS

NETBALL VICTORIA

Is conducting a Skills Clinic for 9 – 15 year olds :-

Date: Wednesday July 12th

Time: 2.30 pm – 5.00pm

Venue: Echuca BASKETBALL Stadium

Cost: $40-00 includes giveaways

Register via Netball Vic website

GET INVOLVED – Click drop box “Clinics & Camps” - choose Clinics.

Regards,

Michelle Hall Trudy Conder

Primary Sat Afternoon