Issue 12 August 2019

IMPORTANT DATES:

29th August Reading Extravaganza

4:00pm—5:30pm

2nd-6th September Literacy &

Numeracy Week

4th September Koorie Student

Art Centre Excursion

4th September 12ABC

Scienceworks Excursion

4th September Party in the Precinct

1:30pm—5:00pm

6th September Love Your Locals

Werribee Zoo Excursion

6th September 12DEF

Scienceworks Excursion

16th-19th September 56LC

Swimming Program

20th September Footy Colours Day

20th September Last Day of School

2:30 Dismissal

Wyndham

Park

Primary

School

Buenas Tardes (good afternoon), It has been another busy fortnight at WPPS (with more coming up)! Upcoming whole school activities This week is the Australian Book Council Book Week. I know that our teachers and students have been enjoying the Book Week activities and also attending the Scholastic Book Fair in the library (before and after school). The classroom doors have been decorated in this years theme “Reading is our Superpower.” I am looking forward to the highly anticipated Book Week parade at 2.20pm on Friday. I hope that everyone that is available can come along and get involved with our students and teachers. Also don’t forget that on Thursday the 29th of August we are having the whole school Reading Extravaganza from 4:00pm – 5.30pm. This is an opportunity for families to come to the school and join us in classrooms. We will be reading our favourite books and have planned some fun activities for everyone to enjoy. There will even be a hot milo/chocolate drink for everyone to enjoy while we read our favourite books together. We encourage everyone to come dressed in their pyjamas, onesie or robe. Students MUST be accompanied by an adult. “Reading is the Key to Aspire, Learn & Achieve” Keep an eye out in the newsletter for information regarding Literacy and Numeracy week. This year this event will be between 2nd – 6th September. I also look forward to seeing parents during the Wyndham Learning Festival Event running from the 1st September – 8th September across Wyndham. Our Special “Party in the Precinct” will be happening again this year at 1.30pm on the 4th September at the Wyndham Park Community Centre. As always there will be prize hampers on offer for those families that attend and go in the draw. 56 LC Intensive Swimming Program Our Intensive-swimming program begins on Monday 16th September and goes for one week (4 days in total). This program greatly supports our swimming carnival in Term 1, builds confidence in and around the water as well as ensuring our students learn the curriculum around water safety. Further details of this program will be sent out shortly. Parent Opinion Survey The Parent Opinion Survey has been shared with the randomly selected parents in August. It is completed annually by the Department of Education and Training and is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents at every school in Victoria. All responses to the survey are anonymous. The survey helps our school gain an understanding of how you view our school climate, student engagement, and relationships. Our school will use these results to inform school planning and improvement strategies.

Robotics Team Our grade 56 robotics team recently competed against 17 local schools in the Wyndham Schools R.E.A.L Robotics competition at Encore Events Centre. As always our amazing students represented our school wonderfully and demonstrated our school values of Safety, Respect and Responsibility. This year they won the Robotic Game competition with a score of 142 points, this is an amazing score and we congratulate them on this achievement. They are now preparing for the next regional competition in November. Thank you to Ms Krupashankar and Mr Kunoo for coaching this team and good luck in November. Kind regards, Laban Toose Principal

Reporting

Absences

FIRST AID NEWS: Winter is producing not only cold rainy days, but also a wide range of coughs, colds and viruses amongst our Learning Communities. If your

child is unwell, please do not send them to school. Keeping sick children at home helps to contain the spread of illness and also

provides them optimum conditions to rest and recuperate.

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR DETAILS

Have you got a new phone number? Have you moved house?

Are your emergency contact’s details up to date? Does your child have a medical condition or dietary restriction that

we should know about? Do we have an up to date allergy, asthma or anaphylaxis plan for

you child?

Providing us with up to date information is vitally important to ensure that we can care for your child and contact you if your child

is unwell or in case of an emergency.

If any of your details have changed please complete form on the last page of the newsletter or contact the office.

59-77 Kookaburra Avenue, Werribee

Phone: 03 9741 4549

Office Hours: 8:30am—4:00pm

Email: wyndham.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.wyndhamparkps.vic.edu.au

Our lost and found is overflowing...

If your child has lost any items, please check at the office.

Please CLEARLY LABEL all items of your child’s uniform to enable us to

quickly return any lost items to them.

All student absences must be

reported and explained. If

your child is absent please

notify as by phone, note,

parent portal or updated app.

Where possible, a medical

certificate should be provided

for multiple days of absence.

5/6 Learning Community

What has been happening in 5/6?

This week in the 5/6 Learning Community we have been preparing for our book

parade on Friday. We have been busy decorating our classroom doors in

preparation for judging.

COMPETITION

THE FIGHTING EXTINCTION COMMON CENTS CHALLENGE

The Love Your Locals students in grade 56 are trying to raise 300 five cent coins to save the Plains Wanderer, the Eastern Barred Bandicoot and the Orange Bellied Parrot. They are trying to make Werribee greener. We have a competition to see which class can collect the MOST 5 cent coins. The class will receive a special prize. We have one more week to go! Please send your coins to school!

This week grade 34A are winning!!!

PLEASE DONATE YOUR FIVE CENT COINS

1/2 Learning Community

The 1/2 Learning Community have had a very exciting few weeks of preparing

our doors and windows to celebrate Book Week! Don’t forget to check out 1/2A

and 1/2B superpower doors ... and the 1/2 portables super power windows!

In Reading we have just started our

unit on analysing; we are looking at all the

different elements of a text and how they fit

together.

In Writing we have been busy writing

Information Reports. Finding out the facts

about a topic has involved some seriously

tasty research skills ... ask your children what the topic of their Information

Report was this week!

ARDOCH LITERACY BUDDIES VISIT TO WYNDHAM PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL

34B are participating in the Ardoch Literacy Buddies Program. They write letters to their Big Buddies from the Werribee Highway Patrol each week. On Tuesday they got to meet some of their

Big Buddies. They learnt about the work of police officers and they exchanged letters. In Term Four the students will visit the Big Buddies at the police station.

The Foundation Learning Community have been super busy this term here is a snapshot of some of the amazing learning we have been doing:

The Foundation team would like to kindly like to remind parents to

please notify the office if someone different is picking up your

child from school so that we are aware of who your child is going

home with – Thank you from the Foundation team.

This week the 3/4LC have been celebrating book week in style! These are just two of

our superheroes displaying their not so secret reading super power. Reading certainly

is a super power that can take you to new heights!

LEARNING MULTIPLICATION TOGETHER

Did you know there are many different strategies for solving multiplication problems? We learnt strategies from Burma, India and the Karen community. We learnt new strategies like the grid method and the lattice.

LITTLE FREE LIBRARY

Did you know we have a Little Free Library in our Community Hub? You can take a book and return a book.

These are some of the books available this week in our Little Free Library.

CONGRATULATIONS to Samir and Ossama for their boxing

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