26th July 2018

What’s On…... JULY 30th Junior Assembly 2.45pm 31st ICAS –Testing– English AUGUST 1st Year 6 Engineers Without Borders Inc. 2nd BOOK CLUB DUE 2nd Year 6 Excursion to The Whitehorse Centre 6th Senior Assembly 2.45pm 8th Book Week Incursion 9th Book Week Incursion 10th Curriculum Day. No children to attend on this day. 13th Junior Assembly 2.45pm 14th ICAS Testing— Mathematics 17th Winter Sport Round Robin for Year 6 20th-24th Book Week-’Find Your Treasure’ 20th Senior Assembly 2.45pm 21st School Council Meeting at 7pm 24th Year 1 Activities Evening 27th Junior Assembly 2.45pm 27th-29th Year 3 Camp- Phillip Island 31st Father’s Day Stall SEPTEMBER 3rd Senior Assembly 2.45pm 4th Year 5 Sustainability Incursion 5th ART SHOW 5.30-7.30pm 5th Sport & Graduation Photos 6th ART SHOW 3.45-5pm 7th SDSSA Basketball

Dear Parents, PREPS DO YOGA The Preps have been involved in several sessions of fun based yoga over the last two weeks. They have been performing movement sequences related to creatures that live in the sea. The students have been challenged to use their body to demonstrate fundamental movement skills in correct sequence to complete a movement and physical challenge.

REMINDER-CURRICULUM DAY FRIDAY 10 AUGUST All staff will be attending a Curriculum Day on Friday 10 August -therefore the school will be closed.

ARRIVING AT SCHOOL It is very important that our students arrive at school ready to start the day at 9.00am. Late arrivals are becoming more numerous with many students arriving between 9.05 and 9.30am. The education and wellbeing of students arriving late is being compromised and these students are disadvantaged in their learning.

Please do not assume that important learning only begins after 9.30am. Children need to feel a sense of belonging within their class and need a few minutes to prepare for learning, settle in with their friends and classmates and prepare for the day. The first 15 minutes in the classroom each morning are crucial for setting the scene for the day.

2018 PARENT OPINION SURVEY WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK! Our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents. It

Principal’s Message

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is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of parents’ perceptions of school climate, student behaviour and student engagement. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies. Approximately 30 per cent of parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey. All responses to the survey are anonymous. This year the Parent Opinion Survey will be conducted from Monday 23rd July to Sunday 26th August.

The survey will be conducted online, only takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient time within the fieldwork period on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones. The online survey will be available in a range of languages other than English. These include: Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Chin (hakha), Hindi, Japanese, Somali, Turkish, Punjabi and Greek. The survey results will be reported back to the school at the end of September. The survey results will be communicated to parents through the annual report. Last year we used the survey results to inform and direct various elements of our future school planning and improvement. Please speak to your child’s teacher if you would like more information.

Karen Jenkin Principal

WORLD ART EXPO 2018 The WORLD ART EXPO 2018 is our second art show event featuring art work from

every student at Pinewood. The theme of WORLD ART reflects the national and cultural diversity of the school population, with student art work representing 35 countries of family origin. On the evening, we gratefully request that students, parents and teachers

dress in National Costume or clothing that reflects their country of origin. If this is not possible, we would still love you to join us.

EVENT DETAILS:

WHEN: OPENING NIGHT-WEDNESDAY 5TH SEPETEMBER- FIRST VIEWING 3.45PM-4.30PM GRAND OPENING—5.30PM-7.30PM

WHERE: PINEWOOD SCHOOL HALL

FOOD, COFFEE AND LIVE ENTERTAINMENT AVAILABLE ON THE SCHOOL GROUNDS ON OPENING NIGHT FOOD AVAILABLE: SRI LANKAN CANTEEN, SOUVLAKI, BBQ AND COFFEE VAN

SECOND VIEWING- THURSDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 3.45PM-5.30PM

ENTRY BY GOLD COIN DONATION DOOR PRIZE ON OPENING NIGHT SILENT AUCTION FEATURING CANVAS ARTWORK CREATED BY EACH YEAR LEVEL DISPLAY OF THE ARTSHOW TALENT COMPETITION FINALISTS “FIND THE FLAG” ARTWORK TREASURE HUNT

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Welcome everyone to Book Club Catalogue 5! Just a

friendly reminder to those that order through the school –

please ensure your name and class are on the order form

and correct money is in a secure envelope. If you are

missing an order please contact the office, as books may

be on backorder. With the cold, wet days still with us, it is

the perfect opportunity to catch up on your reading!

Orders for issue 5 need to be in by THURSDAY 2ND AUGUST

2018.

Happy reading!

Louise

(BookClub coordinator)

THANKYOU! A big thankyou to those who ordered from Billy G’s Gourmet Cookie dough! We had a great response and at this stage delivery can be expected on Tuesday the 7th of August – collection

details will be emailed .

Book Stall Donations A separate flyer was sent out earlier this week with details regarding donations for the upcoming Book Stall. If you are having a clear-out and come across any books (old or new) which you no longer want, we would really appreciate you donating them to the Parents Club! We are seeking

books for all ages which will go on sale to the whole school community on

Tuesday 21st August & Wednesday 22nd August 2018 Please bring any donations into school as soon as possible. There are collection tubs in your child’s classroom as well

as a collection tub at the school office.

THANKYOU!

SECOND HAND UNIFORM The Pinewood Community has shown a lot of interest in having a second hand uniform store. Due to the huge amount of time this requires, storage, planning etc we have opted to try a FACEBOOK page where the Parents & Families of Pinewood are welcome to post photos of their items for sale. Everyone is welome to join, please check the page out for more details.

Search - Pinewood Primary school Uniform Buy/swap/sell

PARENTS CLUB

PINEWOOD NETBALL CLUB

Registrations are now open for the 2018 Spring Netball season.

We are seeking players across all age groups to expand our teams – particularly Years 3 and 4. Parents if you are looking for a great social sport for Saturday afternoons the club will be registering a team in the open section –

no experience necessary, just a willingness to have fun! Spring comp commences September 8

th.

For further information please contact the club at pinewoodnetballclub@gmail.com or Ms. Sandra McGregor.

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Term 3 has started off with a bang in our

Interschool Sports.

Week 1 saw our Football, Soccer and

Teeball teams successfully compete in the

Monash-Waverley Division Finals, taking out

the Football, Soccer and Girls Teeball

championships and progressing to the

Eastern Metropolitan Region Finals held in

August.

Week 2 saw the Girls Netball team also

competing at Division level, finishing 4th out

of 6 teams on the day which is a terrific

effort.

Well done and congratulations to

everyone who is a part of these teams,

everyone at the school is so proud!

Nathan Walsh Sport Coordinator

SPORTS NEWS

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HEALTHY, AFFORDABLE

LUNCHES DELIVERED FRESH TO PINEWOOD

PRIMARY SCHOOL

AVAILABLE MONDAY TO FRIDAY (Unavailable Tuesday)

Our Menu offers either a 2 or 3 Course Lunch with 15 choices available for each

course each day!

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE www.classroomcuisine.com.au

Orders are received by our customer friendly

website until 8.30am the day the lunch is required.

Email: contact@classroomcuisine.com.au