NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTERNEWSLETTERNEWSLETTER Address: Address: Address: Address: 52 Main Road, Tallarook Vic 3659

Telephone: Telephone: Telephone: Telephone: 5792 1752 FAX: FAX: FAX: FAX: 5792 2876

Email: Email: Email: Email: tallarook.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

WEBSITE: WEBSITE: WEBSITE: WEBSITE: www.tallarookps.vic.edu.au

Principal: Principal: Principal: Principal: Lynette ROBBERTS

School Council President: School Council President: School Council President: School Council President: SHARON DWYER

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24th October 2016

TALLAROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL’S VISION:TALLAROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL’S VISION:TALLAROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL’S VISION:TALLAROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL’S VISION:

To develop well adjusted individuals who strive to achieve their full potential in a dynamic, caring and supportive environment.

What’s Happening This Week

Monday, 24th October ~ MACC (Art)

Monday, 24th October ~ Young Leaders Wallan (10 Gr 4-5 students) 10am-2pm

Tuesday, 25th October ~ Breakfast Club 8-8:30am

Tuesday, 25th October ~ Kinder to School Transition, 10:30am-12:30pm

Friday, 28th October ~ Gr 3-6 Bike Ed, 11:30am-1:00pm

Friday, 28th October ~ Halloween Dress Up Day. Halloween Disco ~ 1:15pm-1:45pm

What’s Happening Next Week

Monday, 31st October ~ MARC (Library)

Tuesday, 1st November ~ Melbourne Cup Day Holiday

Friday, 4th November ~ Gr 3-6 Bike Ed, 11:30am-1:00pm

Friday, 4th November ~ Lunch Order day. Order forms will be sent home on Monday, 31st and due back Wednesday 2nd.

HOUSE POINTS

Dabyminga was the winner for last

week with 5 600 points.

Dabymnga lost 200 points and Rook Ranges lost

400 points for lost property.

Ongoing House Tally:

Dabyminga Rook Ranges

186 775 172 504

27th October ~ Ruth

The Silver Coin Heist

The Silver Coin Heist continues this term with our next count taking place during week 6, (7th-11th November). Keep checking under those couch cushions, through the car, inside all those nooks and crannies around the house, inside pockets for all the silver coins you can find. Our final count will be on Friday, 16th December.

Silver

Coin

Heist

From the desk of the Principal.... Hai Semua!

Isn’t it lovely to see the sunshine at last! I would like to thank our students for the friendship and care that has been shown in the playground. I had a Junior School Council meeting last week and our school leaders commented on the cooperation in the playground.

We are currently looking at our class structures for 2017. Staff spend a great deal of time working on these to ensure that they are organised to provide the best possible outcomes for our students. We appreciate the trust and support provided by our families when we are making these important decisions and thank those families who returned their response about whether staying or going for 2017. It is with sadness that I wish to inform the community that Jonathan Murphy has tended his resignation and will not be returning to Tallarook Primary School next year. We wish Jonathan well with his future ventures. Once our staffing is in place for 2017, I will notify the community of the classroom teachers for 2017.

Our Kinder to Prep transition has had a smooth start. The second visit will take place tomorrow with the little folk attending from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Today nine students will accompany me to Wallan Secondary College for the final session of the Young Leaders in the Making program.

I’m in the process of organising the swimming program for 2017. At the Junior School Council meeting students requested the program be lengthened and some suggested we run the program at the end of this year. What’s your opinion? Please complete and return the slip below to assist me with this decision.

A couple of reminders for families: 1) If your child is absent from school you are required to notify the school of a reason for their absence. If you

are unable to log onto SENTRAL to do this, please use any of the following options:

• Complete and return a “green slip” (absence/late arrival/early departure notification)

• Email the school

• Ring and notify us

2) All volunteers and visitors, including children, to the school must sign in and out in the Visitors Book. All visitors must wear a visitors badge while in the school grounds, these are in the office, where the book can also be found. It is a Legal requirement that any visitor to the school grounds be signed in. (if you’ve accidently left school with any of our visitors badges, please return them to the office as we’re running low!) Thank you

3) School will be open for “business as usual” on Monday 31st October however Tuesday, 1st November is a public holiday for Melbourne Cup Day.

4) Our fourth and final Curriculum Day is Friday, 11th November. Students are not required at school.

5) The Coin Heist is approaching the final ‘count’. Remember to keep those coins coming in! Finally, Junior School Council requested another Halloween dress up day and disco. This will be held on Friday, 28th October – gold coin donation please. Please ensure you send a change of clothing (school uniform) if your child’s dress up costume isn’t safe to move and play in for the entire day.

Have a great week,

Lynette Robberts

Swimming Program for Grade 3-6 at the Tallarook Outdoor Pool

We’d like to know your preference for our Grade 3-6 Swimming Program. Please complete this slip and return to school by Friday, 28th October. Name: ………………………………………………………………………

Please � your preference for the Grade 3-6 Swimming Program:

� Seven sessions at the end of this term

� Five sessions at the beginning of next year

Prep - Grade 2 ~ Kelly Pollard & Natasha McLeish: Over the coming week we are continuing to develop our quick recall of addition and subtraction facts. A fun way to practise these skills is to play card games such as 21 or subtraction war.

How to play subtraction war: 1. Shuffle the deck of cards and deal them face down, giving each player an equal number of cards until the

deck runs out. Each player keeps his cards in a stack. Assign picture cards, such as jacks, queens, and kings, a value of 10. Give aces a value of 1.

2. Demonstrate to your child how to play the game: Each player turns two cards face up, reads the number sentence and supplies the answer. For example, if your child draws a 5 and a 4 , he says 5 - 4 = 1. If you draw a 7 and a 2, then your number sentence is 7-2 = 5. Because your result is larger, you win the four cards and you put them at the bottom of your pile.

3. If each of you has a number sentence with the same answer, then it's war! At this point, you'll reverse the math "operation" and do an addition problem. Each player puts four cards face down and turns up two of them. The player with the sum wins all eight cards.

4. Set up the timer and play the game for 10 to 15 minutes. When the bell goes off, each player counts his cards. The player with the most cards wins. If one player runs out of cards before time is up, then the other player wins.

Grade 3/4 ~ Emma Vandenhoven: We are starting our new Inquiry Unit on Energy and Change this week. We will first be looking at the way objects move depending on a variety of factors, including their size, shape, movement, push and pull.

During writing we will be focussing on Haiku poems, by the end of the week we will be using technology to publish our poems. In reading we will be focusing on drawing conclusions and making inferences from what we read, you can assist us at home by discussing what your child has read that night for their home reading

Maths this week will concentrate on the communicative law of multiplication, that is that 5 X 4 is the same as 4 X 5. We will also continue looking at symmetry and drawing symmetrical shapes as well as comparing the volume of familiar objects.

Grade 5/6 ~ Lynette Robberts & Brooke McDonald: During Inquiry sessions students will continue researching the natural resources and landmarks in the state/territory they are investigating. This will be their last research session at school. Next week they will be required to produce their model which will need to include all the significant resources and landmarks located in their state/territory. Their homework for this week is to ensure they plan and gather the materials they require for their model. All materials must be at school by next Monday but can be brought in earlier too. I’m looking forward to seeing our students produce some creative work as there are no limits to how they represent their state/territory.

This week in Maths we are continuing our work on division, especially looking at vertical division (long division) and division with remainders and how to record those remainders. Students will also be exploring chance where they will experiment with outcomes like rolling a die or tossing a coin and how this can be shown as a fraction as well as the chance of something occurring on scale (from zero to one). They will show what they have learned in tables and graphs and will practise reading this data.

In writing students will briefly complete short stories and practise their knowledge of writing simple and complex sentences. We will also read and look at the set up of poems using repeating and rhyming words and where these words sit within a poem. Students will use computers to create and experiment writing some interesting poems using similes (words with similar meanings) and metaphors (saying one object is like another).

INDONESIAN NEWS Hai semua,

Selamat datang ke empat istilah.Saya berharap Anda memiliki istirihat yang bagus selama liburan.

Hello everyone. Welcome to Term4. I hope you had a good break over the holidays.

Istilah ini kelas 5&6 akan focus pada nomor menghitung sampai 100 dan seterusnya. Mereka akan belajar bagaimana untuk merberitahu waktu dan menyadari waktu.

This term years 5&6 focus on numbers counting up to 100 and beyond. They will learn how to tell the time and be able to tell us about their day.

Kelas 3&4 akan juga berkerja pada nomor menghitung sampai 20 dan ke 100 kemudian belajar bagaimana menhitung dengan 10 untuk 100.Mereka akan memberitahu waktu menggunakan jam dan praktek rutinitas keidupan sehari-hari.

Grades 3&4 will also work on numbers up to 20 and learn now to count by 10’s to 100. They will tell the time using O’clock and practice routines of daily life.

Prep to 2 belajar nama buah dan melakukan banyak aktivitas. Mereka belajar lagu buah yang disebut apa yang ingin Anda makan? Menjelang akhir masa kelas akan belajar bagaimana Indonesia merayakan festival dan mereka akan belajar beberapa lagu Natal di Indonesia.

Prep to 2 are learning the names of fruits and doing lots of activities on this. They are learning a fruit song in Indonesian called “ What do you like to eat?” Towards the end of term all classes will learn how Indonesia celebrates festivals and will learn some Christmas carols in Indonesian.

Jacqueline Cullum Indonesian Teacher