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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

Assistant Principal - Allyson Dixon

School Council President - Anne Trevena

Telephone - (03) 57931288

Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Email - puckapunyal.ps@edumail.vic.gov. au

Alamein Road

Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662

Postal: Military P.O.

ABN: - 74134967962

Term 2 Issue 11

June 22nd

2016

Thursday

23rd June

Parent/Teacher Interviews

Friday 24th June

Last Day of Term 2 1:10pm Assembly

Friday 24th June

School Film Afternoon 2.30pm at Area Theatre

Monday

11th July

First Day of Term 3

Saturday 23rd July

School Working Bee

Tuesday

9th August

Pupil Free Day

Website Address -

http//www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Inside this Issue:

DSTA Message 2

Birthdays 2

Good Luck, Miss Atkinson 2

School Projects 3

Rule Reminders/School Value 3

Student Awards of the Week 4

Indo Lingo 5

Angry Birds Movie 6

***We can all work together

to rid the community of

Head Lice. Let’s check our

heads once per week!***

Friday 24th

June 2016 is the last day of Term 2. The SRC will be asking students to come to school out of uniform on this day. If

they do, SRC ask students to make a gold coin donation to the ‘Young Diggers’

charity.

‘Young Diggers’ provides a variety of support services and programs to help

serving and ex-serving personnel of the Australian Defence Force, their

dependents and direct family members. Their main objective is to enhance and

maintain quality of life during the transition process from military to civilian life

and help families overcome the difficulties they are facing. By giving to Young

Diggers you can create lasting change in the lives of our serving and ex-serving

diggers and their families.

All students will be dismissed from school at 1:30 p.m. The students will only

require a morning play lunch as they can have their lunch once they are home

that day. We will finish off the term with a 1:10 p.m. assembly which all parents

are invited to attend. We have some awards to hand out, some presentations and

some performances for assembly.

Before assembly, you can also watch Mr. Warne and Mrs. Cahusac get their

heads shaved for ‘Shave for a Cure’ (Leukaemia Foundation). Please come along

at 12:45pm (also in the amphitheatre).

Good luck to all students and their families during the term break!

*** The first day of Term 3 for students will be Monday 11th July.***

If you wish, Private Donations can be made:

Make a Donation by direct bank deposit to:

BSB: 803205

Account number: 20376058

Bank: Defence Bank

Account name: Young Diggers

Email at info@youngdiggers.com.au

Please visit their website for more

information www.youngdiggers.com.au/

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Happy Birthday to Matilda

Ingle, Jamie Clark, Hannah Tanis

and Mia Shortt who are all having

birthdays this week.

On behalf of the Puckapunyal

Primary School Community, we

wish them all a very Happy

Birthday!

We would also like to say Happy

Birthday to Shae Robertson,

Riley Wallace and Annabelle

Stebbing who are all having their

birthdays over the term break.

On behalf of the Puckapunyal

Primary School Community, we also

wish them all a very Happy

Birthday!

Have a wonderful holiday everyone!! If you’re

heading north, chasing the warmer weather then

enjoy!! If you’re staying local, keep warm but keep

active too!! And maybe do some fun indoor

activities: camp in the lounge room using a sheet as a

tent, bake together, make some play dough (cheap and

hours of fun!), dig out those old board games that

haven’t had much use, have a treasure hunt etc. etc.

It’s only limited by your imagination! Sue Ranger, DSTA.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD UPDATE

Congratulations to Melba who won our

positive behaviour rewards program this

term. Those students and the top ticket

earners from each class were able to spend

their “Pucka Bucks” at Market Day today.

They had a wonderful time!!

Next term is a new term and a chance for

the other houses to aim for that end-of-term

reward. Any house can win! CURRENT SCORES

Melba- 480points

Bradman-428 points

Hume- 387 points

Chisholm- 330 points

***Have you heard your child read

today? We encourage all students to practise

their reading at home about 5 nights per

week. Therefore, by now, most students

should have read at least between 105-110

nights. Well done if you have kept up! ***

Students, families, staff and friends are invited to come and

support our school in a Family Movie Fundraiser with

all ticket sales going directly to the school. The new movie ‘Angry Birds’ will be shown at the Area Theatre on the last day of term at 2:30pm. More information on page 8. Please come along.

Our Years 3/4 A teacher, Katie Atkinson will not be at our

school during the first week of Term 3. She will be acting

Principal at Highlands Primary School. Highlands PS is a

small school of 13 students and requires outside support for

that time while their Principal is on leave. Good luck, Katie!

Katie will be replaced by Tamara Pennycook for that week.

Thank you to all of

our families who

purchased books at the

school’s Book Fair last week.

Well done to our 4 Cross Country Champs who competed at

the Regional Carnival in Broadford last week. The carnival

has students from over 50 different schools. How did they

go? They went well indeed!

Jake Tanis 40th

Matilda Ingle 20th

Amy Franks 52nd

Tessa Thompson 23rd

**We have spent the last 11 weeks completing our Bike

Education Course for our Years 3-6 students. We have

watched students improve massively in that time. Well done,

kids! There are still some students who may need to practice 1

or 2 skills to be re-tested after the holidays. Those students can

catch up with Mr.Warne in Term 3 to be re-tested when they

are ready!

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At assembly this week Confidence was announced as our School Value of the week. That means teachers are looking for

students who are demonstrating ‘Confidence’ to be eligible for the Student of the Week award. We encourage parents to

talk to their students about our values throughout the year.

What is Caring? Year 5 student, Jack Anderson read out the meaning of Confidence.

‘Confidence is feeling self-assured. It comes from trusting yourself. When you are confident in others you know you

can rely on them and trust them. When you are confident you act from a position of strength so you are prepared to risk

trying or learning new things. Confidence means you don’t allow fear to keep you from doing what you really want to

do. Instead of being afraid of failure you see mistakes as opportunities to learn from.’

Each week at assembly, SRC representatives remind our

students of a few important school rules. This week,

SRC representatives, Dani Corocher and Tobias Rayner

reminded our students of the following rules:

Show some respect – give way to adults.

Use your manners at all times

Walk carefully around corners – you don’t know who

is on the other side.

Eat on the asphalt - put your litter in the bin.

Please discuss these rules with your children to help ensure

that they understand.

Many of our students in all classrooms have finished some very impressive projects at the moment. Come and

have a look at them as they are on display around the school.

Did you hear Tessa

Thompson from 3/4 A

read part of her narrative

at assembly this week?

We did! She read very

well! Come along and

see who reads at our next

assembly.

About 400 confident students took on 5 ageing staff members at

Basketball last week and learned a valuable lesson! The staff won

the game 20 to 2. There were many shocked and disbelieving

students as the staff ran them ragged! Life is always full of learning

opportunities kids! A great effort though!

Congratulations to

Marissa Fredrickson

who received a

‘Recycling Cans’

Award this week.

Every little bit counts!

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Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing

schools, beginning school for the first time and even

returning for another school year can be daunting for

students and parents. It is great to see parents eager to

support their children at this time and be an integral part of

their education. If you have any concerns, or just feel like a

chat about school and your child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents

have been waiting on this to arrive.

Best wishes for the week.

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Students of the Week’ for last week. Winners –

Ewan Bazel, Ruby Courtney, Malakai Casey, Tyla

Hermann, Emily Watson, Abbey Kendell, Shae

Robertson and Reilly Adams. These students were

selected because they were modelling ‘Caring’. This

week teachers are looking for students who are

modelling ‘Confidence’.

Congratulations to the following students who

were ‘Authors of the Week’ for last week.

Winners – Ethan McCabe, Ryan Connie-Carbery,

Liam Stebbing, Sophie Granzow, Trey Ward,

Liesl Rayner, Jack Anderson and Noah Chetcuti.

These students were selected because they

showed great skills as an author.

4/5/6 I in Room 1 won the

Yard Duty Comp. Marissa Fredrickson and Isaac

Bennett enjoyed collecting the

winning trophy this week!

Congratulations to Ned Kendell,

Tristan Murphy, Somaiya

Harriden and Ashton Wallace for

winning the raffle prizes for

‘Positive Behaviour’ this

week!

3/4 H in Room 10 won the Middle School

Times Tables

Trophy. Blake Cooper and Jack

Kennedy were delighted

with their classroom’s win

this week!

4/5/6 P in Room 2 and

4/5/6 I in Room 1 jointly won the Senior School

Times Tables Trophy this

week. Somaiya Harriden and

Max Fletcher will share the

winning trophy this week.

Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,

beginning school for the first time and even returning for another

school year can be daunting for students and parents. It is great

to see parents eager to support their children at this time and be

an integral part of their education. If you have any concerns, or

just feel like a chat about school and your child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents have

been waiting on this to arrive.

Best wishes for the week.

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

Congratulations to Cooper Dickinson,

Lachlan O’Connor-Hudson,

Cayleigh Cousins, Natasha Lak,

Blake Cooper, Eamon Constable, Eli

Casey and Kate Cleland who received

‘Bike Education Excellence’ Awards this week. Well done, kids!

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‘Striving for Excellence’

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F O'C & F/1 O'M The children will make kartu-kartu objek ruang kelas (classroom object cards) revising classroom objects and extending their learning with a couple of new items in Indonesian. pensil = pencil komputer = computer lem = glue buku = glue gunting = scissors tas = bag kursi = chair pintu = door meja = table krayon = crayon peruncing pensil = sharpener spidol = texta

1/2C & 1/2 I The children will make a Buku Kecil Angka (Small Number Book) revising Indonesian numbers. Children will have the opportunity to use some new words of interest such as fruit and pets or revise classroom objects in their number books which they will bring home to share with family. The children will revise saying their name and saying their age in Indonesian. Nama saya___. = My name is ___. Umur saya ___ tahun. = I am ___ years old. satu = one sebelas = eleven dua = two dua belas = twelve tiga = three tiga belas = thirteen empat = four empat belas = fourteen lima = five lima belas = fifteen enam = six enam belas = sixteen tujuh = seven tujuh belas = seventeen delapan = eight delapan belas = eighteen sembilan = nine sembilan belas = nineteen sepuluh = ten dua puluh = twenty

3/4/5/6 The children are going to continue their tentang saya (about me) project. They will be working on information about themselves such as: Siapa nama kamu? = What’s your name? Nama saya _____ . = My name is ____ . Berapa umur kamu? = How old are you? Umur saya … tahun. = I’m _______ years old. Tanggal berapa ulang tahun kamu? = When’s your birthday? Ulang tahun saya tanggal __ _______ . = My birthday is on the ___ _________ . Kamu tinggal di mana? = Where do you live? Saya tinggal di _____________ . = I live in ____________ . Di mana alamat kamu? = What’s your address? Alamat saya Jalan __________ nomor _____ . = My address is ___ ________ . Berapa nomor telepon kamu? = What’s your telephone number? Nomor telepon saya _________ . = My telephone number is __________ . Kamu bersekolah di mana? = Where do you go to school? Saya bersekolah di __________ . = I go to school at ____________________ . Kamu duduk di kelas berapa? = What grade are you in? Saya duduk di kelas ________ . = I’m in grade ________ . Siapa nama guru kamu? = Who is your teacher? Nama guru saya _______ = My teacher is _____________ . Kamu suka apa? = What do you like? Saya suka __________ . = I like ___________ . Kamu tidak suka apa? = What don’t you like? Saya tidak suka ______________ . = I don’t like __________________.

Salam (Regards) Bu Hooper (Mrs Hooper) Guru Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian teacher)

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Puckapunyal Primary School End of Term Movie Fundraiser Showing “Angry Birds”

When: Friday the 24th June (last day of Term 2) Where: Area Theatre

Time: 2:30pm start (please arrive from 1:30pm) Cost: $5 for adults and children

Angry Birds

Running time 1hr and 37mins

The movie takes place on Bird Island, an untouched paradise inhabited

by birds who are naive and innocent, who know nothing of the outside

world. They treasure eggs above all else, and are all carefree and

easygoing, except for few.

One of these birds is Red, a societal outcast who has had anger issues

from the very beginning. Eventually, his outbursts become too much

and he is sentenced to anger management courses, where he meets

other misfit birds with similar problems.

The birds are suddenly visited by green pigs, who are dumb but funny.

The birds and pigs quickly befriend each other, but Red does not trust

the pigs at all. Ultimately, the pigs reveal their true colors, and leads to

Red leading the entire flock in a "maddening" frenzy of rightful

revenge as well as finding the right means of dealing with rage.

You’re invited to come and support the school in a family movie fundraiser with all ticket sales and some canteen sales going to the school. The canteen at the Area Theatre will be open for all your food and beverage needs. So please come, bring mum, dad and any friends and family to kick off the school holidays.

***Students and families can

pre-purchase film tickets from

the school office (Thursday

and Friday) to avoid Theatre

queues.***

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‘Striving for Excellence’

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