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DIARY DATES
NUMBER 22 – 27 JULY 2017
Monday 31 July Whole School Assembly 2.50pm
Wednesday 2 August ICAS English Sitting Date
Class Parent Representatives
Afternoon Tea at 2.45pm in Room 20
Yr 2 - 1:1 Program Information Night in
the Yr 6 Rooms at 6pm
Thursday 3 August Foundation Transition “A Morning in
Foundation” 9.30am—10.30am
Friday 4 August Going Green Science Fair entry forms
due - (see attached)
Sunday 6 August PLPS Working Bee 10.30am -
12.30pm - includes free Sausage
Sizzle for the helpers
Monday 7 August ICAS Maths Sitting Date
Senior School Assembly 2.50pm
Tuesday 8 August Yr 3 RACV Street Scene Incursion
Yr 4 Camp Manyung Information
Session Room 10 (Yr 6 rooms) 3.40pm
Thursday 10 August Foundation Transition “A Morning in
Foundation” 9.30am—10.30am
STEM Open Night 4pm—6.30pm (see
attached)
Friday 11 August Yr 2A & 2C Library Visit
Sunday 13 August Bunnings Sausage Sizzle 8am—4pm
(see attached letter requesting helpers)
PATTERSON LAKES PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 5190
Gladesville Boulevard Patterson Lakes 3197 P.O. Box 330, Patterson Lakes, 3197
Phone 9772 4011 Fax 9776 0421 Principal: Carole Mayes
Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.patterson-lakes-ps.vic.edu.au
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS
Just a reminder to all parents that teachers are officially on yard
duty before school from 8.45am – 9.00am and after school from
3.30pm – 3.45pm. A bell is sounded at 3.45pm to ensure that
students that have not been collected by parents report to the
office. As a reminder to all families, the following procedures are
implemented in relation to student safety and children arriving
at school well before 8.30am. Contact will be made with parents informing them that staff
are not officially on yard duty until 8.45am. Parents will be asked if they can find other alternatives for
morning supervision. If there are no other supervision
alternatives, parents will be provided with an enrolment form
for Before School Care.
OVAL WORKS
On Tuesday the works to install artificial grass in front of the football and soccer goals on the oval commenced. It is anticipated that the project will be completed by Friday.
CLASS CAPTAINS & WASTE WARRIORS
Congratulations to the following Year 3 - 6 students for being appointed as either a Class Captain or Waste Warrior for this semester. Prep students are rotated daily, and Year 1 and Year 2 students are rotated each week.
CLASS PARENT REPRESENTATIVES
We would like to invite our class parents to an afternoon tea on
Wednesday, August 2nd at 2.45pm in Room 20. This is in
appreciation for volunteering for this position and to appraise
you of some of the events in the second half of the year. If you
would like to be a class parent there are still some classes
without a representative!
2B, 2C, 2D, 3A, 3D, 4B, 5B, 5C, 6A, 6B and 6C.
Please contact your child’s teacher if you would like to be a
member of the team!!
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
Class Class Captain Waste Warrior
3A Mia B Nastasia T
3B Hayley T Ally P
3C Will K Hudson H
3D Harry B Megan S
4A Sharnika C Ashley F
4B Declan M Alexandra G
4C Jack L Maddison D
4D Jayla G Mitchell D
5A Angelique G Alicia M
5B Mia A Charlize H
5C Jordan S Zali F
5D Heidi C Baily P
6A Elly H Tyler C
6B Orlando R Reese S
6C Adam S Isaac T
6D Zach P Khabe R
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS
Congratulations to the following students who won our ‘Student of the Week’ awards for Week 2 of this term. Students will receive their certificates at their next assembly. Keep up the fantastic work everyone!
Foundation A – Marlee C for making a great effort to do her weekend writing independently. Awesome writing, Marlee!
Foundation B – Jarrick P for unknown words during our writing sessions. Keep up the wonderful effort, Jarrick!
Foundation C – Callum V for always coming to school with a smile on his face and being a hardworking student. Keep it up Callum!
Foundation D – James M for displaying respect for your classmates. It is wonderful to see you supporting other members of our Foundation D team.
1A – Scarlett H for being a respectful and caring class member. Well done Scarlett, you are a terrific role model in our classroom.
1B – Ella B for working hard to improve her handwriting skills. Well done, Ella. Keep up the excellent work!
1C – Aidan F for a fabulous start to Term 3. Keep up the wonderful effort Aidan.
1D – Jay B for always displaying the school values of respect, integrity and excellence and being a fantastic role model in her class. Well done, Jay!
2A – Oliver L for showing 2A respectful values in everything he does. Thanks Oli!
2B – Elina T for being a hard worker who takes her time to produce beautiful work.
2C – Tamara T for participating in class discussions and always having a positive attitude towards school work. Keep up the good effort, Tamara!
2D – Alex F for always trying her best in everything she does. Well done Alex!
3A – Alannah M for always being such a happy and courteous member of 3A. You are a pleasure to have in our class Alannah and I’m so happy to be your teacher this year! Thank you for always being so kind to others.
3B – Hannah W for her fantastic work ethic in all curriculum areas.
3C – Bonnie B for being a bubbly and enthusiastic classmate. She is always ready to share her thoughts and provides valuable
insights to the class. Well done, Bonnie!
3D – Shyla K for being an enthusiastic Waste Warrior for 3D. Great job Shyla!
4A – Amy S for her ongoing positive energy, effort and enthusiasm.
4B – Aadita S for being such an enthusiastic and competitive player in Maths challenge. Keep up the good work, Aadita!
4C – Lucas R for being an amazing Class Captain during Semester One. Well done Lucas, thank you for your hard work.
4D – Bennett W for having a positive attitude to his schoolwork.
5D – Luke M for continuing to demonstrate the school values and consistently showing leadership qualities. Well done!
WEEKLY HOUSE POINTS WINNER
Last week’s winning House team was McLeod Mustangs (Green). Congratulations to all students in this team.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT HAPPY BIRTHDAY
NAME BIRTHDAY
Charlotte T 27 July
Guy M 27 July
Maisy N 27 July
Ruby W 28 July
Jake K 31 July
Tia C 31 July
Cooper L 31 July
Will K 31 July
Paige W 31 July
Happy Birthday to the following students who are celebrating
their birthday during over next week. We hope you have a
lovely day.
SCHOOL ROBOCUP TEAM
School RoboCup Team Melbourne Regional Winners
Our school Robotics team recently competed at the
Melbourne Regional RoboCup Junior Dance competitions.
They came out the winners against a field of 18 other primary
schools. You can see their performance on the school web
site under ICT.
For more details see full page in this newsletter.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
ASTHMA
MANAGING ASTHMA IN WINTER
Now that we are in the middle of Winter, you may find that
asthma is flaring up more than usual. If you or a family
member has asthma the following tips may be helpful:
Visit your doctor for a review of your asthma and
ensure that your Asthma Action Plan is up-to-date.
Carry your medication at all times.
Be aware that cold air can be a trigger for some people,
especially children and older adults. Its effects can be
anticipated and prevented by taking the necessary
medication 10—15 minutes prior to exposure.
Fires can be a real problem for some people who are
sensitive to smoke. Be aware of smoke in your own
home and also chimney smoke from neighbouring
homes.
There is an increased incidence of colds and viruses
which can put increased pressure on the respiratory
system and cause airway inflammation and trigger
symptoms.
ASTHMA PLANS
Does your child have an Asthma Plan? Every student with
asthma should have a written ‘Asthma Action Plan’. This is
important for the school in caring for your child because it
provides up-to-date, detailed information on how to manage
your child’s asthma. This plan should:
Be completed by the student’s parent/guardian in
consultation with the student’s doctor.
Outline how to care for day-to-day asthma (listing
normal medications that have been prescribed and how
often they should be taken).
List key symptoms or special features that indicate the
student’s asthma could be worsening or an ‘attack’ is
developing and the steps that should be taken to
manage it.
List symptoms that are serious enough to need urgent
medical assistance (i.e. ambulance).
List the Asthma First Aid procedure for an asthma
‘attack’.
ASTHMA PLANS cont.
List the name and contact number of the parent/
guardian, emergency contact and student’s doctor.
Be easily accessible for all school staff.
Be updated annually or when a student’s asthma
changes significantly.
If an ‘Asthma Action Plan’ is not provided, school staff will
follow the Victorian School’s Asthma Policy for asthma first aid
which is a standard first aid protocol.
For a copy of a School Asthma Action Plan you can contact the
school office. For further information about asthma you can call
the Asthma Helpline on 1800 645 130 or visit the Asthma
Foundation of Victoria’s website – www.asthma.org.au
Tips for staying active this winter!
Exercise Induced Asthma (EIA) is a common trigger for
asthma. However, it does not need to be a barrier to Students
participating in sports and physical activities.
Here are some tips to help prevent EIA in students:
Before Exercise take reliever medication 5 - 20 minutes before
warming up.
Warm Up before exercise as normal.
During Exercise watch for asthma symptoms and adminis-
ter reliever medication if they should occur. Only return to exer-
cise if symptoms are relieved. If symptoms appear again, ad-
minister medication again, until they are relieved. It is not rec-
ommended that the Student should return to the sporting activi-
ty after a second occurrence of asthma symptoms.
After Exercise cool down as usual. Note that asthma
symptoms can present up to a half an hour after exercise has
stopped. Ensure reliever medication is still easily accessible
should it be required.
Other things to remember:
Ensure all students have current Asthma Action/Care
Plans
If possible make activities that are scheduled for the
night indoors as the drop in air temperature makes air
colder to inhale and acts as a greater trigger.
Encourage students with asthma to participate fully!
HUOBIAOJING PRIMARY SCHOOL VISIT
This week, we welcomed 12 students and 3 teachers from Nanjing, China. On Wednesday, they
attended a reception at Government House with Paul Clohesy and our School Captains, Eden and
Camdyn. The reception was in celebration of the 40th anniversary of students visiting Melbourne from
China.
They are in Patterson Lakes school during their summer holidays, a vast difference from 41 degrees in
Nanjing to a Melbourne winter. Whilst they have been at Patterson Lakes, they have experienced
Australian classroom programs and have developed friendships which will continue throughout the
remainder of the year as we continue to Skype with them once they return to China.
I would like to thank the staff and the Dargan family for their generosity in opening their classrooms and
their homes to support this very worthwhile cultural experience for our students.
LANGUGES DAY
I would like to congratulate Mrs Mangone, our Spanish Languages teacher, for an outstanding
Languages Day event. I would also like to express my appreciation to the families for getting into the
spirit of the day and allowing their child to dress in national costume or colours.
RoboCup Junior Melbourne Regional Finals – WINNERS!
Caitlyn S, Caitlyn M and Tom W all from Year 5 have been preparing robots for the RoboCup Junior Dance
competitions. It was a full day starting at 9:30am and concluding with the announcement of the winners
around 3:30pm.
Our team had been working on their robots, designing, building and programming them at lunchtimes with
Mrs. Bearup. It was a lot of hard work discovering how to engineer multiple things to move from one
rotating axle. It was even harder still programming the commands to control how all these motors and
gears worked, as well as power them, to get exact timings to fit our chosen music theme. Some features
are controlled by sensors and uses this information to turn off or on certain movements. Our music and
theme is ‘Brand New Key’.
Tom’s robot YoYo boy head does bobs, waves its hand and a plays with a YoYo that also goes up and
down as it moves, choreographed to fit with the music.
Roller Girl, Caitlyn S’s robot uses sensors to follow a curvy line and another sensor that looks for a blue
colour along that line to turn off and on her snappy hands. She also has legs that walk and a head that bobs
to the music.
Caitlyn M is responsible for the dog. It reacts to an infra-red ball and wags its tail each time the ball is
moved past the infra-red sensor. The house is also controlled by the robot dog.
The house is an animatronic device that has a windmill behind it that turns displaying pictures to match the
words of the song at the exact moment they occur in the song. It has wobbling eyes and a twirling
moustache that is all linked to the motions of the windmill.
The children were scored on two performances and an in depth interview about their programming and
engineering knowledge. They scored well enough to make it to final play offs. It was a nervous wait for the
announcement at the end where they announced us as the Primary Division outright winners!
Thanks to the parents for their support of this event. Next stop for our RoboCup team and their robots is the State Final at Melbourne University on 15 August. The students still have some tweaking to do to improve the robots and their programming, as they are not perfect yet!
What a wonderful celebration of our Spanish program! The children were happy, well
behaved and fully enjoyed the educational and cultural activities provided.
The costumes and colours they wore looked fantastic. Thank you to the parents and
grandparents for their effort and creativity.
The day began with some special performances, where the students sang various
Spanish songs. It was then time for the activities. Students listened to the story of the
Tooth Fairy and the Spanish counterpart, El Ratón Perez. They experienced the
celebration of Carnaval by making props, dancing and creating a song for the end of the
day parade. It was great to also see the students visiting from China participating in
these activities. Mr Manuel Moreno Alcauce, Education Consultant from the Spanish
Consulate in Melbourne, spent the day with us and was very impressed with the
students’ performances.
Clara Mangone
Spanish Teacher
21st July 2017
Dear Parents/Carers
The date set for our schools’ second working bee this year is for Sunday, 6th August 2017.
We are looking forward to having as many families involved as possible to help with a tidy up of the school.
The working bee will commence at 10:30am and conclude with a sausage sizzle at 12:30pm. The school will provide sausages, soft drinks and water at no cost to helpers. We will be meeting at the undercover area outside the Staff & Science Rooms.
The Facilities and Grounds committee have identified a number of items that need attention around the school that we are hoping to achieve. These include:
Weeding around edges of paths and buildings.
Trimming back of trees hanging over paths & seating areas.
Clearing of garden beds.
Clearing of drains.
Redistribution of softfall mulch in playgrounds.
Sweeping dust & cobwebs from portable classroom walls & walkways.
Washing some walls of portable classrooms & steps where needed.
To complete the tasks we are hoping that families may be able to supply some tools, i.e. pruning shears, bow saws, secateurs, yard brooms, rakes, spades/shovels, wheelbarrows.
If you are able to assist with the working bee, even for a small amount of time, could you please indicate on the return, slip below or email me at [email protected] by Thursday, 3rd August 2017.
Regards,
Paul Clohesy
Assistant Principal (on behalf of the Facilities & Grounds Committee)
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WORKING BEE – SUNDAY 6th AUGUST 2017
NAME: ………………………………………………………...................................................................
CHILD’S/CHILDREN’S CLASSES: ……………………………………………………………………….
I CAN SUPPLY THE FOLLOWING TOOLS ……………………………………………………………..
PLEASE RETURN BY THURSDAY, 3rd AUGUST 2017
PATTERSON LAKES PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 5190
Gladesville Boulevard Patterson Lakes 3197 P.O. Box 330, Patterson Lakes, 3197
Phone 9772 4011 Fax 9776 0421 Principal: Carole Mayes
Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.patterson-lakes-ps.vic.edu.au
PATTERSON LAKES PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 5190
Gladesville Boulevard Patterson Lakes 3197 P.O. Box 330, Patterson Lakes, 3197
Phone 9772 4011 Fax 9776 0421 Principal: Carole Mayes
Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.patterson-lakes-ps.vic.edu.au
Bunnings Sausage Sizzle! On Sunday August 13, PLPS will be holding a sausage sizzle at Bunnings
Carrum Downs, to help raise funds for improvements to the school hall.
To make this happen we need a team of volunteers from the school community. People to
cook the sausages, serve customers & have some fun in the process!
The event will be running from 8:00am to 4:00pm & we would like a team of 5 people manning
the sizzle at all times. Unfortunately, due to legal requirements, no one under the age of 15
may volunteer to help.
Please indicate on the form what time suits you best. Help for an hour, or the whole day!
There are forms at the front office as well for you to fill in your details.
If you are not able to help on the day, any donations of sausages, drinks or bread would be
greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Family, Friends & Fundraising Association
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Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Volunteer Form - Sunday August 13th 2017
Name: _________________________________ Telephone: ________________________
Child(ren) ______________________________________ Class ______________________
Preferred Role - Please circle (Serving) (Cooking)
Preferred Time - Please circle
(8am – 9am) (9am – 10am) (10am – 11am) (11am – 12pm)
(12pm – 1pm) (1pm – 2pm) (2pm – 3pm) (3pm – 4pm)
Please note that you can volunteer to work as many hours as you wish. If you have any
questions, please call Michael on 0403 593 772. I will contact you 1 week prior to confirm the
roster.
Thank You!
WEEK 25 – FIVE Es OF LEARNING
Wellbeing Element – Engagement and Achievement
Character Strength – Open-mindedness
While most students strive to ‘do the right thing’ by applying themselves to their learning,
unfortunately their efforts are not always rewarded because they don’t know how to ‘do the
thing right’. They need to be taught how to learn and think smarter in a variety of ways.
To quote Abraham Lincoln, “if I had nine hours to cut down a tree, I’d spend six hours
sharpening my axe.”
Habits of Mind and Thinking Tools are strategies we use to sharpen students’ learning and
thinking. While there are numerous user friendly and creative thinking tools on the website,
the Five Es of Learning is a very effective one to enhance students’ learning approaches.
Parents spend thousands of dollars having their children coached in a wide variety of pursuits
to improve and develop their techniques that will see their performance enhanced. These
pursuits include ballet, playing musical instruments, different sports and so on. To improve
their learning habits students need to be coached to learn how to learn better; we can’t rely
on them randomly picking up good habits.
Ballet dancers, for example, are taught explicitly how to move and then follow it up with hours
of training; why should learning be any different?
The focus this week is on introducing to students the Five Es of Learning, which provides them
with a step by step guide on how to learn and think with greater depth and clarity. Teaching
students methods such as the Five Es may light a fire in their curiosity to use more thinking
tools in their learning.
COMMUNITY NEWS MUNCH MONITOR ONLINE LUNCH ORDERS
Lunch Orders are available online on Monday, Thursday and Friday.
How do I set up an account to order online:
Go to: www.munchmonitor.com
Click LOGIN then REGISTER
Enter School Id: plps and Password: munch3197
Then follow the 4 easy steps to create your account:
STEP 1: Create a Parent Profile by entering information about
yourself.
STEP 2: Add your Students to your account.
STEP 3: Transfer money to your account by clicking the
Account Top-up button
STEP 4: Click MY ORDERS and you ’re ready to Order lunches!
Orders can be cancelled on the day as late as 8.30am and should
you have any concerns with your lunch order, pleas call Bellbrook
Catering direct on Ph: 9796 5888.
Flinders Christian Community College - Open Day
Last Open Day, Wednesday 16th August 2017, 9am -11am.
Limited Vacancies still exist in Yr 7, 2018. Enrolments are
being taken for Yr 7, 2019 and beyond. Ph: 9785 0000.
Over the years we have shared a wonderful relationship
with Bakers Delight in Patterson Lakes. They have
supported our school and Patto families on many
occasions, in the way of fundraising events, supplying
treats to our staff “just because” and vouchers for FREE
loaves of bread to our families. We would love our Patto
families to continue to support Bakers Delight, even if it’s
just to pop in and see what’s NEW in store!
GLASSES FOUND
We have 2 pairs of glasses in the office that have
been found in the school yard during this week.
Please come to the office if you think these may be
your child's.
The Pink Pair are: - Country Road
The Purple Pair are:- Karen Millen
