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5 Harriet Street TOORA, 3962 Ph: (03) 5686 2283 / Mob: 0475 605 437 Email: toora.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.tooraps.vic.edu.au 03rd MAY 2018

PRINCIPAL NEWS What a busy start term! We are not even 3 full weeks into Term 2 however given how busy we have been the Easter holidays already seem a distant memory. Here’s a quick snapshot of what we have been up to… 3/4/5/6 Camp It is with great excitement that I can finally let you know that we are heading to Mount Baw Baw for camp this year. While we are still busy finalising the finer details, accommodation has been booked at WF Waters Lodge from Wednesday the 8th to Friday the 10th of August (Term 3, Week 4). Activities that we have planned include tobogganing, ski lessons (including all equipment hire), snow play, tour of the snow making machines and an environmental lesson. I am hoping to be able to send home more information, however it may pay to start keeping an eye out for some snow clothing (decent jacket, pants, gloves and snow boots). Op shops, garage sales, friend’s wardrobes and even Aldi are all great sources of cheap snow gear! Senior Athletics Day What a fabulous day the senior athletics were last Friday. The behaviour and sportsmanship that our students displayed was exemplary – congratulations to those who attended. Congratulations also to Maddy Delaney who made it through to the next round of competition as a member of a combined Prom Coast relay team, a great effort given the level of competition on the day. ANZAC Day Congratulations to the Toora Primary School students who did an amazing job representing our School at the ANZAC Day Ceremonies last Wednesday. All up we had 15 students attend either the dawn service, 11am service, or in the case of Scarlett and Ella B., both!

Uniforms Uniform orders have been placed and should be here in the next few weeks. Thankyou also for all of the suggestions for items to add to our order list – I am currently working with our supplier to see what they can provide and having designs drawn up. Reading Group The Tuesday afternoon reading group has been a great success, it is wonderful to see students stay back after school and engage in a bit of extra learning in the fun, relaxed environment that this group provides. A very big thank you to Carol and Jackie D. for organising and running this. 5/6 Leadership Day I was lucky enough to be able to take our 5/6 students to a Leadership workshop last Thursday in Korumburra. With over 150 students from around 25 different schools in the room it was slightly daunting for our group at first, however each and every one of them rose to the occasion. I am loving the opportunity to work more closely with these students; with such a small group we are really able to push and extend each of them at their own level, and every time I raise the bar they rise to the challenge. Well done Chea, Aaron, Maddy, Layella and Tom, I couldn’t have been prouder if I tried! Have a great weekend, Mr. H

Working Bee Friday 4th May 3:20pm to

relocate the School Chook House

Classroom News 3 - 6 Classroom News Prep - 2 Great to see students have had such a great day at the Athletics! I have loved hearing the reports of our students ‘doing their best’ and enjoying the day! We had our first lesson with the Year 9 students from Foster High this week as part of their ‘You be the Coach’ program. Our students chose one of five sports to have some coaching time. Netball, tennis, soccer, hockey and basketball were on offer. The group will return in two weeks. Following our work in the lead up to ANZAC day, we are beginning our unit on Australian history. First fleet, Early Explorers, Indigenous history will be covered this term as part of our Integrated studies. Student may like to do some of this project based work at home. Feel free to quiz your children on their knowledge, this should open up some interesting discussions as we explore history from different perspectives. Acronyms - Travel Number Plate Game! When driving, using number plates as acronyms makes for an entertaining oral language in car game. Read the letters of a number plate and ask your children to form meaningful words. Eg. (GEA-467) = Goats Eat Apples. Funnier the better! - Mr Whittle

Skate Park Painting Day At Foster On Sunday, many kids from most of the local schools went to the skate park painting day in Foster. When I got there, I did not know what to do. A bunch of people were painting and I was just watching until someone got me to help put up some tape so we would not paint on the other paintings being done. We painted different coloured triangles. While we were doing that, another person was paint-ing detailed stuff like Luke Sky-Walker, Darth Vader, Millennium Falcon and a Unicorn fighting a Dragon. Then we had pumpkin soup for lunch (I did not have the soup). After Lunch, ew did some more painting and signed one of the paintings with everyone else that was still there. My friends mum came to see all the paintings, and then I went home. By Chea

NAPLAN Testing Yrs 3 & 5

Information for Parents NAPLAN 2018 tests will be held on Tuesday 15th, Wednesday

16th and Thursday 17th May. NAPLAN is a valuable assessment tool for governments,

schools and parents to understand and improve the Literacy and Numeracy outcomes of Australian students.

NAPLAN provides parents of students in Years 3/5/7/9 with a report on their child’s performance in literacy and numeracy against the national average. Schools and teachers use NAPLAN data to improve teaching and learning programs in the classroom.

Later in the year, you will receive your child’s personal NAPLAN report.

For more information about NAPLAN, please visit VCAA website at www.vcaa.vic.edu.au and refer to the attached NAPLAN document.

Here are some photos of us enjoying our first kinder visit. Students loved working with younger kids, exploring, creating and playing. There was lots of great chatter and problem solving going on!

Narrative Writing We have been practising writing fiction stories, fairy tales and narratives. We have explored ideas for char-acters, settings and how to create a plot with a prob-lem and a solution. Here is a piece that the Preps wrote together: Scaredy Cat Bear Once upon a time, there was a scaredy-cat bear that lived in a forest in a cave. One night he heard a ‘squeak’. Scaredy cat bear jumped and ran. Right into a little mouse! He realised that the noise was just the mouse, and the mouse said ‘sorry for scaring you’. They lived happily ever after.

Toora Primary School No:2253 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

1

Breakfast Club

MARC Library

Playgroup 9:30-

11:30am

2

You Be The Coach

Session

3

Pie Warmer Lunch

Mr H @ Prin Mtg

4

Assembly 3:00pm

Working Bee 3:20pm

7 8

Breakfast Club

MARC Library

Playgroup 9:30-

11:30am

9 10

Pie Warmer Lunch

11

Lunch Order Day

Assembly 3:00pm

14 15

Breakfast Club

MARC Library

Playgroup 9:30-

11:30am

NAPLAN Testing

16

You Be The Coach

Session

NAPLAN Testing

17

Pie Warmer Lunch

NAPLAN Testing

18

Assembly 3:00pm

AUSKICK CLINIC

21

Finance Meeting

8:15am

School Council Mtg

4:45pm

22

Breakfast Club

MARC Library

Playgroup 9:30-

11:30am

23

Island Dreaming

CEP Performance

24

Pie Warmer Lunch

25

Lunch Order Day

Assembly 3:00pm

28 29

Breakfast Club

MARC Library

Playgroup 9:30-

11:30am

30 31

Pie Warmer Lunch

May 2018

REMINDER: All visitors/parents to the school MUST sign in at the office before entering the classroom area.

Students are supervised between 8:45am - 3:30pm. Either side of these hours is Teacher preparation time.

Our School VALUES are: Be Safe, Be Fair, Think, Learn & Care

FUTURE DATES: 11TH June Queens Birthday Public Holiday 12th June Burke & Wills at Welshpool 22nd June Musical Futures workshop 25th June NAIDOC activities

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