REMINDERS Koori Culture ungraded Day - Friday, August 15th

School Council Meeting - Postponed

Parents’ Club Meeting - Tuesday, August 19th, 9.30am

Cyber Safety Presentation - Wednesday, August 20th

Parent/Teacher Interviews - Monday, September 1st

- Tuesday, September 2nd

August 14th, 2014

‘Learning for Life”

www.nathaliaps.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 03 58662677

Principal: Vicki McManus

Holders of Nathalia’s educational history since 1878

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Week Ending

08.08.2014

P/W Makai

BUT Josh

HIL Shannon

JOH Darcy

RIN Shawn

Congratulations

Dear Families and School Community, I am happy to report that Vicki McManus will be returning to

work next week. She will be working for three days a week for the

next few weeks.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff,

students and parents for all the support I have received in the last

few months as acting principal. Your support and encouragement

has been appreciated. Please remember that I will still be available

should you wish to talk with me.

Review

Leon Kildea will be in the school next week for four days.

During the review, Leon will be talking to the staff, visiting

classrooms, spending time in the yard and talking to groups of

parents and students. The review gives the school an opportunity to

look at the things we do well, areas we can improve on and help to

plan for the future.

School Council

The meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 19th has been postponed so that we can meet with the

reviewer. A date has not yet been set.

Cyber bullying

A reminder that next week there will be a cyber bullying session for the students of years 4/5/6 next

Wednesday and there will be an evening session for parents of every year level. Notes were sent out last

week. Please let us know if you intend coming to the evening session to assist us with catering. St Francis

parents have also been invited to attend.

I have had further reports of students using social media sites for inappropriate communication. It is

important to keep an eye on what sites or apps your children are using and help them make the best

choices. Please report any bullying that you become aware of. We have been working with the students to

remember to only say things on line that they are prepared to say to someone in person and if they don't like

it being said to them then don't say it to someone else.

Father's Day breakfast.

We will be having a Father's Day breakfast on Friday 5th of September. Please add this date to your

diaries. Notes will be going home next week.

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STAR OF THE WEEK Week ending

08.08.2014

Rory

“You are showing increasing

confidence and persistence with all

your work.”

CONGRATULATIONS

Koori Culture Ungraded Day

On Friday we are having an ungraded day

with a Koori Culture theme. We have Shane Charles

coming to talk with the children and then they will

be rotating around different activities for the rest of

the day. The children will be participating in art,

music, games and listening to stories.

Parent/Teacher Interviews

On Monday September 1st and Tuesday,

September 2nd we will be conducting Parent/

Teacher Interviews. It is important that you take 10

minutes to talk with the classroom teacher and

discuss your child’s education and how to support

them.

2 015 Enrolments

Enrolments are now being taken for Foundation

students for the year 2015.

To enable planning for grade structures for

2015 we request that parents return their

completed enrolment forms, along with a copy of

your child’s Birth Certificate and Immunisation

status, as soon as possible.

If you are aware of a family intending to

enrol, at our school, please let them know that

enrolments are now being taken. Enrolment forms

and school information can be collected from the

school office.

Debbie Inglis,

Acting Principal.

B ookclub

Issue 6 has been distributed to the children.

Please note, the last day for collection of orders will

be next Wednesday the 20th of August.

Shelley Hermelin

Karen King-Jones

A rts News

Our school concert is rapidly

approaching and the children are starting

to get excited about performing for you all.

Items are almost finalized and rehearsals

are underway. More information will

follow.

Karen King-Jones.

P arents’ Club News

Next month is the school concert.

Hamper requests and raffle tickets will be

sent home with students in the near

future.

Monies raised will go towards

playroom equipment and Sports Shed

shelving .

Father’s Day Breakfast

Friday, September 5th For fathers, grandfathers, special friends

and primary school students.

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BRONZE: Josh, Jack, Adam, Brandon, Maddison,

Zoe, Eliza, Damian, Joel, Mason, Tianey & Shanaie.

BRONZE Makai, Dylan, River & Tyler.

S TUDENT WELLBEING

BUILDING RESILIENCE is something that we all strive to achieve. This can be for ourselves or our children. There are

numerous article and books available with interesting and helpful information so I will be continuing this theme for a few

weeks.

The information below is from ‘Raising Confident Happy Children – 40 ways to help your child succeed’

LET YOUR CHILD STRUGGLE

‘The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both

support and freedom. The realisation that this is what the child will always need, can hit hard.’

SLOAN WILSON

Watching the awkwardness of a child trying to use a paint brush, put on their clothes, do up buttons, hit a nail with

hammer, brush their hair or tie a knot can be extremely frustrating. Often parents will naturally want to intervene and do

the task for their child. Doing so can be potentially limiting in helping a child develop ‘mastery motivation’, a term

psychologists use to describe a person’s ability to stick at a task until it is mastered.

It’s a natural urge for parents to want to step in and support a child they think is struggling. However, there’s a fine line

between supporting and rescuing, especially once your child grows up. Rescuing teaches the child that they are

incompetent and can’t be trusted. Supporting, on the other hand, allows your child to try new challenges without your

direct intervention. If rescuing is always running along and holding on to the back of your child’s bike as they learn to ride,

supporting is letting go when the child is ready and being prepared for the child to fall. The supporting approach may

seem harsh – let your child fall off the bike? But even with all its risks the ‘supporting approach’ is more beneficial. Why is

this? The problem with rescuing a child when they are struggling with a new task is that it robs them of practical experience.

It’s this practical experience that develops both new neural connections in the brain and the ‘mastery motivation’ of sticking

to a new task until it is mastered.

When a child embarks on a new task, no matter how awkward they seem, they are creating new neural pathways in their

brain – the key to learning any new skill or talent – and developing mastery motivation. Initially a child will seem clumsy but

the more they repeat a task, the stronger the neural connections in the brain for the particular task. Imagine that creating

new neural connections in the brain is like skiing down a mountain that hasn’t been skied before. Initially you will be

cautions and go very slowly, looking out for hidden dangers under the snow. The next time you’ll be able to follow your

initial ski tracks, allowing you to be that little bit more confident. Each time you go down the mountain following the same

tracks, these tracks become more worn, allowing you to go faster and faster. The same occurs with neural connections in

the brain: the more you repeat a new task, the more worn the neural pathways in the brain become. Repetition is the key

to mastering any new task.

Glenda Harding, Primary Welfare Officer.

2014 SCHOOL CALENDAR EVENTS

School Leaders - 2014

Keep This Date Free :

School Fair

Friday, November 14th

1 .30pm - 6.00pm

AUGUST

15th - Koori Culture Ungraded Day

18th - 21st School Review

19th- School Council meeting - Postponed

- School Fair Committee meeting

- Parents ’ Club meeting

20th - Cyber Safety Presentation

SEPTEMBER

5th - SRC - Footy Colours Day

8th - Life Ed

9th - Life Ed

11th - School Concert

12th - Curriculum Day - Pupil Free

16th - School Council meeting

- Parents ’ Club Meeting

19th - School Athletic Sports

- Term Three concludes

OCTOBER

6th - Term Four commences

10th - Inter-school Athletic Sports

13th - Division Athletics Carnival

( S hepparton )

17th - Region Athletic Championship

( S hepparton )

21st - School Council Meeting

- Parents ’ Club Meeting

23rd - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 11.00am )

27th - State Athletics Championships

30th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 11.00am )

NOVEMBER

4th - Melbourne Cup Day

6th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 12.30pm )

7th- Region Basketball & Softball

( S hepp )

11th - Remembrance Day

13th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 1.30pm )

17th - Region Golf Championships

( B enalla )

18th - School Council meeting

- Parents ’ Club meeting

20th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 10.00am - 1.30pm )

27th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 9.15am - 1.30pm )

DECEMBER

4th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 9.15am - 2.20pm )

9th - 2015 Foundation Transition

( 8.50am - 3.20pm )

16th - School Council Meeting

- Parents ’ Club Meeting

19th- Term Four concludes

TBA - Grade Six Graduation

- Water Safety Program

- Pool Day

- Infant Camp & Activity Day

January 2015 - Term One commences

January 28th - Staff

January 29th - Students

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