Tomorrow the last day of school for Term 1.

School will finish at 2:30 pm.

Term 2 commences on Monday 11th April.

Principal Report

Thank you for an excellent Term 1

Term 1 has absolutely flown by. It seems just yesterday that we were welcoming our Prep children for their first day of school. It has been a very busy and productive term. The athletics, swimming and Folk Festival have all been highlights. It has been wonderful to see how all classes have made such a terrific start to their learning. Thank you to our dedicat-ed hard working staff for a job well done. A special thank you to the students and teachers of the Year 5/6 classes for a wonderful effort in preparing their family dinners this week. I hope all families have a safe and relaxing Easter and holi-day break and we look forward to Term 2 which commences on Monday 11th April.

Home Room reps

We are continuing with the Homeroom Rep initiative this year. Each teacher would like a parent or two to assist them with communicating with families of children in their class. The purpose of this is to inform families about upcoming activities or to seek assistance with events or classroom activities. It is not an expectation of Homeroom Reps to organ-ise fundraising. If you would like to assist your child’s teacher by being a Homeroom Rep please contact them direct.

Funkie Hair Day- Well done

Last Friday the school celebrated Funkie Hair Day, an initiative of Akyla Hoey from Year 4. Akyla had heard about The World’s Greatest Shave and wanted to organise a fund-raiser to support the Leukaemia Foundation. The school raised a total of $249 which has been added to Akyla’s World’s Greatest Shave fundraising effort. In total Akyla has raised in excess of $1,000 which is an amazing effort. Well done Akyla!

Chess Club

Next term children will be invited to learn how to play chess. We then hope to set up a lunchtime Chess Club. We are looking for a couple of parents, or family members, to assist with running lunchtime Chess Club. If you are interested please let us know at the office.

Royal Children’s Hospital Appeal

If any families would like to make a donation for the Royal Children’s Hospital appeal via the school, they can do so by calling in to our office or sending their donation along to school by midday on Thursday next week, 24 th March. The school will then register the donation.

Literacy Learning at PFCS.

This week we begin a new set of literacy strategies for families. These strategies come from an Education Department publication called ‘201 Literacy and Maths tips to help your child.’ Today’s tips focus on ‘Storytelling’ and are once again aimed at children from pre-school to about Year 2.

Reminders:

Parent Teacher Interviews

Interviews will be held in Week 3 of Term 2. Notices will be sent home with all children in the first week of Term 2.

Have a great holiday break,

Neil Sproal (Acting Principal)

Literacy Learning at PFCS. No: 6

Story-telling……

3

Story-telling is a great way to extend your child’s language and listening skills, as well as expanding their imagination.

Either you can tell the story, or encourage your child to tell the story.

Story-telling might be about:

A favourite character from a book or television program.

Your child’s favourite toy.

Another family member.

Here are some tips to start your storytelling:

Make it exciting, with different voices, puppets, props or a finger play.

Start with what interests your child.

Create a character and setting.

Physical Education

A lot to report on again this week. A fantastic day was had by all at the Moyne District Athletics Championships held last Wednesday at Brau-

erander. The place getters from PFCS were as follows;

Strahan Robinson – 3rd High Jump, 2nd Discus

Jack Lee – 2nd Long Jump, 3rd Triple Jump, 3rd 200m, 3rd 800m, 3rd 1500m, 2nd Relay

Cory Dalton – 1st Shot Put, 1st Hurdles, 2nd 100m, 2nd Relay

Seth Beardsley – 3rd Hurdles, 2nd Relay

Daniel Pogson - 2nd Relay

Lucy Kennedy – 2nd 100m, 3rd Hurdles, 2nd Relay

Lily Carbury – 2nd High Jump

Ava Fitzgerald – 2nd Relay

Phoebe Reaburn – 3rd Triple Jump, 3rd Shot Put, 2nd Relay

Elsie Adams – 3rd Long Jump, 2nd Relay

Marcus Matuschka – 2nd Hurdles, 2nd 100m, 2nd 800m, 2nd Relay, 1st High Jump (Equalled Moyne Record of 1.25m), 2nd Relay

Jackson Sobey - 1st Discus, 2nd Relay

Reign Batty – 2nd Relay

Mason Ward – 2nd Relay

Amber Ferguson – 1st Hurdles, 1st 100m (New Moyne Record 15.25sec), 1st 200m (New Moyne Record 31.27 sec), 3rd 800m, 1st Relay

Yasemin Yildirim – 2nd Hurdles, 3rd Shot Put, 1st Relay

Isla Tweedly – 1st 800m, 1st 1500m

Ollie Dixon – 1st Relay

Margo Hocking – 1st Triple Jump, 1st Relay

Benjy Hawkins – 3rd Hurdles, 3rd Relay

Angus Kennedy – 3rd 200m, 3rd 800m, 2nd 1500m, 3rd Relay

Finn Sheppard-Wright – 3rd High Jump, 3rd Relay

Dru Dalton – 3rd Relay

Madeleine Green – 3rd Hurdles, 1st Triple Jump, 2nd Relay, 3rd Shot Put

Ascha Peterson – 2nd 1500m

Maddison Lee – 3rd 1500m

Jaz Royal – 2nd High Jump

Alyssa Maher – 1st Long Jump, 2nd Relay

Shona Martin – 2nd Relay

Lexie Finnigan – 2nd Relay

There were some great personal bests and most pleasing was the wonderful sportsmanship shown by our students. Well done to everyone! Those that are progressing to the next round will be competing on the 20th of April at Brauerander.

The Regional Swimming Championships were held at the amazing new indoor 50m pool at Ballarat (much more pleasant than previous years outdoors!). The standard was extremely high, however our swimmers still excelled with all of them breaking their PB’s by at least 2 secs, amazing! The girls relay team of Maddie Green, Jaz Royal, Alyssa Maher and Ascha Peterson, smashed their PB by 6 secs! Oscar Hill came 8th and 11th overall in the Backstroke and Freestyle respectively. Jack Lee finished 11th in the Backstroke (improved 4 secs on PB!). Margo Hock-ing was 10th in Backstroke and Alyssa Maher 11th in Breaststroke. Exemplary behaviour and attitudes by all our students (Charlie Green dis-graced himself a one point with a 2yr old tantrum though!), it was a pleasure to watch. Thank you to The Hill Family, Brendan and Hayden Maher and Nadine Lee for driving all that way and providing the cheer squad.

Congratulations to Oscar Hill who also competed in the State Little Athletics Championships on the weekend. Against some polished opposi-tion Oscar came 15th in the 800m, 21st in the Triple Jump, 17th in the Long Jump and 9th in the 400m beating his PB by a massive 2 secs! Well done Oscar!

Congratulations to Tenae Mounsey on her fantastic efforts representing PFCS at the Regional Championships in Colac on Tuesday. Tenae played five tough matches on grass courts. She came away with one win and I

heard there were some super rallies. She gained lots of experience and appreciation for her tennis in the future.

Well done Tenae!

Have a fantastic break and keep

active.

Brooke Green Physical Education

Important Dates

THURSDAY 24TH

MARCH

Last Day of Term One.

Dismissal at 2.30pm.

MONDAY 11TH APRIL

First Day of Term Two.

THURSDAY 5TH MAY

May Race Day

Public Holiday

FRIDAY 20TH MAY

Healthy Breakfast and

Walk Safely to School

Day

SCHOOL LIBRARY STOCKTAKING

The school library will be undertaking a stocktake of all

books during the first week of second term. Please return any books you

have borrowed before the end of term to make the stocktake as stream-

lined as possible. There will be no borrowing until the stocktake has been

completed.

Thank you, in advance, for your assistance and patience while this is

happening.

Folk Festival Bed

& Breakfast

Thanks again to our wonder-ful team of helpers who en-sured our Bed & Breakfast was a huge success— ap-proximately $13,000 was raised for PFCS.

Congratulations go to Craig Fraser, who was one of our valuable helpers during the Folk Festival Weekend Bed & Breakfast fundraiser and was lucky enough to be drawn out as the winner of our Folk Festival B&B tickets.

School Photos

Today MSP Photography have been taking our photos.

In addition to the individual, family and class photos, Frank also takes

group photos of the Ambassadors, House Captains, Bus Captains, and the

Senior Choir.

If you wish to order one of these please let Jenni know in the office. Cost

for each group photo is $20.

Healthy Breakfast and

Walk Safely to School Day

Friday May 20th

PFCS will again be participating in this wonderful pro-

gram.

We are seeking a co-ordinator and a team of volunteers to take on this

project.

Please speak to Jenni or Neil if you have any questions.

“Oceanarium” -

our current community arts project!

Oceanarium is a multi-artwork installation that is being

created especially for Fun4Kids 2016. Four local artists

(Deb Saunders, Becky Nevin-Berger, Karen Richards and Colleen Hughson) will use a combination of textile art,

sculpture and video to recreate the sensory richness of our unique marine environment. At Fun4Kids children will be able to explore the wonders and diversity of the underwater world through interactive features and activities within four different marine environments.

3/4’s have been working in Art classes to create the beginnings of the Underwater

Kelp Forest. This is made from finger-knitting and arm-knitting yarn cut up from repur-

posed old T-shirts. So…

WANTED! Old T-shirts -

Please deliver to the Office ASAP so we can continue working on the project during lunchtimes!

Menu for Term Two is attached—place your orders now!

FRESH FRUIT FRIDAY

Term Two

April 15th Amanda Dixon Claire Hynes

April 22nd Amanda Dixon

April 29th Amanda Dixon HELP NEEDED

May 6th Jess Clift Amy Gibson

May 13th Claire Hynes Kristi Else

May 20th Amanda Dixon HELP NEEDED

May 27th Amanda Dixon HELP NEEDED

June 3rd Roz Langley Kristi Else

June 10th Amanda Dixon HELP NEEDED

June 17th Amanda Dixon HELP NEEDED

June 24th Amanda Dixon HELP NEEDED

5/6’s—Wow, what an amazing week for the 5/6 cohort! Our three dinners went fantastically well and we

thank all parents and guests for attending, we hope you enjoyed yourselves! A big thank you to all parent

helpers, Jo and staff for all your assistance and time. When not busy in the kitchen or 'pop-up restaurant'

students have been reflecting on what learnings have taken place throughout this unit of work.

We wish all families a safe and happy Easter!

P/1/2 - For Writing we have been learning to use paragraphs and the word wall to help us write unfamiliar

words. In Reading we are continuing our focus on making connections as well as looking at the pictures

and pointing to the words. Our letter focus for this week is Ll and we are also focusing on the word like. In

Maths we are exploring pattern in the context of Easter activities.

3/4’s—In Maths we are learning about what Pink Floyd and ABBA sang about – ‘money’. We’re discover-

ing the many ways that we can create money amounts by using different denominations. Accurately and

methodically giving change is a skill that we have also been practising. In Reading sessions we are seeking

out extra information from illustrations, diagrams and pictures, as well as identifying words with prefixes and

suffixes. Our persuasive powers are coming to fruition as we fine-tune our writing pieces on the topic of,

‘Should all kids play sport?’ Have a safe and restful holiday from the 3/4 team.

Easter is just around the corner and

the Port Fairy Visitor Information Center is planning a

new activity for visiting and local families over the

Easter public holidays. “Find the Chickens” Local

businesses are hiding yellow little toy chickens in their

window display. Find them all. To participate in the

competition, “Find the Chicken” the information

sheet can be collected at the Visitor Information

Centre for 50 cents. A lucky winner will be drawn out

of a hat on Sunday and will receive a prize.

We also have a brand new “I Spy Sheet” and “How

Many Chickens Are In The Jar” competition.

Come and see us at the Visitor Information Center

this Easter.

Active Sportz - Enquire about our Junior Sporting Development Activities and

Sessions, Birthday Parties, Court Hire and More. Call Raff 55613 666

UNDER 11's HOCKEY Term Two. Friday's 4-5pm - Starting April 15th $2 per week -

Modified rules (age and skill appropriate) Bookings and Mouthguard Essential Contact: Karen Benson 0412732543

AFTER SCHOOL BASKETBALL SKILLS & DRILLS

3.35PM – 4.35PM MONDAY EVENINGS

PORT FAIRY BASKETBALL STADIUM - $10 PER SESSION

After School Basketball Skills & Drills for Years 2 – 6 will be beginning on Monday evenings in Term 2, 2016. The session will involve children participating in a variety of basketball drills designed to improve the fundamental skills and game awareness

required for Basketball. A focus on shooting technique, dribbling technique, passing and defending will be undertaken.

f you are interested in your child attending please call Tommy Greene on 0400062799 to register your child.