Volume 18 Issue 4 21st February 2017 Guthrie …...Tuesday 18 April—1st day of Term 2 25 April—Anzac Day—NO SCHOOL 27 April—FUN RUN Parent Downloads Available on our website

Guthrie Street PS “Gazette”

Volume 18—Issue 4— 21st February 2017

Guthrie Street PS “Gazette” Principal— Mr Rob McCartney

Assistant Principal—Mrs Maureen Munro Assistant Principal— Mr Brendan Bicknell PO Box 1310 Shepparton Vic 3632 Ph 582 11944 Fax 5821 3202

Our Vision: To develop in our children a zest to become life-long learners and caring, valuable members of society.

Mission: To make a positive difference in children’s lives.

Email: [email protected] Web Page: www.guthriestps.vic.edu.au

2017 Student Leadership Group This week at assembly we announced the Student Lead-ership Group for 2017. I would like to congratulate the following students on being elected: Student Leaders: Harry Brond, Eliza Bicknell, Gretel Cow-ard, Hannah D’Andrea, Mason Hunt, Tobie Phipps, Sien-na Pulvirenti, Bayley Sinclair, Sarah Singline House Captains: Boston Dowling, Dakoda Joch (Taylor), Lachlan Howard, McKenzie Sinclair (Longstaff), Kobey Simcoe, Tahlia Cavill (Ducat), Jayden Millar, Immi Langley (Kilgour). Junior School Council Leaders: Tanvir Kaur, Connor Moore, Olivia Gibson Being elected to these important positions brings a level of responsibility. We certainly have high expectations of our student leaders; they along with all our Year 6 stu-dents are role models to the rest of the student popula-tion and have an ability to influence others by the way they participate in all areas of school life. As I have al-ways said your badge or title does not make you a leader but your actions and how you conduct yourself certainly does! I’m confident the above group will strive to lead in a manner that makes their school community, family and themselves proud. Congratulations and all the best! School Fees 2017 – Discount for early payment ends Tuesday 28th February For families wishing to take advantage of the early fees payment discount this offer ends next week. If paid be-fore the end of February 2017 the fees will be discount-ed to $280. The full fees payment of $310 will be re-quired after this date. The final date for fees payment is Friday March 31st (end of term 1). For those in need, payment plans are available. Please contact Joanne Pick-les (Business Manager) or myself if you need to arrange one of these. Reminder - Camps, Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF) The Victorian Government has introduced a fund to as-sist eligible families cover the costs of school excursions, camps and sporting activities. If you hold a valid means tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent

you may be eligible for the $125 CSEF. Note: Eligible families are encouraged to return the completed forms (distributed earlier in the year) as soon as possible. School Council Elections 2017 I mentioned last week the start of a new school year brings with it an opportunity for parents to nominate to be part of the Guthrie Street School Council. The School Council is responsible for setting key directions for the school, thus directly influencing the quality of education the school provides for its students. Parents make up more than half of the total membership of School Coun-cil; these parents have important viewpoints and valua-ble skills that help shape the school’s future direction. Positions available for 2017 include:

4 parent members; and 2 Department of Education and Training (DET)

employee members. We need participants who will actively engage in twice termly meetings and are prepared to assist in the work required to bring positive change to our school. Nomi-nation forms are now available from Julie or Wendy at the office (note: self-nominations are accepted). Nomi-nations close at 4pm on Tuesday 28th February. If you require further information regarding the opera-tions of school council please contact me at school. Reminders

Yr 3 Port of Echuca Excursion – Friday 3rd March: As this excursion is part of the Year 3 Excursion Package it is covered by school fees. Families who have not paid fees by the date of the excursion will need to pay $27 to cover the cost of this expe-rience. Note: This amount will be deducted from your fees when you finalise your fees payment.

Rob McCartney Principal


INFORMATION BOARD

IRON ON TRANSFERS are now available from the School Office. Red for Polo Shirts and Blue for windcheaters - $2 each.

If you would like any pre-loved Guthrie St uniforms please ring Ronika on 0458 281833 to arrange a time to view any garments.

We are always in need of more stock.

Please deliver any donated items to the office.

Community

Billboard Our Community Billboard is located in the main passage near the school office. Please feel free to view upcoming events, education-al / welfare courses. More infor-mation on the following are now available to view on the Communi-ty Billboard.

The Great Moscow Circus—Shepparton Showgrounds, Thursday 23—Sunday 26 Feb 2017. You can buy tick-ets on-site, phone 1300 667 269, or go on-line THEGREATMOSCOWCIR-CUS.COM.AU

Discounted Family Passes! $140 Family pass in Blue Premium or $135 Family pass Blue Zone (2 adults +2 children 13yrs or under

25-29 Watson Street Shepparton Vic 3630

Ph: 5821 3914 Fax: 5821 3507

Jeff Woollard: 0418 179 199 Luke Burgmann: 0438 502 659

0428 125804


Emotional Intelligence

Students of the Week

The following Students received their Emotional Intelligence

Certificates at Assembly.

We do the right thing because the right thing is the best thing to do.

Classroom EQ Awards

Calendar of Upcoming Events

22 February—Preps No school

15 Feb—Tennis Trials

22 Feb—District Swimming Carnival

27 Feb—VSSS Rehearsal

3 March—Gr 3 Echuca Excursion

13 March—Labor Day—NO SCHOOL

14 March—Musica Viva –P-6

16 March—FETE

30 March—Region Tennis Wangaratta

31 March—Last day of Term 1

14 April—Good Friday

17 April—Easter Monday

Tuesday 18 April—1st day of Term 2

25 April—Anzac Day—NO SCHOOL

27 April—FUN RUN

Parent Downloads Available on our website in PDF Format

www.guthriestps.vic.edu.au

Technology Tuesday

The window for dropping off

technical devices for Technology

Tuesday is 8:45—8:50am ONLY.

Late devices will not be accepted.

2017 Calendar as at 6th February

Absence Verification Form

2017 Medication Request Form

Student Information update

2017 Lunch Order List

Parent Information Booklet updated 12th May 2016

OSHC Brochure

2017 OSHC Enrolment Form

2014 Annual Report

WWC Check — Parents / Volun-teers

Social & Emotional Wellbeing Man-ual

Guthrie St PS Uniform Policy

Homework Policy

Sunsmart Policy

2017 School Fees Information

2017 School Fees payment

2017 ICT Grades P-2 form

2017 ICT Grades 3-6 form

2017 Permission Form

2017 Instrument Music/Singing Tutoring Enrolment form

Parents’ guide to online safety

SafeKids.Com—Family Contract for online safety Bus Travellers Permission form and School Bus Code of Conduct

PEM Olivia White

PNW Zach James

PAG Muneet Kaur

PLV Deagan Fitzgerald

1ST Sereana Harbrow

1JJ Gurmanjot Singh

1LK Freya Robinson

2PH Isla Bamford

2MG Ella Fitzgerald

2MH Elizabeth Jarvis

3CJ Katie Duca

3CB Ben Jeffery

3CW Tighe Clarke

4KB Hayley McGill Seb Quarrell

4JH Alick Jarvis

4LG Seth Guppy

5SO Asraa Al Mastour

5GK Madeline Judd Sam Jeffery

56B Reece Reedy

56R Matt Dale

56M Brayen Lee

56D Paarth Gautam


Volunteering at GSPS—WWCC & VP During the year there are many excursions eg. camps, sleepover, sports, walks etc. and we require parents to support with supervision. Parents are required to have both a WWCC and sign a GSPS Volunteer Protocol form. To apply or renew your WWCC go to http//www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au

Permission Forms & ICT Acceptable Use Agreement forms Permission Forms and ICT forms have been distributed to all students please return to your child’s classroom teacher as soon as possible.

School Fees School Fees are $280 if paid by 28th of February. Otherwise $310 paid after that date. Form attached. INSTALMENTS—Reminder—if you are paying School fees by instalment that the 2nd in-stalment of $100 per child is due Friday 10th February 2017. Also, paying fees by instalment are also discounted if paid by Friday 10th March with a third/final instalment of $80.

Funding—CSEF CSEF Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund—If you hold a valid means tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent you may be eligible for $125 per child. Eligible families are en-couraged to return the CSEF form included with last weeks newsletter as soon as possible. Forms are also available from the office. Included with this form is an allocation form for you to select where you wish to allocate your $125. You can select from your child’s camp—grades 3, 4, 5, 6, Weekend Sport—Netball, Foot-ball, Soccer, Swimming or Major Excursion.

School Banking

Monday is school banking day. Any bank books received later than Monday will be held over until next week.

Guthrie St Primary School

‘Tweets’

Follow Us On Twitter @guthriestps for Important

Announcements. A twitter feed with updates is

available on the Guthrie St app and website.


Our next meeting is on Monday 20th March in the MPC Meeting room

at 2:30pm.

Parent’s Association If you would like any pre-loved Guthrie St uniforms please ring Ronika on 0458 281833 to arrange a time to view any garments.

Berry Street — saverplus letters and application forms were distrib-uted last week to every student. Please forward your application to the school office.

Gazette/Newsletter—Read on-line www.guthriestps.vic.edu.au —now available in PDF format

Forms and notices also available. Please complete the slip below if you are able to read on-line and no longer require a hard copy of the Gazette/Newsletter. If you supply your email address we will email you a reminder to read on-line.

Gazette/Newsletter I/We , _____________________________ have access to a computer and are able to

read the Gazette/Newsletter on-line. Please do not send a hard copy of the weekly

Gazette/Newsletter with my/our eldest child ________________________in grade

___________

To receive a weekly reminder of when the Gazette is ready to be read on-line, my email

address is: ___________________________________________________

Signed: ______________________________________ Date: ____/____/2017


As part of the Council’s Activities In The Park Program we are organising a Film Screening of ‘Project Wild Thing’ at SPC KidsTown. The story behind ‘Project Wild Thing’ is inspiring - Filmmaker David Bond is a worried man. His kids' waking hours are dominated by a cacopho-ny of marketing, and a screen dependence threatening to turn them into glassy-eyed zom-bies. Like city kids everywhere, they spend way too much time indoors - not like it was back in his day. He decides it's time to get back to nature – literally. Click the below link for a trailer of Project Wild Thing http://www.thewildnetwork.com/film We think this will be a fantastic activity for par-ents to enjoy and see if there is anything they can take away from it for their kids.

Looking for a new winter sport this year? Hockey could be that sport for you!

We are always looking for young new sports stars to join in our local competition. The sport offers many opportunities to develop fitness,

team work, and personal skill levels. All age groups are welcome to join any of the following Shepparton Clubs. Each have an Under 11, Under 13 and Under 15 team as well as a Hookin2Hockey program for the younger

children. SYC: training Tuesday from 5:30-6:30pm

Contact: (Iain on 0418 315 393)

Strikers: training Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm

Contact: (Bec on 0428 314 315)

Mooroopna: training Thursday from 5:30-6:30pm

Contact: (Anne on 0411 887 316)

The GV Under 18’s team train Monday nights from 6:30-

8:00pm

Absences— Text 0417 994620 You can now text the school to advise of your child’s absence. Student’s name, grade, reason for absence. eg. Warren Gore 56G sick today Paul Smith 4LG will be late, dentist (Late students still need to come through the front office on arrival).

This number is for Absences Only, there will be no reply from this text, and previous forms of reporting student absences can still be used.

http://www.thewildnetwork.com/film


2017 GUTHRIE STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL WEEKEND SPORT

REGISTRATION SESSION TUESDAY 28th Feb & Wednesday 1st MARCH

8:35am – 9:15am & 3:15pm-3:40pm STADIUM

Soccer and Netball registrations for Guthrie St will take place at the above times. To ensure your child’s involvement in the 2017 season you will need to complete the registration and code of conduct forms that were sent home today (you can also collect these forms from the office) and bring fees to the registration session on any of the days and times listed above. You may wish to pay at the office or online. Fees for the upcoming season are: Soccer $110 (pay the school) Netball $51 VNA (paid to Victorian Netball online) Under 11 $60 & Under 13 $70 (pay the school) Football Please note, that the Southern Stars Football Club (Formerly Guthrie St Demons Football Club) will be holding their own registration nights. More information regarding this night will follow in the coming weeks.

Guthrie St Netball Committee Meeting This Wednesday 22nd February at 3:15pm there will be the first Netball committee meeting for 2017. If you are interested in helping out for season 2017, please feel free to come along. Regards Brendan Bicknell




Area News

Grade Prep Letter of the Week: Dd Words: dad and do Numeracy: our focus is learning about length, using words like longer/shorter etc. This week we will be talking about our families for your Integrated Topic. We would love to have the children bring in a photo of their families. Tomorrow Wednesday the 22nd February is the last of the ‘rest’ days for Prep. Please remember to send your child’s school hat and water bottle to school every day and make sure everything has their name on it. Each child in Prep has been given a blue reader bag. Please make sure that this blue reader bag comes to school every day.

Grade One Spelling: Word families- ag, eg, og, ig, ug. Words: bag, leg, dog, big, bug. Maths: Counting by 5’s and 10’s to 100. Time – looking at different clocks and telling the time to o’clock. Ordinal numbers – first to tenth. Big Write: retell of the story “The Enormous Watermelon”. The “Talk home work” for this piece of writing will go home on Wednesday. We are looking at Narrative writing and talking about the beginning, middle and ending of the story as well as characters. Homework: Please continue the great support you are providing for your child. These books need to be returned every Thursday.

To read their “Take Home” book each night.

Complete the Maths Homework sheet.

Practise the Sight words. Musica Viva On Tuesday March 14th all the children will attend the incursion of Musica Viva. The cost of this performance will be $4:00 per child. If you have paid the School fees this performance is included in the Excursion Package. Reminders:

Art smocks are required for Art.

Library bags are required to be able to borrow from the Library.

Please return the Permission notes to school. One is Permission to use the Technology devices at school and the other is an Excursion Permission form. Both these notes are very important to allow your child to participate in these activities.

Grade Two Homework: We have introduced our 3

rd element of homework this week. Students now have their take home read-

ing (5 nights), talk homework (Tuesday night) and now a Maths worksheet. The Maths worksheet goes home on a Monday and needs to be handed in on a Friday. The Maths homework links to topics being taught in the classroom and the focus is on students organising their time to complete tasks to the best of their ability. We are encouraging students to talk to their teacher if they are having difficulty with homework tasks. Jumpers: With a mix of weather conditions and cooler mornings, please ensure jumpers are clearly named as students are likely to take them off during the day.


Area News

Grade Three NOTES: A number of notes have been sent home, these include the ICT agreement, Excursion and Photo permission and the PG movie permission note. We ask that these be re-turned to the school ASAP. ECHUCA EXCURSION: This excursion will take place on Friday 3

rd March. Please make sure the permission

note for this excursion has been returned to school by the 24th February.

Grade 3 teachers.

Grade Four Year 4 are using the Blue reader bags .Children must bring these everyday .Blue

reader bags are to hold homework, readers, notes, library books &diary's. Please

make sure your child has one.

It has come to attention of the teachers that items of clothing ,hats and drink

bottles do not have names on them. Please ensure everything is named.

A reminder; children need to fill their drink bottles during eating time at recess

and lunch (Not in class time).

Dates for your diary:

Music viva will be on 14/3 /2017

We will be having a Police visit to Year 4 on the 23/3/2017 to discuss rules and

laws .This is in relation to our unit on Democracy.

Grades Five and Six UNIFORM REMINDERS Hats and jumpers need to be clearly labelled so that they can be returned easily if misplaced. A friendly reminder that make-up, nail polish and jewellery (aside from plain sleepers or

studs) are not allowed at school. Students will be expected to remove these if worn to school. Please see the uniform policy on the Guthrie Street website for further information.

The Musica Aviva incursion is approaching. Please ensure you have paid either the excursion levy or $4 before March 14th.


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Volume 18 Issue 4 21st February 2017 Guthrie …...Tuesday 18 April—1st day of Term 2 25 April—Anzac Day—NO SCHOOL 27 April—FUN RUN Parent Downloads Available on our website