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NEWSLETTER NO.13, THURSDAY 22nd AUGUST, 2013

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Dear Parents, On Friday 9

th of August we travelled to Dookie Primary School where we were lucky

enough to meet Author Ingrid Maugher (pronounced Major) from Mooroopna. She ex-plained the processes of writing to both junior and senior groups and shared some of her published works. She really emphasised the importance of writing for the right au-dience and everyone participated in an event described in one of her books – who could stretch a snake lolly the longest without breaking it! Not everybody was success-ful in stretching their snake to any great length but we all enjoyed eating them after-wards. Another big thank you must go to Dookie Primary School for inviting us along to a day they had previously organised. Book Week was kicked off again by a Cluster Day at Katandra West Primary School on Tuesday. Highlights of the day included dancer Bernard Mangakahia and a tour of our solar system in a cardboard rocket in the ‘Cosmodome’. Bernard was fantastic and told the story of his ancestry through dance. He covered the Native Hoop Dance from the North American Indians, the Haka from New Zealand and the Hula from Hawaii. He was truly inspirational and my favourite moment was when he performed the Haka to the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty! The Cosmodome really gave a three dimen-sional impression of Space exploration and complimented what we have been learning in class very well. The whole day was a great learning experience for everyone and our Currawa children are beginning to mix very well with their Cluster friends. A meeting will be held immediately after school next Thursday for all parents regarding Fundraising and our Bus arrangements. It would be great to have everyone there to get input into some pretty important school issues for the future. Finally, I’d like to publicly announce that I will be Acting Principal here at Currawa Pri-mary School until the end of Term 1, 2014. My current understanding is that Mooroopna North Primary School will be advertising their Principal position at the be-ginning of Term 1, 2014 and that this process will be complete by the end of the Term. I would like to wish Les all the best in his quest to be Principal at Mooroopna North. Kind Regards, Mr Cleary.

CALENDAR AUGUST Tuesday 27th Kinder Visit Wednesday 28th MARC (library) Wednesday 28th Book Club orders

due Thursday 29th Dookie students com-

ing here for science Thursday 29th Fundraising meeting

at school SEPTEMBER Wednesday 4th MACC (art) Wednesday 4th Bring PJ’s and a pil-

low for filming. Friday 6th Fun Run at Kidstown Tuesday 10th Goorambat Athletics

day Wednesday 11th MARC (library) Wednesday 11th Mother’s and Fa-

ther’s day luncheon Thursday 12th Reptile encounters Monday 16th - Wednesday 18th

Grade 3/4 camp 15 Mile Creek Wednesday 18th MACC (art) Friday 20th Last Day Term 3 OCTOBER Monday 7th Start term 4 Wednesday 9th MARC (library) Wednesday 9th Ecolink Grades 4

and 5 Thursday 10th School photo day Wednesday 16th MACC (art) Wednesday 23rd MARC (library) Wednesday 30th Heinz Festival at

Eastbank NOVEMBER Saturday 2nd Dookie Show Monday 4th Curriculum Day—no

school for students Tuesday 5th Melbourne Cup Public

Holiday Tuesday 12th - Yachting for grades 4

and 5 Wednesday 13th 2014 Prep transi-

tion Wednesday 20th 2014 Prep transi-

tion DECEMBER

15 MILE CREEK SCHOOL CAMP Camp forms and deposit are now overdue. Please return forms and $50 deposit or full pay-ment asap. If you choose to pay by instalments full payment must be received by Thursday 12th September. Currawa will not have a staff member attending this camp. Students will be supervised by staff from our cluster schools. We can send one par-ent helper, or two helpers for one night each. If anyone is interested please let Adam know. BUS ROUTE Any changes must go through the Principal.

If you require your child to be picked up or dropped of at a different point please call Adam first.

The route will continue as is until the next school council meeting when it will be re-viewed.

The central drop off point for students not attending Active After School is Ryan’s Road.

FUNDRAISING MEETING A meeting to discuss Melbourne Cup, Dookie Show and Military Family Day will be held at school on Thursday 29th August at 3.30pm. All welcome. BOOK CLUB Book club orders are due back at school on Wednesday 28th August. Payment by cheque (made payable to Scholastic) or credit card pre-ferred. KINDER VISIT We will be visiting the Dookie kinder on Tuesday 27th August for the morning. Permission slips have been sent home today and need to be re-turned to school by Monday 26th August.

All students need to bring their pjs and a pillow (in their bags) to film a scene for Mrs Sargant on Wednesday September 4th.

SPRING CLEAN We are having a spring clean this Sunday 25th August at school starting at 10.00am. Bring along your muscles and any equipment you think might be useful. The plan is to clean out cupboards etc. and get our gardens tidied up. We will be having a BBQ lunch. It would be great to see as many families as possible even if you can only come for a short time. ATHLETICS DAY PICNIC The Gooroombat athletics carnival is on Tuesday 10th September. We will again be having a picnic lunch and below is the list of foods each family is bringing: Holland: Apples and Oranges Cave & Blackmore: Chocolate cake Chaplin: Watermelon & bananas Lim, Hamilton & Boyd: plate of sandwiches McNeill & Keele: Quiche Powell: Cheese and bikkies. Teachers: surprise SCHOOL FEES Thankyou to those families who sent in payments this week. We would appreciate payments of accounts as soon as possible. Camp deposits are now overdue and full payment for camp must be received by Thursday 12th September. FUN RUN SPONSORSHIP A reminder to students to keep collecting sponsors for our “Fun Run.” This year we hope to raise enough money to purchase more ipads for students. The Fun Run is on Friday 6th September at Kidstown. Lunch will be provided at Kidstown. Parent helpers are required. Please let Adam or Megan know if you are available. Wednesday 16th October will be the students shopping day. MUSIC LESSONS WITH HELEN Helen will be taking lessons on Wednesday 4th September instead of Friday 6th Sep-tember. 2014 ENROLMENTS We are now taking enrolments for 2014. If you have a child to enrol please ask the school for an enrolment form. If you know of anyone with a child starting school please pick up an information pack for them or let us know so that we can send one out. MOTHER’S AND FATHER’S DAY LUNCHEON We would like to invite our school community to our joint Mother’s and Father’s day luncheon to be held on Wednesday 11th September at 1.30pm. After lunch we will be holding a science afternoon which will be a fun session. 11th September is also our last school council meeting for the term. Please RSVP before Friday 6th September (our Fun Run day) to Mrs Walsh on 0409 219 137. We hope to see everyone there (you may like to bring a picnic rug to enjoy the lunch that will be provided.

COMMUNITY NOTICES PINE LODGE CRICKET CLUB Pine Lodge cricket club will commence training for the 2013-14 cricket season at 4:30pm on Wednesday September 19th 2013, at Lemnos Reserve. We have had a very successful U/12s team for the past three seasons and this season we are including an U/14s team. For all you boys & girls that are 8 & turning 9 during the season come along. We train at Lemnos Reserve which is opposite Campbells Soup Factory on Lemnos North Rd, Lemnos & also at the Shep-parton East Primary School oval. As a junior you will have the unique experience of playing and training on a turf wicket. No experience necessary, our friendly club will teach you everything you want to know.

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$100 PER TRAILER DELIVERED CONTACT GINI 0407 669 597

Ted for a positive attitude and always

seeing the glass half full.

Fletcher for Understanding someone else’s

feelings and acting to make them happy.

SENIOR

LAST WEEK: TED

THIS WEEK: HANNAH JUNIOR

LAST WEEK: JESSICA

THIS WEEK: LEO

INGREDIENTS:

4 large potatoes (preferably King Edwards)

30g unsalted butter

2/3 cup (160ml) creme fraiche

4 tbs grated parmesan cheese

1/2 cup chopped ham

3 shallots (spring onions), finely chopped

4 tomatoes, peeled, seeded, chopped

1/2 cup (125ml) olive oil, plus extra to drizzle

4 tbs tomato sauce (ketchup)

1/4 cup (60ml) white wine vinegar

2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1 tbs chopped basil or flat-leaf parsley METHOD: 1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. 2. Wash the potatoes well, then dry. Wrap each potato in foil, place on a baking tray and roast for 1 hour. Remove from oven and cut a small slice off the top of each po-tato. Scoop out the flesh and place in a bowl with the butter, half the creme fraiche, the parmesan, ham, shallots and half the chopped tomatoes. 3. Season with salt and pepper and mix together. Pile back into potatoes, drizzle with extra olive oil and return to the oven for 20 minutes or until golden. 4. Meanwhile, combine the tomato sauce, remaining creme fraiche, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and 1/2 cup olive oil in a bowl. Whisk together to form a sauce, then add the basil or parsley and season with salt and pepper. Serve the potatoes with the sauce.

STUFFED BAKED POTATOES from taste.com.au

PHOTOS AND RECIPES FROM OUR FRIDAY COOKING GROUP

SPINACH AND SNOW PEA SALAD Ingredients: Baby spinach leaves Snow peas—halved/sliced Macadamia nuts 3 green shallots Dressing: 2 teasp brown sugar 1 clove crushed garlic 1 1/2 teaspoons brown malt vinegar 1/4 cup olive oil Method: Roast the macadamia nuts drizzled with honey in the griller/oven until golden in col-our. Prepare salad. Sprinkle with the roasted macadamia nuts. Mix up the dressing just before serving.