coimadai primary school achievements 86 bennetts lane
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Coimadai Primary School
86 Bennetts Lane
Coimadai 3340
Ph: 5367 2907 Fax: 5367 7489
www.coimadaips.vic.edu.au
Respect
Pride
Achievements Enthusiastic
Honesty
Fairness
Important Dates March
15th & 16th School Nurse—Prep students
18th Open Day
19th Curriculum Day—pupil free day.
22nd –31st Whole school swimming program.
25th NAPLAN testing day for Gr 3 & 5 students 26th School Captain Speeches presented at As-sembly
April
1st Thursday School dismissed at 2:30
19th School resumesIt is
20th Sex Education lessons begin for Gr 5 &6
30th BMPSSA Athletics Carnival at Masons Lane
May 7th BMPSSA Cross Country Competitions
11th NAPLAN testing begins
18th –26th Somers Camp
Week 7
Dear Parents/Guardians,
This year Coimadai PS has made the commitment to train all teachers in the Berry Street Professional Development Program. The Berry Street teaching approach is aimed at helping children deal with stress and trauma in their lives. This is a large commitment, both financially and in time. The program runs for 90 minutes over 12 nights. Training is after school from 3:30—5:00 and begins this week The first 2 week’s sessions will be on the following dates: 10th,11th,12th,16th, 17th and 18th of March. On these days only the teacher who is rostered on for 3:30 yard duty will be available to see after school. If you wish to talk to your child’s teacher please do so between 8:30 - 8:45 in the morning.
Mrs O’Gorman’s fun facts
Names for people who read a lot:
English: Book worm Indonesian: Book flea
Romanian: Library mouse German: Read-rat
French: Ink drinker Danish: Reading horse
Best of Luck Brooke as you compete at the Western Rang-es Division Swimming Carnival on Wednesday. Brooke is competing in the 10 year girls freestyle event.
Transmission Towers
Last week Ausnet released their ‘area of increased in-terest for the construction of 85 meter tall transmission towers to bring the electrici-ty that is made by the wind turbines back to Melbourne. The route which they propose to take will come across Bald Hill / Swans Road in Darley and along Cameron’s Road. They will avoid the quarries by using the 50 meter easements that the quarries already have in place along Russell’s Road. The towers will then pass our school and cross over Lake Merrimu in the paddock next to the school as this is the narrowest point of the lake for crossing.
School Council is urging everyone in our school communi-ty to make contact with our Members of Parliament asking them to put the power lines under ground and not build such horrible monstrosities on our landscape. A letter of protest, outlining our objections will be written in the com-ing days and circulated so that people can lodge their pro-test easily. The Coimadai Community need your help to put a holt to this outrageous and out dated concept.
The school’s State Mem-ber for Parliament is Mary- Anne Thomas. Her contact details are (03) 54282138. The map in-cluded on the next page of this newsletter shows the possible route very clearly. A community meeting will be held on Thursday the 18th at the
Coimadai Primary School
86 Bennetts Lane
Coimadai 3340
Ph: 5367 2907 Fax: 5367 7489
www.coimadaips.vic.edu.au
Achievements Enthusiastic
Honesty
Fairness
Coimadai Primary School Newsletter Page 3
Coimadai CFA Station at 6:30pm. More information in re-gards to how we can stop the building of the towers will be outlined.
Parents and Friends
Parents and Friends will be conducting a head lice check on Tuesday the 9th of March. They will also be holding a meeting on Wednesday the 10th March at 2:30pm.
Curriculum Day—Pupil free day
Friday 19th March
Happy Birthday Kendall
We hope you had a lovely
day.
Principal Awards Zara– Taking pride in our classroom
Oskar D– Consistent effort in class
Theodore– Demonstrating an increased understanding of
“It’s OK not to know”.
Angelo– Showing an increased understanding that it is OK
to make mistakes.
Matilda– For putting in a huge effort at the swimming
sports
Levi– For asking fantastic questions in Maths
Benjamin T-showing positive
attitude to his learning
Lexi– Being always willing to
help others in the classroom
Reading Awards
25 nights Rupert, Lauchlan F, Kendall, Kayde, Lachlan S,
Rylan, Rhyder, Levi, Matilda, Freya, Spencer, Elijah M,
Mark
Times Tables
2 2 times table Poppy, Alannah M, Ariana, Theodore
5 5 times tables
Poppy, Elijah M, Braxtyn,
10 times tables
Poppy, Braxtyn, Aiden
Whole school photo taken on Thursday for Rotary
Club Time Capsule.
Page 4 Coimadai Primary School Newsletter,
Dates for 2021 All dates for 2021 have now been set and I ask that these be place on calendars and in diaries so that will not be for-gotten.
Working Bee Dates
3:30 –5:30pm Friday 26th March—Meet and greet working bee followed by a BBQ
3:30 –5:00pm Friday 14th May
9:00am –12:00 Saturday 24th July
9:00am—12:00 Saturday 4th September
3:00 - 5:00pm Wednesday 13th October
3:00 - 5:00pm Wednesday 10th November
Parents and Friends meetings
2:30pm 9th March
9:00am Monday 23rd April
2:30pm Wednesday 16th June
2:30pm Tuesday 20th July
2:30pm Tuesday 17th August
9:00am Tuesday 31st August
2:30pm Tuesday 5th October
2:30pm Wednesday 20th October
2:30pm Wednesday 3rd November
2:30 Wednesday 17th November
2:30 Tuesday 7th December
School Council meeting dates are as follow:
31st March 12th May 9th June 21st July
18th August 20th October 8th December
Curriculum Day—Pupil Free Days
Friday 19th March
Friday 20th August
Monday 1st November
Sports Days
BMPSSA Athletics Carnival 30th April
BMPSSA Cross Country 7th May
BMPSSA Winter Sports 18th June
BMPSSA Summer Sports 3rd September
Coimadai Primary School Newsletter Page 5
Coimadai PS Swimming Program 2021
Monday 22nd—Thursday 31st March
8 swimming lessons
Paul Sadder—Swimland Darley
Cost $ 45 per student.
Parents may begin making weekly payments if this suits your family.
Final payments need to be made by Friday the 19th of March, 2021.
Come along and enjoy a free breakfast with your friends. Eating breakfast helps us to concentrate more and stay alert. Eating breakfast helps us maintain a healthy body as it is considered the most important meal of the day.
Please send all payments through BPay or
your child’s classroom.
• 2021 school fees payments are now due.
Book packs have now been distributed to the
families who have paid their book packs in
full.
• Swimming Program
• Netbook payments due 9th March
• Life Education lesson
Easter Egg Raffle
Tickets on sale from Wednesday 10th –30th March.
Tickets sold at lunch time canteen.
Price 50c each or 3 for $1
Raffle is only for students and toddlers.
All families are asked to donate items to the raffle;
chocolate eggs, chocolate rabbits, stuffed toys, eEaster crafts,
baskets
Hampers will be made up by the Student Representative Coun-
cil
All money raised will go to the Royal
Children’s Hospital.