Volume 01-17 8 February 2017

Community Link www.elwoodprimary.vic.edu.au Phone 9531 2762

Market News Please note Prep C, Prep J, Prep M, Prep R and Prep S are rostered

on for the next market to be held on Saturday 3 November. Class

reps will be making contact with parents in their respective classes

to take part in the community spirit and help the school with its

fundraising by signing on to volunteer at the market, and/or by

producing cakes and other goods for the cake stall.

If you would like to volunteer, please go to http://www.elwoodmarket.com/volunteer/market

Elwood Community Market Committee

Leaving EPS in 2019 ?? Planning for 2019 is already taking place. It is very important to have an accurate picture of student movement for the upcoming year. Accurate anticipated student numbers has a huge impact on planning for the number of classes we have and our budget. If you know that you will not be at Elwood PS next year. Please complete the form below, email or call the office on 9531 2762 as soon as possible.

Late Arrival A friendly reminder if a student is late for school i.e arrives to school after the bell has gone he/she must come into the office to advice that they have arrived. In doing so, this will avoid the parent receiving a text message seeking information on the child’s late arrival / absence.

Summer Soiree 2018 Well done to everyone who has taken up learning an instrument recently. Great effort to those how’ve kept up their practice. It’s time to celebrate and share what you’ve been doing. Everyone who is learning an instrument is invited to perform at the Summer Soiree Thursday 13 December 4:45pm in the JLC space. You can collect a form from the office. Please let me know if you are learning an instrument outside school and interested and I can get in contact with your instructor. Perform one piece that you are comfortable with or that you are particularly happy with!. I’m keen to get the forms back early so I can create concert sets if necessary. Also, I can let you know which set you’ll be performing in. Please invite friends and family. Good luck and I hope enjoy the concert!

Kaz Sieger…..Music Teacher

To book an EPS Market Stall visit www.trybooking.com/333813

Please Note!

Thursday 18 October Regional Athletics

Friday 19 October Grade 5/6 Sport Ready Set Go 5

Grade 2 sleepover

Monday 22 October Assembly

Tuesday 23 October Year 4 Incursion—Professor Bunsen

Thursday 25 October Prep-2 Tabloid Sports Day Elwood Hub Art Show 5pm

Friday 26 October

Grade 5/6 Interschool Sports Year 3 Incursion—Professor Bunsen

Monday 29 October

State Athletics

Thursday 1 November Grade 5 Sovereign Hill Excursion

Friday 2 November

Grade 5/6 Interschool Sport Walk to School Month picnic

Celebration

Saturday 3 November Community Market—Prep Rostered

Volume 15-18 17 Oct 2018

Tuesday 6 November Melbourne Cup Day

Public Holiday

Saturday 3 November Community Market

Prep Rostered

Elwood Learning Hub Links

Poet’s Grove Children’s Centre : http://www.poetsgrove.com/home and follow link to newsletter

Elwood College : http://www.elwood.vic.edu.au/

gram will be an oppor-tunity for the grade ones to see the life of chickens begin, and learn how to care for living animals. We are so lucky to be able to offer this learning opportunity to the students, al-lowing them to write, draw, investigate, and explore all about chickens and how they live. Because it will be so busy, and the chicks are only tiny, for that fortnight there will be no soft starts in the JLC. You are more than welcome to come and have a look at the chicks after school, when we will keep the build-ing open until 3.45pm. At the end of the program (Friday 26 October), the chickens will be available for adoption by any of our Elwood community. If you are at all interested please let any of the Grade 1 teachers know by the Thursday or email cooper.charles.c@edumail.vic.gov.au and we will give you some more information about this. Below are a couple of tips about how to care for baby chicks! Prepare enough space – These little chicks are not little for long, so prepare a space for when they are young and then for when they are old enough to be transferred outside. Full grown chickens need just under 1 square metre each inside the coop. Schedule – When these chicks come home they need constant care. They will need water straight away. You will need to keep an eye on them to make sure they know where their food and water is. They need to be checked at least 5 times a day for the first four weeks.

Charlie Cooper…...Grade 1 Teacher

Community Shred Day Do you have old documents that need shredding? Shred On Site are kindly hosting a free com-munity shredding day on Satur-day 20 October between 10.00am

-1.00pm outside the Elwood Sailing Club. Bring along your old documents and have them securely shredded. Total of 5 boxes per family.

Ripponlea PS Twilight Market Ripponlea Primary School in East St Kilda is hold-ing their Twilight Market on Friday 9 November from 5pm—9pm. Check out an amazing range of Artisan and Designer Stalls. Jewellery, clothing, handmade gifts and homewares, crafts, produce, alfresco food and bar and more….

Congratulations Amelia At the end of this week, Amelia (6R) will be going to Adelaide to represent Victoria and Elwood Primary School in the Bruce Cup National Tennis Champion-ships. Amelia has been selected for the Victorian State Tennis Team of 7 girls and 7 boys following a series of trials. She is very excited and proud to repre-sent her school and her state. The Bruce Cup is a prestigious national tennis competition that has a long tra-dition, beginning in 1939. Many of Australia’s finest players began their tennis careers at this event, including Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Pat Rafter, Alicia Molik and more recently Ash Barty, Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis. If you would like to support Amelia, please drop by the school office and grab some raffle tickets before 29 Oc-

tober. There are less than 100 tickets left at $2.00 each, with some great prizes to be won: 1st Prize: Kia Cerato (RRP $23,412) 2nd Prize: Travel/Accommodation Voucher (RRP $10,000) 3rd Prize: Samsung Television (65 inch) (RRP $3,899) 4th Prize: Vintec Wine Bottle Cellar (40 bottle) (RRP $1,999) 5th Prize: Kitchen Aid Food Processor (RRP$499) 6th Prize: Harmon Kardon Mini BT Speaker (RRP $449)

Sushi Soy Sauce Our school is concerned about the impact of plastic on our environment and our Grade 4’s have been proactive in their sustainability projects. Tempura Café, who sup-ply our sushi on Wednesdays will no longer be supply-ing soy sauce plastic “fish” dispensers. Many have been found inside the stomachs of birds and fish in our oceans. Tina, who provides our rice paper rolls on Tuesday has purchased a bottle of refillable soy sauce for every classroom that will be available for anyone who would like soy sauce with their sushi.

Chickens in the JLC Starting on Monday 15 October and continuing for two weeks, the grade ones will have some super cute resi-dents joining them in the JLC. The ‘Living Eggs’ pro-

Halloween on Fitzroy Street, St Kilda The Halloween season is almost upon us and what better way to celebrate than at the spook-tacular Fitzroy Street Halloween Festival on Saturday 27 October on Fitzroy Street in St Kilda, featuring roving entertainment and fun-filled activities for everyone! Set to be a thrilling after-noon, the Fitzroy Street Halloween Festival will run from 4pm to 8pm, right before St Kilda descends into darkness. Celebrations will span along the entire length of Fitzroy Street, and will include an amazing digital mirror selfie booth, lurch, and more… If you’re needing some treats alongside all of the tricks there will be plenty of food to feast on throughout the afternoon and into the night. The cauldron is brewing and Fitzroy Street is about to be transformed. From Halloween first timers, to veterans of the holiday – everyone is invited to join in on the festivities.

Football Star Academy Football Star Academy are now offering an after school program on Thursday in Term 4, to suit all ages and levels of ability. Elwood Primary School students will also receive a 25% discount when they sign up for the holiday program. Elwood Primary School students are also eligible for a dis-count when enrolling. Please quote EPS20 when completing your application. For more info or to contact Football Star Academy, please see flyer.

World Education Program Not-for-profit student exchange organisation, World Education Program (WEP) Australia, is currently seeking local families to host overseas exchange students arriving in Australia in July 2019. Hosting opens minds and hearts, providing a wonderful opportunity for Australian fami-lies to welcome a slice of the world into their home. See the following weblink https://wep.org.au/host/ or attached flyer for more details.