Street George PRIMARY SCHOOL, HAMILTON, VICTORIA

Forthcoming Events

Grade 6 students continue to visit local kindergartens.

October

October 24th—World Teachers’ Day

October 30th—School concert (So You Think You Can Dance)

November

November 3rd—Report Writing (Student free day)

November 4th—Melbourne Cup

Newsletter #16 10th October 2014

School Council President: Kelly McKenzie Principal: Tina Walkeden

32-48 George Street, Hamilton 3300 Telephone: 03 5571 1478 Fax: 03 5571 1516

Email: george.street.ps.hamilton@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.georgestham-ps.vic.edu.au

The Bank of Melbourne continue to conduct school banking every sec-

ond Wednesday. For those students currently partaking, please note

next banking day is Wednesday 22nd October. Any students wishing to

start school banking, kindly see the representative on that date to sign

up and begin saving.

NEWS FLASH

Ice creams and icy poles can now be purchased from the

school canteen each Friday during lunchtime. And all you

will need is either 50c or $1. What a bargain!!!!!

To celebrate Aboriginal Cultural Awareness Week, our guest speakers and presenters, Ros Pevitt

and Eileen Alberts, had our girls involved in “secret women's business”. And the happy faces shows

what a success the basket weaving was. A display of their fine work can be seen in our foyer. To

find out about “secret men’s business”, see inside.

No students but some celebs -

October 12th—Hugh Jackman

October 20th—Snoop Dog

October 21st—Kim Kardashian

The staff, students, parents and

carers at George Street Primary

School, would like to extend to

Linda and family our deepest con-

dolences on the passing of John,

better known to us as “Hoppy”. Always smiling

and ready for a chat, his lunch order visits will

be sadly missed. His Friday sports talk with Al

became legendary. R.I.P. Hoppy

Welcome to the world.

The staff, students, parents and car-

ers at George Street Primary School,

would like to congratulate Ardy and

Babbi on the safe arrival of their baby

son. Hey Ardy welcome to the world of broken

sleep, changing nappies, teething etc. etc. But we

all know you will both cherish every moment. If

you ever need a babysitter just ring 040????????

WARNING TO ALL PARENTS &

CARERS

Please be aware and vigilant of the Foxtel

music channels. Some of the content, both

lyrically and visionally, is quite graphic.

ARTIST OF THE WEEK—WEEK 1

This week all classes have been looking at symmetry

and making patterns from paper.

We folded kinder squares into either quarters or

eights before cutting a pattern into the paper.

It was wonderful to see the expression on students

faces and the excitement in their voices when they

unfolded their paper to reveal the pattern that

they had made. Students were engaged and genu-

inely loved this activity.

Well done Jindarra, our Artist of the Week!

We told you so. Back in newsletter # 14 you were

advised that Miss Azzopardi’s class had planted

vegetables. Well take a look at these beauties..

Great weather and a lot of student dedication,

sees this patch flourish. If the occasional lettuce

leaf goes missing, don’t go looking for a “wascally

wabbit”, go looking for the editor.

What’s happening at GSPS.

I’d like to welcome all our families and staff back to what will no doubt be an extremely

busy Term 4 as we have school camp coming up, our ‘So you Think You Can Dance’ school

concert, along with a variety of assessments that will be conducted prior to teachers com-

pleting reports.

I love this term because students start comparing their results from the beginning of the

school year and are able to look at their academic growth, along with all their achieve-

ments. They’re able to revisit their goals that they set and prioritise new goals for the

following year.

I’d like to thank our parent group for their assistance in the school yard over the holidays. A big thank you also

to Max & Tracy Keen, Warren Hall and Al for their gardening skills. We are extremely fortunate to have ex-

tensive grounds, but these grounds require considerable and ongoing maintenance and without their support our

yards wouldn’t receive the care they do.

The Parent Opinion Survey reports arrived today. This survey is a valuable source of feedback to staff. It de-

tails what we are doing well and areas we need to improve, so thank you to those parents who completed it. I

must say the results were disappointing for staff to read as the results were down from last year. It is upset-

ting when I know how hard staff are working towards providing a solid education for our students.

I’d like to remind parents that we have a fortnightly newsletter that shows the detailed learning occurring in

classrooms along with upcoming events during the term. It is critical that parents read this newsletter and take

note of any school events at the top of the front page. Each newsletter lists what is coming up and times /

dates etc.

As the warm weather approaches, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind parents and students that snakes

are now becoming active. Please maintain your vigilance and remind your child /children to take care when walk-

ing near parks /gardens..

Tina Walkeden

Principal

A procrastinator puts off until tomorrow, the things they have already put off until today. John Maxwell

BE ON TIME EVERY TIME

From the Principal’s Desk

Term Dates 2014

Term 4: 6 October—19 December

What’s happening at GSPS.

ABORIGINAL CULTURAL AWARENESS WEEK

Secret Men’s Business

Exploring Aboriginal culture at Tyrendarra