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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

Assistant Principal - Allyson Dixon

School Council President – Anne Trevena

Telephone - (03) 57931288

Fax - (03) 57931412 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Email - [email protected]

Alamein Road

Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662

Postal: Military P.O.

ABN: - 74134967962

Term 3 Issue 3

July 29th

2015

Thursday 30th July

Young Leaders Course

Monday

10th August

3 Day Bike Training

Begins (Yrs 5-6)

Tuesday

11th August

School Council

Meeting

Thursday 13th August

Team Triathlon

Thursday

20th August

Parent Forum

Team Biathlon

Thursday-Friday

3rd-4th September

Years 3-6 House

Athletics Carnival

Tuesday 8th September

Year 1 Latestay

Tuesday 8th September

School Council Meeting

Wednesday

9th September

District Athletics

Thursday

10th September

Foundation Latestay

Website Address -

http//www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Inside this Issue: School Canteen 2

Earn and Learn 2

DSTA Report/Happy Birthday 2

Outstanding Invoices 2

Tissue Boxes 3

Assembly Reading 3

Value of the Week/Rule Reminders 3

Student Awards of the Week 4

Look at What is Happening Around the

School – Years 5/6 5

Puckarook Football-Netball Club 6

Indo Lingo 7

Teaching/Learning – Week 3 Term 3 7

‘Television in the Bedroom’ – article

Healthy Sleep Patterns 8

***Have you heard your child read today? We encourage all students to

practise their reading at home about 5 nights per week. Therefore, by now,

most students should have read at least between 110-115 nights. Well

done if you have kept up! ***

***Sunday Nights - a great

night to check for Head Lice.

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With many families

leaving at the end of

the year, it is

imperative that we

know the

movements of our

families. To employ

teachers and

organise classrooms

we need accurate

information to

determine how many

students will be at

Pucka in 2016. If

you are aware of

your plans for next

year and know

whether your

child/ren will or will

not be attending PPS

for the year 2016,

please fill in this

form and return to

the school a.s.a.p.

2016 - NEXT YEAR

Family Name:

_________________________________________________

Given Names of Children:

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

Circle and complete one section:

a. The above mentioned children will be at Puckapunyal

Primary School in 2016

b. Our family is moving to

________________________________ (destination)

Their last day of school at Puckapunyal PS is

____/____/15

c. It is yet uncertain as to where we will be living in 2016.

The use of opinion data as a measure of school performance is a very important

step towards making our school the best it can possibly be. For many years, we

have conducted annual and anonymous opinion surveys for staff, students and

parents. We use this information to inform and direct our plans for school

improvement. Many parents over the years will have completed these surveys.

Every year, 40 families are randomly selected to participate in the Parent

Opinion Surveys. We ask the selected families for 2015 to take the time to complete the survey as

honestly as possible as opinions are important to us and will be reflected in the

management and organisation of the school.

If you receive a survey, please return it to school, completed by Friday, 7th

August 2015. Please be assured that all responses are totally confidential.

http://www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

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Happy Birthday to Jason Pennycook who

is having his birthday on Friday.

On behalf of the Puckapunyal Primary School

Community, we wish Jason a very Happy

Birthday!

Used Uniform: We desperately require tracksuit

pants, jocks, knickers and socks in sizes 6 and 8

to replace wet clothing when students get wet.

Thank you.

Sporting Schools: Our school is a member of

‘Sporting Schools’, an organisation that aims to

support and increase children’s participation in

physical activity. Here are a few tips for

families:

TIP 1: Foster a full range of fundamental

movement skills. This includes kicking or hitting

a ball, running, jumping, climbing and basic

aquatic skills.

TIP 2: Promote play by setting up diverse and

stimulating environments at home. Use a variety

of areas around the home, like the backyard or

even the hallway, to play. Provide a variety of

sports equipment. Encourage ambidexterity (use

of limbs on both sides of the body).

TIP 3: Foster everyday sport activity at home

and be an effective support provider. Limit

screen time at home. Provide a positive

encouragement for sporting activity and get

involved.

TIP 4: Insist on the right sport format and

equipment. Sporting Schools provides a great

choice of appropriate sport formats for primary

school children that are lots of fun. Buy the right

sized equipment.

TIP 5: Sample and have fun! Resist the

temptation for your child to specialise in one

sport too early. Sampling a large range of sports,

at least until the age of 15, is likely to assist the

development of a full range of sporting skills,

coordination and control. It also minimises the

risks of overuse injuries and allows kids to work

out which sports they like most.

Have a terrific week.

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR

REWARD UPDATE Well done Melba house – jumping from

fourth to second place in a week with a

massive 114 tickets!! Keep up the

positive behaviour everyone! CURRENT SCORES

Bradman: 270 points

Melba: 243 points

Hume: 242 points

Chisholm: 224 points

The School Canteen is open for Lunch Orders this Friday.

Each and every Friday students can order lunches from the

school canteen. The menu will be different each week. Please

ensure that a paper bag comes with the order. Please indicate on

the lunch bag if the money is in another sibling’s bag.

This week the menu is - Party Pies or Sausage Rolls $1.00 each or 3 for $2.50 Chocolate/Strawberry Milk $2.00 each

Apple/Orange Juice Popper $1.50 each

JJ’s $1.00 each

No charge for tomato sauce

Earn & Learn has started! Thanks to everyone who is collecting stickers for your

school. We really appreciate it!! Let’s keep those stickers

coming in – either in the collection box labelled

Puckapunyal Primary School at Woolworths, Seymour or in

the collection box in the school foyer. Alternatively you

can complete a sticker sheet (available in the school foyer

or in week one’s newsletter).

Thank you so much for supporting our school.

Total at the end of week two: 1200 stickers.

We desperately require the help of our school community. At

this moment we are owed over $13,000 just from our families.

We have far too many outstanding invoices that are now

affecting our bank balances. All families have received a copy

of their outstanding invoices this week. Please promptly help. If

any family requires some assistance to work out a viable

payment plan, please contact the office so we can do that for

you.

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At assembly this week Compassion was announced as our School Value of the week. That means teachers are looking for

students who are demonstrating ‘Compassion’ to be eligible for the Student of the Week award. We encourage parents to

talk to their students about our values throughout the year.

What is Compassion? Year 6 student, Xtina Chalson-Riley read out the meaning of Compassion.

‘Compassion is caring about someone who is hurt: physically, emotionally or psychologically. It’s being kind and

understanding because the other person matters to you.

Compassion is forgiving someone who has hurt you. It’s caring deeply and wanting to help even if you do not know that

person.’

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Each week at assembly, SRC representatives remind

our students of a few important school rules. This week, SRC representatives, Lachlan Thompson

and Hailey Altas reminded our students of the

following rules:

Show some respect – give way to adults.

Use your manners at all times

Walk carefully around corners – you don’t

know who is on the other side.

Eat on the asphalt - put your litter in the bin.

Please discuss these rules with your children to help

ensure that they understand.

Did you hear Libby

Brown read part of

her narrative writing at

assembly this week?

We did! She is a

terrific author!! Come

along and see who

reads next week.

Every now and then, we ask families to donate a

tissue box to their children’s grades. As you

can imagine each grade uses thousands of tissues

throughout the year and school can only supply so

many. Please help to contribute. We also encourage

students to carry handkerchiefs.

27 of our Years 5/6 students received

certificates for participating in the

Hooptime Basketball

competition last week. Well done,

kids!

More Hooptime information on page

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Most of our Years 5/6 students

have expressed an interest to

attend the 3 Day Bike Ride

that takes place in October.

They will ride 160kms in 3

days. That is an event that

requires strong commitment by

the students who are involved.

Training for the ride will begin

during the week of Monday

August 10th. Each week, they

will participate in 3 training

sessions to keep fit Good luck

kids!

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Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,

beginning school for the first time and even returning for another

school year can be daunting for students and parents. It is great

to see parents eager to support their children at this time and be

an integral part of their education. If you have any concerns, or

just feel like a chat about school and your child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents

have been waiting on this to arrive.

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Congratulations to the following students who

were ‘Students of the Week’ for last week.

Winners – Bill Clode, Lilly Mackay, Eamon

Constable, Hamish Kenny, Emily Watson, Carter

Grant, Kade Altas and Dominic Plessey. These

students were selected because they were modelling

‘Tolerance’. This week teachers are looking for

students who are modelling ‘Compassion.’

Congratulations to the following students

who were ‘Authors of the Week’ for last

week. Winners – Ryan Connie-Carbery,

Dimitri Corocher, Matilda Turner, Gracie

Beattie, Jordan Haywood, Cooper Dickinson,

Libby Brown and Somaiya Harriden. These

students were selected because they showed

great skills as an author.

3/4 D in Room 10 won the

Yard Duty Competition. Jett Miller and Ashby Murphy

were very happy to take the

trophy this week.

Defence School Transition Aide Message Back at school: I trust that everyone has had a smooth and

satisfactory beginning to the school year. Changing schools,

beginning school for the first time and even returning for

another school year can be daunting for students and parents.

It is great to see parents eager to support their children at this

time and be an integral part of their education. If you have

any concerns, or just feel like a chat about school and your

child, please find me!

SWAPP Select Program

I have information about the ADF partners career assistance

program if anyone is interested.

NEW UNIFORM

We have recently had a new shipment of uniform arrive that

includes shorts, tops, tracksuit pants and hats. Some parents

have been waiting on this to arrive.

Best wishes for the week.


Don’t forget kids, we need you

at school everyday!

5/6 I in Room 1A won the

Senior School Times

Tables Trophy. Jake Haywood was delighted

that his classroom won the

winning trophy this week!

3/4 A in Room 11 won the

Middle School Times

Tables Trophy. Cooper Dickinson was very

happy that his classroom won

the winning trophy again this

week!

Congratulations to all of the

above students who received

the ‘Bike Education’ Awards

this week. Happy riding!

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Look at what is happening AROUND

OUR SCHOOL Photographs and writing

by Year 5/6 students Jake T, Lochlon and Trinity JIM VISITS PPS On Tuesday 21

st July 2015 Jim Asimakopoulos OAM came to our school to talk to us about ‘Respect’. Jim

Asimakopoulos OAM has cerebral palsy. Jim came to our school and talked to theYears 3 to 6 students. Jim

played some footy with us. He named all the football premierships and Jim got all of them right; he was very

good at them. Jim did a wonderful slideshow on respect and talked to us about what it meant to show respect.

AUSSIE KIDS ROCK Last Thursday, three musicians came to show us what Blues, Heavy Metal, Hip-hop and Country music are.

Their names were Rusty, CJ and Deano and they started by asking one teacher to be Miss Tree and her role was

to pick all of the helpers for them. They started off by doing their theme song. After that they did the awesome

Blues with a slow style of music. Not long after, they were into Heavy Metal with it being so loud some kids

went into Mrs Philp’s room. A few minutes after that, they started to do some Country music and sang some

songs like all of the other songs and when Deano kept on drumming, we had to yell as loud as we could and say,

“Stop drumming Deano.” After all the other music they did Hip-hop, then played some games, then it was over.

It was really good fun!

H O O P T I M E

On Friday the 24th

of July, 27 students went to the Seymour Aquatic Centre to play basketball. There were 4

different teams. There were 2 Rookie teams, 1 All-Stars team and 1 Future Stars team. The Rookie teams were

called Pucka Pistons and Pucka Pirates. The Future Stars and the All- Star teams are called the Panthers and

Pucka Navy. Pucka Pistons won 2 out of 4 games, the Pucka Pirates won 1 out of 4 games and the Future Stars

team won 1 out of 4, the same as the Pirates. The best team for us on the day got a score of 3 wins and 2 losses

and that was Pucka Navy. A very big thank you to Miss Atkinson for all her work with training us during

lunchtimes and for Mrs Ranger and Miss Lewis for helping on the day. Thank you to the parent helpers who

helped out on the day.

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Football Under 12’s

It was nice to have our first home game after an absence of 6 weeks when we hosted Alexandra for this week’s

game. We welcomed another player to the Under 12’s side; James Chalmers. Welcome to the club James. This

week’s Captain and Vice-Captain were Ryan Cox and Bryce Williams respectively. Ryan asked his team

mates to ensure they ‘man up’, tackle hard and make an effort during the contested ball.

At the start of the game, Alexandra came out hard and strong and kicked almost half of their final score during

the first quarter. Our team dug deep during the 2nd and 3rd quarters however and slowed Alex’s scoring

opportunities to a trickle. For the 2nd week in a row, Tristan Murphy played a great game and was even moved

from his normal position of full back into the centre where he managed to apply a lot of pressure on the

opposition’s followers and centre-men. Again, the mercy rule came in to play about half way through the 3rd

quarter with our team continuing to play hard football right up to the final siren.

This week’s Player of the Day went to Zac Gripske. Zac’s second and third efforts after trying to mark the ball

were exactly what the coaches want to see from everyone during every game. Well done Zac!

The official final score – Alexandra 9.9.63 defeated Pucka 0.0.0

Football Under 16’s

This week saw the Bulldogs take on a much improved Alexandra. Our boys attack on the ball was again much

improved from the previous game and saw the boys shoot out to an early lead. It was a hard fought contest all

day and it was pleasing to see the boys’ aggression towards the ball. However a few simple mistakes and

wasted opportunities to score saw the boys hold the slender lead for most of the day. The last quarter saw a

determined Saints fight back as our boys tired and in the end it was tied up at 24 pts each side for a draw. It

was disappointing not to take the four points but from an overall team effort, it showed improvement.

However there is still room for more.

Final score: Puckarook 3.6.24 drew with Alexandra 3.6.24

Goals: M. Ranger, C Thomson, T. Howe 1.

Netball Under 14’s

Today the under 14 Pucka girls started off with the centre pass, moving the ball well down the court into our

shooting end where Courtney and Emma did great shooting. The first quarter we were in a nail biting

contest as Pucka and Alex went goal for goal. Taylah, Shelley, Kiara, and Kaylah continued to put up fantastic

pressure in the centre with every pass, with some especially strong leading that is improving every

week. Consistently strong defence was provided throughout the game by Chloe and Erin. Steph put up a great

first-time long distance goal. I am so proud of how much all the girls have improved and how they are

playing... WELL DONE GIRLS!!! Pucka 12 def by Alex 27

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Each week in the newsletter, we will give families a summary of the Teaching/Learning Focus for the week.

That can help families by: being aware of what classrooms are covering; with discussion topics at the dinner table when

discussing school (eg. ‘How are you going with addition in Numeracy this week?’); helping their children study at home,

etc. Parents have indicated that this information would be very useful. We also ask families to be aware that schools are

very busy places and events can be unpredictable at times. We therefore must remain flexible. That means, we can plan to

cover certain topics at particular times and have to change them according to arising needs.

Junior School – Preps/Foundation Rooms 3 & 6

Literacy: We are continuing to develop early writing skills with a focus on sounding out and using the golden words in

our writing. We are learning about the letter c. We are using basic punctuation.

Numeracy: We are learning about the number 16 and number stories.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 8 & 9

Literacy: We are focusing on verbs (doing words). We are focusing on the blends bl and br.

Numeracy: We are continuing to add and subtract by counting on and counting back on number lines. We are

consolidating skip counting to gain fluency in 2s, 5s and 10s. We are investigating tools to measure weather.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 8 & 9

Literacy: We are practising writing more detailed sentences (conjunctions). We are starting to look at narrative.

Numeracy: We are looking at the connection between addition and subtraction. We are also using calculators.

Middle School – Years 3/4 Rooms 10 & 11

Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will work on Narratives. We will also focus on Synonyms.

Numeracy: We will focus on recognising and modelling numbers up to 10 000 and equivalent number sentences.

Another focus will be measuring angles. Tables facts will be practised throughout the week.

Senior School – Years 5/6 Rooms 1A & 1B

Literacy: During writing sessions over the next few weeks, we will continue to focus on Narratives. We will also focus on

colons and semicolons.

In reading we will be focusing on fluency and expression.

Numeracy: We will continue with work on the four processes, the order of operations, place value, number patterns and

fractions. A continued focus will be work relating to Statistics: Mean, Mode, Median and Range. Tables facts will be

practised throughout the week.

Foundation-Year 2 - Grades F - 2 will revise colours and the song Balonku (My Balloons).

merah (red) biru (blue)

kuning (yellow) hijau (green)

jingga (orange)

ungu (purple)

You can watch a version of the Indonesian children's song below on You Tube. Just search the title of the song 'Balonku'. Your child might like to have a go at singing the one below for you!

Balonku = My Balloons Balonku ada lima = I have five balloons

rupa-rupa warnanya. = of assorted colours.

Ada hijau dan kuning, = There's a green and a yellow, merah, biru dan hitam. = red, blue and black.

Grades 5 - 6 will focus on colours, describing hair and eyes in Indonesian.

Bagaimana rambut kamu? = What's your hair like?

Rambut saya ... dan ... = My hair is ... and ... Rambut saya coklat dan keriting = My hair is brown and curly

pendek = short panjang = long

keriting = curly

lurus = straight coklat = brown

Salam (Regards)

Bu Hooper (Mrs Hooper) Guru Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian teacher)

abu-abu/kelabu (grey)

merah-muda (pink) hitam (black)

putih (white)

coklat (brown)

merah = red

pirang = blonde hitam = black

Bagaimana mata kamu? = What are your eyes like?

Mata saya ... = My eyes are ... Mata saya biru = My eyes are blue

biru = blue

coklat = brown hijau = green

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Television In The Bedroom May Hurt Child's

School Performance ScienceDaily (July 5, 2005) — A study of elementary school students found that children who had television sets in

their bedrooms scored significantly lower on school achievement tests than children without TVs in their bedrooms.

Having a computer in the home was associated with higher test scores, according to the same study, which was

conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Stanford University. The

study is published in the July 4, 2005, edition of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.

“In this study, we found that the household media environment was related to a child’s academic achievement,” said

Dina Borzekowski, EdD, lead author of the study and assistant professor in the Department of Population and

Family Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Among these third graders, we saw that even

when allowing for the parents’ education level, the child’s gender and the amount of media used per week, those

who had bedroom TV sets scored around 8 points lower on math and language arts tests and 7 points lower on

reading tests. A home computer showed the opposite relationship—children with access to a home computer had

scores that were around 6 points higher on the math and the language arts test and 4 points higher on the reading

test, controlling for the same variables.”

The study followed a diverse group of third-grade students from six schools in northern California. During the

course of a school year, nearly 400 students and their parents were asked to report on the types of media available in

the home, including television, videotapes, computers and video games, as well as how often the child used them.

The children’s math, reading and language arts skills were tested twice over the year using the Stanford

Achievement Test.

Overall, children who had a television set in the bedroom but did not have a computer at home scored the lowest,

while students without TV in the bedroom but with access to a computer at home scored the highest. Students who

gained a television in the bedroom over the course of the school year scored lower in all areas than those who had

their TV taken away during the same period. The researchers did not find a consistent negative association between

test scores and the amount of television watched per week.

“Educators and parents are looking for ways to improve children’s standardized test scores. This study suggests that

something as logical and straightforward as taking TV sets out of kids’ bedrooms, or not putting them there in the

first place, may be a solution,” said the co-author of the study, Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH, an associate

professor of pediatrics and medicine at Stanford University and director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Lucile

Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. “While this study does not prove that bedroom TV sets caused the lower

test scores, it adds to accumulating data that kids shouldn’t have TVs in their bedrooms. It also suggests that

investing in a home computer for a child to use may be an additional strategy to help your child’s test scores. The

best combination was having both: no TV in the bedroom and also a home computer to use.”

Children are usually tired after school and might look forward to bedtime from about 7.30pm. Your

child needs about 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night. Some children fall asleep very quickly; others

sleep lightly at first, moving and fidgeting before settling into a deep sleep.

While every child is different and the way they sleep will be different as well, in most children the first

half of the night is made up of deep sleep. Closer towards morning their sleep will change to a lighter

sleep, making it easier to wake them up.

-Positive habits and routines will assist children to feel sleepy and ready for bed at the right time.

-Getting a good night’s sleep helps your child stay settled, healthy, happy and ready for school the

next day.

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