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SLETTER FOUNDATION STUDENTS INFORMATION

SESSIONS - 2018 ENROLMENTS Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th June will be our Open Mornings for Foundation students commencing school in 2018. This year we will also be hosting an afternoon information session on Wednesday 14th June from 4-6pm. Could current parents with students starting in 2018 please collect an enrolment pack from the office. If you know of any families who would be interested in a tour of the school, please contact the Office. All enrolments are accepted now.

PARENT/TEACHER DISCUSSIONS The Parent Teacher Discussions will be held in the last week of this term as part of our reporting to parents on student achievement. Parents will receive Student Reports on Monday 26th June and then attend Parent Teacher Discussions on Thursday 29th June between 9.00am and 5.00pm. Parents will be able to access the student Digital Portfolios too. All children will be required to attend school on this day. Parents can access the SENTRAL parent portal at school prior to your discussion time, we encourage all parents that would like to do this to arrive approx. 30 minutes earlier, and come to the staffroom to log on and have a look.

OUR JAPANESE INTERN HAS ARRIVED! Ryota Uezato - Ryo - started at NPS yesterday. He is very excited about getting to know all the students! Yesterday he had fun with the students playing soccer at recess. We look forward to having Ryo at NPS.

Principal Ms Annette Sutherland Business Manager Mrs Rachel Hammond School Council President Mrs Nicki Kimm

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NEWSLETTER CONTENTS

Principal Notes ..1 Student Awards ..2 Curriculum Corner ..4 School Organisation ..5 Calendar ..8

Bloomfield Road, Nilma 3821 Telephone: (03)56232963 Email: nilma.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.nilmaps.vic.edu.au

NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Principal Notes

PUBLIC HOLIDAY NEXT MONDAY

12TH JUNE NO SCHOOL!

THANK YOU TO OUR DIARY SPONSOR

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R.E.A.L STUDENTS @ NILMA Learner of the Week

Recognitions Homegroup 1/F Red

Lucinda Salsbury-Challons For the fantastic effort you put into your

learning. You listen well, try hard and help others. Keep it up Luci!

Homegroup 2 Green Mrs Hodge

For the determination you have shown when learning new things. You have

strived to improve your ability with ICT and when supporting individual students

with the REAL Reading Program. Well done Mrs Hodge!

Homegroup 4/3 Blue Shila Bundle

For the cheerful and positive way you approach all your learning tasks. You are prepared to challenge yourself and follow

learning tasks through to achieve your best. A REAL Visible Learner!

Well done Shila!

Homegroup 6/5/4 Yellow Matilda Dent

For your attitude and approach to your Mysterious Door narrative. You are

writing like a true author, thinking about how to improve your story, add detail and make your story more engaging. Can't wait to see the finish product!

L.A.U.G.H Program Learning Activities Under

Guidance of Home NIGHTLY READING

25 Nights Bailey-Jack Christoph

50 Nights Zavier Allsopp, Teylah Lott

Deklan Majcherzak, Kaleb Majcherzak 75 Nights

Savannah Salsbury-Challons, Finnigan Young Jessie McCabe, Beth Axford, Kael Deane

100 Nights Jasmine Cane 125 Nights

Sheree Casey-Wilson, Will Cane Isobella Salsbury-Challons

PLAYGROUND AWARDS

Winners

Charlotte Goodchild

Elizabeth Dalrymple

Jade Mammolito

Robbie Kurray

Patrick Dalrymple

Robbie Kurray

STUDENT LEARNING @ NILMA

PREMIER’S READING

CHALLENGE

Keep up the great effort everyone.

We have several children with only a few books to go!

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HOMEGROUP HAPPENINGS!

Curriculum Corner This past fortnight, we have been focusing on the V in VCOP- Vocabulary. Students have worked hard to not only be detectives, but be word smiths; finding interesting words in their own work, in other texts, alongside ways they can "up-level" their vocabulary (especially by using more interesting synonyms). As students read, they note 'WOW words' on a special bookmark, here is a sample of what they've found:

Gruesome, abruptly, irritatingly (Matilda)

Hysterics, delightful, suspended, magnificent (Bailey S)

Anarchic, goggling, excruciating, vivid, comatose (Isobella)

This term our whole school literacy

focus has been on narrative writing and VCOP -Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. The students have been a part of some explicit teaching lessons focused on these topics. Students have been working hard to remember the different names of punctuation, identify WOW words (new and interesting words) in the

books we have been reading and learning about connective words. Next week we start our focus on ‘Ollie Opener’ a character from our VCOP whose focus is on exciting openers in sentences and stories. If you hear you student talking about this at home, praise them and ask them to explain their thinking. You can even work with them to identify punctuation, WOW words and connective words in their take home books. We are looking forward to learning about the last area of VCOP over the next two weeks.

Home Group - 6/5/4 -

Lemon Yellow

Chemical Science

Students in the Green Home Group have been investigating the properties of food this semester. They have observed how heating

and/or cooling affects the properties.

Home Group - 2 -

Emerald Green

Home Group - 1/F -

Ruby Red

Kitchen Garden Last Thursday we cooked in the

Kitchen Garden and our menu

was; Gnocchi with Butter and

Sage Sauce, Kale Chips, Tomato

and Basil Pizza and Salad of the

Imagination.

By Deklan and Natasha

Home Group - 4/3 -

Aqua Blue

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STUDENT REPORTING

SENTRAL—NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL Student Reporting system information for parents to access the Sentral Reporting system. All parents will receive a unique password in an envelope next week. The instructions to access the portal are on page 5 of the newsletter. The Sentral reporting system will keep parents up to date with student absences, newsletters and general information regarding Nilma PS. Should you have any queries regarding the access to this portal, please contact the Office. Over the coming weeks we will have several computers available for parents to use. We have lots of parents at school early and would welcome parents to come into the staff room and be shown how to access your child’s portfolio and reports.

STUDENT LEAD CONVERSATIONS ON LEARNING—PORTFOLIO SHARING TIME This year students will also be encouraging students to take a part in the reporting to parents on student achievement process. Parents will be encouraged to come to school on the parent teacher discussion day 15-30 minutes early so that children will be able to access the school SENTRAL information with parents to view their portfolio pieces and have a discussion with their parents on what they have been able to achieve. This will be a new component of our reporting process and we hope this will also support parents to take time to celebrate the achievements of their children. These portfolios will grow as we learn to utilise the SENTRAL system to full capacity. Ms Berkelmans will be on hand in the open learning area to support this new process.

PARENT/TEACHER DISCUSSIONS The Parent Teacher Discussions will be held in the last week of this term as part of our reporting to parents on student achievement. Parents will receive Student Reports on Monday 26th June and then attend Parent Teacher Discussions on Thursday 29th June between 9.00am and 5.00pm. Parents will be able to access the student Digital Portfolios too. All children will be required to attend school on this day. KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO COME IN UP TO 30 MINUTES EARLIER than your appointment time—So as to be able to access your child/rens portfolio/s and celebrate achievements in learning. The booking form that was sent home with last weeks newsletter will need to be returned by Thursday 15th June. Confirmation of times will be sent back to parents on Thursday 22nd June . If you require a new booking form please contact the Office.

MATHEMATICS

MATHLETICS From May 16 to June 16 students have been signed up to Mathletics. Students have the opportunity to complete Mathematics activities for home learning. Mathletics has a full set of curriculum-aligned activities covering all topics and themes of mathematics covered throughout primary school. Students can test their skills in a live online maths game and compete against others from right across the world. Mathletics individual user name and password can be found in the each student’s diary.

OPEN END MATHS TASKS The Ruby Red students have recently participated in open-ended maths tasks. Rather than maths concepts and problems with only fixed answers, students are exposed to tasks that involve many correct answers, solved in a variety of ways. ‘When you look out the window you see 20 legs! What do you see?’ Was the recent task where students could use any combination of animals or insects to get a total number of twenty legs.

CURRICULUM CORNER

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SCHOOL ORGANISATION HEALTH AND PYHSICAL EDUCATION NEWS

WINTER SPORT FINAL WINTER SPORT IS THIS FRIDAY

9TH JUNE. PLEASE ENSURE ALL MONIES ARE BROUGHT ON THIS DAY

If you’re unsure what you owe please see the office or your homegroup teacher.

The costs involved are: Netball—no cost Ten-pin bowling—$5.00 Croquet—$3.00 Snorkelling—$5.00 Badminton —$4.00 Cheerleading—$5.00 Lawn bowls—$2.00 Minor Games –no cost Basketball—no cost

WEST GIPPSLAND RURAL SCHOOL SPORTS ASSOCIATION (WGRSSA) DIVISION FOOTBALL & NETBALL Students in years 5 & 6 have nominated

themselves to try out for the WGRSSA Football and Netball teams. Nilma students will join with students from Darnum, Ellinbank and Bona Vista to form the teams. The Division Sports Round Robin is

on the 22nd June (This is when our District plays against schools representing other West Gippsland Districts. Venues not yet confirmed). A training/

organising session was held on June 5, and students will play a challenge game against Buln Buln PS (at Buln Buln Rec Reserve on Wednesday June 14). Students that have been selected to represent the WGRSSA team are; Emma Crook, Meg Devlin, Daniel Axford, Zavier Allsopp, Ashton Kimm and Aiden Olsson. More information will be given to students closer to the date/s.

SCHOOL NURSE - HEALTH CHECK UPS A new school nurse has recently been appointed to our area. Sarah, our new nurse, we be visiting Nilma on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th June to meet with the foundation students as part of the school nursing program. This program is also available to all students, if you would like the school nurse to complete a health check - eyes, ears and general health - please see the Office for the appropriate forms to be completed as soon as possible.

SCHOOL PRODUCTION NEWS White t-shirts are available for purchase for the School Production. Each child requires a t-shirt for tie-dying in Visual Arts. Payment is needed to secure your child's t-shirt, with limited numbers of each size available. Please see the Office with your $3 and the size needed. Thank you, Mrs Buckler.

SUSTAINABILITY TIP OF THE WEEK - COMMIT TO USING 20% LESS WATER PER MONTH

SCHOOL COMMUNICATION - EMAIL

Nilma PS is investigating different ways to continue to effectively communicate with families. One method we are introducing over the next semester is by email. NPS is also conducting a parent survey which will be given to families in the form of a link, to be completed online. This link will be sent to families via the email address that you provide to us. We understand that not all families have access to an email address and we will continue to provide them with the current form/s of communication methods with you.

Please fill out the form below and return to school by Wednesday 13th June.

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SCHOOL COMMUNICATION - EMAIL

Family Name ____________________________________________________________________________

Email Address ___________________________________________________________________________

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Signed __________________________________________________ Date _____________________

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Chaplain’s Chat No. 68

Last week I wrote about the 5 ways that children (and adults) understand and receive love- through physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, gifts and acts of service.

The first one, physical touch, refers to any kind of physical contact we have with our children – from hugging and kissing to a gentle touch on the back, arm or shoulder. Physical touch is one of love’s strongest voices, so all children need this expression of love.

Research studies over many years have found that babies who are held, hugged and kissed, develop a healthier emotional life than those who don’t have this experience. You may remember that each time you picked up your baby the way he or she snuggled their head against your shoulder and even patted you in return. It’s wonderful for both of you.

For some children physical touch is their most important love language – it really fills up their emotional tanks. Next week we’ll look at ways to let your child/ren experience love through touch.

Mrs P.

COMMUNITY NEWS

CHAPLAIN’S CHAT

Thanks to Graeme Cameron Cabinetmaker for donating some extra shelving to Nilma so we can store our games more effectively.

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Students across the school participated in a ‘Mindfulness Morning’ at NPS on Friday 26th May as part of our Education Week celebrations. The morning started with a healthy breakfast for all homegroups, then students participated in a range of activities including yoga, meditation and a colouring in competition. We were lucky enough to have the Warragul Gazette come and visit us on the morning of the 26th and we have had a feature article in this weeks Gazette! (Tuesday 6th June 2017 - page 39) Thank you to Mrs Evans for coordinating the event - it was a very relaxing and enjoyable morning!

MINDFULNESS MORNING @ NILMA

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Breakfast Club

Open School Morning and Afternoon

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WGRSSA Football/Netball Round

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Student Reports

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School Banking

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Parent Teacher

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NILMA PRIMARY SCHOOL CALENDAR

Issue 17 – 08/06/2017

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