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Learning, Growing, Achieving Together Newsletter: Issue 9

Issue Date: 24th May 2019

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OUR COMMUNITY IS COMMITTED TO LEARNING

Thank you to all of our families and friends who visited last Thursday morning during Open MORNING.

Congratulations to our choir – great job! WELL DONE!

Thank you Ms Somerville!

WE LOVE READING AT FPS!

How can you help?

listen to your child read for 10 minutes every night

practise individual spelling words

practise any tricky words before and after reading

play concentration games with individual spelling words

always be encouraging and focus on improvement and on having a growth mindset

model and value reading in everyday life

talk about the beginning the middle and the end of the story

talk about what might happen next

explore ‘what if…..’ scenarios

talk about stories written by the same author

reading together is a fun time – especially when it’s the last thing you do together before bed HAPPY READING!

Public Holiday

Monday 10 JUNE is the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. Students are not required to attend school on this day.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in Friday’s Bayswater District Cross Country. We achieved

many personal bests – good work team!

Student Attitudes to School Survey

Students from years 4 to 6 will give us their opinions about school this week when they complete the

survey online. The results help us to understand how these students are feeling and to look at ways we

can continue to improve across the school.

All responses remain confidential.

Good-bye good luck and thank you!

Congratulations to Mrs. Ebony WALDRON who has accepted a fixed term teaching positon at a local

government Primary School. Mrs. Waldron’s last day at Fairhills PS for 2019 is tomorrow, Tuesday 28

May. She will be returning to Fairhills PS in 2020.

Keep well

Moi



News Junior News

We have been busy over the last two weeks with the Cancer Council Big Morning tea, Education Week and harvesting some of the plants from our class gardens (see pictures below).

Reading: In Prep we are heading into the Jolly Phonics sound home straight! We have learned all our single letter sounds and are moving into the last digraphs and vowel blends. It is really important that you continue to build a good home routine for practising sounds, word lists and reading take home books. The Grade 1s and 2s have been using ‘Flippy Dolphin’ to flip the sounds in unknown words and ‘Back up Bear’ to back up and reread when we notice we are losing focus. We are also currently assessing all students for their reading levels for the Term 2 reports.

Writing: In writing, the Preps are building our confidence to apply the letter sounds we are learning to the words we want to write. We are continuing to work hard on our pencil grip and letter formation. The Grade 1/2s have continued writing narrative stories. They have been practising the use of connectives to join their sentences and adjectives to make their writing more interesting. The students’ latest writing piece has been about their very own monsters!



News Mathematics: Preps in the last fortnight have been concentrating on ordinal numbers, different ways of representing numbers to ten and reviewing location words. It’s really important that the students can not only orally count objects, but make, count and compare groups, as well as recognise number symbols. In Grade 1 and 2 the focus had been on adding numbers by using double and near double facts to help them. The students are also learning to read and interpret data. They have been interpreting their own and other types of data including, bar graphs, tables and picture graphs.

Reminders: Chesterfield Farm: Our excursion to Chesterfield Farm is on Wednesday 12th of June and permission forms need to be back before then. Celebrations:

o Congratulations to 1/2C for earning their class prize for the second time this year! o Thank you to the parents who came to visit their child’s class on the School Open Day - it was a

great morning!



News 'We have been learning how to write narratives in writing. We have been trying to include 'sizzling starts' and 'endings with an impact.' We have also tried to include 'Wow' words to engage the readers. Here is a story by Lily P in Grade 1/2 TS.

Lily’s Tooth

“Oh My!” Cried Lily. “My clean, white tooth is so wobbly that I can bend it backwards and forwards!” Then Mum asked Lily, “Can you please stop touching it? Please?”

“OK!” replied Lily. Suddenly, Lily’s tooth fell out. She was very excited. Her mum was very relieved.

Lily put her tooth under her pillow that dark night. Later the Tooth Fairy couldn’t find the tooth.

Lily woke up in the morning and for an hour Lily Freaked out. “My tooth fell out of my red and blue bed. Where has my tooth gone? Do you mean? Oh wait. I found my tooth!”

The next morning Lily woke up with two dollars from the amazing Tooth Fairy. “Thank you so very much Tooth Fairy.” Lily said.

“You’re welcome!” The Tooth Fairy said quietly in Tooth Fairy Land.

Have a great fortnight! Mr Clarke, Ms Hayes, Ms Tampaline and Mrs Smith



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Teaching our Boys to Respect Women by Dr Justin Coulson Dr Justin Coulson is one of Australia’s most respected and popular parenting authors and speakers. He is sought after for his expertise in family life, relationships, and wellbeing and resilience. This is a very interesting and thought provoking article about how we teach boys to respect all women. I highly recommend all families should read this. https://www.justincoulson.com/respectwomen/ Stuart Beever

Bully poster: When addressing your child’s concerns around an issue that may have occurred at home or at school, this poster might be a useful tool to use. We have begun using it to educate our students and families around the topic of bullying. We encourage you to review it with your child.

https://www.justincoulson.com/respectwomen/



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Yarra Valley Psychology You may not know but Yarra Valley Psychology works with students from our school, at our school. Their website says: ‘The friendly and experienced psychologists at YVP provide a safe place to hear

your young person’s concerns. They can help them decide if they would like

anything to be different in their life and how this might happen. There is no

pressure to speak about things that they are not ready to talk about or to make any

changes they don’t want to make. Psychology & Counselling involves many

techniques to help them when they are facing difficult times.’

If this is a service you require or may need in the future, please visit their website or contact our office.

https://www.yvp.com.au/

Enrolments: After the recent popular success of our Prep Information Night, Open Day and regular school tours, it is now time to confirm your child’s enrolment for 2020. We kindly request you return your enrolment forms before the end of term 2. Please pick up a form from the office.

Thank you A massive thank you to our PFA members and all the volunteers who made our Election BBQ a success! We couldn't have done it without you!

https://www.yvp.com.au/



News Student of the week awards- Congratulations to all our achievers

17th May 24th May

PH

Temperance For always giving her personal best effort and showing a positive attitude to all learning tasks

PH Jobe For displaying the STARR Value of Responsibility magnificently during his week as line leader.

1/2T

Will For showing great bravery and resilience during break time

1/2T Izaiah For showing great co-operation and turn taking on power point.

1/2C

Khloe For making an improvement with her Jolly Phonics sounds

1/2C Jack For an excellent effort in his Maths!

3/4H

Jaime For concentrating on her goals and working hard during class time.

3/4H Cruz For trying his best during every writing challenge.

4/5L

Lian For his enthusiasm and his super organisation. He is always ready to learn. Terrific effort!

4/5L Charlee For her willingness to take on challenges, especially in her maths. Well Done!

5/6W

Lillian For an excellent effort at House Athletics and for always trying her best & demonstrating all STARR Values. Fantastic Work!

5/6W Josh For always having such a happy and positive attitude and always demonstrating the STARR Values. Brilliant Effort!

P.E.

Tylisha For being an exceptional leader, volunteer and class member!

P.E. Hudson For showing enthusiasm and resilience during our mini cross country. Well done Hudson for not giving up!



News Senior News

Maths: This week for Maths the students have been working though some very tricky place value problems: from decimal place conundrums to multiple set fraction equations. Some of the students have also been playing games like Greedy Pig and Buzz to practise their skills, as well as doing a lot of computations in their maths books.

Reading: In Reading this week we have been searching for ‘Cause and Effect’ as a part of our CAFÉ reading focus. This has been a fun topic to cover as it is not only about what happens and what effect different events have in a text, but also what this can mean in real life. It has been fun finding examples of this at school. For example, the cause is the students ran really well at District Cross Country and the effect was the students were very happy and tired.



News Writing: In writing this week we have been looking at different forms of persuasive writing- from advertising vocabulary to debating skills. Students have even been writing their first job applications! Our persuasive language has come a long way this year and it is great to hear that students are starting to use it when they speak… even when trying to persuade their teachers in the classroom that they need a whole class reward! Homework Fun: It is great to see so many students trying really hard to answer maths questions, practise their spelling words at home and bring their homework book in every Friday. Some of the effort that students are making with their at home work is really starting to impact on their achievements at school. At Fairhills Primary we use homework to support student learning that is occurring in the classrooms, but also to help students develop the organisational skills that will assist them in their future. If a student is unable to bring in their homework or their reading diary, we offer Homework club and Reading Club which gives them the opportunity to complete their tasks and to feel confident in their achievements.



News Music Lessons at School

We are participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program again this year. Stickers can be collected in stores from 1st May until 25th June 2019. Let’s collect those stickers and get some great new resources for Fairhills Primary School! Sticker Sheets are available at the office!



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PFA

What a great term we have had. Thank you to those that donated to our Mother’s Day raffle. Hope you all enjoyed the breakfast and Mother’s Day. Our Election BBQ was a great success. Thank you to those that helped out on the day and also to those that came and supported the school by buying a sausage. Our Billy G’s cookie dough fundraiser has finished and was very successful. We sold 176 tubs of Cookie Dough! Thank you to everyone for supporting this fundraiser. Delivery should be around the 4th June. Our upcoming event is a Movie Day, which will be Toy Story 4. This will be held on Saturday 22nd June. Notices for this event will be coming out soon! Thank you all again for your support! Marcia PFA President

Calendar Dates School Information

May

29th –School banking

June

4th –School Council Meeting 5th -School banking 7th – Assembly 12th- Prep- 2 Farm Excursion 10th- QUEENS BIRTHDAY-PUBLIC HOLIDAY-NO STUDENTS REQUIRED AT SCHOOL

Principal: Moi Beaurain Leading Teacher: Stuart Beever School Council President: Lisa Williams Parents and Friends (PFA) President: Marcia Ockwell Phone: 9758 3007 Email: [email protected] Absence notification: via Compass Parent portal or by phone. (This must occur prior to 9.30am on the day of a child’s absence) Office Hours: for communication, payments and enquiries. Monday: 8.30am-4.00pm Tuesday: 8.30am-3.00pm Wednesday: 8.30am-3.00pm Thursday: 8.30am-3.00pm Friday: 8.30am-4.00pm

mailto:[email protected]



News Fairhills getting involved

Location 139 Boronia Road, Boronia Victoria 3155 Bread tags come in many shapes, sizes and colours. Made of high impact polystyrene, they have a good recycling value. It takes 200kg of tags to bring in enough money to buy a wheelchair. Mary Honeybun founded the organisation in Cape Town in 2006. From these bread tags, they recycle the tags and use the money to purchase 2 to 3 wheelchairs to adults and children around South Africa every month! Having a wheelchair gives the recipient independence and mobility and this makes a big difference to their lives and their families. Collecting bread tags, even broken ones, makes a difference to our environment too as they are recycled into seedling trays, picture frames, coat hangers and other items. We can collect our bread tags here at school and Mrs Smith will drop them off at the ‘Here and There Makers’ shop in Boronia. Or you can drop of your collection of bread tags directly to the ‘Here and There Makers’ shop in Boronia. Either way, let’s do good for people & our planet.



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