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Learning, Growing, Achieving Together Newsletter: Issue 18 Issue Date: 12th October2018

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Principal’s Message

And lastly……

Reading together- here are some handy hints to connect

speaking to reading:

talk about pictures in magazines, books and on flyers

talk about pictures that don’t have words and think up

words that would make sense - you can write them

down, write them backwards or make up words

together

re-read old favourites together

point out rhymes

make your own books

book talk:

o what will we read about?

o can you choose a just right book?

o look at the cover – what’s this book about?

o what’s happening in the pictures?

o how can we work out the tricky words?

o what’s going to happen next?

o what was your favourite part of the book?

o who was your favourite character?

o If you could change the ending what would it

be?

Happy talking and reading

Moi

Fourth term! WELCOME BACK EVERYONE!

Did you hear the words

‘I’m bored….. during the holidays?

Here’s something interesting about the beauty of ‘being

bored’……

Teach your child to take advantage from ‘being bored’

Children don’t need constant stimulation from adults, screens,

toys etc

Being bored is an opportunity for kids

To be creative

To learn about themselves

To reflect……

Sunsmart

Remember to slip! Slop! Slap!

to enjoy the sunshine without being hurt by it.

Students & Families leaving at the end of 2018:

If your child/ren IS / ARE NOT in the 2018 Year 6 group please

let the office staff know if you will not be at Fairhills in 2019.

This is REALLY important for our organisation of resources for

2019.


News Prep Transition Info Night

Don’t forget, for those who have enrolled their child for Prep in 2019, we have a Prep Transition

Information Night on Wednesday 17th October at 6.30pm. We look forward to seeing you there.

If you are yet to return your enrolment forms, please do so ASAP. 2019 is looking very exciting!

Division Athletics

Congratulations to the following students who made it through to the Division Athletics. They all

represented our school really well and all gave it their very best effort.

Lexi, Sam, Ryder, Lillian, Kailei, Tom, Mitchel J, Jakob, Harry, Luke, Ella, Tannah


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Calendar Dates School Information

October

17th Prep Information night School banking 19th CURRICULUM DAY-NO STUDENTS AT SCHOOL 22nd CURRICULUM DAY-NO STUDENTS AT SCHOOL 24th School banking 26th Assembly

Market Night 31st School banking

November

2nd Halloween Disco

Principal: Moi Beaurain Leading Teacher: Stuart Beever School Council President: Lisa Williams Parents and Friends (PFA) President: Alycia Mitchell 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

Our New Music Lesson Provider

Guitar and Piano Music Tuition….

NoiseCraft is very excited to be providing Guitar and Piano tuition to Fairhills Primary School starting Term 4 NoiseCraft have been providing music tuition to primary schools in your local area for 15 years. We pride ourselves in delivering an exciting, fun program that balances challenge with success and embrace a strong communication link between student, parent, teacher and school. With group lessons of only 2 children per class or private lessons, our instrumental music programs provide each child with an engaging experience based on an individualised learning plan. This includes learning to read music and recognising musical patterns as well as cooperative musicianship. Importantly children will learn music that is relevant to them, at a developmentally appropriate level in a fun, supportive environment balancing challenge and success.

Guitar and Piano Tuition Group Lessons (2 per class) $18 per 30min Lesson Private Lessons $28 per 30min lesson

To enrol phone 9737 1170 or Email [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


News Senior School News (3-6)

Reading Senior students have been working on the CAFÉ reading strategy: ‘Summarise text and include sequence of main events’. They have learnt that summarising is taking sections of text and pulling out the most important parts of what was read. Through a series of lessons (including making summaries of character traits) students have worked to remember, organise, and understand the importance of the information selected. Writing We have returned our focus to persuasive writing this week with a focus on the Seven Steps (Writing Program) strategy to ‘Plan for Success.’ This has involved students completing a sequence of lessons of planning a persuasive text from looking at modelled examples, to brainstorming main ideas, then writing their own ‘Sizzling Starts’ and ‘Ending with Impact.’ These lessons culminated in students completing their ‘Big Write’ (as per our VCOP Writing program schedule) on Thursday. Mathematics In Mathematics, students have focused on their understanding of data interpretation and representation. This has involved students generating their own data (through asking questions and surveys), as well as creating line, column and pie graphs. They have focused on the importance of asking specific questions to collect data. Footy Day/ Circus Performance 20th September:


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Our New Values: Achievement focus

At Fairhills, we care about Achievement and teaching students how to achieve great things socially, emotionally and academically both now and in the future. Below are some elaborations on what Achievement looks like in different contexts. We encourage you to explore these further with your child.

Achievement

As a Learner

I focus and try hard I am confident I think in different ways

Outside at Play I create new games I find solutions to problems together I use our environment to imagine

As a Friend I encourage others to get involved I celebrate others successes I show sportsmanship

Online I use my own ideas I try new things I use technology to show learning and express creativity


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

12th October

PrepE Ella

For working hard to hear sounds when writing.

Prep/1H

Lily

For being a conscientious and friendly student in P/H

2B

Alex

For making a great start to Term 4

3/4C

Devyn For a great start at Fairhills and 3/4C

4/5H

Riley For a fantastic beginning to his time at Fairhills P.S. Great stuff!

5/6W

Kailee For her wonderful persuasive piece ‘Reading books is better than watching television’

Art Tyson

For an outstanding effort in Art

Music Mace

For being very courteous in Music

PE Tom

For always showing respect to others and doing his best!


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Extra Information

Curriculum Days coming up

We have 2 school council approved pupil free curriculum days coming up in term 4- 19th and 22nd October. CHILDREN ARE NOT REQUIRED AT SHOOL ON THESE DAYS,

Sherpa Kids Open for Pupil Free days 7am-6pm Friday19th - Movie Day Monday 22nd - Arty Crafty Day Bookings need to be made before Thursday 18th October Booking forms can be collected from Sherpa- Kids For any further enquires please contact Kelly Holmes- 0414104105

Pick My Project

Thank you to those who voted for our recent community grant application for the Fairhills Primary Community Exercise

Precinct project. Unfortunately our project was not successful, with other projects receiving more votes from the

community. We received 123 votes, however the winning projects received over 300 votes. Because we rely heavily on

our community members to support this kind of idea, hopefully next time we can round up much more support and many

more votes!

We would like to encourage our community that together, we can achieve great things, but this does rely on all of us

contributing and supporting your child’s school and education. Whether it is a working bee, a performance, a homework

task, promotion of an event, a future grant opportunity, a program, your input and support has significant positive

impact on your child’s education. As our Vision Statement reminds us, we are here to Learn, Grow and Achieve Together.

Recent Letter Box Drop

Thank you so much for those who assisted in our recent letter box drop. Your support is greatly appreciated. On behalf of

the Fairhills Primary School community, thanks to:

The Brecht family

Sam K

Sarah J

Mrs McDonald

2019 Prep

Enrolment

Forms

Needed


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