Newsletter Drouin West Primary School

'Nurture, Enrich, Inspire, Succeed'

Issue 7/13 Hours of supervision: 8.45am—3.45pm 20th March, 2013

P.O. Box 176 Phone: 03 56 251971 535 Main Neerim Road

Drouin 3818 Fax: 03 56 252175 Drouin West 3818

Email: drouin.west.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Mondays Lunch orders and Student Banking

Tuesday March 26th Final session of Active After School Communities

Martial Arts will be held at Warragul from 4.30-5.30pm at Factory 4,

133 North Road. (This is near Chilli Cycles)

Thursday March 28th Last day of term 1, 2.30PM finish

Monday April 15th First day of term 2

Friday April 19th Debriefing Morning Tea for Fair Committee/Team helpers. 9am in the multipurpose room.

District Athletics—students will be notified in term 2 if they are part of the District Athletics team.

IMPORTANT DATES AND EVENTS TO REMEMBER:

Gymnastics (Wednesdays) Year levels: P-2 Coach: Leanne Richuss Time: 3.15-4.15 Venue: Multi Purpose Room

Hockey (Tuesdays)

Year levels: 2-6 Coach:Aubrey Gayland Time: 3.15-4.15 Venue: Undercover Area

Sports News

Are you interested in Hoop Time (Basketball)?

Expressions of interest for Hoop Time in 2013

(grades 3 to 6) are now being taken.

Parents will be notified of the cost involved

when numbers are finalised.

If you are interested please let Mr. Dawson know.

You do not need to have basketball experience.

From The Principal’s Office

From the Art Room

RECORDER PERFORMANCE

The legendary recorder students will be performing

for you next Wednesday, 27th March in the

Multipurpose room at 2.55pm.

SCHOOL COMMUNITY ART PROJECT

Please get involved in a Community Arts Project!

We have been invited to decorate a bike with threads

and textiles to be displayed in Warragul as part of

the Gippsland Arts Festival in May.

If you have any pieces of knitting, weaving or

sewing which you could spare to decorate our bike,

they would be appreciated. If you come across

knitted socks, gloves, scarves or other suitable items

in the Op Shop they would be great. Perhaps you

could spend some time during the holidays making

pom poms, tassels, rope or finger knitting.

Drouin West School Fair- Congratulations to all

those involved!

The Fair was by all accounts, an amazing success on

Sunday. This is not a surprise given a year of planning

and the many voluntary hours from an amazing team of

parents at Drouin West. My heartfelt thanks to those

who contributed in any way to making this event a

success.

I was so very proud of everyone’s efforts leading up to

and during this major school event. The positive culture

of our school reflected in our 4 B’s continues to be

positive and is reflected in the comments and feedback

from the hundreds of visitors to our school during the

fair.

It is important for those who were involved in the

organisation to reflect on how things transpired so we

can celebrate the successes and refine the things that

could be improved should there be any future events.

All those involved, who are able to attend a debriefing

meeting, are invited to come to the Multi Purpose

Room on Friday April 19 at 9.00am for morning tea.

Active After School Communities

Students who have been involved in the

Martial Arts sessions each Tuesday are

reminded that the final session

(Tuesday March 26) will be held in

Warragul from 4.30-5.30pm at Factory

4, 133 North Road. (This is near Chilli

Cycles) Parents will be responsible for

arranging their own transport to the venue.

Plans for term two have been finalised and parents are

welcome to contact the office to have their child

participate. All new students participating in AASC

programs need to be registered. Registration forms are

available from Ann in the office.

Students are provided with a healthy snack and are

asked to bring along a drink bottle each week. End of term 1 arrangements next week Thursday 28th March is the last day of Term 1. Assembly will start at 2.15pm Students will be dismissed at 2.30 pm.

School Website

Have you missed the newsletter? Do you want

information about the school? Please take the time to

visit: www.drouinwest.vic.edu.au

Science News Next week in science all grades will have the opportunity

to build something using the various items in the science

room.

It would be fantastic if all children could bring two or

three items from home which they could use for this activ-

ity.

Some suggestions for items which would be useful are

cardboard boxes (any size), polystyrene, bottle tops (any

size, plastic and metal), egg cartons, corks, bubble wrap

and cardboard tubes (not toilet rolls).

Grade 4 upwards could bring scraps of timber. We have

hammers and nails for the children to use.

Thank you to all the families who have been sending

items along this term. Please keep sending these as they

are greatly appreciated.

Marion Proctor

Income and invoices are

still being processed.

Please watch this notice

for the final profit from

the Fair. Estimated to be

between $5,000 and

$6,000

2012 Balance

PrepA Jett Hansen

Prep/1A Mia Wade

1/2A Daniel Giles

2/3A Ryan Giles

3/4A Joshua Hall

4/5A Brodie Carter

5/6A Hudson Couacaud

Super ‘B’ Award Winners Super ‘B’ award winners for week 6, term 1:

Joke of the Week

Did you hear about the reformed koala?

It turned over a new leaf.

Wanted Dear Parents / Guardians,

We are desperately in need of art smocks. If you have old shirts or old tops that you no

longer need, please donate them to the art room.

As we are turning the tops into art smocks, please

ensure there are no holes and that the tops are

clean. Please deliver them to Mrs Cope or leave them at

the office.

Thank you,

Mrs Cope

Drouin West Primary School would like

to thank our generous sponsors

J H Cuthberson 5625 1504 Drouin Dental Clinic 5625 1718

Drouin Commercial Printers 5625 1526 Drouin Motors 5625 3281

Home Grown Designs 0419 501 522

Gippsland Vacuums 5625 5065

Drouin Signs 5625 1043 The Coffee Pod 0419 992 812

Bizzy Box 0404 097 935

B&B Automotive 5625 2350 Jacksons on Albert. 5625 5004

Bakers Bean Café 5625 3731 John Mc Donough Hair-dressing

5625 1278

BB Beaute 0433 413 567 Kim’s Kitchen 5625 2626

Bijay’s International Cuisine 5625 5993 Kwick Kerb by Dodge 0414 363 439

B J Bearings Warragul 5623 5444 Larson’s Jewellers 5625 5311

Boomtown Pets 5625 5660 Leading Edge Video 5625 2277

Burrows Newsagency 5625 1614 Luciano’s Restaurant and Bar

5625 5211

Burson Auto Parts (Warragul) 5623 5711 Meekii 5625 3922

Changing Seasons Gifts 5625 5011 Mensland 5625 1567

Chumba Concept Hair Salon 5625 5535 Nick’s Bakehouse 5625 1757

Coles Supermarket 5625 1004 Party Lite Candles 0421 469 083

D-Design Hairdressing 5625 3399 Peter Williams Real Es-tate

5625 3911

Di Grandi’s Butchers 5625 2244 Pulse Café and Pizza 5625 4100

Down to Earth 5625 5166 Put a Hole In It Piecing 0410 036 924

Drouin Amcal Pharmacy 5625 1659 Robin Hood Hotel 5625 4884

Drouin Bakery and Café 5625 5032 Royal Hotel Drouin 5625 1620

Drouin Golf & Country Club 5625 1330 Scrap 2 Relax 5625 3334

Drouin Gourmet Café 5625 2255 Sophistakutz 5625 1492

Drouin Hardware Plus 5625 4448 Supreme Tuning 5629 9321

Drouin Mowers and Chainsaws 0477 408 876 The Drouin Family Hotel 5625 2066

Drouin Nails and Beauty 5625 5988 The French Pear Café 5625 4383

Drouin Vet Clinic 5625 1243 TNT Auto Parts 5625 2777

Drouin Waste Recyclers 5625 5252 Tony Pisa Motors 5625 3339

Gippsland Bulk Spreaders 5625 2637 Toyworld (Warragul) 5623 2215

Gippsland Country Outfitters 5625 5403 VIP Packaging 0408 364 466

Geppettos Italian Restaurant 0432 657 938

Westpac Bank Drouin 5625 0700

Gumbuya Park 5629 2395 Williamsons Real Estate 5625 1342

Home Hardware Drouin 5625 2955 Woolworths Drouin 5625 1078

Many thanks to those community groups who offered such fabulous support.

Drouin West CFA

Drouin Rotary Club

The Seventh Day Adventist Church - Warragul

Chaplain’s News

Hi everyone! Thank-you to all of the amazing school community who helped out at the Fair on Sunday. To the very hard working

fete committee, the sponsors, the people who helped advertise, cook, collect tickets, donate goods and to those who

brought family and friends along, thank-you. We were blessed with great weather. It always takes hours of work to run

an event like this and that old saying of many hands make light work really did apply. It was a lovely day.

I hope you enjoy this poignant little story and funny quote which I found on the website, “energize especially for

leaders of volunteers” which really does celebrate our wonderful

volunteers.

One day an elephant saw a hummingbird lying on its back with its

tiny feet up in the air.

"What are you doing?" asked the elephant. The hummingbird replied,

"I heard that the sky might fall today, and so I am ready to help hold

it up, should it fall."

The elephant laughed cruelly. "Do you really

think, that those tiny feet could help hold up the

sky?"

The hummingbird kept his feet up in the air, intent

on his purpose, as he replied, "Not alone. But each

must do what he can. And this is what I can do."

--Chinese Parable

Here is a very funny quote...

“Noah's Ark was built by volunteers; the Titanic was built by professionals.” Submitted on 8 September 2004 by Dave Gynn, Coleman Professional Services, Ohio.

Take Care everyone!

Wendy Ronalds (Tuesday/Wednesday)

Acknowledgement: National School Chaplaincy and Student Welfare Program have been funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

Happy

Birthday !!!!!!! Happy birthday to the following student who celebrated their special day during the week of Monday, 18th March to Sunday, 24th March. Shelby Clara 1/2A

Don’t forget to come to the office and collect a birthday sticker.

Junior Youthgroup

First Term

For Ages 8 - 15

What: We are going to have a rippin’ youth group break up chilling by the pool with a tasty BBQ tea! All Welcome! Bring your family along as well! Time: 5pm - 8pm Cost: $5

March 22nd Pool Party & BBQ

For those who would like more information, you can contact Ashe Powell on 0466 633 665 or

Contact Us

Ashe Powell: 0466 633 665 Jeff Waller: 0458 898 278

Chris Waller: 0439 014 657