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DATES TO REMEMBER:

2016

Sunday 19th June Working Bee– 9am-12pm Friday June 24th Last Day of Term 2:15pm Finish End of term Sausage Sizzle Busses will run 1 hour earlier Monday July 11th First Day Term 3 Attachments: Sausage Sizzle Order Form

Student of the Week

No. 18 June 17th 2016 www.drouinsouth.vic.edu.au

Congratulations to: Jye, Hannah, Cadence, Larissa, Charlie, Will,

Prudence, Raffi and Penny.

Student of the Week

Important Reminders

Grade 5/6C Class Page

JSC News

OSHC Advertisement

Miscellaneous Photos Order

Book Review by Emma

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Principal’s Report

Dear Parents

School Pride Drouin South Primary School is a great school and I am very proud to be the Principal of this

school. We have a supportive and caring school community made up of our students, parents and staff. I spoke at assembly yesterday about the ways that we can show pride in our school as this feeling of school pride is important for us to continue becoming even greater!

These ways of demonstrating pride included: 1. Always doing your best and being the best learner you can be. This is true for our students and also our staff who also value learning new ways of doing things.

2. Wearing the school uniform proudly. We wouldn’t be allowed to run onto a sports field wearing different colours to our team-mates and school is no different. It shows a sense of belonging and we have a really great, durable and affordable school uniform that should always be

worn proudly! 3. Looking after our school grounds. This means putting rubbish in the bins-not walking past papers if you see them.

4. Showing respect to others. Being respectful is the way we behave and the way we speak to other students, staff and community members. It means not using put-downs and using positive, encouraging language all the time when around others. It also means not accepting this from

others and reporting disrespectful behaviour when it occurs so that it can be followed up. As a Principal I try to model these behaviours daily and remind students about these ways of

showing pride. I encourage you as parents to discuss these with your child and help us to continue on the path to continual improvement.

Last Day of Term The end of term is fast approaching with the last day of Term 2 being next Friday 24th June. School finishes at 2.15pm and buses will run an hour earlier on that day.

Breakfast club Drouin South Primary School has been invited to participate in a new State Government initiative

called the School Breakfast Club Program. Schools in this program are provided food items free of charge through “Food Bank” and are able to run a breakfast club. We are in the process of setting this up at the moment and hope to begin our Breakfast Club early in Term 3.

Red Nose Day Next Friday we will be raising money for SIDS research by holding our own Red (Nose) Day.

Students and staff are encouraged to dress in red and bring along a gold coin donation. Half-Yearly Reports

Half Yearly reports are almost ready for printing and will be sent home during the middle of next week.

Working Bee A reminder that our Working Bee will be held this coming Sunday 19th June from 9.00am to

12.00pm. A sausage sizzle lunch will be provided for those that attend. The focus will be on tidying and pruning the front garden beds including the bus loop, outside the entry gate and inside along the front of the building. Tools required: spades, rakes, secateurs, hedge trimmer, whipper

snipper, barrows (for moving mulch), trailers for removing clippings. There is also a section of inside painting to be done—a coat of sealer possibly followed by a coat of paint if time permits! Anyone interested please bring brush, roller, paint tray (paint provided)! See you on Sunday.

Michael Smith—Principal

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JSC are making a colouring book. All students are invited to draw a

picture using a black Texta or pencil. JSC will then choose pictures and

make a colouring book. This will be sold for a few dollars in Term 3.

We look forward to seeing lots of creative pictures and designs!

Miscellaneous school photos are now on display at the front office.

Photos include School Captains, House Captains, Bus Captains,

KidsMatter Team,

Environmental Leaders and Junior School Council. To place an order

for any of these photos, please collect a form from the front office.

A pair of children’s glasses were handed into the school office on Wednesday. If you think these glasses may be yours or your child’s, come up to the office to

check! Thanks.

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On Friday the 10th of June, Ellie and Lauren did T-ball. Although we had a couple of disruptive kids that had to sit out it was pretty good. We had a funny

moment in nearly every group but the most memorable was when a child hit the

ball behind him. (No-one knows how he did it!) We helped some of the kids hitting the ball off the T if they were having trouble. With one group some of the

kids hit the ball from the discus cage to the sand pit where long jump was held.

(We can’t even hit it that far!) Ha-ha. We had two bats and two Ts so everyone

could have at least two or three hits in each rotation. One kid wanted to run and

get all the balls instead of us running back and forth, back and forth and so on.

One group in particular was extremely great at hitting the ball and not the T and they didn’t even need a demonstration and wow they were amazing! Overall we

had a great time and we wish that we could do T-ball again. Well, maybe not if

they try to hit us with the bats again! No throwing the ball at us either! Lauren and Ellie

PMP is an activity that you teach to

younger children. You pick an activity

(with a partner or by yourself) that you

will teach for the rest of the day to the

younger kids. My last group was

skipping; I did this activity with Eryn,

my best friend. The behaviour of the

kids was average. Sometimes the kids

would muck around and be a little

naughty but most of the kids just

wanted to do skipping. Some of the kids

did not know how to skip. We had to

teach them the skipping activities. Some

of the skipping activities we played

were; normal skipping, big skipping

rope, helicopter and skipping races.

There were some memorable times, like

when we did a skipping race and some

of the little kids beat me, just saying I’m

10 years old! Also when we were

playing helicopter Eryn was spinning

around holding the skipping rope she

got so dizzy that she fell over! Eryn, the

little kids and I all laughed, it was very

funny. By Emma5/6 C

On the 10th of June, 5/6C did PMP with the prep, ones and twos. We did skipping. We played helicopter, running races with the skipping ropes and on- the- spot

skipping. Many kids were behaving well; however… some kids didn’t listen to 11

year old girls; so what do you do if little kids don’t listen to you but don’t want to sit out either?

Don’t give them a closed question, for example if you don’t want no for an

answer!! If they didn’t want to sit out or participate in the activity you can ignore them and let them choose what they want to do.

If they didn’t want to join in let them do their own thing or let them go wild and

free. (Not our problem, it’s the teacher’s class. Right?) We were mostly happy about the behaviour from the kids from each group. It’s

good to be in the SUN!

Over all we had a great time, the kids made us laugh especially when they were

trying to do the running with the skipping ropes. Cadence and Laura .

Ben and Bryce did footy with the prep, ones and some twos; some preps did

not listen but we still had heaps of fun. The preps looked like they were

having heaps of fun and enjoying the activities. It was funny watching them

go after the ball and trying to kick a goal. The preps got distracted really

easily by everything around them. Ben and Bryce

This term all the 5/6 classes are doing an activity every third Friday with our buddies called PMP. On Friday

the 10th of June we did PMP with the little kids. Jay and Tamsyn did an obstacle course on the 4/5/6

playground. We taught the preps how to climb high and run fast. The fastest time by one of the preps was

Rory with 12.19 seconds! Congratulations to him!! The obstacle course is where you go up the sloped ladder,

over the bridge, through the tunnel, and down the slide to turn right and run to the finish line! Its sounds

simple but for the younger kids it was quite tricky. After all of the little kids had finished their run we let them

play on the playground, but we made sure they were making safe and good decisions. Some kids were making

disruptive and mischievous decisions so we had to make them sit out. We were split into groups of one and

two for each activity and all the children were split into groups with about five in each. The kids seemed to be

having lots of fun. We wish we could do the 4/5/6 playground obstacle course again.

By Jay & Tamsyn

On Friday the 10th last week, Maddie and Hailey taught the prep ones how to

play relays. A funny moment happened with a little boy who wouldn’t stop

asking questions till the end of the rotation. The kids didn’t really understand

the process of giving the baton to the kid ahead of them. A ball interrupted

our game and accidently hit a child in the face. She was very upset and didn’t

want to play anymore. We love doing sport with the prep ones because they

are cute and funny. A child would not listen and said that they didn’t want to

play, nor did they want to sit out. Looking back on it, it was quite funny.

Overall it was a good session with the prep ones. We had lots of fun with the

prep ones, but we had two groups at one activity, which then made it hard to

teach them altogether. Overall we loved helping. I also found when kids

don’t listen to you it interrupted the whole group. Hailey, Maddie and Chloe

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PMP is a fun chaotic event that happens every Friday with preps, 1s and 2s. It’s an opportunity to

bond with younger students in the school. Jada and Eryn had ladders last Friday. Ladders are a fun

activity were 2 ladders lay on the ground. Your goal is to copy each other and try to walk to the end

in a cool, fun way. Some children have a lot of fun and crack you up. Others misbehave and stir

people up. After all it’s a lot of fun. There are a lot of other ways to play, for example you can

bounce a ball inside the holes. You can also walk on the sides, walk on the steps and step in the

holes. You can also have races and see who wins. What happens, is if a child does not listen they

have to sit out; if they still don’t listen there’s a consequence. Children can be annoying and hide in

bag lockers. Hopefully next time we don’t see two bunnies and don’t get distracted. We can only

hope! The trouble last week was that groups were mixed up, and nobody knew what was going on.

Overall the whole time was enjoyable for everybody seniors and juniors. By Eryn and Jada 5\6C

PMP Challenge: throwing mini bean bags! OMG! Now I know what it feels to instruct grade P/1s!

Being so responsible for younger students can be quite a challenge, not to say that I

was doing it by myself. What you had to do was start by throwing a mini bean bag with a partner, then throwing to each other with 2 mini bean bags, which was the main

challenge. Then we did throwing to ourselves and threw it up and down, fitting in as

many claps as possible while it was in the air. Then we did another type of throw making it go under the leg, and then we tossed it up so we could catch it with the other hand. Some were

fantastic and some were having a bit of difficulty so I had to give them a bit of a hand.

There was a fair few issues such as; Not willing to participate

Not listening to instructions

Being rude Throwing mini bean bags onto the shade sail

It did get very difficult. One of the problems was that a kid was playing on the equipment when I

directly said that the equipment was out of bounds. Then when I finally persuaded the kid to have a go on throwing the mini bean bag, he was excellent. Then as soon as I told him he was fantastic he cracked

it and threw a couple of mini bean bags onto the shade sail which I was unable to get down. I then told

the student to stand on the side lines. Another issue was that there was a student who said that she didn’t want to participate and didn’t want to sit out!

I did have some really well behaved little kids that listened to me and was extremely polite. Those

students who were well behaved who should have given themselves a clap. The things some kids could pull off in free style were so unexpected in a great way, another congratulations to those students. I liked

the creative ideas and the encouragement the kids gave each other.

I liked getting the experience of being so responsible for younger kids. I found it was also so fun for me to start to know the grade p/1s. I found it so much easier than my 1st time when I was less experienced.

Next time I bet it will be easier again. My favourite part of PMP is spending time with the younger kids and getting to know them and their personality. I can’t wait to do PMP with the kids again!

By: Sharni 5/6C

On Friday the 10th of June I did birds nest with the prep/ones. It was not that hard because most the children know what to do but some children did not. I

chose to do birds nest mainly because I know how to do it, but with all the

others I think I would have to have some help, I also chose birds nest because it is a very simple and easy game and I remember all the rules. It was a bit

annoying because lots, and I mean lots of children did not listen on how to

play by the rules because you are only meant to pick or take ONE beanbag and because of that other children did not want to play the game.

RULES OF THE GAME: *You can only take one beanbag/ball at a time *You have a hoola hop as a nest; you can share or have one to yourself

*You need a big area to play. I found some bits of looking after the children

hard but because so many kids didn’t want to play and they didn’t want to sit

out so I didn’t know what to do. I also found it hard because I am used to

being with a partner, (Sharni) but I was alone because there was not enough

people to partner up with. Lots of children were not playing fairly because

they were not playing by the rules and then the children did not want to play.

I eventually had a group with only 2 people playing. But it eventually came

all together and I had a wonderful time. By Kelly

We adapted a game of poison ball where Ryan and Wade were the targets. When the game started we

ran for our lives. We found out the hard way what

games NOT to play. We survived (just) and the kids had fun and enjoyed playing. We didn’t have

enough time to explain the activity so we made it

simple. The game was where we ran for it and the kids attacked with the balls. Ryan was on the

ground half of the time. It was like the end of the

world. We mostly enjoyed ourselves because we ran until we almost dropped which we did as it was

good for the kids because they were active. They

did not want to leave so we were pretty happy to make the kids happy. Ryan and Wade

5/6c PMP CHALLENGE (LONG JUMP)

On Friday the 10th we got to choose a sport to teach and I

picked long jump because it is one of my favourite sports.

The experience wasn’t pleasant because a chunk of people didn’t listen and kept on walking back through the pit, so

we kept on raking the footsteps. Some people impressed

me with how far they jumped, and a few people disappointed me because they didn’t listen or they sat out

and some pushed in line so they could go first.

HOW TO PLAY The rule of long jump is that you are not allowed to jump

after the line but before the line. You want to jump as far as

you can to get the furthest and win. To jump far you will need a run up so you can get speed and burst out with

power so you can soar though the air. The equipment you

will need to do long jump is a sand pit, rake and some cones.

FUNNY MOMENTS

Some of the funny moment during long jump was one person jumped 2 metres after the line where you were

supposed to jump. And a few people jumped way before

the line and way after the line. All in all it was a fun experi-ence and I would like to do it again. BY JACK

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There is some big news coming from the offices of DSPS… WE NOW HAVE FACEBOOK!

Effective communication with our families is something that we strive hard to achieve at Drouin South

PS, however in the busy lives we lead messages can often go astray! In an attempt to keep improving in

this area we have set up a Drouin South Primary School Facebook page that we will use to post messages

on frequently. We urge all parents with Facebook accounts to “LIKE“ our page so that we can keep you

informed of up and coming events and news.

We will not be posting photos in which student faces are shown however we will try to make the page

informative and engaging. Please feel free to make comments on the posts, we just ask that you be

positive and respectful as this is a great way of promoting our school in the wider community. For any

school related concerns, please contact the school office on 56 276286 or drop in for a chat.

EASY BUTTERNUT PUMPKIN SOUP Preparation: about 20 minutes Cooking: about 45 minutes Serves: 4 This soup thickens on standing, add extra stock if necessary. You’ll need about 1kg pumpkin to yield 750g peeled chopped pumpkin. INGREDIENTS 2 tbsp olive oil 750gm butternut pumpkin 2 finely chopped cloves garlic 3 cups chicken or vegetable stock Salt and ground black pepper 2 chopped brown onions Toast to serve METHOD Peel and chop pumpkin. Heat oil in large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic, cook, stirring often for 5

minutes. Add pumpkin, and cook, stirring often for 5 minutes. Add stock, cover and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally

for 25-30 minutes until pumpkin is very tender. Puree until smooth. Return to heat, season with salt and pepper to taste and heat soup until hot.

Ladle into bowls or mugs and serve with toast. For more recipes, visit http://www.freshforkids.com.au

Prepared by Health Promotion Team 56243500

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Title: I SURVIVED Author: Lauren Tarshis

This book is part of a series of books called

I SURVIVED. I borrowed the book I SURVIVED- the

Japanese Tsunami, 2011. It is about an earthquake that

causes a tsunami. I recommend this book for grade 3s

and up.

Report By: Emma