Term 1 Week 2 Wednesday 4th February 2015

143 Bailey St Grovedale 3216 Tel: 5243 3902 Fax: 5243 0823 www.grovedaleps.vic.edu.au grovedale.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS

WELCOME TO 2015 I would love to welcome everyone back to Grovedale Primary for 2015. It has been wonderful to see parents and students both last week and this week come back with such enthusiasm and eagerness. Our Prep students have started and have also come with eagerness and enthusiasm as well as maturity. We have had a very smooth start and all classes are settled and ready for work. Fabulous!!! I would love to welcome all of our new families to our school. I would also love to welcome our new staff this year. We have Mrs Laura Falcone who is teaching Italian on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning. We have Ms Alison Lancaster in Year 1/2, Ms Krissy Wong in Year 3/4 and Mr Tim Teague in Year 5/6. I am sure that all parents will make them feel welcome to our school. CONSTRUCTION OF RAMP: I apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused by a ramp currently being constructed to our portable Renzow. This should only take a week and then Italian classes will be able to take place in this space. BUSHWAHZEE: On Monday 23rd February we will have the band Bushwahzee return to our school. They will start the day with a concert for the children, then break up with workshops with the children during the day and then we will have a Country Music Dance at night. This event has been hugely successful in the past with students, staff and parents having a wonderful time. The children thoroughly enjoy learning and taking part in the dance workshops during the day. We plan to have a picnic tea and then the Dance with parents and children at night at the school. This is a great family event and one where we welcome all of our new families to our school. The incursion note is going home with students tonight and the cost for the whole day is $9 per student. There is no cost for families on the night. OUTSIDE HOURS SCHOOL CARE PROGRAM: It is wonderful that we now have an after school program. This is being run through Extend and Hannah is the program co-ordinator at our school in the Multi Purpose Room. It is great to see that we already have some families using the program but it would be good to see some more take advantage of this service. Please take the time to go and talk with Hannah and she can tell you more about this service, the activities that she runs as well as the cost associated with it. SCHOOL COUNCIL NOMINATIONS: I would like to inform our school community that we have 4 vacant parent positions on school council. We have 3 positions for 2 years and 1 position for one year. I would sincerely like to thank Isabella coomber, Tim Berris, Leanne Donovan and Karen Wilson who have filled these positions over the last 1-2 years. I now call for nominations to fill these places. Nomination forms are available from myself or the front office. Nominations will close on Friday 13th at 4pm. If we then get more nominations than places, we will go to an election. LONG SERVICE LEAVE: We have a number of staff that will be taking some short times on leave this term. We have Dan Lowther taking leave from the 6th February until the 13th of February– Dave Stevens will be replacing him. We have Laura Falcone taking leave from the 2nd March until the 12th March and then Krissy Wong is taking leave from the 16th March until the 24th March. I hope that they all enjoy their time away.

COMING EVENTS

FORMS / PAYMENT DUE BACK

IGA Dockets Anytime

Bushwahzee $9.00 16th February

Scholastic Book Club Issue #1 16th February

Responsible Pet Ownership No Cost 25th February

‘A Path to Success’

UNIFORMS NEW UNIFORMS Deal directly with Coastal Uniforms. Phone: 5255 4897

Ann-Marie will visit Grovedale Primary School again on:

Thursday 5th February Order forms may be picked up from the school office. SECOND HAND UNIFORMS

Visit Sally & Kelli in the Sick Bay on Tuesday afternoons only from 3:00pm-3:20pm SCHOOL KILTS Geelong Uniforms 164 Malop Street Geelong. Phone: 5224 2229

February 2015

Wednesday 11th Parents & Friends Meeting 2:20pm

Monday 23rd Bushwahzee Whole School

Monday 2nd Modified School Day Student Led Conferences

Wednesday 4th Responsible Pet Ownership Grade Prep

Monday 9th Labour Day Public Holiday

March 2015

MODIFIED SCHOOL DAY MONDAY 2ND MARCH On Monday the 2nd March we will be having a modified school day, with students undertaking student led interviews so that the students, parents and teachers can set learning goals for the semester. These will take place from 12noon until 7pm. Students are only required to come to their interview on this day and a normal school day will not be run-ning. I will give more information regarding this in the near future.

Kathy Wesolowski Principal

PARENTS AND FRIENDS NEWS

Welcome back everyone! Hope you all enjoyed your Christmas and New Year and some time off from the school routine! We will have a P & F meeting next Wednesday 11th February at 2:20pm in the meeting room where we will fill committee positions for this year. If you are interested in joining the committee or being involved with Parents and Friends, please come along. Committee positions are: President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary. We also need someone or a few people to regularly collect and add up the IGA dockets that are at the office, which the school receives money from. We are also holding our Twilight Fair this year which requires lots of help from many people, so please come along to the meeting next week to find out more. Everyone welcome! Have a great week. Gab Lewis

PICKING UP AND DROPPING OFF CHILDREN AROUND SCHOOLS For the safety of children, parents are reminded to take care and obey parking signs when picking up or dropping off children around schools. Council’s Parking and Information Officers regularly patrol school areas during start and finish times. Motorists detected breaching parking regulations risk being issued with a Penalty Infringement Notice. Remember, as soon as you stop to let your children in or out of the car, you are deemed to be parked. You do not have to leave your car or turn the engine off to be fined so please ensure you are parked in a legal parking area. At children’s crossings, you must remain stationary at the stop line while any person (including an adult or the supervisor) is on the crossing or the stop sign is displayed. Do not let your child alight at this time, ensure that they wait until you are safely and legally parked. If you breach a parking regulation the Parking and Infor-mation Officer assigned to monitor the crossing will usually record your registration number and details, and the Penalty Infringement Notice will be posted to you within the next three days.

WANTED

If anyone has an Etcha Sketch/ Magna Doodle they would like to donate to the school it would be kindly appreciated.

NEWSPAPERS FOR THE ART ROOM

The art room is in urgent need of old news-papers. If you can spare some old newspa-pers please drop them into the art room. Thank you!

REMINDER

The school grounds are supervised between the hours of 8:45am – 3:35pm If your child is here before or after those hours they will be unsupervised. Thank you.

Lunch Orders Please find included in the Newsletter the current lunch order menu. A reminder that lunch orders have begun and will continue each Tuesday and Thursday.

NEWSLETTER EMAIL LIST Fill out the slip below to receive our newsletter in colour via email each week! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NEWSLETTER EMAIL LIST Student Name ____ Teacher ____ Parent/Guardian Name ____ Email ____ ____

The Victorian Goalball association in Conjunction with the Australian Paralympic Committee and Coca Cola are bringing Goalball to one of our key regions – Geelong. We will be visiting your area and offering a fantastic Goalball experience for the vision im-paired community. This event is also open to non-vision impaired participants who would like to learn about the game or just support another vision impaired participant so please feel free to bring friends and family! Date: Sunday February 15th Time: 10.00am – 2.00am Location: Geelong College, Geelong Address: Talbot St Geelong Cost: To be paid on the day

$10.00 for participants $5.00 if there to support a vision impaired person and joining us for lunch

To register your interest please contact; Rob Apps on 0438663433 Pam Hyden on 0420207712

EXTEND OSHC AT GROVEDALE PRIMARY SCHOOL Hello! My name is Hannah and I’m your new OSHC Leader. I have recently joined the Extend team and can-not wait to meet you all & have fun throughout the year. I am a primary teacher, but have taken time off to add to my family. I have 2 young daughters, a dog and a turtle. I spend my weekends with my girls at the cricket club where they watch their dad play. I love painting and drawing in my spare time & enjoy travelling overseas. RECAP: Last week we started the OSHC program for 2015. It has been a great start so far, with lots of new kids to join us in the coming weeks. Last week we got to know each other really well through some art and craft activities, and played tennis and cricket outside. The kids did a fabulous job with their identity hands, which are displayed on the front window of the OSHC room. Our Extend Superstar is… Leilani J for always using her manners and sharing with others. Next week’s activities: Monday 9 February: Animal Creations, Tuesday 10 February: Hanging Bugs, Wednesday 11 February: Spy Glass Habitats, Thursday 12 February: Jelly Making, Friday 13 February: Valentines Crafts. Enrolling is quick and easy! Simply set up your own account online via the Parent Portal. Please note it is government regulation that all children must be enrolled BEFORE attending an Extend service. For information on operating hours and fees for your school, visit your After School Care venue or school website. Enrol now, pay later. The annual enrolment fee per family of $20 is NOT payable until you first use the service. So why not enrol now so you can access the service later? It doesn't matter if you don't end up using the service, because you won't be charged. Watch this space throughout the term for regular updates from our Extend team! PARENT PORTAL: extend.com.au

THE MARK WEST FOUNDATION—WIN A FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIP Scholarships cover the costs of playing football for disad-vantaged kids in Geelong. Go to www.tmwf.org.au for all the details and to download an application form. Applica-tions close Sunday 22nd February 2015.

ARE YOU LOOKING TO PLAY

FOOTY IN 2015? The mighty Belmont

Lions Sports Club is looking for boys and

girls for the following age groups: Auskick

(Friday nights), Under 10’s, 12s, 14s, 16s

and 18s. REGISTRATION IS SUNDAY

15TH FEBRUARY 2015 from 11-2 AT

WINTER RESERVE, GLYN STREET,

BELMONT. Discounted membership avail-

able for all age groups if paid on the day.

SAUSAGE SIZZLE AND DRINKS PRO-

VIDED. For further enquiries contact our

Junior Football Co-ordinator Brendan

Smith: brendan448@hotmail.com.

The Geelong Welsh Ladies Choir was established in 1998 and is the only fe-male Welsh Choir in Australia and have completed tours of Wales and New Zealand. We are looking for more choir mem-bers to join our friendly group. Rehearsals are held in Highton each Wednesday from 7-9 pm. New members are welcome to come along to one of our practices. No auditions required, just a love of singing and ability to sing in tune. If you would like to find out more about the choir, please visit www.geelongwelshlc.com.au. We can also be found on Facebook, where you can see some of our performances. Please contact Judith Bracewell, GWLC Secretary on 5245 8249 to discuss further.

HOT FOOD SANDWICHES Pie $3.20 Egg & Lettuce $2.20

Sausage Roll $2.50 Ham & Cheese $2.20

Party Pie $1.00 Tomato & Cheese $2.20

Party Sausage Roll $1.00 Ham, Cheese & Tomato $2.50

Hot Dog $3.00 Salad $2.50

Steamed Dim Sims $0.90 Meat & Salad $3.50

Mini Pizza $2.50 (Chicken, Ham & Silverside)

(Hawaiian & Supreme)

TOASTED SANDWICHES Ham & Cheese $2.50

Ham, Cheese & Tomato $2.70

Tomato & Cheese $2.50

Cheese $2.20

Ham & Pineapple $2.50

Chicken, Cheese & Mayo $3.00

ROLLS $4.00 & WRAPS $5.00 Silverside & Salad

Chicken & Salad

Ham & Salad

SNACKS Smartie topped cupcakes $1.50

Truffles $1.00

Corn on the Cob $1.00

Veggie Sticks & Dip $1.50

ST. ALBANS RD TAKEAWAY

Grovedale Primary School – Menu 2015 – Term 1

Available Tuesday & Thursday

Bread and rolls are all white unless otherwise specified.

Salad includes - Lettuce, Tomato, Carrot & Cheese.

Dip – Hommus or Tzatziki

Veggies – Carrot, Celery & Cucumber.

Condiments are FREE and include Tomato & BBQ sauce,

Mustard & Soy Sauce.

Orders to be clearly written with child’s name and class on a

paper bag.

Please write with or without sauce, etc.

Please provide correct payment as no change will be given.