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‘Striving for Excellence’

Open since 1887

Principal - Kevin Warne

School Council President - Anne Trevena

Telephone - (03) 57931288 Web - www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

Email - [email protected]. au

Alamein Road

Puckapunyal, Vic, 3662

Postal: Military P.O.

ABN: - 74134967962

Term 4 Issue 10

December 13th 2017

Thursday

14th December

Year 6 Valedictory Dinner

Friday 15th December

Student Reports to Come Home

Monday

18th December

Awards Assembly

Tuesday

19th December

Spelling Bee

Class Parties

Friday 22nd December

Last Day of 2017 1:10pm Assembly

1:30pm Dismissal

Tuesday 23rd January 2018

Information Night for New Families

Wednesday

24th January 2018

2018 Open day

for New Families

Monday

29th January 2018

Staff Resume

Tuesday 30th January 2018

Years 1-6 Students First Day

Thursday

1st February 2018

Foundation Students

Begin

Inside this Issue:

DSTA Message 2

School Canteen Thanks 2

Positive Behaviour/Spelling Bee 2

Rule Reminders/ School Value 3

Happy Birthday 3

Keyboard Concert 3

Student Awards for the Week 4

Indo Lingo 5

Teaching and Learning Focus 6

2018 Information 7

Class Parties 8

***Have you heard your child read today? We encourage all students to

practise their reading at home about 5 nights per week. Therefore, by now, most

students should have read at least between 205-210 nights. Well done if you

have kept up! ***

On Monday 18th December our Monday Morning Assembly is our Awards

Assembly. That means that there will be several special and traditional

awards handed out to deserving students to recognise their efforts over the

whole year. We encourage all families to come along to help congratulate the

award winners.

***We can all work together to rid

the community of Head Lice. Let’s

check our heads once per week!***

Student Reports will come home with students this Friday. We encourage

families to make contact with their children’s teachers if they would like to

discuss the report. We have also asked students not to open the reports until the

reports arrive home to mum or dad.

Last Saturday, our School Choir performed at the Puckapunyal Christmas

Picnic outside the Area Theatre. They sang beautifully again! Again, we

congratulate the choir on all of their performances this year. We also thank Sally

O’Connor for her tireless efforts with the choir in 2017. Well done, Sally.

http://www.puckapunyalps.vic.edu.au/

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Happiness: There are choices we make every day that

may seem unrelated to health and happiness that can

affect the way we feel mentally and physically.

Number 4: Be part of a community! Joining a group

offers strong sources of belonging and friendships,

which are critical for health and happiness. These

friendships may last for decades and are crucial for long

term health.

Second-hand uniform: If you are leaving and have any

additional PPS uniform (especially shorts and tracksuit

pants) we can find them a new home. It’s always useful

to have a supply of second hand uniform on hand.

Thank you.

Have a terrific week!

Sue Ranger, Defence School Transition Aide

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR REWARD

Bradman remains in the lead – great to see a

new leader! Let’s keep up the positive

behaviour everyone!

CURRENT SCORES

Bradman – 94 points

Melba - 75 points

Chisholm – 69 points

Hume - 21 points

**REMINDER- Pucka News is a growing interest in the school and our community. You can

see each episode live at our school assemblies at 9am on Monday mornings. Everyone is

encouraged to come along and watch each episode. If you are unable to attend, you can follow

Pucka News by watching each episode on our Facebook page. **

Next year, as with every year, we ask parent volunteers

to help with our Swimming Program. In weeks 2

and 3 for Term 1 in 2018, our Years 3-6 students will be

attending the Area Pool for swimming each day. If any

parent would like to volunteer to help with the

swimming groups, please contact us. We try to keep the

group sizes as small as possible. The more people that

volunteer, the better. If you have Austswim training that

is great! If you do not, we can organise some training for

you as long as you help us with our program in return. If

we have trained you in the past, please volunteer again.

If you do not have Austswim training

and can’t do the training, you can still

help. Ask us how. We need you!

The School Spelling Bee Final is on again this year. It

will take place at school on Tuesday 19th December from

11:30 a.m. in the PC Centre. It has become a great tradition

during the last week of the year for the past few years. Even

though several families have left by then, it has become an

event that keeps the school ticking along right up until the

end of the year. All families are welcome to come along.

Spelling Bee 2017 Finalists Prep – Reeko Gower F O’C, Zara Marini F O’C, Lilah

Blaxland F/1 O’M

Year 1- Zoe Landel F/1 O’M, James Van Der Waal 1/2C,

Chayce Mackie 1/2 I

Year 2 – Kirrah Horton 1/2 C, Bill Clode 1/2I, Stephen

Reilly 2/3H

Year 3 – Lachlan Donnelly 2/3H, Brielle Eldredge 3/4 H,

Owen Brown 3/4 M.

Year 4 – Sophia Brooks 3/4 H, Eamon Constable 3/4 H,

Rohanna Murphy 3/4M, Will Anderson 3/4M

Year 5 – Caitlan Morton 5/6 D, Jasmine Jamieson 5/6 D,

Abigail Van Dorssen 5/6 I, Finlay Koch 5/6 I

Year 6 – Max Fletcher 5/6 D, Taliah Greenwood 5/6 D,

Lachlan Thompson 5/6 I, Jack Anderson 5/6 I

Thank you, Parents! This year we have had a small number of dedicated

parents who have continuously strived to ensure that

our students have canteen lunches each Friday. Our

students would not have had the wonderful canteen

lunches without our volunteers. We thank those mums

for terrific service to our school.

Thank you, Stacy! For the last 2 years, Stacy Brooks has voluntarily

managed the canteen lunches. That means, she has

organised parent rosters, ordered food, organised

menus, liaised with school staff, etc. etc! We thank

Stacy for her wonderful dedication and leadership!

We will be looking for more volunteers to help

each Friday in 2018. If you can help, please see

Simone in the office.

***Good luck Year 6 students who attend their Year

6 Graduation Night (The Valedictory Dinner) this

Thursday ***

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Teachers are looking for students who are demonstrating ‘Tolerance/Compassion’ to be eligible for the Student of the

Week award. We encourage parents to talk to their students about our values throughout the year.

What does Tolerance/Compassion mean? At assembly this week, Year 5 student Eli Casey read out the meaning of

Tolerance/Compassion.

‘Tolerance’ is accepting things that you can’t change or things that you wish were different. Tolerance is practised when

you accept things about people that you don’t like. A friend may have an annoying habit that irritates you or a family

member may do things that annoy you. You tolerate these things because you care for those people.

‘Compassion’ is caring about someone who is hurt: physically, emotionally or psychologically. It’s being kind and

understanding because the other person matters to you. Compassion is forgiving someone who has hurt you. It’s caring

deeply and wanting to help even if you do not know that person.

Each week at school, SRC representatives remind our

students of a few important school rules.

This week at assembly, SRC representatives, Zoe

Landel and Dani Corocher reminded our students of the

following rules when playing on the school veranda:

- This is a quiet place for students to play.

- There should be no running or jumping around.

- No yelling or screaming while playing here.

- Do not stand on or swing on the railings.

- There are a lot of toys on the veranda to play with so

please do not throw them around.

- Make sure you pack up the toys and push in the

chairs when you are finished playing.

Please discuss these rules with your children to help

ensure that they understand.

Happy Birthday to Ella Padman, James

Van Der Waal, Jack Anderson and Sophia

Cargile who are all having their birthdays

this week. On behalf of the Puckapunyal

Primary School Community, we wish them all

a very Happy Birthday!

On Monday after assembly, our keyboard (and violin and trombone) students, along with keyboard

teacher, Peter Hagen put on a great concert. All students involved played for the whole school! They did a great job! Well

done kids and thank you, Peter!

Friday 22nd December will be our last day of Term 4 in 2017.

The children will be dismissed at 1:30 p.m.

At 1:10 p.m. there will be a final assembly just to say

goodbye and to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Please come

along and join in our last assembly for 2017 in the school

amphitheatre or PC Centre.

The final day can be an ‘out of school uniform day’ for all

students.

There will not be any buses available on the last day for our

students who normally travel to school by bus. Students will

have to make other arrangements for that day.

Lachlan Hamley on piano

Max Fletcher on trombone Casey Cousins on violin (with Peter

Hagen on piano

The ‘Talent Pool’ queueing up to

perform

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Congratulations to the following students who were

‘Students of the Week’ for last week. Winners – Torrey

Murphy, Jewell Hatfield, Kirrah Horton, Hayden

Fletcher, Clancy Easom. Jarrah Younger, Tia Dowdell,

Finlay Koch and Mackenzy Eagles.

These students were selected because they were modelling

‘Resilience’. This week teachers are looking for students

who are modelling ‘Tolerance/Compassion’.

Congratulations to the following students who

were ‘Authors of the Week’ for last week.

Winners – Braiden Hodges, Oliver Crichton, Milli

Miller, Bailey Armstrong, Nic, Clodagh McCarthy,

Zion Oti, Abigail Van Dorssen and Josh Moses.

These students were selected because they

showed great skills as an author.

5/6 D in Room 2 won the Yard

Duty Competition. Taliah

Greenwood and Dimitee Taylor

enjoyed collecting the winning trophy

for their classroom this week!

Congratulations to Kacey Riegel,

Phoenix Miller, Dimnitee Taylor and

BraidenHodges who all won a raffle

prize for ‘Positive Behaviour’ this

week! Great effort, kids!

3/4 H in Room 11 won

the Middle School

Times Tables Trophy. Ella Padman and Zahra

Kelly were very happy to

collect the winning trophy for

their classroom this week!

5/6 I in Room 1 won the

Senior School Times

Tables Trophy. Cooper Dickinson and Jack

Lindner were also very

happy to collect the winning

trophy this week!

Harry Fletcher, Abbey

Kendell and Finlay Koch all

read their Indonesian Books at

assembly this week? They did a

fantastic job! Come along and

see who reads next week.

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F/1/2: This week students will read the class book about feelings that they made last week in Indonesian. They'll

sing Indonesian songs and play some Indonesian games, some with Christmas themes. Lessons will start with a

greeting, ask how they are, mark the roll, count how many students are present and finish with a farewell.

Vocabulary they'll hear/use will be:

Selamat pagi/siang = Good morning/day

Apa kabar? = How are you? Baik-baik saja = Fine Biasa saja = So so Kurang baik = Not good

Saya senang. = I'm happy. Saya sedih. = I'm sad. Saya baik-baik saja. = I'm fine. Saya marah. = I'm mad.

Siapa ada/tidak? = Who's here/not here? Ada/Tidak ada = Here/Not here

Berapa murid? = How many students? pohon Natal = Christmas tree kijang = reindeer kerdil = elf

hadiah = present Senter Klas = Santa Claus Selamat hari Natal = Merry Christmas

nol = 0

satu = 1

dua = 2

tiga = 3

empat = 4

lima = 5

enam = 6

tujuh = 7

delapan = 8

sembilan = 9

sepuluh = 10

sebelas = 11

dua belas = 12

tiga belas = 13

empat belas = 14

lima belas = 15

enam belas = 16

tujuh belas = 17

delapan belas = 18

sembilan belas = 19

dua puluh = 20

dua puluh satu = 21

dua puluh dua = 22

dua puluh tiga = 23

dua puluh empat = 24

dua puluh lima = 25

Sampai jumpa = See

you later

3/4/5/6: This week will be the last lesson for students to finish writing, editing and printing their

transportation/days of the week books. Children who have finished will read their books to their class. Early

finishers will present the Indonesian project or Indonesian board/card game to their class. Lessons will start with

a greeting, ask how they are, mark the roll and have special students’ question and answer time and finish with a

farewell. Vocabularly they'll hear/use will be:

Selamat pagi/siang/sore/malam/hai/halo = Good morning/day/afternoon/evening/hi/hello

Apa kabar? = How are you? Saya ... = I'm ... Saya merasa ... = I feel ... lapar = hungry haus = thirsty gembira

= excited marah = angry bagus = great panas = hot dingin = cold sakit = sick good = baik baik-baik saja =

fine biasa saja = so so kurang baik = not cold

Siapa ada/tidak ada? = Who's here/not here? Ada/tidak ada = Here/not here

Berapa murid ada? = How many students are here? Ada ___ murid = There are ___ students here.

Apa kabar? = How are you? Saya ... = I'm ... Saya merasa ... = I feel ...

Siapa nama kamu? = What's your name? Nama saya ... = My name's ...

Berapa umur kamu? = What's your age? Umur saya ___ tahun = I'm ___ years old.

Kamu tinggal di mana? = Where do you live? Saya tinggal di ... = I live in ...

Kamu di kelas berapa? = What's your grade? Saya di kelas ... = I'm in grade ...

Kamu bersekolah di mana? = Where do you go to school? Saya bersekolah di ... = I go to PPS.

Warna apa favorit kamu? = What's your favourite colour? Warna favorit saya ... = My favourite colour is ...

Kamu punya binatang? = Do you have a pet? Saya punya/tidak punya ... = I have/do not have ...

Siapa ada di keluarga kamu? = Who's in your family? Di keluarga saya ada ... = In my family there is ...

Kamu suka apa? = What do you like? Saya suka ... = I like ...

Kamu suka makan di mana? = Where do you like to eat? Saya suka makan di ... = I live to eat at ...

Kamu naik apa ke sekolah? = How did you get to school? Saya berjalan kaki/naik ... = I walked/went by ...

hari Senin = Monday hari Selasa = Tuesday hari Rabu = Wednesday hari Kamis = Thursday

hari Jumat = Friday hari Sabtu = Saturday hari Minggu = Sunday

mobil = car bis = bus bis kecil/angkot/mikrolet = mini bus/van bis tingkat = double decker bus skuter = scooter

sepeda = bike ojek sepeda = bike taxi sepeda motor = motorbike ojek = motorbike taxi bajaj = three wheeled

taxi bemo = three wheeled mini van berjalan kaki = walk kereta api = train pesawat terbang = plane taksi =

taxi feri = ferry dokar/delman/andong/kuda dan kereta = horse and cart/carriage becak = pedicab kapal laut =

ship perahu = boat Sampai jumpa = See you later

Salam (Regards)

Bu Hooper (Mrs Hooper)

Guru Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian teacher)

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Each week in the newsletter, we will give families a summary of the Teaching/Learning Focus for the week.

That can help families by: being aware of what classrooms are covering; with discussion topics at the dinner table when

discussing school (eg. ‘How are you going with addition in Numeracy this week?’); helping their children study at home,

etc. Parents have indicated that this information is very useful. We also ask families to be aware that schools are very busy

places and events can be unpredictable at times. We therefore must remain flexible. That means that we can plan to cover

certain topics at particular times and have to change them according to arising needs.

Junior School – Preps/Foundation Rooms 6 & 8 Literacy: We are revising all letters and sounds and looking at blends (sh, ch and th). We are writing sentences and using

capital letters and full stops.

Numeracy: We are revising money, calculators and ordinal numbers.

Junior School – Year 1s Rooms 3, 4 & 8 Literacy: .We are revising skills for editing of work to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation.

Numeracy: We are revising concepts covered this year.

Junior School – Year 2s Rooms 3 & 4 Literacy: We are revising skills for editing of work to improve meaning, spelling and punctuation.

Numeracy: We are revising concepts covered this year.

Middle School Years 3/4 Rooms 9 & 10 & 11 Literacy: We will be preparing for our Student Led Conferences and completing all unfinished tasks.

Numeracy: We will be working on times tables, the four processes and revising topics covered this semester.

Senior School Years 5/6 Rooms 1 & 2 Literacy: We will be preparing for our Student Led Conferences and completing all unfinished tasks.

Numeracy: We will be working on times tables, the four processes and revising topics covered this semester.

‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’

Quote – William Butler Yeats

As advertised at the beginning of the year, 2017 is the last

year that students can wear the old style school shirts.

Newer designed school shirts have been part of our

school uniform since the latter part of 2015. We have been

phasing out the old style shirts for the last 2 years or so.

Please plan for the permanent change for the beginning of

2018.

Children in 1/2I had the challenge of inventing a

device that made a marble roll down an inclined

blackboard as slowly as possible. They used bricks

and playdoh. Bill and Max were able to get to 6.43

seconds using their contraption!

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Public Holidays for 2018 Friday 26th January Australia Day Holiday

Monday 12th March Labour Day

Friday 30th March Good Friday

Monday 3rd April Easter Monday

Wednesday 25th April Anzac Day

Monday June 11th Queen’s Birthday

Tuesday November 6th Melbourne Cup Day

Significant School Dates for 2018 Tuesday 23rd January New Family Information

Night

Wednesday 24th January Open Day

Thursday 25th January All families to receive a

school email

Monday 29th January Staff Resume

Tuesday 30th January Years 1-6 Commence

Thursday 1st February Foundation (Preps)

Commence

Monday 26th February Parent/Teacher Information

Sharing

Thursday 29th March End of Term 1

The end of 2017 is almost here and our students and families will be excited thinking about holidays and

Christmas. No doubt there is a little bit of anxiety about the new school year.

For Kinder families, we hope that our school has been helpful over the past few months with transition

days so that the move into Foundation (Preps) will be easier for your child. The year 2018 is going to be

special for your family as it will be your child's first year of schooling. We understand that families will be

excited and nervous.

The starting date for Years 1-6 students is Tuesday 30th January (meet in the amphitheatre at the back of

the school). The first day for Foundation (Prep) students is Thursday 1st February (meet in the

amphitheatre at the back of the school). Families and students can find a seat together in the amphitheatre.

The Foundation (Prep) students will then attend school for normal hours from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. for

Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in February. The students will not attend school on

Wednesdays during Term 1 until 7th March. This again will help the students get used to school life and a

break mid-week will keep them refreshed for school. In our experience, Foundation students do get very

tired in their first few weeks of school and a break mid-week has shown to be beneficial. Again, the

Wednesday will also be used for Foundation student testing and an appointment date will be given to each

family for one of those Wednesdays.

We will be conducting a New Family Information Night on Tuesday 23rd January starting at 5pm in the

PC Centre. The Information Night is mainly for new families so that they can come and learn new and

important information about our school. We recommend that all new families attend that session.

School Open Day is Wednesday 24th January (the next day), which is again for families who haven’t yet

enrolled their children or had a chance to tour the school. They will also get an opportunity to meet with

the principal or leading teacher to discuss their children’s educational needs. School Uniforms will also be

available for any families to purchase on that day. The next day after Open Day, when we have a much

more accurate idea of how many students will be attending our school, we will send each family an email.

The email will let families know who their child’s teacher will be and what classroom they will be in for

2018. (If the school does not have your family’s email address please pass it on to the

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Room/Grade Date Time Venue

(in school grounds) Menu

Children bring……

FOC

Tuesday 19th December 12:30pm Room 6 Verandah Boys to bring sweets

Girls to bring savoury food

(small plate, no food requiring

heating please)

F/1 OM

Tuesday 19th December 12:30pm Room 8 Verandah

1/2 C

Tuesday 19th December 12:30pm Room 4 Boys to bring sweets



heating please)

1/2 I

Tuesday 19th December 12:30pm Room 4

2/3H




heating please)

3/4 M




heating please)

3/4 H




heating please)

5/6 I

Tuesday 19th December 12:30pm PC Centre

Boys to bring sweets



heating please)

5/6 D

Tuesday 19th December 12:30pm PC Centre

To celebrate the hard work that our students and teachers have done

during the year we traditionally celebrate with a class party at the end

of each year. On Tuesday 19th December, each grade will be conducting

their classroom party. Each child will be required to bring something from

home to contribute. Please see the timetable for each grade below. Please

note that we do not have any fridge space for the party food.

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Intensive Swimming Program 2018. January 8-12 Inclusive

January 15-19 Inclusive

Classes of 4 students with 2 teachers

30 minute daily classes

$120.00 per student

Limited numbers.

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