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UPUP DATEDATEUPPER PLENTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

21st

August

2014

Phone: 5783 1358 Fax: 5783 2257 Website: www.upper-plenty-ps.vic.edu.au Email: [email protected]

UNDERSTANDING PARTIC IPATION PERSISTENCE SUCCESS

DATES TOREMEMBER

August21st Prep Grandparents Day2.30pm27thPrep-2 Lego Excursion29thAlice Dress Rehearsalat WSCSeptember1st/2ndAlice Production4th-Fathers Day Stall5th-Fathers Day Dinner8th-First AidPrep-610-12th Gr 3/4 Camp

14th-Bunnings BBQ

14th-Into the Light LanternParade Whittlesea16th Sports Colours Day16th-Hot lunch day hamburgers and chickenschnitzel rolls.19thEnd of Term 3October11th Dinner Dance16th Pupil Free Day

This Weeks EventsMondayTuesdayHot Chocolate8.45am$1Wednesday WhittleseaS.C Excursion (selectedstudents)Lego Excursion (P-2)Friday Alice DressRehearsal at Whittlesea S.C

Whats in this IssueSuper Splendid Support Staff

AwardsInterview with Mrs Laffan

Five Cent Fundraiser

From the Art Room

Interview with Mrs Hastie

Behind the Office Door withGail and Melissa

Behind the Scenes; AIW

School Bus EOI

Classroom Snapshots

5/6 Camp Report

Sporting Classified

Science Report

Art Report

Stephanie Alexander

JSC Report

Sports Colours Day

lice in Wonderland Ticket Orders

Ticket order forms were sent home in envelopes on Monday. There are limited tickets andthey are selling fast. Please return your order forms ASAP soyou dont miss out. Tickets will be sent home next week.Dates: Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd SeptemberVenue: Whittlesea Secondary College Performing Arts CentreTime: 6.30pm start (speaking roles to arrive by 5.30pm, all otherstudents by 6.00pm)Tickets: $5 per adult, $2.50 per child that requires a seat,children under 4 free if sitting on a lap. UPPS students do not

need a ticket as they will be on stage.

PERMISSON NOTES for the dress rehearsal at Whittlesea Secondary College on Friday 29thAugust are DUE BACK NOW.

By Billie and Olivia S

This week the teachers surprised some very special staffmembers with a special morning tea. These special staffmembers help with teaching, running J.S.C, helping us when weare hurt and making sure the office runs smoothly. They arecalled our support staff. We asked these special people a

different question each about what they love about U.P.P.S!Here are their answers.

Which is your favourite grade to teach?

Alison- 5/6 Team because they laugh at my jokes more than the other grades.

Whats great about helping children at Upper Plenty?

Bende- Its great to help students with their work so it can be easier for them tolearn. I also like working with happy kids.Maggie- I like making students laugh and also just being here makes me happy!

Whats your favourite part of your job?

Josie- Working with children at Upper Plenty.Melissa- Working with Gail. No day is ever thesame. There are different challenges each day.Gail- Doing first aid but I cant deal with vomit!I would rather do poo.

Whats been your highlight this year?

Danielle- I liked the Stephanie AlexanderKitchen Garden Program.

Leanne- Going to camp with all the lovely well-mannered children in 5/6 Team!


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Upper Plenty Primary School Weekly AwardsStudent of the Week Awards will be presented to:Tegan Gray for her enthusiasm sounding out words.Harry Grutteria for working hard to research lots of information on crocodiles to produce a detailed written planner. Daniel Carland for working hard to show multiplication in different ways. Great job Daniel.Alex Merlo for working very productively during his independent maths task. Daniel Ruscigno for the improvement he has shown in reading with fluency and accuracy. Well done Dan!

3/4Kfor showing commitment and putting in 100% effort while practicing roles and songs for Alice in Wonderland.

Natasha Schiemann for her 5-star effort in making her voice expressive when reading aloud. Jarrad Chalkleyfor his dedication and enthusiasm towards using the formal algorithm in maths.

Values Awards will be presented to:Lucas Cordner for trying hard to turn his frown upside down. Well done Lucas! Thomas Wardley for showing great focus and politely listening to others during class discussions. Keep up the

good work.Blake Watts for his enthusiasm and effort put into multiplication tasks.Mitchell Deacon for persisting this week in numeracy when working with arrays and equal groups Leo Barber for giving effort when joining in classroom discussions and coming up with lots of ideas. Ebony Merlo for showing great team work skills and always participating in our classroom discussions. Brian Lawrence for his commitment and initiative gathering suggestions of games for sports day.Kayla Dowell for persisting with challenging tasks and showing pride in her work.

50 Nights Reading Awards have been presented to: Gypsy, Zeke

75 Nights Reading Awards have been presented to: Declan, Jessica D, Zara

100 Nights Reading Awards have been presented to: Sinead, Banjo, Lani, Darcie, Jessica D, Aurora, Za-

ra

125 Nights Reading Awards have been presented to: Zara, Saige, Daniel, Lily S, Aurora, Isabelle, Aiden

G, Rebecca

150 Nights Reading Awards have been presented to: Mark, Lily S, Isabelle D, Alex, Aiden G, Alliana,

Riley B, Blake,

175 Nights Reading Awards have been presented to: Lachie H, Alliana, Elektra, Aiden G

Mathletics

Certificates

Gold:Chloe S

Silver:

Aimee S

Bronze:Tommy, Nathan,Lachlan H, Antonio,

Alexis, Badyn, Lach-lan, Lachie, Ned,

Aidan C

Welcome to this weeks school newsletter! The Grade

5/6s asked to create this weeks newsletter and ourwish was granted! We wanted to write the newsletterbecause our writing focus for the next five weeks isinformation reports. We will be writing reports onanimals, countries and of course newsletter articles.

This year every class focuses on the same text typefor five weeks. This term we have already learnt aboutprocedures and now we are learning about information

reports.

We thought doing the newsletter would be a greatopportunity to write real life reports.

Next time you are in a classroom have a look at ourwriting posters. The teachers made them at a staffmeeting. We use them to help make sure our writing is inthe correct order and uses the right language. We havea different poster for each text type.

By Cam and Ethan S


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An Interview with the PrincipalBy Alani and Olivia

Mrs Laffan has had a very good week. She went to the junior grades

(1/2s and preps) and listened to them read. They were excellent at

reading their books. Her highlight of the week was getting to meet up

with Maggie and work on the top secret J SC project.

Last week was different for Mrs Laffan due to the campers being away.It was much quieter than usual out in the school grounds. However,Mrs Laffan had more meetings and activities and she couldnt get tocamp because of all of the activities and meetings. This week she hasfewer meetings and fewer activities to attend.

Mrs Laffan loves being a principal and her favourite things about beinga principal are having children visit her and showing her their fantastic five star work. She likes beingwith the student leadership team and is very proud of them when they do their roles.

Mrs Laffan is really looking forward to going to Europe with her mum and sister and she also cant wait

to see the dragons head. She thinks its going to be magnificent when the dragon is put together.

This weeks star comments from our parent Stars and a Wish feedback:

Communication via Facebook

The emphasis on assessing, planning and teaching for individual differences

Written reports are very detailed and easy to understand

By George and Jarrad

This term all classes have a jar in their classroom. What for? The Family and Friends Group (FAF)

is running a 5 Cent Fundraiser to raise money for our school. The class that raises the mostmoney wins a prize. So far the school has raised over $100. This week we raised a little bit more.When we counted the money on Tuesday these were the totals for the past week:Prep S $0 1/2J $0.70 1/2P $2.15 1/2F $3.953/4K $0.15 3/4V $0 5/6 Team $0.10

The class that raised the most money this week was 1/2F. More money might have been addedsince Tuesday. We wonder who has raised the most money overall?

Keep collecting your five cent coins until the end of the term. This week the school

has raised $7.25. Well done to all classes for collecting 5 cents. Lets try and beatthe totals next week.
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From the rt Room



C a t c h i n g u p w i t h M r s H a s t i e B y K a y l a a n d B l a i s eThis week we interviewed Mrs Hastie. We asked her a few questions to get an insight into her week. Readon to find out more!

How has your week been? What were the highlights?As you may know, our 5/6s went off to camp therefore this made my week very confusing because my timetable changed. Myhighlight of the week has been going to 1/2fFto practice Alice in Wonderland. I liked joining in to do the singing.

How did your timetable change?The grades werent in their classroom because they were at specialist classes and I got confused because I didnt know where

they were so it ended up turning into a big treasure hunt! I got to do more yard duty. I also got to teach Miss Fenechs gradewhich was very fun!

What did you do last week?Last week I helped students in every grade with writing, spelling and reading. I also had a meeting with teachers to planwork and I helped Mrs Laffan with some jobs. I had another meeting with Josie, Bende, Alison and Maggie. I had a lot ofmeetings and some with some parents, I worked on some projects to help students and I wrote and read 50-100 emails whichwasnt very fun. But I finished it all luckily!

What is on your To Do list?On my to do list I have to do some reports for Mrs Laffan and I had to plan some work for children.

What are you looking forward to this week?I am looking forward to hearing about camp (see page 13), going to a Techie Breaky with Miss Crowther and also catchingup with iPad tasks.

Lantern Parade 2014

This years lantern parade is shaping up to be bigger and more beautiful than ever, so if you haventalready, put September 14thin your diaries.

Students in years five and six have been working hard on some of theparades main character lanterns. With this years theme being cycles,(referring to the various stages of the recovery cycle after the initial,and more recent fires), and focusing on the butterfly life cycle, UpperPlenty students were tasked with creating giant caterpillars and arealmost at the decorating stage. Each caterpillar will be made up ofseparate segments carried by our students, and will come together toform the characters for the performance portion of the parade. Eachstudent across prep to year four, have created a small individual

butterfly to carry on their hand, and are encouraged to walk with oursenior students in the parade.This years parade will again be held at the Whittlesea Cattle Sheds,with free community art activities beginning at 3.30pm and the paradestarting at dusk. There will be live music and food available for purchase.

We will require as many senior students as possible to carry the lanternson the night and a letter will be coming home with them this week. Students are also welcome to bringalong pyramid lanterns made in the past, and carry them or give them to a family member to carry.This is one community event not to be missed!!


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By Chelsea and Tanyshah

This week we interviewed Gail and Melissa about what they enjoy about UPPS. Our intervieweeshad different answers to one another and we were very intrigued by their answers. Melissa wasunfortunately working at a different school on Tuesday so a phone call came to the rescue!The following paragraphs are questions and answers that we asked Gail and Melissa on Tuesday.

Q1: How did your week change due to the 5/6 camp?

Gail: I thought it was very, very quiet and I missed you all.

Melissa: I agree with Gail that is was quiet and less injuries occurred during outside times.

Q2: What has been your funniest moment in the past 7 days?

Melissa: One of my funniest moments was trying to put eye drops in Mrs Laffans eyes. I also love

having Gail around. One other thing that happened to me recently was me coming to school and

entering the central learning area and panicking because no one was in the building. Three staff

members cars were in the car park but they were nowhere to be seen. I later found out that they

were all having a meeting in the BER building. Pheew!

Gail: I enjoy working with Mel- she always has a joke to tell. I also had another funny moment that

wasnt very pleasant but may be humorous to others; getting a stick out of the boys toilets with

my hands, it took a while because the stick was jammed in the urinal. Eeew!

Q3: What has been your worst injury you have had to deal with during your time at UPPS?

Gail: I remember a few years ago two students were out in the yard and one got hit with a brick on

his head. There was blood everywhere! And of course, who had to deal with it? Me!!

Melissa: I have had to deal with a broken arm which was very severe. I was trying to calm the

student down until the ambulance came.

Q4: When is your busiest day of the week? Why?

Melissa: Newsletter day because I need to do it all by myself.

Gail: Lunch time because there are a lot of injuries and lots of tears.

Q5: What do you spend most of your time on during the week?

Gail: First aid and children in the sick bay take up a lot of my day because students are always

complaining about sore fingers and sore toes.

Melissa: I spend most of time in first aid as well.

FOR SALE AFTER ASSEMBLY TOMORROW5/6 Team have a variety of items from the market stall still

for sale. There are books, art and craft activities and luckydip prizes. Make an offer. All items need to be sold.


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School Bus Expression of InterestLast Day to Return them is tomorrow!

Name: ______________________________________________No. of children:__________________

I would consider using the school bus with a pick up near Hudson Park if the cost per student was

no more than $_______ per day for travel both to and from the school.

I would use the bus _______ days each week.



We talked to some of the stars of Alice in Wonderland; Lachie SM from 3/4K (A Card), Blake P from 1/2F, Ebony Lfrom 5/6 Team (Mock Turtle) and Emily W from Prep S! Below is an exclusive interview with these four studentswho know all about Alice in Wonderland!

We first interviewed the Mock Turtle, Ebony L!AM: What would you change about the play if you could?EL: That we have Tweedle Dee and Tweedle DumAM: Which class do you think has the best part or song in the play? Why?EL: 5/6 team because our songs are fun and not depressing.

Next we interviewed Blake P!AM: What are you most proud of doing in the play?BP: I love making everyone happy.AM: Would you like to do more or less things in the play? Why?BP: Less, there are too many things going on at once!

We asked Lachie SM (a card) a few questions!ES: Which costume looks the best, do you think? Who is lucky enough to wear it? Whatstands out about it?

LSM: The White Rabbit, who is Lachlan K because I think it looks really cute!

Last, we went to the Prep room and talked to Emily W about her class song, Wonderland!ES: Who is your favourite character?EW: Alice, because I like her hair.ES: Do you think Alice is pretty?EW: Yes! I like her shoes and her dress!

Get your ticket orders in now for a great night watching your kids perform!

Have you returned your permission note for our dress rehearsal at Whittlesea Secondary

College? The rehearsal is Friday 29th August and notes are due back NOW.

With Eve and

Alicia!

Who Am I? I wear a blue dress and white apron. I dream that I meet a white rabbit, a queen anda king. My names starts with an A


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Fam ily and Fr iends News!

Family and Friends News

The Bunnings BBQ is coming up fast and we still need three volunteers to fill the last

shifts one volunteer for the first shift and two for the last shift. If you can please spare

some time we would be very appreciative. We need to fill these spots to ensure we

have enough people to run the BBQ.

Fathers Day stall and Dinner information is also in the newsletter If you would like to

come to the dinner please fill out the form and return to the office by the due date.

This is always a fun night for Dads and the kids.

Also coming out this week is the Dinner Dance information. This will be sent home on

Friday so look out for it. Information will also be in next weeks newsletter. We also

need donations for this night for our raffle prizes, silent auction and live auction prizes,

so if you have something in mind that you could donate please leave at the office with

Melissa or Gail.

Peta and Cathy

FAMILY AND FRIENDS NEEDS YOUR HELP

PLEASE FILL OUT THE SLIP BELOW AND RETURN TO THE OFFICE IF

YOU CAN HELP WITH ANY OF THESE EVENTS:

Name: ________________________________

Contact Ph: _______________________________

I can help with:

Fathers Day Stall

Fathers Day Dinner

Dinner Dance

Hot lunch day 16/9/14

Thank you

Through the events organised by FAF and

supported by our school community, we nowhave an extra camera and four memory

cards to use in classrooms. Yippee!


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Davis family


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LibraryMrs Hastie will be opening the library at lunch time on Wednesday. You can go along to read, browse or

borrow books. You can even go and play a board game. She hopes lots of people will visit her.


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On Tuesday we interviewed Lucas and Keeleyabout their week. Here are the results:

Q: How was your week?

Keeley: My week was good

Lucas: Me too

Q: What have you been learning in writing?

Keeley: We learnt about procedures. I wrote a

procedure about strawberries.

Lucas: I wrote a procedure about cereal

Q: What have you been reading in reading?Keeley: Read a book called My New Baby

Lucas: Read the book I Like

Q: What was your highlight of last week?

Keeley: Reading My New Baby

Lucas: Seeing my buddy Aidan

Q: What are you looking forward to next

week?

Keeley: Going to Lego Land

Lucas: Going to Lego Land

An Interview with 1/2FBy Brent and Hayden

This week we interviewed Jess, Tex, Alliana andDeclan from Miss Fenechs grade. We wanted to findout about their week at school. Here is what they said:

How was your week at school?Tex: It was good because I got to play with myfriends.

Have you been practising your songs in Alice in

Wonderland?

Alliana & Declan: Yes, we have been practising GoldenAfternoon and What Will Become of Me?.

We have heard you are going on an excursion, tell

us a bit more about it.

Declan: We are going on a Lego excursion and we might

build stuff.What have you been making in art?

Declan: We have been making flowers out of cups,plates and paper.

What is your topic in Inquiry?

Declan: We are designing a playground.

What has been your favourite subject this week?

Tex: Writing because I love it.Jess: Sport because we did gymnastics.Declan: Art because we got to create different things.

What has been your highlight this week?All: Singing Alice in Wonderland songs.

This week we interviewed 1/2P. We interviewed four students and Mrs Phillips. Watch out Andy

Griffith, there are some great authors coming out of 1/2P!

was practising the songs for the play. The 1/2P songs

and Who are you? Mrs Phillips most interesting thing for the week was

popular in 1/2P and it is Zoe Caitlin and Alexias favourite subject. Shanes

is sport. The 1/2s had a free choice topic this week in writing. However

had to be a report about an animal. By Ebony and Brock

ORCHARD NEWS We are happy to report that the plaques have been fired and are readyfor installation this week, weather permitting.


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A Window into 1/2J By Breeanna and EmilyAshleigh liked her week and rated it 100% because when she went outside to the friendship poleeverybody in the class wanted to play with her. Beaus favourite thing is sport and art because insport the class gets to run laps around the basketball court and he liked art because he got to doexciting things.

1/2J likes to play Duck, Duck, Goose and Car Lot because they are fun games. The class is veryexcited about Alice in Wonderland because their families will be there.

By Laikyn and Seth

We interviewed 3/4K and

discovered lots of interesting

things. It looks like they have been

very busy this week.

1. What was one highlight of your week and why?

Zac: Alice in Wonderland rehearsals because I got up with all my friends.

Chloe: Doing sport last week.

Aimee: Writing because I learnt how to write procedures

Lachlan: Spelling because I learnt how to spell words like politician

2. What are two things you have accomplished this week?

Zac: Maths and reading.

Chloe: Getting better at maths.3. What have you learnt that is new this week and how did you learn it?

Zac: How to use maps in maths

Chloe: Learning new time tables.

By Mia and Brian

This week we visited 3/4V to see what they have been doing in class. Their teacher is Miss Varker.

It has been a busy week in 3/4V with lots of different things happening. Darcies highlight of the week was

planning the billy carts and finishing her writing. Jason enjoyed Indonesian and writing.

This week Darcie learnt how to make an origami fox and Jason learnt about solar power planes. In reading,

Darcie is skipping ahead to work out hard words and Jason is sounding out hard words.

Why didnt the skeleton go to the dance?BecausehehadNOBODYtogowith!Bahahahahahah!


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Hot LunchesWe have two pie warmers for children to warm upHot Lunches. All items must be wrapped in foiland clearly labelled. No pizza (it ends up stuck tothe foil), uncooked food, or noodles/soup requiringboiling water

Each building now has apie warmer

Senior grades in theBER Building

Junior Gradesin theCentral Learning Space



By Kaitlyn and Tayla-Jade

The 5/6 Team have been as busy as bees. We have had a stall at the Wallan Market, gone on Camp (see page 13) and

have begun Genius Hour for the second time. We have also been reading, writing, doing numeracy and getting readyfor the Alice in Wonderland production. All of these things have been fun and exciting.

Genius Hour was a great success last semester and we liked so much we are doing it again So, this semester the 5/6swill be participating in another 10 weeks of Genius Hour getting ready for the exhibition. Here is what some Geniuseshave to say about Genius Hour.Brock SPLAT! For my Genius Hour project I have chosen to paint clothes and shoes to wear. The skill Im focusingon learning is to paint better. I had no change of plans and my mum inspired me because she paints.Chelsea Dress for Bonnie I got the pattern from the website www.craftisnotoptional.comwhich is a sewing craftsite. My grandma is helping me complete my sisters dress. I will be learning how to follow a more complicatedpattern.Brent Metal Dog! Im using water pipes, motorbike chains and other metals to create my project. Last time we didGenius Hour, I made a Metal Manso Im making a Metal Dog to go with it. I will be learning how to handle dierenttools.

On Saturday 9thAugust, 5/6 Team had a stall at the Wallan Market. The morning

was cold, but gradually warmed up. There were only a few students at the stall in

the morning. As the day progressed and heated up, more students arrived at the

stall to do a shift or two. We sold $127 worth of second hand and craft items

which was a great sale. The money has gone straight into our class bank account.

We are trying to earn and save $1000 by the end of the year. Having a bank

account is part of our numeracy work and Earn and Learn inquiry topic.

What Number am I? When you add 3 to me the answer is the same as 19 - 5.

Competition Alert

Hey everyone! Do you want to win a

mystery prize?

Well you can now! All you have to do

is make up a song that can be sung to the tune of Happy by

Pharrel Williams. It doesnt matter how short or long it is and

the best one will win! Send with your child to the 5/6

Classroom with the name of your song on it in an envelope.

Please also put your childs name and grade on it so we can

give it back after judging. Also part of the prize will be your

super song published in the Newsletter! Have fun writing and

send the songs in before 9thSeptember!
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By Mia M and Laikyn POn 12th August, 5/6 Team left for camp. It was a long journey on the bus but we got there eventually.

We learnt lot of new skills like hut building and how to do a low ropes course. There were many activitiesincluding flying fox, giant swing, archery, canoeing, ponding and many more. In the evenings we did a night walkand cooked marshmallows around the campfire. On the second night we had a concert and on the third night wewatched a DVD.

Ethan HHs favourite activity was the giant swing because he went upside down! Alicias favourite activity wasthe giant swing because it was 20 metres high in the air. She got so scared going up she lost her voice so shecouldnt say stop but now when she looks back she is so glad that she didnt say stop because she would have

regretted it!

We would like to say a big thank you to Miss Crowther, Mrs Placek, Bende, Miss Fenech, Robbie, Robyn and

Leanne for taking us on this amazing journey. We all had SOOOOO much fun!!!!!

Sporting Classified By Bailey and BrodieSport is a very popular thing to do at Upper Plenty Primary School. Outside and inside school students liketo do football, cricket, netball, basketball, soccer, tennis, hockey and lots more. This week we have caughtup with some students and they told us their secrets about sport.

The Grade 3/4s have been doing gymnastics. They have been learning two hand forward rolls and one handforward rolls. The grades 1/2s have been doing gymnastics and learning how to do dive rolls and they alsoenjoyed learning new games in sport. The preps have been doing gymnastics in sport too. They have reallyenjoyed the different athletic activities as well The preps are looking forward to doing house and out ofschool activities.

Mr J and Mrs Phillips have been busy running lunch time sports competitions. This week Blue and Yellow

played a game of netball at lunch time. Blue won with a score of 6! Red and Green are playing today. Aftertodays game, the winner and Blue House will play in a grand final.


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JSC Report by Sam and Brian

JSC stands for Junior School Council. The school captains and two people from each

class are on the JSC committee. However, there are no prep students. JSC have

meetings each fortnight. At the meetings we try to make new ideas and things happen to

make the school money and lots of other things.

JSC organises sports equipment for play times. We made a roster of who takes it in and

out of the yard so hopefully it will be more organised and ready to be used.

Lately, we have been working on a sports day. The sports day is where you can wear

whatever sports team jersey you like. You must bring a gold coin donation if you dress

up. Doing this will help the school money wise and then we can buy more sport equipment

and other stuff like that! We will run a few games on the day.

Maggie works with JSC and helps the School Captains to run the meetings. This week we

interviewed her and this is what she had to say about the meetings.

I love to hear all the ideas and opinions of the students to our JSC meeting ideas and see the great projects come to life

as activity days or sometimes a lunch. We have some big and exciting projects coming up that may be discussed in our

next class meetings. I am also a part of a program call the achievement program and help with the activity days and help

with the wellbeing side of thing. I am very happy about the roll I play in our school community.

If you have a suggestion for activities for the sports please list it below. Please write the rules in case we are not aware of the

game. Use another piece of paper if you need more space.

Name of Game: __________________________________________. Your name: _______________________________________

Rules:____________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Science by Dylan and BreeannaScience happens every week at UPPS. Every grade has one hour per week with Mr J. Mr J said that if he wasnot teaching science, he would like to teach reading. He would not like to teach art.

This week in science the 5/6s attempted to melt aluminium foil, sugar, plastic and jam. There were veryinteresting effects and things changed a lot. Sugar and plastic changed the most.

Ayrton from prep liked playing with the balloons best. Blake from 1/2F enjoyed completing some science

experiments this week. 3/4Vs Brayden said that his favourite thing was experimenting with food dye and

milk. Cameron from 5/6 Teams favourite thing about Science was using the Lego technic to move different

machines using pulleys.


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Art at UPPS By Matthew and BreeannaEvery week each class has art with Mrs Lewis for one hour on

Tuesday or Wednesday.

The 5/6s have been making the caterpillar lanterns for the light

festival. This week the lanterns were decorated with colours

students chose. They look great!

The 3/4s have been drawing and painting.

The preps and 1/2s have been working hard too.

What has been your favourite thing about this week?

I liked working with Georgeto count the 5 cents andinterviewing people.

I liked writing the mostbecause I got to write aboutcamp and interview 3/4K

Vox Pop

I liked making stuff forplay. I wrapped presents andmade a map for Caucus Race.

I liked going on thecomputers and using awebsite called Dogonews

I liked sport and doing asomersault and no handedforward rolls.

I liked play practice andsinging and dancing for ourclass songs.

My favourite thing is artand this week we madespiders with eight legs

I liked writing aninformation report aboutTasmanian Deveils

Jake


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Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

By Grayson, Natasha and Nick

This term Yellow and Red House are doing the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Gardenprogram. One week is a cooking week and one week is a gardening week. Sometimespeople do extra gardening at lunch times.

We interviewed Jayden from Red House and Millie and Natasha from Yellow House.Here are the questions we asked them and theiranswers:

Q: What do you enjoy about the Stephanie Alexander

Kitchen Garden Program?Millie: : I enjoy cooking!Jayden: I found the cooking to be fun!Natasha: I enjoy cooking lovely meals and learning newskills.

Q: What is your favourite part of gardening?Millie: I enjoy planting the seeds!Jayden: I enjoy the digging!

Natasha: Making newspaper pots.

Q: Whats your favourite part of cooking?Millie: I enjoy eating the food.Jayden: I prefer to cook the food.Natasha: Tasting new foods that I have never tasted orcooked before!

Q: Do you like the food? Why or why not?

Millie: I like the food because it is deliciousNatasha: I like most of the food; most of it was really yum, but the rest I didnt like.Jayden: I like the food because its yummy.

Q: Is there anything you would like to try?Millie: I would like to try and cook fish fingers.Natasha: I would like to try and cook chocolate pudding and fish + chips.Jayden: No there is not a thing I would like to try.

Q: Can you name one skill you have learned in the S.A.K.G.?Millie: I have learned how to plant.


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