Woodville Primary School

33 – 57 Warringa Crescent, Hoppers Crossing Phone: 9749 2770 Website: www.woodvilleps.vic.edu.au School Council President: Amy Claughton Before and After School Care: Camp Australia: 1300 105 343 www.campaustralia.com.au

A message from the Principal Class Team…

Dear Parents, Carers and Students,

We received this letter in the school mailbox this week.

Hello Mrs. Vincent and Woodville Primary School!

Thank you for accepting our request to join you for Term 4 this year. Please let us introduce ourselves to you and your

teachers and students. We are the Woodlings and we have travelled from a far-off place in the Woodling Forest. We

are very excited to spend time with you all at Woodville over the next eleven weeks.

Our family consists of Mum, Dad, brother, sister and baby. We live in our house at the base of tall trees and like to

move around.

Our favorite things to do are learn and go on adventures to learn some more. From time to time during the term, we

may have some visitors from the Woodling Forest join us on our adventures throughout Woodville Primary School.

You will see us around Woodville on our travels during Term 4. We have a bright yellow bus that we move around in,

so keep an eye out for that because it means that we will not be far away. We must ask that no one pick us up – please!

During term two at a different school, one student wanted to get a closer look at brother and picked him up but accidently

broke poor brother’s leg! It was terribly painful for him and took quite some time to heal again.

We will write about our learning and adventures each fortnight to keep you updated on our time here at Woodville.

Look out for it in your newsletter!

We hope that our stay at Woodville will inspire your students learning, to seek out the answers to questions, and their

sense of adventure!

See you at Woodville in Term 4.

Signed,

The ‘Woodville’ Woodlings

Wow – something very exciting to look forward to next term!

WEEK ENDING 6th September 2019

NEWSLETTER Number 12

CALENDAR OF EVENTS – IMPORTANT DATES

TERM THREE 2019

Thursday 5th September Newsletter Day

Tuesday 10th September Last day of Homework and Japanese Clubs

Wednesday 11th September Prep 2020 Playdates

Thursday 12th September Year 3/4 excursion to Sovereign Hill

Wednesday 18th September Prep 2020 Playdates

Thursday 19th September Grade One Possum Magic Excursion 9 – 11.30am

Thursday 19th September Footy Fun Day – parade at 2pm on the asphalt

Friday 20th September Last day of term three – 2pm dismissal

Whole School Assembly 1.30pm

TERM FOUR 2019

Monday 7th October First day of term four

You better watch out -

there could be a visit

from Santa’s Helper!

We would like to extend a warm Woodville welcome to our new Business Manager, Mrs Wendy Curren. We know that you will welcome her into our Woodville community. Thank you to Mrs Deanne Hewat, our administraion officer who has diligently managed the office throughout the recruitment process. Have a lovely Spring week – hopefully we get some sunshine. Lyn, Jodi & Nadia Principal Class Team

W.K.F.K Term Two Core Value: INCLUSION

INCLUSION: What is Bullying?

Awards will be presented to students at our whole school assembly on Monday 9th September at 8.50am.

PARKING

PLEASE HELP to keep everyone safe – and your hard-earned cash in your pockets! We recognise that parking close to school is a problem but we are asking for your patience and help to keep everyone safe. PLEASE:

park only in designated spaces on the streets and in the Powell Drive car park

do not park in ‘No Standing’ zones or on nature strips or driveways

PLEASE DO NOT PARK in the bin/skip area in Madison Drive. We’ve had a couple of near misses as people have reversed

out without seeing children behind them

park a little further away and walk; bonus exercise!We all have a responsibility to keep everyone safe. Council Parking

Officers and Police will be patrolling and they will issue fines. No excuses accepted.

Prep

00A Ryan S

00B Jammy J 00C Yen T 00D Yacoub El D

Grade 1 & 2

1A Sarah N 1B Mason D

1C Teremoana P 2A Jack C 2B William N 2C Miles T 2D Katie N

Grade 3 & 4

3A Dave L 3B Zander H 3C Yeabsira Y 4A Isobel 4B Liam J 4C Bailey D

Grade 5 & 6

56A Heba H 56B Donte A 56C Brock W 56D Emmalie W 56E Emerson A

SPECIALISTS

Art No award this fortnight

LOTE Kevin K (5/6D) P.E Dakotah C (5/6B) Music Jesse P Prep specialist Aaiesha K

Senior School – 5/6 Team News

Spelling Sensations!

It was an exciting night. For Akshi, it was her first time. For me, it was my fourth Wyndham Spelling Bee contest. I knew what was going to happen, but I was still very nervous. The year 5/6 student competitors were able to watch the year 3/4 student competition. Amazingly, the Year 3/4s were really good spellers! I know that when I was in Year 3, I wasn’t as confident as Akshi. She did really well and represented Woodville proudly. Then it was my turn, nobody got eliminated in the first round. The words were getting difficult, and slowly people started misspelling, including myself. It was still a very good night. Thank you to all teachers and parents that came to support us. -Ashmi Sarkar-

Youth Resource Centre Visit

On Monday 26th August, the Year 6 students visited The Youth Resource Centre in Hoppers Crossing. The Youth Services team provided information regarding programs, events and assistance available for young people aged 12 to 25 years of age and their families. Various services are located at four venues and various locations throughout Wyndham and can be found on their website https://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/services/youth-

services/services-programs/youth-programs.

The Students were greeted with yummy snacks, had the opportunity to explore the ‘Chill Out’ room and had the chance to preview activities and ask questions.

Japanese News

Poster Competition Winners Grade 3 and 4 - Transport Poster Award

These students have received aTransport Poster Award. Well done and congratulations!

Grade Excellent Poster Award Great Effort Award

3A Navyaa M Babee E H

3B Sereen E H Anashe B Cooper L

Matthew P Win Tun W T Jordan B S

3C Casper W O Toran H

Rimsha S

Saxon M

4A Diezel C Irfan M

4B Dumoo El H Annabella M

4C Caroline L Hunter G Bailey D

Chrishana S

Abdulla A

Grade 5 and 6 Japanese - Japanese Traditional Musical Instrument Poster Award Well done and congratulations to these students who have received a Japanese Traditional Musical Instrument Poster Award: Oli W, Kisha R, Heba H, Lara S, Emmalie W Jorja B, Ohanni A, Ashmi S, Hunter L, Emily A-N, Jarul P, Jimin H, Tina E H and Noah Najdovski (Great Effort Award)

Students created the poster with required sentences in Hiragana and were very creative! よくできましたY o k u d e k i m a s h i t a

！

Japanese Cultural Day for Prep to Grade on Wed 21st August

On Wednesday 21st August, we had our annual Japanese Cultural day for Prep to grade 2 students. Students explored the Japanese culture through hands on activities such as creating a Pikachu mask, Ninja Wheel, creating a Japanese good luck charm and making a Tap-tap sumo. We learnt about Kimono and designed our own Kimono. We enjoyed yummy Japanese Obento (lunch box). During the last hour we welcomed special guest performers – A.YA to Woodville - they are a musical duo who play traditional Japanese music with Shinobue (bamboo flute) and Taiko (Japanese drum).

1/2 Team News

Our Learning… . It has been back to work this fortnight for year one/two students following the excitement of literacy and numeracy week. In writing, we have been working on narratives using fun cards to give us ideas. We have been focusing on using Sizzling Starts to engage the reader. Delisha from 1B wrote: Mohit the King was making popcorn in the street for everyone. Then it popped all over the street. “Oh no! The popcorn has flooded everywhere!” screamed Mohit. He went into the street and cleaned the popcorn up. In Reading we have been looking at ‘Cause and Effect’ and ‘Compare and Contrast’. These themes help us read deeper into the stories we read and improve our comprehension skills. Ask your child about characters in their books and ask them how they are different and how are they the same. In Numeracy we have been studying number facts. We have been looking at the friends of ten (1+9, 2+8, etc.) doubles (4+4, 6+6, etc.) and near doubles (6+5, 3+4, etc.). These are very easy to practise at home and are essential for students to become fluent in. We have also been looking at the relationship between addition and subtraction and how one is the reverse of the other. Grade One students are looking forward to the Possum Magic excursion in week 10. Please ensure permission notes are returned as soon as possible to your child’s classroom teacher. Students are still encouraged to dress up in football clothes on this day, as it is also Footy Fun day!

Prep Team News

Throughout the past fortnight, our Prep students and teachers have been having some fun and engaging days at school.

During the Japanese Cultural Day, the students participated in different activities related to Japan, making Pikachu masks,

designing a kimono, playing Tap-tap sumo, making a ninja wheel and creating a good luck charm.

On Literacy & Numeracy Multi-age Day, the students got to dress up for the annual Literacy Week parade, as different

characters from a book. The students moved around in different classrooms and participated in a variety of literacy and

numeracy activities.

Literacy & numeracy Week

MULTI-AGE DAY Students from Prep to year 6 engaged in a variety of interesting activities during Multi-Age Day. The day started with a

dress up parade based on this year’s theme of ‘Reading is My Super Power.’ Students, parents and staff enjoyed this day immensely.

Faith 5/6A, “I liked it how we got to

dress up and be creative with what

we were wearing.”

Noah 1A, “I liked making the puzzles. I made a Humpty

Dumpty puzzle.”

Caroline 4C, “I liked that we could dress up from any book and as

any character. I dressed up as a Dangerologist.”

Alicia Prep D, “I liked walking around the

basketball court as Super Girl.”