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Celebrating 50 Years : 1965 - 2015
FAMILY NEWSLETTER - Issue 12 - May 7th 2015
2015 CALENDAR DATES
MAY
Fri 8th
Tues 12-14th
Wed 13th
Thur 14th
Fri 15th
Mon 18-22nd
Mon 18th
Wed 20th
Thu 21st
Fri 22nd
Tues 26th
Wed 27th
Fri 29th
Mother’s Day stall
NAPLAN testing Gr 3 & 5
Special Food Day-volunteers req’d 1pm
Student Progress reports home
Curriculum Day - Pupil free
Vic Schools Education Week
Gr 3/4 Melbourne Aquarium excursion
School Council 7.00pm
Winter Lightning Prem - footy/soccer
Maths Mania - Whole school Maths
Activity Day
Xmas Fair meeting 2.30pm
Gr 6 transition forms due back
Walk Safely to School Day
Make a Difference Day—Nepal Earth
quake fundraiser—casual dress
Division Cross country
Winter Lightning Prem - n’ball/T-ball
School Trivia Night - Highton Bowls
JUNE
Thur 4th
Mon 9th
Mon 15th
Wed 17th
Fri 19th
Wed 24th
Fri 26th
NAPLAN TESTING GRADE 3 & 5 STUDENTS
National testing in literacy and numeracy for students in
Grades 3 & 5 takes place next Tues/Wed/Thurs. Teachers have been familiarising students with the process of
formal testing and giving practice questions to help both
alleviate any stress and maximise their potential in the
tests. Can we ask parents to help us by ensuring students arrive at school in plenty of time as most testing
is scheduled for morning sessions. Thank you.
A flyer explaining the testing programme has been sent
home today to help explain the process to parents. Results from the tests will be sent to parents early in
Term 4.
MOBILE MUSTER
It’s on again! We are collecting old
mobile phones, mobile batteries,
chargers and mobile accessories as part of the
‘Mobile Muster’ program for 2015.
What is Mobile Muster?
MobileMuster is the Australian mobile phone
Prep Mums Ships Ahoy Night 6pm
Queens Birthday Holiday
School Council
Gr 1 Zoo incursion
Special Food Day
Half year student reports home
Parent teacher Interviews from
8.30am — pupil free
Last day Term 2
Lunch 1.00-2.00pm
Dismissal 2.30pm
industry's official product stewardship program. It's
a free mobile phone recycling program that accepts
all brands and types of mobile phones, plus their
batteries, chargers and accessories. Basically, it's
the industry's way of ensuring mobile phone products
don't end up in landfill - but instead are recycled in a
safe, secure and ethical way.
The collection box will be located in 5/6C – Room 2
and we encourage all families to bring in any old
mobile phones and accessories they no longer use.
We will end collection on World Environment Day,
Friday 2nd June. For more
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NOTES HOME THIS WEEK
Receipts
Bank Books
Address :
37 Cook Street
Newtown VIC 3220
Telephone : 03 5221 3772
Facsimile : 03 5223 1208
information please visit
the website at: http://
www.mobilemuster.com.au
Email :
[email protected]
Website :
www.fyansparkps.vic.edu.au
P/Assoc. Email : [email protected]
OSHC - CAMP AUSTRALIA
Telephone : 0452 247 130
Hours :
6.45 am - 8.45 am
3.30 pm - 6.00 pm
SCHOOL NEWS
FOR SALE
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MOTHERS DAY STALL
TOMORROW - Friday 8 th May
 Children may bring up to $5 each to spend
at tomorrow’s Mother’s Day Stall.
 Please also send along a plastic bag to put
their pressie in.
 Parent helpers are required to help with the
stall from 12.15pm in the Library.
Thank you,
Kirsty Ayerbe
Parents Association
420 litre frost free fridge
160 X 68 X 62
$50.00
Please contact Gavin Nelson if interested
ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS
(MAKE A GREAT MOTHERS DAY GIFT!)
Fyans Park Primary School have the new 2015/2016
Entertainment Book for sale. The Entertainment Book
includes hundreds of valuable offers from many
restaurants, arts, attractions, hotel accommodation,
travel and lots more!
The cost of each book is $55.
Office.
Please contact the
SCHOOL NEWS
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS
BATCH ERRANDS
Feel like you spend your whole week trying to
catch up with the errands? Take a few
moments once a week to make a list of all the
errands that need to get done, and see
if you can batch them into one trip.
Not only will you be saving petrol, but
also you might find yourself with much
better time management skills.
TUNING INTO KIDS
Tuning into Kids is a six session parenting program
to help children learn to understand and regulate
their emotions, which in turn leads to becoming
more resilient.
FREE Q & A Panel Event
@ The Royal Children’s Hospital
The Asthma Foundation of Victoria, in partnership with
The Royal Children’s Hospital and Royal
Melbourne Hospital, is very excited to announce that
once again it will be holding a FREE Q&A Panel Event in
June 2015.
This year’s event will be focused on ‘Managing Asthma
and Allergy’. An Expert Panel, consisting of respiratory
and allergy specialists, will address key questions and
concerns you may have in regards to asthma and
allergies. The event is open to all ages, those recently
diagnosed or with life-long struggles in managing their
asthma and allergies.
The panelists will be available to answer all of your
questions.
Commencing:
Wednesday 13th May
Time:
7.00pm - 9.00pm
Location:
Ariston, 245-249 Pakington Street
Date:
Sunday 28 June 2015
Contact:
Regional Parenting Service
Time:
4pm to 6pm
Ph:
5272 4817
Cost:
$15 or $5 conc.
Venue: Ella Latham Auditorium,
Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville
Cost:
FREE
To register visit asthma-and-allergy.eventbrite.com.au
or contact The Asthma Foundation of Victoria on
[email protected] or 03 9326 7088.
SIBLING ENROLMENTS
If any families have Prep students yet to enrol for next
year, would they please contact the Office.
Ground Force
Ground Force will meet on
Tuesday morning for some
general tidying up.
We
will meet at the Office
at 9am.
Hope to see you there.
Kirsty
COMMUNITY NEWS
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To advertise in our school newsletter,
please contact the Office on 5221 3772
or [email protected]
 Ads will run for a term’s duration and
will be business card sized only
 Cost will be $150 per term, decreasing
in cost for subsequent terms
 No inappropriate businesses will be
considered, ie. promotion of gambling,
alcohol, etc
OSHC NEWS
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Term 2 Week 4 7th of May 2015
Come and Have Fun with us!
Hi Families,
DO YOU HAVE ANY ODD SOCKS LAYING AROUND THAT NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU LOOK YOU CAN'T FIND IT'S
MATE? If you would like to get rid of them, I will take them off your feet, oops I mean hands!
This terms Buddy Activities will be focussing on learning from each other and helping others. With this we are
hoping to have a lot of activities that are led by the children. We are wanting to also make a puppet theatre in order
to do a variety of puppet plays, so if anyone has any ideas on how that should look we would appreciate any help
given to us. As we are wanting to make puppet friends for our new Buddy Puppet we would appreciate any
donations of off cut material or any odd socks that you may have laying around.
We have also started on our Buddy Leadership program and have been asking for any child that is interested in
becoming a Buddy Leader to write a letter stating what they are good at and can help others with and what they
think makes a good Buddy Leader. I have 8 children put up their hands to be Buddy Leaders, which is fantastic and I
am aiming to have 10 so if you come into O.S.H.C & think you have what it takes to be a leader please come see
Jodie and let her know.
Next term we have our annual fundraiser and I am looking into making an O.S.H.C recipe book and would appreciate
any recipes that you and your family enjoy from entree's to dessert & supper ideas. Also if anyone has any
experience in binding books I would appreciate some help with that as well.
We endeavour to ensure that all your child's medical and contact details are kept up to date as possible, to help us
with this task I ask you to come and see me if there is any changes in your or your child's details. We want to make
sure we can contact you if there is an emergency and ensuring that your details are correct is the best way to do
this.
If you know that your child will NOT be attending a session they have been booked into PLEASE ensure you give me
a call to let me know, so that I am not chasing up children that are safely with their caregiver.
I encourage you all to enrol your child/ren with us in case of emergencies that are beyond your control
and to ensure that I have access to your child’s details if needed. To enrol your child/ren go to
www.campaustralia.com.au.
We have vacancies every morning and afternoon in O.S.H.C. don’t hesitate to book your child/ren in
today!
Cheers & Keep Smiling
Jodie & Dawn