p FOUNTAIN GATE PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER School No. 5072 26 March 2015 Prospect Hill Road, Narre Warren 3805 Telephone: 9703 1187 Fax: 9703 2001 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.fountaingateps.vic.edu.au DIARY DATES th Friday 27 March Easter Hat Parade 9.00am (Small Gym) Preps, Grade 1 & 2 Free Dress Day – Gold Coin Donation th Friday 27 March All students will be dismissed at 2.30pm. End of Term Start of Term 2 Monday 13th April 2015 Monday 4th May Tuesday 5th May All students required at school for 9.00am start Friday 8th May Wednesday 20th May Puppet Theatre Performance – Level 1 & 2 – Small Gym Myuna Farm – Prep Grades Tuesday 23rd June Wednesday 24th June Discovery Day – Grade 5 – FGSC – 8.55am-1.00pm Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews - 1.15pm-6.00pm & 6.30pm-7.30pm Student Classes finish at 12.30pm Start of Term 2 Monday 13th April 2015 Curriculum Day – No Students required at school. Puppet Theatre Performance – Level 1 & 2 – Small Gym All students required at school for 9.00am start FREE DRESS DAY There will be a Free Dress day tomorrow Friday 27th March for the whole school. Gold coin donation Principal’s Comments Dear Parents, The term has flown by and here we are at school holiday time again. Here’s a list of things to do with children during the holidays that I found on the internet. ☺ Make an assault course, use boxes, chairs, scooters, skateboards etc, time how long it takes and aim to improve. ☺ Hide a treasure inside or outside. Write some clues or make a treasure map for kids to follow. Then get them to make one for you. ☺ Allow your children to make a movie on your smart phone. ☺ When your children have sorted out all their toys, have a garage sale. ☺ Make paper dolls of your family using cut out photos. Cut out clothes from magazines to dress the “family” in. ☺ Have a mini Master Chef session with pita bread and pizza toppings. ☺ Ask your child to teach you their favourite computer game. ☺ Create a backyard golf course. ☺ Learn magic/card/circus tricks and put on a show. ☺ Use 2 litre bottles as bowling pins. ☺ Go to a local cycle way/bike track and go rollerblading. A great way to get out in the fresh air and enjoy the sunshine and exercise. ☺ Camp Out in the back yard – kids of all ages will love this experience ☺ Buy some big chalk and create a driveway masterpiece ☺ Save boxes and containers of all sorts and make a box city on a spare table. Add toy cars and people. ☺ Make an indoor or outdoor cubby with a sheet, tarp, cushions, cd player, food etc. ☺ Make your own board game using a setting that is relevant to your family, e.g. a soccer game, a game about a favourite TV show etc. ☺ Grow some seeds, watching this happen is always fascinating. ☺ Make some musical instruments out of empty containers. ☺ Smile! Get the camera out and let the kids take some photos – download them on the computer and create a slide show. ☺ Play dough – buy some or make your own – this will provide hours of fun for you and the kids. ☺ Lots of Local Libraries hold story-telling workshops during school holidays, and then the kids can borrow some new stories to read. ☺ Make Paper Dolls - make a chain of paper dolls and colour them all in different colours. ☺ Create a puppet show, use soft toys or make small puppets from socks or wooden spoons and put on your own show. ☺ Do some leaf rubbings, collect an assortment of leaves and place them under paper then use a crayon/pencil to rub over the top. ☺ Have a Picnic or BBQ lunch at the local park – let the kids help pack their favourite lunch and snacks. ☺ Do some gardening with the kids – make a herb or strawberry garden pot, they are fantastic and useful too! ☺ Weather permitting, set up a water play area with lots of different containers and things for water to run down. Especially good in conjunction with a sand pit. ☺ Have a game of hide and seek - lots of fun for the little ones. ☺ Kick a paper soccer ball, set up some goals and try your luck. ☺ Create an indoor car track with hills, curves and straights using cardboard, cut up pool noodles or any materials matchbox cars can roll along. ☺ Teach children some old games such as hopscotch, knuckles, elastics, clapping games, marbles (you may need to google these or ask your parents!) Looking forward to seeing everyone back next term! Kind Regards, Jenny Duggan STUDENT OF THE WEEK Prep B Aun Hasani Always doing his best work and being a good role model to others. 3G Joshua Scrutton Prep R Taylor Ruhr Having an excellent attitude to learning. 4M Hayley Parsons 4P Mansor Nadim Prep S 1M Matthew Waixel 1P Janak Patil Knowing lots of information about shapes. Contributing ideas to class discussions. Keep it up!! 4R 3/4E Zohra Mohammadi Amy Boutthajit 1V 2H Writing a fantastic story 5/6B about 2 Kings. Well Done!! 5/6C 2M 5/6J Raven Nhem 5/6L Tyren Min . 2W Karl Balitbit Sahill Kakar . 1/2C Ethan Sione 3C Maddison Griffin Ensuring to use his discovery time effectively when working on his place value learning sequences. Always working hard to complete all set tasks in the classroom. Well Done!! For showing enthusiasm during Writers Workshop and composing some excellent expositions. Always being kind and courteous towards others and maintaining a positive outlook. A great example for others. Working hard on her learning sequence and making lots of advances through it. Well Done!! For his display of kindness, selflessness and persistence during activities with our prep buddies. Anissa Eminovski Using revising strategies to strengthen the structure of her narrative. Using a real world issue to write a purposeful persuasive letter to the Prime Minister. Always thinking of others. For an excellent letter to his buddy. Well Done!! Working wonderfully in writing and producing a great viewer’s response. Well Done!! 5/6M 5/6T Tulin Velievski Tre Hart Her excellent figurative language sentences during “Snapshot” writing. Choosing appropriate strategies to solve equations during addition learning sequence. CASEY CUP WINNERS! Congratulations to our winning FGPS soccer teams. At the annual Casey Cup soccer tournament we achieved some outstanding results on Tuesday 24th March. The girls’ team won outright. Our mixed team finished runners up. Our boys’ team was knocked out in the quarter finals but secured enough points for FGPS to be awarded the overall champions and the best school in the tournament! I am looking forward to having some photos from the event in the newsletter early next term! Jarrod Parsons Physical Education Girls’ Team – Winners Roya 5/6B Senna 5/6L Mitra 5/6T Maddison 5/6J Caitlyn 5/6J Zohal 5/6C Mixed Team – Runners Up Anissa 5/6B Kayla 5/6J Angel 5/6L Zulfegar 5/6L Mahadi 5/6T Lui 5/6M Artist for the Month of March Artist :Jessica Gogan Grade: 5/6B Title: Design a Greek Vase Medium Paint and Brush The Greeks made many beautiful vases and pots to store things like olive oil, wine and water. They were painted with patterns and pictures. The pictures on the pots give us a clue as to what life might have been like 2,000 years ago in Ancient Greece. Students in Level 5 and 6 have been introduced to the designs of Ancient Greek Pottery as they explore the use of geometric and organic shape in making ordered patterns. They then had to design their own vase or pot with pattern. Jessica is one of my talented art students. She enjoys art and has great drawing and painting skills. It is wonderful to see Jessica discovering and developing her talent and learning new skills. Well done Jessica. Kathy Mottahedin Visual Arts Teacher YOUR CHANCE TO ENROL FOR TERM 2!! All Gr: 2-6’s – Do you want to learn KEYBOARD, GUITAR or SINGING? This is your CHANCE to enrol for Term 2, 2015!! Go to our website at www.madonmusic.com.au Fill out the online enrolment form and click the submit buttonMad On Music will contact you once you have received your place To save disappointment, please enrol before the end of Term 1, 2015. (Mad On Music does not take enrolments in Term 3 & 4) All Prep & Grade 1’s Enrolments are NOW being taken for Prep & Grade 1 students to commence in Term 2, 2015 Go to our website at www.madonmusic.com.au 1. Fill out the online enrolment form and click the submit button 2. Mad On Music will contact you once you have received your place To save disappointment, please enrol before the end of Term 1, 2015. (Mad On Music does not take enrolments in Term 3 & 4)