Ashburton Primary School Fakenham Road Ashburton 3147 MAY 4 2015 PH: 98852559 FAX: 98854703 Principal’s Report Dear Families, Year 6 Camp I am sure the Year 6 students will have a lovely me at Cave Hill Creek Camp. They headed oﬀ to Sovereign Hill on Monday and then stay at camp for the week. The acvies include canoeing, ropes course, bike riding, bush cooking and ﬁshing. Merryn Bevis, Courtney Simon, Rachel Roberts, Josh Brown, Sco* Bent and two parents Rob Burns and Gerald Walsh will be a*ending camp and looking a-er the students. They will be returning on Friday approximately 3:15pm a li*le weary but with many a story to tell. Mr Bill Barbagiannis (the students call him Mr B) will be taking PE for the week. Mothers Day We hope you get an extra big hug or breakfast in bed to acknowledge how much you give every day as a mother. A Mother's Love ~Anon Of all the special joys in life, The big ones and the small, A mother's love and tenderness Is the greatest of them all. SMILE This week in SMILE we connued to talk about blaming fairly. The focus is on when a problem occurs how much is you, others of circumstance? Ask yourself is this set back permanent, pervasive or personal? The metaphor we used was to imagine a pie chart. * How big a slice of the pie were you responsible for? For example, a sliver, a poron mum would cut, or a dad’s size poron. Somemes it might just be the crust. * How big a slice of the pie was someone else responsible? * How much is just circumstanal and beyond your control? Some quesons you could ask your child. How did you help somebody today? How did you help someone today? What did you get be*er at today? Educaon Week Open Morning Monday May 18 All classrooms will be open from 8:30am to 9am to celebrate Educaon Week on Monday May 18. SRC students will be available to oﬀer tours around the school as well. A special assembly will be held at 9:00am. Selected Year 6 students will act as the Masters of Ceremony with performances from many students. We look forward to seeing you there. New role for Natalie Nelson I have certainly had to pracse my resilient strategies. Due to unforeseen circumstances the Senior Advisor posion I have been oﬀered in the North Eastern Victorian Region has been delayed unl Term 3. Natalie Nelson Principal Diary Dates A&'()*+,- P*./0*1 S2',,3 Page 2 TERM 2 Naplan—Years 3 and 5 Parent Flier Coming home today 4-8 May Year 6 Camp Friday 8 May Mothers Day Stall Prep –Yr5 Friday 8 May Incursion at school Tuesday 12 May Years 3 & 5 Naplan Language ConvenBons Wednesday 13 May Years 3 and 5 Naplan Reading Wednesday 13 May Cupcake Stall 3.30pm Wednesday 13 May Parent’s AssociaBon MeeBng 7.30pm Wednesday 13 May Yr 6 Excursion Parliament House Thursday 14 May Years 3 and 5 Naplan Numeracy Saturday 16 May Open Morning at School for ProspecBve Families 10am & 11am Principal address & tour Tuesday 19 May School Council 7.30pm Enrolment 2016 If you have a child starng school in 2016, enrolments are now being accepted in the Oﬃce unl the end of July. Ashburton Primary School has an Enrolment Boundary Map available on the school website and informaon and dates regarding Open days. Chocolate Drive—Fundraising 2015 Check your child’s bag tonight for a noce on this years Chocolate Drive (see back page of Newsle*er) A&'()*+,- P*./0*1 Page 3 Term 2 Uniform Shop Dates 19 May 2 June Uniform Shop will be on the 23rd June instead of the 16th for this month only. GRADE 5 and 6 PARENTS CALLING ALL MASTER BAKERS Or anyone that can make a cupcake! We need your help. The ringing of the ﬁnal bell on Wednesday 13 May will commence our ﬁrst cupcake stall for this year and we want it to be a good one. We need any bakers of all types to help create our wonderful oﬀerings. You may be as creave or praccal as you like. If you can help out with a batch (or two if you like) of cupcakes , please email Nicki at [email protected]. Thanks so much The Fundraising Team. The cupcake stall will be on Wednesday 13 May in the Quadrangle. Stall opens at the end of the day and cupcakes are $2.50 each. Assembly Performance Monday May 11th Sophie M will be performing 'Brother James', 'Lullaby' and 'Botany Bay' on the piano. A&'()*+,- P*./0*1 S2',,3 Page 4 Smile Awards Oliver D PAC For being a kind friend to others and for your consistent eﬀort to listen a*envely. Georgie H PVC For se*ling in to our class so well! Welcome to Ashburton Primary School Georgie! Sara W PMD For showing wonderful manners when giving everything new, a try. Great persistence. Hamish K 1ET Chloe N 1SN Maya Z 1LC For always challenging yourself in Mathemacs, especially with reading and wring numbers over 1000! You’re a number superstar! For her fantasc eﬀort and achievement in reading and wring . Go Chloe! For the excellent informaon she included in her weekend recount. Millie S 2HL For ‘showing oﬀ’ Mum during Show and Share and speaking so lovingly about why Mum was so special to her. Charlie W 3KA For his outstanding group work skills. He has demonstrated acve listening and shown encouragement t all students whenever working in a group. Keep it up Charlie! Ben A 3EM For demonstrang a huge improvement in his ability to complete set tasks both at school and in his homework. Well done Ben - keep up the great work! Joshua D 3DS For always being cheerful, helpful and ready to learn. You are a wonderful class member Thomas B 4DW For making mature learning choices to stay on task. Well done! Steven M 4DW For his hard work and determinaon learning about decimals. Olivia B 4KH For conﬁdently approaching tasks and persisng to achieve her learning goals. Saksham S 4KH Working hard to improve his organisaonal skills. Keep up the great work! Anki S 5KT For contribung good ideas in the discussion on fair blaming. Jennifer M 5KE For always being polite and well mannered. Your friendly nature makes you a very welcome addion to our classroom. Ma*hew C 5LP For his concentraon and enthusiasm during wring tasks. Fantasc work Ma*! Jolie S 5DF For her enthusiasc aStude towards wring. Jolie is a responsible and respecTul member of 5DF. School 2 Minute Drop Oﬀ Zone on Fakenham Rd We have sought clariﬁcaon from Boroondara Council on our 2 minute Drop Oﬀ zone and the response was as follows: “that it is not ok to rank to wait for the drop-oﬀ space to be available and it would be desirable they circulate instead. A 2 minute drop-oﬀ zone must be just that… 2 minutes. The driver should not be alighng from the vehicle or at the least should only alight to assist passengers with school bags , equipment etc. and then leave the zone to make space for the next person. The drop-oﬀ zone , to be eﬀecve, cannot be considered by parents to be a convenient spot to park and escort their children into the schoolyard/building as this defeats the purpose of such a zone” Supervisor Parking & Traﬃc A&'()*+,- P*./0*1 S2',,3 Page 5 A&'()*+,- P*./0*1 S2',,3 Page 6 The Department of Education and Ashburton Primary School do not endorse the products or services of any private advertiser. No responsibility is accepted by the Department of Education and Ashburton Primary School for the accuracy of information contained in advertisements or claims made by them.