FOUNTAIN GATE PRIMARY
SCHOOL NEWSLETTER
School No. 5072
13
October
2016
Friday
October 14
Monday
October 17
Wednesday
October 19
Thursday
October 20
Friday
October 21
Wednesday
October 26
Prospect Hill Road, Narre Warren 3805
Telephone: 9703 1187
Fax: 9703 2001
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.fountaingateps.vic.edu.au
DIARY DATES
Prep Dental Checks
Camp Quality Puppet Show
11.40am – Preps
12.15pm – Grades 1-3
2.20pm – Grades 4-6
Open Night
Market Fresh
Market Fresh
Crazy Hair Day (gold coin donation)
Prep Transition Session- Art 2.15-3.15
TERM DATES FOR Term 1 – Friday 29th January – 24th March
Term 2 – Monday 11th April - 24th June
2016
Term 3 – Monday 11th July – 16th September
Term 4 – Monday 3rd October – 20th December
Principal’s Report
Dear Parents,
Learning with the Future in Mind…..
We all want our children to leave school literate and numerate, and rightly so. So why do we also have a
focus on being creative, asking questions as well as answering them, and generally having the capacity to
think for ourselves? One reason is that it helps us to learn Reading, Writing and Mathematics. There are other
important reasons too. Yong Zhou is an American education professor who has an interesting take on
education and its role in the future.
College Ready vs. Out-of-Basement Ready: Yong Zhao 2nd July 2014
Last year when my son graduated from college, I asked the question “can you stay out of my basement?” as I
believe an important outcome of education is the ability to live out of one’s parent’s basement, that is, the
ability to be an independent and contributing member of a society.
The Common Core and most education reforms around the world define the outcome of schooling as
readiness for college and career readiness. But as recent statistics suggest, college-readiness, even collegegraduation-readiness, does not lead to out-basement-readiness. Over 50% of recent college graduates in the
US are unemployed or underemployed. The numbers are not much better in other parts of the world.
They are the “boomerang kids,” writes a New York Times magazine article last week. These were good
students. They were ready for college. They paid for college (many with borrowed money). They completed
all college requirements. They did not drop out. And they graduated from college. But they are back in their
parents’ basement for there is no career for them, ready or not.
The reason is simpler than many would like to accept: education has been preparing our students for an
economy that no longer exists. Technology and globalization have transformed our society. Machines and
off-shoring have led to the disappearance of traditional middle class jobs—jobs our education have been
making our children ready for.
The “boomerang kids” are not poorly educated, but miseducated. They were prepared to look for jobs, but
not to create jobs. They were prepared to solve problems, but not to identify problems or ask questions. They
were prepared to follow instructions, but machines can follow instructions more precisely and more
important, with less cost.
Technological changes always disrupt the existing social and economic order, forcing us to redefine the value
of talents, knowledge, and skills. What used to be valuable may become obsolete. What was undervalued
may become more valuable. We know that in the “second machine age” and “flat world,” we need creative,
entrepreneurial, and globally competent workers to compete with machines and less expensive workers who
do not have access to the same resources as students in developed countries. What we need is to shift the
educational thinking from preparing job seekers to job creators, from imposing upon children what a small
group of people defines as valuable knowledge and skills to supporting children to follow their own passion,
and from fixing our children’s “deficits” to enhancing their strengths.
By the way, I am proud to say that my son does not live in my basement.
I hope you found this article interesting.
Kind Regards,
Jenny Duggan
P.S. See you next Wednesday at Open Night 
Open Night: 5.30pm
In Our Shoes: 6.30pm
R.E.A.L. FAMILY OF THE WEEK
(READING EVERY DAY AND LEARNING)
Each day after school William has time to play while I prepare dinner and we eat at about
5.30pm. Once that is done it is shower/bath time and then William will put his pyjamas on
and brush his teeth. We practice William’s spelling words, then William will hop into bed at
about 7.30pm. He will read his school reader to me and we will talk about what he has just
read and I will ask him questions like how he would feel if he was in the character’s position,
or if it is a fact book ask him which fact he found the most interesting. Once William has read
his reader l will read to him one of his books or on a Tuesday after he has library at school we
will read the library book together that he has borrowed that day. When William visits his
Dad on the weekends his dad will quite often take William to the local library and they will
spend time reading books together which William enjoys.
Congratulations Megan, Lincoln
and William!
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
00B
Peaches O’Sullivan
00M
Zoha Ali
00R
Penelope Hart
00V
Crete Maireroa
1S
Taylor Ruhr
Beginning to work
independently and
staying focussed
during our lesson time.
Great job Peaches!
Independently logging
onto the computer,
opening a word
document and
sounding out super
sentences during
Computer Time.
For being a great
reporter. You wrote an
interesting sentence
and drew an amazing
picture.
Being confident in the
classroom and asking
for help. Keep it up!
Excellent and attentive
listening during whole
class instruction.
1P
Hoorain Khilji
2C
Mustafa Jawlan
Using the balance to
compare mass during
investigations and
recording the result.
Well done!
For writing a very
detailed procedural
piece about ‘hot to
make hot noodles’.
Keep up the great
work!
2H
3B
Angel Heather
Working to her best
ability during learning
sequences activities.
Farhad
Settling in well to
3/4H. Welcome to
Fountain Gate
Primary School. Well
done Farhad!
Haider Hussaini
Making some good
connections with his
reading and thinking
deeply about the
books he reads. Well
done!
5/6T
Jessica Gogan
6H
Mohammad Karimi
Showing resilience
and persistence when
faced with a
challenging situation
during Writer’s
Workshop. You kept
your chin up and
solved it wonderfully!
Using the correct
formulas to find the
area and volume for
3D shapes.
6S
Carlos Eid
3S
3/4H
4D
4W
5C
1/2M
2M
3C
William Anderson
Putting in a great effort
to complete the set
tasks this morning.
Keep up the
persistence!
5D
5H
Contributing to
classroom discussions
on a regular basis
throughout the week.
Well done!
Prep Enrolment 2017
Just a reminder if you
have not yet enrolled your
child for Prep 2017,
please
come to the office and collect
an application form.
PAYMENTS
All payments that are handed to either the
classroom teacher or office MUST be
clearly marked on the envelope and
permission form with students
name and grade.
Divisional Athletics Results!!!!!
Congratulations to our magnificent athletics team for their fantastic results at the
Divisional Athletics Carnival on Wednesday. Students who achieved a first or
second place result qualified for the Regional Championships and are just one step
away from qualifying for State Championships at Olympic Park.
Amazingly, 9 students from our school qualified! (The most ever from Fountain
Gate P.S.). Just as amazing is the fact that 5 students qualified in multiple events!!
Thank you to Mel Burgess, Shane Stephens, Jacinta Baird and Arif Melkic for
assisting with travel, training,
supporting, organisation and
supervision.
Jarrod Parsons
Physical Education
Nicholas Allsop 5/6T – 1st
triple jump, 1st high jump, 6th 100m sprint
Joanna Nol 6H – 1st 200m, 2nd hurdles
Ataylia Melkic 5D – 1st relay, 2nd 100m sprint, 4th hurdles
Koretti Leilua 5C – 1st relay, 1st shot put, 2nd discus
Dianne Sua 5/6T – 1st relay
Joanne Sua 5D – 1st relay
Grace Ioelu 4D – 5th long jump
Eric Williamson 6H – 3rd 1500m, 5th 800m
Otto Lui 5/6T – 1st long jump, 3rd 100m sprint
Deakin Moon 6S – 4th shot put, 7th 100m sprint
Eltaf Musawi 5H – 1st triple jump, 2nd 800m
Travel Ruaporo 5C – 2nd shot put
Fountain Gate
Cluster Soiree 2016
Once again the very talented students of the Fountain Gate
Cluster will be entertaining family and friends with a range of
performing arts items at the Fountain Gate Cluster Soiree.
The Soiree is on:
Date: Tuesday 25 October 2016
Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: River Gum Performing Arts Centre, Fordholm Road,
Hampton Park (Hampton Park Secondary College)
Tickets are available from the school office at a cost of:
 Family of 4: $10.00;
 Adult: $5.00;
 Child: $2.00.
We look forward to sharing this exciting performing arts
evening with you.
The Fountain Gate Cluster Soiree Team
Crazy hair day
Friday 21st October
To help celebrate learning week once again we will have crazy hair
day on Friday the 21st of October. We ask students to bring a gold
coin donation which will to go towards the Grade 6 graduation.
Compulsory wearing of hats in
Term 4
All students must wear a school hat during
term 1 for recess, lunch and any outdoor activity.
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