Term 2, Week 10
The week that was… Students had a fantastic time performing in the PCS Talent shows! We were very proud of
all students who performed on stage. The Girls won ‘Most Coordinated Act’, the Boys won ‘Most Creative
Dance Moves’, and ‘Mister Mut’ won the ‘Most Engaging Performance’ award. Mut, from 5JS, was very brave
performing his comedy act solo to all 3 audiences! During writing groups last week, students enjoyed one of the
following activities: Cooking sushi, making coconut balls or completing the Mentos experiment. Don’t forget no
school this coming Monday as it is a Public Holiday.
IMPORTANT DATES
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June 10th —Public Holiday
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June 20th—Hot Dog Day
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June 15th—Better Buddy Day (Wear purple)
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June 24th —Last day of School
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June 17th —5/6 Girls Footy (selected students only)
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August 25th—26th—Grade 5 Urban Camp
WEEK NINE CURRICULUM
LITERACY: In Literacy students will work on uncommon plurals and editing ‘muddled’ sentences. During
writing sessions, students will begin writing a procedural piece about their writing activity from last week
(Making sushi, Coconut Balls or Mentos experiment).
NUMERACY: In maths sessions, students will participate in a range of activities that include the use of
iPads, Maths games and teacher focus groups to learn about money and financial mathematics. Activities
involve adding and subtracting money, rounding, budgeting and finding discounts.
TOPIC - ’Why is it so?’ - This coming week students will be choosing an inquiring questions and using
iPads to research and present their findings.
This weeks sentence
focus is:
‘We Are Vocabulary Explorers’
‘Synergy’
Uncommon Plurals
The vast majority of nouns in the English language are
made plural by adding an "s" or "es" to the end of the
word. For example, book, apple, house, table, door, cat,
bush, boss are just some of the millions of words that become plural with the simple addition of an "s" (books, apples, houses, tables, doors, cats, bushes, bosses). However,
certain nouns have "irregular" plurals which do not behave
in this standard way
Term 2, Week 10
Star of the Week
Positive Phone Calls/Emails
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MATHS MASTERS
Mo 5JS - Yellow Belt, Green Belt
Tom 5JS
For awesome help, assisting Mrs
Dawson with making Sushi in writing
groups.
It’s Cool to be at School!
This week is week 10. Students should have completed their homework experiments and finished writing a report about their findings. Once completed, students
need to hand in their project to their classroom teacher for marking!
Students are reminded to see their teacher if they
have any concerns regarding homework.
Students are reminded of the benefits of reading each night and encouraged to
bring their diary to school each day signed in order to receive an award. Students will be given fortnightly spelling words which they will be required to
write into their school diaries. We encourage all students to practise these at
home.
This weeks joke is from Mrs Dawson
Why do watermelons get married?
Because they can’t elope!
Submit a joke to your classroom teacher for the chance to have it included in our weekly
newsletters!
Secret student prize: The first student who is able to tell their teacher what our joke of the
week is, will get a prize from Mrs Dawson!
2017 School Planning
As you may already be aware there is a new Primary School opening in Pakenham on Henry Road at the
start of the 2017 school year. If you are considering moving your child to the new school can you please
complete the slip below and return it to the main office ASAP, this will allow future planning to begin for
both our school and the new school.
Child’s Name and Year Level: _____________________________________
Parents Name and Contact Details: ________________________________
This information will be passed on to the new Principals to allow you to be kept up to date with all relevant information.
We thank you for your honest feedback.
A reminder to all parents and
students!
It is essential that all students are using the
designated school crossings for their own
safety. We understand that traffic at school
can be very congested, however student
safety must come first. It is also important
parents also use the crossing with their
children as it sets an example to all students
when entering and leaving our school
SCHOOL ARRIVAL TIME - 8:45am
Arrival time for PCS is 8:45am. It is crucial that students are not arriving before then as the school grounds are not supervised by staff. Recently there has been a large number of students arriving very early in
the morning and being involved in incidences. Parents are responsible
for their child’s behaviour prior to 8:45am in the morning.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Recently there have been a growing number of issues that have arisen
from students with social media accounts. Accounts like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and many more are illegal for students of age 10/11
as the acceptable age is 13. Incidences that have occurred on these
site will not be resolved via staff at PCS.
National Buddy Day
Wednesday 15th June
WEAR PURPLE AND JOIN IN WITH THE FUN ACTIVITIES
This year our school along with thousands of other schools around Australia,
will participate in the National Buddy Day on WEDNESDAY 15TH JUNE.
As you are aware, PCS runs a program called better Buddies, an initiative of
the Alannah & Madeline Foundation, where older students are paired with
younger students to help create friendships across the school and reduce bullying.
National Buddy Day is a great way for our school to come together to further
develop and grow Better Buddies and promote friendships in a safe and caring environment.
The day will involve fun activities and a colouring/drawing competition with a
winner from each grade level being announced at assembly the following
week.
Don’t forget to wear purple!
Classroom Rules at P.C.S
Consequences of not following school rules;
1. Warning
2. Name on the sad face
3. Cross beside child’s name and withdrawal
in the classroom for 5 minutes
4. Removal to buddy grade for remainder of
session. Phone call and note to go home.
Please be aware that it is the teacher’s discretion as
to whether steps are skipped depending on the