Woady Yaloak Primary School
SNAKE VALLEY CAMPUS
“ACHIEVING TOGETHER”
Campus Head: Stephen Cox PH: 5344 9274
ISSUE 5 26/4/17
Principal: Corey Pohlner
Term Dates
31st Jan - 31st Mar
18th Apr - 30th Jun
17th Jul - 22nd Sep
9th Oct - 22nd Dec
For Your Diary
APRIL
Thursday 27th
Campus Captains
“Walkshop”
MAY
Monday 1st
 Combined P&F Meeting
10am @ Smythes
Wednesday 3rd
 Breakfast Club F/1/2
Friday 5th
 DISCO - 6.30-8pm
Tuesday 9th-11th
Naplan Gr 3 & 5
Wednesday 10th
Breakfast Club Gr 3-6
Thursday 11th
Mother’s Day Afternoon
Tea
Friday 12th
 Curriculum Day
Wednesday 17th
 Walk to School Day &
Healthy Breakfast
Friday 19th
X Country Division Sport
Winter Sport
Monday 22nd-26th
Education week
PH: 5342 8565
Office Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday.
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.woadyyaloak.vic.edu.au
Campus Report
WELCOME BACK
It was great to hear all the holiday adventures and Easter stories from the students. We
have a busy term planned ahead with many special events including our Mother’s Day
afternoon. This term is also NAPLAN testing time and assessments will be held on May 9th,
10th and 11th for our Grade 3 and 5 students. We also have many extra-curricular activities
including winter sports (Gr 4-6), walk to school, breakfast clubs and school discos!
We also welcome our new student Marcel to our Foundation class. We are sure you will
enjoy your time with us at our Snake Valley Campus.
ANZAC DAY SERVICE
We are very fortunate to live in a safe and war-free
country. On Monday our captains led the ANZAC
Day service at our school. Our students laid a wreath
made from special poppies which was then taken to
the Snake Valley memorial to show our appreciation
for the efforts of our servicemen and women.
Badges, wristbands, poppies are still available for students to purchase from the office.
All funds raised support the wonderful work of the RSL. Please support this organisation.
SPORTS DAY
Well done to all students on their efforts and participation at our sports day.
Unfortunately the weather had an impact on forcing the cancellation – student safety
comes first! Thank you once again to our P&F committee for preparing and running the
canteen and for parents who volunteered to offer assistance. Many left-over products will
be used for school lunches or at other events.
Congratulations to Maddie Lewis who broke the record in discus! She threw 22.47 m.
Our sports champions for the day were Bryce W and Maddie L. Special recognition
certificates were presented at Monday’s assembly.
SCHOOL GROUNDS
Thank you to Jackie and Sammy (and families) for caring for the school chooks over the
holidays. The school grounds are looking quite neat but we would love some parents to
help with continued maintenance such as raking leaves and clearing paths. Thanks to
Nicole Fox Humber and Beau who worked hard over the weekend preparing the vegie
patch beds ready for planting. Nicole also has spent a great amount of time sourcing
garden manure . We will soon be planting winter seeds and batches of strawberries!
We are still seeking some parents to spread the soft fall mulch which was delivered last
week. This is to be placed under the playground equipment to prevent injuries and keep
the areas safer. If you are available please see the staff.
Our next working bee is scheduled for Sunday May 21st from 10-12 p.m.
The following families are rostered on to attend: Beauchamp, Breen, Burrill,
Ensor, Humphrey-Brown, Lambert, Milner, Pritchard, Smithman & Waters.
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YOU CAN
DO IT
ORGANISATION
Nelley
CONFIDENCE
Cody
PERSISTENCE
Jazz
SPECIALIST
AWARDS OF
THE WEEK
PERFORMING
ARTS
MOTHER’S DAY AFTERNOON TEA
After such success last year, we will once again be offering
an afternoon tea for mums, grandmothers and significant
others on THURSDAY 11th MAY. Our event will commence
at 2:15 p.m. Students will pamper you, offering delicious
afternoon tea and spend some quality time with such significant role models. Special
invitations will be sent home this week and we look forward to this great event.
SPORTING SCHOOLS
During term 2, students have the opportunity to participate in basketball and hockey
for the Sporting Schools Program. We are extremely lucky to have the Ballarat Miners
running the basketball clinic on a Monday afternoon and Kelly Sports running hockey
on a Wednesday afternoon. The Sporting Schools Program is a great opportunity to get
children involved in sports and active in their local communities. If you are involved in
either activity we ask that you see it through and attend every session. (Mrs Hughes –
Sporting Schools Co-ordinator)
SCREEN TIME
There is regular commentary in the media regarding the impact on personal wellbeing
of young people who spend excessive time on digital devices.
In an article in The Sunday Age (April 9, 2017), a report was given on research
undertaken by Ms Delaney Ruston (American doctor and film-maker) on the impact of
excessive screen time. Her research finding that - “Excessive screen time can lead to
problems such as decreased attention span, problems with developing social skills and
a risk of real clinical addiction” which can impact on academic study – points to the
need for parents to implement strategies for screen free time.
We encourage all parents to limit time spent using electronic devices and ensure digital
devices are charged in a central location at night, not in your child’s bedroom. Research
also indicates digital devices impact on sleep patterns and that it can have a very
detrimental impact on their health and wellbeing.
SPECIAL NEWS
Congratulations to Riley J on becoming a big brother!!! Lauren and Simon welcomed
little Logan Thomas into the world last Wednesday 19th April (the same day as Lauren’s
birthday!) All are doing well. Congratulations and best wishes from the Snake Valley
community. We look forward to enrolling Logan in a few years time!
CASUAL FOR A CAUSE / SCHOOL DISCO
Our student leaders are organising the casual for a cause day which is next FRIDAY. All
students are encouraged to wear appropriate casual clothes and bring a gold coin
donation. It is also the first of four school discos that night. More details about the
disco are included in the newsletter. The next disco date is Friday 16th June where the
SV team are the hosts. Please add this date to your calendars!
BREAKFAST with your teacher
Brock
Kayden
Wednesday 3rd May
Wednesday 10th May
Wednesday 17th May – Walk to School
Wednesday 24th May – Education Week
F/1/2 Mrs Major
3-6 Mr Cox, Mrs Clarke and Mr Snibson
All students and teachers and P&F
All students and teachers – celebrate Education
week!
Healthy Mind / Healthy Body
Thursday 1st June
Wednesday 7th June
Wednesday 14th June
Wednesday 21st June
Wednesday 28th June
F/1/2 Mrs Ford
3 /4 Mr Snibson
5 / 6 Mr Cox and Mrs Clarke
F/1/2 Mrs Major
All students
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WALKSHOP
Our Snake Valley Captains and Vice-Captains will be attending a Walkshop event on
Thurs 27th April at ‘The Well’ in Smythesdale. This will involve staff from Golden Plains
Shire, Leadership staff from WYPS, Captains/Vice Captains from each Woady Yaloak
campus and other local schools. This will be a great opportunity for our captains to
build on their leadership skills and experience and present back to our students on
things they have learned and what might be next in the future of our local community.
READ IT
SIGN IT
PAY FOR IT
RETURN IT
NAPLAN
The National school testing program takes place between the 9th-11th of May. All
students in years 3 and 5 will be tested in the areas of Reading, Writing, Language
Conventions and Mathematics.
This is our proposed timetable –
Tuesday 9th May
Language Conventions
9:30 – 10:30
Writing
11:45 – 1:00
Wednesday 10 May
Reading
9:30 -10:30
Thursday 11th May
Numeracy
9:30 – 10:30
th
Tuesday 9 May
th
We ask that parents ensure that students are in attendance on these days where
possible so that the appropriate testing can take place. We expect results to be
returned towards the end of this term.
COACHING
During the holidays I attended a Teaching to Lead professional learning course.
This course focuses on learning skills about influencing others and improving school
environments. There is also an aspect of coaching being offered as a focus. Last week,
Mr Harris, Mrs Trigg and myself completed two days focussed on GROWTH coaching.
We gained skills in becoming a coach – someone who takes the time to have focused
conversations with others to help them maximise their capabilities. Coaching is about a
way of leading and learning.
We are very fortunate to be able to offer coaching to our staff and reap the rewards of
such effective practice. We know that the benefits of coaching sessions improve
teacher practice, develop behaviours, facilitate change and encourage results.
STORE LUNCH
Thank you for supporting the store lunches provided by Amet and Steve. Our next store
lunch date is Monday. All orders can be written on lunch bags or envelopes.
A menu was sent home earlier this year or an extra copy is available at the front office.
Stephen Cox
Campus Head
“CAPTAIN’S CHAT”
We hope you are all having a great term 2. Just remember no hats no play.
To all the grade 3’s and 5’s, keep practicing for NAPLAN and keep up the good
work!
By Maddie & Ky
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We have eggs for
sale @ $4
per dozen.
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CROSS COUNTRY
We had X country on Friday 21st April at Scarsdale. I was the only one that ran the 3 kms
from the Snake Valley campus. I hope you all had a great day. By Tom E.
TIQBIZ
Have you got the
TIQBIZ App on
your phone?
This App will
remind you when
excursion
notices are due and
you can even read
the newsletter
on it!
If you need help
see Rhonda :)
GIFTED WRITERS WORKSHOP
YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED AT THE WORKSHOP JAZZ, ROSE AND I WENT TO!!!
It was an amazing experience, filled with wonderful things!
As soon as we arrived, we were split into colour groups, I was in light blue, Rosie was in
purple, and Jazz was in green.
We then got introduced to the teachers in the program, Mr. Day was the leader during it.
Once we finished the introduction, we saw a video about a kid in the first grade, that was
given a task to draw a scientific drawing of a butterfly, he tried to do his first one, but it
wasn't that good, so his friends gave him some advice, so he tried again, the second one
was better, but it still wasn't that good, so he talked to his friends, again. His friends gave
him some more advice, so he used it, and made a better one, so on, so on. Until he made
his sixth draft, which was the final one, it looked exactly like the butterfly he was given the
task to draw.
After that we saw Doug Bradby - the author of Seriously Weird Histories, again, he was
talking about how his grandpa first moved from England, to Australia.
When he took a carriage to Geelong from Ballarat, the mother didn't have enough money
to take all four of them back, so she told Doug’s grandpa to walk back to Ballarat… it took
him two days!
After Doug finished his story about his grandpa, we went for a tour around he Ballarat
Mechanics Institute, it was filled with history. We were told that the building was rebuilt
because the roof started to collapse. Within its walls, there is a theatre, the floor was
made from wonderful, polished wood.
It used to be famous, and performers from miles away came to perform at it.
Once we finished in there, we went for a tour of the old library, filled with old books from
about a hundred years ago! And really, old newspapers.
We then went for a visit at the new library, filled with books that seem very, very
interesting.
Once we finished the tour, we went back to our class, and where given the task to write a
Ballarat Mechanics Institute blurb, to try and persuade people to enter. Mine was good,
but not as good as the other ones.
We then had morning tea, that was the chance for me to get to know others.
The people I got to meet where interesting and nice!
Once we finished we researched Ballarat and looked at the gold veins, there are a lot of
them.
We then went for a lunch walk to our lunch spot. It was nice to see the sights. It was an
amazing spot and we really enjoyed our lunch.
When we returned, we were writing a news article from old newspapers that we thought
would be interesting today, of course we didn't finish it, but it was great. It was time to go
home, but before we left, Mr. Day told us that Showbie is for writing, not chit chat.
Hope you enjoyed, JP.
SENIOR PLT DAY
Last term the gr 5/6 went to ross Creek fro a cyber safety day. We had a lady come and
talk to us about the safety with technology. Here are 5 things that happened:
1.
The lady talking
2.
All the presentations
3.
When we had to pair up with people we didn't know
4.
We had a survey to answer
5.
We watched a video about bullying. By Maddie & Charlie
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The 2017 Attitudes to Schools Survey
We want our student to tell us what they think
Our school is conducting a survey to find out what your child thinks of our school. The
Attitudes to School survey is an annual student survey offered by the Department of
Education and Training. The survey assists schools in gaining an understanding of
students' perceptions and experience of school.
Our school will use the survey results to plan programs and activities to improve your
child's schooling experience.
This year the Attitudes to School survey will be conducted at our school between Monday
22 May to Friday 23 June. The survey only takes 20-30 minutes to complete and occurs
during your child's class time.
Students from Year 4, Year 5 and 6, at our school will participate in the survey. Your child
will complete the survey online during school hours using a purpose built secure online
survey tool.
The survey results will be reported back to the school in Term 3.
The Department has updated the survey for 2017 to include important new measures
that are known to influence student engagement and performance.
Students privacy is our priority
Your child will be provided with a unique login to complete the survey. The student login
is an assigned identifier that may be used by the Department to combine data for
research purposes only. Your child’s privacy and the confidentiality of your child’s survey
responses will be protected at all times. No identifiable personal data is included in the
survey response file.
This survey is not a test and your child has the right to refuse or withdraw from the
survey at any point before, during, or after completion.
Want to know more?
Please speak to Mr Cox if you would like more information or see:
Attitudes to School Survey
$5 Entry
NO PASS OUTS
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P & F CONTACTS:
SAMMY-JOE DALGLEISH (CO-ORDINATOR) MICHELLE BROWN (TREASURER) TANIA PEARSON (SECRETARY)
WELCOME BACK!!!
We trust you all had a nice Easter break and are ready for a busy term 2!
Please help support any way you can.
P&F is for everyone and without your help, we can not raise the funds for ALL of our
children to benefit from.
STICKYBEAKS LUNCH
BAGS
ORDERS
ARE DUE BACK
MOTHER’S DAY DONATIONS
We are requesting that each family donate an item for
our Mother’s Day raffle.
Please place your item in the box in front of the office.
MOTHER’S DAY RAFFLE
Raffle tickets have been sent home and are due back
Friday 5th May. The winning tickets will be drawn at
assembly Monday 8th May.
Combined P&F Meeting
At Smythesdale Campus
10am Monday 1/5/17
All Welcome
NO Late tickets will be excepted.
Good luck to everyone!
MOTHER’S DAY STALL
Gifts are $3 each
Stall will be held on
Tuesday 9th May.
Helpers to wrap and run the stall are
required please see Sammy-joe if you
can help.
GENERAL STORE
Our ticket selling day has been booked for Saturday
6th May.
If you can not do your allocated shift, please swap with
someone else AND you must
notify a committee member to ensure each position is
filled. Only 1 person per family is required, for one
hour.
Please arrive on time.
8-9am VANBOLTON & WOOLLEY
Wrapping to be done 8th May
After assembly.
9-10am KELLETT, THAIN &
SCOBIE
10-11am BERRY, DARCY &
CRAGG
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11-12noon JACKA-MULGREW, WOODFORD
& BRYDSON
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Thank you for your support
LUNCH DATES TERM TWO
19/4 Hotel
17/5 Hotel
14/6 Hotel
21/4 Playgroup
19/5 Playgroup
16/6 Playgroup
26/4 P&F
24/5 P&F
21/6 P&F
1/5 Store
31/5 Hotel
28/6 Hotel
3/5 Hotel
5/6 Store
10/5 P&F
7/6 P&F
*****Monday’s & Tuesday’s are school pie warmer days. Please make sure lunches are in oven proof wrapping******
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