EPS Newsletter Term 3 Week 5


FROM THE PRINCIPAL Term 3 Week 5

6/08/2022

Term 2 SWPBS Focus - Resilience

Kindness, Responsibility, Resilience.

School Vision:

Our school’s vision is to prepare young people to become active, engaged and responsible citizens of the local and global community. 

  • We will provide a safe, calm and welcoming learning environment where every child is treated as an individual.
  • We will develop children who have a strong relationship to school and their community. The children will have a sense of self & understand how they learn.
  • We will build and support an open, healthy and welcoming community that is visible in its practical support for the learning and wellbeing of each child. Children will be encouraged to embrace and celebrate difference and they will experience positive interactions with adults.
  • We aim to foster a love of and for our natural environment and nurture a strong sense of stewardship within our students.  Eppalock PS prioritises environmental sustainability.

Week 5 Term 3 2022

It was great to have Lydia back this week and taking sessions in our classes again.  The students were excited to have her back and quickly engaged in the activities she had planned for Living Green and STEM.  Lydia takes Living Green Sessions on Wednesday and STEM sessions on Thursday.  She will also resume some ART sessions on Tuesday’s or Friday’s for the remainder of the term.

Mr McCartney will be away from school for a few weeks.  He will be missed.  Miss Jordon Hivon will be replacing Mr Mc while he is away.  Jordon has worked at Eppalock PS as a CRT in the past and does a great job.  She knows the students well already which will help with a smooth transition into the room.  Regular staff will be supporting Jordon in her role during this time and will assist with school-home communication.  If you have any teaching and learning questions during this time, please give Jordon a call at school.  Absences can still be recorded on educateus, in diaries, or by calling the school.  Mr O’Neill will be covering the class on a Friday as usual.

Some special events coming up include; the Music is Fun day on Friday August 26th.  Tree planting day on Friday 2nd September, Bookweek Dress up day on Wednesday September 7th and we also have another excursion to Melbourne on 15th September.  Grade 3/4 and Grade 5/6 also have their Positive Start Camps in the next couple of weeks.  Keep an eye out for information about these days as well as educateus permission forms.

Over the past few weeks I have included some information about Duty of Care in the newsletter.  Please keep this in mind when dropping off students in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon.  Students dropped off too early in the morning are not supervised in the yard until 8:45am.  This is important to remember for Child Safe purposes.  Please contact the school if you ever need any support in the morning or afternoons.  Don’t forget that our After School Care operates from 3:15pm-6:00pm each day for any family to use.  Breakfast Club will only operate on mornings that are advertised.

Our Disco jar is almost full so it looks like we may be having a whole school disco as a reward for showing regular and consistent school values.  Students are working really hard to show our school values at school and are beginning to have a greater understanding of School Wide Positive Behaviours.  On current form, we may be organising an event towards the end of the term.

When students receive a Positive Acknowledgement Card (PA Card) they take it to Mr O for him to record on their individual sheets.  They receive a pom pom to put into the school reward jars and then take their PA card home to show families.  Once students get to 10 individual PA cards they will receive a small individual reward.  We almost have some students getting to that first milestone of 10 cards.

Reminders

  • Tying back of long hair. It is important that all students with longer hair, have it tied back when attending school.  Now that mullets are back, this may be a more common requirement for all students.  Please communicate this with your child/ren if they have longer hair.  A simple hair tie is all that is required to ensure it is tied back during the school day.
  • Pie Warmer takes place every Wednesday this term. Students can bring along a food item that can be warmed up in a pie warmer to eat for lunch.  Please make sure it is clearly named and students know what they have.

Our Patch

Don’t forget to use the After School Care program here at school.  You don’t have to be a regular and consistent user.  Casual use is encouraged.  Our Patch offer specialist sessions with activities like Yoga and Dancing from time to time as well.  We have regular supervisors in place and all students attending seem to be having a great time.  Child Care subsidy applies if you are eligible.  Contact the school if you have any questions.

Camps coming up

Our 3/4 and 5/6 camps through the Positive Start program are coming up soon.  Students in these groups have been given a medical form to fill out and return.  It is a requirement of camps to have up to date medical forms and any current dietary requirements.  Please return these as soon as you can so that final arrangements for camp to take place.

Miss Sherwell and Mr O’Neill will attend the 3/4 camp to Campaspe Downs.

Mr McCartney, Lydia and Chris will be staff attending the 5/6 camp to Halls Gap.

HDFL Clean up

A reminder that for the Camp Wilkin Camp to Anglesea we are looking for ways to reduce overall cost to families.  If you can help with the HDFL clean up on September 4th please let us know.  Any money raised for doing this clean up will go towards the cost of the camp.

School Items for removal

If you would like a large worm farm for your property please let us know.  We have one at school that can be taken away.  We still have some old awnings that can also be taken by a family if it suited.



IMPORTANT DATES Term 3 Week 5

AUGUST 

Wednesday 10th - MARC Van 

Friday 12th - Gym

Wednesday 24th - MARC Van 

Monday 22nd - 3/4 Camp (Return 24th)

Friday 26th - Music is Fun Excursion 

Monday 29th - 5/6 Camp (Return 31st)

SEPTEMBER 

Friday 2nd - Tree Planting Day

Wednesday 7th - Book Week 

Friday 9th - Fire & Sizzle 2.30pm @ school  ( Fathers day/Footy day)

Thursday 15th - Arts Centre Excusion 4/5/6 

Friday 16th - Last Day of Term - 1.30pm Finish (Casual clothes day)

AWARDS - Term 3 Week 5

  Watjarang 454

  Yuliwil       398

  Bunjil        499
  1st     -  4/5/6

  2nd    -   2/3

  3rd     -  P/1
  P/1     Izaak.W

  2/3     Houston.P

  4/5/6 Annika.H


PARENT COMMUNITY NEWS - Term 3 Week 5

Get your callendars out for a family friendly social event.

Friday September 9th!
Fire & sausage sizzle at the school to celebrate Father's Day & Footy Colours Day.


Term 3 Social Events
Family social - Fire & Sausage sizzle after school on Friday 9th September starting from 2:30pm. Come & celebrate Father's Day & Footy Colours day with a kick of the footy and a sausage in bread around the fire.


Adults Social - Trivia night  & dinner at One Tree Hill pub on a Wednesday night in Term 3. It's a great atmosphere, & generous meals, as well as catering for those who normally work weekends.
What other activities would you like to see come out of our community?

If you have some input, or feedback please message me on face book or email knunnseps@outlook.com

Parent Community Meetings - 
Last meeting we worked on term 3 Fundraisers & Social events.
Details in social events & below

Term 3 Fundraiser 
Mango Drive - Lydia Ferring has offered to be our farm contact again & create the flyer. Thank you, Lydia!

 We are looking for one or two volunteers for this one please.
  • Someone to manage the orders, which involves the use of the Mango Drive e-mail account & a spread sheet.
  • The other to manage the face book page, pretty much adding the flyer on the page & updating with a post once a week, recipes, a countdown closer to the pick-up date etc.
If you think you could help out with this in term 3, please contact Kelly Nunns, Lydia Fehring, Alicia Martin via messenger or e-mail, or Nikki Mannes in the office



What’s Parent Community all about?
The best news is you don't have to join, if you have children at the school, you are already part of our Parent Community. 

Basically, once a month we meet up & look at what social events & fundraisers we would like to achieve throughout the year.

Simple tasks like showing up or being the contact for a gathering, to booking the bowling club or organizing sausages or bread are typically as hard as it gets.

Meetings are held in the old school building, staff room or at the pub & always involve a chat & either a cuppa or lunch depending on time or location.

For more information talk to Kelly Nunns (Lexi and Ethan's Mum) or Alicia Martin (Connor, Jacob & Max's Mum) or Nikki in the office (Charlie's Mum).

Parent Community Reminders & Dates to Remember
Social Events

Family Fire & Saussage sizzle - after school on Thursday 9th September starting at 2:30pm further details to come.

Trivia at One Tree Hill - date to be confirmed - it will be a Wednesday night in term 3.

Fundraiser
Mango drive - August-October dates to be confirmed

Scholastic BOOK CLUB

MARC Van - BOOK WEEK

https://www.eppalockps.vic.edu.au/uploaded_files/media/eppalock_book_week_newsletter.docx

BOOK WEEK FLYER

 

                                   

 

 

  

 



Academy of Creative Arts (ACA) @ Bendigo South East College

The Bendigo South East College Academy of Creative Arts Applications 

- Close September 9th 2022 

-Auditions September 19th-21st 2022 https://www.bse.vic.edu.au/academy-of-creative-arts/

ACA - Academy of Creative Arts @ BSE information

ASC - Dancing Tuesdays

Dancing Tuesdays
Commencing Tuesday 26th July ( Incorrect date on Flyer)