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Warrnambool West Primary School - 'WWPS is a Child Safe school'
Term 2—Week 9—Wednesday 19th June 2019

                              Warrnambool West Primary School
                                    ‘WWPS is a Child Safe school’

           35 Hoddle Street Warrnambool 3280 Ph: (03) 5561 31 61 Fax: (03) 5561 2369
     Email: warrnambool.west.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Web: warrnamboolwestps.vic.edu.au

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                                                        displayed by our students. Well done!
                                                        “Leading a Healthy Lifestyle “

                     From the Principal                 To finish our term 2 ‘on a high ’ next Friday, 28th of
                                                        June all students, are invited to come dressed in
                                                        something that represents a Healthy Lifestyle. The
                                                        day is a culmination of the P-2 inquiry unit on
                                                        Healthy Minds the 3-6 inquiry of Leading a Healthy
Our teaching staff have worked incredibly hard over     Life-style. Students will have the opportunity to
the last month or so writing Student Achievement        participate in a variety of activities throughout the
Reports. I would also like to congratulate the          day.
teachers on the high quality reports they have
written for all the students. They certainly know       End of term
your children well and provided excellent examples      Term 2 concludes next Friday, June 28th at 2:20 pm.
and evidence of their strengths. These reports are      Prior to dismissal, we will hold a final assembly for
yet another part of the home – school connection.       term 2 commencing at 1:40pm in the multipurpose
Students will receive a hardcopy of their midyear       room. During the assembly, students of the term
report to take home on Friday 28th of June. Parent      will be presented with a certificate. The criteria for
teacher interviews will be held early in term 3 and     the award is a student who has made the most
will provide an opportunity to discuss your child’s     significant growth in their academic, social or
progress with their teacher.                            emotional learning. Recipients will celebrate their
Movie Fundraiser                                        achievement with a special lunch early next term
                                                        with staff members. Hope to see you all there!
To celebrate the end of term 2, our dedicated
Parents and Friends have organised have organised       School Council Snapshot
a movie fundraiser. Please come along next Friday       At our June meeting held on Monday evening we
evening, June 28th, at 7pm to watch the all new         welcomed, community member Rinska Miritz. At
adventure of Woody, Buzz and toys in ‘Toy Story 4’.     this meeting our critical incident and attendance
Tickets are available at $15.00 per ticket which        policies were updated and our uniform policy was
includes a light supper available from 6pm. All funds   ratified. As from the beginning of next term it is an
raised go directly back into supporting school          expectation that all students come to school
facilities and student resources. I am looking          dressed in Warrnambool West uniform items only.
forward to seeing many families on the night.           Students wearing items of clothing that are not part
School Crossings                                        of our uniform; such as hoodies or trackpants that
                                                        are not navy will be asked to remove them and
I have received a number of reports from parents        given uniform to wear for the day. The addition of a
and community members that our students are not         micro-fibre sports jacket will be available next term
using the crossings correctly. Please remind your       for purchase. I ask that all families assist us with the
children that it is imperative that these are used at   enforcement of our uniform policy.
all times for their own safety. Thank you for your
support with this matter.                               A facility sub-committee presented a priority list of
                                                        both minor and major projects for council to work
T Ball Team                                             towards over the next twelve months. Included in
                                                        the list works are; replacement of soft fall under
Congratulations to our T Ball teams for their
                                                        play equipment, repairing of leaking spouts,
progression and participation in the divisional ‘T
                                                        maintenance of retaining walls and sourcing quotes
Ball’ competition. Although there were no victories
                                                        for the interior painting of the main corridor.
on the day, Mr Hackett and Mr Griffin were very
thrilled with the sportsmanship and team work           Angela Wickham was elected to one of our parent

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                                                       Ruby Wisewould -11
Cont...                                                Zoe Wisewould     -10
vacancies and will commence her 18 month term at       Caitlin Monagle -6
our August meeting. We still have two parent
vacancies remaining on council; please contact me if   Charlotte Polkinghorne -3
you wish to join our council.                          A reminder that students from Prep to Year 2 can
                                                       read or have read to them 30 books -20 from the
Premiers Readers Challenge
                                                       challenge list and 10 free choice.
Many of our students have embraced the
opportunity and challenge to participate in the        Children in year 3-6 must read 15 books, 10 from the
Premiers Reading Challenge. This challenge is open     challenge list and 5 free choice. The challenge
to all students from Prep to Year 6 .                  continues until September 6th so ‘Let’s get reading.’

Currently, our library is stocked with many of the     Our most popular books from the challenge are
Premiers' reading challenge books!                     listed below

                                                                                 Mrs Clare Monk
Congratulations to our readers so far who have read                                Principal
many of the challenge books:

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Parents & Friends

                 Important Dates:             Term 2, 2019
   Week 9

   Week 10     Tuesday            25th June   Dental Therapist Visit
               Friday             28th June   Healthy Lifestyle Dress up Day
               Friday             28th June   PFA Toy Story 4 Fundraising Night
               Friday             28th June   Last Day of Term 2

                                    HOLIDAYS
   Term 3      Monday             15th July   First Day Term 3
   Week 1

   Week 2

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 Last week our Café group prepared for a trial run within the coming weeks while our construction
 group made more progress on the chicken coop. Congratulations to Marshal for winning our MVP.

                  On Monday Mr Hackett and Isaac attended the HoL conference
                   in Melbourne, gaining valuable ideas and skills to bring to our
                                        program at WWPS

                        Students of the Week
Name                 Class           Reason

        Henry           Mrs Irvine               For trying hard to make good choices. Great job!

                                       For being a wonderful example to her peers by always making good
        Ruby            Mrs Lilley
                                                                   choices

        Ruby            Miss Evans    For improvement in literacy and for using the skills learned in Sounds

       Patience        Mrs Roberts     For her outstanding improvement in Maths – understanding place

       Cameron         Mrs Hopkins        Thankyou for showing kindness to our new student this week

                                     For his amazing efforts while representing the school at tee-ball and for
       Masson           Mr Griffin
                                                        having a positive attitude all week.

                                        For outstanding goalkeeping and a positive attitude at the winter
       Lachlan               PE
                                                        sports. Keep up the great work!

                                     For turning a page in science this term. Ella is completing all her work in
         Ella            Science
                                      class with increasing neatness and accuracy. Keep up the great work!

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