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Pride in Performance
TERM 4 Week 7 Templeton Primary School
23rd November 2018 Crestdale Road, Wantirna 3152
Telephone 9801 7450 Facsimile 9800 3547
Email templeton.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
DATES TO REMEMBER
TERM 4
Monday 26th November Year 3 Incursion—Nick Love Illustrator
Tuesday 27th November Year 2 Incursion—Andrew Wegner
Wednesday 28th November Year 6 Science Incursion
Friday 30th November Templeton Disco in Community Room
Tuesday 4th December Swimming Trials
Wednesday 5th December Year 2 Incursion– Corinne Fenton Author Visit
Year 4 Incursion—Proactivity Sports
Year 6 Science Incursion
Monday 10th December School Council Meeting 7.30pm
Wednesday 12th December Year 6 Graduation Rehearsal
Thursday 13th December Year 1 Kew Traffic School Excursion
Year 3 Village Cinemas Excursion
Monday 17th December Endeavour Award Presentation by Nick Wakeling
Year 6 Graduation 7.00pm-10.00pm at Burrinja Cultural Centre
Tuesday 18th December 2019 Promotion Parade
Wednesday 19th December Year 1 Excursion Village Cinemas
Year 2 Excursion Latitude/Possum Hollow
Year 4 Excursion Village Cinemas
Year 5 Excursion Village Cinemas
Year 6 Excursion Gumbuya Park
Templeton Carols Night 6.30pm—8.30pm
Thursday 20th December Year 6 Excursion Village Cinemas
Friday 21st December Year 6 Pizza Party
End Term 4 - School Finish 1.30pm
PRINCIPAL’S DESK
DROP OFF ZONE
It has been reported to me that a small number of drivers are not respecting the 2 minute
drop off zone restrictions before school. All community members are reminded that for
the safety of our students, and to ensure a smooth traffic flow around our school, to
please show respect for council laws at this busy time of day. Council inspectors regularly
police our surrounding roads in the mornings and afternoons to ensure our students are
protected from drivers who think that council laws don’t include them.
PRINCIPAL’S DESK
SCHOOL FEES IN 2019
The Finance subcommittee of School Council has reviewed the family charges for books, materials and voluntary
contributions, recommending to School Council that our fee structure and charges include a small increase of $10
and include the cost of $10 for Mathletics. School Council is committed to keeping any increases to a minimum
whilst at the same time being mindful that our fees have remained unchanged for the last two years.
We ask our community to continue to support the school by contributing financially to high quality educational
programs and enable us to provide materials and resources well above the standard curriculum we are funded
for. Parent payments for ‘Essential Items’ are used to support all learning areas inclusive of: Art materials, English,
Mathematics and Inquiry learning materials, Science consumables, sports equipment, digital technologies
(desktops and laptops) and printing consumables, photocopying of learning tasks, access to software (including
Mathletics and Reading Eggs) and so on. We can only provide these items with a contribution from families, as
they are not included in the funding we are provided as a government school to implement the standard
curriculum.
School Council have discussed at length how we can maintain the high standards that exist here at Templeton.
This is where you can help with the voluntary payments towards either the (tax deductable) Building Fund, or
making a donation. The grounds and the working conditions in the classroom that the children enjoy - all fully air
conditioned and heated - are not standard at all state schools, and have either been budgeted for or fundraised.
Contributions for next year are increasingly important as we look to complete a masterplan of our school site in
order to plan for our learning needs in the near future. Further details regarding our masterplan will be shared
early next year.
INTERN PRINCIPAL AT TEMPLETON
This week we welcome Kellie Stewart to Templeton. Mrs Stewart, who is a Prep
Coordinator and Learning Specialist at Mount View Primary School, and an ex student at
Templeton, is participating in a Principal development program for aspiring principals in the
Victorian education system. Mrs Stewart, will be shadowing our Management team and
spending time learning how we operate. It has also been insightful for our staff to learn
about how another large, high performing school operates and already we are benefiting
from her insights. Mrs Stewart will be with us for the next two weeks and will return for
the latter part of Term 1 in 2019. Please join with me in welcoming her to Templeton.
PAST STUDENTS
Jack Lucas is a past student of Templeton Primary School who last week was elected as 2019 School Captain, at
Emmaus College. All of us at Templeton congratulate and wish him well in this role.
If anyone has any information about the achievements of our past or present students, I would love to hear about
them so we can all celebrate their success.
PRINCIPAL’S DESK OUR UNIFORM I’ve had a couple of queries regarding our school uniform recently regarding the colouring on our school uniform shoes. I take this opportunity to remind all parents that our uniform policy states that they must be all black shoes, not black with white soles or a white tick; all black. This is a great support to parents who are constantly asked by their children to buy the Nike, or Addidas half black, half multi-coloured runners! Please feel free to use the line: Mr McKinlay said….. when being pestered about this next time you go to buy school shoes. Please also be mindful that on the first day back in 2019, I have asked our teachers to check all our uniforms to ensure that all students are wearing it correctly so we all start the year off on the right foot – so to speak! Students out of uniform will be given a letter addressed to the parents outlining the reasons for an out of uniform notice. We are very proud and respectful of our uniform here at Templeton; it is well known in the Knox and outer east community and we ask that parents continue to support the high expectations we have of our students in ensuring that it is worn correctly at all times. NEW FENCING CLUB AT TEMPLETON From next year we have a new hiring group who will be providing fencing lessons in our GP room from 6pm to 8pm each Monday and Friday evening. Please see the flier in this Newsletter or at reception for further details. THIS WEEK’S CLASSROOM VISIT — WALKATHON! After such a wonderful day last week where the students and teachers walked together to raise money for our school programs, I encourage all parents to return their walkathon forms with the money collected as soon as possible. I thank all members of our community for the support they give our school, both in terms of money and to the parents who donated their morning and cooked sausages for the 750 students and teachers! Thank you!
PRINCIPAL’S DESK
MATHS TIPS FOR PARENTS
I thought I would include over the next couple of weeks a few tips for parents who would like some ideas on how
to help their children with Maths. This week I include ideas for Prep to Grade 2 and I’II follow up with Grade 3 to 6
in the next edition. Hope they help you!
Prep – Grade 2
Playing shop, talk about how we pay for items using notes and coins
Make paper money or use play money to buy and sell goods from the ‘shop’
When unpacking the shopping order food items by height or by cost
Introduce kitchen scales to weigh some foods such as a box of tea bags or rice, then order by weight
Play I Spy or other games to identify shapes, numbers and patterns
Dice are a great resource. Roll the dice and say, make or write the numbers identified, roll the dice and add
the numbers together to find the total
Identify and explain visual patterns on clothing, wrapping paper, crockery, cards and furniture
Use coloured pegs, blocks or beads to begin a patter for your child to continue
Encourage your child to draw, create and describe their own patterns. Use them for borders or greeting
cards.
Cut a piece of string for your child, any length will do. Use the string to measure the objects in your house to
find out what is longer or shorter than your string measuring tape.
Explore other ways of measuring using a cup, jug, teaspoon, icy pole sticks, footprints or hand lengths
Find numbers around you, for example house numbers, calendars
Look at and say the number son car number plates, signs, calendars, newspapers, shopping catalogues,
speed signs, house numbers
Use different numbers as the starting point for practising counting, for example start counting from 6 or 10.
Ask your child to count forwards and backwards. Ask what number comes before or what number comes
after
Turn everyday events into a maths story: count the fruit in the fruit bowl, cut fruit into six pieces, add the
total of cutlery at the table
Talk about the number of things, for example there are five pieces of fruit in our bowl. Three are apples and
two are bananas
How many throws can we do without dropping the ball?
How many jumps does it take to get to…?
How many times can you tap the balloon before it touches the ground?
Use playing cards, play matching games, put cards in order from largest to smallest by counting the shapes
or using the numbers on the cards
Look at and talk about sports scores
Collect and read recipes, discuss the use of fractions, millilitres and grams, encourage your child to make
accurate measurements using measuring cups and spoons
Discuss how you could double a recipe
Identify the temperature and cooking time of the recipe
Estimate the cost to buy all of the ingredients
PRINCIPAL’S DESK LAST DAY OF SCHOOL— 1.30PM FINISH Please mark in your calendars that we will be finishing at 1.30pm on the last day of Term 4, Friday 21st December. Camp Australia will be operating After School care from this time. Have a great weekend. Rod McKinlay Principal
Shawn F, PF—for creating an excellent lifecycle of a butterfly this week using a variety of different materials. Alexia L, PG—for the wonderful effort you put into our Maths sessions on “sharing’ this week. You did an amazing job sharing items into groups equally. Well done, Alexia! Ella E, PS—for your enthusiasm during our Walkathon. You completed all 5 laps with a smile on your face. Selena N, PV—for the wonderful detail and effort you put into your writing every week. I always love reading about your weekend. Lucas Z, PZ—for the great effort you put into your reading. It’s wonderful to see you read and retell a story confidently. Keep up the awesome effort. Alicia T, 1H—for being a caring and kind classmate. You always comfort and look after others when they are upset, or unwell. You are a great friend. Tom L, 1N—for your outstanding oral presentation this week about “How to make fluffy slime”. You were so confident and clear that I think you would make a great Prime Minister. Ivy K, 1S—for scoring 60 out of 60 on both her oral and written phonogram tests. Fantastic work Ivy! Chloe B, 1W—for your outstanding procedure writing on How to Make Pancakes. You included a great title, all the ingredients and had the steps in the correct order. Fantastic work! Chelsea Z, 2D—for your excellent behaviour during our Butterfly incursion and for letting yourself get dressed as a beautiful Monarch butterfly! Giselle J, 2M—for responsible behaviour while swimming. Well done. Isaac L, 2M—for responsible behaviour while swimming. Well done. Kyle L, 2H—for your exemplary behaviour this week! You are always striving to achieve your very best. Keep it up! Samantha B, 2W—for having the confidence to stand up for her beliefs. You are a role model for us all. Well done Sam! Ryan A, 3A—well done on a very detailed and entertaining oral presentation. We enjoyed learning more about your Grandfather who will always have a place on our “DIS” window. Lisa O, 3A—for completing your Show and Tell this week. You did such a great job describing your dream room, and projecting your voice to the grade. Keep up the awesome effort. Lauren B, 3F—for an outstanding oral talk on your interview with your mum. You were well prepared and spoke with such conviction. Great job! Arjun P, 3P—for a great year in 3P. You’ve shown outstanding dedication in all areas of your learning. Keep up the great work in Grade 4 and beyond. Jayvel S, 4E—for your participation during our Science Incursion. You were able to complete the task on forces using Lego and also help others to complete theirs. Well done! Yun F, 4F—for you bravely sharing your insightful ideas demonstrating resilience during our morning discussions. Dylan L, 4L—for your fantastic behaviour during this week's Science incursion. It was great to see you helping your peers. Chelsea L, 4N—for working diligently and with enthusiasm during our Science Incursion. It was great to see you collaborating and offering assistance to others. Isabel L, 5B—for representing our school so well at Wantirna College this week. You have beautiful manners and are always a pleasure to take on excursions.
Aris S, 5M—for your fantastic effort during our visit to Wantirna College this week. You showed great enthusiasm
and made the most of each new opportunity. Well done!
Ariana K, 5K—for your fantastic work on tessellations this week and creating eleven different tessellating shapes,
you may be the next M.C. Escher. Keep up the excellent work!
Lia H, 5S—for being an enthusiastic storywriter. Your narratives are amazing and so descriptive and we all look
forward to reading many of your novels in the future.
Connor W, 6P—for an entire year filled with the most superb writing. Your use of a more sophisticated
vocabulary paired with a copious amount of subtle humour make your pieces a pleasure to read. Well done!
Brock C, 6P—for an excellent oral presentation on your primary school days. We are all interested to hear about
your many experiences in different schools and countries. You spoke confidently and kept your audience
engaged. Well done.
Pritika P, 6W—for being a kind and generous person. You always try your best and we are sad you will not be
here to celebrate graduation with us.
MUSSOP AWARDS
Selwyn B, PV—for being responsible during our school Walkathon. We can always rely on you to behave
responsibly during special events.
EGGCEPTIONAL READER
Tia S, PG—for a cracking effort in Reading Eggs. Congratulations on completing 120 lessons.
Eason L, PS—for a cracking effort in Reading Eggs. Congratulations on completing 120 lessons.
Ivy L, PV—for a cracking effort in Reading Eggs. Congratulations on completing 120 lessons.
Linda N, PZ—for a cracking effort in Reading Eggs. Congratulations on completing 120 lessons.
Lucas G, PZ—for a cracking effort in Reading Eggs. Congratulations on completing 120 lessons.
Claire S, PZ—for a cracking effort in Reading Eggs. Congratulations on completing 120 lessons.
Maths Games and Maths Olympiad 2018
Over 13 000 students participated from New Zealand, Australia and other neighboring countries representing their schools in
teams of 15 or more in the Maths Games.
Maths Games Grade 4 Results
Equal first with a score of 19, finishing in the top 2% of all participating students were Matthew W and Raymond Z.
Top 10% were Sally J, Ryan C, Timothy G, Suri N, Viyaan S, Mahin S, Jerome T, Jessie X and Lin Y.
Certificates of Achievement
Sachini K, Anom B, Kenny C, Ayan B, Peter W, Malcolm C, Jayvel S, Ash E, Chloe O, Sweekar P, Milus S, Cherrie T, Kavja J,
Sophiella N, Tenam T, Akshay A, Hunter W-B, Aadi P and Ekjot S.
Maths Olympiad Grades 5 and 6 Results
Over 33 199 students participated from New Zealand, Australia and other neighboring countries representing their schools in
teams of 15 or more in the Maths Olympiad.
Both Year 5 and Year 6 students compete in Division J. The Grade 5 and 6 teams finished in the top 30% which is a fantastic
effort, well done to both teams.
Grade 5 Results
The award for the students who have the highest individual score within their team went to Eric H and Ivan Z.
Other top 10% scorers were Linda H and Aden A.
Certificates of Achievement
Shaurya S, Jiesse W, Emma R, Daniel L, Kimi L, Henry G, Matthew L, Sansita S, Katherine S, Justin J, Eshaan R, Alex S, Liam W,
Oliver K, Braydan M, Aris S, Makaila S, Samantha S, Jason L and Yiran W.
Grade 6 Results
The award for the students who have the highest individual score within their team went to Cheng L and Darius S. Other top
10% scorers were Andy C.
Certificates of Achievement
Sean Y, Damian Y, Brandon J, Shayanne K, Caity L, Sukirthan P, Adi R, Leo W, Connor W, Alysa Y, Om D, Kingsley H, Thisu M,
Justin Y, Bonnie Z, Jamie C, blake L, Eric H, Fangzhou L, Emily Z, Elijana H, Isabelle L, Andrew L, Max T, Kaye L, Parthiv S, and
Lachlan B.
Congratulations to all of the students who participated in these extension and enrichment programs at Templeton.
Thank you to Mr Jin, Mr Sussman and Mr Nelson who helped deliver these programs successfully this year.
Mrs Diane Hynes—Numeracy Coordinator
TEMPLETON CHRISTMAS RAFFLE
Templeton is once again conducting a Christmas Raffle. We are asking
for your assistance in donating “goodies” that will contribute towards
our hampers. The Christmas Raffle will be drawn at our annual Carols
Night which is on Wednesday 19th December at 6.30pm-8.30pm.
Donations can be left at the office until Monday 17th December.
Thank you.
Mrs Andrea Edwards—Assistant Principal
DISCO AT TEMPLETON
Friday 30th November 2018
In the School’s Community Centre
Prep & Grade 1 5.00pm—6.15pm Cost—$5.00
Years 2 & 3 6.30pm—7.45pm Cost—$5.00
Years 4 to 6 8.00pm—9.15pm Cost—$5.00
Glo sticks/bracelets will be available to purchase for 50 cents each.
All Disco sessions will be supervised by Staff Members.
ART NEWS For the second year in a row one of our Grade Four students independently entered art- work for display and judging at the Lilydale Show. Congratulations to Sachini K (of 4L) for again winning a third place prize in the Mixed Media Junior category. What an achieve- ment for her personally and for Templeton Primary School! Check out her piece below (with the winning ribbon!) Well done! Mrs Amber Boag—Art Teacher
GRADE 3 CINQUAIN POEMS
This week 3A have been learning about cinquain poems. A cinquain poem does not rhyme, it follows a
pattern of 5 lines with 11 words. We had lots of fun thinking of different topics and all the verbs and
adjectives to match. Here are some of our favourites.
Friends
Kind Helpful
Playing Talking Dancing
Help others when hurt
Kids
By Madison
Teacher
Fun Helpful
Teaching Helping Typing
Everyone learns something new
Educators
By Adam
Stars
In Space
Shining Twinkling Shooting
Every night stars shine
Constellation
By Katherine
Music
Peaceful Loud
Relaxing Funky Playful
I like funky music
Jazz
By Pranav
Miss Andrea McGrathTEMPLETON IS TURNING 40!
Celebrating 40 years of Templeton Primary School
Family Fun Day on March 21st 2020
Where: Templeton Primary
Time: 10am -5pm
Rides
Food
Market Stalls
Entertainment
Sideshow Alley
Karaoke
Celebrities
And lots more…….
We are seeking an enthusiastic committee of parents and staff to get the ball rolling.
Please sign up at the office if you are interested in joining the planning committee.
Mrs Andrea Edwards—Assistant PrincipalThis year we are again supporting the Uniting’s Food for Families annual appeal (previously Wesley Mission). All classrooms will be given a large box and until December 7th we are collecting non-perishable items like tinned foods and toiletry items. Anything that needs refrigeration is not appropriate. The collected items will go towards families who are struggling to make ends meet. Last year we filled 36 boxes and helped to feed many families over a year. This year we hope to make an even bigger contribution the appeal. So check those pantries or perhaps buy an extra item or two in your family’s next grocery shop! Thanks from the Student Council. Mrs Ayse Bavage
GRADE 2 BUTTERFLY INCURSION
As part of our science topic on “Life Cycles” the Grade 2 children
last week were lucky to participate in a Butterfly Incursion. The
Butterfly Lady, Sharon, brought in all her beautiful butterflies for
us to learn about.
The children got to hold them and even let some of the
butterflies land on them!
One of our children was transformed into a giant butterfly!
We all had a wonderful time experiencing the delicate beauty of
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