The Premier’s Active Families Challenge

The Premier’s Active Families Challenge

Here is a message from the organisers of The Premier’s Active Families Challenge...

The Premier’s Active Families Challenge is a key component of the Victorian Government’s commitment to get more people more active more often.
· The Challenge provides a great opportunity for all Victorian families to spend time together and enjoy the benefits of an active lifestyle. 
· Families participating in the Challenge are asked to do 30 minutes of physical activity a day for 30 days between 19 March and 30 April 2012. 
· Each family that registers will receive 20 free YMCA passes, discounts at Rebel Sport, one free child pass to the Melbourne Aquarium and one free child pass to the National Sports Museum, and opportunities to win prizes including iPads and Rebel Sport vouchers. 
· There will be regular tips and ideas on ways to keep active throughout the Challenge.

Get more active more often, spend quality time together and have fun. It’s free, it’s easy, and there are plenty of chances to win prizes for yourself or your school . Register online at www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/challenge or call 1800 463 684 , and remember to include our school’s name when you register.

Writer's Notebook

This Monday, students will be receiving their own Writer's Notebooks, which they will be expected to make an entry into every week. The Writer's Notebook is an excellent way of inspiring students to write, explore different genres and make writing relevant. Writer's Notebook contains two parts. The first part is the Seed of Thought, where students paste in a paper-based inspiration from home, such as a newspaper cutting, a ticket from a show or sporting event, a pamphlet from a museum exhibition, a photograph, a postcard, a picture found inside a magazine etc. This allows students to connect their writing with their 'out-of-school' experiences and come up with inspirations that are relevant to them. From this Seed of Thought, students write some ideas that come to mind and some possibilities for a full piece of writing. The possibilities might include a poem, a story or an informational piece. The students then choose one of the possibilities and write a full piece of writing inside the writer's notebook.

As all students are expected to bring in something to use as a Seed of Thought at the beginning of the week, we ask parents to discuss during the weekend which Seed of Thought to choose from home.

We are hoping to mark the end of the academic year by presenting the students' completed Writer's Notebooks to parents.

Parent Responses to the Welcome Festival

We are asking children as a home learning possibility to interview parents and carers about the Welcome Festival. Students are able to produce this in a written format or as a recording. We ask that parents review the responses for their accuracy. These can be handed in to one of the neighbourhood teachers.

Parent Reps

Here is a message regarding Parent Reps from Angela at the Community Relations Sub-Committee.

We are looking for 2-4 parents from each neighbourhood to volunteer as a parent rep for 2012. The role of parent reps is to encourage and co-ordinate parent involvement in the educational and social activities of the school in collaboration with the neighbourhood teachers.
If you are interested, please speak to the teachers in your child's neighbourhood by Thursday 1 March.
Angela Palombo

Parent's Information Night

There will be a Parent Information Night on Wednesday 29th February at 4:00 - 5:00 (straight after the Welcome Festival). You will be able to find out about the learning within our neighbourhoods and answers to any particular questions regarding Year 3/4. We hope to see you there!

Welcome Festival Invitations

 

On Friday, our students took home the invitations to the Year 3/4 Welcome Festival which will be on Wednesday 29th February at 2:30 - 3:30. This will be the result of the inquiry into the creation of a festival within our neighbourhood. Students created their invitations using poetry and then personalised and published them. All parents, relatives and carers are welcome to our Neighbourhoods to meet our community of learners, teachers, and celebrate our learning. Hope some of you can make it!

Our Neighbourhood in the Papers!

If you bought the Sunday Herald Sun on Sunday, you may have noticed that there is an article regarding our school, with a fantastic photo of the students from Year 3/4 Neighbourhoods, on page 5! You can also access this article HERE on their website if you didn't get the chance to go and get a copy!