Gembrook Primary School

DATES TO REMEMBER
Diary Dates for Term 2
24 May Family Fun Night
25 May School Disco ($5 entry + spending money for
snacks)
27 May Gembrook Market Sausage Sizzle
31 May EDEC Cross Country (cost: $7.50)
Gembrook Primary School
A view to the future
50 Main Rd GEMBROOK 3783 Ph: 03 5968 1313 Fax: 03 5968 1548 email: gembrook.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
www.gembrookps.vic.edu.au
1 June Peter MacCullum Dress Up Day (Cancer research)
1-10 June Free lunch-time dance workshop in performing
arts room (Cardinia Council)
4 June PFA Meeting
5 June EDEC Lightning Premiership (est cost: $7.50)
8 June Kurth Kiln tree planting (3/4)
11 June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday
13 June Produce Market
19-20 June Visit from Macfarlane Primary School, Katherine
NT
21 June JellyBeans Musical Performance at EPAC (ticket
price: $5)
24 June Gembrook Market Sausage Sizzle
27 June PFA Soup Day ($2 per cup)
27 June School Council 7pm
29 June Grade 5 visit to Emerald Secondary College
29 June
End of term 1! 2.30pm dismissal
Gembrook Market Sausage Sizzle
this Sunday
27 May
Helpers URGENTLY needed
Please sign up at the school office
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Notes that have gone home
EDEC Cross Country (gr 3-6)
Earn and Learn sticker sheets
School disco (all grades)
Education week-family fun night (all grades)
Head lice notice (all grades)
Kurth Kiln (grades 3-4)
Lightning Premiership (grades 5-6)
School Disco
Friday 25 May
Junior Disco (prep-3)
5.30pm-6.45pm
and Senior Disco (3-6)
7-8.30pm
Dress up theme:
Favourite celebrity
Movie star
Musician
Superhero
Education Week
Family Fun Night
Thursday 24 May
Poetry
6-7pm
Games
Art

Kym’s comment
Dear Families and Friends
A VIEW TO THE FUTURE
We are very proud of our senior students at Gembrook Primary School. They are wonderful big buddies to our Prep students. They
have been great sports leaders at our whole school sporting events and lunchtime activities program and they were wonderful at
the junior sports afternoon. Joel and Chloe are excellent school captains. They are doing a tremendous job presenting the assembly
each week and have enjoyed other leadership opportunities. They will meet with local state and federal politicians a number of
times during the school year. In school the students participate in a range of leadership programs that develop their team and
leadership skills. This week the newsletter has been written by a number of our brilliant 2012 student leaders….
Enjoy your week
Amazing Race
“Could all the grade 5’s and 6’s go into the middle
room” said Mr Fraser
“We are going to do the Amazing Race again this
year!” Tim said to the entire grade 5 and 6’s
“YAY!!!!!!!!!!” “Could everyone get into a group
of 4 or 5?”
We got into a group of 4 or 5. I was in a group
with Emily, Makenzie and Ryan. Before we started
we had to make paper hats.
The Amazing Race is where we have different
activities around the school. After we finished
the activities we walked down to the skate park
and had some more activities to complete! It
was a really fun day and I wish we could have the
Amazing Race again!
By Madison Francis
Cross country
It was a warm sunny day at Gembrook Primary School
and the teams were ready with their flags waving round
the whole cricket pitch. The captains were yelling their
lungs out and the crowd went wild. It was almost time
to start the race. The preps went up to start for the first
heat. It took them a bit of time to get organised but
they got it in the end. After that went the ones and
twos. The grade ones did one lap of the oval. The grade
twos did two laps of the oval. It was then the grade
threes and fours turn. They did a lap of the oval and a
lap of the town. They had great fun! Lastly, the grade
five’s and six’s went onto the track to beat it out for the
winner. The grade six girls’ winner was Chloe Goodie
and the Grade six boys’ winner was Shae Mackrill. After
all the races were finished it was time to announce the
places of the teams … 4 th Tynong, 3 rd Beenak , 2 nd Redwood
and the best team of all to take the fabulous
shield was KURTH KILN (obviously the best team)! We
had a great afternoon for what was a great day.
By Chloe Goodie
Eco Warriors
Over the last year our school has been working on becoming a five star
sustainable school. We have achieved this award. We were able to get
four water tanks earning us a star. We had to be smart with our electricity,
so we got twelve solar panels, earning us another star. Now we’re
focusing on our compost and recycling. We have bins with mixed recycling,
organic waste, recycling and landfill. So there’s our third star
down. Each term 2 eco warriors are chosen to put the compost in the
bins and collect the worm pee and put it in the garden. Four eco warriors
are chosen to do the recycling. Two eco leaders are going on excursions
to learn about the environment and how to help others in our
school community learn about sustainability.
By Ryan
Eco Warriors
2012
Amazing Race
Kym Peterson
Principal

EDEC Athletics
In term 1, the people who came first in an event at
our house athletics went to the Cockatoo little
athletics track to participate in the EDEC athletics.
The events were sprints 100metre, 200 metre,
1500 metre, shot put, discus, hurdles, long jump,
triple jump, high jump, batten relay and circular
relay. There were not enough people in the
1500metres, so everyone ran together. The winner
of the 1500m was Chloe Goodie. Gembrook
came third place and Macclesfield won. We had a
very fun day. The people who came first are looking
forward to going to Zone athletics.
By Dana Trott
House Swimming
GO BEENAK, GO BEENAK!
It was house swimming day and everybody was excited.
The races began. First were the freestyle events, then the
backstroke, breaststroke and finally butterfly. After all the
main events came the novelty events with Beenak winning
and Redwood second, followed by Kurth Kiln and Tynong.
The following champion swimmers went on to compete at
the EDEC, Zone and Regional Swimming Championships:
Shae, Dana, Ryan, Ella, Aaron, Kira, Frankie and Lynton.
By Shae Mackrill Vice House Captain.
MacFarlane School
The 5/6’s have been skyping MacFarlane Primary School in
the Northern Territory.
On the 19th June, some students from MacFarlane School
are coming to visit Gembrook Primary School. The grade
5/6’s and the students and teachers from MacFarlane Primary
will be having a sleepover at the school. We will be
having a movie with popcorn, games and other fun activities
for everyone to enjoy. All the 5/6’s are really excited
and we can’t wait for them to come down. We think having
the MacFarlane School visit us will be a great opportunity
to make new friends and meet new people. We think it will
be lots of fun and we have an awesome time skyping.
Makenzie Moody
JellyBeans Music
For the past 2 weeks the whole school has been enjoying the
program, Jellybeans Music. The instructor, Hannah, is really
nice and she makes you want to join in with all the activities
and do the absolute best you can. Last week the grade 5/6’s
took turns using different instruments including triangles,
drums, castanets, tapping sticks and tambourines and learnt
how to follow a piece of music. By the end of the lesson we
managed to produce a pretty good version of a piece of music
called Liberty Bell. It’s lots of fun and I’m sure that the whole
school looks forward to the session each week.
Emily Goodie
Lightning Premiership
On Tuesday the 5 th June all the EDEC schools will have an event
called Lightning Premiership. All the kids from the six schools
come together to have a competition day of football, netball
and volleyball.
We have been training all term for this awesome competition.
All the students are fit, healthy and impressively good at their
sport. Selby, Cockatoo, Macclesfield, Emerald and Menzies
Creek better watch out.
Joel Firitto
School Captain
MULTI NEWS
The Gemtimes have generously donated over $4,000
for us to revamp the multipurpose room. The
Gemtimes are very generous to donate all that money.
Thank you Gemtimes! The money shall be well spent.
Ryan says, “It’s good that they have donated all that
money”. So far we have replaced the roofing, installed
shelving, cleaned external walls, and we are
about to start to do the internal
painting, installing netball rings, remove
the kitchen and install some
roller doors.
By Merrick McManus

Andrea, Dannie and I all went to a Japanese festival in Box Hill last Sunday. The first thing we went to see was the Japanese
drumming and it was soo loud it was shaking my arms!
Next we went down to the next floor and I was shocked by how many stores there were. First place I went to was the
stuffed toys store. Andrea went straight to the kimonos and she bought a really cool green one. Dannie and I bought
some lollies at the marketplace. I bought a prize pack and I won a pack of cards.
Some of the other cool thing I saw was ikebana, taiko, origami, manga and SOOOO much more.
I would like to thank Andrea for taking me and allowing me to enjoy the wonderful experience.
Robbie Hall- Bean, 5/6
Japanese Festival
The Japanese Festival
Bang, bang, bang, goes the taiko drum last Sunday at Box Hill town hall.
There were lots of fun things to do and see like taiko drums, comedy, lots of
musical instruments, kendo, sumo, kimono contest, choir, traditional Martial
Arts and lots more.
I loved the primary school students with the drums, they were awesome! We
got hungry so we went to the food court. There was so much to choose from.
I had sushi, crab and meatballs.
The displays I saw were origami, model trains, bonsai, ikebana, sumo, calligraphy,
kokeshi dolls and many more. It was a great experience and so much fun.
Everyone there was very polite.
Dana Trott 5/6F
Peter MacCallum Dress Up Day
Danielle Granieri and Ella Gerencser have organised this event to raise money for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Danielle’s
aunty gave us the idea because she is doing the Peter Mac Ride to Conquer Cancer!
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre raises money to support ground breaking critical cancer research and better treatment
and care for people with cancer.
Date: 1 st June
What to do: Bring a gold coin donation and dress up on the day in either black, yellow, pink or blue to show your
support for the Peter Mac Cancer Centre!

2012 Term Dates
Term 1: 3 February to 30 March
Term 2: 16 April to 29 June
Term 3: 16 July to 21 Sept
Term 4: 8 October to 21 Dec
Star of the week
May
26 Natalie
27 Issy
28 Kurt T
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TO YOU
EDUCATION WEEK
Family Maths
Work with your family to answer this problem
and win a special prize for your family!
How many addition signs should be inserted into the
equation below for the equation to be true?
5876293 = 220
Answer to last week’s puzzle: 20 blue squares!
Name Reason Grade Teacher
Leah
For a fantastic effort with her home reading. It's great to see you reading at home
everynight Leah. :) Prep 1/ S Mrs Smith
Jackson What a great week of reading Jackson! Amazing work! Prep 1/G Miss Gardiner
Hollie K
It is great to see that you have been checking for understanding when you are reading
Hollie! Fantastic! :) 1H Miss Hutcheson
Jesse A What a fantastic effort you made with your persuasive text, Jesse. Terrific job! 2/3B Mrs Bigwood
Jeremy
Olivia
Harry
You worked so conscientously to finish off the tasks you missed whilst you were
away from school. What an excellent attitude, Jeremy!
Fantastic listening, note taking and sharing of information from BTN, Olivia. You are
3/4A Mrs A
awesome!
You made a fantastic effort with your persuasive writing, Harry. You should be very
3/4E Mrs Everett
proud of yourself. 5/6W Mrs Wescombe
Hollie B
Always a fantastic, positive attitude and terrific rhyming poetry writing. Well done
Hollie, very clever! 5/6F Mr Fraser
Callum B What an excellent Art session you had this week, Callum. Well done!
Thankyou for starting your work so quickly and getting on with the tasks set for you.
You have completed so much extra work thanks to your terrific attitude! Special
mention to all of the MLC for being so quiet when the grade 5 students were doing
ART Ms Huberts
3/4E NAPLAN. Thank you. LOTE Mrs Failla

Dear OSHC Families
Please note that if your child is to be absent from their
Before or After School Care booking, we require you to call
or email OSHC Administration. Office in advance of the
cancellation (details are below) . When emailing please
note your child’s school name, first and last names and
details about your cancellation.
If you no longer require your permanent booking we
would appreciate the cancellation provided with 24hours
notice given. This will ensure no charge applies from the
day of your cancellation, otherwise your booking will be
placed as absent and count towards each child’s 42 allowable
absences per financial year.
If you have any further queries please don’t hesitate to
call 1300 787 624 or email OSHC@cardinia.vic.gov.au.
OSHC administration hours are 8:30am to 5pm
Kind Regards,
OSHC Management
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The vegie and garden beds need a weed!
We need enthusiastic (not necessarily skilled) volunteers.
Help
Weeders Wanted
The help could be after hours at a time to suit or during school hours. Just sign in at the
office and weed away
Many hands make light work!
Thank you in anticipation.
Lynne & Anne
Contact Information
Please inform the office if you have changed
your contact details.

BELVEDERE HAIRDRESSING
Your family hairdressing needs
Come see Michele for a one on one quality hair service
with that at home feeling.
With over 20 years experience Michele will help you walk
away feeling great.
Style Cut Pricing
Ladies/Mens Hair Cuts $20.00
Ladies Shampoo, Haircut & Blow-dry $40.00
Ladies Shampoo & Blow-dry from $25.00
Pensioner Prices
Mens/Ladies over 55 with a pensioner card Cuts only
$15.00
Kids
Boys/Girls Haircuts aged 4 & under $10.00
Boys/Girls Haircuts aged 5 to 13 $15.00
Family discounts on hair cuts
3 or more at one time 10% discount
Other Pricings
Full colour from $40.00
¼ to ½ Head foils from $100.00
Contact Michele for your appointment on
59681350 or 0409 384 452
8 Belvedere Court Gembrook
(Just off Station Street at the end of the court)
Fitness Class for Parents
When: Thursday morning 9.30-10.30
Tuesday 2:15-3:15pm
Where: Gembrook Primary School multi
purpose room
Cost: $8 per session
What does it involve: a mixture of fat burning
cardio work, strength and toning work,
core strength as well as stretching and
strengthening to enhance healthy posture.
Qualified instructor: Certified in many
fields of fitness including advanced resistance
training, person training, group fitness, cycle
and zumba. (And 1st aid, of course)
Experience: 20 years gym, aerobics, group
fitness, personal training and 15 years fitness
club owner / operator.
How fit do you need to be: come as you
are. I encourage everyone to work at a safe
level for themselves and I will guide you all
the way.
What to bring: a drink of water, wear runners,
bring a bath sized
towel and….. yourself.!
Further enquiries:
Natasha, phone:
0412183329
Do you know any
local growers ?
The school produce market would like to expand to include local (small time) growers to sell their
produce. If you know anyone who fits this description please ask them to contact Karen on 0407 889 331
or Ellisa on 0402 696 884 for further information. It only requires around 1.5 hrs of time to set up and sell
at the school market. There is also no cost to the grower. Parents are still encouraged to attend the Market
with any of their own produce they wish to sell—or donate produce to the
ecowarriors.
Why not get the kids involved too !

The members of the Gembrook Craft Cottage are
looking for donations of wool. If anyone has wool
they would like to donate, please leave it at the
school office.
All donations gratefully
received.
Dates for Gembrook Market
Sausage Sizzle
27 May
24 June
28 October
All volunteers VERY welcome!
For all your sewing alterations and
mending.
Phone Dawn Ashford,
59681592

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