On Saturday we celebrated 150 years of public education at Yackandandah Primary School. A number of people came to view old photographs, reconnect with their old school and see what the school looks like today. Senior students had plenty of business for their $20 Boss enterprises. I particularly enjoyed talking to people who were students and teachers in the past and hearing their stories. Big thanks to Paul & Trish Anderson and all the volunteers supporting the burger making. Thanks also to Jack Gregory for performing his music and entertaining the crowd. The video produced by Brendan Hogan and students that brought to life stories from the school’s earlier days was also a hit.

This Friday staff and students will attend the Remembrance Day ceremony in the Memorial Gardens. We will head over the Gardens at about 10:45.





Michael Edwards
Principal

Poppies

I have poppies for sale for in the office for Remembrance Day.  Prices are $1, $2, $5 and $10.

Enjoy your week
Sandra

Naisen James Hillier & Edith McInerney

Cobie Flower for successfully describing what arrays are and how to write them as number sentences.
Billie May for an improved understanding of ‘arrays’ in multiplication tasks and how to make them.
Banjo Odewahn for writing detailed facts for his Lego poster.
Georgia Dowsley for writing detailed facts for her Lego poster.
Henry Wyatt for working hard to complete lots of division problems with and without remainders.
Grace Pritchard for using effective strategies and materials to divide numbers and find the remainders.
Nate Millward for demonstrating great teamwork to write a whopping 7 rules about spelling the short ‘i’ sound with his partner.
Taidhg James Hillier for striving to do your best in all activities. Well done, Taidhg!
Patrick McIntyre for putting in a huge effort with all tasks, but especially maths.
Maddie Prentice for fantastic engagement during maths lessons on fractions.
Elihu Pulukkutti  working positively with his partner during peer feedback sessions.
Lily Schultz for including a strong writer’s voice in her writing this week. Love your work, Lil!
Saige Harmer for taking risks in her learning and demonstrating a ‘can do’ attitude in the classroom. Sensational work, Saige!
Will Maybury for demonstrating excellent growth in his understanding of more challenging maths concepts
Lucas Stagg  for making well-considered word choices when describing setting
Oliver Paull for working so well independently to build his $20 Boss Lemonade business.
Aisha Willis for navigating challenges and overcoming obstacles to get her $20 Boss Business going.

A BIG thanks goes out to the year 6 students who have been helping us in the kitchen on Fridays, your presence and competence has been well received and much appreciated!!

Sorting orders, washing and cutting fruit, packing orders and delivering food have been the main tasks with lots of little bits in between, all the contributions have been an excellent help for the hot lunch service!! We look forward to having more students in the kitchen for the remainder of the term!




Here is the hot lunch helper roster. Only three spots to fill, please help us out !!

Jane Murphy
YPS Hot Lunch Coordinator
ypshotlunch@gmail.com
0416 051 473

State Representatives
Despite the disappointment of the Regional Athletics being cancelled recently, 2 of our students were invited to take part in the State Athletics Championships in Melbourne last week. Spencer Dowsley competed in the 9/10 Boys 1500m and Archie Korn competed in the 9/10 Boys Discus. This is a massive achievement and a wonderful experience to be a part of. We are very proud of what these students have achieved, but more importantly, they should be very proud of themselves.

JSC DISCO & Pizza Night!!! HELP needed! :) 
On Thursday, December 1st, the JSC will be hosting a disco! The disco will be held in the 56L classroom.

The junior disco (years F-2) will be from 6pm - 7pm and the senior disco (years 3-6) will be from 715pm to 815pm.

 More details to come! For now we would love to know who is able to help out! We will need people to help make and cook pizzas. This includes help with the lighting of the pizza oven, making dough, purchasing ingredients and making & serving pizzas. We will also need help moving furniture in order to set up and pack up the 56L classroom. The JSC have chosen 80’s as the theme! If you are able to help in any way, please email Lauren with what you are able to assist with. We look forward to a FANTASTIC community event!

$20 Boss - Open for Business!
As part of our economics unit, students in 5/6 have each been given $20 and tasked with turning this loan into a small business that will operate for all of November. Each business is required to be a social enterprise with at least 50% (sometimes up to 100%) of profits going to a local community group or charity. Below you can see some advertisements for some of the businesses and the products or services they are offering. Every Wednesday in November, some businesses will also be selling their products (including food) at school during break time. Most items range between $1-$4 and include homemade drinks, ice-creams and baked goods. The first Wednesday ‘Market Day’ will be this Wednesday.

Congratulations to Ella  Joy.  Ella was in the BST State Finals and was chosen as the 1st place Miss model of 2022! Ella is also in the Kidz Fashion Week in Melbourne later this month as well as appearing on a couple of TV Commericals.

Pupil Free Days
Monday 19^th December & Tuesday 20^th December are Pupil free days.  Vacation Care will be operating on these days.  Please make any bookings through the Xplor App or be contacting the school office – Bookings are essential.    

January Vacation Care
Thank you to the families who completed the Expression of Interest Form.  Vacation Care will be operating Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday during the last two weeks of the January School Holidays.  The program will be included in the newsletter when it has been finalised.   Bookings can be made via the app or through the office.  Students enrollled in Foundation next year can attend during the January holidays.

OSHC Weekly Round Up!
Off and racing again for another exciting week in OSHC. We celebrated Halloween in style with different activities and games. Our space was transformed into a spider infested area with lots of super-duper spookiness! Especially the clown skeleton who stole all the scissors!

We celebrated Diwali- The festival of lights, the children were eager to create their own paper lanterns and to decorate mandalas with coloured sands. Diwali is a celebration that lasts 5 days and includes good food, fireworks, coloured sand, and special candles and lamps/lanterns.

Master Chef Cooking sessions this Wednesday will be ANZAC biscuits for Remembrance Day on Friday.

We have been enjoying an array of new activities in OSHC, the children loved learning to play Finska, they helped each other keep tally of their scores and helped their peers with the addition sums. Such a great game! LIMBO is also getting a good work out this week, the children have loved jamming away to their favourite songs whilst completing the hard task of getting under the limbo stick. Bubbles are always a favourite, Yackandandah would have had so many bubbles floating around on Friday afternoon, as the children blew, waved, raced, twirled, jumped, leaped, and experimented on how to get as many bubbles out as fast as they could. (And who could make the BIGGEST bubble).

In OSHC we have been touching base to include more first Nation’s culture in the program, we started with some dot painting and discussions on the history, and how our First Nations People created their paintings so long ago and still today. The children found this fascinating, they really enjoyed painting without a paintbrush. To extend on this we will be exploring painting rocks (stones) this week.

Here’s to another fun filled week in OSHC,

Kerryn.

8^th November – Lucas Stagg

9^th November – Max Boschetti