Thursday 6^th April - School Cross Country
Thursday 6^th April - Last day Term 1 2.30pm finish

Term 4
Monday 2^nd October - First day Term 4
Friday 6^th October - Division Athletics
Monday 9^th October - Division Athletics Back up day
Friday 13^th October - Regional Athletics
Monday 16^th October - Regional Athletics Back up day
Wednesday 1^st November - State Athletics
Tuesday 7^th November - Melbourne Cup Public Holiday
Wednesday 20^th December - Last Day Term 4

Congratulations to our students, new and ongoing, for a wonderful first term of learning. I am most proud of the positive work habits that we can see our students developing. Learning is a verb – a doing word. It is great to see children engage in the ‘doing’. There will only be limited progress if learning is seen as something that is up to the parents and teachers to do for the children.

It is not only individual attitudes that are important. Community attitudes matter too. I am proud also of how our school community sees the importance of learning. This is evident in several ways. These include: the genuine pleasure children have when others succeed; the recognition of learning as a journey and not a race or arbitrary score; the involvement of parents in their children’s learning; the genuine joy teachers express when children make breakthroughs with their learning at any level.

Tomorrow Junior School Council is holding a ‘Crazy Hair Day.’ Children are invited to come with their crazy hair and optional casual clothes. If participating, please have children bring a gold coin donation.

School finishes this Thursday at 2:30pm. Remember that school returns after the school holidays on Monday 24^th April. Tuesday 25^th April is Anzac Day and we invite all students and families to join us for the mid-morning service held in the Memorial Park, where our School Captains will lay a wreath on behalf of the school community.

Enjoy your Easter Holidays!

Michael Edwards
Principal

Viv O’Brien & Tyson Thomas

Dylan Hewitt for an excellent understanding of odd and even numbers in maths.
Amber Wallace for demonstrating improved focus when completing written work in a set time.
Cody Ellingham for taking care with letter formation and presentation of work.
Mia Lockett for completing writing tasks with more independence. You are doing a great job, Mia!
Jim MacCalman for persisting in your editing efforts to turn a good story into a great one.
Kyle Van de hoef for applying your excellent knowledge about telling the time in lots of different activities. Well done!
Dara Freeman for using a growth mindset when learning to read analogue times that were challenging.
Penelope McNicol for always supporting others, offering to help and for her excellent work efforts.
Hunter Wall for great sharing and working well with others.
Zack Dickeson for always striving to be the best version of himself.
Evie Burston for improving her creative writing and adding tone to her story.
Vivienne O’Brien for always approaching her learning with a smile and making some great connections in Maths.
Emerson Paull for writing some great memoirs in class and employing lots of literary devices.

We will finish off the term with the popular sausage sizzle, and because we have the school cross country on as well, Hot Lunch will be served at 11:30am, when the students return to school.

We will also have cooked onions on offer as well as the usual sauces and fruit platters.

Thanks to all that helped kick off term one hot lunches, it's a lovely program and the kids (and staff) just love it.

Enjoy your Easter break and look out for the Term 2 Hot Lunch order form in next term's week one newsletter.

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

Growth Mindset

Last week in SEL, the school explored the concept of mindset. We learned that our mindset is our attitude towards learning. When faced with a challenge or problem, where is your mindset at? Sometimes, we can have a fixed mindset, where we feel stuck in a rut and thoughts like these creep into our minds: I am never going to be able to do this, I am so dumb at this, I give up, It’s not perfect so why bother.

We spoke about how these thoughts are normal, we all think them sometimes, but, if we can retrain our brains to a growth mindset, we can begin to build our brain muscles and grow as a learner. Some examples given by the students were: Challenges help me grow, Even though I failed this time, I’ll try again, I can’t do this YET, I am going to ask for help so I can be successful.

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, I’m Possible.

Stace

School Cross Country

A few final reminders ahead of the cross-country this Thursday:

• Rain is predicted for Thursday, though what time of day is not clear at this point. We are hopeful of getting in before the rain. A decision to postpone or go ahead with the event will be made on Wednesday and communicated to families via email.
• The event will begin at 9am and we ask that students be dropped off at the sports park directly, after 8.40am, rather than going to school. The school bus will drop kids off at the sports park, and a teacher will walk with students from Before School Care, at 8.40am.
• To assist with familiarisation of the track, students will be shown some videos in class before the event. Families can also watch them here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a3JimbouuK6T5hm47ZMBDwxbe-C_JJLyDOks-IM99gE/edit?usp=sharing
• Students will be competing in their houses and are encouraged to wear their house colours for the day. Students should also wear appropriate footwear and bring their bag with snacks and water.
• Ribbons will be handed out for students who come 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd in their age group and gender. In the senior age groups (9/10, 11, 12/13) up to 10 runners from each classification can qualify for the District event, however, students will need to demonstrate that they can run the course in a competitive time to qualify.
• The District event will be held in Yackandandah on Friday, May 12.
• Hot Lunch will be served back at school at the conclusion of the event.

A draft timetable is below.

Finally, thank you to those parents and carers who offered to assist on the day. We now have enough.

Brendan

Congratulations to our little singing star, Freya, who sang with much gusto in the Yack Community Choir at the Folk Festival! She was a shingling star in the group!

Tomato Sauce Fundraiser - Limited Product Run - Be Quick

A big thank you to Paul & Trish Anderson for making the sauce.

Anzac Day badges are for sale from the school office;

Prices are $1, $2 and $5.

On Friday 12^th May all students in Years F/1/2 will be travelling to the Cube in Wodonga to see the performance of ‘Are we there yet?’  We will be leaving school at 10am and returning at 12.45pm.  Students will not be able to order hot lunch on this day.  Cost is $10 per student.  Permission forms have been sent home tonight and need to be returned by Thursday.  Payment is required before the excursion.

Hi YPS community,

We are writing this note to say hi and introduce ourselves as the newly formed 2023 YPS School Council. Our membership is as listed below representing staff and parents of children across the range of ages at the school (and the Kindergarten).

There are a few of us new to the process and a couple of experienced heads continuing. We'd like to say our thanks to Jane Dowsley (President) and Michael Walsh (Treasurer) and the outgoing Council for making such a positive contribution and setting up future Councils for success. Thanks also to the YPS community for continuing to contribute time and effort to the school events, fund raisers, and initiatives.

As a Council we have had one meeting during which Matt Flower was elected President with Sophie Dewar elected Treasurer. Other roles including subcommittee members were voted on and are listed below. While as a Council we are still getting our heads around our new roles and responsibilities and plans for 2023, we'd love to hear from you as the YPS community with your thoughts or ideas. Our next meeting is in late May and monthly thereafter (except for during school holiday times).

 Our president's contact details are matt.flower@education.vic.gov.au  Please feel free to reach out.

Thanks.

The 2023 YPS School Council

Matt Flower: President

Sophie Dewar: Treasurer

Orrin Pritchard: Co-Vice President

Chris Summons: Co-Vice President

Hannah Glanville: Parent Representative

Kate Stagg: Parent Representative

Janine Lerch: Parent Representative

Sarah Crispin: Parent Representative

Brendan Hogan: DoE Representative

Shireen Porteous: DoE Representative

Michael Edwards: Principal

April Holiday Program

Our April holiday program is running 11^th – 21^st April, we will be capping bookings at 15 children each day.

Please book in to secure your child’s place.

Thank you.

6^th April – Peter Mullins