Tuesday 25^th April - Anzac Day Public Holiday
Friday 28^th April - State Swimming Sports
Tuesday 9^th May - Book Club orders close
Wednesday 10^th May - School Photos
Wednesday 10^th May - Victory Lutheran College Open Day
Friday 12^th May - District Cross Country
Friday 12^th May - Application for Year 7 Placement due back
Friday 12^th May - Yr. F/1/2 'Are we there yet?" excursion
Friday 19^th May - District Cross Country Back up day
Monday 29^th May-Thursday 1^st June - Yr 5/6 Canberra Camp
Friday 2^nd June - Division Cross Country
Monday 5^th June - Division Cross Country Back Up day
Monday 12^th June - King’s Birthday Public Holiday
Friday 16^th June - Regional Cross Country
Friday 23^rd June - Last Day Term 2

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

Welcome back to Yackandandah Primary School for Term Two. Tomorrow is ANZAC Day. Like previous years our school has been invited to participate in the ANZAC Day parade and the following service in the Memorial Gardens. Marshalling for the parade begins from 9am onwards near the bottom pub. We will march together as a school to the service in the Memorial Gardens that commences at 10am. The senior choir will also be singing at the service. Please ask your children to wear school uniform.

Today Yr. 6 students will take home Yr. 7 2024 enrolment packs. These will contain information for families about the Yr. 7 enrolment process. The pack also contains an Application for Yr. 7 Enrolment form. This form needs to be returned to Yackandandah Primary School by Friday 12^th May. If you have any questions about the process, please feel free to ask Michael or Sandra.

Michael Edwards
Principal

Anzac Day Badges
Anzac Day badges are for sale from the school office for $1

Signing in/out
A reminder that if your child arrives at school after 9am or is being collected before 3.30pm they need to be signed in or out at the school office.  If you are collecting your child for an appointment during the day and dropping them back at school, you need to sign them out and then back in.

Scholastic Book Club
Each student has taken home a Scholastic Book Club Brochure and order form. Orders need to be submitted through the Book Club Loop by Tuesday 9^th May.


Familly Payments
Thank you to all the families who have paid the 2023 Voluntary Contributions. Yackandandah Primary School rely on these financial contributions to assist us with the purchasing of art, music and physical education equipment and resources, which in turn, supports us in offering specialist French, Music and Art classes.  These contributions also enable us to enrich learning as well as provide camps and excursions for students.

Due to Department guidelines, we are unable to show the Curriculum contributions on the family statements until after they are paid.

A summary of the suggested voluntary financial contributions is below.  When paying please ensure you put your name and 2023 contributions in the reference.



Enjoy your week,
Sandra

Clancy Kellaway for successfully identifying and matching 2D shapes with objects in the classroom.
Franklin Cole for showing great improvement with his fine motor skills and tracing over letters in writing.
Harvey Thornton for enthusiasm for all learning and knowing our routines to the tee! Fantastic, Harvey!
Macklan James Hillier for terrific display of consistent encouragement of your peers, always checking in and building your focus in the classroom.
Eliza Westbrook for great enthusiasm to write lots of details about your “Talking Pet” in the recent Cold Write.
James Davis for making huge improvements with his handwriting and using the dotted thirds to correctly form letters. Keep it up!
Jono Shepherd for applying great mathematical thinking during our time duration activities.
Judd Maybury for working super hard to write, edit and publish your “Baddies” story.
Eddie Crispin for being such a helpful member of our class and noticing jobs that need to be done.
Lara Harders for showing great confidence and always being willing to put up your hand during class discussions.
Felix Anderson for showing persistence when learning new skills on his netbook.
Sara Davison for making effective use of a range of learning tools to support her learning in class.
Taidhg James Hillier for bringing a positive attitude to learning and striving for accuracy.
Charlotte Wilson for always engaging with learning activities with focus and enthusiasm.
Fredi Farley for setting himself some fantastic SMART goals to work towards and putting in time, effort and hard work to achieve them. Superstar, Fredi!
Saige Harmer for working incredibly hard in Maths and showing HUGE improvement in her latest post-test. Hard work pays off, Saigey!

Welcome to the Term 2 Hot Lunch Menu!

A 'hot lunch' option is offered to students on most Friday's during the school term. 

The lunch is served at 11am, this includes an individually served hot meal and fruit platter to share.

Each Hot Lunch meal costs $5.

Parents, carers and senior students volunteer their time (Friday's 9am-11:30am) to collect ingredients, prepare, cook and serve the hot meal.  The meals are delivered to the classroom, where the class teacher will hand them out to the students that have ordered them.  

Here is the school hot lunch menu for Term 2, 2023.

** We do our best to cater for students with special dietary needs, please indicate on the form.  

If you would like to make an order, then please use the link below; complete the google form and submit (for each student).

We also need and welcome kitchen helpers, so please indicate on the form if you are also able to assist us in the kitchen.

T2 Hot Lunch Order Form - 

https://forms.gle/B4THGXMvmC9MeLacA  

Orders must be submitted by 6pm MON 1st May 2023

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

In SEL this term, students will be exploring all things ‘emotion’. We will be learning about some of the emotions that humans experience, how to recognise the effects of those emotions on the body, and, what to do to help and assist with certain emotions. Emotional Intelligence can build children’s confidence when learning and boost their resilience for when things go pear-shaped.

Stace

House Cross Country
The last day of Term 1 was also the whole school Cross-Country Carnival. It was a great morning down at the sports park, with all students competing to the best of their ability and earning points for their house. Sometimes the saying ‘every point counts’ can feel a bit trite, but it was definitely true on the day, with only one point separating the houses which came first and second. That’s just one kid who didn’t want to participate pulling on their runners and hitting the track and making the difference. Congratulations to the winning house, Windham Yellow.

District Cross-Country
We are taking a squad of almost 50 students with us to the District Cross-Country which will be held at the Yackandandah Sports Park, on Friday, May 12 (back up on Friday, May 19). Permission forms will be sent home today and need to be returned to school by this Friday. Unlike the House Cross-Country, students are not to go straight to the sports park, as the first race is not until 10.30am. A timetable for events is below:

10.30am                 9/10 girls (2km)

10.50am                 9/10 boys (2km)

11.10am                 11 girls (3km)

11.35am                 11 boys (3km)

12.00 noon            12/13 girls (3km)            

12.25pm                12/13 boys (3km)         

Help Needed
Yackandandah Primary School organises and hosts the District Cross-Country event and we are looking for some adult helpers. We need about 6 helpers, especially at the finish line, to make the day run smoothly. The event will run from 10.15am until 1pm. If you are able to help out on the day, please let Brendan or Sandra know.

Brendan

Below is some of our winners from the School Cross Country.

Senior choir (years 3-6) will perform John Williamson’s ‘True Blue’ at the ANZAC Day service in the Yackandandah memorial park tomorrow at 10am. Students will meet me near the rotunda, following the parade, wearing school uniform.

The choir will also perform two items at the Yackandandah Community Singalong in the Yackandandah Public Hall at 2pm. Students will meet me at the hall by 1:45pm. This is a ticketed event organised by Arts Yackandandah featuring local singers accompanied by a wonderful band directed by Glen Aberle. There will also be some items where the audience will be invited to sing, not to mention a delicious afternoon tea prepared by the Yackandandah Women’s Shed. If you haven’t already made plans for tomorrow afternoon, please come along and support these wonderful community events.

David Pietsch

School Photo Day is Wednesday 10^th May.  Each student has today received an envelope for the photos.  Order online at www.msp.com.au or by placing cash inside the envelope.  Please enclose the correct amount as no change will be given on the day.  Order forms for School Captains etc have been sent home with those students.

Tomato Sauce Fundraiser - Limited Product Run - Be Quick

The school had a quantity of tomatoes left over from the Folk Festival dinner.  These tomatoes were fantastic table quality, and to avoid wastage have been turned into a limited production of gourmet tomato sauce.  The school is selling large bottles for $20, and small bottles for $12.  This sauce is the perfect accompaniment for local pies, and other savoury goodies.  Be quick, Limit of one bottle per household.

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

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 were sent home the last week of Term 1 and need to be returned to school by Thursday.  Payment is required before the excursion.

Families of year 6 students have today received a year 6 to Year 7 Placement Information Pack for next year.  The Application for Year 7 Placement 2024 forms need to be returned to Yackandandah Primary School by Friday 12^th May.  If your child is attending a Non-Government school next year please complete page 15.  Further information is available at Moving from primary to secondary school | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au)

10^th April – Hudson Street

11^th April – Sara Davison

11^th April – Spencer Dowsley

13^th April – Cobie Flower

13^th April – Lizzie Martini

15^th April – Zoe Glanville

15^th April – Hughie Vorbach

17^th April – Lenny Jones

18^th April – Manu Quaglio

19^th April – Finn Summons

19^th April – Matilda Ridgeway

20^th April – Oscar Dickeson

25^th April – Aisha Willis

28^th April – Marliah Barnes

$200 Get Active Kids Voucher Program is now open! Visit www.getactive.vic.gov.au/vouchers to find out if you are eligible.

Families have until 5:00 pm Wednesday, 10 May 2023 to apply for a voucher on the Get Active Kids website.

Children residing in Victoria, aged 0–18, and named on a valid Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card, are eligible to receive up to $200 towards their sport or recreation activities. There is also special consideration given to families with a child in out-of-home care or where the child/family is a temporary or provisional visa holder, undocumented migrant or international student.

21 February to 10 May 2023: Round open for parents, carers or guardians to apply for a Voucher or Reimbursement

28 November 2022 to 10 May 2023: Period families can seek a reimbursement for eligible expenditure

21 May 2023: Last day for vouchers to be presented to activity providers

21 February 2023 to 7 June 2023: Portal open for providers to redeem vouchers.