Term 3
Thursday 13^th July - State Cross Country
Thursday 13^th July - De La Salle College performance
Friday 14^th July - Winter Sports Carnival
Tuesday 18^th July - Albury Wodonga Eisteddfod
Monday 24^th July - Winter Sports Carnival Back up day
Friday 28^th July - Cross Country Skiing
Friday 4^th August - Down Hill Skiing
Friday 11^th August - Down Hill Skiing
Thursday 17^th August - School Athletics Carnival
Friday 18^th August - Skiing Back up day
Monday 21^st August – Friday 25^th August – Book Week
Tuesday 22^nd August – Wednesday 30^th August – Somers Camp
Thursday 24^th August - School Athletics Carnival Back up day
Friday 25^th August - Book Character Day
Tuesday 29^th August - Cultural Performance -  Scott’s BMX Trick Bike Show
Friday 1^st September - Skiing Back up day
Monday 4^th September-Thursday 7^th September - Yr. 3/4 15 Mile Creek Camp (3/4E & 4L)
Monday 11^th September-Thursday 14^th September - Yr. 3/4 15 Mile Creek Camp (3/4A)
Friday 15^th September - Last Day Term 3

Welcome back to school for Term Three. It was a soggy term break, but despite the weather I hope families found some quality time together.

On Thursday this week we have five students representing the school at the State Cross Country event in Melbourne. Making it to this stage is an amazing effort, and a chance to compete at the very top level. Good luck to Gabrielle, Tarn, Oscar, Spencer and Zac.

Also this Thursday students will enjoy a concert at Yackandandah Town Hall by the De La Salle College Orchestra. This is a great opportunity to enjoy and learn about orchestral music.

This Friday is the Winter Sports Carnival where students from Yrs. 3-6 will participate in a variety of sports and play against other schools. The aim of the day is to experience team sports in a competitive, but inclusive and fun environment.

We are looking forward to a productive term of learning!

Michael Edwards
Principal

Winter Sports Carnival & Choir Eisteddfod Permission forms
Students who have not yet returned their permission form have been given another today.  Please return the form to school tomorrow. 

Family Statements
Statements will be emailed out this week to families who have outstanding excursion and camp costs.  Please pay any outstanding charges by the end of this week.

The statements will also include the skiing costs for families in Years 5 & 6. As this is an optional activity payment is required before each skiing day.

Family 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 fiinancial contributions is below.  When paying please ensure you put your name and 2023 contributions in the reference.



Enjoy your week
Sandra

Vivienne O’Brien & Ed Boddenberg

(Last week of Term 2)

Franklin Cole for successfully skipping with a rope in our sport session and sharing his new skill with the F/1 classes.
Kaidence Corben for improved confidence in telling the numbers ‘before’ and ‘after’ a target number.
Dash Lockett for great attempts at counting forwards and backwards within 20.
Mia Lockett for actively pursuing challenges during Maths. Keep aiming high! 
Hughie Vorbach for positively taking on feedback to improve your handwriting and presentation of work. 
Paddy Grogan for taking all challenges in your stride and being a fair, respectful learner. 
Kyle Van de hoef for applying excellent editing skills to improve your fairytale story before publishing.
Cooper Wall for using your plot planner effectively and managing your time well to write a fantastic fairytale story.
Indigo Agnew for displaying theatrical flair when presenting her speech and Readers Theatre script this week.
Ted Attwood for showing curiosity and determination when tackling problem solving in mathematics.
Ivy Mahoney for her willingness to tackle challenging problems and dig deeper with her understanding of key mathematical concepts.

Welcome to the Term 3 Hot Lunch Menu!
A 'Hot Lunch' option is offered to students on Fridays from week 2 onwards during the school term. 

The lunch is served at 11 am and 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 Hot Lunch menu for Term 3, 2023.

If you would like to make an order, please use the link below to complete a separate Google form for each student by 6pm MON 17th July 2023. 

If you are in Year 5/6 and participating in the skiing program, please do not order for those days.

**We do our best to cater for students with special dietary needs. Please indicate these on the order form**

We also need and welcome kitchen helpers, so please indicate on the form if you are able to assist. No experience needed, we love to have new faces in the kitchen!

T3 Hot Lunch Order Form - 

https://forms.gle/uQgMQrVVAYQaSmqMA

Finally, I'd like to offer a huge thank you to outgoing coordinator Jane Murphy for her fabulous efforts running Hot Lunches over the last 18 months. She has done a stellar job of preparing and serving countless healthy and delicious meals while taking great care of the kitchen volunteers. Happy kids, happy parents - thanks Jane! 

Looking forward to lots of smiling faces on Fridays :)

Hannah

Hannah Glanville-Jones
YPS Hot Lunch Coordinator
ypshotlunch@gmail.com

Winter Sports Carnival
The Winter Sports Carnival is taking place for students in Years 3-6 this Friday in various venues in Wodonga:

• AFL: Wodonga Racecourse
• Netball: Kelly Park
• Soccer: Kelly Park
• Volleyball: Wodonga Tennis Centre (next to Kelly Park)
• Teeball (Willow Park)

Students need to dress appropriately for the weather and for their sport. This might include a change of clothes and footwear.

• AFL: students wear their YFNC gear
• Netball: dresses/singlets are provided. Students get changed at school.
• Soccer: school uniform and boots/runners. The school does have some shin pads but students can wear their own.
• Volleyball: school uniform
• Teeball: school uniform

Most games start at 10am, so students need to be at school by 9am. As a general rule, most venues do not have a canteen, so students need to pack enough food and water to last the day. Teams should return to school by 3pm.

Brendan   

State Cross Country
This Thursday, we have 5 students representing Yackandandah Primary School at the State Cross Country in Yarra Glen! It is an incredible achievement to make it to this level of competition, and we wish our runners all the best of luck. The runners attending are Spencer Dowsley, Zack Dickeson, Oscar Dickeson, Tarn Charles-Jones and Gabriella Gargiulo. All information regarding this event can be found on the SSV webpage: https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/Pages/2023-State-Cross-Country-.aspx including race start times, location of the event, course maps etc. We would like to thank our athletes’ families for transporting them to the event and cheering them on. We look forward to hearing how everyone goes!

Students in the senior choir will perform at the Albury Eisteddfod next Tuesday, July 18^th. Permission forms were sent home last term and need to be returned to the office ASAP. Please see Sandra if you need another copy.

An ensemble from De La Salle College in Melbourne will perform for our students in the public hall on Thursday afternoon at 2:10. We are very fortunate to have these students visit the region. This should be very inspiring and entertaining for our students.

David

Our skiing days and cost are as follows:

Friday 28^th July – Cross Country Skiing – Cost $103
Friday 4^th August – Down Hill Skiing – Cost $160
Friday 11^th August – Down Hill Skiing – Cost $160

Our back up days are Friday 18^th August and Friday 1^st September.

Permission forms have been sent home tonight and need to be returned by Friday Monday 17^th July.  Payment is required before each skiing day or may be paid in instalments. Credit in your family account and CSEF money may also be used – I will send am email out to the families who have credit this week.

If you have a child starting at school next year Enrolment packs can be collected from the school office. 

If you would like to book a school tour or have any questions, please contact Michael or Sandra at school.

24^th June – Amber Wallace

26^th June – Molly Schultz

26^th June – Grace Pritchard

28^th June – Wesley Paull

29^th June – Will Maybury

2^nd July – Kyle Van de hoef

3^rd July – Jono Shepherd

6^th July – Holly Lerch

7^th July – Billie May