Folk Festival
We are still seeking assistance with coordinating the Folk Festival food preparation and sales on the Saturday night of the Folk Festival. Jane Murphy has agreed to help with coordination, but she cannot do the work alone. The early plan is to keep the food simple and have it, picnic style in the Memorial Gardens. If you can assist Jane, please let us know before the end of the school week. We will, of course, be seeking further volunteers to assist with the preparation, serving and clean up on the evening. If we do not have volunteer support by Friday afternoon this week we will have no choice except to withdraw our part in this area of the Folk Festival.

Mountain Bike Competition
A huge congratulations to the students who competed in the Mountain Bike Interschool competition. There were some stellar individual performances, and an extremely solid overall team performance. To be the second placed school in the State is an extraordinary effort. Well done kids! Thank you to the parents who facilitated the children attending and organised the school’s participation. It couldn’t have happened without your time and effort. Good luck with the next event!

Michael Edwards
Principal

Yackandandah Food Works Community Points
Thank you to all the families and community members who donate their Community Points to the school when shopping at Food Works.  We received a payment of $1213-06 for the last quarter.

School Uniform Price Increase
As from the 1^st of March the cost for school uniforms are as follows:

Full Zip Polar Fleece jumpers $42

Short Zip Polar Fleece jumpers $42

Polo Shirts $30

Hats $23

Softshell Jackets $73 – we are only selling what we have in stock and the school won’t be purchasing any more due to the cost.

Enjoy your week!
Sandra

Emerson Paull & Willow Anderson

Sunny Davison for always being an excellent listener and problem solver!
Frieda Haslett for working hard to be a great listener and to improve your handwriting.
Sloane McInerney for an excellent diagram of how we make bundles and count by tens.
Amelia McNicol for a detailed illustration of how we make bundles and count by tens.
Isla Wallace for building confidence to share her thinking and showing initiative to help with classroom jobs.
Jasper Bulman for asking questions that keep his thinking on track with his learning and class routines.
Nate Maybury for creating a detailed and eye-catching scene for our class setting wall.
Evie Burston for working independently to clarify and explain the meaning of new words to the class.
Hugo Dickeson for detailed and extremely neat recording and organisation of data in Maths.
Kayden Street for sustained effort and a continued positive mindset across all areas fo his learning.
Ella Barton for challenging herself with more difficult texts and giving her all to EVERY lesson!
Ben Hardisty for extending himself in MATHS lessons and showing creative solutions to problems.
Lenny Graham for always striving to complete his best work in class.
Kaitlyn McGlead for her enthusiasm for achieving her reading goals.
Matilda Ridgeway for always being tuned in for learning and showing others she is listening.
Lucas Stagg for going above and beyond what is required to get the job done.

This week's Hot Lunch is Baked Potatoes, yummo! 

Families who haven’t yet paid for this Term’s hot lunch will be emailed a reminder to pay this week.

We only have three Hot Lunches left to go this term, but they're three of our favourites :) 

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

Since my last announcement, we now have 81 students registered with 48 families actively fundraising. We now have a whopping $3696 in fundraising for Jump Rope for Heart. Well done to all those families and students who are fundraising!

You now have 2 weeks remaining up to week 7, Friday 15^th March to receive and finalise your fundraising efforts. As mentioned in the first letter sent home, and the newsletter in week 2, we are encouraging online donations only, for ease of managing the program and ordering online prizes for students at the conclusion of the program.

Our Jump Off Day is Friday 15^th March where all students will have the opportunity to ‘show off’ their skills for 30 minutes at allocated times throughout the day. Parents and families are welcome to come and watch their child/ren during these times. See below for more information.

9:00 – 9:30 – F/1K

9:30 – 10:00 – F/1C

10:00 – 10:30 – 3/4R

10:30 – 11:00 – 3/4A

11:45 – 12:15 – 1/2H

12:15 – 12:45 – 1/2A

12:45 – 1:15 – 5/6E

2:30 – 3:00 – 5/6B& 5/6L

Thank you everyone for supporting the Jump Rope for Heart program.

In the meantime, happy skipping!

Robyn

The House cross-country is taking place on Tuesday 26^th March, at the Yackandandah Sports Park.  The Back up day is Wednesday 27^th March. 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.  

Permission forms have been sent home today and need to be returned to school by Friday 15^th March.

A draft timetable is below.

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 Beechworth on Wednesday, 15^th May.

Robyn

2024 Yackandandah Folk Festival “OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!” Dr Seuss Opening Parade

 Students at Yackandandah Primary school are being asked to wear any solid-coloured clothing (preferably in the colour scheme of the book by Dr Seuss – Oh The Places You’ll Go and without logos - the Folk Festival Official T-shirt is fine). Stripes are strongly encouraged at Yack PS and could be stripey socks, scarves, shirts, leggings or hats. Students at Yack PS will have a school banner in the parade for students to walk behind. 

 Key Dates & Times - Important information for families

• The Opening Parade will be on Friday 22^ndMarch 2024 @6:00pm
• Road closures will take place from 4:30pm
• Face Painters will be set up near the Memorial Gardens from 4:30pm 
• Assemble students for the parade at 5:50pm

 Proposed Running Sheet: Friday 22^nd March 2024

2024 OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO! Folk Festival Opening Parade

• 4:30pmHigh Street will be closed to all traffic. See hand drawn map attached for details.
• 4:30pmface painters will be located near the Memorial Gardens. Lots of stripes, lines and Dr Seuss inspired shapes and patterns!!
• 5:50pmstudents in full costume are to look for their class teacher OR school/parent representative. This year we will be assembling on the High Street, as close to the roadblock at Bells Flat Road and Kars Street.
• 6:00pmthe High Street Shufflers will lead the parade, down the High Street, turn the parade participants around in front of the Bottom Pub, and walk back up High Street to the intersection of High Street and Wellsford St.
• 6:20pm Acknowledgement of Country
• The Parade will conclude with a drumming finale by Yackandandah Primary School’s Year 5/6 students, led by Yack PS Music Teacher Mirriam. Any Yack PS parents and friends who can stay back after the parade to support the return of instruments and buckets to the Art/Music room would be most appreciated.
• 6:25pm High Street Shufflers will lead followers, students and community members back down to the Street Stage for the Bush Dance with Di and Billy of the OLD JIG JOG dance band!!

Parents/Guardians and caregivers please collect your ‘Dr Seuss themed’ little people from the following locations once the parade has concluded.

If you can't find them, please go to:

Yack Kindergarten at Yack PS – in the dry creek garden bed
Osbornes Flat, Middle Indigo, and Wooragee PS, on the basketball court at Yack PS
Yack PS on the Yack Playground

Look for the chalk drawings of Dr Seuss signs and shapes to help find your location and the parade starting point.

Please note that teachers and parent helpers are not responsible for the supervision of students once the Parade officially concludes. 

The order of the parade will be:

1. The High Street Shufflers band
2. Yackandandah Primary School
3. Yackandandah Kindergarten
4. Middle Indigo Primary School
5. Wooragee Primary School
6. Osbornes Flat Primary School

Caz Doyle & Mandy Labram

The Yackandandah Folk Festival is the school’s major fundraiser.  We organise the Sunday market as well as the dinner in the Memorial Gardens on the Saturday night.

We are still seeking assistance with coordinating the Folk Festival food preparation and sales on the Saturday night of the Folk Festival. Jane Murphy has agreed to help with coordination, but she cannot do the work alone. The early plan is to keep the food simple and have it, picnic style in the Memorial Gardens. If you can assist Jane, please let Michael or Sandra know before the end of the school week.

We will, of course, be seeking further volunteers to assist with the preparation, serving and clean up on the evening. If we do not have volunteer support by Friday afternoon this week we will have no choice except to withdraw our part in this area of the Folk Festival.  

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the State Interschools Mountain Bike Cross Country event at Falls Creek last Friday 1^st March.

Overall, Yackandandah PS came 2^nd in the State! You smashed it!

Listed below are the individual results.

Grade 3/4 – Zack Dickeson 1^st

Grade 3/4 – Hugo Dickeson 3^rd

Grade 3/4 – Ewan McInerney 8^th

Grade 3/4 – Sully Lucas 11^th

Grade 5/6 – Oscar Dickeson 2^nd

Grade 5/6 – Jim Kelley 3^rd

Grade 5/6 – Miles Thornton 5^th

Grade 5/6 – Spencer Dowsley 7^th

Grade 5/6 – Sebastian Davison 9^th

Grade 5/6 – Hunter Wall 19^th

Next year, it would be great see some girls represent our school in this event. Have a chat to the people listed above to learn what is expected and how to go about getting involved if you’re interested.

Enrolment packs for Catholic College are available from the Year 6 teachers or via their website at https://ccw.vic.edu.au/enrol/  Forms need to be submitted by Thursday 28^th March.

The Vacation care program will be operating during the April school holidays from Tuesday 2^nd April to Friday 12^th April.  Unfortunatley due to staff shortages we will not be operating on Wednesday 3^rd April.  Bookings can be made through the Xplor portal or by emailing yack.ps.oshc@outlook.com

6^th March – Henry Lerch