Congratulations to all the participants in the Winter Sports Carnival last Friday. It was great to hear consistent feedback from organisers and other teachers about the positive participation and support shown by students from Yackandandah Primary School. On top of the positive participation were some strong results. The T-Ball and Soccer teams experienced plenty of success and the Netball and Volleyball teams had a great day also. Big thank you to the parents who helped coach and organise in the lead up and on the day – as well as help with team kit. We appreciate your support!

Just a reminder to families to use Compass to log your child’s absences. If you would like some help with Compass, please let us know. We are all getting used to the system and there is no pressure to be perfect straight away.

Our new soccer goals have been getting heavy use. Due to the recent wet weather, there may be some days when we ask students not to use the oval area to avoid damaging the surface too much. This is not due to misuse – simply a matter of too much mud needing to dry out before it gets churned up.

Next Weeks Newsletter will not be published till Tuesday 30^th July, 2024

Book Club Issue 5:

Book club Issue 5 has been sent home with students.

Please have all orders returned by Friday 2^nd August 2024.

How to Pay

1. Credit Card - Visit scholastic.com.au/LOOP or download the LOOP app. Your order will be electronically linked to the rest of your school’s order. You do not need to complete the order form.
2. Cash - Please enclose cash with completed order from to the office by Friday 2^nd August 2024.

Jayde Pritchard & Emerson Paull

Dusty May For demonstrating accuracy when making combinations to total 20 and 50 cents.

Theo Hutchings for carefully explaining coins and their values during class discussions.

Paddy Grogan For diligently working on his reading tasks during independent reading to improve his fluency.

Penelope McNicol For always including others and supporting them to learn during maths fluency time.

Toby Neumeyer For showing his thinking clearly when measuring and comparing the heights of different teachers with informal units.

Marley Makin For consistently showing a positive attitude to learning and taking on challenge with a growth mindset.

Mia Bebbington For presenting your Lions Club speech with energy and enthusiasm to make the final school round.

Willis Hogg For presenting your Lions Club speech with energy and enthusiasm to make the final school round.

Grace Pritchard For presenting your Lions Club speech with clarity and control to make the final school round.

Evie Burston For being selected to represent the school at the Lions Club Public Speaking Competition.

Charlotte Wilson For her impressive PowerPoint presentation and gained knowledge from her recent travels around WA and the NT.

Lenny Graham For his problem solving and engineer skills displayed in STEM this week.

Pippa Graham For working hard to explain her mathematical thinking.

Laycee Nocentini For her incredibly detailed and beautifully written travel journal.

Alex Beatty For using efficient mental strategies to solve problems in Maths.

25^th July Savannah Lockett

Congratulations to the following students who have turned their heat maps green on timetables rockstars green in the last week of Term 2 or over the holidays. This means they are consistently answering the 12x tables questions in 4 seconds or less.

Willis Hogg (3/4A)

Nate Maybury(3/4R)

Kaitlyn McGlead (5/6E)

Max Murphy (5/6L)

Finn Summons (5/6L)

A reminder to all Grades 3-6 students and parents at home, it’s recommended a “little and often” approach is adopted; 3 minutes practice a day, 4 or 5 times a week is a good target.

https://ttrockstars.com/

Contact your child’s teacher if you require more information on how you can support your child to turn their heat map green.

LEGO STEM:1/2 A & H

On Friday, the 1/2 classes enjoyed doing STEM using the SPIKE Essential sets for the first time.

Sarah McAlister

1/2A

1/2H

Beginning Monday 15^th July – Friday 26^th July the Foundation and Year one students in F/1CK are looking for your help to support students see and count REAL coins, while raising money.

F/1C are having a Spare Change Challenge – all students are invited to bring along spare change for collection.
F/1K are encouraging Funky Sock Fortnight – all students are invited to wear funky socks and bring a 10-cent donation for collection.

F/1CK will then collect and count the money over the fortnight and funds raised will be used to purchase new parts and spare kits for STEM Lego sets.
An announcement will be made at the conclusion of Spare Change Challenge and Funky Sock Fortnight to let you know what we have raised.

Thank you for your continued support!

Carly and Kelli

Last call for Term 3 Hot Lunch orders!

A $5 'Hot Lunch' option is offered to students on Fridays during the school term. Orders for this Friday July 26th are now closed, but we have plenty of delicious Hot Lunches available for the rest of the term! Please use the link below to place all remaining orders by FRIDAY 26th July, 2024.

T3 Hot Lunch Order Form - 

https://forms.gle/aCUEPXEZQCVczzew9

Thank you to Tamsin, Cathy and Jane for volunteering to help prepare lunches this Friday! The full volunteer roster for the term will be included in next week's newsletter. 

Hannah Glanville-Jones

YPS Hot Lunch Coordinator

ypshotlunch@gmail.com

LAST DAY!

Please get your recipes in for the Yack Primary Fundraising Cookbook. We'd like to have at least one recipe from each family if possible.

You can see below what has been submitted already.

You are welcome to just take a picture of the recipe and send it directly to yackprimarycookbook@gmail.com or to one of the committee members - Sophie Dewar, Matt Flower. Michael Edwards, Andrew Davison or Janine Lerch.

Or you can submit via the following link - https://cc.recipes/yack

Here's what we have so far: