Wednesday 30^th October -  Year 6 BSC Transition Morning 9am – 12.30pm

Wednesday 30^th October – Cultural Performance 2.30pm

Thursday 31^st October – Ringwood Secondary College band/orchestra performance 2pm

Monday 4^th November – Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 5^th November – Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

Wednesday 6^th November – State Athletics

Wednesday 6^th November – Oz Rocks Times Tables competition Years 3-6

Wednesday 6^th November – Foundation Transition Day 9.15-11

Thursday 7th November – Oz Rocks Times Tables competition Years 3-6

Thursday 7^th November – School Concert 12pm & 6pm

Friday 8^th November – Oz Rocks Times Tables competition Years 3-6

Wed 20^thNovember – Foundation Transition Day 9.15am to 1pm

Wednesday 4th December - 9.15am – 1pm

Tuesday 10^th December  - State-wide Transition Day 9am  -3.30pm

Wednesday 18^th December – Year 6 Graduation

Thursday 19^th December – Last day of term for students

OSHC
Our School Council runs the OSHC service independently for students from Yackandandah, Wooragee and Osbornes Flat Primary Schools. We don’t use a commercial provider as it is a very small service (compared to most others). We aim to match the service to the needs of our community.

In the past we have received a small Commonwealth Government grant to keep the service running and serving the community. You may have seen local media or heard that the Commonwealth Government has made the decision to cease that grant. We understand this is a common issue among similar services, nothing specific against our service. The impact of losing that funding has caused us to look very closely at how we can continue offering the service because we really want to continue having OSHC at school.

The only way to keep the OSHC service operating in 2025 is to raise fees. School Council has calculated that we will need to raise Before School Care to $18, After School Care to $25 and Vacation Care to $60 per day. We will continue to seek grant funding but are not expecting to receive any. While government rebates mean that the families who currently receive a rebate may not be impacted by the full increase, we are mindful of the impact on families of the fee increases and have tried to keep the increase as low as possible while still maintaining a positive budget balance. The unfortunate reality is that we are in the position of having to make fee increases or close the service.

The new fees will apply from the beginning of 2025.

We are positive that the changes will keep the service operating, however we will monitor the budget term by term to ensure the service remains viable. We ask for your understanding with our need to raise the fees.

School Concert
Our annual School Concert will be on Thursday 7^th November at the Yackandandah Town Hall. There will be a matinee dress rehearsal at 12 noon (parents and families are welcome to attend the dress rehearsal if unable to attend the evening performance) and an evening performance at 6:00pm. There is no ticketing – all are welcome. It will be first in best dressed for seating and if seating is all taken, standing room at the back and sides of the auditorium.

Classes will be performing the same items they performed at the Wodonga and District Schools Arts Festival earlier in the year, along with the choir performing.

The concert should be about an hour – possibly less.

Pupil Free Day
Please remember that next Monday 4^th November is a pupil free day. Staff will be at school planning curriculum for 2025. Tuesday 5^th November is the Melbourne Cup Public Holiday.

Michael Edwards
Principal

Family statements & OSHC statements were emailed to families last week.  If you have any queries please let me know.  My apologies for the delay in emailing them out.

Enjoy your week
Sandra

Jasper Bulman for being a respectful and inclusive peer and carefully explaining games so everyone can be involved.

Theo Hutchings for enthusiastically and accurately setting clocks during fluency tasks and sharing your understanding with others.

Kinu Edwardes for thoughtfully using a narrators voice to build a picture in her reader's mind in her Oktapodi story

Billie May for always modelling focused and calm learning in our classroom. What a champion!

Eliza Westbrook for drafting an engaging narrative that included a strong writers voice through her use of word choice.

Tom Murphy for taking the time to support others during his Maths fluency task.

Kyle Van de hoef for Jumping back into schoolwork with enthusiasm and energy.

Olivia McIntosh for her outstanding effort during maths to problem solve and check her thinking.

Grace Pritchard for taking on new challenges with her learning.

Willis Hogg for always displaying our school values and being respectful, fair to others and a strong learner.

Laycee Nocentini for her excellent problem solving, reasoning and 3D drawing skills she demonstrated in our recent Maths Investigation!

Tarn Charles-Jones for demonstrating excellent leadership skills and support towards his peers in a recent Maths Investigation.

Yuki Makin-Ginn for her determination and commitment to being an excellent learner, especially in Maths so far this term.

Maddie Prentice for her engagement and applying her problem solving skills in Number talks this week.

Archie Korn for making great connections to prior learning about area to solve our marshmallows challenge in Maths.

Jim Kelley for showing a keen interest in all activities including our study of English Kings and Queens.

Macey Hogg for always being a marvellous musicial!

This week's Hot Lunch is Sausage/Veggie Rolls.

This is always one of our most popular - and busiest! - lunches for the term :) 

Thank you again to everyone who has volunteered to help prepare or wash up after meals, the volunteer roster is now almost completely full for Term 4.
Hannah Glanville-Jones
YPS Hot Lunch Coordinator
ypshotlunch@gmail.com

Week 4’s Mental Health & Wellbeing Support service is Gateway Health. They have a range of support services available across 3 places, Wodonga, Wangaratta and Myrtleford. Under the ‘Services’ heading on their website, you’ll find a range of parenting support programs on the ‘Child & Family’ page.

Here is their website.

https://gatewayhealth.org.au/

Their free call number is-1800 657 573

Stace

In Art this term, years F/1/2 are exploring abstract drawing in preparation for creating their own abstract sculpture, inspired by French artists Jean Dubuffet and Fernand Leger, and Australian artist Inge King. The students have been using a technique in drawing that requires them to not lift their pencil from the page, or look down at their drawing, until they have finished. They have been drawing self portraits, portraits of their classmates and whole body drawings. It’s been a lot of fun! The students then use a limited colour palette, of two contrasting colours, plus black and white, to complete their artwork. These will inspire the sculptures they’ll be constructing in Weeks 4 & 6.

Sarah McAlister

The team behind 'A Little Taste of Yack' have been busily compiling and editing our fundraising cookbook and we are about to send it to the printers! So now it's time to place your orders. The books will be available around 2 December (Week 9 of term) for pickup from the school office. They will cost $40 each and payment should be made to the office using the usual processes (i.e. making a deposit quoting your name and "cookbook" in the transaction detail). Orders can be placed through the following link or in person to Michael. We are limiting the ordering exclusively to the YPS community so this is your chance to secure your copies of the book. Any extra copies after these orders have been filled will be made available to purchase to the broader community. This will include your ordered copies if you've ordered and haven't paid by 29 November. See the pictures below for a sneak preview.

Ordering link:

https://forms.gle/mZjFFHkGhgZcEqZeA

YPS Cookbook Team

As part of our commitment to make maths exciting and high profile in our school, we are taking part in a friendly competition involving schools in Australia. The competition runs from 07:30 AEDT Wednesday 6th November 2024 to 21:30 AEDT Friday 8th November 2024. It's all done online via play.ttrockstars.com.

Students in Grade 3-6 can play in any game mode with every correct answer to a multiplication or division question, earning themselves, their class and the school a point. The Times Tables Rock Stars platform will calculate the class average (the number of correct answers per pupil in the class who play during the competition hours, subject to a daily 60-minute limit (see below)). Winning classes in the school and in the competition as a whole will be the ones with the highest average.

To support player wellbeing, there is a daily time limit of 60-minutes per player. In other words, each player can earn competition points for up to 60-minutes each day. Once the player goes beyond 60-minutes of play on that day, they will still earn coins but will no longer earn points towards the competition.

In the spirit of the competition, please don't play on their behalf but by all means encourage and support them to the extent that it doesn't cause high stress levels or impact on family plans.

Regional Athletics Carnival
Congratulations to the 13 students who competed at Regional Athletics in Albury on Friday 18^th October. Even with the torrential rain, all events were able to go ahead with some outstanding results achieved.

A huge congratulations to Spencer, Oscar and Archie who made it through to the State Athletics Carnival for their individual events and the 11yr-old boys’ relay team (Spencer, Jim, Raff & Miles)! It is an outstanding achievement to make it to this level of competition. We all wish you the best of luck in Melbourne! Thank you to all of the parents and carers who came to support Team Yackandandah!

The State Athletics Carnival will be held on Wednesday, November 6^th, at Lakeside Stadium in Albert Park. All details can be found at this link:

https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/events/pages/event.aspx?ListItemId=141&ListId={%7BA7BBF073%2DAB7E%2D41F6%2D80F7%2D8A9F895842DE%7D}

Good luck to all students!

FREE after School All Girls Cricket Program for Yackandandah Primary School

Cricket Victoria is offering a 4-week FREE Girls Only Cricket Program (Yrs3-6) with Cricket Victoria Staff delivering the Program.

 It will be on Tuesdays, 22^nd & 29^th October and 12^th & 19^th November 2024 (skipping Melbourne Cup Holiday). This is an After School Program, 3:30pm-4:30pm and it will be run on the Yackandandah Primary School Oval, with access to school toilets.

Please see the flyer for more information and to register for this event.

Piano Lessons
Miriam currently has one piano lesson time available at YPS: 7:30 a.m. on Thursdays. Yes, you are reading that time correctly ?

Please email Miriam at vw_miriam@hotmail.com if you would like to take this spot.

I know there has been lots of interest in piano lessons, and I am sorry it has been difficult for all interested students to find a spot with Grace or myself. How wonderful that we have so many musical students at YPS!

I am looking into helping a long-term student of mine, Holly, start teaching piano students at YPS. Please email me at vw_miriam@hotmail.com if you are interested in your child starting lessons with Holly in 2025.

Miriam Briggs