Monday 3^rd March – Catholic College Open Day

Wednesday 5^th March – Regional Swimming Sports

Monday 10^th March – Labour Day Public Holiday

Thursday 20th March - Book Club Closes 

Friday 21^st March – MTB – Falls Creek

Thursday 27^th March – School Cross Country 

Friday 28^th March – School Cross Country (Back up day)

Friday 4^th April – Last day of Term 1

Monday 21^st April – Easter Monday Public Holiday

Tuesday 22^nd April – First day of Term 2

Friday 25^th April – Anzac Day Public Holiday

Wednesday 7^th May – school Photos

Friday 30^th May – Division Cross Country

Friday 13^th June – Regional Cross Country, Benalla

Folk Festival is approaching. Children have been busy in Art creating their wearable ‘something blue’. Yackandandah Primary School has a few roles during the Folk Festival. These include coordinating and participating in the Friday evening parade, preparing a community meal for the Folk Festival Saturday evening (this year lead by the Anderson and Pritchard families), and coordinating the Sunday markets. We rely heavily on volunteer support to make things run smoothly. Please consider volunteering some of your time to help make the school’s Folk Festival participation as smooth as possible. There will be details in other sections of this newsletter.

NAPLAN testing takes place starting on March 12. This involves Yr. 3 & 5 students. NAPLAN is used by the state and commonwealth governments to measure student learning trends and progress across the state and country. At our school we use it to check general learning trends over time, but do not rely heavily on NAPLAN for individual results. The day-to-day learning tasks and activities students do are a much better indicator of student learning progress and needs. We encourage students to do their very best but also try not to turn NAPLAN into a high stress event.

Please remember that the school playground and outside space is not supervised before 8:40. Students are under the care and responsibility of their parents until that time. Before school care is available if required.

Michael Edwards
Principal

Hot Lunch
A reminder to families who have not yet paid, that Term 1 hot lunch payments are now due.

School Saving Bonus
A reminder to allocate your SSB to activities. If you don’t know your voucher number, please contact the school office.

Have a great weekend!
Kerryn & Sandra

This week’s helpers are Will Maybury and Billie McInerney

Next week’s helpers are Sharni Barnes and Alfie Bayne

Congratulations to all our award recipients.

WE ARE FAIR

Kyle Vandehoef for demonstrating the value of learning for confidently delivering a Junior School Council speech; using impressive eye contact and great gestures to capture your audience.

Lara Bebbington For always showing great leadership skills in class by listening to others, working well with anyone, having a go at challenging activities and always giving her best. 

Freya Vorbach for demonstrating the Value of Fairness by being inclusive of her peers and setting a positive example of being able to learn alongside anyone.

WE ARE LEARNERS

Bernie McLennan for asking probing questions about things we are learning and by striving to improve your handwriting every day!

Cody Ellingham for taking initiative and organising his materials ready to go for his Sounds-Write session without any reminders or prompts. A standout move for all of 1/2AH to follow!

Theo Hutchings for listening carefully to peer feedback and making changes to his writing so he could improve his sentence structure.

Eleanor Martini For demonstrating the value of learning by contributing thoughtfully on the floor during our writing sessions and helping others to check that their sentences make sense

Lincoln Clausen for listening well, making contributions and working solidly to improve learning.

Amber Wallace for identifying important features about her recorded maths data.

Peter Kellaway For working hard to develop an amazing rap for his rap battle, asking questions, participating in class discussions and being a great example of a learner in our 5/6 classroom.  

Max Murphy: for being an outstanding student by being organised, attentive & committed to his learning.

Hugo Dickeson for demonstrating the Value of Learning by consistently producing bookwork of high quality and paying attention to detail.

WE SHOW RESPECT

Marlow Poyner for being one of the leaders in our class with following the morning routine with setting up for learning.

Tom McAlister For demonstrating the value of respect by putting in the effort to share his thinking and listen to other's ideas in turn and talk time

Nate Millward for demonstrating the Value of Respect by always sharing ideas thoughtfully and with purpose. You have a kind way of doing this and it is very much appreciated.

Percy Gosling for coming to school each day with a positive ‘can do’ attitude and solid effort.

Sully Lucas for always making space for others during group discussions and building on in response to other people’s ideas.

Sharni Barnes: being inclusive, kind, hardworking and empathetic. Sharni, you are a shining light of kindness and great example for others.

At our Friday assemblies, our wonderful teachers and school captains hand out brightly coloured awards to students they’ve noticed who are displaying our 3 school values-

We Show Respect
We are Fair
We are Learners

Our 1/2 teacher, Hanna, designed and made the new awards to match our value colours and we think they look unreal banana peel!

Students may also receive Yak tokens throughout the week from different teachers. A Yak is a token that has our school values on it with a picture of Yak itself. This token is given to a child when the teacher recognises that they’ve displayed positive behaviour and kept true to our school values. Those Yaks are then placed into our House colour tubs and counted at the end of each week to see which colour house has earned the most Yaks. Will it be Hammond (blue), Windham (yellow), Kars (green) or Wellsford (red) this week?

Then of course, there is Yak (the teddy). He gets to go home with the quietest class at assembly.

All these little things combined, do lots of BIG things for our school, like bring a sense of connection and belonging, foster a safe, healthy and happy learning community, and lastly, it keeps all of us on the same page (including adults).

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Stacey Hogan
MHWL

DISTRICT SWIMMING, BEECHWORTH

DIVISION SWIMMING, WODONGA WAVES

Mountain Bike Interschools 

This Sunday a team of students will head to Thredbo to represent YPS at the Australian MTB Interschools.  They will compete in a number of events over three days including flow, downhill, pump track and all mountain.  Registrations for this event are now closed, and we wish the team good luck!

** Please make sure to pick up uniforms after Fridays assembly

The Victorian MTB Interschools are being held over a single day on Friday the 21^st March at Falls Creek.  This event is an XCO style race whereby students (from Grades 3-6) complete multiple laps of an undulating cross country style course. 

The primary students race first so there will be plenty of time to return to Yack for the Folk Festival Parade!

This is a parent/carer-led activity and therefore registrations and travel are organised by those families attending.

Registration is currently open here:

https://www.alpinetiming.com.au/registrations/rg557/?token=b988594dac853cd616a0e7156f73028f&authToken=3CD0A479CFD14DF76916C2AC9C4F58E5

YPS students currently registered for this event are:

Thanks to the parent volunteers for a very busy morning of cooking and bowl washing! Also to our senior student helpers, Grace and Wil, who did an amazing job preparing fruit, mixing mountains of rice and delivering everything to the classrooms. 

We still need two more helpers in week 7 and week 8 (see yellow gaps below. Please reach out if you are able to help :)


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

In the leadup to the Yackandandah Folk Festival, OLD JIG JOG dance band members Di and Billy, will be teaching traditional dancing at each of the local primary schools. Today, our enthusiastic Year 3/4 students learnt three to four bush dances to live music. On Wednesday 12th March, Di and Billy will be back at Yackandandah Primary School to run some more dance workshops for our Year 5/6 classes.

Some students in Year 5/6 still need to bring to the Art room a blue shirt, skirt, top or jeans that they can transform into a wearable work of art. Blue clothing donations can still be dropped off to the Art room.

Thank you, Caz & Mandy

Hello Families,

We have now opened bookings for the April school holiday!

Dates are Week 1: 7^th – 11^th April, Week 2: 14^th- 16^th April.

Please note that OSHC will not be running the Thursday 17^th April (due to staff shortage) and The Friday 18^th April (Good Friday). I have already sent out emails to families who use our service.

Holiday Program is below. We are capping numbers for educator: child ratio, so please book in early to ensure your child's spot

28^th February        Dylan Hewitt  

1^st March               Hush McLennan

6^th March               Henry Lerch

We'd love to see a few more local entries come through before the competition closes at the end of this month: https://www.offgridevent.com.au/futurethinkerscomp

Kind Regards, 
Kate Nottingham
Festival Director
0411 865 563

Off-Grid Living Festival 
www.offgridevent.com.au

Yackandandah Soccer Club

Expressions of Interest for miniroos Saturday competition 2025.

With the soccer season (4 - 12 year olds) just around the corner we are calling out for expressions of interests for miniroos!

The season starts on Friday May 2, with Friday night trainings from 4.30pm, not including public or school holidays and the miniroos competition is on Saturday's in Wodonga.

Please check our Facebook page for more information and details - Yackandandah FC (not Yackandandah Netball Football Club) or email us at yack_fc@outlook.com

We are looking forward to another wonderful year.

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