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Newsletter 16.05.2025
Issue 14/2025
Acknowledgement
Yackandandah Primary School acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live, learn and play and recognise the resilience, strength and pride of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We acknowledge the connection to land, waters and cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
Dates to Remember
Term 2
Monday 19th May – 3/4 Solar Telescopes
Tuesday 20th May – District Cross Country, Beechworth
Thursday 29th May -5/6 Lawn Bowls
Friday 30th May – Division Cross Country , Willow Park
Thursday 5th June – 5/6 Lawn Bowls
Monday 9th June – King's Birthday Public Holiday
Friday 13th June – Regional Cross Country, Benalla
Tuesday 17th to Wednesday 25th June – Somers Camp
Term 3
Friday 25th July – Winter Sports Carnival
Friday 1st August – Winter Sports Carnival (Back up day)
Friday 8th August – Regional Winter Sports Carnival
Tuesday 12th August- School Athletics Carnival
Wednesday 13th August – School Athletics Carnival (Back up day )
Friday 15th August – 5/6 Cross Country Skiing
Friday 22nd August – 5/6 Down Hill Skiing
Friday 29th August – 5/6 Down Hill Skiing
Friday 5th September – 5/6 Skiing Back Up Day.
Monday 19th May – 3/4 Solar Telescopes
Tuesday 20th May – District Cross Country, Beechworth
Thursday 29th May -5/6 Lawn Bowls
Friday 30th May – Division Cross Country , Willow Park
Thursday 5th June – 5/6 Lawn Bowls
Monday 9th June – King's Birthday Public Holiday
Friday 13th June – Regional Cross Country, Benalla
Tuesday 17th to Wednesday 25th June – Somers Camp
Term 3
Friday 25th July – Winter Sports Carnival
Friday 1st August – Winter Sports Carnival (Back up day)
Friday 8th August – Regional Winter Sports Carnival
Tuesday 12th August- School Athletics Carnival
Wednesday 13th August – School Athletics Carnival (Back up day )
Friday 15th August – 5/6 Cross Country Skiing
Friday 22nd August – 5/6 Down Hill Skiing
Friday 29th August – 5/6 Down Hill Skiing
Friday 5th September – 5/6 Skiing Back Up Day.
From the Principal
Canberra Camp
Yr. 5/6 students have returned from Canberra Camp. The camp was successful, and students gained plenty from the experience. Thank you to the staff and parent helpers who gave their extra time and effort to make the camp a success for the students. Huge thanks to Lauren for her organisation – camps like this one require planning up to two years in advance and there are so many variables to factor in. Well done!
Uniform
We have a collection of second-hand jumpers available free of charge. Please consider checking to see if there are any in your size before purchasing new. Don’t forget to label all your uniform items. Now that we have expanded the uniform options it is our hope that we will see fewer children coming to school out of uniform.
Start of school day
Please note that school yard supervision begins at 8:40. Children’s wellbeing and actions are the responsibility of their parents up to that point. Before School Care is open for bookings if required.
Michael Edwards
Principal
Yr. 5/6 students have returned from Canberra Camp. The camp was successful, and students gained plenty from the experience. Thank you to the staff and parent helpers who gave their extra time and effort to make the camp a success for the students. Huge thanks to Lauren for her organisation – camps like this one require planning up to two years in advance and there are so many variables to factor in. Well done!
Uniform
We have a collection of second-hand jumpers available free of charge. Please consider checking to see if there are any in your size before purchasing new. Don’t forget to label all your uniform items. Now that we have expanded the uniform options it is our hope that we will see fewer children coming to school out of uniform.
Start of school day
Please note that school yard supervision begins at 8:40. Children’s wellbeing and actions are the responsibility of their parents up to that point. Before School Care is open for bookings if required.
Michael Edwards
Principal
From the Office
Hot Lunch Term 2 Payments
Just a reminder to families Term 2 Hot Lunch money is due. Please make sure to put your child’s name and “Hot Lunch” as the reference.
Hoodies
We can confirm that hoodies ‘should’ be here late next week, however there are some sizes on back order. All families will be emailed when their hoodie order is ready to collect from the office. Thank you for your patience.
Kerryn and Sandra
Just a reminder to families Term 2 Hot Lunch money is due. Please make sure to put your child’s name and “Hot Lunch” as the reference.
Hoodies
We can confirm that hoodies ‘should’ be here late next week, however there are some sizes on back order. All families will be emailed when their hoodie order is ready to collect from the office. Thank you for your patience.
Kerryn and Sandra
Assembly Helpers
This Weeks helpers are Kaitlyn McGlead and Finn Summons
Next week’s helpers are Grace O’Dwyer and Ted Attwood
Next week’s helpers are Grace O’Dwyer and Ted Attwood
Student Awards
Congratulations to all our award recipients.
WE ARE FAIR
Essie Haslett being an incredibly kind, thoughtful and hard-working member of 3/4A.
Patrick Kellaway for being an excellent team player by encouraging others and demonstrating great teamwork through sharing the ball during our game.
Hudson Street for demonstrating the value of fairness by being an outstanding role model during camp. You demonstrated kindness, respect and curiosity and made every moment more positive for those around you
Hudson Street for demonstrating the value of fairness by being an outstanding role model during camp. You demonstrated kindness, respect and curiosity and made every moment more positive for those around you
WE ARE LEARNERS
Hazel Arnott for always working hard on classroom activities and taking on new challenges with a smile and a ‘Can Do’ attitude!
Marlow Poyner for putting in lots of effort with listening to instructions and completing work to a high standard. Keep it up, Marlow!
Amelia McNicol For encouraging each other and learning from each other when exploring subtraction by finding difference during maths. Excellent teamwork and peer to peer teaching!
Marley Flower For encouraging each other and learning from each other when exploring subtraction by finding difference during maths. Excellent teamwork and peer to peer teaching!
Hush McLennan for demonstrating the value of learning by carefully working through, showing, and checking her thinking for subtraction problems. Great job Hush!
Frey Holden for persisting with challenges to produce a thoughtful piece of persuasive writing about what he would change if he were Prime Minister.
Essie Haslett for being an active participant during our basketball session, consistently giving her best effort, and being an excellent role model to others.
Cobie Flower for applying excellent structure to his persuasive writing
Katherine Somerville for demonstrating the value of learning by asking smart questions and getting the most out of the Canberra Camp experience.
Will Boddenberg for demonstrating the Value of Learning by engaging thoughtfully with all of the experiences of Canberra Camp by asking questions, sharing ideas and exploring all of the experiences on offer.
Yuki Makin-Ginn for demonstrating the Value of Fairness by being kind to her cabin buddies, and by moving around venues in a calm and respectful manner while on Canberra Camp.
WE SHOW RESPECT
Jasper Bulman for demonstrating the value of respect by listening to classmates and sharing ideas in reading groups this week. Well done, Jasper!
Patrick Kellaway for demonstrating the Value of Respect by initiating discussion and conversation thoughtfully. You listen, speak kindly and show genuine interest.
Spencer Pretty for demonstrating the Value of Respect by being a positive, inclusive and encouraging classmate, both inside and outside the classroom.
Felix Neumeyer for upholding the school systems and structures, stepping in to take on the responsibility of Bell monitor and doing a wonderful job.
Henry Wyatt for demonstrating the value of respect by always being respectful to teachers, helpers, and tour leaders on camp.
Ella Joy for demonstrating the value of respect by showing exceptional organisation, respectful behaviour, and enthusiastic engagement throughout camp.
Ella Joy for demonstrating the value of respect by showing exceptional organisation, respectful behaviour, and enthusiastic engagement throughout camp.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
Social and Emotional Learning
In SEL over the past few weeks, students have been learning about all the different emotions that humans can experience. A program that can help students learn about their emotions, assist with labelling emotion and regulating emotions when required, is The Zones of Regulation (ZoR).
Over the past few years, our school has used this program in classrooms to assist students with healthy emotional regulation and normalising emotion. You’ll see below that the 4 coloured zones- Blue, Yellow, Red and Green, correspond to different emotions.
It is ever so important that when we use this program with children, we emphasise that all humans experience emotions and that being in a particular zone for a period is perfectly OK. However, if a particular emotion is making us feel uncomfortable or is affecting our relationships, we can use some tools to ease our feelings of discomfort. Some examples of regulation tools are: The Take 5 Breath, exercise/heavy work activities (push ups/hanging from bars), mindfulness activities, laughing, sensory fidgets, and happy baby pose.
Families may find it useful to use the ZoR language and regulation tools at home.
Enjoy your weekend.
Stace Hogan
Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader
In SEL over the past few weeks, students have been learning about all the different emotions that humans can experience. A program that can help students learn about their emotions, assist with labelling emotion and regulating emotions when required, is The Zones of Regulation (ZoR).
Over the past few years, our school has used this program in classrooms to assist students with healthy emotional regulation and normalising emotion. You’ll see below that the 4 coloured zones- Blue, Yellow, Red and Green, correspond to different emotions.
It is ever so important that when we use this program with children, we emphasise that all humans experience emotions and that being in a particular zone for a period is perfectly OK. However, if a particular emotion is making us feel uncomfortable or is affecting our relationships, we can use some tools to ease our feelings of discomfort. Some examples of regulation tools are: The Take 5 Breath, exercise/heavy work activities (push ups/hanging from bars), mindfulness activities, laughing, sensory fidgets, and happy baby pose.
Families may find it useful to use the ZoR language and regulation tools at home.
Enjoy your weekend.
Stace Hogan
Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader
Hot Lunch
This week's Hot Lunch is BLT/MLT Rolls.
Last week's student helpers Eleanor and Emily did an amazing job preparing a LOT of Fried Rice. Well done girls!
A quick reminder for all volunteers - please remember to sign in and out at the office when you come in for Hot Lunch duty.
There are still several volunteer spots to fill on the term 2 roster. Please reach out if you are able to help.
Hannah Glanville-Jones
YPS Hot Lunch Coordinator
ypshotlunch@gmail.com
Last week's student helpers Eleanor and Emily did an amazing job preparing a LOT of Fried Rice. Well done girls!
A quick reminder for all volunteers - please remember to sign in and out at the office when you come in for Hot Lunch duty.
There are still several volunteer spots to fill on the term 2 roster. Please reach out if you are able to help.
Hannah Glanville-Jones
YPS Hot Lunch Coordinator
ypshotlunch@gmail.com
Sport News
District Cross-Country
On Tuesday 20th May we have the District Cross Country event which will be held in Beechworth. Permission forms have already been sent home, please make sure to have this back by Monday 19th May. Please note bus will be leaving at 9:30am.
Robyn
On Tuesday 20th May we have the District Cross Country event which will be held in Beechworth. Permission forms have already been sent home, please make sure to have this back by Monday 19th May. Please note bus will be leaving at 9:30am.
Please see below the timetable with the order of events and approximate race times:
10:40 AM – 9/10 Girls (2km)
11:00 AM – 9/10 Boys (2km)
11:20 AM – 11 Girls (3km)
11:45 AM – 11 Boys (3km)
12:10 PM – 12 Girls (3km)
12:35 PM – 12 Boys (3km)
Robyn
5/6 Skiing
Skiing 2025
Despite the mild autumn we are having this year, fingers are crossed that things will cool down soon and snow will start falling!
Information about our 2025 ski program (plus a survey link) was emailed to all the 5/6 families last week. Please read this information carefully and fill in the survey to help us move the planning forward. We need indicative numbers so we can finalise our budget and work out the cost to families.
Please find the link below:
https://forms.gle/4ofqLycwdZYcmK3s5
With thanks – Robyn and Earle
Despite the mild autumn we are having this year, fingers are crossed that things will cool down soon and snow will start falling!
Information about our 2025 ski program (plus a survey link) was emailed to all the 5/6 families last week. Please read this information carefully and fill in the survey to help us move the planning forward. We need indicative numbers so we can finalise our budget and work out the cost to families.
Please find the link below:
https://forms.gle/4ofqLycwdZYcmK3s5
With thanks – Robyn and Earle
Birthdays
16th May Edward Crispin
16th May Mia Lockett
17th May Hunter Wall
18th May Ed Hogan
20th May Kleo Schlup-Carson
23rd May Ted Attwood
16th May Mia Lockett
17th May Hunter Wall
18th May Ed Hogan
20th May Kleo Schlup-Carson
23rd May Ted Attwood
Community Notices
National Volunteer Week Community Celebrations!
Join us for a light meal, a mingle and to watch an inspirational short film called 'The Volunteers' (2024, PG).
Friday 23rd May 2025
Yack Courthouse
12pm or 6pm
Bookings Essential >> Book your ticket HERE.
Join us for a light meal, a mingle and to watch an inspirational short film called 'The Volunteers' (2024, PG).
Friday 23rd May 2025
Yack Courthouse
12pm or 6pm
Bookings Essential >> Book your ticket HERE.