Term 4

Wednesday 8^th  October- 6^th November – Smile Squad

Friday 10^th October- Upper Hume Division Athletics

Wednesday 15^th October to Friday 17^th October - 3/4 Camp Howmans Gap

Wednesday 1^st October – 1^st Transition Day

Friday 17^th October – Regional Athletics

20^th October – Upper Hume Athletics (Back Up Day)

Wednesday 29^th October – 2^nd Transition Day

Wednesday 29^th October – Regional Hot Shots – Tennis Wangaratta

Monday 3^rd November – Pupil Free day (No OSHC running)

Tuesday 4^th November – Melbourne Cup (Public Holiday)

Thursday 6^th November – 2^nd BSC half day transition day

Thursday 6^th November – F/ 1 /2 Albury Botanic Gardens Excursion

Wednesday 12^th November – 3^rd Transition Day

Wednesday 26^th November – 4^th Transition Day

Thursday 27^th November – School Concert

Monday 8^th December to Wednesday 10^th December Start up transition program Yr 7 2026.

Tuesday 9^th December -  Statewide Transition Day

Monday 15^th December – Kanga Cricket

Tuesday 16^th December- 3/4  Pool Party

Wednesday 17^th December – F/ 1/ 2 Pool Party

Wednesday 17^th December – Year 6 Graduation

Thursday 18^th December – 5/6 Pool Party

Thursday 18^th December – Last day of Term 4

Friday 19^th December - Pupil Free Day

We have had a great week to begin Term Four. Well done to all the students who came back to school ready to learn. There is plenty happening in Term Four besides the important daily classroom learning.

Transition sessions for kindergarten to school have commenced with next year’s ‘Big Buddies’ visiting Yackandandah Kindergarten. The 4-Year-old children at Kinder will visit the school early next week before next Wednesday’s first Kinder to school formal transition morning. Later in the term Yr. 6 students will begin their transition program to Beechworth Secondary School or other school of choice. Yr. 3/4 students are off to Howman’s gap Wednesday next week for their camp. Today about 40 students are attending the Division athletics. Plenty of exciting things happening!

Michael Edwards
Principal

Year 3/4 camp
The Year 3/4 camp is next week.  If you haven’t paid for the camp yet, could you please do so – if you are unsure of how much you owe, please contact the office.

Voluntary Family Contributions
It is not too late to pay the Voluntary Family Contributions.  We thank  all the families who have paid the contributions for this year. . Yackandandah Primary School rely on these financial contributions to assist us with the purchasing of art, music and physical education equipment and resources, which in turn, supports us in offering specialist French, Music and Art classes.  These contributions also enable us to enrich learning as well as provide camps and excursions for students.
Due to Department guidelines, we are unable to show the Curriculum contributions on the family statements until after they are paid.
Below is a summary of the suggested voluntary contributions per child.  When paying please ensure you put your name and contributions in the reference.

F/1/2 Albury Botanic Gardens Excursion
Our F/1/2 students will be heading to the Albury Botanic Gardens on Thursday, 6th November.
Permission forms are now available on Compass for consent and payment.
The cost of the excursion is $11.50, which can be paid via Compass, direct debit to the school account, or by using your School Saving Bonus.

New OSHC Contact Number
Our Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) service has a new mobile number — 0437 496 731.
Families are asked to update their contact details and use this number when getting in touch with OSHC staff.
Please take a moment to read the OSHC section of this newsletter for important information about recent regulation changes regarding personal devices and updated contact procedures and the upcoming pupil free day.

This week’s helpers are  Miles Thornton and Charlotte Wilson

Next week helpers are   Dane Holden and Grace O’Dwyer

Congratulations to all our award recipients.

WE ARE FAIR

Connor Crispin, for demonstrating the value of fairness by supporting your table partners with skip counting activities in maths and using animation tools in writing with a collaborative approach and a smile.

Kayden Street,  for demonstrating the Value of Fairness by: being a positive, inclusive and encouraging classmate, both inside and outside the classroom. 

Paddy McIntyre, for showing patience, support and respect towards others.

Peter Kellaway, for being supporting and inclusive of other people’s ideas while planning for Graduation.

Will Boddenberg, for demonstrating the Value of Fairness by working cooperatively with others and approaching each task with a positive, can-do attitude.

WE ARE LEARNERS

Bernie McLennan, for beginning our new writing topic with a detailed procedure for ‘How to make a cup of tea’.

Sully Lucas, for your willingness to have a go at different dance styles and performing in front of your peers. You’re totally rocking it, Sully!

Amber Wallace, for displaying outstanding confidence and willingness to perform your dancing alongside your peers. Your huge smile says it all!

Dusty May, for seeking help when he was unsure and using this learning to level up his fact writing about plant life cycles

Isla Wallace, for demonstrating the value of learning by consistently and confidently engaging in Sounds Write sessions. You are a great role model to your classmates, well done Isla! 

Dara Freeman, for always listening well and applying knowledge accurately to learning tasks.

Katherine Somerville, for always offering thoughtful contributions to class discussions

Nora Glanville, for demonstrating the Value of Learning by consistently thinking deeply about concepts and seeking creative solutions.

Henry Lerch, for showing excellent reasoning when explaining the probability of various scenarios.

WE SHOW RESPECT

Zoe Wall,  for putting 100% effort into class activities and striving to finish work to a very high standard.

Theo Hutchings, for making a calm, quiet and focussed start to Term 4 with effort and enthusiasm to improve his learning.

Kiera Porteous, for demonstrating the Value of Respect by: being a wonderful active listener during class discussions. It is great to see you asking clarifying questions to help your understanding.

Beau Ridgeway,  for always being respectful to his learning community, friends and teachers.

Amber Wallace, for respectfully borrowing and returning class art supplies as though she were a polite little fairy.

Claudia Grech, for showing great leadership & contributing positively to our first Buddy Training Session.

Social & Emotional Learning

This term in SEL, our school will be exploring the 4^th topic in the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program, it’s called ‘Problem Solving’.

Classes will be learning the importance of having a range of problem-solving strategies when working through problems and challenges. The students will participate in applied learning tasks and role plays that will be scaffolded and supported by their classroom teachers. Problem solving is identified by the World Health Organization as a key skill for positive health. To be able to solve problems, students need to be able to think critically and evaluate the consequences of various actions. The use of problem-solving tools to explore possible responses to challenges provides an opportunity for students to develop their critical-thinking skills, whilst also learning with and from a range of other people within small group tasks. For example, using scenarios or narratives has been shown to be an effective basis for discussion between neurodiverse students and neurotypical students, generating increased connectedness and understanding of each other.

If you’d like to support this work at home, you can:

• Encourage thinking out loud
• Model calm problem solving
• Ask guiding questions (what could you try next?)
• Celebrate effort, not just results
• Break problems into smaller steps
• Normalise mistakes
• Talk about how actions have consequences, sometimes there’s an upside and sometimes there’s a downside

Enjoy your weekend.

Stace Hogan
Leading Teacher

Welcome to the Term 4 Hot Lunch Menu!

A 'Hot Lunch' option is offered to students on Fridays from week 2 onwards during the school term. The lunch is served at 11 am, and includes an individually served hot meal and fruit platter to share. Each Hot Lunch meal costs $5.

Parents, carers and senior students volunteer their time (9am-11:35am or 11.15-12.30pm) to collect ingredients, prepare, cook and serve and clean up after the hot meal. The meals are delivered to the classroom, where the class teacher will hand them out to the students that have ordered them.  

We have some delicious Hot Lunches on the menu for this term!



If you would like to place an order, please use the link below to complete a separate Google form for each of your children. Orders for week 2 need to be placed by MONDAY 13th OCTOBER, and orders for the rest of the term need to be placed by FRIDAY 17th OCTOBER, 2025. Please note that you will receive an email to confirm that each order has been placed successfully. If you do not receive one, please place the order again or reach out for assistance.

**We do our best to cater for students with alternative dietary needs (e.g. allergies/intolerances, vegetarian/vegan, etc.). Please indicate these on the order form**

We also need and welcome kitchen helpers, so please indicate on the form if you are able to assist. No experience needed, we love to have new faces in the kitchen! 

T4 Hot Lunch Order Form - 

https://forms.gle/oHMq1D2HdYx8S4jB6

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

Collaborative mixed media artworks by students in 3/4A and 3/4R, wrapping up a fabulous focus on monochromatic colour schemes and imaginative island designs!

Dance

We’ve kicked off Term 4 by combining the Physical Education – Movement and Physical Activity strand with the Arts curriculum focus on Dance.

Dance is an inclusive and expressive art form that encourages students of all abilities to explore their creativity. Through dance, students are developing not only their movement skills, but also their confidence, teamwork, and problem-solving abilities. They are working in pairs or small groups to choreograph routines — and some students have even chosen to perform solo, which is a fantastic reflection of their growing confidence!

Right now, students are enjoying the process of creating and experimenting with dance alongside their peers. In a few weeks, they’ll have the opportunity to showcase their routines in a fun ‘dance-off’ (dance battle-style) event. While participation in the performance is encouraged, it’s completely optional. Students who prefer not to perform will instead take on the important role of audience members, scoring the routines based on selected criteria on the day.

In preparation for the final performance, students are invited to bring in costumes or accessories from home (in a separate bag) to wear during our sport sessions. They’ll have time to get changed at the beginning of each lesson.

Costume and accessory ideas include:

• Sweatbands or wristbands
• Singlet (over a t-shirt)
• Dresses or skirts/tutus (over a t-shirt)
• Baggy pants, cargo pants, shorts or skorts
• Jackets, scarves
• Sneakers or similar footwear
• Fun hairstyles or hair accessories
• Wigs
• Ties or bow ties
• Fishnet gloves, leg warmers
• Sunglasses, caps
• Costume jewellery (non-precious)
• Pom poms

I’ll share the date for our final Dance Battle Day via the school newsletter and Compass. On that day only, students are welcome to arrive at school dressed in their dance outfits.

Thanks so much for your continued support,

Robyn

New OSHC Contact Details & Personal Device Regulations

We now have a new OSHC mobile number — 0437 496 731.
Please use this number if you need to contact OSHC staff directly. You can also continue to reach us through the school office on 02 6027 1431.
Bookings and cancellations can still be managed through the Xplor app or by emailing yack.ps.oshc@outlook.com.
Under the updated regulations, personal devices are no longer permitted within our OSHC service. We kindly ask families to save these contact details somewhere accessible so you can easily reach us when needed.
Thank you for your understanding and support in following these changes.

Pupil Free Day 3^rd November

We regret to inform you that due to significant and ongoing staff shortages, we will be unable to operate our OSHC Program to cover the scheduled Pupil Free Day on Monday 3rd November.
We’re sharing this information as early as possible to allow you time to make alternative care arrangements. We understand how important reliable care is, especially on pupil free days, and we sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
This has been a difficult decision, and we want to reassure you that every effort was made to find a workable solution. Unfortunately, we’re unable to meet the staffing requirements necessary to deliver a safe and high-quality program during this time.
Thank you for your understanding and ongoing support for our OSHC service. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

6^th October           Cooper

7^th October           Hazel

7^th October           Neve

7^th October           Kaia

9^th October           Miriam

9^th October           Kayden

10^th October         Grace

11^th October         Macklan

15^th October         Will

16^th October         Isla

Join us for an afternoon of food, fun and community spirit at our annual Bush Fair!
This year our 3–6 students will be hosting their own stalls as the culmination of their Social Enterprise unit and we would love the whole community to come along and support them.

There will be something for everyone with a reptile show, lawn games, live music, a coffee van, BBQ, a dessert stall and the return of our famous baked potatoes from the Yackandandah Folk Festival.

Bring your parents, grandparents, neighbours and friends. Everyone is welcome. Come along, enjoy a great evening and help celebrate the hard work of our amazing students.

Link to Facebook event page below:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cjf6vjZtK/

https://facebook.com/events/s/osbornes-flat-ps-bush-fair/1324830322549063/