Hello Everyone!

Teaching and Learning - around the school this week

Teaching - Our Staff

Ms. Adriana Bisognano is one of our two Year 2 teachers and has been with us since Ms D'Mello left at the end of term 3 in 2021. 

“It has been a joy getting to know my class this year in a face to face environment. Remote Learning has made me appreciate, as a teacher, how influential we can be in real life situations with our students’ learning journey. I look forward to a productive year of learning with my class, 2B.”

Learning - Our Students

Wattle Park Primary has a long established history of working with Deakin University in a variety of ways. One of these ways  is to have their Bachelor of Education Students run two science sessions with each of our two Year 2 classes. Each one of these lessons  involves up to 18 Deakin University students and is coordinated by their Senior Lecturers who also work with our students onsite:

Lihua Xu (Ph.D)

Senior Lecturer in Science Education School of Education, Faculty of Arts & Education

and

Eden Ralph

Tutor in Science Education 

Each working with one or two students in each of our Year 2 classes to run a science investigation that focuses on the Year 2 science curriculum. 

These lessons are occurring on the first two Fridays of this term and investigate the concept of ‘Push and Pull’ within the physical science domain. This topic looks into the way objects move depends on a variety of factors including their size and shape: a push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape.

2022.04.25 ANZAC Day - Dawn Service

On the ANZAC Day public holiday Wattle Park hosted our traditional ANZAC Day Ceremony. This was made possible by the help of Emily Beard and Rosanna Kirn who made sure we had a fire which provided both warmth on a cold, still morning and an opportunity to focus and reflect upon the sacrifice our ANZACs made for us. Around 60 people attended. Special thanks to our Assistant Principal, Emma Tan who organised tea and coffee and the wreath that was laid.

2022.04.26 ANZAC Day - School Ceremony

All WPPS students also honour our fallen ANZACs each year at a school service held for 15 minutes on the day after the ANZAC Day public holiday. This year one of our Year 6 teachers, Ms Statkus, coordinated this ceremony with our School Ambassadors who did a fine job leading our service. Our school ambassadors are pictured above: Charlotte A, Liam S, Sumayyah S and Atticus C. The Ceremony included an Acknowledgement of Country, a brief history of the ANZACs and a reading of the poem ‘Alive with Poppies’ by Tomos Roberts. A wreath was laid, the Last Post sounded and a minute's silence was observed by all of our students. We will remember them.

Buildings and Grounds

Thanks to the very industrious efforts of Aisha and Duncan Grey and Mel and Steven Lew on Saturday the 9th of April during the holidays, the old chook pen has been DEMOLISHED! Whoo hoo! I cannot thank them enough for their mighty efforts.  I am waiting upon confirmation of a 10M walk-in bin to be delivered onsite so we can have a Working Bee on Sunday 15th of May from 10-12 noon to get rid of the remaining debris. I will confirm the Working Bee after the walk-in bin has been confirmed.

Over the holidays we had the four garden beds near Team Kids (Before and After School Care) tended (tamed..!) to. We employed a gardener with a Working with Childrens Check who worked in conjunction with Saskia from Team Kids. Under the mulch we used rolls of brown paper we found while cleaning out the art storeroom as weed matting. We’ll let this garden settle before adding other plants which will be done with the intention of providing a clear line of sight for students to avoid any crashes occurring around corners.

Thank you to Rosanna, our PFA President, Anthony, and Ned Hall with Ned’s Nan, Helen, who took on the challenge and successfully felled the weed tree by the staffroom windows. They were ably assisted by their neighbour. Sam, Darcy and Ted Stringer followed up by chainsawing the remaining stump to the ground and sawing up the remaining limbs to be thrown into the skip. This tree was removed to stop damage to the foundations of the school.

COVID 19

Go HERE for all updated information about the new Operations Guidelines (No 32!) and how they affect WPPS. 

EVENTS

Go HERE for event details on our website’s calendar.

There will be further information about the resumption of face to face school Assembly next week.

Have a great weekend.

Steve Donohue

Principal

Wattle Park Primary School

It’s an action packed few weeks coming up at Wattle Park Primary for social get-togethers and fundraising events! A big thanks to our PFA team including Steve, Aiesha, Tom, Emily, Alisha, Hayley, Susan and Danielle for their amazing efforts in coordinating these events.

What a terrific way to end last term with a parent get-together at Foodrinkery after drop-off. It was great to see so many parents across all grades!

Barefoot Bowls Social Afternoon – Sat 30^th April 3-6pm

Thank you to everyone who booked to come along to our first social bowls event this year on Sat 30th April. Bookings have now closed - look forward to seeing you at the next one if you missed out this time. 

Mother’s & Special Persons Stall – Thurs 5^th & Fri 6^th May

Every year we hold a fundraising stall filled with lots of lovely goodies for your child to buy a special present for the special person in their life. Gifts are between $2-$15.

This year the stall will be located in the old LOTE building, just inside the Banksia Street entrance.

It is open over 2 days, from 8.30am-11am, and again after 3.30pm-4pm. Children will visit the stall with their classes during the day.

Mother’s & Special Persons Afternoon Tea – Sat 21^st May 3-5pm

We’d like to invite you to our Mothers and Special Persons special afternoon tea at the Wattle Park Chalet, Saturday 21^st May (yes, election day!).

Tickets are $40 and include afternoon tea (finger food), a glass of bubbles on arrival, and a free ticket for a chance to win a door prize! Please purchase tickets online, along with lucky tickets for our prize draws.

Everyone is welcome, and please feel free to bring along others! Ticket purchases will close Wed 18^th May.

BOOK YOUR TICKETS AND LUCKY TICKETS: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/896649

Bunnings Barbecue – Sunday 29^th May

We all love a Bunnings sausage! Come along on 29^th May to support our stall at Box Hill Bunnings, Middleborough Road. More details about how you can help out on the day will be provided.

Like to be a part of the PFA?

If you would like to join the Parents & Friends Association – we’d love to have you. We’re a merry band of helpers and always keen to welcome more people. Please contact Anthony Hall, PFA President, on 0409 806 478, or email pfa@wattleparkps.vic.edu.au
       

• Monday, 2nd May, 
• Monday, 23rd May,
• Monday, 13th June

The Victorian Government has announced it is extending the rapid antigen test (RAT) screening program for the first 4 weeks of Term 2 as COVID Safe settings continue.


3. Message from Canteen
1). Canteen is always looking for volunteers to help.....12pm - 1.30pm on Friday.  Please register via            https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/827030846186224028/false?popup=true#/invitation

We operate a first aid room at Wattle Park Primary school. In order to keep our First Aid Room clean and tidy, we require parent volunteers to assist us each Friday. We'd love 40 families to help - so you only have to help once a year!
For only around 15 minutes we appreciate you checking the area, changing the sheets, and returned washed sheets the following Monday. 

How to assist

• Click on the link below, choose the date you can assist, and sign up.
• You will not require an account or to keep a password. 
• If you would prefer not to use your email address, please email the school and your details can be entered manually to include you on the roster. 
• To assist with tidying the First Aid room please sign up here: 

  https://signup.com/go/bpUzddO