Good luck to our very own Christine Boucher who is swimming from Nungurner to Paynesville on Sunday.

 

East Gippsland Lakes
Open Water Swim Challenge

 

Nungurner to Paynesville 20km Open Water Swim

SUNDAY 22nd FEBRUARY

(pending suitable conditions)

 

Followed by a charity Auction from 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Paynesville Yacht Club

 

Open Water Safety Awareness & Fund Raising Event
Swimmers: Chris Boucher and Sharon Blegg

We aim to raise $10,000 for the creation of a new Open Water Safety and Survival Day; developed and run in association with the Bairnsdale Aquatic and Recreation Centre (BARC) and Lakes Entrance Aquadome and Recreation Centre (LARC). It will be available to all students in grades 5 and 6 in 2016, from over 30 East Gippsland schools.

Currently, no school swimming programs in East Gippsland

cater specifically to open water safety.

Some quick stats: It only takes 20 seconds to drown. Of the top 3 drowning locations, Rivers/Creeks/Streams are #1 & Beaches are # 3.

We need your help to raise $10,000 to develop this program.
Please donate as an individual, business or organisation to: mycause.com.au/page/87116/theeastgippslandlakesopenwaterswimchallenge

Find and support the swimmers on Facebook: facebook.com/EGlakesopenwaterswimchallenge

This event is supported by; Bairnsdale Aquatic & Recreation Centre, Lakes Entrance Aquadome & East Gippsland Shire.

                                                                                              

 

 

Tuesday 10 February is Safer Internet Day, where children and young people are encouraged to be safer and more responsible when using technology and mobile phones. This year's theme is 'let's create a better internet' and there will be two important events on the day to support the work of schools.

Lets work together on keeping our students safe.

Following the links for more information: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/students/Pages/default.aspx

Welcome to the 2015 School Year.

 

TERM 1 EVENTS.

 

 

"Meet the Teacher Evening"

Thursday February 19th.

5:00pm to 7:00pm

No bookings required.

 

 

COSMODOME VISIT

 

MONDAY FEBRUARY 23rd

FAMILY EVENING

"Earth's wild ride"

6:00pm to 7:00pm

School Hall

 

TUESDAY FEBRARY 24th

Students Stardome sessions.

http://journeyman.net.au/

Term 4

Welcome to a very busy Term 4.

We have a number of events coming up this term which we hope for people to be involved in.

 

 

Paynesville Art Show. 

This is held on the Melbourne Cup Weekend.

The Gala Opening Night is scheduled for Friday October 31st.  Tickets are $25 each. 

Please contact the school office to book.  03 51566334.

 

 

 

 

More details are available are; https://paynesvilleps.wufoo.com/forms/the-great-paynesville-clothes-swap-2014/

Fostering International Relations

Last Wednesday we were fortunate enough to have Students and Staff arrive from ChangShu Shimao Experimental Primary School in China.  The students are being hosted with Paynesville Primary School families and are spending 7 nights / 8 days exploring the Australian way of life.  Students have been participating in classes and also seeing the sights of the area.  The Chinese visitors along with their Australian hosts have had the pleasure of a boat ride on the Gippsland Lakes, looked for Koalas on Raymond Island and will also be heading to the majestic Buchan Caves.  Their visit concludes with a day at Federation University in Churchill where all schools involved in the Sister School Program will come together.  We are very fortunate to participate in these programs which create meaningful relationships now and into the future.

Please see the press release for information about the China Sister School Program that we are so fortunate to be apart of.   DEECD - Press Release

School Programs...

Out of Hours Care.

 Tuesday, Thursday and Friday's

Available from 3:30pm.
 

 

 

 

 

ACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL
COMMUNITIES PROGRAM

Monday & Wednesday's
Week 2 through to Week 9

 

Program runs from 3:30pm to 4:30pm.


Please see the office if you require information on either of these programs. 

TERM 3

Hopefully everyone is rested and ready for a busy Term 3.

We have some exciting activities planned for this Term.

Our Kitchen Garden Festival is Scheduled for the 2nd August, this year - so mark this date in your diaries and start cleaning out cupboards.  We are after donations of;  Books, sporting equipment, toys.  We are also after volunteers - if you can help out - even for 1 hour please let us know.

 

During August our Grade 6 students will be heading off to Melbourne for a two night adventure camp.

 

We also have our International visitors arriving this month.  Paynesville will once again be hosting visitors from China.  These visitors are students at our sister school in Changshu.  We look forward to the opportunity to foster our International connections and re-establish friendships which have been made earlier.

Have a great Term.