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Round 11: Friday 14th November 2025

Greenhills Gold VS Plenty Valley – AWAY

Time:	Sport:	Venue:
9.30am-10.30am approx.	Basketball	Plenty Valley CC
	Cricket	Plenty Valley CC
	Hot Shots	Plenty Valley CC
	Rounders	Plenty Valley CC
	Volleyball	Plenty Valley CC

Greenhills Green VS Glen Katherine B – HOME

Time:	Sport:	Venue:
9.30am-10.30am approx.	Basketball	Greenhills PS
	Cricket	Greensborough Park
	Rounders	Greenhills PS

SSV STATE TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

A huge shout-out to Charlie B (5SM), Arlo C (5ND), Jackson H (5ND), Sophie M (6JH), and Chris W (5ND), who proudly represented themselves and Greenhills PS at last week’s SSV State Track & Field Championships!

This is the pinnacle of primary school athletics in Victoria – and what a day it was! There were medals won, personal bests smashed, and unforgettable moments on the biggest stage of all.

Results:

Charlie B: Boys U11 4x100m Relay – 🥉 Bronze Medal
Arlo C: Boys U11 4x100m Relay – 🥉 Bronze Medal / Boys U11 800m – 10th (huge 5 second PB!) / Boys U11 High Jump – 12th
Jackson H: Boys U11 4x100m Relay – 🥉 Bronze Medal
Sophie M: Girls U12 Discus – 6th (massive 4m PB!)
Chris W: Boys U11 4x100m Relay – 🥉 Bronze Medal

Reaching the State Championships is an incredible achievement – one that only a tiny handful of students across Victoria can claim. Considering that close to 100,000 students began this journey at the District level, making it to the very top is something truly extraordinary.

The entire Greenhills community is so proud – you’ve represented yourselves, your families, and our school amazingly. Well done, legends!

COMMUNITY SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS

Huge congratulations to Ryan E (4SH), Hudson M (4SH) and Parker L (4DS), who represented their Eltham U12.1 rep team at the Craigieburn Tournament! They battled it out in the top division (U12 Championship) and came away with the grand final win!

An incredible result and something to be really proud of — well done, boys! 💪🏼

A huge congratulations to Emily B (5SM), who has been taking an art class through Living & Learning Nillumbik. Last Friday, the diversARTy Exhibition opened at the Eltham Library Community Gallery, showcasing some of her amazing artworks!

What a fantastic achievement, Emily — it’s wonderful to see your creativity and talent on display for the whole community to enjoy! 👏

If your child achieves something special (grand final win, most valuable player award, best and fairest etc.), please email me (jordan.daley@education.vic.gov.au) through photos and an overview of the achievement to post in Contact. It is important to celebrate and recognise such successes with the school community.

Thank you,

Jordan Daley

ARTS ALIVE 2025

Last night, Montmorency Secondary College hosted their annual Arts Alive Exhibition and Awards Night - a wonderful celebration of creativity and talent. Each year, as part of this special event, students from local primary schools in Years 4-6 are invited to enter an art competition, with prizes announced on the night.

Greenhills Primary School has a proud tradition of participating in this event, and 2025 was no exception. We had many talented students submit their artwork, and we were thrilled to have seven of the twenty finalist positions held by Greenhills students!

Congratulations to Ruby R, Lana, Josie, Yat, Sarina, Maddie L, and Ya-Qing on this fantastic achievement.

While we didn’t take home any placed awards this year, I couldn’t be prouder of our Greenhills artists- not only for the incredible quality of the work displayed, but for the courage and creativity it takes to put your art out into the world in the first place.

To everyone who entered the competition- congratulations! To our seven finalists- congratulations! And to all our Greenhills artists who continue to create, explore, and express themselves- congratulations!

Sarah Leach

Visual Art Specialist Teacher

Greenhills Primary School

The Inclusion Parade last week was a wonderful success, and it was fantastic to see the many creative ways students chose to represent themselves. Our Inclusion Action Team worked incredibly hard to make the day meaningful and to prepare mini-lessons that helped everyone learn more about what inclusion truly means.

A HUGE congratulations and thank you to Everliegh (6RM), Daniel (6RM), Sebastion (5RC), Fletcher (5RC), Jessica (6RM), Hannah (6RM), and Vihaan (6LB).

Your hard work, leadership, and professionalism while teaching each class was outstanding. Well done!

We look forward to an even bigger and better parade next year.

Thank you,

Keely Jones (Miss Jones)

keely.jones@education.vic.gov.au

Classroom Teacher

Greenhills Primary School

Greenhills Music Festival

December 3rd 2025

Get ready for a night full of music, smiles, and talent!

Come along to celebrate our amazing Greenhills students as they take the stage to perform songs on guitar, piano, violin, and more at the Greenhills Music Festival. From beautiful solos to toe-tapping group performances, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Our students have been working hard all year with their wonderful instrumental teachers and now it’s time to shine!

Bring the whole family for a night of entertainment and celebration.

Tickets available via: https://www.trybooking.com/DGXYV

BOOK CLUB

2026 BOOKLISTS

TEAM KIDS

Get READY for an EPIC day of FUN as TeamKids RE-PLAY some of the BIGGEST games 🤩From hopscotch to tag, we’re REVIVING many playground favourites that make childhood UNFORGETTABLE 🎉Join us after school on the 20th November as we make memories the old-school way ❤️

Book here: https://www.teamkids.com.au/venues/

Greenhills Family Portrait Fundraiser - Saturday, 29 November

20-minute portrait session

20-minute viewing / selection session

One free 8" x 12" print

Complimentary simple retouching

No obligation to purchase

https://koalendar.com/e/greenhillsprimary2025

CANTEEN

We now have the following available from the canteen:-

SALADS - $6 EACH

Chicken salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot, red onion, tasty cheese with light salad dressing

Pasta salad with capsicum, carrot, peas, corn with light salad dressing

Tuna salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot, red onion, tasty cheese with light salad dressing

Wednesday Wonders will no longer be available only on a Wednesday. They will now be a Meal Deal which will include a piece of fruit and a drink and will be available on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. These will be at a cost of $8 each. The choices will be:-

Fried rice (vegetarian, gluten free)

Spiral pasta (vegetarian, gluten free option)

Ravioli (vegetarian option, gluten free option)

Lasagne

Mac and cheese

SUSHI DAY

Our last Sushi Day for 2025 is on Thursday 27th November 2025.

Orders are now open on QKR and must be in by the end of Thursday 20th November.

HELPERS NEEDED

If you have a spare hour on a Wed, Thurs or Fri between 1pm and 2pm, come along and help in the canteen. There is no food preparation involved, it's very simple and the kids love seeing parents there!

You need to have completed the Volunteer Induction, and sign up through CareBookings - www.carebookings.com.au - access code is JGU9L.

Helpers get a canteen voucher for their kids to use for their next lunch order!

Thank you

Miriam

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Term 4 Week 6 - Presented 28th November.

Adele C	Prep AW	For always showing such respect and kindness in the way you speak with others. Your curiosity and thoughtful contributions show how eager you are to learn and make you a wonderful role model in our class.
Savanna G	Prep AW	For being such a wonderful part of Prep AW. Your warm smile, kindness and lovely sense of humour brighten our classroom every day.
Sonny	Prep SB	For trying your hardest in all learning tasks and being a kind and respectful member of Prep SB. Keep up the great work Sonny!
Adley C	1/2G	For always working hard during our writing sessions and taking on feedback to improve. Keep up the amazing work Adley!
Oscar	1BH	For being a reflective learner in Maths. Oscar, I love how you reflected on your previous learning about fact families to help you become a more confident learner. Keep it up!
Grace B	1JR	For always being such a wonderful role model in 1JR. Grace, you always show your best effort in all areas of your learning. What a superstar!
Braxton	1KO	For being a reflective learner with your writing. Brax, your writing continues to improve because you always take on feedback to help you reflect on how you can improve. Your enthusiasm is incredible!
Vivian	2RB	For showing courage and making big improvements in your division skills. Well done Vivian.
Matilda H	2TS	You are always willing to have a go and take on responsibilities in our classroom. Your positive attitude and reliable nature make you a wonderful role model to others.
Emily K	3JC	Emily, you showed amazing confidence when sharing your interesting bee facts with the class. We loved how excited and proud you were to teach us something new!
Matteo F	3MH	For always striving to be the best learner that you can be. You are respectful, responsible and always put in 100% effort. Matteo you are such a GREAT 3MH class member, you could be ‘Student of the Week’ every week!
Ashton A - H	3TW	Ashton, it's great to see you continuing to work hard. I can always rely on you to try hard and do your best
Aki N	4DS	For writing clear and thoughtful summary sentences of extracts from our class novel Storm Boy, you’re showing strong comprehension and attention to key ideas!
Connor J	4SH	For your incredibly detailed camp recount! We were blown away with your description. Well done buddy!
Annabelle	5RB	For your consistent determination you show in your learning, your hard work is really paying off! Awesome job Annabelle!
Gemma M	5SM	For her hard work and dedication in understanding and unpacking the traits of each of her characters in our English Teams. Well done Gemma!
Olivia M	6JH	For applying yourself wholeheartedly to your learning. I have been so impressed with your dedication and agency.
Riley	6LB	For constantly putting your learning first. Thank you for always putting in effort, asking questions to clarify and sharing your thoughts and answers with the class.
Addy L	6RM	For the efforts you have made in Maths. You have grown as a learner and showed focus to work through challenging problems and make significant progress.
Thomas O 1JR	Performing Arts	Thomas for being a superstar choreographer, creating his own version of the Chicken Dance- the unforgettable Gorilla Dance!
Frankie W 12G	STEAM	For her excellent choices in STEAM: contributing frequently, listening carefully and sharing her observations and prior knowledge. Thanks Frankie!