Hello, from Carolyn.

Hello everyone,

Epsom Bunnings BBQ.

Parents & Friends have organised a BBQ fundraiser for Sunday 21April at Epsom Bunnings. Thank you to the people who have already signed up to help. Here is the link so you can add your name to a time slot- https://forms.gle/NjYE756CuL9karH58 

Team work makes the dream work!

Dja Dja Wurrung seasonal calendar.

Did you know that for the Dja Dja Wurrung people there are six seasons during the year? It is currently Wurrak and burukil season- Banksia and parrot time! Usually at this time of the year, mid-March/April we get Autumn rains that rehydrate the dry landscape.

wurrak (Tree Banksia) flowers are soaked in water to extract the nectar and make a sweet drink. This is also a good time to collect sap from wararak (Silver Wattle) and Black Wattle, which can be eaten or mixed with ash to be used as glue for tool-making. gurndi (Cranberry Heath) berries ripen and are ready to eat.  

At Liang-a-nhuk (Mount Alexander) mosses spring to life with the first autumn rains, while fungi send up fruiting bodies on animal dung, through  leaf litter and on logs. Flowering Yellow Gums in the Muckleford Nature Conservation Reserve attract Swift Parrots, honey-eaters and lorikeets. 

• Some Orchids flower – including Parsons Bands, Autumn Greenhood, Striped Greenhood

• Spreading Wattle flowers

• Brushtail Possums breed

• Mosses spring to life with first autumn rains 

• Fungi respond to rain and send up fruiting bodies on animal dung, through leaf litter,  and on logs 

• Swift Parrots arrive from Tasmania and join many other honey-eater and lorikeet species feeding on flowering eucalypts such as Yellow Gum, Yehrip (Red Ironbark), and Grey Box 

• Bibron’s Toadlets can be heard in wet gullies

• Eastern arrive from cooler habitats to the south and feed on nectar-rich flowers

• Flame Robins and Golden Whistlers arrive from cooler habitats

• Female Common Brown Butterflies become active after summer aestivation

• Grey Currawongs arrive and are signalled by their noisy call

• Rain Moths emerge from underground larvae and scatter eggs from the air around eucalypt trees.

This information is from the Mount Alexander Shire Council page and was compiled by Uncle Rick Nelson and Karl Just, with contributions from Frances Cincotta, Elaine Bayes, Damien Cook, Tanya Loos, Geoff Park, Cassia Read and Trace Balla.

Chicken pox.

We have had a small number of chicken pox cases reported to us. If you would like to know more about chicken pox, symptoms and how long your child needs to stay away from school, please go to https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/chickenpox   

Our expected behaviours at Bendigo PS.

This is our last newsletter for the term. A reminder that Term 1 finishes next Thursday 28 March at 2:30pm. I hope you all have an enjoyable weekend and, that you have time for a break over the holidays.

Warm regards,

Carolyn.

School banking details.

Westpac.

Bendigo Violet Street Primary

BSB: 033-688

Account number: 93-1292

Payment reference: use your surname and fees.