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Principal's Message Thank you to our parent/carer volunteers... we see you, and we appreciate you!!!, 3MDR 97.1FM- Fresh Flamingos, Launch of new school website, Extra-curricular highlights of the past month, Seeking input from families regarding our Student Progress Reports

Tips from the School Office Banner Photo

Tips from the School Office Keeping Aware of Information Relating to School, Second Hand Uniform Shop, Keep Up to Date, Email, Arriving Late and Student early Collection, Excursions, Incursions & Camps, School Tours, Lunch Orders, Klad Sport - School Uniform Shop, Uniform & Lost Property, BPAY Payments, Staff Carpark, BPAY Payments, Reports, Parent-Teacher Conferences, Scholastic Book Club, Communicating with the School Administration Team

Calendar of Events All events are marked in the Compass Calendar, and we recommend families reference and record relevant dates for their children. , Breakfast Club - come one and all , School-wide Session Times, Upwey South Primary School Calendar:

School Council News Annual Report 2023

Parent Association News Parent Association, Father's Day Stall, Disco Bingo, Breakfast Club, Partnering with the Pancake Parlour Schools Program

Curriculum- Teaching and Learning Banner Photo

Curriculum- Teaching and Learning School Wide Teaching and Learning, What are the 'Big Ideas' and how do we apply these to primary Math?, Talk Moves - our agreed conversational norms for classroom talk, Extra-Curricular Opportunities Beyond the Traditional Classroom

Climate and Culture- Social Emotional Wellbeing & Learning Banner Photo

Climate and Culture- Social Emotional Wellbeing & Learning Communicating with the SWPBL Climate and Culture Team, Respectful Relationships , SUPPORT SERVICES FOR FAMILIES, Inspire Health and Medical is partnering with our school!

Student Leadership STUDENT LEADERSHIP 2024, "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”, Father's Day, And the winners are..., Extra - Curricula activities, USPS School Leaders, SWPBL Leaders, House Leaders , Specialist Leaders

Foundation Communicating with the Foundation Team, MATHS IN FOUNDATION, RIPPON LEA ESTATE EXCURSION, Personal Passions Day, Thank you for another fantastic Term! We hope you all have a great break and we will see you all in Term 4! , FOUNDATION SPECIALIST TIMETABLE

Year One Communicating with the Year One Team, Inquiry, Scienceworks, Auslan Day, Passion Day, Thankyou, Tricky Words, Take Home Readers

Year Two Communicating with the Year Two Team:, Inquiry:, AUSLAN Day:, Thankyou for your ongoing support this term. It certainly has been very busy and rewarding. , Enjoy your break! , See you next term., Ms Bates and Mrs Crawford!, Year Two Specialist Timetable:

Year Three/ Four Communicating with the Year Three/Four Team, Inquiry, CAMP

Year Five/ Six Communicating with the Year Five/Six Team, Inquiry Overview, Coming Up in Term Four

Health & Physical Education Banner Photo

Health & Physical Education Communicating with the Specialist Team, Curriculum Update

Languages- Auslan Communicating with the Specialist Team, Term Three, Celebrating Auslan Day, Deaf Sports, Kerrie Taylor, Performing Arts, Arts - Gonketa, Yarning Circle and Thank You., Looking Forward, National Week of Deaf People!, Get your tickets for the Asia-Pacific Deaf Basketball Championships

Performing Arts Communicating with the Specialist Team

Visual Arts Communicating with the Specialist Team

Science Communicating with the Specialist Team, Level 3/4 Learning, Level 5/6 Learning

Their Care- Out of School Hours Care Program Banner Photo

Their Care- Out of School Hours Care Program Opening hours , STAFFING , BOOKING , Feedback and suggestions , Fee Structure & Operating Hours, Holiday Program

Uniform Shop Why do we have a school uniform?, Are there any exceptions to the requirement for uniform? , Where can uniforms be purchased? , Klad Sport & School Uniforms, 20% In-Store Purchase from 1st September 2024-15th October 2024, Is there an on-site uniform shop at the school?, Second Hand Uniform Shop

Community News Community Announcements, Upper Ferntree Gully Junior Cricket Club, Sherbrooke Little Athletics, Women's Baseball, FTGDCA Girls Cricket Day, Springvale Indoor Sports School Holidays, Hawks Academy School Holiday Program, School Holiday Workshops , SkyHigh Mount Dandenong Children's Holiday Festival

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Upwey South Primary School

91 Morris Road, Upwey, Victoria, 3158, AU http://www.upweysthps.vic.edu.au/upwey.south.ps@education.vic.gov.au (03) 9757 0200

Visual Arts

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - MAYA ANGELOU

Communicating with the Specialist Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2024, and welcome your input:

Danielle Haines (Visual Arts) danielle.haines@education.vic.gov.au

Foundation students have been busy taking their custom paper to learn how to weave. This skill helps to further develop fine motor skills and pattern recognition as they weave the paper over and under in their loom. When finished, students had the opportunity to use their left over pieces to create 3-dimensional sculptures, figuring out ways to make the pieces stand up.

This week we got our hands dirty to finish off the term with some clay. Students were all very excited to manipulate the clay into a pinch pot and add their own decorations.

Year One and Two students have completed their sewing project. They have all successfully sewn a running stitch border and designed their own fish. Students continued to practice their running stitch, threading the needle and tying knots. Many were able to sew on a button for the eye and even experiment with different types of stitches to add decorations to their fish and background details. It was fantastic to see the students develop their skills over the course of this project and grow in confidence each week.

Year Three and Four students have completed their Pete Cromer inspired softies and they look amazing. Each one is a unique creation that is a test of patience, resilience and perseverance. Students had to overcome the challenges of running out of thread, rethreading their own needles, tying knots and navigating the large fabric scissors, not to mention undoing many tangles.

Year Five and Six students have completed their relief sculptures and they look stunning! Each one is completely unique. Students were taught how to create 3 simple folds and used these to create their designs. Some chose to experiment with other additional folds, while others used these three folds and experimented with different ways they could interact with each other to create dimension in their work.

When finished, students chose from a variety of activities including more complex origami folds, drawing origami or completing the CD symmetrical designs with puffy paint.