November
Mon 3^rd – Curriculum Day
12^th – 14^th - Whole School Camp – Phillip Island
Tues 18^th – Prep Transition #1
Tues 25^th – Prep Transition #2

December
Tues 2^nd – Prep Transition #3
Tues 9^th – Statewide Transition – Preps and Grade Six Students
Thurs 18^th – Graduation Assembly and Last Day of School Year

Destination Hesket - An Old-fashioned Family Road Trip - Harvey and Banjo
The Hesket Primary School production was an absolute blast! On Thursday the 11^th of September, Hesket Primary School performed their very own concert. Singing, dancing and colour filled the Romsey Mechanics Institute as the whole school took to the stage, performing a soundtrack of great Australian songs.

The Juniors rocked it out to Spiderbait and Kylie, Middle W’s performances were both moving and out of this world (pun intended!), Middle D got their cool on as they danced to Baker Boy and The Seniors gave us a moving version of From Little Things Big Things Grow and showed us how they Like It Like That! One of the highlights of the night was our secret, second finale where everyone had so much fun singing and dancing to Calypso.

We’d like to give Lydia a gigantic thank you because she put in a huge effort into this production. The script was awesome and no one could have done better so a big thanks to Lydia. 

Thanks to Rachelle for all the hard work she put in to the dances – we could not have done it without you.

On behalf of the school, we’d like to thank our families and friends for coming to the Hesket Primary School concert. 

Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee, The Crowture Collection by Jasper and Caitlin M
The Hesket students have been working on two scarecrows over the last few weeks. We made Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, two Australian fashion designers who make wearable art. They said, “Art should not just be looked at and displayed, it should be worn.” The Hesket students painted their clothes and faces, as well as the background featuring Australian icons. The scarecrows were entered into a competition for the Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival and parade. Hesket won the scarecrow competition for the third year in a row. The Hesket students are very proud of their work, as is Linda Jackson who commented on the school Facebook page and even offered to visit when she is next in the neighbourhood. The scarecrows are located at 16 Mollison Street in Kyneton, where they will be for one more week.

Cued Articulation - By Leo S-N
On Friday the 12th of September, Hesket staff had a training day on Cued Articulation. Naomi, the speech pathologist at Hesket, explained the benefits of cued articulation and how sound is made by the body.

Cued articulation is used by staff and students at Hesket to show the individual sounds in a word, using hand cues. The hand movements are logical, as each hand movement represents one sound and the cue gives clues as to how and where the sound is produced. Hesket students use cued articulation for their spelling every day because it helps us to speak really clearly and develop phonological awareness; if students have good phonological awareness, it usually means reading will be easier for them later on.

Tournament of Minds - Language Literature By Hillary and Micah
The state final for T.O.M. at Bundoora La Trobe University made you feel nervous, challenged and excited. Instead of the six week long-term challenge you do for the T.O.M. Regionals, you have a three-hour lockdown in a room where you get given the challenge and must solve it and make a performance. The Language Literature (lang-lit) challenge this year was to make a story that started the same way it finished, but you had to add in sentences that could be changed by adding a comma, like, ‘let’s eat people!’ or ‘let’s eat, people!’ (One sentence could be deadly!) Then, we had to add writing strategies into a sentence that someone had to say. In the end, after a long day of working hard, the lang-lit team were awarded Honours and we were very proud of ourselves.

Tournament of Minds - Arts - By Aurelia
As we entered La Trobe, Bundoora, a rush of excitement and nervousness filled the air. The day started with an information speech, then we were led to our rooms which we would be locked in for the next three hours. We excitedly read our challenge and began to work on our solution, ‘Art galleries are used to display art all over the world. Two paintings have gone missing… Which one will go missing next? Why? Who? And what?’ We had lots of fun presenting our performance and felt extremely pleased when we were awarded Honours.

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