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__Bendigo Violet Street Primary Schoool__ OUR SCHOOL!!!   **   Bendigo Violet Street Primary School is situated in Old Violet street 877 in Bendigo. It has about 130 students. The school is close to the centre of the city. It has four playgrounds, an oval, basketball and netball courts and a tiger turf area spread across the yard. It has many activites and out outside things to do. It's a great place to be educated. Our school is both old and new and has a very interesting history. It is because of the German people that we are here today. **              **The German Heritage**             ** A large number of German miners were attracted to the Bendigo goldfields.Today's Bendigo Primary School No. 877 owes its origins to the enthusiasm for education of the early Bendigo German community. The school was built by the German community of the Ironbark area in 1866 and then replaced with the New German School in 1877. The school was remodled in 1913 and our new name was Violet Street State School. We have a wall of honor for all the people who went to war from our school for all the familes to see and remember all those people. The German Society provide a special award each year to one of students to help them with their education.** ** What we have at our school.   <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">       ** <span style="font-size: 120%; color: #0a0a0b; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 70%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">**1. A library and it's filled with books and computers. 2. A canteen on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 3. A multi/purpose room for assembly and rainy day activites. 4. A Playgroup for little kids that aren't at school. 5. An art room for art and craft to bring out our creative side. 6. A music room for instrumental and singing. 7. Before and after school care.** <span style="font-size: 140%; color: #a012af; font-family: Georgia, serif;">   **  Staff  ** = Our school has a great staff. Our principal Mr Scobie is enthusiastic and works hard to make the school fun and exciting. We have seven classroom teachers who are all different but great at what they do. We have a talented art and music teacher Mr Rinaldi who puts on a great production each year, runs art shows with our work and leads our school choir. We have our Scotish Librarian Mrs Raz who takes care of our Library and cares for us in sick bay. We also have a business manager Sharon in the office who deals with all the money and helps Mr Scobie. There are also the teacher aids who help out in the classroom, Julie and Wendy are a lot of fun to have around. We think we have a great staff at Violet Street. =  ** Special events at our school ** L.A.R.P is on a Friday and grades 3 to 6 are put into different groups to do things like cooking, craft, woodwork, swimming, bike riding and squash. Book Week we dress up as our favourite book character. Cross Country is an activity were we go to a place and run a long way. Sports das were we have all sorts of sports and compete for points. Footy days are were we dress up in our favourite Footy team colours and play a game of football. We hold productions each year and sing, dance and hold skits. We celebrate the Melbourne Cup each year by picking a horse and we win prizes if our horse wins. We hold an Enterprize Fair every year where the senior students run the stalls and fun games for all the kids to enjoy. Special Person's Day is where every child invites a special friend to spend a day in their class and have lunch with them. Muso Magic is a fun couple of days for the older children who work together writing a song and recording their own CD. Every year all the grades go on different camps and do lots of activities, some go to the city, the country or the beach. We have pen pals in Penzance, Cornwall we write to them every month.**
 * Violet street is a great school to be at because we have a lot of fun activites to do.

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