Templeton Primary School

Crestdale Road, Wantirna 3152

Telephone 9801 7450 Facsimile 9800 3547

Email templeton.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

www.templetonps.vic.edu.au

Term 4

Week 1

11th October 2019

Pride in Performance

Week 2 Monday 14th—17th Oct Grade 3/4 Swimming XUNO Closed

Monday 14th –16th Oct Grade 5 Camp XUNO Closed

Thursday 17th October Grade 1 Market Fresh Incursion XUNO Closed

Region Athletics XUNO Closed

Chess State Semi-Finals XUNO Closed

Friday 18th October 2020 Prep Transition Session #5

Division Cricket XUNO Due 11th October

Week 3 Monday 21st October 5/6 Basketball Finals XUNO Due 14th October

Tuesday 22nd October Division Hot Shots XUNO Due 15th October

Tuesday 22nd– 25th October Grade Prep/2 Swimming XUNO Closed

Wednesday 23rd October Division Softball XUNO Due 16th October

Thursday 24th October Division Volleyball XUNO Due 17th October

Templeton Art Show 6:00-8:00pm

Friday 25th October 2020 Prep Transition Session #6

3/4 Cricket Blast Cup XUNO Due 18th October

Week 4 Monday 28th—31st October Grade Prep /2 Swimming XUNO Closed

Monday 28th October Grade 5 Chinese Museum Incursion XUNO Due 21st October

Tuesday 29th October Grade 6 Graduation Photo

Grade 6 Metro Incursion XUNO Due 22nd October

Grade 3A/3M Science Incursion XUNO Due 22nd October

Thursday 31st October Grade 3C/3P Science Incursion XUNO Due 22nd October

Friday 1st November 2020 Prep Transition Session #7

40th Birthday Early Bird on XUNO 9:00 am

Week 5 Monday 4th November Curriculum Day—Student Free Day

Tuesday 5th November Melbourne Cup Day Public Holiday

Wednesday 6th November Grade 4 Professor Bunsen Forces XUNO Due 30th October

Friday 8th November Grade 3 Excursion Healesville Sanctuary XUNO Due 1 November

2020 Prep Transition Session #8

Week 6 Tuesday 12th November Walkathon

Wednesday 13th November Grade 6 Sexuality Education #1 XUNO Due 30th October

Friday 15th November 2020 Prep Transition Session #9

Calendar

Week 7 Tuesday 19th November Grade 3 Coach Approach Incursion XUNO Due 12 November

Wednesday 20th November Grade 6 Sexuality Education #2 XUNO Due 30th October

Thursday 21st November 2020 Prep Information Night 7.00pm

Friday 22nd November 2020 Prep Transition Session #10

Week 8 Wednesday 27th November Grade 6 Sexuality Education #3 XUNO Due 30th October

Week 9 Thursday 5th December PEEP - Tree Surfing XUNO Due 21st November

Friday 6th December School Disco

Week 10 Monday 9th December Grade 1C/1S Kew Traffic School XUNO Due 2nd December

Tuesday 10th December Grade 1R/1W Kew Traffic School XUNO Due 2nd December

State Schools Year 7 Orientation Day

2020 Swimming Trials

Thursday 12th December Grade 1 Movies Excursion XUNO Due 5th December

Week 11 Monday 16th December Grade 6 Graduation

Tuesday 17th December 2020 Promotion Parade

Grade 4 Movies Excursion XUNO Due 10th December

Wednesday 18th December Templeton Carols Night

Grade 2 Latitude Excursion XUNO Due 11th December

Grade 3 Movies Excursion XUNO Due 11th December

Grade 4 Movies Excursion XUNO Due 11th December

Grade 6 Gumbuya World Excursion XUNO Due 4th December

Friday 20th December Last Day 2020—1:30 dismissal

EARLY BIRD SALE

XUNO will open at 9:00 am on 1st November 2019 selling discounted Wrist-

bands at $25 each. ($30 each in 2020)

A wristband will allow you unlimited rides ALL DAY:

Turbo Tubs, Fantasy Island, Chair-o-Plane, Atomic Drop Slide, Mega X Treme,

Inflatable Basketball Comp, Dunk Tank (with Mr McKinlay and Mr Crilly in

their Richmond and Collingwood jumpers) and a Petting Zoo

This week’s classroom visit After a successful football finals campaign, it was great to be back this week and strolling the grounds at lunchtime. On Monday, I came across a

group of students engrossed in a card game. Upon further investigation, Jasmine (standing up facing us in the first photo) and Henry had made a strategy oriented card game whilst she was convalescing after breaking her foot. The objective of the game is to use your power cards to defeat your opponents, similar to Pokemon! What a great way to spend your time - creating a game which you can then teach your friends. 10 kids are currently involved with many more waiting to join up. Well done Jasmine and Henry! 2020 Grade Placements As I mentioned at the end of last term, we are currently working out class structures for 2020 that

provides the best learning opportunities for all of our students.

With this in mind, parents are invited to write to me about any additional information that will help us in determining a placement for your child.

Please note, letters need to focus on the educational needs of their child and not on specific teachers.

The closing date for letters is Monday 21 October. Letters received after this date cannot be accepted unless in exceptional circumstances. Please address these letters directly to myself with all details and information provided kept in confidence.

Principal

Child Safety Standards In 2016, the Victorian Government accepted the recommendations from the ‘Betrayal of Trust’ In-quiry into Child Abuse leading to the creation of Ministerial Order No. 870. This legislation sets out the specific actions all schools must take to ensure we maintain a child safe environment. It specifi-cally focuses on reducing the incidence of Child Abuse across the community. As a school we play an important role in this area, and we do not accept child abuse in any form. In meeting the following child safe standards, it is our moral and legal responsibility to create and maintain a child safe organisation that demonstrates: strategies to embed an organisational culture of child safety

a child safe policy or statement of commitment to child safety

a code of conduct that establishes clear expectations for appropriate behaviour with children

screening, supervision, training and other human resources practices that reduce the risk of child abuse by new and existing personnel

processes for responding to and reporting suspected child abuse

strategies to identify and reduce or remove risks of child abuse

strategies to promote the participation and empowerment of children

If anyone has any questions about the child safe standards please contact us. We also have a range

of relevant policies on our website including the Child Safe Policy and Child Safe – Code of Conduct.

Community Announcements

Assembly

With the warmer weather approaching, we will be able to hold assembly on a far more regular basis

on Monday and Friday mornings. For some time we have noticed that we have a number of students

arriving late to assembly who are otherwise on time during the rest of the week.

Arriving late for assembly disrupts other students and teachers and distracts everyone from listening

to announcements and performances. It also indicates that the parent system to get ready at home

needs adjustment. To avoid this disruption, students arriving after 9.00am from Week 2 in Term 4,

will be directed to the office by staff and will be supervised in the foyer area until assembly con-

cludes. A late pass will be allocated to students. Let’s start Term 4 off by everyone arriving on time

each and every day!

2021 Prep Tours

Tours for Prep 2021 have commenced. If you have a sibling or know of family or friends who are in-

terested in hearing more about a Templeton education for their child, please feel free to give them

our Enrolment Officer, Trudy O’Neil’s details so she can arrange a time for me to meet our future

community members. I am also very keen to meet siblings of current families who are commencing

school in 2021, so please arrange a time as soon as possible. Often it is our current families who

leave it to the last minute to enrol!

Pupil Free Day—Monday 4th November

Please don’t forget, Monday 4 November is a Pupil Free Day. All staff will be working on student reports

so please make alternate arrangements for your children on this day.

Promotion Parade—Tuesday 17th December

For those families new to Templeton, Promotion Parade is a transition day when children learn of their

new placement for the next year. They spend the day with their new teacher and classmates which

helps reduce anxiety over the holiday period. It is an exciting day that teachers and children alike enjoy.

Last Day—1.30pm Finish

Please mark on your calendars that we will be finishing at 1.30pm on the last day of Term 4, Friday 20

December. Camp Australia will be operating After School Care from this time.

Finally, did I mention that the Tigers had a great win over

the holidays? Richmond supporters are taking a very low

key approach this time around; we’re just taking it one

premiership at a time!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Rod McKinlay

Principal

Assistant Principal I didn’t learn to swim until I was 11

That’s right. I entered Year 6 not knowing how to swim. I’m still not great at it, but now I can at least flail about like a baby hippo with my head above water. I was absolutely terrified of the water as a kid. I refused to take my feet off the bottom of the pool, didn’t like my head under water and kept well away from the dreaded ‘deep end’.

This fear stemmed from a particularly unpleasant swimming teacher threatening to throw me in the ‘deep end’ when I was five. My parents, bless their little hearts, didn’t force the issue and I managed to avoid swimming all the way through prima-ry school. Of course, this blatant enabling did me no favours.

Put simply, learning to swim in Australia is vital. As an island nation, Australians live in the water. We love to frequent pools and the beach during summer, while we proudly cheer our all-conquering swimming teams at the Commonwealth and Olympic Games. Most of our families attend regular swimming lessons on the weekend, and schools are mandated to offer swimming programs as part of the Victorian Curriculum.

Our Grade Prep, 2, 3 and 4 students will attend swimming lessons over the first four weeks of Term 4 at Aqualink Nunawad-ing. Lessons run for 50 minutes and cover the fundamentals of swimming in an 8 day intensive program aimed at different ability levels.

Learn to swim in just 8 days?

Of course not. These are swimming teachers, not miracle workers. Ian Thorpe couldn’t teach me to dog paddle in 8 days. However, the program does provide inexperienced students valuable time in the pool and a chance for more capable stu-dents to build on skills they already have. Swimming lessons are great for safety around water, cardiovascular fitness, endur-ance, muscle strength and healthy heart and lungs.

But probably the most valuable experience of the swimming program is the independence our students gain. Every day of the program these students need to:

Organise bags, bathers, thongs, goggles, towels, ride the bus, line up, get changed on their own, learn to swim, get changed again, line up again, eat their snack, ride the bus again, go back to class, deal with a new timetable and resume their Literacy and Numeracy lessons.

We encourage our parents to teach our children to navigate the program by learning to organise their belongings, how to get changed and unchanged and packing their own bags. We are in for a busy four weeks, so most importantly, it is crucial our children get enough sleep!

If you do not adhere to these instructions, you might be thrown in the deep end…..

Marc Crilly

Assistant Principal

Congratulations to the following students!

Prep

Blake T PG – for excellent handwriting

Hetarth J PF – for presenting your ‘holiday box’ with confi-dence

Prep

Justin W PZ – For a wonderful Show and Tell this week

Arjunan T PS – for your lovely manners

Emma S PV – for a fantastic start to Term 4

Grade 1

lexis Johnston 1C – for beautiful recount writing

Selwyn B 1S – for a fabulous start to Term 4

Grade 2

Devansh P 2M – for your fantastic Show and Tell

Alyssa C 2W – For being a good friend

Eric X 2J – For always coming to school with a positive atti-tude

Ethan L 2D – for your work during Maths Rotations

Grade 3

Christopher P 3C – for a fantastic positive attitude

Anya S 3P – for always trying your best

Kaiyuan Y 3M – Thank you for your help in the Garden Market

Rudra S 3A – for always being a polite and friendly member of the grade

Grade 4

Theo D 4L – For an enthusiastic attitude

Alex L 4F – For being a responsible and independent stu-dent

Aniq F 4K – for expertly defining your spelling list words

Grade 5

Cooper L 5B – For putting your best foot forward every day this week

Abbey M 5S – For working hard in class all week

Jessie X 5K – For consistently completing work to a high stand-ard

CJ K 5H – For offering your opinion and thoughts during group discussions

Christopher K 5S – For starting Term 4 with a great attitude

Isabella S 5B – For your epic holiday recount!

Grade 6

Klarissa L 6P – For tremendous improvement in handwriting

Sherona S 6N – For a sensational first week back at school

Eric H 6J – For your enthusiasm during our Science unit this week

Eggceptional Reading

Congratulations on

completing all 120 lessons in Reading Eggs

Taylor B – Prep V

Ian T – Prep F

Skylie T – Prep S

Khushil H – Prep V

Sophia L – Prep S

TEMPLETON IS TURNING 40!

SAVE THE DATE

Saturday April 18th 2020

Celebrating 40 years of Templeton Primary School at our

Family Fun Day on Saturday April 18th 2020

Where: Templeton Primary

Time: 10am -5pm

Rides, BBQ, Food Vans, Devonshire Tea, Market Stalls, Lucky Dips, Entertainment

(Local and Global), Raffles, Games, Competitions, Craft Activities and a Petting Zoo

If you want to purchase a wristband, the Early Bird Sale is open on XUNO on 1

November 9:00am. All new Prep 2020 Parents can purchase their Early Bird wristband

from the General Office from 1 November.

What’s Cooking – Commemorative Recipe Book Reminder Our goal to is create a Templeton Recipe Book, which will be launched on Saturday April 18th 2020 at our Family Fun Day. The cookbook will be a colour A4 size publication, filled with our families' favourite entrees, mains or desserts. We invite families to submit an A4 PORTRAIT page which can include hand drawn text and images, computer generated text, clipart and/or photos. Please include the family/student names and of course clear recipe instructions. EACH A4 PAGE MUST HAVE A 1CM BORDER AROUND THE EDGE. Recipes need to be submitted by Friday 11th October. You can choose to submit a hard copy to the office in an envelope or plastic pocket to protect it (this will be scanned) or email your PDF version to TPS40@sensorymatters.com.au. For more information please contact Julie Baker at the above email. Be as creative as you can and recipes can be submitted now!

As you know plans for our 40th Birthday celebrations are well on the way. If you are someone who is interested in purchasing a market stall site on the day (Saturday 18th April, 2020) please contact Ange Van Grondelle on angevang@bigpond.com. We are seeking stall holders from our community who sell quality homemade items or self-made business initiatives. The market will be one of many great attractions at our Family Fun Day.

Our enthusiastic committee of parents and staff are working hard. There will be plenty of opportunities for families to help out on the day. Our volunteer coordinator is Sharon Swalling and to sign up to help please contact her via email on sharonswalling2@gmail.com We are calling for volunteers who are handy with the BBQ tongs, happy to sell drinks, snacks, ride tickets and run games.

Mr Crilly will be in charge of local and global entertainment. Any ideas are welcome!

"MENTAL ARITHMETIC WITH ABACUS"

PROGRAM

FOR PRE-SCHOOL & PRIMARY SCHOOL

CHILDREN

This is a “Whole Brain Development” program, students will learn mental and manual calculations ( addition, sub-

traction, multiplication & division ) by using abacus with speed and accuracy. We organise Annual International

Abacus Grading Examination with ISO 9001 : 2008 award certificate.

The program will help the young school children (age 4 – 12 years) :

· Increase their Interest and Understanding in Mathematics

· Enhance their Imaging Ability, Memory Power & Creativity

· Exploring their Intelligence in the early age stage

· Train to achieve Concentration of Mind

· Enhance Thinking Skills, Reasoning, Judging and Application Abilities

· Enhance Speedy and Accuracy in Learning Habits

Time: Tues 3 : 45 pm - 4 : 45 pm (School Term)

Thurs 3 : 45 pm - 4 : 45pm (School Term)

Fri 3 : 45 pm - 4 : 45pm (School Term)

Venue: Templeton Primary School, Crestdale Road, Wantirna, Vic 3152

Instructors: Jasmine Loh & Samuel Low (Experienced since 2008)

If you are interested in this program for your child, please contact:

Jasmine : 04 3528 7324 Email: abacusforkids@yahoo.com

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兒童珠心算新班招生

兒童學習珠心算學, 有助左右腦均衝發展, 可剌激兒童腦力, 增強兒童的

記憶力,形像力及思考能力, 使兒童的計算能力, 反應力, 專注力有很大的幫助.

每年辦理一次國際珠心算檢定考試,並頒發國際鑑定 ISO 9001 : 2008 證書.

時間: 逢星期二 (學期間) 3:45pm–4:45pm

逢星期四 (學期間) 3:45pm–4:45pm

逢星期五 (學期間) 3:45pm–4:45pm

地點: Templeton Primary School, Crestdale Road, Wantirna, Vic 3152

語言: 英語 對象: 4-12 歲

導師: Jasmine Loh 及 Samuel Low 自2008年,有多年珠心算教學經驗

有興趣者請電 : Jasmine 04 3528 7324