Tyabb Primary School Bulletin: 10th May 2018 Page 1 ‘From little things, big things grow’

Newsletter

Edition 7—10th MAY 2018

186 Mornington Tyabb Road, Tyabb 3913 (03) 5977 4584 tyabb.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Anzac

In our last newsletter, I thanked all of the students who

attended the Anzac Day services at Tyabb and Hastings.

Here is a lovely photo of the students who represented

Tyabb Primary School

Naplan testing

For the information of parents of Years 3 and 5 students, NAPLAN testing will take place next week on Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th May. It is important to note that this is just one test that provides schools and parents with a snapshot of a student’s ability and performance on a particular day at a particular time. If you are concerned about your child’s academic progress and would like more detailed, diagnostic information about your child, please make a time to see your child’s teacher or ask during our Student Led Conferences on Friday 19th July (this is a pupil free day set aside for interviews) . Don’t

wait for the NAPLAN report.

WALKATHON

2018

FLUORO

FLASH!!!

To raise funds towards resurfacing the weathered basketball court we are

holding our main fundraiser for the year. This year’s walkathon theme will be FLUORO FLASH. This event will take place on Tuesday 29th May from 9 – 11am. We encourage friends and relatives to sponsor their child to do up to 10 laps of a track through the Oliver’s Creek Reserve or to make a kind donation for participating in the activity. Children and teachers are encouraged to come dressed up in their favourite fluoro clothes and accessories. Depending on the weather, we will have a short parade in the morning of the 29th prior to making our way in to the reserve. Further information and sponsorship forms were sent home last week. If you did not receive this information please pop in to the office to collect another one. Let’s improve our school grounds further with a brand new

resurfaced basketball court!

Mother’s Day

On Tuesday we had our annual Mother’s Day stall. Thanks to all of the families who donated gifts, as well as the parents who gave up their time to assist in wrapping and

selling at the stall.

Tomorrow we hold our annual Mother’s Day breakfast and invite all students to bring their mums and grandmas along for a cup of tea and an egg and bacon roll. We ask for a

gold coin donation per breakfast to help us to cover costs.

We hope that all of our mums and grandmas have a very

special day on Sunday 13th May.

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Education Week Monday 21st - Friday 25th May

Words of the Week

Save the date.

Monday May 21st

Open night for education week.

5pm- 6.30pm

You are invited to come and view our wonderful school as

we celebrate the Arts. There will be a competition with a

clue in every learning area and prizes at the following

assembly for randomly selected correct entries.

Week 3 polite courteous deferential

Week 4 enthusiastic ambitious industrious

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Please note that this page will be updated each newsletter as new events are scheduled

What’s Happening

Term 2

TERM 2 Friday 11th May Mother’s Day Breakfast

Sunday 13th May Mother’s Day

Monday 14th May SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING

Grade 5 STEM Program WPSC

15th 16th 17th May Naplan Year 3 & 5 Students

Monday 21st May Open Night Education Week 5.00—6.30pm

Monday 21st—Friday 25th May Education Week

Wed 23rd—Fri 25th May Grade 5 Camp Rumbug

Tuesday 29th May Walkathon

Wednesday 30th May Choral Festival

Thursday 31st May Round 1 Winter Sports ( Year 5 & 6)

Friday 1st June Alpha Productions

Wednesday 6th June Southern Peninsula District Cross Country (selected students)

Thursday 7th June Round 2 Winter Sports ( Year 5 & 6)

Prep Chesterfield Farm Excursion

Thursday 14th June Round 3 Winter Sports ( Year 5 & 6)

Wednesday 20th June Prep 2019 Information Evening 6.00pm—7.00pm

Thursday 21st June Winter Lightning Premiership (Year 5 & 6)

Friday 22nd May Year 6 Immigration Museum Excursion

Friday 29th June Last Day of Term 2

Thank you to the parents that are returning permission

forms and payments promptly for the excursions and

incursions. This helps the events run smoothly and also the

office not having to chase them up. Thank you.

Grade 5 Camp Rumbug permission forms, medical forms and payments are

due by Thursday 17th May. If your child is not attending please advise the

office.

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Welfare

CHILD SAFETY STANDARDS

In 2013, the Victorian Parliament held an Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Non-Government Organisations, resulting in the Betrayal of Trust Report. The report found that more could be done to strengthen existing approaches to child safety. In response, the Victorian Government is phasing in child safe standards for organisations that work with children, including schools. Along with schools across Victoria we are now working to implement a stringent new set of child safe standards designed to protect children in our care. As a school we have implemented and written a new child safe policy and code of conduct in line with the new State Government legislation. These can now be found on our website. Please refer to these documents for more information. All schools must meet legal requirements for the

care, safety and welfare of students.

What are the standards?

The child safe standards require schools to consider all aspects of child safety and put measures in place to protect children

from all forms of abuse, including:

sexual or grooming offences

physical violence

serious emotional or psychological harm

serious neglect

There are seven child safe standards.

1. Strategies to embed an organisational culture of child

safety.

2. A child safety policy or statement of commitment to child

safety.

3. A child safety code of conduct.

4. School staff selection, supervision and management

practice for a child-safe environment.

5. Procedures for responding to and reporting allegations

of suspected child abuse.

6. Strategies to identify and reduce or remove risks of child

abuse.

7. Strategies to promote child empowerment and

participation

As Assistant Principal and as part of my welfare role I am also

Child Safety Officer. This means I oversee many of the child

safe standards and procedures and it is my role to look out for

all the students in our school to ensure that they are safe and

supported. At Tyabb Primary School we take child safety very

seriously and have made our commitment to this below.

At Tyabb Primary School our commitment to child safety is as follows:

Tyabb Primary School is committed to child safety

We want our children to be safe, happy and

empowered

We support, listen to and respect all children, as well as

our staff and volunteers

We have committed to the safety, participation and

empowerment of all children

We have zero tolerance of child abuse. All allegations and safety concerns will be treated very seriously and

consistently with our robust policies and procedures

We have legal and moral obligations to contact authorities when we are worried about a child’s safety,

which we follow rigorously

Our school is committed to preventing child abuse and identifying risks early, and removing and reducing these

risks

Our school has robust human resources and

recruitment practices for all staff and volunteers

Our school is committed to regularly training and

educating our staff and volunteers on child abuse risks

We support and respect all children, as well as our staff and volunteers. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, the cultural safety of children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for

children with a disability.

We have specific policies, procedures and training in place that support our leadership team, staff and

volunteers to achieve these commitments

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Welfare

At Tyabb Primary School we also want you to know that:

Everyone connected to our school can help children be

safe

Keeping children safe is everyone’s responsibility at our

school

We have new procedures to respond to and report

complaints of any form of child abuse.

We want to ensure you know how we are keeping your children safe at school so please read our policy and

code of conduct on our website

Staff members have already received training and support to understand and carry out their

responsibilities under the standards.

Unsupervised contractors, new emergency teachers, new parent helpers and parents attending camp will be asked to sign our code of conduct and read our child safe policy before they begin working or volunteering at

our school

You can read our Child Safe Policy and code of conduct on our website and you can learn more about Victoria’s new child safe standards from a video on the Victorian Registration & Qualifications Authority website http://www.vrqa.vic.gov.au/childsafe/Pages/default.html

Our World Vision Sponsor Child Throughout the year we have a couple of gold coin donation days that are to raise money for our sponsor child through the World Vision organisation. I thought it would be nice for the

community to know a little bit about our sponsor child.

My name is Rishan Shushay and I am 9 years old. I was born on 22 October 2008. I live in Medebay Zana Project in Ethiopia.

Below are some pictures and statements from the people who have benefitted from sponsorship living in the same region as Rishan.

“We travelled far to get water and got ill because the water was unclean. Now, my friends and I get clean water in our neighbourhood.” – Mahlet, 12 years old (third from left)

“We received training through World Vision on how to cultivate different vegetables to feed our children and sell for income. Our feeding habits improved and we are in a good health. We also making money by selling some of our vegetable at the nearby market,’’ says Tsige.

CANTEEN REMINDER

Just a reminder that the daily spend limit at the canteen for snacks (not lunch orders) is $2. Please be aware of this and please also speak to your child about this limit. Where possible, please only send $2 with your child to school as this helps us monitor this. The canteen would also like to remind parents and students that our pupils are not to share food items, purchase items for other children or give change to

other students to spend at the canteen. Thankyou!

Families requiring duplicate school reports.

We are updating our records with regards to families requiring a duplicate school report in both June and December. If your family requires a duplicate report please make contact with the office and

supply an up-to-date address that this report can be sent.

Kris Grinsted

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Nights Of Reading Competition

Prize announcement!

Our night’s of reading competition is well under way with many

grades trying very hard to reach the highest average nights of

reading.

We will be awarding a class library of brand new books in the Junior,

Middle and Senior schools.

We already have a number of children who have reached over 75

nights of reading and are well on their way to getting their individual

awards from Mrs Howden or Ms Grinsted once they reach 100

nights.

Parents, your children need your help to ensure that they are

reading most days of the week. This is a crucial element in creating

independent, lifelong readers.

PEER TUTORING

The grade two children are very lucky to have a number of grade six

volunteers coming into their rooms each day to assist with reading.

As you may have noticed the grade 2 doors are open at 8:45 a.m. in

order for this reading program to take place.

The grade sixes are providing the children with a model of what

good readers look and sound like and are then listening to the

children read.

Not only are these grade six children excellent role models, but they

are demonstrating leadership skills that are to be commended. The

grade 2 teachers are very grateful for their assistance.

Parent Reading Survey

Thank you so much to all of the parents who filled in the Parent

Reading Survey. We have had an overwhelming response to this and

we hope that we will be able to address many of your concerns and

make suggestions about how you can help your children with

reading.

As you can appreciate, there is so much involved in teaching a child

to read. It really is rocket science!

Some Concerns

The take home books are too easy and my child is not moving

up the levels quickly .

This can be frustrating for many parents. However, it is important to

be very mindful that going up the levels quickly is not always ideal.

Simply being an accurate reader does not necessarily mean that you

are a good reader. Often we have found that as the children move

through the school and begin reading more complex texts. that there

can be discrepancies between their ability to read a book accurately

and their understanding of it. It is so important that children are

reading to gain meaning from the text.

This is why we really want the children to choose books that they will

be able to read to you so that they can gain confidence and

experience success. If they are able to decode a text with ease, they

can then work on reading with expression and the very important

comprehension skills that require them to think about the text.

It is when they are working in a focused group with the teacher (we

call this guided reading) they are reading texts that are more

challenging and it is here that the teacher has the opportunity to

work with individual children at their level to determine which skills

they need to work on.

The take home books are old and of little interest to the

children.

This is always a tricky one. At the end of last year, our English team

culled many of the tatty and antiquated books and managed to

replace some of them. We would love to constantly be updating our

books as we recognise the importance of providing books that are

interesting and appealing but this is a costly exercise. As you can

imagine they are used by many children, some do not get returned

and therefore it is difficult to provide a steady flow of new

replacements however, we do regularly update our take home books

as the finances allow. Please encourage your child to select a range of

books from school and, sometimes, read their own books from home

to keep their interest in and love for reading.

Curriculum Corner

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Grade 1’s visit to Coal Creek! On Thursday 3rd May the Grade One’s and Two’s went to

visit Coal Creek in Korumburra as part of our

History inquiry unit. There they learned all about how people lived 118 years ago.

They enjoyed activities such as bush cooking, where they made their very own damper, visiting the old-fashioned general store and learning about how families lived over 100 years ago. They also experienced what it would have

been like in a classroom in the olden days!

It was a fantastic day had by everyone and the students were great representatives of our school,

showing good behaviour and lovely manners.

Here are some of their favourite things…

Classroom Capers

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Specialists News

District Cross Country

On Thursday 3rd

of May, 39 students went to Hastings Foreshore and competed in the District

Cross Country against a lot of different schools. It was a lovely day with a challenging breeze

when you started the race but you then got the wind behind you to help give you a strong finish

home.

All the students put in a fantastic effort across all the age groups competing from 10 and under to

12/13 year olds. Tyabb have 2 students going on to represent Tyabb at the Division Cross

Country later on in the term which are Chloe and Mitchell.

Congratulations to these 2 students and well done to everyone on a great day.

Thank you to all the parents who came down to support Tyabb and thank you to Mr Emmett and Ms Riley for doing a super job with the supervision and encouragement of all the students.

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PA Logan

PB Ruby

PC Harry

PD Jack

1A Hannah

1B Ava

12A Amanda

2A Lenny

2B Will

3A Tobey

3B Rebecca

34A Tayah

4A Ryder

4B Nikhita

5A Shelby

5B Zali

6A Kade

6B Sienna

PA Hunter

PB Luella

PC Dylan

PD Gracie

1A Kade

1B Adeleine

12A Juliette

2A Kailan

2B Sam

3A Elise

3B Chelsea

34A Imogen

4A Ryder

4B Xander

5A Max

5B Daniel

6A Tessa

6B Olivia

May

PREP

Gracie

Jenny

Isabelle

Noah

Isaac

GRADE ONE

Steel Belle

Taylah

Alarah

GRADE TWO

Bella

Tyson

Kayla

Josh

Indianna

Niki Sienna

Xavier

GRADE THREE

Thijs

Bella

Tye

Millie

GRADE FOUR

Zara Elektra

Grace

Xander

Callum

Benny

Ella

Ruby

Jonas

GRADE FIVE

Thomas

Matilda

Sienna

GRADE SIX

Charlie

Hannah

Gabby

Olivia

Mason

Imanii Ryan

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Community News

Bottle Top Collection As part of our Sustainability Unit this term I am collecting different coloured plastic bottle tops to

use in a mosaic art project later in the year. Please collect and save your bottle tops. There will be a

container outside the art room to deposit them in. The faster we collect the sooner we can get the

art project underway. We are happy to accept all colours- think milk carton lids, soft drink bottle lids

- blue, white, black, green, red - happy to accept all colours shapes and sizes.

Get Collecting!!!!!!!

Sharon Wright.

Library News

You may have noticed your child coming home

with a brand new Library book or two. This was

due to your family donating a book to the school

at last year’s Book Fair. We had over 100 books

donated, which is a fabulous contribution.

I have four very special ladies to thank for all the

covering of these beautiful new books, Nicole,

Sarah, Danielle and a wonderful Mum who was

my first volunteer and I have misplaced her

name, sorry (please pop in and see me, so I can

correct this), your book covering skills are superb

and the books were back so fast. On behalf of

the students at Tyabb Primary School, thank

you so much for donating your time to cover the

large volume of books I was sending home, it

has enabled our students to access these new

additions to our Library.

Thank you

Yashmin Beaumont – Library Technician

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Tyabb Trader

School Banking - every Tuesday

(Bendigo Bank Piggy Saver)

Please remember to bring your

school banking into school on

Tuesdays.

Parents wanting to open up an

account for their child can attend

the Bendigo Bank Hastings branch

at 88 High St Hastings .

Please bring you child's Birth

Certificate and Medicare Card

along with you.

Thank you

Hastings Bendigo Bank Team