Glen Huntly Primary School Grange Road, Glen Huntly Ph: 9571 2933 Fax: 9563 6314

Email: glenhuntly.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Issue 2 – 15th February, 2018

Principal’s Report 2018 Notice of Election and Call for Nominations 15th February, 2018

An election has been called for members of the School Council of Glen Huntly Primary School

Nomination forms need to be received and lodged by: 4.00 pm on Friday 9th March.

The terms of office, membership categories and number of positions in each membership category open for election are as follows – Membership category

Term of office Name of

nominees

required

Parent member

2 year vacancy

From the day after the date of the declaration of the poll on Tuesday 13th Mar, 2018 to and inclusive of the date of the declaration of the poll in 2020

5

DET employee member

2 year vacancy

From the day after the date of the declaration of the poll on Tuesday 13th March 2018 to and inclusive of the date of the declaration of the poll in 2020

2

If the number of nominations is equal to the number of vacancies, there will be no further call for nominations. It was also not necessary to hold a ballot.

Nomination forms are available in the Corridor and at Before/Afterschool Care on the West Site and in the Main Office on the East Site. Forms are included with the 15th February, 2018 Parent Newsletter.

I look forward to receiving your nomination and having a rewarding partnership with all of you. Please contact me if you require any other advice or information.

Please complete the self-nomination form which is included within the newsletter.

2018 Little Book Worms (LBW) and our Library The wonderful GHPS Little Book Worms will start back on Tuesday 27th February in the Library. It will be on at 9.15 – 10.00 am with Lisa and Tania who are absolutely thrilled to be welcoming a new group of little book worms to GHPS.

We would love to see little sisters and brothers and friends at LBW each week. It will run until the end of term 3 and then in term 4, it will be for 4 year old kinder kids who are enrolled at GHPS. Children must be 3 in order to attend as the activities are pitched for this age group. I look forward to seeing our current families attending and bringing a friend along too. Spaces are limited so make sure your child is between 3 and 5 and register at the office on 95712933.

Student Council Members and School Captains Congratulations to the 2018 Student Councillors. The following students will represent their classes at monthly meetings with me. The presentation of badges will be made at the Friday 23rd February Assembly. STUDENTS: 3S Aarushi & Alexander 3F Macy and Marko 4O Samarth and Kashvi 4J Sienna and Hugo 5R Romany and Veer 5S Imogen and Shoma 6A Tahlia and Jun 6P Josh and Jorja At the first meeting which will be held next week. The School Captains Qi Qi and Metteya will also attend.

We will be discussing how each class and teacher is consulting with each other including the creation and sharing of each class’s Mission Statement.

The Student Councillors from 6P and 6A will read the Mission Statements on Friday 16 February assembly and I am sure you will be very impressed by each of them. The mission statements from all classes will be shared as follows:

5P & 5R 23 Feb

4O & 4J 2 Mar

3F & 3S 9 Mar

2M, 2K & 2E 16 Mar

1M, 1J, Prep F, N & R 23 Mar

Three Way Parent – Teacher Information Sharing Parents will be invited to attend the three way parent, student and teacher discussion meetings for Grades 1-2 on Tuesday 27th February and Grades 3-6 on Wednesday 28th February. The Getting to Know You Questionnaire, which we ask parents to complete before-hand will assist in the preparation and provided a platform for discussions. This will be sent home over the next week. The Individual Learning Improvement Plan (ILIP) formulation focuses on areas of improvement and what parents can do to support and extend their child’s learning at home. ILIP goals will be planned for each area of English, Mathematic and Interpersonal/Personal Learning with input from both children and parents about their future learning and achievements. I am sure you will find this meeting highly valuable.

School Uniform Wearing our school uniform is like a badge of pride, creates an identity for our school and is an important part of being a member of our school community. At GHPS we promote a smart dress code, believe that school uniform teaches students to dress smartly and take part in their appearance.

How are you helping our school? Can you self- assess how you are sending your child to school: Is it?

1. Extremely well – my child wears the correct uniform every day

2. Very good – my child wears the correct uniform most days

3. Good – but I need to change 1 thing 4. Fair – there is more than one thing I need to

change. Our aim is for all parents to be able to self-assess as a one by the end of next week – Friday, 23rd February. So do you need to change something? I would ask each parent to look closely at what their child is wearing and make sure they don’t wear other colored leggings or pants. If so, we would like you to make the necessary change/s. The uniform shop is open Wednesday morning from 9.00 – 10.00am. If you can’t make it to the uniform shop you can collect a form from the office and return

with payment so the goods can then be taken home by your child.

The uniform is: Navy Blue or Maroon Track pants/Bootleg pants Maroon Long Sleeve Polo Maroon or White Short Sleeve Polo Maroon Bomber Jacket/Polar Fleece Jacket Navy (Grade 6 only) Bomber Jacket – Grade 6 names Maroon or Navy Shorts / Skorts / Cullottes Girls Summer Dress Libby Alessi Principal -------------------------------------------------------------------------

A message form your Assistant Principal

Information Night Our teachers have been working hard to plan an engaging and dynamic year of learning for your child. To find out more about how we as a school will help your child to develop their skills and excel to their highest ability we are hosting two Information Nights. Monday 19th February: Year 3 to Year 6 @6:30pm Wendy Wilson Hall Tuesday 20th February: Year 1 and Year 2 @6:30pm Wendy Wilson Hall Please make sure that at least one member of your family attends, so that you can learn more about the curriculum and discover how you can support your child’s learning at home.

Parent Term Newsletters On Friday, your child will be coming home with their Term newsletter. Please make sure you take the time to read this important information so that you know what your child will be learning this term. It will also be FILLED with helpful tips for you to use at home, along with important dates for Term 1 events. If you have any further questions, please make sure you see your child’s teacher or come and see Amy Tinetti our Assistant Principal.

The Resilience Project 2018 marks our second year as part of The Resilience Project community. The staff and students are excited to begin their journals and continue to build, promote and develop resilience: Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness. In Term 2 the students and staff will participate in sessions with the inspiring staff at The Resilience Project. After the HUGE turnout and success of our Parent Session in 2017, there will be another Parent Session this year with Hugh van Cuylenberg who is the founder of The Resilience Project. More information on the dates and times of the session to come in the following weeks, but be sure to mark it in your diary as its one event NOT to be missed.

Every Day Counts Every Day Counts emphasises the importance of children attending school every day and provides schools and parents with tools they can use to promote full time school attendance. Parents are required to ensure their child attends school and to provide an explanation for their child's absence from school, and the principal must record in writing the reason (if any) given by the parent.

The principal must be able to determine from the records if the excuse given was reasonable in terms of the parent meeting their legal obligations. Parents should inform the school of the reason for their child’s absence so that the school can:

determine if the child’s absence needs to be excused by the principal, in line with school policy and these guidelines

determine the appropriate follow up to ensure the child’s education and wellbeing is supported

record if the parent has a reasonable excuse for not meeting their obligation to ensure their child attends school each day.

Where possible, parents should inform the school in advance of upcoming absences. The DET are working hard on improving attendance of all students and there are new indicatives’ being rolled out at the moment and we will share more information with you in the coming weeks. If you have any questions or concerns over your child’s attendance please see Amy Tinetti our Assistant Principal.

GHPS Home Reading Guide

Literacy activities Reading and Viewing refers to all the ways of constructing meaning from texts. This includes reading printed texts such as books, magazines, posters and charts and viewing multimodal texts such as films, videos, computers and graphic material. Reading is taught using strategies which put text into a meaningful and purposeful context and enable children to decode words. Some of these activities include the following:

modelled reading, shared book (teacher and children read a story together), teaching the alphabet and phonemic awareness (sounds and symbols), book studies (activities and discussion which focus on a particular book), author studies (exploring the ways texts are structured and the purposes of different books written by one author) and guided reading (small groups which read and discuss texts with a particular focus and/or reading level). All children are encouraged to develop their curiosity and love of literature. Children are expected to read or be read to at home each night.

Reading at Home In our school Home Learning policy, (accessible at http://www.glenhuntlyps.vic.edu.au/ and can be found by clicking on the Parent Information tab and scrolling down to Policies) the school makes the following recommendations in relation to your children reading at home: Junior Classes (Foundation – Year 2): 10 - 15minutes oral reading and text discussion per afternoon /evening Years 3 – 4: 20 minutes oral reading and text discussion per afternoon/evening Years 5 – 6: 30 minutes per evening reading and text discussion per afternoon/evening

When reading with your child, we also recommend that you use the following list of questions to improve phonics and sight word skills, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension: Reading discussion questions

Look at the cover – what do you think this book is about?

What is happening in this picture? How can we work out these tricky words? What do you think will happen next? Can you retell to me what we just read? What do you think about what you just read? Would you like to be in this story? Why or why not

would you like to be a part of this story?

Useful website to support Reading and Viewing

All subjects – http://www.studyladder.com.au/

Literacy – http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ (click on the left hand side of the page)

English skills - http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english

Spelling – http://teacher.scholastic.com/tools/spelling.htm

Reading - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

Reading Eggs - http://readingeggs.com.au/

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK Congratulations to the following students who received a ‘Student of the Week’ award during the last 2 weeks. Anirudh 1M – a great start to the year and always trying his best. Adishree 1M – always working hard and doing a great job in writing. Viral 2E – wonderful attitude towards improving his handwriting and settling in well. Rory 1J – great input and ideas when discussing “community”, our Inquiry topic. Aditya 1J – a fantastic start to the school year. Iniya 2M – a positive attitude and enthusiastic participation in P.E this week. Dhevesh 2M – being a quiet and hardworking student at all times. Boris 4J – outstanding contribution to building our class culture over the past week. Zoe 4J – excellent accuracy in 4Js first experience of “counter toss”. Ari 4O – always being a willing helper, positive class member and supportive friend. Veer 5R – showing focus and enthusiasm during class this week. Romany 5R – demonstrating critical thinking skills during class discussions, and helping others with their work. Chris 5S – being a magnificent teaching assistant. Kotaro 5S – keeping accurate time monitoring during 5S lessons. Tina 6A – fabulous ideas in our narrative writing sessions. Krish 6A – constantly being there to help all of his peers at all times. Leo 6P – a diligent approach to all learning tasks. Swara 6P – a positive attitude to learning new and challenging concepts in Maths.

WORKING BEE

Sunday, 25th February.

9.00am – 12.00pm Followed by a barbeque lunch

Meet on the West Site Please come along and help to make our school look

even better. Any time given will be greatly appreciated.

Saint Anthony’s Catholic Church Glen Huntly

Sunday School Every Sunday of the school term at 10 am.

Saint Anthony’s Sunday School Classes are held each Sunday of the school year from 10am-10.50am in the

Parish House, 74 Grange Road, Glen Huntly. Classes are available for all age groups. Preparation is provided for the Sacraments of Reconciliation, First

Communion and Confirmation as well as a good grounding in the Catholic faith.

For more information please ring the Parish House on 9569 2099, or email stanthony@ozemail.com.au

Swimming Carnival On Monday the 6th of February the Year 3s to 6s had their house swimming sports. We had a quick walk to the Carnegie outdoor swimming pool to compete for the House Shield and Spirit Cup. Some of the events were Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly and Diving off the three metre diving board. We can’t forget the relays, won by the one and only Batman. Everyone tried their hardest, but it was the great and powerful Batman that won the house shield led by Kayla Pecer and the magnificent Flinders won the Spirit Cup led by Ronnie Bhuteja. We would like to thank Miss K and all the other teachers and parents for helping out with the fantastic event. Overall it was a beautiful day. Kayla 6A

NOTICES DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS

2nd Feb all students QKR and Skoolbag info 5th Feb all students cooking schedule 8th Feb Year 5/6 students camp notice 12th Feb all students Walkathon 13th Feb all students Parent information night 14th Feb all families Working Bee

CALENDAR 2018

FEBRUARY Thu 15th Sporting Schools Program – Tennis Mon 19th Sporting Schools Program – Cricket Mon 19th 3-6 Parent information night Tue 20th 1/2 Parent information night Wed 21st Sporting Schools Program – Hockey Thu 22nd Sporting Schools Program – Tennis Fri 23rd Walkathon Sun 25th WORKING BEE Mon 26th Sporting Schools Program – Cricket Tue 27th 1/2 Parent/Teacher interviews Wed 28th Sporting Schools Program – Hockey Wed 28th 3-6 Parent/Teacher interviews

Carnegie Netball Club Interested in playing netball in 2018??

We are currently looking for girls and boys to play at Duncan McKinnon Reserve on

Friday evenings in our new under 11 beginner teams

Please register now, season starting Feb 2018

See our website for details. www.carnegienetballclub.com.au

or email us at carnegienetballclub@gmail.com

Tuesday 27th March

Personally named envelopes will be sent home with all students at the beginning of March.

Please return envelopes, with payment, to the class teacher before Photo Day - Tuesday, 27th March.

Orders can be made online (details on envelope) but you will still need to return your envelope with receipt

number.