Boisdale Consolidated School

NEWSLETTER 1 5 T H J U L Y 2 0 2 1 I S S U E 2 1

Key Dates

Monday 12th July Term 3 starts Thursday 29th July 12R Parent Teacher Interviews 28th - 30th July Grade 5/6 Camp Thursday 5th August Rest of school Parent Teacher Interviews Friday 13th August House Athletics Day 17th - 23rd August School Book Fair Friday 27th August Book Week Dress Up Day

Phone: 03 5145 4391 Newry Rd, Boisdale, 3860 www.boisdalecs.vic.edu.au boisdale.cs@education.vic.gov.au

“Show Respect, Bounce Back, Be Your Best,

Work as a Team, Be a Mate, Think Proud, Act

Proud Be Proud”

School Council Members: Emma Daymond, Elspeth Lukjanov, Abby Meredith, Leesa Brideson, Dean Rowley, Melissa Glover, Lionie Armitage, Daniel Clark, Kellie Willis, Meagan Marston, Anthony Kovco and Mick Daly. School Council President: Jessica Knight Parents & Friends President: Vanessa Robinson

News From The Principal Dear Families,

Welcome Back! I would like to extend a very warm welcome back to Term 3 to staff, students and families. I hope all had a relaxing and enjoyable winter break and are ready for the term ahead. With the new term, comes a new set of COVIDSafe Practices and Restrictions, those of which I have summarised below. I would also like to highlight that all of these restrictions are likely to be updated in the coming days. With an evolving cluster of positive cases in Melbourne, we will all have to wait and see how this develops and what decisions the government makes within the coming days, but for now on-site schooling is business as usual. QR Code Check Ins

QR code check ins are required to be used by: • all visitors on school site • all parents who enter school buildings when on school site QR code check ins are not required to be used by:

• staff

• students

• parents who come onto school grounds for drop off or pick up, but do not enter buildings. Face Masks

• All persons 12 years or older (excluding primary school students) are required to wear face masks indoors.

• School staff are not required to wear a face mask whilst teaching or providing care to student.

Camps, Excursions & Incursions

• Camps, excursions and incursions are all permitted to go ahead at the present time and

teachers in year levels across the school have begun making plans for these types of

experiences.

• This includes our Grade 5/6 Camp to Melbourne, currently scheduled to still go ahead from

the 28th to 30th of July.

Singing

• Singing can occur if Department of Health recommendations to reduce transmission risk are

followed. Recommendations include moving outdoors, increasing ventilation, physical

distancing of 2 metres between performers and 5 metres between performers and the

audience.

• This has unfortunately meant that we have had to cancel our BCS Beatles Concert recording.

We are hopeful that we can hold a Christmas concert at the end of the year instead.

Enrolments for 2022 are now open.

Forms available from the school office.

Attendance-EVERY DAY MATTERS!

Our goal each week is to have more than 95% of our students at school EVERY day for that particular week, Friday-Thursday (to align with the release of the newsletter). Students who are late, or who leave early are not included in the data, but all other absence types where at least one FULL day of school is missed, is calculated in the data, regardless of the reason. OSHC With the new term, our Before and After School Care service, provided by TheirCare is now officially operational in the playgroup building at the back of the school. All week we have seen students having a great time during both the before school and after school sessions.

The before school sessions run start from 6:30am and conclude at 8:45am. The afternoon sessions begin from 3:10pm and conclude at 6:00pm. Parents are asked to please remember to pre-book and notify the office if your child needs to be written on or off the bus in the afternoon. When dropping off and picking up children from the service, parents are also welcome to park around the back of the school and enter through the fence gate.

For further information about the service, please do not hesitate to contact “TheirCare” directly on 0459 100 511. Enrolments can also be made through the website: www.theircare.com.au Term 3 Events Now more than ever, we know that community events are subject to change, however that hasn’t stopped us in making preparations for lots of events to take place throughout the term. Please see below for a summary of the events and dates that we have scheduled for the term. Stay tuned for more information on these events, closer to the time. • Parent-Teacher Interviews (29th of July-1/2 R & 5th of August-rest of school)

• 100 Days of School for Preps (30th of July)

• House Athletics Day (13th of August)

• Book Fair (17th-23rd August)

• Book Week Dress Up Day (27th of August)

• Father’s Day Breakfast (from 7:30am, 3rd of September)

• Poetry Expo/Grandparents Day (10th of September)

• 70th Anniversary Celebration (16th of September)

• Team Colours Day (17th of September, final day of Term 3)

Office Request We noticed towards the end of last term and so far this week the office had been fielding lots of phone enquiries relating to information that had previously been sent home, including family invoice statements. Whilst we are always more than happy to assist, we would like to request that families take care with notices and other pieces of paperwork that are sent home to reduce the environmental impact of re-printing these and to reduce the manhours needed to field these enquires. Thank you for your understanding and support in this matter.

Kindest of regards,

Daniel Clark,

When your child misses just…

that equals… which is… and that means, from Kinder to Year 12, that is…

1 day per fortnight 20 days per year 4 weeks per year Nearly 1 ½ years of school

1 day per week 40 days per year 8 weeks per year Over 2 ½ years of school

2 days per week 80 days per year 16 weeks per year 5 years of learning

3 days per week 120 days per year 24 weeks per year Nearly 8 years of learning

P A G E 2

Week 1 88%

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Boisdale Reader’s Corner

Congratulations to the following students: 250 times reading Isaac McInnes 100 times reading Lola Clarke, Leilani Bavadra, Eleanor Smyth, Aubrey Tucker 50 times reading Zaiden Sleeman, Alexis Clegg, Tahli Rae, Wyatt Jones Fabulous news! Prep and Grade 1/2 students are participating in the Premiers’ Reading Challenge this term in their classrooms. The challenge is to read 30 books by 17th of September! The challenge is open to all students from Boisdale Consolidated School. If your child is in grade 3, 4, 5 or 6, you can register your child as a home based reader at: https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home Alternatively, Mrs Armitage can register your child via school if you let her know. The challenge for grade 3 to 6 students is 15 books (because they are longer). Can you rise to the challenge? For view a message about the challenge from the Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, please go to: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Pages/premiermessage.aspx

P A G E 3

Wellbeing Update Respectful Relationships Our school has been part of the Respectful Relationships initiative since 2020. Respectful Relationships is a whole school approach that supports our school to embed a culture of respect and gender equality across our entire school community. We also teach respectful relationships education in classrooms across the school. This education focuses on personal safety, and works towards building students’ social and emotional skills by supporting them to recognise and regulate emotions, develop empathy for others and build and manage safe and respectful relationships. For the next few weeks, in classrooms, students will be learning the skill of: GENDER AND IDENTITY Prep • Students will engage in activities which will help them reflect on their gendered identity, develop an awareness

of positive and negative gender norms, challenge negative gender norms, and develop an appreciation of difference.

The students in 1/2, are focusing on the skill of: HELP-SEEKING • Students will engage in activities which will help them practise soling simple interpersonal problems, identify

ways to care for others, including ways of making and keeping friends, discuss the importance of seeking help when dealing with problems that are too big to solve alone, and practise seeking help from adults and peers.

The students in 3/4, are focusing on the skill of: STRESS MANAGEMENT • Students will engage in activities which will help describe the influence that people, situations and events have

on their emotions, explore strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change, describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe, explain the value of self-discipline and goal-setting in helping them to learn and to cope with change and challenge, and describe personal strengths and identify coping strategies that they can apply to help them cope with change and challenge.

The students in 5/6, are focusing on the skill of HELP SEEKING • Students will engage in activities which will help them to identify situations in which they should seek help in

working through problems, identify a list of trusted people to seek out when needing help, normalise and de-stigmatise help-seeking behaviour, and contribute to groups and teams.

If you would like to have conversations with your children to support this learning, please feel free to speak with your child’s teacher about the specific lessons they have planned.

P A G E 4

Thank you to our School Sponsors:

MacAlister Valley-Newry Lions Club Inc.

Boisdale Consolidated School complies with Ministerial Order No. 870 Child Safe Standards and is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Boisdale Consolidated School has a zero tolerance approach to child abuse. Our Child Safety officer is the principal, if you ever have any concerns regarding the safety of students enrolled at Boisdale Consolidated school please contact Daniel Clark or see the following website regarding further information pertaining to Child Safe Standards. www.education.vic.gov.au/protect

Notices sent home • School Newsletter - emailed on

Thursday Ritchies IGA Community Benefits Cards Cards available at the office

Lyn Cooper P 0419163617 lynie.cooper@gmail.com Outdoor blind specialists

Three-Year-Old Kindergarten is coming to the Wellington Shire Do you know a child who will be three in 2022? Just like with Four-Year-Old Kindergarten, Three-Year-Old Kindergarten programs will be tailored to meet the needs of children. Qualified teachers support children’s learning and development through play-based learning. Research shows that two years of quality kindergarten are better than one.

For more information, visit www.vic.gov.au/kinder

Prep Support Class

From 2022, Boisdale Consolidated School will be offering families the opportunity to enrol their children into one of two Prep programs. In addition to the mainstream program, a Prep Support Class will also be on offer. Who is the Prep Support Class for? The Prep Support Class will be pre-dominantly suited for children who turn five between the months of January and April. The program is designed to support the learning of children in their first year of schooling who are: • School-aged but are still quite young and may not be ready for the traditional rigours

of schooling. • School-aged but may be developmentally suited to learn through play and

exploration. • In need of additional support to further develop their oral language, communication

and social skills. How is the Prep Support Class different to the other Prep classes? The Prep Support Class program is an oral language and play based program which also supports children to further develop their fine and gross motor skills. Literacy and numeracy is predominantly taught through explorative play and investigations. More traditional aspects of literacy and numeracy are introduced to the program throughout the year as students demonstrate a readiness for this type of learning. Other aspects of the program include: • Smaller class size (capped at 15) • Education Support staff member included as an additional support for children • Participation in whole-school activities including cooking, swimming, incursions/

excursions and assemblies. • Participation all specialist programs which include: Physical Education, Art, Music and

Indonesian. • On-going monitoring and assessment of achievement and progress, guided by the

Victorian Curriculum. How do I know if the Prep Support Class is for my child? Talk with your child’s kindergarten teacher or speak with our staff to find out more about the program. For further information contact Daniel Clark at Boisdale Consolidated School on 5145 4391.