Principal’s Report 1 – 2

This week in the Principal’s Report the

following topics are covered:

* Staffing 2018 & 2018 Classes

* Book Fair

* Parent / Helpers Morning

Tea

Diary Dates

Thus 30th Nov

2L Instrumental Music Info session 3:45pm

3A Play - 6pm

Thurs 7th Dec

PARENT HELPERS MORNING TEA 10:30pm

3K & 4C ‘Wonder’ - Movie Excursion

5D Play - 6pm

Fri 8th Dec

2L & 2S VCASS Concert & Gardens

Excursion

Mon 11th Dec

2L Play - 5pm

Tues 12th Dec

4S Play - 6pm

Wed 13th Dec

1D/1J Dance 11:30am

3A Dance 5pm & 3L Dance 5:30pm

5D Greek Dance 6pm

Thurs 14th Dec

4T Play 6pm

Fri 15th Dec

French Dance Show visiting - whole school

School reports sent home

Mon 18th Dec

Awards Assembly 9am in Hall

Wed 20th Dec

GRADE 6 GRADUATION 6pm in Hall

Thurs 21st Dec

Grade 6 EOY Excursion

Friday 22nd Dec

Grade 6 EOY Performance 12:30pm in Hall

LAST DAY OF YEAR Early Finish

@ 1:30pm

FIRST DAY of school 2018

TUESDAY 30th January 2018 @ 8:50am

Principal’s Report - Maria Shearn

Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

30th November 2017 Term 4 / Week 8, Issue 4

Bignell Road East Bentleigh 3165

Phone: 9570 3525 Fax: 9579 0205 Email: east.bentleigh.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

SCHOOL VISION:

East Bentleigh Primary School provides a rich, inviting, child-focused

environment ensuring that all students feel safe and stimulated. Our students are

able to achieve their full academic, creative and social potential, equipped for the

challenges of lifelong learning. Students develop into healthy and confident

individuals, actively contributing to the world in which they live.

Hello everyone,

I can’t believe that when this newsletter goes out there will be only

effectively 3 weeks left of school for 2017! The next few weeks will certainly

be very busy ones and before we know it they will be over.

End of year class performances have already begun with a wonderful

orchestral concert on Tuesday night from our instrumental students in

Classes 3 - 6. What a powerhouse set of performances from our class

orchestras - they were all magnificent. The concert concluded with another

fabulous performance from our instrumental teachers Felicitie, Jonathan

and Michael. As I said on the night, we are blessed to have you here at

EBPS.

Sue and I are really looking forward to attending the many other

performances over the next 3 weeks and watching the culmination of

many weeks’ work by your children and their teachers. I hope you have

noted down all the remaining important dates from the diary - there are so

many of them!

We have now locked in a provisional staffing structure for 2018. You will see

it outlined later in the newsletter.

During the last week of school we hold the Grade 6 Graduation evening,

(Wednesday 20th December), all our Grade 6 students have been

preparing for this important evening for some time now. Enjoy these last few

weeks’ children. I suggest you keep a diary for future reference if you don’t

already do it. I really wish I had written down the things that were important

to me back when I was about to leave primary school. Looking back on

such memories is a wonderful thing to be able to do.

Staffing - 2018

As you know, planning has been going on in earnest over the past few

weeks. After an extensive process we are now in a position to advise our

class structure and accompanying staffing allocations. Our school will grow

by another class in 2018 and whilst we are sad to be saying goodbye to a

number of current staff members (as advised in our last newsletter), we are

happy to welcome Sarah Boyd, Anne Wilson, Leah Morrisy, Sarah Carnegie,

Celia Hopkinson, Kate Raynor and Shelley Krycer to our team. Donna

Leibowitz will move into a classroom support role.

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Mangoes will be available for pick up

TUESDAY 5TH DECEMBER

in the Indoor Gym @ 3:15pm

Principal’s Report

Provisional classes for 2018

Prep H - Alison Hackett

Prep S - Alli Shields

Prep M - Stewart McCallum

Class 1A -Anne Wilson- (Prep R)

Class 1S - Sarah Boyd- (Prep J)

Grade 1M - Leah Morrissy

Grade 2S - Jenny Small

Class 2D - Dagmar McNamara

Class 2J - Jacqui Dalton

Grade 3L - Lee Jellis

Class 3/4H - Cath Higgins

Class 3/4R - Kate Raynor

Class 4S - Sarah Carnegie (3A)

Grade 4C -Celia Hopkinson (3L)

Class 5T - Tanja Boxelaar

Class 5S - Shelley Krycer

Grade 5/6G- Jill Griffin

Grade 5/6K- Julia Kantor

Class 6L- Laura Siu

Specialists - Marie Seif - French; John Seeary - PE; Janette Arvanitakis - Art/Performing Arts; Denise

McDonough - Learning Support, Donna Leibowitz - Classroom Support, Nikki Gordon - Kitchen Specialist,

Kirsty Crockford - Garden Specialist, Eveline McGrath and Leanne Jacobs - Craft, Felicite Heine, Jonathan

Tosio and Michael Webb - Instrumental Music, Kate Graves - Eurythmy and Rose Tusia - Dance.

Children in the mainstream will be informed of their rooms and spend time with their teachers on Thursday

21st December. Most Steiner classes will move into their new rooms, beginning in Week 10 - from 11th

December, with the whole process starting off with 6L moving on Friday 8th December. Please note that I

say the above plan is a provisional plan, because sometimes things happen that may necessitate some

change in the New Year.

Book Fair

Thank you to Sandra Zylberlicht for organising the Book Fair once again this week. Thanks to all our families

who supported the Book Fair. I’m sure you’ll all enjoy your purchases and at the same time you are

helping our school in our all-important fundraising efforts.

Parent / Helpers’ Morning Tea

On Thursday 7th December at 10.30 am, the staff will provide a special morning tea to all our wonderful

helpers at our school. We are very lucky at EBPS to have so many school community members prepared

to give up some of their time. I know not all of you will be able to come, so I would like to take this

opportunity to thank all those people who have given their time and expertise to help support our school

in any way at all throughout the year. Your efforts are all very much appreciated by the teachers and

students at EBPS.

Reminder - please send in your Walkathon money to the school office by tomorrow

Friday 1st December - Thank you!

*** THOUGHT ***

Until next time……………….Maria Shearn - Principal

Parent Information

Eurythmy Open Classes Please come along!

Tuesday December 5, 2017

9:30am Class 1J 10:15am Class 1D 11:30am Class 4S 12:15pm Class 4T

Thursday December 7, 2017

9:30am Class 3A 11:30am Class 3D

2:00pm Class 6L

Tuesday December 12, 2017 9:00am Prep J

Thursday December 14, 2017

10:15am Class 5D 12:15pm Class 2L

Friday December 15, 2017

9:00am Prep R

Here are some images from the Orchestra Concert on Tuesday night

Parent Information & Community Information

Student Wellbeing and Positive Education at EBPS

Positive Education Wellbeing

Monday 13 November was World Kindness Day. 3A organised a ‘Caught Being Kind’ activity

for the whole school.

Children and adults were invited to ‘catch’ someone in a random act of kindness around the

school. They then wrote the act of kindness and the person’s name on one of the fish in the

box on the shelf in front of the office.

The fish were then put into the blue ‘pool’ on the wall in the hallway. To help make EBPS a

‘school’ of kindness fish.

Keep adding to the pool – here are some of the acts of kindness that have been ‘caught’ so far:

Alison Hackett - Teacher Class 3A

Parent Information

ORIENTEERING On the 17th of November, 50 students from our school along with 700 other

students travelled to Maroondah Reservoir Park to compete in the Eastern Zone

State Orienteering Championship. We left at 8.45am and most of us arrived at

10am ready to start our competitions.

Everyone tried their best and did a great job in tough conditions. We would like to

congratulate all students who got through to the next level.

Milly N. and Mila P. – Grade 5 Girls Pairs – 1st

Jack S. and Hilel G. – Grade 5 Boys Pairs – 1st

Julia C. – Gr 6 Girls B – 1st

Flynn A. and Lewis C. – Gr 6 Boys Pairs – 2nd

We would like to also thank Paul, Sally and Gene for helping out on the day and to

John and Lachlan for helping us train for the event. By Maya D. and Aela M.

The Reconciliation working group will meet at 4.00 pm on Thursday 7 November in the staff room. We will review our Reconciliation Action Plan to date and discuss the next steps in our plan to create a Learning Stones site on our school grounds - a cultural meeting place that can be a safe place for reflection, a place to acknowledge significant days on the Indigenous calendar or to help support educational transitions for Indigenous families. East Bentleigh Primary School acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Alison Hackett - Class 3A Teacher

Parent Information

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Summer School Holiday Fun

Are you ready for ‘Passport To Summer’ these school holidays?

We are! We’ll be having heaps of fun with all kinds of fantastic

activities, games and excursions on offer.

Feature theme days these school holidays include:

Overflowing Fun

Make your very own erupting volcano

Frame of Mind

Creatively decorate your very own mosaic photo frame

The Great Games Spectacular

Spectacular outdoor games with friends

Construction Zone

Build up to eight different construction vehicles

Back To Cool

Tie dye bags and pencil cases

Book Into A Holiday Club Program For more information about the Holiday Club program at a school near you and to book visit: www.campaustralia.com.au/holidayfun We look forward to seeing you and your family soon.

From the Team at Camp Australia.

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