Dear Parents, Reminder: Before and After School Care – Expression of Interest We seem to have an increasing number of stu-dents who are arriving at school well before 8:45am and are not being picked up from school until after 3:30. For this reason I have asked Camp Australia to survey our families to find out if it is viable for us to operate a Before and After School Program. Attached to the newsletter is further information. Basically we need you to complete an online sur-vey at www.research.net/s/stalbanseast Please see the office staff if you do not have ac-cess to the internet but would like to complete the survey. Primary Music Institute (PMI) – School Band Are you interested in your child joining the St Albans East Primary School Band? The school has approached PMI who currently offer keyboard lessons at our school with the view of establishing a school band. PMI will be here in week 5 to run demonstration lessons for students in years 2-6. Expression of Interest forms will be distributed to students after the demonstration les-sons. Parents are encouraged to attend to view the program for themselves. We will send a note about this closer to the day. Attached to the newsletter is a flier outlining the details. Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) Dear Parent The following information has been provided to me by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Yours sincerely Wally Gatt School Council President

From The Principal

Newsletter No. 18

7 November, 2014

Changes to the Education Maintenance Al-lowance From 1 January 2015, the government will pro-vide extra financial support directly to Victoria’s neediest schools instead of providing the Educa-tion Maintenance Allowance directly to parents. Parents will not be able to apply for the Educa-tion Maintenance Allowance in 2015. The money will be allocated to eligible schools through schools’ core operational funding mech-anism, with the neediest schools receiving the most funding. Not all schools will be receiving funding in 2015. This change to how the money is distributed was required by the funding agreement with the Com-monwealth government to make sure Victorian schools receive increased funding that will bene-fit all students and, in particular, those from schools with concentrated disadvantage. The majority of parents who received the EMA payment already elected to provide the money directly to their school. If you are experiencing financial hardship, you can speak to your principal about how you can access assistance from the State Schools’ Relief Committee for clothing and uniforms. The end of the EMA direct payments to parents

will not affect any other payment you may be receiving such as the Schoolkids Bonus, which is provided directly to eligible parents to assist with education costs. If you have any questions about this change, please speak to your school principal. 2015 Prep Enrolments Have you got a child turning 5 before April 30 next year? If so they are due to be enrolled at school. Please contact the office to collect an enrolment pack. The school will be conducting an orientation pro-

gram in November so it is important that your child is enrolled to be included as part of this program.

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PRINCIPAL:

Anne-Maree Kliman

St Albans East Primary School

Station Avenue, St Albans, 3021

PHONE:

9366 2071

FAX:

9366 4237

EMAIL:

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13 November– Prep Orientation 14 November– Curriculum day– NO students on this day 20 November- Prep Orientation 27 November-Prep Orientation 28 November– School Concert 9 December– State Orientation Day (Year 6)

Important Dates

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Are you moving on in 2015?...... Please notify the school as soon as possible if you are moving schools in 2015 as we are about to start our planning for 2015. FOR YOUR CALENDAR: Term 4 Curriculum Day - Our final Curriculum Day for 2014 will be Friday 14th November For Your Diary…………

School Concert Once again we are having an end of year school Christmas concert on November 28th . Each grade will perform a Christmas act. This year’s con-cert will be held in the school hall. Parents are welcome to join us for the concert. A letter with the time and date will be sent home soon. At the concert we will be making a presentation to St. Vin-cent DePaul’s of non-perishable and bathroom items. We ask that all families send a grocery item along to school preferable a bathroom product i.e. soap, shampoo, tooth-paste. Year Six Graduation Our Year 6 graduation is being held on Tuesday Decem-ber 16. Year 6 State Orientation Day All our Year 6 students will be involved in the state wide Year 7 Transition day on Tuesday 9th December. On this day they attend their 2015 secondary school for the whole day.

Anne-Maree Kliman Principal

2015 Prep Transition Dates

All transition days will be held at the times

listed below over the next few weeks.

Session 1 5 November 9:30am-

11:00am

Session 2 13 November 2:15pm-

3:00pm

Session 3 20 November 9:30am-

11:00am

Session 4 27 November 2:15pm-

3:00pm

ROOM PUPIL’S NAME: COMMENT: VALUES

DIS-

PLAYED

1 Alfred Kainano For his skills to follow a

procedure to make a paper folded dog

Cooperation

and Learning

2 Evelyn Chan For her fantastic work on

her multi– genre for writing. Welldone!!

Learning

4 Jahvani Condon–

Anderson

For her fantastic work

solving Maths problems this week

Learning

7 Chiara Imela For her excellent signing

during Auslan

Respect, Co-

operation, Learning and

Responsibility

8 Fateh Bhinder Putting extra effort into

his work at school and at home

All values

9 Fahad Saluh For using his sounds to

help him write sentences

Learning

10 Addison Spiteri For writing interesting

sentences in her recount about her weekend

Learning

11 Kaleab Kahsene For trying his best to

sound out the letteres during reading

Learning

13 Amelliah Siale For settling in so well to

Room 13. Welcome to St Albans East Primary

School

Cooperation

14

15 Charlie Jovanovski For improving her skills

in summarizing a fiction text

Learning

16 Anson Duong ly For working to her best

ability at all times

All values

17 Max Kolek For investigating and

presenting his experi-ment on Friction

Learning

18 Elizabeth Wright For always coming to

school with a positive attitude and helping

others

Learning

Responsibility

19 Serena Puppala For clarifying words she

did not understand on her homework sheet

Learning

Responsibility

20 Leisha Van

Wyngaarden

For working hard on

reading and showing respect to other class-

mates

Learning

Cooperation

21 Rohith Anbu Val

Karthikeyan

For helping out another

student with their narra-tive. Great work!

Learning

Responsibility Cooperation

Multi

Media

P.A.

Room

Rubalpreet Kaur For focusing on her ball

handling skills

Learning

Responsibility

Deaf

Facility

Pupil of the Week– Week ending 28 October, 2014

ROOM PUPIL’S NAME: COMMENT: VALUES

DIS-

PLAYED

1 Tina Ngo-Lam For the improvement in

her reading. Keep up the good work!

Responsibility

Learning

2 Kur Maror For improved reading

skills. Well Done!!!

Learning

4 Lisa Ho For a fantastic job using

dialogue to describe the setting

Learning

7 Frankee Kolak For always working hard

at all set tasks

All values

8 Timo Ale For completing more set

tasks without reminders

Learning

9 Henry Le For settling into his new

school and class very well. We are very happy

to have you here Henry!

All values

10

11 Tyla Nguyen For her excellent inde-

pendent reading and always trying her best

Responsibility

Learning

13

14

15

16

17 Hannah Whitfield For always having great

input during all class

discussion

Learning

Responsibility

18 Royden Richardson For his willingness to try

his best and encourage his peers when things

become too hard.

Learning

19 Kianah Nagiria For always coming to

school with a big smile and a great attitude

All values

20 Lan-Anh LE For trying her best and

being a positive role mode for others in the

class

All values

21

Multi

Media

P.A.

Room

Royden Richardson For displaying fantastic

dancing skills

Learning

Responsibility Cooperation

Deaf

Facility

Pupil of the Week– Week ending 17 October, 2014

ROOM PUPIL’S NAME: COMMENT: VALUES

DIS-

PLAYED

1 Dylan Lopez For always s working

well and using his man-ners. Well Done!

Respect

Responsibility Learning

2

4 Cindy Lu For giving 100% effort

in all tasks, and achiev-ing fantastic results

Learning

7 Anet Ford For participating in class

discussions

Learning

Cooperation Responsibility

8

9

10 Greta Siale Well done Greta for

settling in so well into our grade. Welcome to

Prep at St Albans East

Cooperation

Learning

11 Sophia Hoang For retelling a story in

correct order. Well

Done!!

Respect

Responsibility

13 Breeah Rehman For writing a detailed

procedure on “How to make a paper lantern’

Learning

Responsibility

14

Arshnoor Singh Being honest and shar-

ing his knowledge of reading

15 Katie Nguyen For writing a wonderful

procedure about ‘how to make a snowman,.

Learning

16 Ally Nguyen For working quietly and

concentrating with her work at all times

Learning

17 Cindy Troung For setting herself goals

and working hard to achieve them

All values

18 Rebecca Phan For being able to identi-

fy capacity of containers and order them from

least to most

Learning

19

20 Kathy Tran For always coming to

school with a positive

attitude and helping

others in the class

Learning

Responsibility

21

Multi

Media

P.A.

Room

Isaiah Nicolas For focusing on leaning

“The heel and toe polka”

Learning

Responsibility

Pupil of the Week– Week ending 24 October, 2014

Working Bee

THANK-YOU!! A big thank you to all the students and their fami-

lies who worked so hard at the Working Bee on

Saturday 25th October. It is always wonderful to

see families working side by side to make St Al-

bans East Primary School a clean and safe place.

As always there was gardening, sweeping and

cleaning to do. We were lucky that the rain held off

until the last 15 minutes when we stopped for a

sausage and drink.

Parent Morning Tea

– Parent Opinion

Survey!! On Tuesday 18th November the school will be

holding a parent morning tea in the staffroom from

9:10am, the morning tea should go no longer than

an hour. The aim of this morning tea will be to ex-

plore the data that the school has received from the

Parent Opinion Survey, there were 65 surveys

handed out but only 13 were completed. The infor-

mation collected from such surveys is important in

directing the planning of the school into the future.

If you have a spare hour please come and attend

and share your opinions and ideas so the school

can use this information to plan for the future.

Buy One Book Get One FREE

From Monday 24 November, 2014

For one week only.

Please visit the school library before and

after school.

Come get yourself a bargain!

BOOK

SALE