Dear Parents, Welcome back to Term 4 Welcome back to Term 4 and the final eleven weeks of the 2014 school year. What a busy time of the year this is for our school. Keep an eye on future newsletters as they will con-tain details about upcoming events. School Review Every four years, schools are required to un-dertake a comprehensive review of their per-formance against the School Strategic Plan. Over the past 6-months the school has been working on its Self-Evaluation. School self-evaluation provides an opportunity for the whole school community, including students, parents and all staff, to reflect on student out-comes in light of their goals, targets and key improvement strategies from the previous planning cycle. This includes examining teaching and learning strategies, the perfor-mance and development culture and other aspects of school operations so they can be strengthened and supported to improve stu-dent outcomes. This week, members of the staff, students, parents and school council participated in the school review along with an accredited school reviewer (Bruce Kiloh) and two local principals (Kerrie Dowsley – St Al-bans Secondary College & Charles Branci-forte – Keilor Views PS). The purpose of the review was to reflect on our outcomes against our current Strategic Plan and assisting to de-velop new goals, targets and key improve-ment strategies for the 2015-2018 School Strategic Plan. I would sincerely like to thank the parents who were able to give up some of their time to be part of the review process: David Hernandez, Jessica Fernandez, Roy

From The Principal

Newsletter No. 16

10 October, 2014

Leutenmayr, Jeanette Tuhi, Bich Dang, Loan Vo, Van Se, & Trudy Whitfield. 2015 Prep Enrolments Have you got a child turning 5 before April 30 next year? If so they are due to be en-rolled at school. Please contact the office to collect an enrolment pack. The school will be conducting an orientation program in November so it is important that your child is enrolled to be included as part of this program. 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. Staff Leave The following staff are on leave: Lil Petruccelli will be on leave until 17.10.2014 and continues to be replaced by Mr Tom Kearny. Julie Brook will be on leave until 24.10.2014. Cup Day Holiday is on Tuesday 4 Novem-ber. The school will be closed on this day. Term 4 Curriculum Day Our final Curriculum Day for 2014 will be Fri-day 14 November. This day will be used to start writing our new School Strategic Plan. Children will not be required at school on this day

SunSmart A reminder that in Term 4 our SunSmart Pol-icy is implemented, requiring all students to

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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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23 October– Deaf Sports Day 4 November– Melbourne Cup Day– NO School on this day 14 November– Curriculum day– NO stu-dents on this day

Important Dates

Canteen Roster

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ST. ALBANS EAST

PRIMARY SCHOOL

WORKING BEE for Term 4

A working bee has been organised to complete some

tasks around our school. These include cleaning,

sweeping, gardening and small maintenance jobs to

make our school clean, safe and appealing to look at.

Look out for a note coming home shortly.

Details for the working bee are:

DATE: Saturday 25 October

TIME: 10am – 12 noon

BYO tools

Children welcome to attend to assist.

Refreshments & sausage sizzle will be provided. We

would love to see as many families as possible. You

know what they say “Many hands, make light work.”

Meet at the front of the school.

PLEASE REMEMBER ALL CHILDREN

ATTENDING THE WORKING BEE MUST BE

ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT

(MUM/DAD/CARER)

wear a navy blue broad-brimmed or legionnaires style hat at all times, whilst outside. Please note that caps and bandanas are not appropri-ate, and as such are not part of the school uniform. Our school rule is No Hat No Play…. This means that students without a hat will be required to sit in a shad-ed place for the duration of the recess break.

Anne-Maree Kliman Principal

Website Have you had a chance to visit our website for the latest events, forms

and news?

www.saeps.vic.edu.au

MAKE IT YOUR HOME PAGE!

Has your phone number changed? If you have recently moved house, or changed your phone number, please remember to con-tact the school office to inform us of these changes. This includes any changes to your mobile number, home number or changes to emergency contact numbers.

Students compete at District Athletics

On Friday, August 29th, 50 keen and aspiring athletes competed in the

St Albans District Primary Schools Athletics Carnival. The students were proud

to represent our school in the event which was held at the Keilor Athletics

Track.

They competed in a number of athletics events, including 100, 200 and 800

metres running, long jump, triple jump, high jump, discus, shot put and relay.

The students had been preparing for the Carnival over the last few weeks prac-

tising for their events and were excited about competing against students from

other schools.

Our team was eager to do their best on the day and we saw many fantastic performances.

25 students gained places in their events, with some of them placing in more than one event.

Gloria was a star winning all four of her events-100, 800, hurdles and 4×100 relay. Others to

gain 1st places in their event included Elleni, Gift, Shalom, Lance, Austin, Kyle and Leisha.

At the end of the day when all the points were tallied, we found that we were just 3 points be-

hind the winning school, St Augustines, in 2nd place. This is our best performance for many

years. All students who represented our school should be congratulated on their fantastic effort,

as well as their behaviour during the day.

Graham Sherwill

P.E Teacher

Welcome back for another term of fun and friendship.

The following guest speakers and activities are available for Term 4 2014 and Term 1 2015;

Fire and Safety Display at Sunshine Fire Station (every second Thursday only)

Centrelink Payments Information

Child Speech Development (Monday, Thursday, Friday only at this stage)

Dental Hygiene Information

Saver Plus Program

Saver Plus is a FREE 10-month Budgeting Information and Savings program to help you improve your

budgeting and saving skills and save up for your or your child’s education costs. The incentive is… you re-

ceive $1 for every $1 you save, up to $500. So if you save $500, we can match you up to $500 to help pay

for music lessons, school uniforms, books, excursions, sports, laptops and more!

Saver Plus has helped over 220 parents in the Brimbank, Melton and Maribyrnong areas to save over

$91,000 (in total) for their children's education.

Much thanks,

Nathalie Molina Early and Primary Years Resourcing Pro-ject ISIS Primary Care 122 Harvester Rd. Sunshine 3020 Office:03 9313 5000| Fax: 03 9313 5050

NEW CANTEEN PRICE LIST

We have some delicious new items being added

to the menu as well as a slight price increase due

to significant price rises from our suppliers.

The new menu has been attached to this

Newsletter and will also be available on the

school website from this week.

New items include potato wedges and chicken

noodle cups!