The Highlights Hamlyn Banks Primary School Phone: 5278 3100

2-24 Chaucer Street Fax: 5272 1030

Hamlyn Heights 3215 Email: hamlyn.banks.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.hbps.vic.edu.au

Newsletter No. 12 May 3rd, 2017

From Ms Scott’s Desk Exciting News

We were delighted to receive a visit from local MP Mr. John Eren last Friday morning. Mr. Eren is the Minister for Tourism and Major Events, Sport and Veterans, and his seat covers a wide area which includes Hamlyn Heights. Mr. Eren came to announce a $1.255 million dollar commitment to Hamlyn Banks Primary School to support building upgrades and refurbishment in the next State Budget. This is such an exciting announcement and a wonderful gain for our school to further improve our learning spaces.

School Council Sub Committees 2017

Mothers Day

The Hamlyn Banks Mother’s Day Stall will take place next Friday May 12. Students will have the opportunity to purchase a gift for their mum on Friday morning from a selection of items on display in the Multi Purpose Room. These items are priced between $2.00 and $5.00, and the help of any parent helpers to support the sale of gifts would be greatly appreciated.

Congestion in office area

I understand that the weather is definitely cooling down and it seems that any downfall of rain is destined to occur right on dismissal time at 3.15pm! As with our main corridor, our office area gets quite congestive upon dismissal time. Could I please encourage parents to wait in the sheltered areas around the school grounds to ensure our students safe exit from the buildings during these busy times. Thank you for your support.

Past Students

Our school often has requests from past students to visit teachers and help out in classrooms if they have a holiday or Curriculum Day. This can sometimes present a challenge for our teachers, as their duty of care lies with students who are enrolled at Hamlyn Banks. As such, we have identified the need to communicate clear processes around students wanting to visit Hamlyn Banks during school hours. These processes have been agreed upon following staff consultation and feedback.

A parent of the past students must phone through to give permission for the student to attend school

A request will be made to a specific teacher to support this visit

Only students whose parent has contacted the school may visit during school hours, and 24 hours notice must be given in regard to the visit

Past students must sign in at the office register upon arrival, and out again upon departure

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Entertainment books have

arrived at the school for

2017/2018 offers

EVENTS

CALENDAR

MAY 5 School Spec

Rehearsal

5 Book club due

8 Special Lunch

Order

12 Mothers Day

Stall

15 Biocats Exc

16 School Council

22 Biocats Exc

29 Year 3-6 Disco

30 Div. C/Country

31 Light Prem

JUN 2 School Spec

Rehearsal

5 Special Lunch

Order

9 Curriculum Day

12 Queens B/day

20 School Council

29/30 Sovereign

Hill Camp 6/5

30 Last day Term 2

Sub Committee Committee Participants Meeting Schedule

Environment

Toni Scott (DET)

Emily Daws (DET)

Tammy Hase (Parent)

Maxine Tippett (Parent)

(Time/Dates TBC)

Resources

Katherine Rhodes (Treasurer)

Melinda Antonenko (Parent)

Toni Scott (DET)

Monday 8.15am (Dates TBC)

Community Engagement

Kerrie Duan (DET)

Laurelle Conder (DET)

Peter Grivas (SC President)

Di Giovanniello (Parent)

Tania Celli (Parent)

Kirsten Ridgeway (Parent)

Friday Afternoon (Dates TBC)

SCHOOL NEWS

MATHLETICS

Congratulations to Mathletic’s Award Winners for Week 2 of Term 2.

These points are from Monday 24th April to Sunday 30th April.

Maddison D (PrepC) Giorgio G (1D) Matilda W (2H) Jake S (4/3M) Trinity M (6/5S)

4964 points 2750 points 2291 points 3852 points 5204 points

Class winners this week -

PrepC (8994) 1D (4670 points) 2H (11641 points) 4/3M (20476 points) 6/5G (23288 points)

The top classes with students reaching over 1000 points this week were………

6/5G - 14 students over 1000 4/3M - 7 students over 1000

Entertainment Books are

back. Come to the office for the new 2017/2018 books

Students are only permitted to visit the school for the morning block, between the hours of 9.00am -11.00am.

Students are not permitted to be in the playground during recess breaks

If the visit does not suit, the teacher may decline the offer to support a student

We hope that our wider school community will understand that these expectations are in place to ensure that Hamlyn Banks provides safe and positive environment for all. Again, we thank our school community for their support with these processes.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN testing takes place for our Year 3 and 5 students next week. The days and assessments are as follows:

Tuesday 9th May – Language Conventions: Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation and Writing

Wednesday 10th May –Reading

Thursday 11th May – Numeracy

Prep Enrolments

We are currently accepting enrolments for 2018 prep students. It is the time of the year when parents with children who are starting school in 2018 are making their decision as to which school their child should attend. Our school encourages prospective families to tour our facilities, speak with our leadership team and discuss programs with appropriate school members. Enrolment forms for 2018are available from our office.

Acting Principal

I am delighted to be staying on at Hamlyn Banks for term 3, prior to the recruitment process to appoint a new substantive Principal. Thank you to all staff, parents and students for their ongoing support. Hamlyn Banks is a wonderful place to work, learn and plan.

It’s cool to be at school!

We are proud to teach and learn at Hamlyn Banks.

Toni Scott Acting Principal

School Canteen Canteen is on Wednesday &

Friday and during the term there will be some Special lunch

orders. Stay tuned for these. New canteen menu’s are available.

There will be a 10 cent charge if orders have no lunch bags. Don’t forget Sausage Special lunch orders arrive on

Monday.

STAR OF THE WEEK Grade Prep B: Ruby B

For always having a positive attitude towards learning and trying her best!

Grade Prep C: Ruby H For being a super Mathematician, making & naming groups of

10.

Grade Prep F: Harvin B For excellent listening and for completing his learning tasks to a

high standard. Your efforts are awesome Harvin!

Grade 1D: Shae Lee C For the amazing effort she put into her subtraction stories.

Grade 1H: Sophie W For your enthusiasm in Maths and the extra work you did at

home.

Grade 1W: Sienna M For a wonderful ‘can do’ attitude towards everything she does!

Grade 2D: Charlie-May C For always having a positive attitude towards her learning!

Grade 2H: Lahni H For being a fantastic learner who always tries her best.

Grade 2P: Jude M For being organised and a great listener.

Grade 43J: Stefan S For a great opening in his persuasive writing. Well done!

Grade 43J: Madison R For her thoughtful answers to questions asked during our

CERES excursion. Well done! Grade 43M: Renee B

For her great work during reading. Grade 43S: Charlie G

For always coming to school with a bright, happy disposition and a willingness to learn.

Grade 43T: Chloe P For talking confidently about an article she read and sharing her

opinion. Grade 43U: Zarah R

For showing great problem solving skills in Maths.

Grade 65H: Arman V For your fantastic attitude to all your learning.

GEELONG ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY

Please help GAWS by donating your old blankets or towels. Nothing with feathers or stuffing. There is a box in the office. Thank you from Charlie-May 2D

LOST

One yellow footy belonging to Hayden Berry from Prep C if you have found this

please return to the office.

Mother’s Day Stall

We will be holding a Mother’s Day stall on Friday, May 12

th. Would love

to see a few volunteers to help on the day.

We will need helpers on the

Friday at the Multi Purpose Room at 9am.

MRS MACS BARGAIN ACTIVITY

Do you feel the urge to use interesting words in interesting ways? Join our writing group at the Dome. Keep a journal, contribute to a group blog, try out different writing techniques and

share your writing with the group. Bring your own device or use the library facilities. At the end of the year we will produce a small book of writing by the members of the group.

FREE

TIME & PLACE

Geelong Library and Heritage Centre Thursday, 11 May 2017 -

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Geelong Library and Heritage Centre Thursday, 25 May 2017 -

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Hamlyn Banks Primary OSHC phone: 0452 247 747

Coordinator: Mel Head Office Ph : 1300 105 343

This past week in OSHC… Hi everyone,

We’ve had a great week in Before School Care. We’ve been designing a dolls house! At the start of the term I

brought in a plain dolls house for the children to decorate and play with. Over the past week, the children drew up

a floor plan, measured each room and picked out paint colours for each room. It’s been great to watch them

negotiate colours between

themselves.

Over the next two weeks we’ve focusing on our mums, grandma’s and guardians for Mothers Day. For one of our

craft activities we would really love to use a picture of each child with their mum/guardian or a photo of the family. If

they could bring one in this week or next, that would be fabulous.

I would also like to mention that over the next 6 weeks you may drop in and see a different co-ordinator. I’m

currently on placement so I’ve had to miss 1 shift a week over this time. Don’t worry though Sharon who is a

familiar face has taken my place on these days and she is really excited to hang out with the children.

Thanks have a great week.

Bree

Hi everyone,

With the cold weather now here it is the perfect time to remind you that at After School Care it is compulsory to

wear a jumper when outside during terms 2 and 3. We have this rule as the air can be quite chilly when we go

outside after 3:00. It is important that all your children have their jumpers clearly named as we do run around a lot

and they are often taken off. I try my best to return all the clothing that is left behind, but it is really hard when there

is no name on them. I thank you in advance for your help with this.

Last week we had an amazing week learning all about ANZAC day and why we celebrate it, the children had a

great time making their own set of medals and I even saw a few of them being worn at our special ANZAC day

assembly. Well done everybody.

This week we have seen so many new friendships form and lots of new games being played. The children have

been showing me new games they have learnt, and games they think can be incorporated into our program. I am

so proud to have children attending the program that have the confidence to put their ideas forward and teach the

group the rules. I love that we have such confident independent children.

We have settled back into the routine of the service now and it is time to work on some things. We will be focusing

on washing our dishes. We have always had the children wash their own dishes as it is a great life skill for all

children to have. We have noticed recently that some children think dipping their bowls into the hot water is

enough. If you could help out and allow your children to help you with the dishes in the morning or after dinner it

would be great. I thank you for your support with this.

Thanks for your time,

Mel