Seabrook Primary School 83-105 Point Cook Road, SEABROOK 3028 | POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1143 ALTONA MEADOWS 3028 Phone: 9395 1758 | Email: [email protected]www.seabrook.vic.edu.au | www.facebook.com/SeabrookPS NEWSLETTER FROM THE PRINCIPAL Issue 3 February 20, 2019 Seabrook Primary School has a zero tolerance for any form of child abuse. INTERNET PRIVACY: Everyone, (and in particular) children should NEVER share personal information online about their family, themselves, or anyone else Xuno App is now live, download the App register with ub32jh, your username and pass- word Dear Parents and Guardians, CHINESE NEW YEAR Best wishes to all our families celebrating the Chinese New Year. BIKES HELMETS We encourage children from grades 3-6 to ride to school and younger children to be accompanied by an adult. Parents, can you please ensure your child wears their safety helmet and are familiar with the safest route to school? We stress to the children the importance of walking their bike or scooter in the school grounds and would be grateful if this is supported by parents. USING THE SUPERVISED CROSSING We would like to remind parents of the importance of modeling safe walking practices by using the school patrolled or pedestrian crossings. Parents and children darting across busy Point Cook Road can be very distressing for drivers and sends a poor message to children about crossing the road safely. Fred and Angie are there daily at the crossing to support all our community when crossing the road. SKOOLBAG IS BEING PHASED OUT, LAST DAY IS THURSDAY 28TH OF FEBURARY Please note that at the end of this month the Seabrook Skoolbag App will be phased out as we streamline our communication methods. Parents will be able to access information through the parent portal www.seabrook-ps.xuno.com.au More information in this edition of the newsletter and in further editions to come. continued report on the following page PUBLIC HOLIDAY MONDAY 11TH OF MARCH NO SCHOOL ON THIS DAY
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Seabrook Primary School 83-105 Point Cook Road, SEABROOK 3028 | POSTAL ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1143 ALTONA MEADOWS 3028 Phone: 9395 1758 | Email: [email protected] www.seabrook.vic.edu.au | www.facebook.com/SeabrookPS
NEWSLETTERFROM THE PRINCIPAL Issue 3 February 20, 2019
Seabrook Primary School has a zero tolerance for any form of child abuse.INTERNET PRIVACY: Everyone, (and in particular) children should NEVER share personal information online about their family, themselves,
or anyone else
Xuno App
is now live,
download the App
register with
ub32jh, your
username and
pass-word
Dear Parents and Guardians,
CHINESE NEW YEARBest wishes to all our families celebrating the Chinese New Year.
BIKES HELMETSWe encourage children from grades 3-6 to ride to school and younger children to be accompanied by an adult. Parents, can you please ensure your child wears their safety helmet and are familiar with the safest route to school? We stress to the children the importance of walking their bike or scooter in the school grounds and would be grateful if this is supported by parents.
USING THE SUPERVISED CROSSINGWe would like to remind parents of the importance of modeling safe walking practices by using the school patrolled or pedestrian crossings. Parents and children darting across busy Point Cook Road can be very distressing for drivers and sends a poor message to children about crossing the road safely. Fred and Angie are there daily at the crossing to support all our community when crossing the road.
SKOOLBAG IS BEING PHASED OUT, LAST DAY IS THURSDAY 28TH OF FEBURARYPlease note that at the end of this month the Seabrook Skoolbag App will be phased out as we streamline our communication methods. Parents will be able to access information through the parent portal www.seabrook-ps.xuno.com.au More information in this edition of the newsletter and in further editions to come.
continued report on the following page
PUBLIC HOLIDAY MONDAY 11TH OF MARCH NO SCHOOL ON THIS DAY
Seabrook Primary School 2 International Baccalaureate | Primary Years Program ®
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continued report from Susan Lee
HELPING AT SCHOOL AND WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECKSWe value the time our parents offer to work in classrooms and when attending excursions and camps. All parent helpers are required by law to have a current Working With Children Check. Now is a good time to apply for one so that you can work in the classroom or with the class. These can be completed on-line or forms can be collected from the post office visit www.working-withchildren.vic.gov.au for more details. Please provide a copy of your wwcc to the office.
TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE DAYS The department believes the most important thing they can do to improve student learning outcomes is to develop and improve the skills of teachers. The department commenced last year with an initiative to provide professional development opportunities for teachers in order to support the learning and development of students. Each teacher will each spend four days per year, one per term to further develop their skills in areas that are aligned to our school priorities. Students will directly benefit from these improvements in their daily learning. The professional practice days are an opportunity for teachers to work collaboratively to improve their teaching practice. The days are being scheduled ahead of time to ensure there is minimal impact and a learning program in place to ensure education continues as usual in the classroom. Our regular relief teachers, many of whom are Seabrook teachers will be engaged for the day to take the class and will follow the normal school daily program.
SCHOOL UNIFORM Seabrook children have a formal school uniform which should be worn every day. We are insisting on children wearing the correct school uniform. Please note navy stockings or white socks are preferred for girls. Some
children are coming to school in black stockings. This is not the correct colour. Some children are wearing white polo shirts that are not our uniform, instead they should be wearing a white cotton short or long-sleeved shirt. Some older children are sometimes not choosing to wear their jumper to school, wearing different coloured jackets instead. These items are weekend wear and they will be asked to wear their school clothes.
Our uniform is available from Noone Imagewear in Hoppers Crossing who will help fit out your child correctly. Don’t forget our second hand uniform shop too. This has a great variety of pre-worn school uniform items very reasonably priced. The shop is operated by volunteers every Monday morning to drop off school items for sale from 9am – 9:30am and then open for purchasing every Thursday from 2.30pm – 3:30pm. Clearly labeling your child’s clothes is a great way for your child and staff to identify any clothes when misplaced.
PARENTS TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS Please be respectful of people’s privacy. When your child is performing at assemblies or at other school events we understand you are keen to take their photos for memories or to show other family members. Out of respect we ask that pho-tos that contain images of other children are not up-loaded to social media or other web-based programs without first consulting their parents. Photos can easily be cropped and this can save any worry for other parents.
MEDICATION If, at any time, your child must take any medication at school please make sure it is brought to the office with the Medical Authority form available on our website under the forms tab. We ask that whenever possible, medication is taken just before school or immediately after, to avoid medications being brought to school unnecessarily.
REBEL SPORT POINT COOK IS ONCE AGAIN OFFERING VOUCHERS TO SCHOOLS
Our PE department can redeem vouchers forwarded to the school when families choose to link their purchases with the school. New equipment has been purchased following the recent holiday period. Thanks to our parents who shop at the branch of Rebel Sport, Point Cook Town Centre. We look forward to further vouchers becoming available across the year helping us to replace old and lost sports equipment.
Have a great week ahead. Sue & Staff
Seabrook Primary School 4 International Baccalaureate | Primary Years Program ®
Social networking is a large part of the social identity of young people. They are avid users of a range of social networking services including Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter.
Many kids also network through playing online games like Club Penguin, Moshi Monsters and World of Warcraft.
All of these services provide fun and engaging ways to:• stay connected and interact with friends and
family• post information and updates about them-
selves and their activities• share photos and videos• chat and play games• comment on other people’s photos, posts
and profiles.
It can be difficult to resist the ‘pester power’ of your kids when it comes to allowing them to engage on social media, especially when their friends may be allowed. There is a risk they may feel alienated, but ultimately you know your child best and whether they can handle the responsi-bilities and pressures of being on social media.
Seabrook Primary School 6 International Baccalaureate | Primary Years Program ®
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4EE
I like the book ‘How Cool is This’ because it has information about how lava lamps, crash helmets, rocket chairs, sky lanterns, crystals and biometrics work. To me, this book is very interesting and also other people who have already read it! – Jett
I would recommend this book ‘Flood and Monsoon Alert!’ because it shows you really cool pictures of floods all around the world. It tells you about how floods begin, different types of floods and things that help stop floods. At the end of the book there is a really cool science experiment. It’s called ‘The Recipe for Disaster!’ Those are some reasons why I’d recommend this book for you. – Kiani
I recommend ‘Twighlight’ because it takes you on an adventure. It is a mature book to read and it is about a girl who goes to a town called Forks. This book is a horror story. – Brianna
I recommend this booked called ‘Demon Dentist’ because the story and chapters will keep you entertained. When I started to read ‘Demon Dentist’ I felt like it was too long but now I know it’s just right. – Jared
The book ‘Tom Gates: Extra Special Treats’ is about a family who eats chocolate raisins. Tom Gates is very intelligent and a chocolate finder and his father has so many chocolates. – Enric
I like the book ‘Big Nate I Can’t Take It’ because when you start reading it you never want to stop. The book is really long – 220 pages! – Dimitar
I recommend this book ‘Tom Gates Dog Zombies Rule (for now)’ because it has funny characters like Mark. He is nosey and annoying. – Paige
I like ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ and the Harry Potter books because the more you read it, the more interesting it gets. I also like it because it has a lot of magic and I think magic is cool. – Adem
I recommend this book ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid – The Last Straw’ and the series by Jeff Kinney because he is a nice author and I love all of his books. When I read his books I just get a blast of interest and that is one of the reasons I like to read. – Wyld Jasper
I recommend this book ‘Tom Gates: Genius Ideas (mostly)’ because I like that it’s funny and this book makes me happy when I read it. – Zach
Seabrook Primary School 8 International Baccalaureate | Primary Years Program ®
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Can You Help?
Parent Helper Wanted - Help needed
We have a student in Year Three who is learning English. We would like some parent volunteers who could spend about 10 -15 minutes helping him to read a couple of known books and to revise sight words, e.g. around 9 am after you drop your child off or at 3pm before you pick your child up.
Download the Xuno App for all your communication alerts for Seabrook Primary School from the App Store or Google Play Store
To register, please enter the following login detailsSchool Code: ub32jhUsername: your Xuno log inPassword: your Xuno password
Seabrook Primary School 10 International Baccalaureate | Primary Years Program ®
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Updating contact details
All Victorian government schools are required to contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the same day of an unexplained student absence. In order for us at Seabrook to comply and implement the same day notification requirement, it’s essential that you provide the school with the most up-to-date contact details.
Please log onto our parent portal at:
https://seabrook-ps.xuno.com.au
and use your username and password to access XUNO.
To update your contact details please follow these steps:
1. Click on the School Tab
2. Scroll down to Students: Contact Details and select
3. Please click on update details and amend accordingly.
Xuno Tips
Accessing your child/ren’s report or learning updates
Once logged in, you will see the following 4 tabs
Click on the learning tab and then scroll down and select reports.
SUPPORT NEEDED WITH UNEXPLAINED ABSENCES AS PER DET REQUIREMENT
Dear Parents/Guardians,
We kindly request that you inform the school via the XUNO message service of your child/ren’s absence. This will help us to reduce the SMS cost to the school as fewer SMS messages will need to be sent daily. Thank you to those parents/guardians who are already using the XUNO message service or informing the school of their child/ren’s absence.
Entering school absences Entering absences on XUNO. Please log into the parent portal at:
https://seabrook-ps.xuno.com.au
and use your username and password to access XUNO.
To send a message directly to the teacher please follow these steps:
Click on:1. School
2. Scroll down to Messages and select
3.Click on the add(+) button to select your child/ren’s teacher.
4. Type in new message eg. Peter/Mary is absent as he/she is unwell.
Please note that this message will be received directly by the teacher who will amend the attendance roll accordingly.
Seabrook Primary School 12 International Baccalaureate | Primary Years Program ®
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Our School
SCHOOL BANKING
We Need Your Help – Parent Helpers/Volunteers Needed
Our students really enjoy participating in the Commonwealth School Banking program and to keep this program running we need your help. Parent helpers are needed to help count money and process reward requests. Currently School Banking is processed on Thursday morning at 9am for approximately one to two hours.
FRESH PRODUCE
STALL
22nd FEB______
29nd March
Put these dates in your diaries!
We have a used 6 burner gas bbq to give away and a Hoover brand compact stainless steel dishwasher, both in working order. If you could use either of these items please contact the office.
S n a c k s i nr e u s a b l ec o n t a i n e r s D r i n k s i n ar e u s a b l e b o t t l e R e u s a b l e u t e n s i l sw h e n n e e d e d R e u s a b l e l u n c h b o xo r b a c k p a c k
Pack
L u n c h e s p a c k e d i np l a s t i c b a g s , c l i n gf i l m o r f o i l D i s p o s a b l e z i pl o c k b a g sd i s p o s a b l e f o r k sa n d s p o o n sP r e - p a c k a g e sl u n c h o r s i n g l es e r v e i t e m s
Avoid
P R O G R A MNUDE FOOD
Support Seabrook Primary School by reducing the
waste you bring to school
Reducing our waste at Seabrook
Seabrook Primary School 14 International Baccalaureate | Primary Years Program ®
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For your information
Wish to advertise your business or event with us?
Contact: Maureen Murphy on 9395 1758 email: [email protected] $5.50 including GST for a business card size advertisement $22 including GST for a 1/4 page advertisement
All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is free! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au where all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via your online account!
Do you have a school banking question or query? Please email: [email protected] School Banking Volunteers
Well done to the 62 students who banked last week including the three new students who have joined our school banking program.
Parent packs were distributed to all students last week containing information about school banking and the rewards card for 2019. Term 1 rewards: Scented stackable highlighters and Snowy origami set. Rewards can be redeemed for 10 silver tokens. One token is issued for each deposit made via school banking.
School banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. For every 10 deposits made per student our school receives a Regular Savers Contribution of $5 from the Commonwealth Bank. This is in addition to an Annual Contribution payment based on the total number of students who made at least one deposit through school banking during the previous year.
Participating in school banking is easy. If your child already has a Dollarmite/Youthsaver Account with the Commonwealth Bank all you need to do is start sending their completed deposit book with the yellow wallet each week. Refer to the parent pack for further information about opening a Youthsaver Account.
School bankingRemember to bring in bank books on Wednesday
(preps will bank on Tuesdays until they attend full time)
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FEBRUARY/ MARCH 2019 SEABROOK TIME LINEMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
18
Grade 5 & 6 Assembly
9am - 9:30am
School Council meeting 6:30pm
19
CHESS TOURNAMENT
HERE AT SEABROOK IN THE BER BUILDING
9:15am - 2pm
20
GRADE 5 INCURSION
‘TOON SCHOOL’
School Council nominations close
at 5pm
21 22
Grade 1 Assembly2:30pm - 3pm
Fresh Produce Stall
3:10pm - 3:30pm in the courtyard
25
Grade 3 & 4 Assembly
9am - 9:30am
26 27 28
GRADE 2 ‘MARVELOUS ME
INCURSION’
March 1
Grade 2 Assembly2:30pm - 3pm
4
Grade 5 & 6 Assembly
9am - 9:30am
5 6
District Swimming Carnival
Werribee outdoor pool for selected
students in grades 3-6
7 8
Grade 1 Assembly2:30pm - 3pm
Back up day for District swimming
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LABOUR DAY PUBLIC
HOLIDAYNO SCHOOL
TODAY
12 13 14
Divisional Swimming Carnivalfor those students who have qualified
