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School Community News Number: 20 Date: 13th July 2016 Tucker Road, Bentleigh Primary School - No: 4687 16 Tucker Road Bentleigh 3204 P.O. Box 1341 Moorabbin 3189 Phone: 9557 2044 Fax: 9557 2181 Web Site: http:/www.tuckerroad.vic.edu.au Email: [email protected] DATES TO DIARY 2016 Monday 18th July PFA Meeting 9.30am 18th July week commencing Book Fair browsing Wednesday 20th July 100 Days of Prep Tuesday 26th July School Council 6.30pm 25th July week commencing Book Fair buying Tuesday 26th July School Council 6.30pm Friday 29th July Student Disco Monday 8th August PFA Meeting 9.30am Saturday 13th August Trivia Night Monday 15th August CURRICULUM DAY (Children do not attend school) Tuesday 23rd August School Council 6.30pm Friday 2nd September Fathers Day Stall Monday 12th September PFA Meeting 9.30am Thursday 13th October School Concert Thursday 15th December Year 6 Graduation School Camp Dates for 2016 Year 5 Camp Wed 16th Nov to Friday 18th Nov Sovereign Hill Year 4 Camp Wed 16th Nov to Friday 18th Nov Maldon Swimming Programs Program 1 Monday 25th July-Thursday 4th August (Years 5-6) Program 2 22nd August - 1st September (Years 3 & 4) Program 3 31st August - 9th September (Prep Classes) Program 4 17th October - 27th October (Years 1 & 2) Term 3 Week 1 2016 Welcome back everyone to another exciting school term, it will be busy which many scheduled events such as, parent and teacher meetings, swimming program, Athletics, book fair and Dad’s Breakfast just to name a few! Facilities News We are currently looking at Architects to assist us with the design elements and building of the gymnasium as we enter into next Phase (2), which is the tendering our facilities project. This is an exciting step forward for the whole school community and I am fortunate to have some great expertise and supportive advice from the multi- skilled school councillors and committee members we have a TRBPS. Thank you to the staff and parents who were a part of Phase 1, where we developed an ‘Asset Management Plan’ to guide the development of a future school master plan that will incorporate the various facilities and play space ideas we devised as part of this process. Portables News The very old portable at the end of the year 1/2 area (right side) will be replaced by the DET as part of a replacement rollout schedule in an effort to rid schools of these very old buildings. We will receive a new Mod 5 portable in its place. It is anticipated this will occur around week 3 or 4 of this term. This is very timely for us at TRBPS as we discovered that rain had entered this portable during the recent bad weather and this affected the carpet in one corner of the room. Consequently, we have relocated Year 1W to the library until this is rectified. With more inclement weather predicted it is unlikely for this to occur this week. The children and teacher (Mrs Leonie Wallis) were assisted to move quickly into the library this morning so they could get on with their school day as per normal. Borrowing of books by teachers and students from other classes will be able to occur without any disruption to the class. The scheduled ‘Book Fair’ may be required to relocate to the SOL centre so please watch for the newsletter for further information regarding this event. Year 6 Graduation News We have secured the Year 6 Graduation date which is Thursday December 15 at Coatesville Primary School. We thank the principal Mrs Louise Pearce for assisting us with a venue, as there is scheduled building works at both Brighton and Bentleigh Secondary Colleges. We feel very privileged to be able to use their new state of the art gymnasium for this occasion. More news on times etc., will follow. Levelled Literacy Intervention Program (LLI) It is intended that we will run the program this term. The program will run for the full amount of time beginning week 3 and will be delivered by Mrs Belinda Morris whilst Marie Chalas is on leave. Mrs Morris is well known to the children and is very experienced with implementing extra literacy support programs at TRBPS. Mrs Morris will undertake an extensive handover of the LLI program from both Mrs Chalas and Mrs Mehl (LLI trained) so that the children needs can be adequately met during the course of the program. Mrs Mehl will continue to assist Mrs Morris throughout term 3 to ensure that she is fully supported with running this program.
