Term 1, 2018 Week 4 of 9 Weeks Newsleer: February 22nd, 2018 Persistence Encouragement Resilience Respect Inclusiveness Dear Families of Yarra Glen PS, Welcome to another great week of learning as we settle in to our routines and studying. As I go around the classrooms, I have been pleased to see students enjoying their classroom libraries and using their CAFÉ reading strategies. Staffing Mrs. DiGiacomo will continue her leave until the end of term. I am sure you will join with me in wishing her a speedy recovery. I will continue to take the role of Acting Principal until then and look forward to everyone’s support. Mrs. Meredith Richardson is also extending her leave until March 5 th and we also wish her well. Mrs. Tabone continues to recover from her surgery and we expect to see her back on Monday full of her usual cheer and optimism. Communication: It was a pleasure to read the year level newsletters that have now gone out to families. The common elements were homework, communication, nude food and restorative practices at each level. Have you seen some of the great photos posted on the school web page? School Council: Our School Council elections are underway. The Yarra Glen learning community is made up of families, staff and students who work and learn together with the support of the wider community. Ballot papers will go home on Monday for our 2018 candidates. Our candidates are: Lloyd Agnew – father of Lincoln in Foundation and Mason in Grade 2. Greg Chrisp- father of Mia in Grade 2 and Thomas in Grade 4. Sommer Gloury – mother of Emmi-Mae in Grade 3 and Sam in Grade 4. Rebecca Holland – mother of Ben in Foundation and Sam in Grade 2. Sylvie Polge – mother of Margaux in Grade 1. Vanessa Wood – mother of Annie in Grade 1. Please watch out for your envelope which will come home with the oldest child and return it by the following Monday. Thank you for your support in this worthwhile process. Curriculum Day: School Council have approved Tuesday, March 13 th as our Curriculum Day. We welcome Sharee Gaiser, our guest speaker. She has a strong background in literacy and will be presenting Writing Strategies and build on the work of the Yarra Glen Design Team [which includes Kath Pitt, Tash Owen, the Regional School Improvement Leader, Coralee Pratt and District Education Improvement Leader, Nicole Rheumer]. This is a pupil free day and follows the Labour Day long weekend. Annual Implementation Plan: Our AIP is now approved by the Department and by School Council. Here is a summary of what will be driving teacher practice this year as part of the Yarra Glen PS 5 year Strategic Plan: Main focus for 2018: Literacy and Numeracy growth, High Impact Teaching Strategies, Community Engagement. GOAL ONE – Literacy and Numeracy - To improve individual student learning outcomes in literacy & numeracy. If your child aends school 100% they will be able to make the best of all opportunies available to them. If your child has 90% aendance over 11 years at school, they will have missed over one years educaon! If your child has 80% aendance over 11 years at school, they will have missed over TWO years educaon!! Attendance Facts 35 Symonds Street Yarra Glen VIC 3775 Phone: (03) 9730 1254 [email protected]
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Term 1, 2018
Week 4 of 9 Weeks
Newsletter: February 22nd, 2018
Persistence
Encouragement
Resilience
Respect
Inclusiveness
Dear Families of Yarra Glen PS, Welcome to another great week of learning as we settle in to our routines and studying. As I go around the classrooms, I have been pleased to see students enjoying their classroom libraries and using their CAFÉ reading strategies. Staffing Mrs. DiGiacomo will continue her leave until the end of term. I am sure you will join with me in wishing her a speedy recovery. I will continue to take the role of Acting Principal until then and look forward to everyone’s support. Mrs. Meredith Richardson is also extending her leave until March 5th and we also wish her well. Mrs. Tabone continues to recover from her surgery and we expect to see her back on Monday full of her usual cheer and optimism. Communication: It was a pleasure to read the year level newsletters that have now gone out to families. The common elements were homework, communication, nude food and restorative practices at each level. Have you seen some of the great photos posted on the school web page? School Council: Our School Council elections are underway. The Yarra Glen learning community is made up of families, staff and students who work and learn together with the support of the wider community. Ballot papers will go home on Monday for our 2018 candidates. Our candidates are: Lloyd Agnew – father of Lincoln in Foundation and Mason in Grade 2. Greg Chrisp- father of Mia in Grade 2 and Thomas in Grade 4. Sommer Gloury – mother of Emmi-Mae in Grade 3 and Sam in Grade 4. Rebecca Holland – mother of Ben in Foundation and Sam in Grade 2. Sylvie Polge – mother of Margaux in Grade 1. Vanessa Wood – mother of Annie in Grade 1. Please watch out for your envelope which will come home with the oldest child and return it by the following Monday. Thank you for your support in this worthwhile process. Curriculum Day: School Council have approved Tuesday, March 13th as our Curriculum Day. We welcome Sharee Gaiser, our guest speaker. She has a strong background in literacy and will be presenting Writing Strategies and build on the work of the Yarra Glen Design Team [which includes Kath Pitt, Tash Owen, the Regional School Improvement Leader, Coralee Pratt and District Education Improvement Leader, Nicole Rheumer]. This is a pupil free day and follows the Labour Day long weekend. Annual Implementation Plan: Our AIP is now approved by the Department and by School Council. Here is a summary of what will be driving teacher practice this year as part of the Yarra Glen PS 5 year Strategic Plan:
Main focus for 2018: Literacy and Numeracy growth, High Impact Teaching Strategies, Community Engagement.
GOAL ONE – Literacy and Numeracy - To improve individual student learning outcomes in literacy & numeracy.
If your child attends school 100%
they will be able to make the best of
all opportunities available to them.
If your child has 90% attendance
over 11 years at school, they will
have missed over one years
education!
If your child has 80% attendance
over 11 years at school, they will
have missed over TWO years
education!!
Attendance Facts
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GOAL TWO – Increase community involvement To increase community involvement in achieving the school's vision
On the window: Growing Resilient Kids; Talking Teens; Dads Matter.
School Leaders: Perri Pals. What are they? At the beginning of the school year, our student leaders impressed me with their ideas and willingness to support other students across the school. Together, with their teachers, we have come up with the idea of “Perri Pals”. These pals are our student leaders who will take it in turns to wear the “Perri Pal” vests in the yard. Students who are looking for friendships or want some support, can approach their “Perri Pals” in the yard. Each Tuesday, the school leaders work on strategies and support for leadership, including building resilience, restorative practices and what it means to be an upstander rather than a bystander. More of this in upcoming newsletters.
150th – meeting tomorrow for our first committee meeting. Please note we will meet just after drop off time at 9:15am in the BER building. Looking forward to seeing you there. There has been much excitement so far.
Student Well-Being: I often refer to Michael Grose’s articles when writing my newsletter column. His blogs are always informative and wise. You can find his blog articles here: https://www.parentingideas.com.au/blog/ Of particular interest to me at this time of year are:
7 ways to make a sensational start to the beginning of the school year. There are some great tips here.
6 skill sets that help kids succeed [friendship, organising, optimism, coping, relaxation and relationship skills].
Moving beyond cyber safety for happy, resilient digital kids. Michael Grose says, “Parents and teachers need to move way beyond keeping kids safe to looking at ways for kids to be smart and savvy users in the digital space.” This is an informative article for bopping with digital incidents.
Supporting our local community: Thank you to Ritchies IGA – Yarra Glen for their continued support through the community benefit card program. A percentage of everything that you spend is donated back to Yarra Glen Primary School through this program. If you haven’t registered for this program, please come up to the office and register to get your Ritchies IGA Community Benefit Card. Of course, you can also register in store. I’ve heard they have the best roast pork crackling this week. Yummo! Thank you for supporting us, Yarra Glen IGA. Car Park Safety Please be mindful of safety when parking your car or dropping or picking up students. I have had several concerned families speak to me about Forest St in particular and the speed of cars whilst walking their children to and from school. Let’s all keep a watch out for our kids. Cheers, Mary Moore Acting Principal Answer to last week’s question: The tango was a brief opportunity for me in Argentina. I lived there for 3 months with a local family whilst undertaking a teaching assignment with University trainee English teachers and supporting English at the Primary and Secondary school, which was all one building. Classes rotated to fit everyone in. Question for your family for this week [and I can only answer yes or no, so think carefully]. Where did Ms. Moore visit Santa Claus? Answer next week. Can you guess before then?
School Council AGM—Thursday March 15th, 2018
You are welcome to attend the Yarra Glen PS AGM meeting on March 15th at 7:00pm – 7:30pm in
the school library. This will be followed by our first School Council meeting for the 2018 – 2019
Foundation Testing Days Wednesdays only: 28/02-07/03
Grade 6 Transition Activity—Sports Day at Lilydale High School Tuesday 6th March
School Photo Day Friday 9th March
Labour Day Long Weekend Monday 12th March
Curriculum Day—No students at school Tuesday 13th March
Crazy Hair Day—Gold coin donation to Leukemia Foundation Thursday 15th March
Superhero Afternoon for 2019 Foundation students—2:30-3:15pm Thursday 15th March
Wandin District Athletics—Grade 3-6 Friday 16th March
State School Spectacular Rehearsal Monday 19th March
Ball Sports & Field Events Tuesday 20th March
Twilight Sports—late start (12pm) Wednesday 21st March
Grade 5 Discovery Day—Lilydale Heights Friday 23rd March
Term 1 ends—2:30pm pickup Thursday 29th March
NOTICES AND FORMS - Have You Seen These Notices? Notices are available on our website (Downloads—Notices & Forms)
TERM 1 Due Date
Lilydale High School Sports Carnival Tuesday 27th February
Wandin District Athletics—Grades 3-6 Friday 9th March
School Pix Info—Please return order form and correct money Friday 9th March
Premier’s Reading Challenge—Honor roll publication permission
don’t forget that notices on blue paper that go home require payment of an event/activity
check our YGPS website at least weekly http://ygps.vic.edu.au
all notices (unless an emergency) will go home on Thursdays when the newsletter is emailed/check your email on Thursdays; notices will be clipped to your child’s diary when going home by your child
all notices are posted on the school’s Official YGPS Website under the Downloads tab/ Notices and Forms. http://ygps.vic.edu.au
the Yarra Glen Primary School website is the home of all official Yarra Glen Primary School notices and newsletters containing the official school logo and school information and events
a copy of the notices will also be in the glass display cabinet outside the front door of our administration
building (near the Before and After School Care Sign)
State Schools Spectacular rehearsals will be held on the
Ms Mottau Student of the Week Cooper A & Sebastian A
Group 4 Ms Scott Student of the Week Sam H
Group 5
3/4R
Ms Ryan Student of the Week Jai M
Group 7
5/6P
Ms Pitt Student of the Week Ben K
Sentral Parent Portal Letters will be sent home today to the relevant families with new access keys. These can be used for
both the Sentral app and the Parent Portal (via the internet). We will now be using Sentral as the main method of communication including to notify you of any sick bay visits your child may have whilst at school. Please register via the internet or Sentral app if you haven’t already done so. The Parent Portal also enables you to notify us of any
absences as well as view any notices posted by staff. Other features will be made available in the near future, including receiving your child’s reports via the portal, being able to provide permission and making payments for school activities, downloading the school newsletter and booking parent/teacher interviews. To register and log in to the Parent Portal: 1. Visit https://sentral.ygps.vic.edu.au/portal/register to
register. 2. Use a valid email address as your username 3. Create a password you will remember—it must be at
least 8 characters long 4. Enter you name & click on ‘Create Account’ 5. You will then be prompted to enter your username (your
email address) & your password 6. You will see a ‘Welcome’ screen asking for your ‘Access
Key’ - this is the key that is on the letter that was sent home (a random letter and number combination) and it is case sensitive (please enter it exactly as it is written in the letter)
7. You should now see your child/ren on the parent portal If you have any issues with logging in, please come and see us at the front office as we can reset your login details or access key. Alternatively, you can email us at [email protected] or call us on 9730 1254.
CURRICULUM DAY
Curriculum Day will be on Tuesday 13th March. This follows the Labour Day
public holiday, an extra long weekend for parents and students!
Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Yarra
Glen Primary School is excited to be participating.
The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10
in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development.
It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by the
7th September 2018.
Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents
and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.
All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the
Victorian Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll. If you
would like your child‘s name to appear on the Honour Roll, please sign the attached form and
return it to your school.
To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Vic-
If you would like your child’s name to appear on the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge online Honour Roll, please sign this form and return it to your school.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS Definitions: Department refers to the Victorian Department of Education and Training, Person refers to the child/adult listed below in
the consent declaration.
Privacy Protection
The Department takes its privacy obligations seriously and any personal information collected or used by the Department will be handled
in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic). This law sets out what we must do when the Department collects, us-
es, handles and destroys personal information. Personal information includes personal details such as an individual’s name and school
that could be used to identify an individual.
Collection, use, disclosure and storage of personal information
If you provide your consent your school will collect and disclose your child’s first and last name, and the name of the school to the Depart-
ment. The Department will then:
Publish your child’s name on its online Honour Roll located at: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc at the completion of the Challenge with no
other identifying factors such as early childhood setting name.
Accuracy, access to information and withdrawal of consent
The Department will endeavour to ensure that any personal information held about your child is up to date and accurate. You can access,
correct and withdraw personal information held by the Department by written request in accordance with the Department’s Information
School uniform looks great and shows pride in our school.
We also need to be SunSmart.
Please make sure you have your hats until May 1st.
No Nuts or Nut Products please.
Due to students and staff who are anaphylactic, we have a no nut
or nut products policy (YGPS Nut Minimisation Policy—can be
viewed on our website).
We ask that all families support this policy to ensure the health
and safety of everyone concerned.
Many thanks for your support and understanding.
Reminder for Foundation Parents Students attending Foundation (Prep) stay at home on the following Wednesdays: 28th Feb & 7th March. On one of these dates, your child is required to attend school for one hour of testing. There is a sign-up sheet located in the junior corridor noticeboard where you can choose a time and date that suits you. If you haven’t already done so, could you please sign up for a one hour time slot for your child. Thank you!
School Crossing Times
School crossing supervision times are as follows:
Mornings: 8.25am to 9.15am
Afternoons: 3.10pm to 3.50pm
Reminder School begins daily at 9.00am. The best time for your child to arrive at school is between 8.45
and 9.00am. Before 8.45am there will be no supervision and a late arrival disturbs not only your
child’s day but the rest of the grade as well.
MLBC Lakers Basketball Club are now taking Registrations for Winter 2018 Season!
* Summer season Term 4 & 1. * Winter season Term 2& 3.
JUNIOR BOYS CO-ORDINATOR-UNDER 7 to 12 SENIOR BOYS CO-ORDINATOR-UNDER 13 to 21
