Templeton Primary School Crestdale Road, Wantirna 3152 Telephone 9801 7450 Facsimile 9800 3547 Email [email protected]www.templetonps.vic.edu.au Term 4 Week 10 11th December 2020 Pride in Performance 2020 TERM 4 Week 11 Monday 14th December Reports available on XUNO Grade 6 Graduaon Uniform Shop last day of trade for 2020 Tuesday 15th December Grade 3 & 5 Knox Village Cinemas Wednesday 16th December Grade 4 Knox Village Cinemas Grade 5 Camp at School Day Grade 6 Gumbya World Friday 18th December Christmas Colours Free Dress Day—No Gold Coin End of Term 1.30pm dismissal 2021 TERM 1 Wednesday 20th January Uniform Shop open from 10.00am—3.00pm Thursday 21st January Uniform Shop open from 8.30am—10.30am Friday 22nd January Uniform Shop open from 8.30am—10.30am Week 1 Tuesday 26th January Australia Day Public Holiday Wednesday 27th January Administraon Office open Thursday 28th January Grade 1 to 6 begin Uniform Shop open 8.30am—9.30am Week 2 Monday 1st February Preps commence 9.30am—12.00pm Prep Parent Informaon Session/Morning Tea GP Room (just aſter 9.30am) Calendar
One of my favourite Term 4 activities that I enjoy each year, is listening to the Grade 5 Captains’
Speeches. Each year I am impressed by their confidence and public speaking skills that enable them to
present their reasons for being considered for School Captain. This week we presented all applicants
with a certificate to mark the occasion and to wish them
well in the selection process.
On Thursday we celebrated the end of the year with our
annual Prep – Grade 2 Athletics Carnival!
Principal
STAFFING UPDATE
I am delighted to announce that Ms Molly Exton and Mrs Marni Cousins will be joining us at Templeton
for the 2021 school year after both have worked extensively for us as a student teacher and as a much
sort after casual relief teacher respectively.
In 2019 Ms Exton worked in Prep as a student teacher where we plotted to employ her as soon as a
suitable position became available, such was her standard of teaching. After working at Cheltenham East
Primary School this year, we jumped at the opportunity to bring her across for 2021.
Similarly, with Mrs Cousins as a regular CRT. Mrs Cousins has been working as a CRT and a private tutor
for many years and we are thrilled that we have finally been able to employ her at Templeton.
We are excited by what Ms Exton and Mrs Cousins will bring to our school in 2021 and I trust you will join
with me in welcoming them to Templeton.
SCHOOL COUNCIL – THANK YOU
Following a very unusual School Council year, I would like to express my sincere thanks to our School
Council members for their commitment to our school.
The time and effort dedicated to this role often goes unrecognised and whilst rewarding, can also be
challenging. At Templeton, we are fortunate to have an outstanding group of people led superbly by our
School Council President, Mr Craig Vernon.
Each of our councillors has performed a very important role to support our school purpose and in doing
so has made an extremely valuable contribution to the educational outcomes of each of our students.
The broad scope of work by School Council this year has included:
communicating the broad direction and vision of the school within our community approving the annual budget and monitoring expenditure acquiring feedback from the school community to inform decision making developing, reviewing and updating school policies overseeing the maintenance of the school’s grounds and facilities creating interest in our school in the wider community enhancing communication within our school community working through policies and ensuring we are strictly adhering to its principles Thank you to our 2020 School Councillors:
Kaspar Sussman, Joshua Ooi, Marc Crilly, Aidan Schanssema, Craig Vernon Anand Thaker, Daniel
Trettel, Andrea Edwards, Tony Callinan, Amelia Taylor, Bhumika Wadhera, Chris Munro and Heena
Shah.
Looking forward to 2021, maybe membership of the School Council is a role that you would like to take on? Watch out early next year as the election process begins.
ICAS MATHEMATICS & ENGLISH RESULTS
At our final assembly we will be acknowledging all students who participated in the ICAS Mathematics
and English competition held recently.
As usual, all our students performed exceptionally well with each and every one of them achieving
their best.
Overall, we received 43 Distinctions (Top 10%) in Mathematics and 28 Distinctions in English; with an
additional 4 students achieving a High Distinction (Top 1%) in Mathematics and 3 in English.
Congratulations to all students who took up the challenge of ICAS this year and in particular two
students who will be receiving a medal in recognition of their amazing achievement in scoring top
marks in their age group Australia wide!
UPCOMING SCHOOL PROJECTS
Over the Christmas holidays our school will be a hive of activity. We will be:
Painting all of our Grade 2 and 3 classrooms.
Restumping one of Grade 1 classrooms, and
Resurfacing our oval! I’m pleased to say that I was able to sign off on this project this week and it is full steam ahead. We thank Mr Crilly for his work in organising this project for us.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR 2021
Please add the following dates to your family planner for 2021.
Wednesday 27th January: Teachers resume / (No school for students)
School Office Open
Uniform Shop Open 8.30am – 11.30am
Thursday 28th January: Grade 1 – 6 commence first day of school
Prep Interviews
Uniform Shop Open 8.30am – 11.30am
Friday 29th January: Prep Interviews
Uniform Shop Open 8.30am – 11.30am
Monday 1st February: Preps first day 9.30am – 12pm
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS: END OF TERM REMINDERS!
END OF YEAR REPORTS
Children’s end of year reports will be available on XUNO from Monday 14th December.
LAST DAY OF SCHOOL: 1.30pm FINISH
Please mark on your calendars that we will be finishing at 1.30pm on the last day of Term 4, Friday 18th
December. Camp Australia will be operating After School Care from this time.
LATE RETURN TO SCHOOL IN 2021
If you will still be on holiday when school commences in 2021 would you please write a letter to this
effect and send it to the office for our records. Thank you.
HOLIDAY PROGRAM: CAMP AUSTRALIA
We will have our Holiday Program running throughout January, however if you see any suspicious activity
in our school grounds, please call Knox Police (ph: 9881 7000 and then DET Emergency Management
ph: 9589 6266).
On behalf of our Management team, I would like to thank all of our staff, students and community
members who have worked together in 2020 to make our school a place of which we are extremely
proud.
We wish all families a wonderful Christmas, and the entire community, a safe and happy holiday season.
We look forward to seeing you all in 2021. I leave you with a list of staffing for 2021.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Rod McKinlay
Principal
2021 TEMPLETON STAFFING
Level Teacher Room
PS Janice Siladi 3
PZ Stella Zhang 4
PM Andrea McGrath 1
PV Vanessa Grasso 2
PG Katarina Govic 55
1F Emma Finn 26
1S Sharrelle Nicholas 57
1N Maddy Nelsen 28
1W Natasha Walsh 29
1M Marni Cousins 27
2A Ali Murphy 5
2M Jessica McCasker 6
2C Lisa Corrie 9
2D Geoff Dawson 10
3E Molly Exton 7
3N Nicole Sullivan 8
3S Kaspar Sussman 11
3P David Poulton 12
4S Pav Sidhu 13
4K Karl Fernando 14
4F Melissa Forrest 15
4N Jeremy Nelson 16
5L Veronica Lay 18
5H Laura Horne 19
5S Aidan Schanssema 20
5M Hugh Morton 21
6J Tanya Jenkinson 22
6D Ganaelle deRosbo 23
6H Megan Hall 24
6P Kristy Phang 25
ICT Adam Williams & Jen Schanssema 17
Library Jennie Glembin, Robin Miao & Vicki Wingate 31
Art Jane Jelley & Xiaomei Lin 34
LOTE Xiaomei Lin & Robin Miao 51
P.E Fiona Potter & Jen Schanssema 35
Performing Arts Pam Wood & Helen Taylor 48
Staff Meeting Room 30
Tutor Support Glenda Watkins 55
Director of Learning Ayse Bavage 47
Language Support Annette Lindsay 44
Director of Teaching Di Hynes 46
Assistant Principal Marc Crilly 40
Assistant Principal Andrea Edwards 42
Principal Rod McKinlay 41
PREP
Daniel F —PF for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
Aiden L—PF for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
D—PF for
Katherine W—PG for trying your best and being a great class-
room helper.
Ethan F—PG for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
Nina F—PS for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
Rachel L—PS for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
PREP
Tegan S—PS for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
Aaron Q—PS for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
Samuel W—PV for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
Benson W—PV for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
Rocky Z—PZ for completing the Reading Eggs program.
Congratulations!
Grade 1
Chelsea T—1C for your outstanding behaviour on our
excursion.
Lilian T—1C for your amazing attitude. Keep it up!
Eli B—1N for being a kind and considerate friend. Well done.
Chase K-G—1N for outstanding behaviour on our excursion.
Hannah M—1S for improvement with your reading.
Ashmeet K—1S for working hard to complete class work.
Hamna A—1W for the great enthusiasm you showed on Sports
Day. Well done!
Blake T—1W for the great enthusiasm you showed on Sports
Day. Well done!
Grade 3
Max T—3A for always being a kind and helpful class
member.
Joshua T—3S for your excellent sportsmanship when
playing Zilch with Mrs Hynes.
Ryan W—3P for displaying a positive attitude towards
your learning.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Lucy S from 5H who received the prestigious Collier’s Award from the Knox Council
for her community spirit and generosity. Well done Lucy!
Grade 4
Shanaya G—4F for always showing kindness to those around
you.
Nishil P—4F for producing an excellent Christmas decoration.
Alex L—4S for always bringing humour and spark to our
classroom.
Alyssa J—4W for showing respect and resilience. Well done.
Grade 5
Janet H—5H for always completing your bookwork with
care.
Kavya J—5H for always lending a hand to those in need.
Laksh S—5L for creating a paper plane that came first.
Well done.
Selina C—5S for always working hard in class and willing to
help others.
Grade 6
Luke R—6N for working hard on our end of year work.
Bella S—6P for your entertaining and hilarious presentation
on your primary school years.
TERM DATES
2021
TERM 1 THURSDAY 28th JANUARY - THURSDAY 1st APRIL
TERM 2 MONDAY 19th APRIL - FRIDAY 25th JUNE
TERM 3 MONDAY 12th JULY - FRIDAY 17th SEPTEMBER
TERM 4 MONDAY 4th OCTOBER - FRIDAY 17th DECEMBER
GRADE 5
DIORAMA HABITATS
On Thursday the 3rd December the Grade Five students brought their diorama habitats along to share at school.
The students have been writing information reports this term and combined two of their animals to make a new
Superanimal! For homework they had to design a new habitat for this animal, taking into account all of its special
features and adaptations. All students had their creations on display and the Grade Fives were able to walk
through each classroom and leave feedback on other student’s work.
Prep – Two Sports Morning Thursday morning saw all our Prep, Grade 1 and Grade 2 students decked out in their house colours, cheering each other on
as they competed in our annual Prep – Two Sports morning. Students ran a sprint race, jumped like kangaroos in our kanga
sack race, ran over hurdles and competed in our house relay race. They competed in each race with smiles and determination
to do their best and enjoy the morning.
Teachers were also adorned with their house colours, including Mrs Zhang in a bright yellow dress, Mrs Wingate in red and
Miss McCasker decked out in blue. Students cheered on their team mates and showed commitment to their races, even
when their shoes fell off! It was lovely to see such great sportsmanship and encouragement towards their fellow students.
All students had a great morning, scoring points for their houses. In the end, Boyle was victorious over Gould (2nd), Chappell
