Ferntree Gully North Primary School |111 Forest Road Ferntree Gully|9758 1662|www.ferntree.vic.edu.au CALENDAR 2017 Dates to remember... TERM 4 DATES: Monday 09 October – Friday 22 December SWIMMING PROGRAM: Prep-Year 4: Mon 4 – Thurs 7 & Mon 11 – Thurs 14 Dec WHOLE SCHOOL 2018 TRANSITION: 4 Meet and Greet with 2018 Teacher Friday 8 December, 10.45-11.40am CHRISTMAS CONCERT and ART EXPO: Monday 11 December Art Expo: 5.30-6.30pm Christmas Concert: 6.30-7.15pm PRINCIPALS ATTENDANCE BREAKFAST: (By Invitation only) For students with 98% attendance and maximum 4 late days for 2017 (to 6 Dec) Tuesday 12 December, 8.30am-9.00am PREP 2018 FINAL TRANSITION: ALL 2018 PREPS: (incl BBQ lunch) 9.15am – 1.00pm YEAR 3/4 EXPO: Friday 15 December, 9.04-9.30am FINAL SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING 2017: Wednesday 13 December YEAR 3/4 ARBORETUM EXCURSION: Tuesday 19 December END OF YEAR REPORTS SENT HOME: Tuesday 19 December YEAR 6 GRADUATION: Tuesday 19 December, 6.00pm Thursday 07 December 2017 Newsletter number 29 Excellence: High expectations of the whole school community Respect: For self and others Resilience: Engaging in challenges and learning from mistakes Integrity: Choosing a course of action that contributes to the greater good PRINCIPAL’S CORNER Art Walkthrough and Christmas Celebration We can’t wait to see everyone at the Art Walkthrough and our Christmas Celebration. Gin has been working hard to get pieces ready for viewing. Thank you to Gin and her band of helpers for their hard work. Our Christmas Celebration is a lovely way to enjoy the final weeks of school. Mrs Strauch and the classes have been practising hard. We look forward to seeing you there. The Walkthrough starts at 5.30pm and the Celebration will follow at 6.30pm. Out of Hours Care Monday Our Out of Hours Program will run from its previous location (now Mrs Scanlon’s room) on Monday afternoon of Monday 11 th December to accommodate our Art Walkthrough. Thank you for your understanding. Swimming The swimming program is progressing very well. It has been great to see some water safety work back at school. We were lucky enough to see a prep class in the amphitheatre role playing swimmers in distress and students practising their rescues. Great work and it highlights the importance of water safety for all students and families. Wilson McCaskill The Play is the Way framework is a valuable resource in our school helping us build pro- social skills to help children be successful in life. Wilson last did a parent information session here in term 1 2016 and has a return booking in May 2018 (23 rd ) for a visit. Mark the date in your calendar. The session will provide important information on how to support your child. Weather Fortunately last week’s weather event was not as bad as predicted during school time. Our thoughts go to those in the state that were inundated and perhaps had their livelihoods threatened through crop and income loss. Thank you to all parents who supported our school in making sure all students were safe. The Department of Education issues weather warnings to ensure all schools take appropriate precautions in their areas for their students and families. We do sometimes see tragedies during these freak weather events and it is a relief that we didn’t experience any of these given we had local road closures. Thank you to staff who went the extra mile, even walking some students home to make sure they arrived safely. At times like this we need to show care and consideration for others and work together for the benefit of our community. Allergies Plan Students who have allergies will need to have an Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy Plan (ASCIA) kept at school. These plans outline an action plan if a child does suffer from an allergic reaction. The plans are available on line at www.allergy.org.au or you can pick one up at the office for 2018. .cont/2
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Ferntree Gully North Primary School |111 Forest Road Ferntree Gully|9758 1662|www.ferntree.vic.edu.au
CALENDAR 2017 Dates to remember...
TERM 4 DATES: Monday 09 October – Friday 22 December
WHOLE SCHOOL 2018 TRANSITION: 4 Meet and Greet with 2018 Teacher Friday 8 December, 10.45-11.40am
CHRISTMAS CONCERT and ART EXPO: Monday 11 December Art Expo: 5.30-6.30pm Christmas Concert: 6.30-7.15pm
PRINCIPALS ATTENDANCE BREAKFAST: (By Invitation only) For students with 98% attendance and maximum 4 late days for 2017 (to 6 Dec)
Tuesday 12 December, 8.30am-9.00am
PREP 2018 FINAL TRANSITION: ALL 2018 PREPS: (incl BBQ lunch) 9.15am – 1.00pm
YEAR 3/4 EXPO: Friday 15 December, 9.04-9.30am
FINAL SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING 2017: Wednesday 13 December
YEAR 3/4 ARBORETUM EXCURSION: Tuesday 19 December
END OF YEAR REPORTS SENT HOME: Tuesday 19 December
YEAR 6 GRADUATION: Tuesday 19 December, 6.00pm
Thursday 07 December 2017 Newsletter number 29
Excellence: High expectations of the whole school
community
Respect: For self and others
Resilience: Engaging in challenges and learning from
mistakes
Integrity: Choosing a course of action that contributes to
the greater good
PRINCIPAL’S CORNER
Art Walkthrough and Christmas Celebration We can’t wait to see everyone at the Art Walkthrough and our Christmas Celebration. Gin has been working hard to get pieces ready for viewing. Thank you to Gin and her band of helpers for their hard work. Our Christmas Celebration is a lovely way to enjoy the final weeks of school. Mrs Strauch and the classes have been practising hard. We look forward to seeing you there. The Walkthrough starts at 5.30pm and the Celebration will follow at 6.30pm.
Out of Hours Care Monday Our Out of Hours Program will run from its previous location (now Mrs Scanlon’s room) on Monday afternoon of Monday 11th December to accommodate our Art Walkthrough. Thank you for your understanding.
Swimming The swimming program is progressing very well. It has been great to see some water safety work back at school. We were lucky enough to see a prep class in the amphitheatre role playing swimmers in distress and students practising their rescues. Great work and it highlights the importance of water safety for all students and families.
Wilson McCaskill The Play is the Way framework is a valuable resource in our school helping us build pro-social skills to help children be successful in life. Wilson last did a parent information session here in term 1 2016 and has a return booking in May 2018 (23rd) for a visit. Mark the date in your calendar. The session will provide important information on how to support your child.
Weather Fortunately last week’s weather event was not as bad as predicted during school time. Our thoughts go to those in the state that were inundated and perhaps had their livelihoods threatened through crop and income loss. Thank you to all parents who supported our school in making sure all students were safe. The Department of Education issues weather warnings to ensure all schools take appropriate precautions in their areas for their students and families. We do sometimes see tragedies during these freak weather events and it is a relief that we didn’t experience any of these given we had local road closures. Thank you to staff who went the extra mile, even walking some students home to make sure they arrived safely. At times like this we need to show care and consideration for others and work together for the benefit of our community.
Allergies Plan Students who have allergies will need to have an Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy Plan (ASCIA) kept at school. These plans outline an action plan if a child does suffer from an allergic reaction. The plans are available on line at www.allergy.org.au or you can pick one up at the office for 2018. .cont/2
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DECEMBER CALENDAR 8th December Whole School transition: Students meet classroom teacher 11th December Christmas Celebration/ Art Expo 5.30pm – 7.15pm 12th December Prep transition last session 13th December Final School Council Meeting 6.30pm 19th December Reports home Grade 6 Graduation 22nd School finished 1.30pm 2018 January 31st Students grades 1-6 return February 1st Preps start Staffing Julianne Wilson will continue working at the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority in 2018 four days a week. She will remain with us each Wednesday and take on the role of literacy coach working across the school. Claudia O’Neill has just been successful in gaining a 12 month position at Boronia Heights Primary School. We wish her well and of course will welcome her back in 2019. A position has been advertised to cover her absence. Notification of the replacement will come out as soon as possible. Gin de Benedetti has decided not to continue in our art room next year. Gin has two small children and would like to spend more time with them as her eldest starts primary school next year. We wish her well and hope to see her doing some relief teaching. Next year our class teacher profile will be as follows: Principal – Sue Dean Assistant Principal – Priscilla Salter (Acting) Prep – Jess Cichowicz Prep – Tamara Zebisch Prep/One – Becky Locking 1/2 – Lauren Iverach 1/2 – Claire Keltie 1/2 – Josh Chamberlain 1/2 - Georgia O’Brien 1/2 – Louiza Gonzales 3/4 – Anita Sutherland 3/4 – Mirren Alenson LSL Term 1 replaced by Sam D’Argenio 3/4 - Libby Flanagan 3/4 - Robyn Scanlon 3/4 - To be confirmed 5/6 – Matt Sutherland 5/6 – Lina Kabris 5/6 – To be confirmed 5/6 – Chloe Brown Art – To be confirmed PE – Lara Atkinson, Science and Technology Year 5/6 Music – Louise Strauch Japanese – Marian Collins P-4 Intervention: 1/2 - Wendy Barr 3-6 – Glenda Beard
In School Transition Program The final session will be held tomorrow, Friday December 8th.. Students will go to their 2018 classroom with their teacher if possible. Students will start to get to know their new class and eat lunch together. Parent Payments for 2018 2018 Parent Payment information has gone home. If you haven’t received yours yet see your teacher or speak to Julia in the office. If you have any queries please feel free to contact Kimberly Larkin, our business manager. Payment plans are available if parents would like to contact us. We would also encourage families to contribute to the voluntary contributions in the form of Library / Building funds. These funds are vital to support the running of additional programs and purchase of resources, and we thank you in advance for your contribution.
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Premier’s Reading Challenge Congratulations to all participants and the winners in our Premier’s Reading Challenge. Sports Top If you have any questions regarding ordering sports tops please see Julia at the office and the samples are still available for trying on. If you would like delivery before the end of 2017 please complete your online order before December 11th. Attendance Award Breakfast BBQ Invitations were sent home today for the Attendance Award Breakfast BBQ that will be held next Tuesday, 12th December at 8.30am. Invitations are sent to those students with a 98% attendance rate and 98% arrival on time for the year, calculated to 6th December.
Thank you, Sue Dean and Priscilla Salter
UNIFORM SHOP 2017: The uniform shop is NOW CLOSED for all current students. We will be open before the final prep transition session and will remain open until 10am for all new students to the school. We will reopen for back to school sales on Tuesday 30th of Jan 2018 from 11am - 1pm and from 8.45am on Wednesday 31st Jan 2018. We will resume usual operations from Friday 2nd February 2018.
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Dear parents and families, On Monday 11th December, the Art room will be open during the Christmas concert and you are welcome to come in for a “gallery walk”. Your kids’ artwork will be on display and you have the chance to admire some really amazing work done by the wonderful students at Ferntree Gully North Primary School. As time is approaching fast, I am gathering collaborators who would love to help out in the installation phase of the event. So, I need helpers for: Friday 8th December- 12.30pm- 3.30pm Monday 10th December from 10.30am- 3.30pm If you are free and available, please let me know or pop in to the art room any time during the week, except Monday to discuss it. Thanks in advance for your support Gin
Stocktake Help Please!! Mrs Barr will be coordinating the stocktake of all the group reading
books, from the compactors in the library, in the last week of school.
If anyone can spend a few hours in the morning or afternoon, in that week, please
let Mrs Barr know ASAP.
NOTICES THAT HAVE BEEN SENT HOME TO PARENTS THIS FORTNIGHT: Year 3/4 Walk Through Expo notice
GNPA Raffle tickets
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Gully View STUDENTS OF THE WEEK Congratulations to the following students who received Student of the Week: (Ending Friday 24th November 2017)
Class Student Reason
5/6S Mr Sutherland
Jade R For asking challenging questions to extend her learning during Maths
5/6O Miss O’Brien
James L For showing persistence in working through BODMAS equations this week
5/6K Ms Kabris
Ruby W For showing impressive friendliness to her peers. Well done Ruby!
5/6F Ms Graham
Phillip S For his persistence and effort in all tasks. Phil has actively participated in all learning activities this week and produced some high quality work
3/4S Mrs Sutherland
Ruby L For showing honesty and tolerance during Play is the Way sessions
3/4R Mrs Scanlon
Patrick W Congratulations for working so well on your homework project
3/4O Ms O’Neill
Addi J For homework projects of a consistently high standard
3/4C Miss Cichowicz
Dylan McM For a fantastic attitude to his learning. You legend!
3/4A Mrs Alenson
James H For showing persistence and effort in finishing all his homework on time
1/2Z Miss Zebisch
Ava X For working so hard on her poster explaining the water cycle
1/2W Mrs Wilson & Mrs Beard
Emma B For her hard work in maths on making and interpreting graphs
1/2M Miss McGrath
Billy T For doing a fantastic job writing a story in his investigations time. Great work Billy!
1/2K Ms Keltie
John W For settling in well at his new school. We love having you in our grade
1/2I Ms Iverach
Meisha S For working well with chance activities
Prep/1B Miss Brown
Lola O For working incredibly hard to complete all set tasks. Thank you for being such a dedicated student
Prep L Miss Locking
Cooper K For using MAB blocks to count by 10’s to 1000!
Prep G Miss Gonzales
Caleb S For working very hard at using lowercase letters in your writing. Well done!
Prep F Mrs Flanagan
Ruby J-P For showing courage during Play is the Way
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SOME EXCELLENT WORK BY OUR STUDENTS:
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Gully View FERNTREE GULLY NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL’S CHRISTMAS ‘GIVING TREE’ As per the past few years, our Christmas tree in the foyer is the place to drop off
donations of gifts for local, needy families. We have called this our ‘Giving Tree’.
Donations will be collected on the last day of school and distributed at the Christmas
lunch provided and hosted by Foothills Community Care (see advertisement later in
the Newsletter). Please donate your gift from Friday 1st December when our tree
will be up in the office foyer. It is preferable that gifts remain
unwrapped so they can be given to the correct age group on
Christmas day. Thank you for your continued generosity and
support. The response in the past from Ferntree Gully North has
been very generous which has helped to support the 200+ people
who come along on the day.
HELPERS NEEDED IN THE ENVIRO CENTRE OVER THE HOLIDAYS!
If there are any families able to help water the plants, feed the chooks etc in the Enviro Centre please leave your details at the office with days/times available.
You get to take home delicious free range, organic eggs as well as the reward of knowing
you are helping the school.
Thank you to those who have already offered assistance, but we still need more please!
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