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Tulliallan Times Weekly Newsletter
Wednesday 18th August 2021
Vol 5 Issue 25
DATES TO REMEMBER
COVID UPDATE INFORMATION
Please wear a mask indoors
Keep physical distancing
Use sanitiser and/or wash hands thoroughly
If you or your child is unwell stay away from school
If you suspect you may have COVID-19 call the dedicated hotline 1800 675 398
AUGUST
Friday 20th Interschool Sport POSTPONED Year 6
Tuesday 24th Hoop Time Competition CANCELLED Years 3-4
Tuesday 24th Vicspell POSTPONED Participating Students
Wednesday 25th ICAS Exams POSTPONED to October Participating Students
Wednesday 25th Book Week Dress Up
Day
Dress up as your favourite
book character Whole School
Thursday 26th Chess Tournament TBA Participating Students
Monday 30th Hoop Time Competition CANCELLED Years 5-6
Tues 31st District Athletics POSTPONED to 8th
October Selected Students
EXTENSION TO REMOTE LEARNING
Thank you once again for your support and patience during lockdown and Remote Learning with the additional restrictions. We continue to be in contact continuing the routine and predictability for Remote Learning with the Home Group Zoom, online lessons, Focus Groups and Tutor sessions to support learning from home.
We understand the challenges and mixed emotions that families and staff face during this time. Please look after yourselves as we are endeavouring to take care of the staff and remember that our health and wellbeing is so important. If you find that you or your child is struggling on a particular day, please access some of the supports listed below and know that it is ok to take a breath and have some wellbeing time during the week.
WELLBEING SUPPORTS FOR FAMILIES
Please access the Departments’ page via the link https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/talking-your-child-about-coronavirus-covid-19 · Headspace – for family and friends · Beyondblue – COVID19 · Lifeline – Mental health and wellbeing during the COVID19 outbreak · Parentline
Go Noodle – Breathing https://www.gonoodle.com/videos/0YZV0Y/rainbow-breath
Smiling Mind Free App https://www.smilingmind.com.au/smiling-mind-app
ASSEMBLY
Assembly today had to be via video again. Please watch this video and enjoy. https://youtu.be/FLv4Nip1rq4 Congratulations to the School Captains and SRC who presented today.
PARENT/CAREGIVER/GUARDIAN OPINION SURVEY
Thank you to the parents who have already completed the survey. All Tulliallan Parent/Caregiver/Guardians are invited to participate in this year’s survey. We would like to hear from as many people as possible and encourage everyone to complete the survey. We have only had 35 responses which is only 3% of the school and we require 191 responses to meet the 15% target. The survey has been extended to the 3rd of September.
The survey is conducted online, only takes 20 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient time within the fieldwork period on desktop computers, laptops, tablets, or smartphones.
Please view the COMPASS Update sent out about the Survey today.
CONGRATULATIONS TO MRS CHENG Mrs Hilary Cheng had her second child on the 8th of August. Mum and baby are doing very well.
FAREWELL TO MRS SIRES ON MATERNITY LEAVE Mrs Sires had her last day with us to go on maternity leave. Mrs Sires is expecting her first baby. We wish her all the best and look forward to her return in the future.
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
PLEASE CONTACT OUR SCHOOL OFFICE IF YOUR CHILD IS NOT RETURNING TO TULLIALLAN IN 2022
Please contact our school office on 8766 3100 or via email [email protected] if you are moving house or enrolling in another school for 2022 as soon as possible. There are new schools opening in Clyde North that may be closer to where you live. Year Six parents do not have to notify us of course. Have a wonderful week,
Kathy Sharp
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
VICTORIAN HIGH ABILITY PROGRAM
Yesterday the school received some exciting news that two Year Five students and seven Year Six students have been accepted into the Mathematics High ability Program for Term Four.
Congratulations to:
Santhosh 5B Yuvan 5B Sehajpal 6B Safin 6D Mohammed 6E Jap 6B Sachin 6D Siddhi 6F Shiva 6B We are very proud of our students and this is a great opportunity to work with other likeminded students across the state.
ADDITIONAL SITTING WINDOW FOR ICAS EXAMS
Due to the latest lockdown and Remote Learning, the Digital Technology, English, Science, Spelling and Mathematic ICAS exams have been re-scheduled to Term Four.
The students will have the opportunity to sit the exams from October 5th – October 29th. The school will keep the community updated as to when each exam will occur.
BOOK WEEK – OLD WORLDS, NEW WORLDS, OTHER WORLDS AUGUST 21ST – 27TH
Don’t forget to dress up for Book week next Wednesday August 25th. Students can attend the Zooms in as a book character and any essential service worker’s child on site can come dressed in their costume.
We can’t wait to see your outfits.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
SWIMMING
On Monday the details of our Term Four swimming program was posted on COMPASS. The Swimming Program is being held for Years Prep – Six. This is a great opportunity for our students to be involved in intensive group swimming lessons at a great price. We anticipate that all children will be involved in the program as it is part of the Education Department’s push for all children to participate in swimming lessons and it is also part of the Health and Physical Education curriculum. RELEVANT DETAILS OF THE SWIMMING PROGRAM - WHERE: Casey RACE Recreation and Aquatic Centre WHEN: 5 days over one week
Week One of Term Four Year Prep and Year One - Monday 4th Oct - Friday 8th Oct Week Three of Term Four Year Two and Three - Monday 18th Oct - Friday 22nd Oct Week Four of Term Four Years Four, Five and Six - Monday 25th Oct - Friday 29th Oct ANTICIPATED TIMES: Session 1: 9.30 - 10.15am Session 2: 10.15 - 11.00am Session 3: 11.00 - 11.45am Session 4: 11.45 - 12.30pm Session 5: 1.00 - 1.45pm Session 6: 1.45 - 2.30pm
COST: Only $40.00, that covers the five sessions of swimming and entry into the pool. The cost of the transport is being covered by the school. Families that have CSEF can use it for this program. WHAT TO BRING: Bathers, towel, goggles and underclothes. ALL ITEMS SHOULD BE NAMED to avoid loss.
Payment is due Friday 10th September - NO late payments will be accepted
SCIENCE WEEK
It was great to see so many students in their ZOOM lessons this morning dressed up as food. I could see apples, bananas, sauce bottles, vegetables, vegemite, and lots of other types of food. Great job students and parents!!
SPECIALIST TASKS
This is a friendly reminder for all students that there are specialist tasks to be completed each week from the Home
Learning website. Please ensure you go to the Specialist tab on the Home Learning site to access the tasks.
Please complete and submit the tasks to enable assessments for those areas to continue.
Continue the great job you are all doing.
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
Lynne McDonald
SCHOOL NEWS
PREP
The Prep students were wonderful during yet another week of Remote Learning. They learnt all about ordinal numbers, drew incredible mice
drawings, wrote steps and instructions and even practised making predictions about ‘Pig the Fibber’! Excellent work Preps!
YEAR ONE
This week our Year Ones saw the Olympics close and they were asked to design their own Olympic villages. It was a highlight to see some of the imaginative and inventive designs. Our students onsite used their fine motor skills to
solve puzzles, play games and create tangrams at the end of their busy school day. Congratulations to ALL of our Year One students for completing another week of Remote Learning. It has been wonderful to see the enthusiasm
and engagement of students both onsite and at home.
Inuki 1E Daniel 1G Alexis 1B
YEAR TWO
Well done Year Two on another fantastic week of Remote Learning! It has been great to see the students posting their amazing work on Seesaw to
share it with their teachers. Over the last week, students have continued to explore multiplication in Number, the Olympics as part of our Inquiry topic and information reports in Writing. Here are some of the amazing pieces of
work we have seen so far!
YEAR THREE
Even in this era of Remote Learning, nothing has stopped our enthusiastic Year Three students from producing some astonishing work and successfully handing in tasks every day. Last week in Reading, students looked at identifying the cause and effect relationships in a text, worked hard at interpreting graphs in Statistics and learnt to use similes in their writing as a way of comparing things. The students’ Inquiry projects on creating their own Olympic event with their own rules and equipment was just phenomenal. Keep up the hard work and commitment Year Three students. We are so proud of you!
YEAR FOUR
The Year Four students have enjoyed ZOOM sessions where we have done many focus lessons on Reading, Writing, Inquiry and Math. Many of our onsite students have participated in hands on measurement tasks, working cooperatively and collaboratively with each other and their teachers and support staff.
YEAR FIVE
The Year Five’s have adjusted really well to Remote Learning.
They have been very flexible in adapting so quickly back to Google Classroom tasks. Our students have been creating board games targeting a variety of maths concepts of their choice. Students have been engaging really
well in our Reading, Writing, Maths and Inquiry live Zoom sessions.
Well done on another terrific week Year Five!
We always encourage milkshakes to be consumed during Zoom meetings!
YEAR SIX
Week Six in Year Six is off to a flying start with the beginning of our Focus Group sessions for Reading and Maths. Students will get the opportunity to attend two Focus Group sessions each week, one for Reading and one for Maths. These are run by their respective teachers for each subject. We asked the students how they found the
sessions and we are pleased to say that they all really enjoyed them. If you haven’t had your Focus Group session yet, be sure to keep an eye on the roster, which can be found in the Google slides for each day.
Great work this week Year Six!
Some quotes from the Monday Maths Focus Groups:
Vinay: “I had a lot of fun in the focus group because it was a smaller group and the concept of having to fly around
Australia in 3 days using a flight schedule.”
Eesa: “I enjoyed the focus group because it was really interactive and the instructions were explained really well.
And I really liked the topic of Time.”
Shishira: “It was really fun because we were learning about Time, 24 hr time and we got to do this project where we get
to fly around Australia.”
SPECIALISTS
ART
Last week the Year Five and Six students created photographic self-portraits that showed something about themselves and the things they love. We had some amazing self-portraits uploaded and we’ve included a few of them above. Excellent work everyone! Miss B, Mrs Robertson and Mrs Fuller
MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS Last week in Music, our Year Five and Six students continued to hone their song writing skills using Google Song Maker. We also began composing lyrics for raps based on topics of interest. We are about to move on to using an incredible online composition application called ‘Soundtrap’. Here, students will be able to record their raps and collaborate with their peers. Students in Year Five and Six are encouraged to experiment with the program prior to next week’s music class on Tuesday. They all have an invite link in their Week Five Google Classroom music task to help get them started. We can’t wait to share some of the amazing songs that students will create in Soundtrap!
Miss J, Mr Shenfield and Mr Trist
MANDARIN Last week in Mandarin, the Prep and Year One students were revising the basic greetings such as ‘Thank you’ and ‘Welcome’, and they learnt the Mandarin ‘Thank you’ song as well. The Year Two students were working on the
topic of ‘birthdays’ and they have learnt two Chinese characters: ‘生日shēng rì’. The Year Three and Four students
continued to focus on the names of ‘family members’ and ‘rooms in a house’ respectively. The Year Five and Six
students have watched the video of Chinese Idiom Stories and learnt a Chinese idiom ‘半途而废bàn tú ér fèi’. We
appreciate that the students spent their time on the Zoom lessons. Great job, everyone! We also want to give a big round of applause to the students who actively engaged in the online tasks. It was so impressive to see the amazing work submitted on Seesaw and Google Classroom by Ditika from 2A, Kiara from 3F, and Rachana from 4B. Well done and keep up your great work!
Ms. Li, Ms. Gan, and Mrs. Wu
STEM Last week during Remote Learning, Year Three to Six students continued their design project and began responding to their design briefs. They needed to create a detailed labelled drawing, which demonstrated a clear solution to a given design problem. Check out the work from our top Remote Learning stars!!!!
From Mr Pattison, Miss Sutherland and Mrs. Young.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION District Athletics— Unfortunately District Athletics has been postponed due to the recent lockdown announcement. We will announce the new date and any other changes as soon as the PE team know. We advise the Athletics team to keep practising their events at home so they can be well prepared for when we return! Last week the Year Three to Six students focused on the Olympics, it was fantastic to see our Year Three to Six students show such an interest in the Olympics and we hope they can continue this passion in Physical Education and sport outside of school (when we are allowed to).
Mrs Dawson, Mr McDonald and Mrs Mazurek
Year 2 Year 4 Year 6
AWARD WINNERS
VALUES AWARDS
Under our RESPONSIBILITY value the following students have best displayed the quality of
TACT
PREP A Jesslyn J 1G Lincoln H 3B Diljit S 5A Farheen K
PREP B Masir K 1H Harshith A 3C Tyson P 5B Luxe J
PREP C Bhivansh M 1I Weiping 3D Tabitha H 5C Mehrin Q
PREP D Sarah J 1J Roop 3E Linuki K 5D Shlok M
PREP E Rayna K 2A Mantaz S 3F Viviana R 5E Noor L
PREP F Puna T 2B Vihan T 3G Ayaani P 5F Solomone F
PREP G Abhiroop S 2C Sai N 3H Rylan K 6A Pranav D
PREP H Macy C 2D Max N 4A Crystal Y 6B Shiva K
PREP I Nethan G 2E Audree L 4B Daniel B 6C Dylan V
1A Mahira A 2F Aarush P 4C Sabahat 6D Reza B
1B Sartaj T 2G Kayden M 4D Ahaan B 6E Samarth H
1C Jaxson H 2H Musa S 4E Riaan L 6F
1D Farhan 2I Sage M 4F Elias A
1E Inuki 2J Abhinav K 4G Dhiya R
1F Behzan 3A Ghezal W 4H Mueez A
PHYSICAL EDUCATION 4A Crystal
ART 6E Piper
MANDARIN 6F Mahdi
MUSIC 2J Jayan
S.T.E.M. Prep B Aarav
OTHER SCHOOL NEWS
VICTORIAN PREMIERS’ READING CHALLENGE The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is open and Tulliallan Primary School is excited to be participating. The PRC application offers a range of exciting features including:
• access to a library catalogue (including book images and blurbs)
• a modern user-friendly interface
• rewarding students with badges as challenge milestones are achieved
• The option for students to mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year Ten 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 17th September 2021. Children from Prep to Year Two are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year Three to Year Ten are challenged to read 15 books. Students have received their log in details and are encouraged to read as many books as they can and to log their efforts on the Premiers’ Reading Challenge portal. To add books to your child’s profile: Head to https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home to log Under dashboard on the left hand side Click ‘Search Books’ Search for the book title Click on the book title Click ‘Add Book ‘ If you have any trouble adding books or logging into the Premiers’ Reading Challenge, please contact your child’s Home Group teacher. All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers. To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklist and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc
COMMUNITY NEWS
