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EMAIL; [email protected] WEBSITE; www.sthcrossps.vic.edu.au

Wednesdays, 9.00 – 10.00 a.m. Look forward to seeing you and your child

Items sent home will generally be colour coded.

Gold Excursion Incursion

Bright Pink

Fundraising

Orange Excursion Incursion

An inspiring community where the students shine!

July 26th Wednesday Foundation

100 days at School

August 1st Tuesday Specialist

Parent/Teacher Interviews

2nd Wednesday Foundation – Grade 2

Parent/Teacher Interviews

3rd Thursday Grade 3-6

Parent/Teacher Interviews

29th Tuesday Foundation Excursion

Myuna Farm

Mission Statement The school community of Southern Cross Primary believes in providing a quality learning environment that encourages children to be curious, inspired and successful in their learning. We strive to achieve an educationally safe and caring environment through our daily implementation of behaviours, programs and modelling that values, understands and respects individual abilities and cultural diversity.

Please read this newsletter, as it is an important communication between school and home

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responsibility is accepted by the Department of Education or Southern Cross Primary School for accuracy of information contained in

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SCPS School Assembly

Next assembly will be held

FRIDAY, 27TH June, 2014,

at 9.15 a.m.

School Hours and Break Times Playgrounds supervised 8:45 – 9.00 a.m. and 3:30 -3:45 p.m. Students arrive 8:50 a.m. Classes start promptly at 9.00 a.m. Morning Recess is 11 – 11:30 a.m. Lunch 1:40. – 2:30 p.m. School finishes at 3.30 p.m.

Monday

7th August – 3.00pm

3.00 p.m.

27/07/2017

Pale Blue or White General Notices

Notices Sent Home This Fortnight

Parent/Teacher Interviews

Foundation – Myuna Farm visit

What’s happening in Our

Dear Parents and Friends,

Welcome back to everyone. We have had a good first week back with everyone settling in for the start of

Term 3.

Following on from the Students’ School Reports sent home at the end of last term, Parent/Teacher interviews are being planned. Please take the time to visit your student’s Teachers to discuss their progress at school.

Please complete the Interview times forms and return to school as soon as possible to enable the Teachers to plan sufficient times for all students. School Review We are currently in the middle of our School Review. The Panel for the Review is –

Chaired by an independent Reviewer

Department of Education – South Eastern Region Representative

Two local School Principals

Anne and myself

Southern Cross PS staff -Leigh-Ann Schouw, Laura Harrison, Leonie Lapthorne, Angeline Singh, Andrew Altube

Upon completion of the Review I will advise the school community of the result. School Carpark A reminder to all parents the School Carpark is only accessible to Staff and authorized personal. WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK

Our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents at each school. It is designed to assist our school in gaining an understanding of parents’ perception of school climate,

student engagement and relationships with our parent community. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies.

The survey will be conducted online by ORIMA Research Pty Ltd and only takes 15 minutes to complete. The survey can be accessed via desktop computer, laptop, tablet or mobile at any convenient time within the fieldwork period from Monday 7th August to Sunday 27th August. Approximately 25 per cent of parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey. All responses to the survey are anonymous. The online survey is available in English, Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Chin (Hakha) and Hindi. Survey language guides will be provided in a range of languages including Albanian, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese, Dari, Filipino, Greek, Gujarati, Indonesian, Japanese, Karen, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish or Urdu.

The survey results will be reported back to our school at the end of September. Southern Cross Primary School may inform that the survey results will be communicated to parents through annual reporting. Last year we used the survey results to plan for building stronger communication with our families. For further information, please speak to you child’s teacher or visit: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/management/improvement/Pages/performsurveypar

ent.aspx

Averil Nunn Principal

i Sea, i Care Term 2 Excursion

In Term 2, as ambassadors of i Sea, i Care, we went on an

excursion to Frangipani Court and Frog Hollow Reserve. We

learned about waste management and the effects of litter

and pollution on aquatic life in our waterways.

We started at Frangipani Court where we learned all about

how litter traps work and we watched the litter trap being

emptied by the crew from Melbourne Water. All the rubbish

that gets washed away is then collected by these litter traps

and is taken to the city dump. If the rubbish is not collected

by a litter trap, it finds its way straight into Pt. Phillip Bay where is can be consumed by

sea animals.

Next, we went to Frog Hollow Reserve where our afternoon was split up into different

activities like planting shrubs and trees, water testing and examining water

invertebrates.

We tested the water because it helps us to understand the effect

water health has on marine life. We put tiny tablets in the water

tubes, which then changed the colour to tell us the levels of

phosphates, nitrates and dissolved oxygen etc. From our testing, we

discovered that the quality of the water was

OK but could definitely be better.

We examined water invertebrates to find out what kind of

species lived in the water. This also gave us an idea of what

the quality of the water was like. We were given butterfly nets

and we had to get freshwater invertebrate samples.

We planted 200 trees and shrubs on the

day in Frog Hollow Reserve. i Sea i Care ambassadors have

assisted with planting trees in the area for many years. In fact,

we found some huge trees that were planted by students of

Southern Cross Primary School in 1999.

It was a fantastic day and we learnt so much about waste

management in our community and how our litter effects the

environment. You can help the environment at home by

cutting down your use of plastic; nude lunches are a great

place to start.

From your i Sea i Care Ambassadors,

Omar, Omed, Jaz and Guianne

OSHC Weekly Program

Week beginning Monday 31/07/17 to Friday 11/08/17.

Monday: Stencil painting, finger painting

Tuesday: Dot painting, glitter painting

Wednesday: Mirror painting, Easy butterfly print

Thursday: Make an abstract painting/collage

Friday: Free games

New students are welcome to OHSC.

If you need care for your child/ren, during the school

holidays, please contact Annie on 0499 044 929 or Shaheen

on 0419 573 185

Thank you