Telephone: 9725 1206 OSHC 9724 4514 web: www.croydonhps.vic.edu.au CHPS eNewsletter March 6 th , 2014 – Term 1 Week 6 Croydon Hills Primary School Principal’s Report Every Day Counts We all want our students to get a great education, and the building blocks for a great education begin with students coming to school each and every day. Missing school can have a major impact on a child’s future – a student missing one day a fortnight will miss four full weeks by the end of the year. By Year 10 they’ll have missed more than a year of school. There is no safe number of days for missing school – each day a student misses puts them behind, and can affect their educational outcomes. Coming to school every day is vital, but if for any reason your child must miss school, there are steps you can take to ensure they don’t fall behind: Speak with your classroom teacher to find out what work your child needs to do to keep up. Develop an absence learning plan with your school and ensure your child completes the plan. Remember, every day counts. If your child must miss school for an extended period, speak with your classroom teacher as early as possible. In Victoria from 1 March 2014, new laws will mean that parents can be fined for not sending students to school without an acceptable reason. It is also important that parents inform the class teacher regarding the reason for an absence. This can be done by note or email or the link from the school website currently. This is also a legal requirement. Where a child is absent for more than 3 days without the school knowing why, we are required to make contact with the family. Compass This year we have commenced using a student management system called Compass. Some parents will be familiar with it, as it is used in all government secondary schools in the area. It is currently being used by staff to mark the electronic roll and to keep track of information regarding each student. Later in the term we will be requesting that parents sign on to Compass. We will be adding more functions during this year, but it will enable parents in the first instance to track and authorise absences. Later in Term 2 it will be providing the mid year reports to parents and will provide a way of receiving, authorising and paying for school activities and excursions. We look forward to this being a one stop location for many of the functions which currently require the shuffling of paper back Calendar 2014 March Friday 7 th Interschool Sport Monday 10 th Labour Day – Public Holiday Friday 14 th Interschool Sport Monday 17 th Curriculum Day – no students at school Friday 21 st Interschool Sport Wednesday 26 th Team Vic Netball & Football Trials Friday 28 th Interschool Sport April Friday 4 th Last day Term 1 – 2.30pm Dismissal Monday 21 st Easter Monday Tuesday 22 nd Term 2 starts Friday 25 th Anzac Day – public holiday NOTICES SENT HOME THIS WEEK: Senior School Term 1 Levy Foundation/Junior Disco Click on the link below to download copies of these Notices and those from previous weeks: http://croydonhps.vic.edu.au/page/85/Noti ces
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Telephone: 9725 1206 OSHC 9724 4514 web: www.croydonhps.vic.edu.au
CHPS eNewsletter
March 6th, 2014 – Term 1 Week 6 Croydon Hills Primary School
Principal’s Report Every Day Counts
We all want our students to get a great education, and the building blocks for a great education begin with students coming to school each and every day.
Missing school can have a major impact on a child’s future – a student missing one day a fortnight will miss four full weeks by the end of the year. By Year 10 they’ll have missed more than a year of school.
There is no safe number of days for missing school – each day a student misses puts them behind, and can affect their educational outcomes.
Coming to school every day is vital, but if for any reason your child must miss school, there are steps you can take to ensure they don’t fall behind:
Speak with your classroom teacher to find out what work your child needs to do to keep up.
Develop an absence learning plan with your school and ensure your child completes the plan.
Remember, every day counts. If your child must miss school for an extended period, speak with your classroom teacher as early as possible.
In Victoria from 1 March 2014, new laws will mean that parents can be fined for not sending students to school without an acceptable reason.
It is also important that parents inform the class teacher regarding the reason for an absence. This can be done by note or email or the link from the school website currently. This is also a legal requirement. Where a child is absent for more than 3 days without the school knowing why, we are required to make contact with the family.
Compass
This year we have commenced using a student management system called Compass. Some parents will be familiar with it, as it is used in all government secondary schools in the area. It is currently being used by staff to mark the electronic roll and to keep track of information regarding each student. Later in the term we will be requesting that parents sign on to Compass. We will be adding more functions during this year, but it will enable parents in the first instance to track and authorise absences. Later in Term 2 it will be providing the mid year reports to parents and will provide a way of receiving, authorising and paying for school activities and excursions. We look forward to this being a one stop location for many of the functions which currently require the shuffling of paper back
Calendar 2014
March
Friday 7th Interschool Sport
Monday 10th
Labour Day – Public Holiday
Friday 14th
Interschool Sport
Monday 17th
Curriculum Day – no students at school
Friday 21st Interschool Sport
Wednesday 26th Team Vic Netball & Football Trials
Friday 28th
Interschool Sport
April
Friday 4th Last day Term 1 – 2.30pm
Dismissal
Monday 21st Easter Monday
Tuesday 22nd
Term 2 starts
Friday 25th
Anzac Day – public holiday
NOTICES SENT HOME THIS WEEK:
Senior School Term 1 Levy Foundation/Junior Disco Click on the link below to download copies of these Notices and those from previous weeks: http://croydonhps.vic.edu.au/page/85/Noti
ces
Telephone: 9725 1206 OSHC 9724 4514 web: www.croydonhps.vic.edu.au
and forth to school.
National Ride2School Day
Wednesday March 19th is the day where the national focus on riding to school. It is a school community event that encourages
all modes of active transport: walking and cycling. Students, parents and teachers are all welcome to participate.
Riding or walking to school has many benefits:
Students gain regular physical activity and feel fresh and alert.
Fewer cars on the road, reducing congestion, parking issues and air pollution around the school.
Students feel happier, are healthier and perform better at school.
School community has pride in improving the safety, atmosphere and civic connectedness of the local neighbourhood.
We would encourage as many people as possible to ride or walk on this day. .
Graeme Caudry - Principal
2014 Student Leaders
School Captains
Marcus SrS Matilda SrS Ethan SrD Chloe SrP
Sport Captains
Brianna SrM Olivia SrS Callan SrP Ben Charles SrS
Nick SrB Tristan SrD Elijah SrB Aaron SrM
Harrison SrD Patrick SrB Josh SrM Thomas SrB
Kasey SrM Daniel SrP Liam SrM Andrew SrD
Lucy SrM Madison SrB Madeline SrP Zac SrM
Eco Leaders
Sara SrS Jacob SrD Connor SrP Austin SrP
Music Captains
Taylor SrM Scarlett SrP James SrD Jessica SrB
Art Captains
Rhiannon SrS Ellanya SrM Grace SrP
eSmart Leaders
Josh SrD Charlotte SrB Matthew TSrP
JSC
SrB SrD SrM SrP SrS
Jesse Liam Codey Jacob Aidan
Ben Roy Ryan Matthew N Alex
Ebony Sarah Erin Bridget Portia
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Student Citizenship Awards
Last Friday at our first Indoor Assembly for 2014 the following students were presented their ‘Student Citizenship Award’ in their Year Levels. Congratulations on this special recognition goes to:
Foundation: Harrison H from F-H Year 1: Angus C from Jr-PB Year 2: Jared P from Jr-D Year 3: Ethan M from Md-L Year 4: Tahlia W from Md-U Year 5: Taylor G from Sr-D Year 6: Josh H from Sr-M
Student of the Week Awards presented at the Feb 21 assembly. Congratulations to you all and apologies for not being in
last week’s newsletter!
Sports News Interschool Sports Last week we played sport against Kalinda PS. Well done to all the teams for the way they have been conducting themselves whether they win or lose their games. Their good manners have been noticeable, so keep it up kids, you are doing a great job. Results: SPORT
Your score
Opposition score
Winning school
BAT TENNIS
21 44 KALINDA
BASKETBALL GIRLS 26 18 CHPS
BASETBALL OPEN 32 29 CHPS
CRICKET 70 45 CHPS
ROUNDERS GIRLS 21 5 KAL (CHPS FORFEIT)
ROUNDERS OPEN 19 3 CHPS
TEEBAL GIRLS 25 15 KAL (CHPS FORFEIT)
TEEBAL OPEN 24 4 CHPS
VOLLEYSTARS 0 2 KALINDA
Two of our teams have ‘forfeit’ results each week because we have boys in our girls’ teams, due to the fact that we don’t have enough girls in the seniors to fill the teams. If these Mixed teams win the games, they still have to forfeit, as the rules only allow for girls. Its great though that they are getting the practice and experience of playing against other schools, as many of these players are Year 5 students.
Team Vic Trials This week we have started the Team Vic Trials and have completed Basketball and Football. Children who are selected to compete at the District level will come up against the best in other schools in our Division. There are 29 schools in the area
JrBB Liam P SrP Sam B & Chloe T
JrMA Josh B SrD Will C & Ally S
JrD Amelie S & Serena M Palette Award
Chloe B (MdT)
JrF Ezekiel C
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who may or may not send their representatives. Once they compete, they will be tested for their skills and if successful, they progress to the next level. After many progressions, the successful athletes are selected to represent Victoria in a National Competition in the 4 main sports of Football (AFL), Soccer, Netball and Basketball. We will be having the Soccer trials on Friday and the Netball trials next Tuesday. Thankyou to all those children who have tried out so far. It’s great to see those who know they are capable having a go. Thanks also to the staff who have been assisting with these trials.
Tennis Hot Shots Last year our school became involved in the Tennis Victoria Hot Shots program, where we had Sue Saliba from the Yarrunga Community / Parkwood Tennis club come and give some lessons during her clinics in class time. We have also been granted some equipment, lots of new bright tennis racquets, low compression balls and some nets. Students and / or parents have also been able to log onto the web to claim their FREE T-shirt and there have also been gifts coming with these t-shirts. I have received a large shipment of t-shirts, which were ordered at the end of last year and early this year. Some of these have also come with a SpongeBob Square pants back pack. These are going to be organized ready for distribution by some helping parents on Friday. Thank you to Kate Wilson and Jenny Ball and any other parents who can assist these ladies to help sort them out. Anyone who has not yet ordered their FREE t-shirt can still order it online as the school gets a rebate for each t-shirt ordered right up until June this year. If you would like to support our Tennis program and order a FREE t-shirt, and receive a FREE SpongeBob Square Pants backpack for a limited time, copy and paste this link into your URL. -
http://hotshots.tennis.com.au/start-playing/claim Noreen McMenaman - Sports / PE
Music News Choir: Congratulations to the choir for their great performance at last week’s Special Assembly.
Ukelele/iPad/Marimba Band: Rehearsals are every Wednesday lunchtime in the P.A.C. for those students in years 3-6 who would like to join.
Wonnies Instrumental Lessons: Timetables are posted on the windows of the P.A.C. so that you can check your lesson time each week. It’s important that you check every week as they do change with new people enrolling. We now have 70 students involved in this program.
Rock Band: James, Josh, Scarlett, Sara, Connor, Cameron and Cohen are rehearsing “Smoke On The Water” and “Hall of Fame” and we look forward to hearing these songs once they are ready to be performed to an audience. Kathryn Lane - Performing Arts
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Canteen News PANCAKE DAY / SHROVE TUESDAY – Tuesday 4th March Special thanks to the following parents who helped make the day a huge success – Sharron Savage, Alisa Wills, Deanne Scagnetti, Kylie May, Rachel Elson, Rachelle Robertson, Lia Biasuzzo.
MONDAYS – ONLINE ORDERS ONLY NO HANDWRITTEN ORDERS ARE TO BE SENT FROM HOME. ONLINE ORDERS ONLY. ALL orders placed for Mondays must be done online via the Flexischools website, no manual orders. The online ordering system helps the canteen operate more efficiently and as we run with reduced staff and no volunteers on this day, we need your cooperation to register with Flexischools and help make Mondays a viable option that we can hopefully continue with in the future. Any further manual orders received will be served a basic lunch item.
AFTERSCHOOL SALES For the duration of Term 1, the canteen will be open for 15 minutes after school for sales of frozen items only.
PRICE INCREASES Unfortunately the following items have had a price increase – Hot Dog with Cheese - $3.20, Corntos - $0.80, Potato Stix - $1.00, Go-Cookie - $0.90, Frozen Fruit Cups - $1.00.
WHAT’S NEW? Juicies (105ml) – available in Lemonade, Orange, Tropical & Wildberry. $1.00 Similar to Calippos in a push up style tube. Icypole Tubes (70ml) - $0.50
DELETED ITEMS Toffee Apple Paddle Pop is no longer available. Juicees will only be available while stocks last. U Da Man LOL will only be available while stocks last.
ROSTER Friday 7
th March – Lia Biasuzzo, Sharron Savage, Narelle Collins.
Tuesday 11th
March – Lee Smart Wednesday 12
th March – Mesina Long, Rachelle Robertson.
Friday 14th
March – Helen Thompson, Sonia Newlands, Danni Bennett, Nicole Murphy. Karen Cyster – Canteen Manager
Birthdays this week…. Monday 3rd – Emmerson JrS, Zach SrM Wednesday 5th – Michael SrB Thursday 6th – Lily JrT, Breanna MdT, Friday 7th – Jasmine JMC, Matthew JrT Saturday 8th – William JPB Sunday 9th - Joseph JMC
Congratulations and we hope you enjoyed or will enjoy your special day.
THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE
Write the answer to the challenge, with your name and class and place it in the box outside the office by Tuesday morning. First name drawn will get a prize.
‘The more you take, the more you leave behind’. What are they?
LAST WEEK’S CHALLENGE
When written, what is the first number that has the letter ‘a’?
The answer I had in mind was one thousand and so did Ashleigh SrB, Mrs Le Clercq and Brayden in MdU. But Breanna MdT, Alex JrY, Claire MdK, Robyn in the office and Mr Le Clercq thought it was one hundred and one so I guess they are correct! Thanks to all who entered. First drawn out correct answer was Claire, Mr Mc will see you with a prize tomorrow.
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Uniform News Year 6 Hoodies: delivery will be in the next few weeks Tartan: orders will be placed this Friday and usually takes 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. (Note: tartan is not usually a stocked item and a minumim quantity is required to place an order with stockist otherwise a surcharge is applied, if you haven’t already placed an order please contact me as soon as possible so you don’t miss out)
Rain jackets are a relatively new line, waterproof and fully sealed seams, lightweight and roll up into attached bag, great for
rainy days before and after school and ideal for excursions and camps. Navy in colour, size 6 to 14, $23.00 I will keep you updated on when I receive the Hoddies and Tartan via the newsletter. Uniform Shop Hours Monday 8.30 to 10am Thursday 2.30 to 4pm Anissa Silver - Uniform Shop Co-ordinator
CHAPS NEWS
If you have a child in Foundation or Junior levels, look out for a flyer coming home today about the school disco. This will be held on 28th March and is always great fun for the kids. We will be hosting a get together in the staff room for the parents while the children are dancing, away which will be a great opportunity for the parents to get to know each other a bit better. We have finalised our fundraising/social events for the years and will provide details soon but in the meantime, we will be having a trivia night later in the year and are looking for donations of prizes. If you or anyone you know are able to help out with some great prizes perhaps in exchange for some business advertising please let me know. 2014 CHAPS membership forms have gone home but if you have misplaced your form and wish to join one is attached to the newsletter for your convenience. Our next meeting is on Monday 31/3 at 9.00am in the conference room. We had some new faces at the last meeting and we would love to see some more at the next one. If you have never been to a meeting before it is a great chance to meet new people and have your voice heard. In the meantime if you have any questions at all about CHAPS, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Justine Wratten
CHAPS President 0438271948
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