ha We expect the following each week: 1. enjoyment. - Footscray Primary School · 2019-06-16 · Friday 14th June 2019 The yard will be supervised before school from 8.45am and after

Friday 14th June 2019 The yard will be supervised before school from 8.45am and after school until 3.45pm Please do not drop children at school before 8.45am

Important Dates Monday June 17th Year 3 Excursion Tuesday June 18th

Year 1 Incursion Thursday June 20th Year 6 Incursion Friday June 21st

Parent Forum: Student Wellbeing

Assembly Pre-loved book stall Second Hand Uniform Stall Monday June 24th Year 1 Excursion

Thursday June 27th Foundation, Year 3 & 4 Celebration of Learning Friday June 28th Reconciliation Assembly

Last day of term – Finish 1.30pm

Dear parents and carers,

Home learning at F.P.S

Why do we expect students to complete home learning?

The overall purpose of our home learning programme is to

support our students with an opportunity to practise, review and

apply their knowledge at home so that they develop proficiency

and independent learning skills. I recognise there are a range of

viewpoints about home learning within our community. So we

have aimed to provide opportunities where students can practise

current learning at home.

We expect the following each week:

1. Reading at home every night (either independently or

together) with the aim to grow readers who read for

enjoyment.

2. ‘Look Say Name Cover Write Check’ Personal Spelling

words.

3. Handwriting practice- We have identified this as an

important area for children to develop fluency.

4. Other tasks that support the learning that is currently

occurring in the classroom e.g. Unpacking a seed for the

Writer’s Notebook or a survey connected to the unit of

inquiry, maths revision.

I want to encourage everyone to keep in mind that the setting

of home learning needs to be a manageable task for teachers.

For 2019, the office will be open at

the following times.

*Monday 8.30am – 4.00pm

Tuesday 8.45am – 4.00pm

Wednesday 8.30am – 4.00pm

*Thursday 8.30am – 4.00pm

Friday 8.30am – 4.00pm

Uniform Sales*

Mondays 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Thursdays 8.30am - 9.30am

If you require uniforms and cannot

make these times, please email

[email protected] to

make other arrangements.

Fundrasing dates

Our brilliant class reps will be

hosting cake stalls and various

fundraisers on the following dates.

21st June - Grade 4 & 6 (books)

2nd August - Grade 1

13th September - Grade 3

11th October - Grade 2

6th December - Foundation

CAMPS, SPORTS AND

EXCURSIONS FUND (CSEF)

If you are in receipt of a

concession card, you may be

entitled to an annual payment of

$125.00 to be used for camps,

sports and/or excursion

expenses. This amount is paid

directly to the school and will be

allocated by the school for your

child.

BANK DETAILS

Commonwealth Bank

Footscray Primary School

BSB:063 132

Account number 10090179

Please include a reference with the

student(s)’ names.

EFTPOS available at the office

Home learning has changed from our own experiences as we no

longer teach from textbooks (and haven’t since the last

century). Schools have changed. In order for teachers to

differentiate in their classrooms considerable time is spent

together analysing student evidence of learning. Home learning

needs to be an approach that supports students to develop

independent habits through the completion of tasks at home.

Essentially it is time for practice. We require parents to

encourage and monitor to ensure their children are completing

home learning tasks. Our expectations as a school for home

learning are outlined in the school’s home learning policy.

I am interested in hearing feedback from families about this

policy. Please email me your feedback to

[email protected] We will consider this

feedback when reviewing the Home Learning policy at the

Education Sub-committee.

Attitudes to School Survey and

Student Engagement and Wellbeing

We value student voice as a means to improving student

engagement, wellbeing and quality instruction and are

conducting a survey to find out what your child thinks of our

school. It has been wonderful over the past couple of weeks to

visit each classroom from Year 4 to Year 6 to support the

completion of the Attitude to School Survey. The Attitude to

School Survey helps us gain an understanding of students'

perceptions and experience of school. Our school will use the

survey results to plan programs and activities to improve your

child's schooling experience. It will support with the

development of an approach to wellbeing at our school.

It was fabulous to see our Year 6 leaders in the playground

encouraging our students to be active over lunchtime through

skipping. Leadership responsibilities support students to build

and develop relationships across the school.

It was also a pleasure to drop in and visit our Concert band this

morning. Hearing the music from my office was a joy. I have

always believed rich and diverse opportunities help children to

discover their talents.

OFFICE NEWS

Next Friday, we will be hosting a Parent Forum/ Coffee

Morning at 9:00am. There are a number of wellbeing

focuses:

- Opportunities to get involved with follow up from the

Wellbeing Summit. Volunteers would be wonderful.

- Consider where Wellbeing fits within the new Enhanced

PYP.

- The Student Support Learning Space and Sensory

Room Update.

Philip Fox

Principal

Well Done

Well done to Cleo from 2C for her information report all about

Gilmore Girls School. She researched and wrote this during

Reconciliation Week, and found out that its founder, Mary

Gilmore, was an advocate for Aboriginal Rights. Keep up the

great work!

Well done Annika, Ethan, Finn, Amica, Morgan and Liam for

their efforts at the Chess Comp on Thursday!

Second Hand Uniform

All second hand uniform items will

now be available to purchase from

The Salvos Store in Footscray (199

Barkly St). They are open 6 days a

week and located conveniently

500m down the road from our

school. This decision to move

second hand uniform sales off site

was made due to a lack of storage

space at school.

Could we request all parents

wishing to donate good condition

second hand uniform, to please

take them directly to Salvos Store.

There will be a final second hand

uniform stall at school on Friday

21st of June at 3.15pm.

A HUGE thank you to parents

Amelda, Sarah and others who

have volunteered their time and

effort to launder, sort, price and

sell second hand uniform items.

We appreciate all you hard work in

running our second hand uniform

over the last few years. Thank you!

Lost Property

We currently have a very high

number of items in lost property.

Please ensure you or your child are

checking lost property on a regular

basis for missing items. At the end

of each term, labelled uniform

items will be returned to the

classroom teached. Any unlabelled

items and non-uniform will be

taken to charity.

Toothbrush Recycling

This term, the Green Team will

continue to collect used plastic

toothbrushes and toothpaste

containers to recycle, so we avoid

sending them to landfill! Please

bring your used toothbrushes to

the office, where the Green Team

has set up a collection point.

Vietnamese Programme News

Dear parents and carers,

Our Year 5 students have explored and categorized a range of

nouns, adjectives and verbs to express opinions. We have

learnt more about Australian animals and what we call them

in Vietnamese.

Students used singular nouns and added extra words to make

the plural form of each word.

Students used highlighters to colour nouns, verbs and

adjectives. They also identified nouns, verbs and adjectives

and then labelled them in English.

Students drew a table and sorted the words into the correct

categories.

Students demonstrated their understanding by using basic

grammar structures and a range of nouns, adjectives and

verbs to produce simple sentences about their chosen

Australian animals.

Warm regards and thank you for your on-going support.

Cô Hạnh

Year 3/4/5/6 Vietnamese Teacher

School Calendar – Term 2, 2019

Term 3, 2019

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Week

9

17 JUNE

Year 3

Excursion to

Arts Centre

18

19 20

Year 6

SciencePlay

incursion

21

Parent Forum: Student Wellbeing

Assembly

Book stall (hosted

by Year 6 reps )

Second Hand

Uniform Stall

Week

10

24

Year 1

Excursion to

CE

25

26 27 2.30pm Year 3 &

Foundation Celebration of Learning 3.00pm Year 4 Celebration of Learning

Student reports go home to parents

28

Last day of term-

early finish

1.30pm

Reconciliation

Assembly

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

Week

1

15 JULY

Student

return for

Term 3

16 17 18 19

Assembly

Week

2

22 23 24

5.45pm School

Council

25

9.30am

Foundation 2020 Info Session (final)

26

Parent Forum