8 FEBRUARY 2020 NO. 1 IMPORTANT DATES FEBRUARY Thursday 11 th —Monday 22 ed Life Ed Van Tuesday 23 rd District Swimming MARCH Monday 1 st School Photos Monday 8th Labour Day—NO STUDENTS Thursday 11 th Casual Clothes—Easter Egg Donaon Friday 12 th Stocky Sports Day Monday 15 th –Thursday 18 th Year 2 and 3 Swimming Monday 22 nd —Thursday 25 th Year 2 and 3 Swimming Tuesday 23 rd District Sports Tuesday 30th Easter Fair 1-4pm Table of Contents Page No. Principal’s word 1 Meet our Staff 2-3 Preps 1st Day 4 School Council - Nominaons 5 CSEF informaon 6 Parent Help 7 State School’s Relief School Uniform 8 Birthdays 9 School Informaon 10 eSafety 11 Library News 12 Informaon of Interest 13-15 Donations Needed If you have spare wool please consider donating to the school for our knitting / craft activities. All donations are much appreciated Dear Parents and Friends In the first newsletter last year I wrote ‘Welcome back for what is going to be a very exciting 2020!’ Little did we know what was to come! It’s been great catching up last week with all students and families to see what they got up to for the summer holidays. It’s also great seeing how much some of our students have grown over that time as well. Some I hardly recognised, especially those with missing teeth. This year at Stocky we have a few different initiatives happening. One exciting one is the tutoring initiative funded by the State Government to help catch up students from last year. As a school we have added to the cost of this program to ensure our students have great growth and no lost learning from last year. Another focus for this year is to ensure we remain as connected with our families as we were during Flexible and Remote Learning. Lots of comments and discussions with families showed that the connectivity from home to the Classroom and the wider school was a positive throughout this year. This is something we’d love to continue and strengthen. Another major focus for this year is to strengthen the school’s reading program from Prep to Grade 6. This is in our school’s 4 year Strategic Plan (available on our website) and looks to make sure we are consistent in our work across the school. It is exciting to see teachers em- brace the work we have already started. We are looking later in the year when we are able to, to hold information sessions about our 6 pillars of reading. These 6 pillars are widely researched and give us the basis as to how to structure our reading program. The 6 pillars are 1-Oral Lan- guage 2- Phonemic Awareness 3-Phonics 4- Fluency 5- Vocabulary 6- Comprehension. We look forward to sharing our work with you as we progress through this as a staff. Very soon there will be an important survey sent out regarding Outside Hours School Care (OHSC). I know this has been looked into before and we are prepared to reopen the investiga- tions for this to run at Stocky. We understand that some providers have ceased their operations which is making it difficult for some families to find suitable care arrangements for before and after school care. We are building a small steering committee if there was anyone prepared to spend some time to assist. Please email the school if you would be prepared to be on this little committee to investigate OHSC being provided at Stocky. As we begin the school year we are asking for nominations for parents to join School Council. Please see the attached sheet in this newsletter for the timeline of School Council elections. School Council is a very important aspect of the running and direction of the school. Every year, we have half the parent reps two year term expire. This is to ensure we don’t have all terms ending at the one time. You can always re-elect if your term comes to an end. I worked at a school where one of the parents had sat on school council for nearly 20 Years! Our first meet- ing of the year is the 22 nd February and as always parents are always welcome. The first meeting for the new school council will be held on 22 nd March. Adam Downes Principal Annual privacy reminder Our school collects, uses, discloses and stores student and parent personal information for standard school functions or where permitted by law, as stated in the Schools’ Privacy Policy Please take time to remind yourself of the school’s collection statement, found on the DET website https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/Schools-Privacy-Policy-English.pdf For more information about privacy, see: Schools’ Privacy Policy – information for parents. This information is also available in nine community languages.
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8 F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 0 N O . 1
I MP O R T A NT D A TE S FEBRUARY
Thursday 11th—Monday 22ed
Life Ed Van
Tuesday 23rd
District Swimming
MARCH
Monday 1st
School Photos
Monday 8th Labour Day—NO STUDENTS
Thursday 11th
Casual Clothes—Easter Egg Donation
Friday 12th
Stocky Sports Day
Monday 15th –Thursday 18th
Year 2 and 3 Swimming
Monday 22nd—Thursday 25th
Year 2 and 3 Swimming
Tuesday 23rd
District Sports
Tuesday 30th Easter Fair 1-4pm
Table of Contents Page No.
Principal’s word 1
Meet our Staff 2-3
Preps 1st Day 4
School Council - Nominations
5
CSEF information 6
Parent Help 7
State School’s Relief School Uniform
8
Birthdays 9
School Information 10
eSafety 11
Library News 12
Information of Interest 13-15
Donations Needed
If you have spare wool
please consider donating
to the school for our
knitting / craft activities.
All donations are much
appreciated
Dear Parents and Friends
In the first newsletter last year I wrote ‘Welcome back for what is going to be a very exciting
2020!’ Little did we know what was to come!
It’s been great catching up last week with all students and families to see what they got up to for
the summer holidays. It’s also great seeing how much some of our students have grown over
that time as well. Some I hardly recognised, especially those with missing teeth.
This year at Stocky we have a few different initiatives happening. One exciting one is the tutoring
initiative funded by the State Government to help catch up students from last year. As a school
we have added to the cost of this program to ensure our students have great growth and no lost
learning from last year. Another focus for this year is to ensure we remain as connected with
our families as we were during Flexible and Remote Learning. Lots of comments and discussions
with families showed that the connectivity from home to the Classroom and the wider school
was a positive throughout this year. This is something we’d love to continue and strengthen.
Another major focus for this year is to strengthen the school’s reading program from Prep to
Grade 6. This is in our school’s 4 year Strategic Plan (available on our website) and looks to
make sure we are consistent in our work across the school. It is exciting to see teachers em-
brace the work we have already started. We are looking later in the year when we are able to,
to hold information sessions about our 6 pillars of reading. These 6 pillars are widely researched
and give us the basis as to how to structure our reading program. The 6 pillars are 1-Oral Lan-