NEWSLETTER 21st February, 2018

ISSUE 4

DET International CRICOS Code - 00861K

From The Principal

Dear Parents

Nominations for our new School Council closed last Friday. As the number of nominations was less than the number of

vacancies, Amy Satur, Camilla Worsnop and Lina Bou - Karroum were duly elected as parent representatives on School Council. Mr Travis Tyszkiewicz, Ms Robyn Wilson and Miss Tiffany Dempster were elected as DET representatives. There is a one year vacancy and a two year vacancy for a parent representative. Any parents who are interested in this vacancy are invited to contact me.

The final meeting of the current school Council is 7.30 pm on Wednesday 28 February 2018. The first meeting of the new school Council will be Wednesday 28 March 2018. There will be a brief election meeting to elect the office bearers of the new school council.

During next week, teams of teachers will be undertaking a Professional Practice day. This is a new initiative aimed at improving teaching practice. It is occurring in all Victorian government schools for the first time in 2018. Teachers will be working on a range of projects such as peer observations and interrogating student-learning data in order to better target the learning needs of students. The specialist teachers and casual relief teachers will take the class when the teacher participates in their professional practice day.

We all want our students to get a great education and this

begins with students coming to school each day. In the long

term, 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, to some

degree puts them behind and can affect their educational

outcomes. Missing school can also affect their capacity to

develop all-important friendships and build a strong

connection with their classmates.

Coming to school every day is vital, but if for any reason your

child must miss school, there are things we can do together to

ensure they don’t fall behind:

Speak with your classroom teacher and find out what

work your child needs to do to keep up.

Speak with Miss Dempster (our Assistant Principal) or

Mrs Connell /Mrs Mastorakis ( our Learning Specialists)

Develop an absence-learning plan with your teacher

and ensure your child completes the work.

Enter the absence on Compass

We want all our students to be happy at school. Dr Martin Seligman is a writer who believes that parents have an important role in teaching happiness. He encourages all parents to ask their children at the end of every school day, “What was the best part of your day?” This is a simple strategy for teaching optimism. It trains the child to think about the positive aspects of their day.

Seligman believes that there are good reasons that we should teach ‘happiness’. Positive mood produces broader attention, more creative thinking, and more holistic thinking. This, in contrast to a negative mood, which produces narrowed attention, more critical thinking, and more analytic thinking. When you’re in a bad mood, you’re better at “what’s wrong?” When you’re in a good mood, you’re better at “what’s right ?” Even worse: when you are in a bad mood, you fall back defensively on what you already know. Both positive and negative ways of thinking are important in the right situation.

Children can be taught the skills of happiness just as they can be taught to play various sports or a musical instrument. It takes practice and willingness to take the ideas on board. Some children have more of an aptitude for optimism than others do.

However, the first step in the process of children learning optimism is for the adults in their lives to display an optimistic explanatory style when things do not quite go to plan. I encourage parents to have open communication with the class teacher if the same things appear to be going wrong for their child every day. At the end of the day we want every child to thrive both socially and academically.

Anne Babich Principal

From The Assistant Principal…

Dear Parents

At Rowville Primary School, we aspire to create a safe and caring community, which promotes learning in a supportive environment with members who are respectful, kind and caring towards each other. This week, I was fortunate to visit the Foundation classrooms, where I was impressed by how settled each of the classes

were and how respectful and thoughtful they were towards their fellow students and teachers in their everyday interactions. I am proud to be a member of this community.

Several strategies are used to build respectful relationships across the school. The Four Rooms of Change are used as a

strategy in each classroom to build emotional learning. Each class has developed their own Four Rooms of Change.

All staff members at Rowville Primary School use a restorative approach to help sort things out when things go wrong between students. Teachers establish the facts; explore the impact of the incident; and develop a solution. A period of monitoring is part of the solution.

Restorative question response:

As part of our duty of care, playground supervision is provided by teachers at the following times:

8.30am – 8.40am Before school until the music

10.45am – 11.15am Recess

1.25pm – 2.15pm Lunch

3.15pm – 3.30pm After school

During these playground times, if your child has a problem, is upset or injured, they should report to the yard duty teacher in

the assigned area. Our teachers will respond to, investigate, follow up and monitor incidents at school, if they are made

aware of such incidents. Please encourage your child to speak to the yard duty teachers and their classroom teacher.

Students need to be collected at 3.15pm each day. If you require casual After School Care, you will need to complete an

enrolment form with Camp Australia, which are available at www.campaustralia.com.au. Outside of these times, no formal

supervision of the playground is provided. Have a great week everyone!

Tiffany Dempster

Assistant Principal

When things go wrong When someone has been hurt

What happened? What were you thinking at the time? What have you thought about since?

What has been affected by what you have done? In what way?

What do you think you need to do to make thing right?

What did you think when you realised what had happened? What impact has this incident had on you and others? What has been the hardest thing for you?

What do you think needs to happen to make things right?

Congratulations to the following students who were presented with an award at our Monday morning assembly. These awards were given to students who have demonstrated significant academic excellence.

Weekly Achievement Awards

Please support Rowville Primary School and collect the vouchers from Coles and place in the box in the School Office foyer or in the School Gymnasium.

0A Jake A For demonstrating excellent decoding of words when reading independently.

0B Lauchlan T For using his letter-sound knowledge to sound out words for his personal writing.

OC Harrison K For demonstrating excellent knowledge of addition during mathematics lessons.

1A Solomona F Organising his ideas clearly before writing and persevering to record each word in his sentence.

1B Yianni K For persevering when reading challenging texts.

1C Eva K Creatively using mentor texts to help gather inspiring seeds.

2A Aria T For demonstrating excellence and consistency across her work in every subject area.

2C Joshua B For demonstrating excellence and persevering in every subject.

3A Jaime D Demonstrating classroom values and excellence in recognising authors purpose in a range of texts.

3B Arshia B Demonstrating our classroom expectations to a high standard and being an excellent role model to his peers.

3C Liza K For displaying deep thinking and gathering ideas in her Writer’s Notebook and using these seeds to begin her personal writing piece.

4A Nicholas S For demonstrating an excellent approach to learning new strategies for understanding place value.

4B Alicia T For demonstrating excellent reading stamina and focus when reading independently.

5A Rebecca H For demonstrating excellence and consistency across her work in every subject area.

5B Tanvi P For stretching herself by asking deeper questions to support her understanding when reading.

5C Shirani S For challenging herself every time she reads to record deep reflections that demonstrate use of a variety of reading strategies.

6A Lola M For becoming a critical reader by constantly using a range of thinking stems, in order to deepen her understandings of the main ideas in her text.

6B Rodrigo V For continuing to develop high quality reading reflections and analysis of his text.

6C Nicole C For being a great classroom role model and consistently demonstrating expectations to an excellent standard.

Please consent and pay for your child to attend the following events on Compass by the due date.

If you have CSEF in credit on your family account and wish to use this as payment for excursions, incursions, camps and sporting events, please come to the school office to provide consent or print the consent form and note you wish to use CSEF on the form.

Payments - Please take note of the following excerpt relating to payments taken from the Excursion Policy, which was ratified by School Council on 7th

September 2017.

All families will be given sufficient time to make payments for excursions. Parents will be provided with excursion information clearly stating payment

finalisation dates and official consent forms through Compass. Students whose payments have not been finalised and official consent forms provided to

the school by consent/payment due date, will not be allowed to attend unless alternative arrangements have been made with the Principal. Verbal

consent will not be accepted and official consent forms must be signed by parent, carer or legal guardian (hand written notes will not be accepted).

Event Event Date Cost Consent and Payment Due By

District Swimming - Selected Students 23rd February $5 21st February

1:1 Device Laptop Program 2018 Balance Years 3, 4, 5 & 6

Various as per Compass event 23rd February

Years 3 to 6 House Athletics 7th March $10 5th March

Rowville Kids Café News Specials Menu

POPCORN MONDAY

Freshly Popped Popcorn $1.00

Wacky WEDNESDAY

Lunch order only

Chicken Chippies (bag of 6)

$3.00 a bag

A copy of the full café menu is available on the website: rowville.ps.vic.edu.au

SUSHI HANDROLL TUESDAY Lunch order only

Crispy Chicken $3.20

Tuna and Avocado (GF) $3.20

Avocado & Cucumber (V, GF) $3.20

Teriyaki Chicken $3.20 Soy Sauce will only be provided on request –please note on order

Thank you to our helpers for next week

Monday 26th February Help Needed

Tuesday 27th February L. Mcconnochie

Wednesday 28th February G. Davey

Thursday 1st March T. Challis

Friday 2nd March Help Needed

H. Hynes & L. Shore

Bronwyn Richards & Cindy Gardiner

Canteen Team

The canteen is needing some extra help from volunteers. If you are free to assist on a Monday or Friday please see the canteen staff or leave your name at the office. Volunteers need to have a current working with children's check card.

First Aid News

Administering of Medication at School

Please be reminded that if your child requires medication on a short term basis (either prescription or over the counter) whilst at school, the medication must be dropped off and collected at the general office by the student’s parent/carer in original packaging. The parent/carer is required to complete an occasional medication form which is available from the general office at the time of dropping off this medication.

Chickenpox, Shingles, Measles, Mumps & Slapped Cheek

We wish to advise families at Rowville Primary School, that members of our school community are currently receiving medical treatment and as such have a suppressed immune system.

A major concern is if these people develop Measles, Chickenpox, Shingles or Slapped Cheek, they can become seriously ill.

We seek your cooperation in preventing this situation.

If your son/daughter has or may have measles, mumps, chickenpox or slapped cheek it is requested that you do not send them to school during this period and notify the school office immediately.

Children with Chickenpox must not attend school and need to

remain at home until all blisters have dried which is usually at least 5

days after the rash appears.

HEALTHY HABITS…

Next week all students from Foundation to Year 6 will be involved in Healthy Eating Sessions. We are very lucky to have Belinda Vaughan deliver these lessons to our students in conjunction with the classroom teachers. Belinda is a qualified nutritionist with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Health Sciences) Deakin University with training in Mindful Eating. She has over 15 years of experience working in Health Promotion (public health) field within local community settings.

Our aim is to educate the students about healthy and “mindful” eating and the impact that various foods have on our bodies. The students will have “Home Challenges” that they will be encouraged to undertake and we hope parents will become in-volved and promote healthy eating as well.

Foundation and Year 1 will look at what “healthy” means and the impact of healthy food vs unhealthy food on our bodies.

Year 2 will focus on sugar and the amounts in various foods and the effect this has on our bodies.

Years 3 and 4 will look at what makes us want to eat and what influences our food choices as well as “mindful” eating and using all of our senses when we eat. They will use their senses when eating a small piece of chocolate and a blueberry.

Years 5 and 6 will explore food as energy and the health effects of too much energy, sugar, salt and saturated fat in the diet. They will also learn how to read nutrition labels and use this when choosing foods to eat.

Liz Altmeppen and Sue Macdonald

Physical Education

Physical Education News

There has been one confirmed case of measles in Melbourne. The infection was acquired in Victoria and it is possible that the infection was acquired at Centrelink in Dandenong between Monday 22 January and Friday 2 February 2018. The case attended a number of locations in Melbourne whilst infectious including: Thursday 8 February 2018

Centrelink Dandenong, 8.00 am – 5.00 pm

Friday 9 February 2018

Centrelink Dandenong, 8.00 am – 5.00 pm

Mountain Gate Cricket Club, Ferntree Gully,

6.00pm – 8.00 pm

Dan Murphy's Rowville, 8.30 pm

Saturday 10 February 2018

Fairhills High School basketball stadium, Knoxfield, 9.30am –

10.30 am

Rowville Secondary College basketball stadium, Rowville,

2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Sunday 11 February 2018

Belgrave Cricket Ground, 11.30am - 6.30 pm

Monday 12 February 2018

ABC Costume Hire, Wantirna South 3.00pm – 4.00 pm

If you suspect measles please do not attend school and seek medical advise. It is advised to call ahead to your Doctor or Emergency Department to notify them why you are attending.

Further information is available at https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/measles

Community Notice

ROWVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL

EASTER EGG RAFFLE

Monday 26th March 2018

At the school assembly

Dear Parents/ Carers and Students,

Please donate Easter eggs, baskets and gift bags to go towards the Easter Egg Raffle. The more eggs donated, the more chances you will have to win one of our many baskets of Easter Eggs at the end of term assembly!

Students will be able to give the eggs to their teacher up until Monday 19th March.

Raffle tickets will be available for purchase from

Monday 19th February through to Friday 23rd March,

either through their teacher or reception.

Tickets: 50c each or 3 for $1.00

Please ensure that all eggs donated are nut free!

Have a Happy Easter!

NEITHER ROWVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL NOR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ENDORSES THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OF ANY PRIVATE ADVERTISER. NO RESPONSIBILITY IS ACCEPTED BY ROWVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL OR THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE ACCURACY OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN ADVERTISEMENTS OR CLAIMS MADE BY THEM.

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