ARPS NEWS 15th AUGUST, 2019

Parents are reminded that the Staff Car parks at the front and rear of the school are not for parent parking. Parents with a valid disabled pass may use the designated space at the front of the school.

CALENDAR From the Principal

Musical- Badges on SALE! - at recess times

STEM WEEK @ ARPS Next week our staff and students are celebrating STEM WEEK to promote the many benefits of learning in areas of Science, Tech-nology, Engineering and Maths. This is a change from our tradi-tional ‘Literacy and Numeracy Week’ to enable our STEM focus and investigations about technological and science advances over the years, such as the celebration of 50 years since the Moon Landing in 1969. To help students ‘broaden their horizons’, every student will have the opportunity to take part in the Virtual Reality Space incursion during this special week. Of course, all of our important events, such as our Book Character Parade and our Spelling Bee will also take place during the week. Parents are very welcome to come to the Book Character Parade and Spelling Bee on Tuesday morning.

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Tue-

Fri

13th-16th

Aug

Yr 5/6 Camp to Kangaroobie

Thurs 15th Aug Yrs 1 & 2 CERES

Mon-Fri

19th—23rd Aug

STEM WEEK - Book Character Parade - 20th Spelling Bee - 20th Whole School Virtual Reality STEM incurs 21st & 22nd July

Wed 21st Aug State School Spectacular

Choir to Melb Town Hall

School Council Meeting 7pm

Thurs 22nd Aug Spelling Bee

Thurs

-Fri

22nd-23rd

Aug

Yr 2 Sleepover

Sun 25th Aug Bunnings BBQ Springvale

Mon. 26th Aug Convicts & Captains incursion

Yrs 3 & 4

Thurs 29th Aug Fathers’ Day Stall

Fri 30tth Aug ICAS Science Competition

Tues 3rd Sept ICAS Digital Technology

Wed-

Thur

4th—5th

Sept

WHOLE SCHOOL MUSICAL

Tues 10th Sept ICAS Writing

Wed 11th Sept ICAS Spelling

Thurs

-Fri

12th-13th

Sept

State School Spectacular

Rehearsal days

Sat 14th Sept State School Spectacular—

Melb Arena Performance

Tues 17th Sept ICAS English

Thurs 19th Sept ICAS Mathematics

Fri 20th Sept Term 3 concludes

Sat 26th Oct ARPS Trivia Night

Mon 19th

Tues 20th

Wed 21st

Thurs 22nd

Fri 23rd

STEM

activities in classrooms (all week).

Step Back Maths

Competition Foundation

(in class-rooms) 1pm

9am Book Character Parade in

Hall (Parents

Welcome)

9.30am Spelling Bee

- Year F-2

10.30am Spelling Bee

Year 3-6

Step Back Maths Com-

petition Year 1&2 (in classrooms)

1pm

Virtual

Reality

Incursion Group 1

( ½ school)

Step Back Maths

Competition Year 3&4 (in classrooms)

1pm

State School Spectacular Rehearsal

(Melb Town Hall)

Virtual Real-ity Incursion

Group 2

(other ½ school)

Step Back Maths Com-

petition Year 5&6 (in classrooms)

1pm

Year 2 Sleepover

Step Back Maths

Competition Finals 1pm

Kinder Story Time

Year 5/6s Camping Out! Our excited group year 5 and 6 students and enthusiastic staff headed off to Kangaroobie on Tuesday for a wonderful 4 day camp. The students are enjoying the beautiful coastal views as well as opportunities to at-tempt many of the challenging activities the camp provides. For parents connected on our schoolDojo, reg-ular updates have been provided with photos to help share the experiences with family and staff back ‘at home’. I am sure the group will have some exciting stories to tell on their return.

Musical News With just 3 weeks to go until the big day, there is plenty of action and hard work occurring to make sure this

year’s musical is a great success. Our main cast of students in year 5 and 6 have been spending

lunchtimes and every opportunity to rehearse their lines, and students in all year levels have been prac-

tising their songs and dances in preparation.

Hampers It has been wonderful to see the fabulous response from families in supplying items for our raffle hampers.

The Parents’ Association will be collecting all items to create some great hampers for our raffle as part of

the fundraising for our Musical. Items may be dropped into the office at any time. Thank you.

Rehearsals Information about our rehearsal day for the whole school at Rowville Secondary College (4th September) is

now on the Compass portal.

Props and Costumes We are very grateful for the parents who have jumped in to support staff with sewing and sourcing of

costumes for students in all year levels. For parents of all students, information about the basic costume

requirements and when to send them in to school has been provided in notices over the last few weeks.

Costumes supplied from home need to be at school with a name label by Fri 23rd August.

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Badges There are 4 wonderful badge designs to choose from, with badges just $1 each. These can be purchased at lunchtimes from our Junior School Councillors near the ramp outside the Yr 3/4 classrooms.

Tickets are selling fast now for seats on both nights. There are still places available. Bookings can be

made via this link: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=518479&

Bunnings Sunday BBQ 25th

Our second Bunnings BBQ for the year will be occurring on Sunday 25th September. We are looking for

volunteers to help out on the day. Any time parents can give to help support this fundraiser will be very

much appreciated. Please contact the office to confirm your availability.

Lunchtime Clubs Every Tuesday a group of students has the opportunity to take part in our lunchtime Art Club with Mrs Con-nie Vartiainen. The sessions are offered to students in all year levels and allow any children eager to ex-tend their art skills, or just have an enjoyable social experience. We also have our ‘Lunch Bunch’- a games and social skills group that is run by Ms Katrina Karlson, our Student Wellbeing Officer and Ms Narelle Seremetis, an Education Support staff member. This group is also available to students from all year levels and allows students to enjoy games and conversations to support social skills development.

Enrolments for 2020 Our class structure for 2020 is now being finalised. Any parents yet to enrol their Foundation child for next year are encouraged to do so now, it help support the planning processes for next year. Parents can check if they are inside our school zone via this link:

https://www.findmyschool.vic.gov.au/

UPCOMING INCURSIONS/EXCURSIONS

Excursion Year Level Payment & Permission Slip due

Date of Excursion

State School Spectacular Choir Rehearsal

Selected Students 14/8/19 21/8/19

Virtual Reality Space Whole School 14/8/19 21/8/19

Sleep Over Year 2 15/8/19 22/8/19

Convicts and Captains Year 3/4 26/8/19 19/8/19

Lights Camera Action Rehearsal Whole School 28/8/19 4/9/19

UNSW Global - ICAS Year 2-6 Closed 30/8/19-19/9/19

State School Spectacular Choir Rehearsal

Selected Students 19/7/19 24/7/19

Swimming Whole School 7/10/19 9/12/19-20/12/19

Year 6-7 Transition Timeline: Key Dates

Judy Drew Principal

0A Angela OW Azmat

1R Agam 1T Luke

2 I Xavier 2S Ruby

3F Zavier 3G Devon, Christian, Riley

4P Patrick 45L Ellen

4W Mingyi

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

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Friday 26th April 2019 Transition information Packs distributed to 2019 Year 6 families from ARPS

Friday 17th May 2019

Application for Year 7 Placement forms to be returned to ARPS by this date.

Wednesday 7th Aug

2019

Primary Schools notify parent and carers of Year 6 placement offers, in writing.

Monday 19th Aug 2019

Closing date for parents to lodge any non-placement appeals with secondary schools.

Tuesday 10th Dec 2019 Secondary Schools host orientation day for all 2019 Year 6 students.

Findmyschool.vic.gov.au launched on 24 April and shows every school zone across the

state. The new website highlights the choice of public schools available to the Victorian community.

If your child is preparing to enter Year 7 and want to know more about the public secondary school options in our area, or you know someone who is interested in enrolling at our school,

try findmyschool.vic.gov.au website.

https://forms.gle/g1pt7CiHutKs1bbW9