berwick lodge ps, newsletter 2010, nov 11th
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Berwick Lodge PS, Newsletter 2010, Nov 11thTRANSCRIPT
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
DIARY DATES
Wednesday 17th November Gr 3P,34R,34K,3DA Mt Martha water
Thursday 18th November Gr 34P,4M,4S,4DR Mt Martha water
Thursday 18th November Prep Myuna Farm
Friday 19th November Gr 5/6 Interschool sports away
Wednesday 24th November Gr 1 Melbourne Aquarium
Wednesday 24th November Gr 5/6 Lightning Premiership
Thursday 25th November Gr 2 Melbourne Aquarium
Monday 29th November School Council sub-committee
Tuesday 30th November Second hand uniform sale 2:30-3:15pm
Tuesday 30th November Hot dog day
Thursday 2nd December PFA AGM 1:30pm
NEWSLETTER N0.34 11TH NOVEMBER 2010
NOTICES DUE BACK BY
Friday 12th November Gr 1/2 Melbourne Aquarium
Friday 12th November Gr 3/4 Mt Martha water treatment
Friday 12th November Social Club Books
Monday 15th November Preps Myuna Farm Monday 15th November Gr 6 2011 windcheater/t-shirt
Tuesday 16th November Gr 5/6 Interschool sports 9.00am
Tuesday 23rd November Hot dog money
BERWICK LODGE PRIMARY SCHOOL Phone: 9707 1766 Fax: 9796 2198
E-mail: [email protected]
Visit our Websites : http:// www.berwicklodgeps.vic.edu.au,
Camp Australia/Out of School Hours Care: 9769 8251
SCHOOL AWARDS
Congratulations to the following students who received awards over
the last week.
Elizabeth PL Andrew PL
Beren PM Ainsley PM
Thomas PC Venuki PC
Louis PT Taylah PT
Jak PW Jarrah PW
PARENT REQUESTS FOR GRADE
PLACEMENT FOR 2011
I wrote about this issue in the newsletter
on 27th October, outlining the criteria that
I would consider when evaluating parent
requests. As it has been our practice since
we opened in 1990, I invite parents to put
in writing to me requests they have with
regard to the placement of their child/ren
for the following year.
I do stress again that your reasons need to
be very, very strong as I am conscious of
the importance to avoid populism creeping
into the process.
The closing date for receiving your
requests is Monday 22nd November. Please
adhere to this timeline as it is very difficult
to accept requests beyond this date simply
because we commence the grade allocation
process the very next day.
GRADE STRUCTURE FOR 2011
At this stage we anticipate a total
enrolment of 690 students, this being a
small decline from this year’s enrolment of
725. The impact will be that we will have
27 grades in total next year, compared
with 29 this year. More than two thirds of
our students still come to Berwick Lodge
from beyond our local neighbourhood,
which is heartening news.
In planning our grade structure, DEECD
and government guidelines are important.
To begin with, we receive 1 classroom for
every 25 students. Secondly, there is a
strong expectation that schools will
provide a teaching ratio in the P-2 grades
of 1 teacher per 21 students. This ratio
can be achieved in several ways - firstly and
most simply by limiting P-2 grades to no
more than 21 students per grade. This
approach works well if your enrolment
numbers neatly fit into grades of 21
students. That is often not the case. One
way of dealing with this is to create
composite year level grades of 21 students
each in total. Another approach is to
allocate additional, support teachers to
grades where numbers are higher than 21,
enabling the average ration for those
grades of teachers to students to be 1 to
21. We have often done this at our school
because it gives us more flexibility,
remembering that grade numbers do
fluctuate anyway during the year as some
children leave and others enrol. We also
prefer to maximise our numbers of straight
grades across our school and this at times
requires that some grades are slightly
larger than others – the option of
providing additional support teachers to
those grades helps in this regard.
Another point worth remembering is that
our Year 3-6 grades by definition must be
larger than 25 if we are to ensure that our
P-2 grades are about 21, simply because we
are resourced with, as I pointed out
earlier, 1 classroom for 25 children.
Typically then our grades 3-6 have
between 26 and 30 students in them.
Having said all this, our grade structure for
next year will be:
PREP AREA - 76 students
4 Grades (4 x 19)
YEARS 1 & 2 – 190 students (100
Year 1, 90 Year 2)
8 Grades
4 X Grade 1 (4 x 25)
4 x Grade 2 (2 x 22, 2x 23)
1.2 Support – Additional Assistance
YEARS 3 & 4 – 211 students (109
Year 3, 102 Year 4)
8 Grades
4 x Grade 3 (3 x 27, 1 x 28)
4 x Grade 4 (2 x 25, 2 x 26)
0.6 Support – Literacy/Numeracy
Years 5 & 6 – 203 students (115 Year
5, 88 Year 6)
7 Grades
4 x Grade 5 (1 x 28, 3 x 29)
3 x Grade 6 (2 x 29, 1 x 30)
0.1 Support – Audio eLearning
Summary: we have achieved an average
ratio in our Prep Area of 1 to 19.0, our
Grade 1 & 2’s of 1 to 20.6, our Grade 3 &
4’s of 1 to 24.5 and our grade 5 76’s of 1
to 28.6. Also all grades across our school
will be straight grades next year.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
(FAQ’s)
Q. Do you accept late parent
requests for grade placement?
A. As a general rule, no. There will be a
reminder in next week’s newsletter – the
closing date is Monday 22nd November!
QUOTABLE QUOTE
‘If you’ve ever been surprised to hear that
others have more confidence in your
capabilities than you do, then perhaps you
should seriously consider ditching your own
view of yourself.’
HENRY GROSSEK
ASS ISTANT PRINCIPALS’ REPORT
YOU CAN DO IT! Eliminate Different types of negative thinking that lead to poor
emotional resilience.
Before discussing the different Negative Types of Thinking listed below, you will want to discuss with the young person’s
teacher/parent the extent to which the young person may hold one or more of the Negative Types of Thinking. You may use
the accompanying ‘Negative Types of Thinking Checklists’ to help the young persons' teacher/parent identify with Negative
Types of Thinking to eliminate. Select one or two of the following Negative Types of Thinking held by the young person for
discussion. Explain to parents and teachers that they will want to hold a conversation with the young person where the young
person is shown why his/her way of thinking is negative and does not help him/her to be successful and happy. You will also
want to review with the teacher and/or the parent the positive Habit of the Mind to strengthen.
Explain to the young person that he/she is made up of many characteristic —some good, some not so good. Have the young
person come up with five good things about his/her skills, talents, and personality and five things that could be improved on.
You can help the young person if he/she gets stuck. Then, you should explain that because he/she possesses good qualities, it
never makes sense to think ‘I’m hopeless’ or ‘I’m a loser’ when something bad happens. Instead, encourage the young person
to think, ‘when a bad thing happens, I do not lose my goods points. I am still me—capable and likeable.’
Hi All, my name is Jess and I am
very pleased to be working in the
OSHC team at Berwick Lodge. I
have worked in the childcare field
for the past four years and have a
Certificate III in Children’s Ser-
vices.
I am currently studying my
Bachelor of Education at Victoria
University and am aiming to be
teaching my own primary class by
2014!
I really enjoy working with your
children they are all great! I look
forward to meeting you if I
haven’t already!
Jess
Holiday Program
Parents, you can now register
online for the holiday program
starting from December 20th to
23rd at Berwick Fields or
Lynbrook. Please talk to us if you
have any questions regarding this.
Next week: Under the Sea
M: Small Sea Creatures
T: Pirate Hats
W: Large Sea Creatures
TH: Cooking Green Jelly
F: Paper Plate Fish
Our operating hours are:
Before school care 6:45am-
8:45am
After school care 3:30pm-6:30pm
Our direct line is 9769 8251 or
you can call the admin team at
Camp Australia on 8851 4160.
Thank you, OSHC team.
BLPS OSHC NEWS
Grade 3 & 4 students are collecting food (no fresh
food please) and Christmas goodies to make hampers
for disadvantaged and needy families for the Christmas
season.
The non-perishable food and goodies collected will go
to the St Andrew’s Uniting Church in Berwick to be
made into hampers and then taken to Uniting Care
‘Connections’ in Narre Warren to be distributed to
disadvantaged and needy families in this area.
Christmas fare of some kind such as shortbread,
bon-bons, sweats, cakes and puddings, and soft drinks
are most acceptable, and packet and tinned foods
suitable for families are appreciated. The food hampers
generally contain several staple food items and luxury
and festive goodies.
No Christmas gifts please, just food items.
All collections will end on Friday 3rd December, 2010.
Thankyou for your support. It is much appreciated.
Lyn Chudleigh
CHRISTMAS HAMPER COLLECTION
GRADE 3/4
PREP TRANSITION 2011
Next Tuesday we commence our Prep
Transition Program for the students
enrolled for 2011. Week One of the
program consists of a child focused tour
of the school including a visit to the
current prep classrooms. The children
will be in transition groups that have
been put together based on their kinder
groupings. They will remain in these
groups for Weeks Two and Three to
experience activities in the art room,
music room, gymnasium and ICT centre.
In Week Four the children will be placed
in their 2011 class groups for an
orientation session in their classroom for
2011.
LOST GLASSES
A pair of glasses were recently lost in the
vicinity of our school. They were half
frame (black) ‘Gant’ brand reading
glasses in a navy case. If you have found
these glasses, please contact the owner,
Michael Ma on 0437 851 876.
CITY OF CASEY CHILDREN’S
SERVICES
The City of Casey Primary Years
Support Officer, Children’s Services,
Natasha Florance, has provided us with a
flyer outlining programs that are
currently being offered for families. We
have included this flyer in today’s
newsletter for your information. We
encourage families to read this flyer and
take advantage of the excellent programs
on offer.
PAST STUDENTS
We are always very proud to read and
hear about the achievements of past
students. We have recently learnt that
Christie, Kirsty and Shannon, who
attended Year 6 at BLPS in 2005, have
been named as School Captains at
Berwick Secondary College for 2011.
Congratulations!
We would also like to acknowledge
Adam Silva, another BLPS Year 6 student
from 2005, who recently signed a seven
year contract with American Major
League Baseball franchise, the New York
Yankees. Adam began playing baseball
with our local club in their under-12
team.
LYNNE BRENNER &
DEBBIE CUSACK
COMMUNITY NEWS Individual Literacy Sessions now
available. Would your child benefit from an
intensive individualized program to help improve their reading and writing
skills? For all enquiries please call Karen Perrin on
03 5944 3777 or leave a message at the school office.
Unclaimed Halloween costumes need to
be collected from the office.
FREE to good home
Kittens grey/tabby/black short and long hair 7 weeks old.
Phone 9702 5592
FOR SALE
Jack Russel puppies long and short hair ready 15th-22nd
December 2 girls 3 boys. To view please phone Michelle
0418 498 396
BLPS Parents and Friends News Next Meeting: Thursday 2nd December at 1:30pm in the after school care building. This meeting will also be our AGM to elect
next year’s committee. Everyone is welcome including toddlers. PFA welcomes anyone wanting to join the fun and make a difference.
Current events AGM MEETING FOR PFA: Our AGM will be on the 2nd December at 1.30pm in the after school care building. If you
would like to nominate your self for a position on the PFA please get a form from the office and fill it out and hand it in.
Anyone welcome to join the PFA. We have only got a small amount of mothers helping and would welcome anyone
wanting to join us. We have a lot of fun.
Cookie Dough: We have sent out forms for Cookie Dough. These forms must be in by Tuesday 16th November. We
have sampled the Christmas cake and it is lovely. There is also shortbread. Great for homemade Christmas presents.
Orders will be delivered 2 weeks after forms are given in. Remember if you want to make Christmas cookies to get your
orders in.
OUTDOOR TWILIGHT CINEMA: WE are having an outdoor cinema on the oval at the end of term
(Friday 10th December). If your company would like to advertise before the movie please send a note to the
office for the PFA, and you will be contacted. Forms will be sent out later in the term. Forms will be going
out with in the next week.
Shopping Tour: The shopping tour was last Saturday. Thanks to everyone who went I was told everyone had a fantastic
time and got many bargains. Thanks again to Jodie Warwick for running this event.
Hot Dog Lunch: Forms have gone out for our next hotdog lunch. Please get your forms back as soon as possible. WE
are going to need a few mums to help us on the morning of the lunch to prepare the lunch so if you are able to help out
for a few hours please let us know by sending a note to the office with your phone number on it and we will contact you.
The date we would need help is 30th November. The PFA would like to thank you for your continued support.
ELECTION DAY 27TH NOVEMBER BB I am able to help with the BBQ on 27th November.
8am – 9am
9am – 10am
10am-11am
11am -12noon
12noon – 1 pm
1pm – 2pm
Name: ___________________________________Phone:___________________
Childs Grade:_________________
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$1.00 from each booking goes back to BLPS.
Plus $1.00 to Royal Children's Hospital
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Specialising in:
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