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Thursday 18 May 2017
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Friday 19 May Lap-a-thon commences 11.30am Helpers from 11am
Family Invention Challenge due back today
Yr 4B visit Nara Preschool 10.00am-11.00am
Monday 22 May Assembly 2.30pm – Zumba for the School Community. Come along and join in!
Yr34 Incursion Techkids – Robotics with Lego WeDo Tuesday 23 May Yr 4S visit Nara Preschool 11.30am-12.30pm
Wednesday 24 May
Yr 34 Incursion Woodstack Fire & Food
Thursday 25 May Open Night - Artist and Writers Festival 6.30pm to 7.30pm Dental Van visit Friday 26 May Dental Van visit Yr 4-6 SDSSA Cross Country for selected students Yr 4B visit Nara Preschool 10.00am-11:00am
Refer to the website for Notices http://mountwaverleyheightsps.vic.edu.au/par
ent-information/
LAP-A-THON TOMORROW Tomorrow is the lap-a-thon! We are looking forward to seeing the students try their hardest on the track. Whether they walk, run, skip or moonwalk the important thing is that they try their best and encourage each other along the way. Please make sure you pack:
Jumper (and maybe a spare set of clothes if it looks like rain!)
Water bottle A good morning snack and brain food for energy before
the event Runners, which may be worn all day
If you have time, come along and cheer the students on! Volunteers should meet at the office at 11am. A huge thank you to Leonie for all her wonderful work organising the event and to all the parents who are helping on the day! The event will begin at 11.30 and conclude around 1pm. Sponsorship forms are due back by 2nd June.
Fingers crossed the weather holds out and we have no need to reschedule.
ATTITUDES TO SCHOOL SURVEY – YEARS 4-6 (WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK) 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. The Attitudes to School survey is an annual student survey offered by the Department of Education and Training to assist schools in gaining 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.
The Department has updated the survey for 2017 to include important new measures that are known to influence student
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English and maths comment provided plus an outline of next stages of
learning.
engagement and performance. Students from Years 4-6 at our school will participate in the survey. Your child will complete the survey online during school hours using a purpose built secure online survey tool. It is important to note that we are not in any way “testing” your child. Your child has the right to refuse or withdraw from the survey at any point before, during, or after completion of the survey. Your child will be provided with a unique login to complete the survey. The student login is an assigned identifier that may be used by the Department to combine data for research purposes only. Your child’s privacy and the confidentiality of your child’s survey responses will be protected at all times. No identifiable personal data is included in the survey response file. The survey results will be reported back to the school in Term 3. No student can be identified in the results reported to schools or in any other report of the data. Last year we used the survey results to inform our schools Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plan. This year the Attitudes to School survey will be conducted at our school over the period Monday 29 May to Friday 16 June. The survey only takes 20-30 minutes to complete and occurs during your child's class time. Please speak to your child’s teacher if you would like more information or visit the Department of Education and Training website: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/management/Pages/performsurveyat.aspx.
REPORTS CONTINUED… What will reports look like? There won’t be a huge amount of change. There will still be the overview page showing a visual of where your child is performing – below, at or above level An English and Maths comment stating what your child has achieved and their next point of learning. Most importantly feedback regarding their effort and behaviour in each subject area. PIC
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Specialist Comments Page: This year, Claire Furlong will be writing both a Music and an Art comment for Semester One and Two. This is doubling Claire’s report writing comments and I would like to thank her in advance for the extra work load and commitment.
Student wellbeing will always be a priority at MWHPS and as such is reflected in the way we provide feedback on a student’s attitude, effort, behaviour, persistence, manners, values, etc through a one page document in the reports.
Last but not least will be a general comment made by the classroom teacher, a student’s self-reflection and a comment made by myself or Carolyn as the leaders of the school.
We will continue to add snippets outlining the Victorian curriculum to each newsletter, so that you can develop a greater understanding of the changes to the curriculum and the impact these have on the 2017 reporting structure.
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EDUCATION WEEK IS NEXT WEEK – MAY 22-26 – HEALTHY MIND – HEALTHY BODY
FRIDAY 19 MAY Thinking skills Challenge: Using Tony Ryan’s Thinker’s Key – BAR (Bigger, Add, Replace/Remove something) redesign a common item to make it better.
Redraw your design on an A3 size piece of paper. If you need some paper, please ask you classroom teacher.
You need to state….. a) What aspects of the BAR strategy you used (Did you just make one part bigger? or did you use all three aspects of the strategy?) b) Why you think your invention is great.
Please ensure that you have included your child/children’s name and surname on the poster
All entries will need to be submitted by this Friday May 19 so they can be displayed for Education Week.
MONDAY 22 MAY 2.30-3PM
At assembly on Monday we will be kicking off Education Week with a whole school Zumba session to get into the spirit of Education Week – Healthy Mind, Healthy Body. Feel free to come along at 2.30pm and join in for the 30 minute Zumba session. Students will need to make sure they bring along a water bottle and are wearing sneakers and their sports uniform (Years 5/6).
TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY Students will be provided the opportunity to view the invention challenge entries and vote on their favourite invention.
THURSDAY 25 MAY 6.30-7.30
A passport can be collected from your child’s classroom. Review your child’s writing and the writing across the school before being amazed at the beautiful art work on display. At 7.10pm head over to the PAC to hear our junior and senior choir perform as well as our Taiko drumming band. Visit all the classrooms to enter our lucky raffle!
NARA VISIT This week our Year 4 students visited Nara Pre-School as part of a four week community placement project. These visits will provide students with an initial opportunity to practise their leadership skills and help others in the broader community. Not only have our students been out to Nara but the Nara kinder kids have visited our school twice this week in preparation for their transition to school. We have loved having the kinder kids out at MWHPS and enjoy building upon the strong relationship between the two educational settings. Thanks to Georgia and Helen for their lesson preparation and to Carolyn for organising this program.
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THINK TANK SESSION 2 Classes were buzzing on Monday afternoon, as the Year 5/6 children taught others about 'The Habits of Mind' strategies across the Years 3-6 classes. The kids liked being mixed into different classes exploring different thinking strategies. Our student presenters prepared a power point presentation to support their lessons. Students as teachers - inspiring learning.
EXTEND HOLIDAY PROGRAM Extend have been running our holiday program for the past year and a half and have offered a great program and level of care for our students. Unfortunately our attendance numbers for the holiday program fluctuate greatly and Extend have picked up the costs associated with this loss over the past year and are unable to continue absorbing these costs. Extend had proposed dropping the holiday program (as it seemed that it was not what our community needed). School Council believes that this is a service our community needs and has negotiated with Extend ways in which to continue to offer the holiday program. However, this requires a $10 fee increase per day. With the government rebate, most families will pay between $3-5 extra per day. We acknowledge that this
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increase may be too much for some families. Even with increasing the costs of the holiday program, numbers need to improve for it to be considered a viable program for future term breaks. Due to changes to the Extend School Holiday program, there will be a 30 minute information session on Monday 29 May at 6pm in the PAC to outline these changes, the reasons for the change, and to give all parents an opportunity to ask questions. All parents are invited to come to this information session and contribute to the discussion. HUNTINGDALE ROAD CAR PARK It is great that we have two car parks that you can access for our school. Just a reminder that if you are picking your child up from the Huntingdale road car park to please drive into the car park and not to stop on Huntingdale road. Huntingdale road can become quite busy and it carries a high volume of traffic so stopping on Huntingdale road outside the school can become quite treacherous. The safest and easiest way to pick up your child is to pull into the car park and let your children out by parking in the bays or using the drop off zone. We have now completed the signage on the Huntingdale road car park, and ask that you please only turn LEFT out of the car park. We all want to pick up our children safely from school and these small changes will allow for a safe and easy pick up. PREMIERS READING CHALLENGE A reminder to send back the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge consent form if you would like your child’s name to appear in the online Honour Roll.
Let’s celebrate A wonderful Mother’s Day Stall. Thank you to Charmaine Bacon and all the parent volunteers
who assisted on the day. So many fantastic presents and the kids thought it was the best one ever!
The P-2 teaching team for a wonderful Mother’s Day event last Friday. The P-2 students recited a gorgeous poem for the mums before they were all able to go back to the classrooms to hand their mums a special handmade gift. Scones, coffee and tea were enjoyed by our mums and special friends, whilst the students ate their snacks. It was so lovely to have over 50 parents in attendance.
15 new netbooks purchased for the senior grades. Feedback received via an email from Huntingtower PS regarding our year 5/6 students: ‘what
wonderful students you have, how polite and well-mannered they are’. Yes, they are! Senior school Choir performing with eastern region primary students at rehearsals yesterday as
they prepare for their big performance at Hamer Hall. They sound amazing! Until next week,
Sharon
Sharon Reiss-Stone Principal
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Nara Visits and Year 4 Community Involvement Program Nara Preschool brought their 4 year old kinder students to our school where kinder students worked in two groups with Mrs Despotellis, Helen, Mrs Morris and Mrs Reiss-Stone. The kinder students worked in our wonderful library and art room completing a variety of activities. This is a fantastic opportunity for kinder to visit us and for the kinder children and families to start to make connections with a primary school. Our Year 4 students have begun their Community Involvement Program at Nara-Preschool. This program will involve the students working with the 4 year old kinder group on a writing project. Our students work with the preschool children to write a story together. The program will not only provide our students with an authentic purpose for their writing but also offers a wonderful opportunity to go out into the community to help and share with others. At the end of the program, we will be inviting parents to join us to showcase their work, as the students and kinder students celebrate their journey and share their stories with you. The Nara Showcase will be in the last week of term and more details are to come. Physical Education NOTES:
Term 2 Sport Dates (Please let me know if you can assist on any of these dates)
ROUND 4- 2nd June HOME V East Burwood 9 – 11am
ROUND 5- 9th June AWAY V St Christopher 1.30 – 3pm
This week’s eSmart focus is from the Department of Education’s Bully Stoppers. Teaching your child to be cybersafe will help them to engage with the online world safely, responsibly and discerningly and can assist to protect them from online risks. Common cybersafety issues for children include cyberbullying, accessing or sharing inappropriate content and protecting their personal information.
For more information on how you can be a positive online role model for your child, use the following link to the website where you can also download a fact sheet.
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/bullystoppers/Pages/parentcyber.aspx
Thanks
Carolyn
Carolyn Datson Assistant Principal
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This week's artists of the week goes to our Musicans! The Senior Choir students are sounding amazing!
NEVR CONCERT DETAILS:
Tuesday 30th May 7:30pm at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
TICKETS: Tickets can be purchased at www.artcentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2017/popular-
music/dancebeat or call 1300 182 183 9am – 8:30pm Mon – Sat Adults: $28 Concession: $20 Family ticket: $75
OPEN NIGHT Our Artist and Writers Festival is being held on Thursday 25th of May
from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. The Senior Choir (Yr 3-6), Junior Choir (Yr1-2) and Taiko Drummers will be performing as part of this event. The children will need to wear FULL SCHOOL UNIFORM and meet in the Performing Arts Centre (PAC) at 7pm. The groups will all perform followed by a short presentation and the raffle will be drawn. The children will be finished at 7:30pm and will be dismissed from the PAC.
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Student Representative Council
ANZAC Day Appeal
Thank you to all our families and staff for supporting this year’s ANZAC Day Appeal.
All money raised, goes towards assisting current and former members of the
Australian and Allied Defence Forces and their dependents in need.
Funky Hair Day – Leukaemia Foundation
Thank you also to our whole school community for supporting our FUNKY HAIR DAY at the
end of last term. The array of wild and wacky hair styles included colours, spikes, waves, curls, glitter scrunchies and even a bird’s nest! We raised $221.70. This money helps the Leukaemia Foundation look after people with blood cancers.
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Lap- a-thon on Friday 19th May
Mothers’ Day stall Thursday 11th May Thanks to all the mums who helped on the mothers’ day stall and the students who helped carry boxes over to the PAC. The mums, who manned the stall and helped wrap on the day, include Jane, Janelle, Kristina, Annette, Saima, Mary, Debbie, Pam, Bec, Ming, Eunsoo, Stephanie, Himani, Joo, Azumi & Alison.
Biggest thanks to Charmaine Bacon for organising it & buying most of the gifts.
The stall went well and the students enjoyed shopping for their mum or special someone. Hope all the mums have enjoyed their gifts.
The Lap-a-thon will be held TOMORROW from 11am to 1:30pm. All the volunteers please meet at the office at 11am. There is still a bit time to get as many sponsor as possible! Parents, don’t forget to remind your child/children to wear their runners. If you have time please come along and cheer the students on!
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Hi everyone!
We have been so busy at after school are this term! So far we have started our Extend cares initiative, it's sustainability!! For this we have learnt lots of new games and craft activities where we use recycled resources and play games that teach us about being environmentally friendly in a fun way! Our favourite activity so far was definitely the treasure hunt! There was treasure hidden all over the school and we had to use a school map with 'X marks the spot' to find all the treasure!! Our mums loved the plants we potted them for mothers day almost as much as we enjoyed potting them!!
AND OUR EXTEND SUPER-STAR OF THE WEEK IS.....
GISELE FROM PREP M
FOR: Helping others to make the right decisions at after school care and being willing to give everything a go, even if she's not sure if she'll like it!
. Next week is the start of our 2017 EXTEND'S GOT TALENT!!
We will be rehearsing next week, designing props and costumes and planning and designing our show and having performances the following week!!
From Rylie and the kids at Extend. :)
Extend OSHC at Mount Waverley Heights Primary School
WINTER HOLIDAY PROGRAM BOOKINGS ARE OPEN!
Book 14 days in advance to receive the lowest rate.
Participate in our winter-themed activities, including science experiments
to learn about animals with blubber, recreating a winter snowstorm in a
jar, and participating in a snowman slam!
To check out the daily schedule, visit our website at extend.com.au and
book via the Parent Portal.
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Japan Festival at Box Hill Town Hall and TAFE this weekend (Sunday 21 May) Come and immerse yourself in Japanese culture. Sensei will be performing on stage @ 13:50