thursday 24th may 2018 together we make a difference
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Dates to Remember
21st – 25th May Education Week
25th May District Cross Country
(selected students only)
28th May Soccer Clinic
Foundation – Grade 4
29th May Parent Teacher Interviews
4th June World War 1 Messenger Dog
Incursion
11th June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday
12th June Pupil Free Day
12th June Division Cross Country
(selected students only)
15th June Disco
21st June
Grade 1/2 excursion to
Mont De Lancey
29th June
Last day Term 2
2.30pm dismissal
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PRINCIPALS BLOG
Dear Parents and Friends,
Pupil Free Day Coming Up! Pupil Free Day on Tuesday 12th June this term. Focus to be on data, literacy, moderation, especially Writing, our new Spelling Program, and the new High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) DET document.
It’s OPEN! Our covered outdoor play-space is now complete. The new shed and basketball/netball rings are still to come but it was opened as a space last Friday! The lights, power, basketball/netball rings and shed are all extras we were able to include within the original grant from James Merlino in 2017.
A reminder for parents that footballs must NOT be kicked under the new area as it may damage the lighting.
Tram to Ferny Creek! As lots of you saw in the news last week that VicTrams is donating a number of the old ‘W’ class trams free to schools. A number of students and parents have expressed an interest in putting in an expression of interest for a tram for Ferny Creek. The trams can be used for any purpose we deem as useful – some ideas tossed around so far – outdoor party space, outdoor art room, a mini stage for outdoor performing, or an ‘open’ classroom. Have any ideas? Let us know, simply email through your ideas to [email protected]. We will also have some imagining from our students in the coming couple of weeks.
Parent/student Teacher Conferences Next week we are holding the first of our Parent teacher conferences for 2018. They will be run them as follows:
o Foundation: Parent and teacher only. o Years 1 and 2: Students complete self-assessment and students are
given the option of attending.
Newsletter
Thursday 24th May 2018 TOGETHER WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Phone: 9755 1522
Fax: 9755 2493
School Road, Ferny Creek,
Victoria 3786
Web: www.fernycreekps.vic.edu.au
Email: [email protected]
Banking Details Account: Ferny Creek Primary School
Bank: CBA
BSB: 063 414
Account Number: 10022451
Office Hours Monday – Friday 8.30am - 4pm
Principal: Matthew Coyle
Business Manager: Jill Heathcote
Promotion & PR: Rhian Jessop
School Council President: Jennifer Royle
School Council Bek Cranmer
Michelle Spencer
Liam Smith
Sharon Neal Thomas Hastings
Liam Fennessy
Anna Kelly
Uniform Shop: Monday 8:50 - 9:30am
Karra Rhodes
Buildings & Grounds: Michael Paterson
Costume Hire: Sarah Jennings
School Banking: Tuesday
Mel Baird
After the Bell: Head Office: 9758 6744
P.O. Box 7082 Ferntree Gully Vic 3156
Email: [email protected] Website: www.afterthebell.com.au
o Years 3 and 4: Students complete self-assessment and are strongly encouraged to include the student.
o Years 5 and 6: Students must attend as a key to transitioning to secondary where three way conferences are most common practice.
Booking can be made through the sign-up sheets in foyer, emailing or calling the school
Education Week: Open Night Last Night Great turnout, lots of fun and lots of positive feedback! More in next week’s newsletter! Well done teachers and Senior Students!
Tutoring Over this term I have had a number of parents ask me about tutoring for their child. In the past we have been able to manage a couple with staff in the school but unfortunately are no longer able to do so. Is there an interested person or people in our community to help out? No experience necessary – a good positive attitude and a working with children check is all you need. Please give Jill your name, phone and email if interested.
School Lateness and Absenteeism From the Sydney Daily Mail: ‘Impact of Students Being Away Missing just one day of school has negative consequences for a student’s academic achievement, the first major study linking poor attendance to lower results has found. And school attendance patterns established as early as year 1 can predict how often a student will show up to class right through high school, according to the research. The average public school student in NSW misses almost three weeks of school each year.
Australia is alarmingly slack when it comes to school attendance, with high school students skipping more days of school than almost any other developed country. An analysis of the attendance records and NAPLAN results of more than 400,000 students from Western Australia found any absence from school leads to a decline in academic performance. The study dispels the belief there is a safe level of absence students can get away with before their grades will suffer.
“We were able to show that actually every day counts and days that you’re missing in year 3 and year 5, we can detect that all the way through to year 9,” the report's co-author, Stephen Zubrick, from the University of Western Australia, said. “A 10-day period of unauthorised absence in a year is sufficient to drop a child about a band in the NAPLAN testing.”
The most startling finding, Professor Zubrick said, was that students arrive in year 1 “with their school attendance careers already in their pockets”. “For most children, year 1 sets the pattern for what school attendance will look like in the future,” Professor Zubrick said. “You’re learning more than reading and writing. You’re learning to show up.”
Absence was found to have a greater impact on writing than it did on numeracy and reading. While poor attendance is a problem across the socio-economic spectrum, families in affluent areas often interrupt schooling for overseas holidays. Professor Zubrick insists his message is not about finger wagging or guilt trips, but says “we do need to recognise that when a child is standing on the Eiffel Tower, so to speak, they may be learning a lot about the world but they’re not necessarily learning everything they’d be learning at school.”
Some food for thought. Have a great week everybody, Matthew
Win this MasterFoods
pack for $1!!
We are starting to receive some lovely
donations from local companies to use to raise
funds for our ‘Fun Festival’ (November 30th –
write it down in your diaries!) Some of these
items have a certain use-by date so each
month, we will be offering a specific raffle
item up for grabs!
Tickets to enter are $1 each (buy 1, buy 5
or buy none depending on if that particular
month’s item tickles your fancy or not!)
Our first monthly raffle item is this lovely
donation from ‘MasterFoods Australia’ (RRP
<$40) and includes –
4x spice jars
2 x Uncle Ben’s rice packets
1x tomato sauce
1x barbecue sauce
1x mustard
4 x ‘recipe base’ packets
1x gravy mix
2x Kan Tong pastes
You could win all these for a dollar! Raffle will
be drawn in assembly on Friday June 1st.
Please send in any tickets on or before
Wednesday May 30th. Good luck…
Parents are reminded that the staff carpark is out of bounds and is not to be used for student drop off or parking. Please ensure your children understand that they NEVER walk through the staff carpark, under any circumstance.
Thank you to Jessie Thomas, an ex-student at Ferny
Creek and Ash (5/6A) for the great donation of books to
the Library. Very much appreciated.
Thanks Beth.
Abbie W: For fantastic listening skills during our soccer clinics. You have been listening to and following instructions so closely and carefully. Chloe A: For learning lots of our ‘word wall’ words recalling them when reading. Jam L: For continually improving his reading skills by remembering to read at home every night. Keep up the great work!!! Kade R: For working well in maths lessons to complete his work accurately and neatly. Keep up the great work!!! Lucas M-W: For his hard work and dedication to improving his reading level. Well done Lucas! Beatrix E: For the fantastic recount of our mini beast incursion. Beautifully illustrated as well! Finlay A: For the superb effort you put into everything you do. Your determination and drive to succeed is most impressive, Finlay! Milla D: For the kindness you show to everyone in our class. You look for the best in others, Milla and you’re so good at making other people feel special. Evie-Lee S: For her creative art work she completed with her group. The Rainbow Serpent is GREAT!! Finn C: For working well with his peers when researching and presenting information about Indigenous clothing. Grace M: For your wonderful culinary skills in the kitchen this week. You worked well with Katrina and Beth creating mouth-watering sausage rolls and apple turnovers that were certainly a hit with the grade. Well Done!!! Ned F: For making it through the second round of the SSV Basketball trials, what a fantastic effort!!! Best of luck for the two day training camp at Coburg in the July School holidays. Ally J: For automatically thinking about how she can help others without being asked. Ava W: For her fantastically well written and powerfully presented persuasive piece on equality for women. Nicky B: For showing a high level of enthusiasm in the lead up to Open Night during Education Week and the pride you display in being a student of Ferny Creek Primary School. Sophie R: For being a great kid who shows resilience in class, going with the flow in the ever changing senior learning area.
Stars of the Week
Creative Artist Award
Nicky B
Grade 5/6K
Performing Arts Student of the Week
Leon R
Grade1/2B
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Ally J
Grade 5/6C JAPA
NESE
Ferny Creek Primary School Pupil Free Day 12 June 2018.
Come and sign in for his fun filled day. We are hoping to run a full day program from 7am-6.15pm in the OSHC
room. Please come and see Lyn during our OSHC opening hours to book your child/ren in or contact us on 97586744 and/or [email protected] before Tuesday 5th June. We need a minimum of 12 students to run, so get in quick!