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Gisborne Primary School
12th October 2017 Issue 31
CHALK TALK Diary Dates
Fri 13th Oct Gr P-2 Bunnings Incursion
Mon 16th Oct PFA Meeting
Wed 18th Oct School Council Meeting
Mon 23rd Oct Grade 5&6 STEM CERES Incursion
Wed 25th Oct Gr 5&6 Orienteering
Thur 26th Oct Crazy Sock & Shoe Day
Fri 27th Oct
World Teacher’s Day
First Pre-Prep Transition Session
Mon 30th Oct Crazy Camel Orders Close
Fri 3rd Nov T20 Cricket Blast
Mon 6th Nov Curriculum Day—Student Free Day
Tues 7th Nov Melbourne Cup Public Holiday
Wed 8th Nov Gr5 Western Water Incursion
Fri 17th Nov Pre—Prep Transition Session
Mon 20th Nov
Prep—Birds of Prey Incursion
Gr 5 CBA Smart Start workshops
Tue 21st Nov Gr 5 CBA Smart Start Workshop
Wed 29th Nov Grade 6 depart for Camp
ACTING PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Dear families,
Welcome back! I hope you have all had the opportunity to spend time with your families over the term holidays. Whilst Julie is in America on her well earned Long Service Leave, I am stepping into the role for the next 4 weeks. Please feel free to see me if needed (or if you just wanted to pop in and say hello).
Minister Visit It was an eventful day today with a visit from the Education Minister and Deputy Premier, James Merlino and the member for Macedon, Mary Anne Thomas. They toured the school looking at the current buildings and received a briefing on the proposed redevelopments. Thank you to the school captains, Isaac and Darcy as well as staff and school council members for their relevant contributions.
Values After receiving input from staff, parents and students, our values have been confirmed as:
Staff will focus on these throughout the term to ensure students are familiar with them and understand what they mean. These values should be reflected by the whole school community. One aspect that needs to be followed and is extremely important is that if parents have any concerns, they need to follow the Raising Concerns Procedure (see page 6 of this newsletter, or it can be accessed on the Sentral Parent Portal). Please be aware that under no circumstances is a parent to confront another student about an incident. This will not be tolerated at Gisborne PS.
Mental Health Week This week is recognised as Mental Health Week. Mental Health Week acts as a yearly reminder to check up on friends, family and co-workers. It is an opportunity to gain more understanding of mental health issues. The week is a prompt to connect with the people around us and see how they are doing. Questions such as ‘How are you going? Would you like any help/support?’ can let the person know you care and are keen to help. You don’t have to have all the answers to their problems, just being there for someone and showing you care is extremely helpful. Gisborne PS has a variety of options if you require support such as classroom teachers, leadership and a school wellbeing counsellor. Please access these if required.
Uniform To assist in preventing head lice and in line with our school uniform policy, could students please ensure they have their hair tied up each day. Also a reminder about jewellery: only watches and simple stud or sleeper earrings may be worn. Bangles, bracelets and necklaces are not permitted.
Canteen Manager Welcome to Dee Spiteri who was the successful candidate for the Canteen Manager position. Her first day went very smoothly and we look forward to working with Dee and continuing this service for the school. Thanks to Jane Davies for assisting Dee with this transition.
Hats As Term 4 is a Sun Smart term, all students will be required to wear a broad-rimmed hat when outside. These can be purchased from the Beleza uniform shop in Aitken Street. (Please ensure they are named). Have a lovely week. Regards, Lisa
Caring Respect Resilience Responsibility Personal Best
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2018 STUDENT PLACEMENTS We are now taking student placement requests for 2018. Our school undertakes a comprehensive grade placement process each year during Term 4. This includes ensuring that a balance of behavioural, academic and social needs are present in each grade . Multiple teacher meetings take place and many hours of work is undertaken to achieve the best possible placements for our students. Parent requests form one component of this process. Our guidelines for requests include: · Requests must be made in writing by the 27th of October, addressed to Lisa Maxwell and Julie Soutter. · Requests for specific teachers will not be taken. · Requests regarding particular student combinations that may disadvantage your child’s learning and wellbeing will be
considered, however requests for particular students to be together will not. · If there are particular traits or issues that need to be considered that we are not currently aware of, please advise us of
strategies or approaches that work best, so that we can ensure a good match is made for your child. 2018 Grade placements will be announced in December. We thank our community in advance for their understanding that student placement decisions are a comprehensive process and considerations for the best for all students are taken into account.
PARENT PORTAL ONLINE PERMISSION This term, permission for school activities will need to be granted via the Sentral Parent Portal.
Payments can be made via Qkr!, Bpay, or CSEF. Hard copy notes will no longer be sent home.
Sentral Parent Portal link: https://sentral.gisborneps.vic.edu.au/portal2/#!/login Please do not hesitate to contact the school office should you have any queries.
PERMISSION & PAYMENTS
DUE AMOUNT DATE DUE
Grade 5&6 STEM CERES Incursion
Payment of $9.00 Friday 20th October
Grade 6 Camp Balance of payment Wed 22nd November
Subject Contributions & Class Materials (Fees)
$210.00 per student 2017
WALK TO SCHOOL This year we are participating in Walk to School 2017 which runs from October 9th – November 3rd. It is a fun and easy way
for students to build healthy habits for life. Walking, riding or scooting to and from school instead of driving is great for our
health, environment and community.
We are asking students to walk, ride and scoot as many times as possible during the Walk to School period. They don’t have
to walk the whole way to school, you could drive part way to or from school and walk the rest. Each class is keeping a tally of
how many students walk, ride and scoot to and from school each day. At assembly each week we will announce the class
with the most walks, rides and scoots from the previous week. There will be spot prizes awarded to students who have
walked, ridden and scooted and had this marked off on their class tally.
Other fun activities for Walk to School 2017 are:
Crazy Sock and Shoe Day – This will be held on Thursday 26th October
Design a Walk to School poster
Decorate a shoe, scooter or bike template to be displayed around our school
Healthy breakfast for any students that participated in Walk to School 2017 (date to be advised shortly)
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Canteen News Message from our new Canteen Manager
Hi Parents and Students, my name is Dee Spiteri and I'm very excited to be appointed as the new Canteen Manager at
Gisborne Primary. I've been a regular volunteer in the canteen over the past few years and really loved it, so I'm very
thankful for this opportunity. I would also like to thank Jane Davies for all her support and guidance in helping me settle in,
it's truly appreciated.
Please don’t hesitate to come & say hello, and we are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers!
Looking forward to a fantastic Term 4!
Dee
Unfortunately, Lemonade Focus water is not available for 2 weeks. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Please note: should we not have enough helpers on canteen day, we will be unable to provide over the counter sales at recess and lunchtime. If you have a Working With Children Check and would like to help out, please contact the office.
Reading at home It is very important to ensure your child continues to read at home. Even once your child is capable of reading independently, to assist with developing fluency, comprehension and expression, it is important they read aloud to a parent and discuss the text together. Please see the graphic opposite. Thank you for your continued support at home for your child’s education.
Canteen Roster
FRIDAY
13th OCT FRIDAY
20th OCT FRIDAY
27th OCT FRIDAY 3rd NOV
FRIDAY 10th NOV
9AM - 11:30AM Sonja Reid
HELP NEEDED
Hollee Chuck
HELP NEEDED
Sophia Floreani
9AM - 11:30AM Naomi Adams
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
9AM—10:00AM URGENT
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
12:30PM - 2:30PM Trish
Sullivan Hannah Beasley
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
HELP NEEDED
12:30PM - 2:30PM Nicole
McKibbin Renae
Simpson HELP
NEEDED HELP
NEEDED HELP
NEEDED
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CRAZY CAMEL ART FUNDRAISER
Information will be sent tomorrow to enable families to order their
child/ren’s artwork on a variety of products including calendars,
notebooks, diaries, phone covers, greeting cards and more!
WORLD TEACHER’S
DAY
We will be celebrating World
Teacher’s Day on
Friday 27th October
to thank our teachers for the
wonderful job they do.
We invite students to write a
card, letter, or poem; draw a
picture, bring flowers from the
garden, bake something
special, or just say thank you
to their teacher for all the
hard work they do.
Any parents who would like to
drop off a little something for
our teachers for morning tea
can leave it at the office.
Thank you.
SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB Scholastic Book Club forms were sent home to families today.
Ordering needs to be completed online by 9:00am Friday 20th October via the following link:
www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP
We hope you enjoy developing your children’s home library whilst supporting our school
(20% of all sales from Book Club goes to Gisborne Primary School).
Just a reminder that book orders will be sent home with students. If any orders are gifts and should not be sent
home with students, parents may contact the office to advise the PFA and make arrangements for collection.
Payments for the Crazy Camel Fundraiser and the Shopping Tour
can be made via the Qkr App.
Please note that the Shopping Tour requires you to choose a student before making
payment but this is just to enable the PFA to identify which family has made the
payment. You can make payments for multiple people once a student profile has been
selected. Please contact the office should you have any queries.
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Happy Birthday!! to the following students who celebrate their
birthdays this week, 9th October—14th October:
Phoebe W—2C Abbey I—3A Thomas I - 3B Lucas A—4C Melia S—PB Ellie C—2A Madison G—1B Isobel P -1C
Gisborne Primary School 35 Fisher Street Gisborne Vic 3437 PH: 03 5428 2022 FX: 03 5428 4280 Email: [email protected] Web: www.gisborneps.vic.edu.au
2017 Curriculum Days
Monday 6th November
Bell Times
8:50am Warning Bell
8:55am Class Bell
10:55 - 11.25am Recess
1:25pm Eat lunch inside
1:40-2:25pm Lunch
3:25pm Dismissal
Order Uniform ONLINE through Beleza
Click here
Or visit 42C Aitken Street Gisborne
2017 TERM DATES
Term 3: 17 Jul—22 Sep Term 4: 9 Oct—22 Dec
Caring
We were fortunate enough to have Roarke Smith from the Western Bulldogs visit the Grade 4-6 students on Footy Day last term. Thank you Roarke! And thank you to our Wellbeing Counsellor, Shellie Cooper, for organising the visit!
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Gisborne Little Athletics Club
Get active at Gisborne Little Athletics with the season starting
Friday October 13th
, 5pm to 6:30pm at DIXON FIELD, Gisborne.
Come try for free first 2 weeks! The Season runs each Friday evening until late February with
a break for school holidays, approximately 17 competition nights. Highly qualified running coach.
Location: Dixon Field, Robertson Road, Gisborne.
Ages: 5 to 15. Fees at Gisborne are: 1st child $150 per season, 2nd child $135, 3rd and subsequent children $100.
Parental assistance required on a rostered basis.
Register online at: https://memberdesq.imgstg.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&OrgID=1370
For more information email: [email protected]
