GRAHAMVALE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Quality Education for All

Principal - Simone Higgins

Acting Assistant Principal - Anda O’Keeffe 5/11/2020

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KEY DATES AHEAD

Friday 18th December

Last day of the school year

REMINDER

Parent Opinion Survey

closes on 13th November

It certainly was a sea of colour on Monday for our

House Day. Mrs Watts and the student leaders did

a great job organising the Amazing Race over the

past weeks and Monday was a great way to

conclude the event. Congratulations James on

being the inaugural winners of the Amazing Race!

Please know that there is a lot of planning and

organisation going on behind the scenes at the moment regarding

Graduation, our Leadership Assembly, excursions, ways to celebrate the end of

the year etc. These continue to be challenging times for us with the large

number of guidelines etc we MUST adhere to. The announcements made are

sometimes misleading, so please ensure you are reading the Schoolstream

messages as this is where the updates are being posted.

Thank you to those who have already returned Christmas Raffle money to

school. If you would like some more tickets to sell, please phone the office and

we will arrange for these to be sent home with your child. On behalf of the

Parents’ Club I would like to thank you for your support with this fundraiser.

Lunch orders are available again tomorrow. There were a few minor glitches

last week however the process seemed to be quite smooth. We will be asking

for feedback in the coming weeks.

Thank you to the parents who have been able to spend some time completing

the Department's Parent Opinion Survey. The survey is open until Friday 13th

November.

Please remember to contact the school if you have any concerns or

information you would like to share with us regarding your child and ask to

speak to myself or Anda before Friday November 20th. Please also note

that requests cannot be made for a specific teacher.

Here’s to a great Friday and a great weekend. There is set

to be some further easing of restrictions announced on

the weekend. It is hard to believe that there are just six

weeks left of what has been an incredible school year!

Simone

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

00A Milan 12B Aria 34A Christopher 56A Whole Class

00B Aleandra 12C Christabel 34B Archie 56B Amelia

00C Candice & Emily 12D Ruby 34C Maeve 56C Tamir

12E Amelia 34D Samma 56D Nash

12F Kate

Term 4 Calendar 2020

Grahamvale Primary School

Week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

6 November

9

10

11

Bluearth

3/4 Excursion

12

13

3/4 Excursion

Foundation 100 Days

7 November

16

Year 2

BYOD Information

Session

17

18

Year 2

BYOD Information

Session

19

20

8 November

23

School Council

Meeting

24

25

Bluearth

26

27

9 Nov/Dec

30

F-2 Science

Incursion (Online)

1

5/6 Science

Incursion (Online)

2

3

3/4 Science Incursion

(Online)

4

10 December

7

F-2 Science

Incursion (Online)

8

9

Bluearth

10

11

11 December

14

Reports go home

Year 6 Graduation?

15

Year 5/6 Fun Day?

16 17 18

LAST DAY OF THE

SCHOOL YEAR

Welcome to Week 5!

Hello, we are Maddi and Samarah, the Doyle House Captains.

Last week was the final of the Amazing Race, ran by the House Captains, with assistance from other Leaders in the yard. A big ‘thank you’ to everyone who participated in the challenges each week, representing their House Team! Congratulations James on winning! The Year 5’s are currently writing speeches and applying for a Leadership role. A good leader isn’t about having followers, instead they create more leaders and influence others.

Being a Leader is a lot of responsibility but it’s also really fun. You get to work with your friends in the Leadership team and help out fellow students and teachers. To us, a Leader is a person who doesn’t tell you what to do, they show you. They should lead by example!

Grahamvale Primary School is conducting a survey to find out what

parents think of our school. The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual

survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is

conducted amongst all parents. It is designed to assist schools in gaining

an understanding of parents’ perceptions of school climate, student

behaviour, student engagement and experiences of remote and flexible

learning. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct

future school planning and improvement strategies.

All parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey.

All responses to the survey are anonymous.

This year, the Parent Opinion Survey will be conducted from

Monday 12th October to Friday 13th November.

Emails have been sent out to families with details on how to access

the survey.

If you wish to participate in this survey and have not received an email

from the school, please contact the school office and provide them with

your email address.

2020 Parent Opinion Survey

The Child Safe Standards are they are well prepared to protect children from abuse and

neglect. The standards provide a framework for schools to review existing policies and

practices and all other aspects of child safety, to ensure a ‘Zero Tolerance’ approach to

any form of child abuse. You can access our policy on the school’s website.