Principal’s Message What’s On… - Glendal Primary School Gpost … · Leadership Teams’. In 2017, the Covey 7 Habits of Highly Effective People professional learning program

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What’s On… March Thursday 29 9:15am F-6 Assembly

2:30pm End of Term 1

April Monday 16 Start of Term 2

Tuesday 17 Year 6 Camp Info Night

6:30pm – Atrium

Monday 23 2:45pm Junior

Assembly

Wednesday 25 ANZAC DAY

Public Holiday

Monday 30 2:45pm Senior

Assembly

May Wednesday 2 Year 5 and 6 Choir

Excursion

Thursday 3 –

Friday 4 Book Fair – Paws for

Reading

Year 5 Immigration

Museum Excursion

Monday 7 2:45pm Junior

Assembly

Monday 7 –

Thursday 10 Book Fair

Mother’s Day Stall

Friday 11 Mother’s Day Stall

Evening Year 5

Bollywood Competition

at Fairhills High School

Monday 14 2:45pm Senior

Assembly

Year 6 Camp

Tuesday 15 Year 6 Camp

NAPLAN

Wednesday 16 Year 6 Camp

NAPLAN

Thursday 17 Year 6 Camp

NAPLAN

Friday Year 6 Camp returns

I wish all our school community well for the Easter holiday break.

Remember that we finish school at 2.30pm on Thursday 29 March and re-

open the school at 8.45am, Monday 16 April.

Well done to all our students for a very successful first term of learning and

thank you to our parent community for all their support. Our student leaders

are already displaying their skills in leading assembly and contributing to the

school leadership, which is great to see. Next term they will be meeting with

Federal MP, Julian Hill, to discuss leadership skills, experience and aptitude.

Parents and families are welcome to attend our end of term school assembly

on Thursday at 9.15am to celebrate our achievements for Term 1.

A summary of our 2017 Annual Report, recently presented to School Council,

is published here for your information. Next term the whole report, once

endorsed by the Department of Education, will be published on our school

website.

Framework for Improving Student Outcomes (FISO)

Our Framework for Improving Student Outcomes, FISO, priority areas for

2017 were ‘Empowering Students and Building School Pride’ and ‘Building

Leadership Teams’.

In 2017, the Covey 7 Habits of Highly Effective People professional learning

program was extended to include middle management and other aspiring

leaders. All staff participated in the ‘Integro DiSC’ program, designed to

enhance team work, and new members of our leadership team engaged in

the ‘DiSC World of Leaders’ and ‘Situational Leadership’ professional

learning. All Expert teachers took on coordinator roles and less

experienced staff were encouraged to coordinate year level teams and

programs such as the House system, JEM (sustainability and the

environment group) and Student Representative Council.

In 2017, substantial time, effort and resources were attributed towards the

development of programs to ensure that these were sequential and

aligned with the Victorian Curriculum. Provision was made for the planning

of explicit instruction and open-ended and differentiated learning tasks.

Scope and sequence documents were also reviewed and assessment

procedures were streamlined and modified. Mandated assessment

processes were identified along with advice about supportive assessments

to clarify requirements for teachers and allow for the collection of

cumulative data.

Please Remember

Wednesday 28th March is

Parent/Student/Teacher Interview

day

28 March, 2018 - ISSUE 07

Term Dates Term 1, 2018– 30 January to 29 March

Term 2, 2018 – 16 April to 29 June

Term 3, 2018 – 16 July to 21 September

Term 4, 2018 – 8 October to 21 December

Contact us:

Principal’s Message

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School commences at 9:00am & concludes

at 3:30pm. The arrival of children at school

will be supervised from 8:45am. Children

will also be supervised while they are

leaving school until 3:45pm.

Please ensure your child arrives with

enough time to get to their class. Late

arrivals are a disruption to everyone.

Please notify us of your child’s absence or

late arrival in writing. Phone calls are

appreciated and must also be followed

up with a written note. 如果你的住址和联系电话有变，请告诉学校办址和联系公室。 Have your circumstances changed?

Update your contact details at the School

Office as soon as possible.

Please ensure you let the school office

know if you have changed address or

updated mobile phones with new

numbers.

This information alleviates stressful

situations on students when they

are ill and we cannot contact parents.

We are open …

Every Monday

From: 8:30am to 9:30am Please donate your uniforms. Sales

go towards buying educational games

for the students to play in class.

Every Monday From 9am to

10am Come in for a tea or coffee, meet

new parents or chat in our toddler

-friendly environment.

Principal’s Message Cont.

It is NOT great to be LATE.

Achievement

Student achievement and relative growth results in NAPLAN are very high,

particularly in numeracy, with students across a wide range of abilities

making excellent growth in literacy and mathematics learning between

Years 3 and 5. Learning Gain results show that there are fewer than

expected students achieving low learning gains and more students than

expected showing high learning gains. Learning Gain results in reading

and numeracy have also improved since 2017.

Victorian Curriculum teacher judgment results for English and

Mathematics in 2017 are higher than those of similar schools.

Following our School Review in 2017, we identified areas of improvement,

including ‘value adding’ to the higher performing students – particularly in

writing in the Year 5 cohort. School action to promote improvements

included further developing teacher capacity to make objective judgments

of student achievement, increasing the ability of teachers to use of data to

drive learning and building the capacity of students to self-assess and

improve their learning outcomes. Explicit moderation practices, strategic

teacher professional development and ongoing use of student

achievement data to improve teaching practice have produced gains in

our comparative results in English, as measured against other schools. We

are making excellent progress towards achieving these goals.

Engagement

Student absences for 2017 continue to be low and at the same rate of those

schools with a similar demographic profile. The attendance rate across the

school was 94% with the exception of Year 1 at 93%. The main reasons cited

by parents for student absence are family holidays and student illness.

Although a significant number of our families take extended annual holidays

(mostly overseas), our school community values education and regular

school attendance. We continue to work on addressing student late

arrivals, with newsletter articles and letters to individual families. The

development of the Compass administration system allows for online

access for parents to provide reasons behind student absences.

Our goal in this area is to improve ‘Student engagement’ and ‘Motivation

to learn’, by enhancing the physical, social, emotional and academic

experiences provided for students. We are committed to increasing

student engagement, creativity and self-expression. This is supported by

building teacher capacity to implement agreed whole school pedagogy

resulting in improved student engagement.

The Student Attitude to School survey data indicates that the students

would like to have a greater voice and agency in their learning. This was

also identified by the school leadership team and teachers and has formed

a focus for the next Strategic Plan under the FISO priority of developing a

‘Positive Climate for Learning’.

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In 2017 for the first time our data for ‘Student Connectedness to school’ and ‘’Management of

Bullying’ Student Attitudes to School Survey included input from the Year 4 cohort as well as Years 5

and 6. The results are very good and similar to that of other schools. We continue to work on

enhancing the wellbeing and emotional resilience of all students. We will be reviewing and

improving our student wellbeing program in 2018, as identified in our School Review process. We

survey students from Year 2 to 6, with regard to their emotional wellbeing using the Student

Emotional Wellbeing survey. The results from this inform whole school and class well-being

programs.

Last year saw the initial phase of the introduction to the revised Wellbeing program. It began with

whole staff, parent and student input into the development of the school Vision Statement, Mantra

and Values.

Vision Statement: ‘We educate and empower children to achieve their personal best and thrive in

our changing world.’

Mantra: “I am part of the team that inspires life-long learning.”

Values: Respect, Teamwork, Resilience, Responsibility, Creativity, Community

These form the basis of all other considerations when implementing our wellbeing program.

In 2017, we also introduced the DET mandated program of ‘Resilience, Rights and Respectful

Relationships’. RRRR is a suite of teaching and learning materials for Prep to Year 12, covering eight

topics of social and emotional learning, across all levels of primary and secondary education. The

program has been incorporated into the planning and delivery of each teacher’s classroom

practices and has been well-received in supporting the wellbeing of the students.

We continued to sustain our e-smart school status in 2017.

Wellbeing

For more detailed information regarding our school please visit our website at

www.glendalps.vic.edu.au

Deborah Grossek

Principal

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04/05/18 Fri 8:30-9:30am 3:00-4:30pm

07/05/18 Mon 8:30-9:30am 3:00-4:30pm

08/05/18 Tue 8:30-9:30am 3:00-4:30pm

09/05/18 Wed 8:30-9:30am 3:00-4:30pm

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All purchases benefit our school

Glendal Community News

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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT PURCHASED HOT CROSS BUNS.

WE RAISED $434 FOR THE SCHOOL.

COLES VOUCHERS

We have over 31,700 vouchers for the Sports for Schools 2018 program. Please keep collecting until 3rd April when

the program finishes. Hang onto your vouchers until the first week of Term 2 and I will collect these and send them

away. Many thanks for your support of this program.

STUDENT BANKING

Due to the end of term, there will be NO school banking on Thursday 29th March.

CAMP AUSTRALIA

Just a reminder that there will be NO Camp Australia Program today, Wednesday 28th due to Parent/Student/Teacher

Conferences.

LOST PROPERTY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

We currently have 125 items in the lost property area. This equates to roughly $2000 worth of items. On

Thursday 29th March, the last day of term, all unclaimed items will be placed on the hard courts outside the

office for families to take at no cost. All these items do not have names or legible writing and cannot be

returned. So over the holidays please make sure your child’s full name is written on their clothing, lunch

containers and any other items they bring to school. The grade isn’t important as many children have their

school clothing for quite a few years so just record your child’s full name.

Every day after lunch we are collecting between 20-30 items left outside by the children and only

approximately 60% have names on them. It is very important that everything is named.

The items we currently have looking for their owners are:

5 x summer hats

49 x lunch boxes

18 x drink bottles

12 x items of non- uniform clothing

3 x fleecy vests

4 x rugby tops

34 x bomber jackets

A lot of time is taken to keep the lost property area clean and tidy so when looking for your children’s lost

items can you please refold the items you pull out so the next family can look easily too.

Have a great holidays and I hope term 2 has more named clothing and less lost items ☺

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On the 21st of March, six Glendal Primary School students from Years 5 and 6 represented Glendal in the district for tennis. Lukas, Kerry, Riveen, Katrina, Phi and Maya valiantly battled children from different schools at Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC). We played 5 games each. A special congratulations to Maya who made it into the final round. Unfortunately, none of our students advanced onto division but everyone had fun and gave it their best shot.

By Katrina 6J

Sports News

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