FROMTHEPRINCIPAL’SDESK

EYEONSEAFORD

SCHOOL EMAIL: seaford.ps@edumail.vic.edu.au

WEBSITE: www.seafordps.vic.edu.au

Congratula#ons to all concerned for a great outcome at our Bunnings Sausage Sizzle last Sunday. We

made a net profit of $1799.26 which will be used to fund addi#onal resources to support our

teaching and learning program across the school. A big thank you to those parents and staff who

were able to spend some #me at the event to ensure that we were adequately staffed throughout

the day. A special thank you to Annie Laurenson who organises and co-ordinates everything from

sausage and bread purchase to roster to liaising with Bunnings and a thousand other things that

need to happen to ensure a successful day.

Last Thursday and Friday I spent #me with our year 5 and 6 students on their camp at Coonawarra

near Bairnsdale in East Gippsland. On arrival I found a group of children canoeing on the lake,

another group on the giant swing (18 metres high!) and our third group being challenged by the rock

climbing wall. These were just a few of the ac#vi#es that the children were able to par#cipate in

throughout the week, with others being Hut Building, High Ropes, Archery, Big Games and Group

Ini#a#ves. At assembly over the next two weeks our Grade of the Week features 5/6L and 5/6S who

will present their highlights, so if you would like to find out more about this week, come along at

about 2.50 on Friday to the mul#-purpose room.

The camp that the year 5 and 6 students do is a five day camp and is the culmina#on of the school’s

outdoor educa#on program. This program begins in prep and year 1 who have an ac#vi#es evening

and sausage sizzle which is coming up in a few week’s #me. The year 2’s are also having their sleep

over soon which is followed by a day at Myuna Farm. The year 3 and 4 students aCend a 3 day camp

each year with no#ces having gone home recently for next year’s camp at Golden Valley Lodge.

It is at around this #me of year that planning begins for the following year. To assist with this it is

helpful for us to know the an#cipated number of students that will be aCending the school. Other

than year 6 students, if you know that your child will not be aCending Seaford next year and you

have not as yet informed us of this, please do so at your earliest convenience. Likewise if you know

of families who will have children aCending Seaford for the first #me next year and who have not as

yet enrolled, could you ask them to do so as soon as possible.

On Monday of this week we held our latest site mee#ng for our new building. The work is

progressing with the focus now very much on the internal fit out. The plaster walls have been

completed, the electrical and plumbing rough in has been done and all windows and doors have

been installed. Insula#on has been delivered for the ceiling and then it will just be a maCer of

installing the ceiling #les, the carpet and vinyl and pain#ng, followed by the site clean. At this point

in #me we have been advised that expected comple#on date will be November 14th

. Our fingers are

s#ll crossed that this will be the end date which will ensure our year 6 students will s#ll have a few

weeks in the new building before the end of the year.

As I hope you all know 2014 is our Centenary Year. Our planning sub commiCee have met on a

number of occasions with the most recent mee#ng being to discuss the best way to communicate

the event to students, parents and staff both past and future. It has been decided that a dedicated

Facebook page with a link from our web site is the best way to go and the Communica#on

CommiCee has developed a Facebook Protocol for presenta#on to school council at the November

Mee#ng. Once approved things will start happening on the Facebook page so that you can keep up

to date. For those that do not have a Facebook page, we will con#nue to update you both on the

website and through newsleCers.

Regards

Michael

FROM REALITY WE GAIN UNDERSTANDING

31ST October, 2013

Diary Dates:

School Banking every

Tuesday throughout

the School Term

4th November

Pupil Free Day No

children a/end school

on this day

5th November

Cup Day

6th November

Prep/1 BBQ

7th November

Year 2 Sleepover

8th November

Year 2 Myuna Farm

Excursion

Prep/Year 1 Animals of

Oz Incursion

14th Novemeber

Preschool Visit 9.30

18th—29th November

Swimming P—Yr 4

(excluding

Wednesdays) 8

sessions

27th—29th November

Life EducaAon

3rd December

Commonwealth Bank

Yrs 1/2 & 5/6

9th December

Prep InformaAon Night

7.00 p.m.

10th December

OrientaAon Day

11th December

Years 5/6 Cybersafety

Forum

12th December

Cybersafety incursion

Parents 9.30—11.00

Years 3-6 11.30.– 12.30

13th December

GraduaAon

20th December

Last day term 4

1.30 finish

Front page designed by

Jazzy D

CELEBRATING OUR CHILDREN’S

ACHIEVEMENTS

Lucy Thomas won the runners up prize in last

term’s Commonwealth Bank compe##on.

Congratula#ons Lucy.

Annika received a dollarmites award for

banking more than 30 #mes into her

dollarmites account.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Displayed on the No�ceboard in the front foyer of

the Office.

• Seaford Guides—Fun Friends and Adventure

contact 9786 8946

• Bam Dance Crew

• Childrens Performing Company of Australia.

Drama, song and dance for kids .

• Hook into Hockey—Frankston S#ngrays

• Seaford Christmas Twilight market 29th

November 6.00 p.m. 9.30 p.m.

CANTEEN NEWS

The canteen is able to again offer canned fruit

salad in a cup for 20 cents each.

This will be available through the normal lunch

orders on a Friday.

Thanks

Canteen CommiCee

FORYOURINFORMATION

BYMICHAELWOOLSEY,SchoolCommunityLiaisonOf�icer

CYBERBULLYING (part 3)

HOW WOULD YOU KNOW IF YOUR CHILD WAS BEING CYBER BULLIED? Cyber bullying can take a

number of forms……

-Harassing and threatening messages

-Sending nasty sms, pictures, prank phone calls, pos#ng mean comments or pictures

-Using person’s screen name or password e.g. impersona#on

-Forwarding others’ private emails, messages, pictures or videos

-Blocking or excluding someone from online conversa#ons or coaxing others to do it.

How can parents recognize the signs of cyber bullying?

Be alert to your son/ daughter’s usual behaviour:

-Less interest in school or not wan#ng to go

-Lower school performance

-Complaints of headaches / stomach aches and trouble sleeping

-Generally unhappy during or aLer using the computer

General parental monitoring and posi#ve parent-child rela#onships are important factors in internet

safety.

Speak with your child about internet safety, encouraging safe online behaviour and why it is needed.

For parent #ps on promo#ng safe online behaviour, visit the following online safety websites:

-Cyberbullying http://www.cyberbullying.org/ focuses on bullying in cyberspace.

-isafe http://www.isafe.org/ internet safety educa#on.

HELP RANI TO HELP GORILLAS IN AFRICA

Rani (Prep A) is collec#ng old mobile phones to send to

Melbourne Zoo to recycle and help raise money for the

Jane Goodall Ins#tute in Africa.

If you have any old phones please bring them to school and

put them in the box in the ELC or give them to Rani.

(Remember to take your SIM card out first)

Thanks

Rani

Each phone donated raises enough money to provide food

to an anh-poaching ranger in Africa for one day.

YEARS 5/6 CANBERRA CAMP 2014

URGENT REMINDER

Please note that if you wish your child to a/end this camp in

2014 we need a $50 deposit (refundable only in the event

that the camp does not end up going ahead) by the end of

this week.

This camp includes all transport, (in luxury seat belted

coaches) accommodaAon, meals (except morning tea and

lunch on the first day) and admission to all venues.

If Canberra is not an opAon due to lack of response, a camp

to another venue will cost approx. $420.00

2014 VICTORIAN PREMIERS READING CHALLENGE

This year the honour roll is not being published in the Age newspaper, but can be

accessed via the Premiers Reading Challenge website:

www.educaAon.vic.gov.au/prc

Grade of the week– 1/2 R & D

This term we would like to share our work that we have been

doing in our literacy rotations.

These include our pom pom creatures, I spy with my little eye

(on the ipads) and our fruit posters.

BUY OUR FRUIT!!!!

By Taylah By Serena

By Holly Hart By Victor

By Kane By Brooke

POM POM’S

Puffle Puffle Cat

Rainbow Lorikeet

Some of our pom pom creatures

Feather’s for Phoebe

Where are you

going?

Students read the big book ‘Where

are you going?” Then they made up

sensory clues about a place they are

visi#ng.

See if you can guess where they are.

I am going where I can see swings.

I am going where I can feel a slide.

I am going where I can hear laughing.

I am going where I can smell flowers.

I am going where I can taste water.

I am in MY BACKYARD!!

By Lucy.

I am going where I can see

children.

I am going where I can feel bars.

I am going where I can hear bells.

I am going where I can smell freshly

mown grass.

I am going where I can taste sandwiches.

I am at SCHOOL!!

By Ella

I am going where I can see water running down the

drain.

I am going where I can feel a fork.

I am going where I can hear

motorbikes.

I am going where I can smell dirty things.

I am going where I can taste pasta.

I am in MALAYSIA.

By Sienna