Glen Huntly Primary School Grange Road, Glen Huntly Ph: 9571 2933 Fax: 9563 6314

Email: glenhuntly.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Issue 32 – 17th November, 2016

Principal’s Report Click Against HATE Congratulations to Marlona and Manasvi, 6J, for their wonderful presentations at the celebration night and launch of the Anti-Defamation Commission promotional video.

As mentioned later in the newsletter, you are outstanding ambassadors for our school.

Friday Assembly, 18th November has been cancelled this week due to Interschool Sport and Grade 3/4 Camp and a notification has been issued on Skoolbag. We hope you can join us for the following week on Friday25th November.

2017 Prep Transition On Wednesday, the 2017 prep children and families attended the third session of transition, which was held on the East Site.

Thank you to the staff who provided a wonderful learning opportunity: Mrs Mandy Zent who took Indonesian and Ms Juz de Bruyn and Ms Fornioutis who took a Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) session.

Thank you to everyone who attended and we look forward to next week’s session which will be on the West Site: Art and PMP.

Grade 3/4 Camp It has been a very exciting week for the Grade 3/4 students who departed for the school camp at Waratah Beach Camp on Wednesday16th November.

They have a wonderful opportunity to have 3 days at Camp Waratah and will be returning on Friday 18th November.

Thank you very much to Mrs Eugenia Sassos, Mrs Shannan Fox, Mr Andrew Aitken, Mr David Jenkins, Ms Amy Tinetti, Mr Jake Mackie, Jenny Grose and Juliet Brianton for being at camp with the students. I hope everyone has some wonderful stories to tell.

Intensive Swimming Program All students are expected to participate in the swimming program which will commence on Monday 28th November over 2 weeks.

It is extremely important that all children continue to develop their skills in swimming and need to attend in each year of their schooling. Please contact the office if you have not returned the forms or money or if you require assistance with a payment plan.

Grade 5/6 Health Program As part of our Health program we offer Year 5 & 6 students “Sexuality and Relationships Education”, run by Family Life, Victoria.

The Grade 5 and 6 children will have separate sessions which will focus on their level of understanding and development.

These are extremely important issues that will become more relevant as the children move into the unfamiliar environment of secondary education and increased peer involvement.

We encourage parents to return the permission form which will allow your child to participate in these informative sessions.

Little Book Worms Next Tuesday, 22 November, will be the final session for Little Book Worms this year.

The children and parents will join in with Lisa and Tania to celebrate another highly successful year. The theme will be festive.

Parent and Helper’s Morning Tea Tuesday 6th December GHPS Staff would like to invite all parents and helpers to a morning tea in the Library on Tuesday 6th December, so please save the date in your busy December diary. This is to say a huge thankyou to everyone for volunteering to help us GHPS. We would love to see you. A notice will be going home in the next fortnight.

School Uniform Thank you to Lisa Oliver and Julie Bruce who do a fabulous job ensuring that our uniform shop is always well stocked with GHPS uniform and available for purchase.

We ask parents to ensure that they provide the correct uniform for their child and that it is worn to school correctly. This includes wearing only maroon, white and navy blue. No other colours are permitted including not wearing black pants or leggings or jackets of other colours.

I will be visiting classrooms this week and taking note of what students are wearing. Parents are asked to support and assist us with this matter as our school is extremely proud of its uniform.

Report Writing All staff are finalising assessment and comments for the December Student Report which will be distributed in Week 11 of the term on Wednesday 14th December. Reports will outline to parents what their child has learnt and how well, where improvement is needed and what should be done next.

Assessment is the ongoing process of gathering, analysing and reflecting on evidence to make informed and consistent judgments to improve future student learning.

Thank you to all staff for their dedication, time and effort which they have devoted to writing the reports and to Mrs Eugenia Sassos, who is the Assessment &Reporting Coordinator and who has the huge task of ensuring all reports are printed and ready for parents.

Finance Committee Meeting is on Monday 28th November in the East Site staff room at 6.30pm followed by the School Council Meeting at 7pm. A School Council Report will be included in the next newsletter.

Advance Notice of Final Assembly Tuesday 20th December, 2016 This will commence at 12.30 – 1.20pm. Students will be dismissed at 1.30pm.

Libby Alessi Principal

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Congratulations to the following students who received a ‘Student of the Week’ award during the last 2 weeks. Tuhin 0F – using fantastic strategies during Book Club. Srinick 0F – being a beautiful, kind friend to our new class member. Ralin 0F – coming to school ready to learn each day. Varshana 0P – outstanding results when working on her Measurement and Geometry assessment. Kritika 0P – improving her reading strategies and fluency. Carlos 1E – his persistence with challenging learning tasks. Sanvi 1E – being a helpful and considerate member of 1E. Abzel 1E – working hard in enquiry when making slime. Your procedure was awesome. Aarushi 1E – a very entertaining story about learning to become a superhero. Adhithi 1M – contributing to class discussions. Vedha 1M – working hard to improve her interpersonal skills by being a kind and considerate member of the Year 1 team. Arnaud 1M – his well-written letter to Santa. Mana 1M – working productively during our Risky Writing session. Kelsy 1M – a super job making slime. Asher 2M – highly creative story writing. Michael 2M – an informative poster and presentation about the Tiger. Hugo 2M – organising audience participation during his impressive presentation to the class about “the Sloth”. Pragya 2M – a very impressive poster about the Kangaroo. Lithika 2T – having a positive attitude towards all her schoolwork. Madhav 2T – a positive attitude during Book Club. Shoma 3S – making impressive gains in his reading comprehension skills. Ishu 3T – being a cooperative and kind class member. Sam 3T – excellent use of reading strategies.

Eden 4/5A - for her contributions in Grammar and asking for feedback to improve her work

Kobie 4/5A - for his efforts to produce his best writing so far this year James 4/5F – an interesting presentation about Dairy Farms. Kayla 4/5P – a very informative talk on cats. Claudia 4/5P – an engaging drawing lesson. QI QI 4/5P – confidently presenting her knowledge of hockey.

REMINDER No assembly this Friday, 18th November

Click Against Hate On the evening of Tuesday 8th November, Manasvi Shirgaonkar and Marlona Deustch represented our school to speak at a celebration night and the launch the Anti-Defamation Commission promotional video.

The event was held at Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Caulfield South. Manasvi, Marlona and myself had already been interviewed and filmed for the video and our contributions had been edited into the final product.

On the evening Manasvi and Marlona, along with representatives from other schools, spoke about the cyber safety benefits of the Click Against Hate program and what it had achieved in their school communities. Manasvi and Marlona were outstanding ambassadors for our school, displaying inspiring and accomplished public speaking skills and received a certificate for their excellent efforts. The school also received a cheque of $150 from the ADC towards our library fund. To view the video please go to https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tpqeg3csccqknsd/AACMT0m1SQFj5I-IchEQKAjta?dl=0 where you will see the extent and impact of the program now being delivered to over 130 schools, with endorsement from the Premier and Police Commissioner of Victoria. David Jenkins Assistant Principal

Term IV Working Bee On Sunday 6th November the Term IV Working Bee was held during excellent weather conditions. Once again there were many keen participants who donated their time and energy to achieve the following:

Paint the wooden fittings of the sandpit area in bright colours. Rebuild one sand pit. Remove dead plant material from roof section of the sandpit facility and plant new colourful

creepers and vines. Replace the broken concrete tiles of the footpath to the Art room. Tidy and beautify the Bush Tucker garden Weed, tidy and mulch all gardens. Clean out roof spouting and remove all balls from the roofs. Repair and reprop southern boundary fence where required. Rake and reposition any soft fall under playground equipment.

Move fern from Bush Tucker garden to a more shaded area. Carry out minor repairs to Fairy garden fence.

As you can see, a great deal was accomplished. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the following people who were present on the day: Ian Parsons, the Weiss family, the Blair family, the Simmons family, the Balfour family, the Mentis family, Caitilin Hawkins, Asher and Raphi Bloch, Will Flynn and Jennifer Knight, the Le family, the Gharde family, the Wilson family, the Wolfe family, Peter Mazis, Martina Gevaux and Rosy Eppinger.

Thank you again to Rosy Eppinger for your magnificent and extensive catering to feed and quench the hungry thirsty workers.

As this was their last Working Bee, I would like to especially acknowledge the outstanding contribution to Working Bees over many years by Ian Parsons and Rosy Eppinger. For the past ten years Ian has attended every Working Bee with the exception of two; a truly impressive accomplishment. Rosy has been a keen participant in Working Bees for the past 15 years.

On behalf of the school community, I would like thank you both for your excellent and extensive contributions to our school community through your strong and sustained involvement in Working Bees. David Jenkins Assistant Principal

NOTICES DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS

4th Nov All Students Swimming Program 15th Nov 2T and 1M students CRT during camp 16th Nov 5/6 students Health Program 16th Nov Choir Students Return Polo Tops

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