PRINCIPAL: From The Principal

School Council

In recent weeks, I called for three parent vacancies to the School Council. I would like to announce

that we received three nominations by the closing date and therefore I

can confirm that the following par-ents have been elected to our School Council for the next two

years: Ian North Coombes

Juanita Serrano Roy Leutenmayr

Sharon Rogers has been elected as DEECD employee member.

The first meeting of the 2012/2013 School Council was

held on Tuesday 21st February. One aspect of this meeting was to Co-

opt and elect community members and elect Office Bearers. I am pleased to confirm that Wally Gatt

was co-opted back onto the school council.

In addition to this, we also elected

our Office Bearers. I am pleased to announce that the following parent, community and staff members

make up the St. Albans East Pri-mary School Council:

President: Mr. Wally Gatt (Co-opted Community Member) Vice President: Tracy Nero

Secretary: Ms. Verity McAuliffe Ass. Secretary: Mrs. Senka King

Members: Mrs. Tammy Chamberlain Mr. Ian North-Coombes

From The Principal

Newsletter No. 2

24th February, 2012

Mrs. Juanita Serrano Mrs. Sharon Rogers

Mrs Marsha Schirmer Mr. Roy Leutenmayr Parent Vacancy (12 month casual

vacancy) Co-opted: Ms Tracy Nero

Executive Officer: Mrs. Anne-Maree Kliman

We still have a 12 month casual parent vacancy to fill to replace a

member who is no longer eligible to participate on school council. Please contact Anne-Maree Kliman

if you would like to be considered for this position.

School Council meets once a month at the school. School Council has

three sub-committees (Resources, Environment & Curriculum) that

meet once a month as well. I would like to encourage parents and community members to con-

sider becoming a member of one of these sub-committees.

Team Leaders The following staff have been se-

lected as team leaders for the 2012 school year: Prep Team: Ashlea Potter

Grade 1/2 Team: Sneza Vasilevski Grade 3/4 Team: Sophie Stefanidis

Grade 5/6 Team: Grant Mussel Deaf Facility Team: Laureen

Thompson

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Week comm. 27/2/12 Mon: Cathy Tue: Cathy & Pania

Wed: Cathy & Pania Thurs: Trudy

Fri: Josie & Jackie.

Week comm. 05/3/12 Mon: Cathy Tue: Cathy & Pania

Wed: Cathy & Pania Thurs: Trudy

Fri: Josie & Jackie.

PRINCIPAL:

Anne-Maree Kliman

St Albans East Primary School

Station Avenue, St Albans, 3021

PHONE:

9366 2071

FAX:

9366 4237

EMAIL:

st.albans.east.ps@edumail.

vic.gov.au

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28th Feb: Meet the Teacher: 5:30-6:30 pm Gr 1/2


29th Feb: Meet the Teacher: 5:30-6:30pm PREP


12th March: Labour Day public holiday.

Children do not attend school on this day.

Important Dates

Canteen Roster

Literacy and Numeracy

Consultants This year is the third year of our school’s

involvement of the Federal Government’s National Schools Partnership program. This is Federal Government funding given to our

school based on our School Family Occupa-tion (SFO) index. The SFO is a grading we

are given indicating the level of disadvan-tage of our families. Our current SFO is 0.84. The closer to 1.0 the more disadvan-

taged the families. The funding has been given to the schools to employ consultants

to work with our teachers to build great ca-pacity, which ultimately result in increased student outcomes.

We are again fortunate enough to have se-

cured the services of Varda Phillipou (literacy) and Anne Thorp (numeracy).

Both are here one day a week for the year. They will be working in classrooms model-ling and coaching teachers in best practice

in their respective curriculum areas.

Primary Mathematic Specialists (PMS) As indicated last year in the school newslet-ter, the school successfully applied and

was selected to participate in DEECD PMS program. This has allowed us to release 3

x 0.5 EFT teachers to work with teams in the school on Math learning and teaching as listed:

Prep -2 Sharon Rogers

3/4 Rebecca Hoyne 5/6 Ricky Potter

Healthy Minds – Psychological Services The school has recently been approached

by Healthy Minds – Psychological Services who provide counselling for children.

They have offered their services to the stu-dents in our school. I have attached an in-

formation sheet to the newsletter outlining what their service is about.

As schools are always under resourced in this area, I believe this is an excellent op-

portunity for us to access more services for the children at no cost to the school or the families.

Please see Ricky Potter (Primary Wel-

fare Officer) or Anne-Maree Kliman

(Principal) if you wish to discuss this service

as an option for your child.

Personal Goods Brought to School at Owner’s Risk

The Department of Education & Early Child-

hood Development recently sent schools a Memorandum outlining the following:

The Department of Education & Early Child-hood Development does not hold insurance for

personal property brought to schools and it will not pay for any loss to personal or dam-

aged property. Therefore families need to be aware that the

school and the Department will not be held re-sponsible for any loss or damage to personal

property brought to school by students such as: mobile phones, toys, sporting equipment,

Ipods etc.

Mobile Phones

The School has a mobile phone policy that has been attached to the newsletter. Any student

who brings a mobile phone to school must give it to their teacher or the school office to be locked away for the day. No child is al-

lowed to have a mobile phone on them during school hours. Please refer to the policy.

STUDENT ABSENCES –

‘It’s Not OK to be Away!’

Our staff plan and implement exciting and challenging learning programs at school that

cater for all children. Unfortunately, some of our children miss these

valuable learning programs during the year because of frequent or long absences from

school. Whilst we understand that there are times

when children are away from school due to ill-ness or medical appointments, other absences

and lengthy periods away from school are not acceptable. It is part of the initiative ‘It’s Not OK to be Away which promotes two key mes-

sages:

Student attendance is the responsibility of everyone in the community (parents, teachers and students)

Schools will monitor student attendance to ensure it is regular, in order to im-

prove student learning.

Wednesday 29thFebruary

PREP Team - 5:30-6:30pm

5/6 Team - 6:30-7:30pPlease note all sessions start

in the hall.

All students and their families are expected to attend. Look forward to seeing you there. Keyboard lessons are on Fridays.

Senka King

Assistant Principal

If your child has missed school, please no-tify the school either in writing or via the

phone, with an explanation for the absence. We look forward to the support of our par-ents with this important initiative.

School Visitors

In order to maintain a safe environment for all, I would like to remind parents of the ar-rangements that exist for all visitors to the

school.

All visitors (parents, family members, con-tractors, volunteers, members of the public) are asked to report to the School Office and

gain permission to visit by signing the Visi-tor’s Book and be issued with an identifica-

tion badge. Before leaving, all visitors are asked to sign out at the School Office and

return their Badge.

Re-stumping Program

I am pleased to say the re-stumping, clad-ding, stormwater and asphalt program was

completed over the school holidays. We no longer walk down building one on a slant!! It is very satisfying to now have school grounds

that are safe with all relevant areas having new

asphalt or new asphalt sheeting. Our next ma-

jor task is to further develop the school grounds

and returf the oval where the relocatables used

to be.

Anne-Maree Kliman

Principal

REMINDER Meet the Teacher

& Information Evening

Teachers are busy preparing information for you re-

garding this year and students are looking forward

to showing you around their new classroom. To help

us with organising interpreters and handouts please

make sure you have returned your note to tell us

that you are coming and what language you might

need an interpreter for. Each team has their infor-

mation at a different time so please check the de-

tails below.

Tuesday 28th February

1/2 Team - 5:30-6:30pm

3/4 Team - 6:30-7:30pm

Has your phone number changed?

If you have recently moved house, or changed your phone number, please re-member to contact the school office to inform us of these changes. This includes any changes to your mobile number, home number or changes to emer-gency contact numbers.

ST ALBANS FOOTBALL CLUB

JUNIOR PLAYERS

WANTED

Registration/ Information Day Sunday 4th March 11am – 1pm

Kings Park Reserve,

Gillespie Road, St. Albans

Please contact Mrs. Irene Floros,

Junior Team Coordinator on

0432 453 317 or

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Looking for a hall to hire? St Albans East Primary School Hall is available for hire to the school community. We have tables and seating for up to 200 people and the venue can be utilised for many occasions and events. The hall has a fully equipped, recently refurbished kitchen that can be used for preparing and heating foods for any function. For further enquiries and information, please contact the school office on 9366 2071 or call in to the office during school hours.

Enrolments for 2013 If your child turns 5 years old by April 30th 2013,

it is time to enrol your child for school NOW.

In Term 4, St Albans East Primary School offers a

program for children to come to school and famil-

iarise themselves with the school environment and

meet some of the teachers. To enrol, parents will

need:

Birth Certificate or passport

Immunisation Certificate

Medicare number

Family doctor details

Contact details

Emergency details

Even if you have other children at St Albans

East PS already, it is important that you are

put on our 2013 Prep mailing list so we can no-

tify you of the details of our special program in

Term 4.

Please contact Mrs Kliman for more information

on 9366 2071.

WANTED

Donations of school uniform pants for the

first aid room.— All sizes.

If you have school pants or shorts that no

longer fit your children, could you please

bring them to the school for little people

that sometimes have accidents or jump

in puddles! Thank you.

Free to a good home!

We have some very sturdy boxes available at

the school office. These boxes are particu-

larly good for if you are moving house, or

need to store your goods for whatever reason.

Be quick—once they’re gone, they’re gone!

The ‘Tin Shed’ St Albans The 'Tin Shed' runs basic gymnastic classes for primary school aged children Mondays from 4.15 pm to 5.15 pm during school term. Cost is $3 per person per session. For further information please contact Elfie at the ‘Tin Shed’.

LOST PROPERTY Lost property items with names on them, will be re-turned to students weekly.

Items with no names will be sold for $2 each, after

assembly, in the hall, every Friday.

ROOM PUPIL’S NAME: COMMENT: VALUES

DISPLAYED Respect—R

Co-operation—C

Learning—L

Responsibility -R

2 Anh-Thu Tran For listening and sharing

her ideas with the class.

Learning

Respect

4 Jessica Grujevski For taking initiative and

helping those around her

when they are unsure of

what to do.

Responsibility

7 Nghi Tang For helping and encour-

aging others in the class.

Co-operation

8 Khalil Jebara For settling into the

classroom and co-

operating well with

others.

Co-operation

9 Sengi Kayitare For a great start to grade

Prep.

All values

10 Michelle Dam For trying her hardest

always and finishing all

her work.

Learning

11 Vegeta Marsters-

Moungaafi

For starting every day

with a smile.

Respect

13 Kevin Pinto For listening well and

watching Allan during

AUSLAN.

All values

14 Whole class For demonstrating our

school values as shown.

Respect

Co-operation

Learning

15 Cindy Nguyen For independently re-

searching a topic intro-

duced in guided reading.

Learning

16 Jocelyn Vargas For being a responsible

class helper.

Responsibility

17 Vanessa Pham For ordering numbers 1-

10 and matching the

picture to each number.

Learning

18 Steve Volkov For developing a persua-

sive opinion.

Learning

19 Mustafa Cuttlery-

wala

For completing all work

on decimals and place

values.

Learning

20 Anthony Duong For great organizational

skills.

Responsibility

21 Chelsea Tran For showing respect to

all her peers and com-

pleting all of her tasks

on time.

Respect

Responsibility

P.E. Kevin Pinto For improving his ball

handling skills.

Learning

Pupil of the Week– Week ending 10/02/2012

ROOM PUPIL’S NAME: COMMENT: VALUES

DISPLAYED Respect—R

Co-operation—C

Learning—L

Responsibility -R

2 Royce Nguyen For focusing well during

independent reading time.

Learning

Co-operation Responsibility

4 Frankee Kolak For always having a great

work ethic and contribut-

ing to class discussions.

Learning

7 Alex Talidis For working together in

groups and encouraging others.

Co-operation

8 Reno Schembri For treating others with

respect and following the class Code of Co-

operation.

Respect

Co-operation

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10 Elerie Mendez Reci-

nos

For being an excellent

role model for other students.

All values

11 Derek Nguyen For using the picture to

help him when reading.

Learning

13 Sa Folasa For reminding others that

it is time to listen.

All values

14 Christopher Wihare For always demonstrating

our school values.

All values

15 Whole class (from

Ms McAuliffe)

Damian

For displaying fantastic

organization in the morn-ing before 9 o’clock.

For writing down words

he didn’t understand during Independent Read-

ing.

Learning

Responsibility

Learning

16 Lei Zhao For listening to the

teacher and completing all set tasks.

Respect

Learning

17 Lavina Tran For ordering sentences in

the Humpty Dumpty poem.

Learning

18 Wendy Truong For a fantastic hamburger

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Learning

19 Lorena Lukovic For working really well

completing her tasks on time and fully concentrat-

ing.

Learning

20 Jenny Pan For treating others fairly

and enjoying her learning.

Respect

Learning

21 Kevin Mai For working with respect

and co-operation during group work.

Respect

Co-operation

P.E. Nina Le Rm 4 For working well with her

classmates.

Co-operation

Pupil of the Week– Week ending 17/02/12

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