School Community

News

Number: 36 Date: 25th November 2015

Welcome to week 8, term 4 2015!

Next Week’s Newsletter Please be advised that next week’s newsletter will be on Thursday NOT Wednesday, due to the School Concert activities that day.

Parent Forum Our final Parent Forum will be held on Wednesday, December 9th in the School Library. Once again Jo Smith will be joining us

to discuss how we can help our children avoid the summer slump in their learning. More information will follow in the coming

week.

Jo Smith

School Library

Wednesday, December 9th 7.00pm

RSVP - TRBPS_Parent_Forum@tucker-road.vic.edu.au

Concert News Don’t forget to pre-purchase your tickets for ‘The 2015 End of Year Concert’ online through Trybooking. Bookings close

4.30pm Thursday 26th November. Concert tickets will be sent home Monday 30th November via the classroom—the

envelope will include tickets for the families that were successful with 2nd round tickets. The concert will take place on

Wednesday December 2 at the Kingston Centre. We have 2 performances: a matinee performance for years P-2 (12.30-2.30pm)

and an evening performance for years 3-6 (7.00-9.00pm). The practise day scheduled for Monday 30th is fast approaching and

the children are very excited. We will be practising throughout the day from 9.10-2.00pm with buses staggered to take children to

and from the event over the day.

Graduation Celebration News For 2015 the Year 6 Graduation Ceremony will be a separate event to highlight and celebrate the importance of this milestone for

year 6 students’ as part of concluding their primary school years. We have organised a formal ceremony and speeches at Brighton

Secondary College on Tuesday December 10; beginning with the student’s arrival at 6.30pm at the Brighton Secondary College’s

hall for an anticipated 7pm sharp start. The suitability of this venue allows students to have more close family members attend and

see them graduate. This event will be followed up on the following Tuesday evening (December 15) with a ’fun graduation party’

for the children and teachers which includes a formal dinner followed by a Disco. The children will need to be dropped off to

school by 6.00 – 6.15pm and will need to be picked up by between 8.45 and 9.00pm from the school hall. Reminders will follow

in future newsletters.

Junior School Sports - New Date Junior School Sports will now take place Thursday 10th December at Rowans Road Athletic Track.

Staffing, Classes and Student Numbers for 2016 With student numbers predicted at 603 next year we will be introducing another class, taking us to 26 classes in total. This term

we have been busy conducting Classroom Teacher Interviews to determine our contract teaching staff for 2016. The

announcement of this outcome will follow in future newsletters, as well as, the announcement regarding the intended class

structure for 2016. Mrs Joan Kitson (L.O.T.E – Italian) has indicated it is time to retire and we wish her all the best for a happy

future in retirement. Consequently, we have advertised a 1.0 (fulltime) Italian teacher contract position for 2016.

Mrs Shelley Kitchen has just announced that she has been the successful applicant in obtaining an ongoing position as a Leading

Teacher at Bannockburn Primary School; we wish Shelley all the best as she advances her career at this school. She has resigned

from her LT position at TRBPS.

Tucker Road, Bentleigh Primary School - No: 468 16 Tucker Road Bentleigh 3204

P.O. Box 1341 Moorabbin 3189

Phone: 9557 2044

Fax: 9557 2181

Web Site:

http:/www.tuckerroad.vic.edu.au

Email:tucker.rd.bentleigh.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

November Working Bee: A huge thank you is extended on behalf

of the school community for all of the

wonderful hard work the BAGs team

have completed around the school this

year. Thank you for the well organised

Working Bee completed on Sunday

November 22, the school is looking very

clean and tidy. We extend a huge thank

you to the committee members and

parents who attended this Working Bee

and others scheduled throughout the

year. A special ‘thank you’ from the

school community is extended to Mr Kel

Segbedzi for convening the BAGs team

for 2015 and to Mr James Ireson as the

teacher representative; for all of his hard

work as part of the committee this year.

Leaving TRBPS Thank you to all of the families, that

have contacted the school already to

inform us that that they will not be

attending TRBPS in 2016. As mentioned

prior, student numbers are now crucial

for planning for next year. Please notify

the office promptly if for any reason

your child/children will not be returning

next year so we can plan our class

structure and ensure we have the right

amount of teaching staff to best serve the

community.

Payments to Office When making payments to the office

could you please make sure the correct

money is placed in an envelope with the

child’s name and class.

Library Stocktake Thank you VERY much to the following

parents for helping during the library

stocktake:

Lois Curry, Linda De Fina, Natalia

Tripp, Kellie Lardner and Jenny Bennet.

Your help was absolutely appreciated.

THANK YOU!

Robyn Donoghue

(Library)

Library Reminder All student library books need to be

returned by FRIDAY 27th

NOVEMBER.

Concert DVD The order form for the school concert DVD

is available from the office, please have the

order placed by Monday 30th November

School Banking News The last of school banking for 2015 will be

Tuesday 8th December. The last day for

submitting orders this year will be 1st

December so that we can guarantee you

receive your prizes in time.

Students nominated for the TRBPS Values

Award for the 16th & 23rd November

2015 were:

Archie Kiper Ethan Sawers

Kate Hulme Maddie Hyde

Cameron Gabler Cassandra Pugoy

Leila Zamani Ava Marianne

Karaitiana Puru Elliot Reidy

Danielle Manor Finley Rogacki

Ella Fidler Zoe Pantazis

Amy Deriboklou Tadhg Lavelle

Chloe Diamantaris Anzam Noor

Patrick Kethers Leon Browne

Isabella Joffe Christina Matheou

Sammy Gower Alex Reubenicht

Matt Gibbons Nicole Chen

Kate Hartwig Sunday Gale

Whole Of Class 5L Jordan Botrus

Ella Markwick Evan Moore

Kayla Mohr Brianna May

Laura Taylor Bailey Coote

Charlie Wall

Jamieson Papagiannis

Term Dates - 2016

Term Dates - 2016

Term 1

Thursday 28th January (1-6)

Monday 1st February (Prep)

to

24th March

Term 2

11th April

To

24th June

Term 3

11th July

To

16th September

Term4

3rd October

To

20th December

Canteen News

Reminder Orders are to be written clearly on a

lunch bag in blue, black or red ink, any

other marker is difficult to read. Please

do not sticky tape lunch bags up. A

reminder to enclose .10 cents for a bag

if an envelope is used.

Canteen Roster

Thursday 26th November

Kylie Brkic Carmel

Tuesday 1st December

Yovita Bell

Thursday 3rd December

Mandy Griffiths Kate

Tuesday 8th December

Zuhra Balic (10.30am)

Thursday 10th December

Dianne Anton Maria Verginis

Tuesday 15th December

Alzira Redfern (11.30am) Kerri Collins

DATES TO DIARY 2015

Wednesday 2nd December

School Concert

Performance 1 Prep-2

Performance 2 3-6

Friday 4th December

Parent/ Staff Lunch

Monday 7th December

Christmas Raffle Drawn

Thursday 10th December

Junior Sports P-2 Rowans Road

Athletic Track

Year 6 Formal Graduation

Evening

Friday 11th December

Subway Lunch

Tuesday 15th December

Grade 6 Dinner & Disco

Raffle Ticket Reminder ALL RAFFLE TICKET BOOKS—SOLD

OR UNSOLD ALONG WITH MONEY

COLLECTED MUST BE RETURNED

NOW SO ALL TICKETS CAN GO

INTO THE DRAW MONDAY 7TH

DECEMBER.

Many thanks for your efforts in selling the

tickets and assisting in raising funds for

Tucker Road.

Uniform Shop The last day for the Uniform Shop will be

Tuesday 8th December for 2015. We will

be opening Wednesday 27th January from

10.00 till 12.00pm and will open Tuesday

2nd February 2016 as normal from 3.15-

4.00pm for the new school year.

If you have any second hand uniforms to

donate it would be greatly appreciated if

they could be dropped off at the general

office.

LAST CHANCE Social Service Local Christmas Hamper

In past years our Tucker Road community

have responded magnificently to requests

for donations of items for a Christmas

Hamper to help the many needy people

(children, adults, young people, elderly

and families) living in our Moorabbin/East

Bentleigh district. The last day for Items

to be sent to the general office is

tomorrow (Thursday 26th November).

GRADE 4 CAMP TO MALDON

On the 18th of November the grade 4’s went on the bus to go to Maldon. When we arrived we all knew that this camp was going to

be a good one because it looked great. We did lots of walking and bike riding, it was amazing apart from one little scare!

On Thursday it was really hot so we did slip n slide. The slip n slide was awesome, it was all downhill and really really fast!

By Sienna Sozan 4G.

All of the activities were very fun, mostly the slip and slide, especially because of the hot weather. All of us rode to places like a BMX track, gold mines and sometimes just for fun. All of the free time activities like our camp booklets, Mini golf, having a nap, riding our bike around the bike riding track and all sorts of things were very fun. Everyone fun and when I say that I mean everyone. All of the meals and desserts were absolutely delicious and next year the 3s will think the same. Bike Ed Camp was absolutely fantastic, thanks to all the teachers that put this together and made it happen, a big thankyou to all of them. By Maddy 4G!

Wednesday the 18th was such an exciting and an absolutely amazing day for the 2015 year 4 classes going on their very first camp, Maldon Blue light bike Ed camp. Everyone was very excited and nervous waiting to find out what the camp would look like, but soon everyone settled in. We rode to places like the BMX track to test out our awesome tricks, we went on night walks, saw all the beautiful nature and went to Carman’s tunnel, we even saw Light finger Jack! We did many activities including Slip ‘n’ slide, bouldering and table tennis too. Many thanks to all the teachers including Miss. Gentner, Mr. Conway, Mr. Seddon, Mrs. Baxter and Miss. Blanchard for helping us and making this possible! By Chloe 4G!

Year 4 camp was an amazing experience for everyone. We played, socialised, learned, relaxed and most importantly we all had lots

of fun. The facilities were amazing and the staff were even better, as well as our teachers. We journeyed through the bush on our

night walk on Tuesday. On Thursday we were spoilt by a wonderful breakfast and later a slip n slide, bouldering and a good game

off table tennis. Then to the lolly shop on Friday and on the bus back home. And a amazing camp over all.

Matt 4G

CAMP Camp was fantastic. There was cabin idol & rock climbing. Sliding on the slip n slide, lolly shop. Thank you to all the teachers that helped. Cooper 4C

year 4 CAMP

The grade 4s went on a bike riding camp to Maldon. I loved the slip and slide, also when the

teachers went down the slip and slide. I even liked the night hike, the ride to Carmen’s Tunnel

and cabin idol was so FUN!!!!!!!

Abby Stuber 4C

CAMP Grade 4 camp was awesome. There was a slip in slide and we also did a rock climbing activity. The funniest thing was cabin idol.

The best thing was the slip in slide because it was really fast. My favourite thing was going to the lolly shop, I got a giant bubble-

gum stick.

Michael 4C

CHILDREN NOT ATTENDING TUCKER ROAD IN 2016

Successful planning for the coming school year is very dependant on being able to accurately assess the school enrolment. Parents

of children from Prep to Year 5 are asked to complete the form below if it is known that they will not be attending Tucker Road in

2016.

Please return the form to the General Office ASAP. All responses will be treated as confidential.

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NON ATTENDANCE IN 2016

My child…………………….………...will not be attending Tucker Road in the year 2016.

Current Class …………………………….

New School Details if available ……………………………………………………………...

Name of Parent ...........................................

Signature: ...................................................

CONGRATULATIONS MATT DAY

A Special Mention to Tucker Rd student Matthew Day (5V) who was noticed by the Moorabbin Leader (see below)

Big congratulations to Bentleigh East's Matthew Day, 11, who took out the 12 and under age group win for the 15km City2Sea run on Saturday. It was his first 15km race which he ran with his dad, Martin. But his dad had to pull out 8km into the race when he injured his calf, but Matt pushed on, running the rest of the way on his own with other competitors cheering him on. "We were also blown away by his time and thrilled for him that he came first in his age group which wasn't on his radar being the first time he ran this sort of length," his dad said.

Matt ran 1:12:21 for the 15km @ 4:49 per km – a very fast pace indeed.

RE-USABLE LUNCHBAGS ARE HERE!

THE PFA ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE WE HAVE NEW STOCK

OF RE-USABLE LUNCH-BAGS

It’s cheaper to buy from the school and every purchase earns money for the school.

Insulated Lunch-bags = $12

Non-Insulated Lunch-bags = $10

GET YOURS FROM THE UNIFORM SHOP NOW!!!

Special Religious Instruction 2016

For 2016 the Education Department has outlined that Special Religious

Instruction is to be conducted outside of teaching hours. Plans are

underway already by SRI providers to determine the best way of delivering their programs –

before school, lunchtimes or after school.

TRBPS has always done its best to support the community’s interest in SRI and will endeav-

our to continue to do so. We are seeking the opinion of parents to determine an overall pref-

erence that we can communicate to SRI providers.

Please complete the information below and return it to school by Friday, November 27 so

we can start to make plans for 2016.

If you do not wish for your children to participate in any SRI programs in any way, there is

no need to return this form.

In 2016 I would enrol my child/ren in

Christianity

Greek Orthodox

Jewish

My preferred time/s would be (can select more than one).

Before school

Lunchtime

After school

Parent Name ___________________________________________

Parent Contact Number ____________________________________