BERWICK LODGE PRIMARY SCHOOL Phone: 9707 1766 Fax: 9796 2198 E-mail: berwick.lodge.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Visit our Websites : www.berwicklodgeps.vic.edu.au, http://berwicklodgeps.globalteacher.org.au
NEWSLETTER N0.36
20TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY
DIARY DATES Friday 20th November Monday 23rd November Tuesday 24th November Tuesday 24th November Monday 30th November Monday 7th December Wednesday 16th December Friday 18th December Monday 1st February
19TH NOVEMBER 2009
NOTICES DUE BACK BY 20th Anniversary Fete 3:30-8:30pm Gr 1/2 Joffas Toonschool Gr 3/4 Joffas Toonschool Second Hand Uniform shop 2.30-3.15pm School Council Sub Comm School Council Meeting Gr 5/6 Casey Race/Cranbourne sports Last day term 4—1:30 finish First day term 1 2010
Friday 4th December
Gr 5/6 Casey Race/Cran. sports
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES 2010 We have now completed our staffing schedule for next year, based on an overall enrolment of 725 students. This is a drop of 15 students on our census date enrolment figure in February. We welcome back Sandra McCrum who has been on Leave Without Pay for the past two years. Geoff Ablett also returns, after a year as the Mayor of the City of Casey. Geoff is, however, returning on a part time basis of one day per week. Joining us for the first time is Katherine Woskoboenko, a graduate teacher. In the grade lists below you will notice that Karise Dell is grade sharing with Geoff Ablett. This is because Karise will be on leave one day per week in 2010 to undertake post graduate studies in student wellbeing. You may not recognise the name, Jodie Luketic. That is because Luketic will be Jodie Donnellen’s married surname following her forthcoming marriage. We have made a number of changes to our non grade support provision. Rose Scavo will be providing grade support to our grade 3/4’s because these grades will be our largest next year with class sizes being 28 or 29 per class. This year Heather Mathews provided that support to our Prep grades which were 2 to 3 students above the 21 enrolments per grade notional ideal. Our current prep numbers for next year are 19 or 20 children per grade. Of the 29 grades we will have next year, we will have only 4 composite classes. Whilst we do not have a problem with composite classes, in recent years we
have chosen to have fewer of them rather than more. In the grade 5/6 area we have just one composite class. Given the numbers of children we will have in grades 5 and 6 next year it was not possible to have 7 straight grades without having lopsided numbers across the two grade levels. Alternatively, we did not want to create 7 composite classes as the straight grade option provided some logistical benefits this year. As you will note, we have placed Sue Naismith, one of our most experienced teachers in the composite grade. I am very pleased that we have been able to maintain our allocation of Additional Assistance teachers who will be working primarily in the junior grades in the areas of literacy and numeracy. On the extension side of programs, our ICT (LEEP) extension program has been highly successful this year and will be continued. It will be augmented next year with a new program – Mathematics extension for our senior students. This program will be delivered by Robert Barr, two days per week. Mathematics is a passion of Robert’s and after several years as a member of our Additional Assistance team in the junior grades, this will enable our talented students in mathematics to benefit from Robert’s expertise in mathematics. PREP AREA Prep C: Prep T: Prep L: Prep W: Prep M:
1/2 AREA Grade 1C: Grade 1K: Grade 1J: Grade 1M: Grade 2B: Grade 2M: Grade 2Z: Grade 2V: Grade 2L:
Helen Chisholm Bernadette Kelly Ashley Jacobs Angela Maskery Leonie Brown Lianne Morgan Kylee Ziino Sarah Vine Trish Luke
3/4 AREA Grade 3P: Tahnee Planner Grade 3DA: Karise Dell (0.8)/Geoff Ablett (0.2) Grade 3/4R: Traceye Rapinett Grade 3/4K: Gloria Knight Grade 3/4P: Vanessa Porter Grade 4DR: David Ryan Grade 4M: Jaclyn McLennan Grade 4S: Andrew Searle 3/4 Support: Rose Scavo (0.6) 5/6 AREA Grade 5E: Grade 5L: Grade 5J: Grade 5/6N: Grade 6W: Grade 6C: Grade 6P:
Emily Nolde Jodie Luketic Rochelle Jinks Sue Naismith Paul Whitehead Dianne Casciannelli Nick Pryor
Sharon Chandler Michele Tan Alvina Lim Katherine Woskoboenko CONTINUED ….. Sandra McCrum
SPECIALIST PROGRAMS PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Amy Carlile PERFORMING ARTS: Nadine Giaccotto VISUAL ARTS: Julie McLeod/Jo Zammit LITERATURE/RESEARCH: Lyn Chudleigh LEEP: Lois Smethurst ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE: Stephanie Davey (0.4) Jodie Radings (0.4) Heather Mathews (0.5) MATHS EXTENSION (Gr.5/6): Robert Barr (0.4)
ECHOES FROM OUR FIRST 20 YEARS Back in the late 1990’s when we last held a school fete, someone came up with the bright idea that we could raise some funds by conducting what was called a ‘cowpat’. The concept involves marking out the park in one metre squares, with people paying a fee to nominate the square in which the cow would ‘relieve itself’ first. The winner would receive a valuable prize. Unfortunately the cow wandered over to the pitcher’s mound, seriously damaging the mound before soiling many parts of the baseball pitch. To make matters worse we had inadvertently failed to obtain permission from the baseball club to use the park for this purpose. It all created quite a stink! Thankfully we eventually made our peace with the baseball club and have
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’ S REPORT 20TH ANNIVERSARY FETE Families are reminded that tomorrow is our school’s 20th Anniversary Fete and the PFA have been very busy working towards making the evening a success for all. The children are very excited and looking forward to the many attractions of the fete. Preordered show bags and ride wristbands will be distributed to the children at school tomorrow. There will be some show bags for purchase at the fete and tickets for the rides will also be available. Parents should be aware that it is expected that children will be accompanied by an adult at the fete. We look forward to seeing lots of families enjoying themselves tomorrow evening.
STUDENTS IN THE GROUNDS OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS We have noticed that several students are arriving at school very early each morning and playing in the playground without adult or guardian supervision. We remind parents that our staff are on duty from 8:45AM to 9:00AM in the morning and 3:30PM to 3:45PM in the afternoon. Dom Marie, our OHSC Coordinator can be contacted directly on 9769 825I if parents would like further information about the excellent before and after school care programs.
We have also observed a number of students who appear to return to school after hours, some as late as 6:00 to 7:00PM in the evening. We are PREP TRANSITION 2010 concerned that these students are This week we had the pleasure of placing themselves at risk as there is no meeting our 2010 Prep students when supervision at this time and there are they visited the school for the first of many areas of the school yard that are their transition sessions. The children isolated. On occasions children have took part in a tour of the school with been seen trespassing on the roof of their parents and prep staff. It was the school and the potential dangers of great to see so many happy students this practice should be evident. proudly wearing their ‘I’m enrolled at Students have been reminded of the Berwick Lodge’ t-shirts. Our specialist risks involved with being in the teams are looking forward to meeting grounds outside of the supervision our 2010 Preps over the next two times and we appreciate parent weeks. support in this matter. LYNNE BRENNER & DEBBIE CUSACK
never again used the baseball pitch for a cow pat. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ’s) Q. How many Assistant Principals have we had at Berwick Lodge P.S.? A. More than we have had principals! In fact we have had a total of 6 A.P.’s. Evelyn Butfield was our first, followed by Averil Moore, Rosemary Cosentino, Ann Ng and our current A.P.’s Lynne Brenner and Debbie Cusack. QUOTABLE QUOTE
‘Anniversaries are a great way of celebrating the fact that we are all getting older quicker than we care to know!’ HENRY GROSSEK
PARENTS WANTED FOR COVERING BOOKS IN THE GRADE 3/4 AREA. YOU WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH CONTACT AND BOOKS. CONTACT JACKIE IN ROOM 27.
SCHOOL AWARDS Congratulations to the following students who received awards over the last week.
Cooper PW Madeline PW Mickayla PW Tom PW Deegan PC Zack PC Rohan PO Bailey PT Margaret PT Shinae PO
COMMUNITY NEWS FREE TO GOOD HOME—Kittens black, grey or tabby 6 weeks old and ready to go phone 9702 5592 FOR SALE—Robotic roboraptor (hardly used) $50.00, WII game pokemon battle revolution (hardly used) $50.00, Playstation 2 game Tak and the power of Juju $20.00 phone 0407 152 632 GARAGE SALE—Saturday 21st November 9:00am 5 County Drive, Berwick. Heaps of boys and girls toys and clothes, DS games, books, fabric etc
Celebrate Casey Kids 5 to 12 – Update Celebrate Casey Kids 5 to 12 (CCK 5-12) is a community group of Casey primary schools, parents, community workers and service providers. Learning through Sharing Day The CCK 5-12 Learning through Sharing Day was held last month in celebration of children’s week. Doveton Heights choir opened the morning with Indian Toms Toms and Home among the gum trees’. The morning was a great success with 10 local schools participating and displaying projects that provided an opportunity to students to actively show their achievements, and share their ideas amongst the City of Casey primary school community. The students showed knowledge and enthusiasm and thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to talk about their achievements. There were two wonderful presentations by students from Casey Grammar and Lynbrook Primary School. There were also displays by Christians Helping in Primary Schools, who did a wonderful talk to the students on how to work together, Casey Cardinia Library Corporation, Healthy 4 Life and the SHARE project at the City of Casey, a disability awareness program for primary schools. Teachers, parents, grandparents, City of Casey Children’s’ Services staff and other community members all expressed feedback in relation to the participation throughout the day, with particular emphasis on the increased confidence of the project presenters and the high level of pride demonstrated by all participants. I invite you to join the working party or add your name to the email distribution list to stay in touch with the ongoing work of the group. The next meeting is Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 9.30am – 11.00am, at Hillsmeade Primary School, 82 The Promenade, Narre Warren South. For further information please contact: Clare Miller Primary Years Support Officer City of Casey 9705 5200 cmiller@casey.vic.gov.au
Fountain Gate Secondary College invites you to attend the
Year 7 - 2010 ‘INFORMATION evening’ Monday 23rd November, 2009 Commencing at 7.00pm in the Fountain Gate Secondary College gymnasium, Josephine Avenue, Fountain Gate
FIND OUT ABOUT … Uniform, books, parent contributions, timetables, buses, Homework Club, camps, computers, peer support and mediation, welfare support, Parents and Friends Association, canteen, library, reports, home/school communication…… and anything else you have a question about!!
Please join us for an informative evening where we can answer any questions and deal with any anxious feelings you have about the transition to secondary school. For further information, please call : Wayne Smith – Community Links Co-ordinator, or Carice Williams, Year 7 & 8 Sub-School Leader or Jan Baulch, Year 7 Student Manager.
Telephone: 9796 6839
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