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Volume 24 Issue 22
Thursday 02 August 2018
DATES TO REMEMBER term dates 2018 term 3 16 july - 21 sept 2019 term 1 30 jan - 05 apr
07 07 14 28 29
AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST AUGUST
term 4 08 oct - 21 dec term 2 23 apr - 28 jun
PUBLIC MEETING - PRESENTATION OF THE ANNUAL REPORT 2017 6:00 P.M. SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETING 7:00 P.M. SRC ’MAKE A WISH’ SUPER HERO DRESS UP DAY - GOLD COIN DONATION GRADE 2 MINIBEAST IN MAGGIE’S GARDEN INCURSION. YEAR 5, 2019 BYOD INFORMATION EVENING 6:45 P.M MULTI MEDIA CENTRE
jim bell, principal
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hinese Language and Culture CHINESE SISTER SCHOOLS VISIT TO VICTORIA In last week’s newsletter, we featured the daily interactions of our visiting Chinese students within our classrooms and this week we feature a collage of photographs capturing the farewell extended to the visiting assistant principal, Zhu Xiangqun, English language teacher, Li Li, and the ten students from our Chinese sister school, Yangzhong Experimental Primary School of Yangzhong City, Jiangsu, CHINA! As expected, the whole experience of hosting the visitation was equally enjoyable and rewarding for everyone and the smiles on the faces of our own students and on the faces of our visitors are testimony to that! Collectively, Brentwood Park can be justifiably proud of our endeavours in hosting our fourth sister school visitation. Parents, students and staff alike certainly promoted our school value of teamwork, as everyone worked positively with each other to achieve our goal - the successful hosting of our fourth visitation from our sister school!! Congratulations, Brentwood Park, and thank you to everyone!
jenny reid, assistant principal
Mahajan family Pipes family Ritchie family Roberts family
Thanks are also extended to Jim Narayan and Chunyan Zhang for hosting the visiting staff members! A collage of photographs capturing our farewell assembly and final departure is featured in this week’s newsletter!
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arent Opinion Survey The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents at each school. It is designed to assist our school in gaining an understanding of parents’ perception of school climate, student engagement and relationships with our parent community. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct future A HUGE THANK Y OU is extended to our hosting school planning and improvement strategies. families. Without your support, valuable programs like this could not be realised. From speaking with you, you The survey will be conducted online by ORIMA have conveyed that the experience was equally as Research Pty Ltd and only takes 15 minutes to enjoyable for the family as it was for the visiting child. complete. The survey can be accessed via desktop computer, laptop, tablet or mobile at any convenient time I hope additional families will avail themselves of such within the fieldwork period from Monday 30thJuly to an opportunity when we host our fifth visitation in 2019. Sunday 26th August. Appr oximately 30 per cent of parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey. Thank you, again, to our nine hosting families for 2018. All responses to the survey are anonymous.
Bathmarjah family Dorning family Henda Witharana family Hla family Lucas family
The survey results will be reported back to our school at the end of September and will be communicated back to parents through our school newsletter and our annual report. Survey results assists the school in planning for the successive year.
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chool Sports Uniforms There are many cross country, soccer and football uniforms that need to be returned to school. Can all items please be washed before being returned.
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ear 4 Camp The camp date for Year 4 is 19th to st 21 September. This year’s camp will be at Arrabri Lodge. Can parents please complete and return the relevant medical forms.
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Personal Gift of Giving We are always proud of the achievements of our students, however, sometimes our students go above and beyond, and think of others. Ava G. in 3MS is one of those remarkable individuals. She has just had her extremely long locks of hair cut into a beautiful bob and is donating her hair to ‘Wigs for Kids’. In her words, “I just want all children to feel beautiful, even if they are sick”. Well done, Ava! What an extraordinary gift for another child. We know you will have made them feel beautiful.
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nnual Report to the School Community It is an accountability requirement of schools that they produce an Annual Report each year. It provides the community with information about the school’s performance in implementing their improvement strategies and how the school’s resources have been used. Our Annual Report was ratified and endorsed by school council prior to its submission to the Department for publication on the Victorian Registration Jim Narayan and Mel Dennis, H. & P. E. and Qualifications Authority’s State Register of Schools. It is also available on our school’s website. ew Beginners Group in Violin The violin lessons for new Parents are invited to attend a meeting at beginners will start this term! school where the report will be presented The new group’s lessons will be to the community. This meeting is conducted every Friday after school with scheduled for Tuesday 7 August at 6:00 the first lesson for this new group being p.m. in the staffroom. Parents who are Friday 3 August. interested in attending are asked to contact the school and have their name added to the Please contact Eun-ju Lee via email register of proposed attendees. ejlee94@gmail.com or mobile 0430 721 784 for further details on the program. Thanking you for your continued support.
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ew Attendance Requirements If your child is sick or absent, you are required to notify the school as soon as possible on the day erforming Arts at Kambrya of absence. Notifying the school of your child’s absence We are very proud of the close either prior to, or on the day that they will be away, helps working relationship Brentwood ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and will fulfil Park Primary School has with Kambrya College where a your legal responsibility. number of school programs which are facilitated between both schools, prove themselves to be reciprocally Parents were previously forwarded a letter in the post beneficial. advising them again of the changes and their legal responsibility. Parents were asked to complete the Whilst gearing up for our own performing arts PERMISSION SLIP—SMS MESSAGES. This will “Celebration”, our Years 5 and 6 classes, this week, had allow Brentwood Park Primary School to update CASES the opportunity to be the audience for the dress rehearsal of 21 and enable SMS messages to be sent to mobile phones Kambrya’s musical production titled “Wizard of Oz” on beginning July 16th. Email addresses are also requested. Wednesday and Thursday!. It was and enjoyable performance and pleasing for staff and students to note Confidentiality of the information provided will be some of our own past students performing on Kambrya’s maintained and only used for the specific purpose, unless stage! otherwise required by law. In fact, the musical director, and head of the arts at Kambrya College, was a past student of Brentwood Park Primary School!
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Term 2
Week ending 02 August, 2018 FTL
Daniya
for increased confidence with her writing.
FCV
n/a
FBC
Indy
for being a fabulous reader and pushing yourself to achieve your best.
FSM
Jett
for his ability to put words into creative sentences. Well done, Jett!
FJH
Ryani
for always showing kindness to your classmates. Well done!
FLP
Diya
FJF
Thanesha
for sounding out words and re-reading. You are a SUPERSTAR reader! Awesome work! for always working hard and trying her best.
1MK
Emily
for showing an excellent understanding of halving numbers.
1BV
Tybar
for your excellent progression in reading. Well done, Tybar!
1HG
Alvin
1KC
Khloe
1NC
Jay
for making good choices and ‘working tough’ to achieve your personal best with everything you do. Well done! for her persistence and ‘have-a-go’ attitude! Thank you for your hard work, Khloe! for the amazing start to Term 3. Keep up the amazing reading and writing.
1EN
Sethuni
2DK
Ar ya
2AK
Navayo
for showing confidence when sharing in class discussions and using a clear audible voice. Super effort! for your independent writing this week, remembering to use capital letters and full stops. for your detailed and descriptive responses to CAFÉ reading activities.
2CM
Shirin
for being a conscientious learner. Well done, you’re a star!
2AD
Max
2AA
Blade
for achieving his reading goal showing fluency and accuracy when he reads. Well done! for your fantastic efforts this week! I’m so proud of you!!
3CH
Sehajpal
for enthusiastically participating in our Silly Science incursion.
3MS
Alijah
3SH
Bella
for fabulous participation and enthusiasm during our Silly Science incursion. for fantastically settling into 3SH. Welcome back to BPPS!
3MF
Kaden
4SM
Smr ithi
for excellent participation in the Silly Science incursion. You were very responsible and respectful. for always demonstrating a positive attitude towards her learning.
4GD
Dallas
for showing great persistence to improve in maths.
4BM
Ir ene
for always working to the best of her ability and being super organised.
4CP
Levi
for always being a happy, friendly and helpful member of 4CP. Fantastic!
Term 2
Week ending 02 August, 2018 5LM
Satwat
5LF
Kennedy
5SI
Both
5JG
Helna
6MB
Pr iya
for always being such a kind and considerate student towards others! for being a super friendly and supportive friend to Mary, our Chinese visitor. for making incredible improvements in his mathematical understanding! for being persistent and demonstrating a positive attitude in classroom activities. for her growth mindset towards all aspects of her schooling.
6LM
Rui Rui
for confidently sharing her writing with the class.
6JP
Mar k
for his enthusiasm towards learning. Keep it up!
6JA
Senesa
for starting the term well and writing an informative reading journal.
LOTE: Chunyan 2AK
SPECIALIST CLASSES
LOTE: Daisy 4VK
for your excellent singing and dancing of head, shoulders, knees and toes in Chinese. Well done, 2AK! for your excellent pronunciation on Pinyin tones! Well done!
Performing Arts: Kenneth 4VK for confidently reading scripts during your lesson. The way you showed “Teamwork� by encouraging each other was fantastic! Performing Arts: Troy 3MF
for being amazing and learning the lines to our concert play with enthusiasm.
Physical Education: Jim 2AK
terrific work with sorting food into the food groups.
Physical Education: Mel 2DK
for their fabulous discussion on food groups.
Visual Arts: Joi 5SI
for their creativity making fabric pictures.
Visual Arts: Jessica 1BV
for showing persistence when learning to complete a basic sewing stitch. Your caterpillars look amazing!
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LEASE DIRECT MONEY FOR EXCURSIONS, ETC TO YOUR CLASSROOM TEACHER - NOT TO THE OFFICE.
Please hand money and permission slip in sealed envelopes to classroom teacher first thing in the morning. By following this process teachers are aware that your child will be attending the excursion and mark them off their lists. Money is collected by office staff and processed each morning and a receipt given back to teachers along with permission slips. All money is tallied and banked daily – no money is left on the premises. If you wish to pay by credit card, a proforma is available from the office. This can be filled out with details and placed in a sealed envelope and handed to your classroom teacher Please deliver cash in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and grade on the front by 9.30 a.m. If you have a number of children attending an excursion you can place all money and permission slips in the one envelope with children’s names and grades on the front and deliver to one of the children’s teachers. The office staff will be able to allocate money to the children’s particular items and distribute permission slips and receipts back to teachers. Envelopes are available at the office. If you have a large amount to be paid or need to process an EFTPOS transaction through a savings account you can make arrangements to pay at the office. We also have a new Qkr payment system on our Skoolbag app. If you download our Skoolbag app and Qkr payment app you can now pay for your child’s excursion on line. All change will be delivered to the children in the afternoon. Re-imbursements will only be made under certain circumstances – they will be made by cheque (no cash transactions are made). Notices are sent out with a final collection time – please adhere to this time. All money and per mission slips ar e required to be sent back by this date – otherwise your child will not be able to attend. This enables us to confirm bookings and numbers with bus companies and organisations we are visiting. Also we need to send details to the Department of Education Emergency Management for all excursions, camps, etc. We also need to accommodate students who will not be attending. We would appreciate it if parents could please follow these processes.