Exford Primary School

Where Children Count!

www.exfordps.vic.edu.au

At Exford, these qualities are really important:

Respect Kindness Personal Best

… and it’s up to all of us to show them every day in

every thing we say and every thing we do!

Principal: Ms Lisa Campo Phone: 9743 5025 exford.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

NEWSLETTER 2017 No.4 (Term 1, 2017) Thursday 16 March 2017

You are represented on School Council by: Parents: Adele (Olivia & Alexander), Amanda (Caitlyn, Ava & Hayley), Belinda (Nicholas and Kade), Jacki (Claire), Jenny (Aimee), Katy (Adele, Hamish & Maddison), Sarah (Lily & Oscar), Sharon (Charlie & Archie) and Susan (Jessica). EPS Community: Graham Staff: Ms Campo, Mrs Farrugia, Mr Parker and Mr Bright

Follow this link to Exford’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQsi70kyo0V7OFJsBcOF3w

Reminders! These payments are due for all students: Student Book Pack Prep -2 children only – Reading Eggs subscription Year 5/6 Camp Cooriemungle final payments – due by Thurs 30 March

Ms Campo’s News...

Parent Student Teacher Conferences Thank you to all our families who made an appointment for their Parent Student Teacher Conferences, held yesterday and today. If you missed making an appointment, please contact your child’s teacher to make another time.

Seesaw is here!

We hope you are enjoying seeing your child’s initial Seesaw items. You should have received an

individual family log in sheet yesterday with the details needed to see your child’s Seesaw portfolio. Please return your new permission form – choosing only one option:

Level 1 permission: – children can be ‘tagged’ to a shared piece of work and then both the children’s families can see the shared piece and leave feedback

Level 2 permission: - your child will only have individual pieces of work and will not be tagged to other children through shared work pieces

No permission at all - your child won’t have a Seesaw portfolio and will have a paper portfolio sent home on a regular basis.

Until the amended permission form is received, the original permission form will be the one used (which is Level 2 or NO permission only).

Cut out & stick me to the fridge!

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Dates to Remember: Please add them to your calendar!

2017 Dates Term 1 Dates

Gymnastics in Term 1

Gymnastics program (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays – 8 week program)

Friday 17 March

MPSSA Lightning Premiership

Monday 20 March

Exford PS – Peer Review Day No 2 Term 2 Planning Week

Friday 31 March

Easter Bonnet Parade at 9 am – all families welcome to join us

End of Term 1!

Easter Raffle drawn at Assembly

at 2:10 pm

Dismissal at 2:30 pm

(Eynesbury Buses from 2:30 pm)

Term 2 Dates

Tuesday 18 April

Pupil Free Day No 3 – no students

Wednesday 19 April

Term 2 starts for students

Wed 19 – Fri 21 April

Year 5-6 Camp Cooriemungle (Get ready for the mud!!)

Our Oval We have our site meeting!!

The design company and DET will attend our school on Monday 27 March to establish the timelines for the oval work. I reported to School Council on Wednesday evening that DET had told me that the pricing of the project needed to be reworked and approval for the funding increase granted - to take into account the greater amount of soil treatment required (some 8000 tonnes of soil need treatment to reduce the volatility) as specified in the geo tech report.

Without the soil treatment, the synthetic surface would be torn apart by the movement of the subterranean soil within 6-8 months – so we’re glad they are doing the works properly. We are all doing our best trying to be patient in the meantime.

School Council At our Annual Reporting Meeting of School Council last night, we looked at the 2016 school year and also ratified our Annual Report (which will be available on our school website by March 31 2017). We elected our Office Bearers for the 2017 school year – congratulations to these parents and our thanks for their efforts on behalf of all of our kids:

School Council President – Katy (Adele, Hamish and Maddy)

School Council Vice President – Susan (Jessica)

School Council Finance Committee Member – Adele (Olivia and Alexander)

Easter Raffle Thanks to the families which have answered the call from our Fundraising Team and have donated Easter goodies (e.g. chocolate eggs) for our Easter Raffle. Raffle tickets have been sent home, with more available from the Office. The raffle draw will happen at the final Assembly for Term 1, Friday 31 March at 2 pm. The children are invited to create Easter Bonnets at home to wear at the special morning Assembly on Friday 31 March – families welcome to come and join in.

Parent Information Evening – Tues

21 March

We would love your feedback on how helpful the information sessions were and what we could do to continue improving – if you could find five minutes to complete the survey?

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MGP7TFF

New to Exford families survey We ask our new to Exford families to complete this short survey to provide us with feedback on our Transition Program (Preps and children in Years 1-6 for 2017).

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5SWDDHJ

Mr Welshe starts next week! We are very excited to welcome Mr Andrew Welshe who joins the Exford teaching team for the remainder of the 2017 school year. He will be teaching our Auslan program and the kids are most excited to have him join us.

Term 2 Planning Week – next week is

Planning Week, where the children have all their specialist activities on the one day to free the teachers for their Planning Days.

Monday 20 March Year 4 Team

Tuesday 21 March Year 1-2 Team

Wednesday 22 March Year Prep Team

Thursday 23 March Specialist Team

Friday 24 March Year 5 - 6 Team

Monday 27 March Year 3 Team

Student News - Well done to these students for

their recent achievements!

Elle D

Jordan

Brydie

Aaron T

Lucy

Attendance … Every Day Counts

Did you know that:

If your child has missed 5 days or less this school year.

This will support your child to achieve their best at school – academically and personally.

If your child has missed more than 10 days this school year.

The amount of time your child is missing will impact on their learning and their friendships.

If your child has missed more than 15 days this school year.

Your child is missing so much time from school that it will be extremely difficult for them to keep up with their learning, their friendships and to feel connected to school.

Each week at Assembly, we recognise the classes who hae the most punctual students and we also acknowledge the classes who have the greatest student attendance. This information is then shared in our fortnightly newsletter.

Congratulations to these classes for having perfectly punctual classes –

Week of Monday 27 February Year 1/2 Gashi, Year 1/2 Monagle and Year 3 Littlewood

Week of Monday 6 March Year Prep Christensen, Year 1/2 Gashi, Year 1/2 Roe, Year

1/2 Wurf, Year 3 Littlewood, 3 Parker, Year 4 Lynch and Year 4 McFarlane

Exford’s BEST Attendance Award trophy goes to …

Week of Monday 27 January

Year 1/2 Gashi

Year 3 Littlewood and Year 5 Ciantar share

Week of Monday 6 March

Year 1/2 Roe

Year 3 Littlewood and Year 4 Lynch share

A reminder that all holiday absences (3+ days) require an Absence Learning Plan, developed with your child’s teacher and signed by the Principal or Assistant Principal to cover your child’s absence.

Fundraising News

Our 2017 target is…

$18,000 - $25,000.

Our Tally so far… $652 Our Fundraising efforts work hand in hand with our ICT budget to provide our kids with iPads, laptops and other technologies.

Happy Birthdays!! To our students who celebrated their birthdays

from 16 – 30 March Landon, Krysta-Ray, Harry, Julian, Chloe C, Alexa, Shanti, Adele B, Thomas L, Bellajade, Jasmyn, Cruz, Eddie, Connor F, Emma G, Dean F and Brodie W (Yr 5)

Happy Birthday to you!!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear kids,

Happy Birthday to you!

We love celebrating birthdays at school, making a fuss over the child who is celebrating and birthday cup-cakes are always welcome! We also love for birthday children to visit us in the Office for a sticker and birthday song.

Having birthdays at school is a very special event and if your child is absent on their birthday, they miss out on all the fuss made over them.

Hope you enjoy reading our

newsletter!

Please see the pages from: Year Prep King and Year 3 Parker

Ms Campo

Exford PS’s YouTube Channel … have you subscribed yet?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQsi70kyo0V7OFJsBcOF3w

OSH Club News Before School / After School Care Program

Program Update

This fortnight in OSH Club we have been very busy learning about different cultures. We made lanterns, necklaces etc. If anyone has any ideas of cool cultural activities for children, please let

us know.

Friendly reminders: PLEASE ensure that if your child/ren are booked into OSH Club that they are NOT booked on the school bus. This is very important as if your child does not remember to go to OSH Club they may

end up leaving the school on the bus.

If your child is due to be absent or needs to be booked in on late notice (less than 24 hours) please ensure you call and leave a message to ensure we have adequate staffing.

Term 4 and 1 are Sun Smart terms we require hats for children to be able to adequately participate in outdoor play, please send you child with a hat for OSH Club, if you wish to leave it at OSH Club

please hand it named to a staff member (doesn’t have to be a school hat).

Thankyou from the OSH Club Team!

Contact Number: 0419 207 638

Parent Information OSHC program phone: 0419 207 638

Co-ordinator: Diya Assistant: Rebecca OSH Club Head Office: 03 8564-9000

All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is free!! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via your online account. For on the day

bookings please contact the Co-ordinator direct at the program.

Held at Exford PS - more information coming.