Dear Parents, Parent Information Sessions Our Parent Information sessions were held this week with very good attendances from our families in both sessions. Parents were able to meet their child’s classroom teacher and briefly chat following each presentation. Teachers summarised key information covering areas such as homework requirements, parent helpers and behaviour management. Thank you to the families who came and supported our information night. Parent Teacher Meetings– 7-8 March Our teachers will be available to meet with each family for 10 minute parent teacher meetings on Tuesday 7 March and Wednesday 8 March. Please log onto the online interviews website using the log in details provided with this newsletter to book a time with each teacher. All families who attend will be provided with feedback about how well students have settled into school, how work habits are developing and standards of work progressing. If you require any assistance with booking the interviews online, please speak to the office staff. Student Leaders Badge Ceremony On Monday, our Year 6 Student Leaders will be officially presented with their leadership badges at a special ceremony being held in our school hall from 9am. Our State MP, Mr Paul Edbrooke will be in attendance as our special guest to present our students with their badges. We appreciate Mr Edbrooke’s time to support our Year 6 students and to provide some words of encouragement during the assembly. After the ceremony, Mr Edbrooke will be speaking to the Year 5/6 children about the Australian democratic system: the role of government, different levels of government, how governments are formed and how they generally work. This should be a most insightful session for our students who are studying ‘Democracy’ as their unit of inquiry for Term 1. School Council Our parent vacancies on School Council have been filled for 2017. As such, there is no requirement to run an election process this year. Preps Our Preps have enjoyed sharing their special skills and talents this week in their classrooms in front of their peers. They have also enjoyed sharing their special family photos and memories as part of their unit of inquiry titled, “All About Me / Families”. The photos on this page depict one of their fun teamwork activities. I hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Cheryl Clark Principal

23rd February 2017 - Issue 3

Fri 24th Feb

District Swimming

Mon 27th Feb

Year 6 Student Leader Badge

Ceremony

Fri 3rd Mar 5/6 Museum of Democracy

Excursion—8.30am departure.

Tues 7th-Wed 8th

Mar

Parent Teacher Interviews

Fri 10th Mar

3-6 House Athletics

Fri 10th Mar

Friends of Heights Meeting 9am

IMPORTANT DATES

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Camps, Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF) - CSEF applications are now open for eligible families. If you hold a health care or pension card valid as at 30th January 2017 or are a foster parent of a child attending our school please see Krystal or Maria in the school office for an application form. Applications must be returned to school by Monday 27th February.

A message from the Assistant Principal.

INFORMATION NIGHTS Thank you to all parents who attended our Information Night on Tuesday and to our teachers for their informative presentations. We are extremely proud of our curriculum programs and keeping parents informed is extremely important. It was a great opportunity to share our homework and behaviour expectations, to launch our values: Resilience, Respect and Responsibility and to answer any of your questions. Your attendance is greatly appreciated. Any parents that were unable to attend, we will be sure to get the information booklets to you. If you have not yet received one, please contact the school.

FRIENDS OF HEIGHTS We held our first Friends Of Heights Meeting today. We have some exciting events to organise this year including; a Family Movie Night, Trivia Night, Shopping Tour, Band Social Night, Mothers Day Stall, Fathers Day Stall and our usual Easter and Christmas Raffles, just to name a few. We are really looking forward to seeing you at these events. Last year we held our School Fete, which was a huge success. The Friends of Heights Committee raised over $30 000 last year, thanks to our wonderful school community. All monies raised goes towards providing your child with the best education facilities possible. Congratulations to our new FOH office bearers for 2017 are: Presidents(co shared)-Tanya Williams and Beccy Jones

Vice President-Heidi Panton

Treasurer-Meagan Hough

Secretary-Tina Hale

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Jodi Craig

10TH FEBRUARY

PH: N/A

PS: N/A

1/2H: Jae C

1/2M: Lucas D

1/2R: Rex BS

3/4D: N/A

3/4J: Daisy F

3/4O: Ebony A

3/4R: Zane C

5/6D: Zoe B

5/6L: Tanya B

5/6M: Taylor TF

SCIENCE: Ruby L

ITALIAN: Kaitlyn S

17TH FEBRUARY

PH: N/A

PS: N/A

1/2H: Charlee K

1/2M: Hermione M

1/2R: Khloe D

3/4D: Drew C

3/4J: Nathaniel J

3/4O: Zannon M

3/4R: Tatjana R

5/6D: Anthony H

5/6L: Tilleah S

5/6M: Bella G

TIQBIZ— Frankston Heights uses the free

TIQBIZ app to communicate with our school community and keep you up to date with events and reminders. We ask all families to download the app to your smartphone or computer desktop. A reminder to those currently using our app to update your app and select your child’s 2017 year levels. For instructions on how to download and setup the app please refer to our previous newsletter or see Krystal in the office.

FEBRUARY

Cooper R Ashley W Bree B

Dannielle M Olivia D Chase P Amy S

Bessie-Mae BS Seth W Sara C Taya T

Kaitlyn S Logan VDB

Connor D Olivia M Ronin D Cruz S Daisy F Hunter K Blade K Miller N Noah S Jodie M

Please return your order to the office by:

10.00AM

Wednesday 1st March

Please Note: Due to year 5/6

students attending an excursion, we

will have our special lunch day on

THURSDAY 2nd March. WE NEED YOU!

If you are able to

assist on this day,

please speak to

Linda in the

canteen. Your help

will be greatly

appreciated.

CANTEEN NEWS:

THURSDAY 2nd March Special Lunch:

SUSHI Plus

Slushie Plus

Cookie $7.00 (1 roll)

$9.50 (2 rolls)

RITCHIES COMMUNITY BENEFITS – Our school received $84.85 in February from this program. Thank you to our many supporters in the community. If you would like a Ritchies Community Benefits card which sponsors our school, please see Krystal in the school office. As well as helping our school with financial benefits, card holders can receive discounts on various products in the Ritchies IGA stores.

SEEKING HOST FAMILIES FOR 9 DAYS IN MARCH 2017 Frankston High School has an annual visit from Osaka Seikei Girls School in Japan from Tuesday 21 March – Thursday 30 March 2017 (9 nights). There will be approximately 30 female Japanese students aged 15-16 years and will be accompanied by their 2 teachers from Japan. The emphasis of the program is to experience our culture, our food and our language so interacting as much as possible with a host family in English and eating your food at meal times is recommended. Your child does not have to be in a Japanese class to host a Japanese student but as it is an all girls school, a host family must have one female sibling of any age living at home. The Japanese student can share a room or have a room on their own. Hence, boys can host a female student as long as they have a female sibling at home. A payment of approximately $20 per day is provided to assist with guest expenses. We ask each host family to provide ac-commodation and 3 meals per day (a cut lunch or lunch mon-ey for the canteen for school days). Also we ask that you pay for your guest when dining out or an admission cost to a ven-ue if the outing has been arranged by you, otherwise we ex-pect the Japanese student to fund anything additional during their stay. School Schedule The Japanese students will attend classes at Frankston High School. At recess and lunchtimes a Frankston High School student would meet your Japanese student and be their bud-dy. No Japanese student is to take public transport to and from school unless accompanied by a member of their Host Family. A Working With Children Check form (WWC) needs to be completed by every person over the age of 18 years residing at your residence. WWC forms are available online. It is always a challenge to find enough host families. If you are able to host or would like to make further enquiries please contact Anne Thomson 0409 835 541 or ath-omso@fhs.vic.edu.au