Principal’s Report

Newsletter 7 ~ Wednesday 22nd June 2020

Truganina College

55 Clearwood Drive

Truganina VIC 3029

03 9368 9800

www.truganinap9.vic.edu.au

Truganina Times

Students returning to on-site learning has been a welcome sight this Term. I have been very proud to hear of the many students that showed resilience, to grow as independent learners during their time learning off-site earlier in the term. Staff, Students and Families have shown a great deal of flexibility, to focus on being their best at every opportunity. Community relationships have strengthened as we work together to support our children's development, both socially and academically. Our staff are very proud of our community. Together we have navigated through Remote and Flexible Learning in a safe and calm fashion.

Now is a timely reminder to continue to support your children with their reading every night. The families of our community play a huge part in ensuring our students are ready to learn and grow. With a deep understanding of the learning your child is working through, I recommend reviewing the Community Engagement tab on our website. https://truganinap9.vic.edu.au/community-engagement-in-learning/

I highly recommend viewing the Educational Resources that will support you to further understand what you can do to help your child's learning. Additionally, there are videos for Reading Comprehension, that show our staff modelling what questions you can ask during your child's reading. These resources may lead to more questions that our teachers can happily help you with during Term 3, Week 3 Parent Teacher Interviews. We are proud to offer resources in many languages, including our website that can currently be viewed in 23 languages.

Principal’s Report Continued ...

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Last Day Of Term 2

Friday 26th June is the last day of Term 2.

School finishes at 2.30pm on this day.

Christopher Pugh Middle Years Assistant Principal

I wish our staff, students and families a safe 2 week break. It has been well earned.

2020 Truganina College Events Calendar

Date Event

Friday 26th June Last day of Term 2

School Finishes at 2.30pm

Monday 13th July First day of Term 3

School starts at 8.35am

Tuesday 14th July School Banking

Thursday 30th July Australian Maths Competition Years 3-9

Monday 17th August 2020 2020 Curriculum Day

As approved by School Council

Week of 24th-28th August ICAS English Years 2-9

Week of 31st August -

4th September

ICAS Mathematics Years 2-9

Week of 31st August - ICAS Spelling Years 2-7

Friday 18th September Last day of Term 3

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No Lunch Orders on Friday 26th The last day for lunch orders is Thursday 25th June. The canteen WILL NOT be taking lunch orders on Friday 26th June, however they will be open for over the counter snacks only.

School Banking will return in Term 3

School Banking is returning in Term 3. It will once again take place on a Tuesday in 2020. If your child is interested in School Banking, please visit the link below for more information;

https://www.commbank.com.au/personal/kids/school-banking.html

School Review Dear Parents and Families,

The School review is characterised by collaboration. Every participant has a distinctive role and important responsibilities to fulfil. The school council president Jagruti Dave is a core Panel member of the School Review. Her role is to actively participate in PRSE ( Pre Review Self Evaluation) activities, familiarise herself with the PRSE Report and any other school data and evidence provided, identifying any questions, wonderings and highlights. She will also attend the meetings during the school review to share your voice.

Community Consultation

A constructive and transparent school review welcomes ideas from all school community members, listens to and reflects on varying opinions, and relies on inclusive engagement and accountability. Our pre-Review Self Evaluation is progressing well with successful consultation with the Truganina College Community. All students, staff and families have been invited to respond to surveys specifically designed to capture their opinions.

The model below indicates community members are important contributors to the Panel.

During consultation, the College community shared their thoughts by responding to the following key questions.

· In your experience, what has Truganina College done well?

· How do you know?

· How can we improve things further at Truganina College? What would you like in the future at the College?

This is a significant and exciting time for our school community as we gather evidence and evaluate our performance over the last 4 years at Truganina P-9 College. I look forward to sharing the PRSE process and developments with you.

Sadia Toqeer Assistant Principal - Leading Community Engagement in Learning & Jagruti Dave - Truganina College School Council President

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Dear Families,

As part of the continual improvement of all Victorian government schools, each school undertakes a review every four years.

As part of this process, we welcome ideas and feedback from all school community members to understand what we are doing well and future suggestions.

Your input will help inform the review of our current Strategic Plan and the writing of our next four year plan.

Over the last few weeks, we have been reaching out to families and asking for feedback. If you have not been able to provide your feedback, please use one of the following links to complete a short survey.

Click on this link https://tinyurl.com/y89nybue

OR Use the following QR code.

We value all contributions and look forward to your feedback.

Kind Regards,

Sadia Toqeer Assistant Principal

School Review Continued...

Parent Teacher Interviews – Semester 1 2020

Parent/Teacher Interviews will be taking place in week 3, Term 3.

More details will be in the next newsletter in Term 3.

Any questions please contact Courtney Hodgson on 9368 9800

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100% Attendance Winners! Last week a number of classes achieved 100% attendance and as a reward, got to participate in a Disco Dance Party!

Students showed off their musicality and funky dance moves and had a great time dancing with their classmates!

We strive to achieve 100% attendance across all classes and year levels and hope that we can achieve this again next term!

Jade Purdie Extracurricular Activities Coach

Class 00M Students - Mr Lee Class 02B Students - Ms Haouchar

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School Council Update School councils comprise parents, the principal, staff, and students if the school has enrolments in Year 7 and above. The following members make up the school council at Truganina College:

Jagruti Dave – President Jenny Crowle – Executive Officer (principal) Pooja Parmar – Treasurer Sahar Amjad – Parent Member Charlie Hickey and Bhupali Pylla – Student Members Vanitha Sujith – Department of Education and Training representative

The members of School Council met on the 22nd June 2020.

The College Captains Charlie Hickey and Bhupali Pylla shared how they have been supporting each year level’s Student Leadership Meeting in Term 2. They have led discussions, provided opportunities for each Student Leader to contribute and provided examples of strategies that the leaders could use to improve school connectedness.

The College has received approval for the construction of covered walkways from the Victorian School Building Authority. These walkways will be built in two stages. Stage One will take place during the September school holidays and Stage Two will take place over the Christmas holiday period.

Truganina College continues to ensure the school environment is safe and secure, and fulfil our duty of care obligations to students, staff and visitors. The College has recently installed Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras around the school grounds. The system protects our college against vandalism and theft and strengthens our school security by providing an appropriate level of surveillance on school grounds. The Truganina College CCTV Policy will be made available on our College website shortly.

School Council will meet again on the 20th July 2020.

Vanitha Sujith Assistant Principal – Teaching & Learning Excellence

Language Translation on Truganina College website

You can now view our College website in 23 different languages.

Please see the red circle below to see where to change to your preferred language on the website:

Camps, Sports, Excursions Fund (CSEF)

CSEF will be provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities. If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. The allowance is paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.

The annual CSEF amount per student is:

$125 for primary school students.

$225 for secondary school students.

The CSEF funding does not cover school levies. School levies are to be paid by all families. See office staff if you need assistance or have any questions.

How to apply

Call the office on 9368 9800 or email the school on Truganina.p9.co@education.vic.gov.au

Applications for CSEF close on 24th July so please contact the office by no later than Wednesday 22nd July if you are eligible for this funding and haven’t already applied.

Clare Najdovski Finance Manager

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Parent Engagement in Learning Course 2020

Are you interested in learning some simple strategies to support your child’s learning at home?

Will you take up the opportunity to work with small groups of students in classrooms to improve their literacy and numeracy skills?

Are you happy to volunteer your time and contribute to the learning happening in classrooms?

Then maybe you would like to attend a Parent Engagement in Learning Course at Truganina College.

The Community Engagement in Learning Team will be running the Parent Engagement in Learning Course in Term 3. This is an opportunity for you to develop skills you can use at home with your child to support their reading and maths, or to be a parent helper in the classroom.

If you would like to be a part of our Parent Engagement in Learning Course, please call the front office on 03 9368 9800 or email Truganina.p9.co@education.vic.gov.au to express your interest in attending the sessions.

All parents who help in the classroom will need to get a Working with Children Check. It is free for volunteers. Please use this address below to access the WWCC:

https://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/

We look forward to working collaboratively with you to support every child’s learning. Rose Power Professional Learning Community Leader - Foundation Community Engagement in Learning Team Member

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College House Names Whilst students were learning from home, the college was getting prepared to show off our new college house names for the students on their return. Four beautiful college flags have been designed to help promote our four college houses. The house flags have been on display each morning on the oval so families and students could see them when arriving to school. We have also introduced a new visible to each classroom so that students can familiarise themselves with the houses.

The flags have helped me remember the names of the houses.

- Simon Le 5B

It’s nice to see the representation of Indigenous culture in the college through the house names.

- Anne Marcos

Can you match the house colours with the names? Draw a line from each flag to the name that should be on it.

Namatjira

Unaipon

Thurston

Freeman

Leisel Snart Classroom Teacher

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ICAS Assessments 2020

Dear Families,

Truganina College will be participating in the world-renowned ICAS Assessments. ICAS is developed by UNSW

Global, a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of New South Wales, with over 35 years’ experience in

educational assessments. ICAS is designed to target students’ higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills.

In 2020, Truganina College will offer families to register for student participation in the following assessments:

English (Years 2 – 9) – Week 7, Term 3

Mathematics (Years 2 – 9) – Week 8, Term 3

Spelling (Years 2 – 7) – Week 8, Term 3

Each assessment costs $15.95 (including GST) in order to participate.

All payments and registrations for ICAS Assessments are to be made directly through the UNSW Global Parent

Payment System. We are unable to accept payments at the College.

Visit the new online Parent Payment System to make a direct payment to UNSW Global. Online payments will close on 17 July 2020. Parents can access this service by visiting: https://shop.unswglobal.com.au/pages/pps or via the QR code.

Enter our school’s unique code MVS073 and complete the required details for your child.

We are proud to offer our students opportunity to participate in the ICAS Assessments and look forward to

celebrating some fantastic results later in the year.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Ann Le

Learning Specialist – Student Success Coordinator

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Australian Mathematics Competition - 2020

Truganina College will be participating in the Australian Mathematics Competition in 2020.

The Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) has been held annually since 1978. One of the largest annual events on the Australian education calendar, the AMC was the first competition of its kind in Australia and is now one of the largest of its type in the world. More than 30 countries participate each year.

The Australian Mathematics Competition is for all students from Years 3 – 9 only. This competition places an

emphasis on problem solving, a valuable life skill, and the questions are designed to engage each student. In

2020, the competition will be on:

Thursday 30th July 2020

Cost: $6.50 per student

Every participating student will receive a certificate upon completion. Top performers at State and National levels

will be awarded with a prestigious AMC medal; as well as entry to the 2020 Australian Intermediate

Mathematical Olympiad (AIMO).

For sample questions and resources, please visit the website (or scan the QR code): https://competitions.amt.edu.au/index.php?action=user_competitions

To register your child’s participation in this event, please refer to the Compass Event on the Compass Portal by Friday 26th June 2020 for consent and payment. Alternatively, please contact your classroom teacher.

Thank you.

Ann Le Learning Specialist – Student Success Coordinator

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Insurance & Personal Property

An update from the Department of Education & Training regarding Student Accident Insurance, ambulance cover arrangements and private property brought to schools by students, staff and visitors.

School communities are reminded that the Department of Education and Training does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students. Parents and guardians of students, who do not have student accident insurance/ambulance cover, are responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of ambulance attendance/transport and any other transport costs. Student accident insurance/ambulance cover policies are available from some commercial insurers. It is the responsibility of parents or guardians to look into their preferred options in this regard. The Department cannot provide advice to parents or guardians on the purchase of individual student accident policy or ambulance cover.

Private property brought to school by students, staff or visitors is not insured and the Department of Education & Training does not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage. The Department does not hold insurance for personal property brought to schools and it has no capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property.

Personal property is often brought to school by students, staff and visitors. This can include but is not limited to; iPads, calculators, toys, sporting equipment and cars parked on school premises. As the Department does not hold insurance for personal property brought to schools and has no capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property students, staff and visitors should be discouraged from bringing any unnecessary or particularly valuable items to school. For any queries, please contact Mike Roleff at roleff.michael.j@edumail.vic.gov.au or Jane Wilhelm at wilhelm.jane.j@edumail.vic.gov.au.

2021 Enrolments 2021 Enrolments are now open.

Please email our enrolment officer Lisa Rouvray on enrolments@truganinap9.vic.edu.au to access forms.

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School Success Starts with Attendance! There is no safe number of days for missing school. Each day that your child misses, puts them behind,

and can affect their educational outcomes.

If your child is sick or absent, you are required to notify the school as soon as possible on the day of

absence using one of the following methods:

1. Log in to Compass and log the absence

directly using the Parent Portal.

2. Telephone the school office and let the

staff know your child’s name, class, date of

absences and reason.

3. Email the school and provide the staff

with your child’s name, class, date of

absences and reason.

Any questions in regards to attendance please contact Lisa Foster, Assistant Principal

Attendance Data as at end of Week 10, Term 2

Average days absent per student F-9 6.35 days 2020 Target:

Less than 15 days absent per student

Foundation - Year 9

Average days absent per student: Foundation – Year 6 6.67 days

Average days absent per student: Year 7 – Year 9 4.98 days

Year 5 5.09

5A 3.54

5B 4.62

5C 4.33

5D 8.22

5E 5.08

5F 4.96

5G 4.78

Foundation 7.77

00A 10.82

00B 5.86

00C 7.68

00D 6.57

00E 8.33

00F 5.41

00G 7.41

00H 7.55

00I 10.23

00J 6.50

00K 10.41

00L 5.64

00M 9.00

00N 7.32

Year 1 8.06

1A 9.52

1B 5.77

1C 7.36

1D 8.68

1E 8.36

1F 10.91

1G 7.43

1H 6.39

1I 8.00

1J 10.30

1K 5.91

Year 2 7.32

2A 7.30

2B 6.36

2C 6.64

2D 8.50

2E 5.55

2F 6.26

2G 6.26

2H 7.09

2I 7.83

2J 6.96

2K 9.91

2L 8.96

Year 3 5.69

3A 4.04

3B 7.45

3C 6.17

3D 3.70

3E 4.87

3F 5.26

3G 7.39

3H 5.22

3I 6.27

3J 6.64

Year 4 5.98

4A 6.85

4B 4.15

4C 7.24

4D 6.04

4E 5.58

4F 5.00

4G 7.77

4H 5.28

Year 6 5.13

6A 5.00

6B 4.28

6C 6.04

6D 4.56

6E 5.84

Year 7 5.68

7A 7.27

7B 5.21

7C 4.68

7D 7.17

7E 4.32

7F 5.52

Year 8 4.65

8A 3.82

8B 3.55

8C 6.52

8D 6.30

8E 4.77

8F 3.18

Year 9 4.47

9A 4.77

9B 3.29

9C 5.23

9D 3.86

9E 5.14

Foundation – Year 4

Middle Years 5-9

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Improving Learning in Maths on Mathletics

Truganina College’s AIP Goal 1: To grow each student’s learning outcomes across all curriculum areas, with a focus on literacy and numeracy.

Year 3 teachers encourage their students to complete tasks on Mathletics. Mathletics provides students with interactive maths activities and tests at the end of each topic, so students get multiple exposures to develop their understanding on different maths topics. In addition, Mathletics includes printable booklets, so students can access more resources to practise solving questions to get a better understanding of maths.

Aneesh Kollu from 03H has won the ‘Mathletics Hall of Fame’ scoring 16,210 points. Congratulations to Aneesh for becoming Australia’s First and World’s First in earning the most points on Mathletics! Aneesh Kollu is an enthusiastic and hard working student in class 03H. He has shown the College Value ‘Learn’ by actively learning through persistence during ‘Remote and Flexible Learning’ time to achieve his learning goals. In particular, he has completed all tasks assigned to him on

Mathletics and competed with other students all around the world to earn this title. Aneesh has won the ‘Principal’s Award’ and ‘Assistant Principal’s Award’ in Week 9 Term 2 for demonstrating the College Value ‘Learn’ by embracing the challenges and achieving his learning goals.

Well done Aneesh and keep it up!

Some other competitors from grade 3 who are working really hard to earn Gold certificates are:

3 A - Wrik Chowdhury, Nahome Demisse, Amrin Gill, Pratham Joshi, Duaa NAaqvi, Yeshwant Poola and Kaira Sethi

3B - Ganeve Malhi, Rahi Pattel, Sumreen Kaur, Navami Nair, Kirsten Sagun and Nishant Shaurya

3C - Nathan David, Kevin Patel, and Aryesa Pradhan

3D - Ridham Gill, Shorya Sharma, Samarjot Singh and Paree Tundia

3E - Kaiden Ismaili, Samreen Kaur, Navraj Khatana, Mehal Pal, Shaurya Patel, Sara Prajapati and Akshara Koganti

3F - Tanner Currie, Ovidio Gonzalez, Snikitha Gudipati, Muhammad Murtuza Yusuf and Shivani Pitrola

3G - Jess Singh, Himmat Jhaj and Tashmine Kaur

3H – Abaan Mohammed, Aneesh Kollu, Amulya Uppuluri, Namandeep Singh and Sudaksh Patel

3I – Arsharn Mazar, Aditya Murishetti, Disha Pravin, Gargi Shergill, Kiara Thakar and Dylan Whitcher

3J - Alissa Hsiao, Emil Karas, Nathan Mekonen, Yashica Sangwan, Arnav Sharma, Jujhar Singh and Rajveer Singh

Congratulations to all students. Keep working hard on Mathletics over the holidays.

Punsala Crofton Year 3 Classroom Teacher

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What’s happening in Health and Physical Education at Truganina

College? Learning Intention: We are learning how to develop an engaging fitness session using our prior knowledge.

Success Criteria – I will be successful when I can:

Identify critical elements of an effective PE lesson. Develop an effective PE lesson plan. Provide feedback to another peer’s lesson plan. Reflect on the feedback I have received.

During Term 2, students actively engaged in a variety of different approaches to fitness. In weeks 9, 10 and 11, students have been able demonstrate their understanding of what they learnt throughout Remote and Flexible Learning by transferring their skills in to the classroom. Students had to create a 30 minute lesson and teach it to their peers.

“I enjoyed the different levels for us to try” – Aliyah

“I enjoyed doing the various different exercises and getting 1000 points” – Ian

“My favourite part were the 30 minute activities, with different skill levels” – Kaif

Kelsey Lucas Year 7 Sub-School Leader

Year 3 STEM

In Term 2, Year 3 students were introduced to Chemical Sciences. They observed Matter and its three states- Solid, Liquid, and Gas. The students also investigated how liquids and solids respond to changes in temperature, for example melting, solidifying, evaporating and condensing. They observed these changes in a water cycle and created beautiful pieces of work on sandwich bags using their brilliant ideas. The students really enjoyed their time doing this hands-on activity. Well done Year 3!

Here are some photos of work done by our wonderful Year 3 students.

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Year 3 STEM Continued...

Inderpreet Kaur Primary STEM Teacher

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COVID-19: Updates from the Department of Health and Human

Services The Department of Health and Human Services continuously provides the latest updates on COVID -19 to inform the community. Please scan the following QR codes to find the information published by the Department in different languages.

Sadia Toqeer Assistant Principal

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Changes are happening!

Dear Families of Camp Australia Truganina P-9 College OSHC,

Effective from 27th July 2020 of term three, Camp Australia will no longer be collecting or dropping off the prep

children from/to their classrooms.

The team has discussed this with the School Management and decided it can be a fantastic opportunity to prepare

our wonderful prep children for the transition into grade one.

The team here believes that it is such an essential time of the year to build their independence and confidence.

This is something we focus on with our National Framework: My Time, Our Place Outcome 1: Children develop their

autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency along with Children develop knowledgeable and

confident self-identities.

We consider this adjustment to be a milestone and acknowledgement for all that they’ve achieved this year,

rewarding them with the responsibility to walk them to and from Camp Australia OSHC without supervision.

We will continue to provide the prep teachers with a list of children that are attending for that day, so you can be

assured that we haven’t forgotten about them!

We welcome your support in this adjustment and encourage communication if you have any queries.

Warmest regards,

Camp Australia Truganina P-9 College OSHC Team

Staff Profiles Get to know Kym Pianura - Year 6 Teacher

What is your favourite colour? My favourite colour is dark green because it is a calming colour and reminds me of being outdoors.

What is your favourite number and why? My favourite number is.. all of them! Numbers all have interesting features, a story of their own and when used together they create, describe and tell us amazing things!

What is your favourite book and why? My favourite book is a picture story book called Little Turtle's Big Adventure. This is my favourite book because I used to read it with my own children when they were little. We still refer to this book even though they are grown up, so I think it may be one of their favourite books too.

What is your favourite food? ? My favourite food is fruit and vegetables. I love fresh food and always feel good after a feed of fruit and vegies.

What do you like most about teaching and learning? What I like most about teaching and learning is that I am always learning something new. I love learning new things and my favourite sound in the classroom is that “Ahhhhh" sound we make, when we've learned something that has been confusing before. My absolute favourite thing about teaching and learning is working with the amazing students that I am lucky enough to work with. I learn so much from the students about so many different things.

Get to know Claire Coulter – Year 4 Teacher What is your favourite colour? My favourite colour is blue because it is the colour of the ocean and I love the water.

What is your favourite number and why? My favourite number is 4 because I have always lived 4 houses from the corner of my street and I won my first Melbourne Cup raffle with horse number 4.

What is your favourite book and why? My favourite book is Harry Potter because I grew up reading them with my mum and brother and then we would go to the movies to watch when they came out.

What is your favourite food? My favourite food is Maccas nuggets because I always got them with my childhood best friend.

What do you like most about teaching and learning? I like watching the students grow and gaining a relationship with the students. I love learning with them and from them.

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Camp Australia

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