Woady Yaloak Primary School

ROSS CREEK CAMPUS Principal: Corey Pohlner PH: 5342 8565

“ACHIEVING TOGETHER”

“IT’S COOL TO BE AT SCHOOL”

2020 Term Dates

29th Jan - 27th Mar

14th Apr - 26th Jun

13th Jul - 18th Sep

5th Oct - 17th Dec

Campus Head: Nathan Harris PH: 5342 0478

Office Hours Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Email: woady.yaloak.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website: www.woadyyaloak.vic.edu.au

ISSUE 9 04/08/2020

For Your Diary

AUGUST

Thursday 6th

Curriculum Day

NO STUDENTS TODAY

Dear Parents and Carers,

This morning our leadership team started the task of planning the next 6 week phase of the remote learning

period. As you can imagine there is a lot to work through.

As you are aware, Tuesday August 4th is a pupil free day, which was called by the Premier yesterday. This is for

staff to finalise plans for the remote learning period.

Wednesday August 5th is the first day of remote learning. An email has been sent to parents with the onsite

attendance form attached. This form is only for this week (Wednesday and Friday). Thursday is still our school’s

planned curriculum day, therefore there will be no school work or student attendance on this day.

The same process applies as the last remote learning period around who is eligible for onsite attendance.

On-site supervision in rural and regional Victoria will be available to:

Children whose parents cannot work from home

Vulnerable children

Any child with a disability ONSITE ATTENDANCE TIMELINES:

As you are aware, staff are required to work from home. If supervision is necessary, staff are not compelled to be

at school and would need to volunteer to be onsite. Replacement teachers may have to sourced, if they are

willing to be onsite.

To assist us with staffing and planning, we need to determine attendance a week in advance. For this week only,

this is not an option, as we only have one day to prepare for remote learning.

Woady Kid of the Month

July

WYPS Ross Creek Campus was formed on the lands of the Wadawarrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging. We also acknowledge

the First Nations people throughout Victoria.

Codey W enters the classroom each day with his

infectious smile and positive attitude. He enjoys sharing

his stories and experiences with everyone and always

manages to make people laugh.

Codey tries hard with everything he does and always

wants to improve and challenge himself which makes

teaching him an absolute pleasure.

Codey has a wonderful group of friends who are always

laughing together and supporting each other. They

always come up for a chat during lunch times and on

occasions enjoy playing a bit of a joke on innocent

teachers like myself. I am excited to watch Codey

grow in his learning during his last years of primary

school and have complete belief that he will experience

many successes.

Congratulations Codey!

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

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PERMISSION FOR ONSITE LEARNING

By 3:00 p.m. each Thursday, parents/cares or carers are to provide the completed onsite attendance

application form for required days/times the following week. If this is not possible, please make

contact with the Principal to discuss.

The application form can be emailed to woady.yaloak.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au or left at the front office / sent

in to an onsite staff member

By close of business each Friday, the school will confirm arrangements with parents and carers.

The school will exercise discretion in circumstances where students attend the school in the absence of

forms being completed, or where forms are submitted late.

Supervision of students is available for when parents/carers are at work. If you finish work at a set time

during the school day, your child MUST be collected from school. The school needs to know your work

details the week prior, so that staffing can be arranged ahead of time. Your child/children will be sent to the

office or designated space for pick up at this time during the day, parents/cares are not permitted to go into

the classroom areas.

Final onsite attendance needs to be approved by the Principal, which is based on department policy, simply

submitting an onsite attendance form doesn’t guarantee permission.

If there is a case that a family doesn’t meet a reason for onsite attendance, the parent/carer will be

contacted by the school either via email or phone.

ONSITE LEARNING LOCATION

All approved students will be attending our Smythesdale Campus as it is our central campus and best

suits reduction of social transmissions. It will also support staff who have volunteered to be onsite with

more isolated work spaces / social distancing opportunities.

The onsite school day for eligible students will be from 8:50 - 3:30 pm. If a parent/carer doesn’t work full

time, they are required to pick their children up when they finish work each day from the campus

Our school bus services will run as normal for those students who access the bus

We are investigating if our before and after school care program can run from our Smythesdale campus.

Parents can also make contact with the shire to ask this question or put in a request.

Unfortunately we don’t have the staff that are willing to volunteer to open other campuses. The Government

have strict adult/student ratios and other guidelines that all schools need to adhere to.

ONSITE LEARNING PROGRAM

Supervised children will be working on their home learning activities as per the weekly program outlined by

their classroom teacher.

As onsite teachers are only supervising programs set by regular class teachers, they will be offering open

ended activities to occupy the students after set work is completed – no explicit teaching is expected from onsite volunteer staff.

The priority of onsite staff is to teach their homeroom class via the learning from home program and then

offer supervision to onsite students.

This week for Wednesday and Friday, students will be given some hard copies of work to complete (this was sent home yesterday). There will be no online learning this week for our

students or student feedback by teachers on their work.

It would be much appreciated if parents/carers could let their child’s classroom teacher know if

they require a hard copy pack, via Class Dojo, to ensure we have the work ready for next week.

LEARNING SPACES-INSIDE AND OUTSIDE

Class sizes will have a maximum of ten students in each space and they will be seated at tables adhering to

the physical distancing guidelines.

Supervised children will be required to follow social distancing guidelines and work and play 1.5m from each other.

Breaks and time outside will be staggered to limit contact between groups of students and adults.

Students will be dismissed from external classroom doors at staggered stages to support physical distancing

guidelines.

HYGIENE

Extra cleaning will take place by our cleaning contractors each day

Drinking fountains will be unavailable to support hygiene practices.

Children to bring their own drink bottles, lunch and snack as per usual. No hot lunches will be available.

Cleaning products will be available and children will regularly be encouraged to wash their hands and to

follow personal hygiene and social distancing practices.

If your child becomes unwell such as runny nose, fever etc. they will be placed in isolation and arrangements

MUST be made to collect your child as soon as possible.

Use of sports equipment and school materials may be limited to assist with the high hygiene expectations.

“IT’S COOL TO BE AT SCHOOL”

FROM THE PRICIPAL CONTINUED

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General Reminders Children should wear their full school uniform whilst at school.

Parents/carers to drop off children at the side gate entrance where they will be met by staff.

Parents/carers are not permitted in the teaching spaces. A skeleton staff will be working from school at our Smythesdale campus, to ensure students are supported to complete the remote learning tasks allocated by their class teacher. The department has communicated to schools that staff can volunteer to come into schools, which makes it nearly impossible for us to have all of our campus’s open during this time. Over the coming weeks, we will continue to communicate with our families via Facebook and Class Dojo, so that everyone feels supported and well informed. We understand this time will be different, so we will monitor how our students, staff and families are coping and make adjustments along the way. For those who are not able to access online learning, hard packs will be available for pick up from our Smythesdale campus every Friday, for the following week. There is also a place to drop off completed work for correction at our Smythesdale campus. Remember that we are here to assist you and will welcome any questions and queries that you have. We know we are going to need to be flexible and understanding of different family contexts. Finally, after our last remote learning period, we asked for feedback from our parents/carers and staff. Our plans moving forward this time, will be to make some changes in our control around this feedback. Please stayed tuned to your class teachers Dojo account for further updates. Please do not hesitate to contact me via phone or email if you have any queries or concerns, or if your situation changes. Corey Pohlner Principal Woady Yaloak Primary School

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PRINCIPAL’S DAY

This Friday, Principal’s Day is celebrated across schools in Victoria. The day is designed to

recognise and thank school Principals for all of the great work they do in their very challenging

roles. On behalf of the Ross Creek Campus, I would like to acknowledge and thank our principal

Mr Pohlner, and our Assistant Principals - Mr Cox and Mr Johnson. We would like to thank them

for their tireless work that they do to support all of the students and families at the Ross Creek

Campus.

2021 ENROLMENTS

With COVID-19 restrictions currently in place we will be unable to hold the scheduled enrolment

tour for term 3 (Monday 7th September). We have scheduled one for term 4 ( Friday 16th

October at 12pm) but are unsure if that will go ahead.

In the meantime if you are planning to enrol your child for 2021 or know of someone who is

please contact Brenda at the office for an enrolment pack.

CURRICULUM DAY - THURSDAY 6th AUG

Just a reminder that this Thursday is a curriculum day for all students. Staff will be attending via

Webex and completing some professional learning activities focussed on the following key ideas:

Improving student voice, leadership and agency across the school.

Analysing our student opinion data from 2019.

There will be NO onsite supervision at Smythesdale on this day for students as this was a pre

organised Curriculum Day.

COMMUNICATION

For Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/woadyyaloakps/

REBEL SPORT - COMMUNITY GIVEBACKS PROGRAM

Our campus has partnered with Rebel Sport as part of the ‘Support Your

Sport’ loyalty program. Rebel will automatically give our campus benefits from

all purchases registered with our campus at the counter. With these benefits

we can support our school with extra sporting equipment. Please make sure

you mention Woady Yaloak Ross Creek Campus when you purchase any

sporting goods at Rebel Sport.

SCHOOL PHOTOS Due to students learning remotely, school photos have been cancelled for

August. We are waiting to hear from the photographers re a date in term 4.

IPADS-REMOTE LEARNING

For students who do not have access to digital technologies at home, we will be loaning existing

school devices – please call into Smythesdale campus on Thursday, 6th August and speak with

Nathan Harris who will be organising the iPads for those students.

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER

Thur 6th Aug - Curriculum Day, no students at school

Nathan Harris Campus Head

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