Acting Principal's Message

Welcome back everyone!

We started off the term with a Professional Learning Day where we delved deeper into ‘reading’. We understand that reading is a complex process and requires the reader to decode symbols in order to construct meaning. Staff spent the day breaking down this process and identified 5 key areas that will be embedded into our reading program.

These include:

1.    Phonological Awareness

2.    Phonics

3.    Vocabulary

4.    Fluency

5.    Comprehension

The day offered us a wonderful opportunity to share evidence and determine effective ways to continue to gather evidence and analyse it. We will continue to strengthen our understanding of the interrelationship of the spoken, visual and auditory components of reading, writing and speaking and we will continue to embed our evidence based teaching in each classroom across the school to ensure all students achieve growth.

Connie Apostolos-Thermos
Acting Principal

School tours & Enrolments

School tours will be conducted on Wednesdays from 10.00am to 11.00am on the dates below during 2018.

If you would like to book a place on one of these tours please call the school office on 9822 7003.

For more information on enrolment enquiries, please follow this link.

Our School Vision

Our vision is to be an exemplary learning community. We place the highest value on developing the whole child with the skills, knowledge and dispositions for a lifetime of inquiry. We strive for a culture of excellence for all learners with a nurturing and inclusive community to create a sense of belonging. We value diversity and seek to promote a deeper understanding of our world.

Compass

We use Compass School Manager to simplify our payment and permission system for events. Parents are able to login to their Compass account and give consent and payment for events at the one time (as explained on page 7 of this newsletter).  The 2018 Essential Education fees and Voluntary charges are also on Compass.

Compass is our parent portal where parents:

• Provide permission and payment for upcoming events
• Access information regarding upcoming events and news
• Access your child/ren’s Student Semester reports in June and December
• Approve or enter upcoming or past absences for your child/ren
• Book parent/student conferences
• Update your email address and mobile phone number for our records.

Follow this link to Compass. A step-by-step parent guide to navigating Compass can be found here.

You can also download the Compass School Manager app from the Apple App Store for your iPhone or iPad or from the Google Play Store for your Android phone or tablet.

School Mate

The Department of Education & Training, with the help of Victoria’s teac

hing associations, has created an app for parents to help them better understand the key components of the school curriculum. SchoolMate aims to help parents become more involved in their children’s education and is available for free download now. Click here or on the SchoolMate logo at right to watch an explanatory video.

Parking

Street parking is available along the surrounding roads. Please be courteous to our neighbours when parking, dropping off or collecting students from school. Obey parking signs and do not park in or over driveways. We ask that you leave enough time to drop off and pick up your children in a safe and legal manner.

Please give particular attention to how children alight from cars and come to meet you. If both home and school emphasise obeying road rules and safety procedures, our children will make a habit of responsible behaviour.