Principal's Message

What a fantastic day we all enjoyed yesterday with our annual Italian Day. Everybody looked wonderful in red, green and white and wore accessories that represented the Italian culture. The children enjoyed performing in front of their families, dancing, playing soccer; pasta tasting and the  icypole or gelati treat at lunchtime. All of the staff were also treated to  luscious Italian morning tea and lunch, complete with lasagne, salads and topped off with tiramisu. We are very grateful to Pina, Raph and Rosa for all the cooking and preparing.

Rochelle Cukier
Principal

Fun Run & Obstacle Course

Please remember to collect sponsors for this year's Fun Run & Obstacle Course on Friday 27 October. Go to the my cause website (www.mycause.com.au/events/aps2017) press donate now and SEARCH for your child using their first name - you will find their page by identifying their class if you have lost the form that came home. There is an ‘email’ box to click which lets you easily email the page onto family and friends. Please contact your class rep if you are able to help on the day.

Students can dress up in the colours of their favourite sports team, or simply wear fun colours.

Enrolments

Our final school tour for the year is on Wednesday 8 November at 10.00am. If you would like to book in please call the school office on 9822 7003 to confirm a place on a tour.

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

Compass

We have now expanded our use of Compass School Manager to simplify our payment and permission system for events. Parents will be 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). This system will eventually replace our current use of Qkr! for payment of events. In the near future we will also introduce the ability to pay Essential Education fees and Voluntary charges 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.

Qkr! app

We use the Qkr! app to make school payments simpler for parents - click here to see how it works and for tips about Qkr! click here. If you have having problems with your password, call the Masterpass helpdesk on 1800 689 532.

Download the app from your app store and register to start using this payment system.

Apps for Parents

We use the FlexiBuzz app to communicate with parents. Click on the FlexiBuzz logo to go to the site for more details. Download the app and then register yourself, search for Primary Schools, then Armadale PS, and finally choose the notifications you want eg. Whole School, Prep, Grade 3 etc. Click here for further information about the way the app works.

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