Exford Primary School

Where Children Count!

www.exfordps.vic.edu.au

At Exford, these qualities are really important:

Respect Kindness Personal Best

… and it’s up to all of us to show them every day in

every thing we say and every thing we do!

Principal: Ms Lisa Campo Phone: 9743 5025 exford.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

NEWSLETTER 2017 No.8 Term 4, 2017) Thursday 23 November 2017

You are represented on School Council by: Parents: Adele (Olivia & Alexander), Amanda (Caitlyn, Ava & Hayley), Belinda (Nicholas and Kade), Jacki (Claire), Jenny (Aimee), Katy (Adele & Hamish), Sarah (Lily & Oscar), Sharon (Charlie & Archie) and Susan (Jessica). EPS Community: Graham Staff: Ms Campo, Mrs Farrugia, Mr King and Mr Parker

Follow this link to Exford’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQsi70kyo0V7OFJsBcOF3w

Ms Campo’s News...

Mr King’s news It is with sadness I will be saying farewell to Exford PS at the end of the year. I love working at Exford with the amazing kids, staff and families, but I need to put my own family first and so have accepted an AP position at a school very close to my home. I came to EPS as a Leading Teacher in 2015 and have loved working with the whole school community and will really miss not seeing our great kids on a daily basis. Mr King

Assistant Principal 2018 We will begin the selection process for our new Assistant Principal later in Term 1 of next year. Mr King is a fabulous member of our school team and whilst we will miss him, we know that his new school will be very lucky to have him, as we have been.

‘No Hat, No Play’! As recommended by SunSmart Australia, children

are required to wear their school hat from September to April…so...’No Hat, No Play’!

Cut out & stick me to the fridge!

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Dates to Remember: Please add them to your calendar!

2017 Dates

Term 4 Dates

Thursday 23 November

Year 1 Camp Activity

Friday 1 December

Australian Playhouse Performance 12:30 – Prep-2 2:30 – Year 3-6

No Assembly today

Tuesday 5 December

2018 Prep Transition Day No 3 2018 Year 1-6 Transition Day No 1

Wednesday 6 December

2017 Year 6 Graduation Ceremony at Eynesbury

Tuesday 12 December

2018 Prep Transition Day No 4 2018 Year 1-6 Transition Day No 2

2018 Year 7 Transition Day

Wednesday 13 December

Red Food Day No 2 at the Canteen

Thursday 14 December

2017 Parent Helpers Morning Tea Canteen closed today

Monday 18 December

Classroom Moving Day – all helpers welcome!

Tuesday 19 December

2018 ‘Meet the new class & teacher’ 2018 Yr 1-6 final Transition Day

Wednesday 20 December

Christmas and Year 6 Graduation Concert & BBQ night

Thursday 21 December

Semester 2 reports sent home

Friday 22 December

End of Term 4 Assembly at 1:15 pm Dismissal at 1:30 pm

Djerriwarrh Festival Thanks to the EPS students who walked in the EPS street parade entry and to Mrs Quayle who screen-printed all the t-shirts for the kids (2 and 4 footed!).

Thanks to:

• Allyson and Madelynn

• Blake and Isabel

• Caitlyn and Maddy

• Harry, Charlie and Archie

• Harry C (he’s the one with 4 legs)

• Lucy and Sofia

• Madelyn and Charlotte

• Molly

• Raisa and Raima

• Nicholas

• Rena

• Jeremy, Rachel and Ben

• Zach and Emma

• And Drew, Joel and Kade who dropped in for the photo

• Mrs Quayle

• Ms Littlewood

• Ms Lynch

• Ms McFarlane

• Mrs Bissell and Angus

• Mrs Pelly

iPad Survey We’ll be sending out a link to a Surveymonkey survey next week about our future direction with iPads. This survey stems from many of our Year 3-6 students asking if they could bring the iPads they have at home for their own use at school. The survey will ask about iPads available and if families are interested in their children bringing these to school, so that we can begin to explore our options. We will continue to provide school iPads through our Fundraising efforts – we have 250 iPads in our classrooms which are paid for through our Fundraising.

Any iPads brought from home would need to be IOS 11 capable, fully charged on arrival at school and the school would not be responsible for any damage whilst at school (e.g. if your child were to drop it).

We had a lengthy discussion at last week’s School Council about thinking about a voluntary Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program being introduced. Stay tuned for the survey link sometime next week.

Shout-outs to our kids

Abigail Callum

Abigail’s medals

Persistence award

Cayden Ebony

Fred Hollows award

Karate award

Attendance … Every Day Counts

Did you know that:

If your child has missed 5 days or less this school year.

This will support your child to achieve their best at school – academically and personally.

If your child has missed more than 10 days this school year.

The amount of time your child is missing will impact on their learning and their friendships.

If your child has missed more than 15 days this school year.

Your child is missing so much time from school that it will be extremely difficult for them to keep up with their learning, their friendships and to feel connected to school.

A reminder that all holiday absences (3+ days) require an Absence Learning Plan, developed with your child’s teacher and signed by the Principal or Assistant Principal to cover your child’s absence.

Fundraising News

Our 2017 target is…

$18, 000 - $25, 000.

Our Tally so far… $13,461.57!!

Our Fundraising efforts work hand in hand with our ICT budget to provide our kids with iPads, laptops and other technologies.

Volunteering A reminder that parents / family members must have provided the school with their Working With Children Check. This is a Department of Education and an Exford PS requirement.

Christmas Concert Our annual Christmas and Year 6 Graduation Concert will be held on Wednesday 20 December. This is our major and final event for the year and we need lots of helpers.

Can you help in any of these ways?

• Source / provide donation of goods to go into our selection of prizes for the Christmas Raffle

• Help with the BBQs – cooking, serving, shopping

• Costume / stage props making (see your child’s class teacher)

McDonalds Burger Night Thank you to the families who attended the McDonalds Burger Night to support EPS fundraising. Appreciated!

Happy Birthdays!! To our students who celebrated their birthdays

from 10 November – 6 December Elodie, Thomas, S, Stella B, Levi, Amelie P, Grace J, Jesse W, Ivy R, Zoe, Thomas M, Charlie M, Mia B, Ben T, Indi H, Brydie H, Gurnoor, Oliva B,

Jared D, Mikhala, Oliver E, Joel Ch, Rose, Ella B, Aaron T, Etha D, Lachlan D, Keedan E, Mitchell S, Oliver B, Jarrod R, Mitchell L, Lincoln and Jade T

Happy Birthday to you!!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear kids, Happy Birthday to you!

We love celebrating birthdays at school, making a fuss over the child who is celebrating and birthday cup-cakes are always welcome! We also love for birthday children to visit us in the Office for a sticker and birthday song and a photo of this is posted into Seesaw.

Having birthdays at school is a very special event and if your child is absent on their birthday, they miss out on all the fuss made over them.

Hope you enjoy reading our

newsletter!

Please see the pages from: • Mr Gundry’s page from Year 6 G

• Prep Camp pages from Prep C, Prep J and Prep K

• Djerriwarrh Festival page

☺ Ms Campo

Prep Christensen’s Prep Camp Day!

Our school Values ‘Budsies’ have arrived …can you see the resemblance to our new student-designed

‘Super Hero’ posters for our school values?

Here they are again, along with their student designers!

Ryan B from Year 1/2 Wurf

JV from Year 3 Anderson

Violet from Year 1/2 Gashi

OSHClub News

Program Update

We continued with our explorations this fortnight by making salt paintings, straw weaving etc. Just Dance became more popular this week and the children wanted to do it every day. Kinetic sand, blocks and Legos were most popular activities this week. We ended up spending most of our time indoor since children forgot to bring hats again.

Sharyn has joined our team this week and is getting trained to become a co-ordinator next year since Diya is leaving on maternity leave at the end of this year.

We are planning to make Lava lamps and would appreciate if anyone one could donate clean empty bottles for the activity

Friendly reminders:

Term 4 is No hat No play. Please ensure your child has a hat in their school bag so we are able to go out and

enjoy the outdoors. You can leave a spare hat at the program if needed as well.

PLEASE ensure that if your child/ren are booked into OSHClub that they are NOT booked on the school bus this is very important as if your child does not remember to go to OSHClub they may end up leaving the school on

the bus.

If your child is due to be absent or needs to be booked in on late notice (less than 24 hours) please ensure you call and leave a message to ensure we have adequate staffing. Although this is only for emergencies. Please

make the bookings online as much as possible

Please keep the enrolment form updated all the time. If you want someone other than yourself picking up your child, please add them to the emergency list or provide us with a written request.

Thankyou from the

OSHClub Team!

Contact Number: 0419 207 638

Parent Information

OSHC program phone: 0419 207 638 OSHC program email: exford@oshclub.com.au

Co-ordinator: Diya Assistant: Rebecca OSHClub Head Office: 1300395735

All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is free!! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au all bookings

and cancellations can also be managed via your online account. For on the day bookings please contact the Co-ordinator direct at the program.