NARARA / THE ENTRANCE NORTH / VALLEY VIEW

Term 4 Week 6 November 22nd 2019

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Principal’s Message ………………………...…...1

Presentation days…..2

Disability Support Pension…...……..……..3

Narara Reptile Park photos…………………...4

Therapy dogs photos……...............5

NE Room 5 photos...6

Room 9 Narara circus photos…………...…....7

Life Skills……………….8

Awards…………….....9

Contributions, dates & things to remember ………………………….…10

‘The Girl’ exhibition …………………………. 11

Save Plus………………......12

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The Glenvale Explicit

Improvement Agenda

GLENVALE NEWS The Newsletter of Glenvale School

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Dear Parents and Carers,

This is quite a challenging newsletter.

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and

Exploitation of People with Disability

On 5 April 2019, the Prime Minister, the Hon Scott Morrison

MP, and Minister for Families and Social Services, the Hon

Paul Fletcher MP, announced the establishment of the

Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and

Exploitation of People with Disability.

As part of the hearings of the Commission there is an

education issues paper.

The following is for your information from the

Commission, not my own words as principal.

“The issues paper has been adapted from a paper developed

for a workshop on education and learning held in Melbourne

on 3 October, 2019 with representatives from community

and disability organisations and education academics.

The Royal Commission has identified that abuse, neglect and

exploitation of people with disability in the education sector

is an important topic to address.

Research suggests that children with disability experience

higher rates of suspension and expulsion from schools and

that children with disability may be excluded from school

activities, such as excursions, assemblies, sports carnivals

etc.

Over the last decade, the segregation of children

with disability into special education units/classes or

'special' schools has increased. Students with autism

have been disproportionately affected by this in-

crease. First Nations students with disability are also

disproportionately over-represented in special schools.

The Royal Commission issues paper on education

outlines the Commission's preliminary understanding

of the key issues and barriers experienced by students

with disability and asks 13 questions.

One of the 13 questions is as follows:

Q11. “What is essential to facilitate the transition

from segregated or integrated settings to

inclusive education settings, and to sustain the

change?”

https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/

publications/Documents/education-learning-

issues-paper.pdf

The Royal Commission is encouraging responses

from individuals and organisations to the issues

paper, if possible, by 20 December 2019 although

submissions will be accepted after that date.

Responses to the issues paper should be provided,

either:

electronically to

DRCEnquiries@royalcommission.gov.au, or in

writing to GPO Box 1422, Brisbane, Queensland

4001.

Now, these are my words below:

I wanted to let you all know that it is vital that you

have your voice heard by the Commission, as

many other voices are in this space using phrases

such as “isolated and segregated special schools”

and others want recommendations for us to be

phased out to provide an ‘inclusive’ system.

This is offensive to me. We don’t segregate as a

special school, we are actually the only truly

inclusive schools and we pride ourselves on

providing the best education and care for our

most deserving and complex learners. Mainstream

schools usually can’t.

Unfortunately, others who don’t know what we do

and have never ever visited to see what we do, are

making submissions and influencing decisions on

behalf of our students, your children.

Please have your say so that the voice of parents

of our special schools are heard across Australia.

You can watch the hearings and get transcripts

here.

https://disability.royalcommission.gov.au/

I believe that our schools perform a vital role.

Regards, as always, Matt

Classes of 2019

G L E N V A L E S C H O O L :

T H E E N T R A N C E N O R T H C A M P U S

Invites you to help us celebrate our

Annual Presentation

Day

When: Thursday 28th November, 2019.

Where: The Entrance North Surf Life

Saving Club

Time: 10.00am

All Welcome!

Classes of 2019

G L E N V A L E S C H O O L :

N A R A R A C A M P U S

& V A L L E Y V I E W S a t e l l i t e c l a s s

Invites you to help us celebrate our

Annual Presentation

Day

When: Friday 13th December, 2019.

Where: St Philip’s Christian College,

Narara

Time: 10.00am

All Welcome!

From the Transition Desk....

Just before your young person turns 16 remember to apply for the Disability Support Pension (DSP) at Centrelink. You should ask for the 'Educational Supplement' while your child is still attending school too. You should receive more financial support for your household when your young person receives the DSP, which means you will lose Family Tax Benefit (FTB). Centrelink stated- Regarding when a young person claims DSP and parents receiving FTB. If a customer is claiming DSP online, the FTB will cancel automatically. If a customer claims DSP in paper form FTB will not cancel automatically which could incur a debt if DSP is granted. If by any chance the DSP is rejected FTB can be restored back to the cancel date.

Please check your DSP eligibility.

If you require proof of identity from the Department of Education to apply for the Disability

Support Pension just before the student turns 16 years of age please contact the school office.

We will provide a letter and a school identification card.

Glenvale Narara—Fun at the Reptile Park

A great visit from the gentle Therapy dogs to Narara

Thanks Lily and

Jasper

At North Entrance we have been working at

Lasercraft and enjoying Tumbi Disco

Room 5

Narara Room 9 and their amazing circus tricks at Roundabout Circus

Life after school is so important to us at Glenvale. Students are able to

develop skills they need for employment and life after school. Routines

and high expectations are vital for our students in work skills

programs such as canteen. Here is one of our North Entrance campus

students hard at work. Well done!

Week 5

Narara

Room 1:

Room 2:

Room 3:

Room 4:

Room 5:

Room 6:

Room 8:

Room 9:

Room 10:

Room 11:

Room 12:

Room 13:

Room 14:

Room 15:

Room 16:

Week 5

North Entrance

Room 1:

Room 2:

Room 3:

Room 4:

Room 5:

Room 6:

Room 7:

Our

Playground

Stars

Room 1: Mason R.

Room 2: Yasmin R.

Room 3: Leilani V.

Room 4: Reggie-Lee B.

Room 5: Francis B.

Room 6: Jake A.

Room 8: Nimalan S.

Room 9: Ella P.

Room 10: Ted V.

Room 11: Trienelle C.

Room 12: Zac K.

Room 13: James Y.

Room 14: Tristan K.

Room 15: Chloe H.

Room 16: Harry M.

Week 6 Narara

Room 1: Kobi D.

Room 2: Sophie M.

Room 3: Lucas E.

Room 4: Hunter B.

Room 5: Georjia H.

Room 6: Mitchell W.

Room 7: Andrew N.

Week 6 North Entrance

Nathan-Narara

Kobie-NE

Voluntary School Contributions

Every public school asks for a small contribution towards the

many costs associated with education programs.

At Glenvale, we ask that parents contribute $35 per child each year.

This has not changed for many years and is very small in compari-

son to other schools, even though our costs can be much higher.

Please consider sending in the $35 as soon as you are able to do so; a payment

can be made via our webpage www.glenvale-s.schools.nsw.edu.au. Go to the

‘Make a Payment’ tab and follow the links.

Many thanks to those who have already done so.

All donations to the school over $2 are tax deductible as Glenvale is registered

with the Australian Tax Office as a deductible gift.

Term 4

Please return permission notes and information re-garding students ASAP.

Last day of school is Wednesday December 18

Glenvale North Entrance Presentation to be held on Thursday November 28

Narara & Valley View Satellite class Presentation to be held on Friday December 13

Dates /Things to Remember

Uniforms wanted, size 18 and above—if you have any uniform items that you no longer need

please hand these into the school office. We have sufficient supplies of small sizes but are

desperate for size 18 and above.

Recycling your old mobile phone is a good idea—please drop them in our school

office

Over 90% of the materials in a mobile phone are recovered to make new products including jewellery; plastic

fence posts and stainless steel products. These valuable resources are lost forever if you put your mobile

phone in the garbage bin. At landfill, mobile phone batteries leak toxic materials such as cadmium.

‘THE GIRL’

November 23—December 21, 2019 Opening night Friday November 22 at 7pm $10 per person The Entrance Gallery, Norberta St, The Entrance. A fundraiser exhibition for Coastwide Therapy Services Siblings Program. This art exhibition is a multi media installation that has been created by 11 year old Courtney Cottle who wants to create a voice through her art. It is an emotional journey through Courtney’s life being a sibling to a sister who has special needs including autism. Enquiries: Phone Vanessa— 0478 080037

Saver Plus is now available on the Central Coast. Saver Plus is a $ for $ matched savings program de-

signed to help families with $500 for educational costs for eligible participants.

This could be beneficial for your families as we have assisted more than 47,000 families with educational

costs.

How it works—Participants make regular deposits towards a savings goal over a 10-month period and

attend workshops to build their financial management skills. When participants reach their savings goal,

ANZ matches the amount—up to $500 towards education costs including uniforms, text books, laptops

and much more. To see the eligibility criteria go to the Facebook page— SaverPlusAU

(https://www.facebook.com/SaverPlusAU)