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What’s On… May Wednesday 30 Auskick – Foundation

Students

Thursday 31 Year 4 History Box

Incursion – ‘Explorers’

June Friday 1 Year 6 Interschool

Sports – Mount Scopus

Monday 4 2:45pm Junior

Assembly

Thursday 7 SRC dress-up like a

pirate fundraising day

Friday 8 Monies for the

Australian Mathematics

Competition due today

at 12:00pm - no entries

after this date

Year 1 Zoo Excursion

Year 6 Interschool sport

– Mount View Blue

Monday 11 Queen’s Birthday

Public Holiday

Tuesday 12 Curriculum Day

Wednesday 13 ICAS Spelling

Maths Olympiad

Thursday 14 ICAS Writing

Friday 15 Year 6 Interschool Sport

– Mount View Gold

Monday 18 2:45pm Senior

Assembly

Tuesday 19 Year 5 Camp

Wednesday 20 Year 5 Camp

Thursday 21 Year 5 Camp

Student Leader Day at

Mount View PS

Friday 22 Year 5 Camp Returns

Year 6 Interschool Sport

– Finals

Friday 29 Whole School Assembly

2:30pm End of Term

Glendal Primary School has been in the media this week regarding the

number of families enrolled at our school who live outside of our nominated

school zone. We have adhered to Department of Education policy on parent

choice by guaranteeing enrolment for families residing within our zone and

for siblings of currently enrolled students. Students from outside our zone

are enrolled where we have the space to accommodate them and in order of

distance of the family home from the school. Many of our ‘out of zone’

families live within two to three kilometres from our school.

We are able to offer our extensive programs across the curriculum because

of the large size of our school and for several years we have stabilised at 34

to 35 classes as being the maximum number of students that we can

accommodate without compromising our playing space, curriculum and

specialist programs. There are many reasons why parents choose a school

that may not be their closest school. These reasons include: curriculum

choice; a school where family members or friends attend; convenience and

position of main roads; grandparents’ ability to help take children to and from

school; a school that suits particular student needs or has extensive and

specific programs that parents value; location of parents workplace; school

student achievements as published on the My School Website; provision of

before and after school care programs and provision of after school

enrichment programs such as Chess, instrumental music and sport.

Please Remember Monday 11th June Queen’s Birthday

Holiday. Tuesday 12th June

Curriculum Day.

30 May, 2018 - ISSUE 14

Term Dates Term 1, 2018– 30 January to 29 March

Term 2, 2018 – 16 April to 29 June

Term 3, 2018 – 16 July to 21 September

Term 4, 2018 – 8 October to 21 December

Contact us:

Principal’s Message

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School commences at 9:00am & concludes

at 3:30pm. The arrival of children at school

will be supervised from 8:45am. Children

will also be supervised while they are

leaving school until 3:45pm.

Please ensure your child arrives with

enough time to get to their class. Late

arrivals are a disruption to everyone.

Parents are requested to use the Compass

Parent Portal to notify of any child

absences, preferably on the day before

9:30am or prior to the day/s.

如果你的住址和联系电话有变，请告诉学校办址和联系公室。 Have your circumstances changed?

Update your contact details at the School

Office as soon as possible.

Please ensure you let the school office

know if you have changed address or

updated mobile phones with new

numbers.

This information alleviates stressful

situations on students when they

are ill and we cannot contact parents.

We are open …

Every Monday

From: 8:30am to 9:30am Please donate your uniforms. Sales

go towards buying educational games

for the students to play in class.

Every Monday From 9am to

10am Come in for a tea or coffee, meet

new parents or chat in our toddler

-friendly environment.

Principal’s Message Cont.

The Age newspaper ran a front-page article on Monday this week featuring a

lovely photograph of our School Council Vice President, Divya, and her two

children Lavanya and Eshan. Divya was able to articulate the reasons for

selecting Glendal for her children and The Age followed up this article on

Tuesday.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/a-clandestine-strategy-to-

wind-back-parent-choice-20180527-p4zht3.html

School closed 11 and 12 June

Please remember that Monday 11 June is a public holiday and as such the

school will be closed.

The school will also be closed on Tuesday 12 June for a Pupil Free Curriculum

Day. On this professional learning day for our staff we will be working with

Mathematics learning strategies.

Sunsmart and Vitamin D

The UV levels in Victoria are falling at this time of the year so

sunscreen and hats are not needed unless you are up at the

snow. From May to August in Victoria UV levels are typically

low (below 3), so it is important to get some sun for vitamin D. Vitamin D is

essential for healthy bones, muscles and general wellbeing. The best natural

source of vitamin D is the sun’s UV. More information is provided at:

http://www.sunsmart.com.au/downloads/resources/info-sheets/vitamin-d-

uv-radiation-info-sheet.pdf

Deborah Grossek

Principal

It is NOT great to be LATE.

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The process for the waste audit is that one landfill bin per year level and a specialist bin are taken at the end of a

Wednesday each week for a few weeks. The JEM team sort all the rubbish into the 4 categories below.

1. Landfill

2. Paper/cardboard

3. Recyclable

4. Compostable

Below are the results of the waste audit completed earlier this term compared to the last 2 years.

Glendal Community News

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• Our findings were:

• Total waste put in landfill bins is reducing each year – WIN!

• Amount of landfill waste produced by the school is going down – WIN!

• Lots of the landfill waste was made up of soft plastics – this should be a focus to reduce – future WIN!

• Amount of paper/cardboard going to landfill bins is reducing each year – WIN!

• Amount of recyclable material going to landfill bins is reducing each year – WIN!

• Amount of compostable material going to landfill bins has reduced massively since 2016 (pre-

composting) however has gone up slightly since last year – borderline, but we’ll take it as a WIN!

There is a lot of good news here! However, the bad news is we are still finding paper/cardboard and compost in the

landfill bins. Ideally, these two numbers would be 0! Recycling has been slightly more challenging as we have been

limited by the amount of recycling bins that we have been offered by council, however, we have recently negotiated

for many more and hope to see this number go down even further next year!

From this

amount of

rubbish to

this

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The Glendal SRC are proudly supporting ‘The Kids’ Cancer Project’ Pirate Day on Thursday 7th June. This is an annual

day of dressing up to raise awareness and vital funds for childhood brain cancer. All students are encouraged to dress

up like a pirate and enjoy a fun day, and bring a gold coin donation to get behind this great cause. See the flier below.

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LOST PROPERTY

I would like to start off by thanking the families who have really listened to the lost property posts and started naming

their child’s clothing and lunch containers. I have noticed a very big increase in named clothing which is very helpful

when I am trying to reunite the owners and lost items.

I would also like to ask parents to have a talk with your child about remembering to pick up their items after lunch. Last

Friday alone I picked up 57 items of clothing and lunch containers, and on average I am still collecting between 20-35

items every lunch.

We currently have about 15 warm rain jackets and beanies in lost property that don’t have names on them, and about

25 lunch containers, so if you are missing some items please call in to have a look, we would love to send them back

home with you.

Thank you also to Liz for all your help collecting lost property on Thursdays.

Have a great week,

Regards Maxine

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DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY

On Wednesday 23 May, 60 students from Years 4-6 went to

Nortons Park to compete in District Cross Country.

Everybody tried their best to finish the race, or even to

progress to the next level. Congratulations to the 12

students who were able to finish in the top 10 for their age

group, and they will now continue on to division, the next

level. Great job to everybody who competed, and thanks for

their amazing effort, Glendal were able to come 2nd overall,

which is a fantastic achievement. Everybody who competed

on Wednesday played a part in this achievement and we

couldn’t have done it without them.

By Rohan and Sophie

Free Dental CheckFree Dental CheckFree Dental CheckFree Dental Check----upupupup KeeKeeKeeKeeping Kids Smiling Programping Kids Smiling Programping Kids Smiling Programping Kids Smiling Program

Keeping Kids Smiling will be attending Glendal Primary School

From the

30th of July, 2018.

The Keeping Kids Smiling is a program aimed to identify children in

need of dental care and will help teach children how to look after their

teeth at home. Children will receive a FREE dental check-up in the dental

van by a Dental Therapist from Link Health and Community. The session

will also include a tooth brushing lesson.

Consent forms have been sent home with your child. Please complete

and return to class teacher by 7th of June, 2018.

Parents/Guardians are welcome to attend on the day and all children

will be sent home with a show bag. Parents will receive a letter

informing them of the results of the dental check-up.

Link Health and Community

Rear, Level 1

9-15 Cooke Street

Clayton 3168

1300 552 509

www.linkhc.org.au

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RSPCA need your help for winter.

If you have any old blankets, electric blankets

& towels, would you

please take them to the RSPCA –

Burwood Hwy & Middleborough Roads.

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service. Parents and members of the school community are advised to investigate any service or product to determine its suitability to meet

their family’s needs prior to accessing it.

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