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Number: 10 Date: 25th July 2019

DATES TO DIARY 2019

Term 3 Thursday 25th July Italian Dress up Day Wednesday 31st July Prep Chesterfield Farm Excursion Saturday 3rd August Bingo Night Friday 9th August Year 6 Movie Night Sunday 18th August Working Bee 9.30 - 11.30 am Monday 19th August Book Week Parade Tuesday 20th August School Council 6.30pm Monday 26th August CURRICULUM DAY Friday 30th August Fathers Day Stall Monday 2nd September Prep 2020 Parent Information Evening 6-7pm Tuesday 10th September School Concert Tuesday 17th September School Council 6.30pm Friday 20th September LAST DAY TERM 3 Dismissal 2.30pm Term 4 Monday 7th October First Day Term 4 Tuesday 22nd October School Council 6.30pm Monday 4th November CURRICULUM DAY Tuesday 5th November MELBOURNE CUP DAY HOLIDAY Wednesday 13th November Mini Fete 1.15-3.00pm Prep 2020 Transition No.1 Tuesday 19th November School Council 6.30pm Wednesday 20th November Prep 2020 Transition No.2 Wednesday 27th November Prep 2020 Transition No.3 Wednesday 4th December Prep 2020 Transition No.4 Wednesday 11th December Graduation Ceremony Year 6 Tuesday 17th December Graduation Dinner Year 6

Tucker Road, Bentleigh Primary School - No: 4687 16 Tucker Road Bentleigh 3204 P.O. Box 1341 Moorabbin 3189 Phone: 9557 2044 Fax: 9557 2181 Web Site: http:/www.tucker-road.vic.edu.au

Newsletter Term 3 Week 2- July 25 Welcome back everyone, to a very busy Ter m 3 full of exciting events and learning! I hope you all had the opportunity to relax and enjoy some precious family time during the holiday period.

Parent/Carer and Teacher Meetings This week we have been holding our Parent/Carer teacher meetings which were booked through Compass. Please remember these meetings were scheduled for 10 minutes. If you believe that you require more time, please contact your teacher via email or a call the office to make an appointment for a longer period of time to meet with your child’s class teacher on another occasion. If you missed logging onto Compass, please email or see your child’s teacher to book another convenient time to catch up.

Staff Update Our Assistant Principal, Ms Emma Baldwin will be on Long Service Leave from Wednesday July 24 until Friday August 9. She is heading overseas to attend her sister’s wedding and complete some travel. We hope that she enjoys a fabulous holiday! During this time, Mrs Deaane O’Brien will be working as Acting AP on Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays. She will be working alongside Mrs Marie Chalas (Student Wellbeing Leader) who will be available Mondays - Wednesdays during Emma’s leave.

Italian Day Italian Day was celebrated today and it was great to see all of the children dressed up as either food, Italian colours, cultural dress, Italian sports people etc., to commemorate this day. Well done to Ms Alana Oro for her great organisation and attention to detail with all of the activities organised. The children really enjoyed some fabulous activities and the play ‘Mangiabanane 2 Mission Gnocchi’ as they got into the spirit of the occasion. There are many more exciting events coming up this term, including swimming program, various year level excursions/incursions such as, Ridiculous Rhymes a BBC performance (this week) and the School Concert to name only a few! Please make sure you check Compass for the calendar dates, to ensure notices are returned on time and dates are put into your household diary.

Woolworths Earn and Learn program A big thank you to the entire school community for their support efforts with the ‘Earn and Learn’ program sticker collection. We collected over 50,000 points to spend on resources for the school. Team Leaders, alongside Emma, had fun spending the points on Literacy, Numeracy and some STEM resources for the school. All your efforts are very much appreciated. A special mention to Briony Loimaramta (and helpers) from the PFA for her co-ordination of this program. We couldn’t do it without your generous time and effort!

Prep 100 Days of School On Wednesday our Prep students celebrated their 100th Day of attending school. This is a special milestone for the students and also used to help teach them about number and place value. Each day students have participated in counting and number activities to help build their understanding of numbers beyond 20. Congratulations to all our Prep students and it has been wonderful to see how much the students have achieved since they started at Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School in late January.

Environmental News ‘Greening our School’ – The Kitchen Garden Team have been working alongside Kim Aitken and with the assistance of Ms Karvinen, Ms Faiman, Ms Maydom and Ms Cafiso, who have all been focussed on helping us to be more sustainable. We are trialling some new bins in some areas of the school and using our compost bins more effectively. ‘Nude Food Days’ have been a great success as well as taking papers off food before we leave the classroom at recess and lunch time. These are just some of the things we are doing together to reduce waste at our school. Keep up the great work!

Thank you to the School Sustainability Team who are working so hard and well done on the recognition from the Glen Eira Council (see a copy of the article below in this newsletter). Another part of the work Kim has been carrying out around the school is sprucing up some of our garden beds. The one outside the SOL centre has been the major focus over the last term and Connor DeFina a past TRBPS student has been helping Kim with this gardening project as part of his school’s community service program. Connor has gone over and above the hours they usually set aside for this type of program. I would like to acknowledge (on behalf on the school community) all of the wonderful work and great effort he has completed alongside Kim (see Photo attached). Well done and thank you Connor!

State Cross Country – Will Orchard Last term a few TRBPS students attended the State Cross Country Championships and were very excited to be competing at such a high level. It takes great skill and determination to get to the state championships and we were all very proud of their efforts. Will Orchid (Year 5/6V) achieved a 15th place and Laike Favier (Year 4K) achieved a 35th place. They are definitely great student role models for TRBPS! Congratulations to Will and Laike! It was also great to congratulate these students and acknowledge their efforts at our final Term 2 assembly – we applaud your efforts!

School Surveys – Your School, Your Say! The Parent Opinion Survey is completed annually by the Department of Education and Training and is conducted using a sample of randomly selected parents at every school in Victoria. This year, about 30 per cent of parents will be invited to participate. All responses to the survey are anonymous. The survey helps our school gain an understanding of how you view our school climate, teaching and learning, student engagement, and relationships. Our school will use the results to inform school planning and improvement strategies. The 2019 survey is to be once again conducted online by ORIMA Research Pty Ltd and only takes 15 minutes to complete. The survey can be accessed via desktop computer, laptop, tablet or mobile at any convenient time within the fieldwork period from Monday July 22 to Sunday August 11 2019. The survey is available in English, Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Chin (Hakha) and Hindi. Results will be sent back to our school at the end of September. For more information see the DET website - Parent Opinion Survey

The annual ‘Parent Opinion Survey’ is currently now active for 2019 and the parents who were randomly selected have been advised via Compass and given a password to log onto the ORIMA survey website. The staff are currently completing the annual ‘Staff Opinion Survey’ as well. This data is all used alongside of the student NAPAN data to complete the review of our School Annual Implementation Plan for 2019, in order to gauge how we think we are performing against the targets that have been set for this year from our new School Strategic Plan. The ‘Student Attitudes to School Survey’ was completed at the end of last term. That data is due back now. This will all be reported on at School Council’s August and September meetings and in the next few school newsletters.

Kitchen Garden News - Tucker Road Garden Group The Garden group are striving to make our garden beds look better. Today we started by transplanting some of our Daisy and Cornflower seedlings from ‘The Patch’, out into a garden bed within our school grounds. My special helpers today were Mitch from 3E and Madi from 3T. They helped me by guiding the 8 or so prep students who joined our group. Making sure the seedlings were planted and watered properly. If any students would like to join this group it runs on a Tuesday recess and Thursday lunch. Meet me at the garden once you have finished eating and placed your lunch box in your tub. (Kim Aitken)

Extract from the ‘Glen Eira City Council News - Sustainability’ Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary taking strides towards zero waste Making a few simple changes has resulted in drastic waste reduction at Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School. After taking up Council’s food scrap recycling service in November 2018, students wanted to do more to reduce their waste. Soft plastics were the initial area of focus for students. Student Representative Council captains and Cooking and Garden Coordinator Kim Aitken worked together to introduce its first Nude Food Day* recently. Children are encouraged to br ing in lunch and snacks without any excess packaging (preferably none!) The students have been recording their plastic waste from lunches; 201 pieces of waste were collected on the first day in Term 4, 2018. On the second day in Term 1, 2019, they reduced their waste by 87 pieces. These students and teachers are inspiring and we look forward to hearing more on the progress of their Nude Food days*.

School Council News At the last School Council meeting in June we discussed various work and maintenance possibilities to improve Rain-bow House as a more user friendly facility into the future. I also announced that we have been recently allocated some funding from the Government to commence the design plans of a new administration building and prep classroom block using our school original School Masterplan. We have also completed some fencing around the school to further protect the students and our school assets. This also assists in ensuring our school is even more compliant in terms of the’ Child Safe Standards’. We need to ensure that we are not used as a thoroughfare between Tucker Road and Valerie Street dur-ing school times and on weekends. It is our intention to start a process of locking the internal school gates during school time with the only access being through the school office, where everyone is expected to sign in. This process has in-cluded the locking of private house gates that enter onto our basketball and oval areas. As we are currently in the pro-cess of upgrading the school locks, this process of locking the internal gates during the school day will be slowly phased in. The gates would be ideally locked from 9.15am and then unlocked at 3.15pm each school day and remain closed on weekends and holidays. More news on the exact date this process will commence will be added to the newsletter and/or sent out via Compass. A huge thank you also to the PFA for all of their great fundraising efforts so far this year, this money has been very well used to support the purchase of new Literacy resources right across the school. We look forward to the upcoming Bingo evening scheduled for August 3. Justine Coleman who is the SC President for 2019 will update you further again after the August SC meeting.

Kind regards,

Robyn Farnell

Principal – TRBPS

Accidents at School Parents are reminded that the Department does not provide personal accident insurance for parents. Parents and guardians are responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including any transport costs. Student accident insurance policies are available from some commercial insurers. These cover a range of medical expenses not covered by Medicare or private health insurance. Policies are reasonably low cost. The Department cannot advise parents/guardians on whether to purchase a student accident policy or which policy to purchase.

Canteen News

Orders are to be written clearly on a lunch bag in blue, black or red ink, any other marker is difficult to read. Please do not sticky tape lunch bags up. A reminder to enclose .10 cents for a bag if an envelope is used.

Canteen Roster

TERM 3 Tuesday 30th July Kathryn Kelly (9-12) Thursday 1st August Help Needed Tuesday 6th August Help Needed Thursday 8th August Alzira Redfern Tuesday 13th August Help Needed Thursday 15th August Carmela Batsis Tuesday 20th August Help Needed Thursday 22nd August Emy Pittard

Students nominated for the TRBPS Values Award for the 22nd July 2019

Hilli Kanor Roni Madmon Victoria Demirtzis Maya Cohen Romy Bar Olive Smith Anthony Carlaganis Joshua Woolf Eloise Campbell Maleia Liebig Christian Vigliane Harry Glass Eden Madmon Grace Partridge Finn Harris Harel Saig Danielle Ehrenreich Brandon Elton Oscar Arvanitakis Peter Glass Ethan Cohen Ruby Thomas Gabriel Stein Cameron Gabler Maddie Thomas

CURRICULUM DAYS

MONDAY 26TH AUGUST

MONDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

Uniform Shop Open Dates

8.30am-9.30am

Tuesday August 6 Tuesday September 3 Tuesday October 8 Tuesday November 6 Tuesday Dec 3

Term Dates 2019

Term 3

15th July

To 20th September

Term 4

7th October

To 20th December

School Camp Dates for 2019

Year 5 Camp Wed 9th Oct to Friday 11th Oct

Sovereign Hill

Year 4 Camp Wed 20th Nov - Friday 22nd Nov

Maldon

Swimming Programs 2019

Program 1 Monday 29th July –Friday 9th August (Years 5-6)

Program 2 Tuesday 27thAugust - Friday 6th Sept (Years 3 & 4)

Program 3 Tuesday 27th August –Wed 4th Sept & 6th Sept (Prep Classes)

Program 4 Monday 21st October - Thurs 24th Oct (Year 1 & 2)

Important

Curriculum Day Notice (Monday August 26)

Monday August 26 is our Term 3 Curriculum (Pupil Free) Day and children are not required at school. Please contact Camp Australia if you are requiring Childcare on that day.

KARATE AT TUCKER

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Please come and join us at our Camp Australia Tucker Road OSHC Program for non-

stop fun with friends, including outdoor group games, sport, art & craft and much

more!!!

Monday 29th July 2019 – After School Care

Cooking Experience: Banana Bread (in morning session)

Art and Craft Activity: Terra Cotta Pots Painting

Outdoor Activity: Scarecrow tiggy in front yard

Monday 5th August 2019 – After School Care

Outside: Gang up tiggy suggested by Trinity

Art and Craft Activity: Hama Bead Creations

Cooking Experience: Popcorn making

Tuesday 30th July 2019 – After School Care

Cooking: Rice Paper Rolls

Art and Craft Activity: Sand Art Gluestick grand designs

Outdoor Activity: Soccer Match

Tuesday 6th August 2019 – After School Care

Cooking Experience: Chocolate Cake (in the morning)

Art and Craft Activity: Painting Cardboard Dinosaurs

Outdoor Activity: Downball Tournament

Wednesday 31st July 2019 – After School Care

Indoor: Lego Competition

Art and Craft Activity: Felt Pillows

Outdoor Activity: DONKEY! Basketball Game

Wednesday 7th August 2019 – After School Care

Indoors: Leo Ball (Out the front yard)

Art and Craft Activity: Create your puzzles suggested Imogen

Outdoor Activity: Jack In the pack (football game)

Thursday 1st August – After School Care

Cooking Experience: Hedgehog Slice

Art and Craft Activity: Bird Houses

Outdoor Activity: Footy Finals! Bulldogs vs Tigers!

Thursday 8th August 2019 – After School Care

Cooking Experience: Veggie Pancakes

Art and Craft Activity: Friendship Bracelets

Outdoor Activity: Ninja Warrior, monkey bar course

Friday 2nd August 2019 – After School Care

Indoor: Back Room Disco

Art and Craft Activity: Create your own colouring sheet

Outdoor Activity: 40/40 Home Base

Friday 9th August 2019 – After School Care

Indoor Activity: Gymnastics in back room and LEGO

competition!

Art and Craft: Chatterboxes: suggested by Ella

Families, all our Cooking Experiences are chosen from Camp Australia’s Healthy Eating Cookbook that has been reviewed by Nutrition Australia Healthy Eating

Advisory Service (HEAS) which have recipes that only require food items reviewed by HEAS, that is provided to the service.

The above planned activities will be offered on the programmed day at After School Care. If there are children who don’t wish to participate in these, they will

always have the opportunity to engage in alternative planned and spontaneous activities and have unlimited access to all resources within the program.

For further information, please visit our website https://www.campaustralia.com.au/ or contact our Customer Service Team on 1300 105 343