Dear Parents,

NAPLAN 2015 All Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 students across Australia will participate in the Literacy and Numeracy testing on Tuesday 12 May, Wednesday 13 May and Thursday 14 May. Year 3 and 5 stu-dents complete a Reading, Writing, Language Conventions and Mathematics task that will be collected and sent to be graded externally. Parents will receive a written report about their child’s performance in these assessment tasks in September/October

SCHOOL COUNCIL – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Our next School Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday 19th May in the staffroom. The Annual General Meeting will be held on the same night as our regular school council meeting. At this meeting the Annual Report for 2014 and the recent School Financial Sta-tus will be presented and all members of the community are welcome to attend. The An-nual General Meeting will start at 7pm.

STUDENT LEADERSHIP TEAM Last week the Year 5 and Year 6 students elected House Captains for the 2015 school year. The House Captains will join our School Captains to form the Student Leadership Team. I would like to formally congratulate the following students who have been elect-ed as a House Captain by their peers: BLUE HOUSE Nina Le Seth Kolek GREEN HOUSE Yola Jodko Anthony Mora YELLOW HOUSE Cindy Lu Ryan Nguyen RED HOUSE Jennifer Whitfield Calvin Pham

From The Principal

Newsletter No. 7

8 May 2015

All the students in the school have been allocat-ed to one of the coloured houses. The school will be using the Coloured House for organisa-tion of events and school structures. HOME ADDRESS AND CONTACT NUMBERS Are your home and phone details up to date? We have many instances where these are changed and the school is not notified. Please let the school know if these details have changed recently. We need to be able to get in contact with you when children are sick or not picked up.

WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECK (WWWC) It is a legal requirement that all volunteers and workers involved in any school must have a WWWC. A WWWC can be obtain by completing the online application form at https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/wwccu/onlineapplication.doj The applicant then takes their required evi-dence to Watergardens Post Office after the online application is logged to complete the process. There is no charge for Volunteers.

We value parent help in our school canteen, at school organised days and excursions but you must understand that without a WWWC we cannot include you. Please see the office for help if needed to complete this form as staff are happy to be of assistance.

Mother’s Day Recently the school held its annual Mother’s Day Stall providing the children with an oppor-tunity to buy little gifts for their mums. Such stalls are not able to happen unless we have a dedicated group of helpers to prepare the gifts and then to sell the gifts on the day. Can I please acknowledge the hard work of Trudy Whitfield who co-ordinates the Mother’s Day

Mon: Sandra

Tue: Sobia

Wed:

Thurs: Jane

Fri: Jackie

PRINCIPAL:

Anne-Maree Kliman

St Albans East Primary School

Station Avenue, St Albans, 3021

PHONE:

9366 2071

FAX:

9366 4237

EMAIL:

st.albans.east.ps@edumail.

vic.gov.au

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Stall. Her work is greatly appreciated. Thank- you to Trudy Whitfield, Janette Bellman and Toni Miller who assisted with selling the goods at the stall. Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mums, Grandmothers and Aunties… I hope you enjoy your day. Anne-Maree Kliman Principal

ROOM PUPIL’S

NAME:

COMMENT: VALUES

DIS-

PLAYED

1 Phu Pham For great inquiry skills and

sharing his knowledge

All values

2 Kail Lai For using a more success-

ful method to solve a multiplication problem

All values

4 Damien Denley For inventing the

‘Ultimate Chair’

All values

7 Yi Wang For always doing her best All values

8 Daysha Condon-

Anderson

For her positive attitude

towards her work (especially her timeline on

WWI)

All values

9 Sharaddeep Kaur For trying her best at all

times

All values

10 Jana Lulic For using her letter-sound

knowledge when building words during writing.

All values

11 Joseph Farrugia For learning his letters and

their sounds. Well done and keep up the great

work!

Learning

Responsibility

13 Alosina Tauta For making lots of new

friend in Room 13. Wel-come to SAEPS!

All values

14

Nikhil Premjit For writing excellend

ideas in his Writer’s Note-book.

Learning

15 Betty Kahsegn For always having a great

attitude and trying her best.

All values

16 ROOM 16 For outstanding behavior

during the Scienceworks excursion

All values

17 Sowriya Vishu-

varman

For being a great listener

and always helping her classroom peers

All values

18 April Dang For collecting data and

recording information on a pie graph

Learning

19 Henry Nguyen For writing an extremely

convincing persuasive text

All values

20 Katie Nguyen For working hard on her

persuasive writing and sharing her ideas with the

class

All values

21 Khang Nguyen For being a fantastic help

to our new student

All values

22 Lindzy Lopez Using strong words in her

persuasive writing

Learning

Multi

Media

Yen Bui Great effort using the 2

Assess program

Learning

P.E.

Room

Pupil of the Week– Week ending—1 May, 2015

Mother’s Day StallMother’s Day StallMother’s Day Stall was held on

Wednesday 6 May and

Thursday 7 May

It was a huge success and we thank you

for supporting this fundraising activity.

On behalf of St. Albans East P.S we

would like you wish all our mums, aunts

and nanna’s a wonderful Mother’s Day.

Exciting News:

MATHLETICS is back!

What is Mathletics?

Mathletics is an Australian program which aims to help every student improve their own math

skills and knowledge. It is an online, interactive, e-learning resource that allows the students

to practice skills at their own level and their own pace. Mathletics challenges students in all

areas of math through a game environment and allows them to select the level of difficulty of

the tasks.

Students can personalise their own profile within the program, monitor the number of activi-

ties completed and see the ones that they have yet to master. Efforts of the students are recog-

nised and rewarded through online certificates and credits.

Classroom teachers are able to manage the content and monitor the progress of all the stu-

dents within their own class. They can use this information to identify the strengths and

weaknesses of each of their students.

How much does this cost?

The school has covered the cost of Mathletics for all students at SAEPS to use which means

that there is no additional cost to families. Mathletics can be accessed both at home and at

school through the use of an individual login that each of the students has been given.

Where do I find Mathletics?

www.mathletics.com.au

Use the user name and password that the student has been given.

Have fun with math!

If you have any questions/comments regarding Mathletics, please speak to your child’s

classroom teacher.

Along with families, we are looking forward to celebrating the successes of

all our Mathematicians. Sharon Rogers & Andrea Markham-Numeracy Coaches