MARCH 12th
CURRICULUM DAY
Last Friday our staff spent a wonderful Curriculum Day with Lindsay
Tighe from Inspirational Coaching. Research informs us that we become
better at our work when we are coached by our peers. This curriculum
day covered - how coaching can be one of the most powerful techniques
in drawing out potential, the secrets to being a great coach, under-
standing how one question can transform mindsets, an introduction to the
powerful “GROW model” of questions and applying your learning in an ex-
periential coaching activity. The GROW model can be used in so many
aspects of our life. Lindsay has written several helpful books including -
‘BETTER PARENTS ASK BETTER QUESTIONS’ which encourages parents
to become a Potentialiser and bring out the AMAZINGNESS in your kids!
Visit her website for more information - http://www.icoachu.com.au/
STUDENT SAFETY – SUPERVISION
During the school day, all teachers take their “duty of care” very seri-
ously and work closely together to ensure students are supervised whilst
in classrooms and also out in the playgrounds. In our planning, we have
the school divided into zones and our staff are assigned to each of
these zones from 8:45am before school, through each recess and
lunchtime, as well as after school until 3:45pm. To ensure that students
are appropriately supervised, we ask that students arrive at school after
8:45am each morning and collected no later than 3:45pm. Our teachers
and office staff are busy after school with meetings and administrative
tasks and are not able to provide supervision after 3:45pm. Parents are
able to book children into the OSHCLUB school care program by visiting
the website.
PREP ENROLMENTS
School tours with parents of 2016 Prep students have commenced –
earlier than previous years! As I tour nearly all these parents comment
on hearing great things about our school in the local community, which is
fantastic. If you have a little one starting next year could I ask you to
pick up an enrolment form at the office?
PREP FAMILY FUN NIGHT
What a great night! This annual low key event provides an opportunity
for both parents and their children to meet socially and enjoy some
games together. Thankyou to our Prep teaches for their organisation,
Mr Goldie for organising the sports equipment and games and to Mr
Ossie who finished the night with a few songs with our lovely Prep chil-
dren. Also thanks to the dads who did a great job cooking the sausages!
March
12th 5/6 Ceres Exc
16th School Council
18th RACV program
4/5/6
Wendy Fox night
25th Twilight Sports
27th End of Term
TERM DATES FOR 2015
TERM 1
29th Jan—27th March
TERM 2
13th April—26th June
TERM 3
13th July—18th Sept
TERM 4
5th Oct—18th December
PRINCIPAL’S NEWS
EASTER RAFFLE
The PFA are once again conducting our annual Easter Raffle which will be drawn on the last day of
term – Friday 27th March. Thankyou to the families who have already donated Easter Eggs for the
raffle and sold raffle tickets. Additional raffle books are available from the office. A very special
thankyou to Lisa Rule and Vanessa Stewart who are once again coordinating this raffle. Going by the
number of eggs we have received there will be several prizes. Last year there were 14 baskets of
eggs collected for our raffle – great odds from just buying one ticket!
TWILIGHT SPORTS
Our Annual Twilight Sports is scheduled for Wednesday 25th March. This is always a fun night – one
enjoyed by both the children and parents. Fingers crossed for good weather! This annual event brings
together the school community for a fun night as the children rotate around a number of athletic
events. The children all receive a participation certificate at the end of the night. I know Mr Goldie
would like the children to arrive and be assembled on the oval by 5:00pm with events starting at
5:05pm and continuing until 6:30pm. Each year working at the sprint event I love watching the little
ones charging down the track looking in amazement at how quickly their legs are moving. See next
week’s newsletter for a program of events.
KNOX RELAY FOR LIFE 2015
This wonderful event starts on Saturday March 28th at 4:00pm through to 10:00am on Sunday
March 29th at the Knox Park Athletic Track Knoxfield on the corner of Scoresby Road & Ferntree
Gully Road. This is a fantastic Knox community event that raises money to support those within the
Knox community who are impacted by cancer. Your support, at any level, will be greatly appreciated
and you will have the knowledge that you have been a part of Knox Relay for Life 2015 and its prac-
tical support of the work of Cancer Vic within Knox. We are very proud of our very own Amy Hillier
who has been the Chairperson of this event since it commenced three years ago and to date
$283,000 has been raised. Our school staff and friends have entered a team in this event so if you
have time, pop down and give them some support – I know they would appreciate some company as
they circle the track.
WENDY FOX – ‘YUMMIES 4 TUMMIES’ NIGHT
Another reminder to parents about the ‘Yummies 4 Tummies’ information session being delivered by
one of our very own parents – Wendy Fox next Wednesday from 7 to 9pm in the Grade 5/6 building.
This will, be a fun night including some information about nutrition, recipe demos and some games.
Please contact the office if you would like to attend.
SCHOOL COUNCIL AGM
The Annual General Meeting will be held next Monday 16th March where we will hold elections for
the positions of President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and conveners of the four sub com-
mittees - Finance, Buildings and Grounds, Publicity and Education.
END OF TERM
Parents are reminded that Term 1 ends on Friday 27th March. Children will be dismissed at 2:30pm
following a special assembly commencing at 2:00pm in the multipurpose room for the sole purpose of
drawing our the Easter Raffle. The second term commences on Monday 13th April.
Graeme Russell
SCHOOL FEES
If you have elected to pay your child’s /
children’s school fees by instalment, the
second instalment is now due.
Plan A $45.00 or Plan B $70.00 per child.
Please send your payment to the office.
March
9th Chelsea Barrett
Hayley Andrew
Flynn Nielsen-Hughes
10th Zarly Thompson
Andrew Berezy
Jacquiline Dornbierer
13th Aleisha Malone
ACTIVE APRIL 2015
All members of our school community are invited to take part in “Premier’s Active April”. This initia-
tive is aimed at having Victorian’s become more active. With over 25% of Victorian school children
considered overweight, establishing the importance of physical activity during childhood can ensure
lifelong participation with resulting health, social, economic and environmental benefits. Research also
suggests that time in physical activity may improve academic learning outcomes. Active April chal-
lenges students, parents and staff to engage in 30 minutes of physical activity on as many days as
possible throughout April. This activity can be achieved in countless ways: walking, riding, running,
climbing play equipment, training for sporting teams, swimming, household chores, Phys-ed and Sport
lessons at school, martial arts, dance, etc. We have established a school team for Active April and
would love you to join (there is no cost involved and if there are days when you can’t manage the 30
minutes of exercise that is no problem either). By participating you also become eligible to win priz-
es individually and for the school.
10 free YMVA visits (eg. Knox Leisureworks)
15% off at Sportsmart
A 2 for 1 pass to Melbourne Aquarium
Details of how to register are below.
Login/Register www.activeapril.vic.gov.au
Team ID the-basin-primary-school10
Team Name The Basin Primary School
ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM
As an accredited Health Promoting School we are a part of the “Achievement Pro-
gram”. This program covers a diverse range of health areas and sets benchmarks in
each of these areas. We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded ad-
vanced standing in the area of “Physical Activity” having met all of the benchmarks
in this area. We are currently well on our way to completing the area of “Sun Pro-
tection”. Our action plan in this area has included the provision of additional shaded
play areas and drinking taps, the supply of bulk sunscreen pump packs in each class-
room and the sale of mini-sunscreen tubes that clip onto school bags. We are now
planning to increase awareness of UV levels throughout the school. We look forward
to working with our school community to make The Basin Primary School an even
healthier environment.
Dale Goldsmith, Kylie Cribb and Richard Gordon – Wellbeing Team
HOTSHOTS TENNIS
On Wednesday all students in Grade Prep, 1 and 2 thoroughly enjoyed a session of
Hotshots tennis. Hotshots is modified tennis played on a reduced size court with
smaller racquets and lower compression tennis balls that bounce slowly allowing extra
time for strokes to be played. Not only did our students love the tennis but the
giveaways were also a big hit. The sessions were run by coach Seb from Batterham
Park Tennis club (adjoining The Basin Football Club). If you would like to arrange a
free come and try Hotshots Tennis lesson lesson (days are flexible )
please call Seb on 0408 710 235