Principal’s Report 1 – 3
This week in the Principal’s Report the
following topics are covered:
* Facilities update
* School Review
* Parent Opinion Survey
* Attitudes to School Survey
* Congratulations Charlie
* Congratulations Sarah
* Bentleigh Farmers’ Mkt.
* Payments
* Enrolments for 2020
Diary Dates
Thurs 25th July - Fire Ed for Preps 9:30am
Thurs 25th July - 3M Play 6pm
Sat 27th July - Bentleigh Farmers’ Mkt
Tues 30th July - 1M & 2S Ceres
Environmental Park Excursion
Wed 31st July - 3D Play 5:30pm
Fri 2nd Aug - Girls Soccer 9-11am
Thurs 8th Aug - EBPS House Athletics Yr 3-6
Thurs 15th Aug - Yr5/6 Boys Hockey - Div.
Finals
Fri 16th Aug - Science Activity Whole School
Fri 2nd Aug - Yr 5/6 HOOPTIME
Sat 24th Aug - Bentleigh Farmers’ Mkt
Wed 28th Aug - Big Day in Jnr. IT Expo
(Mainstream 5’s)
Mon 2nd Sept - District Athletics Yr 3-6
Mon 9th Sept - 2A&2B Ceres
Environmental Park Excursion
Tues 10th Sept - Moving Up : Year 6’s
Mon 16th Sept - 5/6K Immigration
Museum Excursion
Tues 17th Sept - Moving Up : Year 6’s
Wed 18th Sept - 5C Dance 6pm
Thurs 19th Sept - 5A Dance 6pm
Fri 20th Sept - FOOTY DAY
Fri 20th Sept - Last Day Term 3
2:30pm early finish
Principal’s Report - Maria Shearn
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
25th July 2019 Term 3 / Week 2, Issue 1
Bignell Road East Bentleigh 3165
Phone: 9570 3525 Fax: 9579 0205 Email: [email protected]
SCHOOL VISION:
East Bentleigh Primary School provides a rich, inviting, child-focused
environment ensuring that all students feel safe and stimulated. Our students are
able to achieve their full academic, creative and social potential, equipped for the
challenges of lifelong learning. Students develop into healthy and confident
individuals, actively contributing to the world in which they live.
Hello everyone,
I hope you are managing to stay well during this very cold snap. Thank you to those
parents who are remembering to call us to advise that their child is home sick. It
makes Ann’s life much easier if she doesn’t need to follow up the whereabouts of
our students, in line with our child safe practices.
Thanks also to those parents using the kiss and go area efficiently. Another reminder
though that the staff car park is for staff only, unless it is a family with a disabled
sticker who are able to use the 2 spots allocated in the staff car park.
Facilities Update
All is in readiness for the demolition of Block B to begin. The builders are waiting on
approval for a building permit from Glen Eira Council. Once they have this piece of
paper the work will begin in earnest.
For all our soccer players who are dismayed at the construction fence going right
through one of the goals, never fear. Once the necessary machinery is on site the
goals will be relocated so you can continue to play.
School Review
We will be meeting with our reviewer Ms Olwen Horton this Friday to plan for our
Review Validation Day which will take place on Friday August 9th. More news as it
comes to hand.
Parent Opinion Survey - WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK!
Our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The
Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education
and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents. It is
designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of parents’ perceptions of
school climate, student behaviour and student engagement. Our school will use the
survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement
strategies. Approximately 30 per cent of parents have been invited to participate in
this year’s survey via a snail mail letter in the post. All responses to the survey are
anonymous. This year the Parent Opinion Survey will be conducted from Monday
22rd July to Sunday 11th August.
The survey will be conducted online, only takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and can
be accessed at any convenient time within the fieldwork period on desktop
computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones. The online survey will be available in a
range of languages other than English. These include: Arabic, Vietnamese,
Mandarin, Chin (hakha), Hindi, Japanese, Somali, Turkish, Punjabi and Greek.
Reporting Student
Absences
Please remember to let the
school know by 9am if your
child will be absent.
Please call or email the
school office on
Ph: 9570 3525
Email: [email protected]
You must also provide a
reason for the absence so
that we can accurately
record it. Thank-you
East Bentleigh Primary School acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.
At East Bentleigh Primary School we are committed to child safety.
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2019 - Attitudes to School Survey
Earlier this year our Year 4, 5 and 6 students participated in this survey. Our student’s responses to this survey give us a
good indication as to how engaged our students are in their learning and school life in general. This data is part of a
suite of surveys conducted each year, which also includes the Parent Opinion Survey which 30% of our parents have
been invited to participate in, (see above) and the Staff Opinion Survey which is also being conducted now.
Please refer to the graphs below.
These results along with our student achievement data, (both NAPLAN and teacher judgements across the Victorian
Curriculum), all go to make up the Annual Report which we publish in March every year. As a whole staff, we will
interrogate this data to ensure we are meeting the needs of our students.
Congratulations - Charlie
As you know we love to share the achievements of our students. Well done to Charlie G in 5/6K
who played in the Victorian Junior State Hockey Championships on 2/7-5/7. He was one of four
players selected from Southern United to represent the Southern region in the Southern Sharks U13
team, Charlie was one of two Primary school aged boys and the youngest in the team. The
Sharks went on to win 5 of 7 games and place 5th (out of 10) across the state.
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Congratulations - Sarah
I am delighted to be able to announce another piece of happy news; and that is that Sarah Boyd and her husband
Micah are expecting the birth of their first child in January 2020. The students of 2B were very excited when Sarah
shared her news with them last week. It has been a number of years since we’ve had the excitement of new life within
our staff. ‘Our cup runneth over’ at the moment with two babies on the way. It will be lovely to watch both Sarah and
Celia blossom over the next few months.
Bentleigh Farmers’ Market
A reminder that our next Bentleigh Farmers’ Market will be held this Saturday, between 8am and 12:30pm
on our school oval. The weather forecast is for a coolish morning with perhaps a light shower later in the
day, so I encourage you to come along, support our school’s fundraising efforts and grab yourself some
of the freshest produce in Victoria. Our market is a great place for parents to catch up over a coffee, a
nice cup of chai or our famous bacon and egg roll, whilst the children play without the usual weekday
running around. The whole ‘feel’ of our market is so much better when there are lots of school families in
attendance. I look forward to seeing you there.
Payments
Thank you to all of you who have attended to this so promptly so far this term. A reminder that all Term 3 fees are now
due. Please help Jane in the office by sending in any due monies. It certainly saves us a great deal in administration
time if we don’t have to chase people up personally.
Enrolments for 2020
These are now being taken - if you know of any sibling enrolments in either stream for next year would you please ask
the parents concerned to let us know in the office. Our classes are filling fast.
** Thought **
Until next time…………...Maria Shearn - Principal
Parent Information
GARDEN NEWS
Garden
Big changes happening in the garden! As you've noticed, much of the
garden, including the chooks & ducks, European garden, stone fruit
trees, compost and greenhouse are fenced off for the construction
works. Don't worry all these areas are protected from the building
works and I am coming in even weekends to care for the garden and
animals. Here's a picture of the ducks enjoying a paddle in a puddle!
Prep Playground
The prep playground has been relocated near the oval and we learnt so much in the "simple" job of
adding the soft-fall mulch underneath:
•Learning to appreciate the value of resources (this soft-fall mulch cost $2500!, it is from trees that took
time and energy to grow, we must not waste it)
•Calculating cubic metres and estimation (area X depth, what a fall zone is, how deep 25cm is roughly,
how much would a wheelbarrow load cost, a single woodchip?)
•Why is soft-fall necessary (legislation, compliance), why is it different to other mulch (processing/supply)?
Why so expensive (supply & demand)?
•Physics (how forces are transferred to small particles cushioned by air, but hard/compacted surfaces
return energy into our soft bodies)
•How to transfer mulch effectively (conserving energy, lifting and digging safely, the easiest place to dig,
the strategic planning of dumping loads, etc.) • how easy it is to get warm in mid winter when you're ac-
tive outdoors!
There's so much to learn in every garden class at school! Thanks to all who helped during garden classes,
recess and lunchtimes (including the preps and even kind families before school).
See you in the garden! Pascale
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