East Road Seaford 3198 Telephone 9786 5197 Facsimile 9785 3219 Email seaford.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website www.seafordpark.vic.edu.au

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2015 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

During Education Week we had our Annual Reporting Meeting to the community. Here is an

outline of the reports. Principal Report: After the Victorian Election held in November 2014 the Labor

government honored the promise of the $3 million Capital Works program to build a new school. We further established ourselves as the small community school of choice in the wider community extending beyond the immediate Seaford area resulting in a steady growth for our school community particularly in the lower classes. Our dedicated staff work very hard to provide a safe and happy environment conducive to the students achieving high educational outcomes and a place where parents feel part of the school. Our small band of parent volunteers and PFC members also work extremely hard to create “community” and raise funds for extra resources. In summary the results of data is: Achievement We have high expectation of our students and Literacy and Numeracy remain our main focus. Teacher assessments of student AusVELS English show similar results when using the school comparison measures and in Mathematics show higher achievement results when comparing similar schools. In NAPLAN the Year 5 students performed similar to students in other similar primary schools in Reading and higher in Numeracy. Over a 4 - year average the comparisons were similar in Reading and Numeracy. Year 3 NAPLAN results indicate that our students performed similarly to students in similar primary schools in Reading and Numeracy. Over a 4 - year average the comparison were similar in both Reading and Numeracy. The NAPLAN Learning Gain from Year 3 to Year 5 shows the distribution of High growth in Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar and Numeracy to be higher than 25% and Low growth to be very low except in Reading. Engagement Seaford Park rigorously monitors student absences and encourages students to be at school on time. Our student absence rates are similar when compared to like schools and above the state median over a 4 - year average. The results of the Attitudes to School Survey were above the State 4 year average indicating a high connectedness to school among our students. Wellbeing Teachers, students and the community all strive to achieve a safe and stimulating learning environment. The results of the Attitudes to School Survey Student Perception of Safety and the Connectedness to Schools factors are similar compared to like schools. Seaford Park continues to implement a wide range of programs that support an engaging and productive learning environment. The wellbeing of our students is supported by a clear set of expected behaviours; an active Wellbeing Committee and a range of wellbeing programs implemented in the classrooms.

School Council President: My first year as School Council President was an eventful one. 2015 saw

the incoming Labor government honor their pre-election promise to Seaford Park Primary of a $3 million Capital Works program to build a new school. Many hours have since been spent developing plans and an exciting time ahead is expected. With continued enrolment growth, the future for our wonderful community style school looks extremely bright. Over 2015 the school achieved an incredible amount such as: conducting the 2012 - 2015 School Strategic Plan review and analysing the results we achieved; continuing the association with the Ardoch Foundation; Parents and Friends Committee raised over $12,000 in much needed additional funds; the continuation of Sub Committees such as Buildings & Grounds and Marketing; programs such as the Literacy Buddies, the music program and the choir, the Year 3/4 Doxa Adventure Camp, the End of Year concerts, Seaford Park’s Got Talent and the Arts Appreciation evening. Parent involvement is always welcome and provides great support to the staff, improves our grounds, helps with funding all those extra programs for the students, and much, much more. I encourage parents to spend as much time as they can spare helping in any way they can. It is a very rewarding way to spend any spare time. I know my daughter enjoys seeing me helping around the school. I would like to congratulate Julie on another successful year as School Principal and thank her and the School Council members for their support of me in my first year as School Council President. Thanks also to the staff and parent helpers for continuing to work extremely hard to ensure the students enjoy and learn as much as they can during their time at our school. I have great confidence that Seaford Park Primary School will continue to grow for many years to come and am proud to be part of the Community at Seaford Park Primary. Sandra Love

Buildings and Grounds A huge amount was achieved in 2015 - regular mowing by the two Rons;

new playground equipment in the removed portables spaces; selection of architect for the new school build; the annual working bee clean up before Education Week; constant updates to the OHS requirements; new lines marked on the basketball courts and the annual Tree Planting Day. Jeff Shelley

Parent and Friends Committee 2015 was a very active year for Parents and Friends Committee,

we had some great events such as the annual Disco, Family Bingo Night and Trivia Night. We welcomed in the year with our inaugural Welcome Picnic to great success. Easter Bunny attended our annual Easter Bonnet Parade with a rousing reception, we had our annual Mother’s and Father’s Day stalls and a lovely afternoon tea for our mums and special guests and BBQ dinner for our dads. Our hot food days were as

popular as always. Jacqui Nicholson Julie Braakhuis Principal

Dates to Remember:

June Monday 6th Junior School Council

Tuesday 7th Buildings and Grounds 8.30am

Thursday 9th Marketing and Promotions 6pm

Friday 10th 5/6A Excursion to Scienceworks

Monday 13th Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

Friday 17th 5/6A & 4/5A Excursion to the Shrine

Family Fun Bingo Night

Monday 20th Student Reports go home

Tuesday 21st School Council 6.20pm

Wednesday 22nd Parent Teacher Interviews

Thursday 23rd Parent Teacher Interviews

Friday 24th Last day of Term 2 - 2.30pm dismissal

July

Monday 11th First day of Term 3

Tuesday 19th Buildings and Grounds meeting 8.30am

Parents and Friends meeting 2pm

Thursday 21st Marketing meeting 6pm

Friday 29th Interschool Sports starts

From the Principal’s Pen.

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ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL NEWS During the coming week, I will be conducting a survey with the students about where they enjoy playing in the yard and why. Students will be given the opportunity to voice their opinions about safe and unsafe play by marking areas on a simplified map of our school. I will enlist the help of our Junior School Councillors to analyse the information that we receive from the students and also brainstorm possible solutions to any problems that are highlighted as part of our investigation. We look forward to reporting our findings back to the community. Reminder to parents and carers that our school yard is not actively supervised until 8:45am. Students should not be arriving at school before this time unless you are directly overseeing their play. Members from the Family Mediation and Counselling Victoria visited a recent Network Wellbeing Meeting to share with us the services that they can offer to community members. This service offers family mediation, parenting plans, financial counselling and debt management, relationship counselling, family mental health, parenting programs, individual counselling for young people up to the age of 18 and living in the Frankston area. If you would like more information or a referral form for any of the above mentioned services please make an appointment at our general office to speak with me. Level 1, 146 Young Street, Frankston, Victoria 3199. T: 9784-0698

Assistant Principal Melanie French GOALS Prep A - to read our take home books every night. Prep B - to line up properly when we hear the music. 1/2A - to keep our lockers organised. 1/2B - to always try to fill up other people’s buckets. 1/2C - to be resilient. 3/4C - to bring our take home books to school every day. 4/5A - to complete our speeches during the week and to learn a new note on the recorder. 5/6A - to return all our excursion notices so we can all enjoy these fantastic experiences together. WALK TO SCHOOL DAY On the 20th May it was walk safely to school day. Nearly half the school participated in this magnificent event. The total of the whole school that walked, rode, scooted or skated was 61 students. 41 students walked, 12 students rode their bike, 8 students scooted and skated, 1 person caught the bus and 67 students went in a car. Below is the total number of students from each class that walked, skated, rode and scooted to school: Prep A - 7 Prep B - 4 1/2A - 7 1/2B - 11 1/2C - 10 3/4A - 9 4/5A - 7 5/6A - 6 Great job to 1/2B who had the most. We’d like to thank all the people who rode, walked, skated and scooted to school, well done. By Jolie and Charlotte. LEGO ROBOTICS On the 18th May Jack T, Harry R, Cohen F, Dylan B, Daniel N and Mrs Reid went to King David school for the whole day. On the way up to the school we sat together and we played with our robots cords and sound. When we got there we met a teacher named Milo. We went to a special room for his presentation, we played a game and we had to choose which disaster was the odd one out. After the game we had lunch, and then we programed our robots to do challenges. We used a nature’s fury challenge map, then we packed up ready to go to school. Milo gave us the map and all the challenge Lego parts which is fantastic. On the way home we talked about the day. By Daniel and Dylan SEAFORD RSL The President, Committee and Members of the Seaford RSL would like to thank the students and staff at Seaford Park Primary School for your support of the Anzac Day Appeal through the sale of badges. Once again the community has rallied beyond expectations with a total of $73,434 being raised. These monies are used to continue to provide assistance to veterans and their families. The contribution made by Seaford Park was $102. Thank you. Geoff Andrews - Senior Vice President. CAMEO’S NETBALL 11 and 12 year old girls wanted to join a team, games are played at Jubilee Park every Saturday and training is once a week at Seaford Park after school. If you would like any information please contact Kaylene O’Dempsey Ph: 0403 575 509

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RICKETTS POINT WORKSHOP On the 26th May Mrs Reid took Jenna and I to the “I Sea I Care” Ricketts Point workshop. We arrived at the workshop at 9.50am and after that we had to wait for 30mins for the rest of the schools to arrive. Jenna, Mrs Reid and I were in group 3. Our first activity was talking with the marine rangers. They showed us the areas of the 3 marine parks, Ricketts point, Jaw Bone and Point Cook. The marine parks were established in1993 to protect this important marine life to allow sea creatures to populate and venture out into Port Phillip Bay to keep the food chain thriving. Our second activity was the sea grass. A Ranger called Russell tipped sea grass into Jenna and my buckets and asked us to find little animals in the bucket. We found some interesting animals like sea louse, shrimp, sea snails and sea lettuce. Russell said you can eat sea lettuce but he recommended not to. For the last activity we went out to the rock pools and we found all sorts of creatures and sea-weeds, we found two sea stars and interesting shells and pink seaweed. We would like to thank Mrs Reid for taking Jenna and l. By Brodie

THANK YOU - LEGO ROBOTICS I just wanted to thank you again for taking time out of your busy schedule to share your expertise with Tammy and her pupils. Can I tell you that I taught for many years myself and I’ve rarely seen that level of engagement and enjoyment in a lesson. What a joy! If you could have heard how excited those boys were on the bus back to school it would have made you smile. They were busily planning how to stage a surprise assembly for the school so they could show everyone what their robots could do. Could you also thank your amazing students for their patience, encouragement and positive mentoring and for the way they guided their charges towards collaborative work and thinking around the problem rather than just doing it for them. Thanks also to King David School for being so welcoming to all of us. Best wishes, Angela Knox Carter Education Partnership Coordinator Ardoch Youth Foundation. SCIENCE THIS TERM This has been an exciting term in the Science room with lots of fun activities and experiments happening! 4/5A was inspired during nature week to create these beautiful Mandalas in Amaroo. All grades had fun making GOO as part of learning how to write a Science Report in the senior grades while the junior grades had fun making it, playing with it, and using wonderful words to describe what they made and understanding if something went wrong, that was OK and you just tried again until we got it right! 5/6A enjoyed learning how to make Crystals, they looked Amazing! Each grade has spent time out in the School’s vegetable garden, helping me clean the beds out and getting them ready for planting seeds. The Preps helped plant carrot seeds, 3/4A planted lettuce and 4/5A planted broccoli, cauliflower and spring onions – so we look forward to seeing them grow! I just bought the school a new compost bin so excited to continue our composting and collecting worm juice from our worm farm! I would also like to thank EVERYONE who is putting soft plastic rubbish in our Red Bin and saving it from Landfill! We have filled 4 large bags already which is a great achievement!

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East Road Seaford 3198 Telephone 9786 5197 Facsimile 9785 3219 Email seaford.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Website www.seafordpark.vic.edu.au

PARENTS AND FRIENDS COMMITTEE

Save these Dates: Bingo Night Friday 17th June at 6pm. Great family fun and lots of prizes. Free Admission. Bingo Cards $1 each (4 games) Lucky Straws $1 and Lucky Dips $1. Cent Auction Tickets 5 for $2 Friday Fruit. Volunteers always welcome to help us cut up fruit No experience necessary and toddlers are welcome. Second Hand Uniform Shop If you need anything please make an appointment at the office. We always accept clean good quality Uniforms. Interested in getting involved please ring or TXT Melinda Shelley, President 0431608144 Icy Poles On sale after school on Fridays in Term 2 until we run out. Get in quick.

Seaford Park Primary School is proud to present our Pupil Of The Week

PREP A – Jorgia P - making excellent choices in the classroom.

PREP B - Shai-Ann T - confidently stretching out words to hear each sound. Keep it up.

1/2A - Nykson W - being persistent during our maths topic on place value. Well Done!

1/2B - Elizabeth D - having a positive attitude in class and approaching all tasks with enthusiasm.

1/2C - Mitchell C - giving us a wonderful definition of area in maths.

3/4A - All of 3/4A - for your hard work on fractions and your enthusiasm to challenge yourselves.

5/6A - Charlotte Dodd - always working quietly, independently and to the best of her ability. Keep it up.

ART - Danny F - working at a high standard to complete his artwork.

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD - Mrs Witte - putting up all the art displays, organising the junior concert and choir performance and the tabloid sports for education week.

4/5A - Callum A - being an enthusiastic, hardworking student throughout the week.

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD - Bailey H - for answering a tricky spelling question. Spot On!

Seaford Park Primary School is proud to present our Pupil Of The Month

PREP A – Noah E - trying his very best in class to concentrate and join in all activities.

PREP B - Archer F - being an organised and conscientious worker.

1/2A - Dylan A - exhibiting confidence and persistence during the Junior School Concert. Well Done!

1/2B - Jacob B - making an effort to get his work completed on time.

1/2C - Laiyla M - being such a hard worker and a caring helpful class member.

3/A - Grace F - consistently showing respect towards others and her huge effort in her school work.

4/5A - Tayla A - being a hard worker throughout the month.

5/6A - Oska M - improved confidence in responding to comprehension questions. Great Work!

ART - Ella B - listening and following instructions.

MUSIC - Dakota L - showing courage when singing a solo during the choir performance on open night.

P.E - Alyssa S - showing fabulous leadership of Banksia at the tabloid sports and helping younger students.