Term 2, 2018

Week 8 of 11 Weeks

Newsletter: June 7th, 2018

Persistence

Encouragement

Resilience

Respect

Inclusiveness

Dear Families of Yarra Glen PS, Welcome to this week’s newsletter. On Monday and Tuesday this week I attended the Regional Leadership Conference at The Melbourne Convention Centre. The conference was attended by nearly 900 principal and school leaders from the North Eastern Region with the aim to continually improving the literacy and numeracy outcomes for our students. At the conference the new Literacy and Numeracy strategy was released with the aim to achieving excellence and equity in literacy and numeracy. Our school has Ms Pitt as our dedicated Numeracy Leader and Ms Owen as our Literacy Leader and their role is to continually develop their area of expertise to enhance the results for our students. 150

th Celebration Pavers

This week we sent home order forms for 150th year celebration pavers.

These are open to families of the school as well as the wider community. Please complete the order form if you are interested and return it to the school. The order form will also be available on the school website and 150

th Facebook page. This is a really good way to have your family name

etched into Yarra Glen Primary School’s history. Uniform Policy School Council is currently updating the school’s uniform policy and we invite your input into its creation. Please find inside this weeks newsletter a copy of the current policy for your reference. School council is currently exploring the inclusion of a sports top and adding this to the policy. Any suggestions can be emailed to myself or the Yarra Glen school email address. Parent Teacher Interviews Bookings for parent teacher interviews can now be made via your Sentral Portal. Please login to Sentral using a web browser like Safari, Chrome or Internet Explorer to be able to make a booking to see your child's teacher.

Regards, Michael Acting Principal

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Our vision is to prepare young people to become active, engaged and responsible citizens of the local

and global community. It aims to prepare students to contend with a very dynamic 21st century in

which creativity, cooperative work, connectedness to the world and adaptability are key features. The

school aspires to provide a contemporary approach to teaching and learning in its purposeful learning

environment.

PERRI – Persistence, Encouragement, Respect, Resilience, Inclusion

UNIFORM POLICY

Statement of Purpose To instil in students a feeling of comradeship and pride in their school. To minimise outward signs of differences in background To educate students in the wearing of appropriate sun smart clothing. Provide a safe standard of dress in the school environment. Equally provide for the needs of boys and girls in accordance with Equal Opportunity Policy and

Guidelines. Guidelines Teachers to request notes from out-of-uniform students at the beginning of the day. A note to be sent home indicating child is out of uniform. After 3 notes being sent home, Principal to contact parents. The students may participate in out of uniform days and these may be held at least once a term

and may be organised by the Student Representative Council. Students are not to wear make up except for special events eg. Plays, production. For safety reasons students to wear jewellery to a minimum eg. Studs or sleepers / no dangly ear

rings. Appropriate footwear must be worn- no boots or sandals or open toe footwear. No sporting club apparel to be worn. FOR EG; no footy shorts, jumpers or basketball tops/shorts. Implementation Students are to be positively recognised for wearing the school uniform appropriately. A co-operative effort on the part of students, parents and staff will ensure that standards of dress

are maintained. Parents and students are made aware of the Students Dress Code prior to enrolment and begin-

ning of each year. Parents who experience financial difficulty regarding provision of uniform are invited to contact the

Principal. Where these requirements are not met there will be a range of graded consequences provided. Students will be required to remove inappropriate jewellery/ make up and may be sent home. Resources Uniform will be ordered via our website/online and deliveries will be made to the school or directly

to your home for a small additional cost. Part of our Prep transition program will allow for APLUS Schoolwear to attend our school . Using

this process, children can be measured accordingly for their uniform and have a successful start to the school year.

COMPULSORY UNIFORM

ALL STUDENTS: bomber jacket red and black/black with white stripe (Grade 6 only) windcheater red or black with logo (two styles) polo shirt red/black collar and logo red with black/red collar and logo red and logo white and logo footwear black (or sneakers, or neat casual footwear acceptable within safety require-ments) BOYS: pants black (no brand names or jeans) shorts black socks plain black or white GIRLS: summer dress red and white gingham winter skirts red or black pants black (no brand names or jeans) shorts black culottes black socks plain black or white bike shorts black (to be worn under dresses/skirts) PHYSICAL EDUCATION: P.E T shirt white-polo with logo Shorts black Sun smart hats broadbrim (red/black)

Date of Adoption: 2010

Date of Review: 20151119

CALENDAR 2018

Term 1 Dates

PMP Sessions (Foundation students) Wednesdays 13th, 20th & 27th June

Special Assembly (150th Celebrations) Fridays 8th, 15th & 22nd June

Bookings for three-way conferences (via Sentral Parent Portal)

NOW OPEN Closes Friday 15th June at 5pm

Interschool Sports at Home (Grade 5 & 6) Fridays 15th & 29th June

Public Holiday—no students at school Monday 11th June

Divisional Cross Country (selected students only) Tuesday 12th June

State School Spectacular Practice Monday 18th June

Life Ed Van Tuesday 26th to Thursday 28th June

Interschool Sports at Wandin Yallock (Grade 5 & 6) Friday 22nd June

Three-way conferences Monday 25th to Wednesday 27th June

End of Term 2—2:30pm pickup Friday 29th June

NOTICES AND FORMS - Have You Seen These Notices? Notices are available on our website (Downloads—Notices & Forms)

TERM 1 Due Date

Divisional Cross Country Form (selected students only) OVERDUE

Life Education Tuesday 12th June

150th Celebration YGPS Paver Fundraiser Friday 27th July

calendar dates can be found on our Sentral Parent Portal https://sentral.ygps.vic.edu.au/portal/login

don’t forget that notices on blue paper that go home require payment of an event/activity

check our YGPS website at least weekly http://ygps.vic.edu.au

all notices (unless an emergency) will go home on Thursdays when the newsletter is emailed/check your email on Thursdays; notices will be clipped to your child’s diary when going home by your child

all notices are posted on the school’s Official YGPS Website under the Downloads tab/ Notices and Forms. http://ygps.vic.edu.au

the Yarra Glen Primary School website is the home of all official Yarra Glen Primary School notices and newsletters containing the official school logo and school information and events . These can also be found on our Sentral Parent Portal https://sentral.ygps.vic.edu.au/portal/login

a copy of the notices will also be in the glass display cabinet outside the front door of our administration building (near the Before and After School Care Sign)

ENROLMENTS NOW OPEN Enrolments for 2019 are now open. Enrolment forms can be found on our website (http://ygps.vic.edu.au/downloads/enrolment-forms/) or you can call the office on 9730 1254 to have an enrolment pack sent to you. If you would like to arrange a school tour, please contact the office. We look forward to seeing your family in 2019!

State Schools Spectacular rehearsals will be held on the

following dates:

Monday 18th June

Monday 13th August

Please be at school by 8:30am on these dates.

Both sessions have an earlier finish time of 12:30pm.

Three-Way Conferences Registrations for three-way conferencing are NOW OPEN. They will be open until 5pm June 15th via the Sentral Parent Portal. If you have any issues with registering, please do not hesitate to contact the front office. Thanks!

YGPS 150th Celebration MEET AND GREET SPECIAL ASSEMBLY – PAST STUDENTS

The first 2 special assemblies will be held on Friday, 8th June and Friday, 15th June @ 2:30pm. If you are a past student of YGPS and are interested in attending for a Q & A session with the students, please contact Helen Ryan or the school office ASAP.

You can also check out our Facebook page – Yarra Glen Primary School – 150th birthday celebration. If you can’t make any of these dates, further special assemblies will be arranged for next term, pending interest. We hope to see you there to help us celebrate 150 years!

Students of the Week Congratulations to last week’s winners of the Yarra Glen Primary PERRI Awards!

These students have all been recognised by their teachers last week for an achievement related to one of our five school PERRI values.

Persistence

Encouragement

Resilience

Respect

Inclusiveness

Fundraising News Trivia Night Saturday 8th September 2018

Tickets available soon

Special Lunch Orders Lunch orders will be Friday, fortnightly. Orders are due the Wednesday prior to special lunch

day. When ordering special lunch orders, please complete the following:

Name, class, lunch order items and total cost clearly written on a brown paper bag.

Exact money (no change will be given) included in a sealed envelope/snap lock

bag inside the brown paper bag.

Order to be handed in to the classroom teacher each Wednesday fortnight (before

3pm)—No late orders will be accepted.

Due dates for orders: Term 2

June 20th

Please do not take any special lunch orders directly to the bakery. All lunch orders are to be sent to school by the due date and time.

ALL FOOD IS SUPPLIED BY YARRA GLEN BAKEHOUSE

VOLUNTEERS WILL COLLECT THE ORDERS AND DISTRIUTE TO THE STUDENTS

Important Notice There is no interschool sport this Friday due to inclement weather.

The next interschool sports day will be at Home on Friday 15th June.

Please note the change of dates & places in the calendar.

Scholastic Book Club

Scholastic Book Club orders for Issue 4 are due by Wednesday 13th June. Please order via the

Scholastic LOOP app (download from the Apple app store or Google Play) or visit scholastic.com.au/LOOP.

SCHOOL BANKING—EVERY THURSDAY School Banking occurs every Thursday. Please bring in your bank books every Thursday and put in the banking satchel in your classroom tub.

Ritchie’s Donation The donation from Ritchie’s to Yarra Glen Primary for the month of May is $279.29

Thank you for shopping at our local IGA. Your donations are helping much needed funding for our school. Thank you!

If your child is sick or absent, you are required to notify their school as soon as possible on the day of absence using one of the following methods: 1. Online: log the absence directly using your school ’s IT platform.

2. Telephone: the school office and let the staff know your child ’s name, class, date of absences and reason.

Email: the school and provide the staff with your child ’s name, class, date of absences and reason.

Notifying the school of your child’s absence either prior to, or on the day that they will be away, helps ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and will fulfil your legal responsibility.

Why do I need to notify the school if my child is absent? Schools need to know when and why a child is absent and you need to know if your child isn’t at school. From the end of Term 2 2018, all Victorian government schools are required to contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the same day of an unexplained student absence. If your child is absent on a particular day and you have not contacted the school to explain why, the absence will be marked as unexplained. This system also promotes daily school attendance. Going to school every day is the single most important part of your child’s education, they learn new things every day – missing school puts them behind.

What is your responsibility?

let the school know in advance of any upcoming absences or let them know in the morning if your child won’t be at school. In order for schools to implement the same day notification requirement, it’s essential that you provide the school with your most up-to-date contact details. Generally one notification will be sent per family. Should there be circumstances that require both parents and carers to be notified, please contact the school to make the necessary arrangements.

What is the school’s responsibility? The school must notify you of an unexplained absence in relation to your child as soon as practicable on the same day. Schools will let you know either by your school’s online communications app, SMS, phone call or email.

Ask your school for a copy of the Attendance Policy which outlines the school’s processes and procedures for monitoring, recording and following-up of student absences.

The Yarra Glen Primary School Attendance Policy as well as this fact sheet can be found on our website: http://ygps.vic.edu.au/parent-info/attendance/