Volume 25 Issue 1 Thursday 31 January 2019

www.brentwoodparkps.vic.edu.au

term dates 2019 term 1 30 jan - 05 apr term 2 23 apr - 28 jun term 3 15 jul - 20 sep term 4 07 oct - 20 dec 01 FEBRUARY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL CANTEEN 06 FEBRUARY SCHOOL BANKING BEGINS 11 FEBRUARY CURRICULUM DAY 15 FEBRUARY SWIMMING TRIALS 20 & 21 FEBRUARY SCHOOL PHOTOS 22 FEBRUARY FOUNDATION PIRATE DAY

jim bell, principal jenny reid, assistant principal jo-anne doran, assistant principal

DATES TO REMEMBER

S tart of School Despite the high temperature on Wednesday, it’s pleasing to report to our com-

munity, the extremely smooth start to the school year. With an enrolment of 900+ students, books were quickly unpacked, welcomes and introductions exchanged and lessons readily commenced! Thanks are forwarded to the staff who worked so industriously in the week before the students commenced to ensure such a smooth start to the year. The classrooms were organized, colourful and wel-coming!

The efforts of the children themselves, assisted by their parents, must also be acknowledged. The manner in which they commenced the 2019 school year is commendable. Our cohort of 129 preps settled extremely well into their first year of school! With photographs taken by accom-panying parents, final hugs were exchanged and the chil-dren soon became absorbed in their classroom activities. The collage of photographs on the following pages has captured the excitement and engagement of our first day!

F acilities Update - Shade Structures With the frames already sited late last year, and in readiness for the children commencing

school this year, shade cloths over our three play-grounds were installed. They will, no doubt, prove to be valuable additions to our facilities and enhance our status as a SunSmart school.

Parents are reminded that, as a SunSmart school, all children are expected to wear a wide-brimmed school hat when outside at recess and lunchtimes, and during their health and physical education lessons.

I ntroducing our School Captains for 2019 As mentioned in the final week of term 2018, the students in Years 3-5

cast their ballot for the elec-tion of our 2019 school cap-tains. Congratulations to School Captains, Lincoln P and Lamees A and vice cap-tains, Shaun C and Nidhi S. Elections of House Captains will be undertaken in the coming week.

Staffing at Brentwood Park Principal Jim Bell Assistant Principals Jenny Reid Jo-Anne Doran

Business Manager Sue Moore [Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday]

Office Manager / Human Resources Maree Dale

Office Administration Mandy Scarlett

Office Administration/First Aid Ros Cleversley

Year 6 MB Room 7 Melissa Butcher Year 6 LM Room 8 Leanne Maslen Year 6 JP Room 9 Jessica Porziella Year 6 JA Room 10 Judy Anderson

Year 5 LM Room 23 Leah McCartney Year 5 EB Room 24 Ebony Bashford Year 5 LF Room 25 Lyn Forsyth Year 5 JG Room 26 Julia Groves Year 5 SI Room 37 Sarah Ierfone

Year 4 SM Room 13 Shanitha Maharaj Year 4 EC Room 14 Emily Calabria Year 4 VG Room 15 Vicki Kromlidis / Gabriella Douglas Year 4 CP Room 16 Cathi Priest Year 4 BM Music Room Beth McPhan

Year 3 DK Room 18 Donna Kelly Year 3 CH Room 11 Carolyn Hilton Year 3 MS Room 12 Marissa Shami Year 3 SA Room 21 Shelley-Anne Adams Year 3 MF Room 22 Melissa Forkgen Year 2 CM Room 36 Catherine Murray Year 2 AK Room 35 Amy Kleinsmit Year 2 SY Room 34 Sibel Yurtbasi Year 2 AD Room 33 Amy Dickson Year 2 RG Room 28 Rosemary Gloz Year 2 CV Room 27 Cassie Van Zeyl

Year 1 NG Room 17 Nicole Garrett Year 1 TN Room 19 Tam Nguyen Year 1 MK Room 20 Marina Kesegic Year 1 HG Room 29 Heather Ghazarian Year 1 KC Room 30 Kirsty Courtis Year 1 NC Room 31 Natasha Cooper Year 1 AB Room 32 Alyce Bagnall

Year 0 TL Room 1 Tania Lucas Year 0 JF Room 2 Jessica Fergusen Year 0 BC Room 3 Bronwyn Coombs Year 0 SM Room 4 Sharlene Marsche Year 0 JH Room 5 Jasmine Hill Year 0 LP Room 6 Lyn Pearse

Digital Technologies Lisa Hill Additional Assistance Trish Shaw Health and Physical Education Jim Narayan and Mel Dennis Visual Arts Jessica Murphy and Bree Stribbles Performing Arts Linda Moore and Larissa Maryanovski Chinese [Mandarin] Chunyan Zhang and Shuyue [Daisy] He

Integration Aides Sandra Hess, Toni Coelho, Jill Strafford, Jo Morris, Anthea Barry, Samantha Smith, Marlene Masciulli, Natalie Bourke and Belinda Smalley

Maintenance Daryl West

Multi Media Annette Wright and Josephine Tan

Technician Jill Phillips Damien Hawkins

School Chaplain Glenn Douglas

2019

P LEASE DIRECT MONEY FOR EXCURSIONS, ETC TO YOUR CLASSROOM TEACHER - NOT TO THE OFFICE.

Please hand money and permission slip in sealed envelopes to classroom teacher first thing in the morning. By following this process teachers are aware that your child will be attending the excursion and mark them off

their lists. Money is collected by office staff and processed each morning and a receipt given back to teachers along with permission slips. All money is tallied and banked daily – no money is left on the premises. If you wish to pay by credit card, a proforma is available from the office. This can be filled out with details and placed in a sealed envelope and handed to your classroom teacher

Please deliver cash in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and grade on the front by 9.30 a.m. If you have a number of children attending an excursion you can place all money and permission slips in the one envelope with children’s names and grades on the front and deliver to one of the children’s teachers. The office staff will be able to allocate money to the children’s particular items and distribute permission slips and receipts back to teachers. Enve-lopes are available at the office. If you have a large amount to be paid or need to process an EFTPOS transaction through a savings account you can make arrangements to pay at the office. We also have a new Qkr payment system on our Skoolbag app. If you download our Skoolbag app and Qkr payment app you can now pay for your child’s excursion on line.

All change will be delivered to the children in the afternoon. Re-imbursements will only be made under certain circumstances – they will be made by cheque (no cash transactions are made).

Notices are sent out with a final collection time – please adhere to this time. All money and permission slips are required to be sent back by this date – otherwise your child will not be able to attend. This enables us to confirm bookings and numbers with bus companies and organisations we are visiting. Also we need to send details to the De-partment of Education Emergency Management for all excursions, camps, etc. We also need to accommodate students who will not be attending.

We would appreciate it if parents could please follow these processes.