• Thursday 6th May - Year 3 to 6 Cross Country (Price Park)
• Thursday 6th May - Foundation 2022 Information Night 6:30pm to 7:30pm
• Friday 7th May - Mother's Day Stall

TERM DATES

• 2021 TERM 1: Wednesday 27th January Teachers start (All students start Thursday 28th January) - Thursday 1st April (2:30pm finish)
• 2021 TERM 2: Monday 19th April - Friday 25th June (2:30pm finish)
• 2021 TERM 3: Monday 12th July - Friday 17th September (2:30pm finish)
• 2021 TERM 4: Monday 4th October - Friday 17th December (1:30pm finish)

2021 CAMP DATES

• Year 3: Arrabri Lodge Camp - Wednesday 4th August to Friday 6th August
• Year 4: Anglesea Recreation Camp - Wednesday 19th May to Friday 21st May
• Year 5: Lady Northcote Recreation Camp - Tuesday 5th October to Friday 8th October
• Year 6: Coonawarra Farm Resort Camp - Monday 17th May to Friday 21th May

TERM 2 PARENT AND FRIENDS BAKERY LUNCH DAYS - All Term 2 dates are now open for ordering via Compass Canteen

• Thursday 13th May (Orders closing on 10th May, 3:00pm)
• Thursday 27th May (Orders closing on 24th May, 3:00pm)
• Thursday 10th June (Orders closing on 7th June, 3:00pm)
• Thursday 24th June (Orders closing on 21st June, 3:00pm)

SCHOOL CAMPING PROGRAM After an 18 month ‘hiatus’ our school camping program resumes Monday week when the Grade 6 students head off to Camp Coonawarra in Bairnsdale for a four night, five day adventure. The Grade 4 students will also be heading to Anglesea in the middle of that week, making it a big camping week all round. Both groups will return on the Friday afternoon with these times being staggered somewhat to avoid congestion on Winston Road. Precise times will be advised during the afternoon via Compass as staff ring in approximate ETAs, but at this stage the Grade 6s will return at 2.30pm and the Grade 4s at 3.30pm.

SCHOOL COUNCIL The May meeting of School Council is scheduled for next Tuesday, May 11, commencing at 7pm in the staffroom.

FOUNDATION INFORMATION EVENING FOR 2022 PROSPECTIVE ENROLMENTS The Foundation 2022 Information Night is to be held from 6.30pm until 7.30pm in the Gymnasium tonight. Please let friends and neighbours know if they don’t know already!

NAPLAN The annual NAPLAN assessments for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 will resume on May 11. These assessments cover skills in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy. NAPLAN is a point-in-time assessment that allows parents to see how their child is progressing against national standards in literacy and numeracy and over time. Remember that NAPLAN tests are one aspect of our school’s assessment and reporting process, and they do not replace the extensive, ongoing assessments made by teachers about each student’s performance. Your child’s teacher will have the best insight into your child’s educational progress.

CROSS COUNTRY Congratulations to all students who participated in today’s Cross Country at Price Park. As always, it was well planned and managed by the Grade 3 to 6 teaching staff, under the directions of P.E. teachers, Kori Stuckey and Sharon Groves. Many thanks, too, to our volunteers who lined the course, rendering assistance and encouragement. The top 10 in each age and gender group have now qualified for the District Cross Country event to be held at Banyule Flats on Wednesday 26th May.

MOTHER’S DAY I sincerely hope all of our Mums have a great day on Sunday and are truly spoiled!

Have a great weekend.

Kind regards,

Bill Kersing

Principal

.

It has been lovely to see our wonderful parent volunteers gradually returning to assist at school. Our uniform shop and icypole sales assistants have been on duty since Term 1.

I think we can almost deem them ‘essential volunteer workers’.

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden volunteers have been busy helping out for a few weeks now and this week, we welcomed many reading helpers in Foundation to Year 2. Although there are fewer helpers than past years, due to COVID requirements, there was certainly an excited buzz as the students got to read aloud and share their book with the reading helpers this week. We have also been lucky enough to have parent helpers at sporting events, on excursions and in the coming weeks attending school camps at Anglesea and Bairnsdale.

This Friday will see an enthusiastic band of Parent and Friends volunteers man our very popular Mother’s Day stall. Dad’s please make sure you send your child/ren with some spending money so that Mum can have a special present for Mother’s Day this Sunday. Thank you to all our volunteers – you make a big difference.

It is so important to keep our children safe. The Daniel Morcombe Foundation aims to educate children and young people about how to stay safe in physical and online environments, promote lifelong health and wellbeing and to support young victims of crime.

Each October, our school participates in Day for Daniel but the following website has wonderful resources for parents and carers to access every day. If you would like to know more about keeping your child safe, especially online, then please visit the following website.

Have a great week and I hope all our Mums and special friends have a wonderful day on Sunday.

Gill

Amazing Music at Viewbank Viewbank has some amazing musicians; you only need to walk along the corridors to know the students are very talented. I was delighted to visit a music lesson this week and hear spectacular rhythm. I spoke to the students in 2M that talked about what they were learning, informing me that they were increasing their knowledge of music notation. As the students learnt more about how to follow musical rhythms, they then were challenged to compose their own ‘Minibeast’ blues song. Keep up the great work in music, 2M!

Shout Out! A big thank you to Mr. Bill Kersing, Mrs. Gill Nicholls, Mrs. Lucy Addati and Mr. Trevor Ruddock, who all worked diligently to quickly move soil into our recently prepared garden beds. The students enjoyed watching the process and asked many questions about the new garden beds. The new area looks fresh and will soon be replanted with a native garden.

Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) In early 2021, our school, along with thousands of others across the country, will begin preparations for the fifth Australian Early Development Census (AEDC). The AEDC gives us a national picture of the development, health and wellbeing of children in their first year of full-time school. Since 2009, the AEDC results have helped communities, schools and governments plan services and develop better policies to target support for children and families. Children don’t miss any class time, and parents/carers don’t need to supply schools with any new information for the census. The AEDC gives us data at a school and community level - it isn’t an assessment of individual children.

Some teachers have also noticed that completing the assessments made them more aware of the needs of individual children and the class as a whole, and that the census results are useful in planning for transitions to Year 1 and developing class programs. Participation in the AEDC is voluntary. Parents/carers don’t need to take any action unless they choose not to include their children in the census. To find out more about the census, and how communities are using the data to help children and families, visit the AEDC website: www.aedc.gov.au. If you have any questions, you can contact Karen Butler (Acting Assistant Principal) on 9459 1512.

Have a great week!

Karen Butler

Attendance – Late Arrivals / Early Leavers Just a reminder that if your child is late for school they are required to firstly come to the office for a ‘Late Pass’ before going to class.

If you wish to collect your child early from school you are required to come to the office first and your child will be called to meet you at the office.

School Tours School Tours have recommenced every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings at 9.30am. Please call the office on 9459 1512 or email viewbank.ps@education.vic.gov.au to make a booking.

Enrolments We are currently accepting enrolments for 2022 and are happy to assist with any queries.

Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) The Government assisted Fund provides payments for eligible students to attend camps, sports, incursions and excursions ($125 per child). Applications for the Governments ‘CSEF Fund’ can be accessed by filling in the application form and returning it to the office with a copy of your current Health Care Card. Families holding a valid means-tested concession card or temporary foster parents are eligible to apply i.e. a Centrelink Health Care Card or Pension Concession Card or Veteran Affairs Gold Card.

Funds are paid to the school and will be automatically allocated to the Term Expenses unless otherwise stated by the parent at the start of the year.

Thank you

Lucy Addati

Business Manager

​Mother’s Day Stall - Friday 7th May, 2021 This year’s Mother’s Day Stall will be held on Friday 7th of May, 2021. Children are asked to bring no more than $10.00 to purchase some quality goodies for their Mums, Grandparent, Aunties or Special person. Please remember to bring your money and a carry bag with you on the day. For this to run smoothly Parent helpers are required to assist with the setup, selling of gifts and packing up the stall which will run throughout the entire day…. so if you are available please contact Carol Seneca via email cazstar@optusnet.com.au (Mob: 0410 039 554)

PLEASE NOTE IF CHILDREN DO NOT HAVE MONEY WITH THEM ON THE DAY THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE A PURCHASE AS WE WILL NOT BE HAVING AN "I OWE YOU" SYSTEM THIS YEAR.

Bakery Lunch Orders - Every 2nd Thursday during Term 2, 2021

Lower Plenty Bakehouse will be to providing the school with fundraising Lunch Orders every second Thursday during Term 2. These lunches will be implemented via our Parents and Friends Committee and all money raised will be used towards our major school oval upgrade.

Our Term 2 Fundraising Lunch Order Dates are:

• Thursday 13th May (Orders closing on 10th May, 3:00pm)
• Thursday 27th May (Orders closing on 24th May, 3:00pm)
• Thursday 10th June (Orders closing on 7th June, 3:00pm)
• Thursday 24th June (Orders closing on 21st June, 3:00pm)

Orders need to be placed in advance via Compass Canteen. Ordering will close the Monday before the lunch date at 3pm. All of Term 2 Lunch dates are now open and ordering is able to be placed in advance for the whole term if you choose to do so.

Please see attached a Parent User Guide on how to order via Compass Canteen. Please note a 35 cents order fee will be charged at check out.

​​ICY POLE FRIDAY Students are able to purchase icy poles over the counter at lunchtime every Friday. All icy poles cost $1.00 each.

CLASSROOM CUISINE provides lunch orders to our school on a MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAYS.

Lunches must be ordered online using the CLASSROOM CUISINE website.

Extra Curricula Clubs We have a range of weekly extra curricula activities that students are invited to participate in. Some are free and others require parent payment. If your child wishes to join please encourage them to go along on the scheduled day or you may like to contact the school office or the classroom teacher to discuss participation.

.

​

​

SECOND HAND UNIFORM SALE - Every Friday 8:45am to 9:15am, next to the music room. Jumpers with the school logo, long and short sleeve school polo tops and school dresses will be $5.00 and all other items $2.00. We are currently asking for donations of any unwanted reusable school uniform items to sell at our stall.

Instrumental Music Enrolments Can all students who would like to join our school instrumental music programs in please inform the relevant teacher below of your expression of interest.

SINGING WITH GABRIELLA - Gabriella

• Email: favrettogab@gmail.com
• Phone: 0413 676 733

STRINGS WITH MR CAI - Gabriella

• Email: favrettogab@gmail.com
• Phone: 0413 676 733

GUITAR/BASS GUITAR - Alec

• Email: alec.stalder@gmail.com
• Phone: 0422 690 842

PIANO/KEYBOARD - Ella

• Email: ellac.blackburn@gmail.com
• Phone: 0410 938 840

DRUMS - James

• Email: orangejimmy@gmail.com
• Phone: 0405 845 628

PHONE NUMBER: 0448 075 422

EMAIL: viewbank@oshclub.com.au

A PLUS SCHOOLWEAR Our uniform supplier is A Plus Schoolwear which is located at 41-43 Northern Road Heidelberg West. Open hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday’s from 9am to 4.30pm (closed on weekend and public holidays).

You can also purchase your uniform online at www.aplusschoolwear.com.au