From the Principal Dear Parents / Guardians

PYP EVENING A huge thank you to all the parents and families who supported the PYP community Evening last week. The staff and your children value your time when you join us for events such as these. The classrooms were looking magnificent and the children showed confidence in their presentations. We have had a lot of feedback from families and other visitors expressing their pleasure and enjoyment at seeing what the children are learning about and hearing their reflections of the PYP. It was great to see some children in their Italian masks performing in the courtyard and others enjoying the dance competition in the performing arts centre, the art display in art room and children having fun on our new sports surface. Thanks to Mrs Rima El Souki and Mrs Ann O’Connor for their preparation for the night and to all staff and students who assisted. Please see Rima’s full report on page 3 followed by photos of the night.

END OF TERM Term 1 ends this Friday 31

st March at 2:30pm. Please make arrangements for your child

to be collected when they are dismissed from their classrooms at 2:30pm. School resumes for term 2 on Wednesday 19

th at 8:50am.

HOT DOG DAY A reminder for those children who have not ordered a hot dog a lunch from home will need to be supplied. The canteen will not be open on this day.

CASUAL DRESS DAY FRIDAY Don’t forget children are able to wear clothes of their choice to school on Friday. Please supervise your children dressing to be sure they are wearing safe footwear and weather appropriate clothing.

WALK-A-THON - REMINDER TO OBTAIN SPONSORS Our annual whole school walk-a-thon will be held on Thursday 27

th April, weather

permitting. The children have brought home their sponsorship forms for the holidays to capture donations and sponsors from friends and family. Please do not allow your child/children to request support from anyone they don’t know or door knock without your presence. The children will be fundraising to help raise money to fund additional costs incurred with the new soccer grounds project. Sponsorship forms will be sent home this week and a big thank you to Point Cook Real Estate for the printing this sponsorship form.

SUN SMART In keeping with our Sun Smart policy children are required to continue wearing their hats until the end of April (second week into term 2) and then again in term 3.

PREMIERS’ READING CHALLENGE The Premiers Reading Challenge has been launched. Seabrook is taking part in the PRC from next term until it closes on 8 September and each student who completes their target number of books will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former premiers and have their name included in the online honour roll for 2017. Teachers will log the children on soon but children can start reading over the holidays.

Seabrook Primary School has a zero tolerance for any form of child abuse.

continued report on the following page

LAST DAY OF TERM I

FRIDAY 31st March at 2:30pm

BACKPACKS - Don’t’ carry any unnecessary items in a backpack creating extra weight

Last day of

term 1 is Friday 31st of

March children will be dismissed

from their classroom at

2:30pm

Casual Dress day on 31st

of March with a gold coin donation,

money raised will be

donoted to OzHarvest

Issue 8

29th March 2017

Seabrook Primary School 83-105 Point Cook Rd, SEABROOK 3028 : POSTAL ADDRESS: P. O. Box 1143 ALTONA MEADOWS 3028

Phone: 9395 1758 / Email: seabrook.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au / Website: www.seabrook.vic.edu.au

Newsletter

Sue & Staff

continued report from Susan Lee

2017-18 School Council members Following is a table outlining the members of the Seabrook School council and sub-committee members. These members are your representatives. Their role is to assist in the efficient governance of our school, ensure students’ best interests are primary, enhance the educational opportunities for students and ensure compliance is maintained with relevant legislation and regulations. Anyone wishing to support one or more of the sub-committees is most welcome.

Role/committee Role/Sub-committee Convenor

Committee Members

President Ann-Marie Lloyd Vice President Irene Pano

Treasurer

Convenor Nikki Lockwood

Finance Team: Ann-Marie Lloyd Susan Lee Jennifer Cassar Kym Ham Steve Currie Naomi Wilson* Nancy McGlashan* Teresa Paris *

Secretary Lori Faraone

Buildings and Grounds

Wendy Treloar Grounds Team: Ann-Marie Lloyd Susan Lee Kym Ham Jenny Cassar Steve Currie Sarah Hone

Curriculum Kirsten Clinch Curriculum team; Ann O’Connor Sarah Hone

Canteen and Out of Hours Care Liaison

Jennifer Cassar Susan Lee Jennifer Cassar

Uniform

Adriana Soledad Vidal Uniform team: Susan Lee Kym Ham Nikki Lockwood Kristy Kitto

Fundraising

Kym Ham

Fundraising Team: Jennifer Cassar Ann-Marie Lloyd Susan Lee Kristy Kitto Sarah Hone Adriana Soledad Vidal Lori Faraone Included are other school community members

Grant Applications Lori Faraone

Grant Team: Susan Lee Ricky O’Kane Nikki Lockwood Simon Luthi* Karen Cook* Nikit Nain*

We wish everyone a happy Easter and a safe and happy holiday.

* Non-elected subcommittee members

On Thursday the 23rd

of March 2017 teachers, students and parents enjoyed the PYP Community Night. The night was a great success, as students shared their knowledge and understanding of the Primary Years Programme. Students demonstrated this through various presentations and were effective communicators, risk-takers and thinkers. As part of the evening, each year level presented an Essential Element of the PYP.

Learner Profiles The Preps shared their knowledge about the Learner Profile through singing different songs and also sharing some pieces of work from their portfolio.

Attitudes The Year 1 children presented powerpoints, videos, songs and presentations of work to share their understanding of the PYP Attitudes.

Artefacts & International Mindedness In Year 2, the students shared Artefacts and their knowledge on International Mindedness through their cultural backgrounds. They sang a song titled ‘Children of the World’ and presented their work from their values inquiry.

Transdisciplinary Themes Students in Year 3 presented their understanding of the Transdisplinary Themes (Who we are, Where we are in place and time, How we express ourselves, How the world works, How we organise ourselves, Sharing the planet) through powerpoints, posters and visual displays.

Key Concepts Year 4 students were reflective about their understanding of the Key Concepts through powerpoints, posters and sharing of work.

Transdisciplinary Skills Students in Year 5 showed their knowledge of the Transdisciplinary Skills (Thinking, Social, Communication, Self-management, Research) through mindmaps (where they linked their understanding and work with each skill) and classroom displays.

Leadership Year 6 students shared their Leadership journey through presentations by each Leadership Group. The Performing Arts specialist teacher also had the performing arts room opened for a dancing competition, where students had the opportunity to dance the evening away. The Visual Arts specialist teacher had the Art room opened for an art gallery viewing. There were also some sport games on the oval with Mr Ganley and Mr Trott. The Italian specialist teachers Signora Savoia, Thompson and Pirovano worked with the grade 4s to present their Venetian Masks, which was linked to their classroom inquiry. Our much-loved BBQ and water station were popular, thanks to all staff that helped and supported this. Thank you to the delightful parents who came along to support your children. It is great to see so many people from the community attend the PYP night. Thanks to all of our dedicated and committed staff members who made the night a success. It was a lovely evening! Rima EL Souki PYP Coordinator

PYP Community Night

We are excited to have planted our first batch of vegies in our class garden. Students learnt how to separate individual cloves from a head of garlic, and how to work out which end points up and which points down when we plant them. We will water and take care of them until they are ready later in the year for us to harvest and use to make delicious garlic bread.

Our class is delighted to say that our garlic is already growing!

Catherine: I liked when me and Piper took the photos when we were planting our garlic. Nadya: I think the garlic will turn out nicely because it is growing very fast. Yarik: I feel happy and excited and hungry for our garlic bread! Amalia: My family really loves garlic bread so it will be exciting for us.

2MC

Our Vegetable Garden

Lochlan: I liked planting the garlic because I like getting dirty! Zach: I get to water it a lot and I look forward to making the garlic bread. Holly: I liked planting the garlic because I learnt the pointy end goes to the top and the flat bit goes to the bottom when we plant it. Savannah: I liked it because I love planting all sorts of fruit and vegetables. Hannah L: I’m excited to see the garlic grow and I like watering it. Piper: I think our garlic will grow really nicely. I’m excited to see it grow. Rohan: I felt happy because Ellis (my brother) was there to plant with us. Hannah G: I think the garlic will grow fast and taste yummy in our garlic bread.

Last week at the PYP Community Evening the grade 3 students presented their understanding of the Transdisciplinary Themes. All the students and teachers worked very hard to be sure our presentations were interesting and full of information. In grade 3SP we worked in groups to create posters that showed our understanding. We brought in artefacts that showed our connection with the theme of each group. After the Community night we reflected on the experience using De Bono’s Thinking Hats. Red Hat (feelings) After the presentation my feeling is happy because Mum and Dad are proud of me. (Yehyun) Red Hat (feelings) I felt so nervous that I was shaking but I was excited as well. I was worried that I would mess up and not be as good as I wanted. (Zach) Green Hat (Creativity) The tables were nearly in a circle but not. Also I tried my best on the poster. My team and I did a lot of drawings. (Saoirse)

3SP

White Hat (Facts) I had a lot of facts in my brain when parents came to look at the posters. I could answer questions easily for the parents. (Nikola) White Hat (Facts) PYP night was at 6:30pm in our class, there were 6 stations. I had four people in my group: Ryan, Lavisha, Vincent and me. (Jack) Blue Hat (Processes) We were planning what to do and what not to do. We had to know what would happen if someone was away. We had to be able to talk about the posters and the process. Then we waited for the night and explained to parents what we were doing. (Joshua) Yellow Hat (Positive Points) Everyone liked how I spoke loudly and how I answered peoples questions. (Max) Black Hat (Possible Problems) I thought that it might not work because I did not know Izayan’s lines that well. I thought it would go wrong. (Anabel)

4RE

As a way of exploring our values and beliefs we created our own personal identity trees. As you can see in the photos each of our trees are different. This symbolises that no one person is the same and that our values and beliefs can be different to others.

There are two different coloured leaves, one represents a value and the other a belief. The roots at the bottom represent the people in our life who influence our values and beliefs. Here are some of the students’ core values and beliefs.

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‘I like Leadership because we are role models

and experience responsibility.’

- Tejashree

‘I’m in the ICT Leadership group and I really

like it because we get to do robotics and pro-

gramming.’

- Summer

These are some pieces of work from our ‘Puberty’ inquiry.

Infograph by Jewoseydi Wordle by Julian Infograph by Lily

Mindmap by Brooke

‘I enjoy Leadership because it’s interesting

since I’ve never done it before and I’ve gained

great knowledge.’

- Bella

‘Things I like about Leadership is that I get to

do presentations and express my knowledge in

new ways.’

- Stefan

This term we have taken part in a Leadership Program, and these are the opinions from multiple students about Leadership:

Somers Camp

Somers Camp was an amazing experience that I know I will never forget. I have made so many new friends and I was so nervous when I first arrived. When I got used to the camp and all the people I felt like I was at home, especially when I met my hut leader Bec for the first time. She was super nice and made us go to bed very early so for the next day we had a lot of energy and we weren't sleepy. The activ-ities were so fun! My favourite was surfing and the weather was really nice. – Lejla 6JB Somers Camp was amazing! I made friends straight away! The best activity was the challenge swing. I went to the top and I was very proud of myself. On the last day I got to choose which activity I wanted to do again. And yes, I chose the challenge swing to take to the top again! – Billy 6JB When you first arrive at Somers you get a nice warm welcome. At first I was scared that I wasn't going to meet a lot of people, and that I was living with strangers for 9 days. But that all changes after you meet your hut teacher and everyone in your cabin. All the activities are very social and enjoyable. The staff were really nice and friendly. – Katia 6JB

Message from Mr Basa A few weeks ago Mr Brown, Ms Payne and I were given an unforgettable opportunity to go to Somers Camp as visiting teachers for 9 days. As well as 3 teachers from Seabrook Primary School, 19 lucky Seabrook students were also given an opportunity to go. Somers Camp was an incredible experience. It was great to see so many students who were strangers at the beginning of the camp, become life-long friends by the end of it. Surfing, rock-climbing, abseiling and archery were just a few activities I was able to enjoy with my group, a group that included students from many different schools. Definitely a camp I will never forget.

Sports News

Regional Swimming Championships Congratulations to our 5 representatives on Tuesday at the Western Regional Swimming Championships. We had some more excellent results with John M coming 2nd in the breaststroke and 6th in freestyle, Isabella R coming 2nd in freestyle and 5th in backstroke and Ivy 3rd in breaststroke and 4th in butterfly. Our Girls medley relay just got pipped for 3rd place. All fantastic performances by our students even though only the winners of each final progress to the state finals. Thanks to Ivy’s mum for sending the results through last night.

Grade 2 Swimming Just a reminder to try and return your permission note and a deposit for the Swimming Program by this Friday to guarantee a spot in the program. I believe numbers are steadily rising and we hope to have as many participate as possible in this valuable program. Also if you have paid by the QKR option, you still need to return your permission notes ( including the medical/swimming level part) to school. The program starts on Monday 24th of April. There are spare notes at your child’s class or on the skoolbag alerts section.

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Seabrook Primary School is excited to be participating.

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 8 September 2017.

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll. If you would like your child‘s name to appear on the Honour Roll, please sign the attached form and return it to your school.

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc

If you would like your child’s name to appear on the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

online Honour Roll, please sign this form and return it to your school.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Definitions: Department refers to the Victorian Department of Education and Training, Person refers to the child/adult listed below in the consent declaration.

Privacy Protection

The Department takes its privacy obligations seriously and any personal information collected or used by the Department will be handled in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic). This law sets out what we must do when the Department collects, uses, handles and destroys personal information. Personal information includes personal details such as an individual’s name and school that could be used to identify an individual.

Collection, use, disclosure and storage of personal information

If you provide your consent your school will collect and disclose your child’s first and last name, and the name of the school to the Department. The Department will then: Publish your child’s name on its online Honour Roll located at: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc at the completion of the Challenge with no other identifying factors such as early childhood setting name.

Accuracy, access to information and withdrawal of consent

The Department will endeavour to ensure that any personal information held about your child is up to date and accurate. You can access, correct and withdraw personal information held by the Department by written request in accordance with the Department’s Information Privacy Policy located at: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/privacypolicy.aspx Consent may be withdrawn at any time by writing to the Department’s Privacy Unit on: privacy.enquiries@edumail.vic.gov.au .

If you have any questions about this form, or if you need more information, please contact the PRC Challenge Coordinator at the Department readingchallenge@edumail.vic.gov.au or (03) 9637 3624.

Yes I consent to my child’s name appearing on the online Honour roll Name of child………………………………………………………………………………… Parent Signature………………………………………………………………………………

Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

Our school

Please remind your child/ren about running in the courtyard especially when it is time to go back to class. We insist children walk on all concrete areas. Thank you

Word of the week Grazie mille Thanks a lot

1st - 5th of May

LOST PROPERTY NEWS

Have you lost or have an item that is

missing? Please check the Lost Property area for

missing items located outside of Room 2 in the courtyard area.

All of the remaining items will be removed by the end of the term and donated to the

second hand uniform shop and the Salvation Army.

Please ensure correct name is on all property, this will allow for a safe and

speedy return if item is found.

Thank you on behalf of the Lost Property Committee.

For your information

for all enquires

phone Hanah

0448 256 147

10, 12, & 14

For your information

School Banking

APRIL HOLIDAY PROGRAM STARTS SOON!

The program will run between the following days:

MONDAY THE 3RD – THURSDAY THE 13TH of APRIL

Excursions include trips to Bounce and Laverton

Skate Rink! There’s incursions too so book soon

to ensure a place!

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have

any questions!

OSHC Program Phone: 0411 302 879 Coordinator: Katie and Amanda

OSHClub Head Office: 03 85649000

All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is free! Please create an account online at www.oshclub.com.au where all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via your online account!

Rewards to be released in Term 2 are: 3D Chalk Set (Term2) Tablet Case (Term 2) Well done to the 142 students who banked last week. Thanks to everyone who has helped to keep the school banking program running in our school, the volunteers/helpers, the office staff, teachers, and the students. We have had a great start to school banking in Term 1 this year with over 100 students banking every week.

New Helpers Needed School banking needs some new helpers, are your free on Thursday mornings? We currently meet at the meeting room next to the library after school drop off on a Thursday morning for approximately one to two hours.

Saving regularly is an important habit to get into, whether you are saving a little or a lot. Keep up the great work and remember to bring your deposit book each Wednesday. Thank you for supporting the School Banking Program

Do you have a school banking question or query? Please email: seabrookschoolbanking@gmail.com Seabrook School Banking Volunteers

Our shop is in need of Girls summer and

winter dresses

March / April 2017

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

27

Grade 3 & 4 Assembly

9am - 9:30am

28

Regional Swimming Carnival

Students who have qualified from Divisional day

Kardinia Aquatic Centre, Geelong.

29

30 31 Last day of

term 1

Canteen closed

Hot Dog Day

Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday time

17 April

Easter Monday Public Holiday

No School

18

Curriculum Day This is a student

free day

19

Term 2

commences today at 8:50am

20

Grade 3 Naplan Parent

Information Night 6pm—7pm

Ber Building

21

Prep Assembly 2:30pm - 3pm

in the gym

24 Grade 2

Swimming Grade 4 Skeleton Creek Excursion

Anzac Day Service 11:30am

25

Anzac Day Public

Holiday NO SCHOOL

26 27

28

Grade 1 & 2 Assembly

2:30pm - 3pm

SEABROOK TIMELINE

LAST DAY OF TERM IS FRIDAY THE 31ST

CHILDREN WILL BE DISMISSED FROM THEIR

CLASSROOM AT 2:30PM

Casual dress day on the last day of term. A gold coin donation will be collected on the day and this money will be donated

to OzHarvest.

Our school walk - a - thon is an activity that is fun and promotes fitness for all participants. School Council’s current goal is to help the Fundraising Committee raise money to fund the additional costs incurred with the new soccer grounds. Please return form and money by Thursday the 11th of May.