ARPS NEWS

From the Principal

The 3RS

Throughout the last weeks in lockdown and remote learning, our students and families have shown the most incredible levels of respect, responsibility and resilience, our Albany Rise 3-Rs! It have been lovely to drop into some of the class website sessions during the week and see staff and stu-dents working so hard to complete their tasks together online. Of course, this is all possible due to the hard work of parents ensuring students are engaged in their learning and ready to learn each day.

For many of us, this Lockdown 6.0 seems to be just that bit tougher than some of the previous restrictions. What ever novelty may have been apparent during the same time last year, is not apparent this year. I am so proud of the way families have kept in contact with the school and each other to continue to provide a supportive community for our chil-dren at ARPS. The efforts of all have not gone unnoticed, and the kindness, generosity and care shown from our fami-lies to staff has been just outstanding. For some of our clas-ses this week and last week, there has been 100% attend-ance for the whole week. This does not happen without our parents working hard at home, and for that we are all truly grateful! The support form our families makes our work at school so much more rewarding, and helps us continue to do the best for ‘our’ kids learning, engagement and wellbe-ing.

Covid Update

Following last weekend’s announcements, it is now recom-mended but not mandatory that children in primary school wear masks. Parents and carers of students learn-ing onsite are asked to discuss this with their child/ren. The decision of whether to wear a mask at school or not will be left to each family. It is important that the children feel com-fortable with the choice made and staff here will always en-sure that they remain supportive and have each child’s emo-tional wellbeing in the forefront of everything they do. At this stage, the rules around staff not having to wear a mask when directly teaching students, has not changed, but they can wear one if they choose. All other staff must always wear masks whilst at school, unless eating or drinking.

Thank you for your continued support and understanding during this lockdown period. I know many of you are frustrat-ed, tired (if not exhausted), disillusioned and even angry, however we continue to work together to ensure that all stu-dents are learning, and our families are safe.

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26th August, 2021

2021 TERM 3 CALENDAR

Mon—Fri

23rd—27th Aug

BOOK WEEK

BOOK CHARACTER PARADE—27th AUG

Fri 3rd Aug Father’s Day gifts

Mon-Wed

6th—8th Sept

Year 3/4 Briars Camp

Thurs 9th Sept Be Safe On-line Incursion—Yr 3-6

Fri 17th Sept Last Day Term 3—

‘Footy Colours Day’

Wed—Fri

13th—15th Oct

Term 4

Year 5/6 Camp to Grantville

Have you enrolled your Foundation student for

2022 ? (Online Tours available now )

9547 1146

2021 TERM 4 CALENDAR

Wed-Thurs

10th—11th Nov

Whole School Musical

‘ The Fantastic Journey ’

CAMPS- A short update!

Our Camps for Years 3 & 4 and Years 5 & 6 are all planned and ready to go. We are hoping both will go ahead as planned, with the new dates and (for years 5 & 6) a new venue! We will continue to keep parents in the loop regarding any changes to these updates and plans.

50th Anniversary Celebration: Parent Survey Parents and families are encouraged to complete a brief survey to help our preparation for our 50th Anniversary celebration on 22nd October 2021. Link to Survey: https://forms.gle/7qda6yMAs5gbLxiq6

Book Week - Book Character parade on Friday 27th

August! Where IS the GREEN SHEEP? Have you been keeping track of where the Green Sheep has been hiding around the school this week? I hope families have enjoyed the Book Week Challenge to find the Green Sheep during this week, as part of the many activities for students. Students have also been keen to show their ‘Purrfect’ Perfect Reading Spot with their fur friend with classes on Dojo this week. Some of the photos will be shared on Friday at assembly when we have our Book Character parade…online! Also, here is the link to the Book Week Survey for students to vote which was their favourite book. Results will be shared at Assembly, so PLEASE join the fun and fill in the survey! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMQAPGMtmiZMobNFhDHSi95TMGDvxHAexLTKFPAjWKhKPUBA/viewform

STEM WEEK @ ARPS Look out for some of our STEM work being shared at Assembly this week. Be sure to jump online at 2.45pm on Friday to catch all the news and share some of the great work from our students over the past 2 weeks! Fitness challenge Have you seen our Albany Rise Fitness Challenge yet? Log on in to your google specialist page for more details! You have the chance to win some points for your house or compete against some of our amazing staff! Here is the link to the google form you can complete. https://forms.gle/4qvjobmFQGZD1UAL7 Ms Rebecca Kimm, our PE teacher has provided a challenge for the whole school: staff and students- to see who is working the hardest to stay fit! All students can get involved, just follow the link above. OSHC support and ideas for families To support families and children at home during lockdown, OSHC are continuing to plan an at Home pro-gram which consists of a number of activity suggestions to engage the children from home.

The program for this week is attached to the newsletter. All activities will continue to be available after this week as well as after lockdown. There is a mix of activities – arts/crafts, sport, loose parts play and cooking.

Staff at OSHC are keen to share these resources with ARPS families to help with some ideas to keep our children smiling at this time.

Enrolments for 2022 We are continuing to accept enrolments for 2022. Any families who are intending to enrol for 2022 are encouraged to do so as early enrolment assists with our planning and provision. Unfortunately, we are una-ble to take onsite tours at the moment, but we can provide a virtual tour for families who are interested.

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Fathers Day Stall —- on Compass

Parents who would like to have their child purchase a gift for a father or special family friend for Father’s Day, can follow the information on Compass to pre-purchase a voucher for online orders. The link to choose online purchases is availa-ble below! For more information, please log into the ‘Events’ area on Compass parent portal.

Due to current Covid restrictions The Father's Day/Special Person's Stall for Students will be held online! Albany Rise Parents Association have purchased and prepared lovely gifts for our Dads. If you would like your child/children to participate in this fun activity then please complete the payment and consent on Compass by Tuesday, 31

st August.

Parents of students who have paid online via Compass, can then select their gifts online via an online order form

https://forms.gle/DAGwhqQ4onbxmzpcA.

Due to extended COVID restrictions, if students return to school on Friday 3rd September: Pre-selected Gifts will be distributed by staff in the classroom.

If Covid restrictions are still in place: They will be prepacked and ready for collection or possible delivery. (These details to be provided closer to the date) If you have any time to spare and would love to help our PA to prepare the gifts for the stall please contact the office on 9547 1146 or email albany.rise.ps@education.vic.gov.au

NAPLAN Parents may have heard through recent media reports that NAPLAN results will be released to schools in the coming week. We are expecting the printed copies of individual student reports to arrive at school by the start of September. Depending on the restrictions and lockdown status at the time, the individual reports will either be distributed via the school sometime after 3rd September, or mailed home to parents. We will let you know when the results are available via the usual communication portals. Families who are interested can see more about our State NAPLAN results from the following link:

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/news/Pages/stories/2021/Highlights-from-Victorian-Preliminary-Results-in-NAPLAN-2021.aspx?utm_source=email+marketing+Mailigen&utm_campaign=direct+send-operational-schools&utm_medium=email

Highlights from Victorian Preliminary Results in NAPLAN 2021 The incredible resilience and hard work of Victorian educators, students and families has been reflected in the remarkable results for this year's NAPLAN tests.

Leading the nation

Victoria has held the top spot as the highest-performing jurisdiction on seven out of ten measures in the pri-mary school years. Our Year 3 and Year 5 numeracy results were the highest in the country.

Year 7 students achieved the highest scores of any jurisdiction for the foundation skills of Reading and Nu-meracy, and our Year 9 students achieved the highest scores for Spelling.

More students achieving their best Victoria also improved on our 2019 results. Reading was a particular highlight, with students in years 3, 5 and 7 demonstrating significant improvement.

More than 62 per cent of Year 3 students are now achieving in the top two bands for Reading, representing an increase of almost ten per cent from 2015.

Since 2015, the number of students in the bottom two bands for Reading has decreased by more than eight percentage points for Year 5 students and more than two percentage points for Year 3 students.

In years 3 and 5, over 13,000 more students are achieving at the highest reading levels compared to 2015.

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Webinar: Taming digital distractions

Presented by Dr Kristy Goodwin

8th September 2021 - 8 : 00pm AEST

Technology is an integral part of life for our children – it’s the portal for their leisure, learning and connection. However, digital technologies can also disrupt a child’s focus, put a dent in their learning and compromise their wellbeing. In this webinar, Dr Kristy Goodwin helps parents and carers understand why children and adolescents are vulnerable to digital distractions. She provides science-backed solutions to help kids and teens develop healthy digital behaviours so that they can focus, learn and thrive online. Key learning and discussion points include:

• how long we should expect focused attention from children and teens

• the research behind why digital distractions are interfering with our children’s attention

• how some technologies have been intentionally designed to be captivating and alluring

• why banning technology isn’t the solution • how to teach children and teens how to build a ‘fortress around their focus’ and leverage the benefits

that technology offers them

Parents who are interested in taking part in this webinar can follow this link:

https://www.parentingideas.com.au/parent-resources/parent-webinars/webinar-taming-digital-distractions?goal=0_f488c60967-f4efcdd92e-180386937&mc_cid=f4efcdd92e&mc_eid=81c7c4ae05

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STUDENT OF THE WEEK 0A Hannah 0W Michael

12P Thomas 1T Chelsea

2S Maksim 3M Ray

34R Minsa 4W Monica

5SM Isabelle, Nyalueth 56N Michael

6C Marko, Briana P.E. Abraham

A big thankyou!

To all our families who contributed to the food drive at the start of Term 3. Our community efforts have been very much appreciated by those in need.

Judy Drew PRINCIPAL

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FROM THE LIBRARY—A message from Ms Foley

We are after the school logos/emblems from Wellington Primary School and Waverley Park Primary School. If you have clear photographs of either school logo/emblem, we would be very grateful if you could please email them to:

albany.rise.ps@education.vic.gov.au

Thank you

Waverley Park PS?

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Can you help ?

Thanks to everyone who has participated in Book Week. I can’t wait to see all the costumes at Friday’s assembly.

Buzz and Green Sheep have had lots of fun thinking up

places for Green Sheep to hide

this week.

Did you guess all the locations

around the school?

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