Respect Pride Trust Perseverance

Principal: Valerie Karaitiana

Assistant Principals: Mrs. Anne-Maree Grozdanoski & Mrs Ameera Hassanein

Head of Wellbeing: Mr Tim Brown

Telephone: 9309 1181 Website: www.dallasps.vic.edu.au

Email: [email protected]

Vision: “For our students to be literate, numerate, creative, safe and happy”

Term 3 Issue 1 2021

Respect Pride Trust Perseverance

Dear Families,

Welcome back to term three. We hope that everyone had a wonderful break and enjoyed time with your fami-

lies and friends. On Thursday 15 July 2021, the Victorian Government announced new directions to help reduce

community movement and prevent the spread of COVID-19. As a result, in line with the directions issued from

Victoria’s Chief Health Officer, all Victorian schools moved to a period of remote and flexible provision from Fri-

day 16 July . Once again we would like to thank and acknowledge everyone in our school community for the way

we all adapt so quickly with the return to online learning.

This week many of our families celebrated Eid (Al-Adha / Kurban Bayrami). We know that this is a special time

for all Muslim families across the world. Whilst the lockdown restrictions would have impacted families gather-

ing face to face, we hope that platforms such as FaceTime and other online meeting applications enabled you to

celebrate online with each other.

We welcome three new staff members to our school:

• Tania Zorotheos - School Psychologist

• Kersti Skinner - Teacher 5/6C

• Imam Abdelhay – Chaplain

Have a great week.

Principal Team

http://www.dallasps.vic.edu.au

CHANGE OF DETAILS

Please inform the School Office if any personal details change. It is important that if telephone numbers

change that the school can contact parents and guardians. Likewise, if emergency contacts alter please in-

form us. If you want someone to pick up your child, please ensure you have informed the school in person so

that person can be added to the emergency list for picking up your child.

CSEF – APPLICATIONS : - CLOSING SOON

CSEF (Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund) applications available at the office. If you have a current, Health Care

Card or Concession Card please see us to complete your form as soon as possible, and bring in a copy of your

card. CSEF is a $125 payment towards any camps, sports or excursions your child might have. Application

deadline extended until 13 August to submit CSEF applications.

FOUNDATION WINTER UNIFORM PACKAGE

As part of he Victorian Government’s Affordable Uniform Program, Prep students who are recipients of the

CSEF (Camps, Sports and Excursion Fund) qualify for a uniform pack voucher. Please contact the school office

for further information.


• Monday 26th to Thursday 29th July - Y3-6 Swimming program

• Tuesday 3rd August - Y3-4 Immigration Excursion

• Friday 6th August - Y3-6 District Athletics Day

• Tuesday 10th August - Chess Tournament @ DBCPS

• Tuesday 17th to Thursday 19th August - Book Fair


Manipulating playdough

Wominjeka means welcome in Woiwurrung language, an Aboriginal language of

the Wurundjeri people from the land in which we meet at Dallas Kinder. So wel-

come to term 3! My name is Alison and I am the new Early Childhood Teacher

and Nominated Supervisor at Dallas Kindergarten and I am super excited to join

the Dallas kinder team and school community, and I look forward to getting to

know all of you!

It has been wonderful to see all the children so excited to see their friends again

and they seem very happy to be back at kinder as they have been busy exploring

the play environments and learning experiences both inside and outside. During

group times they have enjoyed sharing yarns (stories) with each other and they

have enjoyed learning new group games, and music and movement activities.

The children have shown a strong interest in playing outdoors, developing their

friendships through imaginative play and physically active play. The children

have shown to be proactive in their play, demonstrating initiative and resource-

fulness with their ideas as they confidently move around the variety of experi-

ences

DATES TO NOTE

Start of Term Three - Monday 12th July

National Pyjama Day - 16th July

Eid Festival - Tuesday 20th —Friday 23rd July

National Schools Tree Day -30thJuly

Ardoch Native Animals Incursion - Thursday

29th July

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is-

lander Children’s Day - Wednesday 4th

August

CBCA Book Week - 21st - 27th August: Dress

up day TBA

NSEYC Professional Development Day -

Friday 27th August

Father’s Day – Sunday 5th September

National Child Protection Week -

5th-11th September

Welcome Hawrak

I wish to welcome Hawrak,

our new student who is

working with the Red Group.

Hawrak is commencing her

traineeship for Certificate 3

in Early Childhood Educa-

tion.

Hawrak will be completing a

volunteer placement from

12th July to 23rd July. Wominjeka Dallas Kinder

Playing ‘What’s the Time Mr Wolf?’

Digging in the mud patch


The wellbeing project

During term 1 and 2 Nada, Eunice and Elham (Upfield Kinder Teacher), started

the ‘Wellbeing Project’ with the guidance of early childhood experts; Cath-

arine Hydon and Gilda Howard.

This important work will continue this term focusing on the development of

emotional literacy through activities and strategies. We will also explore the

therapeutic benefits of nature play through our commencement of school

community excursions, and we will apply a therapeutic lens to children’s play

by appropriately responding to our young learners’ emotional expressions

and socialisation during play. That is, ‘I am here; I hear you, I understand, I

care’.

We will also be guided by Hugh Van Cuylenburg’s ‘Resilience Project’ and how

it can support our Wellbeing Project. We will explore the Resilience Project’s

3 key elements; Empathy, Gratitude and Mindfulness, which are building

blocks for developing emotional resilience.

Parent / teacher meetings

I have started parent / teacher meetings with the Red Group, which will con-

tinue on a Wednesday for the next 2 weeks. I will also provide the Green

Group families with a schedule for Fridays. It is an opportunity to discuss your

child’s progress, as well as set goals for the remainder of the year. I look for-

ward to meeting you and learning more about your child. If you have not yet

selected a time and would like to, please see me

at pick up or drop off.

Mapping Our Origins

‘Children respond to diversity with respect’. This is evident when children

explore the diversity of culture, heritage, background and tradition and that

diversity presents opportunities for choices and new understandings. As an

ongoing project we will be mapping our origins on the world map, and

discover a rich diversity of culture and heritage in our community.

BOX ART: Recycle, reuse,

reduce

To support our focus and con-

versations around sustainable

practices we ask for your help!

We wish to collect recycled

household items such as small

boxes, cylinders, bottle tops

and other interesting recycled

resources that the children can

use at the collage table to cre-

ate, invent and express their

ideas, thoughts and knowledge

using three dimensional mate-

rials.

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The students in foundation have been busy learning about transactional texts and dreamtime stories. They

have enjoyed working out and understanding the stories behind the dreamtime we have read. Students

have continued to build on the skill of writing independently by using their phonemic awareness to help

sound out words. In phonics activities where they are able to apply their knowledge of sound and continue

to practise other known letters.

The students have been learning about ordering and using different materials from their classroom to help

them count. The students are working with numbers from 0 – 20 matching numerals and values while

focusing on using correct numeral formation.

In inquiry the students have been investigating our new topic, ‘Things we celebrate’. Students have been

discussing what they already know about celebrations and the different types. This week we have been

focusing on birthdays and how they are celebrated differently around the world.


LITERACY

NUMERACY

INQUIRY

In Literacy, grade ones have been exploring a range of texts linked to the unit of inquiry “First People.” In reading, we have been learning how to make text-to-self connections to stories. In writing, the students are continuing to build on their knowledge of recounts through language experiences. We have also been writing our own innovations of a class text.

In Numeracy, students have been building their knowledge of subtraction. We have been using concrete materials to solve worded problems relating to the counting down strategy.

For Inquiry, the children have started learning our new topic about ‘First People’. We have started explor-ing aspects of the Indigenous culture through stories, play and artwork. Students are enjoying learning about the history and culture of the Wurundjeri people.


LITERACY

NUMERACY

INQUIRY

In Grade Two students have been learning about noun groups. They have explored the different types of

noun groups including concrete nouns, abstract nouns, proper nouns, and common nouns through finding

them in books they have read and word sorts. Students have continued to build their understanding of in-

formation report. We have worked on identifying features of information reports including heading, subti-

tles, diagrams, and captions. Students are currently researching and taking notes to which, they will use to

write information report about Indigenous Australians.

In mathematics we are focusing on multiplication and division. Students have started using hands on mate-

rials to make groups of collections, arrays, and representations of repeated addition. We have also been

learning about telling the time. Students have focused on how to read a clock and have had opportunities

to draw and label all the features on a clock.

All Grade Two students finished term 2 unit with amazing success. They designed and created recycled and

reused products. We have now begun our inquiry into the importance of keeping the culture of the

Wurundjeri people alive. Over the term the students will further develop the capabilities of reasoning and

metacognitive thinking. Students will delve deep into what their own culture means to them and how it

compares to Indigenous Australian people. The students have already begun understanding aspects that

are important to Indigenous Australians including The Dreamtime, totems, tools, and shelters.


LITERACY

NUMERACY

INQUIRY

In Literacy this week, the grade 3/4 students have been learning about text connections. This week the reading focus was to make text to self-connections. As a class, students have been reading and listening to a variety of texts and making connections to an event or experience from their own lives. In writing, stu-dents have been learning about biographies and autobiographies. They have started to write their

autobiographies.

In Numeracy, students have been learning about multiplication and area. Students have been measuring the area of regular shapes and using a number of strategies to solve multiplication problems.

This term’s inquiry is about how different cultural groups and traditions contribute to a harmonious society. This week students shared what they already know about different cultures and traditions and have com-pared and contrasted some similarities and differences through drawings.

Reminders:

Swimming will commence in week 3 from Tuesday to Friday. Please ensure students pack towel and spare clothes.

Make sure you read for 20 minutes each night and fill in your reading diary.

Homework is due every Friday.


LITERACY

NUMERACY

INQUIRY

In Literacy we have been focusing on evaluative questions in reading. The students have been able to apply

this skill to a range of non-fiction texts about Indigenous Australians and colonisation of Australia. In

writing, students are beginning to deconstruct biographies to understand the structure and language fea-

tures.

In numeracy, students have been exploring place value with a focus on decimals. We have been develop-

ing our knowledge and skills answering open ended question ordering and identifying different decimal val-

ues. Students have been given numeracy challenges that engage and activate their problem-solving skills

as well as spark discussion amongst peers.

Our big question this term is, ‘What makes us Australian?’. We are going to be researching a timeline of

Australian history and exploring how immigration over time has made Australia the multi-cultural society

that we live in today.


LITERACY

NUMERACY

INQUIRY


TERM 2 WEEK 10 TERM 1 WEEK 1

FOUNDATION A: Prajwal & Ahmet Jude

FOUNDATION B: Redwan Ensar

FOUNDATION C: Sumaya Riham

GRADE 1A: Farouk Sara

GRADE 1B: Yasien Sumayyah

GRADE 1C: Rhiann Nasouh

GRADE 2A: Serhat Serene

GRADE 2B: Fatima Roini

GRADE 2C: Ayah Ali

GRADE 2D: Maya Armita

GRADE 3A: Hibbah Mina

GRADE 3B: Halid Ali

GRADE 4A: Lania Zain

GRADE 4B: Fatema Ezzo

GRADE 4C: Zena Rachel

GRADE 56A: Yehya Mohammed

GRADE 56B: Emica Fatima

GRADE 56C: Gabriel Maryam

GRADE 56D: Mohammed Hajarh

GRADE 56E: Fozia Haysam


SPECIALIST STUDENT OF THE WEEK TERM 2 WEEK 10 TERM 1 WEEK 1

VISUAL ART

FOUNDATION: Charlotte Redwan

GRADE 1: Prisma John

GRADE 2: Renarose Mousa

GRADE 3: Leyla Zak

GRADE 4: Leuaina Issa

GRADE 5:/6: Badria Asiya

P.E.

FOUNDATION: Sara Beril

GRADE 1: Wali Zeenat

GRADE 2: Corina Ayah

GRADE 3: Sara Vanessa

GRADE 4: Maya Haidar

GRADE 5:/6: Badria Jibril

STEM

FOUNDATION: Beril Sara

GRADE 1: John Seima

GRADE 2: Wafa Zaynab

GRADE 3: Ali Aaliyah

GRADE 4: Bilal Lania

GRADE 5:/6: Vena Serena

I would like to welcome you all back to the school and the community hub. We hope that you all had a

restful holiday. The hub is a place for everyone in the school and community to connect, share and learn.

We offer a variety of programs and are always open to suggestions. I look forward to meeting you.

Playgroup:

Playgroups are on a Monday and Tuesday. The morning sessions are from 9.15am-11.15am and afternoon sessions from 1pm-3pm

Conversational English Class:

Free English Classes will run on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 9.15-12.15pm. Free child mind-ing available every Wednesday and Thursday. Please call Fatima on 0419475047

Breakfast Club

All children in the school are invited to attend breakfast club at the community hub every morning from 8.15 am -8.45am.

Year 5/6 MCFC program:

Free: Homework and Soccer /Physical exercise program.

Every Wednesday

Time :3.30-4.30pm

Space:5/6 Room

Craft Club:

On Monday mornings from 9.15am -11.15am

Baby Circus:

Every Wednesday 11.30am-12.30pm commencing in week 3.


For further information, please contact Hub Coordinator Fatima Ghazzaoui.

Tel: 9309-1181 Mob: 0419475047

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