Newsletter 7th March, 2019

Fri 8 Mar

Classroom Helpers Course 9.30am

Life Ed Parent Information Session 9.00am

Mon 11 Mar

Labour Day Public

Wed 13 Mar

Grade 4-6 Student Cyber Safety Night 7.00pm

Fri 15 Mar

THPS Market & Movie Night 6-9pm

Tue 19 Mar

3/4 Camp Wyuna Info Night 6.30pm

Thu 21 Mar

Harmony Day

Whole School Picnic 1.20pm

Fri 22 Mar

National Ride 2 School Day

Fri 29 Mar

PFA Afternoon Tea & Secondhand Uniform Sale

Fri 5 Apr

Last Day Term 1 - 2.30pm Finish

Thu 14 Mar

Grade 4-6 Student Cyber Safety Sessions

Tue 23 Apr

First Day Term 2

Dates to Remember

40-50 Loddon Drive, Taylors Hill Telephone 9361 4900

PO Box 3665 Caroline Springs 3023 taylors.hill.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

visit our website at : www.taylorshillps.vic.edu.au

Learning, Integrity, Honesty, Personal Best, Positive Relationships

Dear Taylors Hill Community,

Jeans for Genes day Article

Last year our Junior School Council did an amazing job organising a Jeans for Genes day fundraiser. This fundraiser helps raise money for the Children’s Medical Research Institute by encouraging people to wear jeans to school or work. As a result, this week THPS was acknowledged as one of the top 10 school in the state for the most money raised and the Star Weekly Newspaper recognised our school for this achievement. Please see the article below and thank you for your support.

STUDENT ABSENCES All Victorian Government schools will be required to contact parents/guardians as soon as practicable when a student absence is unexplained. This update to guidelines regarding student absence will help ensure the safety of school-aged children during school hours. In order to assist us in adhering to these new guidelines, we ask that our parents and guardians ensure that any student absence is communicated to the school preferably via Compass as soon as possible once it is confirmed that your child will not be attending school. If you do not enter your absence via Compass and it comes up as unexplained then notes will be sent home for you to provide an explanation for the absence.

School Photos

As you know on Wednesday we had our school photos. Thank you to everyone for being organised and looking your best. For those families who ordered photos, the expected delivery date for these is 6-8 weeks. If you have any questions about school photos please contact the photo company directly and they will be able to assist you.

Danielle Stella

Strategies for helping with Speaking and Listening

An important part of our Literacy curriculum is ‘Speaking and Listening’ and these skills need to be strategically taught and practiced. To support your child’s learning, have a go at the following strategies in your daily interaction with your child:

* Ask open-ended questions

Ask questions that require more than one word answers.

Use How? When? Why? to begin questions. Effective question starters:

• How will you draw a new front cover for that book?

• What happened after …?

• How did …?

• Tell me about …

• How many ways can …?

• What would you say if …?

• Why is …?

• How did you feel when …?

* Pause, wait for answers

Wait a few moments for thinking time before expecting an answer.

* Give prompts

Give a hint or lead to encourage a response. Resist the temptation to answer your own question.

* Rephrase while supporting the attempt

Provide the correct language structure for the child by accepting and then rephrasing what is said. Eg. Child: ‘What I do next?’ Adult: ‘What can you do next? Let’s read the instructions together to see what’s next.’

* Be an active listener

Show how to be an active listener by looking at the person who is speaking, listening without interrupting, nod, smile and use facial expressions where appropriate to encourage the speaker and demonstrate that you are listening.

* Offer praise

Use a variety of encouraging words and phrases to support children with their attempts.

‘I like the way you …’ ‘That’s great!’ ‘Well done.’ ‘Terrific effort.’

Engaging in meaningful conversations with your child is one of the best learning experiences they can have. While developing their speaking and listening, it also strengthens their social learning and emotional connections.

Thank you for working in partnership with us to build strong learning behaviours for our students.

Enjoy your conversations!

Trudy Smith

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MARKET & MOVIE NIGHT FRIDAY 15th March

Come along to a great night of family entertainment. Enjoy a picnic dinner with your school community and friends or buy dinner from the food vans, browse at our Outdoor Market, take a turn on the jumping castle or blow up basketball challenge, play our giant games and then enjoy the screening of ‘Incredibles 2’. When: Friday 15th March Where: THPS - Basketball Court and Oval (Enter via Park Lane or Lachlan Lane) Time: Gates open at 6:00pm for the Market

Movie commences at dusk (approximately 8:00pm) Cost: $15 per family (Prepaid tickets must be shown at the gate- Tickets can be

purchased on the night) What to bring: Picnic rug, folding chair or bean bag

Picnic dinner, drinks and snacks (or money to buy at the food trucks) Family & friends...the more the merrier (additional families will also be

$15 per family)

• There will be a number of food trucks selling food and drink – Pizza, Burgers, Churros, Pop Corn, Ice Cream, Coffee, Fairy Floss.

• Entry gates will be open on Park Lane, Loddon Drive and Lachlan Lane. PURCHASE YOUR TICKET BY WEDNESDAY 6TH MARCH TO GO INTO THE DRAW TO WIN

A $25 FOOD TRUCK VOUCHER TO USE ON THE NIGHT AND FREE POPCORN!

Please note: Tickets can be purchased via Compass, QKR or through the Office. Tickets will also be sold on the night until 8:30pm at the gates ($15 per family). Those with prepaid tickets can enter via any opened gate on the night – don’t forget to bring your ticket to gain entry. ** In the event of wet weather, the movie night will be postponed to another evening. Tickets will remain valid for future event. If you would like to volunteer to help on the night, please contact the school office. Many hands helping makes for a smooth event!

Last day for pre-paid tickets is Tuesday 12th March … after this date, tickets can be purchased at the gate on the night.

We look forward to a great community event! The THPS Parents and Friends Association

Dear THPS Community,

We have many wellbeing events in the coming weeks and important dates to remember. We value your support in discussing with your chid the importance of being respectful and getting along with others.

13th March Parent Cyber Safety Night

15TH March National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence (NDA)

21st March Harmony Day

22nd March National Ride 2 School Day

National Day of Action THPS has registered again to promote and take part in National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence. The theme for the 2019 NDA is Bullying. No Way! Take action every day. This campaign gives our students the chance to take action and empower them to voice and practice our school values by using our values as part of the solution when addressing bullying in our school community. It provides an opportunity to focus on bullying and the big changes we can make to create safer communities for everyone. Harmony Day

Harmony Week 17th – 23rd March celebrates Australia’s cultural diversity. It’s all about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. The theme this year is ‘everyone belongs’ a message we support at THPS every day, appreciating our culturally diverse community. To celebrate Harmony day we will be encouraging everyone to wear something orange (piece/item of clothing). All of our students, teachers and educational support staff will come together at lunch for a whole school picnic on the oval.

National Ride to School Day With a focus on building a healthy and active school community we are encouraging as many students and families to come to school by walking, riding bicycles, scooters or skates safely on Friday Morning, 22nd of March 2019.

CSPSSA On the 28th of February some selected Grade 5 and 6 students headed to Melton Waves to compete in the Caroline Spring’s Primary School Sport Association (CSPSSA) swimming inter-school sports. Taylors Hill had fourteen students represent our school across a number of events and had some outstanding results. Mason (6E) finished 1st in his heat for freestyle, Nathan (6A) and Jett (5E) finished 1st and 2nd in their heat in backstroke and Ethan (6C) finished 3rd in his heat for breaststroke. Nathan who finished 2nd overall in Butterfly, will now represent Taylors Hill and the CSPSSA in the next division, what an immense effort. We are so proud of all our swimming team members who demonstrated great sportsmanship and showed their personal best throughout the day.

Our next inter-school sport will be cross country. In the coming weeks, we will begin our preparations in selecting our team who will represent THPS and compete during term 2.

Learning Centre News!

We are really into the swing of borrowing for the term now and it has been great to see the majority of students are now remembering to bring satchels each week. We don’t want anyone to miss out so you

can check the Learning Centre timetable by going to the Orbit homepage.

The first BOOK CLUB for 2019

Each term we distribute the Scholastic Book Club catalogues to all students.

This is an opportunity for families to purchase from a variety of books for all ages at reasonable cost whilst helping earn points for the Learning Centre and most importantly encouraging reading for

pleasure at home.

ALL ORDERS ARE DUE BY 4PM TUESDAY 12TH MARCH 2019

We would like to encourage all families to pay on-line using LOOP on the Scholastic website. Otherwise please complete order form

return with correct cash with full name and grade written clearly.

We hope everyone enjoys the Labour Day weekend.

Mrs Sartori and Mrs Baron – Learning Centre

Parent Information Session Friday March 8, 2019 @ 9am.

Entry and sign in via the Front Office

Why should I attend?

• Learn about the Life Educa�on experience in the Mobile Learning Centre

• Meet our trained health Educator

• Engage in the learning content of our programs

• Understand the importance of Life Educa�on and our vision through educa�on

• Understand our program outcomes and the alignment to the Australian Curriculum

• Open communica�on opportuni�es with your child in rela�on to their experience with Life

Educa�on

• Meet Healthy Harold

Congratulations to our Students of the WeekCongratulations to our Students of the WeekCongratulations to our Students of the WeekCongratulations to our Students of the Week

Term 1, Week 5

Prep A Aneesha

Prep B Aarav

Prep C Leyla

Prep D Stella

1A Ashley

1B Talia

1C Amiyah

1D Samuel

1E Sofia

2A Elysia

2B Lucas

2C William

2D Milan

2E Deng

3A Jamil

3B Jacob

3C Gabriella

3D Alaska

3E Siya

4A Joshua

4B Ayden

4C Tilly

4D Filip

5A Sophia

5B Harrith

5C James

5D Michael

5E Danny

6A Sonja

6B Brodie

6C Lucas

6D Eve

6E Alana

Science Prep-2 Riley 2E

Science 3-6 Joshua 3A

The Arts Prep-2 Sheetal 2E

The Arts 3-6 Chloe 4B

PE Prep-2 Meadow 1B

PE 3-6 Aleks 5A

Italian Prep-2 Mehdi Prep D

Italian 3-6 Sonja 6A

Learning Centre Addison 3D

Term 1, Week 4

Prep A Lana

Prep B Petar

Prep C Harry

Prep D Jaiveer

Prep E Amber

1A Rafan

1B Isabel

1C Alyssa

1D Athan

1E Jake

2A Vivian

2B Ruby

2C Ethan

2D Ghazel

2E Mia

3A Isaac

3B Luka

3C Aydin

3D Troy

3E Janaya

4A Jesse

4B Kassidy

4C Melanie

4D Artiol

5A Josh

5B Abbas

5C Alexandra

5D Aleyah

5E Jett

6A Reet

6B Daniel

6C Philip A

6D Billy

6E Nev

Science 3-6 Abdallah 5B

The Arts Prep-2 Raphael 1B

The Arts 3-6 Tianyi 5B

PE Prep-2 Harper 1C

PE 3-6 Rashed 5D

Italian Prep-2 Nathan 1C

Italian 3-6 Sia 5B

Learning Centre Liana 4A