Coral Park Primary School Achieving SUCCESS

NEWSLETTER Term 2, Issue 2, 9th May 2019

145 Coral Drive, Hampton Park 3976

www.coralparkps.vic.edu.au

Email: coral.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Phone 9702 8398

From the Principal

Car Parking Last week I had a number of parents approach me and tell me of the many near misses they have seen in the street at drop off and pick up time. Please remember the safety of our children is of vital importance, so make sure that you use the crossing, park in the appropriate areas and follow the signs at all times. We all need to ensure we keep everyone safe!

Welfare Our welfare area is always a busy place with students, families and a range of support people from our community. Mrs Couper does a fantastic job of ensuring that all our students and their families have access to any services they may need in order to be a part of our community and get the best possible education. As well as being used by some of our more challenging students, our welfare area is a great place for students to come for a chat, to have a piece of fruit or be rewarded for outstanding effort. Students often visit welfare to share some of their fantastic work or to be congratulated on displaying one of our school values. Please take the time to chat with your children about how they relate to our welfare area and explain to them that the space is a positive area and the ideal place to go if they have a problem, would like assistance or support or have an achievement they would like to share.

Success At Coral Park P.S. we have lots to celebrate and yesterday we had a number of students compete at the District Cross Country. It was fabulous to see so many of our students display school values for all to see. A special congratulations goes to Shanae of M17 who came first in her age division. Well done! Also well done and thank you to Bill, Breanna and Mandy who supported all of our students on the day. It is fantastic to have such energetic and encouraging staff, especially when the weather was a little on the cold side.

NAPLAN NAPLAN begins next week and I encourage all of our Year 3 and 5 students to look at NAPLAN as a challenge and do their best. Make sure you get plenty of rest and eat a healthy diet to ensure you can perform to the best of your ability. Try not to worry about the outcome and just demonstrate the fantastic learning you have done!

Justin Thompson

Principal

Mother’s Day Invitation All mums or special grandmothers, sisters, aunties or carers

are invited to visit their child’s classroom to join in activities

Tomorrow from 2.45pm onwards

Wishing all of our families a wonderful day on Sunday - Happy Mother’s Day

MOTHER’S DAY STALL Thank you to the school Parent Club for organising the Mother’s Day Stall. Students had a lovely time selecting a gift to buy for their mum to give them on Sunday. Any students who forgot their money or would like to buy something extra will be able to visit the Mother’s Day Stall again tomorrow. Wishing all mums, grandmas, aunties and special people a relaxing and peaceful Mother’s Day on Sunday. Enjoy your special day and have a wonderful time with your children and families.

CANTEEN Thank you to the many families who use the Qkr! app to place lunch orders for their children. Please remember that if you place an online order, you DO

NOT need to also fill out the lunch order on a paper bag. Lunches can still be ordered at school by filling out a paper bag, including money and placing the order in the class lunch tub for those families who choose not to use the Qkr! app.

SCHOOL DENTIST Please return your completed school dentist forms by Thursday 16th May if you would like your child to be able to have a free dental check up at school.

SCHOOL BANKING Encourage your child to become a good saver by making regular deposits into their bank account. If your child doesn’t already participate in school banking, consider opening a Commonwealth Bank account for them so they can develop good saving habits. School banking day is Tuesday.

SEPTEMBER TO MAY IS NO HAT, NO OUTSIDE PLAY Although the weather has been cool and wet lately, the UV levels can still be high, so students still need to wear their broad brimmed school hats while outside. Hats are available from the office for $10.

READING CLUB Reading Club re-commenced yesterday for enrolled students. Unfortunately there are no vacancies remaining for Wednesday afternoon Reading Club, however we still encourage you to read at home with your child to assist them to develop their

reading skills. The local library is also a great place to visit, giving you the opportunity to borrow books, magazines & DVDs as well as access the internet and participate in great literacy activities..

Diary Date

MAY

Friday 10th May

Senior Sport - Away Game

CPPS v Rangebank

Mother’s Day Stall

Mother’s Day Celebrations in

Classrooms

2.45pm onwards

14th - 24th May

NAPLAN

Years 3 & 5

Friday 17th May

Assembly 2.50pm in the MPC

All welcome

Book Club Orders Due

Friday 24th May

Senior Sport - Home Game

CPPS v Rivergum

Friday 31st May

Assembly 2.50pm in the MPC

All welcome

JUNE

Thursday 6th

June

Senior Excursion to Coal Creek

Wednesday 19th June

Senior Lightning Premiership

AUGUST

Friday 2nd August

Trivia Night

Make your learning great… Don’t be late! Be on time to start learning by 9!

Sadly the number of late arrivals last week was 87! PLEASE help us improve this rate!

Playgroup

We have been fortunate this term to be working with several university

students who are on placement. It is a great opportunity to visit playgroup,

especially as the weather gets cooler, and we can all benefit from the

extra helpers and additional attention available to our playgroup children.

Playgroup is free to attend and everyone is welcome.

It is on each Tuesday & Thursday, 9-11am.

Melbourne Football Club Visit The middle students enjoyed a visit from some players from the Melbourne Football Club who came to present a healthy eating and living program. The clinic outlined the importance of healthy eating, healthy sleeping and healthy living. Students had the opportunity to ask lots of great questions and the middle students will be teaching their buddy grades what they have learnt from these professional footballers.

On Wednesday 8th of May, the Coral Park Cross Country Team travelled to Sydney Pargeter Reserve in Endeavour Hills to participate in the Hampton Park District Cross Country. We had 52 athletes represent our great school and I was very proud of all of them. We had a few athletes qualify through to the divisional final which will take place on Wednesday 29th May at Casey Fields. Well done to Sulaman S11, Michael S12, Sajjad S10, Tayleah S20, Taneia M19 and Shanae M17 on making it through to the Divisional Finals. Congratulations to everyone in the Coral Park Cross Country Team for doing their best and displaying fantastic sportsmanship! Bill Hains

District Cross Country

National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) 2019

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), tests are to be conducted from 14th - 24th May 2019. Coral Park Primary School will be completing these tests online for the first time this year and the testing period will run over two weeks. These tests are common national tests undertaken by all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) is responsible for NAPLAN across the state.

The national testing program provides information to students, teachers, parent/carers and school communities about how students are performing against the national benchmarks for literacy and numeracy. The results provide a measure of how Australian schools and students are performing in the areas of reading, writing, spelling, language conventions and numeracy.

Specifically information gained is used for:

• individual student reports to parents

• school reporting to their communities, and

• aggregate reporting against national standards.

It is important to remember that the educational ‘value’ of all assessment (testing) is that the information obtained from the results be used to provide students and parents with feedback on areas of student progress and inform teachers as to their students’ learning needs.

It is also important to recognise that the National Assessment Program is not seen as the sole criterion for measuring student performance, but rather as a part of a broad range of measures used by teachers to in-form the learning and teaching process.

To assist in the administration of NAPLAN parents/carers are asked to keep the 14th – 24th May free from interruptions to the normal school routine. Parents/carers could also assist their children by speaking positively about the three days with the view to avoid undue student anxiety.

Teachers will ensure that students are familiar with the test formats and will provide appropriate support and guidance leading up to the test date. If you would like to provide some extra online practice for your child you can access some practice tests at the following website:

https://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstration-site

If you have any questions about your child's preparation for NAPLAN, you are encouraged to make a time to speak with their teacher.