MARCH 14th

GRANDPARENTS DAY - WEDNESDAY 27TH MARCH 9.15am – 11.00am Last year we were unable to hold one of our favourite annual events – GRANDPARENTS DAY, due to the building works. This special day is normally held during Education Week in May, however, in consideration of the grounds and available parking spaces, we have decided to hold this event on Wednesday 27th March. A notice has already been sent home with children about this day.

We are looking forward to having grandparents in our school grounds to see the new facilities, visit our wonderful classrooms and participate in some fun activities with their grandchildren. The format for the morning is as follows –

BEFORE & AFTER SCHOOL SUPERVISION A reminder to parents that the Department of Education & Training requires Principals to follow policy with respect to supervision before and after school. Our policy states:

Supervision before and after school

The school will provide staff supervision for students arriving before school between 8.45am and 9.00am.

The school will provide staff supervision for students after school be-tween 3.30pm and 3.45pm.

Sufficient teachers will be allocated by the school principal or their nominee to supervise students during these periods

Outside of these times the supervision and/or the collection of students is the responsibility of parents/guardians.

The OSHC staff will supervise students when attending the program during the following hours 7.00am – 8.45AM and 3.30pm – 6.00pm.

We have a duty of care during these specified times, but outside those times it is the responsibility of parents. Our staff often have meet-ings before and after school and are unable to supervise children out-side these times. Any student still at school after 3.45pm will be tak-en to the office to ensure their safety.

March 15th Regional Swimming 18th School Council 19th House Cross Country Country Fair Meeting 2.00pm in PFA room 22nd Ride to School Day 27th Grandparent’s Day April 3rd Twilight Sports 5th End of Term 2.30pm finish NO LUNCH ORDERS TERM DATES FOR 2019 TERM 1 30th Jan—5th April TERM 2 23rd April—28th June TERM 3 15th July—20th Sept TERM 4 7th Oct—20th December

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS

TIMELINE SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS

9:15am – 10:20am Grandparents will visit classrooms.

10:30am - 11:00am Special Assembly – Whole school in the Stadium

11:00am - 11:30am Recess time, Grandparents farewell the students.

EMERGENCY DRILL The school conducts various emergency and evacuation drills. We are practising an on-site evacua-tion drill on Thursday 21st March. The children will all be assembling on the oval on this occasion. Parents assisting in the classrooms at 12:30pm on this day will need to follow the instructions and evacuate as well. Please note that if this was a real evacuation, parents would be notified by a text message. This is just a practice. COMPASS TIPS As mentioned previously, we are encouraging parents to access COMPASS on a regular basis. The system is really quite simple to use and contains information relevant to your child. A substantial number of secondary schools utilise COMPASS so it is well worthwhile getting used to this before your child reaches secondary school. To assist you with becoming proficient on the system, there are some useful tips for parents under the COMPASS link on our website: http://thebasinps.vic.edu.au/ PREP ENROLMENTS I have commenced tours four days a week with prospective parents and interest in our school is once again high. We have a number of tours already booked until the end of this term and into the early weeks of Term 2. The positive feedback I receive during the tours is very pleasing and I’m so very proud of our staff and students. If you have a 2020 prep child, I urge you to collect an enrolment pack from the office. POSITIVE PARENTING WORKSHOP Last Wednesday morning we had 60+ parents attend the Positive Parenting session with Dr Milê Glamcesvski. The goal of this session was to provide parents with strategies to develop and maintain healthy relationships with their child/ren. He was very interesting, entertaining and delivered his messages through personal stories. Milê also answered numerous questions from parents and assured us all that we are doing a great job and to not forget that. PLANNING DAYS Whilst our school structure is based on levels for grades, a strength of our school is the whole school practices and planning that teachers undertake in teaching and learning. This approach is based on collegiality and collaboration of the school’s staff who share a responsibility for student learning. In the last week of term 1, teachers in their levels, will be released for a day to plan next term’s curriculum and assessment tasks as well as the Challenged Based Learning (CBL) unit. Please be aware that in releasing class teachers to plan a rigorous curriculum together, the children will be taught by either one of our Specialist teachers or a regular Casual Replacement Teacher (CRT). SOME GREAT QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR KIDS AFTER SCHOOL When children come home from school, parents often ask the same old questions ‘How was your day?’, ‘Do you have homework?’, etc. A website that I like to visit occasionally had some really good questions to ask your children that will help start up a conversation rather than one word answers. Here’s some of my favourites:

- What made you smile today? - Can you tell me something kind you did today? - Tell me something you know today that you didn’t know yesterday. - What made your teacher smile? - What kind of person were you today?

END OF TERM Parents are reminded that Term 1 ends on Friday 5th April. Children will be dismissed at 2:30pm. Easter Monday is on the 22nd April, therefore the first day of Term 2 is Tuesday 23rd April and the ANZAC Day Public Holiday is on Thursday 25th April so a short three day week to start the term off. Graeme Russell

National Ride2School Day (22 March 2019) Join hundreds of schools across Australia cele-brating riding, walking, scooting and skating to school on Friday 22 March 2019! National Ride2School Day is held around Australia in March every year. Bikes can be kept in our bike-shed or alternatively in the old gymnasium.

March 10th Flynn C Heath C 11th Andrew K Adam D 12th Patrick B 13th Jack B Rhiannon F Aleisha M 14th Tyson L 15th Jaycob R Scarlett W Lachie K 16th Violet S Ava S