Dear Parents,

Congratulations to the following stu-

dents:

Phi Phi Pham from Room 18 who repre-sented Australia at World Hip Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas. Phi Phi who dances with Urban Force Studios in Kealba

completed in an international dance com-petition against other dances from around the world. What a wonderful achieve-ment!!

Alex Talidis and Peter Talidis who com-peted in the Judo Victoria – 2012 School Competition on Monday this week and both achieved outstanding performances

coming home with Bronze medals in their age and weight groups….looks to me like we have some potential Olympians. Con-gratulations Peter and Alex.

Parent Opinion Survey Thankyou to the parents who completed the parent survey. Your opinions are val-ued and appreciated.

Staff

Mrs Senka King will return to work on Monday after her period of long service leave. A big thank-you to Mr Ricky Potter and Mrs Sneza Vasilevski for their leader-ship in Senka’s absence. Sneza will return back to her role as teacher of Grade1/2 Room 14 and Ricky to his as Primary Welfare Officer.

Thank-you also to Ms. Simone Gardner who has done an excellent job in Room 14 over the past 5 weeks. I am sure we will continue to see her around our school.

Education Maintenance Allowance

From The Principal

Newsletter No. 14

16th August, 2012

(EMA) I have in past newsletters outlined the changes to EMA from the beginning of 2013. I have attached additional infor-mation to this week’s newsletter for your reference. Please see the school office or myself if you have any ques-tions about how these changes may

affect you.

Head Lice I placed an item regarding head lice in the last newsletter requesting that par-ents check their children’s hair regu-larly for these unwanted creatures. Again this week I have had a case re-ported to me from the prep area. It is really important that parents check and then treat their children if they have any evidence of head lice. A formal in-spection has been arranged and will be conducted shortly.

Grade 5/6 Camp Congratulations to the year 5/6 stu-dents and the staff and parents who at-tended the 5/6 camp to Doxa. It has been great to receive reports back from

the staff informing me that everyone had a great time and enjoyed the activi-ties. A big thanks to the 5/6 team for there professional organisation.

Police/SES Camp Each year the Keilor Downs Police and the Keilor SES organise a camp for stu-dents from local St Albans schools to participate in. The camp is held at Maldon and will take place over this weekend. I will be attending the camp with the 5 students from our school this year and am looking forward to lots of fun and maybe a little bit of sleep.

PRINCIPAL:

Anne-Maree Kliman

St Albans East Primary School

Station Avenue, St Albans, 3021

PHONE:

9366 2071

FAX:

9366 4237

EMAIL:

st.albans.east.ps@edumail.

vic.gov.au

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August 21st & 22nd-

Professor Maths Travelling Road Show

incursion

Important Dates

Canteen Roster

Visit our Website at www.saeps.vic.edu.au/

Monday - Cathy Pania

Tuesday -Cathy Pania

Wednesday- Cathy Pania

Thursday -Cathy Pania

Friday -Jackie Josie

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ABSENT DATA 2013 ENROLMENTS Do you have a child who will turn 5 by April 30th next

year? If so the child is eligible to start school and now is the time to enrol. Please contact the school on 9366 2071 so that enrolment package can be sent home and to make an appointment to meet with me to discuss your child’s start to school life. We will be conducting an orientation program at the beginning of term 4 so it is important to enrol now so that we can include your child in this program.

School Volunteers To volunteer in a school or attend excursions you

need to have a Working with Children Check. If

you are helping out and have not yet had this check can you please contact the office so that we can assist with this process?

Only parents with Working with Children Checks

will be allowed to assist at excursions and volunteer their time. Please see Sylvia Bergin in the office for a copy of the application form.

Have a great week everyone Anne- Maree Kliman Principal

Mali In My School Project

Our school has kindly had a mini sculpture of Mali the

Elephant donated to us by VicSuper as part of Zoos

Victoria's Mali In My School project. Fifty schools across Victoria have received mini Mali sculptures to

decorate this term as part of the project. There are also fifty large Mali sculptures that will be decorated

by various artists and displayed around the city.

As part of our Asian Studies this term the 3/4's will decorate our Mali with an Indian theme. The finished

product will be displayed at the Melbourne Zoo during September and October. For more information on the

project you can visit http://www.zoo.org.au/mims

HOUSE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

Come and see our budding Olympians compete on the big

stage. We will be holding our House Athletics Carnival

next Thursday, the 23rd of August on the school oval. All

children in Years 3 – 6 will be participating in a variety of

athletics events, competing for their House. We are en-

couraging children to come dressed in their house colours

to support their team. Parents are welcome to come along

and watch and provide encouragement for the children.

Room

Total Days Absent

Average per Child

2 22 0.9

4 7 0.2

7 35 1.3

8 31 1.2

9 17 0.8

10 41 2.1

11 15 0.7

13 22 1.0

14 19 0.9

15 23 1.3

16 21 1.1

17 11 0.5

18 24 1.1

19 22 1.0

20 24 1.0

21 27 1.2

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ROOM PUPIL’S

NAME:

COMMENT: VALUES DIS-

PLAYED Respect—R

Co-operation—C

Learning—L

Responsibility -R

2 Cindsy Lu For working cooperatively in

her writing group

C,R,L

4 Chiara Imela For her excellent manners

when talking to others

R,C

7 Anet Ford For using describing words

when writing about the beach with Gabrielle Wang

L

8 Ken Lu For working really hard on

his times tables and confi-dently solving subtraction

problems

L

9 Andy Lai For improved reading L

10 Michelle

Dam

For being an excellent role

model for her peers. Mi-

chelle works hard always and

completes her work carefully

All

11 Catherine

Nguyen

For her brilliant improve-

ment in writing recounts and adding two numbers together

All

13 Juliannah

Stephenson

For completing her home-

work carefully

R, L,

14 Hoang Minh For being able to explain in

his own words the different types of tense and nouns.

L

15 Ken Mai For his respectful attitude o

everyone and showing enthu-siasm towards learning tasks

All

16 Cassie Tran For paying attention in class

and completing her work on time

L, R

17 Bhumika

Malhotra

For writing a wonderful

procedure on making a jam sandwich

L

18 Tony Micalef For leading his reading group L, C

19 Tiffany Vo For sharing her ideas during

Math about fractions and deci-

mal. For amazing writing piece

with Gabrielle Wang

20

21

Jenny Phan

Peter Talidis

For excellent story board

entry on Origami and for helping

For being able to convert

seconds into milliseconds when calculating time

All

Learning

Art

P.E

Multi

Media

Luke Maher–

Farrugia

Aaron Far-

rugia

For being very responsible in

the Art Room

For completing his

Superstory Animation

R

L

Pupil of the Week– Week ending 10th August

ROOM PUPIL’S

NAME:

COMMENT: VALUES

DIS-

PLAYED Respect—R

Co-

operation—C

Learning—L

Responsibil-

ity -R

2 Caroline Talidis For working hard and al-

ways listening well

R, L , R

4 Trish Nguyen For reminding others to take

care of books in the class-room library

R,R

7 Jason Doan For using the think aloud

strategy to question what he is reading

L

8 Preet Sohal For using narrative structure

and writing a fantastic fan-tasy story

L

9

10 Elerie Mendes-

Recinos

For writing so many inter-

esting relevant questions to ask Tina during her talk

about Vietnam.

All

11 Jacob Jebara For his fantastic work put-

ting 2 numbers together by himself

L

13 Jugray Singh For diligence when learning

to read and write new words

L,R

14 Paul Singh For always remembering to

bring his home reader to school and taking home

every night and for listening

attentively on the floor before going of to complete

work to the best of his abil-

ity.

R,L,R

15

16 Aaron Farrugia For trying hard to complete

his work

L

17 Duyen Le For writing procedure on

how to make Chinese Lan-terns

L

18 Alisa Iljazi For comparing fractions by

drawing blocks of chocolate

L

19 Joseph Henries For great improvement in his

reading, for helping others and

being respectful of all class

members

L, R,R

20

21

Sara

T\odorovski-Risti

Sesiana Fianie

For brilliant research project

comparing Japan and Aus-tralia

For being a well behaved student who works coopera-

tively with her peers

R,C

P.E

Multi

Media

Inter-

preting

Award

Yasmin Tran

Kevin Chung

Amina Ekic

For helping new skills and

applying them in a game For finishing his wok and

helping others

For excellent listening at

Assembly every week

L, R

L,R

R,C,R

Pupil of the Week–Week ending 3rd August

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Mathletics Mathletes

Many of our students have been logging onto Mathletics and having a great time while

learning.

All of our students have been given their unique log-on and passwords by their classroom teachers.

Congratulations to the following Mathletes for the weeks ending Friday the 10th of August.

*Students that are mentioned more than once have achieved more than one

certificate during the past few weeks.

The web address for mathletics is; www.mathletics.com.au

Jason Room 9 Bronze Certificate

Prabnoor Room 11 Bronze Certificate

Andy Room 17 Bronze Certificate

Jackson Room 2 Silver Certificate

Jackson Room 2 Bronze Certificate

Cindy Room 4 Bronze Certificate

Vi Room 8 Bronze Certificate

Vi Room 8 Bronze Certificate

Rebecca Room 10 Bronze Certificate

Rebecca Room 10 Bronze Certificate

Rohith Room 10 Bronze Certificate

Liz Room 10 Bronze Certificate

Bao Room 10 Bronze Certificate

Jaz Room 14 Bronze Certificate

Ken Room 15 Bronze Certificate

Jenny Room 20 Bronze Certificate

Jenny Room 20 Silver Certificate

Vicky Room 20 Silver Certificate

Davinia Room 21 Bronze Certificate

Daniel Room 21 Bronze Certificate

Daniel room 21 Silver Certificate

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FABRIC DONATION REQUEST

This term in Grade 3/4 our Inquiry learning is based on Asia Studies – India. One compo-

nent of it is performing a Bollywood Dance for our whole school End of Term Celebrations.

It would be wonderful if members of our school community could donate fabrics so the stu-

dents could put together their costumes. We are especially looking for lengths of fabric 1

metre or longer. Any print type of fabric is fine. Please send all donations to the office of

Room’s 2,4,7 & 8.

Thank you,

Ms. Sophie Stefanidis.