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Number: 32 Date: 19th October 2016

Tucker Road, Bentleigh Primary School - No: 4687 16 Tucker Road Bentleigh 3204 P.O. Box 1341 Moorabbin 3189 Phone: 9557 2044 Fax: 9557 2181 Web Site: http:/www.tuckerroad.vic.edu.au Email: tucker.rd.bentleigh.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

DATES TO DIARY 2016 Friday 21st Oct-23rd Oct Father/Child Camp Monday 31 October Curriculum Day Tuesday 1st November MELBOURNE CUP DAY HOLIDAY Wednesday 2 November Prep 2017 1st Transition 9.15-10-15am Friday 4th November PFA Meeting 9.30am Cookbook Launch 3.00-5.00pm Wednesday 9th November Prep 2017 2nd Transition 9.15-10.15am Thursday 10th November Junior School Sports (Prep-2) Monday 14th November PFA Meeting 9.30am Wednesday 16th November Prep 2017 3rd Transition 9.15-10.15am Wednesday 23rd November Prep 2017 4th Transition 9.15-10.15 am Tuesday 22nd November School Council 6.30pm Wednesday 30th November Mini Fete (1.15-3.00pm) Tuesday 6th December Grade 6 Orientation Day Monday 12th December PFA Meeting 9.30am Wednesday 14th December Awards Morning Thursday 15th December Year 6 Graduation Tuesday 20th December FINAL DAY OF SCHOOL 2016

School Camp Dates for 2016

Year 5 Camp Wed 16th Nov to Friday 18th Nov

Sovereign Hill

Year 4 Camp Wed 16th Nov to Friday 18th Nov

Maldon

Swimming Programs Program 4 17th October - 27th October (Years 1 & 2)

Newsletter Term 4 Week 3

Facilities News We have recently received building reports on the assessed condition of the Prep and Administration building. The reports have indicated that the airborne mould readings (internally) were not above any of the recommended safe levels. The air conditioning and plumbing/roofing report did find that we will need to complete various maintenance works on the building.

The building has been found to be structurally sound but would benefit from refurbishment or replacement of the evaporative air conditioning units which are very old and require a significant upgrade. The roof needs some maintenance work including new eaves (removal of the current ones which contain asbestos). This work will be carried out adhering to OHS guidelines and building regulations and the removal of the eaves will therefore occur outside of school operating times. Last week the electrical phases to the Administration/Prep Building were assessed and it was determined that we could add split system air-conditioning to the prep classrooms, staffroom and administration area without causing any electrical issues. We have therefore decided to go ahead with this option given the age of the existing evaporative cooling systems. It is hoped that all of the major repairs will occur as soon as possible so that we can move the Prep children and teachers back in to their regular classrooms.

I would like to thank the school community for their support and patience during the work inspection period. This time allowed for a full assessment of the building condition to occur and guaranteed that we received most accurate information about the work required thus ensuring that the children and staff were not at any health risk.

School Concert 2016 Robert Blackwood hall was an amazing and very acoustically sound venue for this year’s school concert and the ticketing process ran very smoothly for the office administration staff. We still need to evaluate the financial viability of using the Monash University venue. Feedback from staff and parents has been very positive so far with the concert enjoyed by the entire school community. Luckily, it was not too far for parents to travel and there seemed to be plenty of parking. The university staff that assisted the concert committee was well organised and extremely helpful. All of the TRBPS Staff worked very hard to ensure that all of the concert items would be very entertaining. Ms Alana Oro and our 2016 school leaders were very articulate and ensured the concert ran very efficiently. As with any large scale event there are many people involved in ensuring that the event is very successful.

I would like to acknowledge the work of all involved:

To the dedicated teaching staff at TRBPS, thank you for your thorough preparation of the children to produce a really marvellous show. Each class item displayed creativity, commitment and engagement – well-done!

Thank you to the various extra support staff and community volunteers that have worked behind the scenes to ensure that this event came to fruition- the administration staff, prop organisers, choreographers, lighting, music and sound, student wellbeing & management and providing schedules and programs etc.

Thank you to all the TRBPS parents and community volunteers who also gave a great deal of their time to assist and support our 2016 school concert.

Thank you to all the TRBPS parents and community volunteers who also gave a great deal of their time to assist and support our 2016 school concert.

An extra special thank you to Ms Donoghue (concert coordinator) and Mr Peter Seddon (concert logistics) , who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to complete a lot of the major organisation- liaising with the Monash University staff, program management, music checks, rehearsal and logistic coordination for this year’s concert.

Thank you to the Monash University staff who assisted and guided us during rehearsals and on the night.

Thank you to the parents and extended community members who joined the staff and children of TRBPS last Thursday evening (October 13) for a wonderful and most enjoyable school concert.

To the Year 6 Students – you have made us all very proud; what an amazing item and your wonderful song titled, ‘5 Years’. You are all really very creative and talented. We look forward to your official ‘Year 6 Graduation’ celebration on Thursday December 15 at Coatesville Primary School. More information will follow closer to this event.

Curriculum/Pupil Free Day- Monday October 31 Staff will be analysing and discussing all of the 2016 school data to make recommendations to guide the next school Annual Implementation Plan. This will be the third year of our School Strategic Plan and we look forward to celebrating our school improvement; teaching and learning journey so far. Children will not be required at school on this day and given that it scheduled the day before the Melbourne Cup holiday, many families may use the opportunity to take an extended break. Camp Australia will be running a program on curriculum day and bookings are essential to ensure that the program can operate. Please make sure that your child is booked into the program in advance if you wish to make use of this service. It will be cancelled if there are not enough prior bookings.

Prep Enrolments 2017 update We have approximately 105 children enrolled for foundation (Prep) for 2017 and approximately 620 in total of students across the school. We will be running with 26 classes plus our specialist curriculum areas of Art, PE, Music/Preforming Arts and LOTE (Italian).

Student Class Allocation for 2017 - requests for special consideration: Very shortly, teachers will commence work on organising the classes for 2017. We aim to create classes that are balanced, analogous and happy. Careful consideration is given to a number of factors when placing children into grades. These include:

total number of boys and girls

personality

behaviour

academic ability

friendships and other children with whom they work well etc.

Staffing News 2017 Congratulations to Mr Matt Serres and Mrs Ellise Mehl on being the successful applicants for our 2 recently advertised one year contracts for 2017.We will be advertising a Handyman/Maintenance Position as a one year contract - late October. This will be advertised on DET’s Recruitment Online and through the Age newspaper. Thank You to Mr Kel Segbedzi (BaGs) for assisting with the role description.

Cookbook News – ‘Our Family Tucker’ Thank you to the PFA members who have brought to fruition our 2016 school cookbook, ‘Our Family Tucker’. We are extremely lucky to have such creative and very active parent groups who assist us at this school. A special thank you is extended to Ange Douglas, Vanessa Turrisi and Nikki Liebman with a team of supporters who have worked tirelessly to make this cookbook dream come true. Thank you to all of the sponsors who have supported the dream. We look forward to seeing everyone at the cookbook launch scheduled on Friday November 4 at the school from 3.00 – 5.00pm.

Mrs Robyn Farnell Principal - TRBPS

Students nominated for the TRBPS Values Award for 17th October 2016 All of Class PH Ella Walton Angus Bennett Marc Bereszkowski Ariella Quittner Peter Anastopoulos All of Class 1/2E Ashley Tsan Matt Odes Gus White Nicole Curry All of Class 3/4K Ashley Nirens All of Class 3/4L Sam Kennedy Pearce Kotsinodelis Cooper Bryant Anika Deshmukh Noel Back Ollie Campbell Loni Kalifa Mikayla Riley Stewart

Canteen News

Reminder

Orders are to be written clearly on a lunch bag in blue, black or red ink, any other marker is difficult to read. Please do not sticky tape lunch bags up. A reminder to enclose .10 cents for a bag if an envelope is used. *Please note ‘Fruit Tubes’ are now 0.60c Incorrect money could result in disap-pointed children

Canteen Roster Thursday 20th October Anna Leech Kathleen Beattie Tuesday 25th October HELP NEEDED Thursday 27th October Maria Garufi Maria Verginis Tuesday 1st November Melbourne Cup Day Thursday 3rd November Kylie Brkic Kate Wengier Tuesday 8th November Sisira Attanayake Thursday 10th November Kellie Lardner Carmela Batsis Rinat Shenfeld Tuesday 15th November Paula Howard Thursday 17th November Anna Leech Kathleen Beattie Tuesday 22th November Rebecca Thompson Thursday 24th November Maria Garufi Tuesday 29th November Michele Rozenberg Thursday 1st December Kylie Brkic Kate Wengier Tuesday 6th December Sisira Attanayake

Pupil Free Days 2016

The following pupil-free days have been approved by School Council for 2016.

Monday 31st October

Term Dates - 2016

Term4

3rd October To

20th December

Term Dates - 2017

Term1

30th January (teachers) 31st January (students)

To 31st March

Term2

18th April

To 30 June

Term3

17th July

To 22nd September

Term4

9th October

To 22nd December

GREEN TEAM NEWS

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

This term the Green Team are taking part in a fantastic Glen Eira Council sustainability initiative called ‘Keeping Our Oceans Plastic Free’. The Green Team have been asked to create a large bottle-cap ocean mural. The mural will represent the sea and its inhabitants, promoting the cause of keeping our rubbish out of the world’s oceans. The boards will be linked together with other school’s murals from around the Glen Eira area to make a great visual display and will be exhibited at Party in the Parks, an event taking placed at the beginning Of next year, details of the event will be released shortly. We need your help! We are asking for any donations of plastic bot-tle caps, or any other small unwanted plastic items to be bought to school and put in the blue plastic tub, located in the office area. So please don’t discard your bottle caps, send them to school! Thank you for your support. The Green Team Pip Cafiso

CHILDREN NOT ATTENDING TUCKER ROAD IN 2017

Successful planning for the coming school year is very dependant on being able to accurately assess the school enrolment. Parents of children from Prep to Year 5 are asked to complete the form below if it is known that they will not be attending Tucker Road in 2017. Please return the form to the General Office ASAP. All responses will be treated as confidential.

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NON ATTENDANCE IN 2017

My child…………………….………...will not be attending Tucker Road in the year 2017.

Current Class …………………………….

New School Details if available ……………………………………………………………...

Name of Parent ...........................................

Signature:....................................................

Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School

16 Tucker Road Bentleigh 3204 P.O. Box 1341 Moorabbin 3189

DEDICATED GRADE 5/6 SPORTS UNIFORM – ORDER FORM Child’s Name ……………………………………………………………. Grade ………… I would like to order the Tucker Road PS sport polo top (at $35) in the following size Child Size Adult Size

6 XS 8 S 10 M 12 L 14 XL Each sport top has two wording options, your choice to be printed on the back in CAPITALS. Note: matching generic sports shorts @ $35, and long socks @ $8 are available direct from the Uniform Shop. Please indicate your choice below:

Preferred First name ……………………………………….. PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY. The School will have final approval of all names.

Default option – TUCKER ROAD BENTLEIGH All tops are individually numbered based on role order across the FULL year level.

DEDICATED GRADE 5/6 SPORTS UNIFORM – PAYMENT DETAILS I enclosed payment for the Sports Polo Top indicated above:

Cash Cheque Credit Card (Complete Details Below)

Card Number:

Expiry Date:

/ AMOUNT PAYABLE $35.00 CARDHOLDERS NAME: …………………………………………………………………. CARDHOLDERS SIGNATURE: …………………………………………………………..

ORDER WITH PAYMENT DUE BY FRIDAY 28 OCT, 2016.

Bunnings BBQ Moorabbin! 12th November YES its Bunnings BBQ time! Can you spare just an a few hours of your time on a Saturday? It’s fun and a great chance to enjoy some time with fellow TRBPS parents. This is an easy fundraiser for us. Lots of ideas for next year to enhance our school so these are important If you are able to flip a sausage, please contact Briony - bloimaranta.gmail.com

Prep Uniform Sale Days –Wednesday 16th November & Wednesday 23rd November

We LOVE these mornings. So many new fresh faces and cute excited Preppies-to-be. It’s a pure joy to help them settle in to their next life journey by fitting them out in their school uniforms. If you are able to help from 9.00am – 12.00pm please contact Briony - bloimaranta.gmail.com

Not long now till we launch this extraordinary book! Keep 4th November free for our fun afternoon. Showbags, games, entertainment, food …. you name it! END O YEAR RAFFLE!!! December 12 Draw date. Our end of year Raffle is a hotly awaited and much anticipated event. Prizes include a bike, and vouchers for family experiences. Raffle tickets will be sent out soon. Can’t wait! Once our fabulous prizes are locked in - you’ll

be the first to know. The student LOVE LOVE LOVE this!

Thank you Parents and Friends Association.

Parents and Friends Association

Next Meeting! Monday 14th November 9.30am after Assembly Parents Resource Room.

DRUM LESSONS

FOR KIDS

FREE INTRODUCTORY LESSON

Studio around the corner from school

Leo Damiani (school parent) 0412 902 460

Af- ter school & early evenings

(working with children check)

FOR SALE

St James College Uniform

Selling size 16 boys uniforms.

Includes school bag, 3 summer shirts, 2 summer shorts,1 blazer,

tracksuit and cap, 2PE shorts, 1 PE top, school jumper and tie,

2 grey long winter trousers, 3 long sleeve winter shirts .

$275 or best offer.

Please contact Aggie Stefanidis 0409 429 649.

West Bentleigh Cricket Club is again running the successful Milo In2Cricket program for the 2016/17 season. In2Cricket (Milo Cricket) is a low cost, fun program to introduce the skills of cricket to children without the commitment of a formal competition, recommended for children aged 5 to 8 and those new to cricket. Girls and boys of all skill levels are encouraged to attend and participate.

West Bentleigh Milo Cricket is at Victory Park Bentleigh from 6pm to 7pm Fridays throughout the summer, starting 4 November, and makes a great end to the busy week for the whole family.

Registrations are now open Online

at www.playcricket.com.au (Select West Bentleigh)