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cranbourne.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

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PO Box 26

Cranbourne 3977

www.cranbourne-ps.vic.edu.au

The teaching and learning pedagogy at Cranbourne Primary School is developed on a

RECIPE (Relevant Engaging Challenging Innovative Personalized Enjoyable)

based curriculum that supports the members of the school community to develop intrinsic

PRIDE (Persistence Responsibility Independence Discipline Enthusiasm) in their learning.

CALENDAR

UPCOMING EVENTS

1st Childers

2nd Bakewell &

Cameron

3rd Russell

Thursday, 24th November

Swimming-Last Day,

Whole School

Friday, 25th November

Year 6 2017 Beleza jumper

order must be in today! No

late orders can be taken.

Tuesday, 29th November

Footsteps

Thursday, 1st December

Year 6 Graduation Ticket

order due by 4 pm

Tuesday, 6th December

Transition Day

Issue 37

23rd November 2016

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS

In an effort to update our Emergency Management Plan, we have become aware that many families are changing their contact details eg phone, e-mail and not updating the information in our system. This information is critical to school in the event that your child is ill or sustains an injury that requires immediate attention.

To assist us in keeping our records current, please complete the details on the back page of the newsletter and return to school with your child next week. Paper versions are available at the office Thank you for your support in this matter.

To support all of our students, we have included a new addition to our transition program—every second Friday students move into their 2017 learning community groups to participate in social development activities during the session before lunch. This provides students with the opportunity to become familiar

with their 2017 peer group.

Students in grade 6 will be participating in the state wide transition day (Orientation Day) on

Tuesday December 6th.

Quote of the Week

‘Life is filled with challenges and opportunities

Life is what we make of it’

Cheryl Van Deursen Principal

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR

NOVEMBER BABIES!

KYLE J

MONIQUE R BAILEY A

MALIYAH C MADDISON M

Stars of the Week

These students have demonstrated intrinsic PRIDE (Persistence, Responsibility,

Independence, Discipline, Enthusiasm)

in their learning:

Learning community Student

FOUNDATION

JUNIOR

MIDDLE

SENIOR

ICT

PE

Assistant Principal Maggie M (JCM)

Principal Amira (SSL)

From the Office

Di Fernand

Assistant Principal

Curriculum Life Education Van

Each year we have the Life education van visit our school. In 2017, the

van will be with us in weeks 2 and 3 of term 1. to provide families with

ample time to pay for this incursion, we have sent notices home this

term. Payments are due by Friday 16th December 2016.

The Life Education Van program is an excellent resource for schools to

access, and it is an integral part of our school’s Unit of Investigation in

term 1 next year.

We organise excursions and incursions to complement and support the

Teaching and Learning taking place within learning communities, so it

is vital that all students participate in these learning opportunities.

If you would like further information regarding the Life Education

program, visit their website— www.lifeeducation.org.au/

CPS BANK DETAILS

BSB 013 593

Account Number

499102494

Please put your

child’s name in the

subject line.

Happy Birthday to those students who

are celebrating their special day

If anyone witnessed a car being sideswiped on Childers Street (facing

Russell Street) Thursday,

17th November between 2:30 & 4 pm

could you please contact the office.

GR6 JUMPER ORDER CLOSES TODAY!

DON’T FORGET!

LIFE ED PAYMENT DUE 4PM FRIDAY,

16TH DECEMBER 2016

Merata W

Christian F

Leah M

Shaykira R

Daniel M

Jai A.

Kakoda T.

Soul'Jah. P.

Joel M.

Jordan M

Madison F

Connor C

Julia J

Moshen A SMD

Robyn D (FSP)

Earning the right

By Michael Grose

Earning the right and not assuming a sense of entitlement is a life lesson parents, teachers and coaches must instil in children.

On talk-back radio recently I heard a caller tell a timely story about how as a child she was lucky enough to receive riding lessons from a renowned horse expert.

He had one condition. She had to earn the right to be taught to ride a horse. That meant she had to muck out the stables; brush and feed the horse; look after the gear and do everything else required to look after a horse. Only when she’d proved herself could she earn the right to ride a horse under his tutelage.

This caller said this powerful lesson shaped her entire life. It taught that there were no entitlements in life; to work hard and value her achievements. She never took anything for granted.

Contrast this with the extraordinary sense of entitlement of Australian tennis players Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic who routinely treat the public, players and the game that serves them well, with utter disdain. Their attitude of entitlement is mind-boggling, not to say embarrassing to reasonable-minded, hard-working people.

Our kids should earn the right

The talk-back caller’s earning the right story is a fabulous lesson for all parents and teachers. If we want to raise a generation to appreciate what they have, then we should-n’t give children or young people everything on a platter. In an era of small families, child pester power and relative affluence it’s tempting to simply give kids what they want.

“Dad, can I have a…?”

“Sure!”

The Rolling Stones were right four decades ago when they sang, “You can’t always get what you want!” Those words form a great child-rearing lesson. That is, just because you can provide something for your kids, doesn’t mean that you do.

They need to earn the right to have something by saving, working for or simply waiting until they are old enough to appreciate it.

Similarly, kids don’t automatically have a right to greater freedoms such as going out at night; those rights need to be earned by proving they are trustworthy.

Also, kids who think they are entitled to use a part of the house such as a living room without cleaning up mess are acting with a false sense of entitlement.

In fact, there are no entitlements, only rights. And rights are earned by being responsible.

A child has a right to use the living room but they also have a responsibility to clean up rather than leave it a pigsty. A night banished to their room is a reminder that spending time in the living room is not an entitlement. It’s a right that comes with conditions.

Earning the right! A simple phrase with so much complexity.

I suspect it’s a phrase that neither Nick Kyrgios or Bernard Tomic heard much when they were growing up. Maybe their parents thought their prodigious talents excused them from having conditions placed upon them. If so, they did them no favours as good manners, gratitude and graciousness appear to be lacking in their social repertoires.

It usually takes a parent, teacher or coach to remind kids that they have to earn the right to have things, to do things and ultimately to be respected. That’s a lesson that stays for life.

FRIDAY, 16TH DECEMBER 2016

LAST BANKING DAY FOR THIS

YEAR!

BANKING WILL RESUME ON

FRIDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY 2017

UPDATED CONTACT DETAILS FOR:

FAMILY NAME—

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STUDENT NAME YEAR LEVEL

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MAIN CONTACT PERSON PHONE NUMBER

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EMAIL ADDRESS

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MAIN EMERGENCY CONTACT PHONE NUMBER

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Please return to school asap.