8th November,2021

2021 TERM DATES

Term 4 - October 4th – December 17th

2022 TERM DATES Term 1

Teachers start – Friday 28th January

Students –Monday 31st January – 8th April

2022 Prep transition

This Friday we will commence our 2022 prep transition from 1.45-3pm. If families can meet Monique at the back gate at 1.45pm.

Remembrance Day – Thursday 11th November

At 11:00am on 11th November each year, a minute’s silence is traditionally observed to remember those who have died or suffered in wars and conflicts around the world. To support the day, the school will participate in the Poppy Appeal with poppies for sale at the front office from today.

Calendar 2021

Term 4

Thursday 11th November Remembrance Day

Friday 12th November 1.45-3pm Prep transition (outside playground)

Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th Swimming Program - Peter Krenz Leisure Centre

Wednesday 1st December Prep-2 Frozen excursion

Thursday 2nd, Friday 3rd, Monday 6th, Tuesday 7th, Thursday 9th, Friday 10th

Swimming Program

(dependent on guidelines at the time)

Tuesday 7th December State-wide transition day

Wednesday 15th December -Grade 6 Graduation – density limits apply

Friday 17th December 1.30 finish - End of term 4

Grade 3/4 camp Queenscliff

Last week we were so lucky to go to camp. Although the weather was raining on Wednesday it certainly didn’t dampen the students’ excitement and enthusiasm. The students visited the Marine Discovery Centre, played sponge dodgeball, went swimming, visited Point Lonsdale lighthouse, built sand castles and played initiative games.

Many thanks to families in getting notes back so quickly to help with planning, to staff who gave up their nights with family, to Cottage staff who are amazing and to our students who made the most of every opportunity.

Sovereign Hill excursion 5/6 Thursday 11th November

A reminder to parents and carers to return the permission form and money for the excursion to Sovereign Hill, Thursday 11th November, as soon as possible.

Students will need to bring two drinks, a snack and lunch for the day, preferably in disposable packaging. Students are required to wear school uniform for this excursion and in line with our School’s SunSmart Policy they will need to wear a hat. Students will not need any spending money for the day.

Swimming Program

Please return notes and payment $21 to the office. Families with CSEF can contact the office to use this to pay the $21. As our swimming program clashes with the state wide transition day Tuesday 7th December we are looking at possible alternatives.

Attendance

The school is aware that many families are receiving different messages around staying at home and isolating. We have checked with Department of Health guidelines and can confirm that:

Only people that are Primary Close Contacts (PCC’s) – that is those that have come directly in contact with someone that has a confirmed positive case of COVID19 need to isolate. Families/households of PCCs will no longer be re-quired to limit their movements or stay at home. This means that school students who have had not had di-rect contact are expected to attend school. All teachers are back onsite teaching face-to-face so it is not an expectation to provide work for those students at home.

Smalltalk Playgroup

The playgroup that was held in the library each Wednesday is now meeting at Canterbury Park 9.30-11am. They meet near the skate park, where they have the gardens. Everyone is welcome! If you would like to know more information, or needing help to find them on Wednesday, please contact Ashleigh on 0427 630 823.

Plans for 2022

In the next few weeks, we will begin to look at class structures for 2022. If you know of anyone with children at pre-school, please encourage them to look at the school’s web page and make contact with the school. If your child will not be attending Eaglehawk Primary next year, please contact your child’s teacher or the office as soon as possible.

Reading Awards:

Evan Mchale 266 nights

Takara Walsh 286 nights

Vaccination requirements for parents and carers attending schools

Any visitor or volunteers performing work in school (including parent helpers, NDIS providers, volunteers, contractors and incursion providers) are required to have had their first dose by 25th October and be fully vaccinated by 29 November (unless a medical exemption applies) to attend on site. All visitors will be required to verify their vaccination status at the office.

All parents and carers attending schools, including for drop off and pick up must also adhere to physical distancing, density limits, face mask requirements and practise good respiratory and hand hygiene.

Parents and carers who enter school buildings must check in using the QR code.

Parents and carers attending any event or activity inside a school building including, but not limited to tours, graduations, kindergarten transition, whole of school events are required to show evi-dence of vaccination.

Meetings and other discussions (such as Student Support Group meetings) with parents and carers who do not meet vaccination requirements should be held virtually. Parents and carers attending school sites for drop off and pick up who do not enter school buildings do not need to comply with vaccination requirements.

Department of Education’s Operations Guide has provided some good news for some of our most important Term 4 events. All schools will be able to recommence a range of activities, consistent with community settings and school vaccination requirements. Based on the current advice, we will be able to proceed with many of our onsite transition programs for our Kinder students beginning Foundation in 2022 and for our Grade 6 students transitioning into Year 7 in 2022. Interschool activities can also resume, as well as incursions and excursions.

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Reminders

-As per Department of Education guidelines all grades 3-6 students are required to wear facemasks inside

-Please return all books and learning when your child is onsite. Many items haven’t returned from the week be-fore the holidays. Teachers use previous work to help plan for students.

Last week’s Maths At Home Challenge

Congratulations to the following students who participated in last week’s Challenge:

Mase, Enrique, Holly, Mackenzie, Lara, Rose, Damon, Kayleigh and Lily.

Many thanks to the parents /carers who supported their child (ren) with this task at home. We hope you had some fun being involved in your child’s learning.

Chinese

Grade Prep

The students are learning about family members. They express the love to their family members, such as wǒ ài māma/bàba (I love mom/dad). They also draw a family members poster in class.

Grade One and Two

The students have been reviewing 8 fruits words in Chinese. They learned to express preference on fruit by using 喜xǐ

欢huan

(like)/不bù

喜xǐ

欢huan

(dislike). They are singing the “I Love My Family” song.

Grade Three and Four

Grade 3&4 students continue to learn three more hobby words in Chinese, such as “看kàn

电diàn

视shì

(watching TV)” “看kàn

书shū

(reading)” “玩wán

游yóu

戏xì

(play games)”. They can express their hobbies by using 喜xǐ

欢huan

(like)/不bù

喜xǐ

欢huan

(dislike).

Grade Five and Six

Grade 5&6 students have been learning about food, such as 饺子jiǎozi

(dumplings), 炒饭chǎofàn

(fried rice), 炒面chǎomiàn

(fried noo-

dles), 汉堡hànbǎo

(burger), 三明治sānmíngzhì

(sandwich), 冰淇淋bīngqílín

(ice cream), 披萨pīsà

(pizza). They also learned to order food by using “qǐng gěi wǒ...” (please give me...).

Student of the Week

Class Student of the Week Attendance Award

Prep Tayla Mackenzie B- For always putting 100% effort in to all her learning tasks and pushing herself to improve! Keep in up Mackenzie!

Eli T

Grade 1/2 Jess Zoe T - for always having a go at writing a sentence, recording the sounds she hears in each word. Keep it up J

Enrique M

Grade 1/2 Sophie/Tracey

Tayah W - for her ability to make arrays using smarties and writing an addition and multiplication equation to match.

Lara B - for being a kind member of the class, always including others.

Kaysie A

Grade 3 Monique Respect Award: Henry M for following all instructions from camp staff. Also, playing fairly and listening to others in group activities.

Shyla W

Grade 3/4 Ellie Value award: Mia T- caring award for encouraging and supporting her peers while on school camp. A highlight was on the high ropes course when Mia was cheering on her friends and helping them to get through the course. Well done, Mia!

Alexander R

Grade 5/6 Donna Learning – Kenzie C for the huge effort she put into her learning this week and striving to be her best.

Mase B

Grade 5/6 Nick Sam F—Learning award for writing an engaging and detailed explanation text

Jon M

Art