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Preston West Primary School Newsletter Thursday 20th December 2018

IMPORTANT DATES

DECEMBER Friday 22nd LAST DAY OF TERM 4 – 1:00PM Dismissal

Term Dates 2019

Term 1 Thursday 31st January (Grade 1-6) – Friday 5th April Preps commence Friday 1st February 2019

Principal’s Note

Thank You to the Preston West Primary School Community Thank you to the school community for the terrific support throughout 2018. It has certainly been a productive, hardworking year for the students, staff and community and many special events, excursions and camps have added much excitement and lasting memories. The school has continued with its highly successful curriculum, additional and support programs, which are engaging and extend the students’ knowledge and skills. I thank the excellent staff for their enthusiasm and commitment throughout the year and have greatly appreciated all the extra’s they have performed in the aim of promoting greater opportunities and challenges for the students. I congratulate all staff for the contribution they have made to our community throughout 2018. I would personally like to thank Mark Ross, Kim Purchase, Bernie Wachinger, Adriana Oliva and Megan Nichols for their support, dedicated efforts and tireless work. As the first point of communication and contact with the school the administration staff are a huge asset to Preston West Primary School. Special thanks to all the parents who have actively supported and contributed to our school. To our School Council members (Bo Li, Mick Paskos, David Bellchambers, Ann-Marie Drakos, Luke Draper, Xiao Jiang, Diep Nguyen, Adrijana Lukic, Luke Begg and Mark Ross) we thank you for all your leadership and hard work this year. In particular, I would acknowledge the contribution made by Bo Li, our School Council president. Bo is a tremendous advocate for our school and represents the best interests for all community members. Many thanks to the Parent’s Club for their organisation of a range of fundraising activities. Their efforts throughout the year have ensured the continuation of Fresh Fruit Friday. To the many parents, grandparents and community members who have helped with guided reading, sporting activities, Fresh Fruit Friday, sick bay linen, special days, school banking, election day BBQs, Mother’s/Father’s Day stalls, lunchtime clubs and the concert – your support has been greatly appreciated. The efforts of Nicole Scherzer, Mary Seriotis and their Before and After School team has been greatly appreciated. The program they coordinate and wide range of activities is loved by the students and the care, encouragement and support the staff display is terrific. To our Grade 6 students we wish you a successful future. The staff look forward to catching up with you next year to hear about your successful transition to secondary school. The students did themselves proud at last week’s Graduation and disco and I am confident they are having a great day today at their Big Day Out at Funfields - a terrific way to finalise their last week at primary school. The last congratulations and special thank you is directed to our core business – our fabulous students. The most rewarding part of my job is visiting classrooms seeing engaged, enthusiastic students producing work of an extremely high quality. When walking throughout the school, I continue to be impressed by their application to and standards of work, creativity, friendships and their determination to achieve their best results. Thank you to our House Captains, Vice Captains, Behaviour Buddies, Environmental Monitors, Laptop/iPad monitors and Junior School Council for their efforts and great role modelling to others in all facets of school.

Staff Roles 2019 Yesterday we conducted our Promotion Parade whereby students spent a session with their 2019 class and teacher. The following staffing arrangements will occur for 2019: Prep Room 1 Leesa Di Benedetto Prep Room 2 Adrijana Lukic Prep Room 4 Hilary Clarke Prep Room 5 Ella Van Meeuwen Prep Room 6 Ben Corns Grade 1 Room 13 Chloe Watt Grade 1 Room 14 Edie Kulafi Grade 1 Room 15 Holly King Grade 1 Room 15A Sam Burnett Grade 1 Room 17 Sarah Nisi Grade 2 Room 9A Adam Bennetts Grade 2 Room 9 Wendy Price Grade 2 Room 10 Sue Moossajee Grade 2 Room 11 Jess Merlo Grade 2 Room 12 Karen Attrill Grade 3 Room 34 Leah French Grade 3 Room 35 Melissa Besford Grade 3 Room 36 Luke Begg Grade 3 Room 37 Elizabeth llia Grade 4 Room 26 Marko Krsticevic Grade 4 Room 27 Amra Hegic Grade 4 Room 29 Ellenor Miller Grade 4 Room 30 Kat Elfverson Grade 5 Room 23 Velena Voglis Grade 5 Rom 24 Matt Jobson Grade 5 Room 25 Sally Willis Grade 6 Room 20 Grant Tobin Grade 6 Room 21 Erin Raghavan Grade 6 Room 32 Tess Norton Grade 6 Room 33 Anita O’Leary Our additional program teaching staff include Desley Chappel, Jamie Andronikos, Tina Stapmanns, Ainslee Watkins, Rita Dib, Jennifer Bowker and Walter Bilic. Our Leading Teachers at Preston West Primary are Sue Moossajee (Mathematics), Adrijana Lukic (Literacy), Luke Begg (eLearning) and Chloe Watt (Assessment/Reporting). Sue, Luke, Adrijana and Chloe will be out of their classrooms up to one day a week to undertake their roles to promote programs, resources, staff knowledge and student outcomes in English, Numeracy and eLearning. The Learning Specialists at Preston West Primary are Jamie Andronikos (STEM) and Leah French (Student Agency). In the office for 2019 we have Kim Purchase, Bernie Wachinger, Adriana Oliva and Megan Nichols. Our Educational Support staff include Brenda Steer, Nola Chatterton, Jacinta Thomas, Cathy Porter, Joanne Agar, Michael De Bortoli and Angie Morgan. Carol Seneca and Sandra West are our school first aid officers. Staff leave Tina Stapmanns and Michael De Bortoli will be taking Long Service Leave in Term 1 of 2019. Annalisa Stratakos will be teaching Italian in Tina’s absence next term. On behalf of the community I wish Tina and Michael a well-earned Long Service Leave break. Final School Day for 2018 The final day for students will be tomorrow –Friday 21st December. Students will be dismissed at 1pm. Children can bring along a snack to have at recess time. Final assembly for 2018 will be in the gymnasium at 12.40.

Assembly 2019 The first assembly of 2019 will be conducted on Monday 11th February. Our priority on Monday 4th February will be to accommodate our Prep students in their classrooms on their second day of their schooling journey. Happy Festive Season The school as a whole has had another great year and I look forward to the achievements and highlights we can produce together throughout 2019. Wishing everyone a happy and safe festive season and holiday period with families and friends. We look forward in seeing our Grade 1-6 students on Thursday 31st January and our Prep classes on Friday 1st February.

Cheryl Bondeson

BASCP CURRENT FAMILIES

Have you re enrolled for 2019? Emails were sent out on Friday 16th November with information about how to enrol online. If you have not re enrolled there will be no guarantee of placement for your child.

eLearning As the end of 2018 draws near, the school technicians and I are starting to plan and finalise arrangements for 2019. Part of this includes setting up Google Apps for Education accounts for next year's Grade 3s and allocating JAMF Pro licenses for those that are participating in the 2019 iPad Program. Recently I sent home an iPad Program booklet. At the back of the booklet it has the forms that will indicate whether your child be participating in the iPad Program, has parental consent to create them a school based Google Apps account as well as a Digital Technologies Agreement to be signed. Regardless of whether your child will be participating in the iPad program or not, the Google Apps for Education Parental consent form and Digital Agreement is important in allowing the students the ability to participate in a range of learning through the use of the school shared devices and the Computer Lab. Can I please ask that the relevant forms are returned to the school by the end of next week (Friday, December 7). Spare consent forms are available from the school office or via Compass under 'eLearning Information' in School Documentation. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Regards, Luke

STUDENT OF THE WEEK – Week ending 14/12/2018 Congratulations to the following students, who were presented with their awards.

GRADE “LEARN” BOUNCE BACK

Prep C Whole Class Hanan Atosh

Prep D Zoe Tarros Brian Thai

Prep H Daniel Lin Shahad Aljohany

Prep L Dahn Do Howard Hoang

Prep W Whole Class Jacob Percy

1B Whole Class Archie Welsby

1E Whole Class Polly Ho

1K Japyot Singh Mia Paschos

1N Jay Sun Jack White

1W Julius Picot Freddie Parker

2A Francesca Beck Julia Thomson

2B Whole Class Eric Semple

2J Qile Wang Olivia Lin

2M Whole Class Maddox Ralifo

3B Madison Marino Ramona Ware

3F Alice Richards Rodrigo Diaz Alarcon

3I Whole Class Whole Class

3P Caden Beardsley Lawrence McKenzie

4B Seren Sucksmith Sara Ismail

4E Khoi Nguyen Lulu Napolitano

4K Sophia Thai Ollie Jirovec

4M Ester Wilson William Cashmere

5H Amelie Kehle Rueben Shaw

5I Lachie Cullen Victor Liang

5J Whole Class Dash Maxwell

5V Chloe Bellchambers Whole Class

6T Aneesa Dani

ART Katerini Pagoniou 3I

MUSIC Seren Sucksmith 4B

ITALIAN Alyssia Bilney 2M

Mathletics Awards Term 4 2018 Congratulations to our P.W.P.S. Top Year Level Performers

in Mathletics Term 4 2018

Prep Brian Thai Grade 1 Maleesa Marasinghage Grade 2 Liam Pablo Grade 3 Jennifer Ly Grade 4 Sophia Thai Grade 5 Ethan Pablo Grade 6 Tina Li

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