DATES TO REMEMBER

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

ILLNESS ABSENCES

There is quite a lot of illness around at the moment with the Flu virus really affecting students and staff. We urge all parents to ensure that if their child is unwell to visit their doctor and advise the school of their child’s reason for the absence either by COMPASS or to the school email.

The Department of Education audits schools when there are significant absences and in particular investigates if an individual child has a high level of absence without a parent

note to explain why.

THE VALUE OF CARING

The Supporting Value this week for students to focus on as part

of our social skills program is Caring.

Each week the School Captains present an example for each of

the values and this is what they had to say:

Hiruni – Caring is showing kindness to others

Brodie – Caring is when we stop to help others in our school,

like our Preps

Kajal – Caring for someone means you are protecting them

and their feelings

Kaiden – Caring for others shows we are good people

PARENT OPINION SURVEY REMINDER THAT IT CLOSES ON SUNDAY 27TH AUGUST

A reminder that a random selection of 88 parents were sent information to a link to complete the Parent Opinion Survey. We encourage all parents to check emails to see if they were one of the randomly selected and to take 10 minutes to complete this important survey for our school before Sunday 27th of August. All Government schools send this survey out annually to better inform schools about their strengths and

improvements. A reminder email was sent to each family

selected from our office on Monday this week.

TULLIALLAN PS 1:1 LAPTOP PROGRAM FOR 2018

YEARS 4 TO 6 STUDENTS

IMPORTANT INFORMATION SESSION ON TUESDAY 29TH OF AUGUST AT 7PM IN THE STADIUM - Mr Anthony Day from EDUNET will be available to speak with parents about the 4 selected laptops to purchase for your child for 2018

Information about this program and the purchasing of a laptop for your child to use in Years 4 to 6 next year is on Tuesday

29th of August in the Stadium

As this affects this year’s Year 3, 4 and 5 children we have

coupled the session with the Camp information night as follows;

7pm Year 5 and 6 CYC camp update (after this the

Year 6 students and parents may go)

7.20pm EDUNET will be presenting this session to explain to parents about purchasing a laptop to use in 2018. This is for all students in years

4, 5 and 6 in 2018.

7.40pm Year 3 and 4 Camp Information (Year 5 parents can discuss the BYOD options with

EDUNET)

The purchasing of student laptops will need to be completed by the Week 2-3 of Term 4 this year to ensure that the laptops are delivered before the end of this year to be imaged and configured to the Department of Education’s safety specifications on our ICT servers and

infrastructure.

Tulliallan Times 89 Wheelers Park Drive, Cranbourne North 3977

PO Box 4061, Narre Warren South 3805 P: 8766 3100 E: tulliallan.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

W: www.tulliallanps.vic.gov.au

Vol 1 Issue 26 Wednesday 23rd August 2017

September

Fri 1st Father’s Day Stall Fri 1st Rd.7 Interschool Sport vs. Narre Warren P-12 (Home) Tues 5th Step Into Prep Transition 9:15-10am W-F 6th-8th CYC Camp Yr.5 & 6 Wed 20th Casey South Division Aths—Selected students

August Thur 24th District Aths, Hampton Park—Selected students Thur 24th Coal Creek excursion Yr.1 & 2 Tues 29th Hooptime Yr. 3 & 4 Tues 29th Special Information Night for Years 4-6 Parents

7pm, Elm Stadium Hub

MAD ON MUSIC PRESENTATION Monday 11th September

Mad On Music and Ash take care of the private music lesson tuition at our school for interested students and families. Our students who learn keyboard, guitar and singing will be performing for our Year 4 to 6 students on the 11th of September, after lunch in the Stadium and then again in the evening at 7pm. Interested parents who wish to see the

children perform may come to either of these performances.

STEP IN TO PREP

We had another successful Step Into Prep session yesterday with Mums and Dads being able to leave their kinder child in the Learning Community and meet other parents in the Hub with myself and Mrs McDonald. The last session for this term

in on Tuesday 5th of September at 9.15am

GOOD LUCK TO OUR TULLIALLAN ATHLETIC TEAM COMPETING ON THURSDAY

We wish all of the selected students Good Luck competing against a number of schools in the Hampton Park District Athletics tomorrow. Our students always display sportsmanship and encourage each other to try for their best

effort. We will be very proud of you all tomorrow.

Practise the value of caring for someone this week!

Kathy Sharp

Principal

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

SWIMMING

Thank you to families that sent in notes and payment for swimming yesterday. The due date for swimming is in September but we have been concerned with the low numbers thus far, hence the urgency to get more of an idea of numbers.

It is most likely that the program will now continue to go ahead.

HOOP TIME

On Wednesday last week five teams from the Year 5/6 area competed in the Hoop Time Basketball Competition in Cranbourne. I was so proud of all our teams that not only were very competitive, but represented Tulliallan Primary School with such pride. We had so many positive comments about our new uniforms and the behaviour of our students. Well done to all

competitors.

BOOK FAIR

Our next Book Fair is nearly upon us with it opening next Monday August 28th after school. The Fair will run for the week, opening before and after school. Please come and visit us in

the Resource Centre.

FATHER’S DAY

Thank you to all families that have sold their Father’s Day raffle tickets and returned the money to school. The raffle will be drawn on Friday September 1st after the Father’s Day stall. All

children are invited to bring some money on Friday September

1st to purchase a gift for a male loved one.

If there are any parents with their Working with Children Check

that can help at the stall, please leave your name at the office.

Have a good week

Lynne McDonald

Assistant Principal

Some important notes about the Tulliallan PS Swimming Program...

Our Swimming Program is to be held at Kingswim, Narre Warren South. The centre will be used exclusively by our school during that time. No members of the general public will use the pool or change rooms during our lesson times.

Tulliallan staff will be supervising the students whilst swimming and as necessary in the change rooms.

Parent helpers with a WWCC and who have done an Induction with our school will be asked to assist with helping guide students when changing, particularly with Prep to Year 2 students. We do hope and expect that by Term 4 all students should be able to dress themselves and pack their swimming bag independently.

If parents have any queries about swimming please see your child’s Home Group teacher.

This week is Book Week and to celebrate we are holding a

Book Parade at 9.00am in Elm Stadium.

All children are encouraged to come dressed as their

favourite book character.

We invite parents to attend to watch each homeroom parade

their costumes.

At the conclusion of the parade all students will experience a

Reading session where teachers will read their favourite book

to a group of students.

Please support this important day!!

TULLIALLAN VALUE AWARD WINNERS

Under our RESPECT value the following students have best displayed the quality of TACT

NAME REASON

PREP A Kyson P For caring about his new friends

PREP B Milaan J For trying his best to be a Tulliallan STAR

PREP C Neo B For always showing sensitivity when dealing with others in the Learning Community

PREP D Anushka K For always being considerate of others in her Home Group and speaking nicely to all her friends

1/2A Sabrina J For caring about our school environment and assisting to keep it tidy and organised

1/2B Xavier I For showing care towards his friends, teachers and school

1/2C Caleb T For showing care towards his friends and always trying to make others laugh

1/2D Nidha T For having a caring nature and always looking after her peers

3/4A Reedhi K For working cooperatively in her group and finding tactful and thoughtful ways to help others to stay on task.

3/4B Andy S For being a kind hearted, considerate classmate who is always thoughtful of others

3/4C Elijah K For respecting his peers and getting along well with others

3/4D Shayan A For always using his kind words when speaking to others

5/6A Jackson M For caring for all class members

5/6B Devon G For regularly showing care for others

SPECIALIST’S AWARD WINNERS

For the students who have made an outstanding effort during their Specialists class

SPECIALIST CLASS NAME

STEM Lachlan C 12D

Art Mia S 34B

Music Emmet E 34A

Mandarin Mia D 34D

PE Noah I 34B

5 MIND BLOWING FACTS ABOUT SCIENCE!

1. You are never touching anything; instead only microscopically hovering above it, this is due to the

separate atom collections.

2. When you cry, the tears you weep are a combination of sweat and micro liquid particles from within

your eye lining.

3. On Venus, it snows lots of metals and toxic sulphuric acid, but on Jupiter, it rains diamonds the size of

rain drops. However, there is no way humans will be able to physically observe these phenomena.

4. Dry ice is so cold that it can burn

you if the correct measurements are

not taken to protect yourself against

the harsh elements.

5. The word ‘light’ stands for "Light

Amplification by Stimulated Emission of

Radiation".

Written by Dulana and Shawn from

Year 5/6

HOOP TIME ...YEAR 5 & 6

Last week 35 Year 5/6 students participated in the Hoop Time Basketball Competition against local schools within our area. Tulliallan had five teams compete that ranged from representative players, to rookies who have never played basketball before.

The All Star boys team came 5th overall, the Future Stars team came 3

rd and although the

Rookies don’t play towards finals they all had great success on the day. The best part about the day was seeing the students in our brand new basketball uniforms and representing Tulliallan’s values and showing what a great school we are. All of the students and teachers involved had a fantastic day and we look forward to the Year 3/4 competition which will be held on the 29

th

August.

IMPORTANT DATES

Thursday 24th August - District Athletics

Friday 1st September - Last round of Winter ISS, Home v Narre P12

Wednesday 13th September - Winter Lightning Premiership

We encourage all parents to come and support our students during these events.