News. From the Principal. Amanda. March 2018

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1 News From the Principal March 2018 Congratulations to all our 2018 Student Leaders who were presented with their badges last week at school assembly. We are sure that all of the children selected for these positions will be fantastic leaders for our school! Thank you to Caroline Meier, Children's Services Development Officer, City of Greater Dandenong for attending our special assembly. Student Accident & Personal Property Insurance Parents are reminded that the Department does not provide personal accident insurance or ambulance cover for students. Parents and guardians of students, who do not have student accident insurance/ambulance cover, are Next week will be the first time that our Foundation students will be attending school all week from 9 till 3.15pm. This is just another milestone in their educational journey. Congratulations to the newest members of the Silverton community. THANK YOU Thank you to all the parents who attended Silverton s Parent Association Annual General Meeting last week. It was great to see new parents there and who are willing to go on the 2018 committee. Parents who couldn t attend and would like to assist during the year please let the school office know or , parentassociation@silverton-ps.vic.edu.au your contact details. PLAYGROUP Don t forget we run a playgroup for the local community on Wednesday mornings in our activities room from 9am. Everyone is welcome to attend. No cost involved. responsible for paying the cost of medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of ambulance attendance or transport as well as any other transport costs. Parents or guardians can purchase insurance policies from commercial insurers. Private property brought to school by students, parents or visitors, is not insured and the Department does not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage. This can include mobile phones, calculators, toys, sporting equipment and cars parked on school premises. As the Department does not hold insurance for personal property brought to schools and has no capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property, students are discouraged from bringing any unnecessary or particularly valuable items to school Amanda

2 Important Dates Full school calendar is available on the Sentral Parent Portal Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday No school for Foundations 1 March 2 < Grade 6 Camp - Return Approx. 3pm > 5 I Sea I Care Excursion Interschool Sport 9 12 Labour Day NO SCHOOL OPEN DAY for 2019 Enrolments 15 Interschool Sport < Grade 4 Camp > Interschool Sport LAST DAY OF TERM 2:30pm FINISH GOOD FRIDAY These notices/payments are due back: Parent Payment 2018 CSEF Funds (health care card) Grade 4 Camp Medical Details Parent Helper Forms Grade 4 Camp Final payment State School Spectacular Consent Form Absence Notification Facebook Group You can notify us of your child s absence via Portal, Phone or Parent Portal /Sentral Student and Parent Portal Link Phone Extension 4 admin@silverton-ps.vic.edu.au Please include the child s name, grade, date(s) and reason for absence (i.e. illness, dentist, doctor, holiday interstate/overseas) PLEASE NOTE the school has 3 phone lines THEREFORE please put the following three numbers in your phone as Silverton: Make sure you are a member of our Silverton School Community Facebok page This is a closed group for school parents. There are 3 questions to answer to join the group. Latest post: Photos from Grade 6 camp.

3 Sport for Schools Silverton Primary School is collecting the Sports for School voucher from Coles. There is a box at Waverley Gardens and in the school office. Entertainment Book Shortly you will start receiving some correspondence about the Entertainment Book. This year we are fundraising for STEM Resources, If you would like to take up the Early Bird Offer, please order here #SSS Wristbands / Sticker Awards Congratulations to the these Students who have received a #SSS wristband this term Well Done! Aariyan Dhillon SINGH Krisha UPADHYAY Alex PAVLIDIS Kulan HISWELLA Ali MAHALLATI Kye Jackson MOORE Anthony CRAKE-SOURI Leandro FLETT Audrey VESCIO Lucas RICKARD Ava ABOU-EID Lysa HAK Ayden HENDERSON Magdalena NHIAL Aydin JASIKA Mal CHUOL Ayuen LUETH Mandeep MANDAL Bisu REGMI Mansi TIWARI Brock GIBSON Mary PHAM Christopher ELY Mevaan FERNANDO Christopher NGOV Naman SINGH Coopah CLEMENT Nathaniel MHIZHA Dan BUI Nicholas STEFANOU Daniel SUN Nikolina GAGIC Do HOANG Omar KHAN Dorar LOK Omar RAYDAN Emma CARTY Parmis YAH Ethan MARK Rohan MATHEW Filippos SYMEONIDIS-SYVRIDIS Samira JAMA Harry HODZIC Sanuthi MATHARAGE DON Hemish GUPTA Seth ELY Ishaan BANGALORE Shameera SHANTHAKUMAR Jack ARNOLD Sia UPADHYAY Jack BOYLE Sihoo VAK Jad EL MASRI Sofia GEORGIADOU James BE Sorika HAK James NAH Suhayb YUSUF Jamie BLACKLEDGE Tas ALEXIOU Jayden DELAHUNTY Tayla GALLUCCIO Jesmine DEHIWALA LIYANAGE Thalia WEST Jessi CORRIGAN Trinn LUONG Jessie GROUNDS Vaililo TOGAGAE Joyce MENG Vanessa TOWNSEND Katelyn HENDERSON Yousef ELMASRI Kayla GOWER Zaynab IBRAHEEM

4 Parents Association News Thanks to all those who attended our AGM. We now have a bigger committee and appreciate all the help from the school community. We have fantastic community and fundraising events planned for this year and look forward to your continuing support. Hot Cross Buns and Easter Raffle Keep your eyes out for hot cross bun order forms. We will again be ordering them from Artesian 8 a local baker at Waverley Gardens. This year we are funding a kitchen in LC4 for breakfast club so they have a permanent set up. FREE OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT A date has been set. Friday 20 th April at 7pm on the oval. The movie will be announced shortly. This is a free event. Bring your friends and family for an enjoyable night. Easter raffle tickets will be sent home soon. Prizes will be Cadbury Easter egg hampers. This will be drawn on the last day of term 1, Thursday 29th March 2:30pm finish. UPCOMING EVENTS MOTHERS DAY STALL CROSS COUNTRY SAUSAGE SIZZLE OPEN NIGHT SAUSAGE SIZZLE POPCORN DRIVE

5 #SSS Silverton Super Student Awards Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 FS Harriet Smyth Luna Kovacic James Meyer FI Zayaan Azeem Mary Pham Omar Raydan FL Orson Qin Henry Procter Ashwin Dahiya FV Thomas Sorrel-Adamson Vanessa Townsend Emily Lam 12E Lucas Foo Jayden Dawson Georgia Abou-Eid 12R Ava Abou-Eid Jenna Maabrah Emma Carty 1T Giovanna Assad Omar Khan Bonita Pinel 12O Kye Jackson Moore Adam Ibrahim Angela Lam 12N Niki Vergaki Robery Deveney Justin Chung 12S Jack Procter Kostaki Tekes Jasper Grounds 12I Joshua Francis Raou Hak Ryder Boustead 1L Johnny Anastasiou Gazza Ferguson Mal Chuol 34V Levi Grimwood Ieva Cleary-Kazlauskas Nicholas Kolokotsas 34E Jaxx Lathavong-Nguyen Amelia Janikowski 34R Joshua Alan Sihoo Vak Dylan Winsor 34T Giancarlo Artho Chloe Mutch 34O Zoe Hamer Leon Karanasios Ysabella Vijungco 34N Lou Lou Eman Ayuen Lueth Jaynha Whittaker 34S Asiya Jama Parmis Yah Jesmine Dehiwala-Liyanage 56I Zaynab Ibraheem Efraim Embido Joyce Meng 56L Jessie Grounds Malina Krstic Claire Nguyen 56V Mia Souleiman Dylan Chhit Mia Grimwood 56E Biamca Whittaker Majuer Lueth Jordan Jacobs 56R Reyaa Venu Mele Togagae Seyara Fernando

6 Shoe Art Hi, I`m Candice Dang from 5/6R. I am in the shoe art reality group. We are designing all different fashion objects. I am going to be designing a shoe.i will need some shoes. So please don t hesitate, if you have any shoes that you don t wear anymore or are getting rid of. Please give them in to the office. Preferably in good condition.

7 Valuable Learner of the Month February RISK TAKER Chanel Mulipola 56E Reason: Chanel has moved learning centres and completely moved out of his comfort zone this year. He actively participates in every activity and is willing to share his ideas and take on advice and feedback from his peers. Chanel is taking more risks in putting himself out there by applying for new groups and leadership positions. He is always willing to give everything his best effort and is willing to make constructive mistakes to further his learning. Sustainable Schools Committee At Silverton we have a Sustainable Schools Committee. Members include the Environment Captains, teachers from each learning centre and specialist area, management and OSHCare. We would also like members from our school community to be on board. If you are interested in helping our school become more sustainable please contact the office and leave your contact details and I will be in touch. Looking forward to working with you Emmanuelle Blake Environment Club Grape Harvest

8 #SSS Whole School House Day Our whole school #SSS wellbeing house day was a great success. Students participated in different activities around the school in their house colours. All of the activities were focused on resilience, team work and promoting our wellbeing program, #SSS. The students learnt about the #SSS mascots Fred and Fiona Feelings, what the green, yellow and red represent for our program and how to use a #SSS brain break to reset and get ready to learn. Students designed a stone to demonstrate a positive feeling they felt throughout the day or a representation of the #SSS program. These stones will be painted and placed as a permanent sidewalk in our school. Students were heard talking about the day and our school This is the best day ever. And I love our school so much.

9 Sustainability at Silverton At Silverton we are working towards becoming a sustainable school. This means that we are trying to reduce our energy and water usage and the rubbish that we produce at school. We are part of the Resource Smart School s Program and our goal is to become more sustainable by saving energy and water, reducing our waste and increasing our biodiversity. If we can do this we will become a Five Star School, the first in our area. We are currently at three star status despite having completed all four modules. To become a Five Star school we also need to reach certain benchmarks for reducing water, energy and waste and increasing biodiversity. We have reached the benchmark for water and biodiversity but not for energy and waste. Targeting Waste At Silverton we are producing one of the highest levels of rubbish in the state when compared to schools within our population range in the Resource Smart Program. We need to reduce our waste and we need your help. The fastest and most effective way to do this is for students to bring rubbish free lunches to school. Rubbish free lunches don t have any packaging. For example instead of wrapping sandwiches in cling wrap, place directly into a reusable container. Instead of sending chips and chocolate bars for snacks, send fresh fruit, vegetables, muffins, dip, yoghurt and biscuits in reusable containers. There are several great rubbish free lunch boxes on the market that have compartments for all different types of foods. Our students at Silverton bring some fantastic lunches to school and it s great to see that most come in reusable containers. However most of the rubbish being generated by volume comes from plastic packaging from snacks eaten at recess. Chip packets, chocolate bars, dry noodles snacks, muesli bars, to name a few. In addition students are buying many packaged items from the canteen. The amount of these snack foods being eaten on a daily basis is of great concern. Not only do these foods generate so much rubbish, they have very little nutritional value and can result in excess weight gain and the high sugar content reduces students ability to concentrate. Alternately fresh fruit, vegetables, cheese, yogurt, dips, homemade muffins etc. provide children with the energy and nutrients that their growing bodies need.

10 Rubbish Bin Audit Last October students from the Rubbish Pick UP Team carried out a waste audit of our bins at school. To our surprise uneaten foods such as sandwiches, noodles, hot dogs, etc. known as non-compostable food items made up most of the rubbish by weight in the bins. Unfortunately all of this food ends up at landfill. This is not only a big waste of food and money but it also has a big impact on the environment. All of that food when buried at landfill will produce methane, one of the main greenhouse gases that is causing global warming and climate change. For this reason we are now asking students to take home any uneaten food so parents can see what is and what isn t being eaten. It might be that too much food is being given or that children don t actually like the food that they are being given so they throw it away. We are asking all parents to talk to their children about this problem. Some people think that we can t do anything about global warming and climate change but at Silverton we know that small changes can make a difference. We need your help to reduce our waste going to landfill. At Silverton we care about the environment so we want to do everything that we can to make sure that we have a safe and sustainable future for everyone. Thanks for your support Emmanuelle Blake

11 Local Notices Note: Silverton Primary School & the Department of Education does not endorse the products or services of any advertiser. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the advertisements, or claims made by them. Any use of this Newsletter is welcome within the constraints of the Copyright Act. Tennis Is For Everyone - Free Tennis Family Day COME AND HAVE FUN Sunday, March 18 th 11.00am 2.00pm Come and have some fun, join in some games, play social tennis and make new friends at our annual Free Family Fun Day No booking necessary just come along! Everyone is welcome, no experience necessary. Wellington Tennis Club ( Mulgrave ) Rupert Drive, Mulgrave, Southern Community car park For further information contact Andrew Cosham (President) Violin Lessons Rennata offers private violin lessons to students aged 3 years and over, using the Suzuki Method. Learning the violin is alife-long skill that grows love and enthusiasm in your child, in a fun and nurturing environment. Lessons held in home studio in Mulgrave (South-East Melbourne). To find out more, please contact Rennata on or rennatasviolinstudio@gmail.com Northvale Netball Club Is looking for new players between 8 and 11. For further information or northvalenc@hotmail.com Waverley Park Hawks - Registrations now open Boys teams U8 to U17 Girls teams U10 to U18. or info@wphawks.org.au In 2 Combat Kids classes BJJ, Fitness and Boxing or /450 Princess Hwy Noble Park North Australian Girls Choir February Open Classes Look no further than the Australian Girls Choir (AGC) because we encourage, challenge and inspire girls as they learn to sing, dance and perform. School aged girls are invited to try our fun and inclusive classes and learn more about being part of the AGC! Contact us if you would like to attend a free trial class in February. Ph melbourne@aspagroup.com.au Springvale Indoor Sports Indoor Soccer - U7, U9, U11, U13 and Adults Birthday Parties - Sports, Bubble Soccer, Nerf, Space Jump, Dodgem Cars and Laser Tag For more info call (03) Mulgrave Farmers Market Located in Mulgrave on the corner of Jacksons Road & Wellington Rd. Open every Sunday 8am - 1pm, the market is a place where you can buy direct, buy fresh, buy weekly, from the people who grow your food. ENTRY by donation. The In-Tuition Centre Intensive Tuition for Grade 5 to Year 12 students. Maths, English, VCE, School Entrance Exams, UMAT Preparation and One-on-One Tuition. Ph: Got computer problems? Small business, home business and home user support. For all your computer, internet and networking needs, Call Computer Troubleshooters Greg Price Discounts for Silverton P.S. community