JUNE 14th

STUDENT REPORTS Teachers have been working hard writing reports and they are current-ly being checked by team members. The reports will become live on COMPASS by Thursday of the last week of term. We encourage all parents to access these when they are available and discuss the report with your child. PARENT INTERVIEWS Parent interviews will take place in Week 3 of Term 3 on Tuesday 31st July and Wednesday 1st August. Advice regarding how to book an in-terview will be communicated to parents in the first week of Term 3. I urge all parents to take the time to discuss your child’s progress with their classroom teacher. STUDENT ATTENDANCE Last year the school implemented Semester Attendance report cards for every student. During the last week of this term, children will receive their attendance record for Semester 1. We encourage fami-lies to view this document, and where appropriate, work with the school to improve attendance. A cover letter will provide parents with more detail. STUDENT ABSENCE The Hon James Merlino, MP, Minister for Education recently announced changes to the legislation with respect to school attendance. From the end of Term 2, all Victorian government schools must contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the same day of an unexplained stu-dent absence. Our school will continue to utilise COMPASS to record all absences but parents must explain any absence, late arrival or early dismissal. A letter will be coming home shortly explaining how the new SMS system for alerting parents about absences will operate at The Basin Primary School at the commencement of Term 3. FIRST AID PROGRAM All students will be participating in First Aid sessions next week. There is no cost for this program which will be conducted by St John Ambulance Australia. The sessions will be age appropriate and cover basic First Aid. PLANNING WEEK At the end of each term, the teachers have a day together in their teams to plan the curriculum and lessons for the next term. To enable the teams to meet together, specialist teachers will rotate their les-sons with relevant classes. Please note the changes as follows: Prep team will plan on Monday 25th June Levels 1&2 will plan on Tuesday 26th Levels 3&4 will plan on Wednesday 27th Levels 5&6 will plan on Thursday 28th June. Then on Friday the 29th June, Specialists meet as a team to do their planning.

June 14th 5/6 YMCA incur. 15th Winter Round Robin—Rd 2 18th Grade 1/2 excursion 18-22nd First Aid in Schools program 22nd 5/6 Girls footy 29th LAST DAY OF TERM 2—2.30PM finish NO LUNCH ORDERS TERM DATES FOR 2018 TERM 2 16th April—29th June TERM 3 16th July—21st Sept TERM 4 8th Oct - 21st Dec

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS

BUILDING UPDATE On Wednesday, I attended a site meeting with the builders and architects and can provide the fol-lowing information. The installation of the gymnasium wooden floor commences today with workers flying down from Queensland to undertake this work – they are bound to comment about our beautiful weather! The removal of the old portable toilet scheduled for this coming weekend has now been postponed until the school holidays. Concreting works around the surrounds of the gymnasium will also be occurring during the next two to three weeks. The new office building is close to being com-pleted with carpet building laid next week. We are looking forward to showing the Minister for Education, the Hon James Merlino the progress of our building works tomorrow between 2.30pm and 3.00pm. CHESS COMPETITION On Tuesday 12th June, 22 of our students from Grade 2-6 attended a Chess Tournament at The Knox School. Throughout the day each student played 7 games against students from other schools. It was pleasing to see the way everyone approached their games with such positive attitudes as they represented our school. Win, lose or draw, they genuinely enjoyed each game. Overall our school placed equal 5th. Thanks to the parents who helped with transport and supported our students throughout the day. Congratulations to Kaixin who also qualified for the Primary Open Semi-Finals. OSHCLUB HOLIDAY PROGRAM Parents utilising the OSHClub Holiday Program are advised that the car parking area will not be available due to asphalting works. Parents are requested to drop off and pick up their children from the service road, off Mountain Highway in front of the school or the staff carpark near the new ad-min building. We apologise for any convenience. TERM 3 CURRICULUM DAY The next pupil-free Curriculum Day is Friday September 7th and all staff will be participating in a professional learning day with guest consultant, Toby McIlrath. The day’s program will focus on the following: Measurement-based Assessment, Judgement-based Assessment and Diagnostic Tools. This day has been organised in line with our Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plan. END OF TERM The last day for Term 2 is on Friday 29th June and students will be dismissed at 2.30pm. Term 3 commences on Monday 16th July. Graeme Russell

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