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Postal Address: Marcus Avenue, Mount Waverley, VIC, 3149

Telephone: (03) 9802 3168 Facsimile: (03) 9886 1571

Email: mt.waverley.north.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.mtwavnth.vic.edu.au

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Term Dates

Principal Team Report

Issue 1: 1 February 2018

FEBRUARY

Friday 2nd

-Year 3/4 Tennis Clinics

Friday 16th

-Summer Interschool Sport begins (Year 5/6)-Prep Welcome BBQ, 6pm

Wednesday 21st

-‘Getting to Know You’ Parent-Teacher Meetings 1.30pm-7pm

MARCH

Thursday 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd

-Melbourne City Soccer Clinics

Friday 2nd

-St. John Ambulance First Aid in Schools Incursion

Friday 9th

-Curriculum Day (No Students at School)

Tuesday 13th

-School Photo Day

Monday 19th

-House Cross Country (Y3-6)

Monday 26th

-District Swimming Carnival (Selected Students)

Term 1: 29 Jan – 29 MarTerm 2: 16 Apr – 29 JunTerm 3: 16 Jul – 21 SeptTerm 4: 8 Oct – 21 Dec

Welcome to 2018!

Welcome to the 2018 school year. Aspecial welcome to our new families and inparticular to our new Prep students whoare starting their learning journey atMount Waverley North Primary School.

We look forward to working with all of you throughout the year to ensure yourchild’s academic and social development thrives. Our door is always open todiscuss any issues you have, and you can always catch us in the yard before orafter school.

We have enjoyed a smooth start to the school year due to our teachers workingvery hard over the last few weeks; creating stimulating learning environments,planning for the terms to come and developing explicit and engaging learningtasks for your children so that they can achieve their personal best throughoutthe year. Please take the opportunity to visit your child’s classroom to meettheir teacher and see their classroom at the start of the year.

We welcome our new staff to Mount Waverley North: Megan Corcoran, TaraKing and Ellie Campbell, as well as our returning members of staff: Emily Cluggand Todd Klein. We are delighted to have them join our existing dedicatedteaching team.

School Times

It has been fantastic to see most children arrive at school by 8.50am ready toenter the classroom with their teacher when the 8.50am bell rings. This hasallowed teaching instruction to begin at 9am, as it will do every day.

Any arrival after 9am requires sign-in at the School Office by a parent/guardian.

All absences must be reported to school on the day of the absence, before 9am,verbally or in writing by a parent/guardian.

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Breakfast Club

We are pleased to announce that Breakfast Club at Mount Waverley North Primary School will continue throughout 2018 on Tuesday and Friday mornings, beginning at 8.15am in the School Hall. This is a valuable initiative to allow our students and their families to build relationships within the community and enjoy a healthy breakfast to begin the day.

Breakfast Club is run by our wonderful School Chaplain, Carol Knox, with the support of MWNPS staff. This is a free service we offer to our community and we hope you have the opportunity to join us. All welcome.

FlexiBuzz

To ensure you stay up-to-date with what’s happening at Mount Waverley North Primary School, please ensure you are connected to the correct FlexiBuzz Communication Groups for 2018. Please check your box subscription in the app. You can do this by selecting the parallel lines at the top of the newsfeed then add/removing the boxes relevant to the information you wish to receive.

To no longer receive our communications simply remove yourself from ALL the communication groups. If you wish to have your FlexiBuzz account completely unsubscribed please email support@flexibuzz.com asking to be totally unsubscribed.

School Uniform

All children must attend school in full school uniform each day.

Our new School Logo now appears on some uniform items at PSW, including:

-Size 4, 6 & 8 School Polo Tops-All School Hats (Broad-brimmed & legionnaire)-Book Bags-School Bags-New Sports Top (Available all sizes)

Over this coming term, more items and sizes will become available.

It has been fantastic to see so many children wearing our new school sports tops. The new school sports tops will be compulsory uniform for Inter-School Sports competition for Years 5/6. We also encourage students to wear these sports tops on days when they have their Year Level Sport session:Prep: TuesdayYear 1/2: FridayYear 3/4: ThursdayYear 5/6: Thursday and on Inter-School Sports days

Lunch Orders & Food Allergies

Lunch orders are available to order online through Classroom Cuisine for Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays. Please follow the link on the FlexiBuzz app.

Please be aware that we have a number of students who are anaphylactic or have allergies to certain food items including nuts, eggs and shellfish. Please consider this when packing your child’s food for the day.

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Natalie Grieve and Andrew James

CSEF (Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund)

CSEF will be provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips,camps and sporting activities. If you hold a valid concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may beeligible for CSEF. The allowance will be paid to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions,or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.

How to ApplyIf you would like to apply, please complete an application form which can be found at:http://www.education.vic.gov.au/documents/about/programs/health/csefapplicationform.pdfFor further information about CSEF, please visit:http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/health/Pages/csef.aspxIf you have any further enquiries, please contact the school office on 9802 3168.

2018 STAFFING

PRINCIPAL TEAMPrincipalAssistant Principal

Mrs Natalie GrieveMr Andrew James

grieve.natalie.n@edumail.vic.gov.aujames.andrew.e@edumail.vic.gov.au

OFFICEBusiness ManagerOffice Manager

Mrs Trish SkafidasMrs Tricia Marshman

skafidas.trish.p@edumail.vic.gov.aumarshman.particia.a@edumail.vic.gov.au

PREPPrep HPrep D

Mrs Clare HickeyMiss Teresa D’Ambrosio

hickey.margaret.c@edumail.vic.gov.aud’ambrosio.teresa.t@edumail.vic.gov.au

YEAR 1/21/2 H1/2 E1/2 C

Mr Tristan HarperMiss Emily CluggMiss Megan Corcoran

harper.tristan.j@edumail.vic.gov.auclugg.emily.e@edumail.vic.gov.aucorcoran.megan.m@edumail.vic.gov.au

YEAR 3/43/4 M3/4 K3/4 C

Miss Naomi MathewsMiss Tara KingMiss Ellie Campbell

mathews.naomi.r@edumail.vic.gov.auking.tara.t@edumail.vic.gov.aucampbell.ellie.r@edumail.vic.gov.au

YEAR 5/65/6 M5/6 A5/6 R

Mr Lynton McKayMr Anthony MalelisMiss Courtney Ryan

mckay.lynton.l@edumail.vic.gov.aumalelis.anthony.a@edumail.vic.gov.auryan.courtney.e@edumail.vic.gov.au

SPECIALISTSArtsGermanPhysical EducationEAL, Literacy & Numeracy Support

Miss Vicki NicolosMiss Madeleine SimMr Todd KleinMiss Kimberly Marven

nicolos.vicki.v@edumail.vic.gov.ausim.madeleine.m@edumail.vic.gov.auklein.todd.d@edumail.vic.gov.aumarven.kimberly.k@edumail.vic.gov.au

EDUCATION SUPPORT Ms Carmel GrossekMrs Kaye BentleyMrs Marion MasonMs Katharina Papadimitriou

IT TECHNICIANMr Michael Lam

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