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Number: 38 Date: 30th November 2016

Tucker Road, Bentleigh Primary School - No: 4687 16 Tucker Road Bentleigh 3204 P.O. Box 1341 Moorabbin 3189 Phone: 9557 2044 Fax: 9557 2181 Web Site: http:/www.tuckerroad.vic.edu.au Email: tucker.rd.bentleigh.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

DATES TO DIARY 2016 Tuesday 6th December Grade 6 Orientation Day Monday 12th December PFA Meeting 9.30am Wednesday 14th December Awards Morning Thursday 15th December Year 6 Graduation Monday 19th December Fun Graduation Party Tuesday 20th December FINAL DAY OF SCHOOL 2016

Newsletter Term 4 Week 9

Mini Fete News The TRBPS annual Mini Fete was yesterday and the weather was very pleasant with no rain which made for a very enjoyable afternoon. The children spent Tuesday afternoon ‘spruiking’ their stalls; especially the year 6 students who design and manage their own stall each year. All classes have been busy organising their displays, posters and merchandise to sell over the past few weeks. Thank you to all of the TRBPS staff and students who have prepared some very exciting stalls for the mini fete or provided assistance with counting money or showing guests around. Overall it was a great success and I enjoyed chatting with all of the parents, carers and students as they were managing their stalls or just simply wandering around the mini fete to purchase the merchandise on offer. It was an exciting afternoon for everyone involved and what a fantastic way to raise money to support our school programs and activities. The year six students are to be commended for their creativity and initiative in preparing and running their own stalls; working in pairs or small teams to achieve a successful outcome. Thank you to everyone in the school community and wider who donated merchandise. We couldn’t have implemented this event without all of your kind support. We hope everyone enjoyed the day and look forward to sharing the amount of funds raised which will further support the school; what a fantastic community effort! It was wonderful to see so many of our new 2017 Prep families roaming around and enjoying the day.

Reports and Class Allocations Teachers have been very busy assessing student learning and writing reports; they are presently completing the final edit amidst the excitement of mini fete preparation. Reports are due to be sent home on December 16. The teachers are currently allocating children to classes. Thank you to all of the parents from whom I have received requests, and as mentioned earlier we will endeavour to attend to the requests in accordance with the criteria mentioned in previous newsletters. Please understand that it is not possible to take on any new requests after the closing date (November 21). We really would like to have classes for 2017 finalised by the start of next week. The staff as a whole have decided on the class structure for 2017 and this model will include 5 classes of 5/6 .This decision was announced and explained at the transition and information evening held last night which was hosted by Rachel Kushnir ( 5/6 Team Leader). The meeting

was held in the SOL centre and parents/carers were informed of the general expectations across the year level and how this 5/6 unit would function in 2017. Rachel explained the homework expectations and operations of this area and touched on aspects of the curriculum. There will be another Information Evening to explain more about the curriculum, camps and special events for each of the year levels early 2017.

The reasons for the decision to have 5 classes of 5/6 was not made lightly and staff were diligent in considering all of the social, emotional and educational needs of the current year 4 and 5 children. All of the staff were consulted in this decision making process and it was also explained at the School Council meeting last week and the decision was very well supported by the councillors; many who have children moving into the year 5 and 6 level. The reasons expressed by staff for this model decision were extremely valid. The following class structure for 2017 will be:

Student Numbers, Staffing and Class Structure for 2017 We will have approximately 629 students and there will be 26 classes in total across the school as well as 4 specialist areas (Visual Art, Music Performing Arts, PE and LOTE – Italian). The class structure model is as follows: Year Prep/Foundation: 5 classes Year 1: 4 classes + 1 x 1/2 class Year 2: 4 classes Year 3 and Year 4: 3 x Year 3 classes + 2 x Year 3/4 classes + 2 x Year 4classes Year 5 and 6: 5 x Year 5/6 classes

Students nominated for the TRBPS Values Award for 28th November 2016 Max Enright Adam Chouchair Peter Sfetsas Benjamin Blyth Peter Glass Mason Leech Buffy Robinson Sofia Anastopoulos Levi Dobbs Alex Bennett Noam Barel Katie Wall Michael Chen Izzie Craig Leanne Zyntek Josh McLennan Chloe Clarke Ian Castro

Term Dates - 2017

Term1

30th January (teachers) 31st January (students)

To 31st March

Term2

18th April

To 30 June

Term3

17th July

To 22nd September

Term4

9th October

To 22nd December

Canteen News

Reminder

Orders are to be written clearly on a lunch bag in blue, black or red ink, any other marker is difficult to read. Please do not sticky tape lunch bags up. A reminder to enclose .10 cents for a bag if an envelope is used. *Please note ‘Fruit Tubes’ are now 0.60c Incorrect money could result in disap-pointed children

Canteen Roster Thursday 17th November Anna Leech Kathleen Beattie Tuesday 22th November Rebecca Thompson Thursday 24th November Maria Garufi Tuesday 29th November Michele Rozenberg Thursday 1st December Kylie Brkic Kate Wengier Tuesday 6th December Sisira Attanayake

More information in relation to the staff that will be teaching in each year level will be announced in the next newsletter. We are currently interviewing for new staff as we say goodbye to a few of the current staff who are broadening their horizons by embracing opportunities for professional growth at other schools. We congratulate Ms Kelly Coyle who was the successful applicant at Lysterfield Primary School, Mr Simon Brown who was the successful applicant at Hughesdale Primary School and Mr James Ireson who was the successful applicant at Chelsea Heights PS. On behalf of TRBPS community I wish to thank them all for their excellent contributions to the school and wish them all the very best success and happiness as they take up their new position for 2017. Mr James Borghero is taking one year of leave for professional study. We hope James enjoys his year of study and we look forward to him returning in 2018.

Working Bee – Friday evening November 25 I would like to thank the following families and staff for their attendance at the Twilight Working Bee last Friday evening. Thank you to Rosie Deriboklou, Darius Culvenor, Ka Lun Ng, Sisira Kumana, Peter Seddon, and James Ireson who assisted to complete various maintenance and grounds work around the school, we really appreciate your dedication to the school. A special thank you is extended to Mr Kel Segbedzi (convenor of the School Council Sub-Committee BAGs team) for overseeing this Working Bee which was our last for this year.

There will be more information on how you can become involved on School Council and the various sub committees in next week’s newsletter. We will be saying goodbye to some of our dedicated and long serving members of the various school committees this year. Have a great week! Regards, Robyn Farnell

OUR FAMILY TUCKER

COOKBOOK

Thank you to our school community for your support in celebrating the launch of Our Family Tucker. Cookbooks can now be purchased directly from the school office ($30.00) and if you ordered in the pre-sale please also see the office for collection. Many thanks, Vanessa

School Sport Victoria - Region Girls Cricket.

Congratulations to the Tucker Rd hardball girls cricket team who are Region Champions for 2016. Playing in the final against Bentleigh West Primary we batted first scoring 109 runs (Megan Medland top scoring with

21no). On coming in to bowl Elly Krinelos took a wicket with the first ball of the innings, setting the scene for a dominant fielding performance restricting Bentleigh West to only 56. All girls had the opportunity to bat and bowl and it

was a fun day for everyone involved.

Many thanks to Kate Hartwig for her excellent Captaining of the team, to Michael Heenan for umpiring and to Bentleigh ANA cricket club for opening their club rooms for all the girls.

OUR FAMILY TUCKER OUR FAMILY TUCKER It’s not too late!! Copies are still available.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity. What a great Christmas Gift. Do you need one? More? You haven’t missed out. Copies are available through the Office $30.

RAFFLE!!! December 12 Draw date. Don’t miss out on your tickets to holiday fun. This is an amazing fundraiser for our school Have you got your Raffle Tickets? Are your kids excited? Do you want more? Better

your odds by asking the Office for more tickets.

Grade 6 Graduation Dinner Monday 19th December. LEAD BY EXAMPLE-Grade 6 Graduation plans are underway and sound exciting. Briony will be contacted you-if she hasn’t already! This is a fun way to help out our Tucker Rd community out of business hours – a rare opportunity! If you can help PLEASE contact Briony - bloimaranta.gmail.com

Parents and Friends Association

Next Meeting! Monday 12th December 12.30pm Astroluxe. Chesterville Rd.