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DATES TO REMEMBER

November

27th—State Softball

29th— Student Free Day

December

3rd—School Council

10th—Transition Day

11th—School Swimming Sports

14th—School’s 40th Birthday celebration

17th—Volunteers’ Morning Tea 11—11.30am

18th—Gr 6 Graduation

Kilcunda Bass Football Clubroom

19th—Awards ceremony

Fri 20th—End of Term 4 (2.30pm finish)

January 2020

30th—First day back for Term 1!

NUMBER: 37 DATE: 21st November 2019

BASS VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL + Phone (03)56780208 + Principal: Mrs Leanne

Edwards

Bass Valley Primary School

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A NEW FACE TO INTRODUCE Many of our students and parents have already met Rachel Mauger who is currently completing an Intern Principal placement at the school. Rachel is the Assistant Principal at Pakenham Hills PS and will return there at the end of her 7 week placement (second last week of term). The program provides the Interns with mentoring, gaining a different perspective in a new school and upskilling in the financial and planning aspects of being a Principal. Welcome Rachel! 2020 STAFFING AND GRADE STRUCTURES

We welcome some new staff to Bass Valley Primary School next year, as we continue to steadily grow. We will have 12 classrooms next year, and at this stage staff have not been allocated to grades. Mrs Pam Grummisch is taking 12 months leave and Mrs Vanessa Milnes has completed her contract. Teaching Staff for 2020 in alphabetical order: Therese Axford, Samantha Dean, Tess Ennoss, Jan Hodgson Rob Horsburgh, Tina Mayling, Kellie Murray, Fergus O’Connor, Jess Vanweynsberge, Jade Wallace, Karen Williams and Kim Worrell. We also have the following specialist teachers for 2020: Jon McCormick – Health and PE, Nick Carver – Music, Fiona Nicholls-French Sarah Sullivan – Art /Drama In Administration: Leanne Edwards – Principal, Emma Harris – Assistant Principal, Sheree Chasemore – Office Manager and Lesley Oats- Office support We have also advertised a part time Social Work position to begin in 2020. Grade Structures Next year the 12 grades will comprise the following structure:

Prep, Prep, Grade 1, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 2, Grade 2/3, Grade 3/4,

Grade 3/4, Grade 4/5, Grade 5/6, Grade 5/6.

Parent Requests: If parents have any particular requests for next year please speak to Emma Harris or Leanne Edwards before 3.00 pm on Tuesday 26th of November (next Tuesday). Staff will be working on placing children in to grades at our staff meeting Tuesday afternoon. If any parents have changes to enrolments next year due to moving etc, please let us know asap to help in the planning process. DUCKLOTTO A HUGE thankyou to our Parents Club who coordinated the Ducklotto fete. After a very wet day it ended up being fine enough for everyone to enjoy all of the activities and food on offer. We are pleased to announce we reached our fundraising goal and the new play equipment has been ordered. Installation will begin in 1 week! Congratulations to our winners 1st Prize- Goewie Family, 2nd Prize- Harris Family, 3rd Prize- J Petrie, 4th Prize- Allan and Margret George GOOD LUCK SOFTBALLERS We wish our girls softball team all the best for next Wednesday as they play off in the State Softball finals.

Well done BVPS. We had a parent comment on how polite our students are .

Keep up the great work!

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BIRTHDAYS AT BASS VALLEY : Students who are celebrating their

birthdays this week are:

Monica Bartels, Keely Stephens, Masen Fleming & Jai Johnstone

We hope you all have a wonderful

birthday.

GRANTVILLE COMMUNITY BENDIGO BANK The Christmas giving tree is set up at the Grantville Bendigo Bank branch. Donations of toys and gifts for children and families are now being accepted. All gifts go to local families in need. CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 4 28th November—Erin Miller & Kylie Keher 5th December—Chris Wallace & Kayte Stringer 12th December— Amber Rees & Jan Bardwell No canteen in last week of term 4.

NEXT WEEK There will be some changes to the swimming timetable next week to make sure every grade has a swim session. The changes are due to there being no swimming on Wednesday with Mr McCormick and Kylie Lansdown both attending the State Softball finals and Friday being a student free day. Please note the swimming days for each grade next week: Monday – 5/6W, 3/4D, 2H, 1 W and PG Tuesday- 4/5V, 5/6M Thursday- 3/4M, 1 H, PA, 2M VISITING STUDENTS Next week we welcome 12 year 9 students and 2 staff from the Knox school in Wantirna South. The students are completing a service project and will spend several days volunteering at Bass Valley PS. They will be involved in making a video for our 40th birthday and some work in the library area and gardens. We look forward to being a part of this great project.

Leanne Edwards

Principal

HEAD LICE We have had a case of head lice at the school. Please keep a look out for these little critters and treat accordingly. We will be having a whole school head lice check sometime next week. Thank you. Treating head lice

Concentrate on the head - there is no evidence that you need to clean the house or classroom.

No treatment kills all of the eggs so treatment must involve two applications seven days apart.

If you are using lotions, apply the product to dry hair.

There is no need to treat the whole family, unless they also have head lice.

Only the pillowcase requires specific laundering; either wash it in hot water (at least 60 degrees centigrade) or dry it using a clothes dryer on the hot or warm setting.

There is no product available that prevents head lice. Using the conditioner and comb method once a week will help you detect any head lice early and minimise the problem. Tying back long hair can help prevent the spread of head lice. Combs with long, rounded stainless steel teeth positioned very close together have been shown to be the most effective, however, any head lice comb can be use.

ZOOPER DOOPER TUESDAYS

The grade 5/6 students will be selling Zooper Doopers on Tuesdays for $1 to raise money for their 5/6 Camp. Students can purchase them from the Canteen at lunchtime. SWIMMING The weather is heating up so please make sure your children are wearing sunscreen. Also please ensure all swimwear is labelled. Remember that parents / carers are not permitted to watch their children during swimming classes. There will be a designated time later in the term for parents to come and see their child’s progress. Thank you. VOLUNTEERS MORNING TEA We will be holding a special morning tea to say thank you to all our fabulous volunteers that help our school and student throughout the year. It will be in the staffroom on Tuesday 17th December from 11—11.30am. So if you have helped in the classroom or canteen, been part of the Parents & Friends or helped with our working bees; we would love to see you there.

JUNIOR SCHOOL ATHLETICS DAY

Under trying conditions the preps, grade 1 & 2 students

did an amazing job completing all their activities. Thank you to all the parents who came to support their

children.

HOLIDAY CARD EXCHANGE PROJECT Grade 2M and 2H are participating in the Holiday Card Exchange Project. It is an international project. Children around the world explain their holiday traditions by sending cards to their partner schools. We will be able to understand more about other countries' culture and traditions. We will be investigating maps and the globe and exploring geography. The countries we have been matched with are: Taipei, Taiwan, Russia, Belarus, Slovenia, Poland and India.

We will receive an envelope with cards from a number of different countries and we will be making an

exhibition to show our school community. In this project we will learn about holiday traditions in other countries. At the end of the

project, everyone will go home with a collection of hand-made cards from children around the world.

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