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Term 2 – Week 2
Edition No 5
KEY DATES
Thursday April 23 - TOMORROW
‘Dress Up In Sports Gear Day’ – Gold coin donation
Monday April 27 – Wednesday April 29
Year 5 Camp
Tuesday April 28
SCHOOL
Yr 4 Bluearth Incursion
ASSEMBLY FOR
Junior Assembly – 1A : Hall 3.00pm
TERM 2:
Wednesday April 29
Mondays
2.50pm
Yr 6 Parliament House Excursion
Thursday April 30
Yr 1 Dinner: 5.30 – 6.30pm
Cyber Safety Parent Info Night – 7pm (Details in this edition)
Tuesday May 5
School Tour (New Enrolments) – 10.00am
LUNCH ORDER DAYS
Junior Assembly – 1C : Hall 3.00pm
Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri
Wednesday May 6
LUNCH ORDER LIST CAN BE FOUND IN
Lunchtime Sausage Sizzle
CURRENT NOTICES SECTION ON
THE SCHOOL WEBSITE
Thursday May 7
Mother’s Day/Special Person’s Day Stall
Introduction to Italian Parent Session – details in this newsletter
Tuesday May 12 - Thursday May 14
Junior Assembly – 2A : Hall 3.00pm
NAPLAN (Yr 3 and Yr 5 students only) :
Tues12th May: Language Conventions / Writing, Wed 13th May: Reading
Thurs 14th May: Numeracy
Sunday May 17
Working Bee (Details in this edition)
BOOK FAIR : Monday May 18 – Friday May 22 (Details included in this edition)
Monday May 18
Tuesday May 19
Friday May 22
8:30am - 9:15am
8:30am - 9:15am
8:30am – 9:15am
3:20pm – 4:15pm
3:20pm – 4:15pm
Pack up (1hr)
Wednesday May 20
Thursday May 21
8:30am - 9:15am
8:30am - 9:15am
3:20pm – 4:15pm
3:20pm – 4:15pm
6:30pm – 8:00pm OPEN NIGHT
Tuesday May 19
Junior Assembly – 2B : Hall 3.00pm
Wednesday May 20
School Tour (New Enrolments) – 10.00am
OPEN MORNING 9AM – 10AM
OPEN NIGHT 7- 8pm
Saturday May 23
Prep Information Session and School Tour – 9.30am (New Enrolments)
Tuesday May 26
Junior Assembly – 2C : Hall 3.00pm
Thursday May 28 – PA Event
Girls’ Night Out: 8pm – On Top Bar, Ormond (Details in this edition)
22nd April 2015
Wednesday August 19 (Term 3)
School Concert
UNIFORM SHOP HOURS:
Every Tuesday 8.30am – 9.30am
UNIFORM ORDER LIST CAN BE FOUND IN
CURRENT NOTICES SECTION
ON THE SCHOOL WEBSITE
SECONDHAND UNIFORM
SHOP HOURS:
Term Dates 2015
Term 2: 13 April to 26 June
Term 3: 13 July to
18 September
Term 4: 5 October to
18 December
Every Monday 8.45am – 9.30am
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
Drum Corps Event
Last Thursday evening Year 6 members of the C.S.P.S. Drum
Corps were invited to perform at the opening of the WW1
Centennial Photographic Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum.
Dignitaries and His Excellency, The Governor General of
Australia, General Sir Peter Cosgrove, were in attendance. Our
Year 6 drummers played flawlessly and must be commended
for their preparation and delivery. Thanks go to Mrs Hoffman for
attending the event and Mr Hood for again producing such
inspiring performances. Our best wishes to the Drum Corps for
the annual Anzac Day Parade.
Cyberbullying C.S.P.S. Parent Information Nightwww: Wondrous, Wannabees and Wrecking Balls!
Being a parent of digital aged citizens can at times be quite a
challenge. What do you say to your children and how do you
manage situations?
C.S.P.S. is pleased to announce a forthcoming parent
information night on Thursday April 30th at 7pm. Our presenter,
Donna Dalling (The School Whisperer) has extensive
experience in working within the Central and Regional Student
Wellbeing policy and program areas of the Education
Department. She led the development of the eSmart
(cybersafety initiative) roll out to all government schools with
the Alannah and Madeline Foundation. Donna provided
specialist advice to Minister and senior officials in cyber
bullying, bullying, and drug education and the respectful and
safe schools policy and programs.
Please read the attached flyer with further information about
this important event and Donna’s background. Bookings can be
made through Try Bookings for a subsidised cost of $8 onhttp://www.trybooking.com/132932
What Kind of Parking Role Model are You?
The truth is that your children learn more from your behaviour
than you think they do.
Positive role modelling by parents of 5-12 year olds has the
potential to have a huge influence on their child’s future
behaviour.
Whilst it’s the TAC latest campaign and the next stage of their
long-term Parents and Road Safety Strategy I am using as a
reference, Caulfield South P.S. would like to take this
opportunity to remind parents about their parking protocols. As
mentioned last term, we have had cause to ask parents to
respect the traffic signs, pedestrian crossing and neighbours’
driveways. They are not areas to park in! As the surrounding
streets become extremely busy during ‘peak periods’ it is not a
reason to say “ I was running late’ or ‘But it was raining’. Thank
you for being considerate to the community we all live and work
in. The goal is to keep it a safe and respectful environment for
our children.
Are you encouraging your child to be a bully?
We can often ask ourselves the question, “Why can some
children be bullies and others aren’t?’
We want our kids to grow up happy and successful, but putting
happiness and success before caring is raising a generation of
bullies.
Not all the time. Not most of the time. But some of the time.
Bullying starts and ends with an imbalance of power. Too much
or too little, the results are often the same: bullying behavior is
simply a means to gain more power.
So how do you make sure you’re raising a kind child, and
not a bully?
You’ve heard all the usual talk about what causes bullying –
overly permissive parenting, violent video games, abuse. What
might surprise you is how even the best-intentioned parents –
parents just like you – are unknowingly sabotaging their efforts
to raise kind, caring kids.
Here are the first 4 ways you may be unknowingly
encouraging bullying. (the next 4 will be published next
fortnight)
1. Gossiping
If you wouldn’t include your child in a conversation, you
shouldn’t have it within earshot of them. Kids hear everything.
Catty comments are no better than outright bullying. It’s indirect
bullying, and many of us do it all the time. At some point in your
life, someone probably decided you weren’t “cool”, and you
didn’t get a say in the matter. Didn’t feel so good, did it?
Remember that feeling. Then do your best to shut off your inner
gossip, especially in front of your kids.
2. Being too busy to show you care
You love your family. When was the last time you told your
partner or family members that you loved them? In front of your
kids? Not, “I love you, but…” but just, “I love you.” Positive
displays of intimacy in the home are the basis for our kids’
relationships. You’re busy, but a simple hug and kiss for each
family member on the way out the door in the morning is a
great start towards teaching healthy intimacy. Show them you
care, so they can show others they care.
3. The “I hate my…”
You hate your job. Those last few pounds you struggle to lose,
or dealing with that messy house– your attitude reflects how
you view the world. And when we act like we can’t change the
outcome, we act helpless. How you feel about life has a longlasting impact on your kids. Save the negative talk for after the
kids go to bed (or better yet, channel your frustration into a
hobby you love).
4. Mini-me syndrome
Kids today are ever more mature at an ever younger age.
Current culture encourages us to treat our kids like mini-adults.
Fully disclosing financial burdens, family illnesses, and work
issues just adds layers to our kids’ stress. And an outlet for
stress? Bullying.
For the full article go tohttp://www.smh.com.au/comment/eight-ways-you-may-beraising-your-child-to-be-a-bully-20150311-141qa3.html
Gill Bartholomeusz
Assistant Principal
DRUM CORPS
DRUM CORPS PRACTICE EVERY MORNING
THIS WEEK – 7.50AM
ANZAC DAY –
Saturday 25th April
Drum Corps are to meet at
St Paul’s Cathedral
(Cnr Flinders and Swanston Sts)
at 8.30am sharp!
JUNIOR SCHOOL COUNCIL NEWS
Dress up in your Favourite Sports Gear Day
On Thursday 23rd April, we will be holding a 'Dress up in
Sports Gear' day. A gold coin donation will support the Red
Cross and half the money raised will be used to purchase
supplies for the outdoor play shed for our own children.
Also ANZAC Day badges to support Legacy will be
available for sale at the office.
Prices range from $2 to $5.
Thanks from Junior School Council.
ACCIDENT INSURANCE
REMINDER:
Parents/guardians of students, who do not have student
accident insurance, are responsible for paying the cost of
medical treatment for injured students, including the cost of
ambulance attendance/transport and any other transport costs.
However, parents/guardians may wish to purchase insurance
policies from commercial insurers.
Parents/guardians and staff should all be aware that the
Department does not hold insurance for personal property
brought to schools and it has no capacity to pay for any loss or
damage to such property.
SCHOOL COUNCIL AND
SUB-COMMITTEES 2015
REMINDER: Parent Payments 2015
All parents are encouraged to finalise any remaining payments
due as soon as possible.
Part A: Essential Educational Items are the compulsory
payment that must be paid for each student as part of their
‘instruction’ in the standard curriculum program.
Part B: Voluntary Financial Contributions are much needed to
support our school but these are paid entirely on a voluntary
basis.
Grounds Maintenance Contributions - A single voluntary
contribution per family. In lieu of making this payment,
parents may opt to be rostered to perform specific duties to
improve the school environment for the benefit of all children $40
New equipment (Resource Contributions) e.g. take-home
readers, maths and science equipment, library books - $65
When paying on Qkr, please note
Grounds Maintenance is one payment per family.
ITALIAN WORD / PHRASE
OF THE WEEK
L’AUTUNNO – AUTUMN
Grazie,
INTRODUCTION TO ITALIAN PARENT
SESSION THURSDAY 7th MAY 2015
Dear Parents,
On Thursday afternoon in WEEK 4, (ie. in a fortnight) I will be
offering an Introduction to Italian session for parents. This
session would be useful for anyone who would like to have a
better understanding of how they can assist their child/ren at
home to further improve and/or enhance their skills in Italian.
This class will take place upstairs in the ITALIAN
CLASSROOM, room 16, from 2.30 -3.30.
Any further sessions will depend on the level of interest and the
number of parents who attend.
THERE WILL BE NO COST FOR THIS.
I look forward to meeting as many of you as are free/interested
in attending.
Ci vediamo giovedi`! (See you on Thursday!)
Sophie Bilionis (Italian teacher)
The new School Council for 2015 has now met and the work for
the year is well under way. The 2015 sub-committees have
been established and conveners have been appointed to
organise these. The sub-committees meet between each
School Council meeting ie twice per term. I thank all members
of School Council for their commitment to our school and those
additional community members who have joined these subcommittees that perform such an important and integral role in
the governance and maintenance of an excellent school. The
energy and generous spirit of these parents and teachers is
much appreciated. This year we have a new School Council
President, Jason Perlstein, Vice President, Steven Parolin,
Secretary is once again Andrew Davis, Treasurer is again
Miron Meydan with Steve Parolin Assistant Treasurer and the
Executive Officer is always the School Principal. Other Council
parent members this year are: Christine Cananzi, Rosy
Renwick, Andrew Ryan, John Wayne (one seconded member
still to be confirmed) and teacher members are: Gill
Bartholomeusz, Justin Cole, Prudence Herron and John Rice.
2015 Sub-committees:
Finance
Treasurer/Convener: Miron Meydan, Assistant Treasurer:
Steve Parolin
Members: Gayle Yardley, Gill Bartholomeusz, Jason Perlstein,
Margaret Salvatore
Policy
Convener: Gill Bartholomeusz
Members: John Rice, Jan Minette, Christine Cananzi,
Justin Cole
Facilities
Convener: To be confirmed at first meeting. Gayle to liaise with
members to arrange date.
Members: Lubana Squire, Andrew Ryan, Stacey Fallon,
John Wayne, Gayle Yardley, Labreni Pappas
Community Engagement
Convener: Rosy Renwick
Members: Gayle Yardley, Gill Bartholomeusz,
Bronwyn Fensham
Fundraising Liaison: John Wayne
Student ICT Focus Group
Convener: Justin Cole
Members: Andrew Davis, Miron Meydan
If any other parents would like to join any of our subcommittees, I encourage you to contact the school office or
email [email protected]
Gayle Yardley
Principal
YEAR 6
TRANSITION NEWS
MCKINNON SECONDARY COLLEGE
Information Evening:
Tuesday 5th May: 7pm in the School Assembly Hall
Tour Dates:
Thursday 7th May and Tuesday 12th May
9.15 am – 10.15am
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
DISTRICT TENNIS & STATE SWIMMING
Well done to Marisa F in Yr 6 for competing so well in the
District Tennis Trial last week! She placed 2nd in her pool.
Jordana M also placed 7th in breastroke at the State Swimming
Trials last Wednesday at MSAC! Congratulations Jordana, we
are very proud!
DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY
The DXC is scheduled for May 5 at Caulfield Park. All district
runners (including emergencies if they desire) are encouraged
to attend training sessions at Princes Park leading up to the
event. I will require some parents to help with supervision at the
park so if you are keen to help or join in please come down.
If it is raining, training will be cancelled.
Training dates are as follows:
Thursday 16th April - 8am
Tuesday 21st April - 8am
Thursday 23rd April - 8am
Tuesday 28th April - 8am
Thursday 30th April - 8am
Please bring a drink bottle & your asthma puffer if required. See
you at the park!
Heath Gibson
PE Teacher
STAY ACTIVE!
2015 International Competitions
and Assessments for Schools
(ICAS) – SCIENCE
*Attention parents of Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 students*
Dear Parents,
The 2015 International Competitions and Assessments for
Schools (ICAS) – Science, is now being offered for interested
students in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6. The competition takes place
each year in schools throughout Australia, New Zealand,
Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, the Pacific region and South
Africa. ICAS-Science is an initiative of the Educational
Assessment Australia (EAA) of the University of New South
Wales.
Students will be sitting for the test at the school on Wednesday
3rd June. There are 30-45 individual items in each paper
depending on the year level which require students to apply
their knowledge, skills and understanding across five skills
areas
of
observing/measuring,
interpreting,
predicting/concluding & investigating and reasoning/problem
solving. The tests are an excellent preparation for National tests
and the student report is useful for highlighting your child’s
strengths and weaknesses in this area.
All students receive a certificate and an individual student
report indicating which questions they answered correctly, as
well as their score compared with the rest of the students
tested.
The certificate and individual student report are also suitable for
your child to include in a portfolio. Students are eligible for
awards including High Distinction, Distinction, Credit and
Participation Certificates. Further information can be located on
the website www.eaa.unsw.edu.au
If you would like your child to participate in this competition,
please fill in and return the form below with the entry fee of
$8.80 per student, by Friday 1st May. The entry form and fee
should be returned to your child’s classroom teacher.
Due to the strict closing date set by the University, late
entries will not be accepted after this date.
Yours sincerely,
Terri O’Neill (ICAS Testing Coordinator)
………………………………………………………………
2015 ICAS SCIENCE COMPETITION
I give permission for my child
………………………………………...…………….….………
Grade ……………………….…, to participate in the 2015 ICAS
Science Competition.
Enclosed is $8.80 for the entry fee.
Parent/Guardian signature
…………………………………….…………………...
Date ………………………..….…………..
COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD
(Details located beside the double glass doors – near Prep A)
BECOME A VOLUNTEER HOST FAMILY
information on noticeboard
STUDENT EXCHANGE is looking for host families across New Zealand
to welcome overseas students into their home. Visit:
www.studentexchange.org.au/host-a-student or call 1300 135 331 for
more information
BERRY STREET - We never give up
Thinking of becoming a Foster Carer?
Information on noticeboard
GLEN EIRA CITY COUNCIL – PARENT INFO SESSIONS
Transitioning to primary school for children with a disability
Thursday April 30th – Glen Eira Town Hall: 7.30 – 9.30pm
IMPORTANT SCHOOL WORKING BEE
Call for helpers to work on our front garden
PA Events & Organisers
Date
LUNCHTIME SAUSAGE SIZZLES
Steve Feder
Wed 6 May
Wed 5 Aug
MOTHER’S DAY STALL
Miriam Wynne
Hedva Barel
We are holding a working bee on Sunday 17 May 2015 from
10 - 1pm? for any volunteers who are willing to help begin the
work of renovating our front garden. This will be done under the
supervision of Lubana Squire who is one of the members of our
School Council Facilities Sub-committee and we are lucky that
she has the skills required through working in this industry.
Lubana has already volunteered a great deal of time to help
improve our school grounds and she is very willingly continuing
this, but your help is much needed to support her efforts and it
will be greatly appreciated!!!
With the agreement of School Council, Lubana is organising the
purchase of plants and materials but we need the parent labour
to get the work completed.
This is a great opportunity for new parents to also attend as it is
a terrific way of getting to know others in our school community
while performing a wonderfully purposeful task for our school.
The Facilities Committee is hoping that, through a number of
working bees, we will be able to transform the front garden!
This is stage one.
On the day, you will just need to wear some old clothes and
bring some gloves. The school has some gardening equipment
which will be available.
If any specific equipment is needed we will put a call out nearer
the time.
We are looking forward to seeing
many willing helpers on this day!
(We appreciate that some people
prefer to participate in a working
bee in lieu of the voluntary grounds
maintenance contribution and we
are grateful for this.)
Thank you in anticipation,
Andrew Ryan and the Facilities Committee
Dad of Ashlee (2A) and Blake (4B)
……………………………………………………………………
WORKING BEE – Sunday 17 May 2015
10am – 1pm
I/We will be attending the working bee as follows:Name of Parent/s:
………………………………………………………..
Name of Child/ren
……………………………………………………….
Grade/s …………………..
Thurs 7 May
BOOK FAIR
Rachelli Sack
18 May – 22 May
MOTHER’S EVENING
Donna Sceney
Maria Giannopoulos
Thurs 28 May
SCHOOL DISCO
Melanie Gordon
Sat 8 Aug
FATHER’S DAY STALL
Louise Bloom
Thurs 3 Sep
FATHER’S DAY BREAKFAST
Jackie Phillips
Fri 4 Sep
WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY
Kerry Perlstein
Mon 5 Oct
SCHOOL FETE
Cindy McClure
Tracey Swiatlo
Sun 25 Oct
MANGO FUNDRAISER
Chrissy Cananzi
Kerry Perlstein
End of Term 4
MOTHER’S DAY/SPECIAL PERSON’S
DAY STALL
We need your help!
This year, the Mother’s Day/Special Person’s Day Stall will be held
on Thursday 7th May 2015. To ensure the stall runs smoothly, we
rely on parents to help work on the stall and pack up afterwards. So
even if you can only spare an hour on Thursday 7 May, we’d love
to hear from you.
Times slots and tasks to choose from
Day
Time Slots
Task (in Library)
Wednesday
6th May
Thursday
7th May
1:00 – 3:15pm
Stall Setup
No.of people
required
10
8.45 – 10am
Manning the stall
10
8.45 – 10am
Money counting
2
10.00 – 11am
Manning the stall
10
10.00 – 11am
Money counting
2
10.45 – 11.30am
10
10.45 – 11.30am
Manning the stall
during recess
Money counting
11.30 – 12pm
Stall pack-up
10
2
Name: …………………………………………………………
Contact Phone No. : …………………………………………
Email :
……………………………………………….…………….………
Class of eldest child at school: ……….…………….………
INSTURCTIONS FOR REGISTERING YOUR
HELP ONLINE ON NEXT PAGE
Something new is coming to our school this May.......
CAULFIELD SOUTH PRIMARY
SCHOOL BOOK FAIR
Education Week : Monday 18th – Friday 22rd May
(Includes our CSPS Open Night on Wednesday 20th May)
INTRODUCING
BOOK SUPPLIERS
AN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY FOR AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS
As Victoria's biggest school library supplier, Lamont know the books that our students love.
As they are independent of all of the publishing houses – they can include the best and biggest range of titles
from all publishers in our Annual Book Fair
This is always a popular & fun event for which we’ve previously had a great little group of volunteers
to help it run smoothly. Your involvement can be for one session (or more) & the time needed at
each session is no more than 1 hour.
We always have a good time and this year it promises to be even easier to run on a new paperless
system with fully automated check in/check out systems which keeps track of the books that we
sell!!
If you can assist with any of the times listed, please send a message directly to
Rachelli on 0412 719 482 or via email to [email protected] (Pls do it Now!!)
A roster will be drawn up & you will be notified in person ☺
SIGN ME UP TO HELP AT THE BOOK FAIR!
VOLUNTEER ONLINE BOOKINGS – INSTRUCTIONS NEXT PAGE
Name: …………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………
Contact Phone No. : ………………… ……. Email : …………………………………………………………………………….
Class of eldest child at school: ……………………………………………….…………….………………….
Friday 15th May
Setting up the book Fair 1 hour: 2:30 – 3:30pm
Monday 18th May
Tuesday 19th May
8:30am – 9:15am
8:30am – 9:15am
3:20 pm – 4:15pm
3:20 pm – 4:15pm
Wednesday 20th May
8:30am - 9:15am
3:20pm – 4:15pm
6:30pm – 8:00pm OPEN NIGHT
(please note that we always roster on enough people to ensure you have sufficient time to visit your child’s classroom/s)
Thursday 21st May
Friday 22nd May
8:30am – 9:15am
8:30am – 9:15am
3:20pm – 4:15pm
Pack up (1hr) 9:15am – 10:15am
Many thanks
Rachelli Sack (Book Fair Co-ordinator)
WEDNESDAY
6TH MAY
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AT CSPS
Information / Registration forms
are available either
outside the school office or on
the CSPS website
CLASSES COMMENCE
WEDNESDAY 29TH
APRIL
CAULFIELD SOUTH CHESS
CLUB - CHESS IDEAS
TERM 2 REGISTRATION
FORM
AVAILABLE VIA THE LINK BELOW, FROM THE
SCHOOL WEBSITE OR OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL OFFICE
More information / Payments can be made online
www.chessideas.com.au