Dear families,

Term 4 is well underway, with students and staff quickly resuming our learning routines. Student learning and wellbeing remains at the core of our work for the remainder of the school year with an added consideration of ensuring every student is prepared for the transition to their new year level. Later in the term, students will also get the opportunity to be inducted into their new learning groups as part of our whole-school Step-Up day. Until then, staff will continue working to ensure students academic, social and emotional needs are targeted and met. If you have any wonderings about your child’s progress I encourage you to arrange a meeting with your child’s teacher by contacting the front office.

Updated COVID Guidelines in School

The guidelines for managing COVID-19 in schools have been updated in line with the state government announcements last week. The new advice strongly recommends that students:

who test positive to COVID-19 stay home and isolate for 5 days
should not attend school after 5 days if still symptomatic
who are symptomatic but have not tested positive should not attend school
advise the school of the COVID-19 positive test result

Furthermore, when students become symptomatic at school they should:

be collected by their parents/carers
undergo testing for COVID-19

Albanvale Primary School will continue to strong advise the recommendations above and continue with good hygiene practices that have supported us already throughout the pandemic. These include:

Increasing ventilation to all indoor spaces including the use of Air Purifiers
Encouraging the use of facemasks when social distancing cannot be achieved
Encouraging good hand hygiene practices.

We appreciate your support in keeping our community safe.

Parent Opinion Survey

I’d like to express my gratitude to all the families who took the time to complete the annual parent opinion survey last term. The result of the survey has come through and they are overwhelmingly positive demonstrating growth in 6 out of 7 areas. An executive summary will be published in the coming weeks giving our community a greater insight into our results. Our School Improvement Team is now working though the data to decide on what actions we can take to further improve the experience families have when interacting with our schools as we seek to continuously improve on our already exceptionally high standards.

Prep Enrolment 2023 - NOW ACCEPTING ENROLMENTS

Prep enrolments for 2023 are being finalised now. If you have any children who will be attending Albanvale PS in 2023, please call to receive enrolment information. We encourage families to do this as soon as possible, so that we may begin to plan the prep transition program for Term 4.

Pre enrolment forms are available from kindergartens and on the school website https://www.albanvaleps.vic.edu.au/enrolments and can be emailed to albanvale.ps@education.vic.gov.au

Date	Event
21/10/2022	Prep Excursion Fairy Park
31/10/2022	Pupil Free day
01/11/2022	Public Holiday Melbourne Cup
07/11 to 11/11/2022	Swimming Program
14/11/2022 to 16/11/2022	3/4 Camp
12/12/2022	Prep-2 Plenty Gorge Excursion
14/12/2022	3- 6 African Drumming Incursion
16/12/2022	Christmas Performance
19/12/2022	Big Day Out Year 6
20/12/2022	Year 6 Farewell Ceremony End Of Term 1.30pm Finish

Important Dates

Updated Each School Term