Principal's Report

Crazy Hair Mackenlay

Whole School Transition

Yesterday, our first whole school transition session was held. Students were given the opportunity to complete two different activities with groups of other students from their year level. Staff closely observed how students interacted with each other and will move students around in an attempt to find the best fit for students. Our next transition session on Friday is of similar format. Staff will then finalise classes in time for students to meet their 2023 class teacher and classmates on Tuesday 13th December.

Student Attitude to School Survey

The Student Attitude to School Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training to assist our school in gaining an understanding of our students' perceptions and experience of school. This year 158 of our students in Years 4, 5 & 6 participated in the confidential online survey. We value student voice and the results of this survey are used by our Wellbeing and Curriculum Teams to identify the needs of our students and plan for future supports are focus areas of improvement.

	Highlights	Agree
High Expectations	My teacher expects me to do my best	96%
Classroom Behaviour	My teacher sets clear rules for classroom behaviour	94%
Sense of Inclusion	I have friends at this school	96%
Respect for Diversity	It is okay to be different at this school	91%

	Areas to Explore Further	Agree
Student Agency	At this school, I help decide things like class activities or rules	49%
Perseverance	I can recover in a short time when something bad happens to me	65%
Student Online Experiences	Has anyone sent you something on the internet (i.e. on social media, in an email or online message) that made you upset or uncomfortable?	31%

Christmas Carols

We are so excited that our annual Christmas Carols event is able to return this year!

We will be holding our Carols on the school oval on Thursday 8th December from 5.30pm.

The evening kicks off with a family picnic, so please bring a rug, find a spot and enjoy a picnic dinner before the carolling begins at 6pm.

Each class will be performing a Christmas Carol for you to sing along to and we have been told we may have a special visitor dropping by to conclude the night ;) ;)

(Please note that this event is weather permitting, we have everything crossed the weather cooperates with our plans!)

Christmas Raffle

We are asking for donations to create Christmas hampers that can be raffled to raise money for our school. Thank you to everyone who has already contributed but we are still in urgent need of donations to fill our hampers

Inflatables Day

On Monday the 19th December we had scheduled a day for students to take part in an inflatable activity program. Unfortunately it has become clear that this will not be possible as access to the oval at the moment is very restricted and the trucks will be unable to deliver the equipment. We apologise for any disappointment that this may cause, we have plans to reschedule the day for early next year, perhaps to celebrate the opening of our new and improved oval!

Traffic Safety

I would like to remind all members of our school community to follow the road and parking rules in order to improve the safety and access of all of our children when arriving or leaving school. Please note that our kiss and drop off zone still remains at the bus stop, there is no kiss and drop zone out the front of the admin building, it is signed parking bays.

I will continue to work closely with the Casey Council's Road Safety Team and Parking Compliance Team, who will be monitoring, educating and enforcing compliance with parking at our school. They have also provided the following information that clearly outline the specific rules around Pick Up and Drop of Zones, like the one at the bus stop.

Our School Community appreciate your support with this!

Eating Times

At Clyde Primary School there are a number of opportunities for students to eat throughout the school day. During the morning, and again later in the day, students are able to have fruit breaks. This is where students are able to eat fruit or vegetables during lesson time. In addition to this, students have a snack break before going out at recess and a lunch break before lunch time. During this time students are given time to eat their snack and lunch. Any food that has not been eaten during the break times can be taken outside without wrappers. We encourage students to take outside solid food items such as cereal bars rather than loose items which could be easily spilt.

Next year we will be looking at encouraging Nude Food at school. Nude Food is a term for food brought to school without excess packaging. More information on this will be provided next year.

Junior Sports

Last week students in Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 took part in an Athletics event at Casey Fields. During the event the students we placed into House Teams and had the opportunity to take part in a range of different sports from the long jump to hurdles. It was fantastic to see the children in their house colours taking part in all of the events. Thank you to our student leaders and the parent helpers who supported this wonderful day and helped make it such a success.

Crazy Hair Day

This morning it was very exciting to see a number of students and staff come to school with crazy hair. It was fantastic to see the imaginative hairstyles and we appreciate how much effort was put into this event across the school. $397 was raised from this fundraiser and will go to the SES to provide support to communities affected by the recent floods across Australia.

Curriculum Day

Friday the 9th of December is a Curriculum day for our staff. As such this will be a student free day.

Staff Training

Yesterday, a number of our staff completed their annual Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training. We have a number of staff who are trained in first aid and to be up to date, they are required to re-fresh their CPR training each year.

End of Term

Tuesday the 20th December is our last day of school for the year. Please note that it is an early dismissal time at 1.30pm on this day.

2023 Start of School Year

Above you will find the starting school dates for next year. The office will be re-open on Friday 27th and Monday 30th January to take enquiries.

Team Kids will operate over the Summer school holidays and will also offer care for children on the above Curriculum Days. All families can use this service, you do not need to be a regular user, you may just need to book in for the occasional day or two and you can do this by clicking on the following link:

https://teamkids.com.au/venues/clyde-primary-school-oshc/

There are some great activities planned for the holiday program, check out the flyer in the Team Kids page of this newsletter.