Principal's Update
Angelika Ireland

Are you interested in joining our School Council?

A parent vacancy has arisen on School Council for 2024.

Parents on school councils provide important viewpoints and have valuable skills that can help shape the direction of the school. Parents who become active on a school council find their involvement satisfying and may also find that their children feel a greater sense of belonging. You do not need any special experience to be on School Council. What you do need is an interest in your child’s school and the desire to work in partnership with others to help shape the school’s future.

School Council meets two times each term starting at 6:30pm. School Councillors are also required to be on a sub-committee of School Council – Finance, Buildings or Community Links.

Please contact the school office if you are interested.

Morning Drop Off.....'Kiss and Drop'

Just a reminder that there are 4 designated car areas (P2 minute zones) for dropping off your child/ren in the morning between 8-9am. There are two on Bradford Avenue and two down Langton Way.

These areas are NOT FOR PARKING during these times. They are a ‘Kiss & Drop’ zones. These areas work effectively if parents do exactly that – pull up, kiss their child/ren, children get out of the car, parent drives off and vacates the space so that the next car can do the same. Parents must NOT park and leave their car in these zones in the morning before 9:00am. Parking officers from Hume City Council frequently drive around our school. However, more importantly our school values of Respect and Responsibility. Respect for other families within the school community and allowing them access to also drop off their children in the ‘Kiss and Drop’ zones and Responsibility to follow parking instructions as signed.

Additionally, please do not park on the school crossing or next to the flags. Children are walking behind the cars when this happens, which is very dangerous. Please ensure that your child crosses the road using the crossing, we have had a number of near misses due to children not using the crossing.

There is NO parent parking in the school car park.If you want to leave your car to accompany your child into the school you will need to find parking in the surrounding streets.

Please be considerate and safe.

Reading together with your Child

Reading is an important way to make the link from spoken words to written words.

Reading to your child is a valuable thing to do. Here are some tips:

Encourage your child to select the books, magazines, catalogues, multimedia stories or DVDs.
Discuss the pictures in a book and encourage your child to talk about
the pictures.
Share wordless picture books to develop imagination, ideas and vocabulary by naming things in the pictures.
Re-read your child’s favourite books and stories.
Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books.
Support your child to make their own books with pictures and then 'read' the story to you.

Reading with your child will begin when your child becomes familiar with the story and can take over some of the reading.

When your child reads to you, allow time for working out words and ask questions to see if he or she understands what they have read.

If your child is trying to read a long or tricky word, give your child time and ask questions like these:

Look at the picture, what can you see that might start with that letter?
Look at the picture, what word makes sense?
What letter does it start with? What sound does the letter make?
What letter does it end with?

It’s also important for you to show your child how you read every day for different purposes, for example: recipes, greeting cards, calendars, shopping lists, food labels, instructions, maps, newspapers, emails, signs, and websites.

Smoking is banned in and around Schools

Smoking (including e-cigarettes) is banned within the school grounds and within four metres of an entrance to all primary and secondary schools, childcare centres and kindergartens in Victoria under an amendment to the Tobacco Act 1987.

The smoking ban applies to:

anyone present on school premises during and after school hours including students, teachers, contractors, parents/guardians or the wider community, such as sporting groups.
all activities that take place on school premises including pre-schools, kindergartens, outside school hours care, cultural, sporting or recreational activities and school fetes.

Foundation 2025

If you have a child that will be starting Foundation in 2025 please read the information below:

Enrolment Guidelines for Foundation 2025

Please visit our website greenvaleps.vic.edu.au for information regarding the timeline for Foundation 2025 enrolments and school tours. The process has changed and we are unable to distribute enrolment application forms until the 15th April 2024 - Term 2.

If you click the link below, it will take you to the registration form for Foundation 2025. Existing families are not required to book in a tour but are quite welcome to if you would like.

https://forms.office.com/r/JCkyGjptjZ

Once you have registered, we will email you an enrolment form or they will be available to collect from the office. Enrolment applications are to be returned by Friday 26th July 2024.

Food for Thought:

Regards