Scotsburn News 

Term 1 Important Dates

Welcome Back!

A warm welcome back to everyone in the Scotsburn community! We trust that you all had an enjoyable summer break and are ready and raring for a big school year ahead. If the first few days are anything to go by, we certainly are in for an amazing year. As you are all aware, this year we welcome teaching staff Chelsea Connor and Beth Murphy into SC1. We look forward to them continuing all the great work that has been happening in previous years in the junior classroom. 

Please make sure to have a good read of all the information below as well as keeping an eye on Compass. The start of the year is always a busy time, and it can be easy to miss important information. As always, we love parents coming in to say hello and asking lots of questions.

We look forward to seeing everyone throughout this week.

The Scotsburn team

Welcome to our 2024 Preps and Families

A big Scotsburn welcome to our new Preps Adele, Heidi, Harry and Delyth. It was wonderful to see you all happy and excited on your first day and settling into school life so well. We look forward to seeing all the great things you will achieve this year. 

We also welcome this year new students Rory, Caitlin, Tess, Townes and Annabelle to Scotsburn. What a brilliant start to the year you have all made!

Bushfire Preparedness

Scotsburn Assembly this week - Friday 7th February

This week we welcome everyone in the Scotsburn community to our first Scotsburn assembly. As was the routine last year, we will hold our assemblies in the shed at 3pm. We can’t wait to introduce our new Scotsburn leaders, Grade 6 students, 2025 preps, new students, as well as new families. We will also include some celebrations and awards to start the year, which will be wonderful. We look forward to seeing you there.

Family Groups - Starting Week 3

We also can’t wait to get back into Friday Family Groups this year, with us kicking off next Friday (Week 3). We will run these sessions this year from 2pm - 3:30pm, on weeks where we don’t have assemblies. For Term 1, we will have a cooking group, and a sustainability/team building group. Across the year, we will look to keep the Cooking group consistent, along with our Sustainability Group.

Next week we will include in the newsletter our groups and schedule. It is a good idea to send a small tupperware container with your child during the weeks that they are cooking, as they may bring some yummy food home!

Toastie Tuesday and Thursday Breakfast Club - Starting this week

This week we will be starting back up our Toastie Tuesdays and Breakfast Club. Remember to send $1 with your child on Tuesdays if they would like to purchase a toastie, and also be ready on Wednesday mornings to come into the old building for some yummy breakfast, which is free of charge! We will be once again looking for some parent assistance with these programs - please let any Scotsburn staff know if you can volunteer some time.

Meet and Greet - Monday 17th February and Wednesday 19th February

This year with welcoming both some new staff and new families to the campus, we thought that it may be a good opportunity to return to our more familiar individual Meet and Greet arrangements, with individual time slots to book with your child's teacher/teachers.

Bookings for Meet and Greet interviews with your child's classroom and specialist teachers are now open in Compass for Monday, February 17th from 4-6 pm and Wednesday, February 19th from 1:30-5pm (students finish at the earlier time of 1 pm this day). Bookings will close on Friday, February 14th at midday.

These are important meetings to help teachers better understand your child and for you to gain an understanding about the routines and rituals that will be implemented as part of your child's learning this year.

The goals for the Meet and Greet sessions are:

•  For teachers and parents to meet
•  So teachers have time to explain routines and what to expect as part of the learning in 2025
•  For parents to ask questions
•  For teachers to get to know more about the student

There are 10 minutes allocated to each meeting. If your chat requires a longer period of time, please feel free to organise another meeting on an alternative day.

Arrival Time

8:45am is an ideal time to arrive at school, as the classrooms and playground are not supervised until then. If you are regularly requiring your child to be dropped off prior to this time, just a reminder that we do have before school care available at the Buninyong Campus. Students attending before school care at Buninyong are transported via bus to the Scotsburn campus before 9:00am. Feel free to catch up with any of the Scotsburn staff if you have any questions about your child’s morning drop off arrangements.

At Scotsburn, we want all students to be ready to start the day at 9am. If your child is absent on any given day, please ensure that you contact the Buninyong Primary School office to inform them, so as our role marking procedures are accurately updated.

Bus Travellers

If your son/daughter is a bus traveller and you haven’t already done so, please contact the Buninyong campus office to complete the required forms. A reminder that if travel plans change on any certain day, please call the Scotsburn Campus or come and see the bus duty teacher before collecting your child. This will save any confusion when doing the bus roll.

Lunch orders

The canteen will be back up and running for lunch orders each Wednesday and Friday. Please use the QKR app to order these.

Items Brought to School

Just a reminder that toys do not need to be brought into school. We have lots of toys and resources at our lunch club and in the classrooms which students can play with and enjoy. Personal items brought to school can be lost and damaged and teachers can not guarantee that these possessions will be kept safe. 

Local Excursion Consent

Annual local excursion permission is now required from all families. A Compass event has been created and sent to families. Local excursions are excursions to locations within walking distance of the school and do not involve ‘Adventure Activities’. Please note that while we do not need to seek further consent from parents before local excursions take place, we are required to provide advance notice to parents/carers of upcoming local excursions through Compass. For local excursions that occur on a recurring basis, we can notify parents/carers once only prior to the commencement of the recurring event. Many of these local excursions will occur across the year when we are joining students down at the Buninyong campus.

Hats and Uniform

Also, a reminder that students are required to wear the school hat when outside in Term 1. If your child has lost or misplaced their hat, new hats can be purchased from the Buninyong Campus office. 

Please also have a good read of the uniform section in the newsletter, as a reminder of the correct uniform to be worn each day to school. Last year the Scotsburn students did a wonderful job maintaining high uniform standards and we know this will continue this year.

SC1 Learning Snapshot

SC1 has had such a wonderful start to 2025. The first week was extremely settled as we began to explore our Learning to Learn program. This will continue throughout Week 2 as we set up our learning space as a team, teach routines, expectations and organisation. These first 2 weeks also give us a chance to delve into our school values, respectful - responsible - kind, and what this looks like in the classroom, yard and community. We know our students do a wonderful job at this and enjoy taking ownership of how we can all be happy and inclusive at school as well as setting up the best possible learning environment for everyone. 

We hope everyone now has a copy of our Term 1 newsletter that was sent home last week with your child. If you have any questions about anything, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. 

Thanks, and have a great week.

Chelsea and Beth

SC2 Learning Snapshot

What a brilliant start SC2 has made to 2025! This week we are continuing our Learning to Learn focus, developing our classroom routines and rituals, as well as our agreed classroom expectations. We could not be more impressed with how each and every student in SC2 has contributed to this work so far.

Homework and home reading will commence this Friday. We will continue making a big push this year to maintain wonderful homework routines, including nightly home reading. Students in SC2 can read at home independently, however we would love to have parents discuss with their child their reading as well as sign off that their child has completed their home reading.  

Finally, we have now confirmed our SC2 class roles for 2025. All students in SC2 will have a role of responsibility this year, which they are very excited about! Over the next few weeks we will be providing some training and preparation so that students can complete these roles independently across the year. Here are the roles for 2024:

Have an amazing week everyone!

Jarrod and Liz

Specialist News and Specialist Timetable

Once again this year our Specialist program will be a shared role between Mrs Morgan and Ms Middlin. Mrs Morgan will be teaching Art and Japanese on Wednesdays, and Ms Middlin will be teaching Physical Education, Performing Arts and STEM on Thursdays. 

Below is Scotsburn’s Specialist timetable for Term 1.

A Message from Ms Middlin

This Thursday is our first Physical Education and Performing Arts lessons. Please make sure you bring a labelled drink bottle and wear runners.

Our topics for PE Term 1 will include:

SC1- routines and expectations, minor games and tagging and fleeing strategies

SC2- Routines and expectations, health and fitness and athletics. 

Our topics in Performing Arts in Term 1 will be:

SC1 and SC2 will both be focusing on Music. 

Thanks!

Ms Middlin

Staff Contacts

Mr Morgan: jarrod.morgan@education.vic.gov.au

Mrs Murphy: Elizabeth.Murphy@education.vic.gov.au

Mrs Connor: Chelsea.Connor@education.vic.gov.au

Mrs Morgan: elizabeth.morgan2@education.vic.gov.au

Ms Middlin: rachel.middlin@education.vic.gov.au

The Scotsburn Team