A Message from Vassie
Vassie Vatsilas-D'Arcangelo - Principal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri, Woi Wurrung and Boonwurrung/Boonarung Peoples of the Kulin Nation and pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. Aboriginal people have a deep and continuous connection to the place now called Victoria. Aboriginal people have lived in the Maribyrnong River valley for over 40,000 years.
Welcome to Week Six of Term Three!
We have had a great couple of weeks at Wembley PS with the Year 5 UPP incursion, Olympics Dress Up, Year 6 Fundraiser and bake sale, girls regional soccer success, and author visits and door displays honouring Book Week.
Father's Day
WPA Father's Day Stall
Next week, we have the WPA fathers day stall on Friday 30 September. Students will be taken through the stall, and gifts will be available for purchase from $1-$8.
We thank Kate Allen, Linh Krygger, Eileen Rawstron, and the many parent volunteers kindly supporting the stall.
Wishing our community members all the best as you acknowledge Father's Day. Thank you to the fathers, father figures and special people in our community that support and love our students.
We hope that you enjoy the breakfast in bed, cuddles and hand made cards, from your little loves. We also acknowledge that this day can be challenging for many people for various reasons and we hope that you take good care of yourself in the lead up to Sunday 1 September, and afterwards.
Fathers Day/Special Persons events - Prep and Year One Team
- Prep-We are inviting all Dads/Special People into Prep on Friday 30 August in celebration of Fathers Day. Please arrive at your child's classroom line up spot at 2:30pm. You will be completing an activity with your child, before heading outside to assembly. An invitation will go home in your child's satchel this week. If you cannot make this event, please let your child's classroom teacher know.
- Year One-Monday 2 September, from 9:05am to 10:00amin honour of Father’s Day. The students have been busy creating a writing piece to share with their special person on the day and are excited to present it to them. Students and their special person will also have the opportunity to complete a craft activity together. We understand that not everyone will be able to attend this event, so we extend our invitation to other important members of your family. If no representative from your family is able to attend, please inform your child's teacher so they can make necessary arrangements so that your child can work with someone else for the activity.
Remaining Pupil Free Day - Monday 4 November
As previously shared, please note we have one final pupil free day on Monday 4 November which will be a Report Writing Day.
TheirCare will be operating on the pupil free days to provide care for students, if required by families. Bookings can be made by directly contacting TheirCare on wembley@theircare.com.au, ph: 1300 072 410.
Capital Building Works Project-Thursday 5 September!!!
We are very proud to share that we the building is almost completed.
In the new building we will have 6 classrooms, as well as the art room, music room, spanish room, STEM space, staffroom, school office, conference room, 2 x meeting rooms, and gender neutral/all access toilet facilities.
Year 4 classes, Rachel's year 5 class, specialist teachers and our office staff are now decanting, preparing to move into the new building throughout the final 2 weeks of term.
Over the holiday break asbestos removal will occur, and demolition will begin, and at such time the TheirCare Holiday program will be relocating to another school.
We will be operating out of the new building from the beginning of term four! Watch this space for a community open afternoon where parents will have an opportunity to walk through the building.
The progress is great and the most recent site walk was very pleasing. See below for photos! We are on the home stretch now.
BOOK WEEK
Book Week Costume Parade
This is a reminder about the Book Week Parade tomorrow morning, Friday 23 August at 9:05am on the soccer pitch. Students and staff members will have the opportunity to dress up, using a book as inspiration. They may dress as their favourite character, in the theme of a book or inspired by the front cover of a book.
Parents and siblings are very welcome to attend and watch the parade.
Book Week
This week, Wembley Primary School and the Children's Book Council of Australia. (CBCA) is celebrating Book Week.
We are excited to be acknowledging Australian children's authors and illustrators, and have had a wonderful week of engaging learning activities across the school. This years' theme is 'Reading is Magic'.
You will see the AMAZINGLY creative door displays across the school, that all students and staff members have excitedly contributed to!
Author Visits
Each year we organise for Australian authors to come and visit Wembley Primary School. They engage the students with presentations about their writing process, idea generation and inspiration, while answering the many questions that are asked by our enthusiastic readers!
This year, the following authors are presenting to our students:
Tuesday 20 August: Ailsa Wild ('Small Friends' series, 'The Naughtiest Pixie' series and many more) for students in Years 3 - 6
Thursday 22 August: Emma Bowd ('This Is My Happy Place', 'Wonderful Shoes', 'The Day You Were Born', and more) for students in Prep to Year 2.
It has been a fun-filled week, celebrating literacy, literature, authors and illustrators.
I'd like to thank Carmel Manning and the Whole School Events Committee for coordinating the Book Week festivities and celebrations.
Wembley Parents Association WPA - THANK YOU
I would like to thank Linh Krygger president of the WPA, and the many community volunteers that support our school. Not only is there a wonderful community spirit, however the support received from fundraising will support all students, in maximising the building project's break out seating this year!
An enormous effort that we are immensely proud of, and grateful for.
See Linh's message below on behalf of the WPA, to our Wembley PS community:
Hello Wembley Community,
The WPA would like to thank all our families for supporting all our fundraising events this year. We are pleased to share with you all that to date in 2024 with your support we have raised $12,490.04 from the following events:
March 2024 Easter Raffle $4,784.80
May 2024 Mother’s Day Stall $824.77
June 2024 Disco Night $5,215.99
August 2024 Bogan Bingo $1,664.48
We are excited to share that we still have a few more fundraising events left in 2024, so if you can, please continue to show your support. Your generous contributions are greatly appreciated and all monies raised will go back to the school to complete the building works.
If you have a fundraising idea that you would like to plan or have any suggestions, please email wembleyparents@gmail.com as we would love to hear your ideas and thoughts.
Wembley Parents Association
Parent/Caregiver/Guardian Survey
At this stage 7% per cent of our community has completed the survey.
Our school is conducting the annual Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey offered by the Department of Education and is seeking your feedback. The survey is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of families' perceptions of school climate, student behaviour, and student engagement. The survey is optional, but we encourage and appreciate your participation.
Our school will use the survey results to assist in identifying areas for improvement and professional development needs in the school, to target school planning and improvement strategies.
The Parent / Caregiver / Guardian Opinion Survey will be open online from Friday 2 August to Friday 30 August 2024. See the sental notification sent to parents on Friday 2 August.
All families are invited to participate in the survey.
The survey will be conducted online, only takes 20 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any convenient time on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones.
The online survey will be available in English and 10 other languages including Arabic, Greek, Hakha Chin, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Resources are also available in additional languages to assist parents / caregivers / guardians who speak a language other than English at home. Please reach out to your child's teacher, or the school directly for survey guides in your language.
Link for the survey https://www.orima.com.au/parent
PIN: 921685
We thank you in advance for your feedback.
CONGRATULATIONS LOUISA SMITH
One of our talented year six students, Louisa, took part in the Show your Westside Art Exhibition through her art class Aa is for Art. Her piece is called, 'Pride of the West'. Please take a look at Louisa's creations!
Student Newsletter acknowledgements
We LOVE to hear about student achievements outside of school. If there are any acknowledgements that parents/students wish to share with us and can be celebrated with our wider community, we ask that you email us at wembley.ps@education.vic.gov.au with the student/s name/s, a summary of the acknowledgement and any photos that you would be comfortable sharing and we will aim to include it in our fortnightly WPS newsletter.