Hello, from Carolyn.
Respect, responsibility and kindness
Hello everyone,
2024 Teaching staff.
We are well underway with our 2024 planning. I am pleased to be able to tell you our teaching staff arrangements for next year.
Grade F/1, room 10= Rachel Quarrier.
Grade F/1, room 9= Nicole Lowe.
Grade 1/2, room 8= Sonia Sokhal Dubb.
Grade 1/2, room 7= Skye Schueller.
Grade 3/4, room 1= Jason Bentley.
Grade 3/4, room 2= Di Kennedy (four days) and Kim Kirkpatrick (one day)
Grade 3/4, room 4= David Morrison Blunck.
Grade 5/6, room 3= Jacinta Condon.
Grade 5/6, room 6= Danielle Wadley (three days) and Cos Perley (two days)
Literacy Intervention= Lisa Fasham.
Maths intervention and Learning Specialist= Kim Kirkpatrick (four days)
PE= Laura Hicks.
Art/Cooking program= Sheridan Leversha.
Music= Bridget Finch.
Chinese= yet to be confirmed.
Next year we will be welcoming Skye Scheuller to our school. Skye is excited to be joining our team and is looking forward to meeting everyone when she comes for a visit on 12th December.
How fortunate our students are, to have such a great team of teachers who are committed to supporting our students to be their best, and are keen to be the best teachers they can be too!
Statewide Transition Day 12 December.
On the 12th, our year 6 students are visiting their chosen secondary schools, and all our students will spend the morning in their 2024 grades. Our 2024 Foundation students will be with us until the end of recess.
Take note-Students now finish on Tuesday 19th December, 3:10pm.
A very big thank you to our School Council who approved a whole school professional practice day for the last day of term.
This means that the last day of term for our students is on Tuesday 19th December, with a finish time of 3:10pm.
On the 20th, our staff will be learning about the Zones of Regulation so we will be ready to begin implementing the curriculum at the start of 2024.
School wide Positive Behaviour (SWPB) -Expected behaviours matrix.
Next year we will be joining the School Wide Positive Behaviour Support program. Implementing this program is a recommendation from our school review earlier this year and is based on feedback from parents/carers, students and staff who wanted clarity about behaviour expectations and how problem behaviours are managed.
We have begun some work already on introducing the SWPB program; thank you to the many parents/carers who contributed to our survey on 'Unwanted behaviours' and 'replacement behaviours'. Our staff and students also contributed to the survey.
Below is our behaviour matrix based on the feedback from all of you. Next year we will begin teaching our students about each of these expectations and working out what happens when these behaviour expectations are not followed.
| Respect | Responsibility | Kindness | |
| Always | We are inclusive | We follow instructions | We are an 'Upstander' |
| We ask to use others' property | We use equipment for its intended purpose | We use manners and kind words | |
| We wear our uniform | We keep our belongings in place | We keep our hands and feet to ourselves | |
| We place rubbish in the bins | We use 'calm down strategies' | ||
| Inside | We attempt our work | We walk | We use an appropriate voice |
| We follow classroom expectations | |||
| Outside | We determine and play by the rules | We walk our scooters/bikes | We talk to a yard duty teacher, if needed |
Movie night fundraiser.
If you would like a hard copy of our movie night flyer, please call in to the office to collect one. It would be great for lots of flyers to be up in work places so we get lots of people along to support our last fun-raiser.
Start of the 2024 school year.
Add these dates to your 2024 diary-
Monday 29th January Teachers are back at school.
Tuesday 30th January all our students are at school including our Foundation students.
I hope you all have an enjoyable weekend.
warm regards,
Carolyn.
School banking details.
Westpac.
Bendigo Violet Street Primary
BSB: 033-688
Account number: 93-1292
Payment reference: use your surname and fees.
