Carlton North Primary School

Message from the Principal Team

Week 9

And That’s a Wrap!

What an incredibly busy and productive Term 1 we have had! Congratulations again to our school community on such a successful outcome for the Great Lee Street Fete. We have set the date for 2025 already. (Please lock in Sunday 16 March 2025 in your calendars.)

 

We would like to thank all of our students, staff and parents/carers for their contributions to the following events this term:

  • Meet and Greet Afternoon - Tuesday 30 January
  • Parent Information Online Sessions (in person for Foundation)- Tuesday 7 February
  • School Photos - Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 February
  • Swimming Carnival Years 3 to 6 - Thursday 15 February
  • Class Welcome Gatherings at Curtain Square - allocated dates
  • District Swimming - Thursday 22 February
  • The Great Lee Street Fete - Sunday 3 March
  • Division Swimming - Tuesday 14 March
  • Family Teacher Conferences - Tuesday 19 March
  • NAPLAN Window - Wednesday 13  March - Monday 25 March
  • Digital Safety and Wellbeing Workshops Years 1 to 6 - Monday 25 March - Wednesday 27 March
  • Victorian High Ability Program (VHAP) - allocated dates

 

Key Dates for Term 2

Term 2 is a long term of 11 weeks. We anticipate that Term 2 will be as busy and hectic as Term 1 as we work towards prioritising our teaching and learning and student learning growth. 

Monday 15 April - Curriculum Day (Student Free Day)

Tuesday 16 April - First Day Back at School for Term 2

Tuesday 23 April - Digital Safety and Wellbeing Workshop for Parents and Carers (from 7pm)

Wednesday 24 April - CNPS Cross Country (Yr 3-6)

Thursday 25 April ANZAC Day (public holiday - no school)

Thursday 23 May - Year 3/4 Excursion Immigration Museum

Wednesday 29 May - Friday 31 May - Year 5/6 Camp (Camp Wyuna)

Monday 10 June - King’s Birthday (public holiday - no school)

Wednesday 26 June - Semester 1 Reports Published on Compass

Friday 28 June - Last day of Term 2 (2:30pm finish)

Schoolwide Positive Behaviour Support Silver Award

Congratulations to our SWPBS/RR Team for all of your work in achieving Silver Level acknowledgement for implementing the essential features of tier 1 School-wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) with fidelity in 2023.   

 

Please see the outline below of the artefacts that needed to be implemented to achieve this award.

 

Digital Safety and Wellbeing Workshop for Parents and Carers 

Tuesday 23 April 7:00pm

 

In Week 2 of Term 2, Steve and Bec from Evolve Education will conduct a Digital Safety and Wellbeing workshop for parents and carers. We strongly encourage at least one parent or carer from each family to attend this session.  As parents, we cannot keep up with the new challenges that our children are facing online however we can be informed. The workshops will cover the following topics:

  • Modelling safe and healthy practices at home
  • Participating in your child/young person’s online world
  • Communicating strategies to encourage help seeking
  • Supervising and supporting to minimise harm

 

Staff Professional Learning

Teacher Excellence Program

Last Friday Carlye and Billy attended another day of professional learning on Literacy through the Teacher Excellence Program at the Academy of Teaching and Leadership. James attended a day of professional learning on Numeracy on Monday through the same program.

 

Disability Inclusion

Disability Inclusion is part of the Government's approach to inclusive education. It provides extra support for students with disability in Victorian Government schools. The Disability Inclusion Profile and surrounding process helps schools and families identify the strengths, functional needs, and educational adjustments schools make to assist students with disability and additional learning needs. Disability Inclusion started in Term 4, 2021, and is being introduced over 5 years. Carlton North is in the 2024 rollout and Jane is busy learning and attending many professional learning sessions. This professional learning will assist Jane to support our teachers to develop Disability Inclusion Profiles for students with additional needs at CNPS. This new funding model takes time as it requires a huge amount of work for the teacher to record the reasonable adjustments they are making for each student who meets the criteria for this profile.