Hello Tarneit Rise Primary School Community,

Welcome to another edition of ‘Rise and Shine’! We hope everyone has had a lovely fortnight.

We would like to extend a warm welcome to the following children and their families and to the following staff who have joined Tarneit Rise Primary School over the last fortnight:

Year Foundation: Charlie, Yousuf & Manraj

Year 1: Aaira & Omer Mohi Uddin

Year 2: Anora

Year 3: Jasmin

Year 5: Fatima

Year 6: Hiba

Staff: Katie White, Jodie Chandler, Palvi Shori and Ashwini Karulkar

We look forward to getting to know you all and we hope you enjoy your time at Tarneit Rise Primary School 😊

Medical Emergencies

In the event of a medical emergency, the school WILL call an ambulance. It is STRONGLY recommended ALL families have ambulance coverage, as ambulance transportation and treatment by paramedics is not free and is not covered by Medicare. The cost of one emergency road transport is in excess of $1,200; it is very expensive. If your family requires ambulance coverage, please visit https://www.ambulance.vic.gov.au/membership/ and follow the prompts.

International Women’s Day

Today worldwide, is International Women’s Day. The theme this year is, ‘Count Her In: Invest in Women. Accelerate Progress’. Why? Because women still face significant obstacles to achieving equal participation in the economy given the gender pay gap. This is felt even more so by women who have children, as they need to take time from paid employment to birth and then to raise them.

Across the workforce worldwide women are still over-represented in lower classification levels, while men are disproportionately overrepresented in leadership positions. Contributing to this is the perception that women with children have rearing responsibilities that will impede their ability to perform leadership positions, and that men continue to use carers leave and parental leave significantly less often than women, indicating that they are taking on less caring responsibilities. This is also true in Education- a significant employer of women.

Here at Tarneit Rise Primary School, we proudly support and empower our girls to exercise their agency, make their voice heard, and access their first leadership opportunities. Through Respectful Relationships, a core component of the Victorian Curriculum from Foundation to Year 12, we tackle harmful gender norms, and embed a culture of respect and equality that is felt not only in our classrooms, but in our staffroom, during our sporting days, and at whole school celebrations and events. d change makers, and to tackle future crise

For the future of our daughters and their daughters thereafter, our mothers, our sisters, our aunts, our nieces, our grandmothers, our daughters-in-law, it is paramount we further empower today’s girls and women to realise their full potential and take on leadership roles.

To support this movement, each time women are not represented in leadership positions, we must ask: “Why not?” Each time women are discriminated against we must call out this poor practice. And when the treatment of women is not equitable, we must act.

Road Safety Around Tarneit Rise Primary School

Once again, this year, the Wyndham City Council and Tarneit Rise Primary School are working together to make our school safer. The first stage of our plan has been executed, that is, the inclusion of parking bays around the perimeter of the school to allow for proper parking spaces, which many of you will have noticed. At present, we are working together to plan for the installation of another school crossing along Hummingbird Boulevard, closer to the soccer club, which we anticipate will be in place in the middle of the year. In the meantime, please keep your children safe on their journey to and from school. You can do this by:

· walking or cycling to school

· adhering to the 40km per hour zone when traveling in an operated school zone

· checking the restrictions set by the regulations and parking signs in the area and abiding by them

· not stopping or parking illegally

· always letting your child out on the kerb side of the road

· NEVER calling to your child from across the road- teach them to wait until you walk over to get them, or to use the school crossing.

· talking to your child about what they should do if you are not there on time.

· teaching your child how to use a school crossing (stand one step back from the kerb, wait until the Crossing Supervisor has gone out onto the crossing and has blown their whistle (two short blasts), then cross the road, not ride a bike, bounce a ball, fight, muck around, or run across the crossing, always stay within the lines of the crossing, walk in front of the supervisor- never behind them, and always listen to the Crossing Supervisor).

School Tardiness

The importance of daily school attendance receives regular airtime in our newsletters because of the positive difference coming to school every day makes to children’s life outcomes- attendance is a big deal! However, have you every considered the effect of school tardiness, arriving late to school, on children’s outcomes? Research shows that school tardiness, just like poor school attendance, has a negative impact on learning outcomes too. Why is this? Well, research shows that when a child arrives late to school, they receive fewer minutes of instruction than children who are in class when the bell sounds. They also often miss out on important announcements, reviewing previously learned skills or content, and social activities designed to build connections with their peers, which can create a sense of alienation from their classmates. What’s more, is that a child who is consistently arriving late to school, disrupts the learning of other children in class, affecting their achievement too. This is because the teacher must divert their attention away from the other children to catch up or remediate those who are entering the school day late. Primary school aged children require the support of their parents or caregivers to arrive at school on time. If you are struggling to get your child to school on time, please reach out to your child’s classroom teacher.

Bringing toys and special things to school

Sometimes children want to bring special toys and things, like Pokémon cards to share with their friends. This can sometimes cause conflict and confusion, where for example children ‘trade’ their Pokémon cards and then can’t get them back. It is a tricky lesson to learn. Can we please ask for children to keep anything special or important to them, at home, where it can be safe and looked after appropriately.

Bikes and Scooters

We are delighted to see the number of children riding their bikes and scooters to school. Riding a bike or scooting for transport can be a great way to prepare for a day of focus and learning, saving traffic congestion. While we don’t have a bike shed, children can leave their bikes and scooters near their classrooms. Can we please ask families to provide a bike lock so the bike and scooter can be secured for the day, and this will help minimise bikes/scooters being mistaken or accidently taken in error. Bike helmets must be worn while riding a bike or a scooter. At school, we ask children to keep their bike/scooter helmet in their classroom to save it from falling off the bike/scooter handles and being damaged.

Privacy Collection Notice

Information for students, parents and carers

The Department of Education and Training (the Department) values your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal and health information that schools collect.

All school staff must comply with Victorian privacy law and the Schools’ Privacy Policy. This notice explains how the Department, including Victorian government schools (schools), handles personal and health information. On occasion, specific consent will be sought for the collection and use of information, for example, for a student to receive a health service. Our schools are also required by legislation, such as the Education and Training Reform Act 2006, to collect some of this information.

Throughout this notice, ‘staff’ includes principals, teachers, student support service officers, youth workers, social workers, nurses and any other allied health practitioners, and all other employees, contractors, volunteers and service providers of the school and the Department.

On enrolment, and during the ordinary course of a student’s attendance at a school, schools will collect information about students and their families for the following purposes:

educating students

supporting students’ social and emotional wellbeing, and health

fulfilling legal obligations, including duty of care, anti-discrimination law and occupational health and safety law

communicating and engaging with parents

student administration

school management

supporting policy in relation to student education and wellbeing.

If this information is not collected, schools may be unable to provide optimal education or support to students or fulfil legal obligations.

For example, our schools rely on parents to provide health information about any medical condition or disability that their child has, medication their child may take while at school, any known allergies and contact details of their child’s doctor. If parents do not provide all relevant health information, this may put their child’s health at risk.

Our schools also require current, relevant information about all parents and carers so that schools can take account of safety concerns that affect their children. Parents should provide schools with copies of all current parenting plans and court orders about or that affect their children and provide updated copies when they change.

When parents enrol their child in primary school, they will be asked to provide personal and health information in several ways, including via the Enrolment Form, the School Entrance Health Questionnaire (SEHQ) and the Early Childhood Intervention Service (ECIS) Transition Form.

The Enrolment Form is used to collect information that is essential for the purposes listed above, and requests information such as:

Emergency contacts – Individuals parents nominate for a school to contact during an emergency. Parents should ensure that their nominated emergency contact agrees to their contact details being provided to the school and that they understand their details may be disclosed by the Department if lawful, e.g. in the case of emergency communications relating to bush fires or floods.

Student background information – Information about country of birth, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin, language spoken at home and parent occupation. This information enables the Department to allocate appropriate resources to schools. The Department also uses this information to plan for future educational needs in Victoria and shares some information with the Commonwealth government to monitor, plan and allocate resources.

Immunisation status – This assists schools to manage health risks and legal obligations. The Department may also provide this information to the Department of Health and Department of Families, Fairness and Housing to assess immunisation rates in Victoria, but not in a way which identifies students.

Visa status – This is required to process a student’s enrolment.

All schools may use departmental systems and online tools such as apps and other software to effectively collect and manage information about students and families for the purposes listed above.

When schools use these online tools, they take steps to ensure that student information is secure. If parents or carers have any concerns about the use of these online tools, please contact the school.

School staff will only share student and family information with other school staff who need to know to enable them to educate or support the student as described above. Information will only be shared outside the school (and outside the Department) as required or authorised by law, including where sharing is required to meet duty of care, anti-discrimination, occupational health and safety, and child wellbeing and safety obligations. The information collected will not be disclosed beyond the school and Department without parent consent unless such disclosure is lawful.

When a student transfers to another school (including Catholic, independent and interstate), personal and/or health information about that student may be transferred to the next school. Transferring this information is in the best interests of the student and assists the next school to provide the best possible education and support to the student. For further detail about how and what level of information is provided to the next school, refer to the: Enrolment: Student transfers between schools

Schools only provide school reports and ordinary school communications to students, parents, carers or others who have a legal right to that information. Requests for access to other student information or by others must be made by lodging a Freedom of Information (FOI) application.

To update student or family information, parents should contact their school.

For more information about how schools and the Department collect and manage personal and health information, or how to access personal and health information held by a school about you or your child, refer to the: Schools’ Privacy Policy

We wish everyone a lovely fortnight ahead.

Nadia, Sarah, Missy, Gemma, Lauren, Stephen, Adam, and Alana

Event	Grade	Date
Labour Day Public Holiday - no students at school		Monday 11th March
Melbourne Dream and Lead Conference	Grade 6	Tuesday 12th March
Harmony Day	All School	Thursday 21st March
Pupil Free Day	All School	Thursday 28th March

The Fortnight Ahead

Below are events coming up over the next fortnight.