From the Principal

Tutor Learning Program

We were recently informed that the Tutor Learning Program will continue to be funded in 2024. This is wonderful news for the students at Camelot Rise Primary School. The extension of this funding highlights the outstanding work tutors are undertaking to support literacy and numeracy. Mrs Sarah Martin will be our school’s Tutor in 2024 and she will continue to work with many students assisting them in the core curriculum areas of English and Maths. We are thrilled to have a Tutor of the quality of Mrs Sarah Martin.

Camelot Soiree

We are thrilled to confirm that The CRPS Soiree will be held over 2 nights: Tuesday 5th December (F-2) and Wednesday 6th December (3-6) commencing at 5:00pm in the school Gym.

The concert is open to any students currently receiving musical instrument or voice tuition from a professional teacher. It provides a very supportive environment for them to perform in front of an audience.

We thank Ms. Deb Hong who has organised and initiated this event. We look forward to watching our talented students perform on these nights.

Christmas Concert

Please put the date of Thursday, 14th December into your calendars for our Christmas Concert. We are thrilled that we can again host these wonderful community events. More information about this night will be shared with the community over the upcoming weeks.

We look forward to a great night.

Dealing with distressing online content - eSafety advice

With the tragic and distressing events unfolding in the Middle East, Australia's independent regulator for online safety, eSafety, has issued guidance to help parents and carers support their children in dealing with distressing online content.

The eSafety website has resources for parents and carers about online safety. These include information on extra precautions you can take to protect your children from seeing disturbing content online.

eSafety encourage parents and carers supporting young people who may be more vulnerable to check in with them.

If they are presenting with signs of distress, support is available through external services including:

· Headspace: 1800 650 890

· Kids Helpline: 1800 551 800

· Lifeline: 13 11 14

· Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636

Parents | eSafety Commissioner

This website link below also contains links to live webinars that give parents and carers the knowledge, skills and tools to support their children to have safe online experiences.

Webinars for parents and carers | eSafety Commissioner

Year Six Graduation and Award Ceremony

This incredibly special event for our Year 6 students, parents and staff will be held on Monday, 18th December. This year we will be holding the Graduation Ceremony and the

Awards Ceremony as one event.

Last year was the first year we presented the awards as part of the Graduation Night. The feedback from this change was extremely positive and we will continue to follow that format this year. An outline of the timing for this evening will be shared with the Year 6 families via Compass in the upcoming weeks.

Each year we present awards based on the following criteria:

Camelot Rise Endeavour Award

The student awarded the Camelot Rise Endeavour award, and the Community Spirit and Leadership Award (sponsored by Member of Chisholm) has demonstrated the following:

Strives to do their best in their learning.
Displays great kindness and compassion to support those in need, within and outside the school community.
Acts as a leader and a role model to others in the school, especially the younger students, in “living” the school values.

Civics and Citizenship Award (x2)

The student awarded the Civics and Citizenship award has demonstrated the following:

Initiative and drive to create a positive school environment for everyone.
Willingness to go out of their way to help others in class, in school and in the community.
‘Living’ the school values.

Academic (x 2)

The student awarded the Academic award has demonstrated the following: -

High accomplishment and capability across all aspects of learning.
Self-motivated and applies their best effort in all tasks, big or small.
‘Living’ the school values.

Value - Responsibility Award

The student awarded the Responsibility Award has demonstrated the following:

Can always be trusted and relied upon to ‘do the right thing’.
Caring and conscientious; helps others to make good choices and decisions.

Value - Respect Award

The student awarded the Respect Award has demonstrated the following:

Is always thoughtful and respectful to everybody.
Looks out for the welfare of others and always aims to do the right thing.

Value - Resilience Award

The student awarded the Resilience Award has demonstrated the following:

Always prepared to give things a go, perseveres and rises to the challenge of trying something new.
Doesn’t give up and listens and responds to advice.

Performing Arts Award

The student awarded the Performing Arts Award has demonstrated the following:

Extremely accomplished and capable worker in performing arts.
Self-motivated and conscientious in improving their performing arts skills and experience and can be relied upon to always put in their best effort, which is clear in the work they produce.
Good organisational skills- Using their time productively to complete set tasks.
Displays a ‘growth mindset’ and not afraid to take on challenges that are provided in performing art sessions.
Taken every opportunity to participate in the CRPS performing arts program.
Maintains school values in performing arts specialist area.

Visual Arts Award

The student awarded the Visual Arts Award has demonstrated the following:

Extremely accomplished and capable worker in arts.
Self-motivated and conscientious in improving their art skills and experience - and can be relied upon to always put in their best effort in.
Good organisational skills- Using their time productively to complete set tasks.
Displays a ‘growth mindset’ and not afraid to take on challenges that are provided in art sessions.
Taken every opportunity to participate in the CRPS arts program.
Maintains school values in visual arts specialist area.

French Award

The student awarded the French Award has demonstrated the following:

Extremely accomplished and capable worker in the French language.
Self-motivated and conscientious in improving their French skills and experience - and can be relied upon to always put in their best effort, which is clearly evident in the work they produce.
Good organisational skills- Using their time productively to complete set tasks.
Displays a ‘growth mindset’ and not afraid to take on challenges that are provided in French sessions.
Taken every opportunity to participate in the CRPS French program.
Maintains school values in French specialist area.

STEM Award

The student awarded the STEM Award has demonstrated the following:

Extremely accomplished and capable worker in STEM.
Self-motivated and conscientious in improving their STEM skills and experience and can be relied upon to always put in their best effort, which is clear in the work they produce.
Good organisational skills- Using their time productively to complete set tasks.
Displays a ‘growth mindset’ and not afraid to take on challenges that are provided in STEM sessions.
Taken every opportunity to participate in the CRPS STEM program.
Maintains school values in STEM specialist area.

Physical Education Award

The student awarded the Physical Education Award has demonstrated the following:

Demonstrates sporting excellence and displaying the qualities of a team leader.
Increases the morale and enthusiasm of those around them.
Competitive but always demonstrates great sportsmanship to not only to their fellow peers, but to their competitors from other schools and teams.
Good organisational skills- Using their time productively to complete set tasks.
Displays a ‘growth mindset’ and not afraid to take on challenges that are provided in PE sessions.
Taken every opportunity to represent CRPS in individual and team events.
Maintains school values in Physical Education specialist area.

School Sports Victoria (SSV) Sport Award

The student awarded the SSV Sports award has demonstrated the following:

All-rounder qualities in achieving success in sporting endeavours.
Represented CRPS at a high level across many events, either individually or as part of school teams.
Displaying excellent sportsmanship and leadership in class and on the field.
Sporting achievements, in most cases, need to be at National, or State level.
Students must be enrolled in a government school.

Rotary Club of Waverley Award - Sporting Award

The student awarded the Rotary Club of Waverley award has demonstrated the following:

Attitude rather than ability, displaying a genuine spirit of fair play and sportsmanship.
Humble in victory and gracious in defeat.
Always trying to the best of his/her ability.
Supportive of teammates and courteous to opponents.
Plays the game for the fun of the game.

School term dates 2026

School term dates for 2026

There have been changes to Victorian school term dates for 2026. Following the announcement that the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Victoria will not proceed, the original 2026 school term dates have been reinstated.

The 2026 Victorian school term dates are:

· Term 1: Tuesday 27 January to Thursday 2 April 2026

· Term 2: Monday 20 April to Friday 26 June 2026

· Term 3: Monday 13 July to Friday 18 September 2026

· Term 4: Monday 5 October to Friday 18 December 2026.

For the list of school term dates until the end of 2030, refer to School term dates and holidays in Victoria.

School term dates and holidays in Victoria | vic.gov.au (www.vic.gov.au)

Parent Contributions 2024

By the end of November, we will inform the school community of the Parent Payments for 2024. The Department of Education has asked schools to itemise the payments. The cost for Parent Payments is discussed and approved at our Finance and School Council meetings prior to being announced to the school community.

Are you leaving CRPS in 2024?

We ask that you let us know if you are moving or have enrolled in another school in 2024. We require this information as soon as possible to establish grade structures for the start of the new school year. If your child is currently in Grades Foundation – 5, and will not be at Camelot Rise in 2024, please notify the school office in writing as soon as possible.

Parent requests for 2024

We are currently planning for 2024 and as part of this process we are determining our class structure and staffing profile to best meet the needs of all students. A great deal of thought, planning and time goes into placing children into classes each year. Every effort is made to place each child in a learning environment that is happy, productive and successful. Class placement is a complex process involving a range of factors and allocations will not be finalised until later in the school year.

We anticipate that we will have seventeen classes again in 2024. We continue to increase our student numbers throughout the school. This is testament to the quality of education we provide at Camelot Rise Primary School. This is a combination of the outstanding classroom teaching practices, excellent academic results of our students, the students’ sense of connectedness to the school and their peers, the support of our families and the wonderful reputation we have in the community.

We do not accept requests for placement with individual teachers, however, we do take into consideration relevant information, based on educational needs, which can help us with the placement process, and we try to place students with at least one known friend, if possible.

If parents have any request for their child / children for 2024 we need this to be put in writing or via email, to Matthew Coney, Principal, by 4 pm on Friday, 27th October.

My email address is matthew.coney@education.vic.gov.au

Pupil Free Days

Just a reminder of the dates for our remaining Pupil Free Days

Curriculum Day on Monday November 6, 2023. This day will be used for report writing purposes.
Teacher Professional Practice Day on Thursday 30th, November. This day will be used by teachers to plan for 2024.

This concludes all pupil free days in 2023.

Final assembly of the year

One date that our community look forward to is the final assembly of the year because we farewell our grade six children for their final day of primary school after a 7-year journey.

The date and time for this is Tuesday 19th, December commencing at 9.15am.

At the assembly we will listen to the Year 6 graduates sing their farewell song, watch the Year 6 PowerPoint and celebrate the year we have had.

Matthew Coney and Ben Heys