From the Principal

Welcome to Ivanhoe Primary School

Last Wednesday evening our School Council approved the following Curriculum Days and one Teacher Professional Practice Day for 2025 .  Students will not attend school on these dates but may be asked to attend three way parent teacher interviews if they are in the upper school.

Please see the the approved dates below:

2025 Curriculum Days

Year 5 History Expo

The year 5 students have been doing a history unit on colonial Australia including the Gold Rush this term. The students have been working at home on dioramas to represent this part of our history. They have also been writing biographies in class about significant figures from this time period. 

Rondelle wearing a First Nations possum skin patchwork blanket. Her project was about William Barak and Simon Wonga.

Other students researched prominent figures such as Burke and Wills, William Buckley, Simon Wonga, William Barak, Ned Kelly and gold mining from a Chinese perspective. Their diarama's were fantastic and they had obviously put in a tremendous amount of work on them.  They were so knowledgeable and were able to articluate their research very well.  Students from the other classes came to visit and left amazed and much wiser!

Year 5 Sovereign Hill Camp

The unit was supported by the students attending camp to Sovereign Hill where they consolidated their learning and had heaps of fun!

Many thanks to our teachers and especially our volunteers.  Camps just can't go ahead without you.

Night of Music

What a spectacular event!  Last Saturday evening 103 IPS children performed in the Night of Music concert held at Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School Performing Arts Centre. The concert was presented by the Heidelberg Orchestras and we are so grateful that they invite our school to participate each year. This year we took the Corelli Strings, Orchestra and a Choir that was specially put together for this event. 

Many thanks to Margaret Butcher for organising this event and making it so successful and to her staff and volunteers.

School Saving Bonus

Important information about the school saving bonus

In Term 4, 2024, families with a child enrolled in a government school from Prep to Year 12 in 2025 will receive the one-off $400 School Saving Bonus.

The $400 School Saving Bonus provides families with support for education-related costs, such as school activities and/or school uniforms and textbooks.

The School Saving Bonus is not available for full-fee international students, home schooled students, TAFE students and students attending kindergarten in 2025.   

Actions for parents and carers

Before 18 October 2024, the Department of Education is asking parents and carers to:

• Complete enrolment: If your child, or children are changing government school for Term 1 2025, or starting Prep or Year 7 in 2025. For more information, read about Enrolling in School. 
• Check your contact information: Ensure your email address and phone number is up to date with us. : Look out for a letter coming home this Friday with your youngest child – send back the attached sheet should your contact information need updating.

You need to ensure your contact information is up to date as the Department of Education will email you twice:

• in October, to verify your email address
• in November, with your $400 School Saving Bonus.

Please check your junk mail regularly to make sure you do not miss an important email.

To learn more about the School Saving Bonus visit vic.gov.au/school-saving-bonus. Translated information will also be available on the School Saving Bonus website in the next few weeks.

Please reach out to our Business Manager, Lisa Cascun should you have any questions.

Vacation Care - Leap Kids

The School holidays are fast approaching and Leap Kids are offering their highly successful scholl holiday program oce again.

Make sure you get your booking in soon!

Spaces are limited.

 See the full schedule of this spectacular winter holiday program and book online at

 www.leapkids.com.au

For more information and enquiries please contact us on 1300 366 235 

or email enquiries@leapkids.com.au

Please read our Terms and Conditions prior to booking

Crazy Helmet Competition

Child Safety

Child safety and wellbeing at Ivanhoe Primary School: information for families and the school community

IPS is committed to providing an environment where students are safe and feel safe.

Our child safety framework  https://www.ivanhoeps.vic.edu.au/child-safeexplains how we support and maintain child safety and wellbeing at IPS. It includes, alongside other policies, our:

• Child Safety and Wellbeing Policy
• Child Safety Reporting and Responding Obligations Procedures, and
• Child Safety Code of Conduct, which outlines acceptable and unacceptable behaviours for all staff and volunteers at our school.

Our students and families are important partners in providing a child safe environment. These regular newsletter reminders are one of the ways we ensure our school community is aware of:

• our commitment to child safety, and 
• how to provide feedback or raise child safety concerns.

If you have any concerns about child safety at any time, please contact Nick King, Assistant Principal on 94991880. Any child safety complaints or concerns are treated seriously. 

For more information about our school’s complaints process, see our Complaints Policy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65e7ab72fbcddb26cead656e/9bf9f134-6b93-494e-bea3-99949e64f269/complaint.png?format=300w

We also welcome your ideas on ways we can improve our approach to child safety and wellbeing. If you have any suggestions or comments, please contact Rhonda Harvey, Child Safe officer on 94991880 or at Ivanhoe.ps@education.vic.gov.au.

Finally....

Congratulations to all those students who were selected and represented our District schools at Athletics last week.    Well done!

Reminder: next week is is the last week of term 3.  School will finish at 2:30pm on Friday.  Our fabulous OSHC will be available from 2:30pm that day.  Make sure you book in.

Thank you for your continued support. 

Have  a great week.

Pam Wright

Co Principal

http://www.ivanhoeps.vic.edu.au/ 

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and pay respect to the ongoing living cultures of First Peoples.