Message from the Principal Team

Principals' Update

Foundations Started This Week!

We were very excited to see our 2023 Foundations students start school on Monday. Their Year 6 Buddies were exceptionally excited to see them. We would like to welcome all of the new Foundation Families to our school community.

Welcome Gatherings

Over the next few weeks, we will be hosting Welcome Gatherings at Curtain Square for each of our classes. The purpose of these gatherings is to provide a fun opportunity for you to get to know your child’s teacher and other families from your child’s class. Your child’s class teacher will communicate on Compass when your child’s class will be having their Welcome Gathering.

The plan for this event is that teachers will walk their class over to Curtain Square for a brief supervised play in the park from 2:45 pm on the specified date. At 3:15 pm, the teacher will walk the class back to school. Please note that there will be no dismissal from Curtain Square.

All students will require the Local Walking permission note to be signed prior to attending. If you have not already done so, please log into your child’s Compass account to provide this necessary permission.

Parent Information Sessions

Next Tuesday 14 February, our Foundation Teachers will be conducting an in-person Information Session for our Foundation parents and carers at 4:00 pm. The other Year Level Teaching Teams will be posting a pre-recorded Information Session on Compass and Seesaw at 4:40 pm Tuesday 14 February. These sessions are pre-recorded so that our busy parents and carers can watch these sessions in their own time. We encourage any parents or carers with further questions after they have viewed these videos to please contact their child’s class teacher to arrange a meeting or a phone call.

Term 1 - Inquiry Learning

Each term we try to implement our Units of Inquiry as a whole school approach. This enables siblings and families to share and discuss their common learning at home.

Whole School Big Ideas: Me & Us, Rights and Responsibilities

Enduring Understandings: CNPS Values and Who We Are

Who we are: An inquiry into the nature of the self; beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities, and cultures; rights and responsibilities; what it means to be human.

	Foundation	Year 1/2	Year 3/4	Year 5/6
Unit Topic:	I’m at School Now - School Values Who Are We?	CNPS Values and Who We Are Choices	How does our community support us? - Values and Community	Rights and Leadership
Victorian Curriculum:	Personal and Social, Ethical Capabilities, Critical and Creative Thinking	Ethical, Personal and Social Capabilities	Civics & Citizenship	Civics and Citizenship
Essential Question:	Who are Foundation?	How do we make choices?	How does our community support us?	What makes us Australian?
Focus Questions:	Who am I? Who are we? Who are my family?	What is right and wrong? What choices can you make to deal with conflict? How do my choices impact others and their feelings? How do my feelings impact my choices? Which actions help me keep friends?	What are the values in your life, classroom and school? How can local governments contribute to community life? How has my identity been shaped by the groups to which I belong?	How and why do people participate in groups to achieve shared goals? What does it mean to be an Australian citizen?

Swimming Sports Carnival for Years 3 to 6 at Fitzroy Pool Wednesday 15 February

On Wednesday 15 February, our students from Years 3 to 6 will be participating in our Swimming Sports Carnival. We will be requiring the students to leave school at 8:45 am with enough time to arrive for events at 9:30 am.

The school swimming carnival provides an excellent opportunity for all children to participate and compete in an event that suits their own preferences and competence. The 25 and 50-metre events allow children to experience competing in a swimming carnival, whilst the 50-metre events also act as qualifying events for children wishing to compete later in the Carlton District Swimming Carnival (23rd Feb) with the VPSSA Regional and State Carnivals held towards the end of Term 1 and the start of Term 2.

CNPS Swimming Sports Schedule

Arrival Time 9:15 am (at the pool)

Events Begin Approx. 9.30 am

50m events

Freestyle

U/10, U/11, U/12s boys, girls and mixed

Breaststroke

U/10, U/11, U/12s boys, girls and mixed

Backstroke

U/10, U/11, U/12s boys, girls and mixed

Butterfly

U/10, U/11, U/12s boys, girls and mixed

25m events

Freestyle U/10, U/11, U/12s boys, girls and mixed

Breaststroke U/10, U/11, U/12s boys, girls and mixed

Backstroke U/10, U/11, U/12s boys, girls and mixed

*Student Teacher/Parent Relay

*Free Swim (if there is time)

Finish 12.30 pm

School Council

The final School Council meeting for the 2022 School Council will be held on Wednesday 22 February at 6:00 pm. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our 2022 School Council members for their ongoing support during yet another challenging year. The CNPS School Council has played a pivotal role in campaigning for funding for our school buildings. Without their support, we would not have received the election promise of $8.4 million for school refurbishment and upgrades.

This year we have 2 vacancies for parent members and 2 vacancies for community members on School Council. A call for nomination for School Council will be posted on Monday 13 February. We encourage any parents who would like to contribute to the school as a member of the School Council to please consider nominating.

150 Year Anniversary

This year, Carlton North Primary celebrates its 150th year as a school. The school’s official birthday is 28 July and we are seeking an expression of interest from CNPS families and the wider community to form a 150-Year Anniversary Committee to lead celebrations of 150 years of schooling at CNPS. If you are interested in joining this committee we ask that you email the school carlton.north.ps@education.vic.gov.au

Principal Team

Rachel Corben and Jane Bilby