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Principal's Message Master Plan Survey- Reminder , CyberSafety- A Community Partnership, Keeping Aware of Information Relating to School, Communicating with the School Administration Team

2021 Enrolments Check out our Virtual Tour below:, On-Site Foundation Transition Details, Are you an existing family with a child due to commence Foundation in 2021?, Recommending new families to our school

Junior School Council Junior School Council News

School Council News Master Plan Development- , Community Consultation Survey, The survey link is: https://forms.gle/rqShTsJCaRYtGmc28 , School Council President Update, Do You Want to Get Involved with a Subcommittee?

Student of the Week Awards

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Student of the Week Awards Congratulations to our students for their Positive Learning Behaviours

Calendar of Events Helping our School Community to be Engaged

Curriculum School Wide Teaching and Learning, Online Cyber Safety Basics, Three Key Strategies to Promote Safe Online Use, Be engaged, open and supportive, Set some rules, Use the available technology, An Open Letter about eSafety for the Parents/Carers of Senior Students

Foundation Communicating with the Foundation Team, 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL CELEBRATIONS!

Year One Communicating with the Year One Team, An Overview of our Learning, Student of the Week!, Take Home Readers

Year Two Communicating with the Year Two Team, An Overview of our Learning, Student of the Week!, Take Home Readers!

Year Three/ Four Communicating with the Year Three/Four Team, MATHS IN GRADE THREE AND FOUR, Working on fact families, Dice Addition - 4 in a row, PRE-SERVICE TEACHER, LEVEL ASSEMBLY, STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS, Upcoming Important Dates

Year Five/ Six Communicating with the Year Five/Six Team, MATHEMATICS, INQUIRY SNAPSHOTS, SPECIAL AWARDS - TERM 4 2020, Year Six Uniforms- 2021 Orders Now Due, Year Six Graduation 2020- CovidSafe Arrangements, BYOiD 2020 - User Agreement

Specialist Programs Communicating with the Specialist Team, An Overview of our Learning, Foundation, Level 1 and 2, Level 3 and 4, Level 5 and 6

Extend-

Out of School Hours

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Extend- Out of School Hours Communicating with the Extend Team

UNIFORM SHOP 2021 Year 6 Uniform, Looking for Quality Second Hand Uniforms

Community News Community Announcements, Community Advertisements

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Upwey South Primary School

91 Morris Road, Upwey, Victoria, 3158, AU http://www.upweysthps.vic.edu.au/upwey.south.ps@education.vic.gov.au (03) 9757 0200

Principal's Message

Master Plan Survey- Reminder

Thank you to those families who have responded to our Master Plan Survey regarding School Council Initiatives. A reminder that this survey is open until midnight on Sunday 22nd November 2020.

The survey link is: https://forms.gle/rqShTsJCaRYtGmc28

For more information, visit the School Council News page of this newsletter.

As part of our overall facilities improvements, we have commenced works on adding additional student voice to our learning environment through a series of murals. Please see below two pieces of art work which are currently being undertaken with the support of our student leaders.

Gallery Image — artwork outisde the library

sporting silhouettes commenced in gymnasium

Additional murals are intended to be added to our school throughout 2021, as we aim to provide our community with visual prompts as the the culture and community we value.

CyberSafety- A Community Partnership

In the curriculum component of this newsletter, we provide our community with some important information regarding the promotion of safe online practices. This is particularly important, given the increased use of technology which occurred across many households during Remote Learning. We highly recommend you take the time to read the informaiton on our "Curriculum" page.

Help your children safely navigate their digital world and educate them to avoid harmful online experiences.

Keeping Aware of Information Relating to School

As a school we work hard to keep our families informed of happenings across the school. We acknowledge that receiving information in a timely and consistent manner can help to alleviate the pressures which come from managing a busy family calendar.

Communicating via Compass

All of our school notifications are sent via the Newsfeed within the Compass app. There is also a calendar of events within the app, which sends push notifications to users to remind them of school events.

In 2020, we are also utilising Compass for families to consent and pay in order for their children to take part in school events. The uptake and comments from families thus far is that it is so easy to do, and helpful to be able to consent at the push of a button.

In order to filter notifications which are received, you will notice that we send out notifications which are year level specific. This means that sometimes not all notifications are sent to all year levels.