AROUND THE CLASSROOMS

What a busy week at CEPS, we’ve been hard at work and enjoying our time in the classroom.

Maths in Grade 2

Grade 2s getting in some maths! Looking at fractions through pizza.

Young Engineers Program

The Young Engineers have been working hard to get their cars constructed for the State Solar Challenge on Sunday and learning all about circuits and electronics

Foundation

Our Foundation students are learning all about maths and money through play, these were just two of the shop keepers!

Bike ED

It’s been a slow start to Bike Ed due to the weather, however I know classes are very excited about getting into it over the coming weeks.

Colour Run

Don’t forget the Colour Run is coming up on Thursday 10th November, it’s time to fire up your fundraising page and get into it!

Swimming Foundation - Grade 4

What a wonderful 2 weeks the Foundation to Grade 4 students have had with swimming at Mentone Aquatic Centre. The progress has been amazing and everyone should be very proud of their achievements.

The Swimming in Schools program supports the delivery of quality swimming and water safety education as part of the health and physical education in the Victorian Curriculum.

The initiative provides funding to ensure all students have the opportunity to develop lifelong skills in water safety to reduce their risk of drowning and injury.

CEPS Kids are Friendly Kids!

Our students have continued to work on displaying the school values and I have been thrilled to see so many raffle tickets handed out to our students. It’s also been nice to stop and hear from our students, letting me know all about swimming and our Young Engineers Program.

COVID-19 Update

You may be aware that the Victorian Government has announced changes to the COVID-19 isolation requirements.

This means that from 11.59pm on Wednesday 12 October, the mandatory orders around isolation for people with COVID-19 have ended and instead we move to health advice and recommendations for people with COVID-19 or COVID-19-like symptoms.

Our school will continue to adhere to the Department of Health’s recommendations to ensure that our school remains a safe environment for our staff and students.

The Department of Health strongly recommends that students and school staff:

* who test positive to COVID-19 stay home and isolate for 5 days and do not attend school after 5 days if they are still symptomatic

* who are symptomatic but have not tested positive not attend school. This does not include students with pre-existing conditions such as hay fever.

Parents and carers are recommended to continue to report their child having COVID-19 to both the school and the Department of Health.

We will, however, no longer report occurrences of positive cases to the school community.

We ask parents and carers to continue to remain vigilant in preventing COVID-19 transmission. Any student who is unwell should continue to remain at home. This is about keeping students healthy and well in our school and reducing the spread of both COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases.

Free rapid antigen tests are available at the school for those who need them.

Parents and carers will be contacted if their child shows symptoms while at school.

Students who wish to wear a mask should continue to do so.

To keep our school as safe as possible, we will also continue to use air purifiers and other COVID-19 prevention measures.

Thanks for your continued efforts to keep our school community safe and well.

Special Mention to Lola S

Nick Staikos, State Member for Bentleigh was kind enough to attend our assembly last week to award Lola S who is in Grade 6, The Lorraine Francis Community Award. Lola was awarded this annual community award as she demonstrates strong leadership, was involved in causes that improves the lives of others in the community and most importantly has been a strong role model for other students.

Congratulations Lola, we are very proud of you and your achievements.

Thank You!

A big thank you to the wonderful staff at CEPS who have all stepped up over the last two weeks, we have amazing teachers who always put our students first!

Kind regards

Josh Bourke

Acting Assistant Principal

Birthdays

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF WHO HAD A BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK