Principal's Report

This is our last newsletter for the year. 2020…. what can I say? It’s been the most challenging year I can remember in my lifetime. I want to recognise and sincerely thank the whole Huntingdale community- students, parents and staff, for working together during onsite and offsite learning and supporting one another.

2020 Graduating Class

On Friday 11 December our Graduating Year 6 celebrated their graduation day with their teachers. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, students chose to have a day celebration with a formal ceremony, morning tea graduation cupcake, time to mingle and celebrate with their peers and a bento box lunch.

I wish all the best to our 2020 graduating class Tess, Angus, Mia Cunningham, Sarina, Gideon, Frances, Ken, Turiya, Zac, Mary, Blayk, Hugo Pruscino, Mia Chan, Alyssa, Hinako, Ginn, Abish, Shaun, Lisa, Markos, Aska, Annika, Jack, Nathanael, Kotone, Noah, Max, Ren, Anna, Miu, Mona, Mai, Andrew, Dion, Hue, Yuki, Joshua, Hugo Gough, Natalie, Lara, Aaliyah, Patrick, Jade, Amelie, Kinako and Keizo.

We wish you all the best as you move in secondary college! You have been a fantastic group of students and we know you will do well in your future endeavours.

2021 Teaching Staff

Our 2021 Staff is as follows:

Year Level	Teacher
English Specialist- PE/ART	Rebecca Wood
Japanese Specialists- Music, Drama, 4-6 Art, 4-6 e-learning	Eiji Nishikubo, Ryoki Fukaya, Keiko Harada & Yukiko Shoya
5/6C	Linda Ooi-Chan & Yukiko Shoya
5/6B	Maria Mathews (0.8) & Yukiko Shoya
5/6A	Brett Herskope & Yukiko Shoya
4/5B	Pete Magart & Eiji Nishikubo
4A	Alyson Wakely & Eiji Nishikubo
3B	Hisae Hatigan & Nick Tolliday
3A	Nick Tolliday & Hisae Hatigan
3C	Keiko Harada & Maria Perrella
2C	Ryoki Fukaya & Maria Perrella
2B	Tadashi Hanazono & Nozomi Koyama
2A	Nozomi Koyama & Tadashi Hanazono
1A	Jo Ewart & Tomoko Smith
1B	Tomoko Smith & Jo Ewart
1C	Dan Thomas & Kiko Watanuki
FC	Kiko Watanuki & Dan Thomas
FA	Amelia Olsson & NEW TEACHER
FB	NEW TEACHER & Amelia Olsson

We say farewell to Annika Matchan who has taken an ongoing position at Camberwell Primary School which is much closer to her home. We thank her for all her efforts at Huntingdale and will miss her cheery disposition.

Moe Osugi is also taking leave next year and we are currently looking into her replacement.

We welcome Kiko Watanuki who is from Caufield PS and has experience in the 50/50 bilingual learning structure.

2020 ICAS Results

Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the implementation of the ICAS competition was delayed. This week we received the results of the English, Science and Mathematics competition and I congratulate the following students on the following achievements:

Mathematics

High Distinction

Lilia – Grade 2

Albert – Grade 2

Joshua – Grade 6

Shaun – Grade 6

Distinction

Patrick – Grade 2

Abigail – Grade 2

Everett – Grade 3

Laura – Grade 4

Jamie – Grade 4

Rio- – Grade 5

Merit

Alice– Grade 2

Momoka– Grade 3

Max L-Grade 4

Credit

Elliot– Grade 2

Xyran – Grade 2

Emely– Grade 2

Matthew – Grade 3

Marcus – Grade 3

Rudra – Grade 3

Scarlet– Grade 4

Kirin – Grade 4

Leo – Grade 4

Maxwell- Grade 4

Saneyuki– Grade 4

Mia Ch– Grade 6

Kotone – Grade 6

Ken – Grade 6

Lisa – Grade 6

Aska – Grade 6

Aaliyah Schnelle – Grade 6

Amelie Tan – Grade 6

Keizo Williams – Grade 6

English

Distinction

Albert – Grade 2

Eugenia – Grade 3

Isla– Grade 3

Nathanael – Grade 6

Joshua– Grade 6

Aska – Grade 6

Credit

Ethan – Grade 2

Alice– Grade 2

Emmelyn – Grade 2

Clare – Grade 2

Matthew – Grade 3

Everett – Grade 3

Evie – Grade 3

Scarlet – Grade 4

Mia Ch– Grade 6

Amelie – Grade 6

Merit

Abigail – Grade 2

Xyran – Grade 2

Rudra– Grade 3

Anastasia – Grade 4

Leo– Grade 4

Mona – Grade 6

Science

Distinction

Lillia – Grade 2

Albert – Grade 2

Abigail – Grade 2

Clare – Grade 2

Cate – Grade 4

Joshua– Grade 6

Aska– Grade 6

Keizo – Grade 6

Credit

Ethan – Grade 2

Patrick – Grade 2

Matthew – Grade 3

Everett – Grade 3

Momoka– Grade 3

Leo– Grade 4

Saneyuki– Grade 4

Rio – Grade 5

Keitaro– Grade 5

Nathanael – Grade 6

Mona- Grade 6

Merit

Alice– Grade 2

Isla– Grade 3

Laura – Grade 4

Aaliyah – Grade 6

Term 4 Manga High Results

Students at Huntingdale use Manga High as part of their mathematics learning. Each semester Manga High recognises the Top 10 students who complete activities on this platform. Congratulations to:

1 . Siyuan 814

2 . Hugo P 581

3 . Kenneth P 294

4 . James S 213

5 . Max W 212

6 . Luka 194

7 . Erika 192

8 . Markos 183

9 . Evie 178

10 . Cassandra 173

2021 start dates- Reminder

The school has confirmed 2021 start dates for students.

On Friday 29 January 2021 Years 1-6 students will commence.

On Monday 1 February 2021 Foundation students will commence. A morning tea will be organised to welcome our new families.

2021 School Start Time

Each day the first bell rings at 8.50am to signify that students can enter classrooms. From 8.50 am to 9.00am students can prepare their belongings in the classroom, be marked off the roll, hand in notices and be prepared for teaching instruction to begin at 9.00am. School will finish at 3.30pm each day as per normal.

2021 Curriculum Days- Reminder

School Council have approved the following Curriculum Days for 2021:

Wednesday 27 January
Thursday 28 January
Tuesday 22 June
Friday 16 July

Last day of Term- Finish Time

The last day of Term 4, 18th December all students will finish school at 1.30pm. We expect all families to be offsite by 1.45pm. Team Kids will operate for those families who wish to use the service.

I wish all of our school community a fabulous festive season, a relaxing holiday break and I will see most of you in 2021, which I hope will be a more settled year! Take care!

Ruth

Assistant Principal's Newsletter

Mental Health over School Holidays

The following guides are designed to provide tips and resources for parents, carers and families to support the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in their care over the school holidays.

School Uniform

The Summer holidays is the perfect time to assess your child’s school uniform needs.

Parents are asked to buy items with our Huntingdale logo including- teal polo shirt, jumper, jacket, school bag, hat and school dress. These can be purchased from PSW in Ormond.

All students must wear a Huntingdale hat and will need this from the first day of Term 1.

Other items that are navy blue such as shorts, tracksuit pants, leggings, tights and skirts can be purchased from PSW or chain stores such as K-Mart and Target.

Any accessories need to be in navy blue, not black. Black is not part of our school uniform colours. Our school uniform colours are navy blue and teal.

We look forward to seeing all our students in their Huntingdale uniform in 2021.

Merry Christmas to everybody

Naomi

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