From the Principal

Welcome to Ivanhoe Primary School,

Wednesday morning saw us host our Open Morning as part of the Victorian State Schools Education Week.  As usual, it was very well attended, with so many parents, carers and families coming to see our students enjoying active learning.  We also had many prospective families come along too.  

The theme of Education week this year is 'active learners: move, make, motivate.  Visitors were treated to enthused learners who were problem solving, creating, moving and making with a Maths and STEM flavour woven in.  

A taste of the activities on show were:

Everyone who came were impressed with the learning on offer and how our students were challenged, fully engaged and also enjoying what they were learning.   Year 1 students  read the story, 'Odd One Out' and then created their own odd monster.  Take a look at their creations... (more on the student voice page)

Here's a taste of the year 3 investigations, where students worked on an inquiry task as part of their unit on Geography. They investigated Australia’s ‘Big Things’.  Students researched the locations of existing ‘Big Things’ and learnt about the reasons for their locations.

Turning their focus to Ivanhoe, students then thought about what ‘Big Thing’ they could design for the Ivanhoe community. Here are a few photos of some of their creations. 

Open morning was a resounding success with so many vistors seeing so much creativity in classes.  Our student leaders, knowledgably  and confidently gave tours to visitors. Many of whom commented how impressed they were with the student leaders.  I even received an email today to provide some postive feedback to our tour guides!

Hi Pam,

We attended a school tour yesterday and I just wanted to give some positive feedback about our 4 tour guides. We were showed around by Grade 4 students Jasmine and Ross, and Grade 6 students Max and Orly. All four students were so kind, confident, and informative. We were so impressed by their pride in the school and beautiful manners including holding doors open for us to walk through. 

Warm Regards, 

Richelle

The morning concluded with a concert performed by the Start up Strings group and Orchestra.  They gave an outstanding performance!   

Many audience members commented on how well the students performed and to such a high standard.

Well done to everyone!

Enrolments for 2024

Many of our visitors to Open Morning took an enrolment form for 2024.  If you weren't able to get to see us yesterday, but are interested in enroling for next year, you can download the form from our website or you can drop in to the office and collect a form in person.  

All enrolments for Foundation must be submitted by Friday 28th July 2023.

If you'd like to book a school tour, please call the office on 9440 1880 to organise.  We have tours available each Friday at 11am this term.  

Parent/Carer Online Safety & Digital Wellbeing Sessions Tonight and Next Wednesday

Ivanhoe Primary School are hosting two free face-to-face Online Safety and Digital Wellbeing sessions* this month.

The sessions will be delivered by Evolve Education, who are a trusted e-safety.gov.au provider. The sessions will be full of practical strategies and resources to help improve online safety and promote digital wellbeing for your children.

Each evening will focus on a different age/stage, so it is recommended you book to attend both sessions if you have children in the lower and upper school.

Dates/Times:  

Foundation - Year 2 session: Thursday 18th May at 7pm

Year 3 - Year 6: Wednesday 31st May at 7pm

(Both sessions will take place in IPS Collaboration Space)

To book a place at either of the session please register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6lEOi3M2u8P8G_Ec-47N98JBayC3s0vNxqykxFKInERmnSw/viewform

Places are limited, so please book early to avoid missing out!

*Please note, these sessions are not suitable for children to participate in.

Special Group Photos

Advanced Life Photography will be returning to school on Monday 29th May to photograph students belonging to the following groups this year:

• Graduation                                                                                                                                
• Environmental Leaders Semester 1                                           
• Environmental Leaders Semester 2                                           
• Junior School Councillors Semester 1                                                  
• Junior School Councillors Semester 2                                                  
• Peer Leaders                                                                                      
• Corelli Strings                                                                                     
• Start Up Strings                                                                                 
• Orchestra                                                                                        

Attitudes to School Survey  Years 4, 5 and 6

The AtoSS is an annual student survey offered by the Department of Education to assist schools to gain an understanding of students' perceptions and experience of school. 

At Ivanhoe Primary School, students in years 4, 5 and 6 will be asked about their thoughts and feelings in relation to their school, their learning, peer relationships, resilience, bullying, health and wellbeing, physical activity, and life in general.

Students in year 4, 5 and 6 will be given the AtoSS in class time between Monday 22nd  May and Friday 26th May.

The link below contains information from the Department of Education about what the survey is and how the information will be used. It also contains information on how parents can opt out of their students participating in the survey. 

Thank you for your support in helping us to administer this very important data collection event. 

JSC-Organised Career Day

Flowing on from Education Week, the Junior School Council have organised a Career Dress Up day for Monday 22nd May.  

Everyone is invited to come to school dressed in the attire of the profession they are interested in when they become an adult.  

In the words of our JSC, 

"Come dressed as what you want to be when you grow up!"

There is no requirement for a donation.

Join the PFA and / or the FAIR  - we need you!

This is going to be an exciting year for our community. Please join us by contacting our PFA Coordinator, Andrea Thomas on 0431 953 720.   

Please volunteer as your time to help us make it a fantastic fair! 

Many hands make light work!  

Working Bee 20th May - Postponed

The working bee planned for this Saturday has been postponed.  We will keep you updated for the rescheduled date and are always grateful for the volunteers who come to help get jobs done!

Celebrating Student Achievement

This week's student achievement celebrations should go to the whole of IPS for your performances on Open Morning.  From students proudly demonstrating their learning, to the very talented strings and orchestra performers and to our fantastic student leaders who confidently toured visitors around our school!

Well done!  You are what makes IPS so wonderful!

Finally - Some feedback...

I'll leave the final word to one of our year 2 students who was super impressed with the open day performance. 

 Over to you Sivan...

Have a great week!

Pam Wright

Acting Principal