School Activities

Brainstorm Productions visits Grange Primary School

This week, all classes from Foundation to year 5 attended the Brainstorm Productions performance of The Human Race.

The performance challenged children to find out what qualities we need to create positive relationships at school, in the community and as citizens of the world.

Actors Isaac and Ashton demonstrated positive traits within the word R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

In Term 2, Wednesday 5th June Year 5/6, Year 6 and 7 classes will attend the Brainstorm Production’s performance The Flipside.

Ashton and Issac singing Everyone in the Human Race needs to be respected.

GOVERNING COUNCIL MEETING PARENT & COMMUNITY REPORT

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

For those of you who do not already know me, my name is Debbie Moore and I am the Parent & Community Liaison Officer at Grange Primary School. After each Governing Council Meeting at school, I will provide you with a summary of school community issues that were discussed at the meeting in the following school newsletter.

The Governing Council (GC) met on Monday 18th March 2019. The Principal welcomed all attendees, including our newest members, who were recently elected at the GC Annual General Meeting on 18th February.

Election of Office Bearers took place for the 2019 GC Executive.

The Executive comprises of:

Chair: Rob Lustri

Deputy Chair: Anastazija Licanin

Treasurer: Chris White

Secretary: Maureen Affleck

As well as the above members, the Governing Council parent representatives also include:

Emma Boulby Lee Berggren- Levitt

Jacqui Burden Alicia Bewry

Belinda Haines Nikki Gagliardi

Tracey Massie Charissa MacDonald (community member)

Paul Pearce Dion Trimmer

Raelene Rosewall Kaylee Thompson

Sarah McGrath (community member)/Grange Ward Councillor for Charles Sturt Council

Staff Representatives:

Pauline McAuliffe - Year 2 Teacher

Georgie Medhurst - Year 3 Teacher

Debbie Moore - Parent & Community Liaison Officer (SSO)

Governing Council Constitution has been amended to increase parent representative members from 13 to 15.

2019 School Year Planner was approved, with Student Free Days ratified by members.

Channel 9 News will be visiting the school on Tuesday 26th March to show Upper Level students how the news is compiled. There will also be weather broadcasts televised from the school and Channel 9 will be funding a school community BBQ between 5.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m., which will be advertised on the school website.

Annual Report 2018 has been approved by the Education Director and will shortly be available for viewing on the school website.

Principal's Report included the following staff changes:

Alex Narcys (Senior Leader) has been appointed in a short-term Deputy Principal appointment at Allenby Gardens. Chris Philbrook will replace Alex as Senior Leader.

Maureen Russo (Business Manager) has taken a position with the Department for Education and we are currently advertising this vacancy.

Merrill Battista (SSO) has retired from the Front Office.

Di Klass is currently on leave.

Canteen report included comment that it may be useful for parents to pre-order their children's lunches, up to a week in advance, in order to avoid a last minute rush for Friday orders.

Fundraising report included the Movie Night successfully raised $5027, with approx. 300 attendees.

Sports report included the success of a Basketball event at the school which was greatly attended by students and community members.

Debbie Moore

Parent & Community Liaison Officer

Grange Primary School

Harmony Day 2019

As part of my role at Grange I have been EALD teacher for the past 2 years. This involves supporting students that have English as an Additional Language or Dialect.

Harmony Day is celebrated each year on March 21st. It is a day to celebrate our cultural diversity and is about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. Over the past 70 years more than 7½ million migrants have come to Australia and made it their home. Nearly half of all Australians were born overseas or have a parent who was. People from over 200 countries make up our multicultural community in Australia and over 300 languages are spoken.

At Grange alone, we have students who are born or whose families come from the following countries –

Italy India Greece Serbia Argentina Germany Poland England Croatia New Zealand

America Burma Russia Thailand Wales

Denmark South Africa Portugal Korea Macedonia

Sudan Scotland China Ireland Romania

Kenya Canada Bosnia Bulgaria Hungary

Lebanon Norway Sweden Slovakia Holland

Congo Philippines Zimbabwe Tanzania Uzbekistan

Japan Vietnam Sri Lanka France Brazil

Turkey Spain Namibia Nepal Austria

Belgium Ukraine Chile Fiji Malta

Switzerland Mexico Ghana Palestine Guyana