Days of Acknowledgement

August 9^th - International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples

This date was created to reflect on the challenges, discrimination and treatment of Indigenous People throughout the world. Within this reflection, we are also celebrating the importance of Indigenous cultures, histories and traditions as we work together to take steps in promoting and protecting Indigenous rights.

August 10^th – 18^th – National Science Week

National Science Week advertises building individuals’ curiosity and critical thinking. With over 1000 events throughout the nation, this is a great week to build your child’s wonder of the world around them. The theme for this year is ‘Innovation: Powering Future Industries’.

IEPS is fortunate enough to have an incredible Inquiry program, where students are given a myriad of opportunities to explore what has been, what is and what this may mean looking forward. As we focus on Geography and History this term, students are exploring themselves, their place in our community and the impact they make to the world around them.

Last term, the Science Expo gave students the opportunity to share everything they had learnt and created through their Inquiry focus of biological, earth and space science.

2025 Enrolments (Important Information)

As per the Departments timeline, enrolments have now closed for 2025. If you are wanting to enrol your child for 2025 please contact Carmel Sitilidis our Enrolment Coordinator as a matter of urgency so we can discuss with you the options in place.

carmel.sitilidis@education.vic.gov.au

Communication Audit Reflection

As part of our Communication Audit that occurred earlier in the year, the feedback was unpacked at an admin/leadership level, discussed with our Community Engagement Sub-committee, and presented to staff. There were a range of sweeping amendments made following the feedback and further discussions outlined below. We thank you for your feedback on our Communication Audit and the recent feedback received as we are part of a continuous improvement cycle here at IEPS. If you have any feedback regarding communication and/or events I encourage you to email me directly at tom.boyle@education.vic.gov.au.

School Events on Compass

Each school event (excursion/incursion) will clearly outline the following:

• Organiser - Teacher organising event
• Educative Purpose
• Event Date & Time - Start & Finish and the Location
• Additional Event Details - Dress Code, Transport, Cost per attendee, Attendees (Students & Staff)

Furthermore, each event has a thorough risk assessment completed and this is signed off by myself 3 weeks before the event occurs.

All of this information is created and finalised 3 weeks ahead of time and then the Compass event is communicated a minimum of 2 weeks before the event.

Communication of Events

In regards to communication of events, all events are required to be communicated to our respective community members 2 weeks before the event’s date, this includes all of the above information.

The **Term Focus by Year Level will feature all of the events that are in the calendar at the time of printing and all events are required to be placed onto our internal calendar prior to the end of the previous term. (**Term Focus by Year Level is on our website under Teaching & Learning, Term Focus)

This internal school calendar is then swept at the end of the term and uploaded to our website calendar https://ivanhoeeastps.vic.edu.au/calendar. This calendar is then cross-checked with our internal calendar (the process involves teachers emailing our admin team directly should changes occur) and it's updated every week by our administration team.

Bulletin updates

The bulletin now features a future events table at the bottom of the Principal's message that has all of the upcoming events across the school for the next 3-4 weeks.

Further updates

From recent feedback, especially around our IEPS Olympics and cohort level events, the following will also be put in place.

• Whole Cohort/Cross Year Level Activities - Compass event from now on, even if it is free of charge

• Parents want to know if they are allowed to be in attendance? (yes/no)

• Is it school uniform/house colours/free dress (define on Compass event)

• Organising Teacher to send the reminder on Compass to families that haven’t paid and consented - one week out. Then, classroom teachers complete the final check.
• Comms to Class Rep Co-ordinator to distribute information to class reps 

IEPS Olympics Closing Ceremony

The IEPS Olympics Closing Ceremony will be a student only event supervised by the teachers, starting at 3pm in the gym. Students are encouraged to wear their house colours tomorrow and bring their flags along if they still have them.

Thank-you all for your support of our School Captains as they ran their first whole school event. It has been fantastic to see the house spirit shine through the variety of events we have participated in and the way students have been supporting each other over the two week period. 

School Canteen Update

The school canteen will be closed on Thursday 22nd, Friday 23rd & Monday 26th August.

Update - Works on Burton Crescent –East Ivanhoe Shopping Village Upgrade

You may have noticed works commencing in Burton Crescent from the week of 29 August 2024 as part of the next stage of the East Ivanhoe Shopping Village Upgrade. It is anticipated these works will be under way for a period of three weeks, weather dependent.

The next stage will involve:

• Updating the outdoor dining area

• New footpath surface on the west side of Buton Crescent

• A site shed for equipment temporarily located on the side of Beauview Parade.

• Removal of existing concrete and asphalt, and placement of new pavement and kerb.

Council will be constructing raised crossings in Burton Crescent at Lower Heidelberg Road at a later stage.

Traffic management and pedestrian detours will be in place. You may also hear some noise whist the works occur, particularly during the initial demolition phases.

For other queries, please contact Council on the details below.

Nick McKay

Senior Project Manager

E: eastivanhoestreetscape@banyule.vic.gov.au

Ph: 9490 4222

Reminder: Exploring Emotions Through Art: A Rainbow of Feelings

During Art lessons, students from all year levels have delved into the fascinating world of emotions through visual art. Our primary goal has been to deepen our understanding of emotions. By creating art that embodies a ‘Rainbow of Feelings’, we aim to cultivate empathy, encourage self-expression and foster stronger connections within our school community.

During the Rainbow of Feelings unit, Year 3 to 6 students explored various pairs of emotions, using them as inspiration for their artistic creations. This has allowed them to authentically express themselves through different art mediums of their choice. Similarly, Prep to Year 2 students focused on facial expressions, body posture, colour, line and texture to create artworks that capture a range of feelings.

We are excited to showcase the series of upcoming art displays throughout the main school building this term. These exhibitions will showcase the diverse spectrum of emotions explored by our students, reflecting self-discovery and creativity.

We welcome our community to celebrate this demonstration of artistic expression and emotional exploration by viewing some of our Rainbow of Feelings displays in our main building breezeway from Week 5 (12th August).

• Week 5 – 7 (12th to 30th August)             Love/Pride & Scared/Worried
• Week 8 - 10 (2nd to 20th September)   Excited/Happy & Angry/Frustrated

IEPS Parent Band - Lost Property

Thank you to all the families who came for an evening of dancing and music at the East Ivanhoe Bowls Club on Friday 2 August.  Looks like everyone had a great time particularly the boys conga line and lots of budding musicians wanting to have a go on the mics and instruments after the show.  Great to see such a turnout for a fun evening with the school community.  

Parents Battle of the Bands Update

Parents Battle of the Bands is this Thursday 8 August 7pm at Northcote Social Club.  For those of you lucky enough snag tickets early, East Ivanhoe will be performing first on the line up so don’t be late. 

Do come up to the front of the stage to dance and cheer loudly when its our turn.  We have organised some glow sticks for parents from our school - try to find Amanda or Mia in the crowd and collect some glow sticks and wave enthusiastically during Lost Property’s set. 

Some schools have gone with a themed approach, so please wear WHITE on the night if you can.  

Ticket sales numbers are out and our school has sold close to 50 tickets with all proceeds going back to the school music program.  Well done everyone !! 

Thanks heaps !!

Su Leng & Lost Property

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