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Thanks Folks
A lot of thank-you’s this week especially to some of our parents who supported our activities over the last week.
I took the opportunity to visit Lorne last Thursday to see how the students were enjoying the surf sessions. Remarkably it was quite warm though the water had a bit of bite. The surf was reasonably clean and the kids from IEPS were having a lot of fun in a very safe well organised environment. It was a great afternoon. One of the reasons it was so great was because we had fantastic parent helpers. They supervised, participated and generally helped the staff run a very active and engaging program. So to Johnnie, Frank and Craig, I say thank you on behalf of our community.
The second shout out goes to the crew from the Parents, Teachers and Friends Association, who ran our Mothers and Special Persons Stall. This event clearly created a lot of excitement and a lot of anticipation. So a big thank you to the following parents -
Caroline L
Jessie S
Sarah O
Sandra A
Aliki S
Carmen M
Kellie L
Caty S
Jessica M
Cindy S
Mia T
Robintha G
who took the time to run the stall and do all of the administrative work and publicity that goes along with it . Events like this are part and parcel of school life , and its good that they are back on the agenda.
Some more research about learning
In 2019 I had the opportunity to attend a short course at Boston University that linked ideas from neuroscience to education. One of the most interesting parts looked at How Working Memory and Long Term Memory work together. In a nutshell the Working Memory (aka short term memory) holds new information, processes it and when its ready transfers it to Long Term Memory –so that it can be retrieved further down the track. The learning process involves;
- Taking in new information in the working memory and processing it
- Transferring the information into the long term memory
- Retrieving the information when it is required.
The research of these areas is starting to develop some common themes and implications for learning. This week I’ll write a little bit about some of the strategies that work for practice –so that what students have learnt can be more easily retrieved or remembered.
- The notion of spaced practice is important. It is much more effective to have 10 minutes practice over 3 days rather than a thirty minute intense session of 30 minutes.
- There is a term called Interleaving which means that you practice multiple related skills at once. A very good example of this is to practice different times tables problems in a cluster. Maybe a few 5 times tables mixed in with 2 times tables and some 10 times tables in a block rather than the three run separately.
- Blank page retrieval works better than giving people notes and asking them to remember them. An example of doing this would be to provide the learner with information, ask them to read it and then later on just to recall it on a blank page. (this works extra well in group situations)
The key research in this area comes from three people Pooja Agarwal, Andrew Watson and Judy Willis. The School Improvement Team have had a bit of a look at some of the key implications and how we may put some of these ideas into practice. I’ll add a bit more about memory and retrieval in next weeks’ Bulletin.
Brett Millott.
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)
Dear parents, guardians and carers
Re: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)
Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).
Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:
- year of schooling
- category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
- level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.
This information assists schools to:
- formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
- consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
- develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.
The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.
The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).
Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).
If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.
Kind regards
Amanda Dwyer
Student Wellbeing Leader
VICTORIAN PREMIERS' READING CHALLENGE
Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge
The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is now open and Ivanhoe East Primary is excited to be participating.
The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 17 September 2021.
All children in Children in Prep and Year 1 will ‘experience’ the 30 books with their teachers and will automatically be enrolled. Children from Years 2 to Year 6 are invited to participate and will be challenged to read 15 books.
All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.
If you would like your child in Years 2 to 6 to be enrolled in the challenge, please email me to express your interest and I will enrol your child.
Happy Reading!
Amanda Dwyer
amanda.dwyer@education.vic.gov.au
WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECKS
- valid for 5 years
- transferable between volunteer organisations
- free of charge for volunteers, but cannot be used for paid employment.
You can apply online using this link:
http://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/home/applications/
When you have received your card, please bring it to the office so that we can make a copy and inform the class teacher.
Planting of ‘The Banks’
Following the successful Landcare grant application and the amazing working bee that saw the site cleared, we are finally ready to plant. There are approximately 2200 plants in small tubes that need to go into the ground as soon as possible. They are arriving on Wednesday 12th May. In addition to planting them, there is also mulch that needs to be spread around them. We are going to pair up older and younger students so everyone can be involved in some way.
Thursday May 13th
1.50-2.40 Year 4 and Year 2
2.40-3.20 Year 6 and Prep
Friday 14th May
1.50-2.40 Year 5 and Year 1
2.40-3.20 Year 3
We may need to continue the following week if we don’t finish. If your child already has a pair of gumboots, it would be helpful for them to bring them along to change into on their planting day.
PB | Hunter |
PH | Max |
PK | Sienna |
PS | Teddy |
1C | Katia & Iris |
1E | Ava A |
1S | Claire L |
1T | Ziba M |
2A | Leah |
2D | Aidan |
2Z | Spencer |
3G | Kaira and Blake |
3L | Tessa and Jack |
4C |
Amy, Elliot, Sofia & Angus
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4L | Kieran, Taylor |
5AP | Amalie |
5F | Chester |
5P |
Vahranyaa and Zahlee
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6P | Hugh F |
Roster
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Help needed |
Thu 13 May |
Emily Furlong Caty Swain |
10:15am-11:30am 11:30am - 1:45pm |
9:30-11:30am |
Fri 14 May |
Rebecca Paterson Caty Swain Sandra Aylett-Sloan |
9:00am-11:30am 11:30am - 1:45pm 11:00am-2:00pm |
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Mon 17 May |
Marie Markovsky Donna White
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9:00am - 11:30am 11:30am-1:45pm
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Tue 18 May
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Susan McEwan Tina Donohoue |
9:30am - 11:30am 11:30am -2:00pm |
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Wed 19 May |
Karishma Mehra Carly Simmance |
10:15am - 11:30am 11:30am - 2:00pm |
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Thu 20 May |
Maria Smirnios |
11:30am-1:45pm |
9:30am-1:45pm |
Fri 21 May
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Rebecca Paterson Vi Le Lilian Smith |
11:30am-1:45pm 11:00am-2:00pm |
9:00am-11:30am 9:30am-1:45pm 11:30am-1:45pm |
“Now I’m working from home, I’ve found I can sneak in an hour at drop off. Feels great to be able to help Sonia make healthy options for our kids.”
Carrie (Seb 2D and Izzy PS)
Term 2 Roster
We invite to have a look at our new online roster! We cannot do this without you. Please choose anytime that is free and fill in your name.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IsdRGt5rmeRorq0G-Rh3KbnO7L_DAXXQKDF7DRbJAQc/edit?usp=sharing
Volunteers & Hygiene
Please sign in at the front office upon arrival.
We will be practising social distancing in the canteen. No more than 2 volunteers will be in the canteen at any one time. All surfaces will be sanitised regularly and hand sanitiser is available for your use.
Sonia - Canteen Manager
Phone: 03 94992171
Email: canteen@ivanhoeeastps.vic.edu.au
NOTICEBOARD