Dear Parents
Welcome back, the holidays were great, the weather was great, the traffic was great! We are all back into work mode and looking ahead.

Coming up this term we have Grandparent’s Day, Scholastic Book Fair, Year 5 rugby coaching, football demonstration day, Year 5 camp, class photos and the Life Education caravan. We are also looking forward to welcoming ERO later in the term. We are having Pink Shirt day to highlight that bullying is not ok. The social highlight of the term is the Las Vegas night on 18 June. Reports will be sent home on the last day of term.

The overarching learning area for topics in years 0 – 4 is science. The years 5, 6 are starting to think about the production coming up next term, so they will be doing an arts unit in the second half of the term. They will have a science based topic next term after production. The Life Education Caravan will be here for three weeks from 30 May. Each syndicate will have a different focus which is based around the health curriculum. The overarching value for the term is integrity. Through the topics, teachers highlight this value so that the children understand what it means to have integrity.

As well as all the wonderful learning happening, we have teachers continuing professional development in spelling, GATE (gifted and talented education), Maths with our facilitator Lucie Cheesman and iPad professional development also led by an outside facilitator.

As we go into the term a reminder that we do not tolerate bullying, but we can’t act on it if we don’t know about it! Remember that bullying is systematic targeting of one child by another / group of others and of course the bullies are never going to do it in front of adults. We need your help, so let us know if your child has issues and we will deal with it immediately.

It is going to be a busy but exciting term, so keep reading the emails sent out, keep up to date using the VAS app, read the newsletter through our website and we always have some hard copies of the newsletter on the counter in reception.

Kind regards
Janice Adamson

Bible

Bible in Schools has become a lunchtime activity, we no longer have it during teaching and learning time. As there was no tutor the programme did not happen last term, but a tutor has now been found so the programme will start on Thursday 2 June at 12.45 and will be held each Thursday lunchtime until 30 June. As it is now optional, we are able to open it up to all year levels. Children will be reminded that it is on and any child can choose to attend if they wish.

Thank You

Thank you to our lovely Mums in Touch (Mums in Prayer) group who put on a wonderful morning tea for staff during the last week of term. Staff really appreciate the gesture and the kind words in the card, not to mention the delicious food!

Emails to Teachers

A plea for parents to email the office with messages for their child, not the class teacher as they do not access emails during teaching and learning time, so they may miss something important. Please also remember that emails don’t take the place of parent interviews. If you have a question about your child’s learning, progress or achievement, please make a time to talk face to face with your child’s teacher. Please keep emails brief and think about the frequency of your emails.

Uniform

As we move into the cooler months, please remember to ensure that any socks or tights that you buy are plain black, white or navy. If your child likes to wear a skivvy under their t shirt, it also needs to be white or navy. Go to the School Shop on the website for the uniform options.

HOUSEKEEPING

Scholastic Book Fair – 2016

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Victoria Avenue School from Tuesday 7 June until Friday 10 June (Grandparents’ Day)
Please mark these dates in your diary now!
Jane Clark is looking for volunteers to help run the Book Fair each day from 8.30-9.00am or 3.00-3.30pm.
If you are available to help on any of these days or times please contact Jane on 5200602 or email
[email protected]

School Lunches have had some changes: Commencing this term

Please go to our School Lunch page on our website for detailed information on how to order your children’s lunches.
//victoriaave.com/lunch-orders/
See the chart below to see which days each provider is delivering food to the school.