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Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is on again this year and Wales Street Primary School 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 8 September 2017.

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.

All Wales Street students will be entered in the Challenge this year and we strongly encourage your child/ren to participate. It is a great tool to help parents and teachers inspire children to read and to explore new titles, genres and authors.

We will be providing each child with a username and password via COMPASS email so they can join in and record the books they read over the next 6 months.

Remember to make a list of books that you have read from mid-March, so that you can easily enter them when you receive your log on details.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll. If you would like your child‘s name to appear on the Honour Roll, please sign the attached form and return it to the Library, your teacher or the School Office as soon as possible.

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: www.education.vic.gov.au/prc

Happy Reading

Sallie McCleery (Librarian) and Robyn Jones (Assistant Principal)

Lunch Clubs

Wales Street Primary school offers Lunch Clubs every day. 

ASSEMBLY ROSTER – TERM 2

ASSEMBLY ROSTER – TERM 2

Moving into the colder and wetter part of the year we will split the school into two groups for assembly.  This means your child’s class will attend a fortnightly assembly (on an even or odd week cycle) in the hall in Term 2 and 3.  In Term 4 as the weather improves we will resume assemblies on the school oval.

During Term 2 assemblies will be now held at 9.15am in the hall to accommodate the Grade 5/6 students attending Friday afternoon winter sport.

The schedule for assemblies is attached below :

The Resilience Project

This year Wales Street Primary School will be participating in the “Resilience Project”.

The Resilience Project aims to help young people to become mentally healthy by teaching positive mental health strategies.

Hugh van Cuylenburg, the Founding Director of The Resilience Project, has been working in education for over 12 years. Starting out as a primary school teacher, he then moved into a position with Cricket Victoria as a development facilitator working with disengaged adolescents.

Semester One Student Reports

SEMESTER 1 STUDENT REPORTS – 2017

The Semester 1 reports will be issued through the COMPASS system on Friday 21st July Week 1 Term 3.  

Parent Opinion Survey

PARENT OPINION SURVEY 2017

Our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The Parent Opinion Survey is an annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of randomly selected parents at each school.

It is designed to assist our school in gaining an understanding of parents’ perception of school climate, student engagement and relationships with our parent community. Our school will use the survey results to help inform and direct future school planning and improvement strategies.

Book Fair

BOOK FAIR

We are having a Scholastic Book Fair this term.

It will coincide with the Wales Street Primary School Art Show on Wednesday September 13^th. The Book Fair will begin at 4.30 and run until 7pm in the Library. The Art Show starts at 5pm and runs until 7pm in the 3/4 Building.