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Level 3 2015
 * TERM 3 WEEK 7 **

The students had a wonderful time on the excursion to Ricketts Point and the Melbourne Aquarium last week. Their enthusiasm to learn and interact with the presenters and exhibits was clearly evident and they enjoyed sharing their knowledge during the day.

Today the Grade 4’s participated in a day of activities for Science Week. Grade 3 students have their day tomorrow – please don’t forget to wear the colour of your group!

Thursday (27th) is a special fundraising day to sponsor an orang-utan and students are invited to bring a gold coin and wear orange on that day.

Next week is our Literacy and Numeracy Week and there are many exciting activities planned. Students will be attending a special English incursion from Raymond J Bartholomeuz and a performance from our Drama Club. Next Monday will include a special assembly where students, teachers and PARENTS are invited to dress up as a character from their chosen land. Grade 3 will be ‘Never Land’ (characters from Peter Pan) and Grade 4 will be ‘Land of OZ’ (characters from the Wizard of Oz).

Also during that week is the District Athletics and the Father’s Day Stall. As you can see, we are in the midst of a very busy time of year! Your continued support in helping keep the students organised, at school on time, completing homework and reading each night, etc is greatly appreciated.


 * ESmart News **

As Vermont Primary continues on our journey towards eSmart accreditation, the school will be running a number of different activities during the inaugural eSmart Week – September 7 -11. The children will complete some simple eSmart awareness activities during their library session and parents will have the opportunity to see if they are “Smarter Than a Grade Sixer” by completing the online digital challenge – so stay tuned.

Our eSmart committee have been working hard and one of the things we are currently looking into is ways that students and parents can report cybersafety concerns or problems. We will be asking for parent feedback in the coming weeks on how this might best be done. In the meantime the first point of contact should be your classroom teacher. For serious issues there is a link on the new eSafety government page. [|Click here to access the page].

Finally I’d like to take this opportunity to remind parents that social media programs do have minimum ages for account holders. Most require users to be at least 13 years old, some are even older. To find out more about minimum ages and how safe these different sites are go to []. This link also gives you great information on how to protect yourself by having the right privacy settings etc.

Cybersafety is becoming increasingly important and whilst the students are working in class to develop these skills, we need, as always to work together with parents to help keep our children safe.

If you have any questions or concerns you can come and see me or email me on

hall.julie.j1@edumail.vic.gov.au

Julie Hall

eSmart Co-ordinator