Dear Families, 

This is our last newsletter for 2024! I would like to sincerely thank all families for their commitment and support to Beveridge Primary School throughout the year. We have had a fabulous year with so much growth in learning, exciting whole school event days and activities. I am really looking forward to seeing the school and students flourish in 2025.

Teaching Teams

I am very happy to be able to share with you all our teaching teams for next year. We have a mixture of full and part time classroom and specialist teachers.

Foundation	Cameron Mitchell, Asheligh Cosgriff, Tia Rigoni, Ruby Edmonds, Rebecca  Warren, Esin Dincer, Jenna Gillett, Loukia Constantinou.
Year 1	Lisa Kyllo, Andrew Curwood, Renee Manasiev, Chayse Montgomery, Melissa Blair, Sonia Kaur, Rae Mark
Year 2	Rebecca Lowe-Wheeler, Jarryd Humphreys, Rhianna Kyllo, Raquel Romano
Year 3	Virginia Greenwood, Steve Hallam,Tracey Sullivan, Jessica Moore
Year 4	Wade Dinning, Alisa Besim, Ella Mahoney, Suzie Rawas
Year 5	Stacey Nakos, Donina Tutagalevao, Sonya Webb, Yu Chen, Callum Swanson
Year 6	Gogi Rai, Emily Horton, Adelaine Diaz, Teagan Denny
Specialist	Leeanne Pemberton, Elouise Bourke, Aaron Hamilton, Effie Leisos, Michelle Faragalla, Claire Rosenhain, Karen Somers, Zeynab Kalmayche, Luke McMurray, Nerissa Fernandez

*new staff listed in bold. 

Farewell to the following staff

We are also saying farewell to Ms Jennifer Thomas, Mrs Megan Watt and Mrs Tracey Richardson at the end of this year. I wholeheartedly thank them for their contributions to BPS and wish them all the best for their next chapters at their future schools. 

I hope you will all have a restful holiday break and enjoy some much deserved down time. 

I look forward to seeing all Grade 1-6 students back at school on Wednesday 29th January 2025 and our new Foundation students on Thursday 30th January. 

Merry Christmas!

Yours sincerely, 

Christine Cole

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Dear parents and carers,

I am writing to let you know about the changes to student reporting for mathematics in Victorian government schools.

All Victorian government schools will start using the Mathematics curriculum 2.0 in 2024 or 2025. At Beveridge Primary School we are using the revised mathematics curriculum for school reporting for 2024.

On your child's previous report, the teacher reported against only 1 strand of the achievement standard for mathematics which was Number. This Semester, under the Mathematics curriculum 2.0, your child’s teacher will report against the achievement standard as a whole, providing a single, aggregated score which will include (Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, and Statistics and Probability).

 As the achievement standards reported on have changed, the first time you receive a report under the Mathematics 2.0 curriculum, it will only show achievement and not progress. For all reports after this, progress will be shown against the single achievement standard. 

The VCAA made these changes to help teachers plan their teaching and learning programs in mathematics, giving them more flexibility to support students to link ideas within mathematics and also with other curriculum areas.

For further information, refer to the department’s policy on Reporting Student Achievement and Progress Foundation to 10.

If you have any queries about your child’s report, please contact us via the school email and we will be able to answer your queries. 

Regards,

Christine Cole

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DECEMBER

• 20th December: Last Day of Term Early Finish 12noon & 12:15

JANUARY

• 29th January: First day of Term 1 -Grade 1 - 6
• 30th January: Foundation First day of Term 1

FEBRUARY

*Foundation students have every Wednesday in February off school 

• 7th February: Swimming Carnival - Grade 3-6 
• 10th February: Parent helper induction session 9:30am 
• 10th February: Campus Assemblies 
• 12th, 13th, 19th & 20th February: Meet & Greet (more info to follow)

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Beveridge PS and Parents & Friends would like to say a massive thank you to all of the generous businesses that donated to our Christmas Hampers!

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Join TeamKids for the BIGGEST & BEST summer holidays ever!

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Click on the following link to check out Beveridge Primary's program and secure your spot today

https://downloads.teamkids.com.au/beveridge-primary-ambrosia-senior-campus.pdf

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VICSWIM has provided Victorians with fun and educational aquatic holiday programs since 1976. VICSWIM focuses on learn to swim and water safety skills, both in pools and open water venues across the state. VICSWIM now offers new locations to meet an increasing demand.

VICSWIM seeks to ensure that all Victorians have the opportunity to access water safety, survival and swimming programs for children, that maximise safety and attitudes ensuring confidence and the ability to enjoy aquatic environments.

The program is a low cost, 5 day intensive summer program teaching swimming and water safety to children from 4 years of age. Each program consists of 5 x 30 minute lessons starting at the same time each day throughout the week.

Program Dates for 2025:

Week 1: Monday 6 January - Friday 10 January
Week 2: Monday 13 January - Friday 17 January
Week 3: Monday 20 January - Friday 24 January


To find out what venues offer the VICSWIM program, please visit the link below:
https://vicswim.com.au/all-venues/

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