EDUCATION WEEK ACTIVITIES - May 20th to May 25th 2019

We hope you can come along and visit our fantastic school during Education Week.

The following activities have been planned:

SCHOOL GUIDED TOURS:
Monday 20th May @ 9:30am
Wednesday 22nd May @ 2:00pm

OPEN CLASSES during EDUCATION WEEK 20^th May to 23^rd May

Visit the school, view student work and chat to teachers.

PREP 2020 INFORMATION NIGHT 22^nd May at 7pm

OPEN MORNING – Saturday 25^th May 10am – 12 noon

incorporating our BENTLEIGH FARMERS’ MARKET 8am-12:30pm

Excerpt from our School Bulletin 9th May 2019

Mother’s Day Stall

There was much excitement yesterday as the children made their selections from the lovely range of gifts available. A very big thankyou to all our wonderful volunteers who helped all our children make their special purchases for their mums for Mother’s Day this Sunday. Your efforts in assisting the children with their purchases are much appreciated. Special thanks to Kym M., Gordana M., and Jan S. for being so generous with your time and helping make today so special for the children. Extra special thanks to Kym and Gordana for once again coordinating all the beautiful gifts and organising this special event for us.

I hope all mums enjoy their day on Sunday. Although this day in recent times has become very commercialised (who shares with me my distaste for ads spruiking gifts worth hundreds of dollars for Mother’s Day?), it can nonetheless be a lovely way to pause, reflect and join with our families to   celebrate mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers, by just being together. Our thoughts go out to those who have lost their mums since last year. May your happy memories sustain you. In honour of all mothers out there, I am attaching a lovely article from our parenting expert Michael Grose.

House Cross Country

Congratulations to all our students in Years 3-6 who participated so enthusiastically in our House Cross Country event last Monday. Thank you too, to our wonderful parents and teachers who supported all of our kids. Thank you to Nami’s mum Lisa, for the lovely feedback…’it was a great day and the kids supported each other so nicely. It makes me feel blessed, thankful and proud’ - I couldn’t agree more.

Written by Maria Shearn - Principal (9/5/19)

Capital Works Program - Performing Arts Centre

At our school council meeting on Monday night Mario Duvnjak from ProArk presented the plans for our new building to ‘Schematic Design’ stage, (see photos below). Full plans are available for viewing in my office for anyone interested. On Wednesday, Sue and I attended a PREP meeting at the VSBA where the auditing company, along with representatives from DET and VSBA signed off on this stage. We will now have 8 weeks to work through the     all-important ‘Design Development’ stage where we decide with the architects more specific design features of our new building. Written by Maria Shearn - Principal (18/10/18)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

I would imagine by now that most of you will have heard the fabulous news, but just in case you haven’t, here it is…..

In next week’s State Budget, East Bentleigh PS will receive $5,000,000 to build a much needed Performing Arts Centre at our school. We were delighted when Education Minister James Merlino was able to come to our assembly on Monday to make the wonderful announcement himself.

As a staff we are thrilled with this exciting new development for our school and we owe a debt of gratitude to our local MP Nick Staikos who has been such a strong advocate for the schools in his electorate. Thank you Nick.

We now look forward to working with DET and our nominated architects on making this dream a reality.

Written by Maria Shearn (Principal) on 26th April 2018