Hi Carrum Families,

This week our teachers and students celebrated Education Week. We had a big celebration day on Wednesday as our student leaders and specialist teachers ran Expo Day. The students had a great day completing activities that showcased the great learning programs we have In Mandarin, STEAM, Art and PE. It was great to see the way our older students supported the younger students to participate in the activities in their multiage groups. Thank you to our amazing specialist teachers for organising a great day for the students.

Well done to all the students who competed at the District Cross Country last Friday. They all did their best and represented the school very well. We are excited to share that we have 11 students from Grade 3-6 competing at the Division Cross Country next Wednesday 27^th May, at Cornish College. This is a great achievement, and they all should be proud. We wish the students all the best for Wednesday and Ms Ami will be there to support them during the event.

The Prep transition sessions we have held during term 1 and 2 have been going well. We have had great participation in our school tours and information sessions. It has been so fantastic to meet new families and see lots of siblings who will be coming to school next year. In a change to the enrolment process this year enrolments need to be entered via the Departments Student Insight Platform. Information relating to the new enrolment process is on our website at- https://www.carrumps.vic.edu.au/page/3/Enrolment.  Thank you to the families that have already completed this process if you need any assistance with completing the enrolment process, please contact the office.

As part of our transition program, it was lovely to have the students from PB visit Carrum Family and Day Care Centre to participate in a session last week. Later in the term we have more visits planned and we will also be visiting Hope Early Learning Centre. These visits are a great way for our school to continue to connect with our local kinder and childcare centres. Our students love visiting the centres and participating in different developmental play activities. Later in the term we will also be offering some Step into Prep sessions for families to book into that will support with their transition to primary school. More information about these sessions shared over the coming days.

Looking ahead to next week, on Monday our Grade 3/4 and 5/6 students will be participating in a Think U Know session that will focus on being safe online. This session will be run by Moorabbin Police Proactive Policing Unit are a follow up to the parent session run earlier in the year by the Federal Police. The topics discussed in the presentations are linked to the relevant year level within the current Australian Curriculum. More information about this session has been shared on Compass this week. Please contact Mrs McGregor at the school if you have any questions about these sessions.

Finally, please remember that we have a Curriculum Day on Tuesday 9^th June. This is the day after the King’s Birthday Public Holiday and will be a moderation day for staff as they complete Semester 1 reports. TeamKids will be running a Curriculum Day program for families that may need to access this service.

Thank you for your ongoing support and I hope you have a great end of the week and weekend.

Kind regards,

Clem Langford

A BIG congratulations to Asha Buzza who attended Regionals on Wednesday after he achieved great results from District and Division. Asha placed 5th and will now compete in a State level. AMAZING.

Asha is also attending the 2025 All Schools Cross Country champs at Bundoora this Saturday ay 10am in the under 14 3km race, we look forward to hearing how he goes.

Well done Asha, all that training is definitely paying off and we are thrilled that you represent Carrum so proudly. We know you will go far and look forward to hearing how you go next. For now, keep running and look after those legs!

What's cooking this week...

Hi everyone,

This week in cooking we are learning all about chicken and how to make a rich, flavoursome chicken stock.

Students will then use this as the base for our cooking.

Our menu will be: Asian chicken and corn soup (made with our homemade chicken stock), banana muffins, and polenta chips with rosemary and parmesan.

We are also using fresh produce from our school garden, including herbs (parsley, chives, thyme and rosemary) and green vegetables (borage, spring onions and leek, bak choy).

Looking forward to another great cooking session!

Sandra


Recipes we used in the kitchen

 Banana muffins
Chicken and Corn soup
Polenta Fries
chicken stock

On Thursday the Marine Ambassadors Evelyn, Evie Luke and Ahliya went to Namatjira Park, Calyton South.

With Miss Shew for the whole day. We started off by working with the dolphin research institute staff and went to a litter trap to see how much rubbish there is and learn about how much litter is in our oceans and rivers. We found out that animals sometimes make their homes in these litter traps and it’s not the best for them.

After this we had recess and not long after that we went to participate in more activities. There was a frog ID, water clean test an water level checking where we tested the electricity conduction, tested PH levels and more. Then we did ponding,  this is where we had a net and had to scoop up to find creatures, most were red worms but at the end we found something we couldn’t work out or even catch which we thought was a water skimmer!

During our groups we worked with students from other schools and were partnered up with different groups for the day.

After lunch we did a litter clean up, there was so much rubbish, which isn’t great, we poured it all into a huge pile and put it into bags to take away.

Thanks to our parents for driving us on the day and to Miss Shew for helping us and taking care of us on the day.

Written by Evelyn and Evie

     
      
   

Carrum Primary are involved in cleaning up pur beautiful beach.
We would like to ask for volunteers for our Beach Patrol coming up on Sunday 24th of May at 10am. 

Hope to see you there. Miss Derix and team

Thanks to our amazing volunteers from our previous sessions, we couldn't do it without you!

TeamKids has an exciting challenge for Term 2

Book NOW   www.teamkids.com.au/venues

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A program currently being offered by the Swinbrne Univesity Psychology Clinic - "One Step at a Time Program: Parent Support for Childhood Anxiety". 

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