14th March 2025

School Vision

From the Principal

Newsletter 14 March 2025

Dear parents and carers

It has been a wonderful and busy start to 2025. We still have lots on our school calendar for the remainder of the term including completing NAPLAN which started earlier this week. With Madeley On The Green and Harmony Day still to come it will be a busy but very fun finish to Term One.

NAPLAN: NAPLAN began on Wednesday this week for our Year 3 and Year 5 students. The NAPLAN testing is intuitive whereby if students answer several questions correctly, the test adapts to provide more challenging questions. Equally if students are getting several answers incorrect, the test adapts to provide easier questions for them. 

Among its many benefits, NAPLAN data provides valuable information to schools to identify students’ individual and specific needs and assists us to identify any trends/gaps in learning across year levels that we can address as a school. It also assists us to track how we are doing as a school, compared to other schools of similar context and Socio-Economic Index, as well as how we track compared to the Australian Mean.

Additionally, we track students from On-Entry Testing in Pre-Primary to NAPLAN Year 3, 5, 7, and 9 against what their expected progress should be, to support us to enable students to make expected progress from one testing period to the next. As you can see this data is incredibly useful data which we use to plan for improvement.   

Parent teacher Interviews: Madeley Primary will close early at 11:45 am on April 3rd, 2025, to allow for an afternoon of parent-teacher interviews. We encourage all parents to attend, as this is a valuable opportunity to discuss your child’s academic progress, social-emotional development, and overall well-being with their teacher. Families are vital partners in their child’s education, and these conversations help strengthen the home-school connection to support each student's growth and success.

All interviews will take place in the undercover Assembly Area and will be scheduled at 10-minute intervals. Interviews will be centrally timed on the big screen, enabling the afternoon to keep to schedule. Students are not required to attend.

Bookings are now open. Parents and Carers can access the online booking platform using either of these two methods. Should you require any assistance, please contact your child’s classroom teacher. 

School Board: Our School Board is a group of parents and staff who support the strategic directions of our school.  They are involved with reviewing policy and analysing school data to support the general directions of the school. I would like to thank Mrs Sally Price, and Mrs Michelle De Luca who have completed their tenure on the School Board in 2024. I would like to thank them for their contributions to the Madeley PS Board.

I would like to welcome Mrs Leanne Turner (parent rep) and Mrs Bethany Davis (staff rep) for nominating as new members of the School Board for the next three years.

School Board 2025 members include:

• Matthew White - parent
• Joe Madaferri - parent
• Anshul Sharma - parent
• Monique Forde – parent
• Leanne Turner - parent
• Kevin Raykos - parent
• Anita Vague – staff
• Bethany Davis – staff
• Tania Smart – staff
• Lainie Beccegato – Principal

Student Absences: In accordance with our communication policy, we ask parents to only communicate student absences through our school’s SMS messaging service which is 0437 419 118 Please SMS the student name, reason and date/s of absence.

This policy is designed to reduce the workload of teachers. Please do not email absentee notifications to teachers directly.

SMS notifications are the required process for school absences due to sickness or appointments. Please note that it is a legal requirement that all absences from school be adequately explained. We ask that all student absences are explained to the school that morning.

Our SMS messaging service will send out a message at 9:30am to notify parents who have children absent, where the school has not been informed. Please note that it is also a requirement that extended absences through family holidays or activities be pre-approved by the Principal.

Madeley on the Green: We are all looking forward to having a fabulous evening at Madeley on the Green on 5^th April from 4.00pm to 8.00pm. This year the event takes place on a Saturday, providing a greater ease of set up without impacting the students throughout the school day.

The Madeley P&C put on an amazing event – with food trucks, carnival rises, market stalls, live entertainment and more. We hope to see you all there. It is an annual event that is not to be missed.

Before and After School Play : A friendly reminder that playing on the play equipment before school is not permitted. After school, on the proviso that parents directly supervise their children, children are permitted to play on the ECE & MLA play equipment after the school bell until 3:10pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and 2:45pm on Wednesdays.  After this time, we ask all parents to kindly vacate the school grounds as the gates will be locked. Soccer is not to be played by students after school in the playground.

Parking: Our students’ safety is our primary concern. Therefore, safe and legal parking around our school continues to be an ongoing concern. We kindly remind all parents to do the right thing by driving and parking safely and legally around our school. Kiss-and-Drive bays are not for parking and should be vacated as quickly as possible to maintain the flow of traffic. However, they can be parked in between 9:30am – 2:20pm.  Parking in the driveway of the Pre Primary car park, on the kerbing behind the bays and on pathways is also illegal and has resulted in safety concerns. Please be patient and wait until a car bay becomes available. Patience, kindness and respect are all virtues we need to model when driving and parking around our school.  We thank you for your consideration.

Harmony Day: Harmony Day will be celebrated on Friday 21^st March. This is an opportunity for the school to celebrate the diversity our school community, celebrating people of all different cultures. Students are asked to come dressed in either Orange – the colour associated with Harmony Week, or in their traditional cultural dress.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Lainie Beccegato

Principal

Important Dates

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**Please be aware the dates published are a guide and may change**

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Parent Information

School Chaplain

My name is Jay, and I am the new chaplain here at Madeley Primary. Thank you so much to the students, staff and parents who have been so warm and friendly these last couple of weeks. I'm really looking forward to getting to know you all and adding an extra layer of support where needed.  My role is to provide social and emotional support to all students, staff, and families within our school community. Whether you need someone to talk to, guidance during challenging times, or simply a listening ear, I am here to help.

Feel free to reach out to me, I am in the office on Mondays and Fridays. I look forward to getting to know each of you and supporting you in any way I can.

Also, we know sometimes it can be a tough time for some families in one way or another. Please remember there are so many services out there that can lend support.

Below are some services available.

Kids Helpline 24/7 Phone and online counselling for young people 5-25

1800551800

Beyond Blue free 24/7 phone counselling for all age groups with depression or anxiety

1300224636

Helping Minds -mental health services and Carer support.

Is someone in your life living with mental ill-health.

Lifeline 24/7 helpline that provides generalist crisis counselling information and referral services

131114

CRC Christian Revival Church in Wangara,

20 Uphill Place

Wangara

Foodbank shop

Open hours-

Fridays 9:00-11:00.

Warm regards, Jay

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