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Ask R U OK? because a conversation could change a life.

You don’t need to be an expert to have an R U OK? Conversation. Listening and giving someone your time might be just what they need to help them through.

Your genuine support can make a difference. Learn more at ruok.org.au

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The annual VCOP random acts of kindness Christmas letter exchange for 2023 is now open for enrolments, for its 6th year!

Please make sure email addresses are entered correctly.
If you CAN NOT commit to POSTING 23 letters to the 23 other schools in your allocated group BEFORE the start of November, please DO NOT sign up.

If multiple classes from your school sign up for the same group, you will be writing to each other. But as always, I will try and shuffle as much as possible to avoid this. Of course, this is not always possible when 5-6 classes sign up for the same group, so bear with me :)

Once group titles disappear, the group is full- HOWEVER, the new form add-on to monitor group numbers seems to remove the field if someone has clicked on it until it can check if it is full or not. Click refresh or wait a minute and try again.

https://forms.gle/vyHxHrJuUJTgrGkz8
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TODAY IS THE DAY!!

Today, students from Woodlands PS, Langwarrin PS, Lang Park PS and EMC will walk 25-50km to raise money for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. The 50km walk will start from St Kilda, while the 25km walk will start at Mordialloc and all walkers will finish at Frankston Pier to celebrate their astonishing achievements.

Collectively, the Thrive network has raised over $180,000 and counting. Local lad Oscar Taylor has taken to the streets to get back to good old fashion community door knocking, raising over $2600.
Proud Mum, Sammy has been so impressed with his efforts. “Oscar is a real people person, but I still can’t believe how much door knocking has boosted his confidence, respect, empathy and public speaking skills. So much so, that his little sisters and brothers have even joined in. He was pretty nervous to begin with, so he made a video to post on the local community page announcing his intention to door knock and asking the recipients to be kind as it was his first time. It was met with such an amazing response, that he was pumped to get started and met everyone. Of course he was supervised the whole time, but it’s something that kids really need to get back in to and benefit from. A bit of hard pavement work is good for the soul.”

Help boost the kids on their walk today and donate to a very worthy cause. Donations are open until Good Friday, but the kids will be celebrating today as they make their trek. If you see them, give them a wave.

Thank you all for your kind and generous donations.

REMEMBER DONATIONS COME WITH A RECEIPT AND ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE, SO IF YOU HAVE OR KNOW A BUSINESS, LET’S GET ON BOARD!!

https://fundraise.goodfridayappeal.com.au/fundraisers/OzzyJ/ican-challenge-2023

Check out the lineup for the new Literacy Masterclass premiering in June! This one will be amazing for anyone wanting some diverse literacy PD.

View the full lineup here:
https://nationaleducationsummit.com.au/melbourne/literacy-masterclass

We are excited to offer the ultimate Literacy Masterclass with a consortium of experts from this field who have an undeniable passion for working with children to help them become literate.

We know how difficult it can be to be released from other commitments to attend professional development, so we want to ensure that this session is jam-packed with as many areas of literacy as we can fit in. These workshops are designed to be interactive and full of activities that you can take back to your classrooms and implement immediately. You will walk away with a clearer insight into what literacy really entails and how to make learning accessible to all.

Join Literacy Coach Sammy Taylor from Big Write and VCOP Andrell Education, Paediatric Exercise Physiologist Robyn Papworth from Play Move Improve, CEO Alexandra Harper from Little Learners Love Literacy, Senior Lecturer Dr Nathaniel Swain from La Trobe University, and Occupational Therapist Stephanie Robinson from SGR Holistic Paediatric and Family Focused Occupational Therapy as they endeavour to help you make a positive impact to literacy in your classroom.

The Masterclass will take place on Saturday 17 June at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. Explore the program and register today to receive Super Special rates. www.nationaleducationsummit.com.au/melbourne/literacy-masterclass

Downloading now!
Advent calendar family time sorted.

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Free Download - www.vcop.com.au
Christmas Movie and Shows Advent Tags.

Blank Card in there for adding your own, but feel free to let me know what your favourites are and I will update each year.

Set printing to 6 per page, single-sided.

Length and network have also been added to the tags for easy sorting so that shorter ones can be used on school nights.

Happy 1st of December

Special thanks to anyday adventures for the idea

Woo-wee! Have you seen the new resources that have been uploaded to www.VCOP.com.au this week from Andrell Education.

Perfect for self-analysis to check how embed skills are!

The FREE annual Christmas Letter exchange run by Andrell Education is closing enrolments soon.
Sign up for class to be involved in something really special 🙂

It's Netflix for Teachers!

Teachers to Leaders have just launched T2LTV and let me tell you the content on there is already awesome!

Teachers to Leaders is a Mathematics, Literacy, Behaviour Management and Inclusion professional learning subscription package.

It includes live and pre-recorded videos and webinars that are accessible on your laptop, phone, tablet or TV, so you can watch the content anywhere at any time.

Even better, Andrell Education has just posted that if you mention 'SAMMY-VCOP' in your subscription inquiry, you also get up to 20% off the subscription price. Yes please!

Apparently, this offer is only valid until the launch of Sammy from Andrell's first live webinar on Oct 6th 2022 - Tips for Marking Cold Writes (which includes modelling a level against the criterion scale!)
So don't leave it too long.

T2L TV has just launched and prices will continue to increase as more videos and presenters are added to the channel.
So far the lineup is pretty epic. Check out Rob Vingerhoets - Maths, Julie Shepherd - Literacy, Nadia Abdelal - Maths,
Dave Vinegrad - Behaviour Management, Michael Ymer - Maths, Sammy Taylor - Writing, Graham Broadbent - Leadership.

Has your school subscribed? What do you think?

https://www.teacherstoleaders.com.au/

Have you seen the new F-10 ABC Education Math Resources? Check them out now

https://www.abc.net.au/education/subjects-and-topics/maths/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=abc_education_education_sfmc_20220831&utm_term=&utm_id=1932623&sfmc_id=260412799