8.50am                 First Bell

8.55am                 Second Bell (line up and ready to go into the classroom)

9.00am - 11.00am Classes

10.30am - 11.00am Spelling Mastery

11.00am - 11.25am Recess & then first bell

11.30am                 Second Bell (line up and ready to go into the classroom)

11.30am - 1.00pm Classes

1.00pm - 1.10pm         Eat lunch in classes / supervised outside

1.10pm - 1.40pm         Playtime and First Bell

1.45pm         Second Bell (line up and ready to go into the classroom)

1.45pm - 3.15pm         Classes & then First Bell (pack up)

3.20pm                 Second Bell and end of school

Once a semester, classes (not Year levels) will be rostered on to host chapel.

Typically, the hosting class will run the following sections of the chapel program:

• Welcome

• Prayer

• Songs

• Special item/video/interactive activity/introduction of the value

• Introduce the Speaker (Chaplain will organise a speaker)

Please see Rachel Turner and the chaplaincy team for more information.

The school canteen operates for Primary students on Tuesdays and Thursdays (lunch).

Staff are welcome to order lunch for themselves Mon-Fri using the FlexiSchools app, by calling the canteen or by seeing them in person. Staff can open an account with them and pay at the end of each term, or pay upon ordering.

Teaching and ESO staff will be rostered on to yard duty according to the 'Duty Roster'.

Some EC Primary events to keep in mind: (please see relevant calendar for details)

• FLAG week,

• Open night

• ASV athletics

• Parent teacher interviews (T1, T3)

• Volunteers Morning Tea

• Term 1-3, the last day of school is 2:30pm

Teachers are encouraged to organise one incursion/excursion per term.

1. Select an incursion/excursion event that is curriculum-relevant and within budget.

2. Check the event calendar in the staff room to ensure there are no date clashes. If EC buses are needed, check that the buses are available on the desired date.

3. Complete an 'excursion proposal' on Consent2Go. NB if it is an incursion or a low-risk excursion, you may complete an 'express approval' proposal. See Consent2Go page for details.

4. Book the incursion/excursion.

5. Have a great time!

See 'Extra Staff Responsibilities' 

Staff worship

• • Primary staff meet in the Primary staffroom on Mon, Tue, Thur and Fri at 8:15am for staff worship and announcements. On Wednesday, the whole school meets at 8:15am for a combined worship.

  • Primary staff are invited to sign up to take morning worship for the rest of the staff. If you wish to join the roster, you will lead worship on Thursday and Friday of that week.

See 'Leave' 

If you are unwell or unable to come in, please follow the process for finding a CRT that is outlined here.

Trial Day Students

See 'Professional Development'

SEQTA is our ASV-wide online collaborative teaching and learning ecosystem. It houses things such as roll marking, programmes, day-books, student notes, pastoral care, NCCD and more.

It is important to make sure that you:

• Have your own SEQTA account (teaching staff)

• Mark the roll twice daily

• Timetable is set up correctly and cloned each term

• List of programmes is linked to your team-teacher

• New students are updated in the roll and within each subject on your timetable

If any of the above sounds like Greek to you, please visit the SEQTA page or contact out SEQTA Champions

See 'Specialist Timetable' 

SRA Spelling Mastery builds dependable spelling skills for students in grades 2-6 through a highly structured method that blends the following approaches:

Phonemic approach - helps beginning spellers learn the relationships between spoken sounds and written letters and then apply them to spelling

Morphemic approach - exposes advanced spellers to prefixes, bases, and suffixes

Whole-word approach - gives spellers at all levels the meaning and root of a word and shows how the word's spelling is influenced

Spelling Mastery interweaves these three approaches according to students' skill development and provides straightforward lessons to help efficiently and effectively teach the spelling skills students need to become proficient readers and writers. Explicit instruction, careful selection of spelling words, and repeated and cumulative practice help students master each concept and reinforce and retain key information.

At EC we run Spelling Mastery for grades 2-6 daily at 10:30am. Students are streamed into level groups and go to their spelling clas when they hear the spelling bell at 10:30am. Please make sure that new students are tested so they know which group to go to.

Teaching Spelling Mastery is very simply to do. The teacher manual outlines exactly what you need to do/say and students complete their work in a pre-made student workbook. See DHoP for more information.

Teachers are encouraged to write a 'Welcome to School' letter to students to send out before the first day of school. Please see the DHoP/HoP for more information.

The whereabouts of a few 'random' things:

Learning Support Demountable

• • readers - must be signed out

Primary Office

• • book binder

  • label maker

Primary Staff Room

• • guillotine

  • laminator

  • pigeon holes

  • shared maths resources

Printers

• The Primary campus has three printer/photocopy machines: One in the front office, one inbetween the Yr 1 and 2 classrooms and one in the Yr 5/6 building. There is also one located in the Library and others in the secondary school.

See 'Who to go to for...' 

Start thinking about and collecting A4-sized pieces of nice student work that the students have completed so that they can be collated into a folder to go home at the end of the year. You may wish to include work from each KLA, photos from excursions, writing samples, project work and anything else that will make it pretty. This will be sent home with the students on/near the last day of school.