Health Concerns

PARENT COMMUNICATION
As you would be aware, Victoria is now in a modified ‘sustain’ phase of its plan to manage the impact of H1N1 Influenza (Human Swine Flu) in our community.
This means that only children confirmed by a doctor as having the virus will be quarantined. Those sharing a house with a confirmed case will not be required to enter quarantine, unless they too are confirmed as having the virus.
Classes who may have been in contact with a confirmed case will no longer be quarantined, and schools will no longer be partially or fully closed.
Students who are feeling unwell should remain at home and not attend school. Students and families with flu-like symptoms are advised to seek medical attention and limit their contact with others.
If your child becomes ill at school, we will contact you immediately and ask you to arrange to collect your child. Please make sure that we have your up-to-date contact details.
It should be remembered, however, that the virus has so far been mild and can be compared to our normal winter flu.
Good general hygiene remains the best defence against the flu and families should continue to ensure children regularly washing their hands and cover their nose and mouth if sneezing and coughing. This practice is being reinforced with your children while at school.
If you have any specific concerns:
• Visit www.health.vic.gov.au
• Call the Swine Influenza Hotline on 180 2007
• Call Nurse-on-Call on 1300 606 024 – for expert health information (freecall 24 hours, 7 days)
• Visit your doctor (GP) – if you have an influenza-like illness (fever, cough and fatigue).
The Department of Human Services is also continuing to ask parents of children returning from USA, Canada, Japan, Mexico and Panama to voluntarily keep their children home for seven (7) days from arrival back in Australia. This is a further precautionary measure to assist in managing the further spread of the virus. 

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The latest question being heard around Broadford Primary School?????

What is Mathletics?

go and have a look!

http://www.mathletics.com.au/

Our students are now FLYING
we look forward to seeing them on the leaderboard soon!

Read more below

Dear Parent,

Your child’s class will soon be using Mathletics. Mathletics is a web-based learning program, which integrates home and school learning via the internet. Mathletics covers K- Year 12 Australian Maths Curriculum and is currently used in over 1300 Australian schools, with more than 40,000 students accessing our site every day.

The benefits of Mathletics include:
• Students are engaged and motivated to learn.
• Mathletics is adaptive, it responds to your child’s individual strengths and weaknesses.
• Students instantly know if they are on the right track and can work through the curriculum at their own pace.
• Animated support guides students through concepts. It is like having a maths tutor 24 hours a day.
• Live Mathletics fosters a stimulating and exciting on-line learning community.
• Creates the perfect link between home and school, results can flow seamlessly.
• Weekly parent emails allow you to monitor your child’s progress.
• Proven improvement results – please click on View improvement results on our website for a survey of 1.1 billion questions
• Teachers can view your child’s progress and adapt their work accordingly

Working at home
Your child will have 24 hour access to Mathletics through the use of a username and password. To gain the greatest understanding how Mathletics can benefit your child, we encourage you spend time looking at the program with your child.   Please see the Guides link on the Website (bottom of home page)

The absolute golden rule of Mathletics is to do each activity 3 times! 
Why? Practice=Improvement!

Our 3 step strategy in the Curriculum area if they get a question incorrect
1) Use the incorrect answer to try and figure out the correct answer
2) Go to the Support? area for help and it will teach you with different examples of the concept
3) If you still don’t understand the concept write the activity topic in your book and ask the teacher

To view Mathletics:
1. Visit www.mathletics.com.au
2. Ensure pop-ups are enabled for our website
3. Select sign-in and enter your child’s details.

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"Every week is Education Week at Broadford PS!"