​Starting Primary School

"You’re off to great places. Today is your first day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way! "-  Dr.Seuss

​Starting primary school for the first time is a big moment for all children and their families.  At Coburg North Primary School, we are committed to ensuring that this experience is a great one filled with many memories to last for a lifetime.
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Our Transition and Orientation program aims to provide our future Foundation students with all the support they need to flourish at primary school.   

TRANSITION

Virtual Story Time
Staff that children will meet in the first year of school, will introduce themselves and read a story to them via our Story Time at CNPS page.  We encourage all of our parents who have students starting Foundation to watch all of our stories.  This will help children to identify our friendly staff that they will frequently meet while at school.

Click here to go to our Virtual Story Time website

You can also introduce your children to other staff members at Coburg North Primary School by listening to their favourite story told during our 2021 Book Week celebration.

Click here to go to our 2021 Virtual Family Reading Night

Story Time
In Terms 2 and 3 each year, members of our Foundation team run a Story Time session for children below school age.  These sessions are held to familiarise themselves within a school environment whilst participating in activities such as reading circles, songs and rhymes, and play based social activities. 

Sessions run every Friday at 9:00am and conclude at 9:45am. Due to adhering to the school’s COVID-19 Safe Plan, places will be limited to 30.  Bookings open every Wednesday at 10am through the office at 3954 1660.

Story Time Flyer


Social Stories
A social story is a narrative made to illustrate certain situations that may cause anxiety for some children.  They are a positive approach to allow children to get a better understanding of situations and how to deal with them.
Our Foundation teachers have created some social stories that may assist children with any anxieties they may have.

Our Social Stories:

• Welcome to Foundation 
• First Day at School
• Playing in the Playground
• Eating Lunch​
• Testing what I know
• Virtual Classroom
• Going to Before and After School Care

Important Tips 
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• Social Stories are a positive approach which should be introduced to children in a calm and comfortable environment using a positive tone while reading.
• Children should never be forced to read a story.

iWonder Project

For our school community, children’s voices provide valuable feedback about what we can do to support children and families transitioning to school.  Parents will be asked to have a conversation with their child about any wonderings they have about school.  Children will draw their wonderings and have a personalised response from a current Foundation student.  Parents will be provided with all the children’s wonderings and answers illustrated in our ‘Wondering About School’ ebook.

​Information regarding the iWonder project will be sent out to enrolled families in Term 4.

PARENT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

Communication:  Parents will be required to connect to Compass to receive all school communication. Compass guides can be found on our Compass page in the parent section of this website.   Compass will allow parents to receive the school’s communication and access to the school’s newsletter.  

Parent Information Night

Our Parent information night was held on the 25 May at 7pm.  This night provided parents with an opportunity to give families more information about our school’s visio for our students and all the great programs the school offers.
Click here to see the presentation to this information.  

Parent Information Booklet:  

Parents can download our Parent Information booklet from Compass.  This can be found in the news feed as well as in school documentation section (click on the people icon).  

Please see the link below to see how to access the documentation on Compass:
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How to access compass documentation

Parents and Friends Welcome:  

Parents and Friends (P&F) will hopefully be able to welcome Foundation families at the traditional Welcome BBQ in term one which we host alongside the Reader Information evening. It is a great opportunity if you are new to the school to meet other parents, have a chat and get to know each other.
 
The P&F organise a number of events throughout the year to not only to raise funds but to grow school spirit which has been obviously very important to us over the past few years. Our last P&F fundraising event was the ‘Plants for Panels’ Spring Plant Market, which we ran for its second year online to raise funds to purchase solar panels for the school.
 
There are many ways to help out and get involved and we’d love to see new members join the committee. Find out more about the P&F on our website or email cnps_pf@hotmail.com to get involved. 

AFTER SCHOOL CARE

Before and After School Presentation: 

Parents are encouraged to look over the presentation from Theircare who is our private OSHC provider.  This presentation outlines their enrolment process, payments, absences, first aide/medication. This will be available on the school website.

TheirCare Presenation

ORIENTATION 

COVID-19 Stage Restrictions:  Please note the following Orientation program may be altered at short notice due advice from the Victorian Chief Health Officer.  We will notify all parents attending our orientation program via Compass of any changes that are required.

School Tour
Please go to our School Tour page for more information

Classroom Orientation
More information about our 2022 Classroom Orientation program will be sent to parents in term 4 via Compass.

Meet the Teacher
Children will meet their 2022 teacher and participate in classroom activities with their buddies who will share their responses to their wonderings.  Children will have an opportunity to play in the school’s playground and have morning tea with their peers.

Our Starting School at CNPS Transition and Orientation flyer will be released in term 3.