Calendar 2014

Fri 7 March Interschool Sports (Home Game) Year 5/6 Somers Camp Expression

of Interest Due

Mon 10 March Public Holiday - No School

Tue 11 March

Lollies & Coffee Fundraiser due

Thurs 13 March Year Prep Incursion - Life Be In It Year 3/4 Incursion - Life Be In It

Fri 14 March

Interschool Sports (Home Game) Come & Try School Morning Prep Transition Survey Due

Thurs 20 March Walk to School Day

Fri 21 March

Interschool Sports (Away Game)

Tue 25 March Special Lunch Day

Fri 28 March Interschool Sports (Away Game)

Fri 4 April Interschool Sports (Away Game) Last Day of Term 1 - Early Dismissal 2:30pm

Wednesday 5 March, 2014 Issue 3

M Cnr Hampshire & Derby Roads, SUNSHINE 3020 P 8311 5700 F 9312 3506 E sunshine.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au W sunshineps.vic.edu.au

Inside This Issue Meet The Teacher

Somers Camp

Prep Transition Survey

Come & Try School Morning

Bunnings BBQ

School Council Elections

Exciting News

Curriculum Days

Community Board

Facebook

Permission Forms

Message from the Acting

Assistant Principal

School Wide Positive Behaviours

Lollies & Coffee Drive

Easter Raffle

Footy Tipping Competition

Hungry Munchkins Canteen

Remember © 2009 Copyrights Sunshine Primary School

The calendar in this newsletter is subject to change so

please check carefully each fortnight for any

alterations. A calendar for the whole year is available

on the school website.

Term 1 30 January to 4 April

Last day of Term 1

Early Dismissal 2:30pm

NEWSLETTER Our School

Student Absence To report your child’s absence please call the

school on 8311 5700 and choose option 1.

Hungry Munchkins Canteen is open: Monday, Wednesday & Friday

No Hat = No Play Remember your hat in Term 1

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

MEET THE TEACHER Thank you to all the parents who came along to

the ‘Meet the Teacher Night’. This is the first part

of our reporting to parents process. In June you

will receive a written report and will be invited to

attend a Student Led Conference where your

child/children will present their learning journey

they have been on to their parent/parents.

As students engage in their Inquiry units each

term they will generally have an “Action” at the

end of the unit where they will demonstrate and

apply the learning they have done throughout

the term. This is an exciting and excellent way

for students to demonstrate how clever they are.

I encourage you to attend these wherever

possible. In December you will receive your

child/children’s final report.

If at any time you wish to discuss your child/

children’s progress you will need to make an

appointment with the classroom teacher.

SOMERS CAMP Expression of interest notes have gone out to

students in Year’s 5 and 6. Somers camp is a

fabulous experience and is heavily subsidised.

As places are limited please make sure you get

your forms back by Friday 7 March.

PREP TRANSITION SURVEYS Feedback is vitally important to us to ensure we

give you and your family the best experience

when starting school. Our Prep families have

been given a survey which should only take 5

minutes to fill in. We appreciate your comments

and hope to use these to improve our Transition

Program in 2015. Please return surveys by Friday

14 March.

COME & TRY SCHOOL MORNING Do you have or do you know of any children

due to start school next year?

If so encourage them to register

for our Come and Try School

Morning on Friday 14 March.

As well as giving children a

“taste” of Primary School,

parents will have the opportunity

to hear all about starting school

and the enrolment process.

A range of staff will be on hand

to answer any questions you

may have.

BUNNINGS BBQ Thank you to our wonderful helpers at the

Bunnings BBQ. We made a profit of $750 putting

us a step closer to starting our oval project.

SCHOOL COUNCIL ELECTIONS Thank you to those parents who voted in our

School Council Elections. Congratulations to the

following candidates who have been successful:

Merilyn Cini, Sonia Fellowes, Felicity Gates and

Paula Kelly.

EXCITING NEWS We have been successful in gaining a CASS

grant to fund an Artist in School project which

will take place in term 2 with the Year 3/4

students. The project looks at linking local

Sunshine History with various mediums of Art and

will be community focussed. This is a fantastic

opportunity for our students to gain access to a

professional artist and local historians. We would

like to acknowledge the CASS Foundation for

their support.

CURRICULUM DAYS A reminder to parents that our Curriculum days

for the remainder of 2014 are as follows:

Monday 12 May

Monday 3 November

COMMUNITY BOARD At SPS we value the communication between

our school and home. It is very important

that parents are aware of the important

events such as incursions/excursion, fundraising,

student presentations, etc…. taking place.

We encourage you to register online if you

haven't done so already to receive the

newsletter and other information electronically.

We ask our families to visit our website on a

regular basis as we endeavour to keep this site

up to date.

We also have a community board that is

updated on a regular basis with the events

taking place. Don’t forget to check it out.

Our Facebook page is also an in time

communication tool. All you have to do is like us

and you will receive all the updates.

Our School Values We shine when we are: Learning, Respectful, Safe

FACEBOOK Late last year our school created a Facebook page.

This page was created as another form of communication to

keep parents informed. In order for our staff to post photos of

your child/children we need your permission. A reminder

note was sent out yesterday for those parents that have not

completed the permission form for their child/children.

We ask that you complete the form and return to the office

by Friday 7 March.

PERMISSION FORMS There are many organisations that request payment up front

for incursions/excursion. We ask that all permission forms

signed with payment if required be returned by the due date

stated on the form.

For parents who are using the BPay option please keep in

mind that it can take up to two days for the payment to

reach our account. Please note if you receive a payment

envelope attached to a note you are required to make

payment.

Lyn Read

Principal

MESSAGE FROM THE

ACTING ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

We have had another very busy fortnight at Sunshine Primary

School. As we encourage all of our students to be active

learners, we also expect this of our teachers. This week we

had Ms Hennessey go off to ‘teachers school’ to bring back

some great ideas for our work in the area of Literacy,

Mrs Azzopardi spent a day working with other schools in our

network on our Maths curriculum and Ms McLeod,

Mr Frederick, Caroline and myself had a day of Professional

Learning based on our School Wide Positive Behaviours

Framework. It will be a very exciting place to be over the

next few weeks as all this new learning is filtered into the

classrooms.

SCHOOL WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOURS It was with great pleasure that we had the opportunity to

report such positive behaviours to our colleagues on how

well the students at SPS are doing.

Yard duty has been an absolute delight. All students

are playing happily; they are using the language and

vocabulary that we have taught them through the SWPBF to

assist with conflict resolution.

Our classrooms are buzzing with new learning and

productivity. I have just had two grade 1/2 girls come in and

show me some of their writing – I was blown away.

Credit goes to our whole school community for really

upholding and demonstrating our school values!

Emma Vasilevski

Acting Assistant Principal

Footy Tipping Competition

This year we are running an Sunshine Primary School

community competition through www.footytips.com.au

To enter just search for the SPS Community Comp and click

join. You will need to enter a password which is SPS.

Entry is $20 for the season. $10 will go towards the prize pool

and $10 towards the oval project. The more people we get

the more funds we raise so encourage friends, family and

colleagues to join. Round 1 starts on Friday 14 March so be

sure to register prior to then. Good Luck!

Hungry Munchkins Canteen Roster

Monday Wednesday Friday

Danni Brooke Eril

Tamara Cherie Amanda

If there are any other parents who are interested in

helping out please see Elizabeth or Kety at the office.

HUNGRY MUNCHKINS CANTEEN Please be aware that we use an english

muffin for the base of our pizza. One pizza

equals one whole english muffin (two half's).

INTERSCHOOL SPORTS FIXTURE

R. 3 March 7 V’S S’hine Harvester (Home)

R. 4 March 14 V’S Our Lady’s (Home)

R. 5 March 21 V’S St Paul’s (AWAY)

R. 6 March 28 V’S Ardeer South (AWAY)

R. 7 April 4 V’S S’hine North (AWAY)

Ray McCredden

Sports Coordiantor

Lollies & Coffee Drive

Money and Orders due by:

Tuesday 11 March, 2014

That’s right we just put the Christmas decorations

away and it’s nearly time for Easter.

Our Annual Easter Raffle happens with the generosity of our school community & we ask

for a donation from each family, to make our

hampers simply full of wonderful Easter goodies!

If you can donate Easter eggs, toys or other

Easter items, please drop them off in the box

provided at the office.

Tickets will be sent home soon.

http://www.footytips.com.au

Week ending 21 February & 28 February

Prep F

Kajal & Rowan

Nina & Jade Prep G

Charlie & Martin

Ruby & Harjas 1/2 A

Otis & Jasmyn

Kirra & Maja 1/2 H

Jake & Luke

Shae & Thomas 1/2 M

Michael

Ella & Claudia

3/4 B

Owen & Kir

Seth & Daniel 3/4 H

Kenny & Mihall

Andrea & Erna 4/5 K

Hanna & Jade

Krystal & Levi 5/6 K

Lani & Charly

D’Artagnan & Brydie-Mae 5/6 O

Jaycob & Nathan

Happy Birthday

February

Lian, Willow, Jaskaran, Sarah, Alanah.

To advertise in our newsletter please refer to our website for pricing and different sizes available.

SPS only advertise on behalf of the third party but do not guarantee the results or merchantable quality of the goods or services provided.

Before & After School Care Program For Bookings and cancellations please ring

Maryanne on 0423 795 361

Primary School Wear Shop address

58 Westwood Drive, Deer Park Phone: 9363 8458

Order online at www.psw.com.au

School Dental Service:

Ph: 8398 4100 — No. 2 Geelong Road, Footscray

SPS Breakfast Club Open every morning

from 8:30am till 8:50am Proudly sponsored by Red Cross &

Bakers Delight S’hine

Always looking for donations of Bread, Margarine, Strawberry Jam & Vegemite

S e c o n d H a n d U n i f o r m Hours

8:45am to 9:00am Monday, Wednesday & Friday

CASH ONLY SALES Please bring small change

and your own bag.

Second hand clothing range from $5 - $15 each.

Donations of preloved uniform can be left at the office. Clothing should be in reasonably good condition and clean.

Interested in learning how to play Keyboard

Half hour lessons are now available at SPS during school hours

(9:30am – 1:00pm) Reasonable rates charged.

Further information available at the office.

Special Lunch Day

Tuesday 25 March (order forms coming soon)

PRINCIPAL AWARDS Jeyda - 1/2 H & Rylee - 1/2 H

AUSSIE OF THE MONTH John - 5/6 O

AUTUMN HOLIDAY PROGRAM AT SUNSHINE !

We’re pleased to announce that YMCA Healthy Kids will again

be running a school holiday program here at Sunshine Primary

for the Autumn Holidays.

Bookings for the holiday program are now open, for more

information visit www.healthykidsoshc.ymca.org.au or call 8371

0500.

This year we are running an Sunshine Primary School community competition

through www.footytips.com.au

To enter just search for the SPS Community Comp and click join. You will need

to enter a password which is SPS. Entry is $20 for the season. $10 will go towards

the prize pool and $10 towards the oval project. The more people we get the

more funds we raise so encourage friends, family and colleagues to join.

Round 1 starts on Friday 14 March so be sure to register prior to then.

Good Luck!

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Please compete and return this section with your payment of $20 to the office.

Your Name: __________________________________________

Contact Number: _____________________________________

Footy Tipping Competition

On hot days, it is important to remember that children should never be left alone in a car.

The temperature inside a car on hot days begins to rise as soon as the door closes and within

minutes the temperature inside can be double the temperature outside.

Leaving children in hot cars – even for a moment – can result in injury or death.

Young children’s smaller body size and underdeveloped nervous system places them at a much

greater risk of life-threatening heatstroke, dehydration and other serious health risks.

Victorian legislation makes leaving a child unattended in a car a criminal offence, with penalties

ranging from fines of $2165 or three months in prison.

If you are travelling with a child in a car and you need to get out, make sure you take your child

with you. No exceptions. No excuses.

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