Wednesday 18 March 2015 Issue 4

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

In This Issue Come & Try School Morning

Kinder Visits

Garden Club

School Council Office Bearers

Prep Transition Survey

Permission Notes

Fundraising Events

Awards/Community Notices Remember © 2015 Copyrights Sunshine Primary School

Calendar 2015

Wed 18 March

Bakers Delight Orders Due

Footy Clinic - During Lunchtime

Fri 20 March

Year 5/6 Interschool Sports

(Away game - Ardeer South)

Tue 24 March

Special Treat Day - Hot Cross Buns

for sale at recess

Raffle Draw

Thurs 26 March

Special Lunch - Bakers Delight

Excursion Permission Note Due

Arts Centre Melbourne - The 26th Story Tree House Performance

Fri 27 March

Year 5/6 Interschool Sports

(Home game - Our Ladies)

SPS Footy Tipping Competition

Payment Due

Last Day of Term 1

Early Dismissal 2:30pm

Mon 13 April

First Day of Term 2

Tue 14 April

Whole School Excursion

Arts Centre Melbourne - The 26th Story Tree House Performance

Fri 17 April

District Cross Country

Thurs 30 April

School Photos

Fri 1 May

Whole School Incursion

Jack & The Bean Stalk

Mon 4 May

Curriculum Day - No School for

Students

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 27 March

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

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

Payments A reminder if you wish to pay for your child’s/

children’s incursion/excursion etc… costs,

you can pay cash, cheque, and now BPay. If you have misplaced your reference number please call the

office to obtain your family reference number.

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

COME & TRY SCHOOL MORNING What a very impressive morning it turned

out to be. We had families from local

Kindergartens/Child Care Centres who

took the opportunity to come along to our

Come & Try School Morning. The children

enjoyed their time in the classroom with

Ms Richards, while their parents had a tour

around the school and learnt about

Primary School life.

KINDER VISITS Our wonderful Year Three students have

been busy visiting our local kindergartens

and running some engaging early Literacy

activities. They have shown exceptional

leadership qualities as well as our school

values and I believe there may be a few

budding teachers in the mix.

GARDEN CLUB It is with great pleasure that we announce

that Garden Club is up and running again

this year. With thanks to the Sunshine

Golden Age Garden Club and Sarah’s

Mum Michelle we have some well stocked

garden beds. So far they have planted

radishes, spring onions, broccoli, mint,

parsley, sage, aubergines, curry plant,

lemon grass, oregano, kale and capsicum.

Any-one is welcome to come along

Wednesday lunchtime’s at 1:40 to help out.

To assist with watering we would love some

donations of empty ice-cream tubs can be

placed under bubble taps to collect

excess water. Every little bit helps.

SCHOOL COUNCIL OFFICE BEARERS Congratulations to the following Councillors

who were elected to the following

positions:

President – Felicity Gates

Vice President – Paula Kelly

Treasurer – Rebecca Pattinson

Secretary – Kylie Champion

Minutes Secretary – Leah Kotynski

PREP TRANSITION SURVEY Thank you to those families who took time

out to complete our Prep transition survey.

We are always keen to hear how we can

improve so feel free to drop us an email at

sunshine.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au or catch

myself in the yard. Your feedback is vitally

important to us as we plan for next year’s

Transition Program.

Survey Results

PERMISSION NOTES A reminder to parents and students that all

permission notes and payments if required

and any other correspondences are to be

handed to the classroom teacher unless

specified on the note. Notes and payments

are then taken to the office in the morning

by the classroom monitors. To avoid your

child missing out on activities we remind

parents to please hand in notes by the due

date.

Lyn Read

Principal

Quality Rating % Questions

Strongly Agree

Agree Neutral

1 I found the guided school tour

beneficial ? 50% 50%

2 The Prep information evening

prepared our family for school entry ? 50% 33% 17%

3 The formal transition program was

beneficial to my child ? 67% 33%

4 The information sessions during

transition were beneficial to myself ? 83% 17%

5 My child has settled well into

Sunshine Primary ? 67% 33%

6 The teachers have been informative

and approachable ? 83% 17%

7 The leadership team has been

informative and approachable ? 67% 33%

8 The Prep/New families BBQ was a

positive experience for our family ? 67% 17% 17%

9 We found the student buddy system

helpful ? 100%

10 The Prep Transition and other reading

materials were useful ? 100%

THANK YOU I would like to thank the staff and school community

for guiding and supporting me through getting to

know all about Sunshine Primary School. I still have a

lot to learn about Sunshine PS and cannot believe

how fast this term has flown by! One of the highlights

of my work with the school has been seeing how the

staff and parent community work together.

The collaboration of the school and community is

something that you all should be proud of and I look

forward to continuing to work with you all.

Mathletics is a fantastic numeracy web based

program that can be used both at school and at

home. We will be sending home the log in details

and password for each child before the end of the

term so that you can utilise the program at home.

PARENT GARDENING GROUP We are currently organising with parents a

gardening group to assist in doing some tidying up

around the place, beginning with the front of the

school. Thank you to the parents who have already

offered to assist. If you have a spare hour or two

each week, please let Elizabeth in the office or

myself know and we will add you to the gardening

list, contacting you soon to coordinate some dates

and times.

Kylie Champion

Assistant Principal

Thank you to those families who have made a donation.

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 have been sent home with the eldest child.

Extra tickets are available from the office or

on our website.

Drawn Tuesday 24 March

Special Lunch Day

Thursday 26 March

Orders Close Wednesday 18 March

SPECIAL TREAT DAY

HOT CROSS BUNS

Tuesday 24 March

FOOTY TIPPING COMPETITION

This year we are running a 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. Round 1 starts on Thursday 2 April so be

sure to register prior to then. Good Luck!

SPS FOOTY TIPPING COMPETITION

Please compete and return this section with your payment

of $20 to the office by Friday 27 March 2015.

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Contact Number: _________________________________

Friday 12 June – Winter Wonderland Trivia Night

Friday 31 July – Whole School Athletics Day at Moonee Valley Athletic Track

Monday 10 to Friday 21 August Prep to 4 intensive swimming program

This year’s targeted School Council Project is to develop an innovative outdoor learning space. Sunshine PS has a rich history with many families having been connected to the school for a very long time. This year’s project will allow you to create a lasting family memento by buying a personalised paver.

$30 each or 2 for $50 This Provides you with a personalised engraved paver which will be incorporated into the grounds as recognition of your contribution and support.

23 x 11.5cm

FUNDRAISING FOR A BETTER FUTURE $1 each

Happy Birthday

March

Jada, Emma, Felicity, Latu.

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

Week ending 6 & 13 March

Prep L

Luke & Paityn

Pavisa & Alex Prep/1 R

Jaskirat & Jordi

Mila & Koray 1EM

Abiraj & Muhammad

Martin & Leah 2/3 LK

Sehajpreet & Julio

Lachlan & Claudia 2/3 AK

Katie & Daniel

Evan & Jess 3/4 B

Adem & Patricia

Andrea & Mynia 3/4 L

Rylee & Damon

Emma & Kirra 5/6 K

Isabella & Olga

Monique & Hanna 5/6 O

Jasmine & Tan

Audrey & Linda

OTHER

Lani

PRINCIPAL AWARDS

Zia - 3/4 L

AUSSIE OF THE MONTH - FEBRUARY

Sammi - 5/6K

LOST PROPERTY We have a number of unnamed items is lost

property. We ask parent to check the lost

property box prior the end of term.

All unclaimed items will be donated to charity.

Do you have any pants size 4 to 6 your

child/children have grown out of ? If Yes,

we would love to have them to replenish

our emergency change of clothing stock. Donations

can be left at the office.

Kinder Visits

Garden Club