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NEWSLETTER

4th April, 2019

Skye Primary School

Principal’s Report

LAST DAY OF TERM ONE IS FRIDAY 5TH APRIL SCHOOL FINISHES AT 2.30PM

SCHOOL RESUMES ON TUESDAY 23RD APRIL

PLEASE NOTE THAT THURSDAY 25TH APRIL IS ANZAC DAY—NO SUBWAY THIS WEEK

CURRICULUM DAY—WEDNESDAY 1ST MAY—STUDENT FREE DAY

It is difficult to believe that we are already at the end of our first term. We have had a great start to the year with many highlights and successes. Our staff have been busy embedding Multi-Sensory Structured Language programs into their curriculum with much new learning for all of us throughout the term. Please ask your children about their spelling mastery reviews and knowledge of spelling patterns and sounds. Please also check your CONNECT each fortnight to keep up to date with what is happening across the curriculum for your child’s year level. Our staff and students have also been busy focussing on School-Wide Positive Behaviours. Every classroom now has consistent expectations for positive behaviours that should be practised around the school. We have a team of teachers who are coordinating this work for the whole school and I am very proud of how much they have achieved in a short time. We would love to share this work with our parent community so please look out for upcoming dates next term. You may have noticed that Mrs Bradley has not been at school this week. She unfortunately took ill on Monday and has been in hospital. We are very relieved that she is on the mend and will be home in the next day or so. Cherie was happy for me to let you know that she has been unwell however it is important that we respect her privacy relating to her health. I have been passing on well-wishes from our community and she is very grateful for everyone’s kind thoughts and best wishes. She has left big shoes to fill in her absence and we will be very glad to have her back when she is better. Work has finished with our grassed area outside the Grade 3 and 5 building it looks amazing and the students have definitely enjoyed sitting on the grass and playing at the tables—our next project is the basketball court which is also being laid with synthetic grass over the school holidays.

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What’s Happening at Skye Term 2

GRADE EXCURSION

DATE

EXCURSION/CAMP PAYMENT

DUE

AMOUNT

GRADE 6 24th April Summer Lightning Premiership OVERDUE $10.00

GRADE 5 29th April Scienceworks & Planetarium 24th April $25.00

GRADE 2 9th May Coal Creek 2nd May $25.00

PREPS 5th June Casey Safety Village 29th May $13.00

WHOLE SCHOOL 25th June Being Brave 17th June $5.00

Curriculum Days— 2019

The following three days will be Curriculum Days for 2019, these are student free days -

Wednesday 1st May

Tuesday 11th June

Friday 2nd August

I would like to thank our wonderful team of teachers for all their hard work this term, our awesome students for rising to the challenge and producing some great work and our parent community for supporting us to raise a high achieving community of learners. I wish you all a wonderful holiday break and a lovely Easter. Stay safe! See you next term,

Jane Briffa

Free Tickets to RAZZAMATAZZ

We have again been given free tickets to RAZZAMATAZZ through our partnership with Ardoch.

RAZZAMATAZZ IS COMEDY Variety Show that is jammed packed with fun and laughter for the whole family.

Tickets are available from the school office.

When—Sunday 28th April at 4.00pm

Where—Plenary Hall, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre

1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf

Here is a run down of what is happening at Skye in Term 2—Permission and payment slips will go out first

week of Term 2.

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Congratulations

News from the School Nurse

Students Absences

Skye Primary School is a NUT AWARE SCHOOL, we aim to create the safest environment for your children

whilst at school, this includes children with severe food allergies.

Severe food allergies or what is known as Anaphylaxis can be life threatening. We have several children amongst different grades who if they come into contact with certain foods or ingest them could become very ill or worse.

Please help us as a community to educate the children about food allergies and anaphylaxis, wherever possible please don’t send whole nuts to school (peanut butter, Nutella, nut bars, nuts to snack on etc). We cannot ban nuts at school or within public places that is impossible, we can however teach our kids good handwashing with soap and water before and after they eat food, use the toilet, sneeze etc, we can teach them that disposing of their food wrappers into either the bins outside, in their classroom or taking their rubbish home helps to keep the area clean and safe for other students, when using the kitchen garden areas, strict food hygiene standards are followed with cleaning up the areas and sanitising crockery and cutlery and we always teach explicitly no food sharing.

We all understand that some children are really fussy and will only eat certain foods too, just please be aware that your child may be asked to eat in a different area so not to contaminate the classroom if they share it with a child who is at high risk of anaphylaxis.

Any questions please contact me

Kind regards,

Belinda Schodde

School Nurse

Please remember it is your responsibility to contact us to provide an explanation for your child’s absence from school, and where possible please inform us in advance of upcoming

absences. Protecting the safety and well-being of children through the reporting and moni-toring of absenteeism is the responsibility of both parent/carers and schools.

You can notify the school the following ways –

* Phone the absence line – 9786 1555 press 1 – please leave your child’s name and grade and the reason they are absent

* Sentral – log on to Sentral. Click on Absences to record your child’s absence and the

reason they are away.

* Reply to the SMS you receive immediately with the reason that your child is absent

* If you going on holidays or know that your child will be absent write a note to the teacher or notify the office prior to the absence.

Congratulations to Mackenzie Zach who represented Skye Primary at the Regional Swim Meet last week—Mackenzie achieved two personal bests and a third in the 50 metre Breaststroke.

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Kitchen Garden

It has been a wonderful first semester of the Kitchen Garden program. I have heard many stories from

students, parents/carers and staff about how the students are cooking the meals they created in their Kitchen

Garden class at home. I have also heard many fabulous stories of students enjoying their time gardening at

home or at relatives.

During weeks 7 and 8 the students enjoyed making pizza of the imagination and seasonal garden salad. Fresh

tomatoes, rosemary, capsicums, parsley, beetroot, chives, oregano and mint were harvested to create their

delicious meals. The students smelt the aromas of bread making and learnt about the science involved. The

star of last week goes to Mr Harrison who used his expertise in hospitality and cooked up a storm in the

kitchen.

The students have also been busy out in the garden harvesting produce, watering, constructing the bath

wicking beds and planting seeds. It is wonderful to see that many of the seeds have sprouted.

I would like to thank again the wonderful volunteers that have assisted in the kitchen. The students and I are

very thankful to them for giving up their valuable time. To successfully run this wonderful program we rely on

many volunteers. If you are able to assist or would like to find out more about our Kitchen Garden program

and how you can help please leave your details

Inger Furlong

Kitchen Garden Specialist

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Centrepay

Centrelink customers may now ask to pay their school costs through Centrepay

This is a free service for Centrelink customers.

You can access this service online through your own log in or contact a Centrelink office or the school for more details.

SPECIAL SKYE PRIMARY SCHOOL BINGO

$7 A SET EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT IN APRIL FROM 7.00pm

Session 1 – 9 x Roulette ($50-$90)

1 x $1000

Session 2- 10 x $100

Session 3 – 10 x $100

Session 4 - 9 x Roulette ($50-$90)

1 x $1,000

Plus 2 x 50 cent Flyer paying a minimum of $100 per flyer.

For more information on extra promotions go www.carrumdownsbingo.com.au

554-556 Frankston-Dandenong Road, Carrum

Downs, 3201

Skye Primary—Bunnings BBQ—Sunday 7th April

Our P.T.F are running a BBQ at Bunnings Carrum Downs

this Sunday 7th April.

Please pop down and say hello and buy a sausage or two

all proceeds are going towards the upgrading of our

school grounds.

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Help Us, Help You. If you refer a client to us and we successfully sell their property, we will donate

$500 to Skye Primary School

At O’Brien Real Estate we are

dedicated to working together to

make a difference.

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Skye Primary School offers Private and Dual Instrumental Music lessons dur-ing school hours.

Lessons are conducted by local music school Poco Music. Instrumental les-sons are offered in Piano, Ukelele, Guitar, Bass, Brass, Woodwind, Strings and Singing. Lessons are taught by ful-ly qualified teachers in a fun environ-ment.

At Poco Music we believe every child deserves the right to start out life with a quality music education.

Lessons offered are private 30 min classes catering to the students’ indi-vidual needs.

If you would like to enrol your child for lessons please fill out our enrolment form online at www.pocomusic.com.au

For more enquiries please email us at: admin@pocomusic.com.au or call our office on 9584 7341

Please be sure to like our Facebok page for more information on Lessons and Bands -

https://www.facebook.com/PocoMusicTuition/

Group lessons of 2 students is offered for all instruments except drums.

Lessons are taught in a fun environ-ment focusing on learning how to read music notation, working through method books and learning fun con-temporary songs that engage stu-dents.

We also prepare students for AMEB and ANZCA music exam grading.

Once Students are competent with playing a few chords and notes Rock Bands will commence and rehearse weekly at lunchtimes.

COST of lessons: $38.00 Private 30 min lesson

$25.00 per child for a dual 30 min lesson

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

April 1 April 2 April 3 April 4 April 5

Arts Centre -

Billionaire Boy Grades 4, 5 & 6

Subway Lunches

EASTER HAT PARADE— 9.15AM HOT DOG DAY

LAST DAY OF TERM 1—SCHOOL FINISHES 2.30PM

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

April 22 April 23 April 24 April 25 April 26

EASTER MONDAY NO SCHOOL

Term 2 Resumes NO SUBWAY THIS WEEK

Summer

Lightening Prem

NO SUBWAY THIS WEEK

ANZAC DAY

NO SCHOOL

April 29 April 30 May 1 May 2 May 3 Year 5—Science Works and planetarium

CURRICULUM

DAY—STUDENT

FREE

Subway Lunches

May 6 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 Grade 6 Camp Rumbug

Grade 6 Camp Rumbug MOTHER’S DAY STALL

Grade 6 Camp Rumbug Yr 5—Bego Farm MOTHER’S DAY STALL

Year 2—Coal Creek MOTHER’S DAY STALL - GRADE 6 Subway Lunches

May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17

NAPLAN NAPLAN

TRIBES

NAPLAN Subway Lunches

May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24

DISTRICT X-COUNTRY

Gr 1—Science Works Subway Lunches

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SKYE PRIMARY SCHOOL BINGO

Tuesday Night – Eyes Down at 7.00pm

7.30pm - $4 – 15 x Double Roulette – minimum $80 houses

Flyer - $1 – minimum $200 Jackpot

8.30pm - $7 – 29 x Roulette – minimum $50, 1 x $999 Jackpot

Plus Rolling Jackpot if bingo called under 52 calls

$12.00 FOR ONE BOOK FOR THE NIGHT

Wednesday Day—Eyes Down at 11.00am

11.00am—14 x $50, 1 x $500

12 noon—$50 plus your number ($51 to $140)

12.40pm—14 x $50 plus your number, 1 x $700

Plus a $2 Mr Jackpot Flyer

$13.00 FOR ONE BOOK FOR THE DAY

Wednesday Night—Eyes Down at 7.30pm

7.30pm—15 x Double Roulette ($80-$180)

8.30pm—15 x $50 plus your number ($51—$140), 14 x Roulette ($50-$90), 1 x $1200

Plus $1.00 flyer $200 Jackpot plus Rolling is called in 50 calls or less

$13.00 FOR ONE BOOK FOR THE NIGHT

Friday Day – Eyes Down at 11.00am – session finishes at 2.10pm

11.00am - $3 – 14 x $50 houses, 1 x $500 Jackpot

12.00pm - $3 – 10 x Double Roulette minimum $80 houses

$2 Flyer – 10 times Roulette minimum $400

12.40pm - $3 – 10 x $70 houses

- $4 – 14 x Roulette

- 1 x $1,500 Jackpot

plus Rolling Jackpot if bingo called under 52 calls

$15.00 A SET FOR ONE BOOK FOR THE DAY

554-556 Frankston-Dandenong Road, Carrum Downs, 3201

PH: 9775 0054