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NEWSLETTER

5th September, 2019

Skye Primary School

Principal’s Report

I hope everyone had a lovely Fathers Day last weekend and all the special men in our community were spoilt by

their loved ones. By all accounts our Fathers Day breakfast was a great success with over 330 bacon and egg rolls

being enjoyed. A huge thank you to Wendy and Michelle in our office along with our staff and volunteers

Amberley, Luisa, Christine and Charlotte who helped our PTF legends John, Ann and Jill to make the morning

such an enjoyable one for our community. I would also like to thank Lennie and O’Briens Real Estate for their

very generous donation to help with the supplies for breakfast. I would also like to thank Kylie, Carly, Jill, Sarah

and John for all their hard work and preparation to make the Fathers Day stall run so smoothly. It was great

seeing the excitement on everyone’s faces as they made their special purchases.

It always takes a team to pull off successful events and opportunities for our students and families. We cannot

do it without great people coming together to support our initiatives. We have a Skye PS PTF & Helpers

Facebook Page that you can join so that you can see when events are coming up that require some support. We

will also post shout outs on the Parents Of Skye Primary page. We have a Bunnings BBQ coming up on October

20 which will require helpers for an hour between 8am and 4pm. We will also be having our annual ‘A-thon’ next

term. This is a big day that requires lots of hands on deck to make it fun for our students so please look out for

details in the coming weeks.

The ground work for our school concert are well underway with lots of rehearsals, dancing and costume

preparation going on. We look forward to you joining us on the big night(s) in a couple of weeks.

I am busy preparing for 2020 already. If you have friends or neighbours who are thinking about enrolling their

child at our school, or you have your own little ones who are starting Prep next, please encourage them to get

their enrolment paperwork in as soon as possible as we are finalising our numbers in the coming weeks.

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From the Welfare Office—Kids Matter Survey

Student Representative Council—S.R.C.

The SRC are organising a walk to school month for the first day of Term 4 until the end of October. The students

are encouraged to walk, ride or scooter to school to encourage a healthy life style. If your child is driven please

try your best to possibly drop them off at Coles and allow them to walk up the hill to Skye P.S.

For younger students you may want to walk with them to keep them safer. There will be a tally kept in each

classroom to count how many students are participating. There are a number of schools competing and there

will also be a class prize for the most walkers (the prize will be a skateboarding clinic from YMCA skate park or a

group fitness class from PARC).

At the end of the month there will be a celebration breakfast for everyone who participated at least once.

Thank you, from the SRC

Our Grade 6 students are loving science, this week they made mega potato battery

some students managed to get their voltage up to 60 volts.

Please keep your eyes out for the Kids Matter Parent Survey that will be sent home on Friday to all families. We value your feedback and use the information provided to help support our students and families. Last year we received a wonderful response from families and we were able to use the feedback to better support the students and families. It would be gratefully appreciated if you could please return the completed survey before the last day of term 3.

Belinda Hazzledine

Wellbeing Coordinator

Grade 6 Science

OBrien Real Estate

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

Michelle Stephens

0417 352 644

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Kitchen Garden News

WE ARE NOW TAKING ENROLMENTS FOR PREPS 2020

Enrolment paperwork is now available for Preps 2020 from the office. If you have

already collected paperwork can you please return it as soon as possible so that

planning can begin.

Thank you Ball Australia!

Ball Austalia is a local buisness who has been a tremendous support to our Kitchen Garden program by donating

hundreds of seedlings and two beautiful blueberry plants. It was lovely to have a visit from Kate Grant (the Mar-

keting Manager) from Ball Australia last week. Kate sat down and shared a meal with 6B and also went for a tour

of our garden.

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Subway

Library News

Just a reminder that Subway orders need to be at school on Tuesday so that the school can collate them. Orders

are collected by Subway early Wednesday morning and late orders may mean that your child is going to miss out.

Inspire Kitchen Garden Volunteers Desperately Needed

In order for the P-2 Inspire kitchen classes to run efficiently and effectively we rely on the help of volunteers to lead small cooking groups as they prepare, cook and serve their dishes. These meals are shared by everyone at the end of each session. If you or someone you know would like to be involved in the Inspire Kitchen Garden Program once a fortnight please come and see Ryan Harrison, Inger Furlong or leave your contact details at the office. All volunteers require a current Working with Children’s check. This is an easy and free process, simply apply online at www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au These are the dates for the remainder of the year.

Wednesday

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm

16th of October

30th of October

13th of November

27th of November

We would like to send out an enormous thankyou to everyone who came and visited our Book Fair and especially those who made a purchase or two! It was a huge success and so lovely to see the excitement on all the children’s faces as they found a special book they wanted to buy and read. We raised approximately $1800.00 as credit that we can spend with Scholastic for our school library. This will enable us to purchase some much needed books in the Non Fiction section. We will promote these books as they come in so be sure to keep an eye on the front library windows for new titles.

For those of you who paid for books on order during our Book Fair – some titles proved to be very popular and have been out of stock but scholastic tells us they will fill these orders as soon as possible. We will get them out to you as soon as they arrive.

Congratulations to Isaac in 6A for a correct guess on the lollies in the box – the answer was 114. Lots of other guesses were close but there was only one winner!

We would like to apologise for the delay in getting Scholastic Book Order Issue 5 books back out to you. It seems there is a problem between Scholastic, Australia Post and our school and although we get emails to say they are on their way, they haven’t arrived until this week. We will follow this up and try to rectify whatever it is that has gone wrong, but thank you for your patience.

Issue 6 will close this week.

Keep an eye out for library books at home, overdue notices will be handed out next week in order to ensure books are returned before the end of term.

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Stars of the Week

Congratulations to our wonderful Stars of the Week!

What’s Happening in P.E.

ATHLETICS

Last week our school athletics team competed at the District Athletics Carnival. We competed against 5 other schools in track events and also field events, plus relays.

The weather started off fine, but started to look ominous after lunch. A lot of events were moved forwards to beat the rain and we almost got everything completed, apart from 800m.

Some of our athletes performed extremely well in their events.

Congratulations on your efforts. These children will now compete at the Division Carnival in October.

BIG BASH

The Skye BBL began last week, with two exciting games being played last Thursday & Friday. This year we have 90 boys playing and 60 girls !! WOW

In the first game Super Kings played Renegades. Final scores were Renegades 106 to Super Kings 160. Man of The Match was Will Cowling for Super Kings.

In the girls competition Aces played X-Factor.

Final scores saw X-Factor on 80 and Aces on 115. Girl of the Match was Samantha Stephenson for Aces.

This week Bengals played Red Steel with Red Steel winning by 16 runs. Man of the Match – Ben Clarke 4A. Yesterday Stars played Falcons with Stars coming out on top by 24 runs. Man of the Match was shared between Zak Smith and Cody Tapai 3A.

Friday – Chargers v Legends

FOOTY PARADE—FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER—9.00AM

Our annual footy parade will be on the last day of term 3 at 9.00am. Students to wear their favourite footy or

rugby team colours

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Japanese News—こんにちは！Hello!

This term in Japanese Foundation students have been singing ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ in Japanese and

have particularly focussed on the facial features of eye ‘me’, ears ‘mimi’, nose ‘hana’ and mouth ‘kuchi’.

Year 1 students have been focussing on particular animal names and colours after reading ‘Chairo no Kuma’,

‘Brown Bear’. Students decorated a headband of an animal from the story and took turns to say the particular

section related to their animal headband when the book was re-read.

Year 2 students have been focussing on animals, including the sounds they make in Japanese and the names of

these animals. Students were given opportunities to tell the class the pets they have at home, ‘Uchi no petto wa

____ to ____ desu.

Year 3 – 6 students have been focussing on food words. Students are learning how to ask questions about food

and how to answer whether they like or dislike the particular food.

Students are learning the hiragana alphabet and have been practising writing the first 10 characters.

HOUSE TEAM UPDATE

This term all teams have been earning points in Gymnastics, BBL & 5/6 Sport.

The Gymnastics Challenge was a very exciting competition with all teams winning at least one of the weekly com-petition.

Any game played in the BBL will also earn House Points for your team. After last weeks game Thorpe is leading on 300 Points.

Last Friday all grade 5&6 students competed in Dodgeball & European Handball competitions.

All games were played with great spirit & energy. The Grade 6 competition was won by Webb and the Grade 5 comp was won by Waugh.

Total scores at the moment are :

4th on 430 points – Waugh

3rd on 455 points ----------- Webb

Thorpe & Freeman are equal on 550 points !!

Well done to everyone and keep playing by the rules !!!!! Mr.J

FREEMAN THORPE WAUGH WEBB

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This term students have been busy creating, making and exploring to their hearts content. The grade 5/6 stu-dents have been putting the finishing touches on their Exotic Clay Birds, focusing on ‘slipping and scoring’ to join clay successfully. Grade 3/4 students have been weaving patterns using their own handmade loom and the grade 1/2s have been responding to a range of different artists such as Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and Joan Miro. Prep students used Bookweek as their main source of inspiration and read the book ‘Chip,’ followed by making little seagull sculptures. Well done to the students making such gorgeous creations! Ms Russo

Look what is happening in Art

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Attendance Reminder

Head Lice—Take a Peek Once a Week

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 monitoring 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.

* 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.

If you do receive a SMS from the school regarding an Unexplained absence please respond immediately.

Head Lice is very common in school-aged children. People get head lice from direct head-to-head contact with

another person who has live head lice. This can happen when children play, cuddle or work closely together.

If your child has head lice it is important that they are excluded from school until their hair has been treated.

(Once treatment has commenced they can return to school).

It is also very important to notify the school and repeat chemical treatment in seven

days to kill any newly hatched eggs, there is no topical treatment that kills 100% of

the eggs.

FINDING HEADLICE

Using conditioner and a nit comb is a cheap and effective way to find head lice in

your child/ren’s hair. NOTE conditioner DOES NOT KILL head lice but stuns them for

a short while so they cannot move or hang onto the hair, giving you a chance to

comb through the hair with the lice comb to determine if your child has lice. If you

detect head lice, begin a suitable chemical treatment method straight away.

TREATMENT

Please speak with your local pharmacist about current treatments available, follow product instructions careful-

ly and repeat within 7 days.

Treatment should be extended to all family members in the same household, if a child has an infestation, their

linen needs to be washed and changed also any comforters that they might take to bed (teddy, blankets etc).

it is also recommend your child bring their school hat home to be washed as well.

It is also important that children are reminded not to share hats, brushes, combs, scarves, hair bows ribbons

and that boys and girls with long hair should have their hair tied back to help avoid infestation.

For more information about head lice treatment, please feel free to contact me for advice.

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Adventures Through the Galaxy

Skye Primary School will be proudly presenting our school performance “Adventures through the GALAXY” on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th September. Our production will be the grand finale to our term three Stomp dance lessons.

Our concert will be held at the Performing Arts Centre at Elisabeth Murdoch College, 80 Warrandyte Road, Langwarrin. Each grade will perform twice in the following concerts .

Wednesday 18th September – 1st Performance

Group One 5.00pm

Prep A, Prep B, 1A, 1C, 2B, 3B, 4A, 4C, 5B, 6A, 6C

Group Two 7.00pm

Prep C, Prep D, 1B , 2A, 3A, 3C 4B, 5A, 5C, 6B

Thursday 19th September – 2nd Performance

Group Two 5.00pm

Prep C, Prep D, 1B , 2A, 3A, 3C 4B, 5A, 5C, 6B

Group One 7.00pm

Prep A, Prep B, 1A, 1C, 2B, 3B, 4A, 4C, 5B, 6A, 6C

Character (s) /Object(s)

Actor Understudy Costume

Provided by school To bring from home

Enjakkap Tyrah Skye K Alien headband, bum bag

Red morph suit, white sneakers (Kmart)

Kids in Black (x5) Emily, Anthony, Harli, Ty & Mad-di H

Tegan, Lan-don, Tara & Emma

Black jacket, tie, KIB emblem, dark glasses

White collared shirt, black slacks, black shoes

Humans (1-4) Maddy H, Char-lotte D, Kaley L & Lainie S

Emma, Tara & Skye

Hessian dresses, waist tie

Black singlet, shorts, plain brown sandals

Politicians (1&2) Alirah K & Isaac N

Emma Suit jacket/blazer Alirah- pencil skirt, white blouse, black wedges/ballet flats Isaac- pink or blue shirt, black suit shoes

Gungens (1,2 & 3) Cassia, Dane H & Allie

Teagan Purple sequin tops (girls), black sequin vest (boys)

Black pants/leggings, black sin-glet (girls), purple tshirt (boys), black shoes

The Gold Alien James Scheffelbein

Alexis H Gold pants, gold vest, gold glitter, gold hair-spray

Black fitted tshirt, white platform shoes (Kmart)

Toy Story Alien Jai Landon Green alien head-band, emblem for tshirt

Dark blue t-shirt, dark blue pants, black shoes

Fidwhoopwhoop Mikey Teagan Alien headband, red cape, red long socks/leg warmers

Red tshirt, black pants, black shoes

Kadawoaahh Maisie Tara Alien headband, red cape, red long socks/leg warmers

Red tshirt, black pants, black shoes

Narrator Anastasia MC Alexis H Top hat, red vest with tail, gold tie

Black collared shirt, black slacks, black shoes

Cast Costumes

Permission forms will be coming home today with every student—Please fill them in and return to the classroom teacher as soon as possible.

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Class Costumes

Please ensure that shoes have non-marking soles

Contact classroom teachers if you have any queries/concerns.

Class Character (s) /Object(s)

Costume

Provided by school To bring from home

00A & 00C Astronauts White pants, jet packs

White long sleeve top, long black socks, black shoes

00B & 00D Gungens (purple al-iens)

purple dresses (girls) sparkly headbands (boys)

Purple t-shirts (boys), black pants (all), black top (girls), black shoes

1A & 1B Men in Black Black suspenders, black glasses, watch-es

White collared polo, black pants, black shoes

1C Sad (blue) humans Blue/white tutus (girls), blue sashes (boys)

Black pants/leggings, white tshirts (boys), pale blue tshirts (girls), white shoes

2A & 2B Red aliens Red bow ties (boys), red suspenders (boys), red tutus (girls)

Red t-shirts (all), black leggings (girls), black pants (boys), black shoes

3A & 3B Space Rockets Rocket poncho, flames

Black pants (all), black long sleeve top (all), black shoes

3C & 4A Hip Hop Dance Crew Assorted yellow ac-cessories

Black tops (long or short sleeve, hoodie etc.), black bottoms (trackies/leggings/shorts), black shoes

4B & 4C Rave Kids (fluro) Fingerless gloves (all), tutus (girls), hair accessories, coloured socks?

T-shirt and shorts (2 different bright colours, girls need leggings for under tutu), black or coloured shoes

5A & 5B Gold stars Gold skirts(girls), white gloves, gold suspenders (boys)

White t-shirts (all), black leggings (girls), black pants (boys), black or white shoes

5C & 6A Toy story aliens Green alien eye headband, logo for t-shirt

Dark blue t-shirt, dark blue pants, black shoes

6B & 6C Space/Galaxy Fabric paint, sparkly headbands

Black t-shirt (to be painted) and black pants, black shoes

Adventures Through the Galaxy

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Skye Primary School offers Private and Dual Instrumental Music lessons during school hours.

Lessons are conducted by local music school Poco Music. Instrumental lessons are offered in Piano, Ukelele, Guitar, Bass, Brass, Woodwind, Strings and Singing. Lessons are taught by fully qualified teachers in a fun environment.

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

Group lessons of 2 students is offered for all instruments.

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 Facebook 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 environment focusing on learning how to read music notation, working through method books and learning fun contemporary songs that engage students.

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

$28.00 Private 20 min lesson

$20.00 per child for a group 30 min lesson

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

September 9 September 10 September 11 September 12 September 13

Assembly in Gym RESPONSIBLE PETS INCURSION— Prep to Grade 2

Subway Order Due

TRIBES

September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 20

Assembly in Gym Concert Rehearsals

Full Concert Dress Rehearsal Subway Order Due

SCHOOL CONCERT FOOTY INFLATABLES

SCHOOL CONCERT

FOOTY PARADE—9am SAUSAGE SIZZLE

LAST DAY OF TERM 3—FINISHES 2.30PM

SCSCHOOL HOLIDAYS

October 7 October 8 October 9 October 10 October 11

SRC—WALK TO SCHOOL MONTH Assembly in Gym

Subway Order Due

TRIBES

October 14 October 15 October 16 October 17 October 18

Assembly in Gym Step into Prep— 9.30—10.30am Subway Order Due

INSPIRE GR 3—MELBOURNE ZOO

October 21 October 22 October 23 October 24 October 25

Assembly in Gym Step into Prep— 9.30—10.30am Subway Order Due

TRIBES

FRANKSTON MAYOR’S PICNIC—SKYE PRIMARY SCHOOL—

THIS SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER—11AM TO 2PM

Market stalls, children's activities, live music and community bbq's.

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SKYE PRIMARY SCHOOL BINGO

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