Dear Families

Welcome back to Term 2! I hope you all had a wonderful school holiday break, with a lot of rest and relaxation!

All students have come back to school with a positive attitude towards their learning. It has been lovely to see them settling back into classroom routines.

This term is a short-term; already two weeks have gone by, which only leaves us with seven weeks of the term. A lot will be happening in those seven weeks.

Easter Bonnet Parade
We finished last term with our highly successful event of the Easter Bonnet Parade. Each year, we are able to raffle more prizes due to the generous donations of our community. A VERY BIG thank you to you all.
We raised $800 for our school from the raffle tickets. An amazing effort.
Thank you to our wonderful Parents & Friends Committee for their support to put the raffle prizes together.

House Cross Country
All students participated in House Cross Country last Friday. I was extremely impressed and proud of all our students who gave their best effort and contributed to their house points. Students were very supportive of each other and cheered on their house mates at the finish line.
Congratulations to Bunerong (yellow) house for winning the event.
Thank you to Miss Holmes for her organisation of the cross country and to all staff for their support.

Mother's/Special Person's Day
Mother's/Special Person's Market Stall will be held on Friday 12th May. Children can purchase a gift for their special person from the stall. Gifts will be priced up to $10.
Mother's Day raffle will be drawn at assembly on Friday 12th May.
Happy Mother's/Special Person's Day to everyone on Sunday 14th May.

School Photo Day
School photos will be on Wednesday 17th May. Information will be sent home on how to order your school photos.
Please make sure your child/ren are dressed in full school uniform on this day.

School Jumpers
As the weather is turning colder, children will be needing to wear jumpers. It is an expectation that school jumpers or navy jumpers are to be worn. 

Year 6 Transition forms
A reminder to parents/carers of Year 6 students that their transition forms are due back by Friday 12th May. Please return these forms to your classroom teacher.

Take care and stay safe,

Samantha Cooke
Principal (Acting)

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Well, the hive is a BUZZZ already.

Sports days, planning for Education Week, Respectful Relationships beginning and a HUGE amount of Prep tours happening.

Foundation Preps for 2024

We have been inundated with prep tours from parents within and outside our zone. We would love to accommodate everyone but people in the zone are the first priority. It would be greatly appreciated if you have a child who will be attending Prep in 2024, that you please collect an enrolment form from the office as soon as possible. It will help us with our planning!

Respectful Relationships.

Respectful Relationships began this week across the school. The two topics covered this term will be Emotional Literacy and Personal Strengths. These topics go hand in hand with our Zones of Regulation. Students will be building their understanding of emotions that can be displayed verbally but also through body language. The personal strength topic relates closely to our school RIPRR values and how these values contribute to positive relationships.

Education Week

In week 5 we will be having our Education Week. This will incorporate National BEE DAY on Monday 22^nd where all students will take part in making a whole school WellBEEing mural. We will also have Walk to School Day on the Tuesday with an open night on the Wednesday. The grade ¾ students have their science excursion and on Friday we have the African Drumming Incursion. The HIVE will definitely be BUZZING that week. It will be a crazy, busy week.

As soon as the bees were finished making their hive, they threw a big house-swarming party.

Hoping to see you all swarm to our Open Afternoon on Wednesday 24th May.

Buzzing off for now,



Jacquie Schneider

    Acting ABee

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We finished last term with our highly successful event of the Easter Bonnet Parade. Each year, we are able to raffle more prizes due to the generous donations of our community. A VERY BIG thank you to you all.

We raised $800 for our school from the raffle tickets. An amazing effort.
Thank you to our wonderful Parents & Friends Committee and their support for putting the raffle prizes together.

                 

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We ended our first week of Term 2 with the House Cross Country.

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We loved our incursion with Kites 4 Kids so much last year that we invited Jo and Ricky back to do it all again! This time, Karingal Place Kindergarten students joined our Junior School to hear about the different shapes and types of kites, before making and flying their own.

(Thank you to our awesome Grade 5/6 buddies who helped out )

                                               

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Thank you to all award recipients for the contributions you are making to our school. Classroom Awards
Congratulations to the following students who received a classroom award:

• Evie (PA)
• Finn (PA)
• Charlie (P1A)
• Aleena (34A)
• Louis (34A)
• Levi (56A)
• Marley (56A)
• Terry (56B)
• Rachel (56B)

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Please make sure you are aware of the following events and your child/ren have signed permission forms and monies paid (if needed).

Day	Event	Students Involved
Friday 12th May	Mother's and Special Persons Day Market Stall	Whole school
Wednesday 17th May	School Photo Day	Whole school
Friday 19th May	District Cross Country	Selected Students
Monday 22nd May	Education Week	Whole school
Tuesday 23rd May	Walk to School Day	Whole school
Wednesday 24th May	Education Afternoon	Whole School
Thursday 25th May	Year 3&4 Scienceworks Excursion	Years 3&4 stduents
Friday 26th May	Year 5&6 Interschool Sport	Year 5&6 students
Friday 26th May	African Drumming Incursion	Whole School

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We have some great opportunities for making music coming up.

Our Parrwangs (Glee Club) will be singing at the Mornington Peninsula Community Choral Festival on Thursday 1^st June @ 7pm.

This is an after-school event open to schools and community choirs. Singers need to be at the Mornington Community Theatre just after 6.30pm for a 7pm start (it doesn’t go late, 8 –8.30pm finish time). It is a lovely community concert and a chance to sing together with other local choirs. If your children are keen performers and members of our Glee Club – Save the date!! – you will be part of the appreciative audience.

Our Instrumental teacher from PMI, Julie, teaches both Piano and Guitar and currently has space for a beginner’s guitar group.

If your child would like to try playing guitar, this is an ideal opportunity to learn with others in a small group. The school guitars are available to borrow for a small deposit of $20 (to cover the cost of strings).

If you are interested, please contact Emma at Primary Music Institute.

E: admin@primarymusicinstitute.com.au
P: 0434 533 310 (Emma)

 

Finally, our rehearsals for this year’s school concert, “True Colours” are underway with classes starting to learn their dances in the coming weeks. We have booked Frankston Arts Centre for the day with the performance in the evening on Monday 21^st August.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Take care – Keep singing!

Mary

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Bookings for school tours are essential.

School Tours Available:


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