Dhumbadjirri "Talk Together"

In the community

NgoonGodgin Breakfast Club Volunteers 

Breakfast Club has expanded from three days, to five days a week. Eat in breakfast club runs from 8.20-8.40am each morning in the Babajen. We have aimed to reduce the takeaway time, to reduce the amount of one use items and rubbish. Takeaway options are still available between 8.40 – 8.45am. After 9am students can access breakfast items through their classroom teachers and or educational support staff in the Babajen and the main building.

 

Thank you to our dedicated Breakfast Club volunteers who have grown our Breakfast club in 2023 to five days a week.   This has allowed students to access breakfast foods to start a healthy learning day and make connections with other students across year levels.  Breakfast club is a fantastic wellbeing strategy at TPS. 

2023 Foundation Transition 

Over the past few weeks we have been welcoming and getting to know our families of the new 2023 Foundation classes.  We have had story time, plays at the park, a showcase of TPS features and time in the new classrooms to meet our teachers.   Thank you to all the parent/carer and staff volunteers who helped welcome all our new students for 2023. 

TPS Library Improvements 

 

Our amazing TPS Library Team have been coming to school every Friday morning to ensure we have an Inclusive Library to promote literacy and a safe space for all children.

 

Thanks to all the parents/carers who have been volunteering your time including Cat, Olga and Lexi with the support of Jasmine in the front office there have been many improvements made this year

  1. A more inclusive Library collection to represent the diversity of our community
  2. Weeding the Library collection for out of date resources
  3. Purchasing through fundraising and Scholastic points new texts for students based on interest – including a Young Adult fiction collection for Year Six students
  4. A donation of Indigenous Literacy texts
  5. Cleaning and tidying the Library with book displays, Book week display and “new to the Library poster”
  6. Updating the Library borrowing and cataloguing system to Oliver v5 

 Aunty Terri is working with us to rename the Library a Woiwurrung word for 2023  as we continue our improvements including increasing student voice and leadership in the library and a more contemporary non-fiction collection.  

 

 

Ngoon gogin to Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School 

Thank you to Georgia the Library Technician from Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School who has contacted us to donate books to our Library or Classroom Libraries. 

  • 3 boxes of Fiction
  • 3 boxes of Picture Books
  • 1 box of Non-Fiction 

SEARCHING FOR PARENT MUSICIANS OF ANY TYPE!

 

 

The Parents Battle of the Bands is coming Northside in 2023 & we want YOU!

 

This fundraising event aims to support, fund & promote:

 

- Musical education for children and youth

-Parents mental health by encouraging the practice of music & other art forms

- Live music venues by organising events within the local community 

 

If you identify as a parent or carer at our school with a musical talent/s and want to find out more about getting involved and battling it out on stage against other local primary schools- please get in touch with Jasmin via northsidepbob@gmail.com ASAP.

 

Please also share amongst your contacts at other local primary schools too to drum up interest!