2024 Enrolments reminder

With the new enrolment schedule implemented by the Education Department this year, the closing date for 2024 Foundation Enrolment applications is Friday 28th July.

If you have a child who will be attending next year, we ask that you submit the enrolment forms for them within the next couple of weeks. Enrolment forms are available from the office or copies are available on the SKIPPS website under Enrolments

Please encourage any other parents with children commencing school next year to consider St Kilda Park. Please let them know there are only 2 tour dates remaining on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 26th July.

Tours can be booked at https://compasstix.com/e/dvo8kfxguw

Friday Assembly Sharing

Each Friday at assembly, a different year level or subject area are invited to share their learning with the whole school. These short presentations provide students with the chance to get up and celebrate the many wonderful things happening at SKiPPS each week. Below is the schedule for the rest of term 1 to help you make plans to stay after drop-off on a Friday morning.

Week	Assembly date	Year levels or subject to share
1	14 July	Year 3/4
2	21 July	Year 5/6
3	28 July	Curriculum Day
4	4 August	Year 1/2
5	11 August	Foundation
6	18 August	Italian
7	25 August	Performing Arts
8	1 September	Visual Arts
9	8 September	Curriculum Day
10	15 September	STEM

Sub-Committee Meetings

Our school has a number of permanent working groups called sub-committees. These groups are made up of staff members and dedicated parents who meet ten times a year with a focus to make our school a better place.

Sub-committees are open for anyone to join and rely on the energy, ideas and hard work of parents to improve the school experience for all of our students.

The groups are open for all parents to join and contribute to so feel free to come along to any of the following meetings.

Group Name and focus	Next meeting date and time	Location	Contact
Buildings, grounds and sustainability - To oversee the condition of our school buildings and grounds and plan improvements.	Wed 19th July 6pm	School Staffroom	Neil Scott
Fundraising - To coordinate fundraising and community events for the school community	Thu 13th July 6pm	School Staffroom	Neil Scott
Education and Policy - To support the development of a comprehensive and inclusive curriculum, monitor the Annual Implementation Plan and develop school policies	Wed 19th July 8:00am	School Meeting Room (Office)	Matt Cook
Finance - To monitor the school's financial statements and develop our annual school budget.	Thu 20th July 8:15am	School Meeting Room (Office)	Neil Scott

End of term Hot Chocolate stall - thank you

The final day of Term 2 saw SKiPPA (our Parents' Association) run their traditional hot chocolate and biscuit stall. This event provides a lovely end-of-term celebration in the middle of winter.

As always the parents of SKiPPA did a great job in organising and running the stall and the wider community stepped up and made it a success by baking and donating the biscuits and turning up to spend money.

The event raised a little over $850 for the school and was a nice way to finish such a busy and successful term.

'Parental As Anything 2.0' - members needed

Earlier this year our parents' band 'Parental as Anything 2.0' took part in the Parents' Battle of the Bands event at the Prince Bandroom. The band are almost entirely new in 2023 after the majority of the founding members moved on at the end of last year due to their children graduating from SKiPPS.

As they establish themselves, the band are on the lookout for new members to play and sing with them.

If there are any parents or carers in our community who can play an instrument or enjoy singing, the band would love to hear from you. This is a great chance to get involved with an amazing group of parents who have a very social rehearsal routine and play at school events a couple of times a year.

If you are interested in joining them please email Sonya at sonyas123@gmail.com

Dads' Camp - save the date

Our parent-run Dads' Camp is taking place again this year at the Big4 Campsite in Wye River.

Whilst final arrangements are being put into place by the organising group of dads, they would like you to clear the decks and put the weekend of the 1st - 3rd December into your diaries.

Mums may want to start organising their child-free plans for that weekend!

Further details and booking information will follow later in the year.

Foundation Update