SKiPPS Newsletter

Important Notices

Times Tables

A reminder that we are requesting that all parents of children in Years 3-6 support them to learn their times tables this year.

 

A longer article from last week's newsletter explaining the importance of learning rapid recall of multiplication facts and how to support your child to do this can be found at https://newsletters.naavi.com/i/NWxG7vJ/issue-12/page/3 

Year 6 Market Day

On Friday 24th May our Year 6 students will be holding their annual Market Day at the school.

 

Market Day is a project that the Year Six students work on that has four aims;

  • to develop their leadership and organisation skills
  • to learn about financial literacy and build authentic concepts of supply and demand, profit, overheads and other entrepreneurial ideas.
  • to raise money for their yearbook and graduation
  • to help the rest of the school have fun

The students will work in groups and will each run a stall or activity on the day.

 

Students from other year levels are invited to attend Market Day and spend small amounts of money at the various market stalls. All of the money raised will go towards funding the Year 6 Graduation at the end of the year.

 

On the day, the students will attend the market day at two separate times to reduce crowding and general chaos;

 

  • Foundation students (with their Year 5 buddies) and Year 1/2 students will attend between 11:45 - 12:45 (before Pranzo)

 

  • Year 3, 4 and 5 students will attend after Pranzo between 2-3pm.

Each market stall will cost a student $1 - $3. Next week, a notice will go home with further details about Market Day including the logistics of sending amount of gold coins to school to allow your child to participate.

 

In the meantime, the groups are asking for donations and support for their stalls - more details to follow in next week's newsletter.

Term Two Working Bee

Keeping our school looking great is a never ending job and one that is impossible to do without the helping hands of our community.

 

Please put Saturday 18th May in your diaries for our term two working bee. 

 

We ask families to spare an hour or two between 9am and 1pm to come and help us keep the school clean, tidy and safe and complete a long list of minor jobs.

2025 Enrolments

Enrolments for Foundation for 2025 are now open and we encourage any families with children starting school next year to contact the school office to collect the correct forms. These can also be downloaded from https://www.skipps.vic.edu.au/community/enrolments/ 

 

As with last year, there is a statewide transition timeline which means that all Foundation applications must be submitted to the school by Friday 26th July in order to be guaranteed a place. We will notify families of the outcome of enrolment applications by Friday 9 August 2024.

 

We appreciate any families with younger siblings submitting their forms as soon as possible. This allows us to understand likely numbers for next year and so start to plan ahead for staff, class sizes, and our ability to offer places to families living outside our enrolment zone.

 

We are currently running regular school tours for prospective 2025 families. If you know of any relatives, friends or neighbours with a child starting school next year then please encourage them to book a tour at  https://compasstix.com/e/0rhar1rt70 to learn more about SKiPPS.