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Celebration of Learning Day

We encourage all current families to join us on Wednesday 21st May from 2:40pm to 5:00pm as we celebrate our students' learning and achievements.  We will be opening up the learning spaces and giving our parents an opportunity to walk through the school and participate in a lesson with your child.  This will be followed by a community BBQ and cake stall, with some fun activities like face painting, student musical performances, activities and games on the forecourt. 

 

To make this event a huge success – WE NEED YOU!  Our community support, donations and volunteer help is desperately needed, so please get involved, however you can – big or small!

 

We need PARENT VOLUNTEERS to help Emma and Kirsty with some preparation prior to the event.  These tasks can be done at a time convenient to you.

  • Cutting and Laminating tasks
  • Letters to request donations from local businesses that need to be distributed
  • Sorting and storing of donations received
  • Cake Stall Packages to be prepared ready to be distributed to families
  • Supporting the office with Pre-Sale transactions before or after school

On Event Day - Wednesday 21st May

  • Collection of Cakes/Slices from 8:45am  
  • Sausage Sizzle between 1pm to 5pm: Set up, Cooks, food servers and cashiers. 
  • Cake Stall between 1pm to 5pm: Set up, servers and cashiers.
  • Dedicated Pack up / Clean Up Crew from 4:30pm to 5:30pm

If you can help for even just 30 minutes, please register via the link provided or see Kirsty or Emma at the office. You’re welcome to volunteer for more than one time-slot or to help set up or pack up – the more help we have, the less work for each person to do!  

If you have any queries, or can help in any way possible, please email south.melbourne.ps@education.vic.gov.au and we’ll be in touch.  We can guide you through how easy it is to get involved and support our school community. 

 

If you can help or donate - please fill out the VOLUNTEER SURVEY here. 

 

If you can donate any of the below items, please drop them off to the office as soon as possible or let us know that you can supply these on the day – please get involved and see how easy it is to support our wonderful school.

  • Pre-cut bags of sliced onions - about 5-6kg
  • Do you own a bakery or know someone that does?  Are you willing to ask our local bakery for their support?  We need about 40 loaves of sliced bread!
  • Cans of soft drinks and bottles of water – anyone have a Costco membership that is willing to help with purchasing these or donate a slab or two from the supermarket?
  • Vegetarian sausages - we need Woolworths Vege Sausages - donate a pack or two?
  • Large Eskies for us to borrow (to store uncooked food in)
  • Foil trays for cooked meat – donate a pack or 2?
  • Serviettes – donate a pack or 2?
  • Disposable food handling gloves – donate a box
  • Do you have a Gazebo that you would be willing to lend the school, we need 2?

We know the SMPS community is a very generous one. 

Thank you in advance for your support and generosity.

CoL Event Team

Price List & Pre-Purchase Available

 This will be a cashless event.

All baked goods, sausages and drinks will need to be paid for by eftpos or credit card. 

 

Beat the queue and pre-purchase your sausage and drink vouchers! These can be purchased anytime prior to the event at the office (vouchers will be provided to redeem on the day).

 

Open Day for 2026 Enrolments

Along with our Celebration of Learning, members of the wider community and prospective families seeking to enrol their children at SMPS will be invited to attend the School's official Open Day. This is a significant event for the School as we showcase our wonderful teachers, students and programs for prospective families. 

 

If you know of any family who is looking for a great school for their child, please encourage them to register their details for the event via the link on our website: register here. 

School Saving Bonus (SSB)

A reminder that you have until 30th June 2025 to spend SSB funds at our uniform supplier, Bob Stewart. Any unspent funds on your SSB voucher codes will automatically be converted to School Activities credits for future use on excursions, camps or other eligible activites at school.

Applying SSB / CSEF Credits to Excursions or Camp

If you wish to spend SSB funding on School Activities, such as excursions or camps, then you will need to do the following:

  1. Logon to the SSB Portal and assign some or all your $400 SSB funding to School Activities
  2. Complete the following survey to notify the school which activities to apply your funding to: School Activities Expenditure Selection

If you wish to apply Camps, Sports and Excursions Funds (CSEF) to your child's excursions or camp fees, please use the survey below to let our team know:

 

CSEF Expenditure Selection

 

See the Department's policy for details to see if you are eligible for CSEF