SKiPPS Newsletter

Important Notices

Curriculum Day - Friday 22nd March

A reminder that we will be taking a curriculum day tomorrow (Friday 22nd March). 

 

The noise and disruption caused by the Grand Prix means that this is not a great day to be at school and so our staff will be working offsite with Narissa Leung on the teaching of Writing.

 

Team Kids will be running a (noisy) full-day program at the school on this day.

Athletics Day

On the final day of term 1 (next Thursday 28th March), we will be running our annual Athletics Day here at SKiPPS.

 

The Athletics Day will start straight after morning assembly. Students will be running, jumping, hurdling, throwing, shot-putting, egg and spoon racing, sack racing and lots of other active and fun events.

 

  • Our Foundation - Year 2 students will compete in the park area at the back of the school from 9:30 - 10:40am. 
  • Our Year 3-6 students will complete their activities on the oval at the side of the school all morning - 9:30am - 1pm.

Groups will rotate around different events with their teachers and we require some parent, carer, friend volunteers to work at each event as a measurers, timers, recorders and general support.

 

This is a really fun event and a way to finish the term with a bang! We hope you can help us out by signing up.  sign up to help at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B094BABA62EA3F85-48557200-skipps 

Ride to School Day

SKiPPS will be celebrating Ride2School Day on Wednesday 27th March. 

 

There will be a fun bike circuit for students to complete with their class on the day using the school grounds. Please support your child to bring their bike or scooter with them to school on this day (remembering a helmet).

All students will get to enjoy a fruit and veggie platter thanks to the Active Travel Team at the City of Port Phillip.

 

You may even get the chance to ride the smoothie bike and enjoy a fresh smoothie before school.

 

Many thanks to SKiPPA for also supporting the event.

 

ACTIVE TRAVEL & THE ENVIRONMENT

Not only is active travel good for your health, it’s good for the environment too! Riding, walking, scooting or skating to school means there are fewer cars on the road, which results in a;

 

  • Reduction in noise pollution
  • Reduction in energy use
  • Reduction in carbon emissions

For every kilometre you actively travel instead of driving, you save 243.8 grams of carbon emissions. But what does that actually mean?

 

On National Ride2School Day in 2023, students across Australia saved 29 tonnes of CO2 by actively travelling to school – the equivalent of planting 202 trees. That’s only one day. Imagine if we did that every day of the school year. Over a year we’d save more than 5,700 tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of planting 40,000 trees!

 

Raising the Pride Flag

As Harmony Week comes to an end, we will be continuing next week on an inclusive theme.

 

As shared last term, School Council took the decision to fly the Pride flag at SKiPPS to acknowledge the many different family types that form our community, demonstrate our commitment to inclusion and to ensuring that everyone feels welcome at this school.

The new flagpole was recently installed next to our basketball court and, on Monday at 2pm, we will welcome Justine Dalla Riva, CEO of the Victorian Pride Centre, to help us raise the flag for the first time.

 

The Pride Centre have very generously donated the flag to the school and we want to thank them for helping us to achieve this step.

Term 2 - Sushi Fridays are back!

Sushi Fridays are back! we have a new supplier, our friends at Sushi Izu (inside Woolworths on Fitzroy st) are delivering fresh sushi to our school starting the first Friday of term 2 (19 April). Sushi will run initially for a 4 week trial period, if the response is positive we'll look to continue throughout the year. 

 

Ordering is for the whole 4 week period. Orders must be in by Tuesday 16 April 5pm. 

 

No refunds - we will not be able to refund families if a child is away or otherwise unable to be at school on the day sushi is delivered. 

 

Orders can be placed for the 4-week trial at https://compasstix.com/event/04b18202-b847-4d39-a13c-ddfb2971ac38

 

 

Please ensure all books borrowed from the School Library are returned as soon as possible. 

School Council Meeting

 

Our next meeting is at 6:30pm on Wednesday 27th March.

 

This meeting is our Council AGM and also the presentation of the 2023 Annual Report to the School Community. At this meeting the new Council will meet for the first time and office-bearers (President, Vice-President and Treasurer) will be elected.

 

All community members are welcome to attend this meeting (and all Council meetings). The meeting will be held in the school staffroom.

Robotics and Chess in Term 2 - enrol online now!