St Philip's Primary School

Where everyone is Welcome!

                              Calendar Dates- What's on.

FEBRUARY

19th           Prep Children - No School 

20th           Family Picnic - 5.30pm

26th           Prep Children - No School

MARCH

4th             Shrove Tuesday

5th             Prep Children at School

5th             Ash Wednesday

10th           Labour Day Public Holiday

 

 

 

PLEASE NOTE:  SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS IS BETWEEN 8.40AM TO 3.45PM ON SCHOOL DAYS. 

 

 

PRAYER 

O Christ Jesus,

when all is darkness and we feel 

our weakness and helplessness,

give us the sense of Your presence,

Your love, and Your strength.

Help us to have perfect trust in 

Your protecting love and strengthening power,

so that nothing may frighten or worry us,

for living close to You,

we shall see Your hand,

Your purpose,

Your will through all things.

                                                                        

From the Principal

Dear Parents and Friends,

 

Now in Week 3, it is wonderful to see our students continuing to build meaningful relationships with each other. The interactions they share with their friends create a warm and nurturing environment. The new students have settled in well and are seen to express a sense of belonging to the St Philip’s community. 

 

This year, we continue our focus on Vision for Instruction. With all classes now fully engaged in learning, the two hours that we dedicate to learning in English every day enables all students to receive explicit instruction in essential literacy skills, including: language and reading comprehension; phonological awareness; fluency; vocabulary; spelling; grammar, and; writing. By focusing on these key areas, we are equipping our students with strong foundational literacy skills that will support their learning across all subjects. 

 

This week we changed the way the students enter the corridor in the morning. Students in Prep to grade 2 enter through the door opposite the Hall, the students in grades three to six use the middle doors. The reason for the change is to ease congestion in the corridor. 

 

Family Picnic

The Family Picnic is planned for next Thursday, 20 February from 5.30 – 7.30pm, on the school oval. This evening is always a joyous occasion for our community to gather, while parents and friends chat and children play. Families are invited to bring their own dinner/snack. Please note that this is a Child Safe event so alcohol is not permitted.

 

School Assembly

Everyone is welcome to attend our weekly assembly at 9.00am on Friday and to stay for coffee afterwards. 

 

Warmest Regards.

Michelle Worcester

Principal

 

Playgroup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cake Raffle 

We appreciate our families volunteering for cake raffle bringing joy to the children at assembly every week. The weekly cake raffle will be drawn at Assembly on Friday mornings. To support this fundraiser we ask for volunteers to provide a sweet treat (eg; cake, slice, cookies, cupcakes etc) to be raffled. Please sign up to bake using the following link  https://volunteersignup.org/AA7XT

Thank you to all of our Volunteers.

All donations of baked goods require a list of ingredients attached.

Raffle tickets are 20c each and sold at the beginning of assembly.

Thank you for your support

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuck Shop

    

Tuckshop will be open every Friday from the 7th of February, we are very fortunate to have our tuckshop run by parent volunteers for the students enjoyment. This would not be possible without our small team of committed volunteers showing up week after week.

Please reach out to Clara on 0449 767 020 or Angi on 0431 021 711 if you can help.

 We appreciate your support.

 

Entertainment books are another piece to our fundraising puzzle. When you sign up you receive 12 months of discounts and offers - and our school benefits - 20% of every membership purchased goes to support our school! 

https://subscribe.entertainment.com.au/fundraiser/9a27151 

 

COMMUNITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vermont Vultures Basketball Club

Are you in Grade Prep, 1 or 2 and want to try Basketball? Why not join our ‘Come and try’ Sessions to have some fun and meet new people!

 

We are looking to run 3 sessions for kids that are new to Basketball. They will be on Thursday February 20, Thursday February 27, and Thursday March 6 from 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Knox School. We will break these sessions up into Boys, Mixed and Girls sessions depending on your child’s preference.

We are hoping to have some giveaways from Nunawading Basketball available and will be offering free Uniforms for any new players signing up in the U8 and U9 Age groups.

Please find the link here to register your interest and we will be in contact shortly: https://forms.gle/SGCEwLegsWhsyih59