Book Week

We will be celebrating Book Week from 19-23 August with:

Dress up day (with prizes for the best dressed)
Book Fair
You Show Us Morning
Performance bringing books to life
Special assembly (including an ice bucket challenge)
Writing Competition (with prizes for the winners)

Dress up day on Wednesday 21 August

Children are encouraged to come dressed as their favourite book character. Please bring a gold coin donation to help buy books for our amazing school library. There will be prizes for the BEST DRESSED!

The class that raises the most money can choose a couple of lucky students to pour ice on brave teachers in the ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE!

Important dates

School events to add to your calendar for 2024.

Term 3: 15 July - 20 September 2024

Date	Event
AUGUST
Week 5
12-16 August	ICAS Competition (English)
14 August	Cupcake Stall (PFA event) - $2 Donations & volunteers needed
15 August	Year 5 Health Education
15-16 August	Year 6 French incursion
16 August	Second Hand Uniform Shop, 8:30-9:15am
16 August	Food Drive donations due (in classroom)
16 August	Soccer Gala (Years 3-4)
Week 6
19 August	Assembly 2:50pm
19 August	Parent Forum
19-21 August	Book Fair, 3:30-4pm in the Library
20 August	You Show Us Morning (Miss Molly’s Coffee Cart onsite)
21 August	Book Week (Dress up day) Gold coin donation
21 August	Special assembly, 2:30pm Basketball Courts (ice bucket challenge)
23 August	Books Week performance
Week 7
26-28 August	Year 4 Camp (Camp Jungai)
26-30 August	Swimming (Years 1-2)
26-30 August	ICAS Competition (Maths)
28 August	Father’s Day Stall
28 August	Year 5 Health Education
30 August	Basketball Gala Day (Years 5-6)
SEPTEMBER
Week 8
2 September	Assembly 2:50pm
6 September	District Athletics
6 September	Year 1 Biology incursion
14 September	Working Bee (Saturday, 8am-11am) Sign up to volunteer
Week 10 - last week of Term 3
16 September	Assembly 2:50pm
17-18 September	Year 4 Production, 7pm Phoenix Theatre Buy tickets
18 September	STEM Day
20 September	Last day of term (2:30pm finish)

Food drive - one week left

We are 2 weeks into our PMPS Food Drive for the Father Bob Foundation. So far, it has been an amazing success! We had to call the volunteers at the Foundation and ask them to do a pick up of the four large tubs of food that we had collected so that it could be distributed straight away. They were very grateful and asked to pass on their thanks to all the families so far.

We'd love to keep the momentum up for this last week of the drive, so we can continue to donate to help this fabulous local organisation. The drive is open for canned food, breakfast cereal, rice, pasta, toiletries and pet food. Please drop any donations in to your child's classroom.

Camps

Year 4: Camp Jungai, 26-28 August

Year 5: Sovereign Hill, 9-11 October

Year 6: Billabong Ranch, 29 July-1 August.

Term dates

Term 3: 15 July to 20 September

Term 4: 7 October to 20 December.

Student-free days

Our staff planning and report writing days are booked in for the year. Students are not required to attend school on the following days:

Term 4:

Friday 15 November
Monday 9 December.

You can book into the TeamKids vacation care program on these days.

Attendance

Did you know you can add an attendance note on Compass to let us know your child will be away? View some easy instructions.

Join the PFA

Be part of our Parents and Friends Association (PFA) - a group of friendly parents who want to make a difference in the school for your children. It's lots of fun and you can be involved as much or as little as you want.

Sign up to express your interest.

Socials

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Thank you to YPA Bayside, our major sponsor.

Sport

Stephen Brewer & Janelle Sammut

Beachside Division Soccer competition