SKiPPS Newsletter

Important Notices

Change to student-free day – Please Note the New Date

We’d like to inform families of a change to our upcoming student-free day.

Originally, we had planned to hold a curriculum day on Monday 21st July (the first day of Term 3). However, due to changing priorities and school planning, this date has now been rescheduled.

 

Our new student-free day will take place on Tuesday 10th June, which is the day following the King’s Birthday public holiday. This day has now been designated as a whole-school Teacher Professional Practice Day.

On this day:

  • Students are not required to attend school.
  • TeamKids will be offering a full-day care program for families who require supervision for their children.

We appreciate your understanding around this change and encourage families to make note of the updated date in their calendars.

Market Day- Friday 23rd May

We’re excited to remind families that Market Day 2025 is happening this Friday! This special event is a highlight of our school calendar and a wonderful opportunity for our Year 6 students to showcase their creativity and entrepreneurial flair.

 

As well as important learning around organisation, leadership and financial literacy, the event allows the students to raise the funds for their own graduation ceremony and celebrations in December.

 

Throughout the day, students will have the chance to visit a range of stalls and activities run by the Year 6 cohort. These include games, food stalls, and fun experiences—many of which are listed below with their prices to help families plan ahead.

Some of the exciting stalls and prices include:

  • Wonka’s Wonderland Chocolate Toss – Gold coin
  • Guess the Jelly Beans in the Jar – $1 per guess
  • Holy Moly Guacamole – Bowl of nachos for $3
  • Magical Pizzaria – Pizza slice for $3
  • Ice Cream, You Scream – Ice cream cone with 2 scoops & toppings for $2
  • Cookie Crumble – Decorate 1 biscuit for $2 or 2 biscuits for $3
  • Huddy’s Hairspray & Style Bar – Hairspray ($1–$3), tattoos ($1), face painting ($2), hairstyles ($2)
  • Dan’s Dino Disco – Entry $2
  • ...and many more including raffles, lucky dips, and classic carnival games!

To help the day run smoothly:

  • Please return the slips sent home by the end of the week so we can ensure your child only takes part in the activities you provide permission for.
  • Send your child along with a few gold coins so they can join in the fun!

Market Day is always a joyful and vibrant celebration of student learning and collaboration. We can’t wait to see the school buzzing with excitement this Friday!

Albert Park Habitat Renewal Project 

On Thursday 19th June we will be participating in a school planting day near the Pencil Park.

 

This project is about getting community connected and active outdoors, helping to transform a 400m2 patch of dried lawn into a vibrant habitat corridor, with over 2.5k indigenous plants including grasses, shrubs and trees. The planting will become a learning space for primary students, and an asset for park users as well as local pollinators.

 

We require 1-2 parents to assist each class planting throughout the day. 

 

We would also like to invite families after school to finish the planting between 3.30-5pm. There will be a Winter Solstice event held in the Pavillion after 5pm (dinner and lantern making) to mark the shortest day and longest night of the year. More details to come.

 

If you are interested in the tree planting activities, please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you! 

 

 

This project is funded by BUPA Landcare and delivered by the Port Phillip EcoCentre in partnership with St Kilda Park Primary School and Parks Victoria. 

Lost Property

With the colder weather well and truly upon us, our lost property is already overflowing—and it's only Week 5! Jumpers, jackets, hats and drink bottles are piling up fast. 

If your child is missing any items of clothing or belongings, please take a moment to check the lost property area, located just inside from the quadrangle near the Year 3 classrooms.

Labelled items are much more likely to find their way home—thank you for your help in keeping lost property under control!

Classroom Tissues please

The arrival of the colder weather also brings sniffles and sneezes to the classroom, and the students are going through boxes of tissues each week. 

 

If you can donate a box of tissues to your child's classroom, that would be greatly appreciated. 

Outside School Hours Care Program survey

For the last four years the Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) program at SKiPPS has been provided by an external provider Team Kids, who have a licence agreement with our School Council to provide this service every day (and also on school holidays and curriculum days).

 

Following the completion of our building works, the Team Kids program is now back in its permanent home, the Kitchen Dining Room and the Director of Service Jacqui and her team have settled in.

 

Our current contract with Team Kids expires at the end of 2025 and School Council have decided to gather some feedback about the current program to understand parent and student perceptions of the service so we can make a well-informed decision around our next contract.

We would appreciate you spending ten minutes answering a short survey, so we can understand what our community thinks is important in an OSHC program and whether our current program fully meets these needs.

 

In doing this, we encourage you to chat to your children for their views on the program - whether they are regular users or not.

 

The survey can be found on the link below;

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF)

A reminder that the Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) helps eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.  Eligible families will receive a payment of $154 per year for primary school students.

 

If you have a valid means-tested concession card, or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible.  A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. Means-tested concession cards must be valid on the first day of Term 1, 2025 (Tuesday 28 January 2025) or Term 2, 2025 (Tuesday 22 April 2025).

 

If you applied for CSEF through our school last year, you do not need to complete an application form this year, unless there has been a change in your family circumstances.

 

Applications close on 4th July 2025. Please see the page titled CSEF in this newsletter for further information.