From the Library, News & Diary Dates
From the Library
Issue 7 LOOP Book Club orders were submitted last week and these will be distributed to students via their classrooms once delivered to the school. This was the final issue @SSPS for 2024, so thank you to families who supported LOOP this year. Your purchases have resulted in lots of lovely new books for the school library - thank you!
Remembrance Day is on Monday 11th November and some books are on display in the library (on the back of the New Books display stand!).
On Tuesday 12th November the KOALA (Kids Own Australian Literature Awards) winners will be announced and I'm pleased to say that most of the shortlisted books are available in the library!
Reminder: Library Stocktake begins Tuesday 3rd December 2024 so ALL library books are due back by Monday 2 December - thank you!
ALL Year 6 students MUST return their library resources before leaving the school!
Happy reading!
Ms Robinson
Librarian & LOOP Book Club Coordinator
Smile Squad School Dental Program
As you might be aware, we have had the School Dental Program - ‘Smile Squad’ – attend our school to give the students information on good dental health, undertake dental examinations and, where required, organise follow-up treatment. While the program is voluntary, many of you consented for your child/children to participate in the Smile Squad program.
To better understand the delivery of the Smile Squad program including benefits and challenges, an independent firm (Abt Global) has been engaged to evaluate the program. This is your opportunity to provide feedback on your experience of the program. If you didn’t consent for your child/children to participate in Smile Squad they are also keen to hear from you. The evaluation team want to understand why you chose not to participate. So, whether you participated or not, this is an opportunity to provide feedback so that improvements can be made to the Smile Squad program.
To participate in the evaluation, you can complete a confidential 5–10-minute survey. The survey does not require you to provide any information to the evaluation team that identifies you, however the survey does ask what school your child/children attend. Here is the link to the survey -
https://abtassoc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bf6YJUMs3NkfHWm.
We encourage you to participate in this short survey and provide valuable feedback on Smile Squad. If you would like to provide more detailed feedback to the evaluation team, please contact Eleanor at smilesquad_eval@abtglobal.com.
Diary Dates
For all diary/event dates please click here to go to our website calendar.
October
30th - Foundation 2025 Transition Session 2.15-3pm
31st - Diwali Celebration
November
4th - Pupil Free Day - students don't attend school
5th - Melbourne Cup Day Public Holiday
7th - Year 5/6 Incursion - Mini Boss
15th - Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 Athletics
2024 Term Dates
Term 1 - Tuesday 30th January - Thursday 28th March
Term 2 - Monday 15th April - Friday 28th June
Term 3 - Monday 15th July - Friday 20th September
Term 4 - Monday 7th October - Friday 20th December
2025 Term Dates
Term 1 - Wednesday 29th January - Friday 4th April
Term 2 - Tuesday 22nd April - Friday 4th July
Term 3 - Tuesday 15th July - Friday 19th September
Term 4 - Monday 6th October - Friday 19th December
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