Out and about with Mr Walsh
Please check out our Teaching & Learning page for a big announcement from the Department of Education
Bonanza Day Is Coming - Thursday 20th July
Important Information for Families
The Year 6 Students are excited to share their price lists for Bonanza Day.
Bonanza Day Stalls will be open on Thursday the 20th of June and students will attend the stalls with their class teacher. We encourage you to discuss possible purchases with your child and supply them with the correct change, coins are very much preferred. We unfortunately won’t have change for large notes on the day. Please place the money in a labelled snap-lock back to support teachers to keep track of student’s money. Remember to pack a normal lunch. Thank you in advance for your support of this amazing school fundraiser!
N.B - All food items will be nut and sesame free in accordance with school policy. There will be items that contain dairy for any intolerance and stalls will be signed accordingly.
Some important dates as a reminder for
the last 2 weeks of term 2 and the first 2 weeks of term 3
Term 2 (last 2 weeks)
June
Tue 18th - School Council at 5.30pm (Finance 5.00pm)
Thu 20th - Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
SSV Regional Cross Country Championships - Brimbank Park
Year 6 Bonanza Day
Fri 21st - No Assembly
Mon 24th - 2024 Barwon Schools Student Leadership Academy - School Captains
Year 5 Melbourne Museum Excursion
Thu 27th - Year 3 Science Expo afternoon
Fri 28th - Last Day of Term 2 - 2.30pm finish
Casual dress day - gold coin donation
End of Term Assembly at 1.45pm
Semester 1 Reports go live
Term 3 (1st 2 weeks)
July
Mon 15th - Students return for Term 3
Mon 15th - 19th - NAIDOC Week
Thu 18th - No Breakfast Club
Mon 22nd - Student Led Conferences (Parent/Teacher Interviews) 2.15-6.00pm
Tues 23rd - Student Led Conferences (Parent/Teacher Interviews) 2.15-6.00pm
Wed 24th - Student Led Conferences (Parent/Teacher Interviews) 3.30-4.30pm
Thu 25th - Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
Fri 26th - Assembly @ 2.30pm
Foundation 100 Days of School
Breakfast Club
A big thank you to Lydia and our year 6 crew who continue to support Breakfast Club on a Thursday morning. Breakfast Club starts from 7:45am and students are provided with a few options for breakfast on a Thursday. This is also a great social opportunity to meet new people and have a chat with others to start the school day. Keep an eye out for our upcoming Pancake morning!! We will be looking for an eager group of year 5 students during term 3 to help out the program and lead the program into 2025. Below are the term 3 dates for Breakfast Club.
Some of our amazing Breakfast Club helpers
Some of our amazing Breakfast Club helpers
Pancake Day Thursday 20th June
Breakfast club is proud to announce that we will be having a pancake day next Thursday, the 20th of June. This will be held at the kitchen from 7:45am until 8:20am in the morning. You are welcome to come and enjoy some pancakes and have a chat. Have an amazing weekend.
Ingredients: flour, sugar, eggs, milk, lemon & maple syrup
From the Breakfast club helpers
July
Thu 18th - No Breakfast Club
Thu 25th - Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
August
Thu 1st- Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
Thu 8th- Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
Thu 15th- Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
Thu 22nd- Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
Thu 29th - No Breakfast Club
September
Thu 5th - Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
Thu 12th - Breakfast Club 7.45am in the kitchen
Thu 19th - No Breakfast Club
Food Scrap Friday Update
A big thank you to our family helpers, volunteers, students and staff for supporting our compost initiative by bringing in food scraps on a Friday. Food Scrap Friday is a great initiative to reduce landfill and provide an opportunity for food waste to be used in a sustainable way. As a school we continue to grow in this area and as we reach the half way mark of the year we are on target for another record breaking year with Surfside reducing landfill by collecting 1,996.5kgs of food waste. Keep up the great work Surfside families and keep supporting our volunteer crew!!
2021 - 301.7 kg
2022 - 1,316.1 kg
2023 - 2,482.5 kg
2024 Year to Date - 2,079.1kg
Thank you Kasey and Jess Tattersall
This week, on the 12th of June, Kasey and Jess Tattersall (the designers of our Year 6 polos and jackets for this year) came for a visit to our school. We had a meeting with them and had a quick brainstorm on the new polo design for the upcoming year 6's in 2025. They loved how their design looked on the jackets and wanted to take photos of the connections captain’s modelling them. They said they knew the perfect place, so we wandered down to the aboriginal meeting place that their mum, Abbey designed. This space also displays a beautiful mural that she painted with the help of some students.
We want to thank Kasey and Jess so much for designing our 2024 year 6 t-shirt’s and jackets, we think they’re outstanding!
Written by the Connections Captains.
In and Out of the Classroom
Year 6 Incursion - Earth Ed - Sphero's Coding
The Year 6's developed their skills around coding with an interactive incursion that applied the skills of digital technologies, programming and mathematics.
Year 3 Science Dome
Year 3 students were fascinated by the visual presentation and interesting facts during the Science Discovery Dome incursion last week. They learned about day and night and the planets in our solar system. It felt like we were on a trip to space.
Here are some student reflections:
"Learning what planets we can see in the sky at night" Bridget M21
"I like it when the sun looked like it was going to fall on us" Bonnie M21
"My favourite part was when we got to see some planets up close because you got to see all the little details" Nellie M22
"I enjoyed everything, but my highlight was when we lay down and we watched the roof" Eden M22
"I liked it when we explored the planets" Liam M23
"I liked how the entryway worked and it felt like a portal, and when the asteroid fell onto our heads" Ivy M23
"I like when Nick showed us how to identify the different seasons on different planets " Maya M24
"I liked seeing a close-up of the different shapes on the moon" Austin M24
Year 1 Chemical Science Incursion
The Year 1's visited the Surfside STEAM Learning Centre. The students unleashed their inner scientists and had a blast learning about different chemical reactions. The students had the opportunity to engage in various experiments and demonstrations, allowing them to witness the magic of chemical reactions firsthand. From colourful reactions to exciting transformations, they explored the wonders of chemistry in an interactive and memorable way.
Enrolment Time at Surfside
Enrolments have now opened for new students and families who will be joining the Surfside family in 2025. If you have a sibling of a current student at Surfside they will also need to complete this enrolment process. We have conducted our tours for prospective families and are starting to collect a number of enrolments ready for 2025. Please check out the enrolling your child in Primary School tab for more information in this newsletter.
School Council - June Meeting
Our next school council meeting will take place on Tuesday 18th June at 5:30pm with Finance meeting taking place at 5.00pm.