Principal's Message

Welcome to the start of Week 6. This marks the halfway point of Term 1. It is with great pleasure that I announce the arrival of Lincoln Paul Creasey into the world. Lincoln is the newly-minted son of our wonderful music teacher Paul Creasey. Lincoln arrived in the world on 25 February 2021 at 6:05am. The entire school community passes on its love and best wishes to mum, Sarah, dad, Paul and sister, Milla with the arrival of their little bundle of happiness. Well done, Creaseys!

I really encourage you to read our iNewsletter pages - they are really terrific. It contains lots that you need to know about your child's classes and education. It also contains lots of celebrations. Please do yourself a favour and sit down on a chair with a cup of tea to read the contents.

The support we receive from our families warms our hearts daily. Last week, we were able to have our first group of parents on-site to help set up resources for our learning programs. How lovely it was to hear the chatter of adults supporting our school and the children.

Last week we also conducted our Family Information Nights (with our Prep session coming up this week). The interest from those who attended was really strong. Our goal was to make our programs and approaches transparent to all. We hope we achieved that.

I want to encourage all parents to use Compass to make personal contact with their child's classroom teacher via email. This relationship is critical and needs your help to flourish. This does not mean sending an email every day as the teachers would be snowed under with responding instead of teaching. But it does mean emailing when you have a quick question or a concern to be raised. Communication is key and we rely on everybody to do their part.

Getting to Know Your Child Chats

We have over 80% of our parents/carers signed up this coming week to online chats with classroom teachers. This is fantastic! I have included below the codes that you will need to use to access those discussions via Webex. These were also included in a newsfeed I sent out earlier. There are two ways to access these discussions. One, to use the link directly and two, to copy and paste the meeting number into Webex. Please note, the password is lowercase.

It is important that you arrive to the online chat on time so that everyone gets their fair share. If you have any difficulties during login please use your classroom teachers email which is accessible via Compass. Good luck with these chats and we hope a very healthy relationship is built upon them.

For those booked into see Mr Paul, note that he is now on family leave and will not be able to attend. We will ensure Mr Paul knows of your booking so he can catch up when he returns.

See meeting codes at bottom of this page or via my Compass Newsfeed.

Harmony Week

We are excited to inform you that during the week of March 8th–March 12th, South Melbourne Primary School will be celebrating ‘Harmony Week’.

‘Harmony Week’ is a time to celebrate the rich and vibrant cultures which make our school such a special place. The message of ‘Harmony Week’ is that everyone belongs. It is about inclusiveness, respect and belonging for all members of our South Melbourne community and the wider society as a whole.

During the week, the students will be participating in a variety of exciting activities within their classes which will focus on a range of different cultures. The week culminates with a special ‘Harmony Day’ on Friday 12th March – for this day we are encouraging the students to come dressed in traditional clothing relevant to their cultural backgrounds, or to wear orange as a symbol of harmony and togetherness.

We look forward to celebrating our cultural diversity during the week and especially seeing everyone dressed accordingly on Friday 12th March.

Meeting Codes for Parent Chats

Grade 1

Class	Link	Meeting Number
Grade 1A Miss Susie	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/patch.susan.s	572 345 978
Grade 1B Miss Cayleigh	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/abel.cayleigh.c	574 444 461
Grade 1C Miss Lin	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/liu.lin.l	573 975 482
Grade 1D Miss Sophie	https://eduvic.webex.com/join/trescowthick.sophie.s	574 411 092

Grade 2

Class	Link	Meeting Number
Grade 2A Miss Lucy	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/kennedy.lucy.l	575836188
Grade 2B Miss Jess	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/hobbs.jessica.l	572 977 618
Grade 2C Miss Hope	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/underwood.hope.h	574 893 830
Grade 2D Miss Nadeeka	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/pussalle.nadeeka.n	578 827 989
Grade 2E Miss Maddie	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/gort.madeline.l	575 818 737

Grade 3/4

Class	Link	Meeting Number
Grade 3/4A Miss Kate	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/alcock.kate.e	783 019 583
Grade 3/4B Mr Ross	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/ross.macdonald	165 115 5870
Grade 3/4C Miss Megan	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/hartwick.megan.m	584 472 924
Grade 3/4D Miss Ciona	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/cox.ciona.e	578 461 997
Grade 3/4E Miss Steph	https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=m667b9b2d0bfdd0aa323bb513a9d0d920	165 460 2548

Grade 5/6

Class

Link

Meeting Number

Grade 5

Miss Maddy

Miss Jenny

https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/davies.jennifer.j

572 866 292

Grade 6

Miss Jo

https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/may.joanna.j

573 468 643

Specialists

Class	Link	Meeting Number
STEAM Mr Cam/Mr Angus	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/smith.cameron.d	575 075 719
Music Mr Paul	absent
Mandarin Miss Lucy	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/lu.li.l	573 217 517
PE/Sport Mr Callum	https://eduvic.webex.com/meet/freel.callum.c	579 996 148

Next Newsletter

Look out for our next edition...

Next iNewsletter: Saturday, March 13