School Production: It's A Jungle Out There

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Parent Communication #1

Tuesday 15th October

There is one week to go until the opening of our amazing St Simon’s School Production of “Its A Jungle Out There!”. The students and school staff have all been work

Attendance at the School Production

All students are expected to attend both nights of the production performance. Participation in the school production is an important component of the Arts curriculum at St Simon’s, and we expect all students to participate.

We are aware of a clash of dates with the 2025 Year 7 parent information nights for Nazareth College and Emmaus College. St. Simon’s has contacted each of the Colleges, and we have been informed there will be an alternative way for those families in question to receive this information so that Year six students can attend the school production. We are grateful to the staff at Nazareth and Emmaus for working with us to manage this situation.

Operoo Form: Whole Dress Rehearsal Tuesday 22nd October

Today an Operoo permission form was sent all families seeking permission for your child\ren to attend the Whole School Dress Rehearsal on Tuesday 22nd during school hours. Thank you for your assistance in promptly responding to this form.

Students will be transported to Crossway Baptist Church via bus and will return on time for normal school dismissal.

All students' base costume outfits currently held at school in classrooms will be returned to students on Monday 21st October, so that can worn to school the following day.

On Tuesday, students are to come to school with the following:

Dressed in their base costume outfit (coloured T Shirt and pants)
Small backpack with recess snack and lunch and waterbottle
A book to read
School hat

Coming to the Performance: Times

The performance on each night will be begin at 7:15pm
There will be a short 20 min interval
The performance will conclude at 9:00pm approximately

Drop off Times

Students in the Main Cast need to be dropped off at the backstage entry (see map below) by 6:00pm
All Students Years 1-6 are to be dropped off at the back stage entry at 6:45pm near the green slide. Students will be greeted by their classroom teacher near the entry point.
Students in Prep are to be dropped off in the auditorium foyer at 6:45pm
Parents are able to leave the venue and return at the pickup time OR wait in the auditorium foyer where you will directed to your seats when the auditorium is open to audience members.

Pick up Times

After the performance instructions will be given as to where the safe and calm collection of students will take place.
If you are not attending the performance on the night please make your way to backstage entry (near the green playground slide at 9:15pm.)
Prep students can be collected from the auditorium foyer (training room area)
All other students will need to be collected from the backstage entry (near the green playground slide)

Please ensure students have a substantial meal before the performance to have enough energy and focus for the show. Students are strongly encouraged to bring a water bottle and a book to read, as there will be periods when students are waiting backstage to perform. Large video screens are situated throughout the backstage area, presenting the performance to the students.

Tickets Sales

Thank you to all families for your support in respecting the 6-ticket limit per family. All families have had ample time to purchase tickets, so the ticket restriction is now lifted. Families are able to purchase more tickets if required.

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Filming of the School Production

The school has arranged for a videographer to record Wednesday night’s performance. This recording will be available to the school community via a link in the coming weeks.

Calling for Assitance: Car parking attendants for each night

We require six volunteers for each night to assist with being a car parking attendant. You would need to be at the venue around 6:30 pm and will receive simple training on what to do. You will have enough time to finish the job and then attend the show for a 7:15pm start. PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE 9755 4222 if you can assist. THANK YOU ANTICIPATION

Student Free Day Thursday 24th October

Please note that Thursday, 24th October, is a student-free day. This will a great chance for students to have a rest after two big nights of school production performance.

Beyond Educare will have a care program in place for families requiring this.

All staff will attend a Religious Education Formation Day at the Mary Mackillop Heritage Centre in East Melbourne.

Costumes

The rehearsals for our school production are going well. We are looking forward to an amazing school production on Tuesday 22nd October and Wednesday 23rd October.

A huge thank you to Elise (Toby in 6R mum), Stephanie (Audrey, Rory and Elijah Dawson’s mum) and Jany (Skye in 2G mum). We appreciate your assistance as well as creativity with our costumes.

The costume production team is still busy making and creating student costumes so it’s not too late to join in the fun and assist us with student costumes. If you are able to assist, please email either

Phil: Philomena.Solari@ssrowville.catholic.edu.au or;

Monica: Monica.Rayner@ssrowville.catholic.edu.au

If you’re a main character then it’s likely that we might apply some face paint for the performances – please let your child’s classroom teacher know if your child has any allergies to face paint.

By this Monday 14th October, all students need to bring in these two basic items to school in a labelled bag. A basic plain long or short sleeve t-shirt without logos or words (in the appropriate colour) and plain long black pants or leggings without logos or words. Thank you to the many families who have already done so.

Warm regards,

Phil, Ivana, Monica and Laura

School Production Costume Team