GHPS Life

lNTERSCHOOL SPORT
Round 3: Friday 29th May 2026
Greenhills Gold VS Laurimar B – HOME
Time: | Sport: | Venue: |
9.30am-10.30am approx. | Aussie Football 9s | Greensborough Park |
Netball | Greenhills PS | |
Soccer | Greensborough Park | |
Softball Boys | Greenhills PS | |
Softball Girls | Greenhills PS |
Greenhills Green VS Apollo Parkways B – AWAY
Time: | Sport: | Venue: |
9.30am-10.30am approx. | Aussie Football 9s | Diamond Hills Reserve |
Netball | Apollo Parkways PS | |
Soccer | Elder Street Reserve | |
Softball Boys | Apollo Parkways PS |
COMMUNITY SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS
Huge congratulations to Pax H (2TS) on being awarded Player of the Week for his U9 Eltham Wildcats basketball team!
Well done! 💪🏼
If your child achieves something special (grand final win, most valuable player award, best and fairest etc.), please email me (jordan.daley@education.vic.gov.au) through photos and an overview of the achievement to post in Contact. It is important to celebrate and recognise such successes with the school community.
Thank you,
Jordan Daley
Crazy Coin Collection
Our last Crazy Coin Collection is this week and winners will be announced at assembly This Friday, 29th of May.
Week 3 winner was PIH, well done you receive 15 minutes extra of recess time.
The final week to raid your money boxes, lift up your couch cushions, ask your grandparents, neighbours, friends. Collect all your spare change. Please send in coins of any value (5c 10c 20c 50c $1 or $2) to your child's classroom.
Help the school raise funds for additional specialist class materials.
Weekly prize - 15 mins extra playtime for the class who collects the most money each week.
Grand prize - Fish and Chip lunch for the class who collects the most money overall during the 4 weeks.
Let's make it bigger and better than last year.
From your friendly PA team.
BOOK CLUB
CANTEEN
HELPERS NEEDED
If you have a spare hour on a Wed, Thurs or Fri between 1pm and 2pm, come along and help in the canteen. There is no food preparation involved, it's very simple and the kids love seeing parents there!
You need to have completed the Volunteer Induction, and sign up through CareBookings - www.carebookings.com.au - access code is JGU9L.
Helpers get a canteen voucher for their kids to use for their next lunch order!
Thank you
Miriam
OFFICE NEWS
UNEXPLAINED ABSENCE/LATE ARRIVAL
From now on we will be sending alerts of unapproved absences and late arrivals on a regular basis.
If you receive this email it means we have some old unexplained absences/late arrivals in our system for your child/children, please scroll down on the letter to see the dates of concern.
If you believe your child attended school on a day detailed in the notice, please email the school to let us know, otherwise please update the details on Compass.
Details on how to do this can be found here: Entering a Compass Attendance Note
Students arriving late without an adult are marked Late, unexplained.
ALL STUDENTS THAT ARE LATE (after 9am) SHOULD COME VIA THE OFFICE, not directly to the classroom.
If your child is going to be absent from school please enter this via Compass.
If you have any queries please contact the office.
LOST PROPERTY
We have a lot of unlabelled uniform that ends up in lost property, which we cannot return. Lost property is checked weekly by the office, named items are returned to classrooms via the pigeonholes.
OZ LABELS - HELP US REDUCE LOST PROPERTY & FUNDRAISE FOR GREENHILLS
EVENTS
All future events will have the following due dates. We would appreciate it if you could pay and consent by the due date, this helps the admin team and teachers prepare for the event.
Our Compass event due by dates are changing:
| |
| Excursions and Incursions | 1 Week before date of event |
| Camps and Swimming | 1 Month before date of event |
| Upcoming Events | Year Level | Cost | Due Date |
| Bundoora Park exploring the past | 2 | $30 | 22/5/26 |
| AFL Girls Carnival | 5-6 | $0 | 1/6/26 |
| House Athletics | 3-6 | $18 | 2/6/26 |
| Adanac Camp Deposit | 4 | $100 | 31/5/26 |
| Life Education Prep - Year 4 | P-4 | $18 | 31/5/26 |
| Life Education Year 6 | 6 | $18 | 22/07/26 |
| Adanac Camp Balance | 4 | $340 | 18/9/26 |
| Y6 2027 Anglesea Camp Deposit | 5 | $100 | 22/6/26 |
We understand that families may struggle financially to meet these deadlines, please speak to James, Janine, Brad or Victoria if this affects you.
CAMPS, SPORTS and EXCURSIONS FUND (CSEF)
School camps provide children with inspiring experiences in the great outdoors. Excursions encourage a deeper understanding of how the world works while sports teach teamwork, discipline and leadership. All are a part of a healthy curriculum.
CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school excursions, camps and sporting activities.
If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or support an out of home care student, you may be eligible for CSEF. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families.
The allowance is paid directly to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.
The annual CSEF amount per student is $400 for eligible school students.
If you applied for CSEF last year, you do not need to complete an application form this year unless there has been a change in your family circumstance, eg; new Prep enrolled.
New applicants should
Contact the school office to obtain a CSEF application form or print the attached, these are due by 26th June 2026. Click here for application form
Further details contact the office or go to: https://www.vic.gov.au/camps-sports-and-excursions-fund
STUDENTS OF THE WEEK
Term 2 Week 6 - Presented Friday 12th of June.
| Ryan | PAF | For being open to the new and taking on a challenge with your writing. You are a LEGEND! |
| Sofia | PAW | What wonderful progress you have made in your reading. I am impressed by the effort you put in both at school and when practising at home. Well done, Sofi. |
| Fred | PIH | For the way you have been coming in so settled and in the mornings. Keep up the great work Fred! |
| Estelle E | 1BH | For the amazing effort She is putting into her writing. Estelle, well done on including Vivid Verbs in your story of the Rabbit. Your story was wonderful to read. |
| Adam | 1JR | For your amazing efforts during our English lesson. I love the way you are always focused and give everything a go. |
| Jimmy | 1KO | For always being a curious learner by asking questions and actively sharing your thinking to the class. Thank you for helping us all learn more Jimmy! |
| Fred | 2RB | Fred I love the way you persist in maths even when the task is tricky. You never give up! |
| Markus G | 2TS | Markus, you should be very proud of the persistence you have been showing during writing tasks. You have been trying your best to keep going even when it feels challenging. |
| Mila C | 2MH | For encouraging your classmates, providing thoughtful feedback and being a wonderful ‘teacher’ assistant in our classroom. Well done superstar! |
| Summer K | 34C | For doing an excellent job identifying and describing verbs in your writing. You showed a great understanding of how verbs are action words that help make sentences more interesting and meaningful. Keep up the fantastic work. I am so proud of you! |
| Zave G | 34H | For your incredible effort in finding 'doing verbs' and 'feeling verbs' in your English Block activities. Keep up the amazing effort legend! |
| Nick M | 34W | Nick, I am so impressed with how hard you are working on your writing and using my feedback to help improve. Keep up this awesome work. |
| Perry S | 34J | For identifying and using conjunctions to write your own compound and complex sentences about rattlesnakes and basilisks! |
| James D | 34S | James is a kind, caring and hardworking member of our class who always displays our school values. He gives his best in everything he does and continues to shine as a maths superstar! |
| Henry H | 5KJ | Henry, you bring so much energy, encouragement and support to our classroom. Keep it up, those traits are extremely valuable. |
| Elvira | 5RC | For the drive and perseverance you have been demonstrating in Maths. You should be so proud of your effort! Awesome job, Elvira! |
| Jackson H | 6SM | For constructively taking on feedback and making a stronger commitment to improving the organisation of your bookwork. |
| Tina D | 6LB | For always taking control of your learning. You have been a model student especially with your drive and determination during Maths Pathways. Keep being awesome! |
| Abby L | 6RM | For demonstrating outstanding effort and skill. Abby is a talented writer who has effectively used a mentor text to replicate the author’s techniques, resulting in a highly engaging and interesting introduction to a historical narrative piece. |
| 5KJ -Xavier.S. | Italian | Auguri - Congratulations on the excellent effort you are putting into reading our Italian 'restaurant dialogue'. I love the way you remember so many things from one week to the next. Definitely a great skill to have!! BRAVO. |
| Aiden 2MH | Art | For the incredible effort you put into your abstract landscape. Aiden, you are a wonderful artist and your creativity blows me away. Keep it up superstar! |
| Billie 5RC | Performing Arts | For her incredible GRIT during her production audition. I am very proud of you! |
| Jude P 34J | STEAM | For his keen interest, questions and dedicated work in STEAM. Keep up the awesome effort Jude! |
| Spencer M (2MH) | PE | For how quickly you have picked up our new sport focus of Lacrosse, highlighting the grit and determination you consistently show in PE. Well done! |









