Literacy News

For the third year, St Kilda Park is entering the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee. The competition is open to all our students in Year 3/4/5 & 6. It is free to enter the online competition which I will run with students on Friday 15th August. 

Entrants will be required to answer 30 random spelling words (timed) per round. Students are required to be signed up by a teacher, so please let me know by close of business Friday August 8th if your child/children would like to participate. 

Here is the link if you would like to read up a little more about the competition. You can also access the online consent form in this link which you will need to complete for your child to participate.

Send me an email on jacqueline.morphy@education.vic.gov.au. Please attach the consent form to your email.

Thank you to those that have already reached out and expressed interest.

Classroom Writing

The students in Foundation have been using the book Giraffes Can't Dance as their mentor text. I am so proud of the writing that is being produced after just 5 months of school.  Check out Rosie, Pandora & Elyas' writing from this week.

In Year 3, the students continue to use The Iron Man as their mentor text. This week, they were honing their skills on writing summary sentences. I was super proud of Ren's summary sentences and would like to share them with you. 

Sacred Heart Pen Pals

I would really love to encourage more students to write a letter to a member of the Sacred Heart Community as I know first hand how much joy it brings them. I am ready to start collecting the next batch of letters. 

If your child/children would like to be a part of this group, please support them to address a letter 'Dear Pen Pal, and they can write about any of their interests, family, holidays, favourite things to do at school etc..

If you have a letter to share, please pass it on to Jac or leave it on my desk.

SKiPPS & Readings

A reminder to all that if you are purchasing any new books, please support our local Readings store. If you mention that you are a part of the St Kilda Park Primary School Community, they will put a % of your spend aside for our school to use. 

Last year, we were able to send a class to Readings for an outing where they all selected a new book for their classroom library. The money from your purchases really helped make that an affordable way to put new books in the classrooms, books that the students selected and really want to read. It would be amazing to be able to send another class this year.

Jac Morphy

Assistant Principal