Out and about with Mr Walsh

SOME IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER TOWARDS THE END OF TERM 3

August

Thu 31st Year 6 Bonanza Day - more info to come from year 6 team

September

Tues 5th Surfside Primary School Concert - Night 1 5.00-7.00pm

Wed 6th Surfside Primary School Concert - Night 2 5.00-7.00pm

Fri 15th End of Term Assembly @ 1.45pm, Early Dismissal @ 2:30pm,

Casual Dress for Gold Coin Donation - Footy/Sport Colours

Feed Me Bellarine Food Drive

Winter can definitely be a tough time for those in need so we are supporting the crew from Feed me Bellarine with an upcoming food drive.A big thanks to Madeleine from year 5 and one of our amazing parents Lydia for supporting this great community cause.Feed Me Bellarine Food DriveItems can be dropped off at classrooms. Each class will receive a point for an item that is donated and the class with the most points at the end of the food drive will receive a class prize so a big focus on teamwork will support those in need.Each class has a basket in their classrooms and items can be dropped off there. A rep will keep a tally of items brought along by each classItems that can be brought along:

Cereal
Tea, coffee & sugar
Condiments
Muesli bars, dried fruit & nuts
Rice, pasta & noodles
Spreads
Canned fruit, spaghetti & baked beans
Long life milk and long life juice

All items received make up the contents of the Feed Me Bellarine dry bags. This food relief is delivered to 2000 families each and every week. A big thank you to the Surfside community for supporting and feeding those in our community who need it the most!Please contact the office if you have any questions.

Book Week 2023 - 'Read, Grow and Inspire'

It was amzing to see everyone excited for Book Week 2023 and a big well done to our students for their fantastic effort. It was great to see themes, old time favourites and lot's of inspirational book characters. A big congratulations to our staff who always love a good dress up day and they went to a lot of effort with theme based characters. A big thank you to our parents and carers for supporting Book Week - you all do a great job!!

Year 1 Marine Discovery Centre Visit

Our year 1 crew headed to Queenscliff to visit the Marine Discovery Centre. The students had a fabulous time and learnt all about marine habitats and the unique features of our local marine life. The Marine and Freshwater Discovery Centre (MFDC) provides education services that create awareness about the importance of commercial and recreational fishing and the marine and freshwater environments. A big thank you to all who supported the visist and the day.

Year 3 Helthy Heroes - Geelong Cats

Our year 3 team had a visit from Tom Atkins and Max Holmes from the Geelong Cats to promote the Healthy Heroes program. The program focuses on positive behaviour change across the key areas of physical activity, healthy eating, hydration, screen time, sleep and mental health and wellbeing. A big thank you to the supporting crew from the Geelong Cats and SEDA for supporting and promoting Healthy Heroes.

Surfside Supporting the Matildas

Australia has been performing at a high level across multiple sports recently and in particular female sport has been front and centre with some outstanding efforts. Surfside were right behind the Matildas as they came away with a brilliant 4th place finish in the world. The Diamonds shouldn't go unnoticed as they recently won their 9th consecutive World Cup in Netball and early on Thursday morning Nina Kennedy of Australia won the gold medal in the World Athletics Championships in Pole Vault - What a week for Australia and strong positive female role models - keep up the great work!

Breakfast Clubber of The Week

Our Breakfast Club has been growing in popularity for student visits as well as student helpers. Each fortnight we look forward to recognising the efforts of our helpers with the 'Breakfast Clubber of the Week'. A big thank you to Lydia and Gill for the support of the program and the following students were our week 1 and 2 Breakfast Clubbers of the Week.

Week 6 - Laura M - for helping in anyway possible to support the team and displaying our values of Honesty, Achievement, Teamwork and Respect

Breakfast Club Pancake Morning

Breakfast club hosted a pancake morning this Thursday and it was a full house. The helper crew did an amazing job to get everyone served and did an event better job on clean up. Thank you to all of our students and volunteers who support Breakfast Club every Thursday.