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Scholastic Book club orders close tonight at 8pm

The due date for Issue 5 orders is Friday 8 August 2025 with orders closing at 8pm

Ordering from Book Club is easy! Simply go online and place your order using LOOP online or using the app:

  1. https://mybookclubs.scholastic.com.au/Parent/Login.aspx
  2. Look up “Scholastic” on the App Store or Google Play to find “Book Club Loop for Parents”

As always, you can continue to order from this issue after the school close off date, but delivery of the books will be made directly to your home and not to school (and will incur a charge of $10.00).

Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge/Book Week 2025

Time flies when you are having fun – can you believe we are more than halfway through the 2025 Premiers’ Reading Challenge? 

 

A big congratulations to all the readers who have already completed the Challenge! Don’t stop now; you can read as many books as you like and record them in your Challenge list.

 

The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book Week is fast approaching and will be celebrated from 16-23 August with the theme ‘Book an Adventure’.  

 

To celebrate Book Week, Parkdale Primary School will be engaging in the following activities;

  • Incursion -  you will have received a notification of a whole school incursion on Tuesday 12th August. This theatre production by Perform! will launch Book Week and set the tone for the coming week. Please consent and pay for this incursion by Friday 8th August. 
  • Dress up Day - We will have a dress up day on Monday 18th August. Children are invited to dress up as a favourite book character. Please ensure students wear appropriate foot wear and note that the costume must relate to a book.
  • The Great Book Swap - the SRC will again run the The Great Book Swap during the week 18-22nd August.  Children are invited to bring along an age appropriate book from home that they would like to swap with someone in their grade level.  Students are also asked to donate a gold coin which is donated to The Indigenous Literacy Foundation. 

If you are looking for costume ideas some all-time favourites on the Premiers' Reading Challenge book list are:

  • Possum Magic
  • Pearl the Magic Unicorn
  • Percy Jackson series
  • Harry Potter series
  • Rainbow Magic series
  • Room on the Broom
  • Wings of Fire series

Do we have your most up to date contact details? 

As part of our 2025 school year procedures (as required by the Department of Education) you would have received by separate email this week, your 2025 "Student Enrolment Information Form".

 

Please take the time to read this enrolment information and make any alterations as required.  In particular, employer name, work contact and emergency contact numbers are required in case your child may be unwell or injured.

In relation to Family Details on page 3, the Government allocate funding to schools, according to our parent/guardian "Occupation Group".  If no occupation is received then the code reverts to the highest occupation group possible and in turn reduces our school funding for the year.  If you have changed your occupation, please look at the Parent Occupation Group Codes at the end of the report and amend if necessary.

All information is for statistical reasons only.  The information is strictly confidential and in accordance with the Privacy Act.

If your child is subject to ‘Custody Restrictions’ the school must have a copy on record.

 

If the information is correct, please sign and return the 1st page of the document as a hard copy. If there is any information that is incorrect, please write the updated information next to each item and return the whole form to the school office, by Friday 15 August.

Updated Classroom Cuisine menu

New menu items in Term 3 are a Quesadilla (Chicken) served with Sour Cream; Tandoori Chicken Puff Parcel with Mango Chutney; Carrot Cup Cake (Gluten Free, Dairy Free & Vegan); and Harvest Snaps.  

 

The Poke Bowl has been a huge hit and will continue this term along with our other "new in Term 2 items" - Soft Shell Chicken Tacos with Salsa, Cheese & Salad; Sausage Rolls with Tomato Sauce; Lamingtons; Corn Chips with Mild Salsa; and "Not Cross" Buns.

 

The children will also be excited to learn that the Margherita Pizza TWIST will be returning for Term 3!

 

Please note, the Classroom Cuisine menu is all served cold/room temperature.