Event	Date	Permission Due
Pupil Free Day	4th November
Melbourne Cup Day Public Holiday	5th November
Year 1 Dinner	7th November
VSSS Boys Netball	7th November
School Fete	16th November
Whole School Swimming Program	18th November	14th November
Year 6 Graduation Ceremony	9th December

Swimming Program

Please note permission for our whole school swimming program was due on 14th October. If you haven't yet provided permission for your child to participate please do so apap. Payment of $125 is due by 14th November.

Art Room Request

The Art Room is looking for donations of the tubes that are inside the paper towel rolls. Donations can be dropped at the office or at the Art Room. Thank you!

ld Orchard Primary School team is once again joining YGAP's Polished Man Campaign to help end violence against women and children. Why? Because 1 in 2 children experience violence yearly, and 1 in 3 women will experience violence in their lifetime. We would love for you to help us by making a donation to our fundraising page or joining us by signing up, polishing up, and fundraising as well! We're so grateful for all of the donations so far this month, and we are currently sitting at $1555 of our $2,500 goal, so we are well over the half way mark already.

If you would like to donate to the Old Orchard fundraising page, please head to https://polishedman.com/t/old-orchard-primary-school

We really appreciate any support our Old Orchard community can provide for this important campaign!

Major Raffle

We are very excited to share details of our 2024 Fete Major Raffle with you. Prizes include a $2,000 Westfield gift voucher (ideal for Christmas shopping!), a Family Sports Package valued at $1,000, an overnight stay in a Superior Family Room at Mercure Hotel valued at $329, a Red Balloon experience voucher valued at $250 and $200 in Amazon gift cards!

Tickets are just $2.00 each and can be purchased from the following link

Old Orchard Primary School Fundraising Raffle | RaffleLink or by the QR code below.

Please feel free to share with family and friends.

Good luck!

Unlimited Ride Wristbands

Unlimited Ride Wristbands for the school fete are now available to purchase at an early bird price via the following link. https://www.trybooking.com/CVNPF

Please note the special price will expire at 10.00pm on Sunday 10th November. After this date wristbands will increase by $5.00 each.

Wristbands include unlimited access to the following:

Mega Wristband $45.00* Junior Wristband $35.00*

Cha Cha (min 130cm min height) Cup and Saucer (no height restriction)

Wild One Obstacle Course (min105cm height) Jaws Inflatable Slide (5+ years old)

Rock Wall (min 110cm height) Animal Safari Inflatable (3+ years old)

Cup and Saucer (no height restriction) Mini Golf

Bubble Soccer (min 120cm height) UFO Bumper Cars (90cm to 150cm)

Jaws Inflatable Slide (5+ years old)

Animal Safari Inflatable (3+ years old)

Mini Golf

UFO Bumper Cars (90cm to 150cm height)

Single ride tickets: $8 per ride

Animal Farm (not included on wristbands): $4 entry

*This is the early bird price. Cost of wristbands will increase by $5.00 as of 10.00pm on 10/11/2024.

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you might be aware, we have had the School Dental Program - ‘Smile Squad’ – attend our school to give the students information on good dental health, undertake dental examinations and, where required, organise follow-up treatment. While the program is voluntary, many of you consented for your child/children to participate in the Smile Squad program.

To better understand the delivery of the Smile Squad program including benefits and challenges, an independent firm (Abt Global) has been engaged to evaluate the program. This is your opportunity to provide feedback on your experience of the program. If you didn’t consent for your child/children to participate in Smile Squad they are also keen to hear from you. The evaluation team want to understand why you chose not to participate. So, whether you participated or not, this is an opportunity to provide feedback so that improvements can be made to the Smile Squad program.

To participate in the evaluation, you can complete a confidential 5–10-minute survey. The survey does not require you to provide any information to the evaluation team that identifies you, however the survey does ask what school your child/children attend. Here is the link to the survey.

https://abtassoc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bf6YJUMs3NkfHWm

We encourage you to participate in this short survey and provide valuable feedback on Smile Squad. If you would like to provide more detailed feedback to the evaluation team, please contact Eleanor at smilesquad_eval@abtglobal.com .

Thank you to our amazing sponsors who have kindly supported this year's fete.

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The Harvest

2024/30 · 31 Oct 2024

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