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PARENTS NIGHT OUT - SATURDAY 3rd of August 2024

IT’S PARENTS TIME!!

It's time to book your TICKETS for the PARENTS NIGHT OUT.

Every year this event is wildly enjoyed by our St James Parents Community. Who will be the trivia champions this year? Last year the PREP TABLE (this year's Grade 1s) won in a nail-biting divider finish - Who knew that Skunks ate Bees?? Will you get bragging rights as the Trivia Master or the winning table or will you win the prize for the best outfit? Plenty of fun and games throughout the night.

You can organise a table of fellow trivia masters (when you book, put in your table captain), or nominate a year level or we can nominate a table for you! Just let us know when you book on Trybooking.

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1236701

DONATIONS FOR AUCTION @ PARENTS NIGHT OUT

Do you have something you can donate or know some-one that can?

It can be anything but ideas include - Holiday houses for a weekend/week, wine, chocolates, books, vouchers, children’s items, services (dental, hairdressing, facial or massage treatments etc.) cosmetics or skin care (anything any-one would like to buy).

Or if you are a regular at a business, you can ask them for a donation,we like to support and promote local businesses amongst the school community. Donations will go in our auction booklet that is distributed to all parents.

We will also be sending out a link to buy raffle tickets for our amazing prizes and you can still buy raffle tickets if you cannot attend the event.

See Collette or Cass White Grade 4 Reps or let Reception know and they can put you in touch.

DADS DRINKS

Dads and special friends drinks are every 3rd Thursday of the Month at 7.30pm.

BUNNINGS BBQ

Thanks to Sara Yared and Maria Eaves GRADE PREP reps for volunteering to coordinate the Bunnings BBQ with the help of foundation parents. The BBQ will be held later in the year at Bunnings Moorabbin. Sara and Maria will need some volunteers to turn sausages on the day and if anyone is keen, also someone to oversee things. Further details to come.

THANKS FROM THE PA

We are very grateful for the continued support of all our parents, the school and local community. All our PA members are volunteers who generously give up their own time to organise our school events.

Contributions from our fundraising efforts will be put towards many areas across the school. Currently we are working on:

Chrome Books for our class rooms

High quality Soccer goals for the playground

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly - maryallang6@gmail.com; selfinjuiced@gmail.com

Maryallan can be further identified as the pregnant lady with 2 unruly boys and John is the grumpy looking guy with a dark beard and glasses

FUTURE CALENDAR DATES

Dad’s Catch Up - every 3rd Thursday of the month. Next dads drinks booked at 7.30pm on Thursday 15 June with the venue TBA.
Parents night out - Saturday 5 August 2023 at Brighton Yacht Club
Colour run - Friday, 10th November 2023 at Elsternwick Park
St James Christmas carols and end of year party - DATE TBA
Dads, special friends and kids camp at Anglesea YMCA for 2025 - 22-24 March 2025
Mothers day lunch - 18 May 2025 at Elwood Bathers

PARENTS ASSOCIATION CALENDAR 2024

Maryallan and John

St James PA Co-Chairs

Second Hand Uniform Shop

Please reach out to us if you have any uniform enquiries or suggestions.

Liesl & Ali

School Community News

There are lots of exciting things happening in our community in the next few weeks.

St James - STAY AND PLAY - Transition Playgroup & SCHOOL TOURS

Before and After school care

Extend's valuable and informative monthly publication, 'The Link - Community Hub', has just released its latest edition. It provides interesting articles, reviews and ideas for our community to read and share!

Please click below to download the latest edition

The Link - Community Hub April 2024

We sincerely hope you find this resource useful and insightful.

The Extend Team

Parent Google Calendar

The google calendar is designed for parents to keep up to date with school events.

Google Calendar

Please ensure that you are checking the Parent Google Calendar on a regular basis as dates are added throughout the year.

School Closure Days 2024

2024 school closure days are as follows, but please keep in mind that they may be subject to change, as each term, staff have a full day dedicated to staff professional learning and forward planning.

Term 1 Friday 22 March Staff Planning Day Term 2

Term 2 Friday 26 April TIL

Friday 07 June Staff Planning Day Term 3

N.B. Term 2 Early Release Day - Monday 24 June 1:00pm finish Parent/Teacher Interviews

Term 3 Friday 13 September Staff Planning Day Term 4

Friday 20 September TIL

Term 4 Monday 04 November TIL

2024 Term Dates

Term 1 30 January - 28 March (Final Day Term 1 - School finishes at 3:30pm)

Each Wednesday in February Foundation Students are scheduled for individual testing and do not attend school. Full weeks for Foundation commence in March.

Term 2 15 April - 28 June (Final Day Term 2 - School finishes at 3:30pm)

Term 3 15 July - 19 September (Final Day Term 3 - School finishes at 3:30pm)

Term 4 07 October - 17 December (Final Day Term 4 -School finishes at 1:30pm)

Bell Times

Teacher supervision 8:40am - 9:00am

First Bell 9:00am (Music begins playing at 8:55am)

Fruit Break 10am

Morning Recess 11:00am - 11:30am

Morning Eating Time 11:30 am -11:40 am

Lunch Eating Time 1:40pm - 1:50pm

Afternoon Recess 1:50pm - 2.30pm

Dismissal 3:30pm

Teacher supervision 3:30pm -3:45pm

Lunch Orders

Lunch Orders will not be available on certain days, due to Star of the Sea's events calendar.

Friday 17 May and Friday 21 June

Online orders are blocked on these dates.

2024 Lunch Order Menu

NB some items are only served on certain days

2024 Lunch Order Menu.pdf

Details on how to set up your Flexischools account for online ordering.

Scholastic Book Club

Issue 4 of Book Club is now out, and booklets will be coming home this week.

Parents who ordered from issue 3 can spend their $5 promotional credit in issue 4 and all orders also earn another $5 for issue 5.

Orders close Wednesday 12th June 2024.

Kindly note ordering books via the book club is entirely optional.

What is Book Club?

For more than 50 years, Scholastic Book Club has been bringing to the joy of reading to Australian children. Today, Book Club can be found in more than 94% of primary schools across Australia, with a yearly circulation of over 20 million catalogues. Each Issue of Book Club covers ages from 0-12+ years and contains specially curated, age-appropriate titles that have been carefully selected and levelled by a dedicated team of professional booklovers.

Book Club provides families with an affordable and convenient way to access the best in Australian and international children's literature. As well as bridging the important class-to-home reading gap, Book Club also benefits Australian schools—for every Book Club order placed, Scholastic gives back 15% of the order spend to schools to spend on valuable educational resources via its Scholastic Rewards program.

So how does Book Club work?

1. Book Club catalogues arrive at school up to twice a term and can usually be found hiding in your child’s backpack. We encourage you to sit down with your child and go through the catalogue together, discussing any books that sparks your child’s interest.

2. Once your child has made their final selection, head over to our LOOP websiteor app

to place your order. LOOP orders are linked to your school in an easy, safe online process. Registering for LOOP will also keep you up-to-date with all of the latest Book Club news, information on exciting new releases, and our exclusive Book Club special offers.

3. Your school’s Book Club Organiser will then take care of the rest! After they have submitted everyone’s orders, our team get to work packing your child’s order full of exciting things.　

4. Your child’s order is then delivered to their class, ready to take home and be eagerly read. Orders that you have marked as a ‘gift’ in LOOP will be sent to school for you to secretly pick-up instead.

With numerous studies finding that reading at home is a key factor in a child’s lifelong success, Book Club provides a fun and easy way of bringing books into your home.

Community Notices

‘Firbank Swim School has availability for Term 3 in particular for students new to swimming – Learn to Swim in Winter so you are ready for the summer.’

Interested in giving football a go but not wanting to commit to the full season just yet?

Our MiniTillies program is what you’re looking for. Catering to girls between the ages of 4-7 this Football Australia national introductory program can help players learn the fundamentals of the game while having fun and making friends.

Our experienced South Melbourne Women’s FC coaches will run this program under the guidance and assistance of Football Australia. All participants will receive a free Miniroos Shirt and Ball!

See attached flyer for details and link below to register:

https://bit.ly/3UOJjKy

School Holidays

Rise Up Dance is now offering a HOLIDAY program in the July holidays and a NEW dance session in Term 3, which will be run at Monday lunchtime in the St James school hall.