Families and Friends
Promoting the welfare of, and providing support to, the SMPS community...
SMPS's Family & Friends news
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F&F News:
- Rock Star Day
- Bake Sale - Friday 23 July
- Holiday Homework
- Bunnings Fundraiser BBQ - Saturday 21st August
- SMPS holiday gardening
- SHUS (Second Hand Uniform Shop)
- Joke of the week
Rock Star Day 🥁🎼🎸
🥁 What a colourful and entertaining day the last day of Term 2 was! We are so lucky to have the technology available to us so, even though most of us couldn't attend on site, we could watch and enjoy the festivities of Rock Star Day via a live stream on Facebook.
🎼 Congratulations and thank you to everyone who performed and put in so much work to make the event such a huge success!
🎸 The only disappointment was Mr Paul not being there. Hopefully next time he'll be able join us.
Bake sale - Friday 23 July
🧁 We are all eagerly looking forward to Friday 23rd of July, (week 2 of Term 3), when the SMPS Celebration of Learning Day, including a bake sale, will be held.
🍪 We need some help to set up the tables for the Bake Sale, manage the huge queues of customers we expect to have, and assist our families with their purchases. If you can help the SMPS Family & Friends at the Bake Sale between 8.30am-9.15am, please register via the link below. If you have any queries, please email smps.faf@outlook.com Thank you.
Holiday Homework
How did everyone go with their Holiday Homework?
Don't worry if you haven't completed it yet. You still have until Friday 16th July to get it done and contribute. 🔴🔵🟢🟡 Remember, you can get 3 house points if you donate a toy or if you share a story! (Or 6 points if you do both!)
🔴🔵🟢🟡 Toys homework
If you have a toy at home you no longer need, (games, dolls, toy cars, etc.), we would appreciate you donating it to the SMPS 'Tub-of-Toys'. The 'Tub-of-Toys' is a collection of toys for the children to share and play with during their recess breaks.
If you can donate a toy, please drop it off at the school gates between 8.45am - 9am, Tuesday 13 July - Friday 16 July,
or to the office before 3.45pm Friday 16 July. Thank you.
🔴🔵🟢🟡 Stories homework
🎂 Birthdays: What do you do to celebrate your birthday?
🛼 School holidays: What do you like to do on the school holidays?
🐶 Pets: Do you have a pet you'd like to share a photo of?
🎉 Cultural celebrations: Do you wear costumes or bake delicious foods to celebrate a special cultural or religious event?
If you would like to win 3 house points and share story with your SMPS community, please email smps.faf@outlook.com by 5pm Friday 16 July 2021with:
- your name
- your class
- your SMPS house name or colour
- your photo
- a sentence or two to tell us about your photo/what you do to celebrate
Bunnings Fundraiser BBQ - Saturday 21st August
We need your help!!! The SMPS Family & Friends group is hosting a Bunnings Fundraiser BBQ to raise money to re-make the garden on level 1.
Saturday 21st August 2021
Bunnings Port Melbourne,
501 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne
Start: 9am. End: 4pm.
Everyone at SMPS can help! You can:
- Volunteer at the BBQ for 2 hours
- Donate some money to help pay for the food and drinks
- Lend something needed for the day
- Visit the BBQ and buy a sausage in bread, (beef or vegetarian)
- Buy something at Bunnings and donate it to the SMPS level 1 garden
🆘 VOLUNTEERS
We need 16 people to be part of our volunteer team, each person doing a 2 or 2.5 hour shift. Why not sign up with a friend and come along together?
Tasks include: welcoming our customers, taking payment (a calculator will be available), cooking, and serving.
Please note: You will need to wear a fitted face mask for your shift. There will not be a child or pet minding facility available.
To volunteer, please click on the link below and register your details by 5pm on 31 July.
💰 DONATIONS
If you would like to make a monetary donation to help pay for the 70 kgs of sausages, 40 loaves of bread, 25 kgs of onions, 10 litres of sauces, 500 cans of soft drink and bottles of water and 10 bags of ice we have to provide for the BBQ, please email smps.faf@outlook.com and we'll be in touch. Any amount contributed will be greatly appreciated and will increase our BBQ profits.
🪣 LEND SOMETHING
Bunnings are generously providing much of what we need on the day, (BBQ, tables, gazebo), but there a lot of things we need to bring. If you have any of these items and would be able to lend them to us to use for the day, we would be very thankful. Please email smps.faf@outlook.com by 31 July 2021 and we'll be in touch.
- Esky's/coolers with lids (for meat and onions to be stored in)
- Esky's/coolers or plastic tubs without lids (for drinks to be stored in ice)
- Cooking utensils (tongs, spatula)
- Food thermometer (to check food is at the required temperature both while being stored and while being cooked)
- Plastic tubs with lids (for storage of bread)
- Food handling gloves (hygiene requirements)
- Single use aprons (hygiene requirements)
🌭 BUY A SAUSAGE
We will be selling sausages in bread, with beef and vegetarian options available, as well as cans of soft drink and bottles of water. We hope to see you there!
🧹 BUY SOMETHING FOR THE GARDEN
Can't get there on the 21st of August but still want to contribute? Then head down to Bunnings any time and shop for something you can donate to the SMPS Garden Club. Items can be handed in to the school's office. Our wish list includes:
⛲️ Watering cans 1.7 litre (cost around $5 each)
🧤 Children's gardening gloves (Hortex Grubs Hand Mate gloves) (cost around $4 each)
👨🌾 Sugar cane mulch (Oreco sweet gardener's 26m2 organic sugar cane mulch (costs around $17 each)
🌻 Take a closer look at this list from Bunnings for more items
SMPS Holiday Gardening
🍁 During the holidays, Reno, our gardener and handyman, was busy tidying up the garden areas at school. There was a last minute call for volunteers to get their hands dirty and assist Reno.
🌿 Thank you to Apzara (2A) and her mum, Vidhiya, and Billy (3/4B) and his mum, Georgie, for giving up some of their time to help. There was lots of magnificent sunshine to make the hard work enjoyable.
SHUS (Second Hand Uniform Shop)
The SHUS will be open on the following Wednesdays in Term 3 between 3.30pm-4.00pm.
Dates: 14 July, 28 July, 25 August, 8 September, 15 September.
Where: Outside the school building, in front of the STEAM room
Payment: Cashor Card.Change will be limited, so if you are paying cash, please bring small notes and coins.
Prices: Range from $5-$15
Thank youto everyone who has donated SMPS uniform they no longer need. Our SMPS families greatly appreciate your generous donations! We will gladly accept Bob Stewart uniform items, and black polishable shoes in good condition. Drop them off when the SHUS is open, or to the office when school is open.
If you're looking for iron-on clothing labels or shoe labels, check out 'Stuck On You' via the link below.
Joke of the week
What did the baby corn say to the mama corn?
🌽 Where's "Pop corn"? 🌽