Families and Friends

SMPS's Family & Friends news

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This week:

• Join the SMPS Family & Friends (FAF) group
• AGM
• Working Bee - Saturday 20 March 10-11am
• Donations required for SMPS Easter raffle - 1st April
• SHUS (Second Hand Uniform Shop)
• Tennis - before school, lunchtime and after school
• Buy a SMPS Family Favourites recipe book
• Raising money
• Cultural celebrations - shared stories
• Future activities
• Joke of the week

Join the SMPS Family & Friends group (FAF)

📗 The SMPS Fan group is made up of one SMPS teacher as our liaison officer, Miss Jess, and parents, carers and friends of SMPS students. 

📒 We would love you to join us! We need to help each other organise events, and we need to share our ideas and knowledge to grow our community and raise funds for the school, all while having fun getting to know each other better. Everyone can add some value, so come on: join us!

📘 We hold monthly meetings, (currently online), to discuss and organise our events.

📙 Please email smps.faf@outlook.com and ask for a SMPS FAF Constitution (which includes an application form on the last page), to be emailed to you. 

📕 You need to submit an application form to become a member of the FAF. You can either email the completed form to smps.faf@outlook.com or drop it in to the school's office.

‼️ Be sure to submit your form by 3pm on Friday 19 March to receive an invite to the AGM.

🔰 To join the FAF, you will need to obtain a valid WWCC (Working With Children Check). There isn't a fee to obtain a WWCC, so please apply for one now and you can be more involved with SMPS's activities!

AGM for the Family & Friends (FAF) group

📆 If you are a member of the FAF, you are invited to attend the 2021 SMPS FAF Annual General Meeting (AGM). 

Office Bearers will be elected at the AGM on Thursday 25 March 6-7pm. Some roles include President, Secretary and Treasurer.

We're hoping the AGM will be in person, on-site at school. (Subject to COVID restrictions) We'll confirm the location closer to the time.

Working Bee - Saturday 20 March 10-11am

🪴 On Saturday 20 March, between 10am and 11am, we are holding our first working bee.

🍃 Miss Maddie needs our help to clear the garden on level 1 to make way for our new vegetable, herb and zen garden, so we're having a working bee. 

‼️ Please register each adult attending via the link below. We'll be meeting at the door beside the gym, on Ferrars St, at 9.45am. A confirmation email will be issued a day or two before the event. What you'll need to bring:

• A smile
• Wear clothes that can get dirty (Not your favourite white shoes!)
• Water bottle
• Garden gloves (if you have them)
• General garden tools (if you have them)

Donations Required for SMPS Easter Raffle - 1st April

SMPS is having an Easter raffle!

To make this a really exciting raffle for the kids, we need lots of Easter eggs.

🌺 Can you donate some chocolate Easter eggs?

If you can, we would appreciate you buying some from a shop and donating them to the school for the raffle. 

One egg, two eggs or a packet of eggs. They'll all go towards making some great prizes.

Any and all donations are greatly appreciated. 

📗 Please hand in your Easter egg donations to the office by Tuesday 23 April. 

(We're sorry, we cannot accept home-made treats.)

📚 We'll be asking the SMPS children to sell tickets to their friends and family. Tickets will be sent home with the students next week. 

$1 per ticket.

The Easter raffle prizes will be on display in the foyer for a week leading up to the raffle.

🎯 Raffle will be drawn on: Thursday 1st April.

SHUS (Second Hand Uniform Shop)

Our SHUS is going well! We've raised $747 so far! 

Please visit us to see if we have something you need. 

Open: For Term 1, on Wednesdays 2.30pm - 3.45pm

Where: Outside the school building, in front of the STEAM room   

Payment: Cash only.Change will be limited, so please bring small notes and coins. Prices range from $5-$15.

Donations: If you would like to donate some uniform, simply remove names/name tags, (or cross them out with texta), and hand it in to the SMPS office (or to the SHUS when it's open). 

👕 Thank you to everyone who has donated SMPS uniform they no longer need. Our SMPS families greatly appreciate your generous donations.

Tennis - before school, lunchtime and after school

🎾🏏🏀 Mike is assisted by Anouk, Jo and Tom to provide fun sports coaching lessons at SMPS's indoor gym.  

🎾🏏🏀 Join them before school, at lunchtime or after school. 

🎾🏏🏀 Do you have a class mate who's interested too? Then why not sign up together?  Come and join the fun! Contact Mike. 

Website: http://tennislessonsmelbourne.com

Email: miketlm4tennis@gmail.com

Phone: 0422 728 938

🎾 Tennis: 

Tuesdays after school:  3.30pm - 4.00pm OR 4.00pm - 4.30pm

Thursdays after school:  3.30pm - 4.00pm OR 4.00pm - 4.30pm  

Thursday mornings 8.10am - 8.40am Students can be dropped off before you head to work. No need for you to wait around as students are walked to class afterwards.

🏏🏀 Cricket and Basketball

Mike and his team also offer Cricket and Basketball coaching on Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunchtime. 

Buy a SMPS Family Favourites Recipe book

🍱 Did you miss out on ordering the best-selling 2020 SMPS Family Favourites recipe book? Well, don't worry - you have another chance to buy a copy. 

📒 There will be a paper notice handed out this week and it will include an order form on it. Please keep an eye out for the yellow papers being handed out at the school gates in the mornings and afternoons. Spare copies will be held at the SMPS office.

🍪 $20 per book.

🧁 Please share a photo of you cooking or eating something you tried from the recipe book? Email your photos to smps.faf@outlook.com (along with your name and grade), so we can include them in our newsletter! 

🥞 Bon appetite! 

Raising money

💰 The SMPS FAF is currently raising funds for painted line markings on the concrete areas outside the STEAM room and library (such as a hop scotch pattern) and to remake our garden on level 1 into a veggie, herb and zen garden. 

💵 So far we've raised just over $2,000!

📗 Thank you for supporting our school! Every time you show your support, (for example, by donating or purchasing uniform from our SHUS), you're getting us closer to reaching our goals. 

Cultural Celebrations - Shared Stories

😀 We are incredibly lucky to have such a diverse range of cultures at SMPS! To help us get to know each other, we would love to hear about what you do to celebrate your special days. Please email your happy stories and/or photos to smps.faf@outlook.com and we will share them in our newsletter. Some recent/current/upcoming events include:

❤️ Lunar New Year - 12 February 2021

💜 Lent - 17 February to 1 April

💛 Harmony week - 15 to 21 March 2021

💚 St. Patrick's Day - 17 March

🧡 Passover - 27 March to 4 April

💙 Holi (Festival of Colours) - 28 March

Future activities

🤹🏼‍♀️ We will be needing lots of volunteers to help host a Bunnings (Port Melbourne) fundraising BBQ early in Term 2. Keep an eye out for more details in this newsletter. 

Joke of the week

What do you call a sheep covered in chocolate?

A candy baaaa!

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