SMPS's Family & Friends news

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This week:

Thank you
SHUS (Second Hand Uniform Shop)
SMPS 2020 'End-of-Year' raffle
End of year gathering
Cultural celebrations - shared stories
SMPS Family Favourites recipe book
Family & Friends Club and WWCC (Working With Children Check)
Joke of the week

Thank you

The SMPS Family & Friends group would like to thank the following people for their kindness, assistance and generosity in 2020.

💙 To Miss Jenny. Thank you doesn't seem enough. Your patience, support, encouragement, time, guidance, organisation and persistence paid off in Term 4 when the SMPS FAF officially met for the first time. Thank you for being the guiding force behind getting the FAF up and running.

💚 To Miss Karen. Thank you for your help and support with the second hand uniform. Your insights are greatly appreciated. As is your ability to keep finding more and more uniform hidden away throughout the office!

💛 To Miss Megan and Nurul. Thank you for all the hours of hard work you put into compiling the first SMPS Family Favourites recipe book. It was a huge job! Everyone who opens the book will be impressed with the result not just now, but for many years to come.

💙 To all the SMPS staff who every day, in so many ways, enrich the lives of our SMPS children in ways that will last forever. Thank you for everything you do. Your efforts do not go unnoticed and everything you do is greatly appreciated by the SMPS community. Thank you for performing to an exceptional level during the COVID lockdown.

💚 To all the families and friends who supported SMPS by:

donating prizes to, or buying tickets in, our raffles
purchasing books via the Scholastic Book Club
submitting recipes for, or buying, our Family Favourites recipe book
donating uniform to, or purchasing second uniform from, our SHUS
sharing photos and stories for this page in our newsletter

💛 From me, Georgie, the current President of the FAF, thank you to everyone who volunteered to be a part of the F&F group this year. The time you have dedicated to our meetings, along with your assistance and support, inspire me and make me excited for what we will do next year and the years after that. Thank you Vanessa, Sim, Nurul, Nalinda, Miss Jenny, Mayurika, Katy, Jacqueline, Dragana, Doug and Datta.

And thank you, again, Miss Jenny. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be enjoying typing up this newsletter and I wouldn't have thrived doing all I have done this term with the FAF.

SHUS (Second Hand Uniform Shop)

We are excited to advise the FAF has set up a SHUS! (Second Hand Uniform Shop)

If you would like to order some uniform and pick it up on Thursday 17 December, please see instructions below.

Cash payments will be accepted when you collect the uniform.

Subject to any COVID restrictions, we will look at opening a 'shop' on site (at school) in 2021.

By 5pm Tuesday 15 December: Please email smps.faf@gmail.com with the below details. You will be advised how much of your order can be filled.

Between 3pm-4pm Thursday 17 December: Uniform will need to be collected from outisde the school gates. (Between the school gates and the tram stop, near the bike shed.)

Please refer to Bob Stewart's website for a sizing chart.

Student name
Adult/parent/carer contact name
Adult/parent/carer phone number
What uniform pieces of uniform would you like to purchase?
What size would you like to purchase?
How many of each?

Item	Price per item	Size	How many?*
Bomber jacket	$ 10
Sports polo	$ 8
Sports short	$ 5
Sports skort	$ 5
Summer dress	$ 10
Summer hat	$ 5
Summer short sleeve short	$ 8
Summer shorts (pull up or zip)	$ 5

*Note: We will do our best to fill your order, however please bear in mind there may not be

enough uniform to fill all our orders at this time.

🧢 Thank you to everyone who has donated SMPS uniform they no longer need.

👔 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.

💙 Our SMPS families greatly appreciate your generous donations.

SMPS 2020 'End-of-Year' Raffle

🎟 The SMPS 'End of Year' raffle was drawn on Friday 11 December 2020. Congratulations to all the winners!

❤️ Thank you to all those who generously donated prizes and purchased tickets! We raised $1,479! The raffle wouldn't have been possible without your support.

End of Year Gathering

🌼 Please join us after school finishes on Friday 18 December, (the last day of school for 2020), for a gathering at the Coot picnic area, Albert Park, from 1.30pm.

🌸 Bring some lunch/snacks and enjoy a chat while the kids play. (We have a couple of activities/games planned for the children.)

🌺 Thank you to those who expressed an interest in attending by completing the survey in the previous newsletter.

❗️This is not an official school event. South Melbourne Primary School are not affiliated with this gathering. The gathering is for community members to spend time with one another. There will be no staff members present. Parents and Carers are required to take full responsibility for their child/children.

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@gmail.com and we will share them in our newsletter.

🎄 Christmas is a Christian celebration of Jesus' birth. To Christians, Jesus is the Son of God and the saviour of the world, and it is believed He came to die for our sins so that we may go to heaven.

🎄Here are some of the SMPS families Christmas trees.

SMPS Family Favourites Recipe book

🍱 Thank you very much to everyone who has purchased the SMPS Family Favourites Recipe book, which has over 100 recipes! ($20 per book)

🥘 We understand some people may have experienced issues when trying to place an order of the book. If you did, please let us know by emailing smps.faf@gmail.com and we'll be in touch.

🧁 If you try some of these delicious recipes during the school holidays, we'd love you to send your cooking photos to smps.faf@gmail.com so we can include them in our first newsletter for 2021! Bon appetite!

Families & Friends Club (FAF)

📗 The SMPS F&F is currently raising money to fund the line markings on the concreted areas outside the art room and library. (Such as a hop scotch pattern.) We're not half way there yet. Do you have any fundraising ideas? If you do, please email them to smps.faf@gmail.com

📘Every time you support the school financially through extra-curricular activities, you are helping SMPS get closer to having those line markings. Thank you for supporting your school!

📒 If you would like to join the FAF in 2021, please email smps.faf@gmail.com and we will be in touch.

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

Joke of the week

What is a cow's favourite holiday?

Moo-year's day!

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