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:
- Quarantine fun
- Holiday Homework
- Bunnings Fundraiser BBQ - Saturday 21st August
- Joke of the week
Quarantine fun
We have put together some puzzles for you to tackle during our quarantine. We hope you enjoy them! Answers will be published in the next newsletter.
🤔💭🤨❓ Try and find your way through the maze. Start at the 'In' arrow, and finish at the 'Out' arrow.
🤔💭🤨❓ Have you completed a Sudoku before? Each row, column and 9-cell-square needs to be filled out with the numbers 1-9, without repeating any numbers within the row, column or square. Good luck!
🤔💭🤨❓ Once this crossword is completed, the letters in the yellow squares spell out a word. Can you finish the crossword and figure out what the word is?
Across clues
1. What is used to write on a blackboard?
3. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are loveable, cheeky characters, (some have one eye, some have two eyes), who speak their own language, wear blue overalls and love eating bananas
7. Our fantastic school has four words in it's name. What is the first word?
11. The park opposite SMPS is named _ _ _ _ _ Park
12. On Rock Star Day, some people wear a _ _ _ on their head
13. The lowest prime number
15. What exercise are these children doing? A _ _ _ _ _ _
16. The night sky is filled with millions and billions of _ _ _ _ _
18. A lot of people enjoy eating a hot bowl of _ _ _ _ for dinner on cold, winter nights
19. An Australian animal that loves to eat eucalyptus tree leaves
21. The great city we live in
22. We have two of these on our face that enable us to see
23. A large, Australian bird that cannot fly
24. The biggest fish in the sea is a _ _ _ _ _ shark
25. Something fun to do in a pool on a hot day
28. A reflection of sound waves can cause an _ _ _ _
29. An Arctic _ _ _ is well adapted to living in cold environments, and is best known for its thick, warm fur that is also used as camouflage.
30. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are music band with well known songs such as 'Hot Potato' and 'Big Tree Car'.
31. The fourth day of the school week
Down clues
1. An animal that makes a 'moo' sound
2. If I'm not going to do my homework now, I must do it _ _ _ _ _
4. Something sweet and sticky that is often spread on top of cakes
5. 12pm is also known as _ _ _ _
6. You need to place a _ _ _ _ _ on an envelope to mail it somewhere
7. Some people's favourite device is a Nintendo _ _ _ _ _
8. What do all the sides of a dice add up to?
10. What is the answer to this sum: (10 + 10) - 9 = ?
11. Something used to open your front door or a car
14. What colour do you get if you mix the colours of Montague house and Clarendon house?
17. This person is putting _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ on their feet
18. Something you do to a lemon to get the juice out of it
20. The most important meal of the day
21. You put food into this to eat
26. A famous mouse
27. Bluey's younger sister's name
Holiday Homework
🟢🟡 Thank you very much to everyone who submitted homework stories or who have donated a toy to the SMPS Tub of Toys!
🔴🔵 In a future newsletter we will publish the stories and let you know who won some house points.
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
Joke of the week
What do you get when you cross a Labrador and a Magician?
A labracadabrador!