Principal's Report

Dear Parents, Families and Community members,

Welcome to Term 4!

Great to see the return of our students and staff this week after recharging their batteries over the break.

Did I mention how GREAT the Geelong Cats WIN was??!!! (couldn't miss an opportunity) GO CATS!

Term 4 is always action packed and this one will be no different. From our End of Year Event, camps/excursions, Transitions to Graduations; these is a lot to come!

Year 2 Sleepover

With excited smiles, our Year 2 students left their families overnight for our annual sleepover, on the final evening of Term 3.

Loaded up with sleeping bags, students skilfully unpacked their belongings and setup their sleeping areas in Southside.

Students enjoyed meeting different staff to practise team building activities including parachute games, disco dancing and playing in the Secondary 'Tower Zone'. Our school values of Care, Commitment and Collaboration shone through as students played and worked together.

During dinnertime, students practised eating using kind manners and talking with different friends. After changing into pyjamas, everyone snuggled up and enjoyed a movie before finding their sleeping bags for a good night’s sleep.

Our sleepover aims to build relationships across the cohort and encourage students to develop independence and resilience. Congratulations to all students and staff involved. What a wonderful way to celebrate the end of Term 3!

Book Club - Final Issue for 2022

Welcome back to Term 4 and a BUMPER Issue of Book Club!

Book Club is now open and arriving at your school. 40 bumper pages of amazing books to help kids to love reading, including: 

• Christmas and Holiday Gift Ideas
• The Best Books of 2022
• Halloween Reads
• Big Savings on Packs
• $6 and Under Books, $3 Value Books, and much more! 

Mixed in with all of the terrific titles are 12 mice looking for new books and reading adventures. Ask students to spot all 12 mice and try to work out which book these mice come from. Hint—A book by Tim Minchin.

Mango Fundraiser

If you love mangoes, here’s your chance to indulge in fresh juicy Kensington Pride mangoes and support our PACC Fundraiser for 2022.

The Mango Fundraiser only use Bowen Special Mangoes which are more formally known as Kensington Pride Mangoes. They are packed in a single layer tray, with approximately 7kg of Mangoes per tray. The number of Mangoes per tray depends on the size of the fruit, and may vary.  

As well as having a great taste, Mangoes are packed with nutritional goodness – Vitamin C (one Mango contains your recommended daily allowance), Vitamin E, Beta-Carotene, antioxidants, Potassium & B Vitamins. They are low in fat & Cholesterol free. 

When you buy Mangoes from the Mango Fundraiser you know the fruit is coming directly from the farm to you. Your mangoes aren’t being held for long periods in storage or ripening rooms. 

Your Mangoes will be delivered in early December directly to school.Please use the link below to order your Mangoes and please share the link with your extended family and friends.

ORDER HERE : PACC MANGO FUNDRAISER 2022

Raffle for End of Year Event

We are very much looking forward to celebrating with you all at the PACC Community Event on Friday the 18th of November!

PACC is seeking the school community’s support to help with prizes for our school celebration raffle which will be drawn on the night.

Each family will soon be receiving a book of 10 raffle tickets to sell at $2 each - these will come home with the eldest student in each family next week. 

(There will be extra books of tickets available at the office if needed - please let us know if you would like more). 

PACC is seeking the following donations for the raffle:

• gourmet food items (which PACC will turn into gourmet food hampers, ie: a box of chocolates, crackers, biscuits, oils, cheeseboard or cheese knives, jar of paste just for some ideas or any items that don't require refrigeration) 
• a voucher for a service from a business
• or any other donation

We have already received some great vouchers and items and PACC will be able to advise the prizes in the next week or two.

Please drop your item(s) off at the office by Friday 21/10/2022.

All donations are very much appreciated and we thank you for your ongoing support!

New Portable Coming Monday!

Please be aware that this Monday October 10th, the first of our 2 new Portable buildings will be being delivered.

I'm informed this will have little to no impact on traffic in the area but please be aware this is occurring. Our staff car park closest to the Community Centre will be out of action for the day, as will the small oval where our students in Grades P-2 often play. 

Curriculum Day - October 28th

On Friday 28th of October we have our final Curriculum Day for 2022. No students are required at school on this day, however, the YMCA will offer a Curriculum Day program for interested families.

On this day our staff will participate in some high quality and highly valuable training in relation to 'trauma informed care/practice'. Some people may have heard of 'Berry Street training' which is highly regarded by schools who already have this in place.

Thanks to additional funding from the Department of Education through the new 'Mental Health Fund Menu', we are able to provide this training our staff which will consist of 4 days between now and the end of next year. Some this will be done during future Curriculum Days and some of during school meeting time.

Public Holiday 

The Geelong Cup Public Holiday is held on Wednesday the 19th of October & there will be no students/staff at school on this day. 

Melbourne Cup Day is a regular school day for all staff & students. 

Naming of Uniform Items

A friendly reminder to please make sure all uniform & personal items are clearly named so that if they are found that can be easily identified & returned to the correct child as soon as possible. 

Creek Coin Reward

These very VERY patient girls waited all of Term 3 to cash in their Creek Coins for a special morning tea with Kathryn. 

Their even more patient teacher Laura had been reminded daily of this event!! We finally coordinated ourselves for the last Wednesday of Term 3.

What a gorgeous group of friends and students. They continue to show all the values of our school – we are very proud of them. 

Not to be outdone, Mason managed to tie me down for a morning tea in the last week of Term too. Due to his patience, I even allowed him to have a 'special request' for the menu and as you can see Cheezels were his choice!

Take care and enjoy!

Evan Savage

Principal